The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1779-07-13 00:00:00, page 1

T U E $ D A Y, July ig, 1779; THE Number,^
CONNECTICUT COURANT,
A N D T HE
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER.
TO BE SOLD BY
JABEZ BINGH A M,
A Large Q^ '- ,ol White Pine LOGS
and Mzi S fS. now in Cormeuicut River.
A y p'-rfons nW ^in, ^ purchase, may ap
p', 6M.J b ^ Ely, in W. Spr ii,- field, or Mr. John
Waho, ui Hanford, or said Bingham, in Soath-
H^'Hr.
8 1^79.
1 jus COME TO HAND At DTO B 3 >4D
By AUGUS IUS KEN T,
I. Suffield.
1 Qr^^r, J Philadelphia Bladder
fX SNUFF oi "<e bet? quah , very chiap,
by the reus'd or fr^je ola<frta it eprhed for soon.
Afc, a law pound, good PEPPER.
_J^5 9> ^9;
Chuemont, J i?e 17. 1779
qr,HESE may cer ify all perfan# oho it may
I concern, Tna; w'^ ^w?have bad thoughts
of WIL LLA M BARNES 0.. account of
theft, we are L 1!, tat^Ad, and rimfire to reftr# fas
credit again in full.
JOHN ADKINS.
^ty 'AKEN up by he f^bfetbe = <h# wh U June
Hire nt a black HORSE„ about i§ lands
bifru trots and pace^ one ^hite hind foot, a ffar in
his forehead no brand. The owner is defied to
provehis property, pay cha tea and .ahe him awa%
GIDEON WEBSTER.
Hertford June 29, 1779.
TA KEN up by tie Sudutber, tut 4 it th.
aLro&wN HORSE wuhaSADDLE
ana BRIDLE. The Hjrfe is branded with the
lee. Fon the left buttock and a heart on the right
ihruider ; paces, trots and canters star in his fore
head. shod all round. Hogg An Saddle. The
owner may have them again; by proving hi# property
and paying charges.
STE.PHEN HILLS.
Herford (Orford ^ cety) July 8 1779
Ar^o be Ju u : y die Subicribat, aFA R M
lying in Glaflenbury containing two hun
deed and two acre#, a fiaal l part under improvement,
the rest cover'd with afire young ftwth of timber.
AKo a small D selling House, and half an sere of
good Land, lying n Middletown (Upper Houses,)
fotaSle and convenient for a trader cr tradefms-.
For further particulars er quire of Mu Stephen Mix
Macnell, inWeuwifeld. cr the fabfenber in Scuth-
H^ley.
DAVID MITCHELL.
July 12, >,79.
WIL.LIAMSBURGH, JUNE 19.
LAST Wednesday eve ring were brought to
this city under a guard Henry Hamilton Esq;
w o has a&ed feme year# past as Lieutenant Gover
nor of the settlement at aid about Detroit, and Com
mandant of the British garrison there underSr G y
Ca'leton as Commander in Chief; Pulp Dejean,
Just cecf the Peace Ir Detroit; and William La
mothe, Captain of volunteers, prisoners of war, tak
en in the county of Illinois.
FISHKI L L. July 8.
The following Aa of the Council of Virginia, was
handed us yederday; in order to pabhfh, which
we doufot not will be pteafiog, as it may Serve to
fl'milate these concerned to follow the example
therein set forth, which humanity has long calhtd
for. Providence having been pleated to fuffer thole
cruel fees to fall into our hands ; and, ere Jong,
it is to be i ped, more of them will fall into the
pit they have long prepared for us.
In CO U NCI L, June i 5, 1779.
THE Board proceeded to tee confide ration of
the letters ^ Colonel Clarkes and other papers rela
ting to Henry Hamilton, Esq; who has acted feme
years p. : an L elitenant-Governor of the settlement
a and about Detroit ard comma .derof the Britffi
garrifan there, under Sir Guy Carleton a; Governor
HARTFORD: Printed by HUDSON and GOODWIN, near the Great-Bridge.
in chief; Philip Dejean Justice of the Peace for De
troit, aad William Lemothe, Captain of volunteers,
palmed of war, tak^n in the county of Illinois.
They find that Governor Hamilton has executed
t^e talk of inciting t:e Indian, to perpetrate their
accounted cruelties on the erzen. of these States,
without dubaron of age, sex or condition, with an
eag^rnefc and activity, which evince that the gene
ral nature cftheir charge harmonized with his parti
cular dfpeiition ; they Should have been fati-fied
from the other testimony adduced that these enormi
ties were cofcmrtted by savages a&ing under his com
m ffun, but the number 01 prodaraations which, at
different times were left in hcules, the inhabitants
ci which were killed or carried away by the Indians,
cue of which p ochmations, under the band and
fed of Guvenct H nulton, is in possession of the
Board, puts thir ha beyond a ^ubt At the time
of Qis captivity it appears tha he had lent coffi
derable detacbmeru ci Ld ai - ageing the f.cntier
feuiements of ut Su +# and .4 realty appoint
eda Qcat cot ciof Id^ to meet him at the
° raouift ci the T^mfee, tc coscf the operations of
th!, pMeor campaign. T & i find that his treat
gienc cf cur emze^s and fcidiers, t;p ivred and car
ried within toe 1 mis 0! id; ct-mn^nd has been cr.u
ei axu mhumso ; da in the cak cf John Dedfe a
ch.zq of ic<e a ates, wb^h ba bt^n particularly
filmed to this Board, hr leaded Lm with irons, threw
him into adungeon, win out bed<hig without tig*,
without fire, in the ch ad of wmir and tefive-rcli
mate of Detroit ; that : n that # ebe hanadca,nd
wafted him, with incessant exp,clarions cf death ;
that when the rigours of his fi^ b on had brought
him follow, that death -seemed b.ely to withdraw
him from their power, he was taken cut and aifeiid-'
ed to nil fomwwhat mended, and then agin, before
he had recovered abilities to walk, was returned to
his dungeon; in which a hole was cut seven inches
square only, for the admission of ar, and the fame
load of irons again put on him ; that appearing again
to be in imminent danger of being loft to them be
was a second time taken from hit dungeon, in wh ch
he bad lain from January to June, with the inter
m,ffion before mentioned of a few weeks only ;
that Governor Hamilton gave landing rewards for
fc^ps, but offered none for prifoaers, which indue
edthe Indians, after making rheircaptive. carry their
bagg a i; e ' nto the neighbourhood of the fort, there
to put tuem to death, and carry in their scalps to the
Governor, who welcomed their retain and hcceffis
by a discharge of cannon ; that when a rr-foner
broug^ alive, and destined to death by the indianr,
the die already kindled and himfelf bound to the
flake, was dexterously withdrawn and ferreted from
them by the human ty ofa fellow prisoner; a la^e
reward was offered for the dtfeovery of the v.&im,
wh'ch having tempted a fe @ vant to betray his con
cealment, the piefent prisoner Dejean being feat with
a party of soldiers, funonnded the house, took and
threw into gaol the unhappy vi& m, and bis deliver
er, where the former soon expired, under the per
petual affarances of Dejcan that he was to b. a^ain
reacted into the hands of the savages; and the latter
when enlarged was bitterly and illiberately reprimand^
ed and threatended by Governor Hamilton.
It appears to them that the prisoner Dejean, was
on all occ&fions the willing and cordial instrument
of Gov&nor Hamilton, a&iag both as judge and
keeper cf the gaol, and instigating and urging him
by malicious insinuations and untruths, to increase
father then relax his severities, heightening the cru
elty of his orders by the manner of executing them ;
offering at one time a reward to one prisoner to be
the hangman of another, threading his li ; e on re
fufal, and taking from his prisoners the little pro
perty their opportunities enabled them to acquire.
It appears that the pr.f:ner Lamothe, was a Cap
tain of the volunteer scalping parties of Indians and
whites b who went out, frem time to time, under ge
neral orders^ to fprre neither men, women, nor
children.
From this detail of circumftancet, which arose in
a few cases only, coming accidentally to the know-
ledge cf the Board, they think themselves authorize
cd to presume by fair deduction, what would be the
horrid history of the Offerings of he many who have
expired under their miferles (which therefore will
remain for ever untold) or who have efeaped from
them, are yet too remoe and too much d fperfed to
bring together their well grounded accusations, a,
gainftthefe prisoners.
They have seen that the condu& of the British of-'
ficers, civil and military has in hs general tenor,
through the whole couife cf this war, been favago
and unprecedented among civilized nations ; that our
officers ai d loldiers takan by them, have been load
ed with irons, consigned to loathfeme and cron died
gaols, dungeons, and prison ships ; fufipbed often
with no f cd, generally with too little for the suste
nance of nature, and that little sometimes unfeun^
and übwholefome, whereby so many of them have
profiled, -that captivity and miserable death have with
them been aimed fynonimous ; that they have been
transported beyond seas, where their fate is out of the
reach cf cur enquiry, have been compelled to take
arms against their country, and by a new refinement
in cruelty to become murtherers of their own bre
thren. •
Their prifoaers with us have, on the other hand,
been treated with moderation and humanity; they
have been fed on all occasions with wholefcme and
plentiful food, lodged comfortably, fuffered to go at
large, within extensive tracts cf country treated with
liberal hcfpitalhy permitted to live in'the families
of onr citizens, to labour for themfelvcs, to acquire
and to enjoy property, and finally to participate of
the priacical benefits of society, while privileged
from all its burthens,
Reviewing this contrast, which cannoebe den ed
by our enemies themfeive# in a single point, which
has new been kept up during four years of unremit
ted war, a term long enough to produce well founded
despair that our 'moderation may ever lead tkm into
the practice of humanity called on by that juAiie
which we owe to t! ofe who a^ fighting the battles
cf their country, to deal out at length miseries to their
enemies, measure for measure, and to difirefs the feel
ings of mankind by exhibiting to them [pellicles of
severe retaliation, where we had long and vairdy en
deavoured to introduce an emulation in kindi^fe ;
happ ly possessed by the fortune cf war, of feme of
those very individuals who have diffingu.lhed Lhem
felvi personally in this Lne of crvel conduct are fit
f.bjeas to begin on with the work of retaliation,
this Board has resolved to advrf? the Governor that
the fa d Henry Hamilton Philip Djean. aid Willi
am Lamothe, P.fonets ofw>r, be put iato irons, con
fined in the dungeon of the public jal debarred .the
use of pen ink and paper, and excluded ail converse,
except with their keeper. Ana ihe Governor or
ders accordingly.
(A copy) Attest ARCHIBALD BLAIR c. c.'
Extract of a letter from an Officer at Salem July 3.
" Yesterday morning about fun rife, a detachment
ofthe 2d regiment cf light drogoons, confiftin, of
ninety men commanded by Col. Sheldon, potted
near Poundridge Meeting House, were notified efthe
advance of the enemy by our videtts ; our horse r be
ing previously saddled and bridled, the men were
ordered immediately io mount : As soon as we
were paraded, the enemy's hoi fe were difcrvered ra
pidly advancing. about 360 or 400 in number. The
enemy having drove in our advanced panics, they
began the charge on the detachment, which, from the
great f priority of the enemy, was obliged to move
cff. The enemy pushed hard on our rear for more
tian two miles in the couife of which a feathering;
fire was kept up between their advance and our ^ear
and a constant charge with the sword. The country,
through which >ve puffed being very mountaincue
and rocky, caused many of cur hoifes to blunderand
fall, which occasioned feme to fall into the lands cf
the eneray. We immediately collected some of the
militia and began to pursue the enemy, following
them below North Carrie church. They moved cff
with such great precipitations that wecould not come
up with them. Before the enemy moved off they