The New-York gazette, and the weekly Mercury — New-York [N.Y.], 1780-02-14 00:00:00, page 3

NEW-YORK, February 14.
Advices from Albany are, That the Mili
tia in that Part of the Province have Orders to
hold rhemfAves in Readiness to march at an
Hours Notice, with to Days Provisions, in
Confequen.ee of f me Advices being received
that a Body of Indians were soon to make
their appearance cn their Frontiers; that
their Alterably had made a House and done
some Bufioefs, but were prorogued.
The Farm House of Mr. Griffith, a Refu
gee from Albany, has been lately plundered
and burnt by the Rebels of that County.
> .Four Rebels who had robbed some People
near the Lines, of a few Necessaries, they
were taking out, Were attacked by the fame
Number ofßHugees near White Plains, made
Prisoners, and brought to this City.tince our
last.
There are now near 300 Continental Troops
Rationed at a Place ctiled King-Scree,, their
Advance Gudd being at the House of John
Crom, near the Quaker Meeting House, in
Harrison's Porchale.
We hear the Congress would not accept of
General Sullivan's reflation, as lately men
tioned in this Paper, but have agreed to his
retiring from public BufmeL for some Pirne.
By some People from Conne&icu: we learn,
That Continental Money will not pals for the
Necessaries of Life within 50 Miles of the
British Lines, thatabout 400 of their 9 Months
Men lately returned home, declared they were
fully tired of the Service, and would not in
lift again on any Account, and that the late
hard 'Weather had made all Sorts of Bread
Kind extreme scarce,
On Sunday the 6th inff. died in Child-bed,
Mrs. ELIZABETH GILLESPIE, wife of
Mr. John Gillespie, of' this City, Shop
keeper; and on Tuesday following her re
mains were interred in St. Paul's Church-yard
with every mark of Refpet ldue to the Me
mory of a faithful and beloved Wife. —She
was of a Disposition charitable and humane,
a most affectionate Relation, and pofcffed of
every social Virtue becoming her flation.—
No wonder then if sincerely lamented by ail
who knew her, and ab >ve all her disconsolate
Husband.
On Sunday the 6th inst. departed this Life
in her 45th year, Mrs. Susannah Badger,
relid of Capt. Barnard Badger, late from Phi
ladelphia .• She bore along and painful illness
with great fortitude and resignation. Her
remains were interred in the Family Vault in
this City on Tuesday.
Last Thurtday night died much regretted,
Mrs. HICK, the valuable Wife of Mr. Hick
of Great George Street.
414 A few ofDilworth's Spelling Books to
be fold by Hugh Gaine.
§||§ Some very neat Small Swords and
Hangers to be fold by Hugh Gaine
mil The New Manual Exercise will bepub
lifhed by Hugh Gaine this Week.
^M***^****^****^*^*)^!^***
To be LETT till May next, and entered
on immediately,
A Large front Room and a Bed-Room ad
joining it, with a large dry Cellar below,
in a pleasant Situation in Queeri-ftreet. For
Particulars enquire at Mr. Thomas Gillifpie
No. 7, Fly-Market:
ATO be LETT, a convenient Score in
I Wall-Greet, fitted with Shelves for a
Dry Good Store. Enquire of the Printer.
CATHARINE BOWLES'
BEGS Leave to acquaint the Publick, That
she intends to open a School the firft Day
of April next, to teach Reading and Saving.
^rO be fold, thirty puncheons of excel-
I lent high proof Jamaica spirits, neat as
imported. Enquire at No. if. Queen-street.
Public Auction.
To-morrow, at 12 o'Clock, at the Merchant's
Coffee-Houfe, will be Sold,
Two Barrels of Sugar;
13 Loaves double-refined Sugar,
And, 10 Cases of Brandy.
Thomas Ludrow, fo 1 ?-
Sales by Auction,
By Duncan, Barclay, & Co.
On Wednesday next,
At their Au&ion Room, No. §l6, Ha. Square,
An Assortment of Dry Goods.
Particulars of which will bd in the next Paper.
On FRIDAY next, the 18th Inst.
At 3 o'Clock in the Afternoon, at the Tan
yard of Mr. Antony, in the Swamp,
A new-built STONE MILL,
With all th® Machinery, Utenlils, &c. neces
sary for a Snuff and Tobacco Manufactory,
with a Quantity of Tobacco, and Tobacco
Stalks, &c. the Property of the late George
Trail, deceased. Any Person inclining to
purchase, may view them any Time before the
Day of Sale, by applying to William Belfour,
on the Premises.
THE Subscriber having an intention to proceed
to Great-Britain, by the firft elegible oppor
tunity, requests that all Gentlemen, whose accounts
with him are not fettled, would either make pay
ment, or favour him with an acknowledgement of
his claims upon them, To those who have any
against him, he is extremely willing to give every
possible fatisfa&ion.
DAVID BLACK.
THE Refugees of the County of Tryon,
and Mohawk-River, are desired to
meet at the house of Mr. Amory, in the
Fields, on Thursday next at 3 o'Clock in the
Evening, on a particular Occasion.
By Order of the Commandant.
The following RATES are established for Ferri
ages, between this City and Brooklyn.
FOR transporting every person from the city of
New-York, to Long-Island, or from Long-
Island to, New-York, ' ' 6d.
For every Horse or Beast, 2s.
For evevry live Calf, Hog, Sheep, or Lamb, 61.
For every dead Calf, Hog, Sheep, or Lamb, 6d.
For every Barrel of Rum, Sugar, Molalfe;, or
other full Barrel, 1,. 6:1.
' For every empty Barrel, 6d.
For every empty Pipebr Hogshead, is. 6d
For every Bead's Hide, 6C
For every undressed Calf, Sheep, or Deer/kin, 2d.
For every Pail of Butter, 41.
For every Firkin or Tub of Butter, yd.
For every Bothel of Salt, Wheat, Grain, Seeds,
or any other thing fold by Buftiel, 4'l.
For every full Pipe or full Hogshead, 8,
For every Board of one Inch, or one Inch anQ an
Half, 4d.
For eery Waggon, Bs.
For every Pair of Cart Wheels, 2s.
For every Cupboard, Ptel's for Cioaths, or
Waiting Delk, ss.
For every full Thunk or Chest, 2s. 6d.
For every empty Trunk or Chest, is.
For every half Barrel of Flour, or any other
half Barrel, 6d.
For every Barrel of Bread, is.
For every Bag of Bread or Meal, 3d.
For e ery Ga,nmon,of Bacon, Turkey or Goofe,zd.
For every Dozen of Eggs, jd.
For every Dunghill Fowl, Brant, Duck, Heath,
Hen, or Ribit, id.
For every Dozen of Pigeons, Quails, fuiphs, or
any kind of finaller B ; rds, 2d.
For every Hundred Weight of Iron, Steel,
Shot, Pewter or Lead, and of Iron, Copper or
Brass Kettles, &c, is.
For every Hundred Weight of Gun Powder, 23. 6d.
Fir every Scythe or Rith, id.
For every Fi'kin of Soap, 4-d.
For every Chcefe, 2d.
For every Corn Fan, -64.
For evety Hundred of Shingles, is. 6d.
For every Cedar Bolt, 3d.
For every common Bag of Cotton Wool, 2d.
For eve,y Bale of Cotton Wool or Hops, 3s.
For every Coach, 12s.
For every Phaeton/ Bs.
For every Ch%ife or Chair, ss.
For every single Sleigh, 3s.
For every double Sleigh, 4s,
For every Piece of Chenbrigs, 4!.
Forevery Piece of Blankets or DufEls, zs.
For every Piece of Cotton, Penni Gone, Flan
nel or Prize, ' 6d.
For every Piece of Broad Cloth, Kerfey,
Strouds, Half thicks and Druggets, Cd.
For every Piece of Duroys, CaUimancoes,
Shalloons, or other ftqff, and for every
Piece ofGarlix, Holland or other Linen, 2d,
For every Hundred of Filh (called Sheeps head)
4 s •
For every Hundred of Bass or Shad, 2s.
For every D,zen of Perch, 2d.
For every Hundred Weight of Copperas,
Alluni or Britnifone, Is.
For every half Dozen of Wool Cards. 2d.
Fur every Saddle without a Horse, 3L
For every Cale with Bottles, ,64.
For every Looking Glass to Two Feet high
and upwards, 6d.
For every Hundred Weight of Rice, 4 d„
Articles not enumerated in Proportion to their Bulk.
If any Ferryman find ask, demand, or receive any
more, or greater sum for Ferriage, than is due&ed
to be taken by the aforegoing Rates, report thereof
is to be made to the Officers of the Police, id order
that the Offenders may be brought to punishment.
ANDREW ELLIOT, Superintendent Gen.
D. MATHEWS, Mavor.
PETER DUBOIS, Mtyftr%of Police.
Office of P° ice, Jan. I2?h, 178.0.
rp() be fold, infee simple, the following hooks,
' (tore, coach houfe,^ and liable^, part of the eflate,
of the Hon. Henry Cruger, Esq; (that is to fay) the
elegant and commcdiouhy situate house in Hanover
Square, new in the occupation of the Widow M'
Adam, confiding of nine Urge, specious rooms with
seven fire places, besides a garret and cellar kitchen
well finished and in good order, together with a two
story brick warehouse, or store, in the tear thereof,
fronting the Sloat, a coach house and elrgapt'A^bles,
well finished, lyingoppofite thereto faboa fine, new,
well built three ftorv brick house, in Duke St^t,
now in the polLffiun of John D vuid7,Mne men chant,
confiding of 7 large and well finifhed rooms, with
fix fire places, an excellent kitchen, wine cellar,
garret-rooms, and elegant yaV For terms %fly
to John Kelly, Notary Public, No. 84.3, Hanover,
Square, WHO HAS FOR SALE ionomer very good
houses in the Did Hanover-Square, aid two in-
Water-Street, newly built, and in good order, re
pair, and condition, to ail which an indifoutahle
Title will be given,by applying is .above mentioned.
-Nuw-Yq-k; Feb: 72, 1780.
F O U N D,
IN the Street, a COW : Any Per
son proving their property and
paying charges may have her Again,
by applying to Lyon Jonas, in Broad-
Street?
This Day, between XII and I o'clock, mill be
SOLD at De Grufa' jmbarf,
By Taylor and Bayard,
A quantity of damaged bread,' flour, peafe,
&c. &c.
To-morrow, at the Coffee-Hsufe, be
tween 12 and i. o'clock, will be fold,
20 Hoglheads choice high proof Welt
lndia Rum,
3 Puncheons Geneva,
3 Hogsheads Geneva,
5 Hoglheads Coniac Brandy,
If 10 Gallon Kegs do.
On Wednejday Next,
At Taylor and Bayard's
Auction-Room, corner of Wall and Qteen-ftreels,
mill be fold between XII and I o'clock,
A quantity of Bearskins, Ratteens, fpotied
baize, &c.
Public Auction.
Public Aucli^i.
At the Coffee-Hcufa To-morrow,
25 Barrels fuperfine FLOU R.
A.nd at XII d'Clock,
Will he SOLD;
That convenient Dwelling-Hrtufe, and Lot
of Ground'fituate in Water-street, now in
the pbfieffion of Mr. Terence Reiley, as for
merly a Irerufed.
By DANIEL M'CORMICK.
'scHEM £
Of the Associated Loyalists
LOTTERY.
No. of Prizes.
I of £- 75° - is £-75°
1 - 500 - 500
2 - 250 arc - 500
4 - 125 - - 500
10 - 50 50°
20 - 25 - r 560
50 - io - - 500
185.- 5 - - 9 2 5
1550 - i ioj. - 2325/
1823 Prizes.
5177 Blanks.
7000 Tickets, at zof. 7000
State thereof on Saturday the 12th instant.
I Prize of £. 50 £. 50 7
I 2 5 2 5,
9 10 9 0
28 , 5 140
205 1 10 307 10
244 Prizes 612 10
756 Blanks.
1000 Tickets drawn, at 20 s. 1000
In Favour of the Lottery, £-387 10
A few Tickets remaining unfold may be
had of Mr. David Grim, in William-Street,
which will be warranted in the Wheels at the
time of Sale.
J- 0 H N'~FE'I7L,
Ai Numbfr-iSi,
Quee --Greet, nearly oppofoe Beekman's flip, has for
sale, bed new Rufe better, of the full quality, by
the last tdfch from Coik : AHu,
, ,^o'ukiand dipt can. Pepper, muflard, w
J.V.tries, nuts, and anchor
f dec, u:,(l brown soap, Old fpiiitsand rv.
Me s beef arid pork, in Hollands geneva,
otic:, betels, and London porter,
hit Uriels, Superfine flour,
HA , Smoaked and
Cofrie, tea, and chocolate , tongues,
Loaf fug?r, ILamp, and train oil,
Ole Madeira, and Ppft|klCE,
wines, IA few hogsheads of old
To ba fit at put; c v^-f^r peremptorily,
(\N Tue&y the> sth iuft. at the Coffee-Hoirfe,
and entered upon the firft of May, a very
commodious dwelling house, and lot of ground, in
Wa+er-flrcet, three doors from the corner oppefite
the Coffee-Ilonfe, the house has seven fire-places,
with a number cf bed-rooms, and very suitable for a
merclia^, it is now in the tenor of Mr. Terence
Reilev, and formerly the property of the deceated
John Gruefbeck :---The conditions will he fecn the
day of sale, and an indisputable title giyen. For
further ' par titulars apply to Anh Drummond, Ex
ecutrix, Thomas Lynch, or the aforefaid Terence
Rily
,us PUBLISHED,
And to be SOLD, whoLtJe and retail, by'
HUGH-GAI N E,
At his Book- Store and Printing-Office, in Hanover-
HUTCHTN S Improv'd;
BEING AN
ALMANACK
And Ephemeris of the Motions of the Sun and
Moon,'
For the Year of our Lord, 1780.
CONTAINING,
The Lunations, Conjrimaidns, Ecbpfcs, Judgment
of the Weather, Rising and listing of the Planets,
Length of Days and Nights, Courts, Roads, &c.
Together with ufeful Tabies,' Chronological Ob
servations, and ufeful Remarks.
A Numerous Reprimand.
2. A comical drunken Frolic.
3. The disinterested Arguments of a Boatswain.
4. An Instance of Cruelty and Dissimulation.
5. An Instance of the Persian Politics, in Refpe&
their Marriages.
6. An Instance of Intrepidity and Greatness of
7, An Instance of Presence of Mind, and the Use
' it.
8. An Instance of excessive Covetousness.
9. The Effect of Joy and Sorrow.
10. A comical Story of a Parrot.
11. A remarkable Instance of Providence.
12. A lucky Stratagem.
13. The Unsteadiness of a Free-Thinker.
14. The fatal Effects of Jealousy.
I^. An Instance that the Passion of Love is in
some Part of our Lives necessary.
16. A Providential Deliverance of the Duke of
Orleans.
17. An Instance of Treachery and Perjury.
18. A comical Passage between the King of Spain
and a French Ambassador.
19. A fortunate Prevention of a Plot at Venice.
zo. Of the ill Effe&s of Gaming amongst the
Chinese.
Turlington's genuine Balsam,
Anderson's Pills, Hooper s Fills, to
1 be fold by HUGH G/HAH.
- Dr.R YA M's
Incomparable Worm-destroying
SUGAR PLUMB S,
Necessary to be kept in all Families..
^O exceedingly Valued by a!I People ivlo bane bad
O of them in Great-Britain and Ireland, jor their
trqnfcendent Excellency in the defraying Worms of all
kinds both in the Bodies of Men, Women, and Children,
by not only breaking the Knots in the Duodenum or Cut
next the Stomach, but they pass through the /mailed
Parages of the Body, and purge envoy the ropy and
fony Humours ^which are the cause of those pernicious
Vermin, andthe Source of many other Disorders; they
are hue of the befl Purges in the <wbole World for gross
bodied Children that are apt to breed Worms, andhaate
large Bellies; their Operation is mild, fafe andplea.
fant ; they avonderfully cleanse the 80-usels of all ftiff
nd clammy Humours nvhicb stop up the Parts and
pre vent the j'uice of Food being conveyed to the Liver
and made Blood, nubicb is often the Case auitb Children,
and is attended vxth a bard Belly, finking Breath,
frequent Fevers, Rickets, and a Decay of Strength in
the.lower parts: Likewise fettled Aches and Fairs in
the Head, Swellings, old Sores, Scabs, Tetters, or
Breaking-Out, will be perfectly cur'd, and the Blood
and Skin restored to its original Purity, and Smootb
nejs ; the; purge by Urine, and bring away the Gra
vel, and tfeAualb, cure all Obfruflions of the Ur:ne\
or Ulcers in the Kidneys. 'They at oncefrike at the
true cause of the Scurvy, and entirely defiroy it, at all
fcorbutick Humors -and Efefls, Root and Branch, so
as never to return again, and what makes them more
commendable is, they are full as agreeable to both tafe
and febt, as Loaf Sugar; and in their Operation as
nnocent as new Milk.
have by these Plumbs cured a great many Children
Whooping or Chin-Coughs, and Agues, which Dif
r npas are very common and troublesome to Families,
.ndthe Want of these Plumbs are the Ruin of Man,
Children's Confitutions.
The Plumb is agreat Dieuretick, cleaning the Reins
of Slime; it expels Wind, and is a sovereign Medicine
in the Cbolick and griping of the Guts, It alleys and
carries off four Vapours which occafon many Disorders
in the Head. It opens all ObfruHicns in the Stomach,
Lungs, Liver, Reins and Bladder; causes a good Ap
petite and helps Difodon, It hath been found won-,
derfutly faccejsful to jueb Persons as are going into
Chronical Difem,ers, as Afhmas, Phtbificks, Sbort
nefs of Breath, Drotyies and Yellow Jaundice. Now
I hope all impartial Persons are fatisfed, that the Me
dicine which wo r ks upon such Humours, will almof
teach any Didem,er, if not too far gone, face Corrup
tion and Putrefaction are the Fore-runners of all Dis
eases; therefore no better Pbyfck can be taken for all
Ages, Sexes and Confitutions, from Infarty to an fd
Age. These Plumbs are highly serviceable to the Fe
male Sex, from the Age of 14 to 20 Yeafs, and frees
40 to 50. Each Box containing one Dozen oftb%
Plumbs, Price 8 Shillings, with Directions. Sold by
HUG H GAI N £
To be S O LD,
By S. S T UVA N G,
At No. 320, ¥
PRESERVED quinces, grapes, pears, damton'.
Peaches, sweet oil, Caftde soap, common do.
ce lies, sweet Rose butter, Neats tongues, fi,e
feehted hair powder, green and bohea tea, loaffu
gu, spirits, rum, Madeira wine, French brandy,
Hollands gin, shrub, pickled cucumbers, green
peppers, and onions, with a great variety of other
Articles good and chehp.
Notice is hereby given,
CTpHAT Friday the eighteenth day of this present
A month, February, is appoints I for payment to
the Officers and Company of the privateer brig Spit
h e, under the command of Cornelius White, of
their feyeral and refpe&ive shares of the net proceeds
of the schooner Swan, captured on or about the 29th
of August, 1779 : As also for a proper proportion
of the net proceeds of the flwp Peggy, schooner
Southampton, sloop Azna, and schooner Nancy Ba
con, captured by said privateer in company with the
privateer fl op Lady Dunmore, and condemned as
lawful prize by the court of Vjce Admiralty, fur the
province of New York, on which day such payment
will be made, by Wm. DONALDSON,
N. York, 14th Feb. 1779. Agent.
Theatre Royal.
+hisE VENIN G,
Being the ^th Infant, will be presented.
A COMEDY (Never performed here)
call'd the
Clandestine Marriage,
To WHICH WILL BE ADDED,
The FARCE of
The Upholsterer.
The Characters by Gentlemen- of the Army.
Tickets to be had at Mr. Petit's, and the
different Printers.'\
Places for the Boxes to be registered at Mr.
Petit's, next Door to the Theatre, otherwise
they cannot be kept.
The Doors to be opened at §, and to begin
precisely at 7 o'Clock.,
The Managers having repeatedly pointed
out the Necessity of fending Servants in due
Time, to secure Places taken 'in the Boxes
beg Leave once more to request the Attention
of the Public to that Regulation, otherwise
they will not confider themselves as refp<mfi-‘
ble for any Disappointment that may happen
frem such Neglect
VIVANT REX & REGINA.
STOLEN, last Saturday night, from the
pilot boat Lord Howe, a Foresail and
Mainsail. Whoever will bring the above
mentioned fails to William Bufflere, cor
ner of the New-Slip, fliall receive FIVE
POUNDS reward. _
USE wanted."
WANTED to hire, a fmallgenteel house,
that is not in a situation for bufinefe.
Broadway, or any other airy dlreet would be
preferred.
A maid servant that can be well recom
mended, is likbwifc wanted. Apply to th&
Printer.