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Am y^won, Peter j^nfen, bayards of the toe
Sir William jobnfcn; Sleeken Waits, Jobannefs
J$ Herkemer (a brother to the General) end a
number of others Indians and regulars. About
one o'clock the Jame day Col. Ganfevoort having
received information of Gen. Herkemer's march,
Jent Lieut. Col. Willet out with 200 men, to at
tack an encampment of the enemy, and thereby fa
cilitate Gen. Herkemer's march to the fort. In
this the Col. Jucceeded : for after an engagement
of an hour he bad completely routed the enemy,
took one Captain and four privates prisoners.
The baggage taken was very cons ierable ; fueb
as mmey, bear fens, officers baggage and camp
equipage . cne cf the soldiers had for bis (bare a
scarlet coat, trimmed with gold lace to the full,
and three laced hats, The plunder at the mod
moderate computation exceeds loob/. When the
Cal. returned to the fort be diCovered 200 regu
lars in full march to attack him; he immediately
ordered bis men to prepare for battle, and having
a field piece with him, Capt. Shvage of the ar
tillery so direfledits fire, as to play in conjUnFion
with one out of th; fert, tbefe, with a brft fire
from his finall arms, soon made tbefe heroes Jcam
per off with great loss. Col. Willet then march
ed with bis booty into the fort, where be arrived
at four the fame day, having not a Jingle min
killed or wounded. This account we have from
a man, who was in the engagement and left the
fort on Thursday night last. We expeft daily
to bear of another engagement at that place.
" W# have Qi m; ^e^t received an account that
thready hare left Saratoga, but what route they
hav taken is u kiswß."
By fsvsral deserter, f^m the British array at Kingf
bridge, examined at Peek's Kill wa h^w^ the fallow
lag iifermatian.-.-Thet Col. Rholler's regiment,
fai^a^d between Cel. Cortlaadfs and the North-
River, confits ©f abeu« 250 men, with two ether
Hafaa raiments, 300 me* each. Oue regiment at
Fart Wellington,and one at Fact Independence, 300
mu,u each ; the whale comraan^ed by Gen. Smith, a
Hessian; they keep a picket of 50 men advanced a
boat amile from heir raein b> y.-- That B own'd
carpi confix es about 450, ft^ti^md at Kiulfb'iHge,
Dr Lane„'s 450 Bomia's 280 Cel. Fanning' 460,
the New Ya>k veunteers. cerara^ded by Col Gr vat
150 the ggthßrhifh regiment @£2so men lie at M eat
M Alia; ani Co!. R^binfen's iri,^ at M^mfouia,
contains ahru 300. Gan. Ciintea feat the command
©f Britiffi iro^ v^d Gem. Smith Hrf^^ ; a ge#t
number pfH fli^a are sick in the NewYo k hefpi
tal.
KINGSTON, \Efopus] August 21.
Extract of a letter, enciofed by a Commit
tee-man in the county of Tryon, to the
Committee of Schenadady, from Caugh
nawaga, on the Mohawk river, dated the
Bth inflant.
" We herein transmit you the best intel
ligence we could learn from sundry persons
who have been in a battle which was fought
on Wednesday the 6th instant, beginning at
9 o'clock in the morning, and continued
until g in the afternoon, at Onaida Creek,
half way between Orefka and Fort Schuy
ler, between a party of the Indians, ana our
Militia, commanded by General Harkeman.
Stephen Watts, (Sir John Johnson's brother
inlaw, and William Johnson, supposed to be
his Indian brother) with a great many others,
were killed.—-Fort Schuyler is still attacked,
and gallantly defended, almart fire kept up
on both sides."
We hear there are other advices from the
fame place, which mention that our garrison
there, are in good spirits and determined ne
ver to give up the fort.
BO S T O N, August 11.
Extr-A of a loiter from B urdesux, d^ud May 17.
" I hav^ji^ f^ a private latter, dated the 12 h wf
this maath, fr^ Bust. which fays, to-morrow * fle^t
of 13 fail es th, lias will luave this part, their d^i
men in nakaewn."
Thufday Ina arrived in f^fepor^tke p^zt brig Da
vunihir#, ladea with abtai 130 heyfh^ds, cf rum,
Bad !i,ooo ^A9„, boiled frra St . K^tb for Cork,
lately ci^maudid by William Father es C??k and
t?k*a abut sth ult. by the Captaint Oikt and
Fr^m.n^ ; wLa ware i,. chafe *fa large fugur ihip,
and % b'z, ^han this prize 1 f-%,%.
Ex^a^f a lem, fro^a xa officer es di^i^ion,
dittd M&ncte^r Aw^aft 5 h 1777.
'' I etriv-d ^cre ths face-rad hft, --TH mijfo f/ora
the *:l:rr ftettj are affi^^d At this p^. I tip a
i^ a f^v ^an to xdw^ci r.^^f Sk^efb trough end
T^^u^^ii wh'cl L ia fi^ sett faring in th#
r&^z us Bu ^7^% ^:m,; UH i^pr^v^m will
mhrf^i kra 13 leave fuck tk'^haerb to rf^sth th!
fmrsl ,B^3 A which he ^'^ peff iLd himfe'f, and
which, st all hazards be rru° attempt t® ^ia^im,
as will greedy weaken bit ^ai^ body,"
Estr^a cf a letter dated Ssratrg% Au~. 1 wd 2.
“ We arrived nt this place ya&trday, where we
ftuid the chief of car northen array, much dif^dsr
ed by the retreat. The Indians are nil around MI,
they are vary bald, they eftea kill a^d scalp Castries
and ethers in fi?ht es th« arm, ; they have killed and
featp'd about 60 men, women and children, mak
ing me diilia&va between Whig, and Tories. We
ffi ill bagin ear retreat te Stillwater to-merrT, at the
easy are oa their march towarda tu. (Stillwater
it abeat 25 milet ab^ve Albany."
August 14.
At Officer at A^ba^y writes his friend here, thus,
" Th© aeat time yea hear fam me, I Ihill havr can
qutred,or fha!l be in the world es spirits f?r we are de
termimed never te give up the Fert, whi e any es us
are alive. Avdithisk ihere are fraall hopes for any
of as to furresdsr, for while they have a member of
Savages wi^h them, there will be a© quarters giv«m.
Burgoyne intimates we meed exped as quarters ; I
hope it will leara us ^ defend oar forts, aad not ran
awaysad irn-* ^h rn like children."
PROVIDENCE, August 10.
Theßritfh ship of war renown of 50 guns,
which lay off Dutch Island, was latt Satur
day fired on by a party of Col. Elliot's re
giment of artilery, from two 18 pounders,
which soon obliged her to remove a mile
higher up the bay.
Saturday evening last a party of troops
landed on Conanicut Iflind, and took two
prisoners, one of them a Hessian : they
brought off 14 sheep from Dutch Island.
The fame evening two H ffians deserted
from Rhode-Ifland, and air ved here.
Tuefdav last a party of 70 of the enemy
at Rhode-lfland, with two F^eld-Pieces, fired
on one of our filling boats that lay in a cove
near Common-Fence Point. Capt. Dyer,
with a number of men from Howland's Fer
ry, immediately crossed 10 boats, drove the
enemy, and pursued them about a mile, till
they got under cover of their fort. Capt.
Dyer was (lightly wounded in the thigh.
What loss the enemy sustained is not known.
NEW-HAVEN, August 13.
Our accounts from Philadelphia are, That
General Washington was in that city the
sth Instant, and his Army encamp'd at
Germantown, about 12 M les from him.
waiting the Motion of the Enemy, who,
Reports fay, have appeared and disappeared
several Times off the Delaware
HARTFORD^ August iS.
We bear that Major-General GATES is ap
pointed to command in the Northern department,
with orders immediately to repair thither.
Wednesday the third day of September next is
appointed by authority to be observed as a Day
of Facing and Prayer throughout this State.
Tburfde, 'bi 286 itt^gm is a,,^«tid b, tbi awb^it, es
the Sial# of Mafc&fats Bay to b, obfavu as a 4ft, of
Fading axd „a,or throughout tbit Staff.
By Oa^r of LIA g^^q Aff^bh of t^ S^w
<&# fitting ia to, Place: Th^ Superior Court
ibri was ^ be bald at Litchfield i® the County es
L' enfold az the 12th Dy cf thia Infant A ^u^, is
a.jou n*d to b, h^d at Lhe fin'd in th# Coauty es
Litchfield 011 the First Tusfiay cf February zext.
Aad 'hat the Superior C^u p t depending to be held
at F infield in the C^uatv of Fairfield ea the last
Tu^fday save one in August LfUn, is adj burned te
^ fourth Tuafday es November next, to be held at
Fai fiild afa es id.
THE lubferiber once more desires all
persons indebted to him to make im
mediate payment.
Hezekiah Merrill.
Hartford, August 18, 1777
f^3 1 Sat^^a, uig&t tbs fa, of Ibraa. Sta. ^^s brokt
o„u, auifour pair of mtn's Shoes and ent fair of nyo
ro^s ditto fioliuf oh \htuct. The frat night the Jhy of
Afoir Church luas broke open and t>t following article ,0
hufrim ebract wiz out are bouufpu* coat cf a rodifo
colour, with a iv^i^ liusug a^d pilifadfttol buttons. Al
so, about thrtt yard, if cloth fib and cotton es a grot: and
•wbisijb cAsurfpottod, proper for jackets or brooches. Who
over will sake up the this and foture tbs articles for the
gwxus, Jball bawt SIX DOLLARS reward and nsetfar,
charges ,a:d b, THOMAS STEEL, or
A3HER CHURCH.
Hetford Augu^ 18, 1777.
frAKEN &p, a^d in the ceftodey of By.u^^sy
Nd^i# ta W^fttield, a few days since, a black
M^re #boet thirteen heads aad half high, about fix
yws ^d, the s^r kind feet white, paces and tots.
T it owner i,^£:cd to tske her away, sad pay charges.
Wiflfild, Aa^a^ 5, 1777.
Yhsfk>tAY afiCTeer f^ 4rir GA:^j ; t^
es r4££^c& in this t^w®, *lme ,h<y v&a^tr.
(upon their ow^ termed r<qeso tt lsb< ur) fer ^@^ r^
benefit, two prisoners, viz. P.&b,t Jeh^R €:'<%
a fej. in a ccrapaey in Gee. balance,'# brt3€,
taken by Cd. M^±^ at Lopg-lfl nd, spacers nkt£
civil hoa&il men, war cfa pretty fair ihia zed ccun
tasaece, had £h©rt brown hafr, abtut 6 feet high,
about 24 years of age, wer# a fh^rt blue coat, white
Shirt, a*d check'd trowfirs. by trade a weaver ; alfi
one Jeffius Store, a ter, prifiser, belorgi th Stamford,
in this Slate, is &bQot2^ er 23 yesr, es %e, abont
ffiiddiieg for bignefi and figure, had fh®n browb
hair, grey eyes, near lighted, and ware when he went
away a lipti6 brown c+at, Check'd cr phi c shirt, ard
check'd tow leug-trew ftrs, a down guilty leek, e^d
Cift with his eves. As Cellixs appeared greatly defi
reM to get back again to hit fritad, at Loug-lfl&ud, it
ir m©^ probable that he will ar.em.pt that way, it is
hnped every friend to his century will use hh beff
endeavours to step and tfnuru thim; and whoever
ffidl facers one or both, ffiall hsv# a reafouable reward
and all m#c%ffary charges paid, by
EZEKIEL WILLIAMS, Cernkif. Prifozers.
Hertford, Aug. 13 1777°
LAST fibbath u^.4 tf^p^d f>em Charm uu&...
g^r, es Suffield in the ftatg of C^uae&icut, one
Stephen Paagsaau, a prifaaar of war taken at Long-
Ifl^d ie May last ; he lately belonged to Stamford,
aad wot frox ithere to L^g Island about fix meatha
age, is about twenty eae years old, mart of Nature,
darkhair, hit right hand coetra&ed and finger crocked
by a burn he received who a child; had on a dark
brown coat with white buboes, white woolen VGfl aud
breeches, and thread (tickings, he stole font Aid
Gra^geraad carried away with him a gun and b<y#&n,
a pair of white flockings, and twenty f^ur fhillixgs in
bills, it is apprehended that he is gene towards New-
Yerk, and that he inteads to pass for cue of ger xili
tia on the road. Whoever wiU tike him up and
ficure him i^ any goal in this fta.% aad give notice
to the fulfmber, shall have five Dellars Reward and
ueceffa y charges paid, by
EZEKIEL WILLIAMS, Ceramif. Rifouer,.
Hs. f#d, Aug. ii, 1777.
WE the fabferibers b^g eppwau^ k^u^Tto:
court of probate, fa the difri& es Middle
fawn, cerarnffianers to examine and adju% the claims
es the creditors to the @ita of Robert Steveafeu late
of Chatham deceased, reprefeuted in falvet ;do here,
by give notice that we Shall attend ©a said befiaefi,
at the dwelling heufo off rs. Sarah Stevegfon es Rid
Chatham,ea the firfl WUhefdays es Sept, and October,
and Dumber mat, at two es the clock 'afterxoon so
each of said day.
Ebenezer White,) h
Samuil Hall, f temmiffi res.
Chatham, August 1^ 1777.
/ tf'O De laid by EdwihZji Baraaru jaa. a faaaif
& quantity es Salt sad Sugar ; fir which is wan
ted, cam, flower in barrells, Asxfad, and fl-x, wheat,
corn, oats, woollen Aeckingt, woollen and liameM
corh.
H^f^rd, August 16, 1777.
Y^E m fabferiba/s being appointed by iiue houeur
able court es probate, fir the diftraft of Sharon,
co^rn ffi tors to receive, examine, and adj est the claimea
of the creditors, to the &state es Themes Burchard
late of Sc. : fbury difeeas'd, represented iafalvent ; do
hereb, foe notice that we ffiall attend on the buftaefo
es eur appointment, at the dwelling heufe es Mr.
El jah Stanton in Salisbury, on the izi dry of S&pt.
nex; at one o'clock H^r^n.
James Hates, ]
U WM.r.% % cfo
Sarib^rv. July 22, 1777.
'pake^ up by the fubfeibar, a biuck Ux, men a
white face, and feme white under his belly, mark
ed with a half crap the under fide the off ear, feed all
round. Tae owner is defirad to pay charges, and take
him away. MARY POMROY.
South Hadley, July 31, 1777.
J OST er dolea out of a waggon between Mr. Tae
mas White'&in Belton and the Paper Mill in EaM-
Hartford, last Friday, a hunting shirt, containing in
one es its pockets twenty-four pounds in Continental
Bill? wrapped up i.%a paper ; in another paper Coe
neaicut and Naw. York bills, amounting in the whole
to about 45 l. la the other packet es the fiirt wa a
a check fi^k handkerchief and a linaea ditto. Alfa &
buck containing an accrual of ax,facets es twtjsur
fo fam Windham te P^a Kill, and sundry lasers
and papers cf me confiqueace but to the owner -
WhOTF^r will return feid money and paper, to M^ /
TAzmM White in Baltcm, Mr. Ebenezer Watfom in
Hartford, or the febferiber, and fecu'e the thitf (if
teller) flail have Farty Dollars reward ; if only the
ra^uey &c. twenty dollars reward and no quafroaf
alksd. Benjamin Goodell.
August 18, 1777.
STOLEN or Grayed from the fubferiber the 10 h ie-
J karat, a Mere abcui 9 er 10 jeers old, has qmo
white hied foot, a iitue white between her eyes a
creaked white fre^k on one fide of her nose, had era
three Ihoes when ih, went cff, paces and tretr, brand,
od with W. Also a yearling Celt, rs a bright bay
colour. Whoever will take up and secure the Mre
and Colt so that I may have them again fndl be ^
nereufl^ewsrded and charges paid, 6,
Oliver Ball,
Msrifa. August 13, 1777.