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WILLIA MSBUR G, April 13.
0m Sunday the 30th ult. the floopLiberty, of
Perth-Amboy, from St. Euttatia, with 83 bar
rels of gun-powder, 21 bales of dry goods, and
two hogsheads of medicines, was taken by a
tender, off the Capes ot Philadelphia, and car
ried into Norfolk. The Captain and three pas
sengers are made close prisoners. The mate e
scaped; he lays he was at Antigua, where were
7060 Bricilh troops, making preparations to fail
tofoiie part of the continent; that the Roebuck,
and 'another man of war, (which he supposes
wa§ the Mercury) at the time he was taken, lay
in Delaware bay'; that there Were so many ten
ders Cruising upon the coast, and the caitiffs on
botird 'fo very ' vigilant, force the proclamation,
came over directing the distribution of the prizes,
that it was almost impossible to escape them.
We were informed yesterday that the Gover
nor had-taken a French sloop, from Martinico,
with, two engineers on board, a considerable
quantity o's gun-powder, and igo or 200 : ftand$
of small mrms.
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'^JN E TV'POR T, ^7l,
Thursday jaff, towards night, the $p Scar
borough of 30 guns, a tranfpQrt ship of 200 tons,
and 16 guns, a, brigloaded with provisions, and
a Hoop! loaded with salt, came inty ih^Bafoid
anchored between Gpat-Ifland and ^onanicut.
Incthe.evening: t%o rpw gaHeys, commanded
by Captains' Grimland,Hyer,. with a number
of volunteers: fem the army on this illand, took
the brig nndfloop ; after which a battery at the ,
north part of the town, a battery at Brenton's
Point, and .the galleys played so briskly upon
thcjhip%. that they were soon obliged to move
out of the.reach of the batteries, and went un
der Conanicut. Capt. Hyer, in one of the
galleys, lay within musket ihot of the Scafocy .
rough, firing.upon her, while. Grimes boarded
and sent off the brig and sloop. The Scarbo
rough did the- galley -some f mage in her hull
and rigging, and the musketry from her tops
wounded one of Capt. Hyer's people, which
,was all the injury received on the Ameri
can fide. This bold a&ion, of taking two ves
sels close under the stern of a 20 gun ship, may
possibly convince our enemies,that the Yankees
are not such dastards, as the Tories in this
country have represented them. There were
17 hands taken in the above veflels, who inform
that the ships were from Georgia, the transport
having on board 140 soldiers ; that the Scar
borough was commanded by Capt. Barclay, and
had on board James Wright, Governor of
Georgia, his family, and some other Tories ot
that place : That the brig was from Philadel
phia, taken going in to Georgia ; that thefloop
was from some of the islands, commanded by
Capt. Gregory Cozzens of this place, and taken
near Georgia; that they were bound to. Boston,
and had parted with several other prizes, oneof
which, a (loop, arrived on Saturday, and an
chored between the two fhips< :. /
Saturday night and yesterday morning a bat
tery at Conanicut so disturbed the quiet of the
Scarborough, the transport ship and the sloop,
that they took advantage of a fair wind and'
pushed out to sea ; but as they passed the mouth
of the harbour, abattery orc the caff fide near
Cadle-Hill, hulled the Scarborough twice, and ?
feat one i 3 pounder through the sloop. The
Scarborough returned a-very heavy fire on both
the batteries, without doing the lead damage.
Qur bay is now.free from pirates. 1
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PHILADELPHIA, April zz.
Extras ofW lelter from PeterJburg, Virginia,
'• dated April ild'
" In my way through Virginia I found the
inhabitants Warm for independence. Tfpent
last evening with Mn - , from South Ca
rolina. He tells me that the people there have
no expectation of ever being reconciled with
Britain again, but only as a foreign fete. They ',
have formed a government for therpfelves.
John Rutledge, Esq; is appointed President,
with all.the powers that are vested in the Gover
nor. . From several letters I have received from :
Norin-Carolina, since that Convention have
met, I find they are for independence, as they
either.have, or intend to repeal the inftructions^
that were given to their delegates, and to leave -
t^em at liberty to vote upon every occasion as r
they think best. Mr. was some little
time at Halifax; he fays they are quite spirited
and. unanimous ; indeed I hear nothing praised
but Common Sense and Independence. The
People of North-Carolina are making great pre
paration's, and fay they are determined to die
hard. I affute you, my good Sir, the vehe
mence of the foutherp colonies will require all
the coolness of the northern ones to moderate
their zeal. I fufpe&ed when I was with" you,
that whenever they were urged they would go
great lengths."
In CONGRESS, April ir, 1776.
Resolved, That it be recommended to the
federal Alien blies, Conventions and Commits
tees or 'tou.. iis of Safety of the United Colo
nies, to use their best endeavours in communi
cating to foreign nations the resolve of Congress
relative to trade. , ,
Extract from the minutes.
' CHARLES THOMSON, Sec'ry.
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' NEW-YORK, A^V 2 §.
Q&T^ef&y the 16th inst. a,Ppll was opened;,
at §he City-Hall, for theele&ion oftwenty^onef
Deputies, ftp reprefcnt this city and countyTn?
the next Provincial, Cohgrefs and continued by
adjournment till Thursday afternoon; when it
wafr closed, and the following perlons were C
lefled for that purpose:
In PROVINCIAL CONGRESS,
New-York, February .16, 1 7-76.
WHEREAS a large body of troops are daily
expected from the neighbouring counties and
colonies, for the defence of this city against the
ministerial army and navy, in which case it will
be necessary (as the barracks arc already filled
with those already arrived) to provide proper
houses for theifr reception. It is resolved and
ordered, That the general Committee of the
,city and county of New-York,be requested forth
with to caufea return to be made to them of all
the empty houses in this city, and that they, or
a fab-committee bftheir body, felcft a fufficient
number pt the said houses for the accommoda
tion of tlie troops that shall from time to time
arrive.. Ttiafin the choice of the said houses,
futh he taken as are less liable to be injured by
,the troops. That the Committee, or their sub-.
committee, be careful to take a survey of the
condition of the said houses at the time they
shall be taken pofleffion of, and the time such
.houses shall be left by the said troops, to
•the end that proper fatistaaion may be made to
:the- proprietors for any injury the said houses
may receive by reason of quartering troops
therein. And it is further ordered, that the
barrack-master for the time being, be fubjed to
and under the direction of the said Committee,
.or sub-committee; and that the Chairman of
the faid.Committee be requested to cause the
said General Committee to be convened imme
diately, that this order may be executed.
A true copy from the,minutes.
ROBERT BENSON, Sec'ry.
I In COMMITTEE of SAFETY,
{ < # J New-York, April 1„> 1776.
WHEREAS the Continental Congress on
. the.,.34 of February last, “ did recommend to
the several Aflemblies, Conventions arid Coun-.
, cils, or Committees , of Safety, and Committees
lof Correspondence and lnfpeaion,in the United
:Colonies, to exert themfelveyn deviling fur
ther ways .and, .m eans fo^p^^pting and en
couraging the rfnanufa&pre ofofylt-Petre, and
ofintroducing,, that mariiifi&ire into private
families; and (oth^feyeraLAnepiblies and Con
ventions in ,he ;Unted£olppty, that they tfa
blifh public wegs in each and every county in
their refpeQiyegQlonies, for the manufacture, of
Saltl'eti@ anl,apppint Committees, of their
owtym@ters ikimodifi^y, to set up such ma
-nufa&we." ,
-g ; nd whe^q£^^ Congress of this
Colony hffe flpthntize&he Committee of Safety
to. Carry..Q© abwerefolutions of Congress into
iexec^ttyn,, therefore, . c
Resolved, That Committees be appointed a
grecable, tp the said rpfolutions, to ereft works
for manufacturing of Salt-Petre, m, every con
siderable town or village in the several counties
William Denning, t lfnc Stoutenbyrgh,.
Abraham Brasher, Henry Remfen,
Jacobus Van Zandt, . Comfort Sands,
John Van Cortla;dt, John Jay,
# James Beekman, Philip Livjngftou,,
John M, Scott, John Allbp,
Evert Banker, Francis Lewis,
Isaac Rofevelt, Thomas Randall,
Joseph Haller, James Duane,
Anthony Rutgers, Peter P. Van Zandt.
John Broome,
Extrafl of a letter from Philadelphia, April 2.2.
" This morning we received an account,
tharCapt. Barry has taken another tender, and
sent her into Egg-harbour: She is a Schooner
of 6 guns,.fitted out by the Phoenix ? :She hove
her guns.overboard and ran affiore, but Capt.
Barry soon got her off. The Captain got in
telligence of another tender of ten guns,
which he is gone after. Hope we shall soon
clear our coast of those little pirates who have
done much.mifchief. The sloop Liberty, from
St. Euftatia, said to be bound for Amboy, but
rather think She was bound to this port, with
powder and dry goods, is,taken and carried in
to Virginia. Governor Eden, of Maryland, is ,
taken into custody, .
I Extract es a letter from a Gentleman at Al
bany, to his friend in New-York." '' I have
.yeftofedny been told, that Genei'al Wooster is
'gone *o Quebec• and that he had -said, when he
left Montreal, that he Should scale the walls of
fh^t place, if there was space fufficicnt between
them and the heavens."
; OiY:Sunday Brigadier-General Thompson set
out for Canada; withPaterfon's, Bond's, Greigh
ton's and Poor's regiments of the Continental
Troops that lately arrived here from Cam
;bridge.V:
Last week the Lady of his Excellency Ge
neral Washington, arrived here from Cambridge.
! Major-General Green's brigade arrived here .
from Cambridge, by way of New-London, last
week.
Last Saturday the James Pilot Boat, one of
the piratical tenders that infeft this coast, came
into Rockaway inlet, on the south end of Long
Island, for plunder, but unluckily for them they
got aground. A party of our troops receiving
information of it, marched with two field pieces
to attack her, but on the appearance of our
men, her hands took to their long boat and fled;
our people took poffelhon of the vessel, and
found on board four wooden guns mounted;
they soon got her off, and brought her into a
fafe harbour.
We have information from good authority,
that the ministerial fleet is arrived at Halifax ;
and that the Tories are in the greatest distress,
and can scarcely get .Shelter from the wea
theii''• '.•
Tuesday last departed this life, in^the. 85th
year of her age, Mrs. Elizabeth Carpenter, of
this city, a very respectable inhabitant.
EzraL'Homedieii, be a Committee for the like
purpose in the, county of Suffolk.
That Dirck Wyricoop, and Charles De Witt,
be a Committee tor the like purpofc in the
county ot Ultfef..\ '
That William Allison and John Herring,
be a Committee for the like purpose in the
county of Orange. .^....^
That Petrus Ten Broeck and Cornelius
Humphries, be a committee for the lik- c purpofc
in the county of Dutchefs.
That Ebenezer. Lock wood and Gilbert Drake,
be a Committee for the like purpose in the
county of Wefleheder.. (J
And that John Van Derbilt, Nicholas Co
venhoven, and Rutgert Van Brunt, be a Com
mittee for the like' pufpofe in the county of
King's; " .
And the said Committees are hereby several
ly authorized and impowered in behalf and on
account of this colony, to contra& with proper
persons for ereaingiaid works, and carrying on
the said manufacture, udder the fuperiritendenfe
and direction of the said Committees ; and the
said Committees are hereby directed to report to
the Provincial Congress, or Committee of Safe
ty, from time to time, their proceedings in the,
premises, and the prpgfefs that shall be made in'
said manufacture.
And to encourage the fettifig up of private
works, and. the manufacture of Salt- Petre in
private families, which is the only way of ob
taining a speedy and effectual supply of that ar
ticle, the Committees hereby appointed in the
several counties are empowered and authorized
to purchase on account of the Provincial Con
gress of this colony, all well refined Salt-Petre,
that shall be made in this colony, and offered to
them for sale, before the firft day of November
next, at the rate of fix shillings per pound.
And it is further recommended to the Com
mittees of the several cities, counties, towns,
manors, precincts and diftri&s in this colony, in
the neighbourhood of any places fufpefted to
contain mines of fulphqr, that they cause dili
gent search to be made for such mines in their
,rcfpe&jve districts, and report their difeoveries
to the Provincial Congress, or the Committee
of Safety of this colony, without delay.'
Extras from fa Minolta, =%
ROBERT BENSON, Sec'ry.
TXTHereas the Fast appointed by the Honour
able Continental Congress, interferes
with the session of the Synod of New-York
and Philadelphia, which fluids adjourned so
^ Vfednefday preceding; and as it would fe
highly inexpedient for the members to be ab
sent from their refpedive charges on that for
le@ n oegafion; and as a number of the bre>
thven of different presbyteries have earnestly re
quested their meeting may be deterred till the
week following: the members of the fynodare
hereby desired to meet in the firft Presbyterian
church in Philadelphia, on the fourth Wednef-;
day of May, instead of the third, at 10 o'clock,
A. M. when and where it is hoped it will suit
them, and all who may have bulinefs with them, -
to attend.
BENJAMIN HAIT, Moderator.
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FIVE POUNDS REWARD.'
RU N away from the Subferiber, living in
the Out-ward of the City of New-York,
on Sunday the 21st instant, a Negro Man nam
ed PQMPEY, about 19 or 20 years of age,
tall and freight limb'd, smooth fac'd, speaks
good English, is about fix feet high and well
made. Had on when he went away, a new
homespun jacket, with blue and yellow Stripes.
It is supposed that he went with the troops to
Albanyi Whoever apprehends the said . Negro
Man, so .that his master may have him again.
Shall receive the above reward and all reason
able charges paid by Jacob Brewerton in the
city of New-York, or
DAVID PROVOOST.
TO BE SOL D,
A Small FAR M, of 130 acres ofland,
m New-Marlborough precis, Ulster
county, Well improved, about two miles from
Hudson's rivet; a neat place, for any trader of
tradesman, being fituate'at the meeting of four
public roads ; where more land may be bought
joining to it. A good title will be given.
'Another FA RM of two hundred acres,'
with some improvements, about four miles from
Hudson's river. There is on it about thirty
acres of low intervale land.
Another FAR M, containing five hundred
acres, about ten miles from Hudson's river. It .
is almost all good pleasant land, clear of stones,
well watered rind timbered, with a large quan
tity of the best of meadow land to clear, and
some cleared, with a house and forty or fifty'
acres of cleared land, in good fence. There is
on said farm a fine Arcam to build mills, and a
faw-miltis much wanted there.
Also, SEVEN HUNDRED ACRES,
in the fame precinct, within three miles of Hud
son's river, to be fold ^together, or in lots bf
fifty acres each, as it is laid out, for to suit trades
men, as it is in a fine growing country, joining
public roads; It is well watered, timbered and
meadowed.
Likewise, one quarter of Lot No. 29, in
Hardenbu,:±h's great patent ; containing about*
300 acres. There is on it a good house, and
30 or 4.0 acres of cleared land, about 2; miles
Newburgh landing. The 300 acres will be
fold for look York currency. For further ,a
titulars apply t'o'Dr. Abijah Perkins; at New-
Marlborough, _ '" ' :
New-York, April 2g, 1776.
THE Partnership of STEWART and
NICOLL, being diOolved by the
death of Mr. Alexander Stewart, all persons
indebted to the partnership, as well'as to myfelfy
are humbly requested to be as speedy in their
payments as possible ; and those that have de
mands. agkinft either, to fend in their accounts
and they shall be immediately difeharged.
CHARLES NICOLL.
N. B. Red Port Wine to be fold by said Ni
eoll at White-Hall.
TO BE L E T,
And E^tE^ED upon Immediately,
A Snug, comfortable HOUSE, Barn
and Garden, and three fmull lots of land
adjoining, with a young bearing orchard of ex
cellent fruit. The heufe contains three rooms
and as many fire places, with a large cellar that
would answer very well for a Shop of any kind.
There is likewise close by the door, an uncom
mon good never-failing well of water. The a
bove premises are excellently well situated for a
merchant or tradesman. Whoever inclines to
rent them for one, two, three or four years,
may apply to Ebenezer Boyd, in the neigh
bourhood, lying three miles and a half from
Peck's-Kill, on the main public road leading to
Crompond, county of West-Chester.
TO BE SOLD
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T^O^BXE' iS OL D,
A FAR M, at Red Haok, in the county
of Dutchefs/ about one mile from Hud
son's river, An the,road which leads from the
Ei# Camp to die landing of Col. Hoffman's,
containing 140 acres ^ot good land, on which
maybe cut at & season, 80 tons of goouEnglifh
hay. On faidfarm, there is a good dwelling
houfe,, one story and an half high, two rooms
on at floor, and a spacious entry between, a con
venient cellar kitchen and cellar, a good barn,
with convenient flails for horses and cows ; also,
several ufeful out-houses. The whole of which
are newlybuilt and ingood repairs The dwel
ling-hoofe is pleasantly titrated on a rising 1
ground, fronting an agreeable dream of Water,
and near a grist-mill; also, in a good neigh
bourhood, and about a quarter of a mile from
the Dutch church. For further particulars and
terms offale, apply to Martin Hofman on the
prejnifes; Nicholas Hoffman : at - .Newark, in
New-Jersey ; or of Ilaaf Roofcvelt, in the city
of New-York.