The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1781-05-08 00:00:00, page 3

NEW.IONDO N, „ May 4 .
Last Friday Captain Roffetter, in the sloop
Rising-Sun, arrived here from Gaudaloupc.
x Thurf'day returned into port the privateer
Young Cromwell, with the brig Salem re-cap
tured, formerly belonging to Salem, loaded with
fifh and lumber..
A snow belonging to Stonington from the
Weft-Indies, unfortunately ran on Montaque-
Point, by which means the vessel and most of her
cargo are loft.
Captain Smith, in the ship Chatham, belonging
to Conneaicut-river, has arrived at Philadelphia.
Wednesday the Randolph privateer, Captain
Fofdick, returned from a cruile, and brought in
a drip from Guerhfey bound to New-York,
with 260 hogsheads geneva, 160 ditto brandy,
90 b^xes cordials, 50 casks; wine, &c.
Same evening Captain Olmftead,in a privateer
belonging to Connecticut-river, anchored at the
mouth of this harbour, with a prize brig which
he captured off Sandy-Hook. She is from Cork,
laden chiefly with provisions, One article of which
consists of 1300 firkins butter.
H ARTFOR D, May 8.
The Senatus Academicus of Yale-College,
have conferred the Doctorate in Laws up
on his Excellency General Washington;
and also upon the Rev'd Dr. Price, of London.
We have authentic advice, that the American
ship Confederacy, Capt. Seth Harding, is taken
and carried into New-York.
By Capt. Grafton, who arrived at Salem, in
1; days from the Havannah, we are inform'd,
That a Spanish fleet, confiding of 17 fail of the
line and 4000 troops, failed from the Havannah
two days before he left that place, in pursuit of a
large fleet of merchantmen from Jamaica.
Died, last Friday, Mrs. Experience Hinsdale,
pife of Mr. Amos Hinsdale, in the 60th year of
berate. - / • . r -
ALL able bodied and effective men^defirous of gaining to
themselves a valuable landed estate, are requested to
take notice.
THAT the Honourable the Congress of the United States
of America have resolved, that two regiments of troops be
raised on continental establishment, for the term of three
years, for the defence of the western frontiers of the State of
New-York, to be clothed, paid, subsisted and equiped at the
expence of the United States, to be under the command of
his Excellency General Washington, and governed by the
articles of war, established by Congress for the government
of the army already eftablishcd, and not serve out of the
limits of the State of New-York, except by permiffien of the
person administering the government in said State, the offi
cers to be appointed by the executive authority of the sSte
of New-York.
And whereas the State of New-York, by an a& of the
Senate and Assembly thereof, held the 20th of March, 1781.
have resolved, promised, affufed and pledged the faith of
fail State, to the officers, non-sommiffioned officers and
privates composing such regiments or corps that the legifla
tare of said State of New-York will grant unto such officers
who shall be commiffionated, and to such non-com
missioned officers and privates as shall enlist in the said regi
ments, and who shall continue to serve during the term of
three years, as aforefaid, or until the time they shall refpec-
Wvely be dismissed or difeharged, if such difmiffion or dif
eharge shall take place before the end of the said three years,
or to the legal representatives of such officers, non-commif
ioned officers and privates as shall die while in service, the
following Several quantities of unappropriated lands, respec
tively, viz. To a Lieutenant Colonel and Major, each four
rights; a Captain and Surgeon, each, three rights; a Lieu
tenant, Ensign and Surgcon's^mate, each, two rights ; and
each non-edmmiffioned officer and private, one right , and
that each right shall consist of fus hundred acres : That it shall
be lawful for any perlon entitled to any quantity of lands by
virtue of this a&, to locate the lands which such persons shall
ele& to be granted to him ; and that the legislature will, as
soon after the expiration of said term of service as a survey
of the said lands can be with fafety performed, grant to fucn
person without fee or reward, or quit-rent reserved, the quan
tity of lands so located : That whenever any number of per
sons entitled, colle&ively, to fat,-one rights, shall join in lo
cation ; the lands so located shall be laid out in a township
@f seven miles square, and granted to the said persons, ac
cording to their refpe&ive rights therein ; and that in each
fitch township the remaining right shall be reserved for the
Support of the gospel, and the remaining three hundred and
Sixty acres shall be reserved for the use of a school in such
township: That whenever any of the lands, to be granted
in pursuance of this ad, shall be located in quantities less
than a township of (even miles square, the perlon or persons
locating such lands shall defray the expence of the survey
thereof; but if a township shall be located, the State shall
be at the expence of running the out-lines o£ such town
ship : Provided, That no location shall be made on lands
heretofore granted, or on lands belonging to the Oneida and
Tufearora Indians: ^nd provided, That the lands to be
granted by each grant, shall belaid out as nearly in a square
as the nextadjacent appropriated lands will admit of; That
whenever anv location shall be made by any person belong
ing to the said regiments or corps, a description of the lands
to located, and me person's name by whom, and in whose
right such location is made, shall be filed with the Surveyor-
General of this State for the time being, and the person ad
miniftsring rhe government of this State for the time being,
by and with the advice and consent of the council of ap
pointment, is hereby authorised and required, as soon as may
be after the palli ig of this aft, to appoint a Surveyor Gener
al &tfr.;: S„te ; .nf if it shall appear to the said Survey sr-
General, that the lands to located arc uckudcu v^ mur^-
ent certainty, that the fame have not heretofore been grant
ed, and do not belong to the Oneida and Tufearora Indians,
the Surveyor-General shalTapptove such location, and eaufe
the fame to be filed in the Secretary's office of this State ; and
the persons making such location shall, immediate ly after
the expiration of his time of service, be entitled to a grant
of the lands so located.
And be it futher Ena&ed by the Authority aforefaid, That
any person who shall deliver one or more of his or her able
bodied male slave to any warrant as aforefaid, to serve in
either of said regiments or independent corps, and .produce
a certificate thereof, signed by any officer or peilon audio
rifed to muller and receive the men to be railed by virtue of
this ad, and produce such certificate to the Survey or-General,
shall, for every male Have so entered or mustered as afor^-
said, be entitled co the location, and grant of one right, in
manner as in and by this a& is directed, and shall be and
hereby is difeharged from any future maintenance of such
have, any law to the contrary notwithstanding : And such
Have, so entered as aforefaid, who shall serve for the term
of three years, or until regularly difeharged, shall, immedi
ately after such service or difeharge, be, and he is hereby
declared to be a freeman of this State. And to encourage as
far as poflible the speedy completing of the fame regiments.
Beit further Enacted by the Authority aforefaid. That
every person who shall engage an able bodied man to enter
into either of the laid two regiments,to serve for the term of
three years, shall, and may take a transfer of the right of
such man's right co the bounty oflhnds intended to be given
by this a&, and on producing to the Surveyor-General a cer
tificate, signed by any officer or person, authorifed to muster
and receive the men to be raised by virtue of this a@, shall
and may locate, and be entitled to receive a grant for the
fame,' as if such person had usually entered, and served in
either of the said regiments forthe term aforefaid. Provided
always, Thatthe person receiving such grant shall, either by
himfclf or Tome other Person on his behalf, make an a&ual
settlement on, and improve such lands within three years
next after the conclusion of the war, or that the fame shall
be deemed as forfeited and revert to the use of this State.
And be.it further ena&ed by the authority aforefaid, That
the said lands, hereby directed to be granted to the said
officers, non-commiriioned officers and privates, shall be
deemea and construed to be in lieu of all and every bounty,
allowance of half pay, or emolument whatsoever, on the
part of this State :' That the levies to beraifed in pursuance
of this a&, shall be mustered by such person, and in such
manner, as Congress or the Commander in Chief of the ar
my of the United States shall dire&
That the executive, authority aforefaid have appointed
EZEKIEL SCOTT, Esq; of Farmington, in.the county of
Hartford, and State of Connecticut, to be Major in one of
the said regiments, Mr. SIMEON NEWELL, of said Far
mington to be Captain, and Mr. OLIVER LEWIS, of South
ington, to be Lieut, therein. ,
All Gentlemen Volunteers, drfirous of gaining to them
selves a valuable landed eftace, in a trad of country equal (if
not preferable to any in the thirteen United States are
desired (as soon as may be) to call on Major Scott. Captain
Newell, or Lieutenant Lewis. The encouragement hereby
offered is considered by the best Judges to be preferable to
any former encouragement heretofore offered.
At a meeting of the Governor and Council of Safetyholden
' at Hartford, on the 31st day of March, A. I). 1781.
RESOLVED that the receivers of provisions on the 6< pen
ny tax, granted by the General Assembly in October lase
in the towns of Kent, New-Milford, Woodbury, Ridgefield,
New-Fairfield and Danbury, be dire&ed to deliver die Wheat
Flour received in their refpe&ive towns on said Tax, to Smith
Weed, Issuing Cemmiffary, at the Post at Horfeneck, when
he shall call for it, taking his receipt for the fame.
Extract from-the Minutes,. B< P AYN E, Clerk.'
ALL persons residing in Wethersfield liable to pay taxes
for lands in the South Meadow in Hartford, arc noti
fied to meet the fubferiber at Mr. Stillman's, inn-holder, at
Wethersfield, on Friday the nth day of May instant at ten
o'clock forenoon. Said tax to be paid in hard money.
THOMAS SLOAN, Collector.
Hertford, May 4, 1781..
THE fubferiber finding it impradicablc to accommodate
himfelf with a Store in Hartford, has removed his Sta
tionary effeds into Col. Belden's Rare in Wethersfield,
where he carries on the Bookbinding business, &c. And has
for fate, Ainsworth's Latin Dictionary, a valuable collection
of Edwards's Sermons, lately printed, Lowth's and Gaugh's
English Grammar, Law's Collection of Pfalmody, Dilworth's
Spelling Books and Primers faperior to any before
printed in America, Testaments, &c. Also, groceries, spi
ces, combs, fine thread, needles, paper and pound pins, rib
bons, gauzes, &c. He has now in the press, an accurate edi
tion of Dr. Watt's Psalms and Hymns, which will be ready
for binding in about four or five weeks, and will be neatly
bound together or feperate as customers shall chufe. Book
sellers and others, may be supplied by him on the best terms,
as he purposes to work and fell as cheap as any -Stationer, in
Boston ; and the smallest favors will be suitably acknowledg
ed, by the public's very humble fervent
ABEL MORSE.
N. B. As several of the Rev. Clergy have expressed their
desire, of introducing Dr. Watts's Hymns with the Psalms
into their churches (they being admirably adapted to the
Christian religion and worship) and have proposed getting
fubfeription papers for that rurpofe may be had of the Rev.
Mr. Strong, at Hartford, at the General Ele&ion. ^
* * Said MORSE has a few 100 weight of flax, Which he
willfell chead for hard money ; also will barter for wheat or
butter.
New-London, May 2, 1781.
TO be SOLD at Public AUCTION, at this place, on
Thufday the 17^1 day of May, at 11 o'clock in the fore
noon, the following vessels and their stores, viz. The Bri
gantine Three Sifters, burthenabout 200 tons, Virginia built,
and copper bottomed. The brig Jenny, burthen about 180
tons, European built. The brig Rodney, burthen about 160
tons, formerly a privateer from Boston. The brig Bermuda
burthen about 100 tons. The schooner Sea-Flower, burthen
about So tons. Also will be fold, a number of three and
four pound GANNON and a neb# of 61b CARON AV96.
LAND to be SUL u, uneap;
"f'HREE Lots or Parcels of Land, lying in the Town of
K Colebrook, in the county of Litchfield, for Cash or
Country Produce, by the iubfciibcr, viz.
The firfl Loc contains fifty-three acres, it lies in the sixth
tier in the third division, No. 16. I purchased it some years
ago of Mr. Levi Hayden, of Windsor, one half is fenced in,
and twenty acres under improvement, and has been for eight
years, it is well watered, never fails in the driest seasons, and
is allowed by the inhabitants to be the earli.ft paflure in the
town, the quality and foil is rich, there is likewise an excel
lent parcel of sugar trees reserved on said lot.
The second and third lots join together and lie on the
main road leading from Mr. Rockwell's to the Iron work
and to Hartland, Granville, &c. one of the lots contains 126
and the other 53 acres, both of them may be made,an excel
lent farm, for pafturc and mowing, there is a fufficient pro
portion of plow land on the feme, with a likely crop of
grain, about 15 acres sown with red and. white clover feed,
enclosed with a good rail fence ; a meadow of ten or twelve
acres, with a law-mill dam, that will flow all over at com
mand; in a short time it must make an excellent meadow
for any industrious husbandman. The two last mentioned
lots are cleared by cutting cord-wood, so that fifty acres of
grain may by sown this fall. The purchaser will have ant
indifputablc title given him.. For further particulars enquire
of JACOB OGDEN, at the forge in Colebrook.
To be Sold at PUBLIC VENDUE, on Wednesday the
ytli instant, at Two o'clock afternoon, at Wethersfield,
OpHE Prize Sloop SOPHIA, with her Tackle, Apparel
and Furniture. The Inventory co be teen and conditi
ons of Sale to be known at the time and place of sale.
May 7, 1781.
To be SOL D, on reafgnable Terms for State Money, (if
applied for soon)
At WILL IA M ELLER Y' s Store,
~ Near the Great Bridge, Hartford,
A Variety of choice WINE S, by the Pipe, Quarter-Cask
or single Gallon ; Welt-India and New-England Rum,
Sugar, Molarfes, Tea, Coffee, Chocolate, Indigo, Cotton
Wool, Wool Cards, Home-made Salt, Cuttoe and Penknives;
Carving ditto, Sizzars, Razors & Razor Straps, Shoe Buckles,
Crown Soap, b@ft Scotch Snuff ip Bottles and Bladders,
Horn Combs, Threads, Pocket Books, Leather Ink Pots,
Metal and Glass Buttons, Irish Linens, Quart, Pint and Half
Pint Decanters, &c.—And for Hard Money, a very eieganc
Philadelphia built SULKE Y.
Hartford, May 8, 1781.
Nozu felling at the North D^r under the Erinting-
Offee, and also by the Author :
A Eiffertation on the Bixth Vial
in the Revelations of ^t. John.
In FIVE.P A RTS.,
In which is humbly attempted to illustrate what is intended
by the great MylHcal EUPHRATES, and by drying up
its Waters: With some Thoughts upon the Effects of this
VIAL, and what Improyement GOD's People should
make of this important Subjed.
the Whole is proceeded with an INTRODUCTION
upon the Defgn of Prophecy in general, and the Book of
REVELATION in particular.
By THOMAS WELLS BRAY, A. M.
Pagor sf a Churchvi C T UJhhQR 1).
The Subjed of this DISSERTATION is particularly
worthy the Attention of a Christian People at this Day.
The above Work is contained in about Six Sheets and an
Half, printed on a fair Type : Price Tvo Shillings send Six-
Pence in Silver, or an Equivalent in other Money, ar Three
j Books for a Bushel of Wheat. % ....
I/^Subfcribers ^rc desired to fend in their Subfcriptmn<
to the Printers in Hartford, or the Author in Guilford, wher^
they may be supplied with Books.
To be SOLD, at the STORE of
THOMA 3,HOPKINS;
In HARTFO R D,
JAMAICA RUM, Nail Rods,.,
Mufeovado Sugar, Russia Duck,'
Pepper, Coffee,RavensDo.
Best French Indigo,Ticklenburgs,' > rfy
Cotton Wool, A few Cask best Liver 0%
Refined Iron, ~. - <
STATE OF CONNECTICUT.
.County of Hartford, ff. To vhom h % concern.
KNOW ye that a Libel is filed before the honorable Jabez
Hamlin, Esq. Judge of the Maratime Court for the
county of Hartford, in behalf of Elias Parshall and others
concerned in the armed sloop Polly, against a quantity of
British, European and India Goods: Which faic goods and
merchandize drey fay they took on the 23d day @f April
last, from British fubjeds on Long-lfland: The hearing of
said Libel will be at Hartford, in said county, on the third
Tuesday of June, A. D. 17,81. Of which all persons claim
ing property in said goods are to take duenotice.
°' By order of die Judge,,
GEORGE WYLLYS, Register.
Hartford, May 4, 1781.
Just bubli/bed, and rurw Jelling at the North Door
under the Printing-Office : ,
A DISC OU R S E
Adapted to the present D AY,
6 N THK
HEALTH and HAPPINESS,
OR
MISERY and RUIN
OF THE ...
BODY P OLI TI C,
In Similitude to that of the natural Body.
Preached at Coventry, April, 1781.
By JOSEPH HUNTINGTON, D. ^