The New-York gazette, and the weekly Mercury — New-York [N.Y.], 1779-09-20 00:00:00, page 2

Ex' l ads fun tbe proceedings of be Convention
a* Concord, and of the down of 80/lon, con
tainitag the reyutai^i of the prim of merchan
dize, jrovifcn; &c. Publfbed by order of
the town.
A T tie convention held at Concord in this
/ \ date, the iq/h day.of July, 1779, '° r
carrying into effect the measures recommended
by congress,
Refolded unanimously, as our opinion. That
f '> n and after the 10th day of August next,
the to^n^nq Articles of merchandize and
country produce, b riar foil at a higher price
than io hereafter affixed to them, viz.
per hogshead, per birrel. pr gal.
Wei-India rum, (.5 , £§ f )6 £6 6
New England do. 4 0 4. 0 0 4. 16
M Uffes, 3 1% 3 '9 4 7
Coffee, ic/per bag, i6/'6 per doz. 18/ per lb.
B>wn sugar , 5) —j, p:r C. 11 —l4/ per lb.
Chocolate, 20/ per lb. pr b >x, zef per doz.
24/ per lb
BYnea tea, £ 4 \6f per chert, £,• 5 6 / P er
doz £ § 16/ per Ib.
Cotton. £.i lof per ib. per bag, 33/ per
d<% 36/ per lb.
G rmtn Reel, 30/ per cwt. 33/ per barrel, 36/
per finale lb.
Salt belt faality, £ 9 per bushel by the single
bufhd or larger quantity.
Iridian corn, £ 4 10)
Re, 6 o > per buthel.
Wheat, 9 0 1
Beef, till the fir'd of September, 6/ ner lb.
after that 5/ per Ib. per lot, or finall quan
tity.
Matron, ,f p n r 15.
Lamb, of per Ib.
Veal, 4/per lb
Foeig; b es, £. 60 per birrel, containing zoo
wt.
Dito pork, {7O *
Butter, 12/ per Ib.
Cheese. 6f per Ib.
Milk, 2/63 in Borton,
H^y, 40/' per cwt. in Borton, and other fee
ports in the usual proportion.
Bl mmery iron, [.. 30 per cwt.
Cilery pork, as it is r ot 'he fe rfon for it. to
be regulated at the next convention in Oc
tober.
N B. Th? above to he considered as the
hgheft prices, at which produce and mer
chandize or th bed quality are t> be fold in
the feajorts, free from al'charge, except
hav and milk, which are to be reckoned as
the prices in Boftun only.
At a legal meeting of the freeholders and other
inhaf'ant; of the town of 80/hn, by adjourn
ment, at Faneoil H~l Monday, August 16,
i/79; the bon. Samuel Adams, E/q; Mode
rvor.
q™ 1 H E committee appointed, to affix the
I prices of the several articles mentioned
in the ^ch and ;th efolv ^s of the convention
he'd at Concord, July 1,, 1779, reported,—
WHEATS the gods and wares imported
from Europe, are so various in their hinds and
quali+iX, as to rm hr it qwte impradicable to de
te mine the exafl price a p which every article ought
to he fid; and it is neceffvy the prices of thoje
kind of wools lb uldb° reduced in the fame pro
portion as th p Wefl-Imdia imports: Therefore,
Pefived, That all hul ers and retailers of
European wares and merchandize, (hall, from
this time forward fell all such articles at twen
ty per cent, or one fifth part less than the
p : ces at which the fame articles we e fold in
the month of July lait ; that being the average
reduction in the prices of Weft India goods.
And in order that the foregoin? resolve may
be more efrAually complied with, and all
those who wilh to enrich themselves at the ex
pence of their neighbours, and who, on all oc
cafons are riifp f d to take the advantage of our
friends.in the country, may be prevented in
future from preying upon their more worthy
fellow-citizens aid country brethren :
Be i" resolved, That William Cooper, Esq;
Mr Giblins Sharp, Capt. Isaac Philips, Col.
Edward Prohor, Capt. Gustavus Fellows, Maj.
Thomas Melvill, Capt. Henry Prentice, Mr.
William Hodtins. Capt. Alexander Wilson,
Dr. Nathaniel Noyes, Mr. Samul Ruggles,
Capt. John Pulling, and Dr. Charles Jarvis,
be a committee with whom may be lodged
complains of all violations and evasions of the
above resolves, who are hereby empowered
and directed to enquire into all such com
plaints, and to publ.fh the names of all those
who, upon good and fatisfaetory evidence,
may be convi&ed of violating or evading said
revive, as enemies to their country, that they
rov be de dt Hth according to their demerit:
And all persons, whetherof the town or from
the country, who may think themselves im
pokd upon »y any person in this town, in not
complying with ihe foregoing refolvcs, are
hereby desired to lodge a complaint with the
aforementioned committee, that the matter
mav bi enquired into
Refolded. That the following prices for la
bour and maoua&ures, &c. bathe highest
which ihall be demanded or given for the
future .•
L^nuid 6of per day, they finding them
flves; fllip-carpenters, caulkers, riggers,
Trip joiners, house-wrights and masons, 78/.
per day, they finding themselves.
Blacksmiths, block-makers, carvers, cabi
net-rnake-s. and pewterers, Ihall reduce the/
prices at least t.n per cent, from the present
rates.
Printers, rope-makers boat-builders, coop
ers. cur iwainers, and tinmen, ffiall reduce
t' ^prices at kart twenty per cent, from the
present rates.
Sail makers 'hall not hare more than £. §
3/ per bdt for working new canvass, and
for old woikin f.cpoiuon.
A c mmir.ee appointed to confider and re
port the most effectual and speedy measures for
carrying the resolves of the Convention and of
the Town into Effect, Reported as follows :
Whereas the carrying into Effect the Rejolu ions
of the Convention at C< ucord, and the Jubfquent
Re/fves of this town in Conformity thereto; is of
the lad Importance to the Community, and a Vio
lation of them in the present Situation of public
Affairs, a Crime of the depeft Dye : sE
Voted, That any Person, directly or indi
redy, either by himfelf or any Person for or
u' der him, who (hall buv or fell, or offer to
give or take any higher Price at public Mar
ket, or private Sale, or who Shall withhold any
Article, except from Persons who may b In
habitants of such Places as have not ad, p ed
similar Meafuies, or in any other Way what
ever, violate the said Resolutions, Shall have
his or their Names published by the Commit
tee hereafter appointed, in the News Papers
of this Town, that the Public knowing, may
abftaiu from all Trade and Conwerfa ion with
them, and the People at large inflict upon
them that PuniShment which such Wretches
defeive-ari it fliall be deemed Infamous for
any one to trade or hold any intercourse or
Conversation with such Person.
Voted, That it is the Duty of every Citizen
to keep a vigilant Eye upon his Neighbour,
that any Infringment upon the Ref dutions
aforefaid, may be prevented; and wh~re it
may unhappily take Place, to give immediate
Information to the Committee appointed to re
ceive all such Complaints.
Voted, That William Cooper, Esq; Dea
con Gibbens Sharp, Capt. Isaac Phillips, Col.
Edwaid Pr &r, Capt. Gustavus Fellows, Ma
jor Th >nias Melvill, Capt. Henry Prentice.
Mr. William Hofkins, Capt. Alexander Wil
son, Dodor Nathaniel Noyes, Mr. Nathaniel
Ruggles, Capt. John Pulling, and D dor
Charles Jarvis, be a Committee for the Pur
poles aforefaid. Inasmuch as fending Servants
to Market to the Ferries, to the Neck, and to
the neighbouring Towns, with diferetionary
Orders, has a direct Tendency to counteract
the Resolves of the Convention and of this
Town,
Therefore it is repeatedly and specially re
solved, That any Perlon who ffiall by his
Servant, or any other Person for or under
him, presume directly or indirectly, to offer
or give, either in Town or out of it, for any
Article of Consumption, an higher Price than
is stipulated therefor in the Resolves aforefaid,
(hall incur the highest Refitment of the Peo
ple, arid be proceeded against as in the hrrt of
the preceding Resolves. And the Committee
of Twelve appointed to .aid the Civil Ivl.gi
ftratein the Execution of the Monopoly A&,
are hereby appointed a Committee to advise
and assist the Committee of Thirteen aforefaid,
in carrying this Resolve into the fulljl Executi-
on.
The Committee further report, that the
Inhabitants in all their Furchafes of Meat, buy
by the Pound and n' b\ fre Quarter, as the latter
M ? dels an inlet to great Env^fions, and may
elude the salutary Purposes in View.
That it be earnestly recommended to the
Cc> ri tees of the ne ; chbou r ing 'owns to meet
together ^ frtdily as pu^bic, at any Town
Turners iSZ perpend I 1 sole-leather, and
other leather in proportion
Leather dress rs, for a ta : r of decr-flcin
breeches of the ver, b'ft fort £ 35, and other
arracks in p oportion.
Ha;ter„ for bell beaver hats, £.%s, beaver
ets, £,24, and fit hats, £, 4 each.
Berbers and hTr dressers, Ibail reduce their
prices from the present rate at least fifteen
per ce:t
Taylors (ball nit have more than £. 18 per
fair for plain cloaths, £. 22 ity for half
(rim'd, and other work in proportion
Painters (hall reduce their prices from the
present rates, fifre n per cent.
Ship-Chandlers shall reduce their prices
from the present rates, twenty per cent, except
pitch, which (hall not exceed £ 35 per bar
rel, and rar and turpentine £. 30 each.
Truckmen, for truckage of a large hogs
head of fjgar, 18/ molasses, rum, ^c. If.
tierces 9/ barrels y( by the load, and oth^r
work in proportion.
Wharfingers, f>r wharfage, cording, foaling
and carting of wood, £. 3 12/. per cord.
Farriers, for Shoeing a horfc all round, £.6,
and for fhiftin^ a ftof shoes 48/.
Refined iron, £ 37 10/ per cwt.
C*rd makers, £.36 per dozen for cards,
and 66/ a finale pair
Glaziers, for setting glass and finding the
putty, shall not have more than tybd. per
fquaie.
Innholders and victuallers (hall reduce their
prices of victualling and hurfe-keeping in
proportion to the reduction of the prices of
pr widens and hay.
Hucksters ihall not take more than 2d. ad
vance upon the shilling.
Fishmongers thill not take more than 12/.
per Ib. for rod, 9/. for haddock, and 1/3/ for
halsbur, without entrails.
Goldfmirhs (hall not demand of the pur
chaser more than the weight of the plate they
manufacture, and twenty rimes what they hid
for their labour in manufacturing before the
year 1773.,„
All other tradesmen not mentioned, shall
reduce their prices in an average proportion
with those of their brethren and the articles
of consumption.
ISAAC SMITH, per order.
Which report having been read and taken
up paragraph by paragraph, the quellion was
put, viz. Whether laid report as amended by
the town, be accepted ? passed in the affirma
tive unanimously.
which they may think proper, to fix the Prices
which Vegetables and other Articles, not al
cady regulated, usually brought to this Mar
ket, flail be fold and delivered in the 'Town,
and make Return to the Committee of the late
Convention, io order that the faille may be
poblifhed for the Government of the Inhabi
tants.
NATHANIEL APPLETON, per Order.
The foregoing Report having been consider
ed and amended, it was voted uoanimouily
that the Toun doaccept the fame.
Attest. WILLIAM COOPER Town-Clerk.
^^a^a^&^a ei@e@M
At [. biOUGH TON'S
WOie and Grocer, S I ORE,
No. ;.2, Hoover-Square, three doors weft
of the Admiral's house, is now felling in
great variety, of the latest importation,
TfNE frejb pickles, heft In tin soy, mujbroon keteb
' up, fanijb and French Vives, Durham muflard,
in halt and quarter pound bottles, /fees and nutmegs,
sue byfon, green, Jif,ng, and,bibes tea, Jingle and
double refined fogar, London porter in bottles, firing
and f. nall ale, bed Hereford,:^ e evder, excel! nt cher
ry brand,, very t hdhrdiah of different kinds, bams,
bed double GDucf^CTLhej'e, and a variety of other
articles properly adapted for the immediate fu'pl, of
the genth men oj tie army and navy, wbfe speedy
embarkation on man, occajion; ma, require being Jinft
cd with difatch, or without lof of time.
N, B. At the above fore, the true and genuine
Stoughton's BIT FERS.
About 7 years old, with a small white spot
in her forehead, and a white streak on her
rump, and fame white on her legs and flank,
is very short legg'd, with a iar ; : e bag, is very
gentle. Whoever has got the laid cow, or
can give any intelligence where die can be
found, shall receive a reward of Five Guineas,
by applying to Charles John Brannon, near
the General Port-Office, in Broad dreet
A MILCH COW to be fold, enquire as
above
T A KEN U P,
ON Thursday Evening last, fpppofed to be
thawed away, a final! milch C O W.
Whoever can prove their Property may have
it a ain, by applying to the Printer.
WAN FED an elderly Woman, that is
capable of taking Cure of Children and
few. One nell rec ^muended will meet with
a wed Place bv appl) ing to Hugh Gaine
Torii -n~pTUriri
M No 181, in ^ren Jlre't, necub opposite
Bekmau's- dip, has for Bale,
May ri U rrER,
Warranted frf Qualify, h the la? Ffls from
Qerk. dj o b<;, m^d aid D, Candhs : He
has a!fo a few Hogs ad, of erclient flavoured
Rum, GRcetrr us Cheshire 'h°ejc, wda many
offi&r mtiCfrCs tn use Grc.ey # a^.
A final! Milch COW,
Elden or Jirayed on TbxrJday the 26th
pot wine,
Jamaica foirits,
Weil-India ram
Hfon, green, fufoong and
bobea teas,
Double and Jingle refined
loof sugar,
Mufeovado ditto.
Fine raijins in jars & cofkf
French plumbs, prunes,|
Currants, almonds,
Weft India sweet meats in
pots, green citron,
Tamarinds tn pots.
Sugar candy, chocolate,
Said, rise, cff.e,
Soap, Poland Jiarcb,
Powder and Jig blue,
Slices oj all kinds,
At No. 912, Wate r Street, between the Cofee-Heufe
and the Old Slip, has for sale,
nrf'DEIRA, and red Cayenne and black pep,er,
fI4INA of different forts
° Tumblers «witb ana
without covers, from
a quart to half a,ll,
Decanters from a quart t.
a half putt,
Wine and masons glasses,
A. variety tween's ware,
Black jacks,
Pewter bafons,
Ditto tea pots and f peons,
Knives and forks,
Pen knives,
Sod irons,
Frying pans,
Tea kettles,
Copper coffee pots,
Horn and ivory comb s ,
W iting paper,
Ink powder,
Red and black foaling wax
Wafers,
Dutch quills,
Womens Hofer's jkoes,
Barcelona handkerchiefs,
Turpentine soap,
Mo Id and dipt candles,
Powder and Jbot,
Merry Andrew cards,
Cloaths brujbes,
Shoe ditto,
Long handle ditto,
Buckle ditto.
Tooth ditto,
JOSEPH ROSE,
In Water-street, No. 1046, a few doors Eift of
Peck's Slip, has jutt imported in the Cornelia,
Capt. Small, and other velTels from London, and
to be fo.d on reasonable terms, wholesale and
retail,
William Burton,
ul'i no,
Race and ground ginger,
Pearl and common barley,
Oatmeal,
, Fine bifuit in kegs,
\Sptit peas,
, Florence oil,
(French olives, capers,
Anchovies, ketchup,
.Mufiard, in bottles,
I Finegar,
forkfoire hams,
,Picked falmen in kegs,
Basket fait,
Spermaceti candles,
Rappee and Scotch fnuff.
Pigtail and cut tobacco,
Gloucefer cheese,
Co r ks,
!Lemons, ^c.
tea,
Spices of all kinds,
Chocolate and coffee,
Raijins and currants,
Prunes,
Sugar almonds,
Ditto plumbs,
Sugar candy and barley,
Allum,
Split peaje,
Bowen's Jago powder,
Muflard in bottles,
Oat meal,
Poland Jiarch,
Best fort of Spanifb indigo,
Boxes oj pipes and tobacco,
Choice bams,
White wine vinegar,
Sail d oil,
Basket salt,
Ketchup,
A variety of pickles,
Rappee fauff,
Grenada rum by the bogf
bead or left quantity,
IViyes 0/ different kinds,
with many other articles
too tedious to mention.
Harrison’s patent black
ball,
GROCERIES.
Double, Jingle and lump
£"r ar >
Green, fa,song and bobea
VERY fine old Mrdeira
wine by the pipe,
quir'er calk or dozen,
Ditto Sherry,
Ditto Lybon,
Ditto Tenerifie,
Ditto red port^
Claret by the dozen,
London porter by the hogs
head or dozen,
Taunton ale by the dozen,
English ryde- by ditto,
Old Jamaica fArits by the
h%ffrod or leu quantity,
Ditto cane fpitits,
Ditto Weft lydiarum,
Holland geneva,
French b an 4 v, Shrub,
A neat allhrtinent ot h>me-
Ipvn Gin and Bra ndy,
very little inferior to Hol-;
land or French,
all forts of the best of Cor
dials.
PHILIP KISIC K,
Vintner and Disitller,
At the upper ena of Q^een-ftrert, has for sale at his
house, No, <25,
London Claret, and Red Port,
Of the firfl Quality,
In Cases of 3 or 4 D zen each, imported by
ROBERTGAULT.
And tobe fold at his Stere, 0,523 H mover-lquare,
Nearly oppolite Mx. Game's,
Who has for Sale, a large and elegant Affurtmerit
o' printed Mull.ns and Chintzes, printed and
penciled Li^e^ and Handkerchiefs,
Variety of Gentlemen and Ladies Pocket Books;
vey neat Afs-lkin Memorandum Books, of different
Sizes ; Stales and Dividers of various Sorts.
Neat Pewter Ink Cherts, large and finall, with a
Variety of Ink Pots, and fotne fpaie Ink Glaffs.
Blank Books for Merchants ; and several Sorts of
Orderly Books for the Army.
Red and Black Ink Powder, Patent Ink Cake, and
Shining Sand; Sea Journals ready ruled for the
Navy and Merchantmen.
A Variety of N j w Songs set to Music.
Great Variety of Travelling Cases for Gentlemen
of the Army, very complete, with Ihaving Appara
tus, &c. &c.
HUGH GAINE,
At ihe Bible and Crown, HANOVER-tQUARE,
BIBLES, Dilworth's Spelling-Books,Teftaments,
Common Prayers, Welt-India Pilots, Mari ers
Compaq, Kilerdar and Daily Assistant, A ken
fon's Epitome, Rollin's Ancient Hittory, 10 Vol.
School of Arts, Life of Colonel Gaidiner, Pilgrim's
Progiefs, Thomas a K-m; is, Paradif Loft and Re
gained, Yeun,s Night Thoughts, Bolton's Fourfold
State of Human Nature, Bev. ridge's Thoughts on
Religion, Joh fan's, Young's, Bailey's, Fenning's,
and Dyche's Dictionaries, Entick's Pocket Dic
tionary, Borer's Grammar and Dictionary, Guthe
ry's and Salmon's Grammars, Quarto Bibles, Pope's
Works, 6 Vol. Spectator, 8 Vol. Preceptor, 2 Vol.
Quincey's Difpenfatory, Sharp's Surgery, Gouche's
Surgery, DougLfs on the Muscles, Macquire's Chy
miftry, Salmon's Gazeteer, Littleton's History of
England, Young Man's Companion,Glafs's Cookery,
Art of Knowing Mankind, Lloyd's Byography,
Smollet's and Jarvis's Don Quixot, Grtßhs, Bo-
Ijngbroke's Miscellaneous Works, Thompson's Sea
sons, Telemachus, Vocal Music, 2 Vol. The Mosque,
Roderick Random, Fiber's Arithmetic, Pope's Ho
mer, Anion s Voyage, Beatie on the Immutability
of Truth, Watts's Lyric Poems, History of England,
by Queftian and Answer, Montesquieu's Letters,
Love's Surveying. Novels ; Tom Jones, Barlow,
Elvira, Man of the World, Unfortunate Union.
Fy his Excellency WILLIAM TRYON, Ffq
Governor and C mmander in Chief of the
Provincc'cf Ne /-York, and the Territories
depending tier on in America, Chancellor
and Vice-Adm al of the f;me; and Maj >r-
General in his Majesty's Army.
A Proclamation.
HIS Majesty's approbation of the zeal ;'
his faithful fubjedts, in equipping Letters
of Marque, for destroying and dilbeking the
commerce of his enemies, being fignified to
gether with his determination to commence
hostilities against the Catholic King and his
fubjetb; and the Lords of the Admiralty
having dispatched proper authorities for grant
ing Letters of Marque, to make captures of
Spanish (hips and vessels: Ido hereby invite
all persons, whether Landfmeo or Seamen, in
any part of America, beyond the British lines,
who may be desirous to quit the rebellion, or
the rebel lines, and to enter either into the
merchant's service, or into a private veffcl of
war, to repair with all convenient speed to
either of the out-ports of his Majesty's army,
in any colony on the continent: and 1 am au
thorised by Vice-Admiral Arbuthnot, Com
mander of his Majesty's fleet in North-Ame
rica, to give this public assurance, that every
such person coming iq as aforefaid, or in a
cartel ship, and not already 'belonging to
either of the King's ships, mail not be im
pressed to serve in any of the King's ships,
within the limits of his command.
Antiquarian, Double Elephant, Atlas, Imperial,
R yal, Medium, Demy, Folio and.iQua # to Port,
Foolscap and P t Paper.
Chaits of Florida, South-Carolina, Narth-Caro
lina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New-England, River
and Gulf of St. Lawrence; f>me of them on Cloth,
with Rollers.
The very b^ft of Quills, Pens, Sealing Wax, and
Wafers ; high and low priced Penknives of various
Kinds; Middleton's very best Lead Pencils; Slates,
and Slate Pencils.
Given under my hand and Seal at Arms,
at New-York, the 17th day of Sep
tember, 1779.
Wm. TRYON.
By his Excellency's Command,
B J. Johnson, Pro. Sec.
Just imported,
In the last Vessels from LONDON,
Aid t> be fold by
Very neat Dram Bottles, covered with Leather.
Mol. ffr%
Single and double refined
loaf foyar,
Mufebvado sugar by the bar
rel or left quantity,
Best hvfon and bohea tea,
Bert chelhire and Gloucester
cheese,
. Red cartilefoap by the box,
or 1c 'squantity,
Common ditto,
Sandies bv the bow or left
quantity,
Scotch barley,
^Spermaceti candles by th*
I box.
iMena Beaver hats,
lOzenbrige,
Corks,
, Long pipes, pepper,
;A!H,ice, cinnamon,
.Cleves,
Mace,
Nu mega.