The Kentucky gazette (Lexington [Ky.]), 1798-08-08 00:00:00

THE CRISIS.—No. I.
THE present period of American affairs, may very justly be considered, as the most dangerous and important that we have seen, since the revolution. We fondly entertained the hope, that an emancipation from the tyranny of Great Britain, had laid the foundation for the complete enjoyment of uninterrupted happiness, and put an end to the evils attendant on foreign connexions. Subsequent to that great and glorious struggle for those rights which God had given to us, as a portion of the human race, we found ourselves in the possession of natural and political advantages, which promised to raise the American character to the summit of national grandeur. A peculiar mildness in the disposition of our citizens, added to the increasing state of knowledge and improvements, calculated our country to enjoy the liberty which it had acquired, and to afford us the pleasing hope, that past experience would teach us to unite a becoming jealousy of our rights, with that moderation and wisdom, which might prevent the dangers of internal faction, and foreign encroachment—But, alas! these delightful prospects have been shut out from our view, and instead of enjoying the meridian of happiness, which we were led to calculate as the reward of our successes, and the result of our situation, we behold our political hemisphere, surrounded with clouds, and live to anticipate the disasters of an approaching storm—Indeed, it has not only begun to rage at a distance, attended with the most serious afflictions to our citizens on the ocean, but its violence has pervaded the American continent, and given birth to a diffusion of sentiment on the subject of our political operations, which threatens our existence as an independent and powerful nation.
An enquiry into the causes of these effects, which make the most alarming crisis in our affairs, becomes the dignity and duty of a free man; who ought not only to feel himself highly interested in recalling his fleeting happiness, but clothed with legislative powers, forming plans for the protection of the rights of his fellow citizens and of the generations which are to come. It is to this impartiality, and expanded philanthropy, that we are now to appeal, for a restoration of our former happiness, at a period when our union is threatened with dissolution, our government with subversion and our continent, perhaps, with the fire-brands of foreign hostility. In the days of our greater security, the spirit of party, might perhaps have been less criminal; but now that our political salvation depends upon a candid consideration of what our real duty & interest should lead us to, it would be unpardonable to be governed by bitter motives upon so important a question, or by any other principles than what are suggested by conscience.
The remarks which will be exhibited in the course of this enquiry, are addressed more particularly to the citizens of Kentucky, than to the inhabitants of any other state; first, because I conceive that the present democratical spirit which almost generally pervades the commonwealth, in opposition to government, to be replete with the most dangerous consequences to its future happiness; and, secondly, because I conceive that at this particular crisis, such opposition, is not only dangerous to the union at large, but can subserve no beneficial or favorable end, whatever.
A just estimate of our rights as a nation, the blessings of internal peace, and the advantages of national dignity and independence, must be thrown into the scale, against an invasion of those rights, the horrors of a continental war, and a shameful subservience to the will and influence of foreign nations.—In this calculation, we are to look behind us and take a retrospective view of the blessings from which we are rapidly receding, occasioned by our own conduct, and to look before us towards the future prospects of our country, in order to form a determination, whether we are to permit them to lower with the fate of Venice and Switzerland, or to regain the former splendour which attracted our own, and the admiration of the world.—In forming this determination, it requires no arguments to shew, which situation the mind will choose to adopt.—The first exhibits a melancholy instance of national debasement, the loss of independence and the loss of happiness; and the other of every thing that is desirable, and truly great and exalted. But in choosing to regain our former enviable station as a free and happy people, infinite wisdom, and much deliberation becomes absolutely necessary.—Upon the adoption of measures, our fate will intirely depend; nor will it be hazarding an improper opinion, when I say that the United States of America, precariously situated as they are at present, have no advantages to expect, in her progress to happiness, by opposing the measures of government, at this time, for what has been done, or from rejecting those proceedings with an inflammatory violence, neither recommended by the constitution, by natural law, or justifiable on the score of policy.—Particular circumstances, give origin to particular measures in the concerns of individual life, as well as in the affairs of a nation.—If errors in-
PHOCION.
Laws of the United States.
An Act, to declare the treaties heretofore concluded with France, no longer obligatory on the United States.
WHEREAS the treaties concluded between the United States and France, have been repeatedly violated on the part of the French government; and the just claims of the United States for reparation of the injuries so committed have been refused, and their attempts to negotiate an amicable adjustment of all complaints between the two nations, have been repelled with indignity; and whereas, under unthority of the French government, there is yet pursued against the United States, a system of predatory violence, infracting the said treaties, and hostile to the rights of a free and independent nation. Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United States, of America, in congress assembled, That the United States are of right freed and exonerated from the stipulations of the treaties, and of the Consular convention, heretofore concluded between the United States and France; and the same shall not henceforth be regarded as legally obligatory on the government or citizens of the United States.
Approved July, 7, 1798. JOHN ADAMS, President of the United States.
An Act in addition to the act entitled "An act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States."
BE it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the the United States of America, in congress assembled, That if any person shall unlawfully combine or conspire together with intent to oppose any measure or measures, of the government of the United States, which are or shall be directed by proper authority, or to impede the operation of any law of the United States, or to intimidate or prevent any person holding a place or office in or under the government of the United States, from undertaking, performing or executing his trust or duty; and if any person or persons, as aforesaid, shall counsel, advise or attempt to procure any insurrection, riot, unlawful assembly or combination, whether such conspiracy, threatening, counsel advice, or attempt shall have the proposed effect or not, he or they shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and on conviction, before any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, and by imprisonment during a term not less than six months nor exceeding five years, and further, at the discretion of the court, may be holden to find sureties for his good behaviour, in such sum & for such time, as the said court may direct.
sediously creep into the administration of a government, a wise people will calculate the time and the existing situation of their affairs, before they attempt to abrogate principles which might answer beneficial purposes at one period, and be felt as real evils at another.—The period has not yet arrived, when the doctrine of resistance becomes necessary in its application, to prevent the loss of our liberties, and to repel the encroachments of internal tyranny.—A government must have made considerable advances towards despotic power, before a people can, justly, consistent with their duty, lay aside the milder modes of seeking redress, for the assumption of those more violent and immediately effective.—When this period arrives, it is then a duty to resist; but until our affairs become ripe, for so lamentable an alternative, it is consistent with sound policy, to complain with caution, and to remonstrate with moderation.
§ 3. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall be prosecuted under this act, for the writing or publishing any libel as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the defendant, upon the trial of the cause, to give in evidence in his defence, the truth of the matter contained in the publication charged as a libel. And the jury who shall try the cause, shall have a right to determine the law and the fact, under the direction of the court, as in other cases.
§ 4. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue and be in force until the third day of March one thousand eight hundred and one, and no longer: Provided, that the expiration of the act shall not prevent or defeat the prosecution and punishment of any offence against the law, during the time it shall be in force.
Approved July 14th, 1798.
TO BE SOLD, A Negro Woman,
WHO has been used to house work.—enquire of the Printer. Lexington August 6th, 1798.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber will attend on Saturday the 8th of September next, with the commissioners appointed by the court of Montgomery county, at a spring in said county, known by the name of Corks spring, to receive and perpetuate testimony respecting Andrew Linn's improvement, and to do such other acts as may be deemed necessary in regard to his claim.
JOHN HAWKINS, agent for the heirs of Andrew Linn. August 6th, 1798.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living in Clarke county, on Lul-bulgrud, a bay horse, four years old, no brand, about thirteen hands and a half high, some white on the near hind foot, appraised to 101. 10s. WILLIAM FRAZER. March, 26th, 1798.
TAKEN up at the plantation of the subscriber, living on the Sycamore fork of Slate creek, Montgomery county, a sorrel horse, about nine years old, about fourteen hands high, blaze face, branded on the near buttock RB, and on the off buttock IB, posted, and appraised to 121. WM. HANKS. April 13, 1798.
C. FREEMAN, PHYSICIAN & SURGEON,
Late of the Indian towns, from the North-Western Territory of the United States, now at Lexington in Kentucky.
RESPECTFULLY informs the public, that he has been regularly bred to the art of PHYSIC and SURGERY, studied three, and an half years with doctor Laurence, V. D. Veer, an eminent practitioner, and late president of the medical society of the state of New-Jersey; attended doctor William Shippen's lectures on anatomy, surgery and midwifery, in the city of Philadelphia—received a license to practice as a physician and surgeon throughout the state of New-Jersey, 13th of August, 1785, from the honorable David Brearly and Isaac Smith, two of the justices of the supreme court of the state of New-Jersey, agreeable to an act passed 25th November, 1783, by the council and general assembly of that state, for regulating the practice of physic and surgery.
Since which time, he has travelled through twenty-two different tribes of Indians, among whom he has resided nearly four years, and made it his constant study to investigate and find out the virtues of all kinds of herbs, roots, plants and simples, used by them in the curing of diseases; by which means he has made a number of valuable discoveries in the healing art, and now (with the blessing of God) cures and gives relief in most diseases incident to the human body—viz. Fevers, inflammations, eruptions, hemorrhages, fluxes, fits, cramps, convulsions, head-aches, fore-eyes, bleeding at the nose, colds, coughs, pain in the breast, spitting of blood, pains in the stomach, indigestion, night sweats, inward debilities, low spirits, vapours in men, hysterics in women, difficulty of making water, bloody urine, costiveness and rheumatism, effectually destroys worms, cures sixt and wandering pains arising in different parts of the body, the effects of the improper use of mercury, green wounds, old sores, ulcers, burns, scalds, cankers, scald-head in children, piles and fistulas, the whites in women, and all feminal weakneses in both sexes; the bite of the viper, rattle snake, and all venomous bites effectually cured.
The many cures performed within four years past, which will fully appear (to any gentleman who will please to call upon him, being too lengthy for this paper) by papers and vouchers of cures performed, now in his hands, properly attested, and whose authenticity cannot be denied, matters himself is sufficient to convince the public that he has been successful in curing diseases, and that this is not intended as an imposition upon mankind.
TO BE SOLD TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER.
ON the first day of the next September court, at the court-house of Madison county, a number of lots in the town of Richmond, established adjoining the place fixed on for the permanent seat of justice for said county. The terms will be made known on the day of sale, by the TRUSTEES of said town. Richmond, Madison, 12 July, 1798.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living in Montgomery county, on the waters of Flat creek, one bay mare, about 13 hands 2 inches high, branded on the near shoulder thus  E, she has a small star in her forehead, some small white spots on each side of her back, about nine years old this spring, had a small bell on, when she was taken up, appraised to 131. JOEL THOMAS. June 15, 1798.

LETTER From JOHN FOWLER, Esq. Member of Congress, to his Constituents.
PHILADELPHIA, July 20, 1798. Fellow Citizens:
AT a period when America appears to be pregnant with an eventful change; and the public mind is undergoing a mighty revolution; it will not be deemed improper in me, as your representative, to attempt to give you a sketch of the measures which have been taken in congress during its late long and interesting session. It has ever been the characteristic of freemen to bear oppression, from their agents, when heaped by a delicate hand, and in gradual progression; they always have suffered their liberties to be frittered away, one by one, with a countenance of calmness and tranquility, whilst the usurping power condescends to cajole them with specious pretences. America can never lose her liberty from the broad and open assaults of tyranny: to these she has always manifested an intrepid superiority; but her danger is to be apprehended from insidious, designing and artful men, who secretly endeavor to undermine the sacred foundation of our constitution. The extraordinary measures proposed from time to time, to congress, since the call of the extraordinary session, could not have been consummated in one day; if every thing dear and sacred to America had been wrested from her by one fell swoop, she would have arisen, and with an imposing attitude have resumed her rights and avenged the injury; but the changes which have been made have been gradually effected; changes not only in respect to our foreign political relations but in the fundamental principles of our constitution.
To you, fellow citizens, who ordained and established the constitution of the United States as well as the constitution of Kentucky, it may be unnecessary to dwell on a minute description of those instruments; but it may not be deemed intrusive to repeat the general principle upon which all the constitutions in the United States are founded: In the declaration of independence it is assumed as a maxim "that government is instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; and whenever any form of government becomes destructive of those ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it." The same idea is emphatically expressed in the present constitution: "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, &c. do ordain and establish this constitution;" from hence it is demonstrated that the supreme power in America resides in the people as the fountain of government, and the people do not part with it to any government whatever. But they delegate it in such proportions to such bodies on such terms and under such limitations as they think proper. From a little attention to the constitution of the United States, it is discovered that a specified proportion of power is vested in congress on certain terms and under certain limitations; and the sweeping clause, as it has been usually denominated, gives no more, nor no other powers beyond the particular enumeration; for when it is said that congress "shall have power to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper," those words are limited and defined by the following, "for carrying into execution the foregoing powers" - this is saying no more than the powers we have already particularly given, shall be effectually carried into execution: but when the powers of a constitution are exercised by the public agents in detailing the minutiae or framing the law, it necessarily happens, that a number of incidental powers come into view, and the legislature presumes upon its discretion to make the proper apportionment by construction. This has happened in several instances whilst I have had the honor of representing you on the floor of the house of representatives, and occasioned a considerable diversity of opinion. Some members in congress seem to disregard the great and fundamental principal laid down in the constitution, namely, the division of the legislative, executive and judicial departments; on all occasions where a constructive power is to be vested, they invariably vote in favour of adding such power to the executive branch; lessening thereby the check which the
people intended to reserve as near to themselves as they conveniently could, that is, the check of their immediate representatives. This departure from the most important principle in the constitution has excited in my mind considerable apprehension; and I have thought it my duty to call your attention to the subject, in hopes you will co-operate in preventing the effect of such a fatal change in system.
The inconsistent distribution of constructive powers has been contended for, and effected under a variety of pretences: the foreign intercourse bill at this session, drew on a lengthy discussion; and in contradiction to former decisions, it was maintained by the advocates of executive power, that wherever the president authorized a negotiation, or made a treaty, your immediate representatives were not to consider, whether an appropriation for carrying on the first, or executing the last, was politic or not; but that the house were bound in conscience to vote the money, be the amount what it might; it was said to be a moral duty incumbent upon every member; notwithstanding the constitution expressly guards the treasury from executive drafts, in declaring that no money shall be drawn from it, but in consequence of appropriations to be made by law; and no appropriation to be made by law, but what the house of representatives shall judge and decide to be useful and proper: this is one among a number instances which have occurred during the late session. Another construction was given, to the authority declared in the constitution, that congress shall have the power of raising armies; it had always been the practice of congress to order a specific army to be raised at a fixed period, it is now left to the president to raise such army or not, as his discretion dictates. The law concerning aliens attempts to give the president a power which it never was supposed was vested in the general government by the constitution; but on the contrary it is specially excepted against and reserved to the states, by the 9th section of the first article. The bill directing the prosecution and punishment of those who shall attempt to bring your executive functionary, or your legislative agents, into contempt or derision, either by writing, uttering or publishing, is a weapon of tremendous force in the hands of an executive administration! It must inspire terror in the breasts of some, and give birth to that system of espionage, which loosens all the moral ties of society; its dreadful effects can only be averted by the firmness and patriotism of the citizens throughout the Union.
Our numerous schemes of revenue, the extension of our political intercourse with foreign nations, the increase of our standing army, the appointments to be made among the volunteers, and the establishment of a navy, has given to the executive administration a patronage that may ultimately disturb the harmony of the Union. But when you add to this the vast sums of money vested in the disposal of the president; and consider the great loans he is authorised to make; the numerous contracts for supplies for an army of 32,000 men, with 100,500 volunteers, 80,000 militia, and 30 or 40 armed ships, which will necessarily offer to many persons the means of advantageous speculation: I think I am warranted in believing that the most unsuspicious will see cause to exert all their watchfulness over the executive administration with a high degree of jealousy. Less power than the president is now possessed of, has given to ambitious commanders, the power of tyrannizing over their fellow citizens, and establishing in their families an hereditary supremacy. Power without control is not to be trusted: virtue when suffered to act at pleasure becomes vice - vest to-day the wisest, the justest man with unlimited authority, and to-morrow he becomes the cruel, arbitrary oppressor. - If the palladium of our constitution has been openly and daringly violated by one branch of your government, what security can you have that other branches will be more restrained.
You are asked to have confidence in the executive administration. In other countries, confidence has proved the source of injury and the incentive to guilt. Behind this barrier the traitor finds security against the attacks of the betrayed: therefore prudence would direct that you give your confidence with caution.
With respect to our controversy with France I shall briefly remark, that, till the arrival of the dispatches from our envoys at Paris, giving an account of a conversation of unauthorised agents; the president had uniformly declared an ardent desire to restore the two republics to the state of amity which existed previous to the British treaty; but we find he has been so unfortunate in his manner of expressing this idea, that he has not been believed by the executive directory: they appear to have had a continual jealousy of our executive administration ever since they found that Mr. Jay was sent to London to negotiate a commercial treaty while they were officially informed by the proper authority that it was merely for the purpose of "obtaining immediate compensation for our plundered property and restitution of the posts," what their intentions are now, may I apprehend, be in some degree discovered by the invitation of Mr. Talleyrand to Mr. Gerry, our remaining envoy, to resume the business of negotiation and adjust the differences of the two nations. If Mr. Gerry does not find himself precluded by his own reply, or some other contingency, I should be inclined to suspect that a treaty may be formed on the honorable basis of his instructions, a copy of which was laid before congress last April.
I shall conclude this letter with treating you to pay a serious regard to the emergencies of the times, and not to be wanting to yourselves in an hour of extreme danger: if there is danger to your constitution or your government it may be corrected by yourselves; there is, therefore, a remedy for every distemper, but, for a people wanting to themselves there is no remedy, and from their power there is no appeal. And to you fellow citizens, I, as your agent appointed to express your will in the national council, address myself, an alk, if not from the propriety of my decisions on the several questions which have been before congress, yet from the purity of my motives, whether I have executed my trust to your satisfaction. If I meet with your approbation, as I have the approbation of my own conscience, I shall conceive this tour of duty to have been the happiest circumstance of my life.
With respect, I am
your most obedient,
JOHN FOWLER.
* Instead of immediate restitution the American merchants have not received as much as the interest, on the value of the spoliations committed previous to the treaty to say nothing of their daily depredations.
SENATE of the UNITED STATES.
July 18, 1798.
Gentlemen of the Senate, Believing that the letter received this morning from general Washington will give high satisfaction to the senate, I transmit them a copy of it, and congratulate them and the public on this great event, the general's acceptance of his appointment as lieutenant-general and commander in chief of the army.
JOHN ADAMS.
UNITED STATES, July 17, 1798,
Mount Vernon, 13th July, 1798.
DEAR SIR,
I had the honor on the evening of the 11th inst, to receive from the hand of the secretary of war, your favor of the 7th, announcing that you had, with the advice and consent of the senate, appointed me "lieutenant-general and commander in chief of all the armies raised or to be raised for the service of the United States."
I cannot express how greatly affected I am at this new proof of public confidence, and the highly flattering manner in which you have been pleased to make the communication; at the same time I must not conceal from you my earnest wish, that the choice had fallen upon a man less declined in years, and better qualified to encounter the usual vicissitudes of war.
You know, Sir, what calculation I had made relative to the probable course of events, on my retiring from office and the determination I had consoled myself with, of closing the remainder of my days in my present peaceful abode; you will therefore be at no loss to conceive and appreciate the sensations I must have experienced, to bring my mind to any conclusion that should pledge me, at so late a period of life, to leave scenes I sincerely love, to enter upon the boundless field of public action, incessant trouble, and high responsibility.
It was not possible for me to remain ignorant of, or indifferent to, recent transactions. The conduct of the directory of France, towards our country; their insidious hostility to its government; their various practices to withdraw the affections of the people from it; the evident tendency of their acts and those of their agents to countenance and invigorate opposition; their disregard of solemn treaties and the laws of nations; their war upon our defenceless commerce; their treatment of our ministers of peace; and their demands amounting to tribute; could not fail to excite in me corresponding sentiments with those my countrymen have so generally expressed in their affectionate addresses to you. Believe me, Sir, no one can more cordially approve of the wise and prudent measures of your administration. They ought to inspire universal confidence, and will, no doubt, combined with the state of things, call from congress such laws and means as will enable you to meet the force and extent of the crisis.
Satisfied, therefore, that you have sincerely wished and endeavored to avert war, and exhausted, to the last drop, the cup of reconciliation, we can with pure hearts appeal to Heaven for the justice of our cause; and may confidently trust the final result to that kind providence who has heretofore, and so often, signally favored the people of these United States.
Thinking in this manner, and feeling how incumbent it is upon every person, of every description, to contribute at all times to his country's welfare, and especially in a moment like the present, when every thing we hold dear and sacred is so seriously threatened, I have finally determined to accept the commission of Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States; with the reserve only, that I shall not be called into the field until the army is in a situation to require my presence, or it becomes indispensable by the urgency of circumstances.
In making this reservation, I beg it to be understood, that I do not mean to withhold any assistance to arrange and organize the army, which you may think I can afford. I take the liberty also to mention, that I must decline having my acceptance considered as drawing after it any immediate charge upon the public; or that I can receive any emoluments annexed to the appointment before entering into a situation to incur expence.
The secretary of war being anxious to return to the seat of government, I have detained him no longer than was necessary to a full communication upon the several points he had in charge.
With very great respect and consideration, I have the honor to be, Dear Sir,
Your most obedient humble servant, *Go. WASHINGTON.
JOHN ADAMS, President of the United States.
TRENTON, July 17.
The president, by a proclamation, dated the 13th instant has revoked the exequaturs of the Consuls of the French republic here, viz of citizens Letombe, Rozier, Arcambal and Mozard.
PHILADELPHIA, July 20.
APPOINTMENTS - BY AUTHORITY. Alexander Hamilton, of New-York, to be inspector general of the army, with the rank of major general.
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, of S. Carolina, to be a major general.
Henry Knox, of Massachusetts, to be a major general.
Henry Lee, of Virginia, to be a major general of the provisional army.
Edward Hand, of Pennsylvania, to be a major general of the provisional army.
John Brooks, of Massachusetts, to be a brigadier general.
William Washington, of South Carolina, to be a brigadier general.
Jonathan Dayton, of New Jersey, to be a brigadier general.
Ebenezer Huntington, of Connecticut, to be a brigadier general of the provisional army.
Anthony Walton White, of New Jersey, to be a brigadier general of the provisional army.
William Richison Davie, of North Carolina, to be a brigadier general of the provisional army.
John Sevier, of Tennessee, to be a brigadier general of the provisional army.
James Craik, of Virginia, to be physician general of the army.
Daniel M c Neil, of Massachusetts,

and Thomas Williams of Virginia, to be captains in the navy.
Henry Grant, of South Carolina, consul for the port of Leith, in Scotland.
John Spence West, marshal for the North Carolina district.
KNOXVILLE, July 17.
We learn by capt. Colby who lately descended the river Tennessee to the Ohio, and returned to this place a few days past, by way of Smithland and the Cumberland settlements, that a detachment of the troops of the United States commanded by capt. Pike, have taken possession of a bluff upon the south bank of the first mentioned river about six miles from its junction with the latter, and is there, about to erect fortifications apparently for a permanent post.
This Bluff is from eight to ten miles within the Indian boundary; that is, that distance upon the lands claimed by the Indians. Capt. Colby adds, that while he was at Smithland, 150 Indians appeared there blacked, and expressed their extreme disapprobation of capt. Pike's intrusion upon their lands. Thus it appears that the Indians can no more comprehend than the citizens, by what authority the troops of the United States take possession of their lands, and establish military posts at will, without their consent first obtained.
The treaty which had commenced at Tellico, between the commissioners on the part of the United States and the Cherokee Indians, is broke up for the present. Tho' both parties have agreed to meet again at the same place on the third day of September next, for further negotiations.
Lexington, August 8.
On the sixteenth of July, at four o'clock, Congress brought the longest and most important session to a close, which has been held under the present government; during which they passed eighty-four acts.
Extract of a Letter from a gentleman at Fort Massac, dated July 11, 1798.
"A gentleman has just arrived from Natchez, who informs that there is a strong party there in favor of the French and Spanish governments—that all the talks held with the Indians are in the name of the French—that the presents in the last few months to them have been immense, and that a large part of the Chastaw nation is decidedly in their favor, and are ready to take up arms against us; in consequence of which the commandant of Natchez has requested a reinforcement. The Indian nations to the south are full of Spanish and French emissaries. Zachariah Cox is eighteen miles above us, with three or four hundred rifle-men, and is preparing to descend the river. The conjectures with respect to his object are various, but all seem to agree that his intentions are inimical to our government. Perhaps I shall give you news that will surprise you, upon that head, by the next opportunity."
At a numerous and respectable meeting of the inhabitants of Woodford county, on Monday the 6th inst. the following resolutions were entered into:
1. Resolved, That we will, at the hazard of our lives and fortunes, support the constitution and independence of the United States: that being deeply impressed with the apprehension, that our liberties are in danger, it becomes the primary duty of every good citizen, to guard, as a faithful sentinel, his constitutional rights, and to repeal all violations of them, from what quarter soever offered.
2. Resolved, That the acts passed during the present session of congress, respecting aliens, and for the punishment of sedition, are direct violations of the constitution, and outrages against our most valuable rights: that to speak, write and censure freely, are privileges of which a freeman cannot divest himself, much less be abridged in them by others: that for the servants of the people to tell those who created them, that they shall not, at their peril, examine into the conduct of, nor censure those servants, for the abuse of power committed to them, is tyranny more insufferable than Asiatic: that the freedom of speech, the liberty of the press, trial by jury, and self-defence, are among the inseparable rights of freemen; no one of which can be abridged or taken away, without sinking and debasing him into the condition of a slave.
3. Resolved, That we deplore as one of the most unfortunate events which could befall us a war with the French Republic. We deplore it, because, next to heaven, and our own exertions, we are indebted to that nation for the liberty we now enjoy: because by such a war, we have every thing to lose and nothing to gain; because the enormous debt which will be produced by that war, must either bankrupt the United States, or entail on us and our posterity, a debt which may take centuries to discharge; and because such a war, we have every reason to fear, will instantly crush this infant commonwealth, it being now scarcely able to discharge the present congressional demands, much less its proportion of those millions which have been voted by the present congress.
4. Resolved, That we deprecate as an event of all others the most impolitic and humiliating, an alliance offensive and defensive with Great Britain; impolitic, because she is already nearly bankrupt in her government and fortune, and has been for a century past, in her principles; and if she has not already sunk, will, ere long, sink under the regenerating arm of the French Republic: humiliating, because she holds in contempt the American name and character; the sounds of rebel and traitor have scarcely left our ears, and still the arrogantly and vainly looks forward to the time, when the American people, will return to their former colonial submission and dependence.
5. Resolved, That we will, to the utmost of our ability, comply with any congressional demands for the purpose of repelling, invasion, and resisting attempts against our liberty & independence, from what quarter soever offered; but that we consider all maritime offensive operations as destructive and impolitic, tending only to accumulate the public debt, and give additional strength and influence to the dangerous and exorbitant powers lately committed to the executive department.
6. Resolved, That fulsome and adulatory addresses to agents and servants of our own creating, are servile, absurd, and anti-republican. That it is prostrating the majesty and dignity of the people; puffing up those servants with false pride and vanity; filling them with ambition; and fixing their minds with stronger desires for increase of power and influence, to which men in office are always too ready, without any encouragement, to grasp at. That although flattery and adulation may be fit offerings for prostrate slaves to render at the altar of their tyrant masters, yet, to true republican patriots the honor of serving their country, and a conscious and faithful discharge of those duties, is the only genuine and lasting honor they ought to expect, or can receive.
7. Resolved, That the foregoing resolutions be published in the Kentucky Gazette and Herald, and such other newspapers as will please to give them a place; and that copies hereof be transmitted to our representatives to be laid before the legislature and president of the United States.
JOHN TANNER, chm. HERMAN BOWMAN, clk.
SEE GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY.
LANDS.
By virtue of a decree of the district court, held in Lexington, will be sold to the highest bidder, at the court-house door, in Mount Sterling, Montgomery county, on the 9th day of October next, (which is the court-day for the said county) and the three following days. The sales to commence at 12 o'clock each day; the following tracts of land, lying in the said county, on Slate creek and Licking, to wit:
An undivided moiety of the following entry, made January the 21st, 1784, to wit: Jeremiah Foster, affec. &c. enters 6093 3-4 acres on a treasury warrant, No. 18,907, beginning at the uppermost corner of an entry of 15,625 acres made in the name of Alexr. D. Orr, on Licking, and running with his upper line 1584 poles, thence up Licking, and binding on the same, for quantity—which entry is surveyed and patented to the said Foster; the one half being the locator, Simon Kenton's part, and sold by him to general Wilkinson.
Also two tracts of 10,625 acres, and 5000 acres, surveyed, and granted by patent, to James Wilkinson, February the 22d, 1790; which surveys were made, by virtue of the following entry, made January the 21st, 1784, to wit: Alexr. Orr enters 15,625 acres on a treasury warrant, No. 19,315, beginning at the upper corner of an entry made in the name of Edmund Terrell, of 1050 acres, on Licking creek, and running with his upper line the whole length thereof, thence the course continued 2000 poles, thence up the creek, and binding thereon, for quantity—or so much thereof as will be sufficient to satisfy and pay Peyton short the sum of eleven hundred and seventy-four pounds, eight shillings and eleven pence three farthings, with interest thereon, from the first day of February, in the year 1793, until paid—together with the expenses of sale, and the costs of suit, pursuant to the said decree, entered up in a suit in chancery, brought by the said Peyton Short, against the said James Wilkinson, to foreclose a mortgage on the said lands. The tracts of 10,625 acres, and of 5000 acres, will be sold to accommodate purchasers, in small tracts, and on twelve months credit, the purchasers giving bond and good security for the purchase money. As it is a condition of the mortgage and decree, that 1500 acres shall be reserved out of the 5000 acre tract, for Christopher Bryan, and as much as will redeem a bond, to William Murray esq. the commissioners will attend at Mount Sterling, on the 8th day of October, at nine o'clock in the morning, to proceed to the land, to lay off 1500 acres for Christopher Bryan, and as much as will redeem the bond, to William Murray esq.
WILLIAM SUDDUTH, JOHN ROBERTS, JAMES WARD, JILSON PAYNE,
August 6th, 1798.
Notice.
THAT application will be made to the county court of Bourbon county, at their November session, for leave to establish a town on my land lying on Indian creek, a branch of Stoner, at the place now called Middletown.
James Swinney.
August 6, 1798.
LOOK SHARP.
ALL those that are indebted to the subscriber by either bond, note or book account are desired to come and pay their respective balances, on or before the 15th of September, at which time I expect to start for Philadelphia or Baltimore.
F. M'CULLOUGH.
Lexington; August 7th, 1798.
At the Apothecary Shop
IN LEXINGTON.
JUST arrived, an assortment of Fresh Medicine—particularly, a quantity of Peruvian Bark, which will be sold much cheaper than any heretofore in the state. As also, Rose Water, Fish Bait, and Wolf Bait.
ANDREW M'CALLA.
Will be exposed to Public Sale,
AT Bourbon court house, on the third Monday in September next, (it being court-day) and to continue by adjournment, until the whole is sold, the following tracts of land, or so much of each tract as will satisfy the taxes and interest due thereon, to the commonwealth of Kentucky.
John Asby, 1450 acres, Main Licking. Stephen Jett, 120, fork Hinkson. John Wilson, 8000, waters Licking. James Newel, 400, Stoners fork Licking. William Turnbull, 2000, Hinksons fork; 6375, south side Licking. John Yager, 644, branch Hinksons fork. Thomas F. Bates, 4127-2, waters Licking. James Getting, 2000, on Licking. Francis E. Harris, 366, Hinksons fork. Henry Cox, 250, do. 1000, do. 1500, branch Licking; 1500 ditto. Reuben Seearay, 2340, supd Harrod's lick; 2150, Sycamore forest. John O'Conner, 10,000, Buckhorn creek. Saml. Ford, 12000, Main south fork Licking. Christopher Ford, 1000, do. Obadiah Clarke, 4000, do. John Booker, 4000, do. James Jenkins, 8000, do. Lewis Ford, 11000, do. James Trabue, 1700, Indian creek; 142, Hinkson; 182 waters Licking; 358, Stoner; 600, do. William Shepherd, 729, Hinkson. James Cleaveland's heirs, 1000, Green creek. John M'Call, 1000, waters Licking. Michael Yates, 250, middle fork do. John C. Owens, 650, Hinkson. 65, do. 1000, do. 140 do. 800, Johnsons fork; 250, North Elkhorn; 1000, Hinkson. John Netherland, 1333-3, south fork Licking. Edward Walton, 1000, Bruse F. waters. Thomas Walton, 1000, F. same. Philip Pendleton, 2000, waters Licking. Joshua Gess, 1000, Hinkson; 600 Licking. Ambrose Rucker, 2850, Taylors fork Hinkson. Summerjet. Rejon V. Ginn, 1000, Hink. fork Licking. Thomas M. Fleming, 2500, on Sandy Wm. R. Flemming, 500, M. river. John Tyler, 1200, Lick. waters; 1200, Licking w. Aaron Withort, 851-2, do. Philip Kress, 400, south fork Licking. George Payne, 868, Licking. William E. Webb, 1000, waters Licking; 1000, do. 569, Forks Licking. Wade Mosby, 1224, Indian creek; 125 do. Edward Watkins, 600, south fork Licking. Peter Bedinger, 280, Cassady's creek. John Cartwright, 750, near Harrods lick. Samuel Todd, 400, Stoner F. Licking. Dickson Marshall, 1000, waters Sandy. John May's devisees and Joseph Jones's affec. 2000, Grassy creek. John Archer, 42656, Caleb Caliceway affec. of Epperson, 700, waters Licking. Thomas Chinn, 1000, Stoner. Albert Russell, 1800, Licking. Ephraim Gaither, 2543, Main Licking. Thomas Elliott, 2000, south F. Licking. The heirs of John Smith dec. 500. Thomas Jones, 150, Stoner. John Moylan, 10000, waters Big Sandy. Robert Morris, 2000, Hinksons F. Licking; 740, Licking river, 2000, do. 3630, do.
A list of land, by the sheriffs of different counties as lying in Bourbon county.
John Curd, 1000 acres, Indian creek. James Garnette, 900, waters of Licking. William M'Kee, 400. Robert Price, 4,711, Stoner. James Cobb, 1000, Licking. Daniel M. Boone, 1000. William Lindsey, 500, Licking. John Price, 500, Licking. Owen Todd, 400. John Alkire, 81, Green creek. Thomas Buett, 1259, Licking. Icibud Corwin, 98, Hous-ton. Joseph Field, 300, Strodes creek. William Moreman, 147, Pretty run. Moidecai Morgan, 112, Strodes creek. John Smith, 49, Woolf creek. William Blair, 50, Coopers run. Lemach Davis, 110, Hous-ton. Thomas Davis, 50, do. Wait's heirs by Thomas Dewly, 1000, Coopers run. William Jones, 740, Townfend. James Lanier 24, Hous-ton. Thomas Garnett, 500, B. fork. Adam Goodlett, 1000, John M'Corele, 1000. Samuel Worlz, 175, Stoner. Robert Wilson, 200, Town-
send. William Bruse, 70, Flat run. John Day, 15, Hinkson. Alexander Hinds, 100, do. Samuel Hinds, 100, Stoner. John Hinds, 30, do. John Hunt, 100, Flat run. William Kannady, 880, Beaver creek. John Johnson, 50, Stoner. John Minnius, 1000, Hinkson. Archibald Marshall, 230, Hous-ton. William Ramsey, 248, Somerset. David Scott, 100, Indian creek. Stephen Sumalt, 100, Flat run. Thomas Whiteker, 1000, Townfend; 500, Hinkson. John Peeples, 90. Robert Burton, 4000, waters Licking. James Byers, 551 3-4 Troutmans creek. John Clayton, 434, Hinkson. William Meriwether, 9420; 9187-2; 4396-2. John Handley 1000; Slate creek. James Garnett 700, Licking. Nathaniel Henderson, 800, Hinkson. Thomas Reed, 2000, Licking. John Floyd, 400, 49 miles below Sciota; 500 adjoining. Guy Smith, 2000, Licking. John Asby, 700, Stoners fork Licking. Jesse Anderson, 835. Chapmin Austin, 1000, wat. Hinkson. Daniel Henry, 15000, Licking. Ambrose Barber, 3000. Martin Pickett, 3,750. Abraham Shepherd, 1000; 1000; 531; 1000; 1000. Willoughby Tibbs, 1000, Licking; 500, do. John Dorham, 170, do. John Davis, 719, do. Ephraim Gaither, 3,143, do. John Gibson, 8,618, Slate; 605, do; 777, do. Thomas Marshall sen. 7500, Hinkson.
The proprietors, or their agents, of any of the aforesaid tracts of land, having any lawful credits for the payment of the tax and interest due thereon, are requested to forward them to the subscriber, before the day of sale, that they may have credit for the same.
W. Morrow, S. B. C.
July 26, 1798.
Will be sold in the town of Lexington, on the second Monday in September next, (it being court day) the following tracts of land, or so much of each tract, as will pay the tax and interest due thereon.
Estate of John Trabue dec. 184 acres, Jessamine. Zachariah Johnson, 200, Shannon's run. Nicholas Vats, 1000, waters of Ohio. Thomas Gist, 1000, Elkhorn. William Carey, 160, Hickman. James Major, 400, Cave run, or Elkhorn. Moses Tuttle, 500, Kentucky. John May's devisees, and Jo. Jones's affec. 476, Kentucky river; 160, do. 310, Jessamine. Joshua Harland, 20626, Ohio. Francis Kirky, 1200, head Clear creek; 300, do. 1000, large spring and Spring grove. Adam Banks, 1000, waters Licking. Samuel Franklin, 16000, waters Kentucky. William and Obadiah Smith, 1000, on the Ohio. William Fentwick, 2000. James Garnett, 500, Jessamine. Charles Price, 1000, Hickman. Daniel Boone, 5000, do. 160, Jessamine; 300, Little Hickman. John Price, 500, Elkhorn. Andrew Armstrong, 143, Town fork. William Anderson, 50, do. Calvin Beauchamp, 200, do. Richard Cress, 100, Elkhorn. Hugh Swann, 50. Reuben Ford, 160, Elkhorn. Benjamin Johnson, 3000, Jessamine. Hugh Morrison, 50, Kentucky. John Asby, 200, do. John Austin, 700. John Howe, 100, John Catlett's rep. 375, Licking.
William Ford, late affec.
TAKEN up by the subscriber living on Red river, a black filly, three or four years old, no brand or distinctive marks perceivable, appraised to 131.
ROBERT EWING.
May 12th, 1798.
THERE will be an election held at the court-house in Lexington on Saturday the 18th day of this inst. for a trustee in the room of William West, who has resigned.
R. PATTERSON.
August 8th, 1798.
NOTICE.
I DO hereby forewarn all persons from making any contract, or taking any conveyance from George Bryan, of Fayette county, for three hundred and seventy-five acres of land, on Cave run, in Fayette county, part of said Bryan's pre-emption, sold by said Bryan to William Niblick, the 5th of July, 1798, for which said Bryan gave a bond to said Niblick for a good and lawful deed, to him, his heirs & assigns, of which bond I am in legal possession.
WM. HAMILTON.
July 12, 1798.
BROKE away from the plantation of Jonathan Skean, in the big bend of Kentucky river, a chestnut sorrel horse, about ten years old, with a bald face, glass eyes, and three feet white, and a small saddle on. Whoever delivers said horse and saddle to Mr. George Walker, or Mr. John Scott, on the Hickman road, shall be handsomely rewarded by me.
JAMES M'CONNELL.
July 16, 1798.

SACRED TO THE MUSES.
AN INVITATION INTO THE COUNTRY.
The swallows, in their torpid state, Complete their useful wing, And bees in hives as idly wait The call of early spring.
The keenest frost that binds the stream, The wildest wind that blows, Are neither felt nor fear'd by them, Secure in their repouse.
But, man all feeling, and awake, The gloom* scene surveys; With present ills his heart must ache, And pant for brighter days.
Old Winter, halting o'er the mead, Bids me and Myra mourn; But, lovely Spring peeps o'er his head, And whispers your return.
Then, April, with her sister, May, Shall chase him from the bow'rs, And weave fresh garlands ev'ry day, To crown the smiling hours.
And if a tear that speaks regret Of happier times appear, A glimpse of joy that we have met Shall shine, and dry the tear.
ANECDOTE.
A Chinese silver-smith, to whom the English have given the name of Tom Workwell, brought home some silver spoons, as he called them, to a sea-captain, who had ordered them. The captain suspecting that his friend Tom had played him a trick. (common in China) of adding no small quantity of tutenague to the usual proportion of alloy, taxed him with the cheat, which he denied, with the strongest asseverations of his innocence. The captain then told him, that he had brought with him a famous water, called lye water , which being placed on the tongue of a person suspected of telling an untruth, if the case were so, burned a hole in it; if otherwise, the party escaped with honor, and unhurt. Tom thinking it a trick, readily consented; upon which, a single drop of aqua fortis , was put upon his tongue; he instantly jumped about the room, crying out "Very true, half tutenague , half tutenague ," in hopes that confessing the fact might put a stop to the lye water , which, from the pain he had some reason to think, possessed the quality ascribed it.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the commissioners will meet on Friday the 17th of August next, at a sugar tree, standing on the bank of Pinkton, in Bourbon county, where the road leading from Paris to the Upper Blue licks crosses, in order to take the depositions of sundry persons, for the purpose of establishing a beginning, made for Francis Epps Harris, of one thousand acres of land, covered by a treasury warrant.
Samuel Fearn.
July 16th, 1798.
HEREBY forewarn all persons from taking assignments on three bonds, given by me to Mr. Peter G. Voorhies, of the town of Frankfort, dated some time in March last, for forty pounds each; the first payable some time in November next; the second sometime in May, 1799; the third in May, 1800 as near as I recollect; as I am determined not to pay them until compelled by law; the said Voorhies not having complied with his bond to me for a tract of first rate land in Mason county, the said land proving not to be of the quality specified in the said bond.
MOSES ROBINS.
July 30th, 1798.
TAKE NOTICE,
THAT commissioners appointed by the court of Mason county, will meet on Monday the 20th of August ensuing at Hugh Shannons settlement and pre-emption on the waters of Shannon, in order to take depositions of witnesses and perpetuate their testimony respecting the said settlement and pre-emption, and do such other acts as may be agreeable to law.
WILLIAM JOHNSON.
July 25th, 1798.
To be sold at Public Auction,
AT Logan court-house, on the second Tuesday in September next, the following tracts of land, or so much thereof as will satisfy the tax interest, &c. due thereon, for the years 1792, '93, '94, '95, and '96.
Sarah Stirling, 2660 23 acres. Smith Slaughter, 1100; 1000. William Froget, 200. John Holker, 800. 400. Gen. George Mathews, 4000. 4000; 2222. John Greenhouse, 1000; 666 23. Richard Taylor, 1000. Robert Baylor, 1000; 4000. Samuel Coleman, 1000. Charles Lynch, 1000. William Russell, 2000. Edward Clarke 1000; 1000. Edward Dowee. 1000. William Chamberland's heirs, 4000. Samuel Coleman, 1000. Richard C. Waters, 2000.
On the following tracts, the tax is due for 1796, only.
Richardson Booeker, 200. Richard Wilson, 200. Francis and Thomas Wilsons. 600. Joseph Coleman, 100. John White's heirs, 1000. Peter D Robert, 795; 100; 50. Thomas Overton 1500. Joseph Nourse, 1000. Mark Vandevall, 1000. Rev. John Hurt, 540; 1000; 500; 200; 170. Richard Gernor, 1000. John M. Shepard, 600; 600. Benjamin Dabney, 1000.
The above is a list of non-residents lands.
The following is a list of lands returned by the sheriffs of the several counties to the Auditor, as lying in Logan county.
Mitcham Boswell, 1000. John Lyman, 300. William Martain, 500. Joseph Miller, 300. Andrew Barnett, 50; 50. Segismund Stribling, 2000; 1000. George Slaughter, 3270. Samuel Finley, 1000.
The sale will commence by twelve o'clock, and continue for two days, if necessary, and be attended by
Reuben Ewing, S. L. C.
July 5th, 1798.
Will be exposed to Sale,
ON the first day of September next, before the court-house door in Bairdstown, the following tracts of land lying in the county of Nelson, or so much thereof as will be sufficient to pay the tax and interest due thereon, for the years, 1792, '93, '94 and '95.
Archibald Baird, 500 acres, Beach fork; 300, do. Daniel Baird, 500, do. Richard Baird, 150, do. Moses Hoopwood, 300, Coxes creek. David Meade, 2000; 5500, in three tracts Walter Wiley, 40, Rolling fork. Samuel Pearle, 500, Salt river. Joseph Crane, 1000, on Pottingers creek; 1000, Lick creek 704, do. Richard Dickin, 300, waters Salt river. Philip Johnson, 5000, Wilsons run. Jonas Irwin, 1523, Salt river. William Merriweather, 10000, Hardins creek; 1000, Simpkins creek. Dennis Lenehan, 4000. Peter Garland, 10000, Coxes creek. Daniel Clarke 10000, Rolling fork. Jonathan Price, 1000, Coxes creek. John Bunch's heirs, 365, Beach fork; 250, do. Richard Baird, 317, Buffalo creek. Arch. Baird, 200, do. Walter Baker's heirs, 340, Salt river; 460, Coxes creek. John Clarke, 875, Salt river and Beach fork. Abraham Frye, 500, Mill creek. Humphrey May, 350, Fromans creek. John M'Gimsey, 500, Chaplins fork. William Mitchell, 350, do. Wm. Piper, by B. Pope, 3600 Nob lick, south side Beach fork. Charles Proctor, 200, Pottingers creek. George Wilson, 355, Coxes creek. Thomas Woodger, 400, do. Joseph Jefferies, 100, Buffalo creek. George Brent, 300. Samuel Beace, 1200, Beach and Rolling fork. John Smyth, 600. Geo. Stubblefield, 500. John Wren, 400, Simpkins creek. Chas. West's heirs, 600, Salt river. Reuben Triplett, 666 3-4.
On the same day, the following tracts of land will be sold to satisfy the tax and interest due thereon, for the years 1792, '93, '94, '95 and '96.
Charles Boon, 749 acres, Cedar creek, waters Salt river. Lynaugh Helms, 2500, Coxes creek. John Talbot, 50, Beach fork S. river. Francis Triplett, 1300 Rolling fork, Reuben Triplett, 1000, do. William Mitchell, 750 Coxes creek. John Ray sen 400, Salt river; 400, Wilsons creek; 400, do. 475, Lk. creek, waters B. F. 1050, do. 400, Witheran run. Thomas Bedford, 500, Athes creek. Joseph Perkins, 1000, Salt river; 400, mo. Coxes creek. Richard Johnson,
200, waters Cedar creek. John M'Cafe, 50, waters Salt river. John C. Owings, 500, Beach fork; 500, do. 500, Wilsons creek; 500, Beach fork; 500, Coxes creek. James Monday, 500, Rolling fork. James M'Donald, 1000, branch Coxes creek. George Price, 1000, south side Beach fork; 800, north side Beach fork. John Briscoe, 500, Salt river; 800, Sun fish run; 500, Simpkins creek. Benj. Watkins, 827, Coxes creek. John Fitch, 300, do. 300, Simpkins creek; 1000, Head Coxes creek. John Cace, 300, forks Athes creek. William Smiley, 900, waters Simpkins creek; 650, waters Athes creek; 100, Coxe creek. John Crutchfield, 5000, Fromans creek. Smyth Tanady, 500. David Baird, 500, waters Beach fork. Jonathan Pugh, 1000, Coxes creek. Nathan Davis, 2000, Coxes and Simpkins creek. George Lauman, 15000. Chatville Tuttle, 300 waters Beach F. Cornelius Hogland, 1000 waters Rolling fork. Charles Huff, 1000, do. Moses Tuttle, 100, Mill creek waters. John Blanton, 54, Simpkins creek; 26, Coxes creek; 20, Mill creek. Battle Mufe, 1000, Simpkins creek. John May's devisees & Joseph Jones's assignees, 667-2, do. Margaret Henderson, 486, Salt river. Robert Andrews, 628, do. 355, do. 415, do. Chas. Simms, 700, Town fork, Salt river. Thomas Marshall, 785, Beach fork. John Baker, assee. of Thomas Carter, 400, forks Pottingers creek. Same, assee. of A. Kimleigh, 1000 east fork Coxes creek.
R. C. FOSTER, late S. N. C. July 4th, 1798.
NOTICE,
A PETITION will be presented to the next general assembly, from a number of the inhabitants of Bourbon county, praying that a part of said county be added to the county of Clarke.
3w R.C.tp July 29th, 1798.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber, on the night of the 29th instant, living in Lexington, a Negro man named GEORGE, about 20 years of age, well made, 5 feet, 6 or 8 inches high, can write his name pretty legibly, and signs himself George Linn: had on when he went away, a fustian jacket with sleeves half worn, gray cashmere breeches, white cotton stockings: he carried off one fine shirt ruffled at the bosom, one country linen ditto, and one pair of trowsers: he is a sensible fellow, and will no doubt attempt passing for a free man.
Whoever delivers the said slave to me in Lexington, shall receive Eight Dollars, and reasonable charges paid: or Five Dollars if lodged in any jail, on producing the jailor's receipt.
JAMES MORRISON.
Lexington, July 30th, 1798.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, Clarke county, on Howards Lower creek, one bright bay horse, about 12 or 13 years old, about 14 hands 1 inch high, a small snip in his forehead near hind foot and off four foot white, branded thus FH, on the near shoulder and buttock, appraised to 91.
WILLIAM HILLIS.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, Woodford county, a dark brown mare, 14 years old, 14 hands high, a small star in her forehead, branded on the near shoulder IS, with a small bell on, appraised to 51. 10s.
FRANCIS SPENCER.
October 3d, 1797.
N. B. The reason why the above stray was not sooner Gazetted, is, that she strayed away after being taken up and has been lately got again. F. S.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, Mercer county, near the mouth of Dicks river, a chestnut sorrel horse about six years old, about four feet six inches high, blaze face, branded on the near shoulder IT, and on the off buttock, but not legible, appraised to 101.
THOMAS HEDGER.
NOTICE.
THERE will be application made to the county court of Warren county, for a town to be established on the lands of Samuel Doughty against the October court, 1798. *6.
A few copies of
Rushton's Letter to Washington, May be had at this office.
TAKE NOTICE.
THAT on the 22d day of August 1798, I shall attend with the commissioners appointed by the county court of Shelby, to take the deposition or depositions, as the case may be, to establish the calls in an entry made in the name of John Withers and James Duncan, for one thousand acres of land lying on the waters of Brashear's creek, near the head of Clear creek; the said entry calls for the head of a branch which runs into the said creek, opposite to John Bailey's cabin, and to include a cabin built by Evan Hinton. I shall meet at Mr. Abraham Reece's tavern near the head of Clear creek, and from thence proceed to Hinton's cabin, then and there to take the depositions agreeable to an act of the legislature for that purpose.
George Marshall, attorney for Withers.
Twenty-six Dollars Reward.
DESERTED , from this garrison, on the night of the 12th inst. James M'Gonagle and Elias Cachill, soldiers of the 4th United States regiment.
M'Gonagle is an Irishman by birth, about twenty-one years of age, five feet eight inches high; dark complexion, long black hair, black eyes, by trade a cooper—he formerly lived in Maryland and Delaware; and probably may steer that way or to Kentucky.
Cachill is country born, about twenty-one years of age, five feet five inches high, fair complexion, brown hair, black eyes, by trade a blacksmith, has a cut in his left eye, which is very observable. They went off in company, and took their regimental cloathing with them. It is presumed that M'Gonagle will forge passes and discharges for themselves. The above reward will be paid for apprehending and securing them, or on delivering them to any officer in the United States, or thirteen dollars for either, and reasonable expenses if brought to this place.
B. Lockwood, Capt 4th U. S. regt. Fort Butler, 13th July, 1798.
NOTICE
IS hereby given, that I shall apply to the county court of Warren in August next, for an order to establish a town agreeable to law, on my land lying on Big Barren river at the confluence of said river and Drakes creek.
ANDREW M'FADDIN.
June 6th, 1798.
NOTICE.
THAT application will be made to the county court of Bourbon county at their next September court for leave to establish a town on my lands on Hingstons fork of Licking creek, at the place known by the name of Millersburgh.
JOHN MILLER.
July 2d, 1798.
2am 3m
TAKEN up by the subscriber, on his plantation, a sorrel horse, with a blaze in his face, twelve years old, thirteen hands and a half high, has the Poll-evil three white feet, two small white spots on the near fore leg above the knee, a long switch tail, branded GS, on the near shoulder and buttock, appraised to 71. 10s.
SAMUEL PRICE.
May 10th, 1798.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, in Clarke county, on four mile creek, a dark bay horse, about thirteen hands and a half high, no brand perceptible, a small star in his forehead, has some appearance of the poll-evil, his hind feet white, about nine years old, appraised to 101.
JAMES DUNCAN.
May 17th, 1798.
THREE DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN away from the subscriber, last February, an apprentice boy, named John Killbreath, about seventeen years of age, bound to the Cabinet business. This is to forewarn all persons from harboring him, as I have a lawful indenture on him; whoever delivers said boy to the subscriber, living in Cynthia, shall be entitled to the above reward.
†3t
Charles Kelsa.

THE partnership of ROBERT BARR, & Co. is this day dissolved, all persons indebted to the firm, will settle the necessity of calling immediately and settling off their balances to the subscriber, as no further indulgence can be given. tf ROBERT BARR. Lexington, March 15, 1798.
A REQUEST. THAT James Jeffs will speedily make known to me in Lexington Kentucky, where he lives that I may write to him on particular occasions, perhaps to his advantage. JOSEPH JEFFS. March 24th, 1798. tf
WANTED TO HIRE, A GOOD wench, one that is capable of doing all kinds of house work for a small family, she must come well recommended for her honesty and cleanliness—a good price will be given for such—enquire of the printer. D. D. tf Lexington, July 2d, 1798.
Five Dollars Reward. WAS stolen or broke out of my stable in Lexington, on Thursday night, the 29th December last, a likely sorrel mare 14 and a half hands high, 7 or 8 years old, with a small star and snip, both hind legs white, branded thus W. on the near shoulder and buttock, but not very plain, her tail pretty bunchy, has the appearance of being worked. Whoever will deliver said mare to me shall receive the above reward and reasonable charges. H. M'ILVAIN. Lexington, March 9, 1798. tf
TAKE NOTICE. THAT commissioners appointed by the court of Scott county, will meet at the mouth of the Little North fork of Elkhorn, on the 3d Monday in August next, to take the depositions of sundry witnesses to perpetuate their testimony agreeably to a law of this state, touching the special calls in an entry made in the name of Benjamin Bowls, on Military warrants for 2,000 acres, entered April 21th, 1783; my object is to prove that the said Little North fork is the first large fork entering into Elkhorn on the north side below Holder's trace. JESSE ROBARDS, Agent for the heirs of said Bowls. July 21, 1798. tf
NOTICE to all whom it may concern, is hereby given, that I hold myself entitled to 1350 acres of land, lying near Bullitt's lick, in the county of Bullitt, generally called Clear's old station, which is claimed by one Joseph Brooks, and I do caution and forewarn all manner of persons from purchasing all or any part of the said land. And I do further caution all persons from purchasing sundry slaves now in the possession of the said Joseph Brooks, named Priscilla, alias Scilla, Letty, Carolina and Anny or any one of them, as I can prove them to be my property, in right of my wife. G. PENDERGRASS. June 8, 1798. tf
TRANSYLVANIA SEMINARY. THE public are hereby informed that Education may now be had at the Transylvania Seminary on an extensive plan, and of moderate terms as at any school in the United States. The Greek and Latin languages will be taught there, together with Mathematics, Geography, the Belles Lettres, and every other branch of Learning that makes part of the usual course of Academic Education. The trustees have also made arrangements for, and will procure a French Teacher, whenever there shall be a sufficient number of Students desirous of acquiring that language. The terms of tuition are four pounds per annum. Boarding may be had with Mrs. Richardson at the Seminary, and in other genteel houses in Lexington, at the moderate rate of fifteen pounds per annum; one quarter to be paid always in advance. For this sum Students will be dieted, and their clothes washed and mended—they furnishing their own bedding, fire-wood and candles, in their own apartments. R. BARR, Chm.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD. STRAYED or STOLEN from the subscriber the 29th of May last, a likely black horse, with a star in his forehead, 7 years old, about 15 hands high, trots and paces, branded on the near shoulder and buttock TC, and W under the mane, though scarcely perceptible. I will give the above reward for the horse and thief or five dollars for the horse only. WM. HUSTON. Lexington, July 10, 1798. tf
Notice, Is hereby given, that I shall apply to the court of Franklin county, in November next, for an order to establish a town agreeably to law, on my lands, on the Kentucky river, near the mouth of Cedar creek, on the upper side, in said county. Joshua Spiers. July 18, 1798. tf
Notice, THAT commissioners appointed by the county court of Fleming county, will meet on the first Monday in September, if fair, if not, the next fair day, at my house in said county, then and there to take the depositions of witnesses, in order to perpetuate testimony respecting the calls of an entry of one thousand acres of land made on a pre-emption warrant, in the names of John Craig and Robert Johnson, assignees of John May, assignee of John Fleming; and do such further and other acts as shall be deemed necessary and agreeable to law. Thomas Jones. July 18, 1798.
PURSUANT to an order of the court of Mason county, appointing commissioners to establish the special call and boundaries of an entry of 33,750 acres of land, made in the name Anthony Thornton, lying in Mason county, and beginning on the lower Buffalo road, which leads from the lower Blue Licks towards the north fork of Licking, about a mile north of where said road crosses Johnson's fork, running thence two miles West and four miles east, then extending from each end of the line of six miles a north course for quantity, I shall on Monday the 20th day of August next, attend with the commissioners to take the depositions of certain persons in order to establish said call and boundaries. The commissioners, witnesses &c. will meet at 10 o'clock in the morning at James Buchanan's, who lives on the south-east corner of said land and thence proceed to the calls of the entry. ANTHO. THORNTON, jun. July 23d, 1798. tf
TAKEN up by the subscriber, in Woodford county, Clear creek, a bay mare, five years old, thirteen hands three inches high, branded but cannot be made out, one of her hind feet white—appraised to 81, 5s. William Christopher. April, 1798. tf
TAKEN up by the subscriber, in Scott county, near Toliver Craig's mill, North Elkhorn, a dark bay mare, about fourteen and a half hands high, branded on the near shoulder and buttock, 1G. a natural trotter, has the ring bone in the near hind foot—appraised to 141. JESSE CALAWAY. May 15th, 1798. tf
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living on Slate, Montgomery county one mile below the forge, a bay horse, with a blaze face, three white feet, with his tail and fore top bobbed, nine years old, fifteen hands high, branded R. on the shoulder and P. on the buttock, shod before, appraised to 301. Also a bright bay horse, fourteen hands and a half high, his tail and fore top bobbed, had on a 3s bell, shod before appraised to 201. EDMOND OAKLEY. For Sale.
THREE valuable out lots adjoining the town of Lexington, on which is an Oil mill, and the new invented Horse mill, a small orchard, and an excellent well; One half the purchase money to be paid down; a credit of one year will be given for the balance, by the purchaser giving bond with approved security. For further particulars apply to the subscriber on the premises. EDWARD HOW. July 18th, 1798. tf
SHOT OF the different numbers, made by A. F. SAUGRAIN, in Lexington, and sold whole sale and retail, at ANDREW HOLMES's Store. Lexington August 8. tf
ALL persons are hereby forewarned from fishing, fowling or in any wise hunting with dog or gun, on the lands of John and Francis Halley, and within the bounds as follows, viz. Beginning at the north east corner of William Hays pre-emption, on Otter creek, below said John Halley's mill, west with the same to Daniel Bentley's corner, near the ridge road; south with the said dividing line to Nock-buckle line; east with the same passing the corner, to Hays's pre-emption; with the same, to the south-east corner; thence south-eastwardly, to Jacob Stern's survey of 400 acres; with the same, south, 20 west, to or near the mouth of the Lott fork of Otter creek; south, 2d east, and round with the same crossing the east fork of Otter creek, to the cliff, to the corner of a 1053 acre survey, in the name of John Halley; east with the same to Smith's line, north with the same, and around with the 1053 acre survey, to the corner of a 400 acre survey, on the Kentucky river; with the same, down the river, to the beginning. July 19th, 1798. tf
NOTICE, To the inhabitants of Fayette, and the adjacent Counties. AT a crisis more important to the Liberty, Independence and Happiness of America, than any which hath taken place since the declaration of Independence;—at a period, when the interests of the Western country must be deeply affected by the measures which may be pursued by the Federal government;—and at a time, when the citizens of America are generally expressing their sentiments as to the steps that ought to be taken by that government:—your silence will be continued into an unpardonable indifference to the welfare of your country; and an abandonment of your right, according to your number, of directing the counsels of your representatives. It is therefore proposed, that there shall be a general meeting of the inhabitants of Fayette and the adjacent counties, on the next August Fayette court day, at 12 o'clock, at the Presbyterian meeting-house, in the town of Lexington, for the purpose of taking into consideration, the present critical situation of public affairs, & to express to their representatives, their opinions of the measures which have been already adopted, and those which ought now to be pursued, at this eventful moment: and it is hoped, that the friends of peace, and those who are really attached to Republican principles, will be pointed in their attendance on this occasion. July 2, 1798. tf
NICHOLAS BRIGHT, BOOT AND SHOE MANUFACTURER. RETURNS his thanks to his customers for their past favors, and hopes by his attention to business, to merit them in future. He begs leave to inform the public in general that he continues to carry on the above business, in all its branches, on Cross street, two doors above Short street. He will give generous wages to three or four good Journeymen.
C. Humphreys, Has on hand, a few FRANKLIN STOVES, (made at the Laurel Furnace,) Which he will sell on moderate terms for CASH.—Lexington, June 6, 1798. tf
THE managers of the Lexington Chances of Insurance, have authorized Mr. Samuel Poffie, chair of Lexington, to receive any money that may be due to them for tickets, and also, to pay such sums as may be due to the holders of fortunate numbers—wherefore, all those who are indebted are requested to make immediate payment. THE MANAGERS. Lexington, September 24 1797. tf
NOTICE, ALL persons indebted to the subscriber, are requested to call and pay off their respective balances, on or before the twentieth of August next; about which time I intend sending for a fresh supply of goods. Those who cannot possibly pay, will at least be expected to call and close their accounts, by giving bond or note. Any person neglecting the above notice, will be considered as unwilling to discharge their just debts, and more effectual steps will be taken to compel payment. C. BEATTY. Lexington, July 10th, 1798. tf
CONVEYANCING. James Bliss, ATTORNEY AT LAW FROM ENGLAND. HAVING resided some years in America, and being justified by considerable practice and experience in the above profession, takes the liberty to intimate to the inhabitants of Lexington, and the public in general, he continues to draw and complete conveyancing in all its branches: Articles of Copartnership and Agreement, Leases, Wills, Letters of Attorney, Bonds and writings of every description, with accuracy, secrecy and dispatch; and on reasonable terms at his house next the Swan tavern, near the Court-house. tf Lexington, July 6, 1798.
WILLIAM ROSS, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER. RESPECTFULLY informs the public in general, and his friends in particular, that he is carrying on the said business in the brick house on Short street, opposite the Presbyterian meeting house, and nearly opposite the Market house, Lexington, in its various branches. He wants one or two apprentices, that can come well recommended. 32w
FENCING. THIS is to inform the young Gentlemen of Lexington, that I have opened a FENCING SCHOOL in the upper brick house on Main Street, where lessons will be given from five till seven o'clock, P. M.—For terms apply to the subscriber. R. GILBERT. June 5, 1798. tf
PARIS DISTRICT.—July term, 1798. Seriah Stratton, complainant. against George Winn, William Ford and John Thatcher, defendants. IN CHANCERY. The defendant Ford not having entered his appearance herein, agreeably to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this commonwealth—On the motion of the complainant by his counsel, it is ordered that the said Ford do appear here on the third day of the next October term, and answer the complainant's bill; and that a copy of this order be inserted in the Kentucky Gazette for two months successively, and published at the front door of the Presbyterian meeting house in Paris some Sunday immediately after divine service. A copy. test. THO. ARNOLD, C.P.D.C.
THE undersigned, with Jacob Myers, having inserted an advertisement in the Kentucky Gazette dated the 22d June 1798, requesting Lewis Myers, John Myers, John Scott and Jacob Froman, to meet them at the house of John Myers in the town of Danville, on Saturday the 14th of July, in order to form rules for the government of their company who had undertaken to erect lion works as therein set forth. This is to inform said partners, that as they did not attend on the day, they are no longer considered as partners, and that the undersigned have entered into articles to carry on the works, secure the lands &c. being constrained to do so, the said Jacob Myers having refused to enter into any consistent agreement whatever. MICHAEL HORINE, JACOB HORINE, JACOB DÖNNIER. July 20th, 1798. tf
Notice IS hereby given that on the 6th day of September next, I will attend with the commissioners appointed by the county court of Nelson county, a John Eastburns, on Simpson's creek a little below the east fork in order to perpetuate the testimony of certain persons respecting a pre-emption granted to William Brathearns, near the said Eastburns, and do such other acts as shall be deemed necessary and agreeable to law. Culbert Gembs. tf

A LIST OF LANDS TO be sold at the court-house door in Washington, the 4th Monday in September next, (it being courtday) and to continue from day, to day until the whole is sold.
Thomas Underwood, 5000 acres waters Big Sandy. John Nicholson, 46,106-2 Little Sandy river; 26,802, Tygerts creek; 9,000 Tygerts creek; 391-4 Little Sandy. James Greenleaf, 46,106-2, Little Sandy; 26,802, Tygerts creek; 9,000, Tygerts creek; 391-4, Little Sandy. John C. Littlepage, 20,000 acres, Licking river. Richard Richardson's heirs, 500 acres, waters of Licking. John Stockdon, 2000 acres, Tygerts creek. Samuel Brockham's administrators, 1000 acres Licking creek. Samuel Brockham jun. 500 acres, Licking creek, adjoining Brockham's administrators. John Bradford, 2,270-2 acres, Licking. Nathan Hammon, 3,007 acres, Licking. Robert Gunnell, 750 acres, waters of Lees creek. John Gunnell, 250 acres, Waters of Lees creek. William Turnbull, 20,200 acres Sandy river; 10,000, do. Jesse Ewell, 1,250 acres, Johnson's fork; 8,000, on the Ohio. Thomas Lomax, 2000 acres, Cabbin creek. Simon Triplett, 1,637-2 acres, N. W. fork Salt spring Licking. Robert Cochran, 11,100 acres, Waters of Sandy. Joshua Fry, 1,525 acres, Little Sandy. Abraham Maury jun. 2000 acres, Cabbin creek; 2,850, do. 3,307-2, do. Samuel Ford, 12,000 acres, Elkhorn fork Licking. Christopher Ford, 1000 acres, Elkhorn fork Licking. John Lord, 500 acres, waters Johnson's fork. John Beckly, 800 acres, waters Licking. Thomas Overton, 2000 acres, Johnson's fork. Richard Moore, 400 acres, Flat creek. Joel Franklin, 334 acres, Sandy river. John Kelly, 390 acres Licking and Ohio. John Kirkfoot and Knight, heirs to John Peters, 1,400 acres, Flat fork of Johnson's, including Mud lick. Richard Anderson's heirs, 900 acres, Sandy. John E. Booker, 4,000 acres, Licking. Andrew Dillon, 2,559-2 acres, waters of Ohio. Lawrence Slaughter, 3,750 acres Cabbin creek. Robert Slaughter jun. 3,225 acres, Cabbin creek. William S. Stone, 500 acres, Cabbin creek. Joseph Strother, 3,610-3-4 acres, waters Big Sandy. Richmond Harris, 500 acres, N. fork of Licking. John C. Owings, 1000 acres, Sandy; 350 Mill creek. John Price's heirs, 7,955-2 acres, Locust or Cox's creek. James, John and Alexander M'Alexander, 800 acres, Flemings fork of Licking. John Hunter and Charles Morgan, 500 acres, waters of Licking. Colly Chew, 2000 acres, waters of Licking. Nathaniel Masie, 200 acres, on the Ohio river. Joshua Gist, 966 acres, Triplett's creek. John Richey, 2,047 acres, waters of Ohio. Nicholas Tillinghast, 3,274-2 acres, waters of Ohio. Thomas Champney, 20,000 acres, waters of Sandy. Francis Peyton, 1000 acres, N. fork of Licking. Joseph Strother, 7,800 acres, Big Sandy river. John Wigglesworth, 8,000 acres, Big Sandy. John Welch, 3,530 acres, Christians creek. Henry Robinson, 500 acres, Big Sandy. William Robinson, 1000 acres, do. Michael Robinson, 500 acres, do. 1,740, do. James Robinson 500 acres, do. Thomas M'Gee, 500 acres, do. William M'Gee, 500 acres, do. Mary M'Gee, 500 acres, do. Elizabeth James, 1000 acres, do. John Robinson's heirs, 4,373 acres, do. Benjamin Robinson's heirs, 4,373 acres, do. 4,760, do. John Robinson's heirs, 4,760 acres, do. John Stewart, 1,560-2 acres, do. William Richards, 773 acres, do. William Veigher, 1,700 acres, do. Humphrey Tompkins, 1000 acres, Salt lick creek. John Petty, 200 acres, Little and Big Sandy. James Steel, 500 acres, Cabbin creek. George Brooke's heirs, 7,000 acres, waters Little Sandy. Richard Gains, 2,000 acres, Cabbin creek. Representatives of Osburn, 1,603 acres Little Sandy. Mac Goode, 2,091-2 acres, Little Sandy. Thomas Bedford, 1,500 acres, Wilson's creek Wash Licking; 1000, N. fork of Licking. Joseph Williams and Lewis Neth, 5,312 acres, Fleming creek; 2,688, waters of Cabbin creek. Charles Tyler, 20,640 acres, Little Sandy; 17,800 Big Sandy. Thomas Collier's heirs, 3,000 acres, Lees and Beesly's creek. Alexander Quarrier, 5,500 acres, Big Sandy; 1,200, Johnson's fork Licking. Archibald Payne, 667 acres, Licking. George Evans, 18,000 acres, Ohio and Laurences creek. John Monday, 4,040 acres, Little Sandy. Jacob Judy, 5,666-2 acres, Fox creek, Agers valley. Thomas Sanders, 1000
acres. Joseph M'Dowell, 1,100 acres, N. fork of Licking. William Ward, 2000 acres, Licking. Ellicott, Armstrong and Baller, 4,253 acres, Licking. William Webb, 938 acres, Big Sandy. George Carrington's heirs, 3,353-3 Licking river. Richard Morris, 400 acres, Lees and Mill creek; 1000 Mill creek. Thomas Alexander, 1000 acres, N. fork of Licking. David Buchanan, 6,000 acres, Tygerts creek. John Peter's heirs, 500 acres, Ohio river; 500, Mill creek. Samuel and Richard Terrell, 300 acres, M. Bracken Ohio. Thomas Shore, 10,000 acres, N. fork of Licking. John Harris sen. 3,700 acres, Locust creek. John Harris, 5,000 acres N. fork of Licking. Andrew Holmes, 5,000 acres N. fork of Licking. Wade Mosby, 2,916-3 acres, on the Ohio river; 1,750, do. 500, Big Sandy; 250, do. Humphrey Tompkins, 1000 acres, do. Carns Steirret, 500 acres, N. and Johnson's forks; 1000, waters of Licking. Abraham M'Cleland, 1,028 acres, 70 mile creek. Thomas & Leroy Kennedy, 621 acres, do. George Lauman, 11,415, acres. Joseph Kelly and George Taylor, 3,000 acres Cabbin creek. Henry Bedinger, 1000 acres, Licking waters. John Bledsoe, 500 acres, N. fork of Licking. Abraham Maury, 1000 acres, Cabbin creek. Edward Mitchell, 500 acres, Little Sandy. Minor Winn, 5,284 acres, Tygerts creek; 2,074, opposite the mouth of Beaver creek, Licking; 1,753-3, do. Samuel Pearle, 500 acres, Farrows creek, waters of Licking. John Blanton, 4,000 acres; 750, Samuel Haw's heirs, 2,000 acres, N. fork of Licking; 666-2-3, on the Ohio. Colby Shipp, 3,000 acres, Licking; 2,333, do. 5,000, Big Sandy waters; 800, waters of Licking; 500, 70 mile creek; 1,000, waters of Ohio. Thomas James, 2,333 acres, Licking. John Wigglesworth, 3,000 acres, do. William Wallace, 1,450 acres, do. Joshua Fletcher, 1,450 acres, do. John Williams, 250 acres, do. Andrew Byrne, 500 acres, do. West and Shackelford, 1,000 acres, do. Laban Shipp, 1,000 acres do. Henry Gatewood, 1,000 acres do. Peter Van Horn, 1,000 acres, Locust creek. Samuel Davis, 1,000 acres, do. Augustine Webb, 5,000 acres, waters Big Sandy. John Donnell, 1,000 acres, S. fork Sandy; 2,160, do. 2,644-3-4, waters of do. 300, Salt fork of do. 700, do. 1,000 S. fork of do. 1,000 do. 1,480, N. side Main Licking; 1,231, waters Cabbin creek. William Sutherland, 1,000 acres, 20 miles below Sciota. Cleon Moore, 5,000 acres, Licking. Richard Bullard, 1,000 acres, 8 or 9 miles south-west of —; 50, do. John Penny, 500 acres, N. fork Licking. John Skath, 200 acres, Licking. Rawleigh Chinn, 500 acres, east fork Licking, now called N. William Winlow, 2,076 acres, on Licking. James Graham, 1,187 acres, Johnson's fork Licking. John Montgomery, 500 acres, do. William Creighton, sen. 500 acres, Flemings creek, and Licking. William Creighton jun. 700 acres, do. James Russell, 1,800 acres, Johnson's fork. John and Thomas Miller, 11,752-2 S. Waters Sandy. William Miller, 1,000 acres, do. The heirs of John Smith dec. 500 acres. Robert and James Morton, 10,000 acres, N. fork Licking. John Moylan, 26,500 acres, Kinnacanic creek; 30,000 do. 20,000 Waters Big Sandy; 9,000 do; 10,000. Henry Heath, 42,656-3-4 acres, between the head of little Salt Lick creek, one mile. Samuel Sherwin's heirs, 1,000 acres, do. John Alexander and Charles Binns, 2,000 acres, waters of Licking. Robert Morris, 14,950 acres Sandy river; 609; 6,021, Ohio; 7,957, Sandy river; 28,000, waters of do. 15,000, N. Branch of Sandy; 7,000, N. fork Kentucky; 51,000, S. fork Sandy; 3,000, main fork of do. 1,000, Waters of Licking; 11,000, do. 943, do. 46,106-2, on Little Sandy; 26,802, Tygerts creek; 9,000, do. 391-4, Little Sandy; 2,000, waters Licking. Thomas Harris, 10,000 acres, Salt fork of Licking. John Lewis, 10,000 acres, Sandy creek. Charles Patterson, 5,025 acres, N. fork of Licking. Fisher Bennett, 500 acres. Oliver Cleveland, 865 acres, Locust creek. Thomas Crawley, 3,000 acres Licking. Charles Grimes, 12,000 acres, Licking, Johnson's fork. Graham & Jones, 20,500 acres Triplett's creek. Richard Holt, 1,000 acres; 1,000 do. James Hoffman, 555 acres, Cabbin creek. Samuel Johnson, 2,500 acres; 1,250, Fleming (half of 2,500.) George Mason, 2,748 acres, Otter creek. William M'Kee, 700 acres. Thomas Masie,
1,000 acres. Giles Rains, 200 acres. Stephen Folle, 2,000 acres, near Ohio. Caleb Tate, 1,000 acres, Sandy. William Waddy, 27,018 acres, do. James Brown, 4,000 acres, do. George Moore, 1,000 acres. John Ramsey, 600 acres, Sandy. Andrew Steele, 500 acres, do. Richard Webb, 1,025 acres, Licking; 600, do. Aaron Bledsoe, 2,083 acres, do. Daniel Boone, 4,000 acres, Fleming creek. Daniel M. Boone, 800 acres, Licking. John Patrick, 238 acres, do. Charles Patrick, 375 acres, do. The Devisees of William Ward dec. 2,000 acres, do. 1,689, do. 400, do. 500, do. 300, do. 4,000, do. 2,000, do. 1,000, N. fork of Licking; 167, do. 50, do. 2,633, do. 914, do. 705, do. 803, do. 500, do. 9,177, do. Anthony M'Kerrick, 11,517-2 acres. Joseph Colyer, 100 acres. Nathaniel Foller, 93 acres. John Mitchell, 50 acres. Alexander Armstrong, 90 acres, Locust. John Hunt, 600 acres; 11,918, do. Joel Reddish, 930 acres, Big Sandy. Edward Salts, 300 acres, Locust creek; 1,410, Johnson's fork. Michael Welch, 150 acres. William Brown, 1,000 acres. William B. Chinn, 100 acres. John Chinn, 200 acres. Joseph Chinn, 100 acres. Caleb Tate, 1,000 acres, on Sandy. William Hanceford, 1,000 acres. Walter Ford, 12,000 acres, Licking; 1,000, do. William Grayson, 7,500 acres Ohio waters. John Harris, 26,597 acres, Sandy. Uriah Humphreys, 1,000 acres, Ohio waters. Joshua Jones, 1,250 acres, waters of Big Sandy. Charles & William Jones, 1,250 acres, do. John Lewis, 1,000 acres, N. fork of Licking. Stephen T. Mason, 12,000 acres, Big Sandy. James Nourse, 2,000 acres, in two tracts, Cabbin creek. Rachel Strode, 1,000 acres, Licking. William Smith's heirs, 3,000 acres, Ohio waters; 3,000, do. Charles Tyler, 25,000 acres, Ohio. Representatives T. Cowen, 1,691 acres, Main Licking. William Gear, 250 acres, Upper Blue Licks. Thomas Longwood, 500 acres, Little Sandy. Joseph Perrin, 400 acres, Blue Licks. Charles Price, 1,000 acres, Licking. John Petty, 200 acres, Sandy. Robert Alcock, 2,500 acres, Licking. Aaron Bledsoe, 1,023 acres Big Sandy. Pretty Merry, 425 acres, Ohio. James Scott, 532 acres, Limetone creek. Jacob Cohan, 2,000 acres; 3,355-2 do. Isaiah Isaac, 5,000 acres. Robert Slaughter and company, 5,000 acres, Licking waters. Charles Campbell, 1,000 acres, do. Reuben Austin, 1,000 acres, do. Jesse Anderson, 1,000 acres. Abraham Archer, 2,000 acres, Johnson's fork. Samuel Bell, 450-2 acres, Licking. Pickling Fielding, 60 acres, Licking. Charles Fleming, 16,191 acres, Ohio. Stephen T. Mason, 12,000 acres, Sandy. John Karney, 1,000 acres, James Primm, 1,000 acres, Big Sandy. Col. George Stubblefield, 3,030 acres, Fox's creek. James Summerville, 2,700 acres Tygerts creek. Henry Timberlake 1,000 acres, Licking. Chapman Austin, Henry Timberlake, and Reuben Timberlake, 4,000 acres, N. side of Licking, surveyed for Austin. John Fowler, 9,860 acres near Ohio. William Peters, 581-2 acres, Sandy. Gideon Grantlin, 1,000 acres, Ohio. John Miller, 1,000 acres, Sandy. William and Charles Marshall, 13,116 acres, N. fork of Licking. William Marshall, 3,000 acres, M. of Big Sandy. Robert Wood, 1,000 acres, Ohio. James Wood, 1,000 acres, do. John Vance, 1,000 acres, Mill creek. Joseph Wood's heirs, 1,005, Licking. Daniel Henry, 10,000 acres, Ohio. Reuben Guthrie, 500, acres, Licking. John Ferguson, 500, acres, Cabbin creek. Walter Graham, 20,000 acres, Licking. Moses Hunter, 1,709 acres, do. Isaac Lewis, 2,500 acres, Sandy. John Lee, 100 acres, Locust. William Linton and Willoughby Tibbs, 15,620 acres, Salt lick. Cleon Moore, 9,922 acres, Licking. Alexander D. Orr and John Fewler, 4,933-3-4 acres, Salt lick. Alexander D. Orr, 11,000 acres, do. John Orr, 17,500 acres, do. Benedict Triplett, 2,500 acres, Sandy. Willoughby Tibbs, 4,000 acres, Licking; 1,000, Ohio; 5,000, Licking; 5,000, Ohio; 11,639, Salt lick; 5,000, Sandy. Samuel Wilson, for Eliza Edmiston, 280 acres, North fork. James and John Sugat, 3,400 acres Quirk run. Alexander Brown, 16,000 acres, Tygerts creek. Thomas Barnett, 11,153 acres, Sandy. Thomas Bell, 3,800 acres, do. James Bell, 1,936 acres, do. James Brooks, 931-4 acres, Licking. John Bowman, 251 acres, do. Samuel Davis, 4,000 acres, Fleming. Joseph Frazer, 400 acres, Laurences creek. Richard Lee, 10,000 acres, Licking;
48,006, do. 6,000, do. Henry Crouch-er, 1,000 acres, North fork. William Creighton, 500 acres, Licking. Robert Creighton, 700 acres, Fleming. James Graham, 1,200 acres, Johnson's fork. Moses Hunter, 1,000 acres, North fork. William Marshall, 18,75 acres, Sandy; 583, do. 1,479, North fork. Thomas Maddox, 1,000 acres, Cabbin Creek. Charles Patterson, 12,500 acres, Johnson's fork. Abraham Sheppard, 1,000 acres, Fleming; 500, do. Joseph Galloway, 750 acres, Little Sandy. John Galloway, 250 acres, do. Samuel Galloway, 750 acres, do. James Galloway, 250 acres, do. William Derrett, 4,634 acres, do. Simon Kenton, 15,000 Tygerts creek; 3,250, do. 1,000, do. Thomas Morton heir of Alexander Thom, 9,888 acres, Licking. George Graham, 4,857-2 acres Sandy; 750, Cabbin creek; 1,700, Ohio; 4,000, Tygerts creek; 4,537-3, Tygerts and Sandy; 1,000, Ohio, 1,500, do. Thomas Marshall sen. 4, 4,000 acres, Sandy; 525, Licking; 4,002, Laurences creek. 10, Roberts, 500 acres, Sandy. Alexander Keed, 1,200 acres, do. Abram Carnett, 2,750 acres, Cabbin creek. Richard Wood, 6,300 acres, Licking. James Ware, 1,000 acres, Johnson's fork. Minor Winn, 5,500 acres, Licking. Samuel Barbee, 500 acres, N. fork do. James Winn, 34,000 acres, Tygerts creek.
Thomas Dobyns, Stff.
WILL be sold to the highest bidder, for cash, on the 13th day of August next, at Mount Sterling, the following tracts of land, or so much thereof, as will discharge the tax due thereon; to wit:
John Marks, 2600, Millers creek. Stephen Jett, 799, Slate. Jonah Thompson, 500, Little mountain. Thomas Buck, 500, Grassly lick. John Smith, 200, Licking. Gofrey Yager, 400, do. William Pollard, 1000, Red river. Thomas Harris 1000, Licking. William Shannon, 2000, north fork Kentucky. John Mayo's estate: 3000, Luluburg. Isaac Davis jun. 1000, Little mountain. Thomas Bedford 8000, Slate. William Matthews, 3000, Licking. Benjamin Holliday's heirs, 1000, Mud lick. James Holliday, 400, Slate. James Vaun, 799-3-4, Red river. David Sandage, 750, Slate; 572, Indian creek. Aspin Sandage, 500, Slate. Joseph Curd, 500, north fork Kentucky; 1000, Kentucky. Edward Curd, 2000, waters of Kentucky. John C. Owings: 2000, Slate creek; 1300 Indian fields; 500, Mud lick; 400, Hinkston; 900, Snake run; 8,000, Stephens; 4,000, Slate; 1,000, Flat creek; 200 Prickley osh. William Dunaway, 352, head waters of Slate. Thomas Miller 2000 Hinkston; 3000, waters of Licking. Thomas Miller and John Farrard, 1000, Licking. Peter D. Robert, 18352, Red river; 11646-2-3 North fork. Job Johnson's estate, 1500, waters of Kentucky. Francis Payton, 3000, Hinkston. James Nelson, 500, Red river. Evans Evans, 500, Licking. Alexander Masie, 460, Luluburg. Henry Young, 13006-2, Main Licking and Flat creek. W. Marshall & E. Langhorn, 6883-2-3, Flat creek. John Murray, 10,000, Kentucky. Benjamin Vanter, 250, branch of Licking. Samuel M'riday, 6644, Slate. Joseph Yearly, 450 —. Wm Webb, 834, Licking. James Minor's heirs, 2000, Slate. Garrard Minor, 2000, do. John Harris sen. 5000, do. John Welch, 300, do. Humphrey Tompkins, 2000, Red river; 1321, Hinkston, Henry Beard, 1092-2, Kentucky. Hardiman Beard, 1273, do. Richard Barr, 500, Licking and Slate. John Adcock, 500, Licking. Raney Shasteen, 600, Slate. Caleb Callaway, 9602, Spencer and Hinkston, 2000, waters of Kentucky. Dubart's Shepherd, 2900, Kentucky. John Donald, 2000, Main Licking. William Simms, 6000, Lick creek, branch of Kentucky. Thomas Cartwright, 1000, North fork of Kentucky. William Winlow, 424, Licking. Moses Hunter, 2000, Red river. Jeremiah Moore, 1271, Slate and Flat creek; 1000, Flat creek. John Farrow, 2000, Slate. Stephen French, 2205, Slate. Anthony and John Rucker, 500 Kentucky. William Payne, 1000, Slate. Abner Crump & Co. 5859-2. Robert Morris, 10,000, waters of Kentucky; 500, waters North fork Kentucky; also 7000; also 3125; also 3466-2-3; also 5000, waters North fork Kentucky; 15,000, on the North fork Kentucky. Henry Garrett, 1000, Slate. John Alexander and Charles Burns, 3000, Hinkston. Daniel Baillie, 1000, Mud lick.

John Chiles, 1000, Summerjet. William Chiles, 500 do. Andrew Crockett, 400 James Crockett, 2000. Walter Chiles, 1000, Licking. William Chiles, 850, State. James Doyl, 1072 3-4, do. Thomas Francis, 500. Summerjet. James Fox, 1000, State. Reuben Garnet, 1700. Peter Gooding's heirs, 2000, Licking. Joel Lippcomb, 500, Hinkston. Samuel M'Graw, 5937, Kentucky. George Mason, 400, Summerjet. John M'Kinny, 500, Red river. William M'Kee, 536. Matthew Robinson, 10000, Red river. Joseph Sandage, 300, Licking. John C. Tully, 300, State. George Underwood, 3047, Licking; 1950 do. Richard Webb, 2000, Flat creek; 2000 do. Aaron Bedfor, 500, Muddy. Samuel Ewing, 1500, Licking. Nathaniel Rochefer, 1672. Millers creek. Daniel Boone, 1500 Red river; 5000, head of Kentucky. Benjamin Bibb, 1150, Red river. Jacob Myers, 1000, State creek; 500, Middle lick. James Morgan, 750 State creek. James Beatty, 1500. Christopher Crinn, 150, Lubulgrad. George and Abraham George, 1000. Daniel Smith, 70. William Hill 150. Henry Myers, 200. John Gilson, 10000, State creek. William B. Crinn, 100. David Jamison, 3000. Andrew Kincaid, 200, William Linn, 1000. John Montgomery, 5000, Licking. John Douglas, 300, do. Evan Craddock 375. do. Benjamin Dickler, 450, do. Anthony Handley, 2000. Kin-tucy. Thomas M'Connel's heirs, 4500, Licking. Eli Thompson, 641 2, State. Cornelius Wincoop, 1000 do. James Nourse, 5000, Sandy. Robert Garnett, 1833, Kentucky. Richard Lyvory, 1000, Summerjet. John Reed, 500. John M'Clung, 270. John Austin, 1000, Kentucky; 1000, Red river; 1000, do. Benjamin Oliver, 3000, Red river. John Gore, 1000. Benjamin Winflow, 500, Kentucky. Daniel Henry, 2223-2, Little Sandy. George Slaughter, 500, Kentucky. William T. T. 5600-4, Licking. William M'Graw, 45, State. William B. Sears, 1500, Hinkston. Thomas Holes, 5000, Licking; 2000 State; 2000 and 1000, do. Thomas Middleton, 250, Grassy creek. George Grasham, 1000, waters of Hinkston. Catesby Grayham, 950, Summerjet. The sale will commence at 10 o'clock P. M. and continue by adjournment, until all is sold, or the taxes paid. Titles to purchasers will be made as the law directs. Robert Higgins, Shff. Clarke. July 6th, 1798.
A LIST of delinquents returned from the Auditor of Public accounts, to the sheriff of Hardin county, to be sold for the taxes due thereon: Elizabeth Moody, 2000 acres, waters of Green river. Anthony W. White, 1000, Rough creek. Robert Cobb, 60, 322 Ohio. Kinnian Jones 118, 822, Panther creek; 4000 ditto; 5000 Ohio; 10,000 do.; 10,500 Caney creek; 3,547 Bear creek; 2,933 Pleasant cr. 4000 Ohio; 1000 Little Clifty; 4,041 Round bottom; 2000 Otter creek; 5000 Clover creek; 2000 Nolin; 400 Wolf creek; 10,000 do.; 2,600 Panther creek; 20,000 do.; 400 Nolin; 1000 Sovern's Valley; 600 Rough cr. 600 do.; 600 Otter creek; 400 S fork Otter creek; 500 Sinking creek; 6000 Bulbus grove; 200; 1,400; 2000 Clover creek; 1000 Laurel creek; 1000, 4,500 Nolin, mudd.; 800 Nolin station; 700 Dog creek; 2000 Rock creek; 8,728 Caney creek; 1000 do.; 1,500 Rough creek; 1000 Sovern's valley; 1000 Billey's creek; 1000 Nolin creek; 500 Sulphur creek; 300 adjoining Re-nich; 500 Round-tone creek; 14,200 Big Reedy; 2,450 Caney creek; 7,200 Panther creek; 1000 Bear creek; 140 ditto. James Brown 1000 Rough cr. Howell Lewis 10,000 Panther creek. Nicholas Broyle 1400 Middle creek. Nancy Cady and Rebecca M'Donald 1200 Rough creek. Robert Buckner 2000. Lawrence Grisham 325. Elisha Freeman 400 Nolin. Jacob Short 400 do. John Barnett's heirs 400. Richard Harrison 3000 Rough creek. Robert Johnston 537 do. 1472 Clifty. Alexander Marr 1000 Green river. James Strode 800. William Witherly 2,600 Nolin. Moses White 500 in the Barrens. Thomas Bull 15 Rolling fork; 400 do. William Blackburn 200 do. Joseph Barnett dec. 30,000 Rough cr. Charlock Courtney 123 Nolin. Samuel Cample 1,094, Valley. Samuel Culberson 330 Little Clifty. Samuel Evans 10,000 Bear creek. Aaron Graham 120 Rough creek. John Handley 7,500 Green river; 10,054 do. 3,794 do. 4100 do. 4000 do. 2000 Panther creek; 1,500 do. 5000 Rough creek; 5000 Long-lick creek; 400 Valley creek; 1000 Sinking creek;
400 Nolin; 1000 Green river; 350 Sinking creek; 600 Rock creek; 300 do. Charles Hickman 1000 Clover creek; 500 Hardins creek; 163 Clover creek. Samuel M'Grady 500 Halls creek. James Nourse 1500 Bonds creek; 3,996 Rough creek; 116 Nolin; 2000 Cedar creek; 750 do. 4311 Rough creek; 1000 do. 3000 do. 1150; 1000 Nolin; 400 do. 788 Salt-lick creek; 1200 Green river; 1800 Bear creek; 2000 Rough creek; 200 Nolin; 2000 Rough creek; 100 Otter creek. George Partley 200 Middle creek. Enos Randolph 124 Rolling fork. Isham Talbot 2040 Salt river. Joseph Vanmeter 262 Nolin. Nicholas Welch 1130 Rough creek. Richard L. Waters 2000 Clifty. Walter Baker's heirs 1000 Green river. John Comb's heirs 200 Rough and Sinking creek. Thomas Hays 3200 Dovets & Limestone. Joseph Graves 643 Caney creek. David Keith 2000 Nolin. Benjamin Pope, in the name of Edward Goodin 400 Rolling fork. William Weathers 500 Ohio, mb. S. R. 500 adjoining the above. Thomas Parker 1000 Buffalo creek; Samuel Peartman 300 Rolling fork. Richard Taylor 1000 Panther creek. Armsted Churchill 250 Valley creek; 200 do. Robert Johnston 800 Bartons; 750 Rock-lick creek; 1472 Big Clifty. Joseph Allen 1000 Hardins creek; 1000 do. Francis Blunt 500 Nolin. Thomas Austin 1200. John Fowler 80,000 on Green river. Smith paynce 2649 Little yellow bank creek. Matthew Ridgely dec. 1500 Nolin; 500 Mill creek; 200 Salt river; 1000 Nolin; 600 Ohio; 200 Cane run. George Slaughter 1500 Blaickfords creek. Thomas Watkins 1000 Rough creek. John Philips 4924. Morris Langhorn 3000 Wolf creek. John Langhorn 3000 do. Isaac Hite's executors 500 Hardins creek; 500 do. 500 Clover creek; 1000 Hardins creek; 519 Rough creek; 418 do; 500 Shot-pouch creek. George Rogers 500 Helm's fork, Bear creek. Jonathan Swift 3400 Indian camp creek; 1950 Welch's creek; 568 waters do. Simon Triplett 1000 Lynn camp creek. Joseph Butler 1000 do. Robert Walsh 20718 Rough creek. William Pollard 1000 Clear creek. Saml. Payne 708 loat run branch. Benjamin Toler 1803 & 3 8 waters of Lewis creek. Margaret Ray 400 Bear creek. Philip Ray 400 do. Joseph Ray 400 do. Sarah Ray 400 do. Thomas Dixon 2000 Little yellow bank creek. Edward Ireland 4000 Nolin and Rolling fork. Jesse Hollandsworth 2000 waters Green river. Sampson Matthews 4670-2 Caney and Bear creek; 1500 Clover creek. John Brown 1000 Clifty. Thomas Gains 620 do. John Watkins 2500 Green river. Richard Hord dec. 763 waters do. 1777 & 2 3 Green river; 1335-4 waters Panther creek; 666 & 2 3 do. Thomas Hord 1777 & 2 3 Green river; 1335-2 waters Panther creek; 666 & 2 3 Panther creek; 731-2 Green river; John Hord 721-2 waters Green river; 1777 & 2 3 Green river; 1335-2 Panther creek; 666 & 2 3 do. Adrian Valch 4000 Ohio. Elisha Leak 1000. Alexander Thom's heirs 2925 waters Green river. William Goodwin 400 Wolf creek, near Ohio; 1000; 1000; 3000. Francis Wheatly 1000 Green river. William Whitley 500 do. Joseph Wilkinson 5997 & 3 4 Rough cr. William Withers sen. 500 on the Ohio; 500 do. George Bourne 1500 Green river. Thomas Bourne 2000 do. Ralph Humphreys's adm's 500 Valley creek. John Smith 500 Rough creek. John Swan 1000 do. 500 Mill creek; 1000 in the Barrens. David Ramsey 12,500 waters Green river; 2500 do. John Howell 5472 Rough creek. Lewis Ward 325 Round stone. James Wilkinson 3000 below Salt river; 5779 waters of Rough creek. John Houston 860 do. 640 do. William Fullerton 5000 do. 4000 head do. James Steel 30,000 Green river and Nolin. William Billings-fied 1000 do. Isaac Bowman 1400 Delaware creek. Joseph Nourse 400 Green river; 285 Reedy creek. Walker & Smith 2416 2 Rough creek. Richard Gains 3200 Big Clifty; 544 do. 1101 Barnett's creek. William Galt 1060 waters Green river. Jacob Souther 1100 Rough creek. Peter Defargus 500 do. Adam Hops 1800 Indian-camp creek. Israel Smith 3000 branch Rough creek. James Dickey, Robert Johnson and James Buckhammon 5000 waters Nolin. Dickey and Buckhammon 2610 Ohio, mouth Dock run. John Fitch 500 waters Rough creek. Ralph W. Hunt 1500 Green river. Arthur Campbell 400 Ohio. John V. Webb 1000 waters Rough creek. Isaac Winston 2062 Rough creek; 2038 do. Samuel Terrell 500 Ohio; 600 Bear creek; 200 do. Henry Work 400
Nolin; 1000 Green river. Moses Tut-tie, 300 waters do. William Russell 3000 Nolin; 2000 waters Rough creek. John Blanton 271 Salt river and Harrods creek; 60 waters Ohio; 56 do. 2500 Big Reedy; 1114 Indian camp creek; 684 Rough creek; 108 do. 4331; 480; 43. Hugh Barby 1300 below Hardins creek. Archibald Crawford 200 waters of Green river. William Herndon 4050 waters of Ohio. Ignatius Pigman 900 Green river; 1000 do. 1025 Rough creek; 600 Indian camp. John Hood 30,000 Nolin. Joseph Hornsby 400 Panther creek; 400 do. James Morrison 12,000 Green river. Henry Harrison 600 Green river. Arthur Campbell 400 do. William C. Webb 1000 Rough creek. John Dorritt 300 Hardins creek. David Barbour 113,482 Ohio. John C. Owings 7,093 Rough Creek; 400 do. Robert Morris 75,000 Rough creek; 5200 Green river; 15,000 waters of the Rolling fork & Green river. Samuel Sherwin's heirs 1600 Ohio; 1000 wolf creek. Francis Epp's heirs 3000 Ohio. Alexander Spottswood 2000 South branch of Rough creek. Which sale will commence on the 15th day of August 1798, and adjourn from day to day till the whole be sold. GEO. HELM, SHFF. H. C. July 12, 1798.
NOTICE. IS hereby given, that I shall apply to the county court of Warren in August next, for an order to establish a town agreeable to law, on my land lying on Big Barren river at the confluence of said river and Drakes creek. ANDREW M'FADDIN. June 6th, 1798.
NOTICE. THAT application will be made to the county court of Bourbon county at their next September court for leave to establish a town on my lands on Hinkston's fork of Licking creek, at the place known by the name of Millersburgh. JOHN MILLER. July 2d, 1798. 2am 3m
NOTICE. THERE will be application made to the county court of Warren county, for a town to be established on the lands of Samuel Doughty against the October court, 1798. *6s
Twenty-six Dollars Reward.
DESERTED, from this garrison, on the night of the 12th inst. James M'Gonagle and Eliza Cachill, soldiers of the 4th United States regiment. M'Gonagle is an Irishman by birth, about twenty-one years of age, five feet eight inches high; dark complexion, long black hair, black eyes, by trade a cooper—he formerly lived in Maryland and Delaware; and probably may steer that way or to Kentucky. Cachill is country born, about twenty-one years of age, five feet five inches high, fair complexion, brown hair, black eyes, by trade a blacksmith, has a cast in his left eye, which is very observable. They went off in company, and took their regimental cloathing with them. It is presumed that M'Gonagle will forge passes and discharges for themselves. The above reward will be paid for apprehending and securing them, or on delivering them to any officer in the United States, or thirteen dollars for either, and reasonable expences if brought to this place. B. Lockwood, Capt. 4th U. S. regt. Fort Butler, 13th July, 1798.
TAKE NOTICE.
THAT on the 22d day of August 1797, I shall attend with the commissioners appointed by the county court of Shelby, to take the deposition or depositions, as the case may be, to establish the calls in an entry made in the name of John Withers and James Duncan, for one thousand acres of land lying on the waters of Brashear's creek, near the head of Clear creek; the said entry calls for the head of a branch which runs into the said creek, opposite to John Bailey's cabin, and to include a cabin built by Ryan Hinton. I shall meet at Mr. Abraham Reece's tavern near the head of Clear creek, and from thence proceed to Hinton's cabin, then and there to take the depositions agreeable to an act of the legislature for that purpose. George Marshall, attorney for runners.
A Caution to the Public,
Respecting a forgery that has lately taken place in Kentucky.
WHEREAS, my business last summer, called me from this state, to the state of Georgia, at which place I exchanged my lands, and other property in Georgia, with a certain Daniel Wagoner, for six thousand nine hundred and seventy-six acres of military lands, in Logan county, Kentucky, in three different tracts—the patents whereof, were issued in the name of Joseph Trible, who was there at that time, and made the deeds of conveyance to me, as Mr. Wagoner only obtained the lands from him a few days before his contract with me, which was in the month of August, ninety-seven. To each tract, was a certificate, setting forth the quality of the lands, signed by Rowland Madison, and Robert Ewing, justices of the peace, in, and for Logan county. Below each certificate in this order was another certificate, asserting those men to be justices of the peace in Logan county, signed by Samuel Caldwell, clerk of said county, with the county seal affixed thereto; and that the said described lands were clear of all incumbrance whatever. Therefore, through the faith and credit I put in those papers, I exchanged my lands in Georgia, and having returned this spring to this state, I went to Logan county, to see the lands, but found them not. I then went to the gentlemen that should have recommended the lands, to whom I produced the papers, that they should have signed, but every man denied the hand writing, and protested the whole proceedings to be forgery. On my return I called on Governor Shelby, who should have signed the patents, he also protested the patents to be forged, and never signed by him. I then went to the land office, at Frankfort, and the clerk thereof protested that no such patents were ever issued from that office, nor any entry made of any such lands. James Brown, did also protest his name, on each patent, not to be his hand writing, who was then secretary of the state. Now, though I have recourse to a bond with security, recorded in Wilkes county office, for the value of my property, in Georgia—yet, in order to do justice to other citizens, both here and elsewhere, I have thought proper to make this matter known, that there may not be such an imposition used upon other men, as what hath been done on me. But, I am not the only sufferer in this villainy. From what I learn, there has been thirty-two thousand acres of military lands, forged in the same way, and sold last fall, in Redstone; and near forty thousand acres more, in old Virginia. It is generally thought that this forgery hath taken place near the Cumberland river, and not far distant from the settlement of Philip Alston in Christian county. But, I take it for granted, that those gentlemen who hold the reins of government in their hands, will not pass over this with impunity, but endeavor as much as they can, to check the progress of this gross evil, lest those villains over run the land, as the caterpillars and locusts did the land of Egypt. With the not become as pernicious to this commonwealth, as the Hessian fly is to the wheat? Doth not Justice say, cut them down; why incumbereth they the ground? But, mercy saith, erect your penitentiary house, or solitary cell, where, they may work out their time with a living sorrow, which will be doing justice to the community at large, and to none more than the present sufferer, M. KAIN.
P. S. It is evident from the hand writing of Trible, in signing the deeds to me, that he was not capable of completing the forgery, though a villain in the mean, I believe. He is about 6 feet high, 35 or 36 years of age, and weighs nearly about two hundred, and is now said to be in the Creek nation. In Robinson county, state of Tennessee, he is known by the name of Joseph Still, or Trible Still, in Hanover county Virginia, where he was mostly raised, he is known by Joseph Welsher Trible, but in all his papers to me, by the name of Joseph Trible. &c. M. K.
The Kentucky English Grammar, May be had at the Office of the Kentucky Gazette.

THE SUBSCRIBERS HAVE just imported, and now open- ed for sale, a large and very ge- neral assortment of MERCHANDIZE, Well calculated to all seasons; which they will sell on very low terms for cash.
TROTTER & SCOTT.
N. B. the subscribers have imported a large quantity of well assorted barr iron, and also have a constant supply of castings and salt. tf
FOR SALE,
Forty thousand acres of L A N D, ON LICKING.
3,350, ditto in Jefferson county, on the wa- ters of Bear Grass. 1000 acres of a pre-emption in Shelby county, Fose's run. 400 acres adjoining the pre-emption. 1000 acres on the Ohio, Jefferson county. 2,500 on the Ohio, Mason county. 2000 do. do. 4000 acres on the Beech Fork, Nelson coun- ty. 2,333 1-3 acres on Fern creek, Jefferson coun- ty. 7000 acres on Rough creek, Hardin county. 4,300 acres in Mason county, on the Ohio. 450 acres on Green-river, Lincoln county. 750 acres on Coxe's creek, Nelson county. 1000 do. near the Kentucky river, Woodford county. The greater part of the above lands I will sell very low for the next crop of tobacco, wheat, flour, hemp or merchandise.
SAMUEL P. DUVALL.
April 1st, 1798. tf
Doctor Samuel Brown,
BEGS leave to inform the public, that he will practice MEDICINE and SURGERY in LEXINGTON and its vicinity—He occupies the house in which Mr. Love lately lived, opposite to Mr. Stewart's printing office.
He will undertake, on reasonable terms, to instruct one or two pupils, who can bring good recommendations. September 5, 1797. tf
I HAVE been directed by the ma- nagers of the Lexington Lodge lot- tery, to order suits to be commenced against every person in arrears for the purchase of tickets without dis- crimination: but think it proper to give this further notice, under the fullest confidence, that many of those indebted will prevent the managers from being forced to a measure so ex- tremely disagreeable; and will re- lieve them from their present difficul- ties, by immediately paying to me, their respective balances due the lot- tery. Application is frequently made for prizes; but no money to discharge them—suits have been commenced and judgments obtained against the managers. CASH is really wanted, and it is hoped this notice will be at- tended to.—No further indulgence can be given. All those who have purchased tickets and are entitled to a credit on account of prizes, are re- quested to forward their fortunate numbers as soon as possible, that the true state of their accounts may be known. THOS. BODLEY, for the Managers.
TO BE SOLD FOR CASH.
A Likely Negro Woman,
WELL calculated for house business.— Cooks, Washes, Sews and Knits well. Apply to the printer hereof.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, liv- ing in Washington county on the north side of the Chaplin fork near the mouth of Thomsons creek, a sorrel mare with a white mane and tail, sup- posed to be fifteen or sixteen years old, fourteen hands high, no brand per- ceivable, but on the point of her off hip stands a scar or brand thus C, with a blaze face, saddle spots on both sides of her back, appraised to 71. 10s.
Mathew Ramey.
May 26th, 1798.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living in Garrard county on Back creek, a bay mare one year old last spring, a- bout four feet two inches high, with a mealy nose, no brand perceivable, appraised to 21. 2s.
John Bruce.
February 5th, 1798.
N. B. Since the above mare has shed there appears a brand on the near shoulder thus J.
BLANK DEEDS for sale at this Office.
Alexander Parker.
Has just received from Philadelphia, in addition to his former assortment, Sherry and Port Wines, French brandy, spirits & shrub. Hyson-skin & bo- hea teas. Madder, White lead and Spanish whiting. Anvils, whipsaws, Crowley steel,
Screw augers, Whee irons, Knives and forks, Sprigs & Saddler's tacks, Queens and glass ware, assorted, Coarse muslins, Stuff and Moroc- co slippers, &c. &c. &c.
Which he will sell on moderate terms for CASH. Lexington, June 1st. 1798.
JOHN JORDAN jun.
HAS just arrived from Philadelphia with a LARGE and EXTENSIVE ASSORTMENT of MERCHANDIZE;
Which he is now opening and will sell whole sale, on moderate terms. Lexington, February 18th, 1798.
FOR SALE,
Several Small Tracts of very Valuable LAND, and of incontestible Title, (viz:)
MILITARY LANDS IN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE.
360 Acres, comprehending three tracts of 120 acres each, adjoining the southern bounda- ries of an addition to the town of Clarksville, of the eastern bank of the river Cumberland, with a fine spring of water in each of the said tracts. 46 town lots, and out lots, being part of 56 town lots and out lots in the aforesaid addition to the town of Clarksville.
53 separated out lots of two acres each, be- ing part of 55 out lots, lying on the east side of the aforesaid addition to the town of Clarksville, reserved for the accommodation of the pur- chasers of the town lots, during the term of 18 months from November last.
IN THE ILLINOIS GRANT, N. W. TERRITORY. 200 acres, being part of a 500 acre survey No. 126, granted to John Moore, as sergeant of artillery in the Illinois regiment, by a deed of the trustees of said grant.
LANDS LYING NEAR THE VILLAGE KASKASKIA.
In the Illinois district, now county of St. Clair, N. W. Territory, granted by court or com- mandant for the state of Virginia, in 1783. 1440 acres, viz. 960 in 8 grants of 120 acres —480 in 2 grants of 240 acres; joined together on the east side of the river Kaskaskias, opposite the village of the same name.
364 acres bounded on the front by the said ri- ver Kaskaskias.
3880 ditto, comprehending 10 grants in the year 1784, lying together on the west side of the river Kaskaskias, above and near the village of the same name.
360 ditto, bounded on the north by the afore- said 10 grants.
Also one lot in the town of Kaskaskias, plea- santly situated near the bank of the river.
For further information apply to
P. D. ROBERT.
Who has for sale 450 lbs. of very good GUN POWDER. Lexington, April 4, 1798. tf
FOR SALE,
ALL the lands belonging to John Cockey Owings, in this state.— Also his share in the Iron Works—for terms apply to
B. VANPRADELLES, attoy. in fact for John Cockey Owings.
FRENCH SCHOOL.
THE SUBSCRIBER, ENCOURAGED by a number of re- spectable persons, has lately re- moved to the town of Lexington. He proposes, with the assistance of his wife, to instruct young people of both sexes, in the
FRENCH LANGUAGE & DANCING.
His terms will be moderate; and those who entrust him with the care of their children, may rely on his at- tention and assiduity. He will com- mence teaching on the 23d of this month.
Woldemard Mentelle.
July 20, 1798. 13t
EIGHT DOLLARS REWARD.
Ran away from the subscribers, in Fayette county, on Sunday the 15th inst. two ne- gro men, named Scipio, and Jacob. Scipio is a- bout five feet five inches high, has a hole in his left leg which is the smallest occasioned by a cut, wears a linen shirt and trowsers, and a dove coloured wool hat. Jacob has on tow linen shirt and trowsers, mankin waistcoat, and an old hat, a- bout five feet four inches high. Whoever takes up said negroes and secures them so that we get them again, shall receive the above reward and what is allowed by law.
ANDREW M'CALLA, JOSHUA BROWN. July 14th, 1798. *ttf
BLANK BOOKS, Suitable for Clerks, Merchants, Sheriffs, &c. for sale at this office.
TROTTER & SCOTT,
HAVING determined to make a full settle- ment of all accounts from their commence- ment in business in this country until the pre- sent date, earnestly request all those indebted to them, either by bond, note or book account, to come forward and make immediate payment, as the nature of their business will not admit of longer delay. They therefore hope, they shall be prevented from the disagreeable necessity of commencing suits against any. Lexington, December 19, 1797.
TOBACCO MANUFACTORY.
THE subscriber informs his friends and the public in general, that he continues to carry on the manufactory of tobacco, in all its various branches, equal to any in this state, nearly opposite lawyer Hughes's, on Main street, where he intends to have a quantity ready for sale, wholesale and retail. Those gentlemen who please to favor him with their custom may be supplied on the shortest notice. A considerable credit will be given, when pur- chased wholesale, by giving bond with approved security. Lexington, Jan. 13, 1798. } JACOB LAUDEMAN.
Just arrived from New-Orleans,
A quantity of high proof
JAMAICA SPIRITS;
Also a quantity of
BEST HAVANNAH SUGAR,
Which will be sold on low terms.—Apply to
A. HOLMES. Lexington May 26, 1798. tf
Samuel & George Trotter,
HAVE just received and are now opening at their store in Lexington, A large and general assortment of merchandise, consisting of DRY GOODS, HARDWARE, GROCERIES, GLASS and QUEENSWARE: NAILS, AN- VILS, VICES, STEEL, &c. which will be sold on the very lowest terms for CASH.
In addition to the above, they have lately received
Mill Gudgeons, and 8 by 10 Window-Glass.
Just Imported,
And now opening, at the corner of Main and Cross streets, opposite the old court-house, a variety of articles, adapted to the present and approaching season, viz.
An assortment of dry goods, Hardware & cutlery, Saddlery, harness, whips and reins, Crockery and glass ware, Japaned do. A general assortment of tin do. Pewter basins, dishes and plates. Superfine post and common paper, School bibles and tes- taments, Spelling books, Dilworth's assistant. Mairs book-keeping, Blank books, Cherry bounce, Porter, Wines, Teas, Coffee, and Chocolate, Pepper, Loaf, white & brown Sugars, Alpice, cinnamon, ginger &c. Alum, copperas, ar- natto, A few hundred of ex- cellent logwood. Jesuit's bark, Glauber's salts. Copper tea kettles, Two large and one small still, Sheet iron & nail rods, Nails & flooring brads, from 3d. to 12d. Window glass, 7 by 9 8 by 10, 9 by 11, 10 by 12, A variety of saddlery, Saddles, saddle bags whips and bridles of every description. Also a few excellent double and single trigger rifles.
All of which will be disposed of extremely low for cash, by the public's humble servant, NATHAN BURROWS. Lexington, March 8, 1798.
*A generous price will be given for coun- try ingar,
Secretary's Office,
20th July, 1798.
WHEREAS it is provided in and by
an act to amend an act entitled "an act to amend an act entitled an act for opening a road to Cumberland Gap," that if John Thurman, who by the said act was appointed KEEPER or THE TURNPIKE for and during the term of seven years, should refuse to act, the governor should appoint some other person in his room, who shall give bond & security in the penalty of 3000! to keep the road in repair; and whereas the said John Thurman has refused to act; Notice is hereby gi- ven that the Governor will be ready to receive any proposals for keeping the said turnpike, accompanied by the names of the persons who will give the required security, at any time within one month from the date there- of.
HARRY TOULMIN.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living in Montgomery county, on Flat creek, near the road that leads from Paris, to Slate furnace, a black mare, five years old, with a blaze face four- teen hands high, flood all round branded thus E, on both shoulders, appraised to eighteen pounds. April 28th, 1798.
For Sale, 98
THE FOLLOWING TRACTS OF LAND.
ONE tract lying in the county of Camp ell, on the waters of Locust creek, containing 2699 acres. One tract, lying on Long Lick creek, a branch of Rough creek, Hardin county, about seven miles from Hardin settlement, con- taining 2500 acres.
The above lands will be disposed of on mode- rate terms; one half of the purchase money to be paid down, for the other a credit of twelve months will be given; the purchaser giving bond with approved security. Any person in- clined to purchase, may know the terms by applying to Capt. Robt. Craddock in Danville or, JOHN W. HOLT, atty. in fact for THOS. HOLT.
THE subscribers have a quantity of HEMP
in town to break, for which service they will give 7/6 per 112 lb.
DAVID DODGE, & Co. Lexington, Jan. 31, 1798.
FOR SALE,
FOUR hundred and twenty-four acres
of LAND, lying on the Main branch of Lick
ing, patented and surveyed in the year 1788—
the title indisputable. For terms apply to
the subscriber at Capt. William Allen's, Lexington.
ROBERT BRADLEY. tf
JUST IMPORTED,
AND TO BE SOLD AT THE SIGN OF
ANDREW M'CALLA'S
APOTHECARY SHOP,
Near the STRAY PEN, Lexington, a variety of
FRESH MEDICINE, PAINTS, &c.
Among which are, Wolf Bait, Gum Elastic,
Lamp Black, Nipple Glass, Breast Pipes, Steel
Trusses, Sand Crucibles, Almonds, Tamarinds
Guaran Jelly, Anchovies.
A number of which he will sell much lower
than any that has hitherto been offered in this
state. February 19, 1798.
David Humphreys,
CLOCK & WATCH-MAKER,
Respectfully informs his friends
and the public in general, that he car- ries on his business in all its various
branches, in Capt. Kenneth M'Coy's
house on Mill street, the second house
from Short street, Lexington.—Those
who please to favor him with their
custom may depend on having their
work done in the neatest and best
manner and on the shortest notice.
Just published by John Bradford, and for sale at his office, Lexington, and at the office of John Bradford & Son, Frankfort, Price 18d.
EXTRACTS from the REVENUE LAWS of the
UNITED STATES.
Comprehending such parts of the excise laws,
—laws laying duties on licenses for selling wines
&c.—on riding carriages,—on property sold at
auction—and on stamps, as appears best calcu- lated for the information of such as have not an opportunity of perusing the laws of the general government.
Also, (Price 4d.) A FEW COPIES OF THE
STAMP DUTIES,
Printed on thick paper, and calculated to be fitted into a pocket book.
Mason county Ky. May term 1798
William Chambers, complainant,
AGAINST
David Duncan, Alexander Cochran,
Edward Thursby, John T. Thom, James
A. Thom, Hedgeman Thom, Allen Thom,
Reuben Thom, Simon Thom, and George
Thom, defendants.
IN CHANCERY.
IT appearing to the satisfaction of
this court, that the defendants, A-
lexander Cochran, Edward Thursby,
John Thom, James A. Thom, Hedge-
man Thom, Allen Thom, Reuben
Thom, Simon Thom, and George
Thom, heirs and representatives of
Reuben S. Thom, decd. are not inha-
bitants of this state, and they failing
to appear and answer the complainants
bill agreeable to law and the rules of
this court;—upon motion of the
said complainant, by his attorney, it
is ordered that unless they do appear
here on the fifth day of the next Au-
gust court in their proper persons or
by some attorney of this court, and
answer the said complainants bill, the
same shall be taken for confessed. And
it is further ordered, that a copy of
this order be published according to
law in the Kentucky Gazette or Hier-
ald, another posted at the door of the
Baptist meeting house in Washington
immediately after divine service, and
a third at the door of the court house
in said town.
(A copy.) Teste.
THOMAS MARSHALL, CLK.
JUST PUBLISHED,
And may be had at this office, Acts of Assembly, passed at the last session.