The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1780-10-03 00:00:00, page 1

TUE S.D AY, October 3, 1780. T HE % NUMBER +l9.
CONNEC T 1 CUT COURANT,
AN ^ T MK
WE.EK L:V IN TELtI G£N^?E ^
Just pubH/hed, and to be fold at the North-
Door under the Printing-Office.
AVINDICATIO N
OF THE
PRINCIPLES and CONDUCT
OFTHH
CHURCH IN STOCKBRIDGE,,
In excluding from their Communion, one o:
their Members, for marrying a Perlon
immoral and profane. >,
In Reply to the. Connecticut Gentleman's
Plea,
By ST EPH EN WEST, Pastor
WITH AN
APPENDIX,
By JOHN BACON, A. M;
A LSO.,
7tf fe^lifced, and now fekr.g at the fame
Place,.% .
LETTERS of FRIENDSHIP,
To those tlexgym, ^ho to, lately
renounced Communion with the
niftefs and Churches of.Chrrft in ge
neral. With Illustrations, from recent,
Examples. ^_
Written by the Author of the ?le,bef re tn: ^
d&fhifrcal CotmcflatStcrck&ri^ -
Co uNTYfo S^pv. 22. 1,780. „
PUBLIC notice is hereby given to aft,9 whom it
F may concern, tkata Iib:1 it tii^d hewre fr^CT^
Hamlin, Hfq; and the faft of the judges of tl^ Ma
ritime Court in the county of Hartford, wi, a
focefrof British end Bad India goods found in Sat
feid, iu Lid county; b, Thadeus K& of said Saf
ficld, who hath caused the fame to be seizedf d,,-
prised Kcaldiog to law, .amounting a# per invents
ry and fyprifefoaM ready in court to be fawn! to
the fam of 43 I - Bs. which said goods were seized
in said Stffiald on the 1 fth ofSeptember iu,ant, ,nd
fappofed to belong to Jonathan Ganger of said baf
field, and to be by him brought into this Sta ^ from
tofltot} feme other ifod or place under the
controul of th^ enemy', contrary to tee laws of thia
State made for preventing Illicit Trades Adb,
* parcel of British and India ^4s Mund in
faidS&id by Thadeu# King of find Suffield, who
hath caused the fame to be failed and a,pflfcd ^
cording to law, amounting as per inventory ,d
apprifement ready in court to be ihewn, to,th, ^
J 2091. 31. Bd. ifq. which fetid goods were tev
Soffiald. on the 16th of indent Septet
bar and fappofed to belong to Aaron Holiday of
Aid S^ffuld. and to be by him brought into thia
State from Long liliad or fume other Iflaad or pUc|
tender the centroui of the enemy, contrary to the
law# of this State made for preventing I Heit Trade
, Aad for the trial of the juried of the aforesaid
capture#, the Maritime Court in the county of Hart
ford, will be held at the Court House in Hartford,
00 the ad Wednesday cf November next, at which
time ell persons claiming property in (aid %eo% or
of them, may appear, and shew reafcn it any
they have, why said good# Should not be adj &fi
hyfal prize, the one moiety to tie Treasurer of hid
county, for the use of laid county, and the other
moiety to the libellant.
By order of the Judge of said Court,
wRIG
WANTS a Quantity of Orta,, Flour and Hbu.
Hoops, which he will pry for in Salt, Ruro,
Sugar, Maigret, Tia, Coffee, Continental or new
Coune&icut Money. He aifo her for fide at hie
Store in Wethersfield, near the Meeting Hade, a
few Calks of Firfl White Sugar.
Wethersfield, Sept. 23$ 1,80.
HARTFORDr by 11 U DS'O N^ ODW IN, wear the Great-Bridge.
f Hartford Ccun?Y, September I§, r,^
PUBLIC' notice is hereby feiVen, to alt whom it
doth or may torero, tty a Hbt! it fikdjb#
tore the.Hon. J&z Hamlin, Bfq: Jnd't of he Mil
ritime Court for the County of Hertford, a^ain^ the
following goodr arid mfthgndite, vz. 16 bit' of
Silt, i bp&fhead of Ruri cohi£Mrig 110 piton#;l
barrel of Rum containing go gallon,, and ,e IL bf
Sugar, in favour of Ahfy ^l"* crtaniraier of tl&
grated, Boat c#Helthe Poll, . aodhb'A&cizH?, ±%
Captori and fittm forth of the Lid Boas, who took
tyd gcods upon th? ; high fete end font them into
the county ^Hartford. And for the tt'l nf &
jufice cf fa ; d capture t'e Maritime Court for the
county qf Hertford w,! be holden at Hertford in
Aid county,, on the id WednMda^ of November
.p.^xt, when and,where all ferfbnr claiming pfetyer •
ty may appear, and tow season. (If any tlfyh^tfefr
why said goods fhqnld.net hr adjudgiM.as UwfaP
prize to the captori ppd fettles forth, agreeable to
the puyer of the libellants,
orde^cf the Judge of la-Court, .
GB@RGR WYLLY^^Z,
STRAYED or Stolen from the fubfer b,t, enjh^
evening, of the 16th infc a light sorrel MARS,
about' 14 handi and a half high, 12 ytts # pld a
white flrip in, her face, mdn^ to a point and t^rn
ing on the go& light,main ind tail, bind feet white,
a ^amiable high back bent near the fore ftytald^
no biaid) left a feokiog co& Whoeverr will take
up fald Marr and. Thief,dhall have a reward of ^t
Hundred Dollar#;iind so, the Mm only Three
Hundred. Dollars and all reafonabl^ chfr,e#, ,id :
by WI&LTAM KING,
Su&ldf Sept, %,, t,Bo.
BieTKERSTAPs ALMANAC^
JUST printed, and ta.be. fold, wholesale or re,
tail, by Nathaniel Fatten, book binder;
about fifteen red# north ^ the fla.e boKfe. Hertford.
N. B. Said fatten wL'l exiling© clothiers p cfs
papers, cytridge paper, cop,era#, &c. &c. for cot
ton or linen rags, on rerforahle termi;
^tifofot^^
I\ES HRT El 9 from, the fix months draught;
_LJ in Sharon, one JOHN BARSLE Y, Jun.
abcut 21 yi#M old. 6 feet high, hi^ boil: black hir
and eyes. Whoever will take opioid deferier, and
return him to the fubfcr,ber, 4111 receive O^e Hun
drtd Dollar reward, and all mfonable charges.
ADONIJAW GRISWOLD, %t.
Sharon, September it, 1780.
—UTE R.FA S' a (efficient nembrr of tha Pro
pyietomef W I NCHEST Eit fl the re.
quest of said town. Lave mad 4 application, to th
febferiber. to warn a meeting of Gid proprietors, t?
fee if they will recall , vot? of bid proprietor#,
granting Mr. Richard Smith 1 berty fj draw .water
out efthr Long Pond, in faM town, for the use of
the Iron Work#, in Colebrook ; it being d^dyan
tareoue to the. town, as veil at the owner and cuf
toilers of the drift Mill,- Theft are therefore, to
notify said praprietort, tb ms£t at the dwelling hbufa
of the Widow Evartt,, innholder in faid # Wince%d%
on.the 3d. Tuesday cf OAobcr next, at @ o'clock in
the aftewoon, fa coi^lMer of fed Matter mod to tranf
other bufirfß tfar,t preffir.
DAVID AUSTIN, Pfep C)V, .
W newer, September „. 1786.
_ CT FQB_. 4 t^..=U„fr^~6Q„r.'-..^=_rcPßQttahv>VX n t «fctmAoAfcM±„ ¥ _ratty
THE Adminifttatm on the .e^a eel L>&au
EZEKIEL PORTER deceas'd, once
more ftquaft &fe that are indebted to laid i&ta, to
make<pe&4f payments or, on ntycA they till, be
called upon in a different manner.
Wether sf # l^S^pto^^^^'x^^
Three Calks of Good S A LT,
(.The Property of a Fc^cnkr)
To b a S 0 ld (for Harder Continental Money)
By A LEXANDER HUNK
Wetbenfirid, September 12. >7BO.
ANNA P O.L IS, September 15. 1
^ttra& of a letter from Sali&ry; North Carolina,
.. .August 23 17S0,
6 ' Y T is. natural for mankind, who have loathly
X country and property.., to ,be- too anxious in
then purfaits to regain them, 25! while they par
foully and ^gazlr ferafp K the ffiadgwe. left the fob
&uice. M&»of this complex on, cor&ntj faf
rounding the comrcander in >chie; laffsning his
difficult ra. the.namb= cf the enemy, and pointing
oat the certainty of fttcccfi; excite ratafurea which
io the event becomes .fetaL We matched from
H^{borough about the firth of foly. without an
ounce of provifiou being laid in at any one po nt.
often faftihg for feverei days together, fubfiffiag fee
qtratly ufoon green apples and peaches ; fomrt.my
by detaching parties we thought curfclvet feafted,
when they, by vailencf, fe ; .z^d rlittle frafh beef,
cat; thcefoed out, and ground a little wheat : yet
under all these d faculties, we bad to p efs forward.
" Jofr before, and on the ar^vel ot Gen. Gater>
both h^ and the Barca fermd.d:fytf<d to give the
army a,little refpitc; but Gen. C#fty¥J > of the
N^rth Carolina militia, having movad over tbe
P&edce, obliged ueto make a fix days herd march,
hefora we could form ^ juu&ion wth him ; this
cffl&cd, our march was rapidly continued for fi%
days longer, wrti we arrived at C t^rnont, within
radial cf.Crmbdaß, on the i,b if 0 ant.,
' Out fe„»s bconh.roto come in mere amply,
and bad we waited here a few dry,.car forest must
hev: bew.CoLfidwabfy. augment# nh ch would;
have ruaokd us texhav^ brnaffed the enemy and in
a faat meafari cut eff their refoarcet; this mrfft
h&vecftacafdttr pup^fe in the event, without rf^
ing, a general engagement; the id fe,. io my opi^
nien, to be taken, v^bcrefh ritach was to. be risked.
We were ordered down on the tveuirg ofrhe ipa to
attack the enerry, and Gen. Sump cr war to p r °-
ciii dowa to the ferry opp ffie to Qarahden, to?
Caeite 4 dive.fion.m that cimteL to facil^e j> 7r
making.at, impieffion on Cmbdet. Here the ^ 4
tifh had coik&daheir whole fcrce, and gaining ir>
telligcnca of out view, moved out at nine o'clock %
the evening to meet e# and farming an zrewfc^o
on tbeidadi ia<p zed qs about dee Jcloc^^ the
m v rn.a^ on, our raich. Our advanced and flank
nag p^fat. endeavoured toftgpdahe ffio:k ; bat were
broke, and thret, into dlfwdet ; buNhe, rallying,
immediately, advanced, eng*,ad, and forced the
entiuy to give way in turn ; this „ jg rtfote'to tlie
troop ;o tarn, and so we feirnained in anxeos er
pe&xjoa. {linear dry break; nothing material occult
"^ bl" partial firings from the advanced and recon
naueriog partes of each anmyj when the General
cudeted kbe.firtt Maryland brigade <6 farm a co^pfe
de ttte.vef about zoo yards in rear of the center of
the lire; this was immediate!-, effetedf and the
troops refled upon their arms till a lirtle aft^r dzy
b;e,ak, when the aßira commenced.
61 The attack was made by Lord Cornwall s, fr ^*
th* right and center, on the center and ltf wing of
our frenNint, which was 'alio & eti.e M eoap^'cd cf
millin, who, upon the &ft fire from the enemy,
gave s way, and ware pointed by the Bi<ft. which
thurr the corpse de rrf&vc into diforoer; bat they
rallying rented,a el , under a Very hot fit, charted
the B tiffi fa ywmly th^t they eatiieiy beote theit
center ;by this time the fi : commenced ve r y hot cm
the ri^ht, where the second Maryland brigade be
hived with great gallantly and frmneG ; but the
enem,'; line ts regular troops bt;n: far mere exten
sive on their right than cuts pn the r left, ^fter the
in lida htd given way, expend the lift Hr k and
real of the firft brigade, which; notnfchfandinfc
manfully maintained their ground, till the left wing
was ordered to retreat to a point ofvew about 83
yards in the rear, to the extremityof the slinking
party. Where itfoflantly forfr^d, renewed, and con^
tinned the stock with peat vipenr: but being
again hfad pressed in front flihk erd rear, retreated
a second tiu& formed, and difputd the ground