The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1783-08-12 00:00:00, page 1

Just opened and to be Sold,
By WILLIAM COIT,
Opposite the Court House.
SUPERFINE white, purple Pafian.
andgieen Bio^cbyh. Sarcenet
Blue, browi and olive co- Black Lace,
lourd fecund do. Duch do.
Shalloons. Mens Worked and Hemp
Tammies and Durants. Stockings.
Moreens. Gloves, Fans.
Cal'imanco. Black, green and white Fea-
Tw ft and Silk. thers.
F shionable Buttons. Tapes,
Double purple andlight Cal- Nitting anddarningNecdles.
licocs. Playing Cards.
Pompadour do. Whrlted Quallity and Shoe
Daik French and English Binding.
Chintzes. Horse Whips.
Fustian. Case Knives and Forks,
Corduroys. Pen Knives and Cuttoes/'
Velvets. Stiers.
Irish Linens, Sealing Wax.
Check'd do. Shoe and Knee Buckles,
Bl.ck and white chain'dand Brass Cocks.
ip teed Gauze, Pitted Spurrs.
S fflu do. Pad-Locks#
Miimet. Chest do.
F nailable Ribbons, Awls and Tacks.
Lu-gee, Pulicat and Romall Awl-Hafts.
Handkerchiefs. German Steel.
Black Ba cel&na do. Sugar per barrel.
Lin< n and Cotton do. M deria Wine per do.
Gauz. and T ? ffi y do. Geneva per Case.
Cambrick and Lawn. Pepper, Alfpice and Cina-
PUi r andfigur'd Sattin. mon.
Lureft ings. A fnull assortment of Lon-
Taffity and Mode. don Pewter, and Crockery.
Hartford, July 29, 1783. _
ALL those who are indebted to SAMUEL BURR, and Co.
are desired ro fettle the fame immediately or expe& co
pry c 41, as the "Partnership is dissolved.
Hartford, July 28, 178;.
Now printed and ready for the Subferibers and
Others,
NUMBER 11.
OF Capo Cook V >yage to thePacific Oceanand in q^ft
of a North-Welt P ffige between Afi 1 and America.
T i be fold by NATHANIEL PATTEN, a few Rods North of
the Cou t House Hatford, a fmallAlTottmer-t ofWeft-lidia
and D y G >ds, Groceries, Haid Ware, Pewter. Books,
Stationary, &e &c. &c.
N B Said PATTEN Trades for Cash only, and is deter
mined to fra his A ticles at the very low,ft p ices.
STRAYED from the lubfcritcr a Bay HORSE, about 14
hands and an inch high, 7 years old, branded on the
hoofs I O trotter, mare lies the near fide, shoirt^il,
Whoever will take up and return faidHorfe, shMI be well
rewarded, by JOHN OLCOTT.
-H@rr<f, I Trfy T7Bl
SIOLI . GUI & the pon^ oT Cat:.John Welles, in EMA
H refold,inthe night ofthe 22d instant, aforrelHOßSE,
about :§ hands high, a white stripe in his face, high boned,
in good order for shipping, natural trotter, carries -bimfdf
Well, his hr d feet white, a fm<ll fear with white hair on
the left fide ofhis head. Whoever will fecurefaid Horse and
return him to the owner in Glaftenbufy, shall have five
dollars reward and all charges, and for the Thief and Horse
twelve dollars and all charges.
ISAAC WELLES.
Glaftenbury, July 26, 1783,
N. B. All gentlemen purchasing hordes for shipping are
&fi ed to flop the horse and secure him if offered for sale
and to dead the chief-
ALL performs indebted to the late "Partnership of Pynchon
and Cobb, or to the fubferiber, (either on N. te, Bond
ar Book, of more than one year's Handing) are reqidied
t& make immediate payment, or to renew their obligati
ons, and prevent further cost and trouble.
C HARLES PYNCH ON.
_ Springfield, July 22, 1783.
TAKEN up by the Subferiber, the 12th of Mar, a red or
chebiut rone MARE, about 13 and a half hands high,
shod before, chichv paces. The owner i& desired to prove
his property, pay the charges aad take her aw?y,
EDWARD SPALDING.
Canaan, July 5,178 ft
Hzf RTFO RD: Printed by H U DSON and GOOD WJ N, near the Great Bridge,
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T U E S D A Y, August 12, 1783.
" Sixthly, Because it would make an undue
" diferimination between the fervich ofthe line
" and the service of the militia, who have re
" ceived little or no pay, and expect no bounty
" oflands.
" Seventhly, Because such pensions would
" endanger the making so many idle drones in
" the Rate hive."
ADI A LOGUE between Col. Roswell
Hopkins, of Amenia precinct and his La
bourer.
Labourer. Well 'olonel you have a finery,
and we have,got it all fafe in the barn-will it
be convenient for you now to let me have the
'wheat your Overseer promised me, I should have
over and above my monthly wages after the Har
vest ''—There are loefe iheaves enough lying 011
the barn floor, and if you like it, I will go to
threshing it out immediately.
Col. Why I don't think I shall pay you ; you
took an unfair advantage of myftualion—you
knew it was a very bus time, and that I could
not spare you, and so extorted the promise, and
" neither my honor nor justice is engaged to
“ fiilfilit."
Labourer I took an unfair advantage of your
fauation ?-—I pofitive;ly deny it, and 'defy you to
prove it-—What reason have you for supposing
it—l am sure no part of my conduct looked like
it; nay it has been just the contrary ; for you
know that many times, when you could not pay
me my monthly wages and scarce give me bread
to eat, or cloaths to cover my nakedness and my
wife and family Rarving for want of a little sup
port, and in the height of your harvest, when, if
I had left you, your grain muR have gone into
the ground again, and when, if I had chosen to
be ungenerous, I could have forced from youA
promise of half your crop—What was my con-
" n ESOLVED thatthough this meeting have
Fl " a high sense of the services and merits
" of the officers ofthe line of the army of this
" State, yet this meeting is of opinion, that the
" said officers are neitherin justice nor equity en
" titled to half-pay during life, nor to five years
" whole pay by way of Commutation.
" Firil, Because when the . said officers enter
" ed into fer,vice, neither Congrefs,nor this Rate,
" engaged them any such thing; and that if in
" an hour of diltrefs with Congress, the said
" officers availed themselves of a promise for the
" fame,---neither the honor nor justice of this
" state is engaged to fulfil it.
“ Secondly, Because the depreciation of their
" pay is fully made up ; so that they have fuf
'' tained no loss by the depreciation of the con
" tinental currency, while the most of the ci
" tizens of this Rate, have fuffered greatly, up
" on the account of depreciation.
" Thirdly, Because we judge it is making^n
" unjult, odious and partial diftinaion between
" the olicer aiid the private. r
" Fourthly, Because this Rate has engaged
" to give to the line of this Rate, a generous
" bounty of the belt lands in the Rate ; in which
" the officers largely participate.
" Fifthly, Because such perfions will lay a
" foundation to enslave this free people.
From the NEW-YORK PACKET.
Extract from the resolves of a town meeting in
Amenia precinct, Dutchefs county, the 4th
July, 1783. Colonel Rofwel Hopkins in the
Chair.
Col. But you know I have paid you your
monthly wages in wheat, and altho' the wheat
at times was light, yet I have " fall, made that
" up to you while ! myfelf fuffered by the lights
" nefs of my crop."
Labourer. Why Colonel you don't mean
what you fay, when you fay you 'nave full, made
up my wages to me,—for you muR remember
that we at firft agreed at a bulhel of wheat a.
month, and soon after I came to live with you.
your crops grew light and bad and I would at
laR as loon have had a bushel of chaff—After
some time when we came to reckon you owned,
yourfelf that I had loft a good deal, and you
promised to make it up to me in good wheat, and.
this good wheat, as you called it, why you know
it didn't weigh above 201 b a bushel, and that to
raise some money to get a little bread for my fa
mily, for you know this last wheat, tho' rather
better than the firft, wasn't fit for bread, I fold it
to you and the neighbours for horse-provender,
at 2/8 a bufnel when good wheat fold for a dol
lar ; so here I loft two thirds of my wages again
---Now Colonel you certainly must remember
all these things and how can you talk so then—
As to your crops being light ; why I don't know
how you have fuffered so much by that, because
all the crops in the country were as light as
yours, and the wheat that there was fetched an
higher price in proportion—but what has this to
do with the bargain between us or how can I
help it—lt is your own fault that your crops
have been so light---you have as good a farm as
any in the world, and if it is welt taken care of
would always have produced as good wheat, but
you never have managed right since I firft came
to live with you-—for the firft three or four
years the land lay entirely idle, and after that it
was ploughed up only Jkin deep—you didn't
choose to work and you was afraid to call upon
your family for fear they should refufe—Nobo
dy could expe& any thing but light crops fron^
such carryings on.
Col. Suppose I should pay this wheat what
do you think James Militia and John Private
will fay.
Labourer. I don't mean to fay any thing
against either of them, but you don't Colonel,
suppose them and me on the fame footing about
this matter; James as far as he knew how, and.
was able has done well enough, but he is as it
were one of your own family, and he may as
well pay you as you pay him, it comes almost
to the fame thing ; besides he worked only now
and then, and never but when you did, but I
was obliged to be always in the field ; blow
high or blow low it made no odds—l know ve
ry well that if I had chose it, I need not to hate
du& then ? Why I still continued to work for
you, and you know it was because I expected
you wouldmake good the promise of your O
verseer—Did your Overseer ever tell you that I
had extorted this promise from him ?—You
know he never did—lt is not worth while Colo
nel for me to mention all that passed between
me and your Overseer at the time he made this
promise, but you know that time and ever since,
he thought it was fair and right —l took advan
tage ,of you in a busy time? When your Over
seer and I made this bargzn, neither he nor I
nor nobody else supposed it more a busy time
than any other since I came to work with you on
the 19th of April, 177 g, for from that day to this
there was always as much bufmefs to do as could
well be done^
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