The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1783-12-02 00:00:00, page 3

Meffirs Hudson & Good^nd#, ~
Two Gentlemen, lately from Wyoming, (whose ve
racity cannot be questioned) give the following
affecting Narrative of the treatment the settlers
under this State have met with from the civil and
military officers of Pennsylvania, since that terri
tory of country has been fubjeft to the jurifdidb
on of the State of Pennsylvania, which you will
please to publish for the information of the public.
IMMEDIATELY after the determination of the
Court of Commissioners, held at Trenton, in the
month of November, 1782, the inhabitants residing
at Wyoming and parts adjacent, fettled under grants
from the State of Conneaicut, by their humble pe
tition preferred to the Legislature of the State of
Pennsylvania, acknowledged the jurifdi&ion there
of, and fubjeftion to the laws of the fame, requeft
'n ^ protection from said State of Pennsylvania
That commillioners have been font into that country
by the legislature of Pennsylvania to endeavor an ac
commodationbetween thefettlers under Connecticut
and the claimers of said territory, under the late
proprietaries of Pennsylvania— shat the mole ad
vantageous terms proposed to said settlers were to
surrender theJands in their pofleffion to their oppo
nents, amitake leaks of the fame for the term of one
year, yielding and paying one third part of the pro
duce of said lands as rent, and then to quit the fame.
The settlers disdained and refufed the fallacious
offer, conscious they purchased the territory of coun
try on which they lived from the Indians, native
proprietors of the foil, for great and valuable consi
derations : that they had received grants of the fame
from the State of Connecticut, by whole authority
they had exercised over them civil and military go
vernment by officers appointed and commissioned by
the said State of Connecticut: that the aforefaid
country had been cultivated at the only expence of
the settlers : that they had stood forth in the cause
of America, and maintained themselves against a
savage and cruel enemy, during the late bloody war,
and being an exterior barrier had covered great part
of the frontier settlements of Pennsylvania from the
inroads of the savages, in which contest their coun
try has been once totally over-run,their houfes,build
ings, fences and crops consumed by fire, and for the
course of an eight years war daily attacks have been
made upon them in which term more than two thirds of
their male inhabitants have been slain by the enemy
and the residue impoverished by the aforalaid misfor
tunes and continual watchings, &c.^
" . That the State ofPennfylvania, deaf to the requests
and entreaties of a people so long distressed, have
appointed and commissioned Alexander Paterson and
Mefs'rs Seely and Mead, justices of the peace and
sent them into the settlement attended by an armed
force, who, in a lawless and brutal manner, have
wantonly turned many of the inhabitants out of their
houses, deprived them of their crops of grain and
hay; and, without any jull cause, taken up and con
fined, under a military guard, sundry of the peace
able inhabitants of the aforefaid country; neither
age, sex, nor sickness, has protected the inhabitants
from the more than savage brutality of said Paterson
(a bloody Iriifhman) and his dependants; a Capt.
Bates has been confined by a military guard, for no
other reason than his not knowing Mr. Paterson;
Col. Zebulon Butler, Commander of the firft Con
nefticut regiment, a resident in that country, whose
peaceable condu&and military abilities are confelled
by all, has been torn from his family, imprisoned and
kept under guard, sent fixty-five miles even to Sun
bury to be kept close prisoner, and though released
by the fheriff, retaken and forceably carried back and
kept from his family, notwith (landing his wife lay
at the point of death in child-bed; two aged gentle
men Major Alden and a Mr. Harvey have been ta
ken up by said Paterson and sent seven miles from
'their habitations and confined in a wet season in a
leaky guard-house without any floor and compeled
to lie down in the mire and prohibited raising them
selves up upon pain of immediate death and after ten
days such treatment difeharged, nothing being laid
to their charge ; a Widow Ransom and daughter,
both confined to their beds by sickness, were dragged
out of their house in a rainy day and their furniture
all thrown into the street at the mercy of the brutal
creation and more brutal Mr. Paterlon and his ad
herents.
Col. Butler's life has been threatened by a Capt.
Chriftyin command at Wyoming, and an attempt
made to take it; but timely information being given
Col. Butler, and he being armed and upon his guard ;
Mr. Chrifty retired from the Colonel's house at mid
night after having enquired for alanthorn. Those
find many other ads of inhumanity have been and
are daily committed upon the aforefaid inhabitants
fettled under the title of Connecticut. And at
tempts have been made to seduce women to libidin
ous practices with promises of a release of their hus
bands whe^ under confinement upon their compli
ance, &c.
If it be enough to be Bitched out of the jurisdic
tion of a large and beneficial part of a country by
our opponents poffefling themselves of a material
part of deeds and papers and secreting them till after
the tryal is through and they become of no use,
Why iliall the aged, the sick, the maimed, the widow
and the fatherlefs be tormented against law and in
subversion of all right ? Readers, do not your hearts
burn within you while the dismal story is telling ? Is
thisthe liberal government so much boasted ofby the
inhabitants of Pennsylvania, and so long contended
", %by the inhabitants of these United States ?
HAS just imported from London, a general
assortment of D rugs and Medicines, Chemical,
Galenical and patented ; Surgeon's Pocket Instru
ments, Crown and Country Lancets, Metal and
Marble Mortars, neat Copper Scales and Weights.
Also, a variety of BOOKS, elegantly bound,
among which are Bibles of all fixes ; a number of
the molt approved Authors on Divinity, Law, Pby
fic, Surgery, History, Philosophy, Geography,
Mathematics and Navigation School Books, No
vels, and a variety of small Books for Children-=
twelve inch Globes, four Sheet Maps of the World
and four Quarters on Canvass and Rollers; latest
Maps of North-America on ditto; Maps of the
United States with explanations agreeable to the
Peace of 1783 —which articles are now open and
ready for sale at a very moderate advance, by said
Smith, at his Store a few rods east of the Treasur
er's Office, Hartford Where also may be had,
Bell Bohea Tea, Coffee, Pepper, Allspice, Gin
ger, Rice, French Barley, Allum, Coperas, Oil of
Vitriol, Otter, excellent French and Carolina Indi
go, Verdigrife, Prussian Blue, Leaf Gold, Brim
itone, Madeira and Teneriffe Wines, Rum, French
Brandy, Geneva, &c. &c. &c.
All persons indebted to the late Company of
SMITH and COIT, are once more informed that
unless their accounts are speedily fettled the meat
rigorous measures must necessarily be taken to cob
left the debts due to said Company.
November 28, 1783.
Barnabas Deane, and Co.
HAVE FOR SALE,
6 by 8 and 7 by 9 Glass, by the
Box. Also, a quantity of the belt Seal Leather,
made from Spanish Hides.
Hartford, December I, 1783.
An appeal has been made to the Congress, of these
United States, by the aforefaid settlers, in whose
wisdom, justice and candour, they fafely rest their
cause, at the fame time, fenfible,tfey have to oppose
a fubtil and powerful adverfary,mpoverifhed by the
war and distressed as above, me^ce their appeal to the
justice of their countrymen ill vnofe cause so many,,
oftheir friends and neighbours ' have fallen: and to
the great Arbiter of heaven and earth they humbly
submit the event.
HUMANITY, ,
Drugs, Medicines & Booh.
SOLOMON SMITH,
TO BE SOLD,
By George Caldwell, and Co.
A few Rods South of the Court House,
COARSE and fine Bow Strings ; Beaver Linings
of different colours ; Castor Ditto, Felt Do.
Beaver Buttons; Castor Do. Felt Do. Silk Shap
ing; Chain Button Loop ; Silk Braid for Looping;
Worsted Looping Hat-Bands ; Velvet Binding for
Hats; hard and foft Brushes ; Coperas per Cwt.
or smaller quantity ; Logwood Do. Redwood Do.
AL S O,
A ConGgnment of WINES, by the Pipe or Quar
ter Calk ; German Steel per Cwt. or less quantity;
large and small Looking Glasses, &c.
Any kind Small or Shipping Furrs will be receiv
ed in payment for the above articles.
Hartford, November 29, 1783.
To be Sold, at the Store of
Hezekiah Merrill,
Hartford, (being a Consignment,) Viz.
FINE Bath Coatings, Checks, Velvets, Blankets,
Moreens, Irish Linens, Silesia do. German
Stripes, Flemish Sheeting, Russia Drillings brown
and white, Bed Bunts, Callicoes, Bohea Tea, Weft-
India and New-England Rum, Molasses, Geneva,
Madeira and Teneriffe Wines, French Brandy,
Knives and Forks, &c. &c.
N. B. I The above articles (by wholesale) will be
fold very cheap.
December 2, 1783.
TO BE SOLD,
About 100 Sticks of TIMBER,
suitable for Masts, Spars and Yards, for which
Welt-India Goods swill be taken in payment. En
quire of Samuel Hanmer, near Wethersfield
Cove. November 29, 1783.
Mr. Samuel Talcott, jun.
OFFERS his thanks to all those, who formerly thought so
kindly of his mercantile capacity, as to favour him with
their custom.
He desires all those, whose accompts with him are unsettled,
and whole debts to him still remain unpaid, to call on him, ad
just their accompts, and pay up their debts, if they conveniently
can—if not, they may acknowledge their debts, renew their ob
ligations, and take a rcafonable time to difeharge them;—-He
will endeavour to be at leisure to wait upon them, on Wednes
days, at the dwelling- house of Samuel Talcott, Lfy about two
miles weft of the Court House.
He earnestly requests those indebted to hira to make payment
---in part, at leait---as he is in want of money the fmallcft fa
vour will be acceptable.
Hartford, November :6, 17^.
TO B.E SOLD,
Cheap for Cash or Morris's Notes,
At Middletown, Upper-Houses, by the Sub
scriber.
AN elegant black English HOR^E, very large and ftrorg, very
gentle in a carriage and carries himfelf well. ,~
A second hand riding Chair and HarneT, with ah iron Ax!etr<&
A Windsor chair Sulkey, and llarnefs.
„A single Sleigh.
A neat mahogany Desk and Book-Case.
. A feet of mahogany Chairs with black hair bottoms,
two mahogany dining Tables.
Two and a half dozen Pi&ures, Landfeapes and Faces.
Ono pair sconce Loukirg-Glaffcb 18 by 24 inches, open gilt
frames.
A number of Books on various fubje&s.
A L S O,
A very valuable NEGRO MAN, who understands farming
business, has been used to ship carpenters work and coopering,
and ver, hardy at using any kind of tools. ALSO, bis wife,
who understands all kinds of house work.
AL S O.
A number of pieces of coaife and fine Cambricks and Lawns,
from 30?. to 61. per piece. And a bolt of Oznabrigs.
THOMAS HAZARD.
December 2, 1783.
TO BE SOLD,
By Joleph Lynde,
At his Apothecary's Shop next door South of the
Printing-Office in Hartford, the following Arti
cles, Viz^
Best Jamaica Spirits, Weft-India
and New-England Rum, French Brandy, Holland Geneva. Clove
Water, Madeira, Teneriffe, Port, Malaga and other Wines,
Molaffcs, Tea, Pepper, Allspice, Giugc, Cinnm&n, Mace,
Cloves, Nutmegs, Rice, Raisins, Sugar, Co b, J Ui k Bottles,
Copperas, Allum, Logwood, Madder, Otter, Paints of diffLent:
kinds, Spanish White, Spirits of Turpentine, Pewter,&c. &c. &c.
ALSO, a general Assortment of DRUGS and MEDICINES, at
the very lowest prices for Cash in hand.
December 2, 1783,
THIS is to once more notify the non-resident proprietors that
own land in the faciety of Berkhernfted, as here exp effed
by name, that a tax of fix pence on the pound was granted at
a legal meeting of the inhabitants offaid Berhbemfted fociev
December 16, 1783, on the lift of 982, to be laid out towa^
building a meeung-houfe for said fociery. As also at rhe fame
meeting two-pence on the pound on the fame lift was granted
for the use of Schooling in said society. And at an adjourned
meeting of the said focict, on the sth of May, i 783, 8 3 , two-pence
on the pound was granted on the fame lift, to defray the miniftc
rial charges within said focicty for the current year. And we
the Subscribers colledors do notify the heirs of John Roberts the
heirs of Daniel Phelps, Efthcr Robinson, the heirs of Job Ells
worth, Ebenezer Moore, Samuel Stoughton, Silvanus Griswold
John Cross, John Palmer, Stephen Sanford, Joseph Hubbard*
Isaac Shclden, Ebenezer Grant, Erastus Wolcott, Jer. miah Die!
gins, the heirs of Nathanael Mather, the hei;s of Ded^r Samuel
Mather, the heirs of Samuel Teuder, Abigail Tender, Ebenezer
Reed, Benjamin Newbury, Ebenezer Plumb, the heirs of Daniel
Grant, Luke Noble, John Griswold, Joel and Jonathan Palmer
the heirs of Samuel Barber, Levi Pinney, John Strong Noah
Case, John Loomis, Joseph Kingsbury, the heirs of Thomas
Griswold, jun. the heirs of Timothy Dwight, the heirs of Job
Drake, Amafa Loomis, Ebenezer Dibble, that unless they pay
their rates to us before the second Tuesday of February, 1,84
then on that da, so much of their lands will be fold, as will
their rates with incident charges, at Landlord Cafe's in said
Berkhemftcd as the law dire &s.
MOSES SHEPARD, ),„„
AARON ALLYN. )
Berkhemfted, November 24, 1783.
NOTICE is hereby given to all the ufofita^rieiors
°i"^"'^V Berkh cmftcd focicty, that the Honourable
General Aflembly of the State of Connedicut in their feflien lalt
January granted a tax of fix-pence per acre on all the lands ly
sng in said focicty of Berkhernfted for the purpose of building <
mecneg-houfe there; I the Subferiber eolledor do hereby noti
'' r ,!r s ,f John Robots, the heirs of Daniel Phelps. Efthcr
Rdbinfon, the heirs of Job Ellsworth, Ebenezer Moore, Samuel
Stoughton, SilvanusGrifwold, John Cross, John Palmer. Stephen
Sanford, Jaftph Hubbard.l(a ac Sheldcn, Samuel Hall Williams,
Ebenezer Grant, Erastus Wolcott, Jeremiah Diggins, the heiis
orN^thanae! Matoer,the heirs of Do&or Samuel Mather, the heirs
v lender, Abigail Teud'er, Ebenezer R<cd, Benjamin
Newbury, Enenczer Piumb, the heirs of Daniel Grant, Luke
Noole, John Griswold, Joel and Jonathan Primer, rhe heirs of
Samuel Barbe, Levi Pinney, John Strong, Noah Case, John
Loomis, Joseph Kingsbury, the'hcirs of Thon as Griswold, jun.
cue heirs of Timothy Dwight, the heirs of Job Drake, Amafa
Loomis, Ebenezer Dibble, that unless they pay their tax to me
before the second Tueiday of February, 1784, then on that day
10 much of their lands will be fold, as will pay their rates with
incident charges, at Landlord Cafe's in laid Bcrkhcmfted as fc
law dircQs.
„ .. „, JAMES AUSTIN, Colledor.
Berkhemfted, November 24, 1783.
STRAYED or STOLEN from the Subferiber on the 20th of
November lift, a dark brown HORSE, about 1 5 hands high,
natural pacer but trots some, low carriaged,large hoofs. Who
ever will take up said Hofc and return him to the Subferiber
shall be generoufl, rewarded, by
, TIMOTHY BURR.
Hartford, December 1, 1783,
STRAYED from the Subferiber, lift spring, a sorrel stallion
COLT, 3 years old, his mane and tail lighter colour than his
body, natural trotter, about 12 or 13 hands high. Whoever
will take up said stray and return him to the owner, shall have
a generous reward and charges paid, by
ELISHA DODD.
Hartford, November 27, 1783.
WE the Subferibers being appointed Commifliorers, by the
Hon. Court of Probate for the diftrift of Sir fbury. to ex
amine the claims of the creditors to the estate of PHILIP LILLEY,
late of Simfbuy, deceased, represented infolvc^t; do hereby
give notice that we shall attend said business ar the dwelling
houfe of Charles Seward in said Simfbury on the firft Thursdays
of December, January and February rex', from one o'clock to
hx in the afternoon. No accompts will be allowed unless prop
crly aueßcd. ' '
JONATHAN PETTIBONE, ) Commif
, „ CHARLES SEWARD. ) fibers.
Simfbury, November 19, 1783.
Wanted, a few tan'd Sheep Skins.
Enquire of the Printers.