The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1780-09-05 00:00:00, page 4

An AR in d^fo' to, and alteration of an A&, tri
titled, An ACt for the direction of Lifters in their
Office and Duty.
(Paired at the la, Seffinn of the General Assembly.)
BE it EnaAed by the Governor, Council and
Representatives, in General Court afembhd,
and by the Authority of the fame, That each Dwel
ling House be set in the Lift, at Fifteen Shillings for
each Fire Place therein.
Provided nevertbeltfa, That the Liters mey aha'e
of the amount of any old or decayed Hoafe. ^^e
quarter, one half, or three quarters or the sum efli
mated as aforefaid, according as the fame ihall ap
pear to them to be more or lefa decayed, or depreci
ated in value.
Be it further En^Aed by the Authority afor^f^d.
That all T aders. Shop Keepers A^ornies at Law,
Owners of I on-Works, aad Mills T,adefmen a d
Artificers, P y%cians, Surgeons and Tavern Keep
ers shall be rated in the Lift proportionable to ther
gain; and returns, according to the bast estimate that
can be made thereof by the L fieri.
And be it farther EnaA^d by the Authority afore
faid, That for the future all Monies on Inttreft on
good Security, more than the owners thereof p % y
interel for sh 11 be computed according to the va
lue in Lawful Money, or the monies so loaned ; and
Shill be set in the L% according to such value, at
the rate of Six Pounds per Centum; any law, ufua„e
or caftem to the contrary notwith£*nding. #
And be it further Enabled by the Authority afore
fa d, That the several paragraphs of an AA passed
the fecund Thurfd-y of May, A. D. >779' dircAinz
th, mod, of a^ffing Houses Monies, Srock in
Trade., A'tornies at Law Pbyfieiars, Saryaons,
Owners of Iron Works, Owner cf Mills, Tradef
sort Artificers, and Tavern Keepers, bes and the
fir? ire hereby repealed.
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1 bree Hundred Dollars Reward.
RUNAWAY on sundry ni ht the 13th inft*r%a
Negro Mtn named J I M. 27 y^s old, he
formerly brion^ed to Mr. Issac Jones and afterwayds
to Mr. Djoylafe of New-Haven, who called him
by the name of Harry ; is about 5 feet 10 inches
high, well proportioned, has an impediment in his
fpsech. 'tie uncertain what cloaths he will wear ;
carried with him a loose Cott of a butternut colour
Tith a little mixture of white, and a red pliifh cape#
a d,rk brown broadcloth coat and ve% a short blue
broad cloth coat, a ftrifl damafcas veil a home
made butternut coloured ditto, a good pair ofbuck
fkn breeches, a pair of blue broad d!oth do. a pair
cf linnen do. a white hollind shirt, 2 homespun
check do. a brown linea cost, a pair of brown tow
cloth trowfers, a felt and a &ra# hat, fevered pair of
flockings, a good pair of shoes, silver ihoe and knee
buckles. Whoever will take up (aid Negro and
fetara him to the fabferiber at Wefifirid, or Mr.
John Atwater at Chefhiro or secure him and give
notice so that the fubfertber may have him, shall re
ceive the above reward and ne'tffary charges peid.
JOHN ATWATER.
Warfield, Angu4 14, 1780.
"g R'E-irN~^
To be Sold by the Sibfcriber, and entered upon
the firfl day of May next,
THE Firm or "Plantation called Green Vale,
fixated partly in Amenia PrecinA and part
ly in Sharon. It consists cf about 300 acres cf
Landin one body, and is jolly efleemed as valua
ble a farm as any of its size; 100 acres of which is
the richefl low intervale and meadow land, with a
fine fire^m running through it, by which the greater
part miy be laid under water, and with little im
provstMt may be made to cut 200 tons of good
bay. There is no farm better watered and is plea
finHy fruited in a thick fettled country, a small re
treat from the town of Sharon, within a faall dif
tiince of church, meeting, mills. &c. two bearing
orchards on the fame and two dwelling- houfeu one
cf which is new built of brick after the modern
ccn^rudinn, and is efUemed as good and conveni
ent a house as any in the country ; it hat a Effici
ency of fire wood, the foil is naturally rich and
luxuriant, the greater part m ? y be rosde the best of
mowing land; the filiation is healthy; and on the
whole it needs no recommendation. Whoever
views it will find it agreeable. The conditions of
file and other particulars may be made known, by
'pp'y'"g '° JACOB BO« ARDUS> on the
prrmifer.
Green Vale. An-ul 4, >7BO.
Dillworth's Spelling Books, by
the Dozen or Single, to be Sold at the
North Door under the Printing-Office.
#7".HE Officer, and Sombra cf the. Cznc&fy
& Line, wEo„ve farmed in the Cordirenul
Arrey and have nzTrecaived Treafuru's Notes for
the balances found due to them in January la®, ate
informed, that by ^,,?y"g they may be furnifhed
therewith at this Offish
Trrafury Office- Hartford, Aug*! 20, 1,80.
The Piin@t us the fevera! News Paper, in this
Siate are requeued to insert C a above.
-xtrt,_.ra ->t±M«t.o<~===—' rcttßpmre^—^et^——• - ^rxMret
qpAKEN 0, by the fubferiber the tR infant, a
1 Bay MARE, 2or 3' years old, 3 white feet.
Bay in her forehead, branded A on her left (boulder,
paces ard grots. The owner is defined to pay char
ges and take her away.
• DANIEL marsh, jua,
Bast Hartford An,rft 26^ 1,80.
WAN'I ED, >3^ Apprentice to tl eCkahie r ^
Trade, a healthy yonn, LAD, about 14 or
15 years of age; Any disposed to learn said trade
may find a p'ace where they null be well used and
the trade w.l learned them by enquiring of the
Printers.
SIXTY DOLLARS REWARD to any perf,
that will take and brioe to me, or recurs! in
Litchfield goal Jorrs Lerch cf Torrppton, who w^
detached to <?vc in the Corneftient Line in the
Continental Army until the hi cf December next,
and all nzceffary r> trees rdd. bv
ELIJAH GAYLORD, Capt.
Anguft 18. 1780.
THIS u tp give notice to those Soldiers that
fervid in the Continental L'ne in 1779, in
tht eight months fervid, belonging ^ or counting
for the 6th brigade of militia in this Strte; are de
sired to call on the subscriber fcr th^r pay th*t re
mains due ; they mufl,ifthev fer.d, give a written
order, and brin^ or fend certificate# from the fei<a
men cf the town they belong to, or the then com
mitten cf {applies, what was delivered to the^r fa
milies, or that 'they had norc while in fe'vire whh
their difeharge# from the fcrv cc, and the balance
will be paid, by
NOADIAH HOOKER.
N. B At there was a conffd%able number from
Col. Phelps's Regiment/ of Simfb try. I fall artend
at Col. Phelps's house, on the second Monday in
September, to pay his men if they appear there-
N. HOOKER.
Farmington, Anguff 25, 1780.
To be SOL D, for Cash or Country Produce,
1 Lar^e new elegant Dwelling HOUS B,
situated on the road from Ballon to Albany,
in the town of Pittsfield, near the Meeting Xoufe ;
together with ten Acre# of choice LAN D, being;
very comodiout for a Trader. The terms of sale
will be made e^fr ; for particulars, apply to Mess.
Greene and Lincoln, in Worcehtr.
Worce#^, Aug. 18, 1780.
RUN AWAY from the Subscriber, a certain
THOMAS KELVIN, Primmer of War
to th? United State : bad on when he wen + away, a
Tow Cloth Coat, Vsfi and Breeches, a l ^6 Button
to his Hat; about five Feri fix Inches High, dark
curl'd Halr. Whoever will take up and return laid
Prisoner to Ezekiel Williams Esq, Commissary
of Prisoners, fhali have all reasonable Char to paid,
by Wm. JEPSON.
Hartford, Auguf lz6, 1,80.
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Hartford-County, Angufl 26, 1780,
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby gived to all
whom it doth or m^y concern, that a Libel is
filed before the Hen. Jabez Hhmlin, Esq; Judge
of the Maritime Court for the County of Hartford,
a/ainft the Letter of Marque Schooner called the
BRITISH LEGION burthen about 45 tons,
Charles Cochran, late commander, her takie, apparel
and cargo, in favor of Stephen Buckland, commander
of the artned hftantine Artillery, and Daved Brook-,
commander of the armed sloop Hamlin, and their
associates the captors, and fettors forth of the said
brigantine and sloop, who tool her upon the hith
seas. and lent her into the county of Hartford: And
for the trial cf the jafiice of said capture, the Maritime
Court for the county of Hartford^ will be hcldea
at Hartford in said county, cn the firft Wednesday
in November next ; when and where all perform
elaimin,, property, may appear and Shew rrafon (if
any they have ) why the Rid letter cf marque feboe;
ner called the British Legion, with her tackle, ap.
parol and cargo, should not be adjudged a- lawful
prize to the captors and fettb:s forth, agreeable to
the prayer of the libellants.
By nder of the Judge ?•' Said,
GE.ORGE WYLLYS, Register.
^^°7 ^ ^ fubferibers bein, ~,n°nt^ by H§
Jad%e of Probate for the difria ofSirclbury,
to examine the claims of the credit# to the eftat^
of William Moor, late of feid Simfbary deccafed,
represented insolvent, will meet far that pu-pofc ^t
the late dwelling hohfe of flic deceased, the left Mon-,
d-m of September, OAol& and November next,
Lora one eliock in the alfernotwi till fix at v^ht.
No accounts will be showed an left ptop^ly attested-.
Asahel Lolcomb,)
Joseph Forward. > CommiffienCT,
Lemuel Bates, )
Simfbdry, Augufl 14, 1780.
ALL pufoos indebted to de above r^^'e are deJ
filed to make immediate payment wits out further,
notice, to James Moor and | E „ Cttto „.
Hhadrick Moor 1
WHEREAS pplication has been made to me
by more than a txtrerth part of the propri
etors cf he township of Tunbridge, in the bounty
of Cumberland, (formerly in Glouce^er ccuiK„
and Sse of Vermont, to warn a meeting of said
proprietors to be holden at the house of Elias Car
rife in Royalton, and county abevefaid, on Thurs
day the 12th day of O^ober next, at ten o'clock in
trie forenoon, firfl tochoofe a Moderator to govern
said meeting, fecondJy a proprietors clerk, and any
0 her bufnefs that flhall 6? horrtt pre,er at said
mitring. COMFORT SEVER, Juf. Pram
Royaken, Augufi 1 1780.
^ ;_ £ &_.
NOTICE is hereby given to the debtors of
Elijah Barr late of Middletown drchafed,
that there is a meceffi'y their accounts fhonld be spee
dily dosed ; for which purpose, to prevent cost 1
aad trouble, &y are requested to call immediately
2+ theeffice of the late Hon. Titas Helmer, Esq; cf
Middleton, where constant attendance will be
given by their humble ferran's,
ASHER MILLER,
EZEKIEL GILBERT.
Augn, if, i,Bo. 1,
S-A-LTTKITICY FTnrN-Trr"^
IS now in bbl where may be I.ad, if feafonaby
#':*#„< for C.fh ci Produce, Cannon and She tj
lot Aih Kettles. Coolers, Pot( and Kettles of vari
ous fizfi, Tea Kettles, Flat I ons, with almcft eve
ry other krod cf Ware 3rd cafiiofs, usually made
at said Furnace. WANTED at (aid Furnace b^r
the noddle of September, a number cf Wood Cut
ter;, fumifhrd with Axes and Blankets. Likewise
a number of Labourers to work with the Collier in
She Furnace employ. Th? cußomarv Wages roll
begivea, by Wm. WHITING, and
NAT H'l. FRISBIE.
fWifbury Au+rA r§, 1,80
To 66 SOL U, for SILVER,
OpWENTY- seven acres and a half of LAND,
X chiefly under improvement, a fniill dwellings
house; ^ood barn and orchard on the fine, lying
about two miles from the Meeting; Hcufe in Tvr
rrarioa. For farther particulars enquire of the fub
furiber in Litchfiehi, by whom a §ood title will be
given. AARON HOSFORD.
Lichfield, Accra 13, 1,80.
AL L pedons that have *ny denuuds m the
dilate of El'jah Aldeirnan, late of S mfbury
deceas'd, are req netted to prefect their accouns for
settlement, and al! Cat ire indebted to Lid eftatc
to make immediate payment to tne f acriber, only
furvtan^ executor of the lass will a id teiiameat of
the fail Elijah. Alter dance ^llbe §iven fcr that
par,ofe at tie l^c dwells, house cf the bid Elijah
on the second Monday of Sv^raber, QCrol.tr and
November next.
ASAHEL HOLCOM 3.
ALL persons that have any demands cm er are in
debted to the e % ite of the Wid. Deborah Alderman
late of said Sin fbiry deceased, are requeued to at
tend at the aferef^id times and places for ts epurpofe
of fetthment with and payment to the fubferiber.
NATHANIEL PHELPS Adminifi'?.
Yale College, July 24th, rdo.
q-^HE Candidates for the fecund degree, a e bere
ft by noified, to give their attendance in the
College Library, cn Wednesday the 12th cf Sep
tember next io order to receive there degrees to be
conferred in a general Diploma, as their will be no
public Comm tireiret this year. And on the day
precekdiat, the Profidert and Tutors will artend the
examination of thole who may cffar themselves for
adraiffion into this College,
EZRAJOT^
A few Testaments, neatly print
ed, and in good Binding, to be Sold by
the Dozen or Single at the North Door
under the Printing Office.