The Kentucky gazette (Lexington [Ky.]), 1790-03-29 00:00:00

K E N T U C K Y G A Z E T T E.
M O N D A Y, MARCH 29, 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 Callicoës, 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 whit Key.
CHARLES VANCOUVER. Lexington March 12, 1790.
PEYTON SHORT & CO
Have for sale at their store in Lexington, a considerable assortment of DRY goods, hard ware and groceries, which they will sell on reasonable terms for cash, Tobacco, corn, wheat, rye, pork, beef, bacon, hemp, flour, furs of every kind, tar, pitch and turpentine. &c &c &c.
They flatter themselves they have given general satisfaction to those who have already 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 sixpence 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 assiduity to serve them.
JOHN SMITH. AND. STEIGER.
N. F. 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 HOLMES & Co.
A large and general assortment of MERCHANDISE, 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 Beans & Furs of all kinds, for which Goods will be given at Cash price by
PETER JANUARY & SON. March 18, 1790.
ALSO FOR SALE, TWO IN LOTS, 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.
HEMP
Wanted a quantity of hemp in a short time for which twenty-five shillings per hundred will be given if delivered at Frankfort, or twenty-three shillings in Lexington, payment will be made in merchandise at the lowest Cash price.
Robert Barr. Lexington March 4 1790.
FIVE DOLLARS REWARD.
Strayed from the subscriber about two years ago, a sorrel mare with a great many gray hairs mext 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 Parkers road, shall have the above reward paid by me.
Mary Harper. (3w.)
CHARLES WHITE. COPPER SMITH. Late of NEW-YORK.
RESPECTFULLY informs the Public that he intends carrying on the Copper Smith's business at this place, in all its various branches, (to wit,) Stills, Brew and Die kettles &c. Also, casts all kind of brass work for mills--makes and repairs all kind of brass and tin work, likewise repairs all kinds of locks and keys. He buys all kinds of old copper, brass, pewter and lead. Those who please to favor him with their custom shall have their work done in the best manner and on the shortest notice.
Lexington, Dec. 8, 1789.
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
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.
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.
I Want to employ a number of hands to conduct my boats 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.
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. 29
THREE DOLLARS REWARD.
STRAYED from near Sharnon'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 notches cut in the side edge of the bell, and two in the end edge, and I believe 2 or three in the staple, a leather strop; the mares tail had been lately scraped. Who ever 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 Mr. Hugh Brent, who is authorized to transact my business in my absence. HUGH MILVAIN. 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. AMEROSE BARNETT. August 25, 1789
To all Head-boroughs and Constables, within the Commonwealth of Virginia, to whom these presents shall come. Fayette county sc.
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 H. 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. (lr.)

An ACT concerning the admission of the District of Kentucky into an Independent State. Passed the 18th of December, 1789.
WHEREAS it is represented to the present General Assembly, that the act of last session entitled "An act concerning the election of the district of Kentucky into an independent State," which contains terms materially different from those of the act of October session, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, are found incompatible with the real views of this Commonwealth, as well as injurious to the good people of the said district:
Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That in the month of May next on the respective court days of the counties within the said district, and at the respective places of holding courts therein, Representatives to continue in appointment for one year, and to compose a convention with the powers, and for the purposes herein after mentioned, shall be elected by the free male inhabitants of each county above the age of twenty-one years, in like manner as delegates to the General Assembly have been elected within said district in the proportions following: In the county of Jefferson shall be elected five representatives, in the county of Nelson five representatives, in the county of Mercer five representatives, in the county of Lincoln five representatives; in the county of Madison five representatives; in the county of Fayette five representatives; in the county of Woodford five representatives; in the county of Bourbon five representatives; and in the county of Mason five representatives: Provided, that no free male inhabitant above the age of twenty-one years shall vote in any other county except that in which he resides, and that no person shall be capable of being elected unless he has been a resident within the said district at least one year. That full opportunity may be given to the good people of exercising their right of suffrage on an occasion so interesting to them, each of the officers holding such elections, shall continue the same from day to day passing over Sunday, for five days including the first day, and shall cause this act to be read on each day immediately preceding the opening of the election, at the door of the court-house or other convenient place; each of the said officers shall deliver to each person duly elected a representative, a certificate of his election, and shall transmit a general return to the clerk of the supreme court, to be by him laid before the convention. For every neglect of any of the duties hereby enjoined on such officer he shall forfeit one hundred pounds, to be recovered by action of debt by any person suing for the same. The said convention shall be held at Danville on the twenty-sixth day of July next, and shall and may proceed, after choosing a president and other proper officers, and settling the proper rules of proceeding, to consider and determine whether it be expedient for, and the will of the good people of the said district that the same be erected into an independent state, on the terms and conditions following: First, that the boundary between the proposed state and Virginia, shall remain the same as at present separates the district from the residue of this Commonwealth. Second, that the proposed state shall take upon itself a just proportion of the debt of the United States, and the payment of all the certificates granted on account of the several expeditions carried on from the Kentucky district against the Indians, since the first day of January one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five. Third, that all private rights and interests of lands within the said district, derived from the laws of Virginia prior to such separation, shall remain valid and secure under the laws of the proposed state, and shall be determined by the laws now existing in this state. Fourth, that the lands within the proposed state of non-resident proprietors, shall not in any case be taxed higher than the lands of residents, at any time prior to the admission of the proposed state to a vote by its delegates in Congress, where such non-residents reside out of the United States, nor at any time either before or after such admission, where such non-residents reside within this Commonwealth within which this dis-
trict shall be reciprocal; or where such non-residents reside within any other of the United States, which shall declare the same to be reciprocal with in its limits; nor shall a neglect of cultivation or improvement of any land within either the proposed state or this Commonwealth, belonging to non-residents citizens of the other, subject such non-residents to forfeiture or other penalty within the term of six years, after the admission of the said state into the Federal Union. Fifth, that no grant of land or land warrants to be issued by the proposed state, shall interfere with any warrant heretofore issued from the land office of Virginia, which shall be located on land within said district now liable thereto, on or before the first day of September one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one. Sixth, that the unlocated lands within the said district, which stand appropriated to individuals or description of individuals, by the laws of this Commonwealth, for military or other services, shall be exempt from the disposition of the proposed state, and shall remain subject to be disposed of by the Commonwealth of Virginia, according to such appropriation, until the first of May one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two and no longer: thereafter the residue of all lands remaining within the limits of the said district, shall be subject to the disposition of the proposed state. Seventh, that the use and navigation of the river Ohio, so far as the territory of the proposed state, or the territory which shall remain within the limits of this Commonwealth lies thereon, shall be free and common to the citizens of the United States, and the respective jurisdictions of this Commonwealth and of the proposed state on the river as aforesaid, shall be concurrent only with the states which may possess the opposite shores of the said river. Eighth, that in case any complaint or dispute, shall at any time arise between the Commonwealth of Virginia and the said district, after it shall be an independent state, concerning the meaning or execution of the foregoing articles, the same shall be determined by six commissioners, of whom two shall be chosen by each of the parties, and the remainder by the commissioners so first appointed. Provided however, that five members assembled, shall be a sufficient number to adjourn from day to day, and to issue writs suppling vacancies which may happen from deaths, resignations or refusals to act, a majority of the whole shall be a sufficient number to choose a President, settle the proper rules of proceeding, authorise any number to summon a convention during a recess, and to act in all other instances where a greater number is not expressly required. Two thirds of the whole shall be a sufficient number to determine on the expediency of forming the said district into an independent state on the aforesaid terms and conditions. Provided that a majority of the whole number to be elected concur therein.
[To be continued.]
ST. JOHN'S (An.) Nov. 11.
By Capt. Hamilton, who arrived here yesterday from Gaudaloupe, which place he left the 9th inst. we are favoured with the following information:
That a ship had arrived on the 8th at Martinico, in 29 days from France, which brought advice of an English fleet, consisting of 17 sail of line, and several frigates, cruising off breast harbour—Capt. Hamilton was not allowed to go on shore until a soldier was sent to attend him, nor was he permitted to stay longer than half an hour.—On his landing he was repeatedly asked if there was not a war between England and France
LEXINGTON, March 29.
By a gentleman who arrived here on Tuesday the 23d inst. we are informed, that he paid the Mammillam the 17th and was told by the commanding Officer of that place, that a runner had lately come in, and informed that a number of Indians were preparing
to attack the frontiers of Kentucky, and to watch the Ohio river; in consequence of which the commanding officer dispatched an express to Congress.
On the 2d inst. three boats coming down the Ohio were attacked by the Indians, about three miles above the Sciota, the Indians were in possession of a boat which it is thought they had taken the day before and which they manned with about fifteen men together with a large canoe manned also, gave chase to the three boats; the three boats finding that they would be overtaken by the enemy, abandoned two of them and fixing three oars on a side to the other double manned them, by which they escaped; the Indians pursued them about twenty miles. All the goods and property on board the two boats left, fell into the hands of the enemy, supposed to be worth at least £4500.—No lives lost.
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, otherwise nothing but cash will be received in payment; 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 KEEN.
March 6, 1790.
Whereas some time in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven or one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight I authorised Francis Callis of Bourbon county to sell and convey the one half of a survey of 1000 acres lying on Wells's creek in the county of Mason, patented in the name of Matthew Rust and Edward Waller, as tenants in common; and as I have since that period moved to this country, I hereby give notice that I consider said Callis no longer as my attorney, and forewarn all persons from receiving any conveyance from him for said land, as I am determined to act for myself.
Matthew Rust.
Mason, March 13, 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.
POET'S CORNER.
Dick's plea for Beating his Wife.
SINCE beauty they say ne'er so lovely appears, As when the fair nymph is dissolved in tears; To know then how solid this maxim will prove, Dick beats pretty Peggy to heighten his love.
An Epigram on JOHN THOMPSON.
Here lies John Thompson, Reader stay And if thou canst, pray weep, He dozd an idle Life away, And then fell fast asleep.
ANECDOE.
A Nobleman of the thick blood of a certain nation, paid his address to the daughter of a gentleman in England, who valued money more than ancestry: the old gentleman, hinted to his lordship, that he supposed his fortune was equivalent to his daughter's. 'Why, no, Sir, (replied his lordship) I cannot say it is altogether so considerable; but then you know, Sir, there is my blood.' 'O, d-n your blood (returns the old gentleman, without hesitation:) if you squander my daughter's fortune away, she must not depend on your blood for a subsistence: a hog's blood would be of more service then, and would make much better puddings.'
UNION.
THE noted horse Union, late from the State of Maryland, now stands at my stable, and will cover mares the ensuing season, at three pounds per mare, or five pounds to insure; the pay for the season to be made in five months from the time the mare is first covered, one half to be in Cash the other in the following property at cash price: horn-cattle, sheep, pork, wheat, rye, and salt; his pedigree is as follows.
The bay colt Union bred by Peter P. Thornton Esq. now the property of Hudson Muse was got by Shakespear, his dam by Nonpanill, his grand dam by Morton's imported horse Traveller, his great grand dam was Pocahontas, she was imported by the honorable Wm. Byrd Esq. deceased, and of blood unexceptionable—pasturage gratis for mares that should be be left, but will not be answerable for escapes or accidents.
GEORGE BLACKBURN.
Woodford March 15, 1790.
A large company will meet at the Craborchard the 16th of April, in order to start early the next morning through the Wilderness
All kinds of Blank Books for Merchants, Clerks, &c. made and ruled to any pattern: Also old books new bound, on reasonable terms, at this office.
BLANKS OF ALL KINDS
FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE.