The New-York gazette, and the weekly Mercury — New-York [N.Y.], 1780-10-09 00:00:00, page 3

NEW-Y ORK, Odo. 3.
Saturday left departed this life, Mr.
Jonathan Crowe, a loyal Refugee from
I Mafiachuict's Bav, and on Sunday his re
mains were accompanied to Trinity Church
Burial Ground, by the honourable fraternity
of Ancient York Masons, a number of their
brethren, and many refpehtable citizens,
with the usual formalities.
Thursday last was married, Mr. James
.Striker, to the amiable Miss Polly Hop
per, only daughter of Mr. John Hopper, of
Bloomingdale; a young lady whose beauty
and ample fortune is only exceeded by her
virtue, elegance of manners and engaging
a com rdifh ments.
NEW-YORK, October 7.
.Extras? 0/ a Letter from a per Jon n^w confined in
Philadelphia jail, dated Sept. 29, 1780.
" We Bill .remain in the fame situation as
when I wrote vou latt, only rations decreasing,
being now reduced to bifeuit and water only.
IWe find ourselves, and live as usual, but can
not otherwise than lament the diet of the tin
happy prisoners whose circumstances will hot
permit their living better."
Yesterday arrived a brig from St. Lucia,
laden with sugar and molafies for Halifax; she
had been taken by two Baltimore Letters of
Marque, bound to St. Euftatia, and proceed
ing to the Delaware, was retaken and sent
hither.
By the latest accounts from Col. Butler and
Cape. Brant, we are informed that they had
been joined by a powerful nation, next in force
to the Seneca Indians, and had departed upon
a new enterprize; this intention was commu
nicated to the perlon who is our informant, by
both of those gentlemen.
On Tuesday last died, at Flushing-Bay,
Long-Island, Whitehead Hicks, Esq; one
of the Judges of the Supreme Court of this
province, ever universally beloved, and now
most sincerely regretted.
On Tuesday last arrived here, a fleet of 14.
fail from Lbuifboarg, via Halifax, under con
voy, laden with coals for the winter's con
sumption.
The Makers of the transports
from Halifax, return Capt. Inglis
many thanksfor his attention to the
said fleet under his care. As like
wise to Capt. Aplin, for his good
care and conduct of the Quebec
fleet, under his charge.
NEW-YORK, Odo. 9.
Tuesday Night last the House of Mr. John
Lawrence, of this City, Merchant, was broke
open and robbed of Goods to a very consider
able Amount: His Iron Chest was carried off,
containing a large Sum of Money: Part of
the Goods, as well as the Chest and some of
the Cash has been recovered. And sundry
People me committed to Prison supposed to be
concerned in the Robbery.
Wednesday the 14th ultimo, at Noon Day,
a Fite broke out on the Long Wharf, in Bos
ton, v Inch coofumed ten Stores before it could
beextiriulfhed: Ttyey contained Goods to the
Amount cf many^Thoufands Sterling.
A Frigate of 40 Guns, arrived at Newport,
last Monday, from Martinico.
The Privateer Harlequin, Capt. Burns, of
this Port, is taken and sent into Providence,
N. E. by the Treachery of some People from
Nantucket: Capt. Burns having taken a Vessel
belonging to that Illand, and ransomed her,
he sent some of his People on Shore for the
Ranfoip Money, but instead of the Cash he was
soon boarded by a Number of Men from
another Vessel that came along Side, and being
weakly mail'd, was carried off.
Friday last died, in the 24th Year,of ier
Age, Mrs. Elice Nicoll, Wife of Mr. Henry
Nicoll, of this Fiace : —She was the Grano
daughter of the late Hon. Cad valladcr Col
den, formerly Governor of this Province, and
Daughter of Colonel Willet, late of Lng-
Island.
Lail Week died, on Long Island, Captain
James Hosmer, a Refugee from Connecticut,
put has resided in this City some time pail.
Mr. James Hamilton, Mr. David Franks,
and Mr. Robert Bell, of Philadelphia, are all
taken up at that Place, by Order of Congress
2nd committed to Goal ; They are supposed
to have been guilty of treasonable Practices
agaiuft the American States.
A Pennfylvani a Paper, of the 3d Inflant,
fays, that three of their Privateers, viz. The
Jack, of 14Gun% Harlequin of 18, and the
Eagle of 16 Gunspare taken, and carried into
Quebeck. ;
The British ,leet und^r the Command of
Admiral Arbuthnot, were all well at Gardner's
Illand, last Friday.
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Hadley's Quadrant,
WITH three Sights, and in excellent
Order, to be fold. Enquire of Hugh
Gaine.
By ORDER his EXCELLENCY
Lieutenant General ROBERTSON.
' ~ LL persons who have petitioned for boules and
^ lands belonging to persons in rebellion, are
desired to call on PHILIP J. LIVINGSTON, at
Hell-Gate, Long-Illand, or at the Secretary's Office,
New-York, 0., or after Tuesday the 10th instant,
when they will receive answers to their several peti
tions.- And all others, driven from their proper
ty by the rebels, or fled on account of their loyalty,
being unprovided for, and in distressed circumstan
ces, who are desirous of locations in Suffolk County,
are requeued to leave their petitions at either of the
above places, as soon as possible, when they will be
taken into confederation.
New-York, 0%, 5, 1780.
(, LIVINGSTON.
Publick Audion;
To-morrow,
At TEN o'Clotk, and THREE in the After
noon precisely,
By James Inglis,
At his Office in Water-Street, No. 940, will
begin the Sale of
AVERY capital Assortment of almost
every kind of dressed and undressed
WOOLLENS ; together with a very general
and extensive Variety of other Merchandize.
Sales will continue on Wednesday.
Sale by Au&ion.
This dav at 12 o'clock, at the Coffee-Houje',
Ky DUNCAN, BARCLAY, and Co.
An ELEGANT
Bright Bay Stallion,
Six years old, 16 hands high, three quar
ters blooded. a,nd in every refped as fine a
horse as any bred in America.
On rUESDAY,
At 12 o'clock, near the Coffee-Houfe,
2 pipes Madeira wine,
15,00 Weight good ship bread,
A few boxes hair powder, and
Best Poland flarch.
To-morrow, at 12 o'clock,
WILL BE SOLD,
Six puncheons of Jamaica fpirtts,
Six puncheons of Windward I.rum,
With 60 muskets & bayonets, new.
P. M'Davitt.
FiFb'l
AUCTIO N.
This day between 11 and 12 o'clock,
Will be sold
By TAYLOR and BAYARD,
At their vendue ffore the corner of Wall and Queen
tteets,
SEVENTEEN pieces Marseilles quilting,
20 pieces broad cloth, well aflor ed,
20 pieces oznaburgs,
40 pieces flowered lawn,
16 dozen womens cotton hose,
I piece of scarlet broad cloth,
2 pieces white caffimer,
With a variety of other seasonable articles,
tbo tedious to enumerate.
10-morrow, at the Coffee-Houfe,
Between I and 2 o'clock,
The REMARKABLE HANDSOME AND
Fast failing privateer ship
TR A C E Y;
Burthen about 260 tons, and pierced for 18
guns. Inventory to be seen at the time of
sale, or before,
At Tayler and Bayard's office.
Public Auction.
THIS DAY, at the Coffee House bridge,
will be fold,
40 barrels new Irilh beef,
3® barrels flour.
Iz o'clock, on Murray's wharf,
A few hogsheads mufcovado sugar, and
Windward Illand rum.
Cuningham and Wardrop.
T O'lfE—S-d-L-l)?-—'-
At Public Auaion,
To-Morrow, at one o'clock,
At the Merchant's Coffee-Houfe,
The Brig Betsey,
Lying at Hallet's wharf. By order of the
Court of Vice Admiralty for the province of
New- York.
THOS. LUDLOW, Jun. Marshal.
Public Audtion.
This day between 11 and 12 o'clock,
Will be sold, below the Coffee-House,
By Templeton and Stewart,
A Quantity of coatings, frizes, ^c.
10 pipes Lisbon wine,
A few quarter calks ditto,
4 pipes Port ditto,
,0 boxes lemons,
A quantity of beef and pork.
A gentleman of liberal education,
and polijh'd manners,
IS wanted to inhru& from 10 to 15 young
gentlemen, in classical learning, and the
languages; to attend from 7 in the morning
till 3 in the afternoon; igoguineas, per ann.
will be given, by the subscribers, and paid
quarterly. Be pleased to leave a line directed
for M. W. with the printer hereof.
A Young man qualified to attend on a gen
tleman, in any capacity, wants a place.
He can be very well recommended. For par
ticulars, apply to Hugh Gaine.
New-York Marine Society.
THIS evening, at 6 o'clock, at Strachan's ta
vern, on Brownejohn's wharf, will be held a
quarterly meeting of the NEW-YORK MARINE
SOCIETY.
By order of the president,
FETBR BERTON, secretary,
For Charlo-own,
WA^h (Sourr i Carolina)
Brig BELLA,
J° hn Keaquick, Matter;
^U#^=QA well appointed, fall failing
Vessel.—For Freight or Passage, apply to the
Maker on board, or to Colborn Barrell, No.
16, Broadway; who has for Sale choice Port
WIN E, by the Pipe, Hoglhead or Qnarter
cafk. ( 12 14) ;
RUN-away from the fubferiber, on the ?6th day
of Sept, iatt, a negro wench named ROSE.
She is about the middle size, is a handsome black,
and has an impediment in her speech ; had on when
fh^ went away a green.huff pett coat, a red and white
calhcoe !hort.gown, a red frk handkerchief, anti a
black fatten bonnet. Whoever brings hr to me the
fubferiber, or fecutes her, shall, upon application at
No. 55, Q^een-ttreet, receive FIVE DOLLARS
reward, and all charges. 1
ALEXANDER ZUNTZ.
BE SOLD,
An excellent bay Gelding,
NEAR 15 hands high, with every good property
which a horse fhauld have. Forage for the
winter, with a convenient stable and chair house, are
provided, and may be bad with the hotfe, who is
fold for no other reason than that the proprietor in
tends shortly for the southward.
Three good COWS,a good HORSE and CAR T,
likewise to be fold. Enquire of the printer- (12 13.
A Lot of Ground to Lease.
^^o be Lett, on a Building L^afe, for such a
Number of Years as can be agreed upon, a
valuable Lot of Ground, situated in the North Side
of Stone Street, upon which, before the Fire 1776,
there was a large Brewry with all its Appurtenances.
The Lot is 44. Feet front to the Street, but widens
as it goes North to 73 Feet 6 Inches,and is in Depth
upon the Weft Side 156 Feet, and on the Fait 134
Feet 4 Inches. It will be lett all to one Person or
in fepaiate Divisions. For Terms apply to D vid
Campbell, Attorney at Law, at his Office next Door
to the Coffee-Houfe, where a plan of the lot may be
seen.
N. B. There is an the forefaid lot an excellent
welb ^bicb cin be e?filv cle wed up.
Public Au&ion.
By 'John M" Adam, and Co.
This day at xi o'clock, at the bridge,
Will be S OL D,
TEN puncheons old rum, f
20 boxes lemons,
A few firkins butter, and calks provisions,
14 Carriage guns, 4 pounders,
A quantity pf (hot, powder, &c. &c.
12 o'clock, on Marfan's wharf,
A quantity of choice Holland geneva, in
buts, hogsheads and kegs,
Old French brandy, in ditto,
0/ 7 Tuefday, on Beaches wharf,
The cargo of the schooner Barrington, (re
taken by his Majesty's ships Guadaloupe and
Triton) confining of
Blank, Boards, Scantling, &c.
ALS O, at the Coffee-Houfe bridge,
20 pieces belt Meetings,
50,000 milliners needles,
A few calks nails,
A c^fk of coopers tools,
10 bundled coopers jointers,
And a chelt of joiners tools.
On Thursday,
The Prize Brig He&or,
With all her guns, fores, tackle, and appa
rel, as she now lies at Murray's wharf; a prime
(ailer, well found, and well calculated for a
letter of marque or privateer. Inventory to
b° Gen at their office.
INew-York, zd October, 17)0.
An Evening School
I Will be opened on the 1510 Infant, at No. 19,
Little Queen-Street,
I N. B. Day School continu'd as uiuaL
Imported in the last vetlels from London, and
to be fold by
H UGH G A I N E.
In aAN OVER SQU ARE;
BIBLES, Tdtamcn<s, SpJbig Books, and
Primers; Brilev's and D>uhc's Dictionaries,
I Salmon's Grammar, Young Man's best Companion,
I Young Clerk's Vade Mecum, CheHe!fi Id's Letters,
'Rollin's ancient Hittery SmoHet's Hillory of Eng-
Iland, aid Smollet's Hidmy of all Nations; Guthe
pie's History of ScotlandfShakApta 'sWo^s, fpt's
Works, Tatler, Rambler, Syra^oi, Thlotlon's
Sermons, Whitefield's Sermons, Leland's History
of Ireland, Manual of Devotion, Whole Dwy of
Man, Elaboratory laid open, Cramer on Metals,
Baron Fabricius's Letters to Charles the XTlth of
Sweden, Wyld's Surveying, Hervey's Meditations,
Dilworth's Schoolmaster's Affittant, Robinson Ciu
foe, with a few
Family Bibles and Common Prayers.
Imperial, Royal, Medium, and Demoy Paper,
The very belt Foofcap and Pot,
Blossom, blue, and marble Paper, Cartridge do.
Gunter's Scales and Dividers,
Pounce and Pounce Boxes, Sand and Sand Boxes,
The best Wafers, Sealing-W x,Quills and Pens,
Travelling Cases tor Gentlemen of the Army,
Red Tape for tying up Records,
Penknives, best Ink powder, red do. excellent
red and black Ink ;
Copperplate Copy Books,and Copperplate Copies,
separate, best black Lead Pencils, Parchment and
Drum-heads, Receipt and Orderly Books, common
Memorandum Books, Ladles and Gentlemens Poc-
I#t Books, with and without Instruments, Gold
Scales and Weights, Dram Bottles, coveted vith
Leather, Leather Inkpots, and large Pewter Stand
dishes, Small Swords and Hangers, Meflage Cards,
gilt and plain. Ledgers, Day Books and Journals,
Journal Books for the Navy and Merchantmen, &c.
Turlington's Balsam, Anderson's rind Hooper's
Fills, Keyfer's Fills, Ryan's Sugar Plumbs.
Public Auaion,
At the Coffee-Houfe, this Day,
12 Puncheons Welt I fdia Rum,
30 Cases of genuine Geneva,
200 Buffiels of Sale, and
20 Coils of Cordape.
ALS O,
The Schooner L IGHT-BQB,
~ As she ndw lies at the Wharff above Beek
man's Slip, Burthen about 40 Tons, has been
newly graved and beau-top'd, is well found
in Materials and now fit for Sea.
On IVednefday,
At DANIEL M'CORMICK's Auc
tion Room will be fold,
A large Parcel of Woolens, Linnen , Dow
lafs, Pittol Lawns, Oznaburgs, &c. Also,
A large Parcel of very fashionable
PLATED WAR E.
An ANCHOR
WAS taken up a few Days since in the East
River. Whoever it belongs to, may have
it again, proving their Property, and paying Charges
by applying at the Bl^k Boy and Trumpet, ia
Water-street, near the New-Slip.
FRANCIS HILL,
No. 22, King-Street,
HAS for sale, belt and lated imported Irish
Mess and Cargo Beef and Fork,
in Tierces, Barre's, and Half Barrels; Ship Bread,
Peafe, O ume?i, Flou, Rfe Butter, Rice, Jamaica
Spirits, &c. &c. (12 15)
Public Auction.
This DAr at the Coffee-Houfe
Bridge, at the Hour cf Eleven,
Will be SOL 1),
THIRTY Firkins firft Quality Irish
Butter,
Five Tierces and three Barrels of choice
Beef,
One ditto—and two ditto— of Pork,
Two Boxes (21 Inch long) Pipes,
With sundry other Articles. By
Hugh Parker.:
JOOUND in a corn field, at Greenwich, a
£ lew days ago, a bay STALLION. He
was frequently turned upon the common, but
always coming back, it became necessary to
put him up in a liable belonging to Mr, Camp
bell, where he now i; The owner is desired
to call for him immediately, otherwise he will
in the course of a few days, be fold to pay for
the damage he has done, and for bis keeping.
A Good COO K,
IS immediately wanted in a Gentleman's
Family. Such a Person will meet with
prerer Encouragement by applying to Hugh
Gaine.
M^redanfs Drops.
AS a proof of the efficacy 6f Maredant's Antifeor
butte Drops,, prepared by Mr. Norton, Surgeon,
or c-mden-Squ^re, London, and fold by his appointment
at Mr, Gainz's, Printer, in New-York, in curing the
foil twiny .oriorderr, viz.
Fidui. s, Pita, Pimpled Facts, long continued Inflam
mation o' the Lyes, Bilious Choric, St. 'Anthony's Fire,
Scorbutic Gour, and Rheumzrifm, and every other dis
; order atifing from a Foulness < f the Blood ; the following
bure, taken from the general Lift, will fufficerifly teftify,
Cipt. Calvert, in the Bast India Company's service,
of fe rhuric blotches.
Mr. R'deric Mac Don.a ! d, of a scorbutic eruption,
whose cure is a:tefted by Dr. Cooper, of John-Street,
Cavenoilh Square.
Lieut. Col, Fevrac, late ofhis Majedy's 18th, or royal
regm;nt of so% cutes id a most violent fcurvey, atten.-
cd w th a toil want of w^-rrir, fl%i and fph. 5.
Mr. John Go>d, late surgeon to his Majety's floo^
Ferrit, of a m rit dangerous and obftiaarc fibula,
Mr. John F^ler, at the Rose, V/eiring, in Kent,
of I leprufy. attended with rheumatic paifas.
Mrs. Ann Cioxford, of Kingston-% O^+'Q oft
paralytic disorder, attended with an univcHal mambneQ
which deprived lier of tbeufe us her limbs. ,
Mr. Si-pheri Armitage, Crampton , .14.bfri rm id
of I Ceral ulcers in his legs, which caufedCtn : iwed
exceedingly.
The daughter of Mr. D, Davis fchiol-mafter.
lington road, of aft invr.rerart humour, ocean,rird by the
relics of the hr.ill-pea#
John Crew, at the Dolphin lon, Kingston upoa
Thames, of ftverai obftinabe fore, or ulcers on hrs legs,
Mr. James Soo ^den, of h 7 sMjefty's ship Acquiton,'
of a gidiinch in his head, so violent as to render him
incapable of walking the deck.
Mr. Thomas Smith, at Pontorra&, Yorkffiire, of an
inveterate feurvy eccationed by a lurfeit.
Mr. Atwood, in the marker-place, Bath, of an inve
terate scorbutic humour, which affefted his head and
face.
. Mr. Coulthard, formerly the First Clerk of Lieut.
General Mefvil, whin Governor io the Weft-Indjee,
cured of a most violent scorbutic huraur on his hands,
neck, face, &c.
Mr. William Breeze, teacher of Writing and mathe
maticks at Audlem, h eihire, of anWhinate fenryy.
The son of Mr. R. Latham, at Butkingham-houfe,,
near Thetford, 'Norfolk, of an in veter&¥<curvy on his
legs and thighs,
Mr, Stephen Bolton, Lesrf fyacafhire, of an invite
rate feurvy of tiLecn years Itftndiffc
Mrs. Hester Scudd, at Lctyi. in EfEx, of a violent
and long ftar.din^corb'&j #^G>rder in her face,
Mrs. Maty Ldfy at. Mrs. Field's, Ca'tH-treet, Lei
cefter-Fieids, cured dtbY Scrophula, or king's evil.
guns.
Iricf TWELVE S«§L!TNCS a Bottle.
Excellent Velluni
For DRUM HEADS,
To be fold at H. Gaine's Print
ing Office in Hanover-Square :
tVbere afo may be bad.
The best
Red and black Ink.