The American gazette, or, the Constitutional journal — Salem, Mass., 1776-07-16 00:00:00, page 3

their motions, and a® as occasion might require,
We are assured that Major Lamb, Capt. O
wald, and Capt. Burr, ate prisoners on board
this fleer. . } :
Junz 28. The fleet from Halifax we inform
ed our readers, in our last, was arrived at Sandy-
Hook to the amount of 113 fail. It is difficalt,
from their situation to affertain their number ;
but we suppose it does not exceed 130 fail :
Monday it came up into Yakes’s Bay below the
weblarrows ; Tuesday several thips came too at the
wi#tering-Place : Wednesday more followed ;
and by Thursday voon the whole fleet was at
anchor ina line from Kill Vaa Kill, to Simoa
fon’s Ferry, on theeaft fide of Staten-Island. The
Asia brought up the rear of the fleet, and in the.
Narrows was fired at from a «small battery on
Long-Island, which complixﬁédt was retirned a
bout 40 24 pounders; one of which lodged in the
wall of the house of Me. Beanet, but did no hurt’
to the family 3 and three fhathad near done some -
mifchief 1o the house and family of Mrs Den
nife. Dennife, -one of them parrowly miffing the”
kitchen, wherein was a 2 number of the family ;
8 second struck a barn, and the third deftroyed
much of the fence of the garden ‘oppofite the
front door of the mansion-house.
Their near approach to Elizabeth-"T'own-Point,
greatly alarmed the inhabitants of Essex county,
and particularly the people of Elizabeth-Town
and Newark, but they are now in a condition to
receive them whenever they may think proper 10
approach. © s
" HA RTF OR D Jurr 8.
. Last Wednesday passed through this place, Go
vernor Franklin of New-Jersey, on bis way to
Governor Trumbull, at Lebaoon, Mr. Fraoklin
is a noted tory and ministerial tool, and has been
exceedingly busy in perplexing the cause of liberty
and in serving the designs of the Bricifh King and
his minions. ‘The people of the Jerfies on ac
count of his principles, conne&tions, abilties and
address, viewed him as a mischievous and dan
gerous encmy in‘that province, and ‘confcquently
thought it expedient-ta semove him, under a
strong guard, to ConneQlicut. He is fafely arri
ved, and will probably have leisure to reconnoitse
_his past life. ii-le: is son 10 Dr Benjamin Fianklin,
the genius of the day, and the great patron -of
American Jibesty, - 1f his excellency escapes the
vengeance of the people, due to. the enormity of.
his crimes his redempgion will flaw, not from his
personal merit, but'from, the high esteem and ve
neration which' this country entertain for his. ho
nored Father. Last Saturday he returned from
Lebanan to Wallingford, where he is stationed.
" WATERTOWN, JuLy Is.
The General Court in their-late feflion palt an
att allowing of innoculaticn with the Small-Pox.
jn the-town of Boston-till this day being the-15:h
jnftant, after which time ivis forbidden on severe
penaltics both on the Tanoculator and Innocula
ted. And the Seleétmen are_impowered and di
refled to remove all persons sick of theSmall-Pox
on the third of Augy/f ext, in order that the town
may: be cleared of all infeétion immediately after.
"I'he Court have also past an «@allowing of hos
pitals for innoculating the Small Pox in each
County in this Colony.
T being our jacumbent duty to acknowledge
I Gob, in all our ways and to commitall our
affairs both public asd privite to his alwife directi
on and guidance ; aod elpecially jo 2 day of
singular, and general calamity, to implore his
merciful iaierpofition ; and it having been the
laudable praétice of this Government, to recoms=
snend and appoint days of public Fasting and
Prayer, upon { ecic) and solemn occasions ; and
this Court apprehending the present season to be
dig with the most importapt cvents, not only to this
_but to ali the United American Colonies and fenfiole
that these events are at. the disposal of tbe su
preme Governor of the Uoiverfe :
WE Bawe thought fit, with the Adwice of Coun
¢il, and at the Desire of the House of Repre-
Jentatives, to appoint and do bereby fur a{art Thurs
day the firft Day of Avguft wext, to be observed,
throughout this Colony as a Day of Jolemn Humiliati
on, Fasting and Prayer ; berety calling upon Blini
fers and People, publickly to humble themjelves under
the righteous hand of Gop ; peritently to ac
. knowledge their many keinous and aggravated fins,
amljbc righteousness of bis dispensations toward them ;
With dewout and importunate supplications to implore
Almighty Gop, that the frowns of kis Previdence,
‘manifefied by the severe drought avherewith fime
parts of the land have been Ijpisd and all Ihe bumi
liating events avbich bave lately taken place in Ame
.rica,may under the divioe influgnce, produce a fimcere re-
Par @ Day of Public BuMiLiATION and
%3 5% PRAYER. 1 .
A PROCLAMATION.
pentance, and thorough reformation among all ordees
and degrees of persons ;. that be avould mercifully re
mowe the present tokens and ¢ffecls of bis righteous dis
pleasure -against us,” and prevent these more severe
Jjudgments that our fins diferve ; and which, in the
present afpedls of divine providence, we are Wa! nedso
prepare for t=~That b awould command bis ble/fing
upou all our public councils in thisimportant crisis of
our political affairs ; proted and preserve the life of
our Genergl, bis dfficers and Joldiers ; Jucceed and
projper their arms, wherever employed 5 that our cruel
and uunatural enemies may be defeated in their opem
attemps, secret plots, and diabelical machinations to
Jubjugate, or defiroy us ; and this people, placing
their hepe and confidence in that GOD, in avhom their
patriotic and. pious Fathers trufled, and were deli
wered, may be disposed, with manly chearfulngfs 1o
. ajiﬁlbcmﬂlfuu Jor the defence of their bleeding
country, and of these rights, civil and religious, upen
the enjoyment of which, the peace and bappine/s of
thE prejent - wnd future generations depend s that be
awili be pleajed to hear the cry of the prisoner, and
" grant a Jpeedy liberation to all our captivated bre
thren ; that he-avould awater the earth evith timely
refrefbing fbonvers, and caafe tbis year to abound with
bealth and plenty 5 and prevent the Jpreading of any
epidemical fsckne/s among us ; that he would put a flop
totbe wanton ¢ ffufion sf bunan blood, guard-and defend
our fea-coafls from the inuafions of these sons of war,
defiin’d by Britainindijerimiately o burn and difiroy:
That he would protedt our fronticrs from the inroads of
the narthern Savages : That be would pour out of bis
Jpirit upon this people, and bis blessing upon their off-
Jpring ; and that be would jpread the peaceful king=
““dom of the Divine Redeemer “ower Ihe face of the
avbole habitabls World. .
And all servile labor and recreation are Sorbid
den on the said day. o
GIVEN at the Council-Chamber at Watertown,
this fourth day of Fuly, in ths year of our LORD
17764
Signed by the Majdr Pait of the Council.
By their Hono’s Command,
Joun Avery, jun. Dep. Sec'ys
GOD Save AMERICA. -
: ¥ A LB M, J¥L® 16,
Last Saturday arrived here from Guada
loupe, the Schooner Polly, David M’Cloud,
Master, who has brought Oae Hundred Catks
of Powder, about Seventy or Highty Small-
Arms, a Number of Camriage and Swivel Guns,
a Quantity of Brimstone; Shot, Flints, &c.
“DIED.] At Andover, last Tuesday, Dr.
Joun KiTTERIDGE, aged Sixty-fix. His
Remains were decently iaterrsd on the Thurs
day following. b
— At Newport, (Rhcde-lﬂand) Mr. Wil.
liam Burroughs, aged Fifty-cight.—At Tiver
ton, Mrs. Katharine Burroughs, Counfort of Mr.
William Burroughs.—At North-Kingstown; Jo
seph Hammoad, Efg; aged Eighty-five.—At
Middletown, Mr. Samuel Bailey.
RO BE SQOLD KX
EDWARD GIBAUT,
Agent for the Crew of the Privateer Sloop Re
“yenxoce, at PUBLIC AUCTION,O
be held at Salem, in the County of Zfex, on
Fripay, the Twenty-sixth Inflant ;
THE Bngan
tine FANNY, a 3 remarka
ble salt failing Veflel,
burthen about Seventy-five
Tons, lying et Rickard
Derby, Eig’rs Wharfe.
GO 0 D
BARBADOES RUM to be
soLp by said G I B AU T, at private Sale,
at Mr. Elias Hafket Dirby’s Store.
3 ) BE S OLD,
WO or Three Hog
fheeds of good FLAX.—ALSO,
Two or Three Teirces of BRAND Y. —
Enquire of the Priater.
ALL Persons having any
Demands on the: Bilate of Cclonel
Jaugs FryE, lae of Andover, Decealed, aie
@cfired to bring in their Claims to the Widow
Saran FryE, of said Andover Executrix to the
lak Will and Tellameat of the said Deceased, in
O.der for Payment :—Anad all Perfors who
are indebed to said Eflate, are desired to make
speedy Payment to said Execuirix.
dndover, Joly 14, 2776 .
T*HIS DAY I 5 PUIBLISHED.
(Price Six PERCE 3 embellihed with Twe
~ Plates,* one representing a Female Officer,
the other Lord P---x and his Miss in a
Garden.)
Sold by E. Russery, at his Printing-Office
Upper End of Main-ftreet.—=Large Allows
ance will msde to’Shopkeepers, Travelling-
Traders, aud others who purchase by the Gioce
or Dozen. gt g
At the fame Place may be had,
The First and Second Volumes
of that excellent and much-admired Pamphlet,
eatitled COMMON SENSE ;. together
with 8 Numbér of othier other Nzw Pieces
on the Times, which will be Sold very chesp
by the Quantity.
T HE
BLOCKHEADS:
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AFFRIGHTED OFFICERS:
A F A RG.E: g
RAN away fronx
the Subscriber, on Sundav the
Fourteenth Instant, a Negro
Man, named CEsARr, 2 thick
well set Fellow, about Twenty=
five Years of Age, about Five
Feet Six Inches high : Had on
when he weat awsy, a homefpua
hiown colored Great Jacket, a firipped Under
Jacket, a Pair of brown-colored Fuflian Brees
ches, with black Kneebands ;. his Right Koee
bending inwards. e ;
Whosoever shall take up said Negro, and re
turn him to his Matter, shall receive TWO
DOLLARS Reward, and all necessary Char
ges paid by me, 2 i
oEs BenjaMiN RAYMOND.
Bewerly, July 15,1776
RAN away from his Mal
" ter, Isaac BLuxT, an Appreatice Boy,
Twelve Years, named DANIEL PINKHAM
thick and well-fett.—FHe was born at Les,
in the Proviace of Neaw-Hamp/kire.~~Wholocvee
shall take up said Boy, and ecavey him to me,
shall receive as a Reward for their Troubles
the Sumos Sl'X SHILLINGS.
N. B. All Masters of Veflels aad othérs are
hereby caationed and forbid harboring, con<"
cealing, or carrying off said Apptentice, as
they may expet to anfwet it on Peaslty of the
Law in that Case provided. :
: Isaac BLunT.
- dndover, July 35, 1776,
[ et S
AL,L Pérfons who have
any Demands on the Eiate of JamEs
SaLLarD, late of Salemt, Deceas’d, that have
not rendered in their Accompts, are desired to
bring in the fame to Anick BaiLaRBD, Ad
ministratrix teo said Efate, or to THoMAS
SmarT, of Danvers, Attorney to said Admi~
niftratrix :—And all Pérfons indebied to said
ERate are requefled to make immediate Pay<
ment to f{aid Administratrix or Aitorneys
Danwers, July 15, 17764 !
MARSHAL MANSFIELD,
Near the Court-House in SALEM,
AS to fell cheap for
Casn, Nutmegs; Cinnamon, and
Cloves, by the Pound or Qunce, Copperasy
Aonifeed, Cream of Tartar.—~alfo, choice 80~
reax by the Pound or Cunces
PRI R T AAS To b il R e R e SN R
JOHN WHIT E, jun.
AS a Negro Woman to part
with : Any lerfon iaclining to have her,
may treat -with him at his House in
Salem, “July Bih, 1776, :
Two Dollars Reward.
BURRILL DEVEREWX
Ma rersngap, July 5, 1776, "
TO BE -SOLD;
The Scnoon:cr
IspusTrY, with her
Appurtenances, about Sixe
tv-five T'ons burthen, nine
Years oid, apnd 8 prime=
Sailor.—For further Page
ticulars, inquire of