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To the King's mofl excellent Majesty, &c.
The Humble Petition and Memorial of
the Nffembly of Jamaica.
Mofi Gracious Sovereign,
WE your Majefy's most dutiful and loyal
Subjects, the Assembly of Jamaica, bas
ing taken into our Confederation the
present critical State of tbe Colonies,
humbly approach tbe Throne, to afore your Majefy of
our mos dutiful Regard to your Royal Person and Fa
mily, and our attachment to, and reliance on, our
Fellow Subjects in Great-Britain, founded on tbe mos
solid and durable Bass, tbe continued Enjoyment of our
perfinal Rights, and tbe Security of our Properties.
That weak and feeble as this Colony is, from its very
small Number of white Inhabitants, and its peculiar
Situation from tbe Incumbrance of more tban Two
Hundred Tboufand Slaves, it cannot be supposed that
we now intend, or ever could have intended Refinance
to Great-Britain.
That this Colony has never, by Riots, or other
violent Measures opposed, or permitted an AN oj Re
ffance againf any Law imposed on us by Great-Bri
tain, though always truly sensible of our just Rights,
and of the pernicious Confluences, both to tbe Parent
and Infant State, with which some of them mus be
attended; always relying with the mos implicit Confi
dence, on tbe Jufice and paternal Tenderness of your
Majefy, even to tbe mo, feeble and diflant of your
Subjects, and depending that when your Majefy, and
your Parliament fbould have maturely considered and
deliberated on tbe Claims of Great-Britain and her
Colonies, every Cause of DifotisfaEtion would be re
moved.
Tbat jufly alarmed with tbe approaching Horrors
of an unnatural Contef between Great Britain and
her Colonies, in which tbe mos dreadful Calamities to
this Island, and tbe inevitable Defrudlion of the small
Sugar Colonies are involved: and excited by tbefe Ap
prebenfions, as well as by our Affection for our Fellow
Subjects, both in Great-Britain and tbe Colonies, We
implore your Majeftfs favourable Reception of this our
bumble Petition and Memorial, as well on Behalf of
ourselves and our Confiituents, the good People of this
Island, as on Behalf of all other your Majefy's Sub
jefis, the Colon,s of America ; but especially tbofe who
labour at present under tbe heavy Weight of your
Majefy's Displeasure, for whom we entreat to be ad
mitted as bumble Suitors ; that we may not, at so
important a Criss, be wanting to contribute our sincere
and well meant, however small Endeavours, to heal
those Disorders, which may otherwise terminate in tbe
Defrufion of tbe Empire.
That as we conceive it necessary for this Purpose to
enter into tbe different Claims of Great-Britain and
her Colonies, we beg Leave to place it in tbe Royal
Mind as tbe firfl efablifced Principle of tbe Confitution,
That tbe People of England have a Right to partake,
and do partake of tbe Legislation of their Country, and
that no Laws can affe& them, but fueb as receive their
Afent, given by themselves, or their Representatives ;
and it follows therefore, that no one Part of your Ma
jefy's Englijh Subjects, either can, or ever could legis
late for any other Part.
That tbe Settlers of tbe firfl Colonies, but especially
tbofe of tbe elder Colonies of North-America, as well
as tbe Conquerors of this Island, were a Part of tbe
English People, in every Refpefl equal to them, and
possessed of every Right and Privilege at tbe Time of
their Emigration, which tbe People of England were
poffeffedof, and irrefragably, to that great Right of
consenting to tbe Laws which fbould bind them, in all
Cases whatsoever ; and who emigrating at firfl in
small Numbers, when they might have been oppressed;
fueb Rights and Privileges were confantly guarantied
by tbe Crown, to tbe Emigrants and Conquerors, to be
held and enjoyed by them in tbe Places to which they
emigrated ; and were confirmed by many repeated
solemn Engagements, made public by Proclamation,
under tbe Faith of which, they did aNually emigrate
and conquer : That therefore, tbe People of England,
bad no Rights, Power, or Privilege, to give to tbe
Emigrants ; as tbefe were, at tbe Time of their Emi
gration, possessed of all fueb Rights, equally with tbem
felves.
That the Peers of England were possessed of ver,
eminent, and difinguijhed Privileges in their own
Right, as a Branch of Legislation, a Court of Juflice
MS the dernier Resort, for all Appeals from the People,
and in the firft Infance, for all Causes infituted b,
the RepreJennatives of the People; but that it does not
appear that the, ever considered themselves as anting
in such Capacities for the Colonies, the Peers having
never to this Da,, heard or determined the Causes of
the Colonists in Appeal, in which it ever was, and is
their Duty to serve the Subjects within the Realm.
That from what has been said, it appears that the
Emigrants could receive nothing from either the Peers
or the People ; the former being unable to communicate
their Privileges, and the latter on no more than an
equal Footing with themselves ; but that with the King
it was far otherwise : The Ro,al Prerogative as now
annexed to, and belonging to the Crown, being totally
independent of the People, who cannot invade, add to,
or diminiJh it, nor reflrain or invalidate those legal
Grants, which the Prerogative hath a just Right to
give, and hath ver, liberally given for the Encou
ragement of Colonization ; to fame Colonies, it granted
almofi all the Ro, al Powers of Government, which
the, hold and enjoy at phis Da, ; but to none of them
did it grant less, than to the firft Conquerors of this
Island, in wbofe Favour it is declared b, a Ro, al Pro
clamation, “ That the, fall have the fame Privileges
to all Intents and Purposes, as, the free born Subjects
ts England:'
That to use the Name, or Authority of the People of
the parent Stqte, to take avay, or render ineffectual,
ASSIZE of BREAD. Flour at 20s. per Cent.
A White Loaf of the fineft FLOUR, to weigh
ilb. Boz. £ for 4 Coppers.
Published Sth December, 1774.
Monday, February 27, 1775. THE [No. 1220.]
N E^-rO R Km^^^^ G A ZETT E:
AND THE
WE E K L Y |^J^@^, MER C U R Y.
^ Printed by HUGH GAINE, Printer, Bookseller, and Stationer, at the Bible and Crown, in Hanover-Square.
That tbe mos essential Rights of tbe Colonies bave
been invaded, and tbeir Property given and granted
to your Majefy, by Men not entitled to fueb a Power.
That tbe Murder of tbe Colonifs bave been encou
raged by another AN, disallowing and annulling tbeir
Trials by Juries of tbe Vicinage ; and that Fleets and
Armies bave been sent to enforce tbofe dreadful Laws.
We therefore in this desperate Extremity, mos humbly
beg Leave, to approach tbe Throne, to declare to your
Majefy, that our Fellow SubieNs in Great-Britain,
and consequently tbeir Representatives, tbe House of
Commons, bave not a Rigbt, as we truf we bave
foewn, to legifate for the Colonies ; and that your
Petitioners and tbe Colonifs are not, nor ought to be
bound by any other Laws tban fueb as they bave tbem
felves assented to, and .are not disallowed by your
Majefy.^
Your Petitioners do therefore make this Claim and
Demand from tbeir Sovereign, as Guarantee of tbeir
just Rights, on tbe Faith and Confidence of which,
they have fettled, and continue to rtfale in tbefe diflant
Parts of tbe Empire, that no Laws fall be made and
attempted to be forced upon them, injurious to tbeir
Rights as Colonies, EngliJbmen or Britons.
That your Petitioners fully sensible of tbe great
Advantages that bave arisen from tbe Regulations of
Trade in general, prior to tbe Year 1760, as well to
Great-Britain and her Colonies, as to your Petitioners
in particular, and being anxioufy desirous of encreaf
ing tbe good EffeNs of these Laws, as well as to re
move an Obfacle which is new in our Government,
and could not bave exifed on tbe Principles of our
Constitution, as it hath arisen from Colonization : We
do declare for ourselves and tbe good People of tbis
Island, that we freely consent to tbe Operation of all
fueb ANs of tbe British Parliament, as are limited to
tbe Regulation of our external Commerce only, and tbe
sole ObjeN of which, is tbe mutual Advantage of
Great-Britain and her Colonies.
tbe legal Grants of tbe Crown to tbe Colon,s, is delu
sive, and defrays that Confidence, which tbe People
bave ever bad and ought to have, of tbe most solemn
Royal Grants in tbeir Favour, and renders unfable
and insecure, tbofe very Rights and Privileges which
prompted tbeir Emigration.
That your Colon,s and your Petitioners having tbe
mos implicit Confidence in tbe Royal Faith pledged to
them in the mos solemn Manner, by your Predecessors,
refed fatisfed with tbeir Afferent Portions of tbe
Royal Grants, and having been bred from tbeir Infancy,
to venerate tbe Name of Parliament, a Word fill dear
to tbe Heart of every Briton, and considered as tbe
Palladium of Liberty, and tbe great Source from
whence tbeir own is derived, received tbe several
Afis of Parliament of England, and Great-Britain,
for tbe Regulation of tbe Trade of tbe Colonies, as" tbe
salutary Precautions of a prudent Father, for tbe
Prosperity of a wide extended Family ; "and that in
this Light we received them, without a Thought of
questioning tbe Rigbt, tbe whole Tenor of our Conduct,
will demon,rate, for above One Hundred Years.
That though we received tbefe Regulations of Trade
from our Fellow Subjects of England,- and Great-
Britain, so advantageous to us as Colon,s, as Englijb
men and Britons, we did not thereby confer on them
a Power of leg,siting for us, far left that of defrop
ing us and our Children, by divefling us of all Rights
and Property.
That with Reluctance we bave been drawn from"
tbe Prosecution of our internal Affairs, to behold with
Amazement, a Plan alm, carried into Execution,
for enslaving tbe Colonies, founded, as we conceive, on
a Claim of Parliament to bind tbe Colonies in all Cases
wbatfoever.
Your bumble Petitioners have for several Years
with deep and silent Sorrow, lamented this unrefrained
Excrcife of Legifative Power ; fill hoping from the
Interposition of tbeir Sovereign, to avert that las and
greatest of Calamities, that of being reduced to an ab
jeff State of Slavery, by having an arbitrary Governs
meat eftablifbed in tbe Colonies, for the very attempt
ing of which, a Minifer of your Predecessor was im
peached by a House of Commons.
With like Sorrow do we find tbe Popif Religion
efablifoed by Law, which by Treaty was only to be
tolerated.
We, your Petitioners, do therefore befeecb your
Majefl,, that ,ou will be pleased, as the common
Parent of ,our Subjects, to become a Mediator between
,our European and American Subjects, and to consider
the latter, however Jar removed from ,our Royal
Presence, as equally entitled to your Protection, and
the Benefits of the Englijh Confitution, the Deprivation
of which, must difolve that Dependance on the Parent
State, which it is our Glory'to acknowledge, whilf
enjoying those Rights under her Protection ; but Jbould
this Bond of Union be eVer defroyed, and the Colonists
reduced to confder themselves as Tributaries to Britain,
they mus cease to venerate her as an affectionate
Parent.
We befeecb your Majefy to believe, that it is our
earnef Prayer to Almighty Providence, to pr.eferve
your Majef, in all Happiness, Prosperity and Honour,
and that there never may be wanting one of your il
lufrious Line, to transmit the Biddings oj our excellent
Confutation, to the latest Poflerity, and to reign in the
Hearts of a loyal, grateful and affectionate People.
ALAW for regulating of Meafurers in the Cit, of
New-York.
Published, February 9, 1775.
WHEREAS the Mayor, Aldermen and Com
monalty of the City of New-York, have an
undoubted Right by his Majesty's Royal Charter to
this City, to appoint and licence, and also to remove
and displace tuch and so n.. nv Persons to beMeafurers
in the lame as they shall think fr . And it is highly
Monday, 2 Min. after 7
Tuesday, 58 Min, after 7
Wednesday, 52 Min. after 8
Thursday, 42 Min. after 9
HIGH-WATER at NEW-YORK, this Week.
Friday, 32 Min. after 10
Saturday, 21 Min. after ir
Sunday, 10 Min. after 12
New Moon next Wednesday.
VII. And be it further Ordained by the Authority
aforefaid, That if any Measurer not then employed
in measuring, shall, on Application to him made for
the measuring of any Wheat, Oats, Indian Corn,
neceflary and requisite that all Persons by them so
licensed and appointed, ought to be under proper
Regulations.
I. Be it Ordained by tbe Mayor, Aldermen and
Commonalty of tbe City of New-York, convened in
Common Council, arid it is hereby Ordained by the
Authority of tbe fame, That no Person or Persons
whatsoever, do presume to measure Wheat, Oats or
other Grain, or Salt, Coal or any other Merchandize
rheafurable, or to be measured in the said City, for
Hire or Wages, but such who shall be so appointed
and licensed by the said Mayor, Aldermen and
Commonalty, under the Penalty of Five Pounds
for every Offence; one Half thereof to the Informer,
and the other Half to the Church-Wardens of this
City, for the Use of the Poor thereof.
11. And be it further Ordained by the Authority
aforefaid, That the Prices and Rates to be taken by
Meafurers for the measuring of Wheat, Oats and
all other Grain, and for the measuring of Salt, Coal
and Lime within this City, be according to the Rates
and Prices hereafter-mentioned, viz.
For measuring every Hundred Bushels of Wheat,
Oats, Indian Corn, Rye, Flaxseed, and all other
Grain, and Salt, Four Shillings.
For meafuringevery Chaldron ofCoal, Eighteen
Pence.
For measuring every Cart Load of Lime, Six
Pence, the one Half of which Rates or Prices to be
paid by the Purchaser, and the other Half thereof by
the Vender.
111. And be it further Enabled and Ordained by the
Authority aforefaid, That if any Measurer within
this City shall demand, ask, take, receive, extort or
exa& anv greater Rate or Rates, Price or Prices,
for measuring any W^eat, Oats, Indian Corn, Rye,
Flaxseed or other Grain, or for measuring Salt, Coal
or Lime, than what are herein-before-mentioned or
limited, upon Conviction thereof before the Mayor,
Recorder, or any one of the Aldermen of this City,
such Measurer shall be suspended from being a
Measurer, and such Measurer shall forfeit and pay
the Sum of FiVe Pounds, Current Money of
New-York; one Half thereof to the Informer, and
the other Half to the Church-Wardens of this City,
for the Use of the Poor thereof.
V. And whereas it often happens, that in Cargoes
of Wheat brought to this City for Sale, there is a
great Difference of Quality in the fame Cargo, and
that after measuring out a Part thereof, the Remainder
hath turned out to be of a much worse Quality than
that on the Top : Be it therefore also Ordained by the
Authority aforefaid, That if any Measurer hereafter
to be employed in the measuring of any Wheat in
this City, fliall make any such Discovery, in the
measuring of the fame, and (hall negle& or delay
to give immediate Notice thereof to the Purchaser, or
^all perfilt in measuring the lame after he has made
such Discovery, and before he has given such Notice
as aforefaid to the Purchaser ; he shall for every such
Offence, forfeit and pay the Sum of Five Pounds,
Current Money of New-York ; the one Half thereof
to the Informer, and the other Half to the Church-
Wardens of this City, for the Use of the Poor
thereof.
VI. And be it further Ordained b, the Authority
aforefaid, That the several Perform already appointed,
and which shall be hereafter appointed to the Office
of a Measurer in this City, do take an Oath before
the Mayor or Recorder of this City, in the Words
following, viz.
7" A. B. Dofwear, that I will faithfully, truly, and
according to the bes of my Skill, Judgment and
Underfianding, execute, do, and perform, the Office
and Duty of a Measurer : And whenever I am em
ployed by any Purchaser to mcafure any Kind of Grain
or Seed, which Jball appear to me to be in any wife
damaged, or Jball appear to me after measuring a
Part thereof, that the Remainder is not equal in Vita
lity, that I will immediately thereupon give Notice
thereof to such Purchaser, if in my lower ; and that
I will desist from measuring any more of the said Grain
or Seed, until ! have given fueb Information. So help
me God.
IV. And be it further Enafled by tbe Authority
aforefaid, That every Measurer hereafter to be
employed in this City, in the measuring of Wheat,
Oats, Indian Corn, Rye, Flaxseed, or any other
kind of Grain, or in measuring Salt, Coal, Lime or
any other Merchandize, shall deliver unto the Pur
chaser thereof (if required) an exa& and true Account
of the Quantity he fliall be so employed to measure;
and shall (if thereunto required by the Purchaferj
weigh one Bnfhel in every Fifty Bushels of Wheat
he shall be employed to measure, and shall render to
the Purchaser of such Wheat, an exa& and true
Account of the Weight thereof : And in Case any
Measurer hereafter to be employed in the measuring
of any Wheat, Oats, Indian Corn, Rye, Flaxseed
or any other kind of Grain, or in the measuring of
any Salt, Coal or Lime in this City, fliall refufe,
negle& or delay to deliver to the Purchaser thereof,
(if thereunto by him required) an exa& and true
Account of the Quantity by him so measured ; or
fliall refufe, negle& or delay, to weigh one Bushel in
every Fifty Bushels of Wheat he fliall be employed
to measure, (if thereunto required by the Purchaser)
or shall refufe to deliver to such Purchaser an exa&
and true Account of such Weight; every Measurer
so refufing, neglecting or delaying, fliall for each
Offence forfeit the Sum of Five Pounds; one
Half thereof to the Use of the Informer, and the
other Half to the Church-Wardens of this City, for
the Use of the Poor thereof.
Wheat per Bushel, 7s. od.
Floiir, 19$. 6d.
Brown Bread, 15s. od.
Weft-India Rtim, 3s. 4d.
New-England, do. 2s. 6d.
PRICE-CURRENT, in NEW-YORK.
Mufcovado Sugar, 645. od.
Single refin'd ditto, is. id.
Molafles, 2s. od.
Beef perßarrel, 48s. od.
Pork, 655. od.
By the Subscriber,
A Certain Island known by the name of Rodman's
Island, lying and being in New-Rochell, in Weft
charter county, and province of New-York. The said
Island contains 60 acres of land, or thereabouts, well
watered and timbered, 3 small dwelling house, out houses,
a new barn, and a small orchard. The land is good, and
produces wheat, corn, rye, flax and oats, and most other
kinds of produce. The greatest part of said Island can
be made into frefh meadow, and there is plenty of. fait
meadow. Extraordinary good fiffiing and fowling round
the Island, and very handy to New-York, as boats pass
every week, wind and weather permitting. For further
particulars inquire of Mr. David Lifpenard, at New-
Rochell. The said Island lays about thirty rods from
the main shore. A good title will be given by me, living
on the premises. JOSEPH RODMAN.
In the BOWERY LANE,
To be SOLD or LETT,
rirtHE house and lot of land now in the possession of
£ Blafius Moore, containing about 14 acres, next
adjoining James De Lancey's, Est; Possession thereof
may be taken at any time. Enquire of Gerard Bancker,
who has a draft thereof, or of Pierre Van Cortlandt, who
will give an indisputable title for the fame.
TTvFIDOFL -YRS -R^dF
RUN-AWAY on the 20th inst. from the fubferiber,
living at Mendem, in Morris county, New-Jersey,
a servant man who arrived here last fall with Capt. Moore,
from Ireland, named fames Brown: he is a shoemaker
by trade, about 5 feet 8 inches high, and 23 years of age.
Had on when he went away, a new brown furtout coat,
trimmed with black, and has two fort of buttons on it ;
a blue coat, a black waiftecat, a pair of old leather bree
ches, white yarn flockings, and a pair of good shoes ; had
but one shoe buckle ; one of his shoes had seven nails in
the heel, the other had eight, with large heads : he has
brown bushy hair, and an uncommon wart on one of his
wrists. Whoever takes up and secures said servant, so
that he may be had again, shall have the above reward,
and all reasonable charges, from
WILLIAM HUDSON.
WATCH MAIN-SPRINGS.
Made in Philadelphia, are fold by the manufa&urer,
MATTHIAS EYRE,
SPRING-MAKER, from London,
At his house in Third-street, below South-street, and
by JOHN WOOD, watch-maker, in Front-street,
the corner of Chefnut-ftreet.
WHERE watch-makers and others may be
supplied with any quantity of springs much
cheaper than can be afforded when imported from
England, from which circumstance, and the good
quality of' the Springs, the maker hopes for the
encouragement of the watch-makers in this and the
neighbouring provinces, whose orders will be grate
fully received and faithfully executed.
N. B. By the dozen, thirty (hillings, single fpting,
three (hillings.
To be fold at public VENDUE,
On or near the premises, the 7th day of March next, or
at private sale any time before,
A Farm containing 75 acres, with a house, barn and
• orchard ; also 100 acres adjoining, to be fold toge
ther or separate, as shall be thought most expedient at the
time of sale: It lays in Kakiate, in Orange county, and
province of New-York, near the meeting-house, now in
tenure of Doctor Isaac Sherwood. For further particu
lars enquire of Thomas Dodge of Hempftead, in Queen's
county, on Naflau-Ifland, or Thomas Dodge, Shipwright,
in New-York.
To be SOL D,
A LOT of LAND in the Katt's-Kill patent, con
taining 454 acres, whereon is a framed house part
finished, about 12 acres in fence and cleared. It is 25
miles below Albany, and 13 miles from Katt's-Kill
Landing : A good road leads from said Landing through
the land, and near the house. It will be fold exceeding
cheap.
Also g or io other lots in said patent, to be let on long
leases ; each of said lots contains 454 acres. For further
particulars enquire of Joseph Riggs, Esq; or Thomas
Brown, at Newark. Feb.il, 177 $.
The PARTNERSHIP
OF George Folliot and Company, is difolved, therefore
all those who are indebted to them are requested to
make immediate payment to George Folliot, or John
Moore ; and all those who have any accounts against said
partnerfhipj are desired to fend them in, that they may
be adjusted and paid.
Rye, Flaxseed, or any other Kind of Grain, or for
the measuring of any Salt or Coal, tefufe, negle&,
or delay, to proceed to measure the fame for the
Space of three Hours after such Application made ;
every such Measurer so refufing, neglecting, or de
laying, shall, for each Offence, forfeit the Sum of
Twenty Shillings, current Money of New-York, to
the Use of the Person or Persons so delayed.
VIII. And be it further Ordained by tbe Authority
aforefaid, That none of the Meafurers already ap
pointed, or hereafter to be appointed, in this City,
fliall purchase any Wheat, Oats, Indian Corn, Flax
seed, Rye, or any other Kind of Grain, drany Salt,
Coal, Lime, or any other Merchandize rheafurable,
or to be measured by them, or any of them, other
than for their own particular Use, under the Penalty
of Five Founds, for every Offence ; the one Half
thereof to the Use of the Informer, and the other
Half to the Use of the Church Wardens of this
City, for the Use of the Poor thereof.
IX. And be it further Ordained by tbe Authority
aforefaid, That every the Fines and Forfeitures aforc
faid, shall, and may, be sued for and recovered
before the Mayor, Recorder, and Aldermen of the
said City, or any of them, with Colts of Suit.
TO BE SOLD,
Fine Salt, 3s. 3d.
Coarse Salt, 3s. od.
Bohea Tea, 4s. 6d.
Indian Cornperßu. 3s. 4d.