The Kentucke gazette (Lexington [Ky.]), 1788-03-22 00:00:00

K E N T U C K E G A Z E T T E
S A T U R D A Y, MARCH 22. 1788
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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 1787.
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, on the terms and conditions specified in the two acts of assembly one entitled "An act concerning the erection of the district of Kentucky into an independent state," the other entitled "An act making further provision for the erection of the district of Kentucky into an independent state."
RESOLVED that the 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 commonwealth of Virginia and of its laws over the district of Kentucky shall cease and determine forever, under the exceptions specified in the act, entitled "An act concerning the erection of the district of Kentucky into an independent state."
RESOLVED that an address to the congress of the United States of America be prepared stating the reasons for which the convention have judged it necessary to separate the said district from the state of Virginia to be erected, and requesting that the said district may be admitted into the federal union as soon as an act of the general assembly of Virginia in that case made and provided.
WHEREAS this convention hath adjudged it expedient that this district should be separated from the state of Virginia and erected into an independent state and hath determined that the authority of the commonwealth of Virginia and of her laws over this district shall cease and determine on the thirty first day of December one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight. And to the end that no person of anarchy may arise to the good people of the proposed state.
RESOLVED as the opinion of this convention that a convention shall be called with full power and authority to frame and establish a fundamental constitution of government for the proposed state and to declare what laws shall be in force therein until the same shall be abrogated or altered by the legislative authority acting under the constitution to be framed and established.
RESOLVED that in the month April 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 until the thirty first day of December one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight to compose the said convention, shall be elected within the said district, by the free male inhabitants of each county, in the same manner as the delegates of the general assembly have been elected, 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 Fayette five representatives; in the county of Bourbon five representatives; in the county of Lincoln five representatives; in the county of Madison five representatives; and in the county of Mercer five representatives. 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 for holding elections, shall continue the same from day to day, for five days including the first day, and shall cause their resolutions to be read, immediately preceding the opening of the election at the door of the court house, or other convenient place; and that Mr. Bradford be requested to publish the same in his Kentucky Gazette, six weeks successively, immediately preceding the time of holding the said elections. Each of the said officers shall deliver to each person duly elected a representative, a certificate of his election. The said Convention shall be held at Danville, on the fourth Monday in July next, and as soon as eighteen members have convened, they shall and may proceed to the choice of a President, and other proper officers; and settling pro-
per rules of proceedings; to consider, and by a majority of votes, establish a fundamental Constitution of government, for the proposed state; and declare what laws shall be in force therein, until they are abrogated or altered by the legislative authority, acting under the Constitution so to be framed and established.
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, that any two acting magistrates, who may be present on the day of holding the said elections, be appointed commissioners to superintend and conduct the said election, and to make returns in the same manner, as the sheriffs are directed to do.
A true copy from the minutes.
THOMAS TODD, C. C.
Mr Bradford. I HAVE been repeatedly inserted in your GAZETTE an Advertisement by a certain Maurice Nagle of Danville, publishing my having taken the benefit of the Act of Limitation, my reasons for so doing were, first, I lent the said Nagle sixty pounds in certificates in 1785. I like wife located four ten thousand acres of land, and paid deputy surveyors and Chain-carriers fees: likewise 5000 acres for a certain John Hunter, which said Nagle allowed to pay: likewise assigned him plants and certificates to the amount of 27,000 acres of land, as will appear from the records of the surveyor of Lincoln county. The said Nagle commenced a suit against me in Mercer county, which suit by the order of the court was referred to Col. Benj. Logan and Col. James Knox, and when the Arbitrators met, he the said Nagle refused to allow my accounts / as above stated.
I would ask said Nagle if he did not give me a receipt against a bond I executed to him and in it 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, the records of the supreme court will determine in the affirmative. Did not the said Nagle with John Crow become liable for a bond executed by Gen. Wilkinson to Richard Stevens, did not Richard Stevens give up the bond to Nagle and Did not the said Nagle after taking it in assign the said Bond with John Crow security to a certain John Jones, which was by him assigned to Albert Banta who has commenced suit thereon, and by assigning his own bond to make his innocent security liable for his debt after having once taken it up. These facts shews much greater design of fraud and dishonesty than for a man to claim the benefit of the laws of his country.
31. 3W JOHN MARTIN.
BLANKS
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 in Bourbon and will take in Hemp, Flax, and Cotton thread to dye. Those who will please to favour him with their custom may depend on being faithfully served by ADAM M'FERSON.
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, dock but no brand perceivable, a blemish in her right eye had on a small bell tied on with a tanned leather string, and a piece of a horse-shoe tied in the Bell for a Clapper, the owner may get her by applying to the subscriber living near John Kentons Station on the north fork of Licking about six miles from limestone.
March 1. 1788,
JOHN CURTIS.
I hereby forewarn all persons from purchasing a bond executed by John Tebbs deceased to Matthew Walker for two hundred acres of land, to be part of the said Tebbs's preemption, as the said Walker has failed to comply with his engagements to said Tebbs, in consequence of which he obtained said bond.
3032 WILLOUGHBY TIBBS Heir &c.
RAN away from the subscriber living near Danville, an Irish servant man, named James Donelson, about 26 years of age, about five feet six inches high, had on when he went away an old cloth coat a pair of buckskin breeches, and a pair of shoes which are rather too large for him, much pitted by the small pox; whoever takes up said servant and secures him so that I get him shall have five dollars reward, besides what the law allows. 30 WILLIAM GREEN
FOR SALE
A tract of land containing 1400 acres on the waters of the north fork of Licking, lying on the road from Limestone to the lower blue licks; being Mays settlement and preemption and includes Mays lick, good bonds on persons in this district or on persons in the Eastern part of Virginia will be received in payment, and I will warrant the title. tf b30 HARRY INNES
DANCING
WILL be taught at Capt. Thomas Youngs in Lexington, by the quarter; to commence on Thursday the 3d. of April next. Gentlemen and Ladies who incline to enter, will please to attend on that day, and the terms shall be made known by JOHN DAVENPORT

CASTOR
STND the ensuing season at Mr. Stephen G... the road from Lexington to... South El born, and will cover mares at forty shillings the season, which may be paid in country produce or live stock, 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 30
NERO
A Beautifull bay, rising nine years old, stands the ensuing season at Mr. George Shortridge near Boons Station Fayette County, and will cover mares at thirty shillings the season or ten shillings the leap if paid in cash, or thirty five shillings the season paid in cattle, or forty shillings in other good trade at market price.
NERO was got by Junius a full brother of John Baylor Esqrs. noted horse Gallant, his dam by the imported horse Ranter his grandam by sober John, his great grandam by Jolly Roger out of a full blooded mare, sold by Col. Baylor to old Mr. Mercer.
JOHN ROBERTS Good pasture gratis, but will not be answerable for escapes. March 11, 1788.
DARIUS
Will stand the ensuing season at Mr. John Caldwell on Cartwrights creek in Nelson county, and will be let to mares at fifteen shillings the season, thirty shillings the season, or three pounds the insurance in good trade, which may be discharged by paying ten shillings the leap, twenty shillings the season, or forty shillings the insurance in cash. Darius was bred by Mr. Daniel Hardaway of Amelia County Virginia, and was got by the noted Imported horse Janus, his dam and grandam, by the same his great grandam by the Imported horse Spanker.
2W 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. A
FOR SALE
FIFTY THOUSAND
ACRES of valuable land situated on the following 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 shown the land by applying to ELIJAH ROBERTSON . Nashville January. 21, 1788
ON monday last the 10 of this instant a certain Edward M'Farland absconded from the county of Bourbon in a clandestine manner, supposed to have been conveyed away by a certain Francis Donnelly, by whom he hath sent back an unjust account proven against me, which I am determined not to discharge. I therefore forewarn all persons from purchasing said account.
Bourbon March 14. ARTHUR M'NICKEL
THOMAS Portell has my note to him whereon would be due about £70 payable in trade the 21st of April next, the consideration for which I gave it is land near Limestone Station, for which I have received no Title, and part is disputed I therefore give this public caution to prevent any person from taking an assignment of said obligation, as I will pay no part till all the land for which it was given is secured to me in Fee-simple, clear of dispute. JOHN CAMPBELL
Jefferson March 1 1788 P. 32
THREE DOLLARS REWARD
OVER and above what the Law allows for securing Isaac a run away negroe of mine, and delivering him to me on my plantation at the Falls, he is a small pale coloured fellow, hook nosed, and has lost the toes off one of his feet, very artfull insinuating and impudent, 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 P. 32
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, 2931 HARRY INNES. C.
(Continued from our last)
BUT he tells you that he rode to Town to get a supply of ammunition, some fifty, or an hundred weight, suppose to attack an unarmed man. And that the interference of his friends put an end to the affair. I am well informed that some of his friends assisted him to load his pistol, for he had left one on the ground; And that he swore in the former strain, that he would put me to death; if not then, afterwards even if it should be privately; and that Mr. Hogan's offering to meet me and give me his rifle cooled the Gentlemans courage and put an end to the affair. He has not yet told that his flight to Town was after I had boarded him with his Uncles stick, and after he had made several faint attempts to stand, which was seen by several people in Town. At once giving an example of rashness, and timidity. At once showing that a man who is capable of attacking like a villain, is also capable of flying like a rat. Mr. Harris however would make you believe that he has recovered his wonted courage. He tells you that he has since put me to a fair trial; that is, he has sent me a challenge, which I declined without returning him an answer. Here it may not be improper to distinguish between real courage, and its mimick bluster. The one coming like an intermitting fever fills the man with heat, with rage; and anon leaves him cold. Languid, and a coward, the parent of Murder, and private assassination. The other is a deliberate sentiment, a native of the soul, calm regular, and composed, as congenial to the heart, as its pulsations. The offspring of nature. But after all Mr. Harris hopes that the public will impute his conduct in this affair, to his passion, and upon this principle, expects to be excused. This is one of the many instances, where one crime has been offered to palliate another. The young man's passion was surely on him when he wrote the piece, or he would have discovered some one mark of reason in some part of it: He should now ask pardon of the public for offering such an insult to their understanding. Mr. Harris will excuse me if I have not defended to the security of his pen; he is in it know that I do not choose to intrude him in any thing. As to the terms of reproach which he has aimed at me, I regard them not; they recoil upon himself with redoubled force. Of this however I leave the impartial public to judge.
It yet remains for me to make a few observations on the letter to Major Crittenden. It was written with candor, and pointed with the utmost carelessness. I never had an idea it would appear in public. Circumstances have since concurred to make it necessary. It has after repeated calls made its appearance; and the public have made their comments. They have observed that I gave my Brother in the settlement information of an Entry for land that Major Crittenden had taken by a younger Entry and sold, and they have seen my inducement for so doing. It remains to tell them that the Major knew of this Entry, and if he had been disposed to purchase, might have done it at
any time since the year 1780 when it was made. But I never made it understood that he intended any such thing. The Laws repeatedly limited the time within which Entries were to be surveyed. This had never been surveyed. The public has also observed that of two questions asked respecting my Brothers getting information, I only answered the latter. I did not answer the first at all. Neither negatively nor affirmatively; but a second being asked after a little pause I answered it. My motive for this conduct was a wish to preserve the peace of the neighbourhood, which I apprehended would have been interrupted had I have told Major Crittenden at that moment that I gave the information. I deny that the letter gives my countenance to the assertions which have been founded upon it. And I deny injuring any man, in the whole business. To have told Major Crittenden that I had given my Brother information; is perhaps what I should have done at first, but the withholding that information did him no injury, as it put him neither in a better nor worse situation with respect to the land. However the letter fully explains my own conduct and itself, that it would be insulting to the good sense of the public to enlarge on it.
There is however one observation more to be made; I have been told some of the party with a great shew of their own honesty, dwelt with peculiar triumph on the last line in the letter; where I say I do not with ever part to be free. This was meant to apply to the mention of General Wilkinson's name which the unavoidable in giving the explanation was in my opinion the more indelicate in that Gentlemans absence; on account of the difference then subsisting between us. H. MARSHALL
MR. BRADFORD
HOWEVER blameable I may appear, in the eyes of my friends, for descending to honour with the smallest regard, a wretch who stands stigmatized to the world, for a liar, coward, and scoundrel; shall make it a point, when I am assured that Humphrey Grubbs, vulgarly called Marshall, has finished the commentaries which he is compiling for my amusement, to trouble you with a few small tales; calculated for the edification of the children of the parish; let Grubbs, dangle they can bag, and dilate in florid falsehood. I will not be diverted from the plain path of truth, and yet for the children shall have pastime, for it will be impossible to write, to speak, or even to think, of this Monkey in mans cloathes, without laughter. JORDAN HARRIS
STRAYED from the subscribers about the last of December the eight following described horses mares and colts. A bay mare six years old, branded on the near shoulder R, and on the near buttock T has some saddle spots, has a star in her forehead, is with foal, is a natural trotter, and is about fourteen hands and an inch high. A chestnut roan horse with a white mane and tail about fourteen hands high, twelve or fourteen years old, his brand I do not remember, is a natural pacer. A mare seven or eight years old fourteen hands high, had on a bell, has some saddle spots, is with foal, and is branded on her near shoulder SL. A black horse three years old this spring, is fourteen hands high, a natural trotter has the same brand. A sorrel mare colt two years old, has a white mane and tail, a natural pacer, and has the same brand. A bay of the same age, has a blaze in her face, her feet is white, is a natural trotter, and has the same brand. A bay horse colt, one year old this spring, and a dark brown mare colt of the same age with white feet. Whoever takes up said creatures, and secures them, so that the owners get them, shall receive four pounds worth of property, or in that proportion for any part of them by JOHN WALLER
JOHN LYON
SAMUEL LYON
Bourbon County March 11 1788. 3032
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