The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1780-06-21 00:00:00, page 3

and others are gone with him : He has permitted some
of his prisoners to return on parole : His whole force
when he landed at Crown-Point is laid to be about
500 men, 200 of them Britifli, part of his own regi
ment, and Indians. Capt. Putman and four men fol
lowed them in their retreat four days, on their way
to Lake Champlain : He saw hira 24 miles from John
son hall. Some think they will take their route to
Ofwagatchie, but this seems improbable, as they have
not provisions fufficient with them. His Excellency
the Governor has collected a body of militia to inter
cept their way to Lake Champlain ; a number have
also marched from New-Hampshire Grants for the
.fame purpose. Col. Van Schaick with 800 men are
"in pursuit of him by the way of Johnstown. We hear
the enemy had their feet much swelled by their long
march ; and being greatly fatigued, it is hoped our
people may come up with and give a good account
of the Lieutenant Colonel and his murdering banditti.
CHATHAM, June 14 .
The enemy's brutality to some women at Connec
ticut Farms would make even savages biufh ; and we
are informed from undoubted authority, that the
fame line of conduct has been purlued in Elizabeth-
Town towards some of the firft characters.
The loss sustained the firft day by the Jersey brigade
was i Ensign and 6 rank and file killed, 4 subalterns
and 30 rank and file wounded, and 12 milling. A
return of the killed and wounded of the militia we
have not obtained.
We have taken about fifty prisoners ; and several
deserters have come in.—They still remain at Eliza
beth-Town and the Point.
Extraß of a letter from Pumpton, dated June 6.
" Last Friday fennight two waggons belonging to
Mr. Gamble, Commiflary, &c. on their way from
Filh-Kill to Morristown, were flopped in Smith's
Clove by a party of the enemy from New-York, and
robbed of most part of whatever was valuable in them.
In one of them was a trunk of hats for some officers
in our army ; one trunk of books and clothing be
longing to Capt. Garanger of the artillery ; and ano
ther very large trunk of valuable clothing of every
kind, together with a collection of books, &c. the
property of Samuel Witham Stockton, Esq. of this
state, who arrived about fix months ago fro 1 Hol
land. After the trunks were broke open and empti
ed, they were left, with a considerable number of
books and some trifling articles, in the woods where
the robbery was committed. A few days ago the
two last mentioned gentlemen, with a party of con
tinental troops, scoured the mountains in that quar
ter, and searched all the difaffedted houses in the
neighbourhood of the Clove, fufpeded of harbouring
those infamous refugee robbers, but met with little
success in making any important difeoveries. Inllead
of the enemy's difeouraging these villains, I am in
formed they Simulate and endeavour to protect them
from the immediate puniihment due to their crimes,
by putting commissions into their pockets as officers,
thereby providing against an accidental capture."
From a LONDON MAGAZINE.
Return of the killed, wounded, and taken of the British
army, in America. Kil. Wo. Tak.
LExington and Concord, 43 70
Bunker-Hill, 746 1150
Ticonderoga, St. John's & Quebec, .61 110 350
The Lake by Gen. Arnold, 53 64
Sullivan's Island, 191 260
The Ceadars, 40 70
Norfolk, (Virginia) 129 175 40
Different actions on Long-Island, 840 1660 65
Harlem and Hell-Gate, 236 174 49
Time of landing at New-York, 57 100
White Plains, 450 47° 270
Fort Walhington, 900 1500
Fort Lee, 20 35
Trenton, 35 60 948
Princeton, 74 100
Boston road, by Capt. Harding, 52 20 750
In different transports, 390
Danbury, 260 350
Iron-Hill, near Elk, 59 80 20
Brandywine, 800 1170
Reading Road, by Gen. Maxwell, 40 60
Staten-Ifiand, by Gen, Sullivan, 94 150 278
Bennington, 900 1300 300
Fort Montgomery by G. Clinton 500 700
Fort Mifflin, 320 53 84
General Burgoyne's army, 2000 1126 5572
Total, 8900 11008 9116
PHILADELPHI A, June 16.
Thirty-fix Ladies of this city, have undertaken to
solicit contributions from their sex, as an extraordi
nary bounty for our soldiery, and dividing the city
into ten wards, have made their applications from
house to house with great success ; almost every one
offering with the greatest cheerfulncfs, their propor
tion, according to their circumstances and their
ability.
TRENTON, June 21.
Extract of a letter from New-Barbados, in Bergen
county, dated Ma, 27, 1780.
" We have received information from New-York,
that about 2000 of the enemy failed from the Hook
on the 23d instant. Some fay they are defined for
Halifax, others that they are bound to Quebec.
We have taken about fifty prisoners ; and several
deserters have come in.—They still remain at Eliza
beth-Town and the Point.
" Twenty-nine negroes of both faxes have desert
ed within two weeks pad; upwards of twenty went
off in one company."
Extract of a letter from a continental officer of rank at
camp, dated juae 13.
" The British troops are now 011 the Point below
Elizabeth-Town ; their flanks are secured by the wa
ter, which at present makes them unattackable. They
advanced, 011 their landing, to Connecticut Farms,
burning and pillaging ; but on the appearance of our
army, retreated under cover of a heavy shower of
rain before midnight, and took their present position.
The distress occasioned by their devastations is too
{hocking to reflect on ; an American who could have
beheld the feene and not swore vengeance against these
lavage enemies, ought to have a marle let 011 him as a
curse to the human species.
" On my arrival on the Farms, immediately after
they left them, the firft object that presented itfelf to
my view was a handsome young country-girl in the
most affecting distress and anguish of mind, who had
the night before been forcibly fubjedted to the brutal
violence of seven or eight different officers of that ar
my.---When we questioned her, the could only an
swer in broken accents of the most excessive grief—
that foe was ruin'd, and wijhed never again to bespok
en to. —
" The situation of poor widows, and numberless
other women flying almost naked for protection, hav
ing loft their houles and every thing in them, was
thought comparatively happy. If there isjuftice to be
dispensed in this world from above, it mull surely vilit
these sons of cruelty ere long, whose scarlet crimes
are daily filling up the measure of their iniquities.
" I never law loldiers pant for revenge more than
ours do---not a deserter from us since we came to
the ground, but all anxious for the happy hour when
they shall receive orders to engage an enemy who has
with coward violence only desolated the weak and
unprotected.
" The militia universally flock in from all parts,
and behave to admiration."
On Monday evening last the Hon. the General As
sembly of this state adjourned to Wednesday the 13th
of September next, then to meet at Trenton. During
the fitting the following Ads were palled :
1. An Act for altering the place of holding the In
ferior Court of Common Pleas and Court of General
Quarter Selfions of the Peace in and for the county
of Bergen, and for building a temporary gaol in the
said county.
2. An AB to alter the law directing the descent of
real estates.
3. A supplement to the ad, intitled, An Act for
regulating of Constables.
4. An AB for building a courthouse and gaol in the
county of Somerset, and for other purposes therein
mentioned.
5. An AB to raise and embody, fora limited time,
624 men, for the defence of the frontiers of this state.
6. An AB for eftablilhing a fund for finking and re
deeming the proportion of the bills of credit of the
United States, aligned as the quota of this state.
" We proceeded, and came where they had burnt
Mr. Caldwell's house, after shooting his wife thro' a
window as ihe was fitting on her bed, with a brace of
balls ; one entered her left bread, and the other her
waist: I law her corpse, and was informed by the
neighbours, it was with infinite pains they obtained
leave to bring her body from the house before they
let fire to it.
7. An AB for more effectually preventing horfe
ftealing.
8. An Afi more effedually to prevent the palling of
counterfeit bills of credit.
9. An AB for expediting the settlement of the ac
counts of the Commiflioners of forfeited estates, and
for suspending part of an ad, intitled, An AB for for
feiting to and vetting in the state of New-Jersey, the
real estates of certain fugitives and offenders, and for
directing the mode of determining and fatisfying the
lawful debts and demands which may be due from or
made against such fugitives and offenders, and for o
ther purposes therein mentioned.
10. A supplement to the ad, intitled, An AB to
provide for the clothing of the quota of the forces,
raised or to be raised in this state, for the service of
the United States, and to repeal the laws now in force
for that end.
11. An AB to empower the Collectors to receive
certain certificates in payment of taxes.
12. An AB to compleat the three regiments of this
state, in the service of the United States, and to raise
a company of volunteers for the defence of part of the
county of Monmouth.
13. An Act to provide for the more effectual defence
of the state, in case of invasions or incurlions of the
enemy.
14. An AB more effectually to prevent desertion,
and for the puniihment of persons harbouring prison
ers of war, or purchasing the clothing and accoutre
ments of the soldiers of the army, and for the repeal
of a certain ad therein mentioned.
15. An AB to suspend the aft declaring the value
of the continental currency, and also the aCt making
the fame a legal tender, and the supplement thereto.
16. An AB to declare the effect of the reversal of
judgment of Justices of the Peace in prosecution for
the forfeiture of goods, wares and merchandize, as
being brought from within the enemy's lines, for er
ror in the proceeding, and to enable the Supreme
Courts to award new trials in such causes.
At a Joint-Meeting of the Council and Assembly
on Saturday last, Mr. Israel Morris, of Gloucester
county, was appointed state clothier, in the room
of Enos Kelsey, Esq. who hath resigned.
Extract of a letter from Camp at Springfield, June 1 §.
" The enemy still remain at the Point; we have
continual flrirmifhes ; lalt night they attacked our
picket, were beat back with lots, and one Hetfield their
pilot badly wounded. We are well assured the ene
my's loss is near 300 men in their attack at the bridge,
numbers ofthem are daily found in the woods. Yes
terday 13 were found dead in a rye-field. Gen. Stir
ling's wound is thought to be mortal, as his thigh mull
come off. They arc very angry at being deceived by
the tories, who assured them the militia would not
fight, butjoin them. Count Donop's sou was wound
ed in the action on Wednesday last. The Iris frigate
has got into New-York much disabled by an engage
ment the has had with the Hermoine French frigate.
A large ship, said to belong to Bristol, mounting 24
9-pounders, is also arrived there, almost torn to pieces
in an engagement with some of our cruizers, (they
fay the Trumbull;) the had 90 men kill'd & wounded."
By a letter from an officer of rank, dated the 15th
inst. at Springfield, we learn, that the enemy are for
tifying on both tides the water at Elizabeth-Town
Point, and have nearly compleated their bridge
that by taking this position, they meant to try the
complexion of the country, and the temper of our ar
my, in both of which they have been doubtless greatly
deceived---the militia behaved to a charm, and but
very few desertions from the continental army---that
the enemy intend to penetrate further into the coun
try as soon as their works are finifhed, to secure a
retreat---that Sir John Johnson has returned to Ca
nada with his banditti, after having narrowly escap
ed being taken by Governor Clinton---that General
Stirling of the Britilh is reported to be dead of the
wound in his thigh---that a Captain of the Queen's
Rangers had deserted---and that our army were in
the highest health and spirits.
Mrs. W ASHINGI ON passed through this place,
since our last, on her way to Philadelphia.
We hear that a fleet of upwards of one hundred
fail, arrived a few days ago at the Hook, supposed
to be from Charles-Town, South-Carolina, with a
reinforcement.
We are sorry to inform our readers that the garri
son of Charles-Town, confiding of 2571 continental
troops, including officers of every rank, surrendered
prisoners of war on the 12th ult. but the particulars
coming late to hand, and being very lengthy, are
deferred till our next.
Yesterday thirty-fix Britilh and four Hessian pri
soners were brought to town under guard.
A few Copies of the
VOTES of ASSEMBLY
Of the Sitting at Mountholly, are to be fold at
the Printing-Office in Trenton ; and
Evans's Map of the Middle States.
JOSEPH INSL EE,
In Pennington, has for SALE on the lowed terms for
cadi or country produce, the following articles, viz.
SUperfine scarlet and buff broadcloths, with trim
mings ; callicoes, cambricks, lawns, muffins,
gauzes, mellonet, catgut, modes, pelong, farfenet,
India Persian, black silk handkerchiefs, crofs-barr'd
ditto, pocket romal ditto, Kenting aprons, fine
damped linen handkerchiefs, nankeens, men's thread
hole, black laces, ribbons, kidd gloves, silk twist,
threads, metal, mohair and balket buttons, knives
and forks, penknives, fciffars, pins, needles, sewing
silk of various colours, and a variety of other things
too tedious to mention ; also rum, sugar, tea, coffee,
pepper, indigo, wool cards, feythes, earthenware.
17. An AB to revive and continue the aft, infilled,
Au AB to prohibit the exportation of provisions from
the state of New-Jersey.
18. An AB to provide for the security, support and
exchange of prisoners of war, and to repeal the ad,
intitled, An AB for appointing a Commissary of Pri
soners, and vetting him with certain powers.
19. An AB for suspending the sale of the lands
mortgaged to the Commissioners of the loan-office of
the several counties of this state.
20. An AB for defraying sundry incidental charges.
HOUSE of ASSEMBLY, May 19, 1780.
APetition from sundry inhabitants of the town
lhips of Great-Eggharbour and Galway, in the
county of Gloucester, was presented and read, pray
ing, for certain reasons therein set forth, that a law
may be passed to enable the owners and possessors of
the meadows and tide-marsh lying on Abfecom creek,
to eredt and maintain a bank, dam, and other water
works, across the said creek, to prevent the tide from
overflowing the said meadows and marsh;
Ordered, That the petitioners have leave to bring
in a bill at the next fitting of the Assembly, on ad
vertising the fame in four of the most publick places
in each of the said townships, and also in the New-
Jersey Gazette at least four weeks previous thereto.
Extrad from the minutes,
Maskell Ewing, jun. Clerk.
Agreeable to the above order, notice is hereby giv
en to all concerned, that a bill will be presented by
the petitioners to the Assembly at their next fitting,
for the purpose expressed in their petition above re
ferred to.