The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1779-06-16 00:00:00, page 1

As we would with to adore the directing hand of
Providence, so we are bound to acknowledge that
spirit of patriotism, which has induced your Excel
lency to Sacrifice the sweets of an affluent domestic
life, to put yourfelf, and your most amiable and vir
tuous Consort, to repeated and affecting reparations,
for no other reasons than defending the just Rights
and Liberties of your bleeding Country. —Here, Sir,
permit us to express our grateful sense of your Excel
lency's vigilance and care for this part of our coun
try, in the trying winter of the year 1777 ; when, after
two memorable victories, your Excellency by mas
terly strokes of generalship, defended us with a hand
ful of undifciplin'd militia against the depredations
of a formidable army of our enemies, collected and
quartered in our vicinity.
We cannot help admiring that gracious Providence,
which has made the success and victories of your arms
to bare down the remembrance of difeouraging dis
appointments. And we cordially' hope, that the a
greeable profped of a speedy termination of the pre
sent troubles in favour of our distressed nation, may
fully answer your and our wishes, and support your
Excellency under the present weight of perplexing
cares and concerns, inseparable from your station.
Though quartering of armies among citizens, is
always.attended with unavoidable incoflveniencies to
the latter, yet we are agreeably constrained to ac
knowledge that your Excellency has been pleated to
take particular cart throughout the course of this last
winter, to prevent and alleviate these calamities as
much as possible.—Your Excellency's concern for the
support of civil government, in its just and equitable
execution, has endeared you to your fellow citizens:
And the ftriH difeipline which the gentlemen officers
under your Excellency's more immediate command,
at this place, have observed, not only at head-quar
ters, but also throughout the body of this army, we
are persuaded has merited the approbation and ap
plause of the good people of this neighbourhood.
We beg your Excellency will do us the justice to
believe us finccre, when we declare our affection and
true regard for your person, and the deep sense we
entertain of the important services your Excellency,
and the gentlemen officers and soldiers under your
command, have rendered their country in the course
of this severe contest : And when we assure you, Sir,
that we shall ever deem it both our duty and privilege
to make our warmest addresses to the God of Armies,
for the preservation of your health, an invaluable life,
as also that of the brave officer- and soldiers of your
army; praying that indulgent Heaven may dired your
councils, and crown your exertions the ensuing cam
paign with such victory and success as shall compel
a haughty, cruel, and relentless enemy to consent to
terms of a fafe, honourable and lasting peace.
Signed by order of the Confdor\,
JACOB R. HARDENBERGH, V. D. M.
June 1, 1779.
His Excellency's ANSWER.
To the Minister, Elders and Deacons of the
Dutch reformed Church at Raritan.
Gentlemen,
meet the approbation of good men cannot but
be agreeable.—Your affectionate expressions make
it dill more so.
Tn quartering an army, and in fopplying its wants,
distress and inconvenience will often occur to the ci
tizen —I feel my feft happyin confeioufnefs that these
have been ftri&ly limited by necessity, and in your
opinion, of my attention to the rights of my fellow
citizens.
I thank Jou, Gentlemen, sincerely for the sense
you entertain of the conduct of the army, and for
the interest you take in my welfare.—
I trust the goodness of the cause and the exertions
of the people, under divine protection, will give us
that honourable peace for which we are contending.
Suffer me, Gentlemen, to with the reformed Church
at Raritan, along continuance of its present Minister
and Consistory, and all the blcffings which flow from
pietyeimd religion.
G. WASHINGTON.
° 4 °,
ADDRESS of the Minister, Elders and Deacons of
the reformed Dutch Church at Raritan, presented
to His Excellency GEORGE WASHINGTON,
Efqtiire, Commander in Chief of the Armies of the
United States of North-America.
Mayjt please your Excellency,
WE the Confiltory of the Dutch reformed
Church at Raritan, beg leave to embrace
this favourable opportunity, to declare
to your Excellency the real sentiments
of our hearts.
NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE
[Vol. IL]
WEDNESDAY, June 16, 1779.
That the Assistant Commissaries of Forage, either
attending the army to colled forages on a march, or
thole employed in purchasing under the principal pur
chasers in diftrids, shall have the fame allowance as
the Assistant Deputy Quartermaßers-General ; and
the Foragemafters who attend the receipt and issues
of forage at polls or magazines, and one with each
brigade of the army, be allowed the fame pay and
rations as Waggonmafters :
May 11, 1778.
A Letter of the loth from Gustavus Rifberg, De
puty Commissary General of Issues, was read;
whereupon
Congress taking into consideration a report of the
Board of War relative to the Deputy Commissaries
of Issues, and a report relative to the officers in the
department of the Quartermatter-General ;
Refolded, That the pay of two hundred dollars per
month be allowed to thy Deputy Commissaries Ge
neral of Issues, to commence from the firft day of
January last:
That the Assistant Commissaries of Issues at every
magazine, polt or brigade of the army, be allowed
ninety dollars per month „and the Clerks of the
Commissary General and Deputy Commissary General
of Issues, the sum of eighty dollars per month:
That the Clerks of the Brigade Commissaries and
those at posts and magizines, be allowed fifty dollars
per month ; but no such clerk to be employed where
the daily issues do net equal four hundred rations:
That a Clerk of the scales be allowed thirty-five
dollars per month :
That every deputy Commissary General of Issues
be intitled to forage for two horses:
That every Brigade Commissary be intitled to forage
for one horse ; and whensoever the duty of the de
partment requires the Commissaries at posts and ma
gazines to travel, the Quartermaster at the post shall
turnifh an horse for the occasion:
That all Staff Officers who serve with the army,
shall be allowed eloathing on the fame conditions as
officers in the line, .provided they engage for a year
or longer.
May 17. Refolded, That the Auditors of the main
army be authorized to establish a general rule for
making allowances to recruiting officers for the in
cidental expences of drums, files, and cockades, re
porting the fame to the board of Treasury.
The Committee on the Treasury having reported,
" 1 hat in obedience to the order of Congress they
hayc referred the accounts of General Count Pulaski's
When the duty of an Assistant Commissary absolutely
requires that he should travel, he shall be allowed three
dollars for every day he shall so necessarily travel, for
and towards his expences on the journey:
That the Deputy Commissary General of Issues shall
once in fix months visit all the magazines, posts and
itiuing stores in their refpe&ive dirogts, to examine*
the Rate of the provisions and stores, and fee that their
Assistants are punctual ip the discharge of their duty,
and they shall he allowed three dollars per day for their
travelling expences in making such circuits :
That an accurate lift of all the Commissaries of Is
sues be made out once in every three months and lodg
ed with the Board of War; and every such Commis
sary who shall have been in the department for one
year, previous to this date, and now continues therein,
shall be intitled to draw out of the Clothier General's
store one suit of cloaths for himfelf and one suit for
his Clerk, to be paid for at the fame rate that officers
in the line are charged for the fame ; and that they
continue annually to do the fame until Congress shall
order otherwise.
Refolded, That all Deputy Quartermasters General
who tranfad business upon commissions, shall not be
entitled cither to pay or rations ; but where they aCt
without receiving such commissions, whether Ration
ed at a post on with the army, they shall be allowed
two hundred dollars per month, two rations per day,
and forty dollars per month subsistence:
That the pay of an Assistant (Qartermafter be one
hundred and forty dollars per month, and the usual
rations and subsistence :
That a Deputy Commissary General of Forage at
tending the main army, or attached to an army in
a leparate department, be allowed the fame pay and
rations as a Deputy Quartermaster General anting
without commissions :
That the pay of a Deputy Waggonmafter General
be one hundred dollars per month and one ration per
day, and twenty dollars per month subsistence; and
that a Waggonmafter be allowed eighty dollars per
month, one ration per day, and ten dollars per month
subsistence :
Extracis from ^Journals ^CONGRESS,
PHILADELPHIA.
T H E
legion to the Auditors of accounts for the main army;
that for want of regularity in keeping thole accounts
and of proper vouchers, agreeably to the directions of
Congress and the Board of Treasury, Auditor John-
Ron has reporter to them that it is impracticable to
fettle the laid accounts, as appears from his report
and remarks accompanying their report ;"
Refolded, That the commanding officer of the de
tachment of the army lerving in South-Carolina and
Georgia be authorized to appoint a Paymaster for the
said legion, and that Captain Baldelqui, the present
Paymaster, be detained until he shall have produced
competent vouchers, and fettled the accounts of the
said legion.
Refolded, That the Commissioners for Indian affairs
in the Northern department be directed to confylt
General Washington upon,all treaties with the Indi
ans, and to govern themselves by such inflections as
he shall give them relative to any partial or general
treaty of peace to be concluded with them.
Refolded, I hat the Adjutant-General of the army
of the United States be allowed the fame rations as a'
Brigadier-General :
1 hat he be permitted to engage two Assistants and
one Clerk; the Afliftants to be taken from the line,
and both they and the Clerks to be approved of by
the Commander in Chief:
i hat each Assistant be allowed such an addition to
his appointment as an officer in the line, as shall make
the fame equal to those of a Lieutenant Colonel:
That the Clerk be taken from the subalterns or vo
lunteers in the army, and allowed pay and subsistence
equal in the whole to those of a Captain.
Refolded, 1 hat 60,c00 dollars be granted for the
purpose of re-inlifting the non commissioned officers
and privates of the Bth Pennsylvania regiment, and
40,c00 dollars for the purpose of re-inlifting the non
commissioned officers and privates of the 13th Virginia
regiment, upon the terms prop@fed in the resolution
of Congress of the 23d day of January and the 9th of
March last ; that these funis be paid into the hands of
the Paymaster of the Board of War, to be by h in
transmitted to the commanding officers of the regi
ments albrelaid.
May 18. A letter of the iith from Gen. Washington
was read, informing that Brigadier M'lntofh is d«fi
rous of serving in the Southern armv, as the war is
now in the State to which he belongs ; and therefore
lecommending him as a gentleman whose knowledge
of service and of the country promises to render him
ufeful: Whereupon
Refolded, That Brigadier MTntofh be permitted to
repair to the Southern army, and there ad under the
orders of the commanding officer in that department,
until the farther orders of Congress or the Commander
in Chief.
Mr. Plater laid before Congress a letter from Mr.
J. Thomas, dated April the 28th, and representing
great abuses, waste and neglect of publick stores- at
the Head of Elk;,
Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee on
the Commissary's and Quartermaster's deparments,
and that they be directed to enquire into the fads
mentioned in it, at publick expence, and if true to
transmit the fame to the Commander in Chief, that a
Court-Martial for the trial of the delinquents may be
immediately appointed.
A memorial from Joachin Luca, fubjed of his Ca
tholic Majesty, Master of the ship St.Francifco de Pau
la, alias el Valer.ciano, captured by the ship Pilgrim,
Hugh Hill, and carried into the State of Maflachufetts-
Bay ; also a memorial from Joseph de Llano, a Spa
niard, Master of the ship Holy Martyrs, captured by
the schooner Success, Capt. Phillip Trafk, and car
ried into Massachusetts-Bay; were read.
The Committee to whom were referred sundry let
ters from Leonard Albouy and others, report,
" That being convinced from a variety of concur
rent testimony and circumstances, the dißreffes cf the
Bermudians are not exaggerated, and that any pro
vifioris which may arrive at their Islands will be faith
fully and entirely applied to their use; having also
collected a number of important vouchers in proof erf
their warm attachment to these States, and being
moreover assured by the Minister of France that his
Court will cordially acquiefee in- any meafurcs which
the policy of Congress may adopt in behalf of those
Differing inlanders, they are of opinion, tl at notwith
standing the resolution of inexpediency of the 7th inst.
some mode of immediate relief to that distressed peo
ple ought to be adopted, and therefore do tarneftly
recommend' the following lefolption:
.“ Refolded, That it be recommended to the Execu
tive Powers of the States of Pennsylvania, Delaware,
Mai yland, Virginia and North-Carolina refpedivelv,'
to permit one thousand bufliels of Indian corn to be
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