Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-07-22 00:00:00, page 4

eHARLES-T 0 W N, (South Carolina,) Ma, ~
Extra.? of a letter from Cavanah River, Ma, 13.
" A LL the Creek Chiefs that were expected are
4I down, and teem well disposed; 1 hope we
shall be able to keep them quiet. I have seen letters
from "the Cherokees as late as the 7th iaft. The
middle and lower tevns seem to remember the good
talks at Fort-Charlotte, and fay, that if the Over
bids are for mifehief wito the white people, the great
ridge of mountains shall divide them, for they will
have no hard in it. Henry Stewart, Captains Colbert
and Gift are in the Over hills; they came up the Miffi
lippi from the Chicafaw landing, with a large lupply of
ammunition, were attacked in the way by the north
ward Indians, who killed 3 or 4of the Indians, and
tock or deßroyed part of the powder."
WILLIAMSBURG, (Kirgizia) July t
The following Gentlemen are appointed to the different
Offices in the new plan of Government :
Patrick Henry, Jun. Elq, Governor.
John Page, Dudley Digges, John Taloe, John Blair,
Benjamin Harrison ofßerkely, Bartholemew Dandridge,
Charles Carter of Shirley, and Benjamin Harrison of
Brandon, Coumfellors of State.
Toomas Whiting, John Hutchings, Champion Tra
vis, Thomas Newton, Jun. and George Webb, Efqrs.
Cornmiffioners of Admiralty.
Edmund Randolph, Esq; Attorney-General.
Thomas Everard and James Cocke, Elqrs. Com
missioners for fettling Accounts.
Last Tuesday was taken near the Capes, and moored
fafe in Hampton Creek, by Capt. Richard Barron, a
(loop from Providence, with a large quantity of limes,
pine apples, turtle, &c. also two carriage guns and 14
swivels.
sin Ordinance, making it felony to counterfeit the Con
tinental Paper Currency, and for other purposes therein
mentioned.
B E it ordained by the Delegates of the several Coun
ties and Corporations in this Colony, assembled in Con
vention, that if any perlon flialmcounterfeit, aid or abet
in counterfeiting the Continental Bills of Credit in this
Colony, or the paper money of any of the United Co
lonies, or (hall counterfeit, aid or abet in counterfeit
ing or making bale coin, or who shall pay any such in
payment, knowing the fame to be counterfeit or base,
every such person shall, on legal conviction, fuffer
death, without benefit of Clergy.
WORCESTER, %/, 5.
We hear that Capt. White, in a privateer schooner
belonging to Salem, has taken and sent into Beverly,
a sloop with one hundred and fifty puncheons of rum,
said to be bound from Antigua to Ireland, which he
took in his paiTage for the Weft Indies.
N E W-Y O R K, July 15.
Capt. Johnston, in a small privateer from Boston, has
taken and carried into Cape Ann, two ships, one of
them a large three decker, from Jamaica for London,
with 400 hogsheads of sugar, 200 puncheons of rum,
30 bags of cotton, and a large quantity of pimento, &c.
with several ladies, passengers. The other a ship from
Antigua, bound to Boston, with 490 puncheons of
rum, &c.
It is said the fleet destined for the American station
this furamer, is as follows, one of 70 guns ; three of
60 ; seven of 50 ; two of 44 ; seven of 32 ; twelve of 28;
five 9624 ; five of 20 ; two of 18 ; seven of 16 ; three
of 14; three of 10 ; and three of 3 ; besides armed ves
sels, and one bomb ketch.
PHILADELPHIA.
On the ( 3th instant, after a short illness, died at Bur
lington, in the 56th ypr of his age, SAMUEL SMITH,
Efq;a worthy and ufeful member of the Community.
—At an early period in life he was called to a& in its
service as a Representative in the General Assembly of
New-Jersey, and one of the Provincial Treasurers, and
afterwards appointed to a feat in the King's Council.
In these several stations he acquitted himfelf with abili
ty, integrity, and an unblemished reputation; nor was
his charader less refpedable, when considered as a
member of the religious society of the people called
Quakers, in whose burial ground his remains were in
terred the 15th instant, attended by a large number of
relations, neighbours and friends who loved and estee
med him whilst living, and paid this left tribute of their
regard with a folamn sincerity.
Extract of a letter from New-York, July 15, 1776.
" Last Friday two of the English fleet, a forty and a
twenty gun ship, weighed anchor from the watering
place and came up with two tenders, we fired near 20©
foot before they returned one, when they came opposite
the fort they fired a broadside at us, all our batteries
firing at them ; a few ffiot must have struck them but I
believe no great damage.
” Yesterday Lord Howe sent up a flag, with the Cap
tain and Lieutenant es the Eagle man of war, the Ad
jutant General met them after some little ceremony,
but as their letter was directed for George Washington,
Esq ; he would not receive it ; the officers infilled much
PHILADELPHIA: Printed by JOHN DUNLAP, at the Newest Printing-Office in M^^ftcet, where
Subferiptioas at Ten Shillings per Annum, Advertisements, &c. are thankfully received lot mis 1 aper.
on his receiving it, faying it was of a civil nature, his
Lordffiip being invested with unlimited powers, and was
sorry that he had not arrived a few days sooner. This
morning we have accounts that the (hips, &c. which
pafled the town, are thirty miles up, opposite Terry
town, where the river is four miles wide and they may
lay fafe. It is reported t^at they have attempted to land
and have been beat off. We expe& another flag up."
Extract of a letterfrom fwbern, dated June 24, 1776-
The English fleet, bout 50 fail in all, lying off"
Charles-Town Barr, a few nights after their arrival ar
tempted landing, in a heavy shower of rain and very
dark, on Sullivan's Island, but a regiment called the
Racoon regiment being Rationed, there soon put them
to flight. I this moment saw a letter fram the Adju
tant of the second regiment dated, at the Boundary
house 15th instant, that fays, the enemy have totally
loft 3 of their largest ships crossing Charles-Town barr,
two of 40 and one ofso guns, and that 25 of the fleet
had got in over the barr. My nephew is just rturned
from the Weft-Indies and two vessels I sent to his care
with a fine stock of Powder, Arms &c. &c.
In COMMITTEE of SAFETY, July 15,1776.
W HEREAS the Assembly of this province did,
in a former session, Resolve, That 66 If any Associator,
called into actual service, shall leave a family, not of
ability to maintain themselves in his absence, the Over
seers of the Poor, with the concurrence of one Justice
of the Peace of the city or county where such AfTucia
tors did reside, shall immediately make provision, by way
of outpenfion, for the maintenance of such family, and
a true and proper account being kept thereof, shall be
returned to the Assembly, in order that the fame may
be made a Provincial expence, and paid accordingly."
And as it is the opinion of this Committee, That the
funds of the said Overseers will prove greatly infuffici
ent whenever any considerable number of Associators
shall be drawn into a&ua! service, arid that the admi
nifteriag to the wants of such families, by the hands of
Overseers, will not be fatisfadory to the Associators,
or likely to answer the good ends proposed,
Therefore Resolved, That this Committee will, out
of the funds of which they have the disposition, make
such provision as shall be thought necessary to answer
the said purposes, and that it be recommended to the
Committee of Infpe&ion and Observation of the city of
Philadelphia and the several counties in the province,
to nominate and appoint a proper number of judicious
persons, reading in the said city and counties respec
tively, to distribute to such distressed families, the Al
lowance they shall judge reasonable. And that the said
Committees be empowered to draw, as they shall fee oc
casion, on this Board for the neceflary sums of Money
to be by them lodged in the bands of the persons so
nominated and appointed, to be applied as above direct
ed. The said Committees to return accounts to this
board of the expenditure of the fame.
Extras from the Minuter,
WILLIAM GOVETT, Secretary.
In COMMITTEE, Bucks County, July 10 1776.
Resolved, That this Committee will use their utmost
endeavours that the Resolve of the late Provincial Con
ference for embodying 400 of the associators of this
County be immediately put into execution, and that the
following Gentlemen be appointed Officers, being the
proportion allotted to this County, viz. Joseph Hart,
Colonel; Captains, John Followell, William Roberts,
William Hart, Valentine Up, John Jamison; First
Lieutenants, John Krefon, Henry Durrech, Hugh
Long, Philip Trumbower, Dennis Middlefwart; Se
cond Lieutenants, Abraham Du Bois, James Shaw,
iJacob Drake, Samuel Deane, John Irvine; Ensigns,
— M'Kiffack, William Hines, Joseph Hart, Stoffel
Keller, John M'Cammon; Adjutant, John Johnston;
Surgeon, Joseph Fenton, jun. Quarter Master, Alex
ander Benftead.
Resolved, That, where any person or persons within
any Towofhip of this County, shall refufe to deliver
his or their fire arms, to the collectors of arms either
chosen or appointed, agreeable to a late Resolve of the
Assembly of this province, the said collectors, or any
one of them, apply to the Colonel, or in his apfence,
the next in command of the battalion to which the asso
ciators of that Townfliip belong, who shall thereupon
give orders to such officer and such number of men as he
shall apprehend proper and fufficient to enforce the said
Resolve of Assembly.
Resolved, That where it shall appear to the collectors
of arms, that any person or persons have been in posses
sion of good fire arms, and do not deliver them, or fa
tisfy the collectors where they are, the said collectors,
or any of them, cite such person or persons to appear
before this Committee at their next meeting, and fatisfy
this Board how the said arms have been disposed of.
Agreeable to two resolves of the Committee of Safety
ofthis province, this Committee have appointed Gerret
Dungan to cause the fire arms collected from non affo
eiators in this county to be immediately rendered fit for
use.
Matthew Bennet is appointed for the firft battalion,
and Jared Irvine for the second, third and fourth bat-
talions of associators in this county, to size the gates,
and marl; the size on the breech pin, or lover @dcf
the barrel. By order of the Committee.
JOSEPH HART, Chairaw.
The firft Battalion of Bucks Comnty is earnestly 10-
quested to meet at the Four-Lanes-Ends (the usual
place of parade) on Monday the 29th inttarft, at ih
o'clock in the morning; and it 13 hoped and .xpedrd
that every associator in the said battalion will appear
puadually, and as well equipped as they possibly can,
ready to Rep forth at an hours warning, in.defence
and support of the Free and Indeperduat States of
America.
In Committee of InfteßbOn and Ohfer<vationfsr Cumber
land County, at Carlife, June xB, 1776.
Whereas complaints were made to chi Committee,
that the condud aud lentiments of JOHN CLaRK,
of Allen Township in this County, miller, have been
and (till are unfriendly to the Liberties of the United Co
lonies : And Whereas in pursuance of notice tue said
John Clark appeared twice before this Committee, when
sundry witnesses were examined upon oath,' by whole
teftimomy the charges exhibited ^gainft him ire fully pro
ved : And Whereas the said John Clark declined making
any acknowledgements to his injured country, and, in
manifest contempt of this Committee, thought fit to set
out for his own habitation, whiht the Committee had
his case under their consideration.
Refolded, That the said JOHN CLARK is an
ENEMY to the Rights and Liberties of the United Co
lonies, and it is recommended to all the friends of Li
berty that they have no dealings nor connexions with the
said John Clark in future, as they regard the welfare of
their injured country.
Refolded, That the above refolutioas be published in
the news-papers of this province.
Signed by order of the Committee,
JOHN MONTGOMERY, Chairman.
§s@*s+**o*^ ^^-&^os4>ss@
BY virtue of a writ to me diredfed, will be fold by
public vendue, on Thursday, the 25th day of July
init. precisely at fix o'clock in the afternoon, at the Harp
and Crown in Third-street, a certain twe-ftory brick
meffuage or tenement and kitchen, and lot or piece of
ground thereunto belonging, with the appurtenances,
situate on the weft fide of Thud-street aforefaid, between
Market and Chefout-ftreets, containing in front 15 feet,
and in depth 49 feet, bounded by ground of Christian
Donnaker, James Farmer and others^ fubje& to a ground
rent of 50s. currency per annum; late the estate of Eze
kiel Lettz; seized and taken in execution by
WILLIAM DEWEES, Sheriff.
Philadelphia, 1, 1776.
To be SOLD by PUBLIC SALE,
on Monday the izd instant, (July) at seven o'clock in
the evening, at the London Coffee-houfe,
ACER TAIN lot or piece of ground, fitrate on
the north fide of Mulberry or Arch-itreet, between
Third and Fourth-streets, in this city, being 25 feet
front on said street, and 424 feet in deph. Aird on
Tuesday the 23d instant, at thr*e o'clock in the after
noon, will be fold at the sign of the Mermaid, in Ken
sington, fifteen lots of ground, situate in Kensington
aforefaid, agreeable to a plan to be seen at the Cofl'ee
houfe and at the place of (ale, viz. four lots 19 and a
half feet front each on a street 50 feet wide, called Qneen
ftreet, and about 82 feet deep; five lots 20 feet front
each on a street 30 feet wide, called Bifliop street, and
78 feet deep ; four lots 19 and a half feet front each on
a street 52 feet wide, being the firft street from the river
Delaware and running parallel with it; one water-lot 7 $
feet front on the last mentioned street, and extending in
depth to low-water mark ; also one lot situate on Marl
borough-street, between Queen-street and the river De
laware, being 20 feet front on laid street and 100 fret
deep. All the said lots are clear of ground-rent. Late
the estate of Joseph Watkins, fen. deceased.
JOSEPH WATKINS,?
JAMES WATKINS, Executors.
SAMUEL DAVIS,'
N. B. If the weather should prove unfavourable the
sale will begin on the next fair day. §
NOW to be disposed of by wholesale, on
reasonable terms for ready money, or (hurt credit
(giving Security if required) by J 0 H N MURRA Y,
at the Trap, Philadelphia County, all the GOODS
he has now on hand, amounting to twelve hundred
pounds, or thereabouts. Also to be disposed of, the
lease of the Hbufe and Stores now in hit pofleffion.
N. B. As said Murray intends quitting business in
that part of the country, he rec,bets all those indebted
to him to pay immediately; aid all these that have
any demands against him, are desired to fend in their
accompts and receive their money.
FoTtY SHILLINGS REWARD.
RAN away last night fora the fubferiber, liv
ing near Lanoj^ter, an Iriffi fervent lad, named
MICHAEL RACKET,,, f eighteen years of age,
about five feet five inches hi,, well let, brown hair,
almost bald on one fide of tk^ <i\<: ; had on and tock,
with him, a felt hat bound with worOcA bonding, a brown
colt, light coloured jacket, twonew shirts, and two pair
of trewfers, tbi,country made ltrvr., (hoes with buckles,
a wallet with bread and cheese, 0 I^l other things uncer
tain; he cannot redd but car taik 1 th, and has been
near (our years in this province. Any person securing
said servant in anv yaol, so th t his rafter may get I im
aga : n, dull have, if ten m>~ s Froth home, Twenty
Shillings, and if twenty wiles, the above Reward,
wiih reasonable charges, paid bv
%^2 0 , 1776. I JAMES WEB^