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ple of industry and diligence, looked well to the
affairs of her house ; and in domestic prudence
and ceconomy she was equalled by few. She
wasa faithful wife, in whom the heart of her
husband fafely trusted ; the law of kindurfswas
in her tongue, and she did him good and not evil,
all her Days. In her place, she was so happy as
to give great fatisfaftion and obtain universal
esteem. In the glory of life, less than thirty four
years of age she finifhed her course, leaving her
friends this comfortable hope, that the now rests
in Jesus. A deeply afflicted husband, three
amiable children, with a numerous train of
friends, mourn heraffefting and difattrous death.
Her funeral was attended yesterday, when an
animated and exceedingly tender sermon, was
preached from Phil. 1. 21. to a very numerous
and folemh audience, by the Rev'd Doctor Stiles.
Her remains were followed to the grave by the
most numerous proceflion ever fecn in this town;
which gave an occular demonitration, that as
she lived desired, so she departed universally la
mented. Alas! how frail is man? "He cometh
" forth like a flower and is cut down ; he fleeth
" also as a shadow and continueth not. Man
“ also knoweth not his time : as the fifties are
" taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are
" caught in the snare; so are the sons of men
" Glared in an evil time, when it falleth sudden,
"ly upon them." How important for mortals
are those divine commands, " Boast not thyfelf
of to-morrow." " Whatsoever thy hands
" findeth to do, do it with thy might."
NE W- HA VE N, June 16
LAST Monday morning about nine o'clock
Mrs. Mary Edwards, the contort of the
Rev'd Jonathan Edwards of this town was
drowned in Mr. Sabin s mill-pond. #
She rode out in a chair, with a view to thinf
a& some domestic affairs with a family about two
miles from town, and coming to the pond, ap
pears to have turned the horle with a view to
water him, at a place which appeared Imoothe
and convenient for the purpole ; but the ihore
a few feet from the edge of the pond was un
commonly deep, descending at once, and the
horse probably eager sot drink and preiling for
ward too far plunged instantly into eight or ten
feet water. No person saw Mrs. Edwards when
she was drowning ; but a lad on tyorfe-back just
behind her, hearing a perlon scream, lode forward
and feeing the horse and chair in the pond, im
mediately alarmed the neighbourhood. The
waters were so deep and muddy that it was an
hour and an half before she was found, though
the btmoil exertions were made.—The pleb
eians tried every probable expedient, lor more
than an hour, to recover her; but in vain. The
jury gave their verdict, that the was accidentally
drowned.
Mrs. Edwards was of honourable delcent.
Her father was Colonel Eleazar Porter of Had
ley, who, for many years was a member of the
council of the then province of Maflachufetts,
and chief judge of the inferior court. She was
born in Hadley September 1748, had a pious and
genteel education : In early life, had great reli^
gious exercise, and made a public protelhon of
the religion ofjefus. Her modesty was singu
lar, her manners easy and unaffected, her devo
tion constant, and her benevolence appeared to
be universal. She exhibited an amiable exam-
NEW- L ON DON, July 12.
Bast Monday a Flag failed from this Port for
New-York with about 86 Prisoners on board,
from the Prison-ship in this Harbour.
Monday Evening the Brig Hancock, Capt.
Champlin, returned from a Cruize, having been
closely chafed by two Ships, but by throwing
over three Guns, and starting her Water, she got
clear..
Turfday Morning a Flag arrived at Newport
in 11 days from Burmuda, with 14 prisoners part
©f whom belonged to this State. Several veffeh
had lately been carried into Bermuda, from Vir
ginia, but none from this State. The flag was
twice brought too by cruising fllips, one of them
guns, in company with a frigate.
H AR TFOR D, July ^.
On the2l ult. Congress passed an a&, recom
mending to the legislatures of the feyeral dates,
to adopt the mofl efficacious measures for fuppref
sing all traffic and illicit intercourse between their
(cfpe&ive citizens and the enemy.
DIED last Tuesday morning, Mid Silence
Huntington, eldest daughter of Mr. Jona
than Huntington, in the 14th year of her
age.
An Aft in further addition to an A&, entituled,
" An A& more effectually to prevent illicit
Trade,"
WHEREAS more effectually to fupprefsacom
merce with the enemy, mop ruinous to the
interns and dangerous to the liberties of this and
the rest of the United States es America, it is found
necefoy totally to prohibit the importation (from
any country or place on any account) of an? goods,
wares, or merchandize, that hath been or fall be
manufactured within the dominions or pfeffonj of
the King of England, except goods captured from
the enemy and brought into fame of the United States
for condemnation.) Therefore,
BE it enacted, by the Governor, Council and
Reprefentatices, in General Court assem
bled, and by the authority of the fame, That no
goods, wares, or merchandize, that have been
manufactured, or shall be manufactured, Within
anyof the dominions or pofleflions of the King
of England, shall be imported or brought into
this State, from any nation or place on any con
federation whatever, except goods captured from
the eqemy, and condemned as lawful prize, in
some of the United States of America, or regu
larly brought into this State for such adjudica
tion.
And that if any goods imported contrary to
this aft, shall be found in this State, they lh;Ql
be liable to be seized, proceeded with, libelled,
and condemned, in the fame manner, and under
the fame regulations, and before the famecourts,
and to be disposed of in the fame manner, andto
the fameufes, as goods imported from Long
lfland, or other islands or places in the possession
or power of the enemy are by law fubfc& and
liable to.
Commonwealth of Mafachujetts.
In SENA T E, JULY 4, 1782.
UrHEREAS the king ofGr.at-Britain, difpair
ing to effeCl thefubyugationof the United States
of North-America, by Menaces and the violence
of a cruel and vindiaite war, entertains the idea of
'fr^™^ bispurpfe by artfully difern inciting thefeeds
°f disunion among earfives, and detaining feme of
these United States, or feme bodies of men therein,
from the common cause, and from a connection with
odrillufrious ally:
Refolded unrraimonfo. That every idea of de
viating from the treaty of the United States with
his mod Christian Majesty, in the smallest arti
cle or of listening to proposals of accommodation
with the court of§reas-Britain, in a partial and
Separate capacity, shall ever be rejected by us
with the greatest abhorrence and detestation
And as we engaged in the present war with a
solemn determination to fccure, if possible, the
rich blHlings of freedom to the prefect and fu
ture generations—a determination which we are
firmly persuaded was furtable to the dignity of
our nature and the precepts of our religion, and
which we therefore reflect on with the highest
fatisfaHion; so we will persevere in cur utmost
exertions to support the just and necessary war
we arc engaged in; and with the aid of that al
mighty and most merciful being, who has ever
appeared for us in our dihrefs, we will profecut^
And that upon any such goods being seized,
and libelled as aforeiaid, although the libellant
shall only render it probable to the court before
which the trial is had, that the fame have been
imported contrary to this act, they shall be ad
judged forfeit, and condemned,unlefs theclaim
ant ihall evince to the fatisfaftion of such court,
that rhe goods on trial were not manufactured
within the dominions or possessions of the said
King, or shall prove by direCt evidence that they
have been condemned in some proper court in
the said United States as lawful prize captured
from the enemy, or were so captured, and regu
larly proceeding against in this State for such
adjudication at the time of such seizure, or that
the fame Were legally imported or brought into
this State before the making and publiihing of
this a&.
And be it further enabled by the authority
aforefaid, That if any person or persons ihallim
port or bring into this State, any goods wares or
merchandize, contrary to this act, or that shall
be aiding, affixing or advising therein, and be
thereof convicted before any county or superior
court, such person or persons shall fuffer im
prisonment in Newgate, or some other goal in
this State, a term not exceeding one year, and
be fined a fam not exceeding one'thoufand
pounds, according to the nature and aggravation
of the offence, at the discretion of the court be
fore which the conviction shall be had.
the war with unremitting ardor, until the hidS
pendence of the United States shall be fully re»
cognized and established.
Sent down for concurrence,
SAMUEL ADAMS, President.
In the House of Keprefentatives, July 4, 1781
Read and unanimously concurred.
NATH. GORHAM, Speaker.
.Aporov'd, JOHN FI A NCOCK.
Trnfonv, attest, JOHN AVERY, Sec^
7%; come to band, and to be Call by
JOSIAH HUN hNGfuN,
At Wethersfield, Rocky-Hi? Landing:
A SMAI.L, bat good xrfQrtmenc of DRY GOODS,
fuiciblefor thefea'on. -A so. .IRON HALLOW
and EARTHEN WARE- 81 10. & 4 d N 1 -
German Steel, per Cwc or lb — wool-Car's— ft ? v < ard
Forks—Sickles-- and v ietv of other artiocs 0 Hard^
Wire Goods. —tikewife S'YTHES, made by Cap/tin
William Huntington o' Leb non. -All which wi.l retold
on rhe molt Rcalonallc Terras for Cash, Grain or W'e^
Hour.
N, B. A few Bushel, of home made SALT, foe file
at fail Huntingdon's Store.
Ju'y rr, 1782.
By Hudfcn ^ Goodwin,
At the PRINTING-OFFICE:
TESTAMENTS, Wilts's p lms and Hymns, bound
together or feparare, Edwards's Sermons, Mcmo:;sof
the Life ofDl. Doddridge, Mrs. Row's Letters, HilC y of *
the Wir in America, Adventures of Ncoptolemus, P | il of
Picafure, th Revolution of America, by the Abbe R yna' ?
Hunter's R-fle&ons on Chefteifi Id's Letters, Native rs
Col. Allen's Captivity. Law's Colli &ior of M' fie L< wth's
Grammar, Dill worth's Spiling-Books, by th< grocc. dozen,
01 single, Primers, W itimgand T pping Paper, by rh^
ream or quire, Clothiers Press P per , by the groce ot
dozen, Cartridge Paper, Blanks of %oft kinds uG 1 in chis
State, Sealing-W x Wafers, Holman's Britishink Pwd r,
final! Looking-Gaffes, Pins, black and coloured Silk
Handkerchiefs, &c. &c.
*, Cash, Jr any of the above Articles, given Co-cleart
Cotton andLinnen RAGS o' any ^i^
All Ah
COMMISSIONED, non-com iffioned Officers and Pi^
yates, ifterelted in the Settlement 0+ the Depreciation
made (by the subscribe:) agreeable t -the R-f^ves of the
General Arfembly of this State, are defied.to no f t onthe
Ninth Dis of August next, at Ten o'Clock in th# F tenoon,
at Mr. JESSE AVSTIN's, innholder, in DURHAM, upon
business of importance to each individual
WILLIAM SIZER, Agent.
Middletown, July 3, 2,83.
\V7E the Subscribers being ppointeH Comroiffioners, b,
the Hon. Court of Pobate for th, iibi& of
Sim(bu y, to receive and ex ie theclaim efcm <di
tors to the eftatc of DAVID RUSSEL, late of fai S (bury,
deceased (represented in.Hvenr) do hereby give r,toe,
that we shall attend f id bufi ef< «t the dwehir g houf of
Capt JONATHAN PETTI' ONE, ii f.i/si ft y. or the
frit Tuelduys of Augur. Sept, norer, Odol© .; d NovenJ'er
next, fom One to Six o'clock, p. M ---N' acc< unts will
be allowed, unless properly am#'.
ELISHA CORNISH.
DUDLEY PFI riBONE,
GIDEON MILLS
Simsbury, July 8, 178%.
AGREEABLE to a Relolve es his Excellency cue G<>-
v^rnor and honorable Council of Safety, dirc&iog
the Subferiber to advertise the several Towns i this State
to forward to such plate and peifon as he shall . ffign, all
the Articles of Cloathing received on the as 6d I.x.
This is therefore to defi e the Scle&nen or R ceivc s o' such
Cloathing, in the federal Towns in thi St te, to forward
the fame, as soon as may be, to the Subferiber, at Middle
town, or to Abel Hine, Bq; t New Mi ford.
rtUIH HCEBARD, S. C.
N. B. Good Shoes will likcwilc be received at ts. ell
said Tax.
Middletown, July is, 17#$.
STATE of CONNECTICUT, rfll
Hartford County, July 12, 1782.
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given to all concerned, that
a libel is filed before the Hon. Jabez Hamlin, E'q,
Judge ofthe Maritime Court in and for tue county of Harre
ford, by Jofiih Hart, of Wethersfield, in fi id county, against
a certain Watercraft called a Raft, containing forty fparfl
or masts, suitable for masting and fpariing shipping, found
«nd seized in Middletown, in said county^ on the irth daw
of July inst. and faidto be transporting through this State
t& the enemy, and appraised at more than 30!. lawful
money; which the libeilanu fay are forfeited, by virtue o£
the laws of this State---For the trial of the jufticc of 'aid
seizure, a Maritime Court will be holden at the Court-
House, in Hartford, in said county, on the 20th day of Au<a
ghit next, when and where all persons concerned may ap<
pfar, aud they shall be heard.
By order of the Judee,
GEORGE WYLLYS, Register.
The Subferiber requests all
Persons indented to him for NEWS-PAPERS, to
make ffeedy payment.---He returns his thaksto th< fe Gen
tlemen who have been pun&ual in making payments, ac
cording to contrail, and hopes, by his fidelity and attention
to his business, to merit a continuance oftheir favours.
JAMES jaHNSQNt
July 12, igh,