Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1777-06-24 00:00:00, page 3

rhe h^i T^ of^^ fubferibe the
^hh op hr. alb m- . ^ ofthejuftices
b. ''> ^v: - ig which they
shall respectively inhabit ; and the said Justice shall give
a certificate thereof to every such person ; and the said
oath or affirmation shall be as felloweth, viz.
"I & fwear,or affirm, that I renounce
'' and refufe all allegiance to George the Third, King
“ of Great Britain, his heirs and successors; and that
“ I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to the
<• Common-Wealth es Pcnnfylvania as a free and in
<' dependent State ; and that I will not at any time da,
CT or cause to be done, any matter or thing that will
" be prejudicial or injurious to the freedom and inde
<c pendence thereof, as declared by Congress; and at
c< so, that I will difeover and make known, <$ fom'e
“ one Justice of the Peace of the laid State, all trea
“ loss or traitorous conspiracies, which I now know,
" or hereafter shall know, to be formed against this or
“ any of the United States of America."
And the form of the said certificate (hall be as fol
foweth. viz.
" I do hereby certify, that hath voluntarily
«' taken and fubferib.d the oath or affirmation of alle
" giance end fidelity, as dire&ed by an ad of General
" Assembly of Pennsylvania, passed the 13th day of
" June, A. D. *777. Witness ray hand and seal, the
daycf A. D. ' (L. S.)
£nd be it farther enacted by the authority aferefeid.
That the Justice or Judices of the Peace, before whom
such oath or affirmation ffiall be fubferibed, shall keep
fair regiflers ofthe names and fimames of the persons
so sworn or affirmed, andte time when, and shall, on
or before the firft day of October in every ye r, traof
mit in writing, under his or their hands and seals, to
the office of Recorder of Deeds fur the faief chy or
county, a true lift of the names and brnames o' thsfe
who, within the lame year, have so sworn or affirmed
before them rcfpeaively: and the said Judice or Justi
ces shall hvetand receive theKfer, aU for the said cer
ti£ ate. the fumefO^e Shilling and no more for every
perfan so fw.re or affirmed; am the said juftiee or
Judices shall lay their accounts before the count,
Commfli ners, or any two of them, from rime tn time,
to be examined and allowed; and the fiid Commiffi
oners (ball draw orders on the county Treasurers for
such furs as shall be so allowed which orders the said
Treafmers are hereby authorized and requ red to pay
out of the State taxes; and the Rec refers of Deeds,
in rhe city and several counties of this State, are here
by enjoined to record the laid lifts, in books to be pre
pared for that purpose, and shall be paid for the fame,
in the fame manner as rhe Justices, at the rate of Five
Shillings or every hundred names.
And be it further enaßed by the authority aforefeid,
That every perlon above the age aforefaid, refufing or
BigUafig to tpke ^nd fabferihe the said oath or affirm
ation, shall, during the time of such neg|e& or refufil,
be incapable of holding any office or place of trnft in
this State, serving on juries, suing for any debts, elect
ing or being elected, buying, felling or transferring any
lands, tenements or hereditaments, and shall be disarm
ed by the Lieutenant or Sub-Lieutenants of the city or
counties refpe&ively.
AND WH E R EAS there is a danger of having
the feeds of difeord and difaffe&ion greatly spread by
persons whole political principles are net knowa, re
moving or travelling from one part of the State to ano
ther, and it is well known that this State is already
become (and likely to be more so) an affylwm for refu
^ees flying from the just rcfentm nt of iieir fellow citi
zens in other States: For remedy whereof, Beit enacted
by the authority aforofid, That every perlon, above the
age aforefaid, who shall travel out of the com ty or city
in which he u ually refiles, without the certificate
aforefaid, may be fafpedted to be a spy, and to bold
principles inimical to the United States, and shall be
taken before ore of the Justices nearest to the place
where he mail be apprehended, uto shall tender to him
the s aid oath or affirmation, and upon his refafJ to take
and fubferibe the said oath or affirmation, the laid Jus
tice shall commit him to the common goal of the city
or county, there to remain without bail or mairprize
until he shall take and fubferibe the said oath or affir
mation, or produce a certificate that he had already
done so.
Jnd be it farther enaCed b, the authority afirefaid,
That all persons coming from any of the other United
States into this State, are hereby required to apply to
one of the aeareft Juflices after he carers this State,
and take and fubferibe the said oath or affirmation, op
en the penalty of being dealt with as in the case of per
sons travelling or removing out of the city or county
in which they ofually reside, unless he can produce a
certificate that he hath taken an oath or affirmation of
the like, nature in the State from whence he came.
Provided ahvajs neverthekefs, That Delegates in Con.
grefs, prisoners of war, officers and f^diers in the Con
tinental army, merchants and marines trading in the
ports of this State from foreign powers in amity with
the United States, and not becoming refidert, are de
clared not to be within the intent and meaning of this
ad.
And be it further evaded. That if any person shall
forge such certificate, as by this a& is to be made .put
and given by any ene of the Jufticep of the Peace of this
State ; or foall cause or procure others to forge or coun
terfeit the name and seal of the Judice of the Peace to
such certificate, or shall, by erasing or otherwise taking
out, or covering or pasting over, a man's name that
was wrote in a true and genuine certificate, alter the
fame as to serve his own or any other man's purposes;
or shall produce and make sfe of any such certificate,
knowing it to be forged or altered; every such person
and persons fa offending, and being thereof legally con
vi&ed before any Court of General Quarter Sessions of
the Peace cf the citv or county where men offence shall
be committed, shall be fined the sum of Fifty Pounds
and be committed to goal, until he pays the fine and
cott of prosecution : : And if he shall not, within the
fpaee of thirty days, fans y the judgment of the Court,
he shall be whipped with any number of lashes not ex
ceeding thirty-nine, on his bare b*«k, well laid on,
JOHN BAYARD, Speaker.
Enabled into a Law, June 13, 1777.
John Morris, Jnn. C'T. ofthe General ATembly.
To THE P UB L T C.
THE friends and fappofters of American Tod@-
dtpendeace in this State are desired to take no
tice, That the test, or oath or affirmation of allegiance,
cannot be taken in this city and places adjacent after
the First day of July next ensuing.
I am informed that the State of Maryland are like
wise about palling ateft a&, and that they intend laying
taxes afterwards on all persons who shall neglect or
refufe intake it; and as it is probable Something of the
lame kind may be hereafter done in this State, this
notice therefore is given to all Whig#, whether for or
against the prefect Constitution, that they may not by
teir omission deprive themfclves of the advantages
which the test ad is intended to give them.
N B Persons omitting to take the test cannot vote
at the next election, nor yet on the question, far or
not for a Convention. Nothing 4 ,to be paid by the
pedons who take the test.
I he Printers of the Wedsefday's papers and Even
ing Post are desired to give this inforraa ion.
PRO BONO PUBLICO.
B O S 4 O N, fa#e iz.
ON Friday last arrived in a fafe port the mow Sally, a
prize taken by Capt. Harriden, in the brig Tyran
nicide, belonging to this State, having on board a variety
01 European goods, among which are 3 or 4000 blankets.
This veil I, with the Intrepid, Salisbury, Jane and Ann,
were loaded by a merchant in London, and failed in
company, their cargoes amounting to 12,000!. and con
fign^d to a gentleman m Qieoec, We hope Capt. Har
riden vrill meet with the other three velfels, as we under
stand he was in pursuit of them when the prize-tmafter left
him. The Sally'e cargo amounts tontai 6000 L Iterling,
and in articles ;s beneficial for the States or America, as
for Mr. C rleton, or any Britrfh fubje& at Quebec.
We al 0 ;ea<n tifit Capt. Harriden has t ken a transport
bound roni Iceland tor Ncw-Yo^k, with 63 Hetlian ml
diers on bomd, which may be bouriy looker for.
Capt. b 1k in the MalLciiuletto .m hktwifc taken a ship
wi h 84. Htll ins on bond, which are arrived in a tale
po;t — rheic two transports were pitof a fl # et or four
teen fol, under convoy of two frigates, with a. out 600
recruits, which failed from Ireland about the loth of May,
and poflibly have arrived about this time ; and no doubt
we hiab receive a molt pompous a count from Gaine's
Lying Gazette, of a reinforcement 01 as many thousands
sthe.e are huudede. Mmetail of tranfport# failed at the
fime trine for Quebec, making up, we hear, in the whole
1500 men.
PHILADELPHIA, for 24.
On Thursday last the General Assembly 0: this
Common Wealth adjourned to Wednesday the third
day of September next.
Extrafi of a letter jrein Gexgrfl/ WAsHINGTON to
Congress, dated Bliudbe Brook, Junezo, 1777.
“ V, hen I had the honour of addressing you tail, I
informed you that the main body of the enemy had
marched from Brunswick and extended their van as far
as Someifet Court house. lam now to acquaint yog,
that after encamping between theie two polls, and be
ginning a line of redouble, they changed their ground
yesterday morning and in the courie of the preceding
night, and returned to Bruniwick again, burning as
they went several valuable dwelling boules.”
“ I mull observe, and with peculiar fatisfadion I do
it, that on the firft notice of the enemy's movements,
the Militia Ambled in the most spirited manner, firmly
determined to give them every annoyance in their power
and to afford us every possible aid. This 1 thought it
my duty to mention, in justice to their conduct, and I
am inclined to believe that General Howe's return, thus
suddenly made, must have been in consequence of the
information he received that the people were in and fly
ing to arms in every quarter to oppose him."
Published by order of Congref,
CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.
By an express arrived yesterday afternoon from New-
Jersey, we have the important intelligence of the ene
my's having retreated from Somerset Court-hrafe to
Bruniwick, and were on theh imarch from that place
towards Amboy, burning and destroying many valuable
houses on their way and exercising their usual barbarity
to the inhabitants in their power;—That a part of our
arm, had taken peffeffion of Bruufwick, while a large
number were in pursuit of the enemy and had engaged
lonie es their rear guards.—No particular accounts are
yet come to hand, but the following letter, (received
by the above express) tho' imperfect, will serve to con
vey fame idea of the manner of their retreat—
% « Camp al Middlebrook, evening rftzd June. 1777..
" Our troops wei^withm 2 mile or lets of the bridge
as Brunswick when General Hove ' ^frh the party paff c &
from that place. Gem. Wayne with his brigade pulhed
the ehemy so close, that they retired lira redoubt to
redoubt, without having rime to form. All theirups
that * cirme do puffed forward with vapour, and bad
those on the Weft of R riton been G luckv at I to have
ceme up at the fame iOfant, the Lreke must have bees
capital. The enemyfeem so retire to Amboy i. haste:
They were puflied to Bifcataway by Co'. Morgan's Ri
fkipen (a fine corps) and the troops under Gen Greeß,
and must have fafrered' cpnhjerably. Our lots is three
or four killed and as many wounded. They have burnt
numbers of houses, and their whole poiTeffioos (hew
what they must have fuffered h^ Winter ; indeed their
waste exceeds all I could fancy, tho' often diferibed to
me.—They have left their reputation : their troops dis-
Ipirited; their plans fubverfed; a new feene of a&ion
to commence; and of course one half of the Campaign
loft to them;
“ Our troops are in good heath, high spirits, and
ready to pursue the blow."
TN CONGRES S, ,u?te 2o, 1777.
^efeUed, That a corps of Invalids be formed, consist
ing of eight companies, each company to have one Cap
tain, two Lieutenants, two Enfig^, five Serjeants, fix
Corporis, two Drummers, two Fifers, and one hundred
men. rhis corp# to be emploped in garrisons, and for
guards in cities and ether places, where magazines „or
arsenals are placed ; as affo to f rve as a military fchoo)
for young gentlemen, previous to th<ir bring appointed
to marching regiments; for which purpose ail the subal
tern officers, when off duty, shall he obliged to attend a
mathematical fchooL appointed for the purpose to learn
geometry, arithmetic, vulgar and decirr,l fra&i ns, arid
the extraction of root ; and that the officers of this c. rps
shall he obliged to co Ti^iite one div's pay in ever,
month, and ftoppage* (hall be m de of it accordingly,
for the pu'pofe of purchasing a r^gte^ntri lihiary of the
moss appre vrd authors on t aicfr.t and the peio repo'';
that some ffictrs Fom this corps he cordba^tl' crop ' >yed
in the recruiting Service, in tie rm^hhourf rod el c $ e
places in which ' they shall he ftatioried ; that ail ornits
so made shall be brought into the oor-s tnd <hded, >3
aftewards draughted into other re irren's. as ecefion
may require. Extract from the Minutes,
CHARLES THOMSON, -e.rwy.
Tne Printers are lequefted to publish t: is refGution in
fheir several News-papers.
Camp at Mount Pleasant, June S. 1777.
ty HEREAS we the subscribers did inconfi t 1/
give credit to some affections caff upon the charac
ter of Lieutenant Maybury Jolly, of the Eleventh Perm
fylvariia Regiment, relative to his behaviour in a fkurnifh
with the enemy the tenth of May, near Pifeat^w^y, in
the Jerseys ; but upon full conviction that the fa d Lieut.
Maybury Jolly is net deferring of the charge, and that
his charter and reputation may not fuffer in future from
a falfe representation, We do therefore thr k ourfefeg
bound in honour and justice to declare, that we are fully
convinced that his condu& was misrepresented, and are
sorry we ever gave credit to a report so injurious and ma
licious. BENJAMIN HAMMON l L^ut. ^P R
ENOCH ANDERSON.
$ N B. Lieut. Jolly was tried by a -....._.... -curt-Mar
tial, June z, 1777,
GENERAL ORDERS. June 3 d, 1777.
Lieutenant Maybury Jolly, of the Eleventh Pennfil
vania Regiment, being accused of cowardice and difebe
dience of orders, is found not guilty of the charge, and
is ordered to be releaf^d from h s arrest immediately.
Ne<w Garden, June 20, 1777.
SIX POUNDS REWARD.
STOLEN or STRAYED last night, out of the
pasture of Mr. Jolhua Ja kfon, Tavern-keeper, in
New-Garden, Cheftef County, belonging to the sub
scriber, a brown GELDING, fix years old, fifteen
hands high, shod all round, a star in his forehead, one
of his hind feet partly white, paces a small travel and
trots well in a carriage, a horse-lock on one of bis fore
patterns when taken away. Also a black GELDING,
fix years old, fourteen and a half hands high, (hod be
fore, strong made, a good hackney, paces trots and can
ters, a star in his forehead, one hind foot white, a Switch
tail lately trimmed by Thomas
gray hairs in his mane. Whutv; . i^es to
that the owner may have thum: , ^ro'-•<s tl,effl
to Mr. John Barclay, near Chrittiana B idge, shall
have, besides reasonable charges, THREE POUNDS for
each H^rfe. G EORGE DAVIS.
WHEREAS I Elizabeth, the wife of
James Shanks, of Cumberland Towmfhip, York
County, and Province of Pennsylvania, having been de
fei ted by my husband above the fpaee of seven years with
out an, cause known to me, have petitioned the Honor
able the Representatives of the Freemen cf Pennsylvania
at ther meeting in General Assembly, in May last, to be
divorced from the above James Shanks, for the retfon
aforeiaid: I have therefore thought proper, upon further
advice, to give this public notice to all whom it may con
cern, That if any person or persons have any lawful ob
je&ions to offer against my obtaining a free and legal di
vorce, they may propose them to the Assembly at their
next meeting, the third of September, when I design to
prosecute my petition according to the premife#.
1 ELIZABETH M'FARRAN, alias SHANKS.
Peters Toiun/bip, Cumber!, ^
WHEREAS Elizabeth, the wife
Harris, hath eloped from him Gd^t^.;;
provocation, under pretence of being lunatic a _ .#aui
returned home to her father, William Wilfoa, where lie
harboured contrary to my will, as I have frequently given
her invitation to come home but have been refufed :'This
is therefore to forwarn the public from trusting her on my
account, as I will pay none of her contrasts : And all
persons are forbid to harbour her at their peril, as they
may expert to be dealt with as the Law dire&s for such
offences. §5 ROWLAND HARRIS.