The Gazette of the state of South-Carolina — Charles-town [S.C.], 1784-06-24 00:00:00, page 1

FOR SAL E,
On THURSDAYS Qof JULY before the
Exchange:,
AIWO Story HOUSE in Meeting-street
near the corner of Tradd-ftreet, between
No. 28 and 20, the house is remarkably cool and
airy, which makes it an agreeable retreat for a
country family to retire to in the fall; it contains
4 large rooms, a large garret, and an entry of 4
feet wide; large kitchen with 4 rooms, which be
ing near the front may answer as another tenement,
with a bripkw<;ll in the yard.—Poifeffion may le
had in August, but the property not to be altered
until the terms of sale are complied with, which
are, one eighth part of the purchase to he paid in
one month after the sale, another eighth the firft
of O&ober next, one fourth the firft of January,
17 8 5, and the balance to be paid the firft of Ja
nuary, 1786, with interest and fufficient approved
security.—Also 20 tame milch cows. Indigo or
rice will be received for the lad pavment. Such
as incline to treat before the day of idle may apply
to the fubferiber at the house.
John Milner.
ALSO a House WENCH, for whom three re
commendations in writing can be produced for her
honesty, industry and sobriety ; a good Washer and
plain cook ; flic is also very fond and careful of
children. Terms of sale are, half to be paid in
one month, and the other half in fix months after
the sale. Apply as above.
FORSAL E,
At Fo#Js Ferry, F^fo, the 13th of foly next,
THREE NEGROES, formerly the property
of Henry Young.
NOTIC£ "
IN Pursuance of an Administration on the eftate'
of fames Roberson, late deceased, I have, and
do hereby request all persons indebted to the said
estate, to make immediate payment to me ; and ail
persons having demands against the said estate, to
bring in their accounts by the 29th of July next,
properly attested to
GAD. GILSON, Adminfrator.
June 9, 1784;
L 0 si;
LAST Saturday, a black Pocket Book, contain
ing an Indent of Eighty-four Pounds Sterling,
with a Certificate for Land, inthe name of De Lef
pine. Whoever has found and will return the
fame, shall receive a reward of One Dollar, as it
will be of no service to them, being already flop
ped in the I reafufer s Office.--Alfo stolen from
the fubferiber, two black Mares, one of which is
15 hands high', branded on the mounting shoulder
I A and CA, with a short docked tail; the other
has a star in her forehead, branded N, her left
hind foot white, with fiddle spots, abCut:„ hands
hign. Aho a blacx Horse of the fame size, brand
ed on the mounting buttock W, the right fore foot
and the two hind feet white, hasa small star op
his forehead, some saddle spots, and pot bellied.-
• Also a sorrel Horse, branded on the mounting
shoulder ID, with a star in his forehead. Who
ever will produce the above horses, shall have a
reward of Two Dollars each, and on apprehending
the thief, so that he may be brought to justice, Two
Guineas for each.
Joseph De Lefpine.
June 21, 1784.
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NOTI C E
A ^Nfosto whef the estate of Andrew Plough
tor, f:. deceafea, if indebted, are once more
Tequefted to fad in a flat? of their refbeftive demands,
froft attend, by the 20th of ~s, otherwise they
will be excluded from payment.
June xo% ' fox FABIAN, A% Ex.
THE
L O F THE
STATE OF SOUTH-CAROLINA.
CHARLESTON: Printed for A. TIMOTHY, No. too, Meeting-Arm.
THURSDAY, JUNE % ty@.
From trie W fstmjNster Mag. for Jan. 1784.
A SKETCH of the LIFE and CHARACTER of
GENERAL WASHINGTON;
Written by John Rxil, Efcuirc, of Maryland;
in an Epistle to a Friend in London.'
G'''!'" "ASHINGION is the third fort
of l\lr, Augultne, W aldington, a man of
Firge property and chftingmfhed reputation in the
Rate of Virginia: an ahceftor of this gentleman,
about the period of die Revolution, fold his pro
perty, near Cave, in the East Riding of Yorkshire,
am! came ^ver to Virginia, where he purchased
lands in A'% Georges Chum y; and it was here
that our hero was born on the 22 of February in
the year 1733. ' n this county he has at this time
three brothers, Samuel, John, and Charles, all
gentlemen pf considerable landed property, and a
filler who is married to colonel Fielding Lewis.
His cldeft brother Lawrence, who went out a
captain of the American troops, raised for the
Carthagena expedition, married the daughter of
tpe honorable A illiam Fairfax of Belvoir, in Vir
ginia, by whom^he left one daughter, who dying
young, and ms second brother also dying without
issue, the General fuc?eeded to the family feat,
which, in compliment to the gallant Admiral of
that name, is called Mount Vernon, and is de
ligntiully Ltuated oh the Powtomac river, a few
miles below Alexandria.
General Wafnington is the cldeft son by a se
cond marriage ; and having never been out of A
mefica, was educated (as youths of fortune in this
Country generally are) under the eye of his father
by a private tutorage; a flight Faßure of the Latin
ki^"'.^, a grammatical Knot *%' "of tus mother
tongue, and the elements of the mathemadcs. were
the chief Cyeds he was taught to pursue. For a
few years after he quitted his. tutor, he applied
himfelf to the practical part,of fu/veying (a know
ledge of which is essentially requisite to men of
landed property in this country) and was appoint
ed surveyor to a certain diftri& in Virginia: an
employment rather creditable than lucrative;
though it afforded him an opportunity of chafing
some valuable tracts of land, and made him tho
roughly acquainted with the frontier country.
On the Governor and Council of Virginia rel
ceiving orders from England, in October. 1753
to repel by force the encroachments of the French
on the wefter^ frontiers, Hong the rivers Ohio and
de Boeuf, hm Washington, then a major in the
provincial service, Aid ah adjutant general of their
for ces, was dispatched by general Dinwiddie, with
a letter to the commander in chief of the French
on the Ohio, complaining of the inroads they were
making in direct violation of the treaties then sub
sisting -between the two crowns; he had also in
ftru&ions to treat with the fix nation^ and other
western tribes of the Indian's, gnd to engage therri
to continue firm in their attachment to England.
He fe. out on his perilous embassy, with about
15 attendants, late in O&ober, 1753; and so far
succeeded, ^hat on his return with Mons. de St.
Pierre's answer, and his good success in the Indian
hegociafions, he was complimented with the thanks
and appobation of his country., His journal of
this whole tianfa&ioh Was published in Virginia
and does great credit tri his indu&ry; attention and
judgment; and it has since proved of infinite ser
vice to thole who have been doomed to travel
the fame inhospitable tra&s.
Soon after this, the designs of the French bh
cornu,g more manifeft, and their movements and
conduct more daring, orders were issued out by
the administration for the colonies to arm, and
unite in one confederacy. The Aflembly of Vir
ginia took the lead by voting a firm of money for
the public service, and railing a regiment of four
hundred men for the protection of the frontiers of
the colony.
Major Washington, then about twenty-three
years of age, was appointed to the command of this
regiment, and before the end of May, in the en
'™ng y ear , came up with a strong party of the
French and Indians, at a place called Redstone,
which he effectually routed, after havin,aken ami
kihed fifty men; Among the prisoners Were the
celebrated woods-man Mons. De la force and two
other officers from whom colonel Washington
had undoubted intelligence, that the French forcer
on the LAV. ,onfoded of upwards of one thousand
regular db%e hundreds of Indians.
Up° A * digence, although his little army
was fond-wr educed, and entirely insufficient
to aft she ''againit thh French and Indians,
pet he puL, n towards his enemy to a good
F^ft; whter^ order to wait the arrival of some
expedited foccoOr from New-York tind Pennfylva*
nia, he entrenched himfelf, and built a small fort
called fort Necessity. At this poll he remained
mtmolcited,, and without anv fuccour until the
July following; when his small force, reduced
now to lef^ than three hundred men, was attacked
by an arir/y of French and Indians of about eleven
hundred a.ff ity.wdars, under the command of the
Sieur de Villiers.
The Vhgini^ns fuflained the attack of the ene
mys v/fodie force for several hours, and laid near
tVo hundred of them dead in the field, when the
French Commander difeouraged by such deter
mined lelolution; proposed the lets dangerous me
thod of dihodgxng his enemy by a parley, which
ended in an honorable capitulation. It was ftipu.
fated that colonel Washington Should march away
with all the honors of war, and be allowed to
carry off all his military Stores, effeftty add bag-
Ibis capitulation was violated from the ungo
veniable difpoiition of the savages, whom the
French commander could net retrain from plun
dering the provincials on the onset of their march,
d f.c.n mating a considerable daughter of men,
cattle, and horfes\
This bleach of capitulation was strongly remonj
ftrated against by the British Ambassador at the
court of V erlailles, and may be looked upon as the
wra when the French court began to unmask, and
to avow (though in a clandestine manner) the con
du& of their governors and officers in America;
they redoubled their activity and diligence on the
Ohio, and in other places during the winter 1754,
and the following Spring. Virginia had determin-'
ed to fend out a larger force; the forts Cumber
land and London were built and a camp was form-'
ed at Wills Cieek, from thence to annoy the
enemy on the Ohio.
In thefc several service:!; (particularly in the conX
ftru&ion of the forts) colonel Washington was
principally employed; when he was summoned to
attend general Braddock, who with his army arriv
ed at Alexandria, in Virginia; in May 1755. The
design of fending out that army; was to penetrate
thiough the country to Fort Du Quefne (now Fort
V"/ °y ' he ioute of Wills Creek; and as no per
lon was better acquainted with the frontier country
than colonel Washington; and no one in the co
lony enjoyed so well established a military cha
racter, he was judged highly serviceable to gene
ral Braddock, and chearfuily quitted his command
to aft as a volunteer and aid du camp under that
unfortunate general.
Ihe particulars of the defeat, and alrroft total
ruin of Braddock's army, consisting of two thou
sand regular^Britifh forces, and near eight hundred
provincials, aie too well known to need a repeti
tion; it is allowed on all sides that the haughty
positive behaviour of the general; his high con
tempt of the provincial officers and soldiers, and
his dddamful obstinacy in rejecting their advice,
were the genuine taufe^ &f this fatal disaster.
t/ith what refolutton and fte^dineis theprovintials
and their gallant commander behaved on this:
trying occasion, and in covering the confufed
retreat of the army, * let every British officer and
soldier confess, who were refeued from slaughter
on that calamitous day by their valour and conduct.
,After General Braddock's difafler, the colony
^[Virginia found it necessary to establish her mi
litia, raise more men, strengthen her forts, under
take expeditions to check the inroads of the ene-
* —— ■ — .-+___✓.
See Captain Orme's letter to Governor Dinwiddie
and afo the. other accounts of that day,
No. 2208.