The Kentucke gazette (Lexington [Ky.]), 1788-04-12 00:00:00

KENTUCKE GAZETTE,
S A T U R D A Y, APRIL 12, 1788.
LEXINGTON: Printed and Sold by JOHN and FIELDING BRADFORD, at their PRINTING-OFFICE in Main Street, where Subscriptions (at 18/ per Ann) Advertisements, &c. for this paper, are thankfully received, and PRINTING in its different branches done with Care and Expedition - Advertisements of no more length than breadth, are inserted for 3s. the first time and 2s. each time after and longer ones in proportion.
FOUR DOLLARS REWARD.
STRAYED from the subscriber about Christmas last, a black mare, with a small blaze down her face, five years old, fifteen hands high, a natural trot, her foal before, a short tail. ALSO a bay stud colt, two years old in June next, a large head, small white on his nose, light mane and long tail. Whoever secures said creatures so that I get them again, shall receive the above reward, or two dollars for either. Lexington, April 1, 1788. JOHN PARKER.
STAYED from the head of Clarks run, Lincoln county about the first February last, a chestnut sorrel horse fourteen hands and a half high, blaze face and some saddle spots, one hind foot white, had on when he went away a large singing bell, the collar of which was wrapped twice round his neck. The taker up of said horse shall be intitled to a liberal reward, on bringing or sending him to the subscriber living near the Knob Lick. 33
April 7th 1788 MICHAEL RANDOLPH.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD
LEFT in the wilderness at Raccoon creek about the 14th of December 1786 a dark bay mare five years old this spring, about four feet eight or nine inches high, trots naturally, has good, life branded on the near side of the Jaw thus I, as she probably might be brought into Kentucky, any person securing said mare and delivering her to John Moore living at Col. Abraham Bowmans station, or if found on the south side of Kentucky, she may be delivered to Robert Allen, living on the hanging fork of Dick's river. 33 SAMUEL MOORE
FLIMNAP
STANDS at the subscribers plantation, three and a half miles below Lexington near the town fork of Elk horn, and will cover mares at thirty shillings the season, which may be discharged in good wheat or rye at 3/ pr. bushell, corn at 5/ pr. barrel, or twenty shillings paid by the first of August next. The above articles to be paid at the subscribers plantation before the first day of January and not afterwards. Flimnap is rising four years old, of a dark bay, five feet three inches high, he was got by old Flimnap out of a Tom Jones and Partner mare. March 18, 1788. 33 HENRY PAYNE.
STRAYED or stolen in January last from Moses Hall's near Lexington, a sorrel horse eight years old about five feet high, branded on the near shoulder thus HL, has a blaze in his face which comes over his nostril, has three white feet, shod before, paces and trots, he is some what difficult to bridle by reason he will not suffer his ears to be handled, has never been docked, whosoever takes up said horse and will bring or send him to me in Lincoln county, about five miles from the Court-house, shall have four Dollars reward. 35
HUGH LOGAN
STRAYED from Capt. John Souths in October last one black bald faced colt, two years old branded on the near buttock, hoy, he is some hurt in one of his hips, any person that will bring him to me or to said Souths shall be well rewarded for their trouble. 31 33 WILLIAM HOY
STRAYED from the subscriber at Mr. Richard Masterons near Lexington about the tenth of January last a likely young black horse three years old next may, near fifteen hands high, branded on the near buttock with a stirrup iron nearly thus [ ] a large star in his forehead and snip inclining to one side of his nose, long tail, whoever takes up said horse or gives such information to the printer so that he may be got again, shall receive two dollars reward. 3133 HENRY LEE
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
NOTICE
IS hereby given, that a company will meet at the Crab-orchard on Sunday the 4th. day of May to go through the wilderness, and to set out on the 5th. at which time most of the Delegates to the State convention, will go
To the good people of Kentucky and Cumberland Gentlemen.
I think it my duty to inform you, that about the time that some families was barbarously murdered, by the names of MNits, and Fords and others, to the number of twenty two, as I have been informed, Capt. William Martin, tired his horse in Powells Mountain, came into the neighbourhood I live in, and hired a horse of one of my neighbours to ride to the Cherokee Nation; at the same time told Capt. Lock Stubblefield, and William Owen, two of my neighbours, that the above murder was done by the Indians. Sometime about the first of the present year, a report was current here, that a number of people in Kentucky suspected the said Martin to have been present, and aided the Indians in committing that horrid crime, when I heard of the said report I was in company with James Bunch, Capt. Stubblefield, and William Owen, and a numbers of others, and I expressed myself to be of opinion that Capt. Martin was innocent of the murder, when James Bunch replied to me to prove that he was at my house at the time he tired his horse four day before the murder was done, and at the time he his red Meradays horse. Capt. Stubblefield immediately replied to Bunch and said, at the very time Martin told him of the murder of the Fords and MNits and said he would swear it Owen told Bunch he would swear the same, on which Bunch remained silent. These things must be mysterious, and acknowledged to be so by the candid, why should Capt. Martin apply for evidence to acquit himself, before he was accused, the string of his mare so bad that he was obliged to leave her in 12 or 15 miles from the place he set out from. Had he set out from the Valley station which is the place he said he had, it is not very probable that Capt. Martin could tell Capt. Stubblefield and Owen of the murder four days before it was committed, the names of the persons murdered at the place &c, is hard to make the judicious part of the world believe Should Capt. Martin be innocent, the people of this country would be glad his innocence could appear, but if guilty, it is shameful to pass over such crimes unnoticed, it is therefore but just that a proper enquiry be had into the matter.
I am Gentlemen your obedient Servant, March 25, 1788. WILLIAM COCKE.
JUST OPENED AND NOW SELLING BY
TEGARDEN AND M'CULLOUGH
At their store in Lexington on main street, three doors below the Court-house, where Mr. Clarke lately kept.
 Cambler, Durants Moreens, Halloons,  Fustians, Jeans, Corduroys, Plush, half-thicks,  Chintz, Callico, and stampd Muslin,  Silk, cotton, linnen and kenting Handkerchiefs,  Black and white Gauze,  Apron Lawn, striped and Irish Linnen,  Worsted, thread and cotton Stockings,  Testaments, Spelling Books, Writing Paper  Watt's Psalms and Hymns,  Large and small Looking Glasses,  An assortment of Queens ware,  Decanters and Cruets,  Tin cups and Tea canisters,  Table and Tea spoons,  Cotton and Wool Cards,  Curb and Snaffle Bridle bits, steel Spurs,  Whip saw files, Table Hinges, rod. Nails,  Sadlers Tacks Buckles and Hosses,  Shoe and knee Buckles, Pen and Cutteu Knives,  Ivory & horn Combs, mens & womes crooked ditto,  Chocolate Muscovado Sugar,  Nutmegs, Cloves, Cinnamon and Ginger,  Indigo, Fig blue, Coperas, Brimstone and Rosin,  Drop shot and a good Assortment of Castings. 
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 shewn the land by applying to ELIJAH ROBERTSON, Nashville January. 21, 1788 b29

He that is first in his own eyes seemeth just, but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.
THIS Mss's printers is precisely the case of Capt. Humphrey Marshall; knowing that detection was at hand; he endeavoured in his letter to Major Crittenden to justify falsehood and deception, by a shew of candor and the most flagrant breach of veracity; the charge of deception, stands acknowledged under his own hand; to prove the falsehood, beyond a possibility of contradiction. It is only necessary to observe, that the land in question, which the noble Captain calls Wilkinsons and Turpins, was sold by Major Crittenden to Capt. Fowler and Mr. Stephen Collins so long ago as the year 1780 and 84 and held by those Gentlemen ever since. Mr. Marshall who lives within one and a half miles of the spot, was as well acquainted with the circumstances as any man, and yet with all his candor and modesty about him, is hardy enough to assert, that this land is the property of two Gentlemen, who never had the most distant pretension to it.
From this sample, we may reasonably conclude, that the Captain's veracity sets very loosely upon him, it is however but justice to acknowledge, that he is not lost to all sense of shame; no, he has feeling enough left to lament a dishonorable action. Tho' he has not virtue enough to avoid it; stung by his reflections, on the fatal dilemma to which he had committed himself with Major Crittenden, and the disgraceful acts he had employed to extricate himself; he in a fit of phrenzy, and without the least provocation, wrote a most impertinent letter to the Attorney general, in which he offered the most wanton and illiberal abuse to Mr. Turpin, a Gentleman with whom he was at that time, on terms of perfect civility; In this manner the public may rest assured, the present controversy originated, yet this is the man, who clothed in robes of modesty and diffidence, comes forward and endeavours to make the people believe that he is quiet, orderly, inoffensive, a lover of peace and good neighbourhood, when in fact, he is so much the slave of avarice and ambition, that he would malign, backbite and destroy any man who opposes his interest, or stands between him and his promotion; the whole county can bear witness, to his long and elaborate exertions, to obtain an appointment from the people, which would defray his expences to Richmond, where his sole business 'tis said, is to finish his education under the tuition of his brother-in-law; and so intent has he been on the subject, that there is scarce a bye path in the county, which he has not explored, hardly a man whose suffrage he has not, at one time or another, supplicated, nor is there an act, however base, servile, or degradatory, which he has not practised to accomplish his purpose.
Having by those practices drawn upon himself the reprobation of all who were privy to them; sinking, under the public odium, he made a desperate attempt to recover his lost ground: he appeared to the public, set himself up as an object of persecution, and being "first in his own cause" a generous people unacquainted with the facts which I have unfolded, were cheated of their good opinion, and induced to compassionate a wretch, who they must now despise. In your last paper I find the Captain has recurred to the same expedient, indeed he is so inflated by his late success, that he conceives his name alone sufficient to supply every defect of argument, or truth. But altho' like his old acquaintance Solomon he knows how to time things admirably, I will venture to prognosticate, that this attempt, was not exactly in season and that he will find he has cried wolf once too often; the people will no longer be coaxed or cajoled, by the cant of persecution, combination, ten to one and the rest of the dolorous nonsense with which Mr. Marshall pesters the public, it must be remembered, that when he first hauled himself into print, he was flushed with victory, and triumphing over his adversary, this circumstance suffices to prove that electioneering views, and personal vanity were the prompters which directed his appeal.
Mr. Marshall affects to treat my person and my writing, with contempt having secured himself against all apprehensions from the former, he conceives he can destroy the efficacy of the latter, by ascribing them to other hands than my own, as if it were a matter of consequence to the people from whence my observations are derived, provided they are just; In the amplitude of his knowledge, he must know, that it is not the man, but the matter to which the attention of the judicious public is directed; he might too reflect, that speaking facts and not bare suspicions, are necessary to give credit to the assertions of a man, who has long since established and justified by Theory and practice, that "it is
not necessary to tell the truth." For my part, I wish not to pry so far into Mr. Marshall's secrets as to discover the sex quality or condition, of his humble serbe, or whether he has one, two, or three, assistants, nor am I desirous that he should break his neck by a plunge from the dizzy height which he so frequently goes off his road; to ascend. No he is welcome to all the honour which can accrue, from the mutilated, mangled paragraphs which he purloins without mercy.
Mr. Marshall tells us that he is extremely modest, yet scruples not to make himself a man of sufficient consequence to excite combination, against his honour and glory, and at the same time that he complains of the disproportion of ten to one, boast of the good opinion of the people, the ten to one I suppose are those who know him, the people those who do not know him, he is diffident and humble in his pretensions, yet above the pity of his fellow citizens above that compassion, to which he owes his short lived consequence, he is the very pink of decorum and a model of chaste stile, yet contemptible tool, common prostitute, with and humours, white negroes &c. &c. are the familiar phrases of his pen. Yet I am far from denying him several things accomplished he bows obsequiously, obsequiously and profoundly. He wears the invariable unmeaning simper to friends and foes, and has by mere dint of deep thought and philosophic reflection, obtained a command over his muscular faculties, that he can bow when he is pleased, smile on those whom he would wish to flatter. If Mr. Marshall from impertinent at my preface I expect he will become like a parched pea at the sequel, by tackling him in his own stile, and grubbing him for a week or two, I have so far connected his manners as to reach him that pettiness is due even from an enemy, a certain Jordan Harris is now Mr. Harris; I shall increase the obligation before I have done with him, by teaching him that it is in obscurity alone he can escape contempt, and that he will be most respected when least known.
I must regret Gentlemen, that I have been diverted from my narrative, but Mr. Marshall's unseasonable interruption rendered this digression necessary in confidence therefore that it will, on this consideration be pardoned, I will for the present take my leave of you and am Gentlemen, JORDAN HARRIS.
A CERTAIN William Oats, who was an Indian trader some years ago in the State of Georgia, bought a white girl from one of the Chickamanga Indian squaws, the child was about nine months old when he purchased it, the Indians informed the said Oats, that the child was taken on the Kentucky road, at which time there was one or two white people killed, but not the mother of the child, and that it belonged to people of the name of Scard-- the child has some particular marks by which the mother (if living) may know it. Mr. Oats now lives on Little Pee Dee river, near Grooms ferry has had the child baptized by the name of Nelly Oats, he has no child and is determined not to part with it, but is desirous her parents may know where she is. For farther particulars, apply to the John M. Nabb living on big pigeon in what is called Franklin State.
MR. BRADFORD.
IT is with concern for the public, and the propriety of your press, that I am induced to address you upon a subject which required an earlier date: shall I call it the scandal of the times? Your press sir, was brought for a public good, and has been encouraged to answer that valuable purpose: we received your first productions with pleasure, and expected to find them continued, replete with a variety of useful and interesting subjects from the ingenious pens of your correspondents; but astonishing! Your paper is a scene of war, a vehicle of scandal, in consequence of every private quarrel. Your press is free to all, but what offends a virtuous public, and forms a bad example to a rising generation; what doth the party, more than expose themselves and each other to public ridicule, and the hero loses the laurel, by the neglect and contempt of your readers. It is a christian disposition to call a veil over the faults of our neighbours but now we have the reverse "On eagles wings immortal scandals fly," I hear your readers cry, shame, and I assure you many intend withdrawing their subscriptions. It will be your duty to advise those wrathful Gentlemen to determine disputes some other way, and not as all other earthly blessings to men, pervert the important usefulness of your press, by the imperfection of human nature.
MONITOR.
REDBIRD
A Powerful high blooded horse, will stand this season at the subscribers house in Lexington, his price thirty shillings, cash, or 200lb of merchantable tobacco, or 500lb of pork, to be delivered in Lexington, on or before the 20th day of October next.
REDBIRD was got by Fearnought an imported horse, his dam was Janus, called slow and sure, his grand dam was creeping Kate, so well known on the continent for her swiftness and high blood. JOHN M. NAIR.
I have for sale at my house a large quantity of dry garnered salt, which I will sell for cash, at two Dollars pr. bushel.
ANNIE CHRISTIAN Lincoln April 8 1788. 337
FOR SALE
A tract of land containing 1420 acres on the waters of the north fork of Licking, lying on the road from Lexington to the lower blue licks, being Mays settlement and preemption, and includes Mays lick, good bonus 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. HARRY INNES
STRAYED from Col Robert Todds, about the first of december last, a red roan mare with foal, about six years old, fourteen hands high, a small white spot in her face, branded on the near shoulder and buttocks, some saddle marks, a natural trotter, had a bell on, whoever takes up said mare and brings her to Col. Todds shall receive three dollars reward. 335 JOHN FILSON
THREE DOLLARS REWARD
Strayed away from the subscriber in the month of October last, a cheanut colour'd mare and mare-colt, both have white main and tail, the mare is thirteen years old, about fourteen hands high and branded on the near shoulder TH, the mare had on a small bell, is supposed to be with foal. Whoever takes up said mare and colt, and brings them to Bourbon court-house, shall have the above reward. MARY JUNKIN.
WHEREAS there are a number of Judgements obtained in the late Supreme Court, for the benefit of Mr. Browns Clients: this is therefore to give notice that Mr. William McDowell or the subscriber will issue Executions upon the request of those persons for whom the judgements were obtained. HARRY INNES. March 29 33
STOLEN from the subscriber living near Lexington a blue jacket, about half worn, the back of alighter blue, with shallow pockets, a set of silver buttons marked IB in a cipher. Any person having bought said jacket, and returning it to me in Lexington, shall have the full value of it, as I wish to bring villains to justice. ISAAC BARR
HEMP SEED
For sale at Robert Barrs Store in Lexington