The Kentucky gazette (Lexington [Ky.]), 1790-05-10 00:00:00

KENTUCKY GAZETTE
MONDAY, MAY 10, 1790.
LEXINGTON: Printed by JOHN BRADFORD at his Office at the corner of Main and Cross Streets where Subscriptions and advertisements are thankfully received, and PRINTING in its different branches done with Care and Expedition
FOUR DOLLARS REWARD
Strayed from the subscriber on Tuesday the twenty-seventh of April, a bright bay mare, four years old, about fourteen hands high, no brand recollected, three white feet, long mane and tail, long back and in low order.
Also a bright bay gelding three years old, well grown, branded on the shoulder A or D I believe two white feet, both shew the blood and in low order; whoever delivers them in Lexington shall have the above reward.
JAMES WILKINSON.
N. B. The gelding has run between Colo M. Shalls office and Frankfort, the mare at capt B. Addis in Madison county.
WANT
A quantity of Tobacco, Hemp, Hemp seed Flour, Whear, Bacon, Corn, Beans & Furs of all kinds, for which Goods will be given at Cash price by
PETER JANUARY & SON March 18, 1790.
ALSO FOR SALE, TWO HORSES, ON MAIN STREET, IN THE TOWN OF LEXINGTON.
CHARLES WHITE, COPPER-SMITH. Late of NEW YORK.
RESPECTFULLY informs the Public that he intends carrying on the Copper Smith's business at this place, in all its various branches, (to wit) Stills, Brew and Die kettles &c. Also, casts all kind of brass work for mills, makes and repairs all kind of brass and tin work, likewise repairs all kinds of locks and keys. He buys all kinds of old copper, brass, pewter and lead. — Those who please to favor him with their custom shall have their work done in the best manner and on the shortest notice.
Lexington, Dec. 8, 1789.
HEMP
Wanted a quantity of hemp in a short time for which twenty-five shillings per hundred will be given if delivered at Frankfort, or twenty-three shillings in Lexington, payment will be made in merchandise at the lowest Cash price.
ROBERT BARR.
Lexington March 4 1790.
Those indebted to the Printer hereof, are requested to pay up their respective balances; and I do hereby assure all those who have failed to pay for the first volume, that I shall take such steps shortly (if this fails) as will render it unnecessary to request them by advertisement any more.
Mr. Hitt is hereby authorised to receive any money due the Office, and receipt for the same.
TO BE SOLD
To the highest bidder on Monday the 20th day of May next, for ready Cash, a LOT of ground in the town of Lexington, containing 4 poles on Main Street and 13 poles back, being part of the public square, directed by an act of the Assembly of Virginia, for the purpose of erecting thereon, a house of Divine public Worship. — No person need expect to become a purchaser without being legally authorised by the denomination to which he belongs. — Further particulars will be made known at the time and place of sale.
By Order of the Trustees, April 5 1790. Robert Parker Clerk.
NOTICE
IS hereby given, that I intend to petition the next Assembly to confirm a title to me in the lands that were escheated from Robert McKenzie, in the district of Kentucky, for the use of a public school.
W. M'KENZIE.
PEYTON SHORT & CO
Have for sale at their store in Lexington, a considerable assortment of
DRY goods, hard ware and groceries, which they will sell on reasonable terms for cash, tobacco, corn, wheat, rye, pork, beef, bacon, hemp, flour, furs of every kind, tar, pitch and turpentine, &c &c &c.
They flatter themselves they have given general satisfaction to those who have already favoured them with their custom, for it has been their wish and shall be their study, although they receive every species of country produce, to sell on as moderate advance upon the Philadelphia cost, as any Merchant in the district.
March 6, 1790
Excellent Wine Vinegar for sale by P. S. & CO.
THE Clerks of the several county courts in this district are hereby notified to make themselves acquainted with the fees allowed them by law for their several services, and keep a list of the same duly published in their court houses and offices — otherwise they may expect to be dealt with as the law in that case made and provided directs.
A CITIZEN.
NOTICE
IS hereby given, that I intend to petition the next Assembly, to confirm a title to me, in a Preemption between the upper Blue Licks and Lime-flora.
JAMES SMITH.
CORNELIUS BEATTY & CO Have opened a new Store in Lexington, where they have a very general assortment of
DRY goods and groceries suitable to the season which they will sell on the lowest terms for cash, bees-wax bear-skins, deer skins or furs.
FERGUSONS
GRAY WANTED
Rising four years old, stands at the subscribers on Hickman, about seven miles from Lexington, and will be let to mares at twenty shillings the season in cash or the following articles at cash price, to be delivered at the subscriber's house by the twenty-fifth of December next, viz: corn, wheat, rye, cattle, sheep, pork, beef, salt, hemp and linen.
Gray was got by the noted horse Symes Wild Air, his dam by Col. Skepwiths horse Comus out of a well bred mare. — I have pasturage for about twenty mares, if any should chuse to tend who live at a distance, but will not be answerable for accidents or escapes.
BRYANT FERGUSON.
April 7, 1790.
SIX
DOLLARS REWARD
Strayed from the subscribers at Colo John Holders, the twentieth of February last, a dark bay horse, eight years old, fourteen hands and a half high, a black mane and tail, some white spots on his back, a natural trotter; whoever delivers said horse to the owners in Lexington shall have the above reward by
GOUDY & WILLIAMS. Lexington, April 16, 1790.
TO BE RENTED. HOUSE room, sufficient for several families, with some cleared lands:
ALSO FOR SALE, SEVERAL small tracts of land in the settlement near my mill, where settlers may be furnished with corn by the subscriber.
ELIJAH CRAIG.
April 24, 1790.
A large company will meet at the Crab Orchard the 25th day of May, in order to start early the next morning through the Wilderness, and are requested that every man will come well armed.
NOTICE
I hereby forewarn all persons from crediting or paying money to Andrew Steigers on my account, as the partnership between him and me is dissolved.
JOHN SMITH.
April 21, 1790.
WANTED
To engage Stone Masons, Carpenters, Quarriers, Wood cutters and other labourers, to work at the Slate-creek Iron-Works. — The subscriber will attend at Lexington during the May Court to receive proposals and make contracts with any person that may offer.
CHRISTOPHER GREENUP.
April 19, 1790.
NOTICE
THERE is in my possession a stray mare about 13 1/2 hands high, a dark brown, blaze in her face, a natural trotter, branded on the near buttock had on about a five shilling bell marked on the staple M. She was brought in from the head of Slate creek.
Little Mountain JOHN JUDEY. Head of H. creek.
NOTICE
THERE is in my possion, 2 young mares that are strays and brought from the Wilderness; one an iron gray about 13 hands high, 2 years old; the other a bright bay the same age about 14 hands and a half high, neither of them docked or branded, nor any flesh marks, both natural trotters. Bourbon county 6 miles east of S-roads.)
Levi Lockhart. April 29, 1790.
TAKEN up by the subscriber near Johnsons mill, a chestnut coloured horse white mane and tail, a small snip on his nose some saddle spots Trot and paces 14 hands and a half high, 4 years old, a sq. bell on with a leather collar; Appraised to £3.
JOHN SCOT.
Dec. 1 1789.
TAKEN up by the subscriber a dark bay mare, 13 hands high, 9 years old, a natural trotter, has on a small bell with a single strop and buckle, a large star and snip, white spots under the mane, the left hind foot white, short switch tail, branded on the near buttock but not legible; Appraised to £7.
RICHARD GRAY.
January 26, 1790
All kinds of blank books for Merchants, Clerks, &c. made and ruled to any pattern, Also old books new bound, on reasonable terms, at this office.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES MONDAY, January 18.
MR. Sinnickson from New Jersey, and M. Stone from Maryland, appeared and took their seats. A petition of James Hubbs, of the state of New Jersey mariner, was presented to the House and read, praying relief from a prosecution commenced against him at the suit of the United States, for neglecting to deliver manifest of goods...
TUESDAY, January 19. Several petitions from persons praying compensation for losses sustained during the late war, were read and ordered to lie on the table. The committee to whom had been referred the part of the President's message which respected the enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, reported the form of a bill, viz that marshals should be appointed to certain districts...
circumstances may render most conducive to the public good: And to this end, that the compensations to be made to the persons who may be employed, should, according to the nature of their appointments be designed by law, and a competent fund designated for defraying the expenses incident to the conduct of our foreign affairs.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE
PARIS, Nov. 17. Negro deputies in the National Assembly. In the island of St. Domingo are thirty thousand free people, viz. six thousand whites, and twenty four thousand people of colour, most of which are negroes. The former, in the beginning of the new constitution, called a meeting in the island, and thinking it but just that they should be represented, sent their deputies to Paris...
find they stand in no danger of losing their seats at a future time. This circumstance I have been acquainted with for some days, but was additionally informed last night by Mors de la Fayette, that it was one of the articles of the deputation to appoint him commander in chief of the twenty four thousand people of colour, which command he has accepted.
LONDON, December 31.
MANIFESTO of the PATRIOTS in Austrian Flanders. The people of Brabant, through the organ of the Ecclesiastical State, and of third order of the three chief cities, in conjunction with many members of the Noblesse. To all those who shall see or hear read these presents, Health. Finding our selves under the hard necessity of declaring the Emperor Joseph II Duke of Lorrain, Barbant and Lemberg, to have forfeited his right of sovereignty and dominion over the the said countries, it is our indispensable duty to exhort and recommend to all in general, and to every one in particular to concur in the common safety of their country...
POETS CORNER THE SQUANDERER
A Spendthrift and a fool Tom Rake Whose last green acre lay at stake; Attacks a man of modest note, With - "sir, your father had this coat."
AN ECDO TE
A YOUNG man being lately brought before the court of Over and Te-mine, to be discharged, as the witnesses did not appear to support a criminal prosecution against him, being asked by the chief Justice, - If we let you go, will you grow honest, and quit the state? He answered that he would quit the state - but will you grow honest? repeated the Judge - I dont know - I'll try, rejoined the prisoner.
A MILITARY Land warrant issued to William Sanders, and assigned to John Strode, taken by the Indians, and lodged with me; likewise the following certificates, one granted to Robert Moffett for his services in the militia, as a lieutenant under Capt. Moore, one granted to William Butler, one to Samuel Richov, one to James Mayfield, and one to Richard Cavil, for their services in the Militia under Capt. Moore: he owner, or owners and desired to apply for the same to Richard C Anderson.
FOUR DOLLARS REWARD
WHEREAS my shop in the county town of Bourbon was broke open last night, and the following articles taken out: viz. a new rifle gun 3 feet 11 inches in the barrel, has no moulds wipers nor ramrod, takes about 60 balls to the pound, the steel of the lock bears hard on the barrel, also a new unfinished butcher knife with hilt of an old sword for the handle, likewise an old silver brooch buckle, and old broken silver. Whoever takes up the thief and secures him so that he be brought to justice shall have the above reward, or two Dollars for the gun. Isaac Orchard. May 8, 1790.
I hereby forewarn all persons from taking an assignment of a note given by me to Christopher Bryan for fifteen pounds, bearing date either the last of April or the first of May one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine, as I have discharged the same. Benjamin Archer. May 3, 1790.
A large Company will start from the Crab Orchard, the 1st day of June, early in the morning, thro' the Wilderness.
TAKEN up by the subscriber living at the big pond, a sorrel mare with a blaze face, 13 hands and a half high 4 years old, a white spot on the right shoulder; Appraised to £4-10. ISAAC CALDWELL, Oct. 1, 1790.
BLANKS OF ALL KINDS MAY BE HAD AT THIS OFFICE.