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THE
LAWS
OF
NEW-YORK,
From the Year 1691 to the present.
It is requested of those Persons who are intitled
to the above Books, that they fend for them with
all Conveniency.
The Whole Proceedings of the
Continental Congress,
Begun at Philadelphia the sth of September last,
and broke up in October following.
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==fyßE E POUNDS-Reward
RUN-AWAY on Sunday the 18th of December,
from on board the brig Julian, Capt. Burke, an
indented Irish servant named Patrick Coleman, a taylor
by trade, very slender made, about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches
high : Had on a blue frock coat, with a red cape, red
waistcoat, and a grey frize pair of breeches; he had with
him a small spotted red and white handkerchief ; he is
full of pimples about his chin ; speaks bad English, with
a long accent, and when talking toa person looks fright
en'd or Icear'd: He has short black hair. Whoever ap
prehends the said servant, so that he may be had again,
Ihall have the above reward, from
Greg, Cunningham, and Co.
JUST PUBLISHED,
And to be sold by
HUGH GAIN E,
In Hanover-Square,
Leland's History of Ireland,
FROM THE
INVASION of HENRY 11.
WITH A
PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE
ON THE
Antient State of that Kingdom.
In Four Volumes.
^ just published and to be fold at the fame Place,
Gaine's
Universal Register,
Or AMERICAN and BRITISH
KALEND A R,
For the Year 1775;
Contents of which are as follow, viz.
THE Kalendar. Royal Family of G. Britain,
and Extent and Situation of England, Scotland
and Ireland. Royal Family, &c. of France and
Spain,---of Portugal, Denmark and Norway, Swe
den, Germany, Poland, Prussia, Russia, Sardinia,
Orange, Italy and Turkey. English Nobility. Scots
Nobility. Archbishops and Bishops of England.
House of Commons. Privy Council. Knights of
the Garter, Thistle and Bath. Secretaries of State.
Lords of the Treasury, Trade and Admiralty. High
Court of Admiralty. Postmaster General. Army.
Royal Navy. Rank of Army and Navy. Pay of
the Navy, and Army. Precedency among Men and
Women. Kings and Queens of England, Scotland
and Great-Britain. Irish Nobility, Archbishops and
Bishops. Enumerated Goods fubje& to Duty in
America,and Holydays at the Custom-House. De
scription of America. General Establishment. Go
vernment of Wed-Florida, Ealt Florida, Georgia,
South-Carolina, North-Carolina, Virginia, Mary
land. Pennsylvania and lower Counties of New-
Castle, Kent and Sussex upon Delaware ; New-Jersey,
and New-York. Corporation for the Relief of the
Widows and Children of Clergymen of the Church
of England. Government of Conne&icut, Rhode-
Illand, Massachusetts Bay, New-Hampshire, Nova-
Scotia, Newfoundland, St. John's, and Canada.
Ministers and Congregations belonging to the Revd.
Synod of New-York and Philadelphia. Associate
Prefbyterry of Philadelphia. His Majesty's Forces
in North America, and their Quarters. Governors
of New-York, from the Year 1664, to the present
Time. Governors of New-Jersey, from the Sur
render of the Government by the Proprietor in 1702,
to the present Time. Tide Table for all the Pro
vinces from Boston to Weft-Florida. Value of
Coins as they now pass in Great-Britain and Ame
rica. The American Bill of Rights. Association
es the Continental Congress. Lift of Delegates in
the late Congress. Governors of the Weft-India
Inlands. Staff of the Army in North-America. Fairs
in the Province of New-York. New-Jersey Bills
reduced to New-York Currency. Table of Intered.
Roads, with the Pottage of Letters to mod Parts of
the Continent, and an Estimate (taken in Congress)
of the Number of Souls in the provinces of Maffa
chufett's, New-Hampshire, Rhode-Inland, Connec
ticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, includ
ing the Lower Counties ; Maryland, Virginia, North-
Carolina, and South-Carolina.
*f* The Kalendar Part of the above Work is
neatly interleaved with fine Writing Paper, very con
venient for Memorandums, and two neat Pockets being
fixed in the Cover, makes it the most compleat Book of
the Kind ever exhibited to the Public in America, and,
none so ufeful for Strangers in particular.
ASSIZE of BREAD. Flour at 20s. per Cent.
A White Loaf of the fineft FLOUR, to weigh
41 ilb. 8 oz. I, for 4 Coppers.
Published Sth December, 1774.
Monday, January 9 , 1775. THE [No. 1213.]
N £r-rOßKim^^ G A ZETTE:
AND THE
WEEKLY M E R C U R Y.
Containing tbe frc^eE ^s>^^„^s foreign Domeflick.
^ Printed by HUGH GAINE, Printer, Bookseller, and Stationer, at the Bible and Crown, in Hanover-Square.
WE tbe fubferibers being fully fenfble of tbe
blefoigs of good government on tbe one band,
and convinced on tbe other band of tbe evils and ca
lamities attending on Tyranny in all fbapes, whether
exercised by one or many, and having of late seen
with great gr es and concern tbe diflreffing efforts of a
dfolution of all Government, whereby our lives, li
berties and properties are rendered precarious, and no
longer under tbe protection of tbe law; and appre
hending it to be our indispensable duty, to use all lawful
means in our power, for tbe defence of our persons
and property, against all riotous and lawless violence,
and to recover, and ftcure tbe advantages wbicb we
are intituled to, from tbe good and wbolefcme laws of
tbe Government ; DO hereby associate and mutually
covenant, and engage to and with each other, as fol
lows : Namely,
iff. That we will upon all occasions, with our lives
and fortunes, sand by and afffl each other, in tbe
defence of bis life, liberty and property, whenever tbe
Jame fball be attacked or endangered by a?y bodies of
men, riotoujly assembled, upon any pretence, or under
any authority, not warranted by tbe laws of tbe land.
idly. That we will upon all occasions, mutually sup
port each other in tbe free exercise and enjoyment of
our undoubted right to liberty, in eating, drinking, buy
™g, felling,communing and ailing, wbat, with whom,
and as we please, confident with tbe laws of God, and
tbe King.
)dly. That we will not acknowledge, or submit to
tbe pretended authority of any Congreves, Committees
oj Correftondence, or other unconstitutional Assemblies
of Men; but will at the rifaue of our lives, if need be,
oppose the forceable exercise ts all such authority.
^tbly. That we will to tbe utmofi of our power,
[The following Piece has been publijbed in mos of the
Boston News-Papers.]
To the Printers of the Boston News-Papers.
Boston, Dec. 22, 1774.
“ AS Messieurs Edes and Gill, in their paper of
" Monday ibe iztb infl. were pleased to acquaint
" the public, that the Association sent by Brigadier
" R u gg^ s , &'• to the Town of Hardwick, &c. to
" getber with bis Son's Certificate thereof, and tbe
" Resolves of tbe Provincial Congress thereon, mus be
" referred till their next." I was so credulous as
to expect then to have seen their next paper adorned
with tbe Form of an Association, which would have
done honor to it, and ij attended to and complied with
by tbe good people of this Province, might have put it in
tbe power of any one very easily to have difinguijhed
Jucb loyal fubjefls to tbe King, as dare to assert their
right to Freedom, in all refpeEts confident with tbe
Laws oj tbe Land, from such rebellious ones, as under
pretext of being Friends to Liberty, are frequently
committing tbe most enormous outrages upon tbe persons
and properties of fueb of his Majefy's peaceable fab
jells, who for want of knowing who to call upon
(in these diflrafled times) for affiflance, fall into tbe
bands of a Banditti, wbofe cruelties surpass those of
Savages; but finding my mifake, now take tbe liberty
to fend copies to your several offices to be publijbed in
your next papers, that so tbe Public may be made more
acquainted therewith, than at present, and be induced
to afociate for tbe above purposes ; and as many of
tbe people for some time pas have been arming them
selves, it may not be amiss to let them know that their
numbers will not appear in the field so large as was
imagined, before it was known that independency was
tbe object in contemplation, fence which, many have
associated in divers parts of tbe Province, to preserve
their Freedom and support Government: And as it
may become necessary in a very ftort Time to give
convincing proof of our attachment to Government,
we Jhall be much wanting to ourselves if we longer
trample upon that patience which has already endured
too long fuffering, and may, if this opportunity be
neglected, have a tendency to ripen many for deftrufiion,
who have not yet been guilty of an overt a& of re
bellion ; which would be an event diametrically oppofte
to tbe humane and benevolent intention of him wbofe
abused patience cannot endure forever, and who bath
already by his prudent conduct evidenced the mofl tender
regard for a deluded people.
Capt. Lothrop, from Turks-Island to New-London,
on the 26th of November, in Lat. 28 N. and Long. 71,
W. met with the Hull of a Schooner difmafted ; the had
bright Sides and black Stern, with yellow Mouldings,
red Quarter-Boards, with white Flower de Luces, a
Lumber Port forward and another abaft; had sand
ballast, about 12 Hogsheads of Molasses, about two Feet
Water in her Hold ; appeared to be eastern built, about a
Year old, with a long Quarter-Deck, her Cabin papered ;
had been stripped of every thing worth taking, the
•Molasses excepted, and had no Person on board.
A Gentleman is arrived at Salem in a Vessel from Cape
Nichola Mole, which he left the 17th November, just as
he was coming away a Vessel arrived from the Island of
Cuba, which she left only two Days before, the Master
of which informed him that he was oblig'd to quit the
Island in the greatest Hurry, and leave all his Cargo behind,
there being so many Spanish Vessels cruizing to intercept
all Provision Vessels bound to the Island of Jamaicia,
that it was hardly poffibie for any to escape; this may
be depended on as a Fa&, and all the French and Spaniards
were employed Night and Day in repairing and building
Fortifications with the greatest Expedition, and furnishing
all their Garrisons with a large Stock of Provisions and
Ammunition. During his Stay at the Mole, Transports
were arriving daily with Troops and Provisions.
We hear on Friday last a Soldier of the 64th Regiment
was found froze to Death on Dorchester Neck.
Last Saturday Morning, one William Ferguson, a
Soldierof the 10th Regiment, (lately arrived from Que
bec) aged 28, was Shot at the Bottom of the Common in
this Town, for Desertion.
BOSTON, December 26.
Monday, 34 Min. after 3
Tuesday, 19 Min. after 4
Wednesday, 4 Min. after 5
Thursday, 50 Min. after 5
TIMOTHY RUGGLES."
The ASSOCIATION.
HIGH-WATER at NEW-YORK, this Week.
Friday, 35 Min. after 6
Saturday, 23 Min. after 7
Sunday, 5 Min. after 8
Full Moon tbe i6tb.
promote, encourage, and when called to it, enforce obe
• dience to tbe rightful authority of our most gracious
Sovereign King George tbe Third, and of bis laws.
ctbly. That when tbe person or property of ary one
of us Jball be invaded or threatned by any Committees,
Mobs, or unlawful Assemblies, tbe others of us will,
upon notice received, forthwith repair, properly armed,
to tbe person on whom, or place where such invafan
or tbreatning fball be, and will to tbe utmof of our
power, defend such person and bis property, and if
need be, will oppose and repel force with force.
6tbly. That if any of us fball unjufly and unlaw
fully be injured in bis person or property, by any such
Afemblies as before-mentioned, tbe others of us will
unitedly demand, and if in our power compel tbe of
fenders, if known, to make full reparation and fatis
fatfion for such injury ; and if all other means of se
curity fail, we will have recourse to tbe natural law
of retaliation.
In witness of all which we hereunto fubferibe our
names, this day of
PORTSMOUTH, December 23.
Mr. PRINTER,
AS the Affair of Removing the POWDER
and fume Guns from the Fort, hath
been a Matter of some Speculation, I was
determined to enquire and judge for myfelf;
and find upon critical Examination, that the
People of the Province of New-Hampshire are
well known to have supported the Character
of loyal Subjects of his MAJESTY, and have
been distinguished for their Obedience to all
Subordinate Officers, without carefully attend
ing to the present popular Patriotism of this
Country. So far from pushing themselves
into the Front in the present unhappy Disputes,
they have been blamed far falling too far in tbe
Rear. —But what will not the g^p^t Law ofNa
ture, that Law of felf prefervafo)b the Love of
Life, and it's dear Conne&cn^ at length
effeft? Alarmed with the T&ency of the
Quebec A& with Accounts that the Canadians
and Indians (confirmed by some late Depreda
tions committed by the latter upon the
Frontiers of a neighbouring Government)
were to be call'd forth to enforce the late Ads
of Parliament, so disagreeable to all the Colo
nies, long inured to defend themselves in the
wide extended Frontiers of this Province,
by their Valour, against the restless and cruel
Savages of the Wilderness without any other
Aid, and while destitute of Arms necessary for
such Defence, finding that his MAJESTY
IN COUNCIL, not knowing their peculiar
defencelefs State, had been pleased to prohibit
the Exportation of Powder, Arms and other
warlike Stores to the Colonies without special
Licence. Some of the good People of this
Province, in the wonted honesty and Simpli
city of their Hearts, imagined that nobody
would havejuft Reason to complain of their
too great Forwardness, if they seasonably
removed some of the warlike Stores from the
Fort nearer to their Frontiers, where the Fears
of the Inhabitants were most excited, and
where they had too great Reasons to think such
Stores would be soon wanted. Which they
accordingly effeded, without any great Tu
mult or Opposition ; as it was not fufpe&ed
that they had any disloyal or bad intentions. I
give this simple Narrative of this Tranfadion,
to prevent any Colourings or Exaggerations
thereof that may be made by the Foes of
America.
A LOVER of ORDER.
NEW-HAVEN, December 28.
Ata Town Meeting held in Stratford, at
the Town House, December 19, 1774.
IN said meeting were read tbe proceedings of
tbe late continental Congress, and tbe associa
tion therein recommended, andunanimoufly approved
as tbe most peaceable and speedy method to be pursued
at present, and that we will firmly adhere to tbe
measures propojed in said Association, until tbe next
general Congress, unless we obtain redress of cur
grievances before that time.
Voted, N. C. D. That a committee be chosen
in the several parts of this town, to observe the
conduct of all perJons relative to said association,
and proceed thereon, according to the advice
therein given. And Meff.Robert Fairchild, Esq;
Capt. fofiab Drown, Capt. Samuel Whiting,
Mr. William Pixlee, Mr. jofepb Curtifs, Major
^g ur Judjon, Daniel Fairchild, Est; Capt. Samuel
Blackman, Mr. Elnathan Curtifs, William Samuel
fobnfon, Esq; John Brooks, Ejq; Daniel Judson,
Esq; Mr. Isaac Nicbols, Mr. Natban Birdfey,
Ichabod Lewis, Esq; Capt. Abraham Brin/made,
Capt. Stephen Burrough, and Mr. Abijah Ster
ling, were appointed a committee, for tbe purposes
abovefaid.
Tbe meeting then took into their serious confedera
tion tbe unhappy circumfances of the poor people of
Boston, now fuffering in tbe common cause of Ame
rican liberty, under tbe oppreflve a& of tbe British
Parliament, called tbe Boston Port Bill, and there
upon unanimously voted, That a fubfeription be
Wheat per Bufhei, 7s. od.
Flour, 19$. 6d.
Brown Bread, 15s, od.
Weft-India Rum, 3s. qd.
New-England, do. 2s. 6d.
PRICE-CURRENT, in NEW-YORK.
Mufcovado Sugar, 645. od.
Single refin'd ditto, is. id.
Molasses, 2s. od.
Beef per Barrel, 50s. od.
Pork, 655. od.
Noted, That the doings of this meeting be entered
on the public records of this town, and that a copy
thereof be sent to the printer to be publijbed.
A true copy of Record.
Attef. Eben. Parmele, jun. town clerk.
NEW-YOR K. January 9.
[From Mr. Rivington's Gazetteer of January 5, 1775. 1
Mr. Rivington,
TO fatisfy the curiosity of many of your readers,
be pleased to insert in your very loyal and pa
triotic paper, the following short account of the Pro
fefforfhip lately instituted, by our most gracious So
vereign, at King's College in this city. °
The Profefforihip is to be held by a Tutor of the
College, at the fame time a Clergyman ; his bufmefs,
besides teaching, will be to deliver annual lellures
in defence of the Cbrifian, and on the grand princi
ples of natural religion; his title, the Regius Profef
for of Divinity, with a salary from the crown.---An
inconteftible evidence, this, of his desire of support
ing the Chrifian religion in America, as it is in Eng
land, by annual lectures in its defence!
Mr. Rivington,
Sir,
YOU are desired to assure the Public, that at a
meeting for chufing a Committee for the town
ship of Oyster-Bay, in Queen's-County, on Long-
Island, on Friday the 30th day of December, 1774;
about ninety of the Freeholders of said township were
assembled, in order to take into consideration the
piefent unhappy disputes subsisting between our
mother country and the colonies; when there appear
ed such a number of friends to our happy regular
established government, under the Crown and Par
liament of Great-Britain, as to deem that meeting
illegal, and that no business could with propriety be
done ; and the said meeting was adjourned till a fu
ture time, when it is hoped it will be so conduded
as to convince the world, his Majesty is not without
friends, who will support his government in the pro
vince of New-York, and particularly in that part
thereof.
immediately opened, and collections be made, and
sent as soon as may fe, for tbe relief of tbe poor
Jufferers in that place, and Capt. Philip Nicbols,
Capt. David Hawley, Mr. Nathan Bennett, Cap
tain fofab Hubbell, Capt. Stephen Burrough,
and Mr. Le Grand Connon, were appointed a
committee to transmit to BoJlcn, all such donations
as they fball receive, by any fafe opportunity, ad
dressed to tbe committee appointed to take care of,
and employ tbe poor people of that town.
Attest. ROBERT FAIRCHILD, Clerk.
At a full and special Meeting of the Inhabi
tants of the town of Guilford, December
14 th , 1774-
Colonel ANDREW WARD, was chosen
Moderator.
THE Association, de. of tbe American conti
nental Congress being read, together with
the reflations of the reprejentatives of this colo
ny thereon, &fc.
This meeting taking into serious confderation
the present melancholy and critical fate of their
country, fruggling in the cause of those precious
privileges, which are the birth right of every
Englishman ; privileges, which were so dear to
our fathers, that to enjoy them, the, left their
native country, and encountering almof every
danger and bardfbip, brought them over to this
American land; and thro' the goodness of God,
have handed them down, as a birth right unto us
their children : Sensible, that in the present critical
t^me, union is of the greatefl importance ; and being
convinced that the proceedings of the late re/fenable
continental Congress, together with the resolves of
our house of Representatives thereon, is tbe most
rational, wife and judicious method to gain redress of
grievances, and refore that peace and union between
Great Britain and the colonies, which is so much
to be.dfred ; and to convince tbe world that we
would not, like Ejau, for one mess of pottage, fell
our important birth-right.
This meeting therefore agree and refolvefaithfully
to adhere to, and frilly abide by, tbe afociation
entered into by tbe said Congress; and Samuel
Brown, Esq; Mr. Solomon Leete, Capt. Andrew
Ward, Mr. Samuel Robinson, jun. Mr. Abraham
Fowler, Mr. David Landon, Mr. Nathaniel Stone,
Mr. Bilious Ward, Timothy Todd, Esq; Mr.
Isaac Knight, Capt. Timothy Hill, Mr. Ebenezer
Fowler, Oliver Dudley, Esq; Mr. Robert Grif
fing, Mr. Caleb Munger, Lieut. John Hopjon, ana
Mr. Nehemiah Grij'wold, are appointed a committee
to fee tbe fame, in every part, carried into execution.
Noted, That in case it fbould be thought advifeable
to have a county or colony congress, the above com
mittee be impowered to cbooJe two of their number
to represent this town in said congress.
I oted, That Timothy Todd, Esq; Samuel
Brown, Esq; Mr. David Landon, Capt. Andrew
Ward, and Mr. Samuel Robinson, fun. be a com
mittee to correspond with the committees of other
towns or governments ; and to receive charitable
donations for the difreffed poor in Boston who are
more immediately fuffering in the common cause;
and provide for the fame being font to Boson for
that purpose.
Fine Salt, 3s. 3d.
Coarse Salt, 3s. od.
Bohea Tea, 4s. 6d.
Indian Corn perßu. 35. 4d.