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WHOLESALE and RETAIL.
PETER COLT, and Co. ;
Have just received from London, and are now
opening for file, by the piece or retail, a large
aflortment of G OODS, confiding of
T AMIES,
Durants,l
Shalloons, f of all colours;
Callimancoes, 1
Moreens,
Black Ladings.
Ditto Sattinets.
Common and twill'd Corduroys. , , $
Bone, Shammy Stag, real Buck Table Knives,
and Forks.
Ditto Penknives.
Cuttoes, Sciffars, Raifors, Shoe Knives, Files.
Watch Glares, &c. &c. „ ,
And the usual Assortment of Shop Goods, Glass
and Nails, by retail.
Hartford, November 1783.
Non- Refidems look to your Interest !
WILL be fold as the law dire&s, so much of the lands of the
non-resident proprietors of Farmington as will be fut
ficient to pay the town and Society taxes due on said lands, un
less a fettlcment be made before the 31st of December next, viz.
Rofeter Belden. Capt. Jonathan Bull, Nathaniel Braman, Solo
mon Curtifs, David Curtifi, Thomas Dyer, Richard Goodman,
Elijah Humphrey, George Humphrey, Ashbcl Humphrey, John
Marsh, Laomi Nearing, John and Oliver Newel, Ebenezer
Plummer, Ambrose Potter, Steven St. John, David Sherman,
Sarah Woodruff, Samuel andlfaac W< odruff, John Hart, James
Graham, Dod. Jonathan Bird, Gould S. Sillaman, William Bar
ret, Stephen Curtifs, William Pixley, Benjamin Stiles, D&&or
Ezekiel Porter's heirs, Gideon Hunp, Abel Fuller, Joseph Grid
ley, John Pierce, Capt. Eliakim Hull, Roswell Salcenftall, David
Bucl, Grove Foer, Noah Gridley, Oliver Humphrey, Dan Brad
ley, Jonathan Smith, David Adoram, Matthew Stiles, Josiah
and Reuben Curtifs, John Beach, Stephen Keys, John Merry,
John W^-tmb, Ames Hitl?, John ^ ^rt, Bti T frPC CTe rs,
Reuben Cafe*,
EZEKIEL COTTLES, jun. ) Cofledors
JAMES JUDD, jun. ) of
LUKE WADSWORTH, ) Town
SETH WADSWORTH, ) and
ELEAZER CURTISS, ) Society
WILLIAM SMITH. ) Taxes.
Farmington, November 19, 1783.
Non-Residents.
NOTICE is hereby given to die non-resident proprietors who
have Lands in the parish of Weft-Britain, in Farmington,
in Hartford county, that their lands will be fold at public ven
due, at the dwclling-houfe of Simeon .Hart,Efo; innholder in
said Farmington, on the firft Menday in Frebruary next, atrine
o'clock in the foreign, so much as will pay their several taxes
and charges arising, viz. Cornelius Cornwell, Samuel Cook,
Asa Clark, John Darow, Ebenezer Fisk, Abraham Hemming
way, Samuel Mecham, Nehemiah Mecham, Ozias Northway,
Amos Hart, Abel Ruffcl, Ezekiel Lewis, Abraham Stanley, Ma
thew Talcott, John and Samuel Shelton, John Spencer, Abici
Tyler, David Smith, Jabez Bacon, Joseph, John and James Noys,
Mathew Cole, Jeremiah, Abigal, Eunice and Elizabeth Wadf
wortb, Sarah Cheftcr, John Hooker's heirs, WiJi^nfHblbar,
Elisha Hart's heirs, Abijah Shelton, James Judd's heirs, Dan
Bradley, Daniel Judd, Benjamin Lord, Matthew Clark,Jtac
North, Thomas H. Hooker's heirs, John Case, Anne Audios
Do&or Huff, Timothy Hufmer, Thomas Neweljun. John Pos
ter, John Stedman, Timothy Woodruff, Sarah Woodruff, John
Woodruff, John Woodford, Noah woodruff, Prichard Chalker;
Elisha Kelsey, Jonathan Smith's heirs, Gad Stanley, John Kel
ley, Antos Sberey, Edward Melow, Widow Mary Cable, John
Stanley, Jeremiah Hull's heirs, Joseph Cole's heirs, Jonathan
Bird, Isaac Ingham, John Hart's heirs, Hezekiah Thornton,
Ezekiel Thomson's heirs, John Robbins, Amos Upfon, Thomas
North, william and Mary Wells, John Trumbull, Amos Perinos,
Hannah Performs heirs, Widow Martha Green, George Wyl
lys, Lfq; David Shelton.
CORNELIUS CORNWALL, )
EZRA YALE,)
AMOS HART, jun. ) Collars.
AMBROS HART.)
ICHABOD ANDRUS, )
TITUS FUNNEL. )
November 20, 1783,
4—— —— . —-——
BROKE into the inclofure of the Subferiber the Si ft of barber
last, a red two years oIdSTEAR, witha white face, marked
with a halfpenny under- fide the right ear and a flit the ufper
fidethe leftear. The owner may have said Rear by proving
his property and paying charges.
Litchfield, November 12, 1783. DAVID GIBBS.
WE the Subscribers being appointed Commiflionrrs, by the
Hon. Court of Probate for the dirtriQ of Farmington, on
the ertate of ZOROBABEL JEAROMS, late of Farmington, de
ccafed, represented insolvent, to hear Ind examine the claims
of the creditors to said estate ; do hereby give notice that at
tendance will be given at the cwelling-houfe of Capr. Zebulon .
Peck, in said Farmington, on the third and fourth Tueiday of -
December next, from one o'clock till, nine in the afternoon, onl
each day.l
ZEFULON PECK, jun. {
LAMENT PECK.
Farmington, November xj, 1783. J
TUESDAY, December 9, 1783. THE Numbers
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WEEKLY I NTELLIGENCE R.
HERTFORD : Printed by H UDSO N and GOOD WI N, near the Great Bridge.
N E W - Y O P K, November 27.
Ul^vici received bj the Lord Hyde Packet, arrived on Sunday Night
last, in 47 Day from Falmouth.
L O N D O N, September 39.
The DEFINITIVE TREATY between Great-Rritain
and the United States of America, Signed at Paris the 3d Day of
September, 1783.
In the Name ofthe most holy and undivided Trinity.
IT having pleased the divine Providence to dispose the hearts
of the Moss Serene and Mort Potent Prince George the Third,
by the Grace ofGod, King of Great-Britain, France, and Ireland,
Defender of the Faith, Duke ofßrunfwick and Lunenburgh, Arch
Treasurer and Prince Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, &c.
and of the United States of Arne?<a, to forget all past misunder
standings and differences that have unhappily interrupted the
good correspondence and friendship which they mutually wish to
rehore, arid to establish such a beneficial and fatisfadory inter
course between the two countries, upon the great and reciprocal
advantages and mutual convenience, as may promote and secure
to both perpetual peace and harmony ; and having for this desi
rable end already laid the foundation of peace andreconciliatjon,
by the Provisional Articles signed at Paris on the 30th of Novem
ber 1782, by the Commissioners empowered from each pare,
which Articles' were agreed to be inferred in, and to conftieute
the Treaty of Peace proposed tohe concluded between theCrown
of Great Britain and the faid'United States, but which Treaty
was not to be concluded until te.ms of peace should be agreed
upon between Great Britain and France, and his Britannic Maj
esty should be ready to conclude.fah Treaty accordingly ; and
the Treaty between Great- Britain and France having since been
concluded, his Britannic Majesty and the United States of Ameri
ca, in order to carry into full effed the Provifion.il Articles above
mentioned, according to the tenor thereof, have constituted and
appointed, that is to fay, hs Britannic Majedy on his part, Da
vid Hartley, Esq; Member of the Parliament of Great Britain,
and the said United States on the r parr, John Adams, Esq; late a
Commissioner of the United States of America at the Couroof
Verfriilles, fate Delegate in Congtefs from the State of Maffachur
setts, and Chief Justice of the said S.ate, and Minister Plenipo
tentiary of the Lid United State, to their High Migheinefles the
States-General of the United Netherlands ; Benjamin Franklin,
ffy late Delegate in Congress frpm the State of Pennsylvania,
President of the Convention of th( said State, and Minister Ple
nipotentiary from the United Scabs of America at the Court of
Verfaillesj_ and To^ulaY, Efe&—-:c President of Congress, and
Chief Hiltice oS'chJ'jtitfc of New-t ork, and Mini Act Plenipoten
tiary from the said United States at the Court of Madrid, to be
the Plenipotentiaries for the concluding and Signing the preferit
Definitive Treaty ; who,after liaving recip royally communicated
them refpeftive fall powers, have agreed upon and comfirmed
the following Articles :
Art. I. His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United
States, viz. New-Hampshire, Maffaihufetts Bay, Rhode-Ifand and
Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New - Fork, New Jerjey, Penn
sylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, N. Carolina, S. Carolina,
and Georgia^ to be free. Sovereign, and independent States ; that
he treats with them as such, and for himfeif, h^ heirs and suc
cessors, relinquishes all claims tothe-government, propriety, and
territorial rights of the fame, and cc cry pa t thereof,
Art. 11. And that al disputes whiJi might arise in future on
the fubjed of the boundaries ofthe said United States may be
prevented, it is hereby agreed and declared, that th^ following
are and shall be their bounder es, viz. From the north-weft an
g eof Nova-S otia, viz. That angle whi his formed by a line
drawn due north from the fonree of Sr. Croix River to the High
lands, along the said Highlands, which divide thofc rivers that
empty thenfe ves into the river St. Lawrence, from thofe*which
fall into the Atlantic 0 can, to the North westernmost head of
Conneaicut-river ; thence down along the middle of that river
to the forty fifth degree of noruh latitude ; from thenceby a line
due weft on said latitude, until it ftr kes the river lrriqois or
Ca araquy ; thence along the middle of the said river into Lake
Ontario ; through the middle of said take until it strikes the com
murticarion by water between tha 4 lake and Lake Erie ; theme
alo-g the middle of said co Mmunic arion into Lake Erie, through
tht middle of said lake, until it arrives at the w ter comnunica
.tion between that lake and Lake Huron, then.e'through the mid
dle of Said lake to the water communication between that lake
and Lake Superior ; thence through Lake Superior northward of
the Illes Royal arid Phebpeaux tothe Long Lake; thence through
the m.ddle ofthe said long Lake and the water communication
bettyeeh it and the lake of the Woods, to the said Lake ofthe
Woods ; thence through the said lake to the mo'ft norh-weftern
pone thereof, and from whence oh a due weft course 'to the river
Miflifippi ; thence by a line to be drawn along the midd e of the
faidr ver Miliflippi until it shall interfedthe northernmost-part
of the thirty fuft degree of north latitude. South, by a !ine to
be drawn nue east from the determination ofthe line last men
tioned in the latitude of thirty one degrees north ofthe equator
to the middle offhe river Apaiachi.hol.TOfCarahoudic; thence
along the middle thereof to its junction with the Flint river,
theme Strait to the Stead of B.Mary's river; and thence down
along the middle of said river to the Atlantic O<ean ; east, by a
kin to be drawn along the middle of the river Sr. Croix from its
month in the Bay ofFundy to its ftiurce, and from its Source di
rhaly north tothe uforefaid Highlands which divide the rivers
thrit fall into the Atlantic Crean from those which fall into the
fiver St. Lawren<e, comprehending ail islands within twenty
leagues ofany pattof-he shores of the United States, and lying
between lines to be drawn due east from the points where the
aforefaid boundaries between Nova $ ot<a on the one pare, and
pit Florida on the other, shail'refpe&ive.y touch the Bay of Fan
dy and the Atlantic Ocean; ex.epingfin h Islands as now are or
hereafter have been within the limits of the laid province of No
va Scotia.
Art. 111. It is agreed that the people of the United States
shall continue to e joy unmo'efted the ii r ht 10 take fish of every
kind op the Grand Bank, and on all the ochei Banks of New
foundland, a so in the Gulphof St. Lawrence, and al other plains
in the lea, where the inhabitants of torn countries used at any
time heretofore to fish. A^dalCo th.?- : :e inhabitants of (he U
nited States shall have liberty to take fish of every kind on such
part of the coast of Newfoundland as British fishermen ^ll ° !e
(but not to dry or cure the fame on that island) and aifo on the
coasts, bays, and creeks of all other of his Britannic Majesty s
domin ons in America ; and that the American fishermen shall
have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unfer led bays, har
bours, and creeks ofNova Scotia, Magdalen Inlands and Labra
dor, so long as the fame shall remain unfettlecl ; but so soon as
the fame or either of them shall be fettled, it shall not be lawful
for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such settlements,
without a previous agreement for that purpose with the inhabit
tants, proprietors, or possessors of the ground.
Art. IV. It is agreed that the creditors on either fide shall
meet with no lawful impediment tothe recovery of the full value,
In sterling money of all bona fide debts heretofore contrasted.
Art. V. It is Agreedthat Congrefsshall earnestly recommend
it to Legislature ofthe refpeSive States, to provide for the refti
turion of all estates, rights and properties, which have been con—
fifeated, belonging to real British fubje&s; and also of theeftates,
rights and properties of persons resident-in diftrids in the poffefc
fidn of his Miijfys arms, and who have not borne arms against
the said United States ; arid that persons of every other descrip
tion shall have free liberty to go to any part or parts of any of
the Thirteen United States, and therein to remain twelve months
unmolested in their endeavours to ot tain the-restitution of such
of their estates, rights and properties, as may have been confif
cated ; and that Congress shall earnestly recommend to the feve
fal States a re -consideration and revision of all Ads or Laws re
garding the premises, so as co render the said Laws or A&s per
feftly confident, not only with justice and equity, but wi h that
spirit of conciliation, which, on the return of the bleflings of
peace, should univetfally prevail : And that Congress shall also
earnestly recommend to the several States,that the estates, rights
and properties of such left mentioned persons shall be restored
to them, they refunding to any person who may be now in pof
feflion the bona fide price (where any has been given) which such
perlons may have paid on purchasing any ofthe faidlands, rights
or properties firice the confiscation.
And it is agreed, that ail persons who may have any interest in
confiscated lands, either by debts, marriage-settlements, or
otherwiie, shall meet with no lawful impediments in the prose
cution of their just rights.
Art. VI. That there shall.be no future confiscations made;
nor any profecucions commenced against any person or persons
for, or Ly reason ofthe part which he or they may have taken in
the pfefent war; and that no person shall, on that account, fuf
fer any future lufs or damage, either in his person, liberty, or
property ; and that those who may be in confinement on such
charges, at trie time ofthe ratify ation of trie Treaty in America,
shah be imnicdiatly set at liberty, and the prosecution so com
menced be difeontirfued.
Art. VII. There shall be a firm and perpetual peace between
his Britannic Majesty and the said Spates, and between the fub
^s ofthe one, and the citizens of the other; wherefore all hof
tiliries both by sea and land shall, from henceforth, cease ; al!
prisoners on both sides-shall be fee at liberty, and his Britannic
-Majesty shall, with all convenient speed, and without caufio^
any deftruriion, or carrying away any Negroes, or other proper
ty Ofthe American inhabitants, withdraw all his armies, garri
sons arid fleets from the said United States, and from every poft'
place, and harbour within the fame, leaving in all fortification^
- the American artillery that maybe therein; and shall also order
andcaufe allarchives records, deeds, and papers belonging to an,
of chelkid States, or theirciti/ens, which in the course of the war
may have fallen into the hands of his Officers, to be forthwith re
hored, and delivered to the proper States and persons to whom
they belong.
Arc. VJII. The navigation ofthe river Mifffippi, from its
source to the ocean, shall for ever remain free and open to the
fubjeds of Greac-Britain, and the citizens of the United States.
Art. LX. In case it should so happen chatany place or territo
ry belonging to Great-Britain, or to the United States, should
havebeen conquered I y the arms of either from the other, before
the laidProvdional Articles in America, it is agreed that ihefame
shall be restored without difficulty, and without requiring an,
compenfatiqn. ''
Art. X. The folotnh Ratifications ofthe pre'ent Treaty, ex
pedited in-good and due form, shall be exchanged between the
contrasting Parties in t^e space of fix months, or sooner, if
pellicle, to be computed from-the day of the signature of the pre
sent Treaty. In w-tnef'swhereof we ihe undersigned, their Min
igerts Plenipotentiary, have in their name, and in virtue of ou{
full , owers, signed with our hands the-present Definitive Treaty,
and car-fed the Seals of our Arms to be affixed thereto.
D< tie at Paris, this 3d day of September, in the year of Our
Lord Cne 1 Lowland Seven Hundred and Eighty-three.'
(L. S.) JOHN ADAMS,
(L. S.) DAVID HARTLEY. (L S.) B FRANKLIN,
(L. S.) JCHN JAY.
GEORGE R.
George the Third,bv the Grace of God, Kingof Great-Britain,'
Frame, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Duke of Brunswick
and Lunenburg, Arch Treasurer and Prince Elector-of the Hol,
Roman Empire, &c. To all to whom these Presents shall come
Greeting: *
Whereas, for the perfecting and establishing the peace, friend
ship, and good undci standing, so happily <orrmenced by the
Provisional Articles Signed at Paris the 30th of November last
ly the Commissioners of us and our good friends the United
States of America, viz. New-Hampshire, MufTaebufetn Bay
Rhode Island, Connedicut, New- York, New-Jersey, Pennsyl
vania, the three lower Counties on Delaware, M.iyland, Vir
ginia, North- Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, in North-
America, and lot opening, promoting and rendering perpetual
the mutual intercourse of trade and commerce between our
kingdoms and the said L nited States, we have thought proper to
invest some fit person with fu 1 powers on our part to meet and
confer with the Ministers of the said United States, now residing
at Paris, duly authorised for the accomplishing of such laudable
and fall tary pnrpofes Now know ye that we, reposing special
trull and confidence in the wisdom, loyalty, diligence, and cir
cumf, e& on of outer- fly and well beloved David Hartley, Esq;
(on whom we have heretofore conferred the rank of ourMinifter
Plenipotentiary) have nomina ed, constituted and appointed,
and by thclC Presents do nominate, constitute and appoint him