The Pennsylvania gazette — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-05-29 00:00:00, page 3

Refolded unanimous,, That this province has hitherto
exerted itfelf ? and will, upon all occasions, continue to
exert itfelf with chearfulnefs and alacrity in the common
cause, agreeable to the faith pledged in the union of the
Colonies; and if it flhall appear to this province necessary
to enter into farther compact with the other Colonies, for
the preservation of the constitutional rights of America,
this province will enter into such farther engagements for
that purpose.
Refolded unanimoufy, That this Convention, by a reso
lution of the 15th day of this instant, hath made fuffi
cient provilion to prevent a necessity for any person within
this province now taking the oaths for the support of go
vernment under the crown of Great-Britain ; and that
it is the opinion of this Convention, that it is not ne
teffary that the exercise of every kind of authority under
the said crown Ihould be now totally suppressed in this
province, and all the powers of government exerted
under the authority of the people.
Refolded; That the Honourable Matthew Tilghman,
£fq; and Thomas Johnson, jun. Robert Alexander, Sa
muel Chafe, Robert Goldfborough, William Paca, Tho
mas Stone, and John Rogers, Esquires, Deputies, now
re-elected, by ballot, to represent this province in Con
gress, be, and they, or any three or more of them, are
empowered to represent this province in Congress, until
the end of the next session of Convention, as fully as
they might, until the end of this session of Convention,
have done the fame under their former appointment.
Refolded unanimouJly, That as this Convention is firmly
persuaded that a re-union with Great-Britain, on consti
tutional principles, would molt effectually secure the
rights and liberties, and increase the itrength, and pro
mote the happiness of the whole empire, objects which
this province hath ever had in view, the said Deputies
are bound and directed to govern themselves by the in
ftru&ions given to them by this Convention in its session
of December last, in the fame manner as if the said in
ftruaiwns were particularly repeated.
Extract from the Proceedings,
G. DUVAL, Clerk.
N EW-Y O R K, May 27.
By Express arrived here on Tburfda, Evening lajl from
Boston, ewe have the following important Intelligence, viz.
That the Continental armed schooner the Franklin,
commanded by Capt. Mugford, on the 17th instant, took
and carried into Boston a Ihip from England, about 300
tons burthen, mounting fix carriage guns. She left En
gland the 4th of April in company with nine fail of tran
sports, under convoy of a frigate, bound to Boston. The
following is an invoice of her cargo, as delivered from
the office ®f ordnance.
Mhy 21. On reading, a second time, and co^fiderin*
the resolution of Congress, of the 15th day of this inst.
transmitted to this Convention by the Deputies attending
for this province in Congress, by exptefs,
Refolded unanimously, That the people of this province
have the sole and exaufive right of regulating the inter
nal government and police of this province.
Refolded unanimously, That it is the opinion of this
Convention, that this Convention hath ample power to
draw the whole force of this province into action against
the armed force that is, or may be employed to carry
into execution the several unconstitutional and oppressive
a6ts of the British parliament, for laying taxes in Ame
rica, to enforce the collection of those taxes, and for
altering and changing the constitution and internal police
of some of the United Colonies.'
Laden on board the HOPE M Jak- TVißiams,
Contractor, and Alexander Luufdale, Matter, the under-*
mentioned particulars, to be transported to Boston, in
North-America, (the danger of ,the seas only excepted)
and there delivered to the Commissary of the artillery,
or to such persons as the officer commanding the Royal
artillery fhzll appoint to receive them. In further part
of Col. Cleveland's demand, ordered by the board the
26th of July last.
1900 carabines, with bayonets and Reel ram rods;
1000 carabine cartouch boxes; 1000 flings. Spare tra
velling carriages, 24 pair heavy, and 12 pair light, with'
traversing handspikes for ditto. Hand saws, 84 in a case.
Saud bags, 5000 bulhel, and 5000 half bushel bags. Man
tilets of cured hides, 100 in 20 cases. Broad-axes, 144/
Hand hammers, 60. Grindstones with troughs, 15. Fall
ing-axes, 300. Hand-hatchets, 500. Hand-bills, 500.
Wheel-barrows, 268. Hand-barrows, 15c. Spades, 100'0;
ditching ditto, 250; ihovels, 750 shod, and 250 iron.
Coils of rope,' 1 of 4| inch, 1 of 3 inch, 1 of zj inch,
and 2 of 2 inch, tarred rope; 1 of 34 inch, 1 of 2 inch,
2 of i inch, white rope.
Carpenters tools, in setts.
Hand-saws whet and set, 6; tennon ditto, 6; turning
ditto, 6; broad-axes, helv'd, 6; adzes, help'd, 6; pin
mauls, 6; hammers, 6 claw and 6 rivetting ditto. Chif
fels, broad helv'd, 6; scribing ditto, 6; heading ditto,
12; pareing ditto, 6; forming ditto, 36; mortising ditto,
24; large ditto, 11. Gouges, 36 formers, 6 picking ditto,
X? trunnion ditto. Pieces or pads, stock and springs, 6,
bits for ditto, 72; draw-borers, helv'd, 24; Pincers, 6
pair; engineers augers, 8 to a sett, 6; iron squares, 6 ;
brass chalk line rolls, 6 ; chalkdines, 12 knots; iron com
passes, 6 pair; fhafts for engineers augers, 12; two feet
rules, 6; black lead pencils, 6 dozen; 6 dozen ditto for
tennon saws; gimblets sorted, 124, large spike ditto, 12;
glue, 12 pounds ; copper glue-pots, 6 ; fifh-fkins, 6; mal
lets, 6; bettys or tmall iron crews, 6. Planes, long;
with irons fixed, 6; 6 fore-planes, rz fmoothiag ditto;
half-inch grove, one and a half ikew rabbit, one inch
square ditto, half inch ditto, three quarter inch beed,
live-eight ditto, one and a quarter ogee, one inch, three
quarters, one half ditto, one inch quarter-round, three
quarter inch, five-eights ditto, one and half inch phili
fters, plows with 6 iron, 6 of each, contained in 6 chests.
Hamber lines, 50. Eleven barrels spikes, from 5 to 8
and half inches. Nails, 24d. 385,000. Pick-axes, with
helves, 500. Sledge-hammers, with helves, 25 ; augers,
with fhafts, 75 ; 1500 copper-hooped barrels of gunpow
der, equal to 75 tons.
STILLINGFLEET DUMFORD.
Office of Ordnance, Nov. 4, 1775.
Last Saturday week the brave Captain Mugford, com
mander of the armed schooner Franklin, after feeing his
prize fafe into Boston harbour, was going out again, but
the tide making against him, he came to an anchor off
Pudding Gut Point; the next morning by day break the
.centry law 13 boats from the men of war making for them,
they got ready to receive them before they could board
.the schooner; she funk five of the boats, the remainder
attempting to board, they cut several of the crews hands
off as they laid them over the gunwale. The brave Capt.
Mugford making a blow at the people in the boats with a
cutlass, he received a wound in the bread, on which he
called his Lieutenant, and said “ I am a dead man, don't
give up the vessel; you will be able to beat them, if not,
cut the cable, and run her on there," ha expired in a few
minutes; the Ljedtenaht then run her on,fhore,and the
boats made off; the men that were taken up from the
boats that funk lay they loft 70 men. The schooner had
but one man killed besides the Captain.
A letter from Boston, dated last Monday, fays, Captain
Mugford fevered the man's head from his body at one
blow who wounded him, and that 100 men at lead were
drowned andkilled in the boats ; and that the schooner's
crew confided of no more than 30 men.
• The Cockfwain of a barge belonging to one of his Ma
jesty s ships now at Nanuftet road, we hear came to town
yesterday from that place, and reports, that he with the
crew were sent on Dime for milk, but rather than return
on board the ship delivered themselves up to the people of
Bolton, were they were kindly received.
The Cerberus frigate watered at Block-Island on Sun
day the rath instant, and chafed some filing boats into
Newport this day week.
. , b ! ig that was consort with the Cerberus is said to
be failed for Halifax, with t^ree prizes; some of them said
to be from France.
Two of the Continental Fleet failed from Newport last
week, in order to cruize in Boston Bav.
PHILADELPHIA, May 29.
To the Honourable the C ONGLESS of the United
Colonies of North-America.
The MEMORIAL of the COMMITTEE of the
City and Liberties of Philadelphia,
Refpeßfullj Jhevueth,
TH A T they have beheld '.h ^ ^ : ^if^on the \f
fembiy of the province or Pen .Uvania withdraw
from its union with the C< ~R$ (in consequence of
their inftrudions to their Delegates) upon the Resolve of
the Congress of the 15th instant, for suppressing all au
thority derived from the crown of Great Britain in the
United Colonies.
That they confider she fafeby, liberty and future wel
fare of this colony as infcparably connected with its
union with the other colonies.
That they have always eftau ned their chief happiness
to consist in the.faithful execu an of such of the Resolves
of the Congress as tended to maintain said union.
That in consequence of the defection of the Dele
gates appointed by the Assembly of Pennsylvania. from
a union with the other colonies, they apprehended an
appeal was made to the people.
That in compliance with the request of a large majo
rity of the inhabitants of the city and liberties of Phila
delphia, on the 20th instant, :' ey have issued letters (by
virtue of a power given to the in a Provincial Conven
tion held in Philadelphia in January 1775) for calling a
conference of the Committees of the counties, in order
to colled the sense of the inhj dants upon the aforefaid
Resolve of Congress, and if feeble to bring about a re
union of the province with ti;c other colonies, by calling
a Provincial Convention, with a view to form a govern
ment for that purpose.
they have heard wifl ^ reat s urprise, that the
Assembly of thus province are about to present a Memo
rial to your Honorable Body, in consequence of a Re
monstrance delivered to them from a number of the in
habitants of Philadelphia, in which it is said they have
requeued an explanation of vour Resolve of the 15th
instant.
That the Remonstrance on which this Memorial is
founded strikes diredly at the union of the colonies, by
praying for the continuance of^ government in this pro
vince which is fopported in its executive forts entirely by
a Governor and officers who hold all their power under
the authority of the King of Britain.
That the said Remonstrance has been obtained by inde
fatigable indnftry and unfair representations, and is signed
chiefly by men who hold offices under the crown, or by
people connected with them, or by those who have uni
formly opposed every measure adopted by the Congress
(petitions to the King only excepted) or by those who
have published testimonies manifestly injurious to many of
those steps that have been taken in this province in support
of the union of the colonies.
That the Committee are determined to comply with the
Resolve of the Congress of the 15th instant, in the man
ner k "i , entioned > and they declare that the present
Assembly of the province was not chafes, and is not in
yefted, with powers to carry the said Resolve into execu
tion.
. That the unwiliingnefs of the House to appeal to the
voice of the people, and the pains they have taken to pre
vail upon the Congress to interfere in our “ domestic po
, betrays a fear that in refufing to comply with the
°. e °' the Congress, they will aft contrary to the in
clinations of a majority of their constituents.
That a majority of the present Assembly do not possess
the confidence of the people. That it does not contain a
full and equal representation of the province ; that it is
composed of men who hold offices under the crown of
Britain; that they have deputed the power which was
deputed folel, to them, to persons who had not the sanc
tion of the voice of the people for legislative purposes;
and that we have reason to believe that they have beeri
dragged into a compliance with most of the Resolutions
of the Congress from a fear of a Provincial Convention.
„ From a government formed by men marked with such
inconfiftericies, prejudices and arbitrary views, we have as
much to fear as from the unlimited exertions of that
power which has declared itfelf possessed of a right to tax
us without our consent, and to bind us in all cases what
soever.
The Committee have too much confidence in the wis
dom of your Body, to believe (when informed of the
true situation of the province) that you meant to include
the Assembly thereof in your recommendations to “ As
semblies” to form new governments. The origin and
present tenure of your power can never fuffer you to for
get that it was by making names yield to things and
forms to substantial justice, that you acquired the confi
dence of America, and the admiration of the world.
Tb"' beg that the Congress would not be deceived by
misrepresentations. They declare solemnly that they
have no design or wiffi to alter those parts of the charter
or laws of the province which secure to every man the
enjoyment of his property, liberty, and the sacred rights
conference. They wilh only to fee alterations made
in inch o_ them as relate to representation in the pro
vince, and such as render the consent of the King and
his Governor necessary to give efficacy and execution to
our laws, and these they conceive to be no less necessary
to the “ fafety and happiness of our colony in particular/'
than “ to America in general."
The situation of our province, it is true, requires vi
gour and harmony in the direction of both civil and mi
litary affairs, but these can never be obtained when a
people no longer confide in their rulers. The Committee
fear no calamities from a disunion throughout the pro
vince but thus publicly charge the feeblenefs of all our
Counlels to oui union with men of narrow and interested
^T^ "? ftre ^ th °f a country, in the time of tear;
% umber of its fighting men. The Confti
incuts ot this Committed, who are composed chiefly of
men of this elais, have declared that they will support
the union of this province with the other colonies at
every hazard ; and they have the pleasure of inform..
hXar" tha r '^"" determinations prevail in most of the
battalions of the province.
By order of the Committee,
r THOMAS M'KEAN, Chairman.
Commirtee Chamber, Ma, 24, 1776.
fr ° m ^ovid^fb dated the 21 st inst. mentions,
arnorig other articles on board the transport lately taken
Mugford, a large quantity of bread-plates,
said to he bullet-proof; about 30011 flerl. worth of dry
goods, and a quantity of provisions. 7
l^b lic is cautioned to beware of counterfeit Six
Dollar Bills of Maryland, as several are now passing
among us. They are dated the firft of March,'l77c
and are badly engraved, whereas the true bills are neatly
done with printing types, and the letters ftahd regular
they-may readily be detected after this notice.
"p%° T , E E ' Buc ^ s County, Ma, 22, 1776.
Refolded, 1 hat the inhabitants of those townships in
this county, who have not already ele&ed persons to take
up the arms of non-affotiators, agreeable to a late re
solve of the Aflembly of this province, be requeued to
meet on Saturday, the Bth of June next and choose
tor th. 1 purpose; and that the members of
board who inhabit in such townfhipg, will advertise
this resolve at some of the most public places in theifr
townships, with the hour and place of meeting; and it
is recommended that the persons who shall be so chosen.
together with those chosen already, join in diftri&s
^" d resolve of Assembly in the following order,
"Vr'°' Ea "°' Middletown.--Newtown, Lower-Make
field Upper-MakefiGd.—Milford, Haycock, Richland.—
" en a . le , ? Southampton, Northampton.— Wright's-town,
Buckingham, Solefbury.—New-Britain, Rockhill Hill-
Warmiufter, Warwick, Wamngton.-Plu'mfted,
Bedminfter, linmcum.—Springfield, Nockamixon, Dur
ham. E, Order of Committee, 1
JOSEPH HART, Chairman.
„ different Companies belonging to the middle
Battalion in the County of Bucks, who have not chosen a
Committee of Privates, are requested to choose three
persons (to continue until the time that Court Associ
ators are to be chosen) to join the several Committees
from the other companies, for the purpose of collecting
the Associators concerning our present cri
tical situation; and in general to confider of and re
every thin g that may be for the well-being of
the Associators.
*** It is expected that the other Battalions will also
choose Committees, that a correspondence may be open
cd, and that unanimity may attend our proceedings.
Getting ready for the Press, and will be published as loon as
possible,
The FRIENDLY MONITOR.
C.ONTAININ G,
First, A timely warning piece to all those who hold places or de-'
pendencies under either the Crown or the Proprietaries;
shewing the indelicacy, indecency, ard probable danger to
themselves in their endeavouring to raise parties.
Secondly, The true interest of Pennsylvania considered and im
partially stated, shewing tikewife, that the Pronrietary's
'"'^ °™ 3> ^ e r r will he dangerous, and in the end
deftrumve to the province ; with outlines of a plan for totally
abolishing it, so as to do jufl ice to the Proprietaries, quiet
the minds of the people, and promote harmony through the
province.
Thirdly, Shewing that according to the present charter every
mari's land and property is forfeited, and that unless a new
charter be formed; on the authority and united consent of 'the
people, in order to ratify and confirm the rights and privileges
contained in the present one, that no man is secure in anv
thing he poffefles. '
Fourthly, Shewing the danger and treasonable folly contained in
a paper called the remonstrance, now circulating for the pur
pose of having it signed ; and of another paper signed W. Ha
milton, which contains expressions and fentimenfs so dar
ingly opposite to the rights and liberties of the people, that
were they adopted would hold up this province as rebelling
against the union of the Colonies, and thereby lay the foun
dation of it's deftruajon.
With such other remarks as the slate of times and things shall
make necessary.
tTk MEMBERS of the
St. A NDRE W's SOCIETY
AR E desired to attend their Quarterly Meeting, at the
Indian-Queen Tavern, on Friday, the 31st Instant, at 7
^^!j^^CT!^^ Secretary.
10 be fold by public vendue, on Friday next, at
the late dwelling-house of Simon Sherlock, deceased, in the
Diftri£ tof Southwark,
AL ARGE quantity of ship timber; also two horses. two
cows, and sundry houihold furniture. The sale to begin
a: 9 o'clock in the forenoon ; where attendance will be given
by Robert White, Robert Knox, and James Sher
lock, Executors.
N, B. All persons indebted to the said estate are desired to
make speedy payment, and those that have any demands against
it are desired to bring in their accounts, properly proved, to said
Executors. Philadelphia, May ?.c, 1776.
ALL Persons who have any Demands against the Estate ,f
RICHARD ROBINSON, late of this City, de
ceased, are requested to bring in their Accounts, properly proven,
to the Subscriber, who is now paying off said Demands.
4^ _ JOSEPH SWIFT.
THE Creditors of WILLI AM R A Y^who kept Store
in Eaft-Pennfborough, on Susquehanna, and failed about
the } ear 1750) are desired to bring in their Accounts, properly
proved, to the Subferibers, they having a small Sum to divide
amongst them. § Jeremiah Warder, and Sons.
To be SOLD out of the Province,
A LIKELY strong and healthy N EGROE MAN,
about 30 Years of Age. He is a compleat Farmer, and.
well understands Ditching in high as well as low Lands.
Enquire of the PRINTERS. ^
T O hSOLD,"
A LIKELY NEGROE BO Y, 14 Years of Age.
Enquire of Aaron Leaming, at Cape-May. ([-
WAS LOST, on the 28th of May instant, on the
, road leading from Marshall's mill to the city of Phi- 1
ladelphia, or in the city, a black Leather Pocket-Book, with a
brass fprmg clasp, containing about Six Pounds Continental cur
"ree Pounds Ten Shillings Pennsylvania, and Two
Dollars Maryland money; also a Receipt from the Continental
K^a^ier, or 8000 Dollars Continental currency, and fun&y
otner papers. Whoever has found the fame, and will deliver it
reward. §.
A TRAVELLING FOol-CHA.GOI, for a fin
/ 1 with h Pair of Harne ss, will be fold on Satur
day, the firft of June, at tne Coffee-Houfe, unless f id at private
Sale before taat time. Enquire of the Printers for the Owner.