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complaints. They receive an answer. If the fame
address is presented a a levee, or in any other mode,
no answer is given. A suspicion may arise, t l at the
address is never heard or read, because it is only
received and immediately delivered to the Lord in
waiting. If he is tolerably versed in the fifpple, in
fixating arts pra&ifed in the magic circle of a court,
he will take care never to remind his Prince of any
disagreeable and disgusting, however important and
wholesome, truths. He will strangle in its birth the
fair offspring of liberty, because its cries might
awaken and alarm the parent, ^nd thus (he common
father of all his people may remain equally ignorant
and unhappy in his most weighty concerns.
Important truths, my Lord, were the foundation
of the last humble address, remonstrance, and peti
tion to the King, refpe&ing our brave fe!lßw-fubje&s
in America. The greatness as well as goodness of
the cauie, and horrors of an approaching civil war,
iuftified our application to the thrones It compie
trended every thing interesting to us as a free and
commercial people, the firft principles of our com
mon liberty, and the immense advantages'of the only
trade we enjoy unrivalled by other nations. I greatly
fear that your lordihip's letter immediately following
his Majesty's unfavourable aiil'wer to the remon
strance, will be considered as a frefh mark of the
King's anger against our unhappy brethren, as well
as of his displeasure against the faithful Citizens of
bis capital. The Livery, pofieffing the purett inten
tions, the most noble and exalted views for the pub
lic good, will comfort themfe'-es with the appeal to
that justice in the Sovereign's heart, which cannot
fail of soon reftorihg them to the royal favour, but
the Americans may be driven to despair, unless a
merciful providence fhpuld graciously interpole, and
change the obdurate hearts of those unjust and wick
ed Ministers, who have been so long permitted by
divine vengeance to be a scourge botli to us and our
brethern., The true friends of liberty lam sure will
not be remiss in their duty. I doubt not, my Lord,
from that love of your country, zeal for his Majesty's
glory, which have equally distinguished your Lord
ship, that the Livery of London will have your
hearty concurrence with them, as well as your power
ful intercession with the King for the revocation of
the late order. Such a coudu& will secure to your
Lordfllip the esteem and affe&ion of all good men,
and to the unfeigned refpe&, with which I have the
honour to be,
My Lord, your Lordship's
Most obedient humble servant,
IOHN WILKES.
The Right Honourable the Earl of
Hertford, Lord Chamberlain of
the King's Household. _ _
(T&MB RIDGE, June 15.
By his Excellency
The Hon. THOMAS GAGE, Efa;
Governor and Commander in Chief, in and over
his Majesty's Province of Massachusetts-Bay, and
Vice-Admiral of the fame.
A PROCLAMATION.
W HEREAS the infatuated Multitudes, who
VV have long fuffered themselves to be conducted
by certain well known Incendiaries and Traitors, in
a fatal Progression of Crimes, against the constituti
onal Authority .of the State, have ar length proceed
ed to avowed Rebellion ; and the good EfFe&s which
were expe&ed to arise from the Patience and Lenity
of the King's Government, have been often fruftrat
ed, and are now rendered hopeless, by the Influence
of the fame evil Counsels; it only remains for those
who are intruded with supreme Rule, as well for the
Punishment of the guilty, as the Protection of the
well-affe&ed, to prove they do not bear the Sword in
vain.
The Infringements which have been committed
upon the molt sacred Rights of the Crown and
People of Great -Britain, are too many to enumerate
on one Side, and are all too atrocious to be palliated
on the other. All unprejudiced People who have
been Witneffefs of the late Tranfa&ions, in this and
the neighbouring Provinces, will find upon a tran
sient Review, Marks of Premeditation and Conspiracy
that would juftify the Fulnefs of Chastisement: And
even those who are least acquainted with Fa&s, can
not fail to receive a just Impression of their Enormity,
in Proportion as they difeover the Arts and Assiduity
by which they have been falfified or concealed. The
Authors of the present unnatural Revolt never dar
ing to trust their Cause or their Anions, to the Judg
ment of an impartial Public, or even to the dispas
sionate Reflection of their Followers, have uniformly
placed their chief Confidence in the Suppression of
Truth : And while indefatigable and shameless Pains
have been taken to ob,ftru& every Appeal to the real
Interest of the People of America ; the grossest For
geries, Calumnies and Absurdities that ever insulted
human Understanding, have been imposed upon their
Credulity. The Press, that distinguished Appendage
of public Liberty, and when fairly and impartially
employed, its bed Support, has been invariably pro
stituted to the most contrary Purposes : The anima
ted Language of ancient and virtuous Times,
calculated so vindicate and promote the just Rights,,
and interest of Mankind, have been applied to coun
tenance the most abandoned Violation of those sacred
Blessings; and not only from the flagitious Prints, but
from the popular Harrangues of the Times, Men
have been taught to depend upon Activity in Treason,
for the Security of their Perlons, and Properties; till
to compleat the horrid Profanation of Terms, and
of Ideas, the Name of God has been introduced
in the Pulpits to excite and juftify Devaluation and
Massacre.•
The Minds of Men having been thus gradually pre
pared for the worst Extremities, a Number of armed
Persons, to the Amount of many Thousands, assem
bled on the 19th of April last, and fiom behind
Walls, and lurking Holes, attacked a Detachment
of the King's Troops who not expecting so consum
mate an Act of Phrenzy, unprepared for Vengeance,
and willing to decline it, made use of their Arms
only in their own Defence. Since that Period the
Rebels, deriving Confidence from Impunity, have
added Insult to Outrage ; have repeatedly fired upon
the King's Ships and Subjects, with Cannon and
small Arms, have possessed the Roads, and other
Communications by which the Town of Bolton was
supplied with Provisions ; and with a preposterous
Parade of Military Arrangement, they effe& to hold
the Army besieged ; while part of their Body make
daily and indiferiminate Invasions upon private Pro
perty, and with a Wantonefs of Cruelty ever incident
to lawless Tumult, carry Depredation and Distress
wherever they turn their Steps. The Actions of
the 19th of April are of foch Notoriety, as must
baffle all Attempts to cdntradi& them, and the
Flames of Buildings and 'other Property from the
Elands, and adjacent Country, for some Weeks
past, spread a melancholly Confirmation of the sub
sequent Assertions.
In this Exigency of complicated Calamities, I
avail myfelf of the last Effort within the Bounds of
my Duty, to spare the Effufion of Blood ; to offer,
anil" ^o hereby Tn his Majesty's Nam, offer and
promile, h smoft gracipus Pardon to all Perlons
who shall forthwith lay down their Aims and return
to the Duties of peaceable Subjects, excepting only
from the Benefit of Inch Pardon, Samuel Adams
and JobttHancock, whose Offences are of too flagi
tious a Nature to admit of any other Consideration
than that of condign Punishment..
And to the End that no Person within the Limits
of this proffered -Mercy, may plead Ignorance of
the Contequences of refuting it, I by these Presents,
proclaim not only the Persons above-named and ex
cepted, but also all their Adherents, Afibciates, and
Abettors, meaning to comprehend in those Rerihs,
all and every Perlon and Persons, of what Class,
Denomination or Description soever, who have ap
peared in Arms agdirift the Kings Government,
,and shall not lay down the fame as afore-mentioned ;
and likewise all such as shall so take Arms after the
Date hereof, or who shall in any-wife prote& or
conceal such Offenders, or assist them with Money,
Provision, Cattle, Arms, Ammunition, Carriages,
or any other Necessary for Subfiltehce or Offence ;
or shall hold secret Correspondence with them by
Letter, Message, Signal, or otherwise, to be Rebels
and Traitors, and as such to be treated.
AND WHEREAS, during the Continuance of
the present unnatural Rebellion, Justice cannot be
adminiftred by the Common Law of the Land, the
Gentlemen,
AS Liberty is the Blessing and ought to be the
Care of all Men, I need no other Apology lor
this Letter than to acquaint you, I am an American,
of Newbury Port, New-England: On my Arrival
he>c the 19th Instant from the Mediterranean, I was
informed of the Care you had taken with regard to
the (Exportation of Bread and Flour to this Island,
especially in the Instance of Capt. Tavernor, Com
mander of a Ship belonging to Isaac and Benjamin
Lefter, of Pool, in England, and loaded by T.
Beach, of New-York ; which Letters are notedly
Enemies 'to American Liberty, as appears by the
Petition of the Town of Pool, for an exclusive
Right tothe Fishery on the Banks of Newfoundland,
&c. of which Petition I am informed t^ey were
principle Promoters, the Contents of which you have
undoubtedly seen. I am able tb inform you, that
notwithstanding your Care relative to said Ship, die
arrived the 24th Instant at Trinity, in this Island ;
and the Necessities of the People here, for Bread
and Flour are so great, that I doubt not you will
have Numbers of Vettels on your Coafi, under va
rious Pretexts, to get Bread and Flour to supply
them ; ,they are now at their Wits End to find
Means to acquire the Necessaries of Life, yet such is
their inveterate Enmity against the Americans, that
they cannot help breathing out their Malice at every
Opportunity where their Interest is not immediately
affe&ed. Last Saturday a Schooner arrived here
belonging to Salem, in New-England, from a Filh
ing,Voyage ; the Merchants immediately sent the
Crier through the Down, to notify a Meeting at
Seven that Evening, which was adjourned to Sun
day, to consult on the Matter : It teems they were
in some hopes to get some hold of her, from some
A&s of Parliament relative to the Regulation of the
Fishery in this Island, but finding their Expectations
fail them, that they could not get her seized, nor
prevent an Entry, they mustered their Forces, seized
upon and sent her to Sea, and what is more furpri
zing to me is (if lam rightly informed) that upon
a Promise of Indemnification, they obtained an Order
from,the Judge of the Admiralty for this extraordife
hary Procedure, and that after her being admitted to
a legal Entry in the Custom-House. This, Gentle
men, is the Breath they breathe, and this Conduct
is but the overflowing of that inveterate Enmity
they have imbibed at the Americans, for their de
fending that Constitution by ; which the Throne is
eftabliihed, and the Rights of the People secured ; I
fay the Overflowing because they cannot live without
you, and are under the greatest Obligations to keep
their Enmity fniotber'd as moch as possible. If they
are denied Bread and Flour from the Southern Ame
rican Governments, the Newfoundland Fishery must
break up ; Canada is too uncertain to depend on
for any Supplies, that Country, with which I am
acquainted, is mostly low, and altogether Clay Land;
if the Season is good they generally have great Crops,
but if they have too much or too little Rain, they
must have Supplies from Abroad, or starve them
selves ; this the People here are sensible of, and are
trying all the Methods they can to obtain present
Supplies from the Southern Governments, as they
have no Intelligence how Canada may be flocked at
present. Would it not be furprizing to fee Men
breathing out Slaughter and Death at the Ameri
cans, petitioning the Continental Congress to supply
them with Bread and Flour, and pleading their not
joining with the Pool Men in the Petition above
mentioned, as a Reason why the Prayer of their Pe
tition should be granted ; yet such I expert will be
Course whereof has, for a long Time past, been
violently impeded, and wholly interrupted ; from
whence refuits a Necessity for tiling and exercising
the Law Martial ; I have therefore thought .fit, by
the Authority vetted in me, by the Royal Charter to
this Province, to publith, and Ido hereby publiffi,
proclaim and order the Ule'and Exercise of the Law
Martial, within and throughout this Province, for
so long Time as the present unhappy Oception shall
necessarily require ; whereof till Perlons are hereby
required to take Notice, and govern themselves, as
well to maintain Older and Regularity among the
peaceable Inhabitants of the .Province, 'as to rehlt,
encounter anty fubducthe Rebels and Traitors above
dcfcribed by such as shall be called upon for thole
Purposes.,
To tht fe inevitable, but I trust salutary Meafure6,
it is a far more pleasing Part of my Duty, to add
the Assurances of Pioteaion and Support, to all who
in so trying a Cribs, foal) manifeft their Allegiance
to the .King, and Affection to the Patent State. So
that such Persons as may have been intimidated to
quit their Habitations in the Course of this Alarm,
may return to their respective Callings and Hofei-,
lions ; and Rand diftin& and feperate from the Par
ricides of the Constitution, till GOD in his Mercy
shall restore to his Creatures, in this diftrafted Landty
that System of Happinel's from which they have been
seduced, the Religion of Peace, and Liberty founded
upon Law.
Given at Boston, this T^wclftb 'Day of June, in
the Fifteenth Year of the Reign of his Majefy
GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of GOD, of
Great-Britain, France and Ireland, KING,
Defender bf the Faith, ®'c. Annoque Domini,
1775-
THOMAS GAGE.
By His Excellence's Command,
ThOs. FLUCKER, Secry.
GOD SAVE THE KING.
NEW-YO R K, June 26.
Copy of a Letter sent to the Committee in this City
the Case if the Canada Market fails them, ind the|
Governments to the Southward are vigilant to vatch|
the Motions of those Vessels which make Excurl 9n s
to obtain Bread'aud Flour by defufive Evafio^,
many of which I expert will soon make the Expert |
Iment: However, Gentlemen, though I have already
Ibeen drawri to a greater length than lat firft intended,
II must in faithfulnefs to several Gentlemen, beg
I your Indulgence a little longer ; Meffi s. Robert and
* Benjamin Jenkins, have at all Times pubhckly de-
Idared1 dared their fixed Determination to do nothing to the
prejudice of the American Caufe# . Mi. Robert Bully
is also our fteadfaft Friend, and I doubt not but we
I have manymore in this Town and Island ; but as I
never law this Igand till a few Days pad, I cannot
give you their Names. lam, Gentlemen, with Septic
ments of Esteem, your and our Country s Friend, and
Humble Servant,
JONATHAN PARSONS, jun.
St. John's, Newfoundland,
May 30, 1775%
To the Committee of Safety
forthe City of New-York.
P. S. If you judge the above Representation de
serves your Attention, I would gladly contribute to
remove the Difficulty you must labour undei, by
not being able to place any Confidence in the Tefti--
mony of a Stranger, must therefore, in that Case,
beg the Favour of your writing a Letter, dire&ed to
the Hon. Benjamin Greenleaf, Esq; at Newbury
Port, New-England, to be communicated to the
Committee of Safety for that Place, whose joint
Testimony will doubtless 'fet my Character in its true
Light.--Anv use may be made of the above which
may tend to promote the public Good.
Yours as above,
J. Parsons, jun.
New-York, June 21, J 775,
THE General Committee f3rthe City ana County of
New-York, having received Intelligence that An
drew Taverner. Mafier of the Ship Sally, arrived in
said Vchel at Trinity, in the Island of Newfoundland,
the 24th Ultimo, .they accordingly appointed William
Walton, Esq; Col, Fleming, John Lamb and John
Broome, a,Committee to wait on Theophild& Bache, to
whom the said Ship was aGdretred,, to enquire of him
the Reasons (if any he knew) why the laid Andrew
Taverner did not proceed directly to Falmouth, or fame
I other Port in Great-Britain, as he had engaged under
Oath to use his utmost Endeavours to do' :We the said
Committee report, that pursuant to our Appointment,
we waited upon Mr. Bache, who produced sundry
Vouchers, fiom which, together with his Deposition
hereunto annexed, we fully believe the laid The whilaft
Bathe to be altogether innocent of having had any
Agency directly or indirectly, in caufn.g the aforefaid
Vcflel to proceed to Newfound! nd, as above-mentioned.
WILLIAM WALTON,-
EDWARD FLEMING,
JOHN BROOME,
JOHN LAMB.
City of 7^ ™^HEOPHILACT BACHE, of
Nev-York.)" ^ the aforefaid City, Merchant, of
katy'ui Age, being duly Sworn, depofeth and faith, That
he had no Agency, either directly or indiredfly, in causing
the Ship Sally, (whereof Andrew Taverner was Maft^r,
at the Time of her Departure from this Port) to proceed
, to Newfoundland ; or any other Place, than Falmouth or
some ether Port in Great-Britain, but verily believed the
f rt id Taverner intended to proceed directly to Falmouth, or
I lome other Port in Great-Britain asaforefoid: And further
/ this Dep pent faith, in older to impress upon the said
Andrew Taverner's mind the Necehuy( going Fraight
way to Falmouth, or some other Port in Great-Britain,
he this Deponent reminded him o' the solemnity of the
Oath he the laid Taverner had- taken, and al'o furnished
him with a Copy of the fame ; and was greatly fur^rifed
;upon hearing the General Committee for pis City and
County, had received Interigence that the said Taverner
1 was arrived at the Land. And further faith not.
; THEOPHYLACT BACHE.
(Sworn thezgd of June, 177 $,
Ibefore1 before me D. MATHEvVS.
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[ Opposite Mr. Robert Gault's, in Maiden-Lane,
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[DISQU ISITI O N S;
-Or, an E N QU I RY'into public Errors,
Defects, and Abuses:
^ Illustrated bv, and eftablilhed upon facts and remarks,
lextractedI extracted from a variety of Authors, ancient and
; modern : Calculated to draw the timely attention of
Government and People to a due consideration of the
I necessity, and the means 'of reforming those Errors,
, Detects, and Abuses ;of restoring the Constitution,
and saving the State.
By j. BUR G 11, Gentleman :
Author of the Dignity of Human Nature, and
other Works.
After treating of our duty to the Gods, it is proper
to teach that which we owe to our Country. For our
Country is, as it Were, a secondary G^d, and the firft and
greatest Parent.—lt is to be preferred to Parents, Wives,
Children, Friends, and all things, the Gods only ex
cepted. And if our Country perishes; it is as impossible
j to save an individual, as to preserve one of the fingers of
!a mortified hand. Hierocles.
( Memorandum. SUBSCRIBERS who live in the
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To the ENCOURAGERS of this WORK.
SINCE the Proposals for printing an American edition
of the POLITICAL DISQUISITIONS, were laid
before the public, the Author, in London, hath published
another Volume, being the third and last, with compleat
Indexes to the whole; which is the completion of this
very ufeful and interfiling Work ; peculiarly necessary
at this time for all the friends of Constitutional Liberty,
whether Britons or Americans,—To accommodate these
Gentlemen with complete Sets who were pleased to en
courage this edition by fubfeription, the Publishers,
ROBERT BELL, of Third-street, and WILLIAM
WOODHOUSE, of Front-Areet, Philadelphia, are de
termined to print this third and last Volume, at the fame
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N. B. Those Gentlemen who intend to honour the
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printed in the third and last Volume ; because the price
of the three Volumes (to non-fubferibers) will then be
advanced to Thirty-six Shillings.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given to all the creditors of
Hendrick Wemple, an insolvent debtor, confined in the
goal of tbe county of Tryon, that be has presented a petition
to tbe court of common pleas for said county ; which petition,
•with tbe schedule and inventory annexed to the fame is filed in
tbe clerk's office of said county, for tbe infpeffion of bis cre
ditors agreeable to tbe directions of an act of tbe Lieut. Go
vernor, tbe Council, and General Afinely of tbe province of
New-York, pafed in tbe fifteenth year of bis present Maje
fly's r "& n i George tbe third, King, &c. entitled, “An aH
for tbe relief of insolvent debtors ;" and be doth hereby notify
bis refpeHive creditors that be intends to apply to tbe judges
of tbe said courts or any two of them, on Wednesday the zotb
day of %!, next, at io o'clock in tbe forenoon of tbe fame
day, at tbe boufe of Martin Kan Alfyne, innkeeper, in Cana
johary difrid, in tbe county aforefaid, to be difebarged from
bis confinement, agreeable to said ask. Dated this 13th
June, 1775.
Mercer and Schenk,
AVE removed their flore frorn Hanover- Square to tty
fore late!, occupied by Greg, Cunningham, and Cr.
on Hunger s-Qtay, where they have JOT sale a variety of
dry goodsfeitabieto thefcafen, confining of calicoes, chintzes,
Infolinens, tafaies, perJians,foalloom:, durant and tammies,
double and fngle folded fluffs; white; black, red and blue,
I ell, and \,arfperfiars ; flower'd and plain purple mitts
and gloves, nets and womens white gloves, knee garters,
folk and worked cord, flower'd and striped muffin, cap and
apron tapes, narrow and wide bindings, nankeen, linen flripes,
blue and jrowncamblets, Jerge denims, bombazine, mens and
boys wools bate broad cloths and coatings, pins, l^c.
Alp )wool! ards, cotton cards, 7 by 9, ft by to window
glass, beney r firkins, butter do. _ .
Poe and Pearl Allies.
WHEREAS an ad of the General Assembly of
this colony, was passed in the year 1766, for
the prevention of frauds in the adulterations of pot and
pearl ashes, whereby it was enacted,
“ That every manufacturer, or original owner of any
pot a{h or pearl alb, made for sale, Shall, upon each talk
or v^Glia which such pot aSh or pearl aSh Shall be packed,
cause th; fame to be branded with the firft letter of his
chrift j.name, and .with his firname at length ; as also
the na^< pf the city, tpwn, or diftria, in which such
pot affi or pearl afhwas made ; and every person offering
to fell toy pot afb or pearl alh (rhe calk or veSIU in
which she fame'is contained, not being branded as afore
faid) ftAl forfeit and pay the sum of five pounds."---
And ario,
" That^ry person who shall adulterate any pot ash or
pearl aft, by mixing the fame with any lime, Marine
fait, or i,ny other matter foreign to the nature of those
com,<W.%ieA or by any other way or manner whatsoever,
and after o^rds offer the fame to sale, shall forfeit and
pay the fpm of fifty founds for each ton thereof ; and so
in proper, n for any greater or smaller quantity of potash
or pearl a^."
Which t& has been revived and enforced by an aft of'
the last sessions of the General Aff.-.mbiy, a,nd whereas,
notwithstanding the laid aft, it frequently happens that*
pot and pearl allies are brought to be infpeded without
any such brand marks as thereby are directed, and many
frauds attempted :---I have therefore thought proper to
publish the above, extracts, with a view that no perfori
,may pretend ignorance of the law, and that their in
attention thereto in future, will be properly noticed by
JOSEPH ALLICOCK-
Infpe&or of pot and pearl ash.
To all those 'Gentlemen above Albany, and elsewhere,
who have for four years past received their news pa
pers by the Albany poll riders,
IS HOULD not at this time address mvfelf to you
in this fort, were it not that ! am now difmifs'd from
the post qffice, and of course receive no pay there ; and,
I have, at the delire of several Gentlemen continued
riding,—but finding it will bring me in debt, unlefs,i
am paid punctually for the news papers, ,bnth old Icore
and new, these are therefore to request of all, to make
immediate payment, either to the Printers, Rider, or the
Stages where they are left, as they desire to receive their
papers. Ail persons who warit to lend letters by the post
toxNew-Yerk, are desired to leave them 'at the widow
Vernon's, at the King's Arms in Albany, where all let
. ters will be received and given out, until times are set
, tied ; and in New-York, at the house of Joel Holmes^
1 atthe North-River, rearthe Ferry Stairs. Efe rides on
the weft tide of Hudfon'sßiver, and is every one's very
Humble servant, if well paid for it,
OLD ALBANY POST.
N. B. Four millings a year for,poftage of each news
. paper.
Land herein after mention'd.
IX7HEREAS his late Majesty King George the
ty Y Second, by letters parent under the great seal
of therolony of New-York, bearing date the twenty-firft
day of February, in the year 1752, did give and grant to
•JaCr/b Bmft.aha others, in the said letters patent named,
ALL those two certain tracts or parcels of land, fitu
'ate, -lying and being in the county of Albany, to
the westward of Schohary, between the mountains of
SchHhary and the bill called by the Indians Gnuntadafha,
on the creek or bror k called bv the Indians Ofchaleghe,
otherwise Cobqs. Kill, the firft of which trails begins
at a beach 'tree.marked with three notches on four sides,
and a cross on the ^eft fide, Handing on the fide of a
sleep bank, on the north fide of the said brook, called
Ofchaleghe, or Cobus Kill, at the lower end or point of
a piece of low land, and is 37 chains measured in a
ftreight line down the flream of the said brook, from the
place where a tradhof loco acres of land, formerly
granted to the said Jacob Borft, and others, takes its'
beginning ; and this traa runs from the said beach tree
north 13 degrees, weft So chains ; then south 75 degrees,
weft 178 chains; then south 49 degrees, weft 232 chains
to the weft end of the said tract of icoo acres ; and then
along the bounds thereof to the most foutberly corner of
the fame ; and from thence north 75 degrees, east 372
chains ; and then north 13 degrees, wef^6o chains, to
the place where this traa firft began, conta^hing 300,acres
of rind, and the usual allowance for highways. The
other of the said two tra&s begins at a white oak tree,
marked with a blaze, and a cross on fouu fidcs/ftanding
on the top of a steep black flaity bank, on. the weft fide
of the fai'd brook, called Ofchaleghe, o'ty Cobus Kill,
which bank is the place called by the Indians Onuntada
fha, and the said tree is 10 chains up the stream of the
said brook, from where another brook falieth into it, and
this tra& runs from the said place of beginning, weft 10
chaips; then south-east 62 chains; then south 70 de
grees, east 107 chains ; then south 13 degrees, east 76
chains ; then north 75 degrees, east 443 chains ; then
north 13 degrees, weft 313 chains; then south 75 de
grees, weft 512 chains, to the said brook called Ofcha
leghe, or Cobus Kill ; and then down the stream thereof
as it runs to the place where this tradt firft began, con
taining 15000 acres of land, and the usual allowance'
for highways, the said two tracts containing together
18,000 acres of land, and the usual allowance for high
wiys.
AND WHEREAS I the fubferiber am part owner
and proprietor.of the said two tracts of land : NOW
THEREFORE by virtue of a certain aft es the Lieut.
Governor, the Council, and the General Assembly of the
colony of New-York, passed the Sih day of January,
1762, intitled, “ AN ACT for the more effectual col
" letting of his Majesty's quit rents in the colony of
" New-York, and for partition of lands in order thereto
and also by virtue of one other aft, entitled, " AN ACT,
“ to continue an, aft, for the more effeaual collecting his
'' Majesty's quit rents, in the colony of New-York, and
“ for partition of lands in order thereto ; and also to
“ continue another aft, intitled, An aft to explain
“ part of an aft, entitled, An aft for the more es
“ feftual collefting ,his Majesty's quitrents in the co
“ lony of New-York, and for partition of lands in order
" thereto ;" passed the gift day of December, 1768.
I DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that JOHN BUT
LER, of Tryon county, in the colony aforefaid, Esq;
and RICHARD DUNCAN, of Schenectady, in the
county of Albany aforefaid, gentleman, and WILLIAM
COCKBURN, of the county of Ulster, in the colony
aforefaid, Surveyor, not interested in the traCt of land,
are appointed commissioners to make partition thereof,
pursuant to the said several aCts ; and that; they the said
commiflioners will meet at the dwelling-house of Robert
Clench, tavern keeper, in ScheneCtady aforefaid, on
Tuesday the 19th day of September next, to proceed to
the partition of the said land; and all persons interested
therein, are hereby required to attend then and there for
that purpose, eitner by themselves or their attornies.—
Given under my hand the zeth day of May, 1775.
GEORGE MANN.
To all Persons interested in the Tratl of