The Connecticut courant and Hartford weekly intelligencer — Hartford, Conn., 1775-12-11 00:00:00, page 2

Who hue L,ofhcJ the purchase mon y of comwffo% Co that
yon wiltrot want opportunities of telling out, therefore we
earoe^ly iotreat you to come home. Were you on a&ual far
vice apiatl the French or Spaniards, our natural ecim.es I
should be the UH min io the world to foggeft a thought of'quit
ting the prokffi>n : For th ugh much I prize year latey you
may depend that the preservation of your chandler ho ! ds the fitft
place, with me.
• •Any thing you may desire to hate from hence shill be
pQoauaily executed, provided the q raotity does not exceed the
conlumi out your warn family lor as to ^ffidh^ ary other • ffi
cm employed in this b ack bufinefo I beg to ire excused ; they
may e:n go dice wi h Duke Humphry, for me
•' Now for public matter#, Lord K^u^are giver a b unty of
io 6r. to all volunteers infilling with Mj>rßoche. The Pa~
pdfs of Limerick, and the Papilla ot Co+k hire fabfcriber to g ve
as much more to <he firft five humored the Popish Bihops have
iikew fe been applied to, r., use &ir i, fluence with their flecks,
Which they are willing to do provided itc 15 era arc lapib,
These arc beffei rimes. "
CAMBRIDGE, December 7
On Wednesday morning lad ve-k Cast Manly, io the Lr,
^t4e( of wtr, ia the fetvice of rhe United Colonies carried into
Cape lbs a lar;e brig celled the Nancy, which he took off that
face, bound from London to Button The following is a lift
u# a! the material arric er of which her cargo corf led, viz.
2000 Mu'que^ with accou regents copplcat. 100 000 Muf
guet dJ's 250 rtad pecc ditto. §OOO Carainc ditto.
^0 feo Empty r #oer carrr d?cs from 3 w 12 pounders. §0
(<.mp kcu cs 60 Reims of cartridge paprr. 3b xes of 110.
„ tons and 500 *< of ^u quit Ihat 1200 pounds wt of
buck (hot. 61fpare fpu%s and rammer heads, from 3 to 24
pounders 3000 round (hit 12 pounders 4000 ditto6di{to.
io nos of jabk. 11 mortar beds, 13, 10 sou 8 i^ch. 7Am
munition w ggoos 75 carbine with bayonet, and other ae
i&rremenrs co@p eat. 100 camp kettle , with frying can co
w/rr. forbid care ffes 13 i ch. 100 oblong ditto 8 ich.
4056 rubod (h it, 2864 calditto, fixed to wuod brnom,
74f° C 'P* of cartridge paper 24 12 ard 6, u dets. 10 800
cm,ty flintel cartridges, 24 12 «Rd 6 p under# 8440 h<t
fufe.es 4 and hafmeh gyoempty (hrh, 13 10 8 and § and
traif inch. 16 000 tin tubes, fi<t, 6 pounders 100 bottoms
of wood formortars, 13 inch 20 000 iron round (hot 1 pooh
^<#l, hi 20V u^.::r : week 2! m^'^ psw&r 100 Qozcq
of port fires. 20 000 fpkes, 7 and 8 inch. 2 pairs of %I,\^
ore bt.fi th: other iron 1 laboratory kettle. 36 copper
ladles. 12 iron melting lad'es. 23 Liothorns and 15 dark
di to 2 perpendiculars, new pattern 2 iron cannon, 6 paua*
ders, on deck. 1 Lrrfi ig inch mortar, wt. 2700 2qr 16 b.
I bed comoleat for ditto, wt 2700 zqr. 16& Together with
2 great variety of other articles, viz Forge and hand bellows,
bulge barrels, kit brudtes, wheel and hand barrows, canvas,
cha k, (pare travelling carriages, pincers for drawing fufes, and
com 800 ditto, funnels hammers, park picquets, handcrow
levers, haroeffes, +ann'd hides, fpunge tacks, copper nails, olive
and train oil, coil# of white rope, sheep fk ns. feiffars, brass fcalcs
and weights, thread, and twice, hand (pikes, watch coats, &c,
The principal part of the above moll valuable cargo is alrea
dy brought to this town. The mortar is fixed on its bed before
the Continental Laboratory, It is called THE CON IRESS ;—
god is pronounced to be the noblest piece of ordnance ever land
cd in America. Io ced the acq ii(i iso of it at this junQu-e
renders the value of it aimed inettimab.c.
Lift Saturday a (hip from Scotland, bound to Boston, laden
with about 350 chaldrons of coal, a&d a quantity ofba'c goods,
taken by Capt. Ma/y was carried into ^a'ca. She is fleet
200 tons burthen acd is almost a bew ffi p
jcv.ral ,<£s, loaded with fuel, provisions as various kinds
&c bound to Bolton, have been carried into Salem and Beverly
within a few days past. Oue of them was a sloop of about 60
tons, armed with 4 swivels, had feveo men on board, and was
taken by a two mast boat, with the like number of fwrie's, with
out making any rerifUnce
Lid week th: Privateers from P'rmonh, tock Icverri fee!/
Craft bound into often, with proviGon and fuel.
W A T E.RTO W N, Dec 4.
In the Hose of REPRESENTATIVES Dec 2J, 1775
RESOLVED That a general attendance of the members of
this House, is at this time inCifpenfibly ccg G"P f« the dipatch
of pob'ick tafinefs ; and all members not occcfhrily detained by
fickoefs, or absent by order of the Houk are enjoined forthwith
to attend th©r duty herein until particular icevc of abfeoce cau
hr granted, dr a reel's take place.
A true copy from the minuses,
SAMUEL PHILIPS jun. Clerk P. T,
Yesterday fc'nnight a large (hip being near the light off Cape
4*o was (hack with lightering? which fe: her 90 fire, and buffet
to the wafers edge, 'till foe funk. A oomkr of cannon we*
hes'4 to go off while (he was op Arc, and 'twat thought at fi
that fc was at lead a 20 gun (hip ; but we have ao accou
from Boilon, that it was the Juno trapfp rt fh, : p from Londe
laden ®rly wih hay for Burgoyne's hcav, horse st Button, whi
will soon became hght if forage fails at this rate.—At the fin
time a sloop being near her, laden wih wood ard hay barn
aIo for B fton, w#s allo (buck with lightning, which so difabt
her that the put into the gurnet, when our p^pe went and toe
p< ffiffion of her, and carried her into Plymouth, — One Hr
matter of the (loop.
About a Fortnight ego o-e of the Privateers st the Eaflw>,
took a fchocner ar.d a fl op b<und from, St. Lawrence river
the Weft India, aud carried them into Cipe And, laden wi
filh and oil.
Lad werk the privateers from Plymouth, took f:v<ra| f^
Crafts bound into Button, wih provifioo and fuel.
A pctfon lately from Ha ifax : o Cpe Cod, reports, Tht
saw st Halifax a particular account of the lots io the f^w
harbours ot Newfoundland, in the 9 hes sep ember, a:& unn
in the wh 1e to more than 4000 men, who nearly fiaifhed the
(i(h;og 7 @yige 3 int<ndicg to go no more than ote or two trip
and then the greater p rt ®f them to inlift into the Regular ^
vice, there being at that time a Lieutenant there cn the r
putting service, who bad iclifted 12© men. which he ts;
wads brought to HaHfaz and 00 ha arrival there, in 1
hearing of the perlon who gives this account declared, that
was date mined to fe'l or resign his comn iffionm tle winds,t'
fear, the people end GOD Almighty was against thro, he woe
no longer 0€ concerned in such ad— — d eauie. It was said
Haifax to be composed that the left io (hips fill oil, and mt
chand ze of various kinds ameab^ed to 140 000' fieri
An account if received from Boftoo, juri as this paper w
going to prefi caurirnig the foregoing, and mcoticns, Tl
near y all the fhal'ops employed in that fishery, ar well as ori
trfT.h [P^r Po^ ! ] were wholly left ; and those tha rode (
th; ga^ were chiefly dis rafted and 0 her wife much damage
Thai m*cy boohs &c. were blown down And if
'twou 4 take the chief part of the spring to repair the fl.kes,tb
haring received almofi locredib e damage
'Tis not improbable, that, according to the forego ng ac<cu r
between 2 and 3000 ot thole deceased were to enter the 11
ndictial service, the 15 or 16 transports which failed some ti
fioce from Boftoo, wcu so traufyort them to another than a v
tety cltmcnt, and m.y have &:rej the ^c fa i wHi rhe h
Men Iffo a pretty account brother - Hutchinfoß will he
(with Lard North) so fettle !!!
N E vV p o R T, December 4
By a gentlemen who left Button the 12 h of Utt month
learo, that the mioifterial army there confined of about 6c
men, besides 360 arti/lery men, who arrived there in 3 (hipst
dtp before he camo away ; 4 other (hips arrived at the hi
time, with artillery floret and coals, convoyed by the Pbona
40 guns ; theft (hips being part of 22 fail of transports, the
mainiog 15 not then arrived. The 22 (hips had on hoard in
about 2000 foldicrs, which 'twas said were all that were to
lent this winter ; the officers are very bitter againri the Amt
cans, cfpccia ly the young and inferior ones ; the upper part
Fancoil hall was turned into a p ! ay hoo fe, & Dr. Sewall's me
ing house into a riding place for the light horse ; that firewG
was from Bto 9 dollars per cord,and (0 scarce that they had
gun to pull down houses, fences &c to burn ; thtt the foldi
talk of gallopig down the re'se’s throats, with the light het
next spring ; that beef, mutton lamb, pork, buner, ✓no cbe<
wete at I§d per pound, frefh fiffi is. hams 2 slur and tr
40s per cwt, potatoes 61 per bofh:l, onions a pifhreen a bun
rice and peafe, none ; apples 21s. per barrel, eggs 4; a dt
duek< 4 chicken; „. geese 8; tu key's I2t a piece; flit
8 dollars per head.. Ail the (hiding: and pence meorioned
bore arc flerling money.
Names, &c. of ships io Refton harbour.
Boyes 70 guns, Capt. Hartwell ; Predion §0 guns 4dmi
Graves, Capt. Robiofon ; Scarborough 20 gum Capt. Barela
V per 10 Graves ; Scimenter 14 Davifon ' Geo ge 10 ; F
vec 16 ; Spitfire 8 ; Phetrix 40 ; Lively 20 ; Emptefs of Ru
20 used as a light boufe ; Schooner Hepe 6; 3 fira'i tench
4 guns each ; Cruiser 8 ; Cullom boufe fch®oncr 4 Job ^
SHIPS at HALIFAX
Somerset 60 guos, Le Crass; Fowey 40, Montague; A
venture 20 ftorefhip ; Tamer iß,Thornbury, North Caroli®
Nautilus iqCollins ; Canfo 14 Mowat, Falcon 14 Benni
King Ftfher 14 Montague Virginia.
iVa thoofed minute men stand ready to come i% fur the p
tc&ioo of this island, on the (horteft notice; § 000 of wb
can be landed ouihc i(hotyia| 24 hours, and the other in
mere. P" 7