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GENERAL
M O N D A Y,
N E WBERN, (North Carolina) Sept. 20 #
Extracts from the 'Journal of the Proceedings of the
Provincial Congress of North Carolina, held at
Hilforougb, on the 20th day of Augufi, 1775°
Prefect One Hundred and Eighty five Delegates.
\„HEREAS the Continental Congress hath
V thought it necessary, for the preservation of
American Liberty, that an army Should be embo
died, and the film of Three Millions of Dollars
be emitted for the purpose of fopporting such ar
my, and hath pledged the faith of the United Co
lanies frthe redemption of the fame;
Ref toed un&nimonfly, That the inhabitants of
North Carolina will pay their fu I proportion of
the expence so incurred, and will make provision
for the redemption of such part of the sum so
emitted as ffiall be allotted by the Continental
Con^refs fur <his province to redeem, in proporti
on to rhe.number of its inhabitants.
Revived,' That his Majetys faithful and loyal
fobje&s in this colony are reduced to a dangerous
and critical Situation, by the attempts of a British
ministry to carry into execution by force of arms,
several unconstitutional and opprellive a&s of the
British Parliament, for laying taxes, and for alter
ing and changing the constitution and internal po
lice of the United Colonies, in violation of the na
rural rights of the Colonists.
Revolved, hostilities being Dually com
menced in th^tyaffachufetts Bay by the Britilh
troops under the command of General Gage, and
a number of the inhabitants of that colony destroy
ed, the town of Boston having been long occupied
as a garrison town, and, as if in an enemy s coun
try, the inhabitants thereof treated with a severity
not to be juftified towards declared enemies ; rein
forcements being also threatened, and every day
expe&ed to add to the misery of that wretched
people, and to execute the cruel determined mea
sures of adminiftrarion againG this and the rest of
the United Colories: And whereas his Excellen
cy Governor Martin hath taken a very a&ive and
instrumental Share in opposition to the means which
have been adopted by this a/d the other United Co
lonies for their common Safety, as well to diunite
this from the rest, as to weaken the efforts of the in
habitants of North Carolina to prote& their lives,
liberties, and properties, againtt any force which
may be exerted to injure them, or for the expre s
purpose of compelling us to submit t) the operati
on of the a&s; that therefore, for the express and
sole purpose offecuring and defending this colony,
and preferring it in Safety against all attempts to
eairy the laid aRs into execution by force of arms,
this colony be immediately put into a state of
defence.
Rejoked, That this Congress think it absolute
ly necessary, for the support of the American As
sociation, and Safety of the colony, to raise a body
of forces, confiding of 1000 men; and upon the
faith of the Resolve of the Continental Congress,
this Congress do resolve that 1000 men be imme
diately raised and embodied.
Revived, That the Continental troops to be
railed in this province be kept in pay three months,
unlefi the Provincial Council Should judge it ne
ceffary to continue them longer ; and the said
Council are impowered to difbad them at any
time before or after the term of three months,
when they Shall judge that their service is un
necessary.
Whereas it is maaifeft that endeavours have
been used by enemies to the Liberties of America,
to persuade several of the inhabitants of this p 0
vince who were engaged in the late inlurre&ion,
that they remained dill liable to be punched un
less pardoned, by his Majesty, and that pardons
can only be obtained on condition that they (hall,
when required, tike arms, and ad offensively
against such persons as (hall be devo ed to deftruc
tion for having taken an active (hare in defence of
American Liberty ; and whereas it is well known
that no punishments can now lawfully be infli&ed
on any persons concerned in the laid in ur edion,
whether mentioned in the a& of outlawry on that
p;cafion or not:
Resolve l therefore, That the late insurgents, and
every of them, ought to be protected from every
attempt to punish them by any means whatsoever,
and that th^ Congress will to their utiwoft protect
item from any injury to their perlons or property
City of Philadelphia, December 4, 1775°
The ASSI% E of BR E A D.
Fine Flour, at Eighteen Shipinas per Ct.
Middlings, at Fifteen Shillings per Ct.
Rye, at Ten Shillings per Ct.
Whitbread 'b.oz. Midd. do. Ib.oz. Rye do. lb. oz.
id.lsafiso 7 id.loafis o 8| id.loafiso 11
zd.ditto,o 15! 2d.ditto, 1 1^ zd.ditto, 1 61
qd.ditto,l 14^ 4d.ditto, 2 2% 4d.ditto, 2 121
Rd.ditto, 3 12- Bd.ditto, 4 5 Bd.ditto, § 9
izd.ditto,§ io,izd.ditto, 6 7 Izd.ditto,B 6
Set by SAMUEL RHOADS, Mayor'.
ANDREW At LEN, Recorder.
JACOB DUCHE.
WILL'AM FISHER.
SAMUEL POWELL.
VOL. V.
which may be attempted on the pretence of puniffi
ng the said late infurredion, or any thing in con
fluence thereof.
Rtfolved, That a Committee be appointed to
confet with such of the inhabitants of this province
who entertain any religious or political scruples
with r^fped to aif ciating in the common cause of
America, to remove any ill imprelTions that bate
been made upon them by the artful devices of the
enemies of America, and to induce them, by ar
moments and persuasion, heartily to unite with us
for the prote&ion of the constitutional Rights and
Privileges thereof.
Refo!ved, That no person whatsoever, charged
as being an enemy to the American cause, Shall
be carried out of this province privately, or by
any ad of violence, except by the diredioas of a
Committee duly impowered to take cognizance
of the offence with which they are charged, and
who (hall, upon fair and candid hearing thereup
on, think such measure prudent, just and necessary:
but as the particular circumffances which attended
the seizure of Boote and Dunn, rendered a pre
vious application altogether impradicable to any
Committee appointed for the purposes of exami
nation, we acknowledge ourselves under the great
est obligations to the persons who have rendered
the Signal service to this province, of removing
from amongst them, men who were exerting their
utmost endeavours ^defeat the attempts of the
virtuous inhabitants of this province, to preserve
inviolate the rights of the British constitution.
Refolded, That the thanks of this Congress 5c
given to William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, and
Richard Cafwell, Esquires, for their patriotic
and faithful difeharge of the important trust reposed
in them as Delegates on the part of this province
at the late Continental Congress.
In canfequence whereof, the President returned
them thanks in the following manner :
“ Gentlemen,
" The honourable and patriotic conduct you
bare pursued in dfeharge ofthe high and import
ant trust unanimously committed to you, with the
most unlimited confidence, by the late convention
of this province, has juftified and done,honour to
their choice, and now calls forth the grateful
thanks of your fellow citizens; which thanks, in
order that the most honourable testimony of your
conduct may be transmitted to posterity, the Con
gress have commanded me to deliver in this place.
“ [ do accordingly, with the greatest pleasure,
return you the thanks of this Congress, in behalf
of their constituents, for the manly, Spirited, and
patriotic difeharge of your duty, as Delegates re
presenting this province in the Grand Continental
Congress at Philadelphia."
To 'which the Delegates returned the following
answer .•
" W £ the Delegates of this province, to
whom our fellow citizens thought fit to co»fign,
with the most unlimited confidence, the great and
important charge of representing them in the late
Continental Congress, beg leave to express our
most Sincere thanks for the honourable testimony
which, through you, they have thought fit to
render of our Services in that capacity.
“ 1\ Ith hearts warmed with a zealous love of
liberty, and desirous of a reconciliation with the
Parent State, upon terms just and constitutional,
we flattered ourselves that the integrity of our
motives would plead an excuse for our want < f
ab\iues, and that in the candour and charity of
our constituents, our well meant, however feeble
endeavours, would find their apology. Our ex
pe&ations are more than anf^ered; and this pub
lie approbation of our condud, the greatest re
ward a fubjeQ can receive, or a people bestow,
will Simulate us, whether in private or public life
our lot (hall be cast, to imirate the virtues of our
patriotic fellow citizens, and to be diftingudhed
by our ufefulnefs in society, as we have this day
been by the honours with which they have marked
our former endeavours.
“ While our hearts overflow with gratitude to
this respectable assembly, we cannot omit to offer
our best acknowledgements to you, Honoured Sir,
for tire polite manner in which you have been
pleaded to convey to us the sense of this House ;
and to congratulate them that their councils are
conduced under the aufpjces of a character so just
ly esteemed, and which aadsdignity to the feat in
which it presides."
The following address to the inhabitants of the
Britilh empire being presented, was unanimously
received and approved, and is as follows viz.
To the Inhabitants ofthe British Empire.
" Friend, and Fellow Citizens,
" THE fate of the contest which at present
fubfißs between these American Colonies and the
Britilh Ministers who now Gt at the helm of pub
lie affairs, will be one of the most important epochs
which can mark the annals of the Britilh history
Foreign nations with anxious expectation wait the
result, and lee with amazement the blind infatu
ated policy which the present administration pur
sues to Subjugate these colonies, and reduce them
from being loyal and ufeful fubjeds, to an abfo
D UNLA P's
^H^frg^
" To enjoy the fruits of our own honest indtrf
try; to call that our own which we earn with the
labour of cur hands, and the sweat of our brows;
to regulate that internal policy by which we, and
not they, are to be affe&ed ; these are the mighty
boons we ask : And traitors, rebels, and every
harffi appellation which malice can dictate, or the
virulence of language express, ate the returns
which we receive to the most humble petitions
and earned fupolications. We have been to.ld
that independance is our object ; that we seek to
Shake on all connection with the Parent State.
Cruel foggeftion! do not all our profeffions, all
our actions, uniformly contradict this?
" We again declare, and we invoke that Al
mighty Being who searches tne recedes of the hu
man heart, and knows our mod secret intentions,
that it is our mfc earned wish and prayer to be
restored, with the other United Colonies, to the
date in which we and they were placed before the
year 1763, disposed to glance over any regulations
which Britain had made previous to this, and
which seem to be injurious and oppreflive to these
colonies, hoping that at some future day die will
benignly interpole, and remove from us every
cau'e of complaint.
“ Whenever we have departed from the forms
of the cAnditution, our own fafety and felf pre
fervarinn have dictated the expedient; and if in
any instances we have assumed powers which the
la vs invest in the Sovereign or his Representatives,
it has been only in defence of our persons, proper
ties, and those rights which G)d and the confti
turion have made unalienably ours. As soon as
the cause of our fears and apprehensions are re
moved, with joy will we return these powers to
their regular channels; and such institutions form
ed from mere necessity, shall end with that oecef
firy which created them.
“ These expreffioßS flow from an affection bor
dering upon devotion to the succession of the house
of Hanover as by law established, from fubjeCts
who view it as a monument that does honour w
human nature; a monument capable of teaching
Kings how glorious it is to reign over a free peo
ple. These are the heart felt effufions of men
ever ready to spend their blood and treasure, when
constitutionally called upon, in support of that suc
cession of his Majesty King George the Third, his
erown and dignity, and who fervently wish to
transmit his reign to future ages as the sera of
common happiness to his people. Could these our
sentiments reach the throne, surely our Sovereign
would forbid the horrors of war and desolation to
intrude into this once peaceful and happy land,
and would flop that deluge of human blood which
now threatens to overflow this colony; blood too
precious to be filed but in a common cause, against
the common enemy of Great Britain and her sons.
“ This declaration we hold forth as a testimo
ny of loyalty to our Sovereign, and affection to
our Parent State, and as a fiocere earaeft of our
present and future intentions.
“ We hope hereby to remove those impreflions
which have been made by the reprefentatians of
weak and wicked men to the prejudice of this co
lony, who thereby intended that the rectitude of
our designs might be brought into distrust, and se
dition, anarchy, and confufion, spread through
this loyal province.+
“ We have difeharged a duty which we owe to
the world, to ourselves, and posterity; and may
the Almighty God give fucoefs to the means we
make use of, io far as they are aimed to produce
just, lawful, and good purposes, and the salvati
on aid happiness of the whole Britilh empire."
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JOHN FISHER, Brufn-maker,
Of the Borough of Lancaster,
BEGS the favour of the Public, and especially
of thole Farmers who are provided with large
tiuops of hogs, to save the Bristles and bring them
to the next Itore or (hop, if too far from Lancaster;
and the Gentlemen (tore or (hop-keepers are here
by humbly requested to pay tor each pound of
Brifties (combed) one (hilling, Pennsylvania cur
rency: The Bristles may be taken off when ftalded,
and then the wool cernbed out. The Gentlemen
dore and fliop keepers are hereby further humbly
requeued, as PAIRIOTS, to encourage the fav
mg of that ufeful article, the Brifties, and >4 to
reiufe any, whether of old or young hogs, brought
them for tale: They shall run no rifque, but be
well fatisfied f®r their trouble.
The said John Fisher carries on the Brufh
making business in all its branches, as formerly ;
where likewise may be had, the belt (hining black
ball for boots and (hoes, end a quantity of brass
wire fit for wind-mills and other uses, for a reason
able price ; likewise hair mill sieves, punch ditto,
wheat riddles of all forts and sizes, tar buckets,
cowlkin whips, curry combs, &c.f
lute dependence and abjeft Slavery ; as if the de
feendants of those ancestors who have Shed rivets
of blood, and expended millions of treasure, in
fixing upon a lasting foundation the liberties ofthe
British constitution, saw with envy the once hap
py state of this western region, and strove to ex
terminate the patterns of those virtues which Shone
with a lufire which bid fair to rival and eclipse
their own.
T H E
ADVERTISER.
— D~E C E MT ER 4th?~ 1775.
WANTS A PLAC E,
To wait on a single Gentleman, or tend in a family,
A YOUNG MAN lately arrived from Ire
land, who has been used to wait at table,
take care of a pair of horses, &c. ° Any Gentleman
whom this may suit, will be waited on by fending
to Mrs. White's, in Gray's Alley.
CarliJle, November 15, 177 g.
To all Persons concerned in the Lands Jituate on
the Ohio, granted by the Six Nation Indians
to the buffering Traders, &c. Anno 1763.
WHEREAS the fubferiber^ by desire of
William Trent, and others, grantees ofthe
above lands, met at Pittsburgh the azd day of l a st
September, did call a general meeting of the said
grantees to be held at this place the 13th of this
present month, and did advertise the fame in the
Pennsylvania Gazette and other news papers. And
whereas a considerable number of the fai,d grantee#
meet > but to little effea, as the said
William Trent's presence was absolutely necessary
for the designed purpose, and he did not attend.
We are therefore dire&ed to call another general
^eetin^ of the grantees, to be held at Lancaster on
the nth day of next month, then to agree on such
matters and things as may be esteemed most benefit
^e' ' inttrett ; a:d to insist that the said
William Trent do meet the said grantees at the said
time and place, then and there to render just and
true accounts of all his tran factions made and done
by virtue of their powers of attorney to him, and
that he bring with him all his papers and accounts
relative thereto. All persons interested are request
ed to attend. ROBERT CALLENDER
GEORGE MORGAN.
J OH N B A t"e1;
Plate Iron Worker in general, from Birming
ham, at John Duncan's, hatter, opposite theßunch
of Grapes, in Third-street, near Arch-street,
MAKES tea-kettles, coffee-pots, sauce-pans,
stew-pans tinned, fifh kettles, Dutch ovens,
which are much sweeter, wholfomer and cheaper
than copper utensils, and are much used in London
and most parts of England : He likewise makes oval
and square dripping pans, allies buckets, fire hoods,
coal (coops, pot covers, cocoa and coffee roasters,
Dutch Roves and pipes, on the lowest and most
realonable terms; and puts new frying pans to old
handles. He hopes to give the public fatisfaaion,
^ot only by the neatness of his work, but by the
dispatch with which he will endeavour to execute
all favours they may please to confer on him.
N. B. He tins and mends copper tea-kettles and
sauce-pans, and gives most money for old pewter.|
T R A N SYLVAN! A.
A COMPANY of Gentlemen, of North-Caroli
na, having for a large and valuable consider
ation, purchased from the Chiefs of the Cherokee
Indians, with the advice and content of the whole
nation, axonfiderable tra& of their lands, now cal
led Transylvania, hereby inform the Public, That
any person who will fettle on said lands, before the
firft day of June 1776, shall have the privilege of
taking up and furveyin^ for himfelf five hundred
acres, and for each male person, above >6 years of
age, he shall carry with him and fettle there, tuo
hundred and fifty acres, on the payment qf fifty
(hillings, sterling, per hundred acres, fubje& lo an
yearly quitrent of two Shillings sterling, to com
mence in the year 1780. —Such penfons as incline to
become purchasers, may correspond with Colonel
Richard Henderson, at BoonSborcrugh, in Transyl
vania, or with William Johnston, Esq; at Hilitbo.
rough, North-Carolina.
N. B. This country lies on the south fide of the
river Ohio and Louisa, or Kentucke, in a temper
ate and healthy climate ; it has several rivers, up
which vessels of considerable burden may tome
with eafe.—ln different places of it are salt Springs,
where the making of salt has been tried with fue
cefs, and where any quantity needed may be made.
—lt has extensive quarries of lime stone, and abun
dance of iron ore—The fertility ofthe foil and go^d
nefs ofthe range, almost surpass belief, and it is at
present well Stored with buffaloe, deer, elk, bear,
beaver, &c. and the rivers abound with fifh of va
rious kinds. Many people are daily stocking to it,
and gentlemen of the firft rank and character have
purchased lands in it, so that there is all appearance
of a rapid Settlement, and that it will soon become
one of the most agreeable countries in America. §
EIGHT DOLLAR FFewaTd.
RAN AWAY from the tabfcriber, in Janu
ary la<t, an indented fervent lad named SA
MUEL STEWART, a taylor by trade, about
rive feet three inches high, of a fair complexion,
with fh®rt fair hair, is out mouthed, speaks thick,
and a,; to (wear; he has a remarkable Swelling or
the back of his right hand : Had on and took with
him, a whitish coloured coat and jacket, a pair of
thickset breeches of an olive colour, the rest of his
dress I cannot be particular of, and probably be
may have changed what he had by this time. Who
ever takes up said Servant and secures him in ary
gaol, so that I may get him again, or brings him
to Captain William McClellan's, in March
Creek settlement, York County, (hall have the
above Reward and reasonable charge*.
X JAMES IIEZLIP.
TO BE SO L D,
A VALUABLE Plantation or tra& of Land,
situate in Reer y Island Neck, Newcastle coun
ty, containing near two hundred acres, twenty
nine acres of which is banked meadow ; with a
right of a sixteenth part of a body of Marlh, called
Long Island, fippofed to contain sixteen hundred
acres. The title is clear, and any person inclining
to purchase may fee the premises and know the
terms by applying to the fuhferiber.
§ WILLIAM M'KEAN,
N UMB. 215.