Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-09-10 00:00:00, page 4

A„ O RDIN ANCE for th Appoints ^Jus
tices of the Peace for the State of Pennsyl
vania.
H EREA S it isn^ffary that proper Officers
of Justice be appointed, under the authority of
the people only, and derivingno power whatever from the
lite confftution, Be it therefore Ordained and Dec ared,
end i is hereb; Ord tine.! anl Declared b the Re,refentar
lives of the Freemen of the State ofPennf;k\iHia,in General
i Convention met, That David Rittenhouse, J>nathan
h. bmith, Owen Bddle, Juries Cannon, Timothy
Matlack, Samuel Morris, the elder, Samuel Howell,
Frederick Kuhl, Samuel Morris, the younger, Thomas
Wharton, the younger, Henry Keppele, the younger,
1 >feph Biewer, Samuel Mifflin, George Gray, J Tn
)^l, Henry Wynkoop, Benjamin Bartholomew, John
Hubley, Michael Swoop, William Lyon, Daniel Han
tr, Peter Rhoads, David L'py, John Weitzel, and
J >hAMoore, E quires, Members of the Council of
Safety, are hereby midc, constituted pnd appointed
J iftices ofthe Peace for this State.
And that Benjamin Franklin, John Dickinson,
(George Bryan, Jtmes 1 oung, James Biddle, John
1 forris the y moger, Joseph Parker, John Bayard,
FharpDclany.J hoCadwalader,Jofeph Copperthwaite,
Christopher Mai (It .JI toe elde r , Francis Gurney,Robert
Knox, Matthew Carkfon, William Coats, William
Bill, Fm!ip Boehm, Francis Casper HaLnclever,
Thomas Cuthbert the elder, Moses Bartram, Jacob
Shfiner, Joseph Moulder, Jonathan Paschal, Benja
min Pa'chal, B ?nj tmin Hatbefon, Jacob Bright, Henry
Hill,Samuel Ash nead, Frederick Attis, Samuel Erwim,
Alexander Edwards, Seth Q^ee, Samuel Potts, Row
land Evans, Charles Benfel, and Peter Evans, of the
City and County of Philadelphia, Esquires, are hereby
made, constituted and appointed Justices of the Peace
' for the City and Connty of Philadelphia.
And that Jafeoh Hr.rt, Richard Walker, Joseph
Kirkbride, John Wilkinson, J ahn Kidd,Robert Patter
lon, John Clark, pones Benezet, Samuel Smith, James
M'Mullan, Theophilus Foulke, Joshua Anderson,
George Wick irt,and Thomas Long, of the County of
Bucks, Esquires, are hereby made, constituted and ap
pointed Justices of the Peace for the County of
Bucks.
And that Alexander Jihnfton, William Clingen,
Evan Evans, Richaid Baker, John Sellars, Nicholas
Fairlamb, John Jones, J>hn Wilson, William Htflet,
Braei Whalin, William Deney, Samuel Bond, and
Robert Mendenhall, of the County of Chester,
Elquires, are hereby made, conftitated and appointed
Justices of the Peace for the County of Chester.
And that Emanuel Carpenter, Edward Shippen,
Wiliam Henry, Micheal Hubley, William Laufman,
Ludwig Lauman, James Bird, James Work, Timothy
Green, J>hn Thome, Moles Irwin, John Ferree,
Zaccheus Davis, David Jenkins, John Whitehill,
James Clemson, William Brown, Jamas Murray,
Robert Thompson, Robert Barber, Thomas White
fide, Micheal Bright, and Christopher Wegman, of
the County of Lancaster, Esquires, are hereby made,
constituted and appointed Justices of the Peace for the
County of Lancaster.
And that Robert M'Pherfon, Martin Eichelberger,
Samuel Edie, David M'Conaughy, Richard M'Callif-
ter, Henry Slagle, Matthew Dill, William Rankin,
William Lees, William Baily, William Scott, Wil
liam Smith, William M'CaKey, Josias Scott, Thomas
Latta, William M'Clean, and John Mickle the
younger, of the County of York, Esquires, are hereby
'made, constituted and appointed Justices of the Peace
for the County of York.
And that John Armftroag, John Byers, John Rey
nolds, Jonathan Hoge, Robert Miller, George Robifon,
John Holmes, James Oliver, John Agoew, John Alison,
James Maxwell, Samuel Lyon, William Brown, James
Dunlap, John M'Clay, William Elliot, Matthew
Henderfoh, and Frederick Watt, of the County of
Cumberland, Esquires, are hereby made, constituted
and appointed Justices of the Peace fur the County of
Cumberland.
And that James Read, Peter Spyker, Jacob Morgan,
George Douglass, Mark Bird, Henry Christ, Balzar
Gear, J>hn Patton. Thomas Dundas, Christopher
Witman, Richard Tea, and Bastian Levan, of the
County of Berks, Esquires, are hereby made, consti
tuted and appointed Justices of the Peace for the
County of Berks.
And that Robert Trail, Jacob Moory, Christopher
Wagoner, Henry Kooken, John Weitzell, Peter
Traxler, senior, Nicholas Dupui, Evan Morgan,
Robert Forgeman, and Henry Barnet, of the County
of Northampton, Esquires, are hereby made, confti
tited and appointed Justices of the Peace for the
County of Northampton.
And that Bernard Dougherty, William Pro&or,
George Wood, Abraham Cable, Thomas Smith, Tho
mas Coulter, Heriry Lloyd, John Piper, Samuel
Davidson, William Latta, John Wilkins, William Tod,
Benjamin Elliot, William Parker, Evan Shelby, David
Jones, Henry Rhoads, William Jnhnfton, William
M'Leavy, Gideon Ritchey, John Mellott, Edward
Coombe Hugh Davis, Matthew Patton, Robert Ramsey,
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And be it further ordained and declared, That the
said Justices, and every of them, shall have full power
and authority to take acknowledgments of deeds, and
cognizance of criminal offences, and breaches of the
peace; and in cases of petty larceny, under five Kil
lings. to proceed to punilhment.
And be it further ordained and declared, That the
laws which were in use before the dissolution of the
late government shall be the rule of their proceedings,
so far as the fame may not be inconsistent with the oath
or affirmation herein after directed to be taken and sub
scribed; and that the stile of their precepts shall be in
the name of the State of Pennlylvania.
And be it further ordained and declared, That the
said Justices, and every of them, before they refpec
tiveiy enter upon their office, do take and subscribe
the following oath or affirmation :
/ do swear or affirm, that Ido not bold myfclf bound
to bear allegiance to George the Third, King of Great-
Britain, and that 1 will feadily and firmly, at all times,
promote the mos effectual meant, according to my fill and
knowledge, to oppof the tyrannical proceedings of the King
and Parliament of Great Britain, against the United
American States, and to fopport a Government in this
State on the Authority of the People only ; and that as a
fifties cf the Peace, 1 will do every thing in that office
to the best of my knowledge and abilities, confident with
the freedom and Independence of this State.
And be it further ordained and declared, That the
Members of the Council of Safety abov' named do
take and subscribe the said oath or affirmation before
their President for the time being, and that the Justices
appointed for the City and County of Philadelphia
do take and subscribe the fame oath or affirmation be
fore Benjamin Franklin, John Dickinson, Samuel Mor
ris, Samuel Afhmead and Alexander Edwards, Es
quires, or one of them.
And that the Justices appointed for the County
of Bucks do take and subscribe the said oath or affirm
ation before Joseph Hart, Joseph Kirkbride, and John
Kidd, Esquires, or one of them.
And that the Justices appointed for the County of
Chester do take and subscribe the said oath or affirm
ation before Richard Baker and John Sellers, Esquires,
or one of them.
And that the Justices appointed for the County of
Lancaster do take and subscribe the said oath or af
firmation before William Henry, John Hubley, John
Thome and Moses Erwin, Esquires, or one of them.
And that the Justices appointed for the County of
York do take and subscribe the said oath or affirma
tion before Martin Eichelberger, Samuel Edie and
M illiam Smith, Esquires, or one of them.
And that the Justices appointed for the County of
Cumberland do take and subscribe the said oath or af
firmation before Jonathan Hoge, John Holmes, John
Alison and Samuel Lyon, Esquires, or one of them.
And that the Justices appointed for the County of
Berks do take and subscribe the said oath or affirma
tion before James Reed, Peter Spyker and Jacob
Morgan, Esquires, er one of them.
And that the Justices appointed for the County of
Northampton do take and subscribe the said oath or
affirmation before Robert Trail and Henry Kooken,
Esquires, or one of them.
And that the Justices appointed for the County of
Bedford do take and subscribe the said oath or affirm
ation before George Wood and David Espy, Esquires,
or one of them.
And that the Justices appointed for the County of
Northumberland do take and subscribe the said oath
or affirmation before Samuel Hunter and James Potter,
Esquires, or one of them.
And that the Justices appointed for the County of
Weftmoreland do take and subscribe the said oath or
affirmation before Robert Hanna and Alexander
M'Lean, Esquires, or one of them.
And be it further ordained and declared, That the
Justices of the refpe&ive counties shall have full power
and authority, from time to time, when they shall
think it necessary, to appoint goalers to take care of
Benjamin Bird, John Shaver, Samuel Thompson,
William Phillips, William Holliday the younger,
Charles Cessna, John Mitchell, and Richard Brown,
of the County of Bedford, Esquires, are hereby made,
constituted and appointed Justices of the Peace for the
County of Bedford.
And that Samuel Hunter. James Potter, William
M'Clay, Robert Moodie, Jolin Lowden, Benjamin
Weifer, John Fleming, Henry Antis, and John Simp
son, of ihecounty of Northumberland, Esquires, are
hereby made, constituted and appointed Justices cf the
Peace for the county of Northumberland.
And that Robert Hanna, William Lockray, Alex
ander M'Lean, Providence Mounts, Andrew M'Far
lin, James Pollock, James Caval, Samuel Sloane,
Thomas Scott, Michael Hufnagle, James Wilson, Da
vid Allen, Benjamin Davis, Philip Rogers, Joseph
Caldwell, James Wilkins, William Elliott, George
Larimore and Samuel Burns, of the County of Weft
moreland, Esquires, are hereby made, constituted and
appointed, Justices of the Peace for the County of
Weffm > reland.
the several goals and prisons, and cf the prisoners
committed to them.
And be it further ordained and declared, That all
Coroners, Confiables, Overseers of the Poor and Su
pervisors of the Highways, who were lawfully in cffice
at the time of, or immediately before, the dissolution
of the late government of this State, Kall continue to
exercise the powers, and perform the duties of their
refpedive offices until a new appointment or future
provision be made in such case.
And be it further ordained and declared, That this
Ordinance shall continue and remain in force, until al
tered or repealed by the future Legislature of this
State, or by this Convention.
m Passed in Convention, Sept. 3, 1776, and
fgned by their Order,
Attef. B. F R A NKLIN, President.
John Morris, jun. Secretary.
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LOND O N, April it.
WE hear Capt. Wilson, a member in vhe late Irish
Parliament, who lately wrote a l-tter to Lord
George Germaine to intercede with his Majesty for leave
to resign his commission rather than fight against his fel
low fubje&s in America, has received the thanks cf his
constituents for his patriotic conduct in and out of Par
liament, and has likewise received invitations from ie
yeral independent boroughs to Hand candidate to repre
sent tb era at the approaching general election.
Extract of a letter from Barbados, by the Little Wilt, ar
rived at Liverpool, dated the i§tb op February, 1776.
" The arrival of Capt. Payne, of the i^th, lent by
General Howe, to exhaust our flock of provisions, alrea
dy greatly reduced by cur own confuniption, in order
to supply another place, and the permission so readily
given him by the Governor and Council to purchase as
much as he pleased, has spread an alarm of impending
famine in a lew weeks ; happily the virtue of individuals
has saved us for the present ! Captain Payne, though a
native, not having been able to procure above forty bar
rels of beef, and as many tierces of rice. Heis gone to
the Admiral at Antigua. And thither ourrulers ought
to have sent him at fi ft, for there all the American
prizes have arrived. The alarm put our Assembly into
motion. They have addressed the Governor to grant
no more licenses; and they have addressed the King, re
presenting their distresses, that besides twenty thousand
white people they have near eighty thousand slaves look
ing up to them for that daily food which fhorily they
will not have it in their power to give them ; iucb having
been the failure of their internal resources of ground
provisions, and so limited and uncertain any foreign
supply. Tne Governor was very angry about the in.
tended address, threatening to dissolve the Assembly.
He wanted an address of thanks for favours, I know not
what, in the restraining bill, or the war a&, as they call
it ; and for some sugared words in Lord George's letter
accompanying it."
PHILADELPHIA.
Extrafl of a letter from New-York.
" Capt. Veazey, Ensign Furrandes, Serjeant Sands, kill
ed. Capt. Bowie, Lieuts. Butler, Sterret, Ridgley, Dent,
Ensign Coats, miffing.—Mr. Courfey taken prisoner.
" Adjutant Brice was taken prisoner by two cfficers
ofiight horse, and was delivered to a private, who told
him he was his prisoner, which Brice denied, and im
mediately (hot him and got clear."
WAR-OFFIC E, Philadelphia, Sept. 5, 1776.
CONGRESS having directed the Board of War,
" to call in the several recruiting parties ofthe Germin'
" battalion, and that they have them formed and armed
" with all possible expedition and forwarded to New
" York, taking measures and giving proper directions
“ to have the battalion recruited to the f^ll complement
" so soon as the fame can be done," The officers of
the said battalion are hereby enjoined immediately to
repair with their men to the city of Philadelpida, that
the Board may take the necessary Heps to fulfil the di
icCtions of Congress.
RICHARD PETERS, Secretary.
N E W P O R T, August 22.
By a gentleman from Dartmouth we are assured, that
a privateer belonging to Fair-Haven, had tiken a very
large Jamaica ship, with seven hundred hogsheads of su
gar, two hundred hogtheads of rum, and a large quan
tity of cotton : this (hip was so valuable, that the Capt.
of the privateer, who was the heft pilot for the eastern
fliore of any on board, went on board the (hip to carry
her in, and was parted with by the privateer last Sun
day week. The privateer is arrived with more prifoneis
than men belonging to her.
WATERTOWN, August 26.
Last Wednesday arrived at Portimouth, a prize fltip
of about two hundred tons burthen, mounting 20 guns,
12 of which wood. She was bound from the Bay of
Honduras for London, Eden with mahogany and jog
wood, and taken by the Hancock and Franklin privateers.
PR O VIDEN CE, Augufi 24.
Extras of a letter from a planter in Grenada to bis friend
in London, dated June 28, found on board the fsip Friend-
Jbip, lately taken by the Diamond privateer of this port.
" All things in the sugar iflan Is, at this juncture, af
ford a most gloomy profpe&. Piovfions for the Ne
groes are not to be purckafeo, and ail forts of commo
dities for the manufacture of sugar are at three times
the price they were the last year; while, at the fame
time, the Dutch and French islands abound with every
thing. In ihort, calamity is our present lot, and God
only knows when it will end."