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and good quarters. Entrance money, fifty acres of
laud in the Alligany mountains, or their value pay
able at the Royal Exchange. Bringers will be pro
portionably rewarded. No persons, well and alive,
will be icwfed. A fine fifty gen ship lies ready at
the Nore, to waft the braveAd venturers in military
heroism to the real scenes of action in America, to
the scenes of glory, victory and triumph. Now is
your time for making your fortunes. Who is there
afilided, whom 1 will not relivc ? The ends of the
world are come upon us, and we shall soon possess
them for our own. The completion of the scrip
ture is at hand:" Come unto me all ye that are
heavy laden, and I will relieve you." Your ar
mour is but light. A rifle-barrel, or a tomahawk,
is all y£u have to bear: and you have now your
choice of joining with myriads of brave partakers
in the fame glorious warfare, by entering into any
I of the following regiments : Ticonderago Pioneers :
SchentCudy Scalpers : Mohawks : MiffafagoHatch
etmti: Ohio Scouts : Maffachufet Minute-men :
Scatonuaona Split shirts, Lake Champlain Pikes:J
Lke Ontario Jacks: Concord Rifle-men: or the
General's own regiment of Alligany Mountaineers.
COD SAVE AMERICA !"
PHILADELPHIA, September 20.
Extract of a Letter from London, dated July 8.
" It is tie determination of adminifration, at leaf
fort of them, wish tie King, to defroy Jucb towns as lie
on tie fa. But don't be frightened or deceived, the, can
not accomplish their horrid febemes. Dour fearing of
Titonderoga and Craven Point has overthrown their de
fgns, mid now in revenge the, Jay, we will destroy their
towns. Ycufa by this whatyou are to expeA. The
Hart / Pharaoh is hardened, and the chariot mill be
dr o ce.:fofyi,that the wheels mill fl, off in afa of
bhd.—-ln # a few months,fauld there be no fabmiffon on
four fide (which Godgram there may not) they will call
time G^oc, and let you alone for a while, as they cannot
fee men to 00 enfo horrid an errand. 'lbe officers bear
shat the rfsaan intend killing them only, which is soft
excAiox a. ws, as it not on!) difaurages the officers, but
mikes the folders think well of the Americans, as they
w.ir ficurs.and mill certainly dejert if she, bave
cftcrtenin. It is not England, but only eight mirdfers
c # Late, wi» tP King end his tools in parliament, that
rej/gii b/<y«7ut;fl y^, au^ u;e 6%ey unjair means to
decAve th, people if England. lunderffand fort i icen
dreoa is to be retaken by Carlton, who has icoo
S:n:cb Highlanders gone ov.r to him commanded by Col.
lArray, with 1900 more who are now inlifing in Scot
land : fiAsyou may depend on.
" No fatuie can be made to put arms into the bands
of Roman Catholics, and, in conference, if you 'could pro
cure proof that Gen. Carlton has done this, and convey
shat evidence to this ci,you would fad-the great cause
brought to issue here in a few months fat vertum ! Your
fAvation depends on your firmnef and a/iduity. If you
submit, fix, of you are to hanged in Philadelphia,and the
fame number in New York; £.500 is offered for Capt.
Sear's bead in particular ; afecret order.”
Extract of another Letter, dated July 9.
" The business is now to develope the schemes
laying to deceive and devide the New-Yorkers, find
ing mere forca like to answer no valuable,end.They
now talk of blocking up the ports and thus diftreff
irm the trade to make people quarrel with each o
ther, which quarrels fame are employed to foment.
“ The minidry still intend to drive on, in hopes
thatyou will in time submit and all will be theirs.
They use every meanu in their power to deceive the
people both here and in America, that they may get
their plan ertabliihed of keeping a large handing ar
my in the colonies, increased by degrees till they
become masters of the colonists and all their proper
perty, as they have done here.
The Lord Mayor is assiduous to the last. The
livery of London are now all alarmed, and have
lent petitions and remonstrances one after another :
They have taken up the affair in such good earned,
as will very probably excite a civil war in England.
- -The ferment in the city is certainly prodigious.
The land holders also begin to be moved and aid
the merchants, and the common people are all enter
ing ixto affbeiations and consulting what is to be
dor,?.
•• Six fliips put into commission to assist in block
ing upthe ports of Virginia. Orders have been
ftrl , Gage to rifque a battle for the honor of Old
k\^ : id---Lord Mansfield was sent for to Bucking
' house, ten o'clock at night, Friday Lord
outh fays he expels fubmiflion Lorn the
America Tends any the lead concession, nay
, in ill, they are undone-ruined ; for orders
„ awreupen fine to hang the principal previn
dicers, to cons Late their estates, and advertise
to be foll in London, with a reward for ffieir
s dead or ^,:.---If America fubm;ts die must
ali the expenses of the land and sea armament,
inated at two millions, which it has coftEngland
educe the rebels to obedience;
&6 Great News ! that the riflemen resolve to
xe^.n at the Scotch officers : It affords great di
tion to the English tj hear of the American rilie
^Ws xcivlre.
" The refugees who lately defeated their own
homes to seek protection in England are very silent,
keep elofe, and don't talk of American affairs, only
seem to think they will go back and fight, as they
find the spirit of the times likely to drive them back.
N. B. An Englishman hates a coward.
" The fix men of war are not manned yet ;
draughts from the other Blips are to fill them up---
Lord Sandwich pays a man to puff him off in the
papers, but that means fails now ; the people begin
to fee ; the <ubje& of dispute with America leems
now better understood--- begin to be alarmed---they
are come up to London---a total lloppage of their
trade---The great plenty of wheat brought into
England has kept people easy, as while no want, no
complaint---The names of all perfohs who write let
ters to America are to be returned. For the future
no intelligence is to go over : Men are employed to
flop letters, to lurk in Coffee-houfes, to find out,
fetch and carry."
, NEW-YO RK, September 28.
, Extract of a letter dated at the Carrying Place, near
Ticonderoga, Sept, 14, 1775,fr0m an Officer in tire
New York Forces,
" I have the pleafare to inform you that I have
at length reached this place, with all my people,
having been fo' fortunate as not to be left by one of
them on the way. They are a parcel of hearty lads
and from some circumstances that have occurred, I
flatter myfelf they will not turn their noses from the
smell of gunpowder, in the day cf trial, which is
near at hand, as we intend setting off to-morrow
morning, on our way to the Isle aux Noix, where I
underhand they are impatiently waiting our com
ing, in order to make an attack on the Fort, which
the regulars have builtat St. John's. We are so
much wanted there, that the boats are ordered 10 be
in readings to receive the company under my com
mand, in preference to the others. It is said the
Canadians have positively refufed to take any part
at all in tae dispute ; I fancy they are a good deal
like and intend to join the strongest party,
although they fup/Iy both with provisions for the
ready penny. We have met with nothing but dif
ficulties & embarraffinents, at every port on our way.
" The tioojs have been much retarded for want
of boats, &c. andiome gill detained on that account.
I am in perfect good health, which I pray God to
continue, till I can give a good account of that Ras
cal Carleton, and his bloody backs. I call them
so, not so muck for the colour of their cloth, as for
their base and savage coLduyt in futhring the head
of the brave Capt. Baker, to be fevered from his
body and fixed upon a pole at St. John's, where it
now remains, as a monument of their savage tem
pers, and an incentive to us, bravely to revenge his
death, or fall in the glorious attempt. I have no
thing new to communicate, except that a small ftir
miih has lately happened near St. John's, occafion
cd by a party of about 50 of our men, going out to
reconnoitie; they were surprised, (it is said) by a
party of regulars, Canadians and savage;, who lay
in ambufn, concealed in the sedge or very high
grass; we had five or fix men killed, and several
wounded, four or five of whom have since died of
their wounds: Major Hobby, and Capt. Mead of
Connecticut, are slightly wounded. The enemy
had several killed and wounded ; among the for
mer, a certain Capt. Tice, of John's town, Tryon
county, a native of New-Jersey, who was formerly a
Captain in the service of that province, and an old
acquaintance of mine ; but it now appears he was
a rank Tory, I am very happy to think he met the
fate which I hope every rascal like him will share
before the matter is ended.
" The above is the best account I could obtain,
and I believe is a pretty just one."
Extract of another letter from Mr. Walter Livingflcn,
Deputy Commifary General, dated at Albany, the 20tb
or the 21// infant September, 1775, to a Gentlem an in
Neva-York.
" General Montgomery is by this time, either
in possession of St. John's, or defeated ; he embark
ed with it or 12 hundred men, and a party of Ca
nadians, who came to the Ige a^x Noix, to join our
army, the number is not mentipned.---Mr. Living
ston, of Montreal, with a party of Canadians, at
tacked the King's troops, killed twelve, and drove
off the remainder ;---he has sent for some men ^0
Isle aux Noix, and they are granted him."
Extract of a letter from an Officer at Isle Aux Noix, to
bis friend in Nevs York, dated September 17^ 1775.
" I have just time to aeqaint you, that to-mor
row we intend to strike a decilive blow at St.
John's. We have already had two ikirmifhes; in
the firft we loft seven men, besides fix or seven
wounded. Our enemy had nine Indians killed on
the spot, with twice as many wounded, as we are
informed. The savages appear barbarous to the
last degree ; not content with fealping, they dug up
our dead, and mangled them in the nioft shocking
manner : I had the pleasure to fee two of them
scalped as a retaliation for their barbarity. This
happened after oar last action, in which none of us
werehart. An armed boat, which threw shells and
grape lhx bristly at us for some tint?, though with
out doing mifehief, was fortunately divided by a sa
lute from a twelve pounder from one of our gondo
las. It i, said, there were thirty regulars in the
boat, who all perilled, either by the shot or in the
- The chief obrtacle we Ihall meet with to
morrow, will be a llrong schooner, which we are de
termined to board. She mounts eighteen nine poun
ders, and was launched but two days before v took:
possession of this iiland. How this enterprize will
Succeed, God only knows, but I Kill have hopes to
fee you and all my friends once more at New-York.
M e hear the lollowing droll affair happened last
week at Kinderhook : A young felow, an enemy
to the liberties of America, going one afternoon to
a quilting frolic, where a number of young womcra
were collected, and he the only man in company,.hte
began his aspersions on the Congress as usual, and
held fourth some time on the fubjed, till the girls
(Asperated at his impudence, laid hold of him,
Gripped him naked to the waist, and infead of tar
covered him with melafies, and for feathers, took
the downy tops of flags, which grow in the mea
dows, and coated him well, and then let him go :
H^ has prosecuted every one cf them, and the matter
has been tried before Jullice $ We have not as
yet heard his worship's judgment.
HARYF O r"d, October 2.
Capt. Jones fom Cape Nichola Mole, who ar
rived at Middletown from that place a few days fines
informs, That the zd of A tigtilt the commander m
chief of the French Welt-India islands arrived at the
Mole, and immediately gave orders for all the can
non to be mounted on the new fortification, that
16 French men of war had arrived at Cape Francois
with troops on board, and that warlike preparations
weie every where making in the French part cf
Hispaniola.
Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman in Albany,
dated September zz.
" There is a report in town that 2000 Canadians
havepfed thm/eaues between St. 'John's and Montreal;
to cut f the communication between the town, and Carl
ton sgarrijon. The inttlhg<nee ;s alms too good to be
.crcaled until further confirmation.”
Lap li eek Mayor ROGERS arrived at New York
from Virginia.
lefaiday three Waggons from Philadelphia, jaffd
through this down loaded with Ckathing for the Anw
recan Army.
DILD in this Town fate our lap, Capt. Jonathan
Seymour, aged 73.--.Mts. Spencer, Wife cf Mr. John
Spencer, aged 52.-- Mrs. Rebecca Bull, the agreeable
Wife of Mr. Caleb Bull, jun. in the 27th Year of her
Age, and a Child of Mr. ffeph Woodbridge of Stoning
ton, at the Heufe of Mr. frac Sheldon.
Died at Derby, tie 2.]tb Ult. fofepb Hull,jus. Esq;
aged ^%, one of the Representatives of that Town in the
next General Assemble at New-Haven, in which, and
many other important Offices be bad long served.
f^LL Ferfons that have any book accounts open
with Samuel and William Burr, are once more
desired to fettle them immediately, either by paying
the fame or their notes of hand, which will prevent
trouble. N. B. They will take Pork, Wheat
and Flax-Seed on accounts.
Hartford, October 2, 1775.
STOLEN from the fubferiber on the night after
° the 24th of September instant, one new Holland
shirt, and also a bever hat partly worn. The person
fufpeded is a native of Ireland, a gout well made
fellow, speaks very fine and smooth, has had the
small pox, and is Something freckled---Had on and
carried with him a blue broadcloth coat that has
been turn'd, a flriped linnen vest, a pair or two of
black knit breeches, a white woolen shirt, and also
a check linnen shirt and trowfers, was something
lame when he went away, with a cut in the root of
his great tee on his right foot, has short brown hair.
Whoever will apprehend said person and secure him
in any of his majesty's goals and give notice thereof
or return him to the fubferiber, ihall be entitled to
two Dollars reward and ncceffary charges paid, by
Ozias Pettibone.
Simfbury, zßth September, 1775.
Strayed or stolen from Dodor
Sorter's tavern in Wallingford,on the night of the
23d instant a large black Horse, with a white spot
in his forehead, trots and paces, shod all round, 3 of
the shoes new, one old, about 9 or 10 years old.
Whoever will take up said horse and convey him to
Dr. Porter inWallingford, or Mr.SamuelGreenough
in New-Haven, or Mr. Stephen Meats at Hartford,
Ihall have a handsome reward for their trouble, and
all aeceffary charges paid.
Strayed or stolen on the 15th
day of June last, out of pasture, a dark brown or
black mare, about 14 hands high, trots and paces,
both eyes white, white down her face, some white
feet, about 10 years old. Whoever shall return said
Mare to the owner, and if stolen secure the thief in
any of his Majesty's goals, shall have fix dollars re
ward, if only the Mare one dollar and charges paid,
by me, Elisma Bicelqw.