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A letter from a Jirgeeniff Sir, William Howe's arfy at
Kng's bridge to Mr. Wiliam Pocock, merchant it London,
da^ New. 9, fat, " We bale gained wither reputation
wor,reft b, this our left expedition; the rebels ban eat go
derailed us ; tbs, have retreated to afaft quarter, and lift
us nothing but g barren ceur.fr,, niffing cold, and a few
pieces fold rtf, arfiller,, in tax of near fa bundred four
prime foldrirs.
Mr. Dean Ayut for the Cengrefs at Parity has received
bfo e^wjfoxsfrom tb.mferfting out privateers ; He
bat afetd, and obtained leave from the Cdiert of France to
ft out foips in their ports, and 6ns fat ro^r fore to eolith
American officers for that finoce ; fe that w,say tx,s&
great ba-vock am&ug our merchant fosps is the channel, as do
cruisers are out to intercept or a^o, them, or ay conveys
far our trade te Spain or Portugal, which rnuft roideutfy
Dr. FrasMin quitted England three years ago. He ASMS
these ,2 .years of age. IT is new, at the ageof qfon-gxi
afire ar tfsir, ex Dibich the fate of are expire ma, de,steal
with the mos pelite court jre Europe.
Tbs affiance which ths Americans are daily rtcrivirg
from France, is te them ofthe mtf b^fri^l kind. Ne left
than 15 engineers. &*d 22 ffcers, latei, failed frim one port
in francsfor thefruits of she America# Cugrfs. It is a
truh, as notorious as an, pretend bill upon she re,al ez
change, that bth France and Spain are fighting us at this
time ex America.
Ao extraordinary courier, it is said, was yeforda, df
patched from St 'James's, with af^rited memorial te Lord
Stormont at Paris requiring a fatifarise, answer, immedi
ael,, with rfea to the feppiugfitting cut in tbsfea ports
of France.
There are three fa&s relative to the American war,
which are well worthy tbs accretion of the public. Tbcfrf
b, the exposes. It bas of she, coixtry fines General Gage
went to Sefton, the osormeujxm 0,30 000 000 ! Thepther
is, the waffs of me*. Gra Here's arm, aloes, fixes their
lending upon States Iflmnd, have left fometbing more than ten
thousand men ! The less jufhiwd b, the arm, in Canada,
in the flyt, &c. * snot included. The left fu,wined b, the
capture of merchant <ujfls,bas been calculated b, tkofe who
have reafeo to be b£ aqsainted with it so be, at the lewtf,
one mill.on,right hundred then toed pounds ? Governmentfert
fops, trauffirts, &c. are net reckoned. Tbefe are naked
truths, upon which ever, mat can, and it is proper that eve
ry wean Jbeuld make bis own comment.
Extras of a letter from Pertfwwb, March 23.
'' Went cat of th# harbour 13 Spithead, t&a Squir
rel frigate, Captain Douglas ; and the Atlantic, Sip.
peas, Hannah, Waeatly ; Swan, Dale, tranfperu,
with h?rfn on board fir New York."
A memorial was lately tranfaitted to Sir Jefeph
Yurka, at the Hegae, to b, prefer ted to the Siam Ge
^ra'. Th? memorial corapilia# of the coaded of
the States, for permitting the Americans to be sup
plied, through the maim of their subj &, with fitch
warlike (Ures a# have been prohibited by proclamati
on. Sir Jefsph Yek3 delivered the Memorial tothe
monthly PruSdentof the Afimbly. Th# Ppfideat,
ofter laying it before the Affe^blv, r<:u n#d ^ the
natichamber is which Sir Joseph Y rke was weiring,
Sir fofeph r#qnetted an aafwer. The President in
formed him that the memorial .was then under c^nfr
deration. Sir Jofiph wilhad the aftably ta he in.
formed, " that uHgfi a categorical aufwer was return
ed to thi memorial, he ffieuld quit the H^ue ircme
diatel,," The Pr^fident delivered this miffhgats the
affably, and f^n returned with the fallowing re
tort : " I am desired by the States Gaaaral ^ ac
quaint your Excellency, that there are not ray gate#
to the Ilaguj."
B AL T I M O R E. May 27.
Left With arrived at Siacepuzent, in this State, a
large flip from France, comm^n^sd hr Capt.
Young, with me following va'utWe cargo on board,
via.-i@,ooo teats, 10 000 o^R^h, 10 oco suit, cf
c;»thea, 10,000 pair of dockings, 7000 ffind< cf arm#,
12,000 gua-i^kr, 4000 13ulh©\of fdi, 400 barrel#
of powder, together with nq^anrit, &f'@# and other
arriefa, for me use of the hnirtm United Stem of
America.
BO S T O N, Jena 9,
The following Letter was reetired b, a G^.^e^xn in
Cambridge, from a Parse, of C^ rs&sr and Vera.
c ; ty in a Town on the ^rentier# if the Staterf
N w-Hampshire, abeut 140 Miles from Fart St.
Java's in Canada, viz.
" Cohofr, Hirerhill, zd June, 1777.
" Oie cfour fcouri/g P-r in is returned fiaa Ca
uadi this Day with federal F enchraau, who report,
that there are about 300 Men of the British Array flai
oati at IO -Aax Noix, 200 at St. J ma'j, and 30 ezly
at Chain de.; a Number ofo&n quartered up and
drew thra' the Country, to keep the Ct#ad fan# in
Order, whp vert generally refafe te take up Arm, ;
fya^ofthem fuffef I^prifoament rather than enter the
Eagiilh Strvice---T^e hdiini, ten, have determined
m^t ,? taku up a,ia, the A atrcaH# ; they have dif
perfid and fcoae to thrir Il^meh • General Betgoyne
arrived at Qj,b*c io:h May, bat without Rrcruit,, he
firth them <n#re are 30 ^ il < f Trirf/ort# w th Troops
easing after him. The Heffi#*' eudßri.ifh Soldiers
h#v3 beta ver, fi.kly, nt^r h^f.f th#ra de d out ,f
7060 Men, and the rest r f,f_ g&iag oHtrf Gr^ifm
^u-tight, alledgiag their Timft are oat. Twoßegi
ments were lately ramh,i eff for Quebec, aad ano.
trier ^i^ ; 'tit fappri^d they he c ium> Ex,ea3tion
of a French Flee: c miig up the River Sr. Lawrence.
TLefi are fmufabU Cichahence#, and believe, may
be decoded %%a
Frida, lafl d-riwed in a fcfe port the sow Sally, a prize
taken b, Caps. Herr end..a in the brig HTprannicide,-beknging
co this State, 64*iQ rd bu^d a variety of Eurooea# Goods,
cskng tfbich Ft 3 or 4000 3m&fi, ebb ' ffil, with ths
Intrepid. SAifuy,jatii d^.d Am, Rim riaaffy # ^r
chant tn London, and Jailed in .Corn,a*,, their Cargoes
anountit:g to g. 22 000 and cotf,ed to a Gentleman in
Quebec. - W'e bftCapt. Harrendsd will meet with the other
Stores Hffls, «s we sdderfhod be was in pufuit of them
when the prize wafer left him- -The Sall,'s Cargo amounts
to near 60001 ,farliftg, a^din Articles as bevfirial for the
States of America, asfur Mr. Carlton, or an, Britsfofub
fa< 4! Quebec.
Ws ayo learn that Capt. Harrenden has taken a Trarf
port, boxedfrom Ireland for New Yerk with 63, Heffern
Soldiers ex board, which ma, be hourly l^ksa fir.
Capt. Fife in the Mofaebufett),bas likewye takers t Slip
with B^Hflass ex board, w*icb are arrived io a/aff^t.--
Theft two Traberts were Part of a Fleet of 14 foil un
der Cofruo, of Two Frigates, w:b about 6®o Recruits,
- which failed from Irelandabkut ike loth of May, ^d,f
JAI, bail arrived b, this Y ifte and no ritiat we fall re
csive a p^pota acount frcm Gains's Ltug Gazette Jas
man, tbsuf^ds as there ae kundfids. N.ne Jail of trass
fjerts failed at tbs fame time for Qebec, with troops, m^k
ing up we hear, in tbs whets 1500 men,
Las faurda, week arrived at Nmlur, Port, a large
prize flit, : She was b ^rdf^ G^udaiopt to Halifax, su
Nswa Scoria, laden with nemjugar tsc. and was owned
by Mr. Ebentar Thayer of that plae, (formed, f this
townJ whowas a pojmger on board sxbs* thkrn.
Sa urns, la? returned into port, a prize Brig, bouxd
from bcucs to Sow! Carolina, laden with rum,fugar, kAc.
She was taken on her paffege b, one of the exemy's crushers,
and afterwards retaken b, the Tartar privateer, belonging to
this State
^rtferda, arrived frft in port, aprize ship from Tinb, in
Wales, with about 140 tens of coals, (be was taken bj
the,c booster of this port, Capt. Daniel Me Neil.
HA RTFORD/ June 16.
Extras of a latte- from a Gentleman at Granville,
te hit friend im this town, dated June 14.,
" Loft Night I got homefrom Ticonderoga, which,lace
I left the Bth infant - Our arm, are all in goodfririts and
are under no a,,rebsnfiens of an attack from the Exira, tbij
fmmsr- -It is ver, health, in the arm, , the pr^fsns are
all extraordinary good - The arm, is about 4000 frong —
?here is a fine profy+a for gardens there as she bufiutf of
gardening gets on very faft, and th, are-fu,plied with
greens already."
Eanaa of a letter from New-J^fey, dated Camp,
Middle B ook, June 8.
" The spirit of defection rages among the enemy ; they
come ratio us as tan, as 5 or 6 for day - Our dfrtions are
done—We have now the bes arm, we have ever bad."
The Honorable the Continental C & ngreG have re
folded, " That Albany, Ticonderoga^ Fort Staawix
and their depeadeacio# h# henceforward coafidered as
farming the Northern Department, and that Major
General Schuyler be djrc&d, forthwith to proceed
to the Northern Department, had take open him the
command there."
The H-n. Bigadier General Wadsworth is promot
ed to the office of M jar. General in the h^ria, vice
General Weofter deceas'd; and, Colonel Andrew
Wardo# hdvafad to the effice of Brigadier General
view Gen. Wadfyonh, prompted.
Hen. M,jor General Putnam commands the Pest
at Peek'* Kill.
DIED, left wetk, Mri. Rebecca Shepard, wifi
of M . John Shepardof this tone, in the 68:h year
of ner age. • '
Of the Small Pax, in the Hcfoital in thi, town, Mr,
Jonathan Olcott, in the 48:h year of his ags.--
Mr Gardnir. Soldie it the CMuinental Ar
ray, and M r . Jonathan Ashley, of thia town in
the yo^h year of his a^e.
Tuefdey, Jane 10th, died at Middletown, of an
apepl«a?ck fit, John Leverett, E s q; late of Brfton,
in t^ 52 year of hit age, and on Friday his remains
wire d&ceßly interred.
Ofaa turn of mind peculiarly feci&ble and Corn
piffi mate, he was formed for ufef&u6fi, and made
one of the most valuable friaadd and d^iighifnl torn
paniens. His wi^cw and five children meum the ir
reparable left of a .tender obliging h^lb^nd, and a
kind indulgent parent ; his rumereu# friends and AC
qusintanCT sensibly feel the Broke, a^d ffmpmhize
with the b,reared family, and -hit country feels the
loss of a Ready, warm and able f^nd. Of a found
underfanding and an upright heart, he filled in a
manner hoacuible to hirh'alf and beneficial to his
cjestr,, the office# of a Justice of the Paaca, a Lisuta
naat-C^eael * f:he regiment, and an ovn>fter of the
poor, of the town cf Bpfton ; f#r which left office, the
benificencs cf his tamper peculiarly fitted him. He
was a father to she poor, ready to diftribate, end the
for rowful and diftr^ffed al^ap lad a.{here in his ten
der benevolent heart, '' Home fait, humasi nihil abee a
lienum pxtavit." But (-ot to run cut ih eacomiims
and paayge i,k% which sre so L&en lavishly heaped
cm the uadtfe;v%, that to the mercery es a worthy
man, the, might perhaps da iajuftict) the death of
Col. Lsveie shes made a forrowful and wide breach,
and ( hich is the fnreft ^rad bast tefiimomy of a wor
thy ufefal charafbr) ihey „ha were molt ceu.aefrd
and meq^aintrd with him, raoft iactrhly grieve and
lament their loss.
A father of the faforlfs, and a fudge of the widvw, is
God in bis holy habitation. Lord f teach ns to number oter
days that we ma, a ,,1, #W ° hearts unto wifdem, .%
A SUPERFINE frrht COAT with a SILVER
" EPPELLET, VESTCOAT trimmed with SIL
VER LACE &BE 4 VER HAf trimmed with ciuc.
A genteel HANGER end BELT, moaxted with
SILVER, fi^ fk^ KNAP SACK, aid MILITARY
BOOK \ E quiets rhe PriMfi.
June 16, 1777. ..
. tyiMi&^ ^B. Div: .^vvfy ,
HAS tor trie black &....t celcurv SF. vvIMG
SILKS; choice N%w RICE, GINGER, ahd
SHAVING bOAP.. <jane 13 1777.
aTR^YED ur &„ree, cut of the pati&v $1 ^te^^uid.
° M^h&pfN^rth Hzvrn, on they.h of Jueei^Unt,
a bay MARE, about fou.mm aid 4 halx founds high,
hr# no brand, about cighrfem old, itots aid paces,
frd all rturd^ hrs a fyall waite hfoak aheva her hind
htfr, ffi< has a'fo a white fre^k above be knee es
h^r off hud ^g, whoever taken up said mere, aad re;
(urns fo r ^ thr fuhferiber at Greenfield pariffiju the
towAofF iriit d, er to M\. M#<ki ^ Njitn-Hcven,
fhsil receive FIVE DOLLARS reward, aud all teafon-
Mile charge# paid by the fnhfcibc:.
F^fftd ? Is jf____ HEZEKIAH BRADLEY-.
qpAEEIS &, ^ the ffj a 1. KARL b, t«u luLlmbar x. 4
E^ft VV^/Gr, a dark sorrel or chestnut celcared
M^e. for years eld, with a ^te ftce, and whit®
hi^d f+et, ha» no b&d. The ewae, 0 desired t®
prev^ his property, pay charges ard ^ke her a-ray.
Medina Fitch.
Est Windsor. May 30 1777.
q^HiSis io giro bice to the fu gawu x^ do^rTave
carried ce irccelatian in the Bate of C^n^&cut.
and the gent^mem that provided and Applied the
fmall-pcx houses with necciTaries, and all others that
h&ve &ay demands on fiid henfes under the superin
tendency of Gsn. Perfen#, (if net already given in
their seceuat ) so dvfired ix this public manner m
mdiately to cle f* their heufes, raske up thrir ac,
courts, bring w^ ad them-to me the fubferiber at
banbury where the whale of them will be teo,yht to,
gather, in f^e proper manner laid befoe the&nera|
for his approbation, that an eider may be given fa
the atonies, and the accounts foan fe-tled. Yr^ wiU
fend in an end return es all those officers and foldi,
ers yen have iueculated belonging te the costie#Rial
army, their names, regime a^d company they be
log to, all the tenders, ,erf<s, and all otter an
couat&, to be properly certified to, either by th?Dec
tor cf said kcufgs, so iciea mea, or en:h^i.y of &
to^n where said ieccul&ri^n i# or was carried on.
Yaut immediate coMpKaace will bast firve the pub
lic, as well as yourmei obedient hnmbld f^veat,
_ __ P. TURNER, rg. G^.WH
A LL partons last ka#a LA, dliar&l, 4(«iaft me eilaw!
of Capt. Ames Fellows, late of Tolland dgecafr .
nd are defined to birg in thrir accounts to the fubfai
ber# fir fertlemgnt: Alfe all perfens indebted to said
estate are r«quefted to make iraawoiate payment with
out delay. We ihall attend era foid bufi^efs on the
firft and third mondaysef Jgly, aad the firtlmonda,
& f August next, at the hcefs of Joseph Raft in ToU
land. No @cceunta will be allowed unihG properly
aftafttd. We Ih/tattend said bafiaefs from 8 o'clock
in the forenoon rill 7 in the afternoon.
STEPHEN DAY, ?., ..
HOPE LOTHROP § Adraiaidrator#.
Tfr^d, J CT 10 1777.•
'[AKEN *0 la^a ura* raft Odoner by the fubkn
bar is Nerfo k, two Heifers, one three yems old,
a red pide, with a white face, whixx belly and buck,
no ma:k nor brand, the other two y tre old, vsny small,
ofs brownish colour, bnb tail. The ewnar may have
them by apylyiag to CALEB KNAPP of Norfolk,
and paring chages. Jane 6, 1777.
riIRAYED fora the fubfuider &boui the faft of
° Jueeiaflant, a ferrtl HORSE, about 9 years old,
abwet 14 hands high, a berft under his belly, ire breed,
trots and press, but chiefly inclip®# to trot. Whoever
will return Aid hoifs to the owner, ffiall be hardfeme
ly rewarded far their trouble, by
Freeman Kilbourn.
Hartford. June 14 1777..
VrOUND or as ur^ay the frh instant, a oADDLE.
, The owner mey have it a„in by applying to
Thomas Sanford of Hartford, and paying ihatges.
Hartford, Jure 13. 1777.
r [A : KEN up by the fabforioer a bmkta# mere il
h^ndt hi^h, a star in her forehead, end a fmsil
ffrflk firm it, branded ea the left hip with & :he letter*
A S thod befere. T^e ew^r may h*v% her a^ain
by applying to JAVE3 BUCK as Ne^ Milford,'end
paving charges, - Ju a# - 12, '777-
'rhiEStS are to dsfare nil piton &.&< aur# cu^nadu
on ihe efiats of Cept. Timehy D l:te, laic cf
Tolland dectafed to brirg in their accounts far futile
meat • And :hnfe i^drfoud te fjd effatf # n r^k^ mir-i
me*t to DAVID LOTHROP and LYDIA DE
LENO, Adramiftratezs to Aid &ffa„e A
T^hvd, Ju^e 6.1777.
r [AKhN up b, hkvx a Sp^bty ^ C&.&4,ri
light bey MYe, 4 yem®^, n, bi^d, a rfu^h
on her naur fh^u der. The ow^er is dufiAd to provo
hie property, pay charges (nd tulie Vt &w,f.
Caw*, Jen, 12. 1777..
ißtntw^t^mrpjrorrat ^^.QqWßanta#+tmt^t-hfrvtrapctrcrjfCT _mQm_ ______
qpo be laid print and tnpi&d upon immdiMfl,,.),
Aaron Pn,ne&f New FGfiJr, half * mi'e i^h
of the atfetiag h^ufe in the zerih ioc^y a la go dvel-.
ling h?ufe, tw. Series high, thee fi a places eg the
ground with two ^crn of land up^ choice, b|rt wil
fell to the am aunt of twenty teres if fhaf Kay beftfait
the buv,% There, it a yan^r orchard.y^ feid !*;.i.
WHEREAS E ZUUWi #4l . '.•rtsCt HW L> ,ela.d.iQ
beihe# f^f me rimep^ft behave ip .st \c,
unbecoming m&angr, o^4 s' m appi^fofive ffie will
d> all ii her power touj^re ^. This i, thnicfere ;d
fitbid all perlons crediting her on my aeccont, ns I
mean te bmkeff all conn# &i©n with her, and pay &g
dobi cuntra&^d by her afte; this d^tr;
NIMROD QUOMINER^
B^re, Ma, 26, 1777.