The Kentucky gazette (Lexington [Ky.]), 1791-10-08 00:00:00

THE Kentucky Gazette.
NUMB. IV.
Quicquid agunt homines—nostri farrago libelli. Juv. Sat. 8. v. 85.
VOL. V.
S A T U R D A Y, OCTOBER 8. 1791.
LEXINGTON: Printed by JOHN BRADFORD, at his Office on Main Street; where Subscriptions, (at Fifteen Shillings per Annum) Advertisements &c. are thankfully received, and Printing into different branches done with Care and Expedition.
To the PUBLIC.
THE period has arrived which makes it indispensably necessary to enlarge my former plan, to that which is now before you. It is needless to attempt to recount the reasons, as they must occur to almost every individual.
As the fate of a newspaper depends entirely on the number and punctuality of the subscribers, I have no doubt but that the same motives which have hitherto induced the friends to this paper to keep it in existence until the present time, will continue; and have every reason to flatter myself, that as it shall rise in merit, the encouragement will also increase in a much greater proportion.
This paper will be published every Saturday, at 15s. per Annum; and those who have hitherto been subscribers will be continued, unless they direct to the contrary.
The public's most obliged and very humble servt.
JOHN BRADFORD
Lexington Sept. 17. 1791
Nearly ready for the press and will be published, as soon as a sufficient number of subscribers can be obtained,
HOLLAND'S ESSAY
In three parts.
I. Containing the contract of Creation and Redemption. Shewing that the fundamental doctrines of Calvin and Arminius joined together; compleatly forms the foundation or system of Universal Restoration, without the smallest diminution or addition.
II. The method and manner of the restoration of all to its original state of rectitude and innocency in which it was at first created, opening a plain and familiar light into the Prophet Ezekiel's visions and the Revelations.
III The Apostolic mode, of Church Government, shewing the two Olive branches which thro' the two Golden pipes empties the golden oil out of themselves, or the formation of the man Christ Jesus out of his members.
When the above is put to press, the terms will be made public.
JUST ARRIVED,
And now Opening, by
TEGARDEN & M'CULLOUGH
At their old Stand in Lexington
A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF
DRY GOODS
GROCERIES, HARD WARE & QUEEN'S WARE, which they will dispose of on the most reasonable terms for Cash, Furs certificates &c.
ALL persons indebted to the estate of David Perry dec. by bond or otherwise, are requested to make immediate payment, otherwise their bonds and accounts will be put into the hands of an attorney.
James M'Dowell, } Exors. Francis Dill, } Samuel Blair, }
Sept. 13. 1791.
3w.
ROR SADE
FOR READY CASH
TWO likely Virginia born negro women, the one about twenty and the other about thirty years of age, they are both excellent for house business, and one of them a good seamstress—Any person inclined to purchase apply to the printer hereof.
2w
THE public are requested to be cautious in contracting with Mr. Israel Dodge, under the pretence of the partnership of Thompson, M'Connell and Dodge, as the said Thompson and M'Connell are determined not to comply with any contract after that the said Dodge may make after this publication.
ROBERT M'CONNELL.
Danville, August 25, 1791. 3 4w
TAKEN up by the subscriber on the East fork of Hickman, 2 red heifers, a year old past, and a red steer 2 years old past, all marked with a crop and swallow fork in the left, and underlined in the right; The heifers appraised to £1.5 each; The steer to £1.10.
Joseph Jones.
March 12, 1791.
ROR SADE
THAT beautiful well improved tract of Land, (together with the Mills and distillery) whereon the subscriber now lives; containing 500 acres, the title indisputable, possession of the Mills and distillery, together with all the buildings, except one dwelling house and kitchen, may be had immediately, and the balance next spring. About £600 will be expected in hand, and a reasonable credit for the balance, the purchaser giving bond and approved security. Also several other tracts of Land, some of which are improved—for further particulars enquire of the subscriber on the premises.
John Grant.
Woodford county, North } Elkhorn, August 19. 1791. }
A NUMBER of horses the property of the United States, shipped from the different brigades and in almost every county in the district of Kentucky. The horses are branded US; Any persons delivering any such horses to Capt. Robt. Sanders on Cairnrun in Woodford county, shall have ample reward for so doing. Paid by
Robt. Benham, or Robt. Sanders.
August 21, 1791.
At a county Committee held at col. Todd's old place in the county of Fayette, the 12th.
September 1791
RESOLVED, that it be recommended to the different county committees in this district, to depute two or more members from each of said committees to meet at Harrodsburg in the county of Mercer, on the third Friday in November next, for the purpose of endeavouring to be of an uniformity in their instructions to the convention to form a bill of rights and Constitution for this district.
Attested
John Hawkins chairman. C. Morgan, c. c.
TAKEN up by the subscriber in Woodford county, near Frank Fort, a brown mare, 3 years old, 14 hands and a half high, branded on the near shoulder H; Appraised to £9.
Gerusalem Lee.
August 4, 1791.
I WISH to lease for the term of one year, the Distillery and adjoining plantation, late the property of Mr. John Craig on Clear creek, Woodford county; also the Mill on the plantation whereon the said Craig now resides—possession of the distillery to be given on the first day of September next—of the adjoining plantation and Mill aforesaid on the first day of January following or earlier, with the consent of Mr. John Craig.—For terms apply to Mr William Morton, Merchant, in Lexington.
PEYTON SHORT,
June 19, 1791.
I With to contract for a considerable quantity of Barley to be delivered to me in Lexington, next fall Spring Barley would be preferred.
Also a quantity of well cured Hops.
PEYTON SHORT,
April 13, 1791.
NOTICE is hereby given to the public that I have appointed Mr. W. Morton my Attorney in fact, during my absence from this country—to whom all persons indebted to me are requested to make immediate payment—All persons having just demands against me will please to make them known to my Attorney aforesaid, who will direct them to be discharged with all possible dispatch.
PEYTON SHORT.
Taken up about fifteen or twenty miles from the mouth of Licking on the trace, on the fourteenth instant, a bright bay horse, fourteen hands and a half high, about twelve years old, branded on the near shoulder I, and on the near buttock nearly thus CO, had on a small new bell, strop and buckle, appears to have a fistula; The owner may hear of him by applying to the Printer.
BLANKS OF ALL KINDS May be had at this Office.
All kinds of blank books for Merchants Clerks &c made and ruled to any pattern, Also old books new bound at this office.

O B S E R V A T I O N S
On forming a CONSTITUTION OF GOVERNMENT, addressed to the good PEOPLE OF KENTUCKY
No. III.
FRIENDS AND COUNTRYMEN,
HAVING contemplated the nature and design of a constitution of government, we are the better prepared to determine who are the most proper persons to compose the ensuing convention.
II. The importance and intricacy of the work, points out to us the qualification of the work men we should elect to form a constitution of government for us. They ought to be men of INTEGRITY. — of WISDOM — and who have a COMMON INTEREST with us.
1. INTEGRITY is an essential ingredient in the character which can safely be trusted to accomplish any business whatsoever. An honest man is indeed the noblest work of God, and at all times, and on all occasions, is entitled to our confidence so far as he has abilities. But men not having a window in their breasts through which we can discern the thoughts and intents of their hearts, it will be no breach of charity to require that integrity, like St. James's faith, should prove itself by works, and not by fair professions only. High sounding declarations of zeal for the public good, do too often cloak the lust of power, or the more hateful intrigues of avarice and ambition; but the integrity of the true patriot will display itself, by a steady regard to the rights of the community, and a readiness to promote its happiness and prosperity. His pulse or his personal service, where there is real need for either, will not be withheld; and when he is called to aid his country in the field or cabinet, his unblemished and orderly demeanor will give spirit to every proceeding. A man of integrity will be indulgent to the imperfections of others, and never detract from their merit; and with still greater certainty it may be pronounced, that he will never solicit a trust which he is not qualified to execute. I confess, my countrymen, that when I see a man aspiring to an office which he is not able to fill, I am obliged to conclude, that he is either drunk with ambition, or aiming to gratify some baser passion. He who is unable to do any good, may do much harm; and the ignoramus, who would thrust himself into the place of a superior character, cannot be an honest man.
2. A very small degree of penetration will discover, that integrity is not the only qualification requisite for a public trust, more especially for forming a constitution of government. Wisdom is also an essential ingredient. Wisdom must imply good common sense, or what is called mother wit; but the wisdom which we more immediately mean, — is political knowledge. A strong natural genius must be the ground work on which this knowledge is built; for without genius, the most laborious researches into the history of men, and the longest experience in the political world, must be very confused and inaccurate; so that if we must choose a man who is deficient in either, let it be the two last; for good sense is indispensable. The advantages, however, of learning are great; genius will never thrive until it is polished by learning, and ripened by experience. An honest mind which is induced with genius, by being educated to study, acquires dexterity in distinguishing truth from error, and aided by the knowledge of the various forms and principles of civil government which have been established, is enabled to make a rational estimate of their propriety or impropriety. Why are the people of Great Britain so much superior to the Hottentots, but because all the sources of knowledge are open to the one and secluded from the other? Or, why did the Apostle Paul so far excel the
other Apostles? Not because he had more grace, but because he was brought up at the feet of Gamaliel. Indeed, none but enthusiasts in religion or politics, will deny the superior advantages which an honest heart and a clear head derive from education.
In forming a constitution, the knowledge which I have now suggested, and more fully pointed out in my second address, is not only necessary to determine what principles and form of government are most eligible for us; but a knowledge of proper language, and the legal and political sense which has been affixed to the words which shall be used; for it is equally important to devise salutary regulations, and to express them with such precision as to be clearly understood. As in other sciences, so in law and government, a great number of terms and phrases have been appropriated to express certain ideas; and it is highly necessary it should be so, for nearly the same reasons that every man ought to be distinguished by a fixed name or title. If a fixed regard is not paid to this in forming our constitution of government, a great diversity of interpretations and almost endless doubts will be the consequence.
3. It will certainly be an additional security, to have representatives in the ensuing convention, who have a COMMON INTEREST with us. I have forementioned, that this is a case which admits of force any temptation to go wrong; but a common interest will at least produce this advantage, that there will be a greater anxiety to do right. He who has adventured his temporal all in the country; — whose happiness and prosperity, and whose family and fortune are all to be affected by the constitution of government which shall be established, need give no further security for his fidelity. Other men may act nobly; but the interested man will be actuated by the strongest principle of human nature, whilst the more divine sentiments of honest and public good may also have their full scope.
You will observe, my friends, that I have not excluded any class or denomination of Citizens from a seat in the convention. None of the American States, which have gone before us in forming constitutions of government, ever thought of any such exclusions; and the Act of Assembly under which our convention is to be elected, has left the door open; and will it not be folly and presumption in us to shut it? We have seen that no salary is to be fixed, — no officer of government elected, — nor anything done on which a separate interest can arise to one or another class of men; — and that the united wisdom of all will be much needed. If I were to detain you longer on the subject of elections, it would be to shew, that every class and denomination of men amongst us, are entitled to a representation in forming a constitution by which they will all be equally bound; and if it could be made appear that the two were different in interests, that it would only prove more strongly this general right. Suppose, as has been absurdly advised by some; that we should pass by gentlemen of the law; are we sure that we can do without their assistance? Or, if lawyers are of such bale principles as not to be trusted; suppose that some one of them, more artful than the rest, should chance to procure a seat in the convention; may he not outwit our undesigning fairness; and make us with, when it will be too late, that we had elected some more of those knaves to catch the knave? I am no lawyer, nor am I related to a lawyer; and therefore I speak freely; and would say more, but I have such confidence in the justice and discernment of the greater number of my countrymen, that I am persuaded, when the elections come on, all such groundless prejudices and partial distinctions will be discountenanced.
It should be thought, that in these addresses I have intruded into the province of the committees which have lately gained an excellence in some of
our counties; I can only ask the pardon of these committees, and leave the people, if they shall think proper, to give up the right of private judgment in choosing representatives to these infallible guides. My own sentiments, I humbly submit to the candid consideration of the public; neither wishing or expecting that they should influence, further than they have weight, the exercise of that freedom of choice in elections which ought ever to be esteemed as the most invaluable privilege.
A few thoughts on one other subject will bring me to a conclusion. It is a prevailing opinion, that, in a case of such extensive consequence, each county ought to give particular instructions to the representatives which they shall send to the convention; and I have heard that some who expect to be elected, have urged that such instructions should be given. Against a measure so popular, I can scarcely expect to be heard with patience. But I beg leave to ask, what is to be the purport of these instructions? Are the people at large well acquainted with the nature of constitutions of government? And are they willing to bind themselves and posterity by any regulations which they can devise? If they have such confidence in their own skill; I would ask what may be the consequence, if the people of the several counties, each equally confident of being in the right, should give contradictory instructions to their respective representatives? Will not oscillating contentions in the convention ensue; and a hasty patch of a constitution be the result? Suppose it were to each of the counties and inconsistent with itself? The absurdity, as well as the danger of this measure must be every consideration; and it will not be a solemn farce, to call a convention of our wisest men, to deliberate on what has been recommended by their constituents at home. O, will it be either candid or prudent, in a case of such magnitude and intricacy, for every man to shut his ears against any counsel which might be obtained from other members of the community; who are equally interested, and in many instances, much better informed? If a constitution of government is to be formed by representatives, let their deliberations be free and what is done be the result of their combined wisdom. O, if a constitution is to be formed by the people, let them assemble for the purpose in some extensive plain, where each individual can hear and be heard in turn, and where a general vote may determine the public will. But let no man, or set of men, endeavour to impose a chimera corner constitution upon us; for, literally speaking, instructions generally originate in some chimney corner. They are drawn up by some demagogue to suit his own inclinations, and after obtaining the sanction of the people, are taken by him to the assembly, to which he has been delegated by the same people, that thereby he may acquire greater respect than his merit deserves, and have an excuse for being pertinacious of his own devices. Or to say the best, instructions are the opinions of only a part of the community, and can justly have no other weight than the same propositions made in the usual way by him who brings them.*
* After writing the above, I met with a publication in the Kentucky Gazette, from which it appears that the county committees are disposed to undertake the business of instructing their representatives in the ensuing convention; that is to say, in substance at least, to form a constitution of government for us. Whether these committees can be most safely trusted, or a general convention composed of our wisest and best men, regularly chosen under the direction of law, I leave every individual to determine for himself; but that the county committees and the general convention should both engage in the work, is too great an absurdity to escape the notice of any man.
Every person of intelligence must be conscious of the importance of the business of forming a constitution, and that it is now to be done, and that a failure to do it, will never be depended upon again. Our country is but just advancing from a state of infancy; we are poor and few in number, and our growing strength depends almost entirely on the political character we shall obtain. The eyes of our Sister States are fixed on us with anxious concern that we may avoid the errors which they have committed; and the friends of liberty are supplicating the love and duty of all human events, that we may establish a government which will be wise just and permanent.
A. B. C.
M. PRINTER.
A reader of your paper requests you will give the following a place in your next.
Lexington, Oct. 4, 1791. To Josiah Harmar Esquire, Brigadier General in the service of the United States, and Lieutenant Colonel Commandant of the first United States Regiment.
SIR, THE Officers of the first regiment beg leave to express the warmth of their attachment to your person, and that perfect satisfaction which they have severally experienced under your command.
United as they have always been in sentiments of affection and friendship towards you, it is with extreme regret they are informed of your intention to quit the army.
It, Sir, upon this interesting occasion, your officers might obtrude their advice; — or would you attend to the respectful solicitations of men anxious for your welfare, — they might yet hope for your continuance in service. But whatever may be your final determination, that honor and happiness may attend you, is among their first and most ardent wishes.
Signed by the officers of the first regiment.
The Answer.
Gentlemen,
YOUR very affectionate address of this morning, claims my warmest acknowledgments.
If I have been so fortunate during my command, as to give satisfaction to my officers, believe me it has ever been reciprocal.
I sincerely thank you, gentlemen, for your expressions of affection and friendship towards me, and for the obliging part you appear to take in my future welfare. — When I tell you, that I shall continue to remember you, my companions, with emotions of friendship and esteem, and that my best wishes for your happiness through life, can only cease to exist with myself, — I beg you to receive it as the genuine effusion of my heart.
I have the honor to be With the most affectionate regard,
Gentlemen,
Your most
obedient servant.
JOS. HARMAR.

CONSTITUTION Or form of GOVERNMENT.
(Continued from our last.)
THE two houses of Assembly shall by joint ballot, appoint Judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals, and General Court, Judges in Chancery, Judges of Admiralty, Secretary, Attorney General and Register of Land Office, to be confirmed by the Governor, and continue in office seven years, and during good behaviour, at the expiration of which term, they or any of them may be eligible to be re-elected again; In case of any of their deaths, incapacity or resignation, the Governor with advice of Council shall appoint persons to succeed in office, until the next meeting of Assembly when they shall be approved of, or displaced by both houses as before directed, for the remainder of the time. They shall have fixed but moderate salaries, removable at any time for misbehaviour by the General Assembly. They shall not be allowed to sit as members in the Continental Congress, executive council or General Assembly, nor hold any office civil or military, nor take or receive fees or perquisites of any kind.
The two houses of Assembly shall by joint ballot appoint in every county in this State, three magistrates or judges of the Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions, (who shall be inhabitants in said county, and most noted for their understanding and knowledge, of good moral characters, any one of them with three Judges of said county, as hereafter is directed to be appointed, shall be a quorum to hold court, who shall hold their office during seven years and good behaviour, at the expiration of which term may be eligible to be reappointed. All commissions shall be in the name and by the authority of the free men of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, signed with the State seal, signed by the Governor or Lieutenant Governor and attested by the Secretary, which seal shall be kept by the council.
All prosecutions shall commence at the county level by the clerks of the Courts; Indictments shall conclude against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth. The style of all process in this State shall be, The Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Sheriffs and Coroners shall be elected annually in each county in this State, by the free men thereof, at the annual elections, to be commissioned by the Governor; no person shall be eligible in the Sheriff's office more than three years in six; they shall also choose a county Treasurer, to receive and take charge of the public money, to be accountable for, and dispose of it, as shall be directed by act of Assembly. The Election shall be held at the same time and place appointed for the election of representatives.
That full opportunity may be given to the good people of this State of exercising their right of suffrage, each of the officers holding the annual elections in the different counties, shall continue the same from day to day, for five days including the first day. The election shall be opened on the first day at the Courthouse, or the place where the courts are generally held, and may be adjourned from place to place any where within said County as may be agreed upon by the candidates, or the majority of them during said five days, for the ease and convenience of the electors attending. And the Sheriff or his clerk shall note down in a fair list each and every person's name giving in his ticket, [to elect any person voting twice:] after the election is closed, the Sheriff or officer superintending the election, shall deliver to each person duly elected, a certificate of his election, evidenced by two or more responsible freeholders of said county; and moreover shall transmit within three days a general return to the Secretary of the State. And that the persons of the electors, may be free from any arrest or fear in attending election and giving in their votes. That the body
of any person, entitled to their vote at the general election shall be free and exempt from arrests and attachments in any civil action, during his going to, returning from, and at said election, any time within the five days, within the county.
The several counties in this State shall be divided and laid off by the justices of the respective county courts, into townships, precincts or divisions, that may be most convenient for the ease of the inhabitants, each and every of the same, shall be entered on record by the clerk of each county court describing the boundaries thereof; and the free men of each township, shall elect two or more honest judicious persons of good moral characters for justices of the peace, and their names shall be returned to the Governor, who shall commission one or more of them for each township to continue in office during the term of seven years, and good behaviour, and at the expiration of the term shall be eligible to be re-elected.
[To be continued.]
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
LONDON, May 20.
THE Pope's Bull, which has been publicly burnt at Paris, contains these words:
"The King would not have sanctioned the civil constitution of the clergy, had he not been constrained, and even forced to it by the National Assembly — as the letters which the King has written to us plainly testify! Pius the 6th."
This declaration has set new spirits at work who publicly, though not very politely declare — that either the French King, or the Italian Pope must have told a — lie! and they will see which it is. These letters, therefore are to be moved for the National Assembly, that M. Montmorin may justify himself on the subject.
Two thousand dram bottles of whiskey have been burnt up in Dublin since the passing of the late act of the Irish parliament, to prevent the alarming use of spirituous liquors in Ireland.
Mr. Burke has become the object of pity to his friends. The opposition say he is now mad — Common Sense asserts that he has been so — and the noble orator himself confesses that his faculties are impaired through a long and severe attention to public business.
This is certainly the epoch for unaccountable revolution in Church, as well as State — for what astrologer could have divined that in the year 1791, the mild legislature of Britain would have been occupied in granting toleration and indulgences to the Romish Church, at the precise moment that his Holiness the Pope was burnt in effigy at Paris, by the hand of the common hangman! Sic tunc gloria Ecclesie.
On Tuesday se'nnight, after a litigation of eight years, the claimants on goods seized by Lord Rodney and General Vaughan, at St. Eustatius, in the year 1782, were paid the full amount of their several claims pursuant to a signal decision of the Lords of the Privy Council.
AMERICAN OCCURRENCES
LEXINGTON, October 8.
Extra of a letter from a gentleman in Philadelphia, to his friend in this place, dated August 16th 1791.
"Dissenters were never before so terrible in England to the church, or to majority as they now are. Every man of the church and every friend to monarchy, now with they had done that powerful body of men some sort of justice long ago; but their case involves a dilemma: If their just rights are recognized, they will give such weight to the
friends of a revolution as cannot be withstood: and if those rights are refused them, the principles which force their way into the hands of all men will justify every attempt tending to assert and recover those rights, which requires but an effort, to be made sure as any human event can be and this effort a great majority are beyond a doubt ready to make, at a moment's warning, and only wait the signal of a suitable opportunity, which cannot be long wanting. An obstinate perseverance by the ministry in his project of compelling Russia to relinquish all her conquests may afford that opportunity — and any considerable disaster in pursuit of that project, certainly will afford it — It is not impossible, that a clamour against the minister for his foolish conduct toward America, respecting a commercial treaty, may be produced immediately after the effect of that conduct is felt in forming us into manufactures which in paper-making, card-making, needle, and many other articles are now perfect here — or any other thing, which may disturb the public mind but for a few days — The nation is ripe for the measure — in every put except, perhaps, a small piece on the North side, which a little art may loosen in a short time.
The Aristocratic party of Pennsylvania have not derived from the new Constitution the advantage they certainly expected, at least for the present, the elections most generally turning in favour of the democratic interest — There is however, a good understanding tolerably well kept up, between the parties, and they will probably wear each other down, to as to look pretty much alike in a few years — The points on which they will be the most liable to differ widely, will be, I presume, those in which the government of the united states run across the claims of this state! Some such will probably occur and occasion debates of some warmth, which, however will not last long — nor occur frequently."
Sometime last week a party of Indians stole 16 horses on Brasher's creek.
About the same time, they stole upwards of fifty pack horses, belonging to the army, between Fort Washington and the camp.
About the first inst, a party of twelve men were defeated at rich land creek, on their way thro the wilderness, two of which were killed and one wounded.
Last week a man was killed near Frankfort, by the fall of a log, in raising a house.
On Tuesday last, two negroes in the streets of this town, riding full speed, ran against a man on horseback, threw him from his horse, and bruised him to that degree that he expired the next evening.
On Thursday evening, the Mountain Leader and his suite, arrived in this town on their way to Fort Washington: They intend joining general St. Clair in the present expedition; they leave Lexington today.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living on Paint Lick creek, a dark brindled Heifer, with a small white spot in her face, and some white spots on her rony, marked with a smooth chop and slit in the right ear, and an unmarked in the left, supposed to be one year old last spring. Appraised to £1. 2.
Isaac Burton.
July 22, 1791.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living on Shawnee run Mercer county, a bay stallion colt, one year old, a star in his forehead, both hind feet and off fore feet white: Appraised to £2. 8.
Jesse Locum.
August 17, 1791.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living on Clarke's run, a dun 2 years old horse colt, with a black streak down his back, a small white streak near his shoulder, and a dapple gray spot on his near but near his hip, about twelve hands high, was cut before posting: Appraised to £3. 12.
John Davison.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living in Woodford county, on North Elkhorn, a black horse, branded on the near shoulder H has had the poll evil; Appraised to £2. 10.
James Kelly.
Sept. 8, 1791.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living about 3 miles from Lexington, an old spotted cow, marked with a half crop in each ear, branded on the cusbion Q posted and appraised to £2.
John Vanpelt.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living on the North fork of Cane run, a red brindled Heifer, two years old last spring, marked with a crop off in left ear, some white in her face and some spots under her belly: Posted and appraised to £2.
Hugh M Williams.
TO BE SOLD
To the highest bidder on Thursday the 20th inst. at the late dwelling house of Archibald Berry dec.
The personal estate of the said dec. consisting of household furniture, wearing apparel, a riding horse and a complete set of Carpenters and Joiners tools, credit will be given until the first day of January next, for all sums above twenty-five shillings, the purchaser giving Bond and approved security. The sale to begin at 10 o'clock.
At the same time and place, will be rented, the house and lot of said dec. until the first day of January next.
John Braford, Adm.
Lexington Oct. 8, 1791.
A PERSON who understands the Rope-making business may hear of good encouragement by applying to the Printer.
A PURSE RACE.
WILL be run in Lexington, the third Thursday in October next July 29, 1791.