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Just come to hand, and now opening,
A Consignment of GOODS,
Among which may be found,
fYHINTtES and Calicoes^ purple, crimson, claret,
,1/ aflbited, M and flesh coloured fine
White, claret, green, bke&)g Cloths,
flriped Prunells. WChecks, Buntings and Qua-
Pompodour, dove, green,lities. # 1
purple, Scarlet, dark and^Marfales Quilting and Silk
light coloured Hairbines)()( Serge.
and Camblets, ^Threads various colours,
Dark coloured Crapes, ©Pegging Awl Blades,
Serges and Shalloons, Green Plush,
Blue Thickfett, )tfSmall Blankets,
Black, blue, dark and light^Coatings and Baizes,
brown rich velvets, ^9 by 7 glass,
Dowlas and Sheeting, ^Spades and Shovels,
Irish and Dutch Linens, MIA quantity of Loaf Sugar,
Black and white Gauzes, do. Raisins,
Gauze Handkerchiefs, Q do. Pepper,
Figured and plain Lawns, ^Long and short Pipes,
Blond Laces, 'g Ladies dancing shoes,
DimoUiy and Diapers, vr Linen Shirts.
Green, blue, Scarlet, white,
I The above Goods are tendered at a low advance from the
Reeling cost, by wholesale, an Invoice of which, with the
articles, may be seen by applying to
JAMES & HEZEKIAH BULL.
Hartford, January 28, 1782.
Loan Office, Hartford, January 28, 1782.
THE Agents for the sale of Tickets, in the United States
LOTTERY, are hereby required to make an immedi
ate return of the public monies in their hands to the Com
miflioner of the Loan-Office, conformable to a resolution
of Congress.
The fevfral printers in this State are reqnefted to infeti
the above in their papers.
T~• 'BE S® L D.
By )OS.E PH HART,
OLD Jamaica Spirits, Weft-India and New-England
Rum, by the Hogshead or Barrel, Brandy by the Keg,
Madeira, Port arid Sherry Wine, Raisins by the cask, Cod-
Fish jby the quintal, Sugar by Tierce or Barrel. Also, a
few casks of good Rock and Homemade Salt, by the Cask
or bushel.
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U@I^WOTOT^mf&OWUO
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER.
THE Subscriber, a little north of the Coart-Houfe, Hart
ford, has just printed a very large impression of
D 1 L W OR T H's
SPELLING BOOK,
On a good white and strong paper, with a large and new
type, the, are printed from a London Copy and Warranted
to be as corred as any in New-England, he will fell them,
with other books at the following low prices, by the dozen,
or lower if to be bought in Connecticut,
Spelling Books at is. 3d.
Watts's Psalms at 3,.
Do. Hymns, at 3s.
Psalms and Hymns' )
bound in one vol. J '.
Primmers, 3d.1-2 penny,
He returns his sincere thanks to his friends and customers
for their custom and the care that has been taken to save
their COTTON and LINEN RAGS, which has saved large
sums of money from being carried to distant parts, for
books, paper, &c, that can be as well done nearer.
Billson France will be received in payment by the publics
most obedient humble Servant,
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Indian Corn, will be received in payment.
Enquire at Cape. William Bull's.
Hartford, December 18, 1781.
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Cloth, Bags, &c. at the Printing Office
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January 1, 1782.„
HARTFORD : Printedby H U DSON and GOODWIN, near the Great Bridge.
TUESDA Y, February 5, 1782.
The present State of the Controversy between
the States of New-York and New-Hamplhire
on the one part, and the State of Vermont on
the other. # Inferred by particular Desire.)
IT has ever been the pra&ice of the-people of Vermont
from their rirft Settlement of this difpured territory, to
appeal to theimparcial judgmqntofthe public as to the justice
of their cause, against theclaims anddemands ofcontiguous
governments to the jurisdiction and right of fojl of this ter
ritory, and their natural and inherent right to form into a
political society, and emancipate into a regular constituted
government, as well to rid themSelvcs from the inconveni
encies and evils inseparable from aftate of nature and anar
chy which they had laboured under, as, to exempt them
felv.es from the usurpation and iron rod of the government
of New-York, jn those matters the public have moftgene
rally favoured Vermont with their approbation, but how
crimes it to pass that Vermont has laid a claim to the New-
Hampshire Grants East of Connecticut River, to the old Ma
son line, and to a diftriff of territory to the westward of the
New-Hampshire Grants (which had been granted and fet
tled by the former government of New-York) as far to the
Weft as the centre of the Hudson's river t ; .... : ,
The reasons which induced Vermont to thus extend her
juriftli&ion, are too prolix to be particularly given in a
News-Paper, and therefore, the bulky part of them, are pro
posed to be shortly printed in a pamphlet ; however to ob
serve briefly, it is-well known that the government of New-
York, both before and since the late revolution, have claim
ed the jurjfdi&ion and foil of the land comprehended in the
territory over yhich Vermont firft ere&d and extended its
govermental.jiirifdj&ion, viz. from within about twenty
miles .East from Hudson's River, to Connecticut Rivery
bounding northerly on. the 45th degree of latitude, and
fontherly on the North line of the Commonwealth of Mas
sachusetts..
For the space of near fifteen years previous to the tom-;
mencement of dig present war, the inhabitants of that ter
ritory,, for a variety of reasons heretofore published, were in
oppofiriop to the jurisdiction of New-York, and great part
of the time in arms, against the oppressions, lawsand autho
rity ofthat government, within the laid territory ; for the
hibfequent grantees under New-York at law challenged the
lands and labours of the inhabitants who had previous
purchased and fettled the lands finder the government of
New-Hampshire.. ,
- During those connifts with the government pf New-York,
a great plurality of proclamations 4'o e at different periods
given out by the relpedive Governors of New-York, for the
express purpose of apprehending, and.(as they phrased it) tp
bring to condign punishment, those delinquent inhabitants,
and large rewards were therein offered forthat purpose, so
that great part of the inhabitants had; at one time or other,
become obnoxious to those proclamations, either as origi
nal a&or§ or as accomplices.
The memorable transactions of the goiern mtnt of New-
York, prior to its revolution (from a province to a State)
toward those inhabitants, was the passing twelve a&s of out
lawry against them which had the fan&icm of their legislative
body, which wholly precluded them from the privilege of
governmental protection, and amounted to a positive decla
ration of war against them ; upon which the inhabitants of
the said diftri& (then called the New-Hampshire Grants) by
the authority of their then leaders, published a declaration
of a defensive waragainft the government of New York,
but the present revolution commencing procrastinated the
decision of the dispute at arms, as both parties entered the
lift of opposition to the aflumed prerogative of the parlia
ment of Britain over the then colonies.
The United States declared their independence the 4th
day of July 1776, and Vermont announced theft's the r/th
day of January next following.
The 22d of August 1778, the State of New-Hampshire
made a demand on the State of Vermont of a relinquish
ment of the jurifdiaion of the New-Hampshire Grants to
the eastward of Connecticut river and to the westward of
the old Mason line, over which, at that time, Vermont had
begun to exercise jurifdiQion, supposing that the whole of
these Grants, on both Sides of Connecticut river, had a right
to unite in one entire State, in consequence of the annihila
tion of kingly power, which alone had connected the grants
east of Connecticut river and weft of the Mason line to New-
Hampshire, and the Grants weft of Connecticut river to
New-York, as by the royal adjudication of their boundary
line onConnedicut river in 1764, in the determination of
which the inhabitants ofthofe grants were unknowing and
wholly passive; and all the pretentions which the Gover
nors of New-York and New-Hampshire ever had from the
crown of England, to any jnrifdiffion over thfe Grants)
were derived in dheir commiffo'rrf pointing ofc their bona
daries es adjudiwion, or to flbnft royal dec^c of the King,
, In March, 177,, the legislature of New-Hampshire pro
pofedthe laying their jurisdictional claim to the whole of
the New-Ham pshire Grants, which included the State of
Vermont, against which .Vermont Itrenuouhy remonstrated
at the General C.onrt of New-Hampshire, but to no purpose.
They violated their fetdement ofthe bodndary line, whidi
but a few months before had been amicably fettled between
them and the State of Vermont (as before mentioned) and
l.itd claihi.to the State of Vermont, breaking over the royal
line of 1764 aforefaid, altho' that line had [wen the princi
pal predicate of the fr arguments with Vermont, to relinquish
their Grants east of Connecticut river, and by which ther
enforced their right of jkrjfdiaipo to the fame; and which,
upon then awn principle, operates with equal weight again/J
their claim to the Grants to the westward of the fame river
qlias, ofthe said royal line. But it seems that New-Hamp
s^e will make something, any thing, or nothing, not oral,
with the lin^ of 1764!, but with the line which (previous to
their claim of the jarihLCuon to the territory or Vermont)
their government had adjusted with that 31 Vermont, just
their fancy and ambition may prompt them.
, New-Hamshire haying laidclaim to rhe Sfatl of Vermont
united her efforts with the State of New-York to ruin and
overturn the ju/ ifdi&ioh thereof, and began to sow difehrd
and make divisions, on die east fide ofthe Green Mountains
end weft of Connecticut river ; inveigling feme ofthe in
habitants to renounce their allegiance to Vermont and con
ned with New-Hampshire, while New-York were as indus
trious in seducing others c'n the weft fide of those mountains
to finite, with them, but met with lets friecefsthan thcii ceftern
^lly. Their joint influence in the Congress of the United
States was Io great, that they procured fiom them, 011 the
2#h day of September, 1779, a refovle, appointing the filft
day of February then next, to adjust the claims of those States
to the territory of Vermont,with a proviso that the? woilJ
enact laws empowering Congress co do it, which they ac
cordingly did, and the inhabitants of the New-Hampshire
Grants (in the language in that Case adopted) were served
with a copy of that resolution. But Vermont remonstrated
against the jurmhd mal right ofCongrefs to detrinine thei
independences which had been previoufty ettablfched b/
the authority of the people of Vermont, whose right it was
to comlirute and organize government, and though those
claiming States d'd not succeed, in procuring of Corgrefs a
recognizance of their said jurifdi&onal claims, or eim^ of
them, over the said territory, they nevertheless prevented
this State from a federal union with the tinted States
this day, in conference whereofthis State has been cxpofr .
cd th the whole force of the enemy in Canada, without at
alliances.
In December, 1780, Vermont, with written propofaN
from its Supreme executive authors,,accompanied by 2 0 e
cial rigenty Solicited those claiming States, and each and'e
very of the New-England States, for an alliance agairdi
the common enemy, but no anffrer was returned fiom any
or either of them : In this critical fruition Vermont was fo
iicited, by two irpe&.dfe difhifts of inhabitants, one from
each of rhofe claiming States, +hich lay conrigfious to the
caftand weft fide of it, to be atimited into union .nd go
vernmental connexion with them, as well to enjoy the pri
vilege, of their confutation and laws, ,s by them, together
with their own nmriiyl afliftance, to be proreded from the
common chcir^. , The legiflatime of Vermont, taking into
rheir emtfderari'on the pei plcxed and embarrassed cimum
ftahces of the State, occasioned partly from its local situa
tion to Canada, and partly by the designs and influence of
as that of >764; which the State of New-Hampshire princi
pally urged, as a reason why Vermont should recede from
their claim of jurisdiction to the east of Connecticut river v
for that there was no other way of afeertainirg the bounds
of any of the United States but by the lines formerly esta
blished by ghe English government; their owntwords are
these • " Were not those towns" caii of Connecticut river,'
'f fettled and cultivated under grants from the Governor of
New-Hampshire; are they.net i, the lines thereof as fettled
by the King of Grear-Brirain, prior, to the present z[a ? Is
there any ascertaining the boundaries of any of the United
States of America, but by the lines formerly established b,
Great-Britain, I am Ture there is not.*:, •.,,-•.•
Though this reasoning was not fully fatisfadary to Ver
mont, viewing the whole matter on a large scale, yetas they
Were previously engaged in a spirited controveify with the
State of New-York, the Jegiunture of Vermont complied
with the, demand of New-Hampshirc, and on the 12th da,
ofFebrnary 1779, relinquished their claim of jurifdidipn to
the New-Hampshire Grants to the eastward of Conne&icue
river. The prolixity ofthe tranfaftions between rhe respec
tive States of New-Hampshire and Vermont, in the settle
ment oftheir boundary line o.a Connecticut fiver, will not
admit it a place in this paper, but may be seen at large in a
pamphlet entitled “ A concise Refutation of the claims of
New-Hampshire and Madachufetts Bay to the territory of
Vermont." .
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