The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1778-11-25 00:00:00, page 1

" That Do&or John Connelly (now Riling himfelf
Lieutenant Colonel in the British service) was in the
latter end of November 1775, apprehended in Frede
rick county, in Maryland, in company with a certain
Allen Cameron and John Smith, by the Committee
of Infpe&ion of that county :
That, at the time he was taken, he was not in
arms, or at the head of any party of men in arms ;
but was clandestinely making his way to Detroit, in
order to join, give intelligence to, and orherwife aid
thjgarrifon at that place, as appears by his own in
tercepted letter of the 16th December 1775, addres
sed to the commanding officer of that fortrefs, and
by General Wafhngton's letter to Congress of the
25th December, 1775:
That a number of officers in the British service,
who were made prisoners, long after the said John
Connolly was apprehended, have been exchanged in
courfr ; and no demand h^ beep,made (till within
these few months past) by any British General for the
release or exchange of the officer late mentioned.
With refpedt to the treatment of the said Lieut. Co
lonel Connolly, the Committee report:
That at the time when he was firft apprehended,
he was confined under guard by the Committee of
Infpe&ion in the town of Frederick, in an apartment
separate from his associates, without any circumstance
to aggravate his captivity, except the being debarred
the use of pen, ink and paper: That, notwithstand
ing this restraint, he contrived to write several letters
of intelligence to the British officers commanding at
the polls of Detroit and Kulkulkis, which letters
were found on the person of Dr. Smith, one of his
aficciates, who having escaped from the town of
Frederick, was again apprehended:
That by the resolution of Congress of the Bth De
cember, 1775, he was ordered to be confined in pri
son at Philadelphia; that being brought to that city,
he was confined in the new gaol, wherein he conti
nued till about the month of November, 1776, when
he was permitted, on account of a declining Rate of
health, to reside on his parole at the house of his bro
ther in law, on the river Sufquehannah, where he
continued for about two months; when, on infor
mation being given to the Council of Safety of the
State of Pennsylvania, of certain suspicious circum
stances relative to him, he was remanded to his for
mer place of confinement, in which he continued till
about the spring, 1777, when he was again permit
ted on his parole and the security of his brother in
law, to return to his former place of residence on the
river Sufquehannah:
That duringthefe periods of his confinement in the
new goal, he had, for the greatest part of the time,
a separate apartment to himfelf, the privilege of walk
ing in the yard, a person allowed to attend him in
his apartment, and his own servant permitted to fetch
him such necessaries as he chose to order:
That during the ihort period when he had not a
separate apartment, there were never more than two
persons in the fame room, seldom more than one,
and those some of his associates, or in consequence of
his particular request :
That during these periods of time he made two at
tempts to escape, in which he was detected:
That on authentic information being given to Con
gress at York-town, that the said Lieut. Colonel John
Connolly was anting in a manner not confident with
the spirit of his parole, and the frontiers being threat
ened with a barbarous war, in which there was rea
son to apprehend he was designed as an instrument,
he was ordered into confinement in the gaol at York
town on the 13th day of Octobers,
That on the 17th May, the said J. Connolly, with
several others confined in said gaol, made a reprefen-
NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE.
The Committee to whom was referred a letter from
Jolin Beatty, Commiflary of Prisoners, dated Sep
tember 15th, 1778, together with two letters from
Joftua Loring, Esq. of theist September and 28th
October, and sundry letters from John Connolly, re
port the following Rate of facts.
In CONGRESS, July 30, 1778.
RESOLVED,
THAT it is the duty of all persons in the
service of the United States, as well as
all other the inhabitants thereof, to give
the earliest information to Congress, or
other proper authority, of any mifcon
duft, frauds, or misdemeanors, com
mittee by any officers or persons in the service of these
States, which may come to their knowledge.
Extract from the Minutes,
CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.
[Vol. I.]
Tn CONGRESS, November rz, 1778.
WEDNESDAY, November 25, 1778.
Refolded, That Congress have a high sense of the
bravery and good conduct of Major Silas Talbot, of
the State of Rhpde-Iflanc, and the officers and men
under his command, in boarding and taking the arm
ed schooner Pigpt, of eight twelve pounders and
forty-five men, in the tail passage between Rhode-
Illaud and the main; and that he, as a reward of
merit, and for the encouragement of a spirit of en
terprize, be presented with a commission of Lieute
nant Colonel in the army of the United States.
Extract from the Minutes.
_ „ CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.
WAS rest at the house of Matthew Rue, in Ma
nalapon, on the 28th of June last, a Port
mantle, containing some clothes.—The owner prov
ing his property, and paying the expence of this ad
vertisement, may have i: again.
Middlefcx, Nov._:o, 778. iw||
r r H E Poft-iiders from Eflex county earneftiy re-
I quest their cußom^rs, whom they have served
to the belt of their power, to pay as soon as possible
to the persons where their several packets are left,
what is Rill due for the service of one year, which is
now near expired. The sum ofwhich is as follows:
For those in Essex county, Two Dollars ; those left
at Brunswick and Quibble-town, Twelve Shillings;
at Princeton, &c. One Dollar for each paper for
•ne year.
tation to Congress, setting forth, in the strongest co
louring, the hardships and cruelties which they de
clared they were then fuffering:
That on the result of a ftrift enquiry, and after the
gaol had been visited by Colonel Pickering, one of the
Members of the Board of War, it appeared that the
suggestions contained in the said representation were
scandalous and groundless; and the report of the
Board of War was, on the 23d day of May, ordered
to be published :
That since the evacuation of Philadelphia, the said
J. Connolly was remanded to the new gaol in that city,
where (excepting the space of about fourteen days,
when two persons were necessarily obliged to sleep in
the fame room) he has had afeparate and commodi
ous apartment of his own choice, the privilege of his
own servant to attend him constantly, and to bring
him whatever he may require, and the unrestrained
use of a spacious yard to take the air in during the
day:
That in his letter of the 12th October, 1778, the
said J. Connolly declares," That the common rights
" of humanity are denied to him," and paints his
situation in such terms as would tend to induce a
belief that the moR wanton cruelties and reltra'ints are
imposed upon him ;
That in consequence of a request of J. Connolly,
to be heard in penba by a Committee of Congress,
this Committee bare complied with his request, when
he declared in presence of your Committee, " that,
excepting the restraint of his person, under the limits
above-mentioned, which, however indulgent they
might appear, he conceived unfavourable io his hate
of health, he experienced every other rebel which
could be extended to a person in confinement :"
That Jefhya Loring, Esq. British Commiflkry of
Prisoners, in his letter to Mr. Beatty of the ift'Sep
tember, 1778, threatens to retaliate qn an American
prisoner of war of equal rank with Lieut. Col. Con
nolly. for th^ fyfrfrins^^* 11 - I ^^^^^Q+fo.
officersendures.
Whereupon,
Refolded, That Lieut. Col. John Cor.rnily cannot,
of right, claim to be conferred and treated as a pri
soner of war, but that he was at the time he was ap
prehended, and hill is, amenable to law martial, as
a spy and erniffar) from the Britifn army:
That the repeated representations made by Lieut.
Col. John Connolly, of the grievances he undergoes,
are not founded on facts :
That General Waihington be directed to tranfinit
the foregoing resolutions and hate of facts to the
Commander in Chier of his Britannic Majesty's forces
in New-York ; and to inform the said officer, that if
under the pretext of retaliating for the pretended fuf
fermgs of a person who, by the law of nations, has
no right to be considered as a prisoner of war, any
American officer entitled to be considered and treat
ed as a prisoner of war, Shall undergo any extraordi
nary restraints or Sufferings, Congress arc determined
to retaliateon the person of an officer of the firft rank
in their possession, for every species of hardship or
restraint on such account inlhded.
Extract from the Minutes,
CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.
In CONGRESS, November 14, 1778.
THE
] OST in Trenton, the loth instant, (November):
^-^ a gold oval SLEEVE-BUTTON, on which is
decyphered the letters JB. Whoever has feund,
and will return the fame to the Printer or subscriber x
Ihall be handsomely rewarded.
_JOSEPH BLOOMFIELD}
fJ OTICE is hereby given that there has been In-
I cuifitions found and returned to the last Court
c f Common Pleas held for the county of Somerfet^
in the State of New-Jersey, according to the direc
tions of an Act of the General Assembly in that case
made and provided, against William Burtain, Rich
ard Stockton, Jacobus Voorhefe and Daniel Cox ,
— rLl™£™™—' n was jp a de in open court, that if
persons in their behalf, who
think themfeives interested in the premises, do not
appear at the next Court of Common Pieas and tra
verse said inquisitions, final judgment will be entered
against them, Jacob Bergen,
778. ip _ £ommiffioner.
EDWARD BROOKS, JDW
At the '^ n °'. ° c "' and Raccoon in Bordentown,
will give the highest price in bard cash or any kind of
paper currency for all kinds o f good FURS.— He hath
now finished, and ready for sale, Castor and Wool
HATS. He hath likewise for sale the following Ar
ticles of Merchandize, the greatest part of which
will be disposed of on as low terms as can be pur
chased in the city of Philadelphia, viz.
RF ST Gerni ^ ticklen- common ditto, melaflfes
AJburg, oznabrigs,dow- of excellent quality, by
las and Hessians cloths, the barrel or gallon,
naps and frizes of various Cyder spirits,
colours, Mufcovado sugar,
Shaloons, Good bohea tea, by tha
Corderoys or ribb'd vel- dozen or single pound,
vets,. Coffee, by large or small
Buttons and mohair, quantity,
Sewing silks, coarse and Chocolate, rice, ginger,
fine thread, pepper, alfpice, nutmegs
Check and white linen, and cinnamon.
Cambrick and lawn, Indigo, copperas, allum,
Book mullin, redwood, logwood,
Black pelongs & perfians, Brimstone,
White ditto, Hard soap,
Whalebone, Powder and shot,
Black and blue moreens, Gun flints and worms,
French beaver hats, Imported io d and zod
Silk handkerchiefs, NAILS, by the calk,
Check and Ramped ditto, or smaller quantity.
Cotton romalls, Frying pans,
Ditto very fine, Cutteau and penknives,
Best American made writ- Children's ditto,
ing paper, pasteboards, Sciffars & kniting needles,
goose quills, slates and Tapes and bobbin,
Bate pencils, Sleeve buttons fetin silver,
Packet and pound pins, Glass ditto set in pewter,
Needles, Spelling books & primers,
Best inkpowder, Bed cords, bedding lines.
Silver plated SPURS, and halters,
Pinchbeck shoe and knee Quart glass bottles,
buckles, silver plated A'quantity of country
ditto, of variouspatterns made earthen ware,
children's ditto, A few queen's ware tea-
Ivory and horn combs, pots and cream cups,
Crooked ditto New-Jersey made men's &
Good Weft- India rum, women's leather fhocs,
Continental SAL T,
WHOLESALE or RETAIL. 4 ||
CONTAINING,
Besides the usual Astronomical Observations,
A Variety of ufeful, inftrudtive, and entertaining
Matter, in Prose and Verse.
Where also ma, be had,
POCKET ALMANACKS for the ensuing Year.
Imported SALT
To be fold wholesale and retail, by
STACY POTT S,
In Trenton.
Also dressed BUCKSKIN S, and a few pair of
BREECHES.
fufl pubhjhed and to be fold Wholesale and Retail, b,
the Printer hereof,
THE
New-Jersey Almanack,
For the Year of our Lord 1779.
[Numb. 51.]