History of Fairfield County, Connecticut

Have juft received the following articles, which they will fell on the lowcfc terms for cafh or country produce, and all forts of yarn, rags, thnims. &c. paid in hand, as it is not their with to fell on credit: Twilt'd and plain Coatings. Ladies ditto. Scarlet & other colored Cloths. Wildbores, Camblcts, TwilI'd & plain Velvets, Linnens, Cambricics and Muflins, Callicocs and Chintfcs, Together with a variety of other articles of Dry Good>: Alfo an afTort- ment of SADDLERY and HARD WARE, and CAMEL'S HAIR, for Hatteks. The higheft price given for MUSKRAT, CAT, & RAlilJIT Skins. Danbury, Nov. 15, 1792. St. Croix Rum, Brown and Loaf Sug.ir, Gin, by the cafe, liohca Tea, Pepper, Alfpice, Ginger, Allum, Copperas, lod. 8d. & 4d. Nails, CARRINGTON and MYGATT, Have entered into partncrfhip with NAJAH TAYLOR, in the GOLD and SILVER-SMITH BUSINESS, Under the firm of Mygatt, Taylor, & Co. TX/HERE may he had any work in that line, on the mofi reafonablc terms, and made in the ncwcft and moft approved fafhiuns and ncaleft manner. CASH paid for Old Silver, Brafs and Copper. Danbury, Decembers, 1792. 44 N. B. A good workman at CLOCKS, will meet with good encour- agement at faid fhop. Noah Hoyt, jun. T T AS a large and beautiful fiorc of GOODS on hand. Said Hoyt ■^^ wifhes to purch-ife 1,000 runs of LINEN and TOW YARN, for which nine pence per run will be given for linen yarn, and fix pence per run for tow yarn. jftS* All kinds of Hatting Fur will be received in payment for Goods. Danbury, Nov. 34, 179:; i. '"PHOSE pcrfons who arc indebted to the Subfcribcrs on Note or ■*• Book (whofe accounts arc become due by agreement) will do well to notice this advertifement, and call and fettle (or at Icaft make fome pay) in order to prevent coft which will politively be m.-ide in cafe of neglect, without the trouble of writing 3 or 4 Dunning Letters upon the occafiion. All kinds of counir>' produce received in payment at the full value, if not more. HOG's-BRlSTLES taken in at faid Store, and Twenty Shillings per hundred paid in Cifh for COTTON .ind LINEN RAGS in quantities not left than one hundred weight. CARRINGTON cS: MVGATT. Who have for Sale, a^ ufual. An affortment 0/ Goods, Drugs & Medicine, and Paintcr*s^nd Dyer's Colours, On reafonable tcrmi. Danbury, Dec. 8, 1792. 44 LELAND's ALMAN'.VCKS. For 1793, POR Sale at this Oppice. LOST, laft Mond.iy night, a red and white filk HANDKERCHIEF. Whoever will return it to the Printers, or to Mr. Major Taylor, will oblige a poor Woman, who has nothing but thanks to offer as a rew.trd. Danbury, Dec. 15, 1792. PHILADELPHIA, DBCBMBER 15. PRICE OF STOCKS. 6 per cents, 20/3- 3 per cents, 12^. Deferred do. 13/6. Final fcitlements, so/. Shares Bank of United States, 36 A LL perfons who owe State Taxes to the Subfcriber, arc hereby ^*' notified, that unlcfs they fettle with him within a week from thi-* date, either by giving their notes oC hand for the f.tme, or otherwifc making full payment of the ballances due to him, muft depend npu:i paying him full travelling and levying fees; as he is determined \v< Rate bills fhall be fully clofed in a very fhort time. JOSEPH M. WHITE. Danbury, Dec. 15, 1793. 45 3 A WATCH LOST. LOST ycftcrday, between the top of Elwcll's-hilt, and the hill by Mr. Oliver Stone's, a filver Watch — maker's name George Clark, a ftccl chain, with links and rings, the fcal was loft out of it-i cafe^ Whoever fhall find faid Watch, and will deliver it to the Primer hereof, or to Mr. Deforeft, at Elwill's hill, fhall be gcncroufly rcwardt ! for their trouble. ELIJAH HAWLEV. Danbury, Dec. 8, 1792. m, \ ANXIOUS to make a fettlement with their cuftomers, without put- ting them to coft, they once more take this method to call upon all perfons indebted to them, cither by note or book, whofe accounts have become due by agreement, to make a fcitlement by the loth d.iv of January next ; and as the prcfcnt prices of produce cannot with pm priety be pleaded as a delay of payment, thofc who neglect to make .\ fettlement by the time mentioned, muft expect to be put to coft, without further notice. All kinds of mcrchant.ible produce will be received in payment, at its full value. N, B. Cafh, and the higheft price, will be given by ihcm for good WHEAT, PORK, &c. and a generous price for HOG's BRISTLES. Danbury, Dec. 15, 179::. 45 FOR SALE, T^HE STORE, formerly occtipicd by MCllULS an. I DIBBLE.— It ftands in Danbury, in Bethel focicly, about three miles S. E. from the town, on the public road to Fairfield— is an excel- lent ftand for bufiness, and is built convenient for H.ATTINGanJ TRADING— will be fold with or without the Hattrni^ Tools. For further parti:ulars enquire of ZAR DI BBLE. A". B. All thofe indebted to the late partncrfhip of NICHOLS and DIBBLE, cither by note or book, muft depend on fettling with ihem by the ift day of January next, or their accounts will be put into an At torncy's hand to collect, without further notice. Dec. to, 179a. 45 3 Elcazcr Tnylor, PRESENTS his compliiuents to thf>/i ^entletnen whont he hnt ftif- plied -vith the Farmer's yaurnai, and informs them he is n<- ready to receive the bMLinee due him to the ^th in/t. — and ivhile hf returns his thanks to tk>fe who have made payment according ; agreement, he is under the painful necefftty of requiring of others a'i itnmediate fettlement— othertuife he fhall be forced to have recomrfe to an expenfive mode if collecting his arrearages. Danbury, December 27, 1793. DANBURY. 229 EAR-MARKS. The following are speeimens of ear-marks used in the early days to distinguish sheo]) : "Justus liiirmiurs car-mark is a crop in eiuii ear ami ii iiii 1^ tiitiicr t!n.> near. Kntered August 'M, 1778." " Aliijali Itrtruuurs ear-uiarli is Step under tlie oti' ear, and Iialf-peuuy Ibreside tlie same, and Iialf-peuny fureside tiie near ear. Kiitercd Det-emr 5tli, 177S." " Julin Gre^'ory, Iiis ear-mark is a crop on the near ear and twn liall- pennya under the same. Dee. tl, 1778." "Khen' (Gregory's ear-mark isacrop on the near ear,and a lialf-pemiy under Hie s;uue. Dee. 9, 1778." " Ktdtert Boneilict's ear-mark is a step under each ear. Kntered Dee. 2S, 177.S." " Andrew Conistock's ear-mark is a llalf-penny foi-esitle the near ear, step under same. l>ec. 2.S, 1778." " Natluin Starr's ear-mark is a swallow loik on the near car. Knti-retl January 5, 17711." *'t:ieazer Taylor's car-mark is a half-penny under near ear, a crop on the off, and a nick uniler the olT. Entered May 30, 177«." "Ebenczer "Whitlock's mark is a >pade in the end of the iij;ht ear. Entered Dec. 2:1, 1770." ROADS. At a regular town-meeting held in 1800 it was "voted that men's labor on the highway should lie rated at seventy-five eent.s per day, and the same for a good and sufficient team, except from the liOtli of September to the 20tli of Deeember, when it should be but fifty-eight cents per day." This provision was undoubtedly intended to save the town from being elieatetl by the short days. CHAPTER XXII. DANBURT (Continued). MISCELLANEOUS— TUE PKE.SS, Etc. The Danhury Press— The Farmers' Journal— The Uepublican Journal— The Farmers' Chronicle— The Beligious Moniti>r and Theological Scales— The Sun of l.iherty- The Farmers' Journal and Colnnd.ian Ark— Tlie New England liepuhlican— The Danliiiry Itccordei— The Herald of Kreechmi— The Herald of Freedom and Gospel Witness— The Ojunecticnt Repository — The Danbury Giizctto— The Datdiury Chronicle and Fairfield County Ilemocrat — The I)atd)ury Tinn's— The Hatters' Journal— The Junta— The Jeffersonian- The Danbury News -The Danburian- The Danbury Globe— Tlie IVople— The Danbury Democrat— The Danbury Rupiiblican— The Oas-Liglit Ojinpariy— Wooster I'ouncil, No. 2s, R. and S. 31.— Crusade Conimanilery— Eureka Chapter— Union Lodge— Washington Division, No. 1, S. of T. — fllelno- lial Lodge, No. I'Jl, I. O. C. T.— Samaritan Lodge, No. 7, I. O. of 0. F. — .\gricultiinil Society— The National Pahqniociue Bank- Danbury National Bank— The Savings Bank of Danbury— The Dnion .Sav- ings-Baiik— The Fire Department— The Water-Works— The Kohanza Disaster— EIniwooil Park- Wooster Cemetery— Population from 173U to 1880— The Danbury Library. THE DANBURY PRESS. The FannerK' Journal was established in March, 1790. The publishers were Edward Ely and Nathan Douglas. It was jiublished in a building near the court-house. In .January of 1793 the firm separated, and Mr. Douglas commenced a paper under the title of the lirpuhlican Journal. This venture does not seem to have proved altogether a profitable one to either party, for in December of tlie same year Mr. Douglas disposed of his paper to Mr. Ely, who then consolidated the two papers and issued the result ;is Tlic Faniicrf:' Chronicle. How long he continued its publication is not known. Jlr. Doughis, alter dispos- ing of his paper, made a specialty of joli-priuting. The Religious Monitor tnid Tlieotoijieal Si-ales, a. monthly religious magazine, was started in 1797 by Douglas & Nichols, and was continued for several years. The copies e.xtant show it to have been well edited, and it probalily reached a large circuhitiou. The Sun of Liberti/, a Kepublican jiaper, edited by Samuel Morse, Danbury, wasestalilished in .July, 180(1, and continued until October 8th, when it was removed to Norwalk. The Farmers' Journal and Voluriibian Ar/:, an eight- [jage weekly pajier, was sttirtetl in February, 1803, by Stiles, Nichols & Co. This paper does not seem to have had a long run, jis soon after we find that Mr. Nichols went to Bridgeport and published the Farmer of that jihiee. Tlic New England Hepuldiritn was established by John C. Gray in July, 1804. This paper was ex- ceedingly neat and good-looking, but there is no record of the length of time it was published, although it must have continued for several years, as the copy in the possession of the writer is No. 41 of Vol. III. The Danbury Recorder was established in 1821! by Orrin (!)sborn ; it was in after-years iniblished by ^\^ & M. Yale in the building just south of the jiresent Baptist church. It was a small paper, but handsomely gotten up and ably edited.