The New-York gazette, and the weekly Mercury — New-York [N.Y.], 1775-10-23 00:00:00, page 2

And inorder to proportion the Members of each
County, it is 'Refolded, that the City and County cf
New-York have Twenty-one Members; the City
and County of Albany, twelve Members; the
County of Dutchefs, nine Members; the County of
Westchester, nine Members ; the County of Ulster,
eight Members ; the County of Suffolk, eight Mem
bers ; the County of Orange, fix Members ; the
County of Queen's, eight Members ; the County of
King's, four Members ; the County of Richmond,
four Members ; the County of Tryon, four Mem
bers ; the County of Cumberland, three Members ;
the County of Gloucester, two Members ; the County
of Charlotte, two Members.
Atrue Copy from the Minutes,
ROBERT BENSON, Secretary.
The following are Copies of Letters which lately sassed
betwixt bis Excellency Governor Tryon, and White
head Hicks, Fjq;Mayur of this City.
“ New-York, O&ober 13, 1775.
“SIR,
“ OROM undoubted Authority from the City of
C Philadelphia, the Continental Congress have
recommended it to the Provincial Congress, to seize or
take up the Officers of this Government, and parti
cularly myfelf by Name: 1 am therefore to detire
you will inform the Corporation and Citizensof this
City, that I place my Security here in their Pro
teCtion ; that when that Confidence is withdrawn, by
any Seizure of my Perfun,.the Commander of his
Mejeity's Ships of War, in the Harbour, will de
mand that the Inhabitants deliver me on board the
Fleet ; , d, on Refund, enforce the Demand with
their whole Power : therefore anxious to prevent, if
peffble, so great a Calamity to this Citv, as well as
Inconvenience to myfelf, I am ready, should the
Voice of the Citizens be unfavourable,to my Laying
among them, immediately to embank on board the
Asia, requeuing that the Citizen's will defeat every
Attempt, that may be made, to hinder my Removal
with mwDomeftics and Effe&s, should that be their
Wish ; since 1 returned to this Province with every,
honourable Intention to serve them, confident with
ray bcunden Duty to my Sovereign.
“ l am, Sir,
“ Your very obedient Servant,
“ WILLIAM TRYON.
“ Whitehead Hicks, Esq; Mayor
“ of the City of New-York."
“ New-York, O&ober 14, 1775.
“STR,
“ INSTANTLY upon the Receipt of your Ex
£ celiency's Commands, fignified by your Letter
<f Yo^rday, I called the M^giftrates arid Assistants
to aCommon Council, upon its important Contents.
The Member of the Corporation unanimously ex-
oneof < ^^ ^ CT :;\ti?y,
— n; . 7 .<c.u;ei ..':weri on
. r muminto. port, j 7 ' / ''ns man of war.
The urw^ r i a rund in ao,^. a little without
Bcvulyharbour, wh.. Jie peo
fuippi her; and re ted tier guns, &c. afhure. The
m;: of wotwas toon within gunshot, when she allo
•^jourri ; she however let go an anchor, and
in : ,•• .In. ad fide to bear, began to &e upon
themivr^ The people of Salem and Beverly
lorn returned the compliment from a number cf
cauru n shore, keeping up a warm and well directed
re on the man of war for two or three hours, and it
is luppofed did her considerable damage, and proba
bly killed and wounded fume of her men ; but be
fore they could board her, which they were preparing
to do, the tide arole about eight in the evening, when
flie cut her cable and got off. Some of her Shot
struck one or two buildings in Beverly, but no lives
were loft on our fide, and the privateer damaged very
little, if any.
WORCESTER, Odober 13.
It is said Gen. Gage is actually failed for England.
The enemy fined above ninety cannon balls into
Roxbury last Friday, which did no other damage than
killing two cows, and wounding the arm of a ma
rine, taken at Lexington, and since inlifted in the
continental army.
PHILADELPHIA, October 16.
Extrad of a letter from Ckarlefo^vn, South Carolina,
dated September 12.
“ We are not altogether without our fears fiom
the Indian enemy, but our Negroes are quite quiet
since the execution of one of the moll feufible and
most daring of them, named Jemmy, a free Negro,
who was found guilty of having endeavoured to
cause an infurre&ion. It is a general received opinion
that we Audi have troops here in the winter, and all
preparations are making to oppose them; many
people have all their valuable goods and furniture
packed, and dores are building in the country to
lodge them in.".'
We' have certain intelligence from l!fewca(l!e
County, that on Friday last Brigadier General Mac
Kinley's battalion cf Militia was reviewed near
Wilmington, when about five hundred men appeal
ed under arms, and chiefly in uniform, who went
through their exetcife, evolutions, various firings
and manoeuvefs with great exa&nefs, regularity and
atotnefs, lb as to obtain very high applause from a
great number of Military Gentlemen who were fyec
tators.
In PROVINCIAL CONGRESS,
Ne^-York, 08eber 10, 1775.
% T7HEREAS it is highly necessary for the bake
VV of Liberty, that the Duration of the Power
of all Perforis entrusted with high Authority, should
be limited to a fhoit Period, and more especially when
they are nominated by, and their Authority delegated
unto them from the Body of the People :
Refolded therefore, That this Congress shall be
dissolved on Tuesday the 14th Day of November
next ; and forafmueh as it appears to us highly ne
cessary that a Provincial Congress should exist until
the Disputes between Great-Britain and America,
shall be adjured ; and that the Members of that
Congress should be so proportioned as to give a .due
Weight of Reprefemation to the several Parts of the
Colony ; it is therefore recommended to the good
People of this Colony, that those who are qualified
to'vote for Representatives in General Assembly, do
choof such Perlons as they can corfide in to reprelent
them as Deputies of this Colony in Provincial Con
gress, until, the second Tuesday in May next, unless
a Reconciliation with Great-Britain shall sooner take
Place ; and that the Deputies so chosen meet at the
City of New-York, on the said fourteenth Day of
November next. And itis further recommended, that
the Election be held at the usual Places for Election
of Representatives in General Assembly in the several
Counties, on Tuesday the 7th Day of November
next, by the refee&ive Committees cf the several
Counties, or at such other Places as the said Commit
tees shall previously appoint and duly notify to their
several Counties.
Ipreffed th&nfalv^ upon this Occasion in Teruis of the
. L yu gert Affeaien and Confidence, refpe&ing their
Governor ; and I am persuaded, Sir, that their Fel
low Citizens (for I consulted as many Individuals
without Doors, as the Time would permit) are utterly
disinclined to your Removal from the Capital of your
Province.
“ New-York, October 18, 177 c.
“SIR,
" XX/ HEN y° ur Excell ~ nc y' s Letter of Saturday
VV came to hand, the Day was so far spent,
that I had no Profye& of an Opportunity to take the
Sense of the Citizens upon it, till Monday, and then
unfortunately, the Chairman and Deputy Chairman
of the Committee I mentioned in my last Letter, and
many of the Members, were out of" Town. 1
" On Tuesday Morning they met and deliberated
upon it, and had a second Convention for that Purpole
tn the Evening, and the Remit of their Councils
appear in the written Answer they lent me, and which
I now have the Honour to transmit to your Excellency.
" Permit me to add, Sir, that the friendly and
refpe&ful Terms in which People of all Ranks
express theqifelves, concerning your Excellency on
this Occasion, and their Anxiety at ^ue Thought of
your retiring from the Capital, are very fatisfaftory
10 tne Coi poration, and in particular to your Excel
lency's “ Most obedient humble Servant,
“WHITEHEAD HICKS.
" To his Excellency William Tryon, Esq."
'° mmi tte e -Chamber, October 17, 1775.
“SIR,
" foil IS Excellency Governor Tryon's second
I Letter to your Wotihip of the 14th Instant,
has been laid before the Committee, We flattered
ouifelves that the Sentiments of Refpe& exprefled in
Aniwer to his Excellency's firtt Letter to your Wor-'
ship, and the Aflurances that his Information from
Philadelphia was ill grounded, would have removed
every Suspicion of Injury intended to his Person or
Property,
, “ We can with great Tiuth affine his Excellency,
that we are not apprehensive of the least Danger to
his Person or Property ; and that he may rest assured,
of all that Protection from us, and our Fellow-
Citizens, which will be confident with the great
Principle of our Safety and Preservation : Declaring,
,' ,"? e fame 1 ime, that we have the utmost Confidence
in his Excellency s Difpoiition to serve the true Interest
of this Colony, and chat he will, by his wife and
prudent Mediation, use his best Offices to restore
that Harmony between Great-Britain and the Colonies
Io atdently wished for by us. The Committee there
fore cannot bm again express their most earned Desire
that his Excellei cy would continue his Residence
among a People, who have the most grateful Sense of
his upright and difintereHed Administration.
" We have the Fteafure to acquaint your Worship,
that the above Letter was unanimously approved of
in a full Committee,
“ And are, Sir,
“ Your vety humble Servant,
“ (By Order of the Committee)
r " '"AC LOW, Chairman.
Ihe Wonmpful Whitehead Hicks, Esq."
“ S ?R b °" d the Halifax Packet, 19 th 0a.i 775 .
" PENDING your Letter of Yesterday inefficient
X for that Security I requeued from the Corpo
ration and Citizens, and objectionable for the Mode
in which you obtained the Sense of the Inhabitants
my Duty directed me for the present Instant, to
r , n ,'f °" boar d th is Ship ; ,where I shall be ready to
do such Bufinels of the Country, as the Situation of
the Limes will permit. The Citizens, as well as
the Inhabitants of the Province, may be assured of
my Inclination to embrace every Means in my
Power to restore the Peace, good Order and Authority
of Government. “ I am, Sir
“Y our most obedient Servant,
" WILLIAM TRYON.
" Whitehead Hicks, Esq; Mayor?
“of the City of New-York," §
“ It is with Pleasure, Sir, we can assure you, as
far as we can Judge, That his Excellency's Conduct
lias given general Satisfaction to our Fellow Citizens,
and confiding in his friendly difpofiuons towards the
Inhabitants of this Colony, it is our earned With
the He will continue to reside among us.
“ I am, with much RefpeCt,
“ Your Worship's obedient
“ And very humble Servant.
“ By Order of the General Committee,
“ HENRY REMSEN, Dep. Chairman.
“ Whitehead H*cks, Esq; Mayor
“ of the City ofNew-York."
“ New-York, October 14, 1775. -
“SIR,
“ J HAVE received your Letter in Answer to my
& Application to the Corporation and Citizens
of Yesterday, to obtain their Affurarices either of
Protection while among them, or Security to remove
on board the King's Ship ; but as they have not
authorized you, to pledge to me their Assurances of
Security in either Case, ray Duty in this Hour of
Alarm, will not justify me to my Sovereign, in Stay
ing lodger on Shore, without pbfitive Declarations
of their full Protection under every Circumstance.
“ I beg you will present my belt Thanks to the
Corporation and Citizens, far their affectionate and
friendly Wishes towards me.
“ I am, Sir,
“ Your most obedient Servant,
“ WILLIAM TRYON."
“ Whitehead Hicks, Esq; Mayor
“ bf the City of New-York."'
“ The City Committee, which is a very numerous
Body of reputable Inhabitants, elected at a Conven
tion of the Hvhole Town, before your last Arrival,
were immediately Convened, upon my acquainting
the Chairman with your Excellency's Letter, and in
a very little Time I had their Sentiments in Writing,
under the Signature of their Chairman, which I now
communicate, as a Confirmation of what it gives
me the greatelt Pleasure to declare, that the Citizens
confiding in your Friendship to a Colony, which you
have governed, with so much Reputation, earnestly
desire you will dill continue your Residence among
us; and from the Declarations and Temper of the
People at large, I have not the least doubt of your
enjoyirg the most ample Protection. I have the
Honour to be,' with the highest Etteem and RefpeCt,
“ Your Excellency's most obedient Servant,
“ WHITEHEAD HICKS.
“ His Excellency Wm. Tryon, Efq;"\
“ Committee-Chamber, New-Yoik, O&. 13, 1775*
“SI R,
“ r^MiE Committee have taken into Cohfuhra
£ tion the Letter your Worship received from
his Excellency Governor Tryon, of this Date.
From unquestionable authority they are assured, that
the Provincial Congress have received no Order or
Recommendation to Seize his Excellency's Person, or
the Peifons of any of the other Officers of this
Government.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
On TUESDAY the 24th Instant,
Will be peremptorily SOLD,
At the house of Mis s MARY PHILLIPS, in Smith's-
Street, # the corner of Princess-Street,
A LL her intire flock in trade, consisting of a very
1 I nea t and general assortment of MILLINARY
thread lace, black and white blond lace, fattens, in}
tertians, ribbons, gauzes, with a variety of other articles
oo tedious to enumerate.'
Also all her houlhold and kitchen furniture, being of
j" d ' and confift^ of neat mahogany chairs, tables,
delks, buroes, beds, bedsteads, window and bed curtains
Meeting and table linen, looking glasses, china, &c. &c.'
# A: she intends for England in the November Packet
all persons that is indebted to her, to call and
fettle their accounts immediately, otherwise she will be
under the disagreeable necessity of putting them into the
hands of an attorney for recovery, which she would with
to avoid.
FOUND in the Street last Week, a Lace-Apron,
and Pair of Ruffles: Whoever has loss the
fame, may have Information where they are to be
found, paying a Premium to the Finder, and the
Gaine' °' ''"' Ad'ertifement, by applying to Hugh
NEW-YORK, October 23,
On.the i2th Instant arrived here on his re
turn from the Provincial Camp at Cambridge,
and on the iSth departed this Life, of a
Fever, in the Twenty-eighth Year of his Age,
Michael Cressop, Elq; eldest Son of
Col. Thomas Creffop, of Potowmack, in
Virginia : He was Captain of a Rifle Com
pany now in the Continental Army before
Boson. He served as a Captain under the
Command of Lord Dunmore, in the late
Expedition against the Indians, in which he
eminently distinguished himfelf by his Pru
dence, Firninefs and Intrepidity, as a brave
Officer.; and in the present Contest between
the Parent State and the Colonies, gave
Proofs of his Attachment to the Rights and
Liberties of his Country. He has left a
Widow and four Children to deplore the Loss
of a Huiband and a Father; and by his
Death his Country is deprived of a worthy
and esteemed Citizen.
His Remains were interr'd the Day fol
lowing, in Trinity-Churth-Yard, with Mili
tary Honours, attended by a vaii Concourse
of People.
The follovring is the Order of the Proceffon :
Serjeant & Major.
Grenadiers of the First Battalion with their
Filelocks reversed.
Lieutenant. § Q Lieutenant.
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WIiriREAS the Fulling-Mill of Hanover, ^
Morris County; and .the appurtenances tb'ere
# unto belonging, were advertised the zeth of last Sep
,tender for file, but not being fold for want of buy
j ers; I therefore; by the advice of a number of my
Icuftomfis, inform the public, especially those who
live at a distance, that may perhaps be at a loss to
know whether I yet carry on the bufi^fs at Hanover n
, I do hereby acquaint them, that I carry on the
, Fulling and Dying Business in its several
;branches, to the greatest perfection, where the public
may depend upon having their cloth done in ifo belt
manner, and with the greatest care and di(patch•
alp,oft any colour dyed upon woollen cloth,' yarn'
wool and silk or cotton, linen, &c. But dye ihfa
so retimes proving not good, neither can I find i^
jNew-York or Philadelphia, of every fort or quality
;fuch asl could mention, fit for such and such colour
. or dyes ; and the deadness of the wool, tome of it
I caused by thehaidnefs of the winter, and for want
! of proper care taken of the sheep, it seems to
[ be very hard or difficult (hiking fame colours, to the
§ advantage or (hadethey do at home. I have followed
the trade several years in this country, have worked
almost all over England, Scotland, and Ireland
where it was my chief ftudy'in' each place, to dive
' , into this mydery ; and the reasons above given, and
; for want of encouragement, is the cause why I don't
dye every colour, as well, and to as great perfection
j as they do at home;
I Men's clothes cleaned, and the foots taken out, the
. colour retrieved; women's fcailet cloaks cleaned and
the colour retrieved ; as allo gowns, Jkirts, silks, or
, waittceats ; takes mildews from goods damaged ' by
; salt water, or otherwise, Ac. by me ° '
WILLIAM DENNISTON, Clothier,
I„ At Hanover, Morris County.
N. B. A journeyman Wanted, that understands
; h is business in its several branches, or in the (hearing
I a "° prating wav, at Hanover. ' °
be or LET,
(And entered upon immediately)
I & Convenient house a. .I a final! trad of land of
' '^"'T° "'"' P leas antly situated in the town
;of Lah-Cnefter, opposite to the church, with three
• ° ur ? cres ° f fait meadow. The premises (if not
J , „ r ll ' be let > w^h °r without the land till the
. ot May next, or longer if required. For fur
fl ther particulars apply to the fubferiber in New
-1 RochelL
ITHEODOS rU^BARTOW.
biVE FOUNDS Reward.
R U 'V/ A T Au ^ ft the ^'^ V 75, from the
lubicriber, living in Philadelphia, an indented
runjervant lad, named John Perry, about 5 feet 6
or 7 inches high ; fair complexion, red cheeks, black
hair, walks a little Looping and ciumfy, looks plea
taut wnen talking, 1$ a tolerable handsome lad ; has
4 served part of his time to the ropevnaking hufinefs,
and has been seen in New Yo.k ; it is luffed he is
1 to lea from that pott, and i; likely he may return
I "^™" Whoever tecure's said fad in any cf his
j'"l' l ' I ' s goals, so that his matter may have him
j f^w, mail have the above reward, and all reafona
;ole charges paid, by
I RICHARD TETTERMARY.
^^^^3^hJ™^^ from the fub
g^fr p scriber living at Rye,
rtfot * the'beginmngot August last,
g a bright fohel mere, with a
' ald ' ace > na:ural Hotter, her
' feet white, four years old,
I ^^zßt^y^^ about 14 hands high, and
had a trick of heaving up her head. 'Tis fappofed
/he was taken away by a certain Zephaniah Hubs -
h°f 6 ,' 'high, lleuder made, and a down look^
with light hair and thin beard. Whoever takes up
and secures the above mentioned Hubs, so that he
may be convicted of the said robbery, shall have
I EN POUNDS reward, and all reasonable charges,
p a id by , SAMUEL LYON.
To be SOLD by
WILLIAM PRINCE,
At flushing Landing, on Long-Island,
Near New-York,
A large Collection of FRUIT TREES, &c.
as follows, viz.
A LL binds of Englifb cherries and others, all kinds
of plumbs, peaches, ne&arine, apricots, pears,
payees and apples ; a large quantity of the black and
watte mulberry, which bear as they sand ; also about
one thousand Madeira nut trees, and a number of black
wainut and butter nut trees, fig trees, black, red, and
white currants, green, yellow, and amber gooseberries,
large chili, hautboy, red wood, and white firawberry,
a quantity oj bard and foft fall almond trees, and a
great number of large Barcelona filbert trees.
Flowering trees and fbrubs, viz. The large Carolina
magnolia, catalpa, twf tree, dogwood, /how ball,
lily, funding American honey-suckle, locus trees, wild
tamarind trees, button wood trees, faffafras trees,
Carolina alffice trees, medlar trees, red cedar trees,
pine trees oj different forts, fuels as white pine, Jersey
and We„,woutb fine, double and Jingle spruce jir,
and all hinds oj timber trees, evergreen trees, flower
ing trees, forubs and plants.
The prices of the above trees, forums and plants,
are as follows, viz. Fruit trees is. 6d. each, except
quince trees, mazard and morello cherry trees, which
are is. per tree ; currants and gooseberries 6d. per
plant-, Madeira nuts, black wallnuts, andbuller nut
trees is. 6d, each ; the Carolina magnolia 45. per
tree ; tulip tree 2s. 6d. catalpa tree is. 6d. few ball
tree 2s. dogwood tree is. 6d.flly, locus, wild tamarind,
button-wood trees, flanding American honey-suckle,
fafofras, cedars, medlars, Carolina edifice, spruce,
and pine Is. each, all other American Jhrubs, &c.
according to their quality. Filbert trees at is. each.
A number of trees ts the Balsam Peru at 2s. 6d. each.
All the above fruit trees are inoculated and grafted, and
fauld any person incline to purchase, there are now many
thousands of a proper fixe for transplanting ; and if
wanted to be sent over fa, will be carefully put up in
either matts, casts, or boxes, fee of any expence except the
firft coji of the said malts, cajks, or boxes. Any perfan ma,
have the said trees, % sent to New-York every Tuefdg
and Friday, as on tbofe days two boats, the one commanded
b J John Yates, the other by William Keefe, who ma, com
monly be fan at or near BurlinfeSlip, confanti, pl, from.
Fluffing to New-York : But feould neither of the boats .be
there, orders for the trees may be left with Mr. Samuel
Prints, cabinet-maker, in New-York-, oppofae the Jign of
the Horse and Cart, in Wiiliam-Jireet, formerly known b,
the name of Horse and Cart -fireet,
Any person may fee a full catalogue of the contents of this
nursery, by applying to the above Samuel Prince.
AN elderly Woman, qualified for a Cook and
House-Keeper, in which Capacity die has lived
with several Families in this City, wants a Place.
For farther Particulars apply to Hugh Gaine.
HAERLEM OYL,
SOLD BY H. GAINF..