The Kentucky gazette (Lexington [Ky.]), 1790-03-22 00:00:00

K E N T U C K Y G A Z E T T E.
M O N D A Y, M A R C H 22, 1790.
LEXINGTON: Printed by JOHN BRADFORD at his Office at the corner of Main and Cross Streets, where Subscriptions, Advertisements, &c. for this paper, are thankfully received, and PRINTING in its different branches done with Care and Expedition.
I HAVE a considerable quantity of valuable iron mongery, buckles and buttons, round glass and Queens ware, Men's and Womens shoes, Hats, Norwich camblets and callimancoes, India Chintzes, Muslins, Silks and Calicoes, together with a compleat assortment of British mounted Carpenters and Joiners tools, which, with a variety of other articles, I will exchange at the lowest cash price for young healthy Negroes, two or three yoke of oxen, and a quantity of whiskey.
CHARLES VANCOUVER. Lexington, March 12, 1790.
PEYTON SHORT & CO. Have for sale at their store in Lexington, a considerable assortment of
D RY goods, hard ware and groceries, which they will sell on reasonable terms for cash, Tobacco, corn, wheat, rye, pork, beef, bacon, hemp, flour, furs of every kind, pitch and turpentine, &c. &c.
They flatter themselves they have given general satisfaction to those who have already favored them with their custom, for it has been their wish and shall be their study, although they receive every species of country produce, to sell on as moderate advance upon the Philadelphia cost, as any Merchant in the District.
March 6, 1790.
Excellent Wine Vinegar for sale at seven shillings and six pence per gallon by P. S. & Co.
THE subscribers take the liberty of informing the public, that they have opened, and established a butchers shop, where Andrew Steiger jun. Butcher from Baltimore Town, will kill and dress all kind of meat, of superior quality, and in the neatest fashion; any gentlemen and ladies who will honor them with their custom may rely on their ability to serve them.
JOHN SMITH. AND STEIGER.
N. B. They buy all kind of fat cattle, steers, calves, sheep, lambs and hogs, for which will be given, cash or store goods at cash price.
J. S. A. S. Lexington, March 5, 1790.
SIX HUNDRED ACRES OF LAND
To be laid off in a regular form, out of John Singleton's Military survey, WILL be given, to the person who shall first give such information to the Printer hereof, as will enable me to ascertain said survey.
Joseph Singleton Heir. N. B. Said Singleton served as a Captain in the late French and Indian war.
JUST OPENED, AND TO BE SOLD BY ANDREW HOMES & Co.
A large and general assortment of M E R C H A N D I S E, Suitable to the present and approaching season, which will be sold on the lowest terms for CASH or COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Wanted immediately, a few Firkins of good BUTTER. Lexington, Jan. 12, 1790.
WANTED
A quantity of Tobacco, Hemp, Hemp-seed Flour, Wheat, Bacon, Corn, Bear-skins & Furs of all kinds, for which Goods will be given at Cash price by PETER JANUARY & SON. March 18, 1790.
ALSO FOR SALE. T W O I N L O T S, ON MAIN STREET, IN THE TOWN OF LEXINGTON. P. J. & S.
JUST PUBLISHED THE KENTUCKY ALMANACK FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1790.
Printed on fine writing paper. And may be had at this Office by the Gross dozen or single.
NOTICE
IS hereby given to all those that are indebted to the estate of Alexander Martin deceased, either by note or book account, to come and settle the same with the subscriber by the first of June next, for they need not expect any farther indulgence—Also all those that have any demands, are desired to come and settle the same with JAMES LOWREY, Alm. Feb. 24, 1790.
H E M P
Wanted a quantity of hemp in a short time for which twenty-five shillings per hundred will be given if delivered at Frankfort, or twenty-three shillings in Lexington, payment will be made in merchandise at the lowest Cash price. Robert Barr. Lexington March 4 1790.
To be sold to the highest bidder, on Thursday the first day of April next an in-lot in the town of Lexington No. 85. being forfeited for want of improvement. By order of the Trustees. ROBERT PARKER CLK. March 12, 1790.
CHARLES WHITE 15 COPPER-SMITH. Late of NEW-YORK.
RESPECTFULLY informs the Public that he intends carrying on the Copper Smith's business at this place, in all its various branches, (to wit,) Stills, Brew and Die kettles &c. Also, casts all kind of brass work for mills—makes and repairs all kind of brass and tin work, likewise repairs all kinds of locks and keys. He buys all kinds of old copper, brass, pewter and lead.—Those who please to favor him with their custom shall have their work done in the best manner and on the shortest notice. Lexington, Dec. 8, 1789.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living in Fayette county, a bright bay Horse, 3 years old last spring, about 14 hands high, has a black spot on his off jaw—Appraised to £7. 10. George Stephenson. January 11th, 1790.
TAKEN up by the subscriber Mason county, near Washington a Large blue sow, loppe d ears, her mark in the Left ear a crop and swallow fork, upper and under-keel in the Right; Appraised to one pound four shillings. Jacob Edwards.
In pursuance of an act of assembly, the commissioners of the town of Louisville will sell, for ready money, on the fourth of May next, (being Jefferson court day) at the house of John Harrison, in said town,
THAT valuable square of ground in Louisville, number six, lying between the half acre lots and Water-street, late occupied by John Sinclair, and recovered from him by suit at law, in the supreme court of the district—Also, on the same terms, sundry other lots in the aforesaid town, their situation and numbers will be made known at the time of sale. By order of the board, JOHN CLARK, Chairman. February 10, 1790.
THE subscriber will rent, between 30 and 40 acres of cleared land, 3 miles below Lexington, under good fence, and will be in good order to raise a crop of corn the ensuing season. Thomas Lewis. March 6, 1790.
TAKEN up by the subscriber living on the four mile creek Fayette County the following strays (to wit,) a sorrel mare about 7 or 8 years old, with a large blaze in her face, natural trotter, about four feet four or five inches high, branded on the near buttock thus 2 appraised to £6. Also a black horse rising 3 years old, 4 feet 6 inches high, a small star and snip, also a small blaze of the length of 4 inches below the eyes with some white hairs in his tail no brand perceivable, appraised to £6. Also a bay horse colt, rising two years old, with a small star and a large snip, his off hind foot white, branded on the near buttock 2 appraised to £3. SOLOMON BRINDRIDGE.
NOTICE
IS hereby given that I intend to petition the next Assembly to confirm a title to me in the lands that were escheated from Robert M'Kenzie in the district of Kentucky, for the use of a public School. W. M'KENZIE. Manchester Dec. 21 1789. 29th.
THREE DOLLARS
REWARD.
STRAYED from near Shannon's mill, some time in August last, a small bay mare, 4 feet 5 or 6 inches high very lengthy, trots and canters well, 6 years old, no brand as I recollect, neatly made, had on when she went away a large new bell, 3 natches cut in the side edge of the bell, and two in the end edge, and I believe 2 or three in the flange, a leather stop; the mares tail had been lately scraped. Whoever delivers said mare or gives such information that I get her again, shall receive the above reward HENRY BROCK. Feb. 25, 1790.
ALL persons indebted to the subscriber are requested to settle and pay their respective balances to Mrs. Hugh Brenz, who is authorised to transact my business in my absence. HUGH MCHVAIN. Lexington March 10, 1790.
TAKEN up by the subscriber living on the west fork of Hickman Creek near the Clerks Office a black horse, about 8 years old, 14 hands high, several white spots on his buttock and a small star in his forehead. AMBROSE BARNETT. August 25, 1789.
To all Head-boroughs and Constables, within the Commonwealth of Virginia to whom these presents shall come. Paytite county ss.
WHEREAS it hath been proven on oath, before me James Trotter, one of the Justices of the peace for said county, that a certain Robert Grant, was feloniously murdered, on the evening of the ninth instant, in Lexington, by two persons, one of them a John Sprowle, lately from Jefferson county, a native of Ireland, is about five feet eight inches high, of a fair complexion, who hath since fled for the same, and not yet apprehended. Therefore, in the name of the commonwealth of Virginia, I charge and command you, and every of you, in your several precincts, to search diligently for the said John Sprowle, and make Hue and cry after him, from town to town, and from county to county, as well by Horsemen as Foot-men; and if you shall find him, that you apprehend and bring him before a justice of peace of the county where he shall be taken, to be dealt with as the law directs. Given under my hand and seal this 10th day of March, 1790.
James Trotter. (Is.)

Monsieur Savary, in his letters on Greece, after describing the Island of RHODES, concludes with the following description of the NATIONAL CHARACTER of its inhabitants.
The Island enjoys the happiest temperature, and its air is pure and salubrious. No epidemical disorders are known, but what are imported from other countries. The westerly winds, which prevail for nine months in the year, moderate the heats of summer; and, in the winter, ice, snow, and even hoar frosts, are unknown. In the dullest day, the sun disperses the clouds, and shews himself at least for some hours; through the whole year he enlightens the Island with his benificent rays, fertilizes the earth, and purifies the air, which is naturally humid. Tibérius, says Suetonius, "made a stay for some time at Rhodes, enchanted with the beauty and salubrious climate of the Island." So fine a sky, so delightful a temperature, have a manifest influence on the inhabitants. The Turks, born in the Island are of a milder disposition, and possess more politeness and urbanity, than in the other provinces of the empire. Less exposed than the Greeks, to the rapacity of the great, and peaceably enjoying their property, they here lead a happy life in the bosom of their families, and among them we meet with cheerfulness, integrity, and social manners. The Greeks live under the same sky; but accustomed perpetually to crouch beneath the iron sceptre that crushes them, they become hypocritical, deceitful, and dishonest. The proudest of mankind in prosperity, they are equally mean and cringing in misfortune. They are infected with all the vices which are the consequence of servitude yet compelled, as it were by the force of climate, they sometimes indulge in merriment. Their joy however, is not the mild tranquil joy of the Turks; but a clamorous and irrational mirth; the festivity, in short, of slaves, who, forgetting, for a moment, their wretched condition, dance amid their chains.
The enthufiasm of the family of D
THE family of Dutarres consisting of four sons and four daughters, mere descendents of French refugees, who came into Carolina after the revocation of the edict of Nantz. They lived in Orange quarter, and though in low circumstances always maintained an honest character, and were esteemed by their neighbours persons of blameless and irreproachable lives. But at this time a strolling Moravian preacher happening to come to that quarter where they lived, insinuated himself into their family, and partly by conversation, and partly by the writings of Jacob Behmen, which he put into their hands, filled their heads with wild and phantastic ideas. Unhappily for the poor family those strange notions gained ground on them, insomuch that in one year they began to withdraw themselves from the ordinances of public worship, and all conversation with the world around them, and strongly to imagine they were the only family upon earth who had the knowledge of the true God, and whom he vouchsafed to instruct, either by the immediate impulse of his Spirit, or by signs and tokens from Heaven. At length it came to open visions and revelations. God raised up a prophet among them like unto Moses, to whom he taught them to hearken. This prophet was Peter Rombert, who had married the eldest daughter of the family when a widow. To this man, the author and Governor of the world, deigned to reveal in the plainest manner, that the wickedness of man was again so great in the world, that as in the days of Noah he was determined to destroy all men off the face of it, except one family whom he would save for raising up a godly seed upon the earth. This revelation Peter Rombert was sure of, and felt it as plain as the wind blowing on his body, and the rest of the family, with equal confidence and presumption, firmly believed it.
A few days after this, God was pleased to reveal himself a second time to the prophet, saying, Put away the woman whom thou hast for thy wife, and when I have destroyed this wicked generation,
I will raise up her first husband from the dead, and they shall be man and wife as before, and go thou and take to wife her youngest sister, who is a Virgin, so shall the chosen family be restored entire, and the holy seed preserved pure and undefiled in it. At first the father, when he heard of this revelation, was staggered at so extraordinary a command from heaven; but the prophet assured him that God would give him a sign, which accordingly happened; upon which the old man took his youngest daughter by the hand, and gave her to the wife prophet immediately for his wife, who without further ceremony took the damsel and deflowered her.
Thus for some time they continued in acts of incest and adultery, until that period which made the fatal discovery, and introduced the bloody scene of blind fanaticism and madness.
Those deluded wretches were so far possessed with the false conceit of their own righteousness and holiness, and of the horrid wickedness of all others, that they refused obedience to the civil magistrate, and all laws and ordinances of men. Upon pretence that God commanded them to bear no arms, they not only refused to comply with the militia law, but also the law for repairing the high-ways. After long forbearance, Mr. Simmons, a worthy magistrate, and the officer of the militia in that quarter, found it necessary to issue his warrants for levying the penalty of the laws upon them. But by this time Judith Dutarres, the wife the prophet obtained by revelation proving with child, another warrant was issued for bringing her before the Justice to be examined, and bound over to the general sessions, in consequence of a law of the province, framed for preventing bastardy. The constable having received his warrants, and being jealous of musing with no good usage in the execution prevailed on two or three of his neighbours to go along with him.
The family observing the constable coming, and being apprized of his errand, consulted their prophet, who soon told them that God commanded them to arm and defend themselves against prosecution, and their substance against the robberies of ungodly men, assuring them at the same time that no weapon formed against them should prosper. Accordingly they did so, and laying hold of their arms, fired on the constable and his followers, and drove them out of their plantation. Such behaviour was not to be tolerated, and therefore Captain Simmons gathered a party of militia, and went to protect the constable in the execution of his office. When the deluded family saw the Justice and his party approaching, they shut themselves up in their house, and firing from it like furries, shot Captain Simmons dead on the spot, and wounded several of his party. The militia returned the fire, killed one woman within the house, and afterwards forcibly entering it, took the rest prisoners, six in number, and brought them to Charlestown.
At the Court of general sessions, held in September 1724, three of them were brought to trial, found guilty and condemned. Alas! miserable creatures, what amazing infatuation possessed them! They pretended they had the Spirit of God leading them to all truth, they knew it and felt it: but this Spirit, instead of influencing them to obedience, purity and peace, commanded them to commit rebellion, theft and murder. What is still more astonishing, the principal persons among them, I mean the prophet, the father of the family, and Michael Boneau, never were convinced of their in it until their delusion, but persisted last breath.
During their trial they appeared altogether unconcerned and secure, affirming that God was on their side, and therefore they feared not what man could do unto them.
They freely told the incestuous story in open court in all its circumstances and aggravations, with a good countenance, and very readily confessed the facts respecting their rebellion and murder, with which they stood charged, but pled their authority from God in vindication of themselves, and insisted they had done nothing in either case but by his express command.
As it is commonly the duty of clergymen to visit persons under sentence of death both to convince them of their error and danger, and prepare them for death by bringing them to a penitent
disposition; Alexander Garden the episcopal minister of Charlestown, to whom we are indebted for this account, attended those condemned persons with great diligence and concern. What they had affirmed in the court of justice, they repeated and confessed to him in the like manner in the prison when he began to reason with them, and to explain the heinous nature of their crimes, they treated him with disdain. Their motto was, answer him not a word; who is he that should presume to teach them, who had the Spirit of God speaking inwardly to their souls. In all they had done, they said they had obeyed the voice of God, and were now about to suffer martyrdom for his religion. But God had assured them, that he would either work a deliverance for them, or raise them up from the dead on the third day. These things the three men continued consistently to believe, and notwithstanding all the means to convince them of their mistake persisted in the same belief until the moment they expired. At their execution they told the spectators with seeming triumph, they should soon see them again, for they were certain they should rise from the dead on third day.
With respect to the other three, the daughter Judith being with child, was not tried, and the two sons, David and John Dutarre about eighteen and twenty years of age, having been also tried & condemned, continued sullen and reserved, in hopes of seeing those that were executed rise from the dead, but being disappointed, they became, or at least seemed to become, sensible of their error, and were both pardoned. Not long afterwards one of them relapsed into the same snare, and murdered an innocent person, without either provocation or previous quarrel, and for no other reason, as he confessed, but that God had commanded him so to do. Being a second time brought to trial, he was found guilty of murder and condemned. Mr. Garden attended him again under the second sentence, and acknowledged, with great appearance of success. No man would appear more deeply sensible of his error and delusion, or could die a more sincere and hearty penitent on account of his horrid crimes. With great attention he listened to Mr. Garden, while he explained to him the terms of pardon and salvation proposed in the Gospel, and seemed to die in the humble hopes of mercy, through the all-sufficient merits of a redeemer.
I Want to employ a number of hands to conduct my boots to the City of New-Orleans to whom I will give the most liberal encouragement. JAMES WILKINSON.
As it will be most convenient for the Post, to start from Lexington on Mondays, this paper will in future, be published every Monday morning.
DON CARELESS.
Stands this season at the subscribers stable, within two miles of Lexington, on the road leading from Lexington to Gen. Scott's and will cover mares at twenty-five shillings the season payable in produce at the cash price, to be paid on or before the twenty-fifth day of December next, or twenty shillings payable by the first day of August next, or two dollars the single leap, provided the cash is paid on the spot.
Doncareless was got by old Doncareless, imported by col. Taylor from England, his dam by the noted Tom Jones imported by Marmaduke Bequeth, his colts will speak more in his favor than an enumeration of words in a pompous advertisement.
FRANCIS BEEN. March 6, 1790.
POETS CORNER.
Virtue and Fashion: addressed to the Gay. By a Lady.
FROM Pluto's regions—dare I say, Sprang forth to try his fate, Fashion—a silly bird of prey, And perch'd on Chloe's pate. The flutterer, uplifts her hair To raise his lofty nest; Then quickly roves from fair to fair, Inflames each vot'ry's breast. At his approach they bow the knee And willing homage pay; Nor dare the captive nymphs be free, And reason's voice obey. VIRTUE, the gentle God of Peace, Descended from above, Whisper'd, this worship now should cease, And sought to gain their love. "I come commission'd from that pow'r, Whose judgments fill the land; He bids you feel his vengeful hour, And bow at his command." The struggling parties now contend, Which shall the conquest gain, VIRTUE would willingly befriend, And free from Fashion's reign. VIRTUE prepares immortal wreaths, To crown the noble maid, Who to oblivion bequeaths, The rites to FASHION paid.
PERFECTION
A Beautiful chestnut sorrel full fifteen hands and an inch high, rising seven years old, stands at the plantation of Mrs. Robards, in Mercer County and will cover mares at six dollars the season (but may be discharged by paying four dollars by the 1st. day of august,) two dollars the single leap and eight dollars to insure.
Perfection was got by Sellar out of a thorough bred mare.—Good pasturage for mares gratis but will not be answerable for accidents or escapes.
Jo. Robards. March 10, 1790.
F I V E
DOLLARS
R E W A R D.
Strayed from the subscriber about two years ago, a sorrel mare with a great many gray hairs mixt throughout her, 14 hands some inches high, a white face and her hind feet white above the knees (on the fore part of her legs,) her fore feet I think that one is half white, branded on the shoulder T and buttock S. perhaps not very legible: whosoever takes up said mare and delivers her to me living about two miles from Lexington on Parke road, shall have the above reward paid by me.
Mary Harper. (3w.)
BLANKS
OF ALL KINDS FORSALE AT THIS OFFICE