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WHEREAS in the course of the
present war, some commissioned
and non-commissioned officers
of the army and navy, as also
private soldiers, marines, and seamen, may
lose a limb, or be otherwise so disabled, as
to prevent their serving in the army or navy,
or getting their livelihood, and may stand in
need of relief ;
Resolved, That every commissioned offi
cer, non-commissioned officer, and private
soldier, who shall lose a limb in any engage
ment, or be so disabled in the service of the
United States of America as to render him
incapable, afterwards, of getting a livelihood,
shall receive during his life or the continu
ance of such disability, the one half of his
monthly pay, from and after the time that
his pay as an officer, or soldier, ceases ; to
be paid by the Committee as hereafter
mentioned.
That every commander of any ship of
War, or armed veflel, commissioned officer,
warrant officer, marine, or seaman, belong
ing to the United States of America, who
shall lose a limb in any engagement, in which
no prize'fhall be taken, or be therein other
wise so disabled as to be rendered incapable
of 'getting a livelihood, shall receive during
his life, or the continuance of such disability,
the one half of his monthly pay, from and
after the time that his pay as an officer; or
marine, or seaman, ceases, to be paid as
hereafter mentioned. But in case a prize
shall be taken at the time such loss of limb,
or other disability shall happen, then such
sum as he may receive out of the net profits
cf such prize, before a dividend is made of
the fame, agreeable to former orders of Con
gress, shall be considered as part of his half
pay, and computed accordingly.
That every commissioned officer, non
commissioned officer, and private soldier, in
the army; and every commander, commission
officer, warrant officer, marine or seaman,
of any of the snips of war or armed vefftls,
belonging to the United States of America,
who shall be wounded in any engagement so
as to be rendered incapable of serving in the
army or navy, though not totally disabled
from getting a livelihood, shall receive such
monthly sum towards his fubfiftance, as shall
be judged adequate by the Assembly, or
other Representative Body of the state, v here
he belongs or resides, upon application to
them for that purpose, provided the fame doth
not exceed his half pay.
Provided, That no commission officer,
non-commissioned officer, and private soldier
in the army ; commander, commission offi
cer, warrant officer, marine or seaman, of
any of the snips of war, or armed veflels,
belonging to the United States of America,
who shall be wounded or disabled as afore
faid, shall be intitled to his half pay or other
alowance, unless he produce to the Com
mittee, or officer appointed to receive the
fame in the state where he resides or belongs,
or to the Assembly or Legislative Body of
such state, a certificate from the command
ing officer who was in rhe fame engagement
in which he was so wounded, or, in case of
his death, from some other officer of the
fame corps, and the surgeon that attended
him, or a certificate 'from the commander of
the ship of war, or armed vefl'el engaged in
the action in which any officer, marine, or
seaman, received his wound, and from the
surgeon who attended him, of the name of
the person so wounded, his office, rank, de
partment, regiment, company, ship of war
or armed vessel to which he belonged, his
office or rank therein, the nature of his
wound, and in what action or engegement
he received it.
That it be recommended to the several
Assemblies or Legiflativc Bodies of the
United States of America, to appoint some
person or perlons in their refpe&ive states,
who shall receive and examine all such certi
ficates as may be presented to them, and re
gister the fame in a book, and also what flip
port is adjudged by the Assembly er Legisla
tive Body of their state, to those whose case
requires but a partial support, and also of thq
ASSIZE of BREAD. Flour at 171. per Cent.
A White Loaf of the fineft FLOUR, to weigh
ilb. 11 1-2 oz. for 4. Coppers.
Published March &8, 1776.
Monday, September ~ 1776.. THE [No. 1300]
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In CONGRESS, August 26, 1776.
Provided, That all such officers and sol
diers that may be entitled to the aforefaid
eufion, and are found to be capable of doing
guard or garrison duty, shall be formed in a
corps of invalids, and fubje& to the said
duty ; and all officers, marines, and seamen
of the navy, who shall be entitled to the
pension aforefaid, and shall be found capa
ble of doing any duty on board the navy, or
any department thereof, shall be liable to
be so employed.
By order of Congress,
JOHN HANCOCK, President.
payment from time to time of every half
pay and other allowance, and of the death
of such disabled person, or ceasing of such
allowance, and shall make a fair and regular
report, of the fame quarterly, to the Secre
tary of Congress, or Board of War, where
a fepaiate record shall be kept of the fame.
That it be recommended to ,the Assem
blies, or Legislative Bodies, of the several
states, to cause payment to be made of all
such half pay, or other allowances, as shall
be adjudged due to the persons aforenamed,
on account of the United States.
Camp Long-inland, July 13, 1776.
Dear Brother,
WIT H the greatest difficulty I have
procured this fraall piece of paper to
inform you of my being very well, notwith
standing the miserable situation we are in.
We have been encamped on this island
for this month past, and have lived upon
nothing else but salt pork and peafe. We
Sleep upon the sea Shore, nothing to Shelter
us from the violent rains, but our coats or
miserable paltry blankets.' There is nothing
that grows upon this island, it being a mere
find bank, and a few bushes which harbours
millions of mufketoes, a greater plague than
there can be in hell itfelf.
By this floep of war you will have an ac
count of an action which happened on the
iSthJune, between the Ships and the fort on
Sullivah's-Ifland. The cannonade continued
for about nine hours, and was perhaps one
of the briskest known in the annals of war ;
we had two fifty gun Ships, and five frigates
from twenty-four to thirty guns playing on
the fort, I may fay without success, for they
did the battery no manner of damage, and
killed fifteen, and wounded betwixt forty and
fifty. Our Ships are in the most mangled fitu
atien you can conceive. The Alteon, a
thirty gun frigate, run aground during the
action, and as it was impoflible to get her
oft, we were obliged to burn and blow her up.
Our killed and wounded amounts to be
twixt two and three hundred. Numbers die
daily of their wounds.
The Commodore is wounded in two dif
ferent places. His Captain loft his left arm,
and right hand, and was wounded in different
parrs of his body, he lived but two days after
the action. Captain Scott, of the Experiment
of fifty guns, died of his wounds, and num
bers of other officers.
If the Ships could have Silenced the bat
tery, the army was to have made an attack
on the back of the island, where they had
about one thousand men entrenched up to
their eyes, besides a small battery of four
guns, one eighteen pounder, and three four
pounders, all loaded with grape Shot, so that
they would have killed half of us before we
could make our landing good.
We are now expecting to embark for New-
York, to join Gen. Howe with the grand
army. My anxiety to inform you of bad
news had well nigh made me forget to men
tion our passage to Cape-Fear, where we ar
rived fafely the firft of May, after a voyage
of three months. Theugh it was long, yet
it was not disagreeable after we got out of
the bay of Biscay, where we met with the
worst weather ever known at sea, and conti
nued in that. Situation for sixteen days; after
that rime we had very fine weather all along ;
sometimes we were becalmed for four or five
days together, not going above ten knots a
day. Upon our arrival at Cape-Fear we dis
embarked, and were encamped in the woods
until the 27th cf May, when we went on
Monday, 47 Min. after 6
Tuesday, 32 Min. after 7
Wednesday, 17 Min. after 8
Thursday, 1 Min. after 9
HIGH-WATER at NEW-YORK, this Week.
Friday, 41 Min. after 9
Saturday, 21 Min. after 10
Sunday, 11 Min. aftei 4
Nrw Moon the nth.
Last Week arrived at Newbury, a ship
of about 350 tons burthen, taken by Capt.
Newman. She was bound from Antigua for
Liverpool.---Her cargo consists of 450 hogs
heads of sugar, 50 hogfhe^ds of rum, &c,
Last Wednesday arrived at Portsmouth a
prize Ship of about 200 tons burthen
mounting 20 guns, 12 of which wood ; She
was bound from the Bay of Honduras for
London, laden with Mahogany,and Log
wood. and taken by the Hancock and F.aok
lin Privateers. ^
IFhe Foft from Number Four informs us 4
I cf a go'dolo, with about 25 men being
j taken by the enemy in Lake Champlain.
I Yellerday morning arrived fafe at Mat-
Iblehead, a prize ship from Jamaica, laden
I with sugar, cotton, &c. She was chafed in
I by the Milford frigate and another cruiser so
I near, that one of their forts hull'd one of
1 tile enemy's veflels. We have not heard by
j whom fne was taken.
I NEWPORT, August 22.
I By a gentleman from Dartmouth we are
assured, that a privateer belonging to Fair-
Haven,had taken a ship from the Weft-Indies,
bound for Newfoundland, with 60 hogSheads
of rum, and 60 hogsheads of mobiles, and
several thousand dollars ; also a very large
Jamaica ship with 700 hogsheads of sugar,
200 hogsheads of rum, dnd a large quantity
of cotton ; the ship was so valuable that the
Captain of the privateer, who was the best
pilot for the eastern Shore of any on board,
went on board the ship to carry her inland
was parted with by the privateer lift Sunday
week. The privateer is arrived with more
prifeners then men belonging to her.
August 26. Last Monday evening was
carried into Salem, a large ship, Capt. Prin
gle, from Barbadoes, bound for London,
with 395 hogsheads of sugar, firft whites,
50 pipes of Madeira wine, 200 bales of
cotton, and a considerable quantity of rum.
I hope you will be so good as to watch
every opportunity to let me hear from you
and Mrs. Falconer, and at the fame time to
inform- me how I shall do in case I Shall be
obliged to purchase my Lieutenancy. 1 beg
you will make my excuse to my dear filler for
not # writing to her at this time; it is not
owing to want of afFeaion, but to rhe want
of proper materials. lam obliged to write
on the ground. You will be so good as to
let Capt. Falconer know the fame thing. 1
Shall write again from New-York.
I am, dear Sir,
Your most affectionate brother,
WILLIAM FALCONER.
To the Hon. Anthony Falconer at Montrofe,
Scotland.
board again, and failed for this infernal place.
The bldeft of the officers do not remember
of ever undergoing such hardships as we have
done Since our arrival here.
PHILADELPHIA, August 31.
Head-Barters, Ihoabriage, Aug. 23.
O RDER S.
The Battalions of Associators from the
city of Philadelphia, having compleated fix
weeks military service for the defence of the
colony of New-Jersey, are hereby agreeable
to orders of Convention, relieved from fur
ther duty in this Ration, and directed to pro
ceed to Philadelphia, as soon as the necessary
accommodations for their march can be pro
cured.---General Mercer takes this opportu
nity to return his hearty thanks to those gen
tlemen, for the readiness with which they
have on every occasion, executed such parts
of military service as their Rations required.
H. MERCER, Brig. Gen.
The foregoing letter was found on Long-
Jfland, South-Carolina, and forwarded to
Congress, and is now made publick by order
of Congress.
August >9, JOHN HANCOCK, Prefi.
• 1776.
WATERTOWN, August 16.
PRICE-CURRENT, in NEW-YORK.
Wheatper Bufhd, ss. 6d.
Flour, 163. od.
Brown Bread, 15s. od.
Weft-India Rum, Bs. od.
New-England, do. ss. od.
Mufcovado Sugar, 61. 10s.
Single refin'd ditto, 2s. gd.
Molasses, ss. 6d.
Beef per Barrel, 60s. od.
Pork, Sos. od.
“ Personally appeared Aaron Smith, fort
of Captain Aaron Smith, of Little River,
in the said diflri&, planter, who being duly
sworn maketh oath, that, this morning about
daybreak, a number of Indians, about eight:
or ten in number, came to his father's house,
and killed him and Lorick Smith his son, and
fired upon him and his brother who made
their escape, and that he believes all the rest
of the family are killed.
(Signed.) AARON SMITH."
Sworn before me this firft day of July,
1776, 8 o'clock in the morning.
(Copy.) John Purves, J. P,
N. B. This Little River is in South-Ca
rolina, fix milers from the Indian land.
South Carolina, Ninety-fix diftri&.
" Before me, John Purves, one of the
Justices of the Peace for said diftri&, perso
nally appeared David Shettroe, of Keowee,
who being duly sworn, maketh oath that yes
terday morning, about a quarter of an hour
before the firft cock crew, two Indians cams
to his house on the river bank, near fort
Prince George, and called to him to get up,
which he did and opened the door, when
they came in and asked for water, which he
gave them. The youngest of the two, named
the Glass, desired him to make some fire that;
they might fee ; the other named the Tara
pin; as he went up to the chimney to blow
up the fire, the Glass laid hold es him, and
told him he was his slave, it was very bad
times, the white people were going to break
out, and he Ihould not run away from him ;
then the Tarapin flepped up to an old man
named William M'Teer, who was lying on
the floor, and told him he was his slave, and
must go along with him. They drove 'his
deponent and M'Tcer before them until they
came to the house of Mr. James Holmes in
Keowee, where he saw a great number of
the Lower Towns Cherokee Indians, where
they had taken Mr. Holmes and his wife
and a white child prisoners ; also Thomas
Holmes, John Lammas and his wife, and
two of their children (boys) ana a man that
had gone from Enoree on business. 1 hat
while he Raid there they also brought one
John Garrick, and a man that came fr>m
Rocky run, priloncii That the India^|
Philadelphia, Sept. 4.
Augufa July 3, 1776.
" Sit,
“ I take the liberty of inclofing your Ex
cellency the copies of the two depositions
which came by express from Major Willi
amson yesterday, likewise a copy of an inter
cepted letter from Henry Stuart, to the fron
tier inhabitants of North Carolina and Vir
ginia.
" I am afraid the emjflaries of govern
ment have at last accomplished their hellilh
designs with the Cherokees, yet I bell ve
they may have mis-timed matters, as I hope
we Shall be able to give them a good drub
bing before they can get assistance frem the
King's troops or any other nation. 4
''Laft night Major Williamson had up
waids of a thousand men embodied, and id
a few days exped to have five, who they
intend marching immediately into theit nati
on. Should this happen, your Exc icy
will doubtless fee the necessity of having f me
force on the frontiers of this province. I
shall order the draught that has been made of
this regiment to Broad River and Ogechee
as food as possible, but not to go ever the
line till I receive your Excellency's orders,
which I shall wait for with impatience. I
Shall likewise be glad to know how far we
are to act in concert with the Carolinians, or
if we are only to guard our own frontiers. I
have not heard from the Creeks for some
time past. She last accounts were favour
able. 1 mentioned to your Excellency fume
time ago our intention of carrying two Indi
ans to Ninety-Six, which I did ; they saw a
poor fellow Suffer death, and we have Since
sent them off to their nation, perfectly Sa
tisfied. I am, with due jefped,
Your Excellency's very humble servant,
R. RE A."
7^ bis Excellency 4 Bullock, Efe;
" South-Carolina, Ninety-fix diflrim
Fine Salt, ----None.
Coarse Salt, Bs. 6d
Indian Corn perßu.gs. 6d
Coffee, 2s. od
Chocolate, 265. per Doz.