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nice had gone over to Grenada in a Frigate with
a Sloop of War, having 400 Troops, expecting
the British from Barbadoes to come against Gre
nada : That there were 900 Troops at Grenada
belides the 400 which went with the Governor
of Martinico.
By Capt. Smith we hear of the following arri
vals, from this Port, viz. Capt. Jared Starr and
Capt. Jabez Lord at Surrinam, Capt. Wm. Leeds
and Capt. Isaac Seymour at Demar^ra. ^
We hear that the Sloop Retaliation, Capt. Eli
sha Hart, from this Port with Horses, sprung a
leak, and put into Bermuda, where the Vessel
was taken possession of, arid Capt. Hart sent to'
South Carolina.
HARTFORD, February 13:
The General Assembly of this State, by Ipecial
order of his Excellency the Governor, are to con
vene in this town on Wednesday the 21st infant.
Lift of British Ships lying in Gardiner's-Bay.,
Europe 64. Bedford 74 difmafted; London
90. Royal Oak 74. Robust 74. Prudent 64
Adamant 50. Guadaloupe Frigate.
' Culloden 74, loft in the late storm, i;o of her
Crew took to the Woods after getting bn fhorc.'
Fair American 64, miffing.
Extract from General Orders;
Head-Quarters, Neiu-Wmdfor, Jan. 30, 178 U
THE General returns his thanks to Major-
General How, for the judicious methods
he pursued, and to the officers and men under
his command, for the good conduct and alacraty
with which they executed his orders for fuppreb
sing the late mutiny in a part of the Jersey line:
It gives him inexpressible pain; to have beeri
obliged to employ their arms upon such an qccaf
fion, and convinced they themselves felt all the
reluctance which former affection to' fellow-fol-
diers could inspire ; he confiders the patience
with which they eridured the fatigue of the
march through rough arid mountainous'roads';
rendered almost impassible fy the depth of fnow}
and the checifulnefs with which they performed,
every part of the duty, as the strongest proof of
their fidelity, 4 attachment to the service, sense of
subordination; and abhorrence ' of the principles
which actuated the mutineers in so daririg and at
trocious a departure from what they owed to their
country, to their officers, to their oaths, and to
themselves. —
“ The General is deeply sensible of the fuffer^
ings of the army, he leaves no expedient unused
to' relieve them, arid he is persuaded that Con
gress and the several States are doing every thing
in their power for the fame purpose ; brit while
we look to the public for the fulfilment of its en
gagements, we fhbuld do it with proper allows
anee for the embarrassment of public affairs : We
began a contest for liberty and independence, ill
provided for with the means of war, relying on
our patriotism to supply deficiencies, we expell
ed to encounter many wants and necessities, and
We should neither fhririk from them when they
happen, nor fly in the face of law and govern
ment to procure redress. There is no doubt the
public will, in the event, do ample justice to the
men fighting and fullering in their defence ; but
it is our duty to bear present evils with fortitude,
looking forward to the period when our country
will have more in its power to reward our servi
ces. History is full of examples of armies fuffer
ing with patience the extremities of distress,
which exceed those we have experienced, and
those in the cause of ambition and conquest, not
in that of the rights of humanity, of their coun-
try, of their families and of themselves ; shall
we, who aspire to the diftin&ion of a patriot ar
my, who are contending for every thing preci
ous in society, against every thing hateful and
degrading in slavery ; shall we, who call our
selves citizens, difeover less constancy and mili
tary virtue, than the mercenary instruments of
ambition. Those, who, in the present instance,
have stained the honor of the American soldiery,
and sullied the reputation of patient virtue, for
which they have been so eminent, can only at
tone for their attroious conduct, by a life devot
ed to a zealous and exemplary difeharge of their
duty ; persuaded that the greater part were influ
enced, by the pernicious advice of a few, who
probably have been paid by the enemy to betray
their affoeiates. The General is happy at the
lenity Shewn in he execution of only two of the
most guilty, after compelling the whole to an un
conditional surrender; and he flatters himfelf
that no similar instance will hereafter disgrace
. our military history. It can only be ruinous to
those who are mad enough to make the attempt ;
for lenity on any future occasion would be crimi
nal and inadmissible.
" The General, at the fame time, presents his
thanks toMajor^Qaieral Parsons, for the prudent
and military disposition he made ; and- Lieut.
Col. Hull, and the officers and men under his
command, for the good conduct, address and
courage, with which they executed the enterprize
against a corps of the enemy in Westchester, hav
ing burnt their barracks and a large quantity of
forage,, destroyed a bridge across Harlem river,
under the protection of one of their redoubts,
brought off 52 prisoner , and a number bf hories
and cattle,With inconsiderable loss, except in the
death of Eniign Thompson of the 7th Maffachu
fet's regiment, an active and enterprising offices
The General alfo' thanks Col. Hazen and his
party, for their conduct and bravery in covering
Lieut. Col: Hull's retreat, and repelling theene
my; and Cols Scathmel and Sherman, and in
general; all .the officers and men of Major-Gene
ral Parfons' command for their good conduct iri
fripportirig the advanced corps."
(fo^ The Printers request such of their cufto
rriers as expect to make payment in Wood, Gra 11,
&c. to improve the present opportunity for that
purpose: . —
At a Meeting of the Governor and Council of Safety;
at Hartford, Feb 6th, 1781.
RESOLVED. That the Sehamen of <M several
towns on the east fide CoripcAitut River, iri
this State, and also of the town# weft of and adjoin
ing to said r>v4r, or feoh perlons is they shall appoint,,
be rind they are hereby directed, at the expense of
the public, forthwith; and as soon Ma may be, to
tranfpoit, dither by land or w^er, as may be most
convenient, to Hartford, and deliver to Mr. Ralph
Pomeroy, D. Q Matter, for this S ate, or his order;
all such BEEF as has been put up therein, or p ocur
cd for public us& iri purfoance of am Aft of the non.
General Affcmbl, iri Oflober la%or by dire&iocc
Rom the Governor and Council of Safety, taking
proper receipts Said BEEF to be by him forward
ed, and lodged, according to the orders of General
Washington ; and they are to mark the quantity cori
tamed in each barrel, which exceeds or fells Short of
240 weight; and alto transit to said Pomeroy, art
account of the manner of patting up said BEEF, fpe
cifying the quantity and quality of fait used for
each; and where thi fame it transported by water,
the freight to be agreed for on the bet terra, that msy
be, and application it to be made to the Committee
of Pay-Table; to adfaß and fettle the accounts of such
trarifportation, who are to draw on the Treasurer fur
payment of th# fame;
True Copy:
T ^ 0 WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Clerk,
AL L persons Who have BO@K ACCOUNTS
unsettled, against BURTf SHEPHERD, &
SEYMOUR, in company, or ither of them, which
befri date finer the 18th day of May 1778, ae de
fired to bring them in fm ediatily. The above
partner sh p : being dissolved, renders a final fetriement
and elefe of the BOOKS neotffary for the conveni
ence of both partly. ConAant attendance will be
given by one or other of the late partners, who will
act, on such accounts, for the whole.
February to, 1781.
TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.
LOST lad Friday, in Weflon, near Major
Reel's, a flowered erfed silver WATCH, china
face, with a Reel chain, braf# key, a French seal,
with a CTofa in the face of it, a brass violin on the
chain for a curtain book. Whoever will deliver
said WATCH to Major Reed, in Weston, William
Scott, in Palmer, or David Bull, in Hartford, shall
have the above reward, and the thanks of the owner,
Feb. 12, 1781.
FAKE notice.
THE fubferiber has received two warrants from
the Treasurer, to colk& from the inhabitants
of the town of Hartford and others, liable to pay
rates in said town ; one, of one penny on the pound,
to be paid in gold or silver coin only, the other of
four nollfi on the pound in old Continental Bills
only, to be pad in by the fir# day of March next, for
the rece ving of which I will give general attend
ance at my house.
DANIEL SKINNER, jun. Colkdor.
N. B. Let no person expe& to over-run the firft
of March, as these rates must absolutely be paid in
by or before that tlmr,
B ENTAM TIOVITTGirf'
HEREBY informs those men who served In the
militia, under his command, at Horse Neck,
in May last, that he experts to wait on them, at
Hartford, to pay them their wages, &c. on the 27th
infant, provided they personally appear or fend
written orders.
N. B. Those who call for the wages of such as
were killed, or have since died, mull shew their
lawful right to receive the fame.
Wethersfield, February 6, tf<;
- J UST PUBLIS HED,
And now felling by the Printers hereof,
SOME brief Hints of a Religious Scheme, taught
and propagated by a Number of Europeans,
living in a pl^e called N ; fqueunia, in the Stare of
New-York. Written by VALENTINE RATH,,
BUN, Minister of the Gofeel. In which the Wri
ter has shewn. i. The leaders and teachers of this
new and fringe religion. 2. Their man Dir of ad
dress. 3. Their do&rine, with the ferlpture evi-'
deoce they bring to prove it. 4. Their manner of
Worfhlpi g. The direaioos which they give to
those that come to them, to be inftruaed. 6. The
power and efßa of their infiroaions on their ad
herents. 7. What this new religion is, as pointed
out by scripture testimony, 8. Some resfens for
his knowledge in this new religion, not by mes
fpecuL tion, but by forrowful experience
February 9, 1781.
TAKE NOTICE.
AN UMBER of the eonfifcaied Edater. lying
in the counties of New Haven, Fairfield, and
Litchfield, 'will be im/nadiately fold, either at public
or private sale, for ready cash or a very short credit,
a committee is appointed who will attend to this bu
finefi as fpe@dily as possible, and a notification will
be lodged in ^he different tonm, pointing out the
tme, piacriand term, of file at well as the perform
who will attend to this business. Good authentic
deeds of conveyance, with warrantee, will be given
to the purchases, by the Tmfurer of the State,
agreeable to a« of assembly.
Feb. 12,
7=o be iod, at a reasonable rate by the iobferi-
X bar, two farms lying in Spencertown,in New-
Y^k State, one containing two hundred and twen
ty ic CL well watered, about fifty acres under im«
pre vement, a good meadow, putting twenty five
tors of hay, with £ good house and barn on the pre
in fm The other containing one hundred and thir\
teen acres, wwl Watered, fify acres under improved
marts, with sino log houses on the premifa. Ano4
ther farm Ifrig in New Concord, about two miles
diFant from the other, containing about ninety acres,
well Wa tree, fatty acres under Improvement, with
three log hoofer and a log barn tn the prernffr.
Said farms art for imroidiaie file, for hard money
only, by JONATHAN CULVER, living co the
premise.
January iff 1781,.
BR OKE into the enclofute of the Subferiberj
the 13th November, Sx SHEEP: Four
maikt with a crop of theyight ear,' a hollow „op In
the end of the left, and , halfpenny the under fide
of the fame : The other two black, their ear marks
much the fame. The owner is defined to pay charges
and take thtrii away.
STEPHEN BIDWELL.
Li;o field, January 29. 1781.
STOLE N from the Subscriber, on the night
of the 21st infant, a large fortel MARE, with
a Saddle and Bridli. Said Mare is nine years old,
a large flat in her forehead, trotsand paces. Whol
ever will return said Mare, with the Saddle and
Bidle, shall receive Three Hendry Dollars ; and
Feer Handled more, for the thief, if brought tepuj
niflimtot, paidgby
SAMUEL MATHER.
Weffield, January 29, 1781.
Hartford, February 4, 1781.
Extract ofthe Reftlve of Coogrefs mentioned above.
RESOLVED, That all and lingular the creditors
of these United States, for fuppliee furnifhed the
army, or the transportation thereof, shall be entitled
to receive the just value of the fume due to them ref
pe&vely, in bills of credit emitted pursuant to the
a& of the 18th March last, the value of the fume
due to be afeertained according to the current value
of the continental bills of credit compared with
Specie, at the time the money became due, at the
P hc ^ w^ e ^ fu PP"^ V^' e furnifhed.
4
ALL perfuns having any demands on me th#
fubferiber, as Deputy Quarter Mater Gene
ral for the State of Conne&icat, are hereby
requeued to bring in their claims (before the firff
day of March next, after which time none will bet
received or paid) that they may be adjusted, and
the depreciation ascertained agreeable to a tefoluti
on of congress of the 26th of August last • for the
amount of which certificates will be given. And
for the convenience of the creditors, all those on the
sea coast from Fairfield ta Horfeneck, will please to
fend in their claims to Capt. Simeon Selleck. Stam4
ford: and these in the western part of said State to
Capt. James Clark, Danbury ; who are hereby di
rected to receive and receipt the fame, and when
the whole are colleAed, to bring them in for settle
ment; and th:fe in the eastern part and middle of
said flute, will please to tfrly at my office.
NRH. HUBBARD, late D Q .M. G.