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the UNITED STATES
in CONGR ESS assembled.
A P ROCLAMATION.
AT all times it is our duty, to acknowledge
the over-ruling Providence of the great
Governor of the Universe, and devoutly to im-
Elore his divine favor and protection. Butin the
our of calamity and impending danger, whenby
fire and the sword, by the savages of the wilder
ness, and by our own domestics, a vindictive
enemy pursues a war of rapine and devaluation
with unrelenting fury, we are peculiarly excited,
with true penitence of heart, to prostrate our
selves before our great Creator, and fervently to
supplicate his gracious interposition for our de
liverance.
The United States in Congress assembled,
therefore do earnestly recommend, That
THURSDAY, the THIRD of May next, may
be observed as a Day of Humiliation, Faflingand
Prayer, that we may, with united hearts, con
fefs and bewail our manifold fins and transgres
sions, and by sincere repentance and amendment
oflife, appease his righteous displeasure, and
through the merits of our blessed Saviour obtain
pardon and forgivenefs : That it may please him
to inspire our rulers with incorruptible integrity,
and to direct and prosper their Councils : To in
spire all our citizens with a fervent and disinte
rested love of their country, and to preserve and
strengthen their nnion : To turn the hearts of
the disaffected, or to fruftrate their devices : To
regard with divine compaiTionour friends ih.cap
tivity, affliction and distress, to comfort arid re
lieve them under their fufferings, and to change
their mourning into grateful songs of triumph :
That it may please him to bless our Ally, and to
render the * connection formed between these
United States and his kingdom, a mutual and
lasting benefit to both nations : To animate our
officers and forces by sea and land with invinci
ble fortitude, and to guard and protect them in
the day of battle; and to crown our joint endea-1
vours for terminating the calamities of war with
victory and success : That the bleflings of peace
and liberty may be established on an honorable
and permanent basis, and transmitted inviolateto
the latest posterity : That it may please him to
prosper our husbandry and commerce; and to
bless us with health and plenty : That it may
please him to bless all fcho®ls and femiharies of
learning, and to grant that truth; justice and be
nevolence, and pure and undefiled religion may
universally prevail.
And it is recommended to all the. people of
these States, to assemble for Public Worfhip,artd
abstain from labour on said day.
DONE in. CONGRESS, this twentieth dayof
March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand
seven hundred and eighty-one, and in the fifth
year of the Independence of the United States of
America.
SAMUEL HUNTINGTON, President.
Attest. CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.
IH AVE thought fit, on the foregoing ear
ned recommendation of the United States in
Congress assembled, by and with the advice of
Council, to appoint, and do hereby appoint
THURSD A Y, the third, day of May
next, to be observed as a day of Fading, Humi
liation and Prayer, throughout this State; hereby
requiring and exhorting both miniders and peo
ple to assemble for public worship, that we may,
with united hearts, confefs and bewail our ma
nifold fin's and transgressions, and, by sincere re
pentance and amendment of life, appease the
righteous displeasure of Almighty God, and
through the merits of our blessed Saviour obtain
pardon and forgivenefs; likewise, to offer fervent
prayer to him for his mercies, according to the
foregoing proclamation.
And all servile labor is forbidden on the said
day.
GIVEN under my hand, in Lebanon, the
sixth day.of April, in the year ot our Lord
One Thonfand Seven Hundred and Eighty
one, and in the fifth year of the independence
of the United States of America.
JON. TRUMBULL.
BY HIS EXCELLENCY
JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Esq.
Governor, Captain-General, and Commander
in Chief in and over the State of Connec
ticut, in America.
PROCLAMATION.
HARTFORD, April 24.
By a letter from the army under the command
of General Greene, dated the 29th ultimo, we
are informed, That he was in pursuit of Lord
Cornwallis, who was retreating towards Wil
mington-General Greene had taken one hun
dred and twenty privates and several officers pri
soners, since the action of the 15th. This intel
ligence may be depended on.
A few days since, two patroling parties from
our troops at Horse Neck, meeting, and taking
each other for enemies, exchanged several (hot;
before the mistake was difcovered,by which three
lives were loft, and two persons wounded.
Died, At Middletown, haft Monday even
ing, Miss Persis Defhon, late of Boston, on a
visit of friendship to that place ; after being un
well for about eight weeks, but not confined to
the house, was seized with a fit, and expired in
stantly, to the great grief of her friends and of
all who had the happiness of her acquaintance. —
A loud call to survivors to be prepared to meet
the king of terrors.,
/"On Friday the 6th instant, departed this life S AMUE^
COBB, E'q. of Tolland, in the 65th year of his age, a fter 1
a very long and painful sickness, which he endured with
very exemplary patience., He descended from a very re
fpe&able family in Barnft able, and was by nature, or rather
the God of nature, furnished with a sprightly and pene
trating genius, which was greatly improved by a collegiate
education. When he had finished his academical Rudies
and received the usual honors of college, he applied himfelf
to the study of divinity, and commenced preacher of the
gefpel ; in this sacred employment he was much esteemed,
and especially by the best judges —But his voice being low,
he found it inconvenient to continue in that business. He
then determined to serve mankind as a physician, and be
came a practitioner in the healing art 5 in this he shone
with didiaguished luftre, and was imminently ufeful in his
profeffion for many years. He was also improved as a mi
nister of justice, and in this charafter was indeed a terror to
evil defers, and a praise to such as did well. He was a firm
friend to his country, and early took a determinate part in
favor of American liberty. And what was peculiarly ami
able, lie well supported the character of a chriftian, as a
preacher of the gospel, as a member of society, and as
the head of a family. As Divine Providence blessed him
with an affluent estate, so also with numerous and refpefta
ble family, he has left a disconsolate widow, and nine
children, to bewail the loss of a tender canfort, and affecti
onate parent. He died in full belief of the great and all
supporting doctrines of the gospel; and with his lass dying
breath, profeffed a humble hope and firm reliance on the
grace of God, and merits of a Saviour./
The memory of the just is blessed. -,.__/
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TO BE SO L D,
ONE HUNDRED &NTNE ACRESofWOOD
LAND, lying in the north-east corner of Tolland—
For terms of sale, enquire of the fubferiber, living in Far
mington, in the parish of Worthington.
MOSES GILBERT.
April 23, 1781.
T O BE S OL I),
A GOOD FARM, containing about four hundred
acres, about half under improvement ; well proporti
oned for mowing, plowing and pairing-—One hundred
and fifty apple-trees, a final! house, and very good new
barn standing thereon. Said Farm lies in Glaflenbury, firft
society, three miles from Rocky-Hill ferry. Any person
inclining to purchase, may know the particulars by apply
ing to the fubferibers, living near the meeting-house in said
Glaftenbury.
ISAAC & WILLIAM MOSELEY.
N. B. If it should best suit the purchaser to give good
obligations for a part of the payment, they will be received.
April 23, 1781.
By the UNITED STATES, in CONGRESS
assembled, March 16th, 1781.
RESOLVED, That all debts nowdue from the
United States, which have been liquidated in
specie value, and all debts which have been or
ihall be made payable in specie, or other money
equivalent, (hall be actually paid either in specie,
or in other money equal thereto according to the
current exchange between such money and specie.
That it be, and hereby is recommended to the
several States, to amend their laws making the
bills of credit emitted under the authority of
Congress a legal tender, so that such bills Ihall
not be a tender in any other manner than at their
current value compared with gold or filvcr.
Extract from the Minutes,
CHARLES THOMSON, Sec'ry.
T () B E S O L D,
AN EXCELLENT FARM, lying in Simfbury, in
the parish of Wintonbuiy, about a mile from the
Meeting-house, containing about one hundred acres, fuic
able for mowing, pasturing and plowing---Forty tons of
good hay can be cut yearly : An orchard that will make
one hundred barrels of cyder; a good dwellirig^oufe, and
barn standing thereon. . It is very convenient for a tavern,
trader or tradesman.—-For terms of sale, apply to the fub
feriber, living on the premises, who will give an indisputa
ble title to the fame.
REUBEN CASE.
Sirafbury, April 21, 1781.
DAVID HALE, JCqmmif-
JOSIAH HALE, J oners.
YV7 E the fubferibers being appointed commifuoners, to
VV examine the claims of die creditors to the confifeated
efface of William Davies, late of Kent, who has voluntari
ly joined the enemy's of the United States ; do hereby give
notice, that we shall attend said business at Mr. Sheldon's
Tavern in Litchfield, on the second and third Tuesdays in
May next.
MILES BEACH,]
TIMO. SKINNER, ]
rOHE fubferibers being appointed executors of the last will
and testament of Mr. James Rockwell, of East Wind
for^eceafed, desire all persons who have any demands on
the estate of said deceased, to exhibit their accounts, proper
ly attested, to the fubferibers, who will attend thaf business
at the house of Mr. Nathaniel Rockwell, on the firft Monday
of June and July next. And all indebted to said estate are
desired to make immediate payment, as a speedy fettlemenc
of the fame is abfolotely necessary.
EBENEZER ROCKWELL.
WILLIAM ROCKWELL,
NATHANIEL ROCKWELL.
East-Windsor April 23, 1781.
YOU N & R A NG b. R.
WILL COVER this Season, at the flable of the
Subicriber, in Hertford. He is a Horse of size,
strength, and beauty, equal to any in America. No trust.
JAMES NICHOLS.
N. B. Said Nichols has for sale, a likely S TALLIO N,
three years old, one of Old Ranger's Colts.
April 24, 1781.
T O E S () L 1),
AF AR Mj lying in Eaft-Brimfield, in the county of
Hampshire ? and Commonwealth of Mafl'achufetts
Said Farm contains two hundred and thirty-three acres, con
lifting of mowing, pasture, plowing, and wood land well
watered ; an orchard, a good two story house, and a barn'
standing thereon; also a good cyder-mill, and well of water.
For further particulars, enquire of the fubferiber, living ora
the premifes.'
April 12, 1781.. DAVID BULLEN.
FOUND, half a mile north of the Court-house in Hart
ford, a work d POCKET 800 K, containing some
money, a note, and other papers..The owner may have it
again, by proving his property and paying charges.
,JESSE MARSH.
Hartford, April 20, 1781.
WHEREAS my wife Sarah, has been and is endeavour
ing to waste and ruin my estate as much as is in her
power, by tuning me in debt and in conveying it away.
These are ro forbid all persons trusting her on nay account
as I will not pay any debt of her contrasting,
NATHAN TIBBALS.'
Washington, April 27, 1780.
7 too Dohurs (@d Moat,) & ^^
LOST, on the 18th jnft. on the road from Hartford to
Rocky-Hill, a red leather P 0 CKET BOOK, with
a silver clasp, containing twenw-feven dollars (Massachu
setts new emission) and five or hx 50 dollar bills (old emif,
lion) some letters dire&ed to Maryland, one directed to Phi
ladelphia, feme obligations, and a number of other papers
of no value to any person but the owner. Any person who
has found said book, and will leave it at Capt. Abfalom
Williams's, innholder in Wethersfield, Mr. Jonathan Biga
low's, innholder in Hartford, Mr. Elisha Butler's, innholder
in Rocky-Hill, or at the Printing-Office, shall receive the
above reward, and all realenable charges, paid by
PETER ROBERTS,
April 20, 1781.
FIVE SILVER DOLLARS REWARD:
STRAYED or STOLEN, from the door of Cok
John Ashley, in Sheffield, on the evening of the 2d inst.
aHORSE, SADDLE & BRIDLE: The Horse near
nine years old, almost fourteen hands high, ligh spirited,
of a light bay colour, a short black mane and tail, natural
pacer, very low in flesh, carries his tail high, branded with
the Continental brand upside down thus, jy (if not worn
off) The Saddle farcly worn, with a leather housing; The
Bridle a curb, without any joint in the bitts. Whoever will
return said horse, &c. to tne fubferiber, living at Mr. Edward
Brownell's, in Canaan, shall receive the above reward.
HEZEKIAH NEGRO.
Canaan, April rp, 1781.
"TV/'E ^e Subscribers, being appointed Commissioners,
by the Hon. Court of Probate, for the diftrid of Hart
ford, to receive and examine the claims of the creditors on
the estate of J OHN STRONG, late of Glaftenbmy,
deceas'd, represented insolvent, and three months being
allowed for the creditors to bring in their claims ; Do here
by give notice, That we shall attend on said business ac the
dwelling-house of Mr. Josiah Hale, in said GLiitenbury, on
the firft Tuesday's in May, June and July next, from one
o'clock in the afternoon until seven.
TO BE SOL D,
By THOMAS HOPKINS,
At his Store in Hartford ;
A Few Casks of best LIVE R 01L, also China Cups
and Saucers, and a Imall quantity of Refined Iron, for
hard Money only.
ALL PERSONS that are indebted to said Hopkins,
by book er note, are desired to call and pay their just debts ;
and all these who have any demands on him, by calling shall
receive their just dues.
TO BE SO L D,
A NUMBER of RIGHTS of LAND, in the State of
Vermont. One or two of which lie in the township
of Littleton, and one in Walden. Said Littleton lies on
Conne&icut-river, and said Walden one township back of
the river. The aforefaid towns are about fifteen miles north
of Lower-Coos, and known by the name of Oxbow. Said
lands Will be fold on reasonable terras (if applied for soon)
by AARON HQRS£F@R»
Litchfield, April 18, 1781,