The Virginia gazette — Williamsburg [Va.], 1777-01-03 00:00:00, page 1

ssTHsiE VIRG'INIA GAZETTE,
she Medea: oftbel'res} is one of the great Bul-wark: of Liberty, and can never silre rest: aim-d l-nt l-y :lespon'c Gowrnn/enu.
'UANUARY 3, 1777.] WxLLxAMSBunY Printed by DIXON 65' HUNTER. [No. 1326.]
BALTIMORE, December 25.
Extract Je lelltrjh- Punlmsuuu, damle-mlm- ", 1776.
[12 troopt under Howe and Cornwallis have left Trun
ton. and me removing toward: New York. General
Lee'e dwision of troops, now commanded by Generzl
Sullivan, conlisting of about 5000, have crossed the
Delaware at Ezflon, and are watching to join Genenl
Wnshington, nezr Coryell's ferry, in Bucks county.
More troops are on their way to join the Commander
'm thef, whose my will be, in a short time, full 18,ooo.——A fleet
and army from New York have m-ived at Newport. All New England
is in motion; in consequence of thin lo,ooo men are now in arms at or
near Providence, for the 'purPose ofdefending the Sun of Rhode mond."
A letter inn received tom Philndelphiu mentions that Bowe'e am
has naually lest Trento and had returned to Pqinoewn and Brllnl-u
wink. That General ' on, having been reinsosccd !: about
4 New Englandmen, he: by Genem Sullinn', and ['t-Per bod'm
o Pennsylvanil and jersey lhjlltiafwu p: 'ring to seems: tue Delam
with umooo men, to protect :]:an vmpe that ma be let: in the
]q-sey State, from the farther nvag he chew .--—- "bet the los- of
GCn'al Let, who me, through thQ-perfidy-ot : ory, made Prifomr by
;hont 70 of the enemy'l cavalry, commended by Lie-teqmte-Coloyel
Hueourt. so far from dispiriting the Ameriun may, great a thedqf
fennne in considered, but not only enspentedthe soldieryss b appqxn
tohlve excited : spirit of enterprise amongl! them, which giiesis elh [pint'i
to the friendt of freedom, who do not despair of having their beloved un
fortunateGeaenlch-red to thebosom of : sympnhising gntefnl'count .
Mlifl' General Gum, lad Brigldnes Geuetzll St.'Uair nnssdMuwe [,
arrived l'sew dlys ago et General Walhingtol's bend quutefl, fro'm
Tieondcroga. . ..
' Col. Fotd, ofMo 'I county, in New ]ersey, who has seven! hundred
men under hie com , has hzh-zsscd the enemy very much, .hy sur
Fising their guzrdl, and txking their waggom, notes, &c.
Captain Ephsaim Anderson. of New ssYeri'ey. lus glined star honour
in several enterprise; lgainst the enem neu- 'snnton.
Extract of: letter]?— Phi adelpbip. Dm'nbcr 13.
, ," Colonel Sunne] Griffin hu entered New jcrsey, at the heed of
"woe men, and is pursuing hie march towasds some of the cnemy'u out
:.
A number of the lotion Toriel have lately died, unpitied and unla
mented, at Mifu. in No" Scotia. The sum: General Brutle is
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among the number.
!" siRBCKUlTlNG lNSTRUCTlONs.
or
. on an immediatdy to cum into the suviu of the United sum
' dMudlal-Wm. ubonwufinz'nminwthe
knit:, on th'sdlwing mo, vil.
' run- Youmnot tuum! my but (men. abbot" bed and under
ib ! J fifty; Why "dign si! lnbobn-g' I lament:
- Mtoflwdy 'udi' un service; ifmysudt, or
ye in, the cer within; the— will be chupabk with
in he to the public.
- scomn an in not unlifl un} deform- smm the umy of the
I (inn M. or person; of 4!th or suspicious chanctu,
th 'mfinbhfiqsnfidmwmdctmimdshch
on. -
Tntuw, Yet: in to enlil to save time yew. ordering the comi
lmce ofthcprefent war between Gmc Bsinin nnd the Amencan State;,
unless bones difclmjed by topcr authority.
.ss l'ouu'un. The men. y you enliled, in to be subjefi to the nlet
md utieln for we government of the u-my. published by w the
silqtbof Weather, 1776, IM are to sign those articlet.
" As an enmrlgement m shch persano :- shall enlik into the tbovc
,si'mice. v.:u m lutbotised to engage, beside: the ply and provision; now
wed.
.si, Ptlst, That every some: (hall, u being approved by : Mnjm
(Genesaf, I Brigadvier General, or Co one! Commandmt of : brigade,
nd scmsssi Sun' on, be entitled to : bounty of twenty dollm :ma : suit
of doshn,' suit of clothes [hall be given lnnually.
Slcoul. He shall also be enlitch to one hundred acreo of land at the
expirnion ofthe lum of his enliilment, ma in case at his dsiuh, ..si. :he
sennce, his repnsnntivu shall be entitled thereto.
When any person is enhfled, you ure, :: soon as convenient, to take
him to some "son duly tumified by the above ulkks, w udminnhr
the oath therein prescribod.
To encourage the brae and spiritd lo enter into the service. she Ge
wdyromisu than :" the plunde: they shall xake- from the mew) , to
be equally dividod between the officer. and men, :ccording to their pay.
Gim . bull "un, lyfb q' Deum, 1776. '
]) bit \ _ Gut"! WASHLNGTGN.
CHARLESTOWN (s.c.} No-v. 14.
WlTl-ILN these two week- upuudeof aovessele have arrivsid here
&: with capel of lour, salt, sum, mobfl'cl, sugar, dry gvodl.
& .
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A more favounbkappaw for tndi adventuren than the pre
sent perhape hardly ever oce Thecoa , we have every reason to
think, ia entirely clear, dnd m it even otherwise, the demand for
oode d'ens-om sueh price- ' given as nmrly compmsate the risk:
efidn, ensenncecan now be on Tutty
erne "mld"
Captlin Richard Bifl'ell, othodc fiend, arrived yesterday from St.
.Au dine, in Bath". pilot boat, which he purchased there and cleared
'om or ]ullica. but peefetred coming to thia port. He informs us that
he lest that place the lth inaaut; that the whole regular forcee in East
Florida doe- not mount to :soo men, and most of them new recruits,
whose appearance deemen their late intimate .cssfisiisimce with Newgate
and the whipping-poflz that th: Otter and inchmhroke lay off St.
Augustine bar, and that an armed floop wat shtioned in St. ]ohn't river.
Oshome, who it well known in Georgia, by hie pimciee on that coast,
un fitting out a small floop to go on a muse. Go]. Lawson, Capr.
W out. and ! other psisonfn brought from Virginia in the Qner, w=rc
er! ed in the dle. Three other mien of vessels, which—bssud been
taken and carried into St. A-gufine, ceme with Bifizll.
Clpt. ]amee Righton, of the floop Feno and ancy. who arrived
Part a few da : since, fpoke'ayith Capt. Jere lah Morgan. from Bour.
duus, bon to Phihdelphiarout i: weeks; on the azd of oaobct; he
put into Bemudl to get lum. '
BOSTON, Decemberz.
? a Ferion from the camp, we m informed, that a "endemm of
!l'si—L
on oubted vendty, who was ! 'soner. and enlarged b General
me, dure- un thntthe enemy lofl the line: at fort :shi
ned men killed on the field. and 6 wlggon load of wounded, t
ned mondly. Thut our people aved with the met] in ' "
ud solntion. ,Th oug- oss ,: oo k' edand "
Tltinssaemnt' inly GZWMnSP divers of the Dritd.
dice", with whom the tlemu wu inflame!" quuinted.--—We
can further assure the public, the: the meek di not commence n'the
lines at Hnrlem, n hn been reported, that post being It [end in mid:
dilhnt fmm fort Washin on, but at the outlinel. north of the fort,
dihnt ebout l qulrtet o : mile. Thlt the Hesiim mode the lttlck,
lad lllfdled within point hllnk piltol t'hotof the Iiuet, where they m
kept clad two hours, and were. by the intrepidity and we" placed in
ofoursipeoyle, cut down in whole t: nke. The bme Americam kept
their pofl until I heny eolumn of Btitish troops 'appeared in their tear;
Ihe lined then being entirely open, ohli d them to retrnt and endeavour
to it the fort, but the British troops in nearet'the fort, cut offlnd
eh ged : considenble put to surrender pri men. The sort 'a: imme.
diately summoned. but the eommanding officer flrfl pled for : tum of
; dlye; that being refused, pled for the honoun d' war, which no aiso
denied, and the gzrrison informed, that unless they shmndered at dish'e.
tion. the fort would be immediltely invented, and they mun nbide by the
consssaueneet : council of war un immediately held. who wete of cpi.
nion, that " they had not my water nor could they get any, the place
from which the ghrrison had beenfupplied wtth that :micle being in pus.
l'dsiun of the enemy. and that the son wan not enpabl: ol defence, agreed
to surrendn it and themsehess at discretion. The eommandmg office us
tlm ton is : Gentleman of gmt eounge, end would have- defended'it