Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1775-11-13 00:00:00, page 4

A replantation: from the Committee ofPrivatesof
the Association belonging to the city of PhiLdel
„:i% and its duuid, was presented to the
iloufe, and follows in these words, viz
% ^ Honourable tie REPRESENTATITES
oj the F K E E M E N of the province of Pewfl
vaniaan General Assembly met.
WE the C 0 MMITTEE of the ^riv^es of the
■%V r Gro^n; blunging to the city of Philadelphia
an 1 it; (EftriSts,
Humbly beg leave to represent,
ft , . ; )wrt;: no mail uegree of reluflince
X tuc v.e zre o^ i red either to approach tins
IfmGtftble [Joule ^ith tris o^r rcprefentation, oi
by our ffenve in f-mie meshue to acknowledge the
Claris and dmit the charge of those mm whoin
their Itr add,cfs t> this Honourable A mie (tile
th^nf ives the people called Q^Acrs, a copy of
which we hive ben.—
“ In this ex raordinary addle's we fin I ourfclves
“ and others represented as mu who endeavour to
'' induce this Honourable Haufe to enter into mea
“ fares manirody repugnant to the laws and charter
“ ofthis province, and whico, if enforced, mutt
*' fubvrit that mofttllential of all privileges, liber
" tv of confidence, which they apprehend will not
“ only increase the pu lie ditbeffes ; but occasion
6 the grievous Offerings of many con cienri ,us
“ pro^e of divers religious denominations,” and
“ also as persons " who” now forget the equity
“ and justice of the laws and government of this
" once peaceful province, and, by preferring our
“ own fehemes, overlook the importance of invio
“ lahly m;ntani e g and fupparting tire principles
“ of civil and iJigimD liberty.”—
We bez leave to airure this Honourable House,
that we are far front wishing to do any thin; which
would have the rernoteft tendency to enereafe the
public didreffes or to OGcafion the prietous fuffer
ings of any confeientieus people of any denomina
tio'n whatever, and are utterly at a iofs to cornpie
hen I how the prayer of our petition could interfere
with the confeieuces of religious pen.
In our petition we prayed the Honourable House
in their v iCorn to recommend to their conttiruent;
some general plot of a mihtii law, which Should
equally extend to all the good people of this pro
vince, and that any indulgence which might be
thought nec.(Dry to be granted by the Honourable
House to any of the freein m of the province might
be equally open to all, and granted upon such
terms as this H nourable House might tiiir.k ade
q, re to the many di&mlt and dangerous Services
, thole who were willing to hazard their lives and
fortunes in the defence of their country.
How this prayer, founded on the most certain
and evident principles of equity and juitice could
be construed into an endeavour to induce this Ho
nourable House to enter into measures manifestly
reputnmt to the Laws and Charter of this pro
vince, and which, if enforced, mutt subvert that
molt cffenti.il cf all privileges, Liberty of Con
science, iurpdfes all the ideas vie had ever form
ed of the pow er of religious prejudices.—
That religion which teaches to deny the demand
of justice and equity, cannot be of God ; nor will
the confidence which is influenced thereby meet
with his approbation —Those who believe the
Scriptures must acknowledge that Civil Govern
ment is of divine inftuution, and the support of it
enjoined to Chrilbans, and it is not consonant to
the divine wisdom to enjoin and or' id the fame
thing at the fame time. As your addreffors have
not pointed out any Law of the Province to which
the praycrof your petitioners is so niauibbly re
pugnant, we beg to be indulged with the liberty of
doubting the existence of any such, aad as to the
thirty-fifth Raton of Laws agreed upon in Eng
land the fifth day of the Third Month One Thou
sand Six Hundred and Eighty-Two, we would pass
it over as a fu&ion which we apprehend none but
your addreffors would apply to the prelent purpose.
With regard to arguments driwn from our Char
ter we would ebferve, that the great law of Sclf
preft rvation is equally binding with the letter of
written Charters, nor can it be supposed that a Peo
ple will be reasoned out of their liberty and every •
thing they hold dear by an over-nice (banning of
them.
Nevertheless, with regard to that clause of the
Charter of Privileges on which they ultimately
found their claim to a total exemp ion from Contri
buting their jolt proportion towards the public
ex pence incurred in defence of our privileges.
We would with all due fubnrfli >n and deference
reprefept to this Honourable House, that the Ho
fiouiable and worthy Proprietor William Penn, had
no right, power or authority to grant privileges
farther than was granted to him by the Royal Char
ter, and that the royal prerogative of the King of
Great-Britain does not comprehend any right or
authority in the crown to grant any exemption from
fuppoiting the constitution and government to any
man or set of men on any pretence whatever. This is
a power unknow n to the crown, and therefore could
never be granted by theKing to the worthy proprie
tor who granted the Charter of Privileges.
Liberty of conscience is so sacred a thing that it
ought ever to be preserved inviolate, and we will
always rejoice to fee any body of men assert their
right to it. But when under pretence of this liber
ty the very exigence of civil government is struck
at, we beg leave to represent that either the liberty
claimed mud be given up or the government dissolv
ed ; and this we apprehend to be the case when any
cf the members of a community, from a claim of
religious liberty, refufe'to fdppert the society to
which th, belong, and under which they claim this
very privilege.
That the clause, which they quote, never did,
nor could, extend to such exemptions on any pre
tence whatever is plain from itfelf, because the
persons, who have a right to claim the liberty
granted therein, are by that very clause made to
«• profefs thcmLlves obliged to live quietly under
the civil government,” which cannot pcffibly be
when they refufe to support the measures often ne
ceffvy to its very exigence.
Moreover it is plain that the worthy Proprietor
who granted this charter, never meant nor intended
any such thing by the liberty of conscience therein
mentioned, inafawch as it would have been con
trary to the 16th fe&ion of the Royal Charter grant
ed by theKing, and accepted by the Proprietor,
who, as they inform this Honourable House in their
address, was united with them in religious profeffi
on and principle, which is as follows : “ And be
" cause in so remote a country, and situate near
" many barbarous nations, the incursions as well
" of the savages themfelvcs as of other enemies, pi
" rats and robbers, may probably be feared ;
" therefore we have given, and for us, our heirs
“ and fuxeffus, do give power by these presents
“ to the said William Perin, his heirs and assigns,
“ bv themselves or their Captains, or ether their
“ officers, to levy, muster and train all forts of men,
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“ of whst cor 3ition fo°ve?l dr wheresoever born,
" in the said province of P.nnfylvania, for the
" time being, an I to make war, and to pursue the
:G enemies and robbers aforefaid, as well bv sea as
“by lanl, even without the limits of the said pro
" vince, and, by God's adiftance, to vanquish and
“ take them, ano being taken, to put them to
" death, by the law of war, or to save them at their
“ pleasure, and to do all and every other t ing,
“ which unto the charge and office of a Captain
' General of an army belongeth, or hath ^ccuftom
" to belong, as fully and freely as any Captain
" General of an army hath ever had the fame.”
This Action of the Royal Charter, together with
the clause in the Charter of privileges, which the
addressers have quoted, shew evidently that the
Proprietor William Penn never intended to grant
an exemption from paring their just proportion
towards the id.port of any ; o ver necessary for the
good govunou nt of the province, whether civil or
military, and therefore can with no degree o' de
cent modally be pleaded in the present, or any other
case of the fame kind. ILfides it is well known,
that no such claim of exemption from contributing
their just proportion towards the support of any
civil or military measure entered into for the main
taining of the government against either external
or Internal enemies, has ever been granted the so
ciety, on account of anv such fcuple of conscience,
in any part of the Britifli empire, tho', as the ad
dreflors alledge, the society has ex'fted for upwards
of an hundred sears, during which period it has
been obliged to, and bill does, pay taxes, levied for
the purpose of defraying the expences of military
expeditions, both here and in Europe ; nor do were
colle& to have found the payment of such taxes on
the lift of grievances annually made cut by the fo'
cuty, though they duly commemorate those to
which the clause in the Charter of Privileges is evi
dently directed.
Thus their own practice becomes a frong proof
aga:nft them, and (hews at lea# that, if their reli
,cus principles are abridged, we are not the au
thors of the abridgment. Our petition is, that
the scale of Justice may hang even, and it there are
such consciences as scruple to have impartial justice
admin ftered, we pray that this Honourable House
may, in their wisdom, difeountenance them; for if
such scruples once obtain favour from government,
it is plain who are molt likely to claim and reap
the benefit of them.
We desire to conclude, by assuring this Honour
able House, that we are determined, to the utmost
of our power, to support the the Liberties of Ame
rica, and to inform them, that, as we ask no partial
favour for ourfel es, so we request that it may not
be granted to others : We therefore beg that the
prayer of our Petition may obtain the molt serious
attention cf thi Honourable House.
Signed by order of the Committee.
WILLIAM ADCOCK, Prefdent."
Saturday, November 4, 1775. A. M.
The House met pursuant to adjournment, and ta
king into consideration the appointment of Dele
gates f>r this province in Congress,
Refolded, That the Honourable John Morton,
Speaker, John Dickinson, Robert Morris,
Benjamin Franklin, Charles Humphreys,
Edward Biddle, Thomas Willing, Andrew
Allen and jAMES Wilson, Enquires, lie, and
they are hereby appointed Delegates for this pro
vince in the Continental Congress.
A resolve from the Honourable Continental Con
gress by two of their members was laid before the
House, and is as follows, viz.
In CONGRESS, November 4., 1775.
THE Congress considering that the most peife&
union between all the Colonies is essentially
necessary for the preservation of the just rights of
North-America, and being apprehenfire that there
is great danger of hostilities being commenced at or
near Wyoming between the inhabitants of Pennlyl
vania and those of Connecticut,
Refolded, That the Affemblics of the said Colo
nies be requeued to take the most speedy and ef
fe&ual ftrps to prevent such hostilities.
Ordered, That Thomas M'Kean and Silas Dean,
Enquires, wait upon the Honourable House of As
sembly of Pennsylvania with a copy of the above
resolution.
By order of Congress,
JOHN HANCOCK, President.
Ordered, That Mr. Dickinson and Mr. Hum
pue,s make enquiry upon what information the
above resolve is founded, and report the farae to
the House on Monday next.
PHILADELPHIA.
In CONGRE S S, Saturday, 'July 19, 1775.
WHEREAS the government of Great-Britain
hath prohibited the exportation of ARMS and
AMMUNITION 10 any ofthe plantations, and en
deavoured to prevent other nations from Apply
ing us.
Resolved, That for the better Applying these co
lonics with the necessary means of defending their
rights, every velfel importing Gun-Powder, Salt
petre, Sulphur, provided they bring with the Sul
phur four times as much Salt-Petre, Brass Field
Pieces, or good mufxets fitted with bayonets, with
in nine months from the date of this Resolution,
(hall be permitted to load and export the produce
of these Colonies, to the value of fitch powder and
Itores aforefaid, the Non-Exportation Agreement
n^withrtanding ; and it is recommended to the
Committees of the federal provinces to infpeft the
military stores so imported, and to estimate a ger.e
rous price for the fame, according to their good
nefs, and permitthe importer of such powder and
other Military Stores aforefaid, to export the va
lue thereof and.no more, in produce of any kind.
/ true Copy from the Minutes.
CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.
In CONGRESS, O&ober I^, 1775.
Refolded; That a just and well authenticated ac
count of the hostilities committed by the Minitte
rial Troops and Navy in America, since last March
be collected, with proper evidence of the truth of
the fa&, related, the number and value of the buil
dings destroyed by them ; abb the number and va
lue of the vessels inward and outward bound, which
have been seized by them since t lat period, as near
as the number and value can be ascertained ; also
the flock taken by them from different parts of the
continent. That Mr. Deane, Mr. J. Adams,
and Mr. Wythe be a Committee for this purpofe^
CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.
N. B. The above Committee reqaef the Printers of
the federal publicpapers in the United carries to infest
the above for three or four weeks fucceffveiy, and al
persons pofleffed of any fuels relative to, or that may
throw light on the above fabjeN, to transmit the fame
to them as early as psble.
TO BE SOLD BY
J OH N HA R T,
At his Vendue Sto r e, at the corner of South and
Fiont-ftreets,
A NEAT assortment of M ERCHANDIZE,
among which are, camblets, werfted dam dks,
everiaftingG, durants, tammies, fhallcons, velvrrets,
checks, fiik ferrits, quality bindings, bed furni
ture, furniture checks, Turk, (tripes, plush, em
bossed flannels, broadcloths, sorest cloths, naps,
costings, dufiis, fluff (hoes, ribbonds, silk gauze,
call. cots, cottons, chintzes and printed linens, gold
and li'ver liced hats, indigo, powder blue, &c.
; N. B. Goods for public and private sale are re
ceived at said Store, and fold (•r cash only.
*, To be let; a neat Dwelling house, conve
nient for a private family. Enquire at said (tore.
T O B E SO 57
A STRONG, well made NEGRO MAN,
twenty years of age, has had the (mall pox,
understands the management of horses, driving a
team, and is as good a plowman as any in the pro
vince; the reason why he is to be fold is for want
of employ. Alio several good working HORSES.
Credit may be had it required. For further parti
culars enquire of Mr. Joseph Vandergrift, at
the Cross Keys, in Tbird-ftreet.
W ANTED, an eldeily M A N, who writes a
good hand, &c. and is qualified to keep a small
school in the country. Apply as above.s
EIGHT DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the fubferiber, in Janu
ary lust, an indented servant lad named SA
MUEL STEWART, a taylor by trade, about
five feet three inches high, of a fair complexion,
with fhoit fair hair, is out mouthed, speaks thick,
and apt to swear; he has a remarkable swelling on
the back of his right hand : Had on and took with
him, a whitish coloured coat and jacket, a pair of
thickset breeches of an olive colour, the rest of his
dress I cannot be particular of, and probably he
may have changed what he had by this time. Who
ever takes up laid servant and secures him in any
gaol, so that I may get him again, or brings him
to Captain William M'Clellan's, in March
Creek settlement, York County, (hall have the
above Reward and reasonable charges.
I JAMES HEZLIP.
ONober 21, 1775.
NOTICE is hereby given to the
Members of the New-Jersey Medical Socie
ty, That they are to meet, agreeable to their ad
journment, in Princeton at the house of Mr. Wil
liam Whitehead, on the second Tuesday in No
vember next, at Eleven o'clock in the morning.
H. STITES, Secretary.
Odober 28, 1775.
EIGHT DOLLARS REWARD.
WA S taken out of the p^fture of the fub
feriber, on Monday night last, a dark
Brown GELDING, near fifteen hands high, a
natural trotter, the off hind foot white in the hol
low of the pattern joint as low as the hoof, a few
white hairs above the rose in his forehead, mai ked
with the fiddle upon his withers, and (hod before.
Any perfen that will bring him to the fubferiber,
living in Csecil County, Maryland, near Saffafrafs
Church, (hall receive the above Reward, paid by
§ ARCHIBALD SHIELDS.
CAME to the plantation of the fub
feriber, living in Brandywine Hundred, and
Newcaft e County, about the twentieth cf May last,
one yoke of OXEN, the one pied, and the.other
brown; also a brown COW. The owner is here
by desired to come and prove his property, pay
charges, and take them away.
t PAUL RAULSTON.
Oflober 3®, 1775.
THREE POUNDS REWARD.
^ TOLEN last night, from the plantation of
° Mr. Gurney, on the Frankford Road, about
three miles from this city, a large bay MAR E,
with a white face, about nine years old, a natural
trotter, and carries high. Whoever takes up said
Mare so that the fubferiber may have her again
(hall have THIRTY SHILLINGS Reward, and
for the tlare and Thief the above Reward, and
reasonable charges, paid by
GEORGE FRANK.
Philadelphia, O&ober 12, 1775.
FORTY DOLLARS REWARD.
WAS BROKE OPEN last night,
WHITE and MONTGOMERY'S
Store, on Market street wharf; when an iron chest
was forced open and robbed of the following arti
cles, vz. One bundle of paper money, containing
One Hundred Pounds, among which were a number
of Continental bills, cf liuo, Three, Four, Five,
and Twenty Dollars. One bundle of Maryland and
Pennsylvania money, containing Twenty Pounds:
Eleven Half jobanneffes, with sundry other Go/rtand
Silver Pieces, amounting altogether to about One
Hundred and Fifty or One Hundred and Sixty Pounds.
Whoever apprehends the Thief or Thieves con
cerned in the above robbery, so that they may be
brought to justice and the money recovered, (hall
be entitled to the above Reward, or a proportioned
part according to the money recovered, by
WHITE and MONTGOMERY.
AROBB E R Y.
BROKE OPEN, on Friday night, the 13th
inst. (O&ober) the (hop of John Hanna,
Biulh-maker, the corner of Chefvut and Second
ftreets, and taken thereout four dozen of white
wadi brushes, bored for long handles; a quantity
of (having boxes, and in ca(h about Forty Shillings
in small money. If any of the above articles are of
fered for sale, it is requested they may he flopped,
and intelligence given to the fubferiber, who will
pay FOUR DOLLARS Reward for the Thief
and Goods. | JOHN HANNA.
TO BE L E T,
By the Subscriber in St. George's, Red Lyon Hun
dred, Newcadle County,
A GOOD brick House, and Lot, known by
the name of the George Tavern. The
house is in good repair, foor rooms on a floor, two
stories high, and a cellar under the fame ; also good
(tables, (he I, and a store adjoining the fame ; like
wife about three acres of land, a peach orchard
and garden, all in good order. Any person in
clining to rent the fame, may know the terms by
applying to the fubferiber, living on the prepiles.
f MARY ROBINSON.
TO BE SOLD BY
THOMAS LAK E,
Near the New-Market, (for Cafli only)
A PARCEL of Jamaica rum, remarkably
(tiong, and would answer to be reduced ;
mufeqvado sugar in hotheads, tierces and barrels;
likewise a parcel of Windward Island rum, very
stout; mahogany of molt dimenficns; logwood, &c.
T O BE SOL D,
THE TIME of an Irish servant lad, who has
three years and (even months to serve. En
quire of Mr. James Whitehead, at the Work
house in Philadelphia.
Odlober 7, 1775.
TWELVE DOLLARS REWARD.
DAN AWAY last night, from the fubferiber,
' in the Township of Northampton, in the Coun
ty of Burlington, an Irish servant man named
rRANCISNIELL, about twenty years of
age, about five feet five inches high, has remarka
ble thick ancles, brown hair which he commonly
wears clubbed ; had cn and took with him, a cla
ret coloured broadcloth coat, a striped linen jacket
with glass buttons, two ozn brig (hirts, two pairof
trowfers of sheeting linen almoU new, thread lock
ing, strong (hoes with strings, two pair of leather
breeches, a twilled kerley jacket black and white,
and an old beaver hat. He is a good deal talkative,
and apt to drink too much. It is supposed he is
making for the Regular Camp at Boston, as he is a
very great Tory. Whoever takes up and secures
the said servant, so that his master may have him
again, (hail receive the above Reward, and reason
able charges if brought home, paid by
JOSEPH BURR, Junior.
WA S committed to the gaol of Glou
cester, New-Jersey, a certain Negro man
named THOMAS MEftEL, a fly, ariful fel
low, very talkative; had on when he was taken,
a white cloth jacket, a blue under cne ; and a pair
of black velvet breeches. His matter is desired to
come for him in three weeks from the date hereof,
or he will be fold for his charges, by
1 RICHARD JOHNSTON, Gaoler.
TENSHILLINGS~REWARD.
STRAYED or STOLEN from the fob.
) scriber, living near the Sweedes Church, Phi
ladelphia, on Saturday the 7th inst. (C&obe-) a
red C O W, with white spots on the right fide of
her reck, fix or seven years old, middling ri,e,
and has a £it in her ear. Whoever secures the Lii
Cow so that the owner may get her again, flail
hav~ the above Reward, and reasonable charges so,
bringing her home, paid bv
t JOSEPH HEWLINGS.
,fl Publifed, and to be Sold by
JC) UN DU N L'A P,
In Market-Street, Philadelphia,
FATHER ABRAHAM'S
A L M AN AC K,
For the Year of our Lord 1776.
The Agronomical Calculations by tie ingenious
David Rittenhouse, A. M. of tbisoty.
(Ta r Tin I)?IFFaT est,
By the Ream or Quire, to be SOLD by
JOH N 1) U NLA P.
SUPERFINE, mid
dling and co-irfe
broadcloths,
Yorkshire kerfeys and
plains,
Scarlet forges,
.6-4 nap'd coatings,
Red and ble.e duffils,
Scarlet nap cloth,
Nap serges,
Scarlet flannels,
Red and blue embossed
flannels,
Superfine rattinets,
Common (halloons.
Fine ditto of all colours,
Different coloured du
rants,
Allopeens,
Striped and plain cam
blets,
Camblettees,
Silk cambists,
Dorfetteens,
Single and double wors
ted damasks,
Calimancoes cf various
colours and prices,
Black and blue evetlaft
ings,
Hair plushes and worded
ditto,
Womens cloth cloaks,
Womens worded mitts,
Womens silk mitts,
7 8 and yard wide cam
bricks,
7-8 wide lawns,
Womens fine chipped
hats,
Womens Leghorn hats,
Womens Father gloves
and mitts,
Rich white fattins,
Different prices of black
fattins,
Half yard silk Persians,
Different forts of black
silk Mantuas,
1-2 yard white iarfanets,
An assortment of ell
wide silk Persians,
Figur'd modes for cloaks
&c.
Different sorted Barcelo
na silk handkerchiefs
of the best qualities,
Different assortment of
white Scotch threads
from No. 15 to 50,
Quality and (hoe bind
ings,
Black taffaties,
Combs of every kind,
Black fattin ribbonds,
TO PE SOLD BV
PETER and iSAACWiAO7 F,
At their store in Water- it^t, the L.nnh deer
above Maiket-dicct, Philadelpln?,
A large and general assortment cf DRV GOODS,
which they will fell on very low turns, for e&(a
or fhoit credit; cennhing of
White fattin ribbords,
Dinereßt coloured hb
boiids,
White 3 corded fewin^
silks,
Black sewing silk,
Pewter plates & bafons§
Pewter porringcus,
Pewter table and tea
spoons,
Silk and cotton romad
handke; chiefs,
Rozet handkerchiefs,
Spotted and flowered
bandanocs,
White and black silk
cravats,
Spotted linen handker
chiefs,
Kenting handkerchiefs,
Basket and death-head
buttons,
Metal buttons far regi
mentals,
Silk and Lair twist,
Mohair,
Callicoes, cottons and
chintzes of various
qualities,
Striped & pl<in Bengals,
An assortment of fad
dlery ware,
Barlow and piflol-cap
knives,
Pinchbeck (hoe-buckles.
White metal and fteci
(hoe-buckles,
White metal and yellow
knee- buckles,
Masons trowells,
Best and common metal
razors)
An assortment of lock
and hinges,
Small nails of different
kinds,
Fine Irish linens,
Silk breeches patterns,
Crimson worsted liana
teens,
Yellow harrateens witli
furniture comp Lat,
Mens cotton and thread
stockings,
Womens fine cotton and
thread stockings,
Window glass,
9-4 cotton counterpains;
6 q.&8 4 couraterpains.
Black bombaz^ens,
Bl:ck fattinets for bree
ches,
Also many other arti
cles too tedious to men
tion.