The Gazette of the state of South-Carolina — Charles-town [S.C.], 1783-07-23 00:00:00, page 2

PRO^ObixIONS for fettling a new
STATE, by <uch Officers and Soldiers of the
Fcccral Army as* fh@ll affociite f^ u^t put
pole.
ff HAT the United &a& purchase of the
Natives, that TraQ of Country which is
bounce- by Pennsylvania on the East, the River
Cho Ou the Souih, a merididh Line drawn 30
% rs weft of the mouth of the River Sioto on me
Weft—rhis meridian to run from the Ohio to the
hi . •Ei^wr^ich rdns into Lake Erie, and by
IC'S Rer Bj>d Lake Erie on the North.
That, in the firft Instance Lands be as
% % Array to fulfil the Engagements o<
ff nCrd S..tes by the Resolutions of the toth,
~f September 1766, August the ij.h, and Sept.
30.0, 1780, v.z.
Acres.,
To a Major General 1100
Brigadier G-nl, 850
Colonel po
, Lt. Colo 450
= M^jor 4c o
Captain 3%
L?eute<a<C 200
FrGgr, or Colorslso
'Non-commlhi^ed Officer end Sol-? joo
dier each]
The Direa^rs of riv Military Hospital Bgo
Chief Phifa^n and Purveyor ^ch 500
Phyheians, Surgecns and Aputhe- ) [ o j
caries e^hl
Regimes tri Surgeona and assistants ]
to the Purveyor ct:d Apotheca y 4co
e:eh
Hofpitsl and Regimental Surgeons / ?oo
matsse:ch f '
ITT. That all Affoci tars who shall a&ua ly
fete in the n^w State within one year after the
purchase ihall be effi &ed, and notice given by
Congress, or the Committee of the Allocators,
that the f^mc is ready for settlement (such notice
::u c< published in the News-papers of all tie
7ate,) Irii receive such additional quantities of
Land as to make their refpeditve rights in the
whole to contain the following number of Acre,,
ziz. Acres.
A Major General 24^0
Brigadier General zoco
Colonel 2^o
Lieutenant Colonel IPOO
Major 80G
Captain ! i°°
Lieutenant tzo
Ensign, or Cornet 1000
'.Serjeant " 7°°
Other Non-commissioned officers ) 6 o<j
and Soldiers, each j
And 50 acres more for each member of a fa
mily, befidts the head of it:
IV. That the Rights of the Officers in the
medical Department, be encreafed in like man
ner cn the fame Conditions.
V. That all officers in the other Staff De
psrtments, who Ihall actually fettle in the new
S.ate within the time above limited, shall receive
rights of land in the proportion last Rated, or on
equitable comparison of their Rations with the
ranks of officers of the line and medical ftaff:
VI. That this encreaftd provision of lands
shall extend to ail officers in the line and ftaff, and
to all ron-commiffioned officers and fjldiers, who,
during the present war, have performed in the
whole, thr^e years fer<ice, whether in service or
mot at the clole of the war; provided they pufent
their claims, and become actual fettles in the
mew State, by the time above limited :
VII. These rights being secured all the fur
plufs lands shall be the common property of the
State, and difppfed of for the cemmen gobd,----
as, for laying out Roads, building Bridges, erod
ing public Buildings, eftablJhing Schools and A
cadimies, defraying the expenses of Government
and other public uses.
VIII. That every grantee shall have a hoofe
built and. acres of land cleared on his right
within——years, or the fame shall be forfeited to
the State:
IX. That to enable the affociaters to under
take the settlement of the new state, the United
States defray the expenses of the march thither,
furnish the ceceffary utcntials of husbandry, and
such live flock as fhril be indefpenfibly requisite
for commencing the fettlement,--and subsist
ence f: three years, v ; z. cue ration of bread and
meat per day to each man woman 2nd child, and
to every folder a fait of cloaths annually: The
colt of thefa articles to be charged to the accounts
of arrearages due to the members of the associa
tion refpe&ively.
X. ThA for the security of the state against
the Indians, every officer and soldier go armed ;
the arms to be furnished by the United States,
and charged to the accounts of arrearages: Am
munition to be Applied the fame way..
XT. That a ccnHitu+lron for the new Rate be
formed by the members of the association previous
to their commencing the settlement; two thirds
of the associators present at a meeting, duly no
tified for that pupofe, agreeing therein. The
total exclusion of slavery from that state to form
an essential and irrecoverable part of the consti
tution.
XII. That the alTcciators f> assembled agree
on such general Rules, as they dull deem r c <rf.
far, for the prevention and puniih rcentef Crimes
and the preservation of good Order in the S.ae;
to have the Force of L^s during the ,ace of
two Years, unless an assembly tfthe Suite, form
ed agreeably to the Conllitufion, flu'.! Loner re
peal them.
XII!of hat tiie State fir co.. Rented, mail be
admitted into the Confederacy of the United
^wes, and entitled to all the Benefits of the U
nion in common with the ether members thereof.
XIV. Prat at the above mentioned meeting
of the Associators, Delegates be chosen to repL
fent them in the Congress of the Unit'd States,
to take then Seats as soon as the new Strife shall
be ere&ed.
X/ Th^t tle Affcciators, having brrne to
gethef at Brethren the Dangers and Calamities of
war, and feeling thzt mutual Friendship, which
long acquaintance and cemmen Sufferings give
rife to-— it being abb the obvious Dictate of
Humanity to fuppy>h? want's of the needy and
alleviate the Drib elks of the Affliael-it* fh*ll
be an inviolable Rule to take under the immedi
ate Patronage of the State, the Wives and Child
ren of such Associators who, having fettled there,
shall die, or by lameness, wounds, er fickfeis, be
rendered unable to improve trtir Plantations, or
follow their Occup&tFns during the Fil twenty
c::z years: so th; t such de Ritute or d Rrefftd Fa
milies shall recieve ffiuch public Aria as, j ide.
with their own referable ihcrrions, wi/1 main-,
tain them in a manner fuitabie tothe condition of
the Heads of them; efpbcially that <he Children
when grown up. may be on a footing with other
Children, v hose parents at the original Formati
on of the State we:e in similar Lircumftaaces
with these of the former.
A PASTORAL LETTER from
the Synod of New York and
PHILADELPHIA to the People under
their Charge,,
Very clear Bre-hreb,
YTTU will easily remember, that in May 177 g
1 the synod thought proper to address a paf
to al letter to the people under their inspection,
on the dale of public affairs. At that interesting
yei d hoftiliries had just commenced between
Great Britain and America, and a long acd bko
dy conflid was to beexpefted. J>>wthat c n
flid is over, and we have rhe heft reason to sup.
pose ( the preliminaries being signed ^nd ratified)
that a happy and honourable peace nil be spee
dily fettled by a definitive treaty. We c^uld not
therefore longer delay ad I refling to you the fal
lowing letter, which uill contain our fentimenu
on this happy occasion, and our advice as to the
duty incumbent upon all ranks in return for so
great a mercy.
We cannot help congratu'ating yon-on the g--
ner^l and almost universal attachment of the pres
byterian body to th; cause of liberty and the
rights cf mankind. This has been visible in
their concud, and has been confeffed by the com
plaints and refentmer/t of the common enemy.
Such a circumstance ought not only to afford us
fatisfadion on the review, as bringing credit to
the body in general, but to increase our gratitude
to God for the happy issue of the war; hid it
been unfuccelsful, we must have drank deeply of
the cup of fuffering. Our burnt and wafted
churches, and our plundered dwellings, in such
places as fell under the power of our adverwies,
are but an earned of what we must have fuffcred
had they finally prevailed.
The synod therefore request you to render
thanks to Almighty God for all his mercies fpiri.
tu@l and temporal, andin f a particular manner for
establishing the Independence of the United States
of America. He is the Supreme Disposer of all
events, and to him belongs the glory, the victory,
and the majesty. We are persuaded you will ea
sily recoiled many circumkancs in the course of
the struggle which point cut his special and signal
interposition in our favour. Our most remarka
ble successes have generally been when things had
just before worn the most unfavourable afped, as
at Trenton and Saratoga at the beginning, in
South Carolina and Virginia towards the end of
the war. It pleased God to raise up for us a pour
ful ally in Europe, and when we confider the un
wearied attempts ofeur enemies to raise diffention
by cv^ry topic that could be supposed inflammato
ry aud popular, the harmony that has prevailed
not only between the allied powers, but the troops
of different nations and languages tiding together
oa^ht tn be ascribed to the gracious influence 0
Levine Providence. Without mentioning many
o:h r inflances, we only further put you in mini
pl re choice and appointment of a commander
in chief of thearmie cf the United ft^eu who
in thisfimpoi tant and difficult char; c hrs given u
hivyrul fa f :.faction, who al ke an cep able to be
citizen and the soldier. to ^ flhs in uhich he
wag borr, -nd every other cn the continent vh fc
(harafter and influence, after so long it.iv.ee, &te
not uVy uu.ihprired but at^m^.u;',
To be concbdJ „: Q T wrf.
CHARLES TOWN,
Ata General leering o r the Inhabitints rs
ihi- Town, on monday th: aid Inftguj the Lx
ch^n^.by adjournment,
EDWARD WEYMZN in the Chair.
TP^ Committee appointed by a itfuve of th?
inhabitants of Charlefown, at a general meet
^"^^ ^eld at the Exchange on the 14th lutia f,
we e c. Led upon to make their repeat, which they
did accordingly as fU^as: Ihat ih^ rehdenceof
focn perfuns fe,n<,#git U s, as have ; &„.d inimical/
to/ue taufe of America, and the LT actio:: of the,
agreement entered into by certain B.itifh Mt:-
chants with Governor Ida.Lews appeared to be
real Grievances to the Cnz.m cf Cearieflowh,
which being debated on for fame trirv, this meet
in, fame '0 the f lio.bug Refo^dijov, vlh.
Revived ummimotfly with ref; cell to the re.
fider.ce oftuch pcrfons as hat 3 atle? . icimiesfly
to tie cause of America, that a petition be pre
fitted to [he Lcriflatu:e, ^artief.!- leqvefting that
t^t such perfohs, who were fc.meriy Citizens cf
tins S.a.e, who have Born arms with the Enemy
^dq^ud this State with theta, m.y be ciedud
<l been Returnirgt— -and as it is agietd in the bill
," c ':°° e pLebraicaries of Peace that, ''No per
iqw on account of the part which he may have
tdk-n in the ptaC.it war, fufhr any future luff, or da -
. hh,, either in his perCm, liberty or 'property,"
ivefolved that the Legiflanne be requeued not to
extend any farther indulgence to the adherents to the
Brtitli Governm mt, than ih^ya^ imitka to ty the
Pieliminai y articles of Pea%"
k&rcivQ that his ExceUnc, the Governor be re
'queried to enquire into the charge that have been ex-
I &tf4 to the comnpttt% or that may hereafter be pic
feated to him against the Bntdh Merchants, vtoen^
tzred into an agreement with the Executive of this State
of having violated the feme.
Fri Ivyd that a commits* be appointed to draw jjp
^mtn^abd lo be laid tefcie the Legislature cf tbs
Sye, which curainittee before the drawing up of tie
I,6.uemciial, are to fei eight days to receive any in,
lormab. h of further grievances which mey he brifiight
them by the Citizens; and which if they appear to :heni
as grievances they are ^t liberty to infect in frid me
morial, and to icpcrt the feme 10 .he next me ; :.irg loc
t'mir approbation : accordingl, the fuilu^V g^ tie
men w etc appointed.
EDWARD. %yWAN.?
WILLIAM 1
JoNG.v^^j
The meeting then n'jau'ced until V-Ulebj^y
30th inftint, at to </ Jack in the f { ,nw f <cn ai
Exchange. The committee appoirt^j dft day give
notice, that they hi attend at the Cbarlehown fra
vein ever, evening from fix iorel%ht / I <1; until
Monday rex , to receive from *he Ci : zen: mformatien
refp^&mg rhe g<etvur ,cis they labour under, from the
residence c- a number of pe fo^bwh^ \'.ate.
LDWARD WA MAN.
Caaum&t.
Ju'y 21st 1733,
w Died on fridav hft in the blobm of Life, after a
Imgring ib'nefe, Mfs Poll, Esmonds, elded Daughter
of the Revd. Mr. James Edmonds.
P UBLIC Notice is hereby given;
^ that all Perfors indebted tri the Elfre cf
John Hughs, declared, are requeued to cull and
fettle their accounts immediately, with Arthur
Hughs, according to Law, by the last dnyof ^L-.
temper ; otherwise, their accounts will be placed
in the handsofa Lawer.
THO- HUTCHINSON.)
PHIL CHIFFELLE.< E xrß .
ARTHUR HUGHS.J
Afhepco, y&y 2z.
CT.-rrror. T ,v ?ZZ TCT^7.. ~—»»».—»■ l <w<«WH t ia M AOi l »<iCT*««..,ii.iiMiwiju^ma JI
JOHN COLLETT intends go
iog to the Northward very soon : tequeft those who
have any demands on him, to call.at 193 Kingdreet.
T O hire by the Month or Year, a
very good (man ) Cook, two Brick
layers, and two Carpenters, Enquire
of
William Gibbes.
N, B. Lumber for sale ar my Lumber Ya:d South
Bay-
Wanted to purchase, a large parcel of Ct^di ^nd
Lightwood Posts.