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Feb. 24. On the 18th the following bill palled
the House, viz. entitled,
An aft for the more effectual prevention of private
lotteries.
By Capt. Shermerhorn, we hear that the Indi
an nations disavow the late murders, which it is
said were perpetrated by fifteen Cherokees and
two Creeks, without any authority from, or the
privity of their refpe&ive nations.
On Saturday his Excellency the Governor gave
1 10 loads of wood, to be delivered out of the yard
at the battery; looloads to be deftributed among
the poor, and 10 loads to the prisoners in goal.
No news of the Packet or Tea Grip.
To his EXCELLENCY
WILLIAM TRYON, Esq;
Captain General and Governor in Chief, in and over
the Colon, ofNew York, and the territories depend
ing thereon in America, Chancellor and Vice Admi
ral of the fame.
The humble Address of the Mayor, Aldermen,
and Commonalty of the City of New-York.
May it pleafejour Excellency,
WHILE we teftify our gratitude to GOD,
for the graciousinterpofition of his Almigh
ty arm, in preserving your Excellency, and so ma
ny branches of your family, in the fate conflagra
tion of the buildings in the fort, it is with a mixture
of undiffembled grief that we find ourselves called
to the melancholy office of condolence on account
of your great losses in the wafting deftrudion of that
memorable and perilous hour.
But pungent as our sorrow is for this calamity to
your Excellency, it might be alleviated by the ge
nerous sympathy of a province that has a just sense
of the merits ofits ruler, if the approaching minutes
of your departure did not darken the profpe& we
had of a more lading felicity under your command.
It becomes us as the loyal fubjefts of a most gra
cious sovereign, to submit to an aft of his pleasure,
expressly founded upon the royal approbation ofits
expediency for the public utility; and more espe
cially as you have inspired us with the firmed con
fidence in your zealous attention, whether prelent
or absent, to the best interests of the colony.
It is nevertheless, with regret that we are obliged
to look forward to the parting moment ; for if in
tegrity and generosity, impartiality and condescen
sion, prudence and activity, vigilance and indepen
dency in the chief Magistrate of a colony, are sure
pledges to the people of the common felicity, we
have to deprecate your departure, as an event un
fortunate to the province.
In testimony of the affectionate esteem of a grate
ful city, we beg, Sir, your acceptance of this box,
inclofing an exemplification of that inftruinent de
stroyed in the late fire, by which we formerly gave
you a title to its freedom and privileges, and which
you once did us the honour to receive.
His Excellency's Answer.
Gentlemen,
TTAKEevery kindly, this public teflimony of your
congratulations on the providential deliverance of
my family from the perilous situation to which we
were fubjefled by the late fire ; and return you my
cordial thanks for your wa r m andfeeiing expressions of
condolence on the heavy losses I fufained in that confu
ting and deftruElive hour. The generous sympathy of
the province may alleviate the burden of my pecuniary
injuries, but the loss of ufeful papers, and a collection
of every thing that I have been able to make, through
aferies of years, devoted to bufnefs, must be irrepara
bly lading.
The favourable sentiments this city entertrins of the
impartiality and integrity of my public conduct, gives
me great fatisfaction.
l gratefully accept from the Mayor, Aldermen, and
Commonalty of the city of New-York, this early repof
feffien of agolden box, and exemplification of that in
strument, which upon my arrival in this government,
gave me a right to the freedom and privileges of a ci
tizen. This honourable mark of diflinctioH, was pleaf
%*°"' "' the firfl preventing of it, but the uniform
civility and attention of the inhabitants has inbanced
the value of the tefimonial, and my warmest wijbes,
vubetber prefect or absent, will ever attend this flou
riJbing commercial American city.
New-York, nd Feb. 1 77+ Wm. TRYON.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 23.
On the 20th inst. the brig Chhrleftown Packet,
Capt. Wright, arrived at New-York, in 12 days
from South-Carolina, by whom we learn, that
the Lower Creek Indians and Cowetas had
taken up the hatchet against the English, killed
all the traders in their nation, and above 30 of the
country people; that some parties of the militia
that went out against the Indians, were defeated;
that in one Skirmish Lieut. Grant, and 6 others were
killed, and two wounded, one of them mortally.
On Thursday the 17th inst. died at Greenwich,
in Cumberland County, W. New-ferfey, Dodor
SAMUEL WAR D, after a long and painful
sickness, which he bore with chriftian fortitude
and mild resignation.—His virtues were of that
fort which demonstrates the true grandeur of hu
man nature—The largeness of his benevolence to
mankind was seen in all his actions—-He had a high
veneration for religion—He was sincere in his
friendships, {killful in his profeffion and moderate
'"' s demands—He was punctual in all his dealings,
affable, facetious, obliging in his temper, and be
ing grounded in a good opinion of mankind, was
through an innate modesty diffident only of him
felf. He had acquired a genteel fortune, as well
as the good opinion of all who knew him, when he
was called from his numerous friends, and from
an affectionate wife, to whom he made the most
tender and best of husbands His remains were
on the 19th, interred in the Presbyterian burying
ground at Greenwich, attended by a great num
ber of refpe^table inhabitants of all denominations,
when a fernion suitable to the occasion was preach
ed by the Rev. Mr. Hunter.
On Monday theziftinft. died at Chester-town.
Maryland, in the thirty third year of her aoe
AUGUSTEN,E, the wife of EZEKIEL
FORM AN. Many of her acquaintance can
teftify that she has gone thro' an uncommon share
of bodily affliction for almost 18 years past and
finally, very sudden and unexpected to her friends
about her ' hunied (no doubt) from the bed of
affliction to regions of bliss. The writer trusts it
will be confirmed, by all who knew her family
concerns, that she endeavoured to fill the several
characters of chriftian, wife, and parent, with re
putation not to gain the applause of man, princi
pally.—Her grand Stimulus was, duty to her God,
and affection for her family. Thelatter have rea
son to know, she was—and is not.
On the 23d inst. died SAMUEL SAN
SOM, Senior, late of this city, merchant, in the
67th year of his age.—He was one of those early
traders (of whom there are few survivors) whose
opportunities for acquiring a fortune were very
great, but being of adifpofition bounded by mo
deration, and fttidly punctual in complying with
his engagements, he was thankful for the enjoy
ment of a reasonable competency, and used to fay
that he had enough
The patience and fatisfaftion which he manifefted
in his last painful disorder were the happy conse
quences of having passed through life, with a pro
per sense of moral and religious duties, and a
course of conduct consistent with the necessary in
junctions thereof.—
To him the approach of death was not with ter
ror, his dissolution was effected without a painful
groan, and his end " the end ofthe just man" was
crown'd with peace. He furviv'd an araiable wo
raan, his wife, about five years, whose virtues were
truly such, as to intitle their possessor to the most
refpe&ful remembrance.
We hear that Mr. Kinnersley intends to
continue his Lectures on Electricity no longer than
this week, and till Monday and Tuesday next
week.
The Citizen, No. 2, in our next.
Tohis EXCELLENCY
WILLIAM FRANKLIN, Esq;
Captain-General, Governor and Commander in Chief,
in and over his Majefly's colony ^f Nova-Caefarea,
or New-Jersey, and Territories thereon depending
in America, Chancellor and Vice-Admiral in the
fame, ^'c.
The humble ADDRESS of the REPRE
SENTATIVES of the said colony, in
General Assembly convened,
May it p'eafe yeur Excellency,
WE his Majesty's dutiful and loyal fubjeds,
the Representatives ofthe colony of New-
Jersey, in General Assembly convened, sensible
of the advantages arising from the detection ofthe
gangs of villains, concerned in the making of a
base kind of half Johannes's and Spanish Dollars,
and in the counterfeiting of the paper currencies
of this and the neighbouring colonies, receive with
pleasure your Excellency's congratulations on the
stop, which has been put to the further progress
of those attrocious crimes.
Though it gives us concern to hear ofthe escape
of some of each gang, yet as we hope those escapes
have not happened thro' the neglect of any of the
officers of this government, or, if that has been the
case, that a matter of so much importance to the due
execution of justice has not only been fully enquired
intef but also punished in an exemplarymanner, we
are fatisfied with and return your Excellency our
thanks for the assurance, which you have been
pleased to give us, that " no endeavours, on your
" part, shall be wanting to have those, who
" escaped, apprehended and brought to justice."
It would give us pleasure to be able to join your
Excellency in opinion, that the robbery of the
Eastern Treasury had been brought to light; but,
after having considered your Excellency's Message
of the 29th of November, and examined the pa
pers laid before us, we cannot but think that this
affair still remains in an obfeurity, which we must
leave to time to unravel.
We have taken into our consideration the re
quisitions made to support government, and to sup
ply the King's Troops Rationed in this colony,
and have already come to such resolutions, as the
honour of the province and our duty seem at pre
sent to require.
Being persuaded that nothing has " a chance to
" contribute more" to the promotion of the pub
lic welfare, than a harmony between the several
branches of the legislature, we thank your Excel
lency for the promise you are pleased to give, to
cultivate it as much as is in your power, and we
hope that you will always find us disposed to do
every thing which can be realonably aiked, that
may have a tendency to preserve the harmony,
which you are pleased to mention to us as produ&-
'ive of happiness to yourfelf, and may be of real
benefit to the colony.
House of Assembly, B, order of the House,
Feb. 10, 1774. Cortland Skinner, Speaker.
To which his Excellency was pleased to give the
following ANSWER,
Gentlemen,
I A M happy to find that my speech contained
any thing, which you could " receive with
pleasure," and I Should have been still happier had
you (as the Council did) bestowed your commen
dations on those public fpirired gentlemen, to whose
active zeal and abilities you, and the public in ge
neral, are indebted for the occasion of those con
gratulations, which have met with so pleasing a
reception in your House.
But I am sorry to observe, that though you are
not disposed to approve, yet you have no aver
sion to insinuate charges against the officers of go
vernment. What officers you allude to, as having
through negligence been the means of letting some
of each gang escape, I know not. Every, one I
believe, of the gang of coiners, that was taken,
was tried, and such of them, as were convicted,
were punished; those of them, who escaped out
ofthe province, were never in the custody of any
officer, but went off as soon as they heard their
prattifes were difeovered. Nor has their more
than one of those, who were apprehended for be
ing concerned in the counterfeiting business,
escaped from any officer of government, and that
officer, an under-Sheriff, was soon after removed
by his superior. But as I afterwards received a
representation from the under-Sheriff, containing
sundry charges against the High-Sheriff's conduct
on that occasion, I ordered him to be furnifhed
with a copy of it, and to let me know what he had
to offer in his vindication. This he did in a letter
or memorial, accompanied with sundry Affidavits,
which I laid before the council, who were of opi
nion, that the charges contained in the representa
tion were not supported. However, being in
formed that the bill of indictment was found by
the Grand Jury of Morris against the Sheriff, ref
peding the escape of Ford, orders were given to
the Attorney General to prosecute the fame at the
next court. If you know of any other officer of
government, who is supposed to have been remiss
in his duty in that important affair, it would be
come you better to name him to me, that I may
cause a particular enquiry to be made into his con
duct, than to throw out a general insinuation,
which may happen to be applied to the innocent
as well as to the guilty.—Had you not refufed to
enable me to fend in pursuit of those, whoefcaped
from justice, my endeavours to have them appre
hended might ere now have been attended with
the desired success least, the attempt would
have been a means of deterring others from the
like practices, and the expence to the province
would have been too trifling to merit considera
tion.
I can, at present, only judge ofthe " pleasure
" it would give you, to be able to join me in opi
" nion, that the robbery of the Eastern Treasury
" had been brought to light," by the great pains
which have been taken by a Committee of your
House to prove the contrary, and your approbation
of their report. But I have, nevertheless, reason
to think, Gentlemen, that it will not be long be
fore those dark clouds, which your Committee
have raised to obfeure that light, will be so ef
fectually dispersed, as to afford you an opportunity
ofenjoying the pleasure you mention.
I Should have had more fatisfaction in your re
solutions to support government, and to supply
the King's Troops, had it not been for an intima
tion, in a Message which I have Since received from
you, that your “ subsequent condud, in some
“ measure, depends on my determination" ref
pe^ing the removal of the Eastern Treasurer. It
is therefore proper that I now tell you, that tho'
you Should with-hold the necessary supplies for
government, yet if you hope; by so arbitrary an
exercise of your power, to compel me to ad con
trary to my own judgment, and the unanimous
advice of the council, 'you will find yourselves
greatly disappointed in your expectations.—While
I conceive that I am contending for a matter that
is just and reasonable, and which not only concerns
the honour of government, but the constitutional
rights of every freeman in the colony, I cannot
aft so inconsistently with my duty as to give it up.
I shall be happy to fee the disposition you pro
fefs, “ to do every thing which can be reasonably
" alked, that may have a tendency to preserve
'f harmony," manifefted in the future tranfadions
of this session. You may be assured that I shall
not aik any thing of you, but what you may grant
coofiftently with yourduty, and that I shall always
be ready to oblige you, and the province, in every
thing that is not incontinent with mine."
Bythe HONOURABLE
JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Esq.
Governor of the Englilh Colony of Connecticut,
in New-England, in America.
A PROCLAMATION.
ffHEREAS the General Assembly of this
Colony, have resolved that they will afr
fert their claim, and in some proper way sup
port such claim to those lands contained within
the limits and boundaries ofthe charter of this
colony, which are weflward of the province of
New-York. And,
Whereas, pursuant thereto, the General Assembly
of this Colony, by an aft passed at their sessions
held by adjournment, at Hartford, on the se
cond Wednesday of January, 1774, enacted,
That the Governor be authorized and desired to
issue a Proclamation, forbidding any person or
persons whatsoever, taking up, entering on, or
fettling any of the lands contained and included
in the charter of this Colony, lying westward
ofthe province of New-York, without liberty
firft bad and obtained from the General Assem
bly ofthis Colony.
ID 0 therefore pursuant to the said ad of the
General Assembly, hereby ftridly forbid all
apd every person or persons whatsoever, taking up,
entering on, or fettling any of the lands contained
and included in the Charter from King
CHARLES the second, to this colony, lying
westward of the province of New-Tork, on any
pretence whatever, without liberty firft had and
obtained from the General Assembly of this colo
ny, for that purpose.
GIVEN under my band at the Council-
Chamber at Hartford, the twenty -seventh day
of January, 1774; in the fourteenth year of
the reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the
Third of Great-Britain, France, aWlreland
KING, Defender ofthe Faith, &c.
Jonath. Trumbull.
GOD save the KIN G.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, PHILADELPHIA.
Inward Entries.
Brig Barbados Packet, W. Hawkins, Barbados.
Brig Nancy, J. Taylor, Barbados.
Schooner Nelly, N. Vallance, Antigua.
Sloop Kitty, G. Catton, Hispaniola.
Snow Penn, J. M'Caddon, Jamaica.
Outwards.
Ship Hawke, J. Guetcheus, Virginia.
Schooner Molly, J. Rees, Barbados.
Sloop Betsy, R. Harris, Virginia.
Brig Dove, W. Allen, Barbados.
Brig Prince of Wales, T. Mason, South-Carolina.
Cleared.
Ship Jenny, A. M'llvaine, Cork.
Brig Ann, J. Eve, Barbados.
Brig Ranger, W. Newbold, Dominica.
Schooner Elizabeth, B. Green way, N. Carolina.
Brig Nancy, J. Hanfe, Jamaica.
cfcfofoofoofe*c@cfc^
Philadelphia, Feb. 25, 1774.
For ALEXANDRIA, in Virginia,
The Ship
* z§Cf' KITTY AND PEGGY,
N OR R Is cOP P E R ,
Master;
ver 1 "" fail in a few days,
VV if the navigation is
l' or freight or passage
applytoGEoßGE Fullerton,
or the Captain on board, at Shewell's wharf, who
will take in Goods on very low freight.
A QUANTITY of Excellent
-PEPPE R,
TO BE SOLD BY
WILLIAM SMIT H, Broker,
At if. per lb. by the bale, or zfi for any parcel not
less than 25 lb.
Also new rice, indigo, flax and pimento.
PROPOSALS
For PRINTING by SUBSCRIPTION,
The renowned and celebrated American Edition
Of the WORKS of
FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS,
In Four Volumes, large O&avo,
At the moderate price of seven /hillings each vol.
sewed in blue boards, or nine /hillings bound
and lettered; the money to be paid upon deli
very of each volume.
IH AV E the fatisfa&ion of informing the gene
rous fubcribers to the above works, that the
firft and second volumes will be out of the press in
two weeks, and all those gentlemen who choose to
have their volumes bound, will please to fend their
names accordingly, to John M'Gibbons, at Mr.
William Pollards, Merchant, in Front-street be
tween Arch and Race-streets, and shall have their
names at large on the inside of the cover ofthe fir/t
volume done in gold letters. And all those gentle
men who yet intends to fend their names as inten
tional subscribers, are requested to be speedy, that
their names may be inserted in the fubfeription lift.
Subferiptions are received by Messrs. William and
Thomas Bradford, Mr. John Dunlap, Mr. Joseph
Cruk/hank, Mr. Robert Bell, and Mr. Robert
Aitkin, in Philadelphia.
TO B~E SO L D,'
A LIKELY NEGROWOMAN, about
30 years of age, who can cook, wa/h, iron
and few well, and can do all kinds of house-work:
She has a child about 5 years old, and the reasons
of their being fold will be honestly told to any one
that may want them ; she is as handy and valuable
a wench as anyjn the city. Enquire of the Printer.
Philadelphia, February 25th, 1774.
TO BE SOL D,
AC ONVENIENT three story boufe and lot
of ground, situate in Union-street, between
Second and Third-streets, with a two story kitchen,
and a good cellar under the whole: The house is
20 feet front and 21 feet deep. Likewise a very
convenient two story kitchen and wash-house,
fronting on Pine street, fufficient room being left
for a front house. The above lots join each other,
and are fubjed to a ground rent of twelve pounds
currency per annum. Also one other lot of ground,
situate in Christian-street Southwark, near the river
Delaware, adjoining to a house belonging to Joseph
Martti, with a two story kitchen (having a good
cellar underneath) erefted thereon; the lot is 20
feet front, and 113 feet 9 inches deep; fubjeft to
a ground rent of 36/. currency per annum. For
further particulars and terms of sale, apply to
Charles West in Wilmington, or to Thomas
Shoemaker and Joseph Allen in Philadelphia,
Also to be fold, a few calks of good old Jamaica
SPIRITS, apply as above.
— :
JOHN D A L Y,
DANCING MASTER,
Has removed his school to Third-street, next door
to the sign of the Bunch of Grapes,
WHERE he continues to in/truft young
Ladies and Gentlemen in the science of
dancing, in the newest and most approved methods.
Those Ladies and Gentlemen who /hall be pleased
to entrust their children to his care, may be confi
dent that he will be very careful of their morals and
behaviour, as well as to inftruft them in all the
different parts of dancing, and that he will take
particular pains to make them understand mufick.
He attends the Ladies in the forenoon, and the
Gentlemen in the evening, and a/ks but the low
price oFThirty Shillings a quarter, and no entrance.
N. B. He attends young Ladies at their houses,
who do not chufe to come to public school.
TO BE SOLD Tv
JOHN SPARHA WK,
At the London Book-store in Second-street, five
doors below the Friends Meeting,
AGENER AL assortment of BOOKS, &c.
among which are, Sterne's Works complete,
in 5 vols. a burlesque translation of Homer, 2 vols.
Briti/h Theatre, 12 vols. Lyon's Music, or Note
Books ; Young's and Cole's Latin Dictionaries ;
Clarke's Homer; Guthrie's Geographical Grammar;
Burn's Justice ; Macpherfon's translation of Homers
Iliad ; Doddridge's Family Expositor, 6 vols Bvo.
Henry on the Bible ; Common Prayers, of all Sizes
and binding; a great variety of family and small
Bibles, both plain and elegantly gilt ; ditto with
Canne's notes; an essay on Moral Agency; Slavery
not forbidden in Scripture, 1/6; Tiffot's advice to
the people with regard to their health, lof. Dimf
dale's new method of inoculating for the Small-pox,
3/9; and a variety of article# in the entertain
ing way. A great assortment of paper hangings,
writing and printing papers, parchment, blank
books, the fineft quills, and Stationary of all kinds;
maps of England and Wales, with the cities, bo
roughs and market-towns thereon pasted on wood,
cut in many pieces of various forms, but so as to
make the map compleat when put together, the
whole contained in a small box, 25/. designed to
inftruft youth in geography; thermometers; baro
meters ; hydrometers for proving Spirits ; a new
invented instrument for detecting frauds in gold,
portable as a penknife ; a new patent Sliding rule,
which performs the fame at one operation as requires
2, 3 or more on the rules heretofore ; back-gam
mon tables, lined and gilt, book-fashion ; cribbage
and Solitary boards ; battledores ; Swords and cha
teaus ; silk and leather belts for ditto ; guns ^hd
pocket pistols; knives and forks, with and without
cases ; Surveying compafles ; cases of plotting in
struments; surgeons pocket and amputating instru
ments; ditto for the teeth ; the neatest lancet cases,
in green, dog and nurfle, Silver mounted ; tweezer
cases; Spectacles; reading glasses; ditto for Short-
Sighted people ; a very good pocket acromatic tele-
Scope ; pocket frying glasses ; convex and concave
mirrors; the belt razors; boxes of Shaving and
writing equipage, very convenient for travellers;
letter cases with and without instruments; the
neatest pinchbeck buckles ; stone and paste Shoe,
knee and Stock buckles ; crewet frames, enamelled,
green, blue and red ; German flutes with mouth
pieces ; copper Scales of various Sizes; nests of
weights ; money Scales ; tea nrns, &c. &c.
Keyfer's pills, patent medicines and drugs of all
kinds, as usual.
At the above place may be had, a quantity of
Welt-India and New-England ruin, eight months
eld; also window glass, 8 Uy 10 and 9 bv 11.