The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1781-02-13 00:00:00, page 4

'T'"' Price of the Connecticut Courany
isTiN ShilllNGs per Annum in Silver,
or the exchange in Paper Currency. Those who In
cline to pay in Produce, at the old prices, will have
the Papers continued to them as nfeaL
N. B. Ready Money fa cxpcAed for inferring
Advwtifiroeota to this Paper.
"EARTHEN WA R~E7
To be SOLD, Wholef^e or Retail, by
ISRAEL SEYMOU R.
Hertford, January 12, i)Br,
Those Prizes which are not called for within Six
Months from the Drawing of Said Lottery, will be
coofidered as generously given for the Purpose for
which the Lottery was granted, and appropriated
accordingly.
JAMESEASTON,
ASA BARNS,
EPHRAIM FITCH,
WILLIAM WALKER,
Pittsfield, January 3, 1781.
•.* A few Tickets in the above Lottery may be
had of the Printers hereof. .
ALL Persons who are indebted to the rente
of WILLIAM WELLS, Esq; late of
Glaftenbury, deceas'd ; are once more (in this
method) requested to make an Immediate Settlement
with the Subscribers. Should there be any unin
fluenced by this, and will not avail themselves of so
favorable an opportunity, a method more difagreable
in its consequence, will Speedily compel them to a
compliance with the above reque^
^% R T L L / S ' I e xecutors .
Gla^ubury, January to, <,Br.
WB the tubicribers being appointed by BEN
JAMIN PAYNE, Eq; Judge of Probate for
Hartford diftrid, Comm ironers, to receive and exa
mine the claims of the creditors of the estate of JO
SEPH FORBES, late of Wethenfield, deceased.
leprefcnted insolvent, do hereby give notice to the
Several creditors to laid e&<te, to bribe in their ac
counts, properly altered, to us, at the dwelling
houfe of Captain ABSOLOM WILLIAMS, inn
holder, in Said Wethenfield, where we Shall attend
on said ba^nefs, on the laffi Wednesdays of January,
February, March and April next, from one of the
clock in the afternoon until evening, on each of
(aid days,
A. ROBBINS ?
WILLIAM WARNER, jen. § Co ^m fffi oners,
Wethersfield, January 10, 1781.
SCHEMEofa LOTTERY.
CLASSthrFIRST.
FOR raifiog Ooe Hundred Thousand Dollars,
Continental Cairene,, biing a Fart of Two
Hundred Thousand, framed b, an AR cf the Ge
neral Court of the Commonwealth of MaOarhufettfy
for the Purpose of repairing the Roads through ffii
Green Woods (so called) from Josiah Brewer's to'
the Crotch of the Roads near Blanford Meeting
Hoofs, On the South Road ; and from half a Mild
Weft of Taggatd's, to Becket Line, and from Becket
Weft Line through Washington, to Pittsfield Line,
being on the middle Road ; also half a Mile Weft of
Millers, in Washington, to Pittsfield Line, on the
North Road, viz.
Number of Prizes. Dollars. Dollars.
I Prize of 12,000 fit 12,000
2 - - 6 000 - 12,000
4 - - 3.000 - rzoco
8 a - 1.500 - 12 000
16 - - 750 , - 12,000
32 - - 375 - 12 600
2 - # - §o> - 1004
71, : - 24 0 - 171,120
974 - - 160 - 155 876
1752 Prizes, to bf paid with out Dedeaion.
4498 Blanks, not three Blanks to a Prize:
fab- Tickets at 80 Dollars each amounts th
500.000 Dollars § which leaves 100,000 Dollars
lor the Purpose for which the Lottery was granted.
In as much as the foregoing Scheme, is in conse
quence of, and agreeable toan AR of the General
Court of the Commonwealth of Mafftehufetts ; and
the' repairing of laid : Roads will be of such Public
Utility; especially, at this Time, when almost all
the Public Stores of this Commonwealth, are trans
ported^ through Laid Woods, to the Army : and
large Quantities, of. private Goods ;. together With
the advantageous- Scheme of the Lottery; the Ma
nagers do expea a rapid Salt of the Tickets, and
that they Shall be able to proceed to the drawing of
said Lottery, within three Months at furthaft.
Proper notice of the time and place of drawing
will be given, and as Soon as the Lottery is drawn,,
a lift of the fortunate numbers will be published in
the Connecticut Courant.
fro; SALE, ^ RETAIL @ the Po^Offo a few
rods south weft of the State-House) the following
articles, viz. x
MADEIRA WINE, French brandy, rum. Su
gar, roulades, tea, coffee, chocolate, pepper,
Watch Springs, clock glass, &c. &c.
Mokffes by She hogffiead, barrel or gallon to ex
change for grain ; hlawife. a large quantity of coffee,
for Continental, or bills on France.
Hartford. January Q, 1781.
UNI LED SiAl ES LOIIERY.
'T"' HE public are informed that Tickets in the
X FOURTH CLASS of Said LOTTERY,
ate arrived. Those perrons who were adventurers
in the third cleft, or any who arc pofleffoes or Tick
ets therein^ by producing them may have Aera re
newed by paying the price lated, if blanks.
Where pries'are drawn or th© lowe^ denomina
tion, they -renew themselves, and Tickets of the fame
number purchased of the Subscribers wiil be relLv
ed; Old Continental Currency only can be receiv
ed, and all who do not apply within fix weeks from
thin date, will be entirely excluded.
JOHN CHENEVARD,
RODERIC LAWRENCE.
Hartford, January 15, 1781.
ALSO, Tickets in Carlton's Bridge Lottery
may be had of
JOHN CHENEVARD.
AARON BRADL E Y,
At his Black-Smith's Shop, near the Great- Bridge,
in Hartford,
BEST REFINED IRON, GERMAN
AND ENGLISH STEEL, &c.
February s,Bn
HE Committee appointaefto settle and a§6l
Accounts, with the Officers & Soldiers
belonging to the State tri CcnncfLcDt, in the Con
tinental Army, are now at Wethersfield.-. Few rm
turns of the family Supplies hav^been received ;
most of those imperfea. The Select Men of the se
veral towns are, therefore^ once more, requested,,
without delay, to forward to said Committee, a re
turn of such Supplies ; 'agreeable to the form hereto
annexed, (axes, in those towns where the returns
have been made, pointing out the farce things as in
the form.)
A RETURN of the Amount of Supplies made
to the Officers and Soldiers, in the Continental
Army, in the Town from theist Day of
January, 1780, to theist Day cf January, 1781;
Awount off", ^ Money fr^
Neem & Supplier ^F,'h,"' ~,
Rank. at the Bat« 4, m ,Rt<k ; m were lodged
Price [Continental with the
'(Currency. (Committee.
A.8.C01 -& r ,
11 ihe telains are not faun vfoived, the Commit
tee will be under the difagreeabJe necessity of fending
therefor by expreG, at the expence of such town
negltAing to forward such return.
OLIVER ELLSWORTH, .
ERASTUS WOLCOTT,
JAMES WADSWORTH,
JOSEPH P. COOK. Ie
JOHNBROOME, J $
Wethersfield, February 1, 1781.
N. B. The several Printers In this State are desired
ot irfert the above.;
Updikes, (Newtown) December 29, 1780.
TH E Subscriber takes this method to inform
the Public, That he keeps two good Freight
BOATS that plyes every day from here to New
port, with Freight and Paffepgers.— This place is
about eight miles northwand from the South-Ferry,
and the fame difiance nigher to Newport : The
road is much better, and easier transportation by
land, than to the South-Ferry, from Connc&cut.---
The Freight or Passengers, may be landed at any
Wharf in Newport, without any land carriage.
Entertainment may be had at the above place.
By the public's hunble Servant,
THOMAS COLHELL.
7fh RAYED or STOLEN from the Sub
-3 scriber, lai Fall or Summer, a yallowifh red
STEARotSTAG; 2 years old pit, mark'd
with a half crop under the right ear, forne white
about him, Whoever will take up laid. Steer, if (
firayed, and return him to the owner, shall be hand,
femely rewarded ; but if ftolen,and the thief secured,
three Elver dollars, and all necessary charges paid.
AMOS BIDWELL.
Hertford, Wel-Divifion. January 26, 1781.
PRESS PAPERS to be exchanged for RAGS, at
the Paper Mill inSpdagficld?
Council of Safety, 24th January, 1781.!
RE SOLVED by ihu Board. That the SelrA-
Men, or other proper Perfont, in the several
Towns, in this S ate, be, and they are hereby di
r&ed, to deliver Mr. Ralph Pomeroy, Deputy-,
Onarier Master, in this State, or his order, ail such
Beef, as has been put up therein, for public use : la
purfaance of an AR of the General Assembly in
Oaober lafl ; to be by him forwarded, and lodged
recording to the orders of His Excellency General
Washington, taking proper receipts.
Attest, Wm. WILLIAMS, Clerk.
STRAYED or STOLEN from the Sub
scriber, about the middle of July last, a Red
HEIFER; three years old pafi, mark'd with a
half crop under the right ear, and two flits under
the left. Whoever takes up said Heifer and Thief,
(if 'Holen) shall have Ten Silver Dollars ; and for
the Heifer only, a reasonable reward, and charges
P '' d ’" ELISHA STILMAN.
Wethersfield, January 28, 1781.
RUNAWAY from the Sutfenber. on the
night of the 9th Indent, an Apprentice Boy,
named LEMUEL COOL; 14 years of age,
about 5 feet high, light complexion, dark brown
hair ; had on when he went away, a light brown
vcoat, blue vet and overhalb, and mix'd colour'll
flockings. Whoever will return said boy to the
subscriber, shall have SIX PENCE reward, paid by
NATHANIEL EDGERTON.
Salifhury, January 18, 1781.
At a Meeting of bis Excellency the Governor and
q.HIS is to Notify the Towns in the State
A of Connecticut, That I have received Or
dets from the Hon. Major General Parsons, to con
tinue in the State Four Weeks, to receive and for
ward such Recruits, as shall be delivered to me, to
join the Continental Army. Mr. Moses Seymoui'r
is appointed fcr 2 house of rendezvous, where I
•shall attend to receive and give receipts for such
Recruits, as are inlifled for three years or during
the war---One of each clefs will come with the Sol
diers, and bring a certificate from the Colonel or
Commanding Officer of the regiment to which the
said Recruits belong, certifying what town they be
long to.
SIMEON BELDING, Lisut.
Hartford, January 25. 1781.
N. B. None that are prifonere of war, deferterc,
or convention troops will be taken.
TRAYED or STOLEN from the Sub
scriber, a pair of birtk 3 year old S TBA RS;
one mark'd with 2 half pennies under the left ear.
aid one under the right ; the other with a halt
crop in the left ear, and a flit in fame. Whoever
will take up said frays, and return them to the
owner, shall be genetoe fly reward, by%
JOSEPH LEE.
Mount- Wafhlogton, Dec. 23, 1780.
WANTED TO HIR E,
AN UMBER of good Four and Six Ox
TEAMS, for the Server of the Army,
during the next Campaign : Any Petfon or Persons
ipclinging to furnifh one or more Brigades, are de
sired to tall at the ,Deputy Quarter Matter's Office,
in Hartford, and make known the Terms on which
they will Engage.
J^'Y 3 0 ^^^
NOTICE u hereby given, iim-a LTbeTte
filed before Samuel Talcott, Esq. Justice
of the Peace and Quorum, for the county of Hart
ford, and Henry Allen, Esq. Jufiite of the Peace,
for the county aforefaid ; by Elijah Woolworth, of
Simfbuiy, in said county;, again# one piece of
Coating, and one piece cf manchatter Velvet, ta
ken in luffiild, in said county ; laid to be illicitly
imported, from Long Island, or feme other fland ot
place in the pofirffion or under the controul of the
enemy : A Maritime Ccert will be held atthe
dwelling honfe of Jonathan ^lHwerth, in Windsor,
orTthe zzd of February next, at 10 o'clock in the
forenoon, for the trial of the justice of hid seizure.
All persons concerned ard to take notice hereof.
SAM. TALCOTT, Just. Pacis. & Quorum.
Dated .at Windsor, January 25 1)81.
STRAYED or STOLEN from the Sub
scriber, sometime in November left, a blackish
HORSB; 8 years old. 14 bands high, a white
Break in his face, the right eye wall'd, hit tail feme
thing grey, 3or all his feet white. Whoever will
take up said horse, and fend word to the owner,
living In Wel-Hocfoch, near the white house, shall
have Two Hard Dollars reward, and all na^effuy
charges paid.
LUKEHILL.
WeftHoofuck, January 11/1781.