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A FEW GALLERY P 1 WS. in St. Michael's Church to
be hired, 011 very rcafonable lerms. Enquire of
JOHN M'CAJA, run. ) Church-
EDWARD LEGGE, fen. § Wardens.
Charlefloavn, 9th April, 1782.
LICENCES for RETAILING
SPIRITUOUS TC^UORS,
To be renewed by Monday the 23d of .pril, at No. 10,
Tradd-ftreet, . 4.
A RAFFL E.
TO be raffled for at Coram s tavern, and may be Seen at
Mr. Harper s, next door to Stewart's tavern on the Bay, a variety
of genteel ufeful PLATE, partly adapted for a fide board and tea
table, valued at one hundred and twenty-five guineas, divided into
twenty-five chances, at five guineas a chance. Such gentlemen as
'hide to take chances, will leave them names at the above places;
the money mun be pad previous to the raffle, which will take place
when the chances are disposed of, proper notice wher -of will be given.
°" Tuesday, the 30th April inf. ivU! be fold at pubPeb sale,
before the Exchange, between Twelve and One o'Clock,
A NEGRO WENCH and CHILD, lite the property of
Richard Howley, arid anomer WENCH, late the property
of BenjAiin Williamson faall of them taken on attachment, and
fold agreeable to the attachment a&, by or Ur of the Board of Police.
JOHN DAVIES, Sherdf.
Charlefonvn, „b Abril, 1782.
°" Thursday tbe 2d da, of A'^a, next, quill be fold at publick
bale, before the Exchange, between 12 and 1 o'clock,
THAT very airy and pleasant situated HOUSE and LOT
of LAND on White-Point, containing n front 011 Church
ftreet Continued 44 feet 6 inches, and in depth 105 feet, now distin
guished by the No. 50; the house and buildings in good order, and
Very convenient for a family. °•
At the fame dime will be Sold,
The genteel FURNITURE in the fame, consisting of many
very valuable ufeful articles, together with some valuable Negroes ;
all late the property of Mr. Alexander Bose, seized on execution, and
fold by order of the Board of Police.
Cbarlefoivn, 9th April, 1782. JOHN DAVIES, Sheriff.
To be Let, and tmmmediate poffifrngiven,
A large STORE and CELLAR,
On Greenwood's Wharf,,
For particulars enquire at No. 3, St. Michael's-Ailey.
TOBE LET,
^ n ^ may be entered upon the 22d of May next,
The HOUSE, front and back Stores,
No. 8, in Bedon's-Alley.
For particulars, enquire of JAMES MACKIE.
TO BE LET,
The HOUSE, No. 44, Broad-street.
Apply to William Greenwood, or William-Kerr-Ross.
WHEREAS repeated complaints have been made to me,
that the property of the enemy fequeflered in my hands, is
dandeftinely carried away, and otherwise injured, I think it incum
bent on me, in justice to the trull reposed in me, to publish an extract
from the proclamation of the Right Honourable Earl Cornwallis, of
the 16th September, 1780, that no person may plead ignorance in
future. And Ido hereby warn all persons, as they shall answer for
the fame, at their peril, from injuring in any manner, the property
of the enemy in my possession, either by removing negroes or board
Ships, carrying away the timber or other property, or molesting the
people employed by me. And Ido require all the inhabitants who
are in arrears for house-rent or negro hire to my office, to pay the
fame up to theist instant, to Mr. James Gordon, at lis office,
No. 31, Meeting-street, on or before the I.6th of this mnib, and
his receipt shall be a Sufficient difeharge. JOHN CRUDEN.
Cbarlefoiun, loth April, 1782.
Extract from a Proclamation of the Right-Honourable ChX^L^S
Barl Cornwallis, Lieutenant-General „' His Majeftfsforces, ^h
" And I do hereby declare, that any person or persons obßru&mg
or impeding the said Commissioner in the execution of his duty, by
concealment or removal of any property he may be..authorised to
seize or otherwise, shall on conviction, be punished as aiding and
abetting rebellion. And if any person or persons shall make discovery
where any effects are concealed or attempted to be carried away, or
shall give any necessary information to the. said John Cruden,
Esquire, so that effects belonging to a person whose estate is seques
tered may be Secured, the person or persons giving such information
shall be most liberally rewarded. And all officers civil and military,
and all persons whatsoever, are dridtly enj dned end required to aid
and assist the said John Cruden and his deputies in the execution of the
trull reposed in him.
The above Qvas given under his Lord? ip's hand and seal at
Head-Quarters, in the difrict of Wexfaru, in the Province of
South-Caroline, the y „of September. 1780
Charlestown, April if, 1782.
THE Board cf Police have thought proper to direst the
Commiflioners of the Markets co put in force the Add entitled,
*0 An A& for a Fish Market ;" and for the encouragement of those
who Shall exert themselves in bringing fiSh to market, the following
BOUN fills will be given :
To the decked boat that Shall bring to market the greatest quantity
of fifh in the course of one month, Ten Poumh fteiling.
To the decked boat that Shall bring the Second greatest quantity, a
bounty of Seven Pounds.
To the decked boat which shall bring the third greatest quantity,
, bounty of Five Pounds.
To the open boat which shall bring the greatest quantity, a bounty
of Five Pounds.
To the open boat which shall bring the second greatest quantity,
a bounty of Three Pounds.
And to the open boat which shall bring the third greatest quantity,
a bounty of Tovo Pounds.
The above bounties to be paid to those who may become entitled
thereto, upon their producing a certificate to the Board of Police,
from one or more of the Commiflioners of the Market, fpecifying
their having merited it.
The above bounties to commence from Monday the Bth instant.
Order of the Board,
W. SIMPSON, Clerk.
ROYAL
SOUTH-CAROLINA: Printed by R. WELLS & SON, Printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.
From SATURDAY, April 13,
Vol. 11.
Gentlemen,
I)Y one of your late papers, I nerceive Colonel Hayne's unhappy
) case has made some noise in England. This confirms the truth
oi an assertion I have often heard made, that nothing is less under
flood there than the true state of affairs in this country; which is
certain y not at all furprizin^, when we confider that our enemies
are indefatigable in propagating and friending accounts of every cir
cus stance, by which they think themselves aggrieved, or improperly
treated by our Government, whiift an uniform Silence prevails on our
fide, under the harSheSt u.age, and although we have had by far the
greatest reason to complain.
'1 he gentle aid humane treatment which the Rebel prisoners in
our hands receive from us, is well known; but it is by no means
equally well Known, that our militia, when prisoners to them, arc,
ill general, treated in the most cruel manner I beg leave, through
the channel of your p?per, to make kno./n to the world the usage
which I, and many other prisoners, received from General Greene's
armylail summer. As rhe narrative, in some places, will appear ihock
i°g to every man of humanity I beg leave to premise, that most of
the particulars are well known to many Refugees now in this place;
and faat Capt. M'Pherf& T Del ancey's corps, Capt. Neil Campbel
of me 84th, Lieut Anu : dm 17th, Lieut Partridge of the 23d.
Hudebranci .id Lory of the Heflian
troops, most of them \ fr pr.Lut within the British one, were cye
witneffes to some of the most material parts.of it.
I was born in Ez_ford countyin Virginia, and fettled as a merchant
in this pro for# m 1,74, near Col.Thompfon's in Amelia Townihip.
After the redq&iun of this country by the British arms in 1780,
It,"! ' an a °" ve °^ i° fayou: of Government, and, on the 14th of
October, I received a commission to 'a& as a Justice of Peace, from
Col. Balfour, the prefect Commandant of this place. In February
17'1, after Lord Cornwallis had marched into North-Carolina, Lord
Rawdon, who commanded on the frontiers of this province, applied
to me to procure him intelligence of the movement's cf Sumpter and
the other Rebel partisans on the western frontier. From this time
I gave his Lordship, whose head-quartos were at Camden, all the
information I could procure; and to prevent accidents, from my letters
being loft or mifearried, I kept copi 3 of those I sent to Camden, and
also preferred such as I receiver from thence. About this time a
piur.de r ing party of the enemy having robbed my store, whirls was
on the north fide of the Cugaire River, near M'Cord's Ferrv, and
finding neither my life nor property Secure in that Situation, I re
moved my ejects to a house within two hundred cards of Fort Motte,
° n . °^ e oopolite S:de of the river. The fort was commanded by Cap
tain M'Pherfon of Delancey's corp.,, and had a garrison of British
troops and imhtia. 'That gentian in appointed me to take the com
mand of the militia in the fort, iinth a commiflion, iu proper form,
could be procured from Jhord Rawdou Shortly after, Gen. Greene,
having marched to Camden, detached Col. Lee, with his legion, to
join Gen. Marion with his brigade of Rebel militia, from the country
bet.w;rt Santee and Peedce, with orders to Gen. Morion to invell
Fort Warfon on Wright's Bluff on rise no th tide of Santee. Having
reduced that poll, Marion cr, ffed Santee, un the night of the Bth of
May, and inveFed Fort Motte next morning about 10 o'clock.
Having no lufpicion of any enemy ocing then near me, I had walked
down from the fort to my own house to breakfaft, when a party of
Lee's cavalry, under the command of Capt. Rodolph, rode up sud
denly, and made me a prifener. I told him I hoped to be treated as
an officer and a gentleman ; he assured me I had nothing to fear on
that score, and then rode off, leaving me in charge with a Cadet
""f' '" ee > g rurally known among them by the name of Little Lee.
This gentleman immediately ordered the dragoons to flrip me ol my
deaths, which they soon did, leaving me nothing but my fair.,
7 hey then set eur .for Col. Thompson's, where Gen. Marion lav,
whi h was about a mile distant, an. >de at a hard trot, making me
run before them. As my breath and feet soon began to fail they
wounded me with their Iwords, in three places in the head, to make
me keep up. It was in vain to bag for mercy, and intreat them to
moderate their speed. It only served to increase their rage, and re
double their blows. As I grew weaker, I fell several times; but they
continued to beat me until I ^lYup again. When I reached General
Marion's camp I tainted, being quite spent with fatigue. Iwas then
given in charge to the Quarter Guard, and ban a lupply of decent
deaths from Mrs. Tfiomfon. Next morning I %a accoded by one
William Cooper from Peedee, a lieutenant of Marion's militia, who
was afterwards wounded in the arm, and taken prifor er at the abair
°f Quinby House. He proposed an exchange betwixt me and one
Samuel Cooper, his brother or cousin, who was at that time a • ri
foner with Lord R^wdon, having been take 11 some weeks before by
a detachment of the garrison of Camden under Col. Doyle, in an
exc irfion to Snow's Island, near the mouth of Lynch's C reek. I rea
dily agreed to the proposal, and Gen. Marion having aifo assented,
he gave a paG to a woman, faded Clark, to carry a letter from me
to Lord Rawdon prdpoling the exchange. The woman delivered the
letter to his I.ordfllip, who at that time lay at Nelson's Ferry, on his
march from Camden to Charleftown ; but as she had no flag, and
behaved, in other refpe&s, in a iufyeious and imprudent manner,
his Lordiuip looked upon the letter as a forgery, -and considered the
whole matter as a fineffe to get Samuel Cooper released, and to pro
cureintebigence of his poftion : he therefore gave no answer, but
detained the wonian as a f^v.
During the urge of the fort, ' was treated with humanity and in
dulgence, Being buffered to wane about during the day, with only
Lieut. Cooper as a guard. "imetimes we vent a fiffirg in a canoe
upon ilie eongaree river, and every day I dined in my own house.
At night I iva^ confined m the quarter-guard, and was rcleafcd in the
morning, after the toll was Galled. In fbprt, except that my house
was plundered, and my propc rty destroyed, I 0 as treated in all other
refpe&s as a gentleman, and had no fufpidoh of the dreadful doom
that was-allotted ' for me.
On the 14th, in the afternoon, the house in the fort beirg let on
fire by the enemy, the garrison was compelled to furruid<r at difcrc
tion.. The regulars and militia were instantly plundered of their
clonths, and some of the latter were even Gripped of their fhirt>.
They were all, except the regular officers, confined in Col. Thomp
son's mill-house, at the foot of the hill on which the fort flood.
1 hefe last remained with Col. Lee and the other continental officers.
A little after iunfet Colonel Lee sent Little Lee to the mill-house
for Luut. Fuller, of the militia, with orders to carry him to the
fort, and hang him on the gate of Mrs. Motte's fence. This unfor
tunate young mart, who did net exceed nineteen years of age, was
accused of being the cause of the death of a Mrs. Tate, on Poplar
creek, who was turned out of her house when in the small-pox
by which she catched cold and died. Her hufoand, after having
taken protection from us, joined General Marion, along with several
others from that neighbourhood; and as they often crossed Santee
in-fmall parties, and committed depredationsand murders, for which
purpose they received intelligence from their families, who often
concealed them, Capt. M'Pherfon had sent Lieut. Fulker to their
wives, ordering them to remove twenty miles ft cm the river before
a certain day fixed for that purpose. Fulker utterly denied his being
the, cause of her death, and begged he might be brought to trial to
maxe lus innocence appear, but this was refused him; and Little
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GAZETTE.
to W EDNESDA Y, April 17, 1782.
Lee tod him it was in vain to expe& mercy, for he might rest assured
lie fhouid be put to death. He was accordingly carried to the gate,
where he was gripped naked, and hanged without a trial, or even
a hearing, in his own defence When he was dead and cut down,
Col. Lee ft nt the fame messenger for John Jackson, a private mihua.
man, and ordered him to prepare for death, accusing him of having
carried expreffe- for the King's troops, and of having killed, in action,
one of Gen. Sumpter's men, when he made an unfircefsfal utter pt
the 24th of the preceding February on Colonel Thompson's hers „
where the poll had been kept before it was removed to Mis. Mo ic's
house, which had been previously furreunded with a redoubt for
that purpose. The poor man begged to be brought to trial be
^ Was '"' "? death; but to no purpose. He was hurried
off, gripped, and tied up about dark, and left hanging all ni^ht
on the gate, while Lieutenant Fulker'" body which had been cut
down to make room so, him, was left naked under the gallows until
m °rning, when it was dragged along the ground by the end
of the halter, that remained about his neck, and buried together
uuth J-ckfon's body, in the ditch of the redoubt which the, were
then levelling. As soon as Jackson was cut down, HuA Maf
keby, another private militia man, was sent for, and ordered to < re
pare ft r death. He ulked for what reason ; he was answered for
to nne cf Mr. Cruden's deputies, the sequestered effeds of
John hr Withams in that neighbourhood, and for ailing as a pu de
"c a"T C '°; D °^ e i That officer had left Camden in the beginning
°'^"'^ nd " rr - ed his La ^ wh ° was far advanced iu pregnancy'
to Charleftown; and upon his return to Camden to join his regime nt
the Volunteers of Ireland, hearing that Gen. Greene had inve f cd
that garrdon, he lelt the high road after he puffed M'Cerd's Ferrv
got Mafkellv to carry him, and Capt. M'Lean of the New-York
Volunteers, with a few dragoons, through the woods to Camden
where tney arrived in Safety. Mafcliy was immediately firippe of
his eloaths, and had an old dirty Shirt tied round h m,' and wa > them
hc^rg'"' " the ''" h " d b °°"' wichm the flighted trial or
Ail this while I had no fufpicibn that I was doomed to the fme
fat,e As I had been treated with so much indulgence, I expelled to
be lent to Cnarleßown along with the regular offices, on parole
% to rem s ° n til exchanged; and as these gentlemen were io set
oh for town mat morning, I waited patiently in the quarter-ffuard
expecting every minute to be released upon Signing my parole. These
agreeable icieas did not last long. A ferjeant and two privates of the
CuntmeirtTs came to the quarter-guard, and alked if one Levi Smith
wa , h wng the prisoners. I immediately came forward, and avowed
mylelf; but I foe your readers to guess the horror and adorn
ment with which I was seized, when they to d me they had orders
!° L Lec ? to carr Y me to Mrs. Motte's gate and han F me I
replied it was mipofhble, it could not be; but the Serjeant akfwered l
he would ,cw me his authority, and produced a written order id
taele words, which I read,
“ Bring Levi Smith from the quarter guard, and hang him.
r " Francis Lee."
1 now found that I had not a moment to Spare; I therefore beared
one of the quarter guard to run to my house, and dedre my wife
c ?, drCTl ^ meet me at the gallows, and take their lad farewell
Ihe fehow mitantly went off, and I was delivered to the ferir n t°
When webegaa to ascend the hill on which the fort flood ny new
guara deirced me to drip, declaring they would have my deaths
° ft , the coat and w^coat I had received frlm°
Mr ^ornpfon, but this did not Satisfy them ; they declared they
would have my Shirt also. I begged them not to treat me with io
much indignity, but wait till I was dead; but they swore they would
nave it then, and wounded me Lightly in two places with a bayonet
upoa whicn I pulled it off, and delivered it to them. I now walked
?°r < X aL ° v ^' having no other eloaths on but a pair of trowfers
Mr. I nompfon had also given me after being Stripped when 1 Was
made a prisoner. Being arrived, I found Maftelly had be n just
turned off, and my w ife and children coming up; they were inftanriy
ordered away by a Captain Smith of the Continentals, who debred
them not to come within a hundred yards of the foot. An ofort
now fode up, whom I took to be Col. I,ee, though I am not certain,
die agitation of my mind was so great. I aSked him if it *as law
ful to hang a man without a trial; and received for answer, that I h d
* a " ^A'i' 1 .Incf 1nc f. d CT P^ to get; that I had a&ed as'a Jultice'of
Peace and Militia Officer under the Crown; that I was an enemy to the
United States, and that I had been the cause of Mrs. M% lord's house
at tne ferry being burn . This woman, who lived on the road from.
Camden to Charleftown, and kept a tavern and ferry, was a period
01 notorious diteffedion to the British cause. Her fon,who had broke
his paroie, and was then a captain in the State Troops under Sumpter
came Ireqiuhtly down through the woods from the western frontier'
win fmati parties, and destroyed the publick boats that carried I'ores
from Nelson's ferry to Camden. His mother usually harboured him
on, these expeditions, and almost every British officer, when traveling '
wno floppy d at her house a night, had his horses Stolen before moral
mg. In Short, her ill behaviour was so glaring, that, her son having
about the middle of die preceding March, burnt a boat loaded with
corn and lalt pork for Camden, Lord Kewhon, on the 25th of that
month, sent Capt. Munro of the Volunteers of Ireland, with a so all
party of that regiment, and Capt. Hughie's company of militia
mounted, with orders to burn her house, and order her rever to b^
found within twenty miles of the river again ; a transaction of wh'vh
I knew nothing until two hours after the house washurne. 1 found
all protestations of my innocence were vain, and that no appeal o Id.
be made to the Laws of Nations, notwithstanding C pt M'Pherfon
, and the regular officers who were present, did every tiring in ch ir
power to Save me, and infixed that the British mihtia and regain
ought to be looked upon in the fame light; that the commiffiom of
the officers of each were equally good, and tha any injury done to
me would- be looked upon as done to one of thcmfelves.At this t ne
1 heard one of the Continental Officers fay to ano her who was
Standing by him, in the crowd round the gallows ' It is a Shame to
take the life of any man without a trial. This man, let him be the
cevil, or what he will, ought to have had a trial."
I was now made ready for execution. The old dirty hi ntint rShirt
was taken from Mafkelly's body, and Wrapped round mine, and
^Y F" ni ° ned -, A number of indecent jekes were passed on
MaikcLy s naked body, and a he did not appear to be quite dead
Some bl the soldiers pulled down his feet to dispatch him quickly
the reason of which was, that no rope could be got to hang me'b%
and tney were obliged to wait for Mafkelly'sbeing dead, to get
"" P ur P°' e * In the mean time, as they'did not use a cart
and the gate was pretty low, so that they were apprehensive my feet
would touch the ground, enquiry was made for a tab horse co mount
^ "I':"' u P°n this occasion, Mr. Hyrne, who was afterwards in
Charleftown negociating the general exchange that took place Shortly
after, and has been lately taken at Mr. Daniel Horrv's plantation om
Santee, by Major Frazer with the cavalry; this gentleman, I fay,
was extremely eager in offering, for that purpose, a grey horse he'
rode. Maikclly was now ordered to be cut down, and I had near fr'
taken fafewel of the world, when a hidden noise turned my attentir fe
Vo (he outside of the crowd, where I perceived Gen. Marion bn horse
qck, with his sword drawn. He asked, in a pallion, what they were :
c?",^/,'" ? ' r ]] e f ° ldfer ß answered, We arc hanging them people,
^r. He then afkedithem, who ordered them to hang any person ?
they replied, Col. Lee. " I will Jet ye^ kßow, damn Jou," replied
Numb. n&