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CHARLESTOWN, (^Carolina) Sept. 4.
LATE last night the Lieutenant of marines of the ar
med brig Bellona,' came up to town with intelligence
of His Excellency Count d'Eflaing's fleet, consisting of
25 fail of the line, 20 frigates and 3 courvettes or sloops,
being at anchor on Thursday noon, in 14. fathom water,
offTybee; on board the fleet are 5000 land forces. A frigate
had been dispatched with an express to this town; it is ima
gined the high wind we had on Thursday night has occa
sioned her landing off ; but as the weather is now favour
able, ihe is hourly looked for. Pilots are now going to
the Count. This great and unexpected aid cannot fail
giving the highest fitisfaaion to every real friend of A
merica, and affords the happy profpea of soon feeing the
virtuous few of our filler State of Georgia, reinflated in
their possessions, and a speedy flop being put to the ra
vages of our haughty invaders.
PHILADELPHIA.
In GENERAL ASSEMBLY of Pennsylvania.
Thursday, September 23, 1779.
The Bill intituled “An Aft for veiling the Estates of
" the late Proprietaries of Pennsylvania in this Common
'' wealth," was read the second time, and being debat
ed by paragaphs, was ordered to be tranferibed for a third
reading, and in the mean time printed for public conside
ration.
ExtraEl from the Minuses,
JOHN MORRIS, Jun.
Clerk of the General Assembly.
An ACT for Deling tbe Eflates of the late Proprietaries
of Pennsylvania in this Commonwealth.
TXT HEREAS the charter from King Charles the
VV second to William Penn, under which the late
province, now state of Pennsylvania was firft begun to
be fettled, was granted and held for the great ends of
enlarging the bounds of human society and the cultiva
tion and promotion of religion and learning ; and the
rigiits of property and powers of government thereby
veiled in the said William Penn and his heirs, were
flipulated to be used and enjoyed as well for the bene
fit of the settlers as for his own particular emolument,
agreeably to the terms of the said charter, and of certain
conditions and conCeffions entered into between them.
And whereas the claims heretofore made by the late Pro
prietaries to the whole of the foil contained within the
bounds of the said charter, and in consequence thereof,
the reformation of quit rents and purchase money upon
all the grants of lands within the said limits, cannot
longer consist with the fafety, freedom and happiness
of the good people of this Commonwealth, who at the
expence of much blood and treasure have bravely rescu
ed themselves and their possessions from the tyranny of
Great-Britain, and are now defending themselves from
the inroads of the savages. And whereas the fafety and
happiness of the people is the fundamental law of soci
ety, and it has been the practice and usage of states
moil celebrated for freedom and wisdom to controul
and aboljfh all claims of power and interest inconsistent
with their fafety and welfare; and it being the right
and duty of the representatives of the people to assume
the direction and management of such interest and pro
perty as belongs to the community, or was designed for
their advantage. And whereas jt has become necessary
that speedy and effectual measures should be taken in
the premises on account of the great expences of the
war, and the rapid progress of the neighbouring states
in locating and fettling the lands heretofore uncultivat
ed, by which multitudes of inhabitants are daily emi
grating from this ftdte:
Be it therefore enaaed by the Fefrefentatives of the Free
men of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Af
femb'y met, and by the authority of tbe fame. That all and
ercry the estate, right, title, interest, property, 'claim
and demand of the said heirs and devifees, grantees, or
others, claiming as Proprietaries of Pennsylvania by,
from, or under the said William Penn, whereof they
or any of them flood seized, or to which they or any of
them were entitled, cr which to them were deemed to
belong on the fourth day of July, in the year of our
Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, by
virtue of the charter or letters patent from the aforefaid
King Charles the second to the said William Penn, bear
ing date the fourth day of March, in the year of our
Lord one thousand fix hundred and eighty-one, of, in,
or to the foil and land contained within the limits of
he said late province, now state of Pennsylvania, or
ay part thereof, together with the royalties, franchifes,
.ordihips, and all other the hereditaments and premises
comprized, mentioned, and granted in the fame charter
®r letters patent of the said King Charles the second,
be ring date as aforefaid, (except as herein-after" is ex
repted) shall be, and they are hereby vested in the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, for the use and benefit of
toe inhabitants thereof, freed and difeharged, and ab
solutely acquitted, exempted and indemnified of, from,
and against all estates, uses, trusts, intails, reversions,
remainders, limitations, charges, incumbrances, titles,
claims and demands whatfoeyer, from, by, or under
the said charter or letters patent, or from, by or under
any means, right or title whatsoever derived under the
said charter or letters patent, as fully, freely and en
tirely as if the said charter or letters patent and the
estates, interests, hereditaments and premises therein
comprized, mentioned and granted, were herein tran
feribed and repeated.
And be it further enaaed by the authority aforefaid, That
the said foil and lands, hereditaments and premises and
every part and parcel thereof, (except as herein is ex
cepted) from and after the date hereof, shall be fubje€t
to such disposal, alienation, conveyance, division and
appropriation as to this or any future legislature of
the said Commonwealth shall from time to time seem
meet and expedient, in pursuance of such law or laws
as shall for that purpose hereafter be made and pro
vided.
Provided always, and be it enaaed by the authority a
forefaid, That all and every the rights, titles, estates,
claims, and demands, which were granted by or derived
from the said late Proprietaries, their officers or others
by them duly commissioned, authorifed and appointed,
or to which any person or persons were or are entitled,
either in law or equity, by virtue of any patent, war
^n t survey or location of, in, or to any part or por
tion of the lands comprized and contained within the
limits of this State, at any time or times before the said
fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand
seven hundred and seventy-six, shall be, and they are
hereby confirmed, ratified and established forever, ac
cording to such estate or estates, and under such li
mitations and uses as inland by the several and respec
tive grants and conveyances thereof are directed and
appointed.
Provided also, and be it enabled by the autherr.y
aforefaid. That all and every the private and particu
lar estates, lands and hereditaments of the said Proprie
taries and everv of them, confiding of the located lands
called and known by the name of the Proprietaries
tenths or manors, and such located lands, whereof they
or any of them re now possessed, or to which they are
entitled by devise, purchase or descent in their private
right and capacity,.be also confirmed, ratified and esta
blished forever, according to filch estate or estates there
in, and under such limitations, uses and trusts, as in
and by the several and refpe^ive reservations, grants
and conveyances thereof are directed and appointed.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That
all and every the quit rents which at any time or times
heretofore have been reserved in and by any warrant,
patent or other conveyance of lands, or other heredita
ments, from, by or under the aforefaid Proprietaries,
(heir officers or others by them commissioned and Ap
pointed, and all and every the dues and arrearages of
'quit rents, or which at any time or times heretofore have
been deemed or taken to be due and in arrear, shall from
henceforth cease and determine, and the fame lands and
other hereditaments shall be held free and difeharged
therefrom, and from the payment thereof forever.
And be it further enaHed by the authority afo-efaid, That
all" and every law or laws, aft or a&s of Assembly here
tofore made and enabled by the legislatures of the pro
vince of Pennsylvania, or such parts and clauses there
of, by which any right, title or claim, power or au
thority is or are given or granted, ratified or establish
ed in the said Proprietaries or any of them, their or any
of their officers or feryants, of, in or to any of thees
tates, lands or other hereditaments, herein and hereby
vested and confirmed or meant to be hereby vested and
confirmed in this Commonwealth, for the use and bene
fit of the inhabitants thereof, or of, in or to the quit
rents and arrearages thereof, or of, in or to any porti
on thereof, herein and hereby released, difeharged and
abolished, or meant and intended so to be, be and they
are hereby annulled, revoked and repealed.
And whereas the freemen of this Commonwealth be
ing desirous to manifeft not only a regard to their own
fafety and happiness, but their liberality also, and re--
membrance of the enterprizing spirit which distinguish
ed the founder of Pennsylvania, and mindful of the ex,
peflations and dependence of his defeendints on the Pro
priety thereof, and also that sundry marriage settle
ments and testamentary dispositions have been made
thereupon, which will be wholly defeatedand the par
ties exposed to great difappointm&nt and loss if no
Provision be made therein :
An ACT to enable William Clingan, Esq; Peter Hart
fitan, John Kinkead, Thomas Heflop, and William Brooks,
Gentlemen, to build a new Court- House and Prison in tbe
count, of Chester, and fell tbe old Court-House and Pri
son in the borough of Chester.
IVHEREAS it has been represented to this House,
'V that the holding of Courts of General Quarter Ses
sions of the Peace, Common Pleas, Nifi Prius^ Oyer and
Terminer and General Goal Delivery, for the county of
Chester in the borough of Chester, is very inconvenient
and burthenfome to a great part of the inhabitants of the
said county, as the situation of said borough is at an ex
treme corner of said county, and that the township of East-
Caln is near the center of the said county, and if a Court-
House and Prison were ereded in said township, it would
be very commodious, and much for the advantage of the
inhabitants in general;
Be it therefore enabled, and it is hereby enaaed, b, tbe Re
presentatives of tbe Freemen of tbe Commonwealth of Penn
sylvania, in General Assembly met, and by tbe authority of
tbe fame, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the
said William Clingan, Esq; Peter Hartman, John Kin
kead, Thomas Heflop and William Brooks, Gentlemen
or any three of them, to purchase and take assurance to
them and their heirs, of a piece of land, fittate in some
convenient place in the said township ot Eaft-Caln, in trust
and for the use of the said county j and thereon to build
Be it therefore evaded by tbe autberity-aforefaid, That
the sum of one hundred and thirty thousand pounds
sterling, money of Great-Britain, be paid out of the
Treasury of this Sate to the devifees and legatees of
Thomas Penn and Richard Penh, late Proprietaries of
Pennsylvania respectively, and to the widow and relief
of the said Tnomas Penn, in such proportions as they
are refpedively intitled to by virtue of any will, te
flament, devise, legacy or marriage settlement, that is
to fay, the said legacies and jointures to be wholly paid
and difeharged and the residue thereof to be divided, li
mired and fettled in all refpeds as he said Propriety
hath been granted, devised, fettle! and limited.
Provided always, That no part of the said sum of one
hundred and thirty thousand pounds ferling, shall be
paid within less than one year after the termination of
the prefect war with Great-Britain, and that no more
than twenty thousand pounds sterling nor less than fif
teen thousand pounds sterling thereof shall be paid or
payable in any one year until the whole sum be fully
paid and difeharged And that the firft annual pay
ment thereof be made at the expiration of one year af
ter the termination of the said war.
In GENERAL ASSEMBLY of Pennsylvania.
Saturday, September 25, 1779.
The Bill, intitled, " An Aft to enable William C'lingan,
" Esq ; Peter Hartman, John Kinkead, Thomas Hellop,
" and William Brooks, Gentlemen, to build a new Court
" House and Prison in the county of Chester, and fell the
" o'd Court- House and Prison in the borough of Chef
" ter;" was read a second time, and being debated by
paragraphs, was ordered to be tranferibed for a third read
ing, and in the mean time printed for public consideration.
Extrafl from the Minutes,
JOHN MORRIS, Junior,
Clerk of the General Assembly.
'H E fubferibers have for file, at their
, itore in Fro.t street, between Market and Arch
ftreets, Philadelphia, the following Articles, viz.—
Coffin Furniture of different forts, Childrens B <ks at
the lowed and most reasonable rates ; Almanacks en #
graved on copper-plate, for the ye^r 1780, co^t-ining a
variety o' embiern atical figures, and ^n elegant likmcfs
of H : s Excellency General Wa(h ngton; also Piper
Hangings, &c. The fubferibers continue to carry on
the Engraving and Copper-pla e Printing business; any
commands in that r.y will be punctually executed by
NORMAN and BEDWELL.
Mr. John Walters, of Chelnuc street, is hereby
requeftfd to be more careful in future how lie proceeds
in thole measures vfhich he teems to h^ve lately adopted
for afpe fiog the characters of the fubferibers. If any
thing is in dispute between him and them; let it be re
ferred to the d^ifion of men as was mentioned in the
agreement, not by such low, infamous practices to abuse
those whom he knows could (by giving the Public a very
few late anecdotes) fink him below the tftecm of every
individual in the city. This is wrote without passion,
as a caution : If prompted by any more attacks in future,
we shall coiled our full force to defend our characters,
and at the fame time bring fufficient testimony of what
we shall advance. Regard to his connections have at
present prevented us from being more explicit, but no
consideration hereafter will be a fufficient inducement,
should he choose to proceed. N. and B.
An elegant SIGN to be fold as above.
THIRTY DDLL aYTITew^
CTRAYED (or rather supposed to be (tolen) out
f of the pasture of the fubferiber, at the Sorrel Horse
in Chester county, on the night of the 7th 0 September
instant, a (mail bay PONE Y, lately shod Irefore, with
several white spots on his belly, and lately trimmed.
Whoever takes up said horse, and the thief so that he
may be brought to justice, shall have the above reward,
or Twenty Dollars for the horse only, paid by
JACOB WAGGONER.
SIXTY DOLLARS REWARD.
CTRAYED or STOLEN from the fubferiber,
u at the Falls in Bucks county, in the night of the 12th
inst. (September) a large roan HORSE, (but at this
season of the year is almost a bay) sixteen years old, a
natural pacer, shod before, and is blind with one eye.
Whoever takes up and secures said horse, and the thief
if stolen, so that he may be brought to justice, shall re
ceive the above reward, or Thirty Dollars for the horse
only, and reasonable charges, paid by
DANIEL trimble.
CA ME to the plantation of the fubferiber,
in Lower Dublin township, in the night of the
Sth of Ninth month, a dark bay HORSE COLT,
supposed to be two years old past, a natural trotter, has
neither brand nor ear mark. The owner is desired to
come, prove property, pay charges and take him away.
PETER JOHNSON.
WCODDROP and JOSEPH SIMS,
HAVE opened a Store in Watcr-fteet below the
Bridge, formerly occupied by their late father Mr.
Joseph Sirns, deceased, where they p'opoft to receive
and fed on commission, all kinds of WET and DRY
GOODS. They hope by their affidurty and care to
give fatisfa&ion to thole who will please to employ them.
They have now for file ^t Did Store, coarse arid find
cambricks, yarn and worsted Dockings, a few groce of
feirt buttons and a very handsome plate warmer, just
imported. Excellent Greer . Tea may be had wholesale
and retail at said Store.
Chester, September 24, 1779.
TO BE RE Nf E D,
And may be entered on immediat ly,
„R H A T convenient and well accustomed P ÜBLI C
g INN or TAVERN, fituste in the borough of
Chester, in the county of Chester, now in the pdfffion
of the fubferiber, with comply stables and other out
houses; the whole in good repair. For terms apply to
MARY WITHY.
and ereft, or c^ufe to be built find ereded, a Court House
and Prison, fufficient to accommodate the public service
of the said county, and for the ease and convenience of
the inhabitants. #
And be it enaaed by the authority aforefaid. That when
the said Court-House shall be erected as aforefaid, that
from thenceforth the several Courts of General Quarter
Sessions, Common Pleas, Nifi Prius, Oyer and Terminer
and General Goal Delivery, for the said county, shall be
holden and kept at the said Court-House, when the fame
is built and ereded in tie township of Eaft-Caln afore
faid<
And be it enabled by tbe authority aforefaid, That it shall
and may be lawful that the said William Clingan, Esq;
Peter Hartman, John Kinkead, Thomas Heflop and Wil
liam Brocks, Gentlemen, or any three of them, shall have
full power to expose to ^ le, by public vendue or other
wise, to tls higher bidder, the old Court House, Prison
and Work-House, with all aRd lingular the appurtenances
and hereditaments thereunto belonging, lituate in the bo
rough of Chester aforefaid, and to give assurances
to the heirs and assigns of the purchaser or purcbafers for
ever; and the monies therefrom arising, shall be appropri
ated towards paying for the lands to be purchased, and tbe
new Court House and Prison to be built, in the said town
ship of East Caln.
And be it further enabled by tbe authority aforefaid, That
for the defraying the remainder of the expences and charge
of purchafing' the land, building and ere&ing the said
Court-House and Prison, it shall and may be lawful to
and for the Commissioners and Assessors of the said coun
ty, or a majority of them, who are hereby forthwith re
quired to assess and levy so much money as the said
Trustees, or any three of them, shall judge necessary for
paying the remainder aforefaid, of purchasing the land,
and finishing the said Court House and Prison,