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Return of Ordinance ^l Stores,taken by luWfyflj > troops
in the redoubts and ines cf the cnsm,,fta their landing
at Frog's Nek, Wf) Cbefter county, from the I2tbf
October, to the 20th of November, 1776.
A< Fort %$i gt^n, n^w Fort K.yphanfen, and
batteries ce^ehdiag. Iroß ordinance, 4 thirty-two
[bonders, z lighten pouadrn, 7 twelve ditto, 5 nine
ditto, 15 fix di to, 8 thra# ditto. 2 five-and-hawf
inch brils h^wnz is.
Fort Independence. Iron ordinance, 12 four
Mx. WATSON,
P^afc to irfert Nt following olferwatiers in,our ufefkl
Courant end obfogeyour c&nftaut reader.
+ TAKE this method ^communicate for the benefit
cf Uo public, fentimtats, which, by reason of
fjme uufavourab e interruptions were not fully deli
vin^i in public.
Thecanfe in which we are engaged is of the last
im >ur ance to Amari*, it is whether this whole con
ticext, with their numerous progeny fhdil be freemen
or (lives, capable of possessing property or nothing -
whether they fhalthav* any power cf willing and ^i
lading a fingla &aion of their own, dom^^ic, civil or
religious, or whether they and theirs, shall be at the
&bfoiu<e disposal of the merciless tools of cruel ty
ra^n,!
And in this w are all interefled, fieri the infant
who hang, upon ths breast, to th, grey headed, whole
flinders bow with, the burden as years; allderive
fecu ity in thrir various profpeas, parfaits and acqui
fitions, »Rd in enjoying ghe fruits of their honest in
duft.y, from tha protection of the public. Retd pa
triors iheefore, are the only true hirers of mankind
^d fo^-telv^, who primarily fiek and pray for the
prosperity of the State, as their war parent from'
whom they derive peace and fafety ^ enjoy every 0-
th^r good.
Wfe have rerfon to be alarmed at our danger. The
might, power of Britain, their great rsfourcea and
Itroag Armaments by sea and land, the foreign merce
naries they hove engaged and are engaging against ur,
Ou evident firceacfi of their anger and cruelty of
their deugns the deflation and ruin of many of our
pupal,ous to^n, by lira and sword, the progrefa of
their arms on Long Island, Ner-Yerk and the Jsr
ifa, the powerful force they ; 4 ow havs in the heart of
a neighbouring State, the evident aecaffity of eur ar
my's baihg immediately fi led, and the dilatorinWfs
with whics'it fills, the Cupidity of the country
which fe nis ti have loft a proper sense of their dan
^•r and thrirduty, the mun, emissaries employed by
them amongst u% not only to ialift men,but to mcno
pol ztth* neceffaies of lifr, and raise the prices, to
promote extortion and opprefffo# and depreciate the
public credit; and the man, sordid, avaricious minds
with .us, who are willing to help on the impofirion
zed fill their country, 'hmfelvas and pofteri, for the
gaia of angodrinefs ; and who plead the exarapleofo
„e # $ as aa ^xcufe for their crimes as though it would
be any ^ilevisti^n of their miseries when th^y shall
find a bayonet at their br*afts, their wives ravished by
fraigsts, and thrir daughter# prostituted to the lust of
an abandoned soldiery, before their eyes, to reflect
that others sassier the like calamities. It behoves eye
^ c^ kr^m hi&feif to put a flop to this pernicious
poundere.
Fort Valentine. Itou ordinance. 4 twelve pound
er!, 10 nine prunclers, 10 fix ditto, 37 four ditto.
Fort Lee, th# rock, redoubts eud butteries in the
Jerfies. Iron ordinance. 5 thirty-two pounders, # 3
twenty-fowr ditto, 2 fix ditto, 2 three ditto. 2 thir
teen inch brafi auricis, 1 ten inch dkto. 2 thirteen
inch iron Tartars, A u&inch ditto, 1 eight-inch
diktat
On the road trading to Hackinfsck, in the fofo^
Iren ordinance, 2 twenty, four pounders, 2 eighteen
citt,4 twelves ditto,mounted on travelling carriages,
4 fix pounder#.
TotJ. Iron ordinance, 9 thirty-two plunders, 5
twenty four pounder#, 4 eighteen poundes, 15 twelve
pounders, I) nine pounders, 31 fix poundals 49 four
pound^r.^ 10 three pounder*. 2 five and hi f inch
brail ho^z^rt. j thirteen inch brass mortar, 1 ten
ia h ditto. 2 thir/een-iach iron mot .are, 1 ten inch
ditto, i ^gh'c inch ditto.
SHOT." Rou^d, loose 1087 thirty two plunders,
oy/^u^^a pouede^ 2637 t^ve pounders, SCO
fix nandv's, 760 iix po^d^rs. 870 three pouncei*.
C^fe 30 tuny-two peu- J^% 40 eighteen pound
or#, 340 t^ ^ peuadurf, 260 ^^ plunders, 74 hx
p^dnd^s, 39 *hm pounders. 1159 double-headed
of fns, fa boxes for grape.<
SHELLS. 156 'hir\eem- inch, 311 ten iach, 1(40
cfox inch, 1170 five and-half-inch, 1200 four-two
fifths inch.
Po^d^r, beryls . . • 15
Muftuets efforts - - - 2820
Mufquet cartridges, - near 4.00,000
Iron ton, f R , d _ §
. Intrenching tools of ail forts - - 500
Armourers tools, feta - - 6
Hund B^rr^ws - - - joo
Gyn, complete - - 1
Stin^c^n - - - 2
Iron fraife of 400 weight each/ foppafdl
to be intended to flop the navigation of > 200
Hudfo^'s River.j
rt.'larg® quantity of other fperies cf floras not at
prefect ascertained.
(Signed) Sam. Cleaveland,Brig. General,
Roval Artillery.
vice, by which ~h* poor a-eepfeeff d, th* public cre
dit ieffeaed, a^d ueiverfal difc3ur%g#ment thrown on
folding engaging in cur common defence. The de
flruftive tendency cf this evil practice is obvious to
?very one, mad the awful judgments it is productive of
to a land, is witnessed by the word of truth, and the
example of the Ifraelim, not to mention the aatidelu
vian wo Id Sodom and Tyre, Egypt and Babylon,
Greece and Rome, who fell not so much by the power
of their enemies, as the weight of their own inqui-
ries, eppreffioas and avarice.
I know that the merchant must and ought to in
crease the price of his goods in proportion to the rifque
and burden brought on trade by the war—but fur
ther than that ho oughtnever to rife. The scarcity
And dtarr&f' of labour is a reason for the farmers and
mechanic# to rift proportionab'y in the price of their
produce and effects, yet the labourer ought not to take
advantage cf the public neceffi y, to eaa& unreasona
bly for hirhbour. I recount not these dangers to
difheartea any, but to awaken my countrymen to aft
with becoming vigilance and vigour.
On the other hand let us confider out encourage
ments and hopeful profods. Oar esufe is molt cer
tainly j^ft, whicn must engage Heave, 'a favourable
protection, uulefs we forfeit it by cur crimes, it is
ferprizing that the enemy have gained no greater
advantages agaifift us, feeing how unprepared, how
undifeiplined, and how deUiruie we were cf arms and
military stores, when she, firft attacked us. The pro
gress we here made in difeip ine, and in famishing
turftlves with artillery, fire arms and warlike flares
of every kind, and in naval force, far exceeds the most
fazgutne mil d, —the wonderful success of our priva
teers in the captu e cf mar.y rich and valuable prizes,
cental ing ra^ay necessary and most feafonabie arti
cles cur resources for men, money and provifioes are
amazingly grm,---that we are able, leaving a fuffi
ciexey &{ home, to raise, vidual aad pay more men
than B ii&in car. ferd from that inland or draw from
Germany aid Russia, to America. And would we but
ad unitedly, with a fpi it and animation becoming a
brave and fief pecple, who at all htzirds ate resolved
to maintain their fieedom ; and worthy the magni
tude and justice of the cause we are contending in, we
Ihould soon firike terror into the feujsof ear enemies,&
utterly extirpate that nest cf murderers and plunderers
from ear country or from the face cf the earth. Let
those then who are in the prime cf life, whose bones
are fenced with ftrengtli and moift/ned with marrow,
that are the ftreagth and must be the defence of our
country, reuse up like a firong lyon, and rife as one
man, gird &n the harness with determined purpefe
never to p,t it off, until our foes are vanquished.
Vindicate ths invaded rights of your bleeding coun
try, and avenge the wrongs done to her and her font.
The blood of the Bain and their unburie- bones, the
murdered captives, and the virgin's violated charity,
cry to Heaven and to you for vengeance ; the eyes of
cur venerable fathers, the aged and decripid, of the
dtfencelefs fair, of the children and feeble among the
people, the eyes ofjthh raft continent, nay, more, the
eyes of him that made you and hath girded you with
strength are upon you, and call you forth to mighty
exertions and the noblhd deeds of heroic virtue.
Those who engage in this mighty contest on merce
nary principles, for money only,as the greeted part of
our enemies have done,ate indanger of behaving unwor
thily; they will be drones in the camp, cowards in the
field, will turn their backs on the approach rs danger,
whilst you, my countrymen, equated by faperior mo
tives, and entering the lift to contend for the mighty
prize, to save a whole continent fiom perdition, and
their numerous offspring from being damned to per
petual flavory, will be all life and adion in the array,
alert and vigilant on your poftt, brave in the field,
firm, intrepid and determined in the midst of sur
rounding dangers, and a thousand biffing deaths ; nor
fhal you lo ft your reward, your county ihall arise
aid blefi you as their deliverers, and think nothing
too much to bestow upon you ; your names ihall be
recorded in the anasls of fame, be perpetuated with
honour through all time, and generations yet unborn
ffiall read the history of your mighty deeds of valour,
blefi j'ur memory, and gio y in you as their fiviours,
while the God of armies will not be unmindful of his
fens, who are obedient to his call, and put their tr uft
in the power and protection of his grace, when they
have done his will on earth, they Ihall be made more
than conquerors, ihall become Ki%gs and priests onto
him fcrever J- R-
Mr. Watson
Phafc to insert the foliowng in jour ufeful ,apr, and yra
twill oblige A Merchant.
" Whenjour country it inqsaded and cries aloud for,our
" aid,fl, not to fraefecure corner of a neighbouring State,
" andremain idle fpefiatore to ber diffrefs, but Jhare tn her
" fate, and manfull, fufefeortber cause." Addtefs of the
Convention, to the Representatives of the State of
New York.
T HAVE often heard the above passage quoted in
conversation in this State and sometimes unjustly
applied to these who have been forced to quit their
habitations, and fl, to this State for an af,lmn, with
their diftrtffed families ; whilst no notice has been
taken of fomeof the inhabitants, who have been a
miffing wealth by the distress of the country ; how
many are there among us who have carefully avoided
every hardship anddaugir, and lived in peace and
ease, watched and eagerly embraced every opportuni
ty to purckafe ufeful and necessary articles, and with
ent the xifr?f importgtioa,Qr any considerable expenct.
kubled and tribled thefr price ; ard yet vber th#ro
is tie Ix4J danger, rhey fly tofern^ Lci^bturi^g 8 rte
ou the bufiuefs of monopolizing, a^d ftry rill ti;^
dagger is over. How macy single men are there in
this neighbourhood whole whole bufincL is to go from
place to place to difeaver and take advantage cf the
Receffitie# of mankind ; if they are called c^ by their
neighbours to go cut in the militia, they will readily
own the, are cowards ; and if they cannot get off fe&-
fonably in their ufu&l cursed bofinefs will pay their
fine, which they can well ass rd; femetimog they
play eff their little wit on their companions who bear
arms; when called on at other times, they are kufy
in pointing out the hardships cf the laws regulating
prices, which, however unequal, the, have no right
to complain of ;--.never having rifted any thing to
obtain the gocds they have, and are the only perform
who should be regulated by the laws ; I mean the only
oppreffirs, or the source from which opprefficn cf eve
ry kind hath originated. It is evident these men m'e^n
to steer clear cf bearing arms, least if we were ccquer
ed, they should be deemed rebels, and treated tbenon
they new deserve ; if we support cur independence they
intend to be whigs; but at prefint they ate trying to
finer between Sylla and Cbsribdis. Ilow long will
you, my countrymen, bear with these internal ene-,
mi #? Treat them with the contempt they merit, and
mak^it fce^dn'oti# to affociete with such evil being,.
Inoculation for the Small-Pox.
DANIEL BUCK, of King's Difttia, in the county
cf Albany hereby inform, the public, thsthe has
set up the inoculation for the fraall-pox in hie own
house, in said diEria, and b*s carried it en for this
some time with the granted fucceft..-- Any gentlemen
or ladies being a ^ind to re, air to his houfa to t#ke
the infeaion may depend upon having the left ca^e
taken of thera, and be boarded and the prepa, aliens
be found them for three dollars only.
*§* S*id inoculation is carried on wi hour mercuri
al medicines. Apri 14, 1777.
— r F6 BE s (7^039-
Farm of land, in the town cf Pownall, in the State
of New Cohn<aicnt, but 3 miles from Benning
ton meeting-house, containing 180 acres, about 30 cf
which are cleared and suitable for mowing, plowing
or p&fturing, to which a good title will be given, by
Robert Branthwait.
*, Any person inclining to purchase th# above
land, may enquire of Mr. Barber, living on said pre
mises. Hartford, April 21 1777.
TO BE SOLD,
A Small farm, in Montague, three quarters of a
mile from the meeting house, very proper for a
tradafman or trader, containing about 12 acres of
land. Enquire of the fubfepber on the pramifts.
Piter Bishop.
N. B A swap may be made far a place of less land
in an old town, or more in a new.
April 21, 1777.
— TOBE SOL
a Good farm of land, lying in Pitufieid, about two
" miles fom the meeting house, that belonged to
Capt. David Noble, deceased, containing 170 acres,
with a large two story haufe, a cellar unasr the whole,
with a good barn and corn heufe, a fine young or
chard, and a saw mill, on the premises ;---will be fold
reasonably for pay down ; there is about 130 acres
under improvement. For further into 'licence enquire
of David Noble, foa co Capt. David Noble, decealed,
living on the piemifes.
N. B. If any person only warted 50 acres, with
the buildings & orchard, it may be purchased faper ate
ficra the rest, which will be advantageous lor a traded
or tradesman to keep a public heufe, as it lies on a
read much travelled.
Pittsfield, March 17, T 777.
fufi come to band, for the benefit of the public, (the health,,
feW, and weakly,)
AND TO BI SOLD,
B, E. FENN O,
At the Gulden Ball, in Middletown,
A Parcel of WINES, R d-Port, Lisbon, Teneriff,
" French and Spanish Fyall, and sweet Wines ;
choice good Mafcovado Sugar, Alfpice, Pepper, &c.
N, B. If any hoeeft Farmer, wants any of the a
beve Articles, they will lerve thsmfelves and the Pub
lick, by bringing some fefh Meat and Grain, in
order to accomodate the Public.
■■BteaCTtQcQicc..fomCTmrtmmitti ■ mfc—tremtttt -tr—r.—it l ri^-rr-
STEEL ma_e in the Ge man way, to be I^lo at this
place, by the fubferiber, who has procured work
men that underhand the bufin^fs, aad warrant the
STEEL to be good for edge tools, so far as if it don't
prove so, the purchaser may return the STEEL, and
he shall have his money ^gain.
Jacob Ogden.
*4* The STEEL I warrant is damped with the
letters J. O.
Forge, at ColebrorV, Arri' 14 1777.
"ty^E the iubicribeis being legacy appiin^c wmmrf
fiune/s, to examine &sd adju* the claims rs the
©editors to the effete of Josiah Hurlburt, late cf Ner-
Hartford, dece&fed, (represented infolveni) hereby
givenotice that we ffiall attend said bufiulO on the
left Wednesday of April and the thrce firft Wednes
days of May next, at one o'clock P. M. on arch of
Aid days, at the house of M Jjhn Gilbert, inrhoider
in New-Hartford.
Theodore Gilbert, | Cornff-
Eliphalet Richards, j fiends.
April 14th, 1777.