The Kentucke gazette (Lexington [Ky.]), 1788-03-15 00:00:00

KENTUCKE GAZETTE
S A T U R D A Y, MARCH 15. 1783.
LEXINGTON: Printed and Sold by JOHN and FIELDING BRADFORD, at their PRINTING OFFICE in Main Street, where subscriptions at 18s. per Annum...
Extracts from the journals of a convention begun and held for the district of Kentucky at Danville in the county of Mercer on the 17th day of September 1782.
RESOLVED by the representatives of the good people of the district of Kentucky in convention assembled, that it is expedient for and the will of the same, that the said district be erected into a separate and independent state...
RESOLVED that this convention do fix the thirty first day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight, to be the time on which the authority of the government of Virginia and of its laws over the district of Kentucky shall cease...
RESOLVED that all acts to the contrary of the foregoing resolutions be rejected, that the said convention have power to reject any of the said acts, and to reject any of the said acts, and to reject any of the said acts...
WHEREAS the convention hath adjudged it expedient that this district should be separated from the state of Virginia and erected into an independent state...
RESOLVED as the opinion of this convention that a convention shall be chosen with full power and authority to frame and establish a fundamental constitution of government for the proposed state...
RESOLVED that in the month of April next, on the respective days of the elections within the said district, the respective places of holding courts shall be appointed to continue in session until the thirty first day of December one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight...
per rules of proceedings, to consider, and by a majority of votes, establish a fundamental Constitution of government, for the proposed state...
RESOLVED that three members of the said convention assembled, shall be a sufficient number to adjourn from day to day, and to issue writs for supplying vacancies which may happen from deaths, resignations, or refusal to act.
RESOLVED that in case there shall be no sheriff within the respective counties of the district of Kentucky, at the time the several elections are directed to be held for the election of the said members of Convention...
A true copy from the minutes. THOMAS TODD, C.C.
Mr. Bradford. I have been repeatedly inserted in your Gazette on advertisement by a certain N. B. of Danville, publishing my having taken the benefit of the Act of Limitation...
I would ask said Nagle if he did not give me a receipt against a bond I executed to him and then assigned the bond to Col. Isaac Shelby?
Did not Col. Shelby commence a suit against me, and was not the suit dismissed on account of the receipt? Did not Col. Shelby commence suit then against him? did he not confess judgment for the principal, interest, and costs of both suits...
JOHN MARTIN. B L A N K S. ALSO, SPELLING BOOKS, WRITING-PAPER &c. MAY BE HAD AT THIS OFFICE.
THE subscriber takes this method to inform the public that he has set up the blue dier's business in Hopewell Bourbon and will take in Hemp, Flax and Cotton thread to dye.
THE public should be cautious how they deal with a certain capt. John Martin of Lincoln county, as that man has lately taken advantage of the law in pleading the limitation act, and that only, because he has been indulged nearly three years.
Danville, Dec. 4. 1787. 29 M. NAGLE. N. B. He says I owe him, let him produce his account proved, and then I will give him credit on the execution I have against him.
AS the Indians whenever they make incursions into our settlements call at the evacuated houses of Mr. Cuppage on D. run and Mr. Wilson on M. C. Jenkins run about four miles from C. John H. as mill, and supply themselves with wheat corn and potatoes.
THE subscriber takes this method of informing the publick in general and his acquaintance in particular that he has opened a tavern in Lexington on Main-street two doors above Cross-street.
TAKEN up on the Ohio river about twenty five miles below limestone sometime in December last, a bay mare about fourteen hands high, ten or eleven years old, dockt but no brand perceivable...
March 1. 1783. JOHN CURTIS

FOR SALE
FIFTY THOUSAND
A tract of land situated on the navigable water courses viz. twenty five Thousand acres on the waters of Cumberland river within the Bounds reserved for the continental Officers and Soldiers of this state, and twenty five Thousand acres lying on the waters of duck, Elk and Tennessee rivers, and several other navigable water courses falling into the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
The subscriber thinks it unnecessary with regard to its Situation, Soil, & Timber, to be very particular in his description as he imagines the purchaser would previous to any contract be desirous of seeing the land. Indisputable titles will be made the purchasers, and eight years credit will be given from the time of making the titles, no Interest will be requested for the first four years. Any person inclinable to purchase may know the terms and be shewn the land by applying to ELIJAH ROBERTSON.
Nashville January 21, 1788
THE meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Transylvania seminary is requested at Danville on the second Monday in April, being the day fixed by law, for one of the Annual stated meetings. The Importance of the business, will I hope induce the members punctually to attend, HARRY INNES C.
RUN AWAY from McCannels mill about the 26th of January last one Iron grey mare about fourteen hands high neither dock nor branded, trots naturally, hanging mane, has some white on her shoulders and spots on her back, and some white partly under her flank about seven years old if any person will bring said mare to me or secures her so that I get her they shall receive two Dollars. MARCH 11 1788 HENRY KAMPER
The noted horse DARIUS will stand the ensuing season at Mr. John Calloway's in Nelson county, and will be to those at fifteen shillings the keep, thirty shillings the season, or three pounds the insurance in good trade, which may be discharged by paying ten shillings the keep, twenty shillings the season, or forty shillings the insurance in cash. Darius was bred by Mr. Daniel Hardaway of Fauquier County Virginia, and was got by the noted Ameliora Cowsy Virginia, and was got by the noted Imbued horse Janus, his dam and grandam, by the same his great grandam by the imported horse Skinker. BURWELL JACKSON
NB. Darius will be for sale after the 2nd Thursday in September at which time there is a race depending on him. B. J.
NERO
A beautiful bay, rising nine years old, stands the ensuing season at Mr. George Shoemaker's Boons station Fayette County, and will cover mares at thirty shillings the season or ten shillings the keep if paid in cash, or thirty five shillings the season paid in cash, or forty shillings in other good trade at market price.
NERO was got by Junius a full brother of John Paxton Esqrs. noted horse Gallant, his dam by the imported horse Ranier his grandam by Tober John, his great grandam by Jolly Roger out of a full blooded mare, sold by Col. Taylor to old Mr. Mercer. JOHN ROBERTS
Good pasture gratis, but will not be answerable for escapes. MARCH 11, 1788
CASTOR
STANDS the ensuing season at Mr. Stephen Greer's near where the road from Lexington Gen. Scott's crosses South Eastern, and will cover mares at forty shillings the season, which may be paid in any country produce or live flock, if paid at a reasonable price by Christmas next, or four Dollars if paid in cash by August Court in Fayette County or twenty eight shillings if paid in cash by Christmas, if not paid by then cash will be expected, as I have twice published his pedigree shall omit it at present. ELIJAH CRAIG
March 12 1789 32
EDUCATION
IT is with pleasure I can inform the public that the generous example, which has been exhibited in some neighbourhoods of Kentucky with respect to the charge of boarding, has produced a marvelous effect on lassitude. Latin scholars may now find boarding, washing and lodging, all very good, for the small sum of six pounds per annum; this is to be paid at the end of the year. Their accommodation will be better than used to be had to the Northward for fifteen pounds. This I can say from experience. The Tuition will be five pounds per annum, to be paid in quarterly payments if necessary for the teacher and convenience to the employer, and in cash if not otherwise directed by contract. However my employers shall always find me an easy creditor if they deal with me in candour and faith. EDEN Z. BROOKS
WHEREAS I gave my Bond to Squire Poore of Jefferson County, some time in April in the year 1786 for sixty pounds Virginia currency, which money I have paid. This is to forewarn all persons from taking an assignment of said bond as I will not make further payment. JONATHAN BOONE
March 11 1787 32
THOMAS Powell has my note to him whereon I would be due about £50 payable in trade the 21st of April next, the cash due on for which I have received no notice, and part is disputed I therefore desire the public to be cognizant of every payment from me in settlement of said obligation, as I will pay no part of all the bond for which it was given is secured to me in cash simple, clear of discharge. JOHN CAMPBELL
Jefferson March 1 1788 32
THREE DOLLARS REWARD
OVER and above what the Law allows for securing Isaac a run away negro of mine, and delivering him to me on my plantation at the Falls, he is a small pale coloured fellow, hooked, and has lost the toes of one of his feet, very small instructing and important, if he is taken out of this County I will give an allowance for the distance, he has been gone since the 24th of January. All persons are forbid to harbour him. JOHN CAMPBELL
Jefferson March 1 1788 32
A person skilled in keeping a Saw-mill may be had where I can have employment by applying to the printer hereof.
To the printer of the Kentucky Gazette, Sr.
I have seen in your paper No. 28 a piece under the signature of Jordan Harris, please to insert the following in your next for the private amusement of that young man.
He writes with all the violence, of a former friend, turned enemy. And I am sure I never did more harm the smallest appearance of friendship, nor yet did I so much as will avail him as to wish him to attempt a vindication of that conduct, which can only escape censure, by remaining unknown.
Poor young man! how I pity his malady. He seems to think, that he has a character worth preserving. How unluckily it is, that this thought did not occur to him sooner. What hours of unresenting anguish, it might have saved his friends. But the misfortune is, that he seems never to have known the value of it until after he had lost it.
And now the man bereft of his senses, would recover it, at the risk of his life; proceeded would be happy for his memory, if he could wish to blot it out. This is rather melancholy as it may appear, is no uncommon circumstance, with young men, who have my pride and vanity; then virtue or good sense. And flattery must allow, this to be the case with Mr. Harris, this silly boy (I hope he will excuse plain speaking) having without the least injury, or insult, adopted in a very public manner, as stated in your paper of the 23rd of February that I had acknowledged myself a liar, and a scoundrel in a letter to Mr. or Colonel Craden, and knowing that the letter would not support the assertion; chose when I called for it, to then himself insulted. And most voluntarily determined to punish me for the same, the first time he saw me. And so has given a deal of the whole transaction; but has taken care to keep as cost of the truth, as the attempt was void of justice. This itself must have convinced every rational man, that the allegations were false and groundless; and I have fixed the stain of those assertions which I would have thrown on me, intolably on his own character, but having retracted I cannot contemptible; and mitigated by the good will, as well as those without, would have made him of criminal. And thus lets out most contemptuously large back with a trace of pistol , & ready to kill me , as witness Gen. Craden present, the Henrys having fire , & ready to kill me as a reward. Is there any to have cared me . This was very kind in Mr. Harris indeed, but the pistol was not in his hand in the subsequent part of his narrative called in question education to his right hand with any kind of apology in the liberty to correct him. When he came up with me in the end of the place at Lexington, according to me the words of friendship; tho' with a gesture and tone of voice which gave them the directest contradiction. He immediately asked me if I would take a pistol. With a look of the utmost contempt, I answered what he meant, and if I had injured him, he should most certainly that he would see the knowledge, and that I did not care a pistol, I would put him to immediate death, then told him that I would not take a pistol. He with the same violence as before repeated his charge, that he would put me to instant death. Talked nothing of his care, but persisted his pistol. Till that moment, I did not think Mr. Harris so much of an assassin as to fire. It was then he revealed his true colours. And I immediately seized a blow at the pistol, and disarmed it. I could with the force I have given it to him over the hand the instant before. Gentlemen who saw me raised their hands at the time of the pistol can tell whether there was time for the many manoeuvres which Mr. Harris describes. The poor fool seems to think that I aimed the blow at the small of his arm; that could have possessed him with that idea, is more than I can devise, for I believe even his most partial friends never suspected him of more ingenuity. And I should suppose he could only judge of the intention by the action, which operated on the pistol, and the end of his finger. His aim he acknowledges was extended to my arm; and is sure that I intended to break it; and as certain that if I could have broke his arm, I would have taken his life. This really is a most amusing conclusion, from premises the most pitiful. It is worthy of being told to his grandmama. The edged he talks of is the stick that Uncle Rat attacked me with, it is need to say where, or what was the consequence. But to behold a man's intention on our hero, as this is the last time that I ever intend to take the least notice of him. He says much of doing. I never knew him now, that race perhaps for has the same effect upon some men, as drunkenness. The drunken man whose head turns round incessantly, thinks every one he sees drunk and reeling. The dizzy eye, and reeling hand of Mr. Harris, at once accounts for the dodging which he so frequently mentions. How indeed could I dodge when I received the first blow on horse back at the distance of six or eight feet. And finding that I could not get my horse up, as he had taken flight, for I confess that I then intended to have knocked him off his horse, and this upon a principle of self defence; dismounted, and advancing received the blow at the distance of four feet. But how did our champion behave, after he had discharged his pistols? I've seen that they had not taken effect; that was certainly a very proper time to have cared me. (to be continued)
ROBERT Bullock and Rice Bullock Esqrs. for Jefferson County, and Humphrey Marshall and John Fowler Esquires for Fayette County, are elected Delegates to attend the State Convention in Richmond in January.