The New-York gazette, and the weekly Mercury — New-York [N.Y.], 1780-04-03 00:00:00, page 1

Encouragement and proteaion is hereby
given to the Possessors of Farms and Gardens
"for the Purpose of raffing plentiful Supplies of Grain,
Forage, and Vegetables.
Whatever Pedon or Persons presume to take away,
or to defray Cattle, Stock, or other Produce of any
' Farm or Gard n; to do any Damage to Houses,
Gardens, Orchards, or Lands; to break down
Fences, or otherwise to injure private Property, shall,
upon Proof thereof, be punished with the Utmost
Severity.
Any Persons who may think themselves aggrieved,
by a Non-Observance of this Proclamation, will,
« if Inhabitants of New-York Diftria,” make their
Complaints known to the Commandant of the City ;
if ir Situations more remote, to the Officer com
manding the nearest Post of his Majesty's Troops,
in Order, that if well founded, they may obtain pro
per Rtdrtis.
Given under my Hand, at Head -Quarters,
the Eleventh Day of March, One Thou
• sand Seven Hundred and Eighty.
t KNYPHAUSEN.
By his Excellency's Command,
JUSTIN HENRY MOTZ,
Chief Judge Advocate, Hess.
PROCLAMATION,
Seiner Excedent% des Herrn General Lieutenants von
KNYPHAUSEN, Commandeur von Seiner Ma
jefiat Truppen auf New-York Wand, Long-lJland,
Staten Island, und denen davon abbangenden Poj
ten, &c. fc.&c.
DENEN Inhabern von Laenderyen und Gerten
wird hiedurch alle Aufinunterung und Schutz
e^heilet uni einea reichhchen Vorrath von G^raide,
Fourage, unTGe^uefe anzuziehen. ^
Wer rich onreHtehet Vieh oder andere Produce,
fc mbegen Nahmeri haben, wie fie wollct von L<en
dereyen oder Gaerten we^z,unehmen,oder zn ruiniAn ;
an Hanrfero,Gemuefe,od v ObfiGaerten, und LXA
dereyen eiJgen Schaden z-.t th-in ; oder fun% auf
was Art es fev, jemandes Eigeatlwm unrechtmae
figer Weiie ansigrefen, foil, wenn latches g e g eo
ihn bewiefen wird, mit der asuferften S.renge beltraft
Werdeb.
Diejenigen, welche von Uebertreiern diefer Pro
clamation beleidigtzu (evn glauben, haben fich,wenn
lie Einwohner des.Diftricls von New-Yutk find, mit
ihren Klagen an den Cummandanren der Stadt zu
wenden ; im Fall ein°r weitern Entfernung aber dem
Commandirenden Officier des n^chften Pollens von
Seiner M.jrite Truppen davoht Anziege zu thun,
damit, wenn folche gegruendet, ihnen Gerechtigkeit
wiedertahren, und das ncethige remedirt werden
moege.,
Gegeben u?fer meiner Hand im Haupt Quartier den
eiljten Meertz, im Jahr unfers Herrn ein taufend
feben bundert und achtzig.
KNYPHAUSEN.
Auf Sr. Excellentz Befehl
Justin Henrich Motz,
F. H. Ober Auditeur.
By bis Excellency
Lieutenant-General KNYPH AUSE N,
Commanding his Malty's Forces upon New-
York Ifltnd, Lorg-Ifland, Staten-Island, and
Polls depending, &c. &c. &c.
Monday, April g, 17^0.
NEW-YORK
AND
WEEKLY
ASSIZE of BREAD. Flour at 3 1. ios. per
Cent. Published February 18, 1780.
irOTICE is hereby given, in order to prevent
Gunpowder getting into improper hands, that
from and after this date no Gunpowder is to be fold
at Public Vendue without a License having been firft
obtained for that purpose from the Office of Police.
Licenses will only be granted for such Gunpowder
as may be fold by order of the Court of Admiralty
for the benefit of the captors.
All owners of Gunpowder, and Vendue-Mafters,
that may in future fell Gunpowder by the above li
censes, are hereby ordered not to deliver any Gun
powder to the purchaser till he shall produce a cer
tificate from the Office of Police that he has made
oath that the fame is intended for retailing to the
inhabitants, or for the use of armed vessels, or for
such other purposes as may be approved of; Mer
chants and Vendue-Mafters are desired to retain in
their hands the certificates as vouchers for their hav
ing complied with this order, and any transgression
will fubje& them to fine and punishment.
ANEREW ELLIOT, Superintendent-General.
DAVID MATHEWS, Mayor.
PETER DUBOIS, Magistrate of Police.
A White Loaf of the fineft FLOUR, to weigh
2 Ib. for 15 Coppers.
IT is the Commandant's Order, That the
Rents ordered by the Commander in Chief
to be collected for the Use of the Poor, &c.
due the firft Instant, be immediately paid to
John Smyth, theCity Treasurer, and that
in future those Rents be paid halfyearly, with
out further Notice. Attendance will be given
every Monday, Wednesday and Friday Morn
ings, in each Week, until 12 o'Clock at the
Treasury in Pearl-Street, to receive the fame.
Office of Police, Andrew Elliott,
Ijth Noy. 1779, D. Mathews,
Peter Dubois,
By Order of the Commandant.
PROCLAMATION.
Containmg t^t entity ADtetces
ex Printed BY HUGH GAtNE, at the BIBLE Afrp CROWN, IN HANOVER-SQUARE.
Police-Office, New-York, \yh March, 1780.
, Quality, Weight, and Price of
BREA D.
THE Commissioners and Governors of the
Royal Hospital tor Seamen at Greenwich,
having empowered me, by Coinmiffion, to receive
forfeited and unclaimed Shares of prized Bounty
Money within the Province of New-York, accord
ing^to sundry A& of Parliament.
I do hereby call upon all Persons, that are or
have been concerned in Agency for Prizes con
demoed at the Court of Vice Admiralty at New-
Y irk, to account and ,ay to me such Sum or
Sums of Money as may be remaining in their
Hands at the Expiration of three Years from the
firft Distribution, which then becomes due and
payable to,the Use of Greenwich Hospital, accord
ing to the Intent and Meaning of the laid Adss
The Form and Manner in which the Agents
are required to make up their Accounts is lodged
at the Superintendent's Office, in Water street,
for their Infpedtiori.
ANDREW ELLIOT.
New^Tork, tyh March 1780,
Superintendent's-Office.
THE Lords Commissioners of hit Mafefty's
' Treasury, having ordered me to collect and
receivethe Duties upon all dutiable Prize Gods
that have been condemned at the Port of New
York since October 1776. Ido hereby require all
Agents, as well those of his Majesty's Ships of
War, as of Privateers, Letters of Marque, &r.
that they do immediately call at the Superinten
dent's Office in Water street, and pay, agree ib!e
to the Directions of the Lords Commissioners of
the Treafurv, all such Duties arising from dutiable
Prize Goods that have been condemned to such of
his Majesty's Ships of War, Privateers, Letters of
Marque, &c. for which they atted as Agent;
and that they do in future before Condemnation
of any dutiable Prize Goods, make a Return to
the Superintendent's Office of all such dutiable
Prize Goods, that the fame may be weighed and
gauged. The Accounts which the Judge of the
Admiralty has desired the different Agents to
make out arid deliver to me, mult be (worn to
before David Mathews, Esq; the Mayor.
ANDREW ELLIOT, Superin. Gen.
DAVID MATHEWS, Mayor,
PETER DUBOIS, Magistrate of Police.
To be SOLD,
A Store on Lease, 15 Years to come, fronting
Beekman's Slip, well built, two Story high,
and a Cellar under it; now occupied by the Com
missary of Provisions: Any Ferfon inclining to
purchase may apply to Charity Smith, if not fold by
the fourth of April, then to be fold at Public Ven
due at the Coffee-Houfe.
By Order of the Commandant,
THAT on and after Monday next, the
zoth instant, all Bread made of sweet
Flour, of the firft Quality, mult be baked in
to long Loaves of two Pounds each, stamped
with the Initials of the Baker's Name, and
fold for Fourteen Coppers each Loaf.
And all Bread made of merchantable Flour,
of an inferior Quality, mult be baked into
round Loaves, weighing two Pounds and one
Half each, stamped with the Initials of the
Baker's Name, and fold for Fourteen Coppers
each Loaf.
Any Baker or Retailer of Bread, who shall
be convicted of demanding or receiving any
more or greater Sum than Fourteen Coppers
for each Loaf of Bread as abovementioned, shall
be fined Ten Pounds for every such Offence.
In Order that the above Regulations may be
duly enforced, Jeronimvs Alstyne, is ap
pointed Infpedor of Bread, with Directions
and Powers constantly to visit the fever?! Bake
Houses in this City, and to make Seizure of
all such Bread as he may find deficient, either
in the abovementioned Qualities, Weight or
Stamp. The Bread seized to be immediately
sent to the City Alms-Houfe,for the Use of the
Poor, and a Report made to the Police of the
Cause of Seizure,the Quantity,and the Baker's
Name from whom it was seized, that the fame
may be published; and upon Conviction of a
second Offence, that the Offender may more
over be fined Fifty Pounds, and an entire Stop
put to his Baking, if found guilty of a Third
Offence.
Monday, 12 Min. after 8
Tuesday, 56 Min. after 8
Wednesday, 34 Min. after 9
Thursday, 19 Mm. after 10
ANDREW ELLIOT.
New-York, September 10, 1779 s .
70 Crates of Queen's-Ware,
Just imported, and to be fold by
Hugh and Alexander Wallace.
HIGH-WATER at NEW-YORK, this Week.
TH^
I^W^^
^lli&k
M^ : ^<
Friday, 6 Mih. after if
Saturday, 55 Min. after 11i
Sunday, 50 Min. after iz;
First Quarter, lith.:
. f No. 4.1, Dueen-ftreet,
If AS noun opened an afftotment nJ drusy, medicines,
4 and perfumeries, which be will fell, wholesale
and retail, on the mofl reasonable terms.
Surgeons of the arm, and nayy, practitioners in
tbeun arid country, fad the Public in general, ma, be
supplied with an, quantity, on the mos reafonabie
terms, for cafo.
Medicine chefs completed, cn the foorteft notice. Fa
mily prefertptions made up with care, und a clefe at
tendance when called upon.
A large quantity ofgenuine patent medicines and per
fumeries to be bad at the above Jbofe, among cubit b are,
Turlington's balsam,
Hill's balsam oj honey,
Dr. James's rheumatic
pills,
Drfames' sfeverpowder
Britifo oil,
Lockvers Hooper's and
Anderson's bills,
Walker's Jesuits drops,
Godfrey's cordial,
Bateman's drops,
Stoughton's bitters,
Hannay's antivenerial
fpecific,
Fine syrup d'orgeat,
Fine perfumed waters,
THE estate f CHARLES WARD AP
THORP, Esq; at Bloomingdale, confiding
of about 300 acres of choice rich land, chiefly mea
dow, in good order, on which are two very fine or
chards of the belt fruit, one of them in its prime,
and the other beginning to bear plentifully. An
exceeding good house, elegantly finifhed, com
manding beautiful profpe&s of the Ead and North-
Rivers, on the latter of which the chafe is bounded.
Also, a two dory brick house, for an oveifeer
and servants. a wash house, cyder house and mill,
corn crib, a pidgeon house, well docked, a very
large barn, and hovels for cattle, large dables and
coach houses, and every other convenience.
About the dwelling house is a very handsome
pleasure garden, in the English taste, with good
kitchen gardens, well furnished with excellent fruit
trees, of molt kinds ; in short, nothing is wanting
to make it a mod agreeable and profitable estate
for a gentleman, having a good landing and
wharf on the river, where may be advantageous
ly built, a distillery or brewery, as a fufficient sup
ply of water runs to it. The whole of the build
ings are almost new, and in good repair. For
terms, apply to JOHN KELLY, No. 843, Hano
ver-Square, New-York.
Who has to dispose of, a lease of 14 years, of
three new well built Houses and Lots of Ground,
marked No. <, 2, and 3, each lot containing 16 feet
in breadth, and 100 feet in depth, the whole en
closed with a strong post fence, and lituate in a good
stand for business near the Ship-Yards, in Oliver
ftieet, fubje& to a rent of 81. per annum each.
Also, sundry Lots of Ground advantageously fitnate
in this city, to be leafed for such a term of years as
shall be agreed upon. ____________
N. B. A quantity of SAGO, in grain, free from
daft- ,also Howe's ACID for Punch.
JOH N WOOD S,
Attorney at Law,
And NOTARY PUBLIC;
WILL continue to render the Public every
service that possibly can derive from
close Study, and Application to the Bulinefs
of this Office; particularly in giving the molt
impartial and fatirfadory Advice in all cases
of Law and Memorials, and all other Writings
and Conveyances of every Kind, will be
drawn ftriftly agreeable to the Subject Matter,
fully to answer the intended Purpose, and on
Terms to give that easy Access defighed by
the original Plan, whereon this Office was
established the sth of Oduber, 1778. —Pun&
ual Attendance from Sun-rife till 9 d'Clock in
the Evening, at his Office, the upper End of
Queen-Street, No. 129.
TO BE SOL D,
A Trad of one hundred and twenty five
acres of exceeding fine Land, situated at
Haerlam, on the Island of New-York, on the
east fide of the road, leading from this city to
Kingibridge; also, a good Dwelling-House
and other Buildings, with four acres of choice
Land, on the weft fide of the said road, nearly
opposite to the before-mentioned trad, to be
fold separate. For terms apply to John Kelly,
N®- 84g, Hanover-Square.
A few of Dilworth's Spelling-
Books to be fold by the Printer.
Richard Speaight,
TO B E SOLD,
Chymist and Druggist,
Wheat per Bushel, 265. od.l
Floor, 80s. 0(1.
Brown Bread, ,5 s * od.l
Welt-ludra Rum, ss. 6d.
Nev-England do. 4s. od.!
fuels as lavender, bur
gamot, and muj'ky
Fine pomatum, foft and
bard,
Great variety of tooth
powders, & life salves,
Wafo balls,
Court plainer,
Tooth brushes,
Shaving boxes,
With a great variety of
other articles, in the
medical and perfumer,
way, too tedious to in
sert.
[Nv.14%1
GAZETTE:
THE
MERCU R Y.
PRICE CURRENT, in NE W-YORK.
Mufeovado Sugar, 51. rot,
Single refin'd ditto, is. 9 r|,
Mulaffes, -s, 6d.
Beef per Barrel, fl. o d.
Pork, 81. ios°,
foreign ano DomefLeL
18. A Lift of the Royal Navy of Great-Rritain,
with the Pay of the Officers in each Rate, from
the Admiral to a private Man.
19. Admirals of Great-Britain, and the Places
where they command.
20. Treasurer, fee. &c. of the Navy, and the Sa
laries allowed by the Crown.
21. Complement of men and weight of metal in
the Royal Navy.
22. The daily Pay of each Rank in the Horse
and Grenadier Guards, and of bis Majesty's
Land Forces on the British Establishment.
23. Precedency among Men and Women, as fet
tled by Ads of Parliament and other authentic
Documents.
24. A Table of all the Kings and Queens ofEng
and and Scotland, with the Time they federally
began to reign.
25. Peers of the Blood, Dukes, Earls, Vifconntr,
and Barons of Ireland, with the Peerefles by
Creation or Descent.
16. Bifoops, Archbishops and Deans of Ireland.
27. Summary of the House of Commons of Ire
land,
28. Bankers of Dublin, Cork, Waterford and
Clonmell.
[llluftrated with an elegant and accu^te Coperplate
Plan of the Chy of Ne-.v-Yox.l
CONTAINING,"
'' Kaiendar; with a Table, of Coins;
< the Quaker's Genera! Meetings, arid a
tetter Lift of Road^ than pubiifhed in any
other Almanack.
i; A Genealogical Lid of the Royal Family of
Great-britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Den-
Norway, Sweden, Germany, Poland.
!rblha, Russia, Sardinia, Orange, Italy arid
Turkey.
3. The Extent and Situation of Great-Bri^id,
Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Denmark,
Nor%av, Sweden, Germany, Poland, Prussia,
Italy, Orange, Russia and Sardinia'
with the Latitude and Longitude of each King^
dom, and their military Establishment in Peace
and War.
4. Lift of the Peers of the Blood of Great- Britain,
, Dukes, Muquifes, Earls, Viscounts and Barons,
, Archbishops and Bit\ops of England, with the
Sum each See is charged with "in the King's
Books.
6. Hi^Mafefty's most hon. Privy Council.
7. Knights of the most noble Order of the Garter,
8. Knights Companions of the most hon. Otaer of
the Byh.
9. Knights of the most ancient and most noble
Order of the Thistle,
10. His Majesty's principal Secretaries of State,
it. Lords Commiffionerb of the Treasury.
12. Lords CummiOioners of Trade and Planta
tion/i/
it Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.
14. High Court of Admiralty.
15. His Marty's Post Matter's General.
16. A Litt of his Majesty's Land Forces, with
their Colonels, Lieut. Colonels, and Time when
r^ fed, &c. &c.
17. A compleat Lift of the Houle of Commons of
Great Britain, with the Towns, &c. they re
present..
3*. A Table, (hewing the Value of any Sum
from id, Sterling to £.10,000 Currency.
3". A Table (hewing tha Value of Guineas from
i to 10,000, in Dollars, Sterling Money, and
New-York Currency.
34. A Table redur - tg Half Johannes's into Ster
ling and Currency.
35. Proclamations, and Regulations, necessary to
be known.
36 Staff of the Army under (he Command of Sir
Henry Clinton, K- B.
37. General Hospital in New-York.
29. A general Description of America.
30. Enumerated Goods fubjeCt to Duty in America.
31. General Establishment of ail the Provinces on
the Continent of North-America, containing
the Names of the Council and Affemby o f
Nova Scotia, Canada, New-Hampshire, Maffa
chufetty Bay, Rhode-ifland, Connecticut, New-
York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland,
Virginia, North-Carolina, So. Carolina, Geor
gia, and both the Floridas ; with the Names of
their judges, Cullom.Houle Officers, &c. &c.
and dutiable Goods in eachProvincL
38. Field Officers of his Majesty's Artillery, Dra
goons, and Intantrv in North-America.
39. Staff and Field Officers of the Hessian Corps
in North-America.
40. Field Officers, &c. of his Majesty's Provincial
Tibops.
41. A lift of the most Remarkable Events which
have happened since the earliest account oftime,
tillthe hit general peace, and the number
years fincer
American and British, Kalendar,
'juft publiJbed and to be SO LD,
UniverGl Re^ifter;
G R,
For the Year 1780.
Galne's
Fine Salt, 2 g. do
Coarse Salt, is . do
Indian Corn per Bu. 10s. do
Coffee, is. do
Chocolate, 265. pet Do.