Western Sun, Volume 4, Number 5, Vincennes, Knox County, 3 August 1811 — Page 2

HEAD-QUARTERS, VINCENNES July 3d, IS 11. General Orders for the Militia THE murders and depredations which Invc lately been committed by the Indians in the Illinois territory, and the general afpecl of Indian aiftirs throughout our north vvrftcrn frontier, makes it impcrioully needfarv that meafures thould be immediately t3krn to put the miliiia of the territory on the mnft rcfpecVible footing. With this object, the fcvcral Colonels and Commandants of corps are particularly charged. Thry are to fee that their men are all pro perly cLlTed, armed and equipped, as the las uirc& ; and that the captains enrol all the men that are fubjett to militia duty. The regiments of Infantry are in future to be defignated by the following numbers, viz. 1 he regiment in Kncx county, com. niand-d by Lieutenant Colonel Commandant, Jordan, will be called the 1ft Indiana

regiment

That in Clark countv, commanded by

Lieutenant Colonel Commandant, Barthclemews, the 2d Indiana regiment. That in Dearborn, lately commanded by Colonel Chambers, the 3d Indiana regt. That'in Knox, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Commandant, Decker, the 4th Indiana regiment That in Harrifon, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Commandant, Paddocks, the 5th Indiana rrgiment. That in Jctferfon, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Commandant, McEarland, thf ftth Indiana renimcRt.

" That in Franklin, commanded by Lieu

tenant Colonel Commandant, Noble, the 7th Indiana regiment. And that to be formed in Wayne, the 8th Indiana regiment. The following detachments from the militia will be immediately made, and hold themfelvrsin rcadmefs to march at a ma. rneut's warning, viz. The whole of the I ft regiment. The whole of the lft battalion. One Major, Sc three complete companies from the 2d bat. talionof the 4th regiment, thefe, together with captain Parke's troop of Vincennes Light Dragoons, to report to, and receive their orders from Liet. Col. Dicker.

Le three complete companies

(two of them to he the light companies of

c-pt-iins Spencer and Berry) trom tlie 5tn regiment one nujor, and two complete

companies (the light company to oc owe;

from the 2d regiment ami two compile companies from the 6th regiment ; thefe, together with captain Beggs dragoons, to report to, and form the command of Lieut. Col. Commandant, Birtholemews The light company of tlie 3d th light company (if any) if not another of the 7th, and the two liht companies of his own battalion of the 8th, to form the command of major G-orge Hunt. The Comm. ndants of ench regiment will attend to the forming thefe detachment- of their refp?c"ive regiment ; and as foon as tlu y are complrted, they will te placed under the command of the fctdor ofiictr detached, who will immediately report himfclf and command, to the oli:;er appointed to command the whole detachment that is to fy : the fcvrral detachments from K.uix County, to report themfelve:? to Col. Drrker ; thole from Harrifon, Clark and JrtTVrf.jti, to Col. IWtholemews ; and tiiofr from Durborn, Wyne and Franklin, to Major Hunt. The C doneli refprdlively will he held re fporifitile for a prompt and decline execution i f tins oith r. Cdoi.cls Dcckrr and Butholemew, and M-j r Hunt, will receive their orders trom the Commander in Chief. Cpt4ins B-gis and Parke, will CXert th mfelves to f:H up tl"ir troop to the cftablillime fit, as loon as polTiMe. By the Commander in Chief. H. HURST, aid dc camp.

(aincd a patent from the United

States in payment lor which the

laid Wharton Reftor, afligncd to

the faid Kclfry Smith, a certain

note or obligation of a certain John

A. Shatfer, of the city of New-

York, for two thouiand dollars : in

part pay of which note, over and above the purchafc money for the

faid patent right (which was one thoufand dollars) the faid Kelfey and Smith, advanced the faid VV. Reclor, five hundred dollars, and gave their obligations for five hundred more, when the whole of the faid note fhouid be collected : and whereas, by advices from the city of Philadelphia, lately received in this town, we have been informed that the faid Wharton Reclor, and the faid John A. Shaefer, had entered into a combination, by an interchange of notes or obligations to defraud the good people of the United States, the faid Shaefer undertaking to negociate the faid RetStor's notes to the eaftward, &. the faid Reclor undertaking to negociate the find Shaefer's notes in the weftern country and whereas, it appears from the fame advices, that the faid John A. Shaefer, had been confined in the (late prifon, in the city of New York, for felony, before the negotiation between him and the faid Wharton Re&or, and it further appears from the fame advices, that fince the negociation between the faid Shaefir and the faid Reclor, the

faid John A. Shaefer, had abfeonded from the city of Philadelphia, after having negociated the find Re6or's notes and whereas, one of the faid Shaefer's notes, given as aforefaid to the faid Reclor, has been forwarded to the city of Philadelphia, where they were con

tracted for acceptance, and been protefied for non-acceptance, the faid Shaefer not being to be found This is therefore to forewarn all perfons from receiving the faid patent right, as aforefaid, from the laid Reclor, as we are determined to take all legal fleps to fet aftdc the faid contract. Given under our hands, at Cincinnati, this 13th day or March, 1811. 4U9 Kckcy s? Smith, INDIANA TERRITORY,

Dearborn county , set. $ Foreign Attachment. "TOTICE U hereby given, that a writ of attachment liiued out of the court

of Common Pleas of Dearborn county, Indiana territory, at the fuit of Ifaac Mills and Ilaac Dunn, againll the goods, chttlcs, rights, credi's, lands ana tenement uf B rrut IT 11 1 1 1 k , a non-rcliJent debtor, in a pie of dent, 133 doll us and 31 cents, with in terelt from the 7th day of March, 1809, return iblc to the term of Auguft, 1810, on which the flirrift of faid county hath made return, tint he has attached one black nure

the property of laid Hulick, alio, that he

LIST of letters remaining in the Poll Qtlicc at Vincennes, the laft

quarter, which, if not taken out within three months, will be forwarded to the General Puft-Oilice as dead letters. A

John Alton, William O. Allen, Thcmas Akeman, John Allen, B John Buwker, James JUac Ay Thomas Blackwell,

Jonathan Ayres, John Adams , 2 ; Sally Allen, William Afhby,

Robert Balentine, John Black, John Bogar, James Bairdy

Sarah Crosby, 2 ; Lewis Callame, 2 ; Alexandir Calberty Daniel Dolohan, William Daugherty, Geo. R. C. Floyd, 3 William Flint, Robert Gilly 2 ;

John Case, I)avid Conrod. Josiuh Cuibertson. D Josiah Drury,

James Tarris, John Flore

Joseph Hobbs, Annah Hull, Joseph Hollingsworth. I

Honble mr. Jennivg, Joseph Johnson,

Peter Jones.

J) FTF.CT SJ1 1ND L IXG. "Wlll.UKAS ue Kdfev and

Smith, as .-cnls J'or flcnry Par. Hide, have fold, bar iinecl & conveyed, uno :i (citain IF hat ton raory of Kali; dka, Illinois tci -rit'ry, the rh:h' t make, tend and life a Mnt'rjt;..; M,:cjjri,, in the temmnrs of uj,p. r Lnuifianaln di. ma ay'd ulL'.ois, a wiiiclv'macinneyu fj Ihi.iv Ptn:yrlr, of the flute unu;;:i'wCticu: il - . i

4ft

Vance, as

has lummoncd mr. Sairurl C.

ami(!:ee of faid Hulick therefore notice is h-rchy given to the faid ii irriit Hulick, diil uolcli he do -pprar by htmlVit or atturaey, pot in fpccul bil to tf.e aforeUid

lull, ar.J icceivc . declaration judgment will

Abraham Johnsotiy

Samuel Kennedy, James JH'Cutcherty William MClure, Charles JlShar:eyt Isaac Morgan, Joseph Miiburn, Robert Nixon, Antoine Oneilhy Phillip Ostrander, Archibald Pratt en, William Pure el.

James Kcarns, M George MCormeck, George Masterson, Isaac Jll'Ccjyy John MClure, junr Frederick Me hi. N Jdmes Neale. O Richard Oldham, ' John Ockeltrec, P William Price, R

Thos, Randolph, 4 ; Henry Reese, John or Levtts Reel, Nieholas Reagan, Nancy Rose, Leonard Ralphinsd, Willtam Ragsdale S

Joseph Shaw, Jehn Savary William Spur gen, Jesse Spurgin, Thomas Sulliven, David Shosk. Waller Taylor, 3 Samuel 7 horn, John Todd.

U h V William Under hill $ Simon Vanorsdall, W Edward Wilson, Samuel Vcdruffy Isaac Willits, Jacob Widner, William Watson. Wm. PRINCE, P. M. 1ft July, 181 1. 97

Joseyh Smith, Isaac Sellers, John Sprague, Ann Sturgus, William Simpson,

Benjamin Turman, Michael Thorn,

oc cntrrrd aoir.lt him h

y del j

tilt,

a:;d the

i r. ;;rrtv K) atuched will br fold fir the be irlit ot il creditors wlio m iy av; ?y r enti:!rd to receive a llire thereof, and who will Irally cLun t! r Umr. i . (!. VANCE, c. r.. d, c. :V:ty. lor pLtii. S

1JL-XNK DKKDS, or a: thii Oliicc

INDIANA TERRITORY, ) HARRISON COUNTY, J THIS day came William Urovn, before me the fubfuiber, a Jultice cf the Peace, and made oath, that the certificate he ob. tained in the Land Office at Vincennes, the 18th of Auguft, 1807, for the north call quarter of lection No. 8, in townfhip No. 2 foulh, cf rane No. 5 eaft, containing 171 acres and 22 hundredths, was burned in his hcufe with all other eftc-cU that his houfe cr nt .intd, fubferibed the 23d diy of April, 1 I. ' in Hi am Broivn. Wm. ERAMN, Jultice of the Peace for Harrifon county. ALL perfons concerned 2re hereby required to take notice that iu thicc months trom the date hereof, I Hull itTur to William Rrowu, a duplicate certificate No. ltiih

LAND BUTERS LOOK lO 1 OURSELVES ! ! ! T F any perfon willies to purchafeand inr I prove on a fure foundation, and to be in po lie Hi on of a high, heaitfome and heal, thy fuuation, fuch may be obtained inlkfferon townfhip. on the new public ro; d leading iom Vincennes up to, and throuih the new purchale, containing 200 acres of as good land as any in the townfhip, for com, wheat, tobacco and meadow ; two thirds of laid lands are as heavy timbertd as any in the county, confiding of walnut, locult, oak, hickery and &h, the other th.d handfome praiue. On the pr inifes, there is a good commodius cabbin, 7 by i7, trvo rooms below, with a large entry between, (fit for the comfortable reception of a gen tcel family,) an excellent fmoke houfe, tables, criiobs, and other necdT-ry houfes. . Tin re is a field of 5 or C acies of frelh ground, alio a good pi.lUirr, and a fmallex. relltnt meadow, all under good fence, juft before the door in a handlbme view, in the C prairie, there is a 12 acre field, alio under J

goou ience ; mere is not one pannei, upcu piemifes but wlut is all well Ihkrd and ridered (as is generally called.) The faid lands arc bounded on the fouth and eaft by heavy timbered public lands ; and on the north and welt by public prairie. The titles and boundaries are indifputable. I am deliroiis and determined to fell, as 1 am j:o farmer, and the country not fuitii.g my occupation. To the purchafer, the terms flidll be made a3 cafy as polfihle, and a bargain may be had. A further defcription is deemed unnect nary, as ir is prcfumed that no peifon would willi to purchafe without vi-wing the premifes any perfon wilhingto be well fettlrd, and to follow the occupations a t Farmer, Mechanic, Merchant We. ( Doctors only excepted) are nquefhd, and will do well, to ccme, fee and view the premifes, and judge for the mfelves-nei-ther taking my defcription for the excellency thereof, northat of others, to the reverfe, as it generally is to be found that perfons inclinable to fell lands, are too apt to vilify their neighbours, and extol the fu-

perexcellence of their own, or their coil neclions thedefign of fuch is obvious; therefore liftrn to, but regard not' fuch . come fee and view, and let your own eyca and judgments determine for yourfelves The premifes will be Ihown, ,on applicatioa to, (and the earlier the better) the intentional and determinrd vendor and proprietor, now living on the premifes. IVilFiam F. Thompson. Knox county, (J. T.) ? July22d, 1811. J tf NOTICE, ALL thofe indebted to the fubferibers are requfted to mnke payment by the loth of Auguft next, at which tim5 one of us will flart to Philadelphia t!u,fe who have book acccuntl it is hoped will cIl and clofe them by payment, or gmrigp tlicir notes. Charles Smith, c? Co. July 17th, 131 1.

BORROWED BOOKS. rT"HE fubferiber requrfts thofe perfons J wh(4 have br rrowed books from him to return them as foon as their CGnvehuiiLC will permit. iniFiam II. Harrison. July 19, 1311.

oated Auguli 18, l(,7, for the N. -. - . r r n v .

q'ii;cr c,i ircriou .u. b, If) towiiliup N. 2 fouth, of range No. 5 eaft, ui.lrh pre vious to that time, fon.e l-gj a;,d luiiitnt objections arc m-dc tlirrrtd. JOHN H A DO L LET, Regnt-:r rf the Lm;J Oflcc at I'ir.ccnnes.

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NOTICE, COMMISSIONERS OFFICE, 1'isctssEs, June 19, 1811. ALL thofe perfons who have entered notices of their claims to DONATION rights in the Urgiftrr's OfHce, 3.e l";reby informed that the Conr illioners fit to receive evidence in fupport of fuch cLims every Saturday and We-Ir.ef-d-y, from the hrur of three, to that of feven in th- afternoon. JON B A DO L LET, CnisdNATIIl. EW1NG, i cners. BLANK WARRANTS Sumrnoiifes, Subpccnas, aiu Executiens fcr (:;!c at this cf::cc.