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POUGHKEEPSIE, December 14.
Extras of a letter from Tryon count,, dated Nov. 24, 177 8#
SIR,
“ I have had no opportunity to give you an earlier ac
count of the deftrudion at Cherry-Valley, where I arriv
ed the day after the tragedy was aded, and did not return
home till last night, having been busied in collecting and
burying the dead, and getting the distressed inhabitants
brought off. I was never before fpedator of c uch a scene
of distress and horror. The firfl objed that presented,
was a woman lying with her four children, two on each
fide of her, all scalped ; the next was the wife of the Rev.
Mr. Dunlap, likewise scalped, firipped quite naked and
much of her flefh devoured by the Indian dogs. But it
would be tedious to mention all the shocking fpedacles
that were to be seen. I shall only give you the general ac
count as I topk it down. +
At tbe boufe of No. killed. Prisoners Prisoners
returned, not returned.
Mr. Wells, 13 - - 2
Mr. Dunlap, 3 4 1
Mr. Moon. - - - 4
Mr. Dickson, 1
Mr. fohnfton, 1
Mr. M'Leland, - - 3
Mr. Runfey, - 1 4
Mr. Scot, 2 53
Mr. Mitchel, 5.-2
Mr. Wilson, - - - 1
Mr. Richey, - - - 2
Mr. Lighman, - 3 1
Mr. Ataghlen, - 3
Mr. More, - - 4
Mr. Henderson, - - 1
Mr. Cannon, 2 - - 1
Colin Campbel, 1 - - 4
Mr. Campbel, - 5 1
Mr. Bacon, - -8 1
Mr Shankland, - 2 30
Mr. Hurlbut, 4
Mr. Bagnel, 5
32 40
The persons named, were some of them wounded, some
carried away, and some killed,
Besides these there were two men wounded, who were
not carried away.
Burned. 3? houses, 31 barns, 1 grist-mill, 1 fulling-mill
and i blacksmith's shop.
Besides the foregoing, Col. Alden, in the Continental
service and 10 rank and file were killed ; Lieutenant Cel.
Stacey was taken prisoner, 1 Lieut. 1 Ensign, ^Surgeon's
mate, 1 Sergeant and 13 rank and file are miffing.
Of the wretched furvivmg inhabitants, there are 182 who
have neither house nor home, nor a morsel of bread ; are
alrnoft naked, and a great part of them without a penny
to purchase any of the necessaries of life: And in all this
massacre, there were but three men of the place killed, all
the rest being helpless women and children. Agreat part
of the fufFerers, both killed and prisoners, were people
much fufpefted of tory principles, and greatly depended
on protection from Brant and Butler, who conduced this
bloody and inhuman business, which was perpetrated the
eleventh instant; and on the 20th, they mide in excurfi
cn to another settlement, called the (ode, (lying on the
road from Fort Plank to lake Clfago, between Springfield
and Andrews-Town, which were destroyed in the summer)
atthis settlement they burned 5 houses, and carried off 6
prisoners. We have now not one settlement left in this
county at any difiance from the south fide of the Mohawk
river, and have the greatest rerfon to fear, that in a very
short time we fliall not have one on it, unless very speedy
and effectual measures are taken to check the savages and
worse than savage Tories. The prisoners who are return
ed, inform us that the party was commanded by Joseph
Brant, Walter Butler and the Seneca chief, and confided
of 4.43 Indiansand 200 Tories, many of which horrid mis
creants, were inhabitants of Cherry-Valley, and some
whose parents were living there.
It is not improbable that you will have seen the sub
stance of the foregoing account before 'his gets to your
hand, as I have given several extracts, to persons who
have had opportunities of transmitting it to you, but this
you may depend on as fad, and as near as I coal I possib
ly collect, the particulars of this doleful affair, wherein I
havea filler and her amiable daughter carried off by the
enemy." M. R.
PHILADELPHIA, January 7.
The choice of Justices of the Peace ele&, for South
Ward, in this city, is to be held to-morrow afternoon, at
the dwelling of Charles Ofburn, in Walnut-flreet : And
that for Upper Delaware Ward, at the ( ame time, at the
dwelling of William Miller, (the Old Ferry) in Water
ftreet.
At the election ofa Representative in General Assembly
for this city, held at the State-house on the sth instant,
the friends of the present conftitutiori supported the candi
date, set up by them, by a majority of near four to one ;
altho' the candidate named by the anti-conftitutionalifts,
is a gentleman of character, fortune and influence.
A letter from Maryland of the 25th ult. mentions the
arrival of a vessel in Virginia, in seventeen days, from
Martinico, by which accounts were received that the
Count D'Eftaing, with the French Fleet under his com
mand, was arrived at Martinico from Boston, and that
twelve Flips of the line were also just arrived there from
Toulon.
Extract of a letter from Cape Francois, dated Nov. 23,
" Two days ago the King's Contractors here, ordered
into the hands of the bakers,fix thousand barrels of flour,
to be immediately baked into bread for the use of the
fleet under the Count D'Eftaing, which is daily expected
here.--The fame day Monsieur Demanargue failed in a
packet, mounting sixteen guns, for tha Havanna, with
some dispatches of a secret nature.
The (loop St. Peters, from New Orleans bound to Phi
ladelphia, was taken on the firft day of December, 1778,
by the Columbus privateer. Capt. Brady, who put a
prize-master and three men on board to carry the prize
into New-York, leaving in her Messieurs Mackentyre
and Elliot, two of the passengers. These gentlemen re
took the vessel, and, on the sixteenth of the fame month
brought her into Sinepuxent. In the New-York prints
this vessel is said to be brought into that port.
To' the City and County ASSES
SORS.
Gentlemen,
AC ITI ZEN of Philadelphia humbly
afketh you, whether in such times as
the present are, it would not be a work of
charity, justice and necessity to exempt the
Ministers of the Gospel from taxation ? Lan
caster county did it long ago, and in Europe
it is the universal practice. Every body can
judge of the hardlhips these ufeful Members
of Society labour under, at a period, when
one thousand pounds does not compensate
for a sum, in former times, of one hundred:
And as we all acknowledge, no one would
think in the vestries of proposing to stipul
ate thousands tor hundreds.
I think these worthy fort of men, ihould
at this time be as well the objects of our
pity as thole who are called, in the ftriaeft
sense, the poor. RELIGIOSU S.
In C ONGRES S, January 2, 1779.
WHEREAS these United States, unprovi
ded with revenues, and not heretofore in
a condition to raise them, have, in the course of
the present war, repeatedly been under the ne
cessity of emitting bills of creait, for the redemp
tion of which the faith of these United States has
been solemnly pledged ; and the credit of which
their honor and fafety as well as justice is highly
concerned to support and establish. And whereas
to that end it is eflentially neceflary to ascertain
the periods of their redemption ; and seasonably
to edablrih funds, which, in due time, without
diftrefling the people, (hall make adequate pro
vision for the fame. And whereas, in appor
tioning the payments for the said fund, it is ex.
peilient that an extra sum be called for the cur
rent year, both on account of the prelent ease of
paying it and to reduce the surplus in circulation.
Therefore
Refolded, That these United States be cal
led on to pay in their refpeclive quotas of fif
teen millions of dollars in the year 1779, and of
fix millions of dollars annually for ]8 years from
and after the year 1779, as a fund for linking the
emissions and loansot these United States to the
31st day of December, 1778, inclufive 4
That if the continuance and circumstances of
the war ihali make any further emissions necef
lary, rhe year enduing, they shall be funk in the man
ner and within the period aforefaid.
That any of the bills emited by order of Con
gress, prior to the year 17S0, and no others, be re
ceived in payment of the laid quotas.
That the bills received on the said quotas, except
those for the year 1779, be applied firft for payment
of the interest, and fecendly of the principal of
loans made by these United States, prior to the year
1780, and that the residue together with thole re
eived on the quotas of the year 177,, be not re
iflued, but burned and destroyed ..s Congress fliall
direct.
And whereas many counterfeits have appeared
in circulation, of various denominations, of the
emissions of May 20, 1777,and April If, 1778, and
counterfeits of these emissions have lately been issu
ed by our enemies at New York, and are found to
be Spreading and increasing fait in various parts of
these United States ; whereby individuals are defrau
ded, prices enhanced, and the credit of rhe paper
currency greatly injured ; and it is f ecorae necessary
for the lecurity of individuals and fafety of the pub
lic, that those two emissions Ihould cease to be a
Circulating medium, and ihould be called in, and
exchanged, or ntherwile provided for as soon as may
be with convenience to the present holders. —
Therefore
Refclved, That the following bills be taken out
of circulation, namely, the whole emissions of May
20, 1777, and April 11, 1775.
That they be brought in for that purpose in the
manner hereafter provided by the firft day of June
next, and not afterwards redeemable.
That they be received for debts and taxes into
the Continental Treasury, and into the State Trea
suries for Continental taxes, until the firft day of
June next.
That they be received until th: firft day of June
next, into the Continental Loan Offices, either on
loan or to be exchanged at the election of the own
ers, for other bills of the like tenor, to be provided
for that purpose.
That the bills lodgedin the said offices to be so
exchanged, be there regifterd, and indented certifi
cates thereof given to the owners by the refpedive
Commissioners of the said offices.
That the Commissioners of the Loan-Offices make
returns to the treasury board, immediately after the
firft day of June next, of the amount of the bills re
ceived into their refpedive offices to be exchanged
as aforefaid, and that proper bills to exchange the
fame be furnifhed and ready to be delivered out
at their said offices, within 60 days from and after the
said firft day of June.
That the firft mentioned bills, as they are brought
into the Treasuries and Loan-Offices, be immediately
crossed and struck through with a circular punch of
one inch diameter, to be afterwards examined and
burned, as Congress shall dired.
Extract from the Minutes,
CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.
'T' H E Adventurers in the Second Class of the United
States LOTTERY may know the fate of their
Tickets by applying to the Check Clerk every morning
and evening at tbe Lottery Office, or at the place of
drawing, for Six pence a ticket.
N. B. The enquirers are intreated to bring change, to
avoid trouble and delay.
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TO BE SOLD BY
iJ O H N D UN L A P,
Wholesale and Retail, bound or in fleets,
The following BOOKS, in the German Language,
elegantly printed, vit.
Large family bibles.
TESTAMENTS.
PSALM-BOOKS.
Marburg HYMN-BOOKS.
PSALTERS.
Lutheran CATECHISMS.
Calvinist CATECHISMS, &r. &c, &c.
Likewise, German ALMANACKS for 1779.
The above Books are also fold by Ludwig Lauman,
Esq; Lancaster ; Mr. Bilmire, Ye rk-Town ; Mr. Hower,
Frederick Town, Maryland; Mr. John Spangenberg,
Eafton, and Mr. Libert, Germantown.
BOULTING CLOTHS
Of the best kind may be had, as formerly, of
DANIEL WIL LIA MS,
In the Northern Liberties, near Philadelphia.
TO BE SOLD BY
WILLIAM ADCOC K,
At the south-east corner of Market and Second streets,
CUPERFINE knap, buff and brown BROADCLOTHS,
blue and brown duffils, 7-4 and 3-4 baize (halloons,
durants, calicoes, long and clear lawns, cambricks,
fattins, India perfians; a few dozens of silk (lockings of
common and out sizes, of the best quality; sewing silks,
packet and pound pins, checks, Russia (heelings, and
other linens, &c.
N. B. GOODS received by said ADCOCK, to fell on
COMMISSION, as usual. 5 .
Philadelphia, January 2 1779.
Notice is hereby given to all Deputy
and Assistant Commissaries of Hides, to forward
their accounts and returns to my office in Union street,
between Second and Third-streets, made out to the firft:
of this infant. Those that have received Continental
Hides either in exchange or to be tanned, are to come
in, fettle their accounts, and pay the balance due the
States without further notice, to
GEORGE EWING, Com. Gen. efHides.
Philadelphia, ff.
NOTICE is hereby given to the Colledors
of the Wity and County of Philadelphia, that they
proceed without delay to collect the ouritanding Taxes
of their refpedive duplicates, and pay the fame to the
County Treasurer on or before the tenth day of Febru
ary next, on which day the Commissioners are to meet
at the Court-houfo, at Nine o'clock in the morning, in
order to make a final settlement with the said Colledors.
Should any neglect to pay the ftri&eft attention to this
notice, they will without diftin&ion be proceeded against
as the law direds.
By order of the Board of Commissioners,
Jan. 4. GEORGE HONEY, Jun. Clerk.
Port of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ff.
TO ALL whom it may concern.
Nori CE is hereby given, That a Court of Ad
miralty will be held at the Court house in the city
or Philadelphia, on tbe thirtieth day of January instant,
at Tea o'clock in the forenoon of toe fame dav, then
and there to try the truth of the fa&s alledged in the
bill of Garrett Halefkamp, &c. against a certain boat er
veff I of about two tons burthen, and late belonging to
the Swift (loop of war, and against James Roublet, Wil
liam Sharp and James Bradley, Negro slaves found and
taken on board the said boat: To the end and intent
that the owner or owners of the said boat and Negroes,
or either of them, or any persons concerned therein,
may appear and (hew caufc, if any they have, why the
fame should not be condemned according to the prayer
of the said Bill. By order of tbe Judge,
Jan. s . ANDREW ROBESON, Reg.
THE Public are hereby notified, That
SAMUEL WETHERELL and Co. have
erected a Fa&ory for making and cutting all kinds of
FILES. Any person having old ones to dispose of
may have tbe best price for them, or may have them cut
again by applying at the Fa&ory in Che. y Alley, be
tween Arch and Race-streets, near Third-street, Phila
delphia. Any person who understands forging or cut
ting Files, may meet with good encouragement by ap
plying as above. +•
WAS FOUND, and now detained on
suspicion of being Rolen, the following Articles,
viz. a small quantity of Tea, some loaf and brown Su
gar, a small remnant of red Silk, and some Pepper.
Whoever has loft any of the above articles may fee them
by applying to Benjamin Paschall, Esq; or to
JOHN ALEXANDER and
EDWARD STROUD, Conftabks.