The Essex journal, and New-Hampshire packet — Newbury-port [Mass.], 1776-07-19 00:00:00, page 4

PHILA,DELPHIA Ju'y -2.
Extrafl of aletter from Biigadier General ‘drm
© frong, te Gen. Howe, dated Charlefiown, South
* Cardlinay May 29, 1776. LAy site
¢ ¢ Last Saturday a sloop arrived here from Sk
Euftada with 10,000 weight of pewder, (he ma
fier of whichfays, that a large vefici airived there
from Holland deeply laded with arms and ammu
pition. He aifo fays that the Freach ports in the
We Indies ate open o us, and ifvat the French
Men of war have orders to pro'et cur vellels in |
and out of their harbors, that the French are for: :
tifying Dunkirk which produeed a remonftiance
from the Britith Court, but without ¢
* By letters just received from Gen, Lee, by ex
press, we learn that 5t fail of veflels were, on the
ath of June, lying off the bar of Charleftown, in
fight of the town, and that an aitack was expeél
ed as the wind would permit them to come over
‘the bar, G
¢ %y 5, By accounts from the Capes we are
informed ; that a brig from st. Themas’s with
400 barrels of powder, arms, dry goods &c. com
ing into our Capes on Saturday last, was thafed
by the King Fisher, and run aground off Cape
May. Captains Barre and Wecks sent their boats
to assist in unloading her 3 baving taken out all
the arms, cannen, 160 barrels of powder, and
some dry goods, as much as their beats would
Peld==they discovered the men of wars boats com
ing to her, upon which they opened the remain- |
der of the powder, and spreading some doubled
canvass upon it they laid on the canvass live coals
and feft her—one of the men of war’s boats hav.
ing got sleng fide, they had hardly boarded et
before the blew up.
Extracl of aletter from an officer in St. Mary's
caunty, Maryland, dated Ibe ninth ult.
« Qur neighbour Dunmore bas remeved up 10 °
Guinn's Island, and has there intrenched bimfedf.
Four ‘days ago be [int a party of marines and sai
lors afbore to get wood to the amount-of fifty, who
20 a man defirtedy with their arms and tools. Three
of them would bave inlifled with us, but we being
full could not take thim. They fay be intends to
wmake a pufb at us in_barvefl. 1 apprebend bis crop
will bardly be worth gathering.”
NEW-YORK, Juy i
The fleet from Hallifax we informed our read
ers in our last was arrived at Sandy Hodk, to the
amount of 113 fail. *Tis difficult from their fi
tuation to affertain their number ; but we suppose
it does not exceed 130 fail : Monday they came
up into Yakes’s Bay below the Narrows ; Tuef
w several ships came too at the watering place ;
ednefday more followed ; and Thur(day noon
the whole fleet were at anchor in a lie from
Kill Van Kall, ta Simpson’s Ferry, on the east
fide of Staten-Island. The Asia brought vp the
rear of the flcet, and in.the Narrows was fired at
frem a small battery on Long-Island, which com
pliment was returned by about 40 24 pounders,
one of which ledged in the wall of the house of
M. Benmet, but did no hurt to the family ; and
three shot had near done some mifchief to the
heufe and famiiy of Mr. Dennife Dennife, one of
them narrowly miffing the kitchen, wherein was
“a number of the family; a second struck a barn
and the third destroyed much of the fence of the
garden opposite the frent door of the manfisn house.
Part of the enemy is new encamped on Staten-
Island, and we have net the least reafen 1o doubt,
will endeavour to secure the north fide thereof by
entreachmenis, whilst the fhiping prote&s the o
‘ther parts of it.
As soon as the troops landed, they paraded the
poith shore, and on Wednesday morning made
their appearance near Elizabeth Town Point
but the country being soon alarmed, they retreat
ed, took up the floor of thefdraw bridge in the
salt meadows and immediately threw up some
works.
Their near approach to Elizabeth Town Paint
greatly alarmed the inhabitants of Essex county
‘and particularly the people of Elizabeth Tewn
and Newark, but they are now in 2 condition to
receive them whenever they may thisk proper to
approach. :
“ Two young men from E'izabeth Town cros
sed the river in'a canoe last Thursday, and fired
_wpon the regulars ; but a number of them rush
ing out of the woods they were obliged to re
treat and cross the river again, ;
A sloop of 12 fix pounders, belonging to the
feet fiom Hulifax, Taying o ihe Kills, near M.
Décker’s {2y, was almost torn to pieces last
Wednesday mocning, by a party’ under the com
mand of General Herd, from the opposite share
wich 2 eighteen pounders, The crew fooh aban
doned the flodp and we fugople-fie is_rendered
entirely unfi' tor any Tarther service: TR
~ We hear two men of war now lay near em:
boy, in order if is iuppofed to fop all navigation.
that way, =~ rot g Sy e 2
Since our last arrived the il division of con
neéticut forces, commanded by the Hon, Briga
dier Generals, Waterbucy and Wadsworth,
~ Yeiterday 4 fezmen belonging to the Killing(-
worth tanfport, of 700 tons was brought ta town
from Long [fland, baving dcfected the (hip the
pight before : They fay the “number of soldiers
“with the flzet is abou: 8,560; who are all en
camped ; and that many of the seamen intended
to desert the ficet when dn opportunity presented,
Extract of a letter from Philadelphia, Fuly 3.
¢ Last night Me. Sykes arrived beie from
Charleftown, South Carolina who informs, that
20 fail of wanfports had got over Chaileflown
bar ; that a fifty gun ship got over by taking out
her guns with several {mall men of war ; that oae
50 gun ship struck on the bar going in and wis
eatirely loft 3 and that Gen. Lee bad arrived there
with 1500 men from North Carolina. 4 boat
fiom some of the thips aitempted to land aflag,
but was fired on by the fort. ‘The commanding
officer of the foit aftetwards went on board with
a flag, and asked paidon for firing on theirs; and
desired to know what was the purport of that flag,
was answered, that it was to desire them to deli”
ver up the town 3 upon which our efficer replied,
that it would not be done as long ac they were a
ble to defend ity and that they would sand to the
last extremity, Booy M ‘
The Hon. Convéntion of Virginia have made
cheice of the following gentlemen to represent
that provincs in General Congress, for one Year,
viz. GeorgeWyth, Themas Neilfon jun, Richard
HearyLee, Thomas Jefferfon, and Francis Light
foot Lee, Efquiies. ¢ ‘ ;
Last Wedaeiday night the Capt. of a tranfgort
and four men,were taken at the nariows,and bro’t
to town : They were losking for a boat that had
gone adrift, and going too pear the share were ta
ken by the riflemen. . P K
' ©n Sunday last a susi®er of felons confined in the
new goal, attempted an escape ; the “Ringleader, it
seems, was one Armstrong, a murcerer; of whom
we've had the following account, viz, That he was
a deserter from the Regulars at Boftony 2nd entered
himfelt in ont of ourßifle companies before that pisce,
that he was a remarkably wicked disorderly desperate
{?low ; that some months 2go, {eon after the arrival
of the army from Boston, he broke into the house of
M. Jacob Pozer at the Whiteball, and teck from
thence all his wearing apparel ;==f{ame right he wens
into the house of Mr. James Meldrum at(he Slip
market, when most of the family were in bed § that
a ‘young woman of the house, sflted his business, and
desired him to walk out, that he refufed, and attempt
ed to take hold of her, when she threatened to scald
him{with hot water from a teakettle,and endevoured to
leave the.roor, that he followed her, and firuck the
_edge of a tamahawk into her feull, of which she i
fta. tly died, He was parfu’d by the man of the house
and others, who, by the effitance of the waich, fe
~ cured himr.==That at the last supreme court, he was
~ brought on his trial for the raurder, but there not be
~ing 8 jury to be had, he was remanded till the next
' feflion ;—that having, wich & number of confederstes,
formad a conspiracy to gelcape, on Sunday afterroon
he fiied a pitol at the Sentry, which luckily miiffed
him, that he seized the Sentry’s gun, and knocked
~ him dowa with it,-and thea wrénching ® sword from
the hand of Mir, Sherif Roberts, who has endesvour
ing to quell the matiny, was jult geing'to plunge it
in his body, when the Serjeant of the guard saved him,
by shooting the villain through the R &
" Lak Sunday ong Bezel-Bonderet, 2 native of No
~ va-Scotia, was brought to this city from Canada,
charged with being a principsl in the musder of Capt,
. Thomas Paifons, and eight other perfoss, in Nova
. scotis, in February 1772, Soon ester this murder
~ was perpetrated, he fled his country, and has been
wandering from place to place ever since, till lat
Aprif, when he was providentislly detected by Capt.
Heftor M'Neil, properly secured, and feat forward to
receive the jaft rewasd of his crimes, He was yes.
terday sent oo from this city to Newbuiy Port; the
| place where Capt. Parsons lsfk lived, for examination,
- and tisl, ; 3
", O Tuefdsy évening last, the Ratue of King George
' the Third, on horfebick, in the Bawling green was'
. teken down, broks 1o pieces, sgd its honmor 'levelied
' with the duls :
"NEWBURY-PORT; Juyig.
On Friday last about 4 o’clock in the afternoon
two men of war, a 40 gun, and a 28, with twd
tenders, taking the advantage of wind and tideg
run by she forts at New-York, up the North ri
ver; about twenty miles above the city 3 and a=
bout 2 hours after arrived a man of war with a
white Fag at the Top Mast Head, fuppalfed to be
Lord Hewe. = L G i
This Moming, beiween 6 and 7 o’clock, da
parted this life atter a long tedious iilnefs, theßevy
JonATHAN PARsONS, in the 7ift year of hid
age, and in the 3rft of his MINISTRY in the
PreEsBEyTERIAN Church, in this Town,—=3
His remains to be interred on Tuesday next, ac
three o’cloek in (he afternoon, Tty
Last Sunday evering Mr. Oliver Moody of
this Towny fell from a wharfe, into the river, and
was drowned, the nix; morning bis body was found,
and the day follotwing, decently intérred.
T B bYat bAt - B e SUA ek T R
WATER;TOWN, July i 5
I the the Hife of Representatives, Fuly 3, 1776.
HEREAS by a lase reflolve of this Court,
W ths number of five thousand men are ap
pointed on, add to be raised in the several towns
in this Colony; apreeabls to a Schedu'e “thereio
annex:d : And 4s iome perf@:s may be induced to
inlift from other towns than thofc in which they
have their usual place of abo'e: rl
~ Therefore, Resolved. That all petions wha
(Ball iahft into any of the battalions destined for
Canadior New-Yoik shall be considered as a pare
of the Levy of their respective town, until such
time as those towns to whick they refpeilively be
long have inlifted their full compliment of meny
and not to those towns inte which they {halifo in
litt _ Sent upfor Concurrence,. =~
- e R TT I NEeT e
. R O'S.T O N, July 18,
Monday lalt 47 exprefattived at Hoad Quar;
ters in this town, from his Excellancy Gener‘al
Wathingtaa at New- York, with crders for all the
troops in the pay of the continent to march for
that city as soon 2s poffib'e; aod thiv-day it is
laid; one regiment will fstoff, -~
~_ TIM. DANIELSON, Speak. pro tem:
17#C O U N C I L; Fuly 3, 1776.
Read and concurred. =~
< Yne; AVERY; Dep: Sec:. ]
Consented to by the major part of the Councily
A wue Copy. Aseft. Fn'o. Avery, D. Sec;
‘ N fE the Subfeibers being appointed
Commissioners by the ton. Philtips
Whue Esq Judge of the probate for the'County
of Rockingham, in' ihe Colony of New -Hampe,
{hire, for receiving and examining. the Claims of
the several creditors to the estate of Moses Poor
Yoeman' late of Salemy deceased; represented ina
solvent ; and fix months, from the 26th uly, being
allowed for the (etiling the fame-=hereby give no
tlee that we shall attend for that purpose, at the
house of John Kezlly inholder ia Salem on the las
Wednelday of this and the five followirg moning
from 2 tofix o Clock afictmoons -
: SR OBESO LD
NHOICE Philadelphia Fiour, Raisins, Mala<
C ga Wine—a small quantity-of Coffee, and
a tew hundreds of Pepper. Enquire of Eaoch
Titeomss 34, at Jackson, Tracyand Tracy’s Stores
Newbury Port Fuly 18th. 335
———safinquire of BENJAMIN BALCH.
N. B. Said Balch has for sale,” 000’ wt. of
prime Tadico, warranted good, cheap for Cash—
Or, if any person hay a goed Vefl: 1, weli foundy
from 50 to 7§ tons burthen to difpafe of, for ei~
ther of the aboye Artigles; at a reasonable layy
she would' be taken in part pay.
Newbury-Port, July 19 33—==35
| ® X Sundry Advertisements, Articles of Intelli<
gence, Ee omitted for want of room. ‘
Salim Yuly 8, 1776,
To be SOLD or LETT,
A genteel, convenicat DWELL-=
ING HOUSE, pleasantly ficuated
in Temple-Street Newbury Pert.
Febn Hall,
Jobn Keily,