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aad refoeft^bFe repr/fenration, amounting to onehundred
and eight members, from the different counties, and as
the Affembty hath broken up and delerted its trust, the
, inhabitants have now no other body than the C< nference
tea look at or apply to for conducing and Superintending
out military operations', and restoring order and confi
dence throughout the province, and this opportunity
ought not to be puffed over. It Signifies but li tie what
our pmicefar fentLuents ref pelting modes and forms
may be, Sec&ufe it is our Safety and not our opinions
that is moil at &ke.
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HA RTF O R D, Jan' 17.
h„Hti General ASemory of this colony, in their present
& ftffi n, have re^ aled the att palled in May lart for
immediately intiding or d aft:ng a part of the militia to
be held as minute-men. and have (in consequence of a
request team the Hao, Continental Congress) voted eight
regiments of iioopa to he immediately raised for the d+-
fence of this a^t the o' her colonies, and have appointed
the &m. David Waterbury, and James Wadlwortb,
E qrs. Brigadiers General. The other officers are not
je. fetded.
3, a letter from 3 gentleman at Albany we are in
formed that the lion. General Thomas died of the small
pox at Chamblee, about a fortnight Since.
Since ow lalt advice has been' received in town from
Albany, that a large number of the Mohawk tribe of
Indiana, headed by Sir John Johnson, had come down
tbe Mohawk river in a huttile manner, and that General
Schuyler had marched with a body of troops to meet
them. We have not yet received any farther particulars.
N E W-V O R K, June 20.
ThefoloTCing authentic account is communicated by an officer
#, the detachment it principally concerns
On advice that a reinforcement was nectfLry at the
Cedars, a finali fort 45 miles S. W> from Montreal,
where a party of 4.00 men, under the command of Ma
ji r Butterfield, were post.-d; on the 1 6th of May, 140
men under the command of M?jor Henry Sher^urnr,
were detached from Montreal. He met with great diffi
culties at the like, which after creffing, he was obliged
to repafs and ends again, so that it was the 20th before
he could proceed horn thence with 100 men, including
himfelf, the rest being left for guards and other neceffa y
fer/ices. Abaut 11 or 12 o'clock they set out for the
Cedars, dirtant 9 miles, and having marched about 5,
they were attacked by a large body of Savages and Cana
dians, who under rover of a wood fired upon them ; our
people though entirely ex posed, without (belter, main
tained an obrtina;e engagement for one hour and forty
minutes; when the Savages having surrounded, ruShed
upon and disarmed them ; then a feene of Savage barba
rity ensued, and many of our people were facrificed to
their fury, butchered with tomahawks and other instru
ments of murder. The enemy confined of about 100
Canadians and 400 Savages, who immediately Gripped
the prisoners almott nuked, and drove them to the tort,
whe-e they were delivered to Capt. Folt r, of the Sth
regiment, who had with him about 4.0 regulars, and
then commanded the fort, which had been the day be
fore Surrendered to him, with little if any refinance, by
Mjor Butterfield, an event which was neither known,
nor in the least fufpe&ed, by Major Sherburne.
Capt. Foster and the regulars, kept within the lines,
and were not of the party who surrounded and so bai ba
loufly used our people; but after they were brought to
the fort, they were repeatedly flipped of the Small re
mainder of their cloaths, till many of them had not Suf
ficient to hide their nakedness. Our lots in the whole
2&ion was about 28, viz. killed and wounded in the
a&ion and killed afterwards in cold blood, about 20 ;
carried off by the Savages, 7or 8. Of the enemy were
killed 23, whole deaths were ascertained, and among
them a chief warrior of the Seneca tribe, on whose ac
count our prisoners were probably used with the more
cruelty, intuit and abuse. Major Sherburne and the
other officers were lent to an Indian town caled Conna
fadoga, at the lake of the two Mountains; the private
men to a d. ,folate ill nd in the middle of the lake, where
thev were very fcantiiy Supplied with provision, barely
fufficient to keep them from Starving, and though the
weather was cold, without any cloaths, affid without any
covering butthe canopy of heaven, for eight days, when
they were released on a cartel agreed to between General
Arnold and Capt. Foster, viz. That there Should lie an
equal exchange of prisoners, within two months, allow
ing for casualties, and for the performance, on our part
were pledged the odies of four Captains, who were left
as hoftazes, viz. Capt Sullivan, (orother to the General)
Capt. Bids, 0/ Major Sherburne's party, Capts. Stephens
and Green, o' M jor Buttei field's party.
General Arnold, with a party of about 8 or 900 men,
arrived the 26& aid too' with about 500, he appeared
upon the lake, hppily for the prisoners he did not erofs
it. Ifhe had, it appeared from every circumstance, that
they would have been all murdered, dispositions having
been made for that purpose; nor was it certain, consider
ing the difficulty of access to the enemy, that he could
have obtained any considerable advantage over them, or
if he had, that hecouid poffioly have cut off their retreat.
Within these few days Several companies of Colonels
shee a.d Magaw's battalions cf Continental troops,
raised in Pennsylvania, arrived here. The remainder
are on their vay.
Lately arrived here from Philadelphia, Col. Joseph
Reed, who is appointed Adjutant General, and Stephen
Moylan, Elq; Qi ttr-M liter General to the Continen
tal army.
Yetterdav, under an escort commanded by Capt. Wil
liam Bradford, arrived here from Philadelphia, 20,000
Spanish dollars, designed for Canada.
PHILADELPHIA, June 24.
We hear, by a letter from New-Yc/k, that intelligence
was received there of the 19th inst. of the armed sloop
Schuyler, having taken, about fifty miles from that city,
on the fuuth fide of Long-Kland, a ship and Sloop bound
to Sandy Haok. The (hip from Glasgow with a compa
ny of the forty-Second regiment had been taken by one
of Commodore Hopkins's fleet, who took the Soldiers out
and ordered her to Rhode-Bland ; after which she was
retaken bythe Cerberus, and put under convoy of the
sloop. As Captain Pond informs, there were five
commiffi ned officers, two ladies, and four privates on
hoard.
A letter from Salem, in New-England, fays, “ By a
number of ship matters who have very lately made their
escape from Halifax, we are informed, that twenty traxf
purts with troops and three frigates are gone into the
Bay of Fundy to fortify a pass there, and prevent the
^°ff"' n "" '°"' f r ° m attacking their main body at
Extract of a letter from Bofion, June 13.
" Seven or eight transports have arrived bd w. This
right we Shall take several heights, which will oblige
them either to give us battle or'elfe go off if they can.
We are refotutely determined they (hall not remain
where they no n are 48 hours longer."
A C ONGRES S, June 18, 1776.
Refolded, That no min in th f- colonies charged with
being a TORY OR UNFRIENDLY TO THE CAUSE
Of AMERICAN LIBERTY, be injured in his perlon
or property, or in any manner whatever disturbed, un
less the proceeding against him be founded on an older
of this Congress, or the Assembly, Convention, Council
or Committee of Safety of the colony, or Committee of
Infpedfion of the diftr^f wherein he refries : Piovicho,
that this Resolution (hall not present the apprehending
any perlon found in the commifEon of feme ;& delbuc
tive of Ameri an Liberty, or juitly fuf,e^ed of a design
to commit such a&, and intending to escape, and bring
ing such perlon before proper authority, for examination
and trial. Extract from the Minutes,
CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.
In COMMITTEE of SAFETY,
Philadelphia, June zif, 1776.
Refo/ved, That the rep rt or the Committee of Assem
bly, Appointed ,0 enquire into the c>ndu& of this Com
mittee, on the 14th init. be published in the different
news-papers of tins city.°
Extraflfrom the Minuses,
WILLIAM GOVETT, Secretary
EXTRACTS Jrom the VOTES of Assembly.
FRIDA Y, June 14, 1776. A. M.
I he report of the Committee appointed to enquire into
the conduct of the Committee of Safety, &c. being
again read was approved of, and is as to lows, viz.
YOUR Committee beg leave to report, s hat they
have examined into the conduct of the Corrmit
tee of Safety, refpe&ing the whole of their proceedings,
and particularly the supplies of powder and ammunition
sent on board the gallies, before and at the time of their
engagements with the Roebuck and Liverpool men of
ivir; and having heard then allegations end proofs, are
of opinion, that it appears, from inconteftible evi enc^,
that, before the firit engagement, the gallies were tup
plied with thirty-three rounds of powder each, at tie
pioportion of one third weight of powder to the ball ;
that, during the said firft engagement, they received in
cartridges and two kegs of loose powder, the quantity of
eight rounds more beyond their firft flock, and there
was then ready to be delivered, and as supposed deliver
ed to them, immediately after the firft engagement, while
the Roebuck lay aground, the quantity of eleveirrounds
each, besides three hundred weight sent from Wilming
ton, and what remained unexpended in the engagement.
That on the day of the second engagement, each gal
ley had hxty-feven rounds of powder, including the sup
plies sent them, in addition to what remained on hand,
after the firft Say's engagement. Your Committee are
farther of opinion, that, during both the engagements,
the gallies were /efficiently supplied with all other kinds
of necessary ammunition ; that their not having taken
the Roebuck, was not owing to any deficiency in the
above articles, and that thecondu& of the Committee
of Safety, on that cccafion, evidenced the greatelt zeal
and attention to the public service.
Thomas Potts, Jonathan Roberts, William Rod
man, Gerardus Wynkoop, John Foulke, Benja
min Chapman, David Twining, Thomas Jenks,
Jun. Isaac Pearlon, Charles Humphreys Joseph
Pennock, Bartram Galbreath, James Ewing, "Sa
muel Edie, James Rankin, Jonathan Hoge, John
Lefher, James Alien, Jacob Orndt, James Potter.
L/S'7 of /be Members of the Provincial Conference of
C<) MMI rI ES, now fitting at Carpenters-ball, in
tbts city.
Philadelphia city and liberties. Benjamin Eranklin, Tho
mas M'Kean, Sharp Delany, John Cox, John Ba ard,
Jonathan B.Smith, George Schiffer, Joseph Dean, Frn
cis Gurney, Christopher LwQig, Chriltopher Marshall,
Jaco a Barge, James Millegan, Benjamin Rush, Samuel
C. Morris, Joseph Moulder, Joseph Viewer; Benjamin
Loxley, Jacob Schriner, William Coates, Timothy Mat
lack, Samuel Brufier, William Robinfen, George Good
will, William Lomanty
Philadelphia county^, William Hamilton, Henry Hill,
Robert Lewis, jun^tyaoch Edwards, Jfeph Mather,
James Potts, Matthew Brooks, Robert Loller, Edward
Bartholomew, Frederick Antis, Jehn Bull.
Bucks county. John Kidd, Henry Wynkoop, Samuel
Wallace, Benjamin Sigle, Joseph Hart.
Cbefler. Richard Thomas, William Evans, Thomas
Hockley, Caleb Davis, Ei(ha Price, Samuel Fairlamb,
Wm. Montgomery, Hugh Lloyd, Richard Reiley, Evan
Evans, Lewis Grono, Sketchly Morton, Thomas Levis.
Lancafer county. Wm. Atlee, Ludwig Lav man, Bar
tram Galbraith, Alexander Lowrey, Andrew Graaff, Wm.
Brown, John Smily, Jernes Cunningham, David Jenkins.
fork-county James Smith, Robert M'Pherfon, Ricbaid
M'Alletter, David Kennedy, William Rankin, Henry
Slagel, James Egar, John Kay, Joseph Read.
Cumberland county. James M'Lane, John Allison,
John M'Clay, William Elliott, William Clark, John
Colhoon, John Creigh, Hugh M'Cormick, John Harris,
Hugh Alexander.
Berks. Jacob Morgan, Henry Haller, Mark Bird,
Bodo Otto, Benjamin Spiker, Daniel Hunter, Valentine
Eakerd, Nicholas Lutz, Joseph Header, Charles Shoe
maker.
No tbampton. Robert Levers, John Witzel, Nicholas
Depui, Ncigal Gray, David Delhlar, Benjamin Deptri.
Bedford. David Espy, John Piper, Samuel D vidfon.
Northumberland. William Cooke, Alexander Hunter,
John Heitzel, Robert Martin, Matthew Brown.
Wefimorelund. Edward Cook, James Perry.
Last Saturday the Conference of Committees fixed the
election cf the Provincial Convention to be on the eighth
of July next—And we hear the utmost unanimit, prevails.
We hear that the intended Provincial Convention will
meet the fifteenth of next month, in this city.
Saturday fe'ennight died, at his feat near Princeton,
New-Jersey, after a painful illness, WILLI A M
0 W AR D, Enquire, formerly a Captain in the Bri
tish Army. He served many years, in the early part of
l is life, in the fame company with the late General
Mon tgomery, and was cne cf his mod intimate friends
—I ke him be l@ved the country in which he resided;
was an excellent and univerfelly eflet med officer while in
the service, and, what was much more important to him
felt, he lived and died a truly benevolent and boneji man.
To the Honourable the COMMITTEE of S AFETY
of the province of Peunfyivania.
The REMONSTRANCE or rhe CAPTAINS
of the Row-Gallies belonging to this province,
Rejpeflfull, fawetb,
TH AT your Remonftrapts, understanding that this
Board is about to appoint Capt. Samuel Davidfen
to the Com modorefliip or chief command of the fleet icr
the defence of our river and province, conceive that said
appointment would be contrary to every rule of war,
and the cuttom sf all nations, because he is one of the
youngest Captains in the service, and cannot be put cv<r
the heads cf senior commanders on any ether principle
than as an insult offered to them, and with a design to
render the service disgusting and disagreeable, ef,ccially
as he has borne little or no part in training up the ser
vice, and bringing it to a perfection, which has convinced
the,pub!ic of its great utility in defending the province
against the attacks of the enemy, and as he had net the
lei^ (hare in the late engagements with the enemy 's Ihips
of war.'
1 hey do therefore warmly remonstrate against any filch
appointment, and declare to this Board that they will
not submit to it; nor will they obey any commander so
irregularly set over them. And left this Board fhculd
imagine that your Remonstrants intend to resign their
'commiffions, in case such an appointment should xake
place, they would inform this Board, that as the fafety
of their country appears to require it, they mean to con
tinue in the service, and to appeal to the justice cf their
country, and the, have not the kafi doubt of obtaining am
ple redress from that public which it has ever been their
gresteft Rlory to ferie with fidelity. They do further je
monftiate agamt any appointment of marine efficers to
command the Kow-Gallies now on the stocks, feeing
they are built upon a larger and better conftruftion, as
tils Board must know that it is equally contrary to cus
tom and the laws of war, and tending to fix a stigma up
on the elder commanders without (hewing reason therefor
and thereby holding up to the public fu'picions of their
veaht of abilities. Your Remonftiants conceive that the
line of appointment is plain and easy, and can never be
deviated frern without manifeft injury to the characters
of those over whose heads the appointment is made.
They do therefore obj & to all such appointments, and
as tiiey with not to be troublesome to this Board, they
conclude with requesting, that, whatever fate their Re
monstrance may meet with, this Board would be kind
enough forthwith to inform them of what they mean to
do in the matter, that your Remonstrants may have it
in them power to pursue that line of conduct, which Shall
enable them to obtain, from their country, that jultice
which may be denied them by this Board.
Philadelphia, June 18th, 1776 —Signed for and by or
der of the whole, H. DOUGHERTY, JOH N
RICE, JOHN HAMILTON.
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Philadelphia, June
THE Creditors of Bryan Roney are
l hereby notified that he is lately deceased, and it
appearing doubtful whether there will he <#?&s fuffirier t
to fatisfy the demands against the estate, they are desired
either to meet and divide the effe&s, ®r Tome one is re
quested to take out adininiftration, the Widow not chu
ting to in ermeddle farther than to take care of the effcfts
until they are disposed of by proper authority
t BUDGET RONEY.
7^17, 1776.
No W in the gaol of Newcastle, the fol
lowing runaway Servants, viz JOHN JACOB
PLOWMAN, who confeffes himfelf to be an indented
servant to a certain James Porter, but cannot tell where
bis matter li.es, as he talks the German diale&. JOHN
LANGLEY, about nineteen years of age, who fays he
blongs to Nathan Shephard, of Cumberland County-
Weft Jersey. Their matters are requeued to come arid
take them away in three weeks from the date hereof
otherwise they will be difeharged according to law.'
I THOMAS CLAR K, Gaoler.
WANTS EM P I=cTyT
^ MIDDLE aged man, peife&ly well acquainted
with anthmetic and - merchants accompts, having
done business in principal houses both in Europe and the
Weft-Indies, in the latter for many years, which trade
he is thoroughly acquainted with : He would be glad to
do bufmefs on reasonable terms for any merchantin this
city, or keep a School in any healthy part of the country,
as he flatters himfelf he is well qualified for either. Anv
that this may suit, are requested to leave a line, directed
to A. B. at the Printer s, and they Shall be waited chi
immediately.।
F^RTY SHILLINGS ^AR^.
RAN AWAY last night from the fubferiber, liv
ing near Lancaster, an Iriffi Servant lad, named
MICHAEL HACKET, near eighteen years ofage,
about five feet five inches high, well set, brown hair,
almost bald on one fide of the crown; had on and took
with him, a felt hat bound with worsted binding, a brown
coat, light coloured jacket, two new Shirts, and two pair
of trowiers, this country made linen, Shoes with buckles
a wallet with bread and cheese, what other things uncer
tain; he cannot read but can talk Irish, and has been
near four years in this province. Any person Securing
laid servant in any gaol, so that his master may cet him
again, Shall have, if ten miles from home, Twenty
Shillings, and if twenty miles, the above Rewaiu
with reasonable charges, paid by
Junezo, 1776. J JAMES WEBB.