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Monday, August 6,178 L
N E W-YORK
AND
WEEKLY
Barrack Mafier Generals Oftce,
Water-street, April 2, 1781.
SUCH persons as are willing to furnish the
Barrack Master General with WOOD for
the use of his Majesty's troops, to be delivered
either in this citv, or at the different posts
upon the island of New-York, or Pow^-Hook,
are requetted to fend their proposals in writing
to this office. And those who have vessels, and
will employ them in bringing wood to New-
York, will meet with every fui abk*encourage
ment, and the money paid them immediately
after its delivery into the magazines.
By Order of his Excellency
General ROBERTSON,
I Am directed and authorifed to demand and
receive all GROUND RENTS due, or
that may hereafter become due, for Grants
heretofore made by the Corporation of this
City: in consequence thereof, Ido hereby
give Notice, that due attendance will be given
at my Office in Pearl-Street, every Monday,
Wednesday and Friday Mornings, between
the Hours of nine and one, in order to receive
the fame; of which all concern'd are requir'd
to take Notice.
JOHN SMYTH, City Treasurer.
New-York, March 1, 1781.
EMANUEL WALKER,
No. 40, Hanover Square,
(Intending soon for Britain)
Will dispose of the remaining part of his late impor
tation of Dry Goods, on the ve-y lowed eims;
They consist es the following articles, viz.
SUPER FINE (carle?
uniform and navy blue
broad cloths,
Irilh linens,
Callicoes,
Bedticks, diaper,
Silk, thread, and worsted
ftockin-s,
Mens round and fafhion
able cock'd hats,
Gold and silver cord,
Budion taflal'd bands,
Gold and silver spangled
buttons and loops,
Mens beaver and buck
gloves,
Womens fine French grey
and white gored gloves,
Princes ftuft,
Durants and callimancoes
Russia sheeting,
Ravens duck, ,
V> hite buckram,
ALSO,
A choice assortment of London Pickles, con
fiding of olives, capers, anchovies, th,, ketchup,
mangoes, girkens, &c, Durham muftaid, assorted
calks of glass ware containing quart, pint, and half
pint tumblers, wine glasses, &c. White and tur
pentine soap, St. Kitts rum, Antigua spirits, Port,
Liflion, and Madeira wines, vingar, raisins in calks,
&c. &c. &c.
Frederick Wm. Geyer,
INTENDS for England, with the next convoy ;
all those that have any demands again# him, are
requested to bring in the fame for .payment ; those
that are indebted to him are desired to make speedy
payment.
His Stock on Hand,
Confiding of a great variety of European and
India piece goods, &c. will be fold on terms as shall
give fttisfa&ion to the purchaser, for ready money,
wholesale only, at his store in the Sloat, facing Ha
nover-Square. 52 57
10 BE b 0 LD,
By Hugh and Alex. Wallace,
OLD Port wine in pipes, hogsheads, and quar
ter calks, old Lisbon in dito,
Od Jamaica spirits, Antigua rum 4 years old,
Belf mess and cargo beef in tierces and barrels,
Belt ox tongues in half barrels,
Belt niefs pork in barrels, new role butter,
Jamaica coffee in barrels,
Ead-India coffee in bags of too wt, each,
A large quantity of Queen's ware in crates,
Ditto of glass and china in crates and 1 ^ es,
A few calks of hardware, containing carpenters,
joiners, and coopers tools, &c.
Fifteen pairof guns, 9 pounders, with shot,
Seven pair of ditto, 6 do. do.
Seventeen pair of ditto, 4, do. do.
Eight howitzers, 6 do. do.
Tw,n'y-four swivels with shot, with a quantity of
bar and grape shot.
Forty exceeding fine mulket%
Five bales of Irifo ratteens,
pre box fine Iri@ line%
ASSIZE OF bread.
FLOUR at 41. per Cent.
Published September 29, 1780.
A White LOAF, of the fineft FLOUR,
to weigh zib. for 16 Coppers.
Containing the eatheu abbUcs
CT Printed by HUGH GAINE, at the BIBLE and CROWN, in HANvv^-o^^^.
A few sets Bell's Bitifh
theatre, elegantly bound
Callimancoe shoes French
heels,
Lut^Prings and brocades,
Persians andtaffefies,
Rich silk floventine,
Black ducape, tobine2,
Black fringe handker
chiefs,
Bandanoes, muslins,
A variety of cords, jeans,
an I d # nims,
Marseilles qaihing.
Trolly, miniooet and
blond lace,
A neat assortment of rib
bon^
Unbrellas,
Newell fashioned silver
buckles,
Silver and metal watches,
low priced.
Alexander Leckie,!
No. 22, HANOVER-SQUARE,
, Has imported in the Quebec, Eleonora, and Nancy,
{ from London, and Glasgow, an elegant assort-
I ment of Dry Goods, fueb as,
: (SUPERFINE cloths, caffimers, rattinets, ftockenets,
J imperial ribs, Florentines and princes ftuffs, black,I
( blue, olive,and crimson velverets, moreens, calamancoes; ;
A fattinet^ and ladings, fcarlct arid white flannels, baizes;
; mens fine black hats mens fine fhors and boots, military
( (hoes and flirts, womens best fatten, cellimanco and laft
' ;ing fhees, chi drens Morocco ditto; a large ^Tortment
* of black laces, bind lace, a large and beautiful assortment
I of thread laces and edgings; a great variety of Barcelona,
bandano, lun^ee, and romal silk handkerchiefs; a large
aghrtment of plain book and tambour book muslins;
* muslin chintzes and handkerchiefs cambricks and lawns,
4furniture callic es, feathers and flowers; India Persians, 1
<jeans,, fuftians and coidu oft; checks of all kinds; nan-|
1 keens, fattins, modes and iorfe^ti, brocaded filter and|
luteftrings; bombazeens,ladied and girls stays, an elegant
I assortment of ribbons and gauzes, tiffanies, white crape I
and mnionet flowered aprons, Marfeiller quiltings; Irithl
.I nens/Ruffia fh-etings, dam fk and diaper table cloths, I
; and huckabacks; clouting diaper, morea gowns ; cottonl
§ counterpanes; a beautiful aHortment of gown and cloaki
1 trimmings; mens whits and black silk hose, patent rib'd
a id plain white thread, mens and womens ulk and cotton [
hose, mens white and black fill gloves, womens silk
; mils, ladies fans, silk ard calhm.nco qu Its, men and I
£ womens linen ano jean gloves; chip bate, elegant effort- I
§ ment of metal and pearl buttons; fine cast fitel r zors, !
1 Whitechapel needles, pound and French wire; apes and
I bobbins, white and coloured threads, white and brown
I b uckrams, shirt buttons, sewing silk, of all colours, lines
and tassels for bed and window curtains.
Orange and lemonjuiep,fate imported from Charleftown;|
Madeira in cases of fix dozen; cherry brandy, Hiwe'sl
acid; soap, starch, and hair po.wde , Durham mustard,,
pomatum, a neat affirtment of perfumery, playing cards.x
^Also COARSE SALT.I
The following
BOOK S,
IStationary-Ware, &c.
Sold by H. GAINE;
fjOLDSMITH's Hi or, of England, 4 Fob Gold-\
' /mitt's Grecian Hfor,, ±Fols. Chefefield's '
^ MifreUaneous forks, 4 Tols. Chefe>field's Letters,/
;4 Bols Ancient an 1 prefect fate of England, ikick l
neffes tar's Journe\ through France and Part of\
^ Spain, De holme's Account of the English Conflitution,\
1 Ballard's Memoirs of hritjb Ladies Coxe's Sketches \
( of the natural, devil and politicalfate of S^ifferland, :
I Literary Hifior, of the Troubadours, Collinfon's Beau
{ ties of British Antiquities, Watkinjon's phiiofophical l
Survey of the South of Ireland. Hijior, of Modern Lu-
I rope, with an Account of the Rie and Fall of the So
ft: man Empire Abbe Millot's Elements 0J General
I Hifory, 2 Tols. Reflections on the Rife and Fall oj the
j Ancient Republics, Hiforical Menons, Terence's Co-
I medies, tranjlated into familiar bank Terje',bflay on
l Friendship, Campbell's Lives of the Britijb Admirals,
ft containing a new and accurate Naval Htjior, from the
{earltef Periods, with a continuation to the Year 1-79,
, Memoirs of the Marshall Duke of erwick, written
; b, bimfelj, 2 Tots. Keill's Afronomj, Fielding's, Pope's,
j Addiforis, and Dr,den' forks, Pope's Homer, Modern
Traveller, Salmon's Gazetteer, Gutberie's Geogra
p deal Grammar, Cuthbert/oh's Sjfenjor the complete
interior Management and OEconom, oj a Battalion of
§ Infantry, Knot's Efays, Lessons on Elocution Beauties
§ oj Natural Rifor,, or Elements oj Geography be ng
a jbort Introduction to an Acquaintance with the
H:for, of Quadrupeds, Fowls, Fijbes, Infects, &c.
Pan oj Commerce Efay on Commerce, Rolliris
Ancient Hfor,, 10 Tols. Britijb Theatre, 20 Tols.
i Entick's Hijtor, of the late far, Lives oj the Poets,
a 60 Tols. Rambler, 4 Tols. Tidotfcris Sermons, Wh:te
£ fela's Sermous, Pike's Sermons, French Dictionaries
I and Grammars Dpcbe's and fohnfon's Difltonar,,
Entick's Pocket Dictionary, Scboolmafer's Affifant,
Read, Reckoner, Wef-lndia Pilot, Seaman's Tode
mecum, Affifant Compass, and KaUander, Bibles;
* small and large, Tefaments, Spelling-Books, and Pri
' sners, with a great Variety oj little Books for Children.
I Writing Paper oj all forts, gilt and plain, Merchants
p Account Books, Sealing fax and Wafers, Pounce and
Pounce. Boxes, Saud and Sand Boxes, Gold Scales jor
; the Pocket, Temple Speftacles Penknives, and Razors,
r Shaving Boxes, Gentlemen and Ladies Pocket Books,
I' of different forts, German Flutes and Fifes, Fiddles and
Fiddle Strings, Ink Powder, and excellent black Ink,
Scales and Dividers, Leather Snuff Boxes, and Ink-
Pots, Silver Pencil Cases, Powder Flajks,jbot Pouches,
best patent Powder foot and flints, pewter Jian
dijbes, red tape, battledores and jkuttlecocks, Hadley's
quadrants of the best fort India ink, oiled paperjor
taking off maps, jboe bruftes bard and foft, balsam of
, boneb Stoughton's bitters, Turlington's balsam oj life,
¥ Anderforis pills. Female pills, Venetian bloom water,
ft files jor counting boufes, bes quills and pens, travelling
I cases for gentlemen oj the army, copper ,late copy books,
I for children, pomatum and black ball, hair powder by
h the fugle pound, corn plaifler, very neat mathematical
infruments, pocket and borfefifols, borfe whips, &c.
I JOYCE's Grand American Balsam,
j Sold BY HUGH GAINE.
Monday, 59 Min. after 10
Tuesday, 37 Min. after it
Wednesday, 16 Min, after 12
Thursday, 55 Min. after 12
HIGH-WATER at N EW-Y O R K, |
THIS WEEK. I
zff'i^Wbfeia^
iFriday, 37 Mih. after * 1
Saturday, 15 Min. after ' 2|
%:nday, 2 Min. after ^ |
Last Quarter, Saturday the iith.|
THE
Landed this DAY, out of Be Mary and Margaret,
Captain Williamson, and the Thomas, Captain
Nowland, Com Corke, and
T O#B E SOLD
By BANAN and BURKE,
CHOICE beef in tierces, barrels, and ha f
barrels, pork in half barrels, ox and pig tongues
in do. best mould candles, ship and caf>in bread,
pickled salmon in tierces, pickled tripe in kegs
A few calks frefh oatmeal, a parcel of 4'b, pins, a
parcel of hardware; vermiffion, wafers md quills,
white wine Bourdeaux vinegar in tierces. A parcel
of worked and yarn flockings; feme choice mens
and womens ihoes, a parcel of velvet coiks, &c. &c.
As they are determined to return, home in the
next fleet, they will dispose of the above articles on
the lowed terms. Application to be made to them
at Mr. Heetman's, No. 8, Water-street, below the
Coffee Hrofe
JAMES HENDERSON,
INTENDING for England with the fiHt Fleet,
requests all those who have any Demands against
him to call and receive Payment ; and those who
are indebted to him are desired immediately to dis
charge thei? Accounts.
His Stock on Hand,
Confiding of a large and general Assortment of
Engliffi and India Piece Goods, will be fold low for
Cash °o ! v, at his Store, No. 220, Queen-d^eet.
A Parcel of choice Role Butter, English
and Philadelphia fuperfine flour, to be
fold by JOHN CHRISTIE, No. 21. Great-
D'ck-flreet,,
KINGSTON, (Jamaica) June 2.
Luff Saturday the ship William, Davis, in
8 weeks from Africa, with 350 choice Haves
on board, was conduced into this harbour by
the Mate, the Capt. having died at sea. On
her palfage from the coast, she spoke the pri
vateer Secour, the Capt, of whi<h delivered
the Mate a mail from the Isle of France in the
East-Indies, containing difpatch'es to their Mi
nifty, which he had found in a packet boat,
that he had taken during his cruize, but af
terwards permitted to proceed on her voyage,
not having hands enough to secure her prison
ers.
Before the William left Africa, two priva
teers fiom Popl and Liverpool had visited the
coast, and taken all the Dutch Guineamen,
and seized an immense quantity of property,
chiefly belonging to the merchants of Amster
dam. The cargo of the William was part of
the booty.
Tuesday a French ship, mounting 32 guns,
with a very valuable cargo of wine, flour and
provisions, 9 weeks from Boufdeaux, a prize
to his Majesty's ships Diamond and Pallas, and.
Letter of Marque Admiral Rowley, was sent
into Port Ro, al.
June 16. Thursday his Majefly's ship Li
corne, the Hon. Capt. Cadogan, and sloop du
Guay Trouin,Capt. Fish, arrived from a cruize
with a privateer brig of i4guns, formerly the
Comet packet boat, and her tender, prizes to
the latter.
CHARLESTOWN, July 10.
Last week a small party of mounted rebels
furroun/ed the house of Col. Williamson, for
merly of the militia of this province, and car
ried him off prisoner: Next day, upon intel
ligence being given to Major Frazer, of the
South Carolina Royalists, he, with 90 men of
bis corps, went immediately in pursuit of
them, and after two days march, which he
conduced with all imaginable secrecy, came
up with their main body; confining of about
100 men, at the Horse Shoe, whom he imme
diately charged, killed 1400 the spot, wound
ed several, and took their commander, Col.
Isaac Haines, prisoner. The second in com
mand, Lieut. Col. M'Lachan, and two other
officers, were among the killed. At the fame
time they released Col. Williamson, who was
prisoner at a hoqfe near at hand, and brought
offa number of horses, with their accoutre
ments. This service was performed without
any loss on our fide.
July 17. On Sunday last a party of
mounted rebels, headed by a Mr. Henry
Hampton, who formerly kept store at the
Congarees, Camden, &c. came down to
Goose-Creek, surrounded the church during
the time of divine service, made rhe congre
gation prisoners, and paroled as many as the
Ihortnefs of their flay allowed.—This gallant
aflion being performed, they marched to the
Quarter-house ; —on the moment of their ar
rival, the Convalescents of the South-Caroli-
Wheat per Bushel, 265. od.
Flour, 7 0$ . 0 ^
Brown Bread, 70s. od.
Welt-India Rum, ss. 6d.
New-England do. 4s. od,,
PRICE CURRENT, in NE W-Y 0 R K.
[No. iffi]
GAZETT
THE
MERCUR Y.
Mufeovado. Sugar, ,• ro^.i
Single refin'd ditto, is. pd.
Molasses, zs. 6d/
I Beef per Barrel, 81. od.j
, Pork, 81. lOS,'.
fferqgn OB Domefffcl
na dragoons Rationed there, (about 18 in num
ber) were saddling their horses to reconnoitre,
having received the report of a hying part of
rebels being in the neighbourhood :—The
great disparity of numbers soon pointed out
the propriety of endeavouring to force their
passage to town, which was efFe^ed with the
loss of very few.
On this occafidn we have to lament the loss
of Lieut. Waugh, who commanded the South-
Carolina Convalescents. Having anxiously
endeaTOured to p.refcrve his small command,
killed a rebel officer named Wright, and feye
ral of their soldiers, he was ihot, after ha ing
surrendered up his sword. After a very ihort
stay the rebels precipitately retreated.
NEW-YORK, July 31.
E%tra& of a Letter from Charles Town, dated
the 21st Instant.
" Colonel Coates, who commanded the
10th regiment Rationed at Monk's -Corner,
lately, upon the appearance of a large body
of rebels, chiefly horse, under thecommand of
Lee, Wafhingcon; &c. relinquished his fi na
tion and moved to more advantageous ground
nearer to this town ; intelligence of this being
arrived, a large part of the troops in garrison
were ordered out to re infoce him; previous
however to their jurftion with the 19th regi
ment, Col. Coates was several times attacked
by, and as often beat back by the rebels. He
at last djfpofed of his men in such a manner as
induced them to make another attempt, ie
which they were again repulsed with the loss
of ab®ut 70 killed, mostly Lee*s dragoons.
We had only 17 killed and wounded in th^
different fkirm ihes.—General Green is still on
the other fide of Santee, and the greater part
of our array about Orangeburgh. We daily
expeft to have further advices as our troops
.are dill in motion."
NEW-YORK, August i.
Yesterday morning the schooner Doily. Capt.
Newbold, arrived here fr; m Charleftown after
a passage of 8 days. By her we have themoft
certain intelligence that General Green, the
Rebel Chief, in that country, has with a pru
dential caution avoided every possible appear
ance of coriteft with his Majetty's troops, ever
since that glorious and diltinguifhed day in
which he was repuifed in an attack made oh
the works at Ninety-fix, and which works
were only defended by a few, but brave men
of his Majefly's Provincial troops, under the
command of the gallant Colonel John Harris
Cruger, of General DeLancey's Brigade. That
Green's army consists of about 800 continen
tals, inclusive of Cavalry, under the command
of Lee, together with about as many militia
under the command of Marian and others;
these make up the flower of that army so high
ly spoken of in Rebel records, and who by
their rapine, plunder and cruelty, are con
stantly drawing on themselves the heaviest
curses of an injured and ruined people.
We have aflurances that accounts are receiv
ed at Philadelphia, of the arrival of twenty
fix out of 27 fail of veffe.ls loaded with fl or
from that port to Havana; this trade produces
to the merchants and farmers of Pennfylvapia
very large returns in silver.
On Monday arrived the letter of marque
fliip Dick, Captain Campbell, of 14 fix poun
ders, in thirteen weeks from Liverpool. On
the 17th of June, in lat. 40 N. and W. long.
„, flie fell in with a ship, under rebel colours,
mounting 20 nine pounders on one deck,which
after chafing she engaged for fix glafics, when
the rebel being much Mattered in her hull,
made fail, and the Ditk being disabled in her
fails and rigging, could not pursue her. Ihe
Dick had only two men wounded in the affion,
the enemy directing their fire against the malts
and rigging solely.
On Sunday evening Lift a party of Loyal
Refugees, under the command of Major Tho
mas Ward, went out from Bergen-Neck, as far
as the Liberty Pole. Major Ward detached
Captain John Miller with a party . f 20 horse,
who penetrated as far as the New-Bridge, near
Hackinfack, and captured three notorious Re
bels, by the names of Demareas, drove off their
stock, and returned to the party without firing
a shot. .„
By the febooner Dolly, arrived yesterday
from Charled^vn, South-Carolina, we are in
formed, that Lord Rawdon, after Mr. Greene
Igot the severe drubbing from Colonel Crnger,
I on the 17th June, ordered the post of Ninety-
IFine Salt, %%. do.
ICoarfe Salt, is. do.
llndian Corn per Bu. 10s. do.
ICoffee, is. doa
Chocolate, 265. pe: Be.