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near Boflon,to hie Friend in Pennsylvania.
" There has been a plentiful year here as well as with us,
and there areas many chearful countenances among thole who
are driven from houses and home at Boston, 0, left their all at
Char eftown as among other people Not a murmur has yetbeeo
heard that if they had been left zealous io the cause of liberty,
the, might di I have e joyed their poss ffioos For my own part,
though I am for the mod prudent patfinoay of the pubic neJurzs,
I thi k they ought to be relieved by the Continent lam not
terrified by the expence of rie" war (hould it continue ever so
long ; a litt'e more frugality, or a little more indudr, in indi
vidu^s, will with rafe defray it Suppose it was £ 100 000 a
tnouh, or £ 1200 000 a year ; if 500 000 families will each
Spend is. a week left and earn Is. a week more, or if they will
spend 63 a week left, and earn 63. a week more, they nay pay
the who'e. sum with4l otherways feeling it ; Forbearing to
drink tea, saves three fourths of the money and 400 000 wo,
men, doing each three pence worth of fpiining or knitting in a
Week, wil pay the rest How much more then may be duct by
the superior industry of the men ? I with nevertheless most earn
cftly for peace ; this being a war truly unnatural and m.f:bcvi
ous ; but we have nothing to expert from fubm.ffion.but fltvcry
and cverlaftidg contempt "
14hand bill was printed at Salem left week •which, as it has
wccafoned /ome (peculation me /halt insert the jubfiance of it as
follows viz. Gift St phen Lowater arrived at Ip/wicb lafl
Tuefda, fe nnight in 14 lays from Liverpool. Nova Scotia, and
informs, '' That § days before he left that pace, he read in the
Awa Scotia Gazette, just printed at Halifax that a Chip mas then
arrived at that place from London, in twenty fix days passage, the
prints bro't by which gave art account, that a great concourse of
people had armed themflves and codeded together in that city,
when the, demanded an immediate repeal of the acls of parlia
stent for raifrg a revenue in America , on which the King's
guaras were mattered and gave 01 ders For the populace to disperse,
which they not comp ping with, the guards immediately fired on
them, which killed and woundea a number of them : The populace
returned the fee,ant killed seventeen of the guards befdes wound
ing feoeral more. The affair was not fettled when the above ship
left England ; but that great expectations was formed by ad par.
ties from this sudden manoeuvre That it was expelled all Eng
land would soon be in arms asdhe generality of the people, there
had declared tbemfe ves read, to take up arms in defence of the just
rights of the Americans . That st was thought impofli^fthe court
pariy could l?a^d the test much longer, -Capt Nowell, who ar
rived at Ipwch lift week al/o real in the Nova Scotia Gazette
the above accent of the rtfing of the populace in London, and fan
the account ws brought to thsLande end the da, the vefel /ailed."
PHILADELPHIA, November 6.^
Captain Stilus, arrived here 00 Friday from Bermuda. Com
iog out he (poke a veff:l that lefi London the 10th of September,
the Captain of whomioformed him that he failed with three men
of war and 25 traofports with 5000 Hanoverians, bound for
Ciir'cHown, South Carolina
In CONGRESS, November 1, 1775°
RESOLVED, That no produce of the United Colonies be ex
ported (except from Co ooy to Colony, under the direaion of
the Commi tees of iDfpr&on and Obfervatiou, and except from
one part to another of the fame Colony) before the 6rd day of
March nex, without the permission and order of this Congress.
Extras from the Minutes, CHARLES THOMSON, See.
WATERTOWN, November 6.
Thursday the 233 Ibftant, it appointed as a Day of public
- THANKSGIVING throughout this Colony.
Extrafl of a Letter from ,4 Gentleman in America to Lis Friend
in London,
<< Tell our dear Friend Dr. P— who sometimes has his
Doubts about our Firmness, that America is determin'd and una
nimous, a very few Tories excepted, who will probaby soon
export thcmfelves. Britain at the Expence of three Millions has
killed 150 Yaokees«thii Campaign, which is £ 20 coo a Head ;
and at Bunker's Hill the gain'd a Mile of Ground, -ut of which
she has since loft again by net having Poll 00 Plough d Hill.
During the fame Time 60 000 Children have been bsro in
America. From these Data his Excellent Mathematical Head
will eafi'y calculate the Time and Expence require to kill us all
and enquer our whole Territory."
Yederday Captain Thomas Tracct and Mr James Coonel
(taken going into BoOon in a boat) were bro't hitter Pofoners
bv Capt, Jooa. Alien.
" PROVIDENCE, November 4.
The Honorable General assembly, io their present Sefro,
have ordered 500 Meo to be immediate y raised end embodied,
for the defence of this colony.
CAMBRIDGE, November 9
Extract of a Letter from a Philadelphia Gentleman at the Camp
§ The ammunition and (lores of all kit di, remaining in the
gorrtioi, to be given up.
6 Hostages to be given on both tides, f> rthe faithful per
formance of the above article#, and then to be exchanged.
Answer to the above Articles from M jor Br°wn.
Artic'e i. The garrifoo,effects and ram, to furrendcr them
selves prifo era of w^r.
NEW YOR K, November 9
By Letters from Philadelphia, dated lafi Thvifdaj, we learn.
That a Schooner was just arrived there freon f,ew Providence,
the Mafler of which reported, that a Ship of War and two Tranj.
ports arrived at that l/land from Boften, and demanded alt the
Cannon and Warlike Stores in that Place, but was not permitted
to take off any part of either of the Articles , however, the Sol
diers, corffling of one company were embarked and failed
The following information received by E^prefs from South
rofina may be depended upon, vz
That they have two thoufaod men in adoal pay,and five hi
horse on the frontiers, Colonel Gadsden, commander in\
and Colonel Ilaac Huger, fecoud Col, firft regiment.
regiment, Colonel Moultrie, Isaac Mott, Lient. Colonel, 1 ,of
theßeyol Americans. Fort Johnson fortified,and garrifened with
450 men Mount Plcafant fortified with 4 cannon, two hundred
men flatiuoed to prevent the (hipping taking water. No provisi
ons allowed the King's (hips. Two (choosers fitted out. moun
ed as croizers. The three forts in Cbarls-Town, and the firft
bastion fortified with cannon. An intrenchment about four mile#
from town laid out ; tools made, and men ready to begin the en
trenchment when the express came away. Wemen and children
almost all moved out of town, and barracks built for them in the
country. They have twenty ton of powder, and the quantity
daily inerc^fiog. Two thousand men in uniforms, blue faced
with red. Light harfe five hundred, blue faced with while, and
furnifhed. The militia io the country in fine order ; drill ferjeaDts
having been lent among them many months pad. The regulators
io the back country, who were under oath, have entered into a
treaty to remain ocuter & Thomas Fletcher and Patrick Cunning
ham, their chiefs, are now in Charlellown. The people a/e ua
der noapprehenfions from their negroes. The Hoo. Wm Dray
ton, the worthy judge of the superior court, has rode a treaty
with the Cherokees to assist the inhabitants io case of neesffity.
Article x. The efficers end fixes not to be made prifoncri,
tut to march uomoleded, with their arms, accoutrements, twen
ty -four rounds of ammunition each, drums beating colours fly
ing, and pros 9 as acd carts (efficient to pass by the shortest raid
to Montreal, or any other phcc in the province of Quebec, at
the option of the Heo. M^jir Stopford,the CcmmacdipgOfficcr.
2 Officers and men to be allowed their baggage.
3 The mtn not to be decoyed from their regiment.
4, Women and children to be permitted to go with the regi
mao and their eff.as unmokOed
2. Io case the garr^oo surrenders prifeners of war, to be allow
ed aI their bafegage agreetb e to define
3 It never was the Intention of any officer, intruded with th^
command of a party, now besieging your Fort, to take advantage
of decoyiog the gartifoo, after a folemo 'Dgsgemeut entered
into by bah parties, and coofcqueDtly year frat* arc groundless.
4. Th: women and children (hall be permitted to go with the
rest of the garrison and take their erfedh, provided the garrifoo
(urrender as aforefaid. , .
§ The ammunition and (lores, &c. of all kinds to be deliver
ed up upon tie faith and honour of the commanding efficcr.
forrp yto M # jor Brown's answer to the Hon, Major Stop
ford's propofols, in regard to the furrendcr of Fort Chamblee,
Major Stopford having coufidered Major Brown's articles, agrees
to the fame, although, he cou d &ifh the firft article might have
been Pt he pr<pofed. (
M&joY Soplord relyirg io every article to M j.tßrown's honor,
wllfrgivc him up the Fort any hour to morrow Morniog.
The felowfog are the
ARTICLES proposed by His Majedy'sGarrifon at Chamblee.
Yesterday came on the Election for Delegates to Represent this
City sod Country, in Provincial Coogrefs, when the flowing
Gentlemen were chosen :
Peter V. B Livingston, Coroeliout Chopper, Alexander Mc-
Dougall, Joseph Hallet, Thomas Smith, Abraham Braver, Isaac
Roosevelt, James Beckman, Be^jamio Ktf-m John M. Scott,John
Van Cortlandt, Jacobus Van Z.odi, John Ray, Theodorus Van
Wyck, Anthony Rutgers, John Imhj, Gabriel W. Ludlow,
Benjamin He|me, Comfort Sands.
Found in the coclofure of the fubfenber st Middetowo Upper
Houfei, bn the 7th of Nov. a forte! Horse, about 14 and
half hands high, trots and paces, about id years old. The owner
may have him again, paying charge Outa; Wiicox,
November 13, 1775-