The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1791-12-24 00:00:00, page 3

' SIR,'
WE have now received Certain In
telligence that the army have
b;en defeated. The lols is Very great.
The garifon at Port Jeffirfais inter
cepted, and many, many Grave wound
ed, gallent men are now left on the road
unable to travel, and without acy pro
vifons bat the Hefti of Pack Horfes.'
This case requires immediate exer
tions. I have appointed a rendezvous
of volunteers at Craig's Mill, the 15th
inst. completely equipped wih arms,
amunitibn, ar.d 20 days' provision. 1
trust that no exertion on your p^rt will
be wanting, pvhen, the fafety of our
country and the lives of brave men are
in danger. The circumstance requires
the greatest dispatch, and no fritend to
his country can now be idle. Believe
me with refpea, yours. , ,
The volunteers who are not ready by
thefoth inst. are to follow as fooa as
possible. ~.
By sundry gentlemen who are arrived
in town since, Thursday las, wu have
the melancholy account of the defeat of
the army under General St. Clajr.
They fay the attack was made by the
Indians, on the 4th instant, at day
break and continued about four hours;
that we loft 46 officers killed, and 25
wounded, and about 600 private,, be
sides Pack-Horse and bullock drivers,
&c. 8 pieces of cannon,and all the bag
re- '
The fello-w'ing is a LIST of the Officers,
said to be Killed and Wounded.
KILLED.•
Gen. BUTLER:
Col. OLDHAM.
MAJORS. ..
I Brown, Hart, Clark, and
Furgefon,",
CAPTAINS.
' Bradford? Tipton, Smith,
Purdie, Newman, Phelon,
Kirkwood,, Peate, Price,
Swearengan, Cubbs, and
Guthrie. .;
LIEUTENANTS.
Warren, _^pier. Lickings,
days past, after concluding a peace with
the whites.
nov. 11. "The Curate of Limbe
was found among the blacks in that
quarter —proved to be a great rafc,l ;
brought to town ; and yefbrday we had
the pleafare to fee Mr. Abbe pendant
before the church. c ^ < %
Nov. 14. " The black,dre deftroy
tng, all before them tb windward^,!
mean Jaquize, Trofe, QjzrtierDsuphin,
&c. &c. Alt the parcte da Nord will
go, and .the inhabitants mast retire to,
and. defend the Cape, until we receive
factour from Franc.
" To leeward they are yet quiet.
" Here we are, and Ihall be fife. I
have no more fear or my. personal fafe
ty than you can feel for yours at Bolton.''
Nov. 9. " M. de Cambfort has kil
led the black chief. King Bookman ;
and federal other of the leading chiefs
have fallen before his arms. —He has
not ye: returned from his expedition ;
but we are told he has alio destroyed a
'nte/ of the Brigands. Os doo men
win-., composed M # de Toufard's ar
my in his last forte. 250 are sick. It is
said there are 350 more in (his unfortn
mate lift.
Mr. L. Pease, arrived here
on Thursday, express, in
54 hours from New-York,
brought a hand bill con
taining the following
MELANCHOLY INTEL
LIGENCE.
From the LEXINGTON GAZETTE.
Copy of a Circular Letter from Briga
- DiER General SCOTT, to the
different County Lieutenants^
Kentucky.'
LEXINGTON, Nov. 11, 1791.
DECEMBER I7 —21.
, By a gentleman Who left Kentucky
on the 15th inft.we learn that our friend
the Mountain Leader, was out with a
party of white men at the time of the
attack, and it was feared they had fallen
a facrifice likewifa
\Extrad of a letter from a gentleman inMer
cer County, to a Member of the General
4fcmbb, dated Non;. 13, 1791.
" THE defeat of Gen, St.Clair,on
the 4th inst. engrosses all our thoughts.
We had 600 men killed and wounded,
all the stores loft,and 7 pieces of artillery.
—This engagement "happened about 15
miles from the Maume Village, 30 from
fort Jefofon, and 98 from fort Wafeing
ton. '•
Gen.'St. Olalß, expeded an action:
The men were drawn up in order of battle
and stood in their ranks all night,the ar
m'y were formed into a hollow square,
the artillery and baggage in the centre :
The enemy made their attack at the
dawn of the day On all the lines, parti
cularly on the rear,which was composed
qf militia ; they were overpowered and
gave/ way, the Indians rushed on and
fppn Were possessed of the artilery, whicn
was retaken in a few moments by a com
pany of regulars with fixed bayonets,but
mod of the matroffes being killed, no
use was made of it: the action continued
obstinately until 9 o'clock, when out
men gave way. General St. Clair
rallied them and brought off the greater
part of th^ wounded to Fort Jfferfon,te
in^f purfoed abbot 5 miles, where the
remains of the army and wounded are
cdoped, alkoft starved, living upon poor
Pack Horses. .
,“ The people of the diftrif tare pre
paring to go to the relief of Fort Jtferfon,
and i I hope by the zo<h, 1000 or 1500 es.
feaivtymen will be at Fort Washington;
on their way. Upon this occasion a
number of your acquaintances will turn
out, in Lincoln, Logan, Shelby, and
Ewing. Mercer, Colonel M'Dowel,
and myfelf with a number of young
fellows ; we shall carry provisions to the
Garrison and bring off the Wounded."
It appears rather extraordinary, that
the melancholy account of the defeat of
the Weflern army should find its way to
the feat of Government through the me
dium of,a solitary Kentucky paper, be
fore an express could arrive with official
accounts whichGen.St.CLAir muff cer
tainly have dispatched. The Kentucky
paper is dated the 15th ofNovember,and
was not received at New- York until the
izthof December—an interval of time
doubly Efficient for the arrival of expref
fet- .
Though we mingle our sorrows with
those of the public, for the loss of the
M'Nicle, M'Math, Hopper,
Ried, Kelfon, Boyd, and two
others.
Dubuts, Price, Greathous,
Crawford, M'Grew, and two
others.
ENSIGNS.^-,
; Morgan, Bines, and four
others.
% Dodor—Gano.
Anderton, and Burgess,
^elides Milithia Officers.
Doctor—Grayfem.
Really, Cobb, Balch,
Brooks, Chace, Turner, Pur
die, and two others.
QUARTERMASTERS.
h Ward, Leynold, and Sam
ple. :/
.ADJUTANTS.•
Ford, Doyle, Dark, Buck
anan, Madison, Trueman,
Slough, arid three others.
LIEUTENANTS.
WOUNDED.;
Colonels—GlßSON, and
DURK.
Major BUTLER.
CAPTAINS.
ENSIGNS.
From Philadelphia —Dec- g.
1 79 1 - %
; "You will before this reach
es you have heard of the dis
asters which have befallen
Gen. St. CLAIR's army in
the Indian expedition,, They
have cast an universal glooni
over all degrees of citizens,
who sincerely lament the un
timely fall of so many brave
officers and men.:.
" The fury of the Indians
was unparralleled —it is said,
that at a War Council held at
the Miama villages, the Sac
hems gave it in charge to the
Warriours to rout and defeat
the army, or be banished 3
moons march towards the.
Southern ocean. How true
this i% I cannot tell—birt this
is true, that their attack is un
exampled in their warfare.,
" The federal troops be
haved with,the utmost intre-
The loss of the brave Officers and
Men, who have fallen in the Weftern
Expedition, is deeply felt as a publick
one—but as private—and to those who
were connected with them by the tie: of
friendihip and consanguinity—the ihaft
pierces deep.—'' 'I read light/, o'er their
afoes, ,e men of honour, for they were
your BRETHREN — weep o', r their fa teye
men ofre r IE N DSH 1P andsE NilBILITY,
for the, were,our brothers.
The cause of the above difaftcr is tra
ced to the decree of the National Assem
bly declaring the free mulattoes ano
blacks free citizens, and the revocation
of that decree. The truce which had
been fettled between the white citizen
& the mulattotoes having expired—and
rhe Governour General having.iffued a
Proclamation (covering the decree of
the Assembly revoking rhe former one,
and requiring obedience thereto) the
mulattoes, who had been in arras ap
peared greatly diffatisfied,and frequently
threatened rhe town with deftru&ion
From their refenfment the conflagration
is feppofed to have arose. _
Porf-du France was a very rich and
populous town- —=supposed to be al
most as large as BJfon ; and containing
more inhabitants. It is now a hekp of
rubifh, and its citizens reduced' to the
most undifcribSble distress. While our
fortows for our own misfortunes, lie
ht<y on our hearts, we mingle our sigh
wm rhofe of odr unhappy Allies, the
islanders of St. Domingo, for theirs.
EXETER, (Saturd.)Dec.24.
Yesterday arrived in this port, the
Brig Marjj Captain William Mc Lelan,
in 24 days from Port-au-Prince ; by him
we learn the unfortunate information
that the town of Port-au-Prince, was on
the zitt of November, burnt down, as
was fappofed, by the negroes or malat
toes, excepting , a few Scattering houses &
stores. The foe wa, communicated se
cretly to a number of houses to wind
ward, at the fame time, and so rapid
were the flames,that they baffled the ex
ertions of the whites to extinguish them
The inhabitants, we learn, were in the
uUnoft distress and confusion —and at
many as could, tock flicker on board
the Whipping in the harbour=Captair
M'Lelan had at one time near 150 of
the inhabitants on board his vessel ;
whom he put on foore on failings
Deftrudtion of Port-au-
Prince, by Fire.
brave men who are said to have fallen in
the Weftern Army, we have yet a hope,
founded on ^variety of circumstances,
that it may be but a report— or if an
adion has taken place, that our loss is
exaggerated.
MORE DISASTROUS NEWS.
§3 THE Brethren of the
ancient Society of Free and Accepted
Malons, are hereby informed, that the
Festival of St. JOHN the EvangebJly
will be celebrated by the Columbian
Lodge, at the Lodge Room in Notting
ham, on Taefday the 27th inft.—.The
Right Worlhipful Joseph CiLLEY, re
quests the brethren to attend at ten
o'Clock A. M. Dinner will be on
the Table precisely ar 2 q'Clock P. M.
Nath'l Weare, Sec'ry.
Nottingham, Dec. IO 179!.
❖<,-g > <><9'<>Gt><^><,<,'s'<,<,^>G><, <fo $
TO be SOLD, at PUBLIC VENDUE,
h, licence from the Hon. Oliver.
Peabody, Efj. fudge of.Probate far
the count, of Rockingham, at the latt
Dwelling-House of Joseph Hilliard,
deceased in Kenjington, on Tuefday the
3d day o' January next, at 2 o'clock in
the afternoon— . r'
TWO thirds of the Real
Estate of said Hilliard, with the
Reversion of the othhr third —ithe whole
containing about One Hundred and
Twenty Acres of good LAND, situate
in said Kefipgton, with the building!
thereon, which are a ;.,
Dwellings House, two Barns,
one half a Sawmill, a Gristmill, Tan
houfe, and several other buildings.
g 3 Conditions of Sale ma, be known
at time and plar,.< ,
Anna Hilliard, Adm'trix.
Kenfingfon, Dec'r. 22d, 1791.
ALL persons having any
claims agAinft the efface ofjo c i ah
Fogg, date of Raymond Esq. deceased,
are desired to exhibit the fame to the
fubferiber, Administratrix to said estate"
—and all persons indebted to said estate
are requested to fettle immediately.
SARAH FOGG:
Raymond, Dec'r. 19, 1791.
\, Advertijements omitted
this Da, to give flacrio the ver, dfa
greeable news from she Ohio country, fall
appear in cur next.
, DIED]=O.7 wednefaa, morning las,
greatly lamented, Widow L YDI A
G 1 L MA N, reliu of Samuel Gil-
MAN E/q.of this town, dectafed; aged 56;
" Gen. St. CLAIR, it is
said, was 4 times dismounted.
—and owed his life to the gal
lantry ofa few of the troops
who forming a guard round
him, made such dexterous ule
of thebayonet in cutting thro'
the savages, as opened to him
a passage for escaping."
— Jfo.MARY PICKER NG, in an
appoplatic ft, wife of Mr, James Pick
bring, of this town.
pidity—tho' continually ex
posed to a deadly fire , & not
feeing their enemy, who lay
hid in hazle bushes and in the
grass, they gallantly plunged
into their coverts, and drove
the Indians therefrom with
the bayonet; the moment they
returned towards the main
body, the fav ages pursued and
slaughtered them. YourAfa/-
faebufetts officers did them
lelves much credit—and all
fell in the charges. -Your
friends Captains Phelon and
Newman, whom I very par
ticularly lament, led on their
companies to the charge, with
Roman coolness and bravery
—and fell victims to the firri
of the savages But it is
invidious to distinguish any—
all died like heroes—and are
all to be regretted.
Public Vendue.