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SIR, 1
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MrgJOHN GOOD, late Surgeon to his Majesty's
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Mr.JOHN HALL, Attorney, in Johnson's
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Mr. JOHN FOSTER, at the Rose, at Welling,
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Published September 22, 1775.
WILLIAMSBUR G, Sept. J 5.
A FEW days ago the Kingfisher Hoop, Captain
Montague, arrived at Norfolk, with Lieutenant
Graham on board, to take the command of his maje
sty's ship Mercury, Captain M'Carmey being put
under arrest (for disobedience of order, it is f,id)
and is to be lent to Boston, to be tried by a court-,
martial.
Lord Dunmore has received another reinforcement
from St. Augustine, of no less than between 20 and
30 effective men, and soon experts to have bis army
augmented to 500 ; with which, we hear, he intends
taking his palace in this city, that he lately abandoned
---if not prevented by those be terms rebels.
From Hampton, we learn, that Captain Squire has
fallen down to Hampton road, where he now lies, and
has seized three passage-boats, with the negroes in
them, by way of ryprifalyhe fays, for the stores, &c.
taken out of his tender, when drove ashore in the late
ftprm; which boats and negroes, it is likely, he
intends taking into the king's ferwice, to tend out
a-pirating for hogs, fowls, &c.- A very pretty
occupation for the Captain of one of his nfajefty's
ships of war!
The following is the copy of a tetter written by
Capt. Montagne, a little before his departure for
Boston, to his friend Capt. Squire, of bis Majelty's
fliip Otter, recommending Joe Harris, a run-away
mulatto have belonging to Mr. Henry King of
Hampton, as a proper petfon to be employed in the
King's tervice.;
Fowev, Hampton road, July :o, ?,; 5.
S I R,
JOSEPH HARRIS, the bearer of this letter, has
J applied so me for protection, as the people of Hamp
ton, and fame other places, have threatened his
detraction, as they have found him to have given
intelligence concerning a j m &ggling fchoooner 'which
I was seized in Cberryfone creek. As the Fovsey will
i foon leave the province, I think him too uleful to his
Majesty's service to take away, be being well
acquainted with many creeks on the Eafern Shore, at
York, fames river, and Nanfemohd, and many others
and of course a very ufejul person, especially in tenders,
as he is not acquainted with the duties nj a seaman,
but accufomed toftlot, as he had a pitot boat for that
:ufe, which is now detained by violence in Hampton
harbour. He has always appeared very sober and
\ prudent, is a freeman, and I could wife firongly to
i recommend him to such indQtace as his endeavours
may merit. Agreeable to my Lord Dunmore's appli
cation, I bave sent up the Arundel, and Mr. Atkunjen,
her officer, and willfend Mr. Ruth in the Liberty.l
have taken such fores, and bawfer, out of the
Arundel, as belonged to the crown, when with me
employed on bis Majeflfsfervice, and have fitted her
with her real private property.
Jam, dear Sir, your very bumble fervent,
GEORGE MONTAGUE.
Last week Capt. Squires sent the following imper
tinent letter, by a servant of Lord Dunmore's, to the
Printer of the Norfolk Gazette.
Otter (loop, Norfolk river, Sept. 9, 1775.
SIR,
YO U have, in many papers, lately taken the
freedom to mention MY NAME, andtbereto
added many jal,ties. I now declare, if I am ever
again mentioned therein, with, any reflexions, I will
mos assuredly seize your person, and take you on board
I the Otter. lam, &c.
MATTHEW SQUIRE.
And on the day after the disaster which happened
to his tender, which was chiefly manned with run
away negroes, he dil'patched the following letter to
the committee of the town of Hampton, dated
Otter (loop, Norfolk river, Sept. 10, 1775.
Gentlemen,
WHEREAS afoop tender, manned and armed
in bis Majesty's service, was, on Saturday
the 2d infant, in a violent gale cf wind, caf on fore
in Back river, Elizabeth county, having on board the
undermentioned King's fores, which the inhabitants of
Hampton thought proper to seize, I am therefore to
defre that the King's fOO, with all the fores belonging
to her, be immediately returned; or the people oj
Hampton, who committed the outrage, mus be answer
able Jor the consequences,,
I am, Gentlemen, your bumble servant;
MATTHEW S^IRE.
6 swivels, 5 muskets, g cutlasses, ~ powder horns,
2 cartouch boxes, 36 fwivcl fhor, 1 seine and rope,
an anchor and grapnell, with two cables and hawler,
I grapnel, with two cables and hawser, 1 boat's
awning, 1 iron dove, with some lead.
The Hampton committee, having thought proper,
on monday last, to lay the above letter before the
committee of this city, they represented to the com
manding officerof the volunteers here, the necelkty of
fending down a Efficient force to prote& the inhabi
tants of Hampton from any iofults that might be
toffered to them by Capt. Squire, who immediately
Icommunicatd the fame to the volunteers, when 100
L OS T,
WEDNESDAY the 23d of August, onior near the
road leading from Powles-Hook Ferry and
Newark, a red Morocco Pocket Book, pretty much
wore, containing one half johannts, two Jersey bills
twelve /hillings each ; besides fundrv papers which rc?y
be of use to the proprietor, and none rife. Whoever has
found, or may find and convey the fame to the Printer,
may expe& to be. fufliciently rewarded for their trouble.
' INHERE is now in the possession of ^r.
John Yates, of Flufning, a Trunk contain
ing sundry valuable goods : the owner may have the
fame again by applying to him, paving all reasonable
charges, and proving their property.
Mondays 22 Min. after 3
Tuesday, 20 Min. after 4
Wednesday, 15 Min. after 5
Thursday, 11 Min. after 6
HIGH-WATER at NEW-YORK; this Week.B
I Friday, 2 Min. a! rr 7
Saturday, 56 Min. after 7
Sunday, 53 Min. after 8
Full Moon next Sundry.
[ Country, and were all brave Men.—Thia perhaps is
the most remarkable Instance of the King any Coun
try hath produced. The Name of this prolific and
;heroic Family is Huntly.
I NEW-YORK, O^ober z.
On Monday last the second Independent Battalion,
commanded by Col.Hyer, were reviewed by General
Wooster ; and by a Variety of Performances, dis-
I covered Proficiency in Military Diicipline, very much
jto the Approbation of the General, and it many
refpe&Able Spectators.
We hear the following droll Affair happened last
Week at Kinderhook : A young Fellow, an Enemy
to the Liberties of America, going one Afternoon to
a quilting frolic, where a Number of young Women
were collected, and he the only Man in Company,
he began his Afoerfions on the Congress as usual,
and held forth feme Time on the Subject, till the
Girls exasperated at his Impudence, laid hold of
him, stripped him Naked to the Waist, and infte&d of
Tar, covered him with Molasses; and for Feathers,
took the downy Tops of Flags, which grow in the
Meadows, coated him well, and then let him go :
He has prosecuted every one of them, and the Matter
has been tried before Justice S . We have not
as yet heard his Worship's Judgment.
On Tuesday last arrived in Town the Hon. Daniel
Dulany, Esq;
Extras of a Letter dated at the Carrying Place, near
Ticonderoga, Sept, 14., 3775, from an Officer in
the New-York Forces.
" I have the Pleasure to inform you that J have at
length reached this Place, with all my People, having
been so fortunate as not to be left by one of them on
the Way. They are a Parcel of hearty Lads, and
from some Circumstances that have occurred, I flatter
myfelf they will not turn their Noses from the fmeil
of Gun-Powder, in the Day of Trial, which 1s
near at Hand, as we intend felting off To-morrow
Morning, on our Way to the Ide aux Noix, where
I understand they are impatiently wilting our coming
;in order to make an Attack on the Fort which the
Regulars haveerefted at St. John's.jWe arc so much
jwanted there, that the Boats are ordered to be in
Readiness to receive the Company under my Com
mand, in preference to all others. It is laid the
Canadians have politively refuted to take any Part 'at
all in the Dispute; I fancy they are good Deal like--,
and intend to join the ftrungeft Party, although they
now supply both with Provisions for the ready
Penny. We have met with nothing but Difficulties
and Embarrassments, at every Post on our Way.
" The Troops have been much retarded for Want
of Beats, &c. &c. and some (till detained on that
Account. I am in perfca good Health, which I
men of "ed themselves, and next morning let out on
their Ten to Hampton ; v/h^e it is to be heped,
should the laid Squire attempt any thrnghoftiie againll
the pee A there, that they wiil be able to give a good
acrour of him. .'^d as to his requifinon of the
king's lores, fee. that were on board the tender,
bejng r.,hvtied up 10 him, it will lie time enough to
fettle avfennts with hcnoftei he has made fatisfa&ion
to the owners of the several flares he liasliaihomed
(fonie if whom he now employs in the hsk^sJ.rvice)
as well as for the number of robberies he nas differed
to be committed, in hogs and poultry, from lundiy
plantafans.
;PHILADELPHI A, Tept. 25.
On Jfiday arrived here Captain Brufter from Lon
!don;i lat. 43:21, he Ipoke Capt. Miller, inafhip
! Hem J macia for London ;in lat. 30 : 43, Ipoke the
;Rebecca, Capt. Caton, from Philadelphia for Fal-
Imouth, and the ship Annapolis, Captain Hendricks,
;fioro Olaryland for London, difmafted, from on
I hoarc hum lie took the following pafiengers, Lloyd
IDularr, Esq; and. Lady; Dr. Stuart and son, Mi.
IBrice, Mr Hanfun, and Mr Diggs.
On Saturday lad RICHARD PETERS, D. D.
;refigned the Rectory of the united <Epijcopal Chur
;cites of Clirift Church and St. Peter's, Kphis'city, on
account of his advanced age, and hoi'ify infirmities.
C A M BRID GE, September 21.
Lust Saturday Afternoon the Enemy, with their
Cannon, fired hrifkly from their Lines on Boston
Neck, but without doing us any Damage. The
next Morning the Firing was returned, and, as we
have fince,heard, with Suc'cefs; two of the Enemy
being killed and several wounded. Ibe Cannona-
Idinglding has 'neen continued on both Sides ainndt ever
j finer, without any Lots 011 our Side. The Enemy,
Iwe hear, had a lieutenant /hot on Monday by one of
I our Cannon Balis. How many they have loft in tiie
! whole, .!: ce Saturday, we have not learnt ; but fup
-Ipofed not to be less ‘ than 3 014 killed, and 5 or 6
I wounded.
We bear that the Colony Troops deftiped for Ca
nada, under the Command of Col. Arnold, failed
from Ntwhuiv-Port last Tuesday Morning.
We hear that the besieged Army in Boston have
polled down a Number of Houses between the May-
Market and the old Fortification ; but whether fiom
the TVant of Fuel, or to make Room for eroding any
new works cf Defences or digging a Canal, we have
not been able to learn.
Five or fix imprefled Seamen, we are informed,
had the good Fortune to make their escape from the
Enemy last Monday Night. One of them informs
that the Sailors on board the Men of War, are very
sickly, and ahnoft all 'of them vary feeble and greatly
emaciated, owing to bad Provifidns.
Joseph Ward, Esq; was, fume time since. ap
pointed Aid de Camp to the Hon. Major-Geneial
Ward.
Lad War, thirteen Brothers, Sons of ore Woman
in the Colony of Connecticut, each of them fix feet
high, all want into the War in Defence of their
PRICE-CURRENT, in NEW-V ORK.
Wheatper Bushel, ss. 3d-
Flour, T 4 S * °,
Brown Bread; 15s. od.
Wert-Lidia Rum, 3s. 6d.
New-England, do. zs. 6d.
Mufcovado Sugar, 645. od.|
Single refin'd ditto, is. id. ;
Moiaffes, zs. od.
Beef per Barrel, 60s. od.
Pork, ioos. od.
pray God to continue, till I can given good Account
of Governor Carleton, and his Bloody B^cks, I
call them I'd, not so much for the Col 'of their
Cloth, as for their bale and savage on luc: in
fuffering the Head of the brave Captain Bax r, to be
fevered from hi^ Body, and fixed upon a Po)e
John's, where it now remains, as a Monument %%
their Savage Tempers, and an incentive to ur,
bravely to Revenge his Death, or fall in the glorious
Attempt. I have nothing to communicate, except
that a small Skirmifn has lately happened near St.
John's, occasioned by a Party of about 50 of our
Men going out to reconnoitre; they were lurprifed
(it is laid)' by a Party of Regulars, Canadians and
Savages, who lay in Ambnfh, concealed in the Sedge
or very high Gial's ; we had 5 or 6 Men killed, and
several Wounded, 4 or 5 of whom have knee died
of their Wounds : Major Hobby, and Capt.. Mead
of Connecticut, are Nightly wounded. The Enemy
had several killed, and wounded ; among the farmer,,
a certain Capt, Tice, of John's-Town, in Tryon
County, a Native of New-Jersey, who was formerly
a Captain in the Service of that Province, and an
old Acquaintance of mine, but it now appears that
he was a rank Tory. I am very happy to think he met
the Fate which I hope every one like him will fhaie
before the Matter is ended.
“ The above is the best Account I could obtain,
and I believe a pretty just one.
“ I have only 10 add my Compliments to all
Friends, and request they will be kind enough to
Excafe my not Writing to them severally, as I have
this Moment received Orders to Embark, and every
Minute of my Time will necessarily be taken up in
preparing for my Departure from hence. I am, See.
" Col. Fleming, Mr. Trumbull, Capt. Quacken
tes, Mr. Pearfea, and Lieut. Van Waggeuen, wi:h
my Brother Officers, 'defire their kind Compliments
to you and all Friends."
Extrafl of another Letter from Walter Living flcn,
Esq; Deputy Commijery General, dated at Albany,
the zotb or the o.lft of September, 1775, to a G-n
---tinman in New-York.
" General Montgomery is by this Time, either
in possession of St. John's, or defeated ; he embarked
with ii or 12 Hundred Men, and a Party of Cana
dians, who came to the Isle aux Noix, to join our
Army, the Number is not mentioned. 'tr.
Livingften, of Montreal, with a Party of Canadians,
attacked the King's Troops, killed xa, and drove
off the Remainder; he has lent for some Men to Iflc
aux Noix, and they are granted him."
Extras of a Letter from an Officer at Ife aux Nftx,
to his Friend in New-York, Sept. 17, 1775.
“ I have just Time to acquaint you, that To
morrow we intend to tbike a decisive Blew at St.
John's. We have already had two Skirmishes ; iu
the firft we 101 l seven Men, betides fix or seven
wounded. Our Enemy had nine Indians killed on
the Spot, and twice as many wounded, as we are
informed. The Savages appear barbarous to the
lad Degree, not content with Scalping, they dug up
our dead, and mingled them in the most fhockirg
Manner: I had the Pleafuie to fee two of them
scalped a; a Retaliation for their Barbariy. This
happened after our fall Action, in which none of us
were hurt. 'An. armed boat which threw Shells and
Grape Shot brifkiy at us for some Time, though
without doing Mifehief, was fortunately divided by
a Salute from a Twelve Founder from one of our
Gondolas. It is said, thewweie 30 Regulars in the
Boat, who all perished, either by the Shot or in the
Lake. The chief Obstacle we shall meet with
To-morrow will , be a strong School er, which we are
determined to board. She mounts eighteen Nine
Pounders, and was launched but two Days bef°ie
we took Possession of this Bland. licw this Enter
prizewili succeed, God only knows, but I Fill have
hopes to fee you and all my Friends once more at
New-York.-
Marseilles, July 6. It is reported here, that the
King of Spain has granted a peace to the Emperor
of Morocco, on paying a firm of money, ana the
cession of Tangier,
Hague, July 17. We have received letters here
which advise, that notwithstanding the Emperor of
Morocco has accepted the presents from theßepublck
@f the United Provinces, this Prince had nevertheless
thought proper to continue the war against their High
Mightinesses for three years, to be reckoned from the
itt of January last. But letters from Rotterdam,
dated the zo.h, inform us, on the contrary, that the
Emperor has accepted the presents lent him, aid has
agreed to a treaty of peace for three yeare, to take
place from the ill of January this year.
Extras of a Letter from Pl,mouth, July 16.
" Friday the pendant was (buck on board the
Solebay frigate, (he bring unfit for immediate
fervicc; the Liverpool, at Chatham, is commissioned
in her room ; and notwithstanding the report that the
fearnep would not enter to go to America, yet the
Solebay had, in the space of a fortnight, got upwards
of 80 volunteers, who ^re turned over to the Ocean,
On Thursday lafttbe Earl of Halifax Fac'^t, Capt,
Bsulderfon, arrived bere as 7 Weeks from Fataulb,
by .whom we have the following Advice', viz.
B ERLI N, July 16.
THE 9th infant, a courier arrived here from
London, and after staying for some dispatches,
set off next day for Moscow.
L OND O N, July 22.
IT is laid the people of New-York keep Vessels
out at sea, to intercept all dispatches from
England, in order to come at the knowledge of
the inftiunions lent to General Gage before he
can receive them.
Fine Salt, 'gs. 3d
Coarse Salt, 33. nd
Indian Cornier Bu.js. 4xl