The Pennsylvania gazette — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-09-25 00:00:00, page 3

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 24.
Extras of a Letter from Nezu-York, Sept. 14.
" The enemy, from their different manoeuvres and
great preparations, intend soon to strike a decilive blow;
their plan is to out-flank and hem us in, but I think they
will be disappointed, for the heights 4)ove Harlem and
Kin,Abridge are strongly manned and fortified, and all
the points up to Frog's securely picketed, the avenues
blocked, and the reads cut up to prevent the approaches
of their artillery. —They have opened the Courts of Ju
stice upon Long-Island, in which Mr. Ludlow presides as
Chief Judge; they have confifcated several eftates,,and
condemned one man to perpetual confinement, to linger
out his life in chains, and to be fed on bread and water,
I thinkiuch adts of oppression will turn to our advantage;
they carry a high hand, and, fiulhed with the success
which nature and not their own strength has given them,
they think in a little time to sweep off our army and be
in possession of America.—Old Oliver De Lancey is a
Colonel ; your poor friend Woodhull is killed, and. that
fawning treacherous courtier Governor Tryon lies at the
point of death. This intelligence was got from a period
who has been among them some time, and I think may
be depended on."
By several gentlemen arrived from the camp we collect
the following intelligence, that on Monday, the 16th in
stant, General Washington being informed that an ad
vanced party of the enemy was approaching his lines at
Harlem, he prepared to attack them with one party in
front, whilst another attacked them in the rear, to pre
vent tlieir retreat, which was nearly effected, when the
enemy, after a smart engagement, secured their retreat
under cover of their men of war in the East River. —
Col. Nolton commanded one party, and Major Leech
the other, the former killed and the latter wounded;
and that we had taken three field pieces. We are
further informed, that the evening before, our people
sent down three sire-ships upon the enemy's fleet, one
of which had grappled with a man of war, but the
having a spring on her cable, Iwung round with the tide
hnd disentangled herfelf, and they burnt to the water's
edge.without having the desired effeft.
Extras of a letter from Head-quarters at Harlem, Sept. 21.
" In the skirmish on Monday last we killed and wound
ed about zoo of the enemy; our lots was about 40 men
killed and wounded; Colonel Nolton among the slain, a
brave officer, who, when he was expiring, asked, Do
the enemy run ? Do our men fight well? upon being in
formed they dig, he replied, well then, I die contented."
Extras of another letter, of the fame date.
“ Laid night a fire broke out in New-York, and con
firmed all that part of the city near the North River.—
The enemy continue quiet, and we are strengthening
our lines; we Ihall soon be so strong that I think they
cannot dispossess us."
Extras of a Letter from St. Eulatia, dated Au%:fl 30.
'' A Spaniard from Bilboa, who was loft on Burbuda,
comtradi&s the report of the Spaniards and Portuguese
having fettled their differences, but that, on the contrary,
an army of thirty thousand Spaniards and ten thousand
French were on the frontiers of Portugal."
, Extract of a letter from Boflon, September 8.
" Captain Proctor is confined in the common goal in
Halifax, is treated most barbaronfly, and had been in
irons ten weeks on board the Mercury man of war ; they
threaten to take away his life, but he defp ; fes their
threats; all that he wants is to meet his enemies in the
field. He has been in Halifax goal about five weeks, to
gether with Col. Alien, Mr. Lovell, and 28 others."
In CONG RF SS, September 16, 1776.
Refolded, That eighty-eight battalions be enlisted as
soon as possible. to serve during the prefect war, and
that each State furn : fli their reipeftive quotas in the fol
lowing proportion, viz. 'Battalions.,
New-Hampshire - - --
Massachusetts-Bay - - ' - 15
Rhode-Bland - - - 2
Connecticut - - - - 8
New-York . - . . 4
New-Jersey - - -' .- 4
Pennsylvania - - - 1%
Delaware - - - - - Y
Maryland - - --g
Virginia - - - - - 15
North-Carolina - - - -
South-Carolina -•-- - 6
Georgia - - - - - T
That Twenty Dollars be given as a bounty to each non
commissioned officer and private soldier, who shall enlist
to serve during the present war, unlcfs sooner difeharged
by Congress.
That Congress make provision for granting lands in the
following proportions to the officers and foldirrs who shall
so engage in the service, and continue therein to the close
of the war, or until difeharged by Congress, and to the
Representatives of such officers and soldiers as foall be
slain by the enemy; such lands to be provided by the
United States, and whatever expence shall be necessary
to procure such land, the said expence shall be paid and
borne by the States, in the fame proportion as the other
expellees of the war, viz.
To a Colonel - - 500 acres.
a Lieutenant Colonel 450 ditto.
a Major - - - 400 ditto.
a Captain - - 3 00 ditto.
a Lieutenant - - 200 ditto.
an Ensign - - 150 ditto.
Each non-commissioned officer and soldier 100 acres.
That the appointment of all officers and filling up va
cancies (except general officers) be left to the governments
of the several States, and that every State provide arms,
eloathing, and every ueceffiry for its quota of troops, ac
cording t® the foregoing eftimat. ; the expence of the
eloathing to be deducted front the pay of the soldiers as
uf®l.
That all officers be commissioned by Congress.
That it be recommended to the several States that they
take the mod speedy and effectual measures for enlisting
their several quotas. That the money to be given for
boim-ies, be paid by the Pay-master in the department
where the soldier shall enlist.
That each soldier receive pay and subsistence from the
time of their enlistment.
September 18, 17-6.
Refolded, That if rations be received by the officers or
privates in the Continental army in money, they be paid
at the rate of eight ninetieth parts of a dollar per ration.
That the bounty and grants of land, offered bv Con
gress by.a resolution ofthe 16th inftanc, as an encourage
ment to the officers and soldiers to engage to serve in the
army of the United Slates during the war,.fhall extend
to all who are or ihall be enlisted for that term, the
bounty of Ten Dollars which any of the folders- have re
ceived from the continent ou account of a former cnlift
ment, io be reckoned in part payment of the Twenty
Dollars offered by said ref lution.
1 hat no officer in the Continental army is allowed to
hold more than.one comindlion, or to receive pay but in
ode capacity.
September 19, 17.76,
That the Adjutants of regiments in the Continental
army be allowed the pay and rations of Captains, and
have the rank of First Lieutenants.
in order to prevent the officers and soldiers who shall
be entitled to the lands hereafter to be granted by the rc
folution of Congress of the i&h, from disposing of the
fame during the w?r,
Refolded, 1 hat this Congress will not grant lands to
any perlon or perlons claiming under the alignment of
an officer or soldier. By order of the Congress,
JOHN HANCOCK, President.
. AYe are informed by a correspondent; that on Monday,
the 2d inSUnt, Elihu Hall, Esq; of C^cil county,
Maryland, had hi& ninth son baptized bv the name of
WASHINGTON LEE.
Monday lad a man went into a house in this city, and
unhung a looking-glass, with which he made off undif
ccveied; but it being presently milled, search was made
after the robber, who being closely pursued threw the
glass down, and broke it to pieces; he was afterwards
committed to goal.
We are informed by author ty, that the Honourable
the Convention of the Delaware State, which was ele&-
ed on the 19th day of August last, for the special purpose
of “ ordaining and declaring the future form of Govern
ment of that State, met at Newcastle on the 27th day
of the fame month, and having furnifhed their quota of
the Flying Camp, and ordered another battalion to be
forthwith raised, under the command of Colonel Samuel
Weft, to reinforce the army of the United States of
America, and having also finished the work for which
they were particularly chosen, they diffohed themfdves
on the 21st instant.
The names of the members for Newcastle county. Ni
cholas Vandycke, Richard Cantwell, Alexander Porter,
John Thompson, Abraham Robiufon, Thomas M'Kean,
George Read, John Evans, John Lea, John Jones.
, Kent count,. Thomas Collins, Charles Riddey, James
Sykes, Richard B dfett, Jacob Stout, John Cook, Samuel
Weft, John Clai ke, Thomas Wnite, Richard Lockwood.
Sussex county. Jacob Moore, James Rehch, Isaac Brad
ley, John Wiltbank, Isaac Horsey, William Poike, Joshua
Mill, Peter Hubbert, Phillips Kollock, Alexander Laws.
The Honourable GEORGE READ, Esq; was una
nimoully chefen President, and Mr. JAMES BOOTH,
Clerk of the Convention.
We are informed that the following gentlemen are ap
pointed Officers of Government for the State of N EW
JERSEY.
His Excellency WILLIAM LIVINGSTON, Esq;
Governor.
The Honourable John Stevens, Rice-Prefdent.
Legislative Council.
Middlesex, Hon. John Wetherill. Monmouth, Dr. Na
thaniel Scudder. Efex, Stephen Crane. Somerset, Wil
liam Patterson. Bergen, John Fell. Morris, Silas Condier.
Burlington, Richard Smith. Gloucester, John Cooper.
Salem, Andrew Sinnickfon. Cape-Map, Jonathan Hand.
Hunterdon, John Stevens. Cumberland, Theophilus El
mer. Sussex, John Cloves Symmes.
Members of the Assembly.
Middlesex, John Coombs, Daniel Moore, William
Manning. Monmouth, John Covenhoven. Joseph Holmes,
James Mott. Eflex, Abraham Clark, Caleb Camp, Henry
Garretter. Somerset, Jacob Bogart, Alexander M'Ewen,
Rulet Vandyke. Bergen, Peter Zabrifkie, Tncuris Dey,
David Board. Morris, Jacob Drake, Ellis Cook, Wil
liam Woodhull. Burlington, Peter Tallman, Caleb
Shrieve, Joseph Newbold. Gloucefler, Robert Friend
Price, Isaac Mickle, Richard Somers. Salem, Edmund
Wetherby, Dr. Samuel Dick, Eliflia Basset, jun. Cape
May, Eli Eldridge, Joseph Savage, Hugh Hathorne.
Hunterdon, John Hart, John Mehelm, Charles Coxe.
Cumberland, John Buck, Jonathan Bowen, Ephraim Har
ris. Sufex, Caspar Shaver, Abia Brown, Thomas Pe
terson.
Secretary and Clerk of the Council, Charles Pettit, Esq;
Treasurer, Richard Snrith.
Attorney-General, Hon. William Patterson.
Clerk of the Supreme Court, Bowes Reed, Esq;
Clerk of the Circuits, Elillra Boudinott.
Chief Ju/tice, John De Hart.
Second Judge, Samuel Tucker.
Third Judge, Francis Hopkinfon.
DELEGAT ES' for that State.
Dr. John Mitherfpoon, Richard Stockton, Francis
Hopkinfon, John Hart, Abraham Clark.
*** Ihe Committee of the County of Burlington are
to meet at the house of Zachariah Roffell, in Mount-
Holly, on Friday, the 4th day of October next, at ten
o'clock A. M. when ths Collectors in the several town
inips of said county art to attend and finally fettle their
accounts.
GUN CARRIAGES WANTED.
In COUNCIL of SAFETY, September 18, 1776.
Refolded, That Col. Bayard and Col. Matlack be 'ap
pointed to employ proper persons to make a number of
Gun Carriages for the service of this State.
Extract from the Minutes,
. JACOB S. HOWELL, Secretary.
Workmen capable of this business, and willing to un
dertake any part of it, are requested to apply immediately.
Associators will have a preference.
A T a meeting of the Contributors to the Society
for assisting distressed prisoners, on the 2d instant,
agreeable to advertisement, the following persons were
chosen, Isaac Howell, Joseph Alien, Be Jamin Shoemaker,
Samuel Sanfom, Benjamin Marlhall, Joseph Stanfbury,
Christopher Ludwig, Benjamin Poultney, jofeph Pafchali,
Robert Strettell Jones, Samuel Clark, and Richard Wells,
Managers; and Thomas Moore, Treasurer; who are
ready to receive the annual payment of Ten Shillings from
the old fubferibers, and such others as may incline to
encourage this charitable association. And, as the arti
cles of the society may not be generally recollected, it is
thought proper to republish the preamble, and such of
the rules as respect the design of the institution, viz.
WE whose names are hereunto fubferibed, taking
into consideration the bufferings of a number of
our fellow creatures, who are unfort unatelv from time
to time confined in goal, and ' ing impreffi d with an
earned sympathy for their miferms co ague to associate
together and form ourselves into a company, by the name
of the Philadelphia Society for a ( :ozv dfrehed Prisoners,
arid the more effectually to carry our design into exe
cution, we adopt the following rules.
# In. in older to begin a stock, we will immediately pay
into the hands of *#***,*^ the firm of Ten Shillings.
2( " When the number of fubferibers shall amount to
40, we will meet together andchoofe, by ballot, 12 Ma
nagers and a Treasurer, who shall make enquiry into the
particular cases of actual fufferers, and: afford such relief
in food, firing, physic and.raiment, as the stock will ad
mit of, and they ihall judge, expedient.
sth. The Managers ihall meet together once in every
month, at such hour and place as they may agree 011
and when met 7 shall make a Board, a majority of whom
shall^ determine on all matters relative to the ihltitution.
6th. Two of the Managers so chosen ihall, by rotation,
¥$ , the ^° al at least ° nce a week, and administer such
relief as they ihall think necessary,
% 7th. A new election shall be held in September every
year, of which one week previous notice shall be given
in the public papers.
nth. If, on enquiry into the present laws of the pro
vince respecting prisoners, they should be thought insuffi
cient, or to want additions or alterations, we will use our
endeavqtiis with thw House of AfieniblV, either by petition
or application, to remedy the fame.
12th. Ihe turns hereby fubferibed, and the donations
which may be made 10 this institution, shall be wholly
applied towards the comfort and support of such as are
'n^bfolute want, and by nd means be employed in paying
, S ? r obtaining discharges, the design of this in
stitution being only to alleviate some of the miseries which
are the gener il attendants on goals.
Philadelphia, September 21, 1776
EIGHT DOLLARS Reward?
RUN away from the fubferiber, the beginning of last mmith
a Scotch servant lad, named J A MES H A Y, 17 years
°'., ? ^' about 5 feet 3 inches high, dark brown hair, and Gene
rally wears it tied, is much pitted with the small pox, and has'a
down look ; had on, when be went away, a green cloth coat
brown check linen waifteta, fuftian breeches. Whoever ap
prehends said servant, and secures him in the workhcufe of this
city, shall have the above reward. GEORGE MIFFLIN. <[
Jen Dollars Reward.
RUN away from the fubferiber, living in Evefoam, in the
county of Arlington, on Monday, the 9» of September inf.
a Aft man named Moses, about 5 feet 4 inches Q, a thick
J. L ^ °f ^n be went away, afoott light coloured coat,
^itb binding of the fame colour, a pair of foong new faes, with
large prated buckles, bemfon linen roofers, a black flock with fled
buckle. Ice also sole, and took with him, a blue great coat, with
white metal buttons ; the other part cf bis clothes not known. 'As be
bas been endeavouring to prevail up un the Negroes in this neighbour
hood to go with ban and join the mirifterial army, it is hoped ewry
lover of bis country will endeavour to apprehend so dating a villain
Whoever will fare him in any goal in tbtsState, fall be entitled to
the above reward, with reafenable charges if brought home, paid by
CHARLES READ.
SIX. I EEN DOLLARS Reward,
n ES ERTED from Captain Jacob Humphrey's company,
of the firft battalion of flying camp, of Philadelphia
county, commanded by Col. John Moore, two soldiers viz
fames M'Mfys, about 5 feet 7 inches hieh, a st ou t ch^mfe.;
fellow, lived in Abington township. And William MMafcfs
about 5 feet 6 inches high, has a fear under his left jaw; they
have dark coloured hunting shirts, and formerly belonged tf>
Captain Longftrech's company, fecund battalion of Philadelphia
county militia. Whoever secures said deserters, and fends them
to their refpeAive company, & Perth-Amboy, shall have the
above, reward, or Eight Dollars for either, and reasonable cha ^es
°Y Jacob Humphrey, Captain, g'
Philadelphia Barracks, Sept.
TAESERTED, last night, from Captain Ho l m ecom-
JL, pany of militia, of the fi rft battalion, of Cumberland
county, a certain JAMES COLE, about 21 years old, fair
hair, about 5 feet 8 inches high, is dim made, a good looking
lad ; had on a hunting shirt and leggings, of a light lye colon;
a striped jacket, good shoes, a small brimmed hat. Whoever
takes up said deserter, and secures him in any goal, so that he
may be delivered to his company, now on their way to camo
shall have FOUR DOLLARS reward.
t An drew Holm es, Captain.
GAME to the plantation of JOHN ROBERTS
near Logan's mill, in Bristol towhfhip, a red C O W, with
a star between her horns, flanks, feet, and half her tail white.
The owner is desired to prove property, pay charges, and take
her away.q
Eaft-Marlbonougb, Chester County, Sept. 1776
FORTY SHILLIN GS Reward?
RU N away from the fubferiber, iaft night, an Irish servant,
named flail Carlton, about 19 years of age, about 5 feet 4
or 5 inches high, black hair, pretty much marked with the small
pox, has a blemish on one of his eyes, and a down ill look when
spoken to; had on, and took with him, a new felt hat, an old
brown jacket, one shirt and two pair of trowfers, one pair wet
out of the wash tub, and it is thought he is barefoot. Whoever
takes up said runaway servant, and secures him. so that his ma
fler may get him again, shall have the above reward, and rea
f>nable charges, paid by William Cloud. (J
IA /A S stolen from the fubferiber, in Sadfbury townlhip,
y Y Chester county, on the evening of the firft of August
last, half a sett of dark calicue curtains, two calicoe' short gowns
one of which had long sleeves, ruffled one sheet of a ten hundred
linen, a lincey check apron, a pair of blue yarn flocking, with
red clocks, a pair of^high heeled shoes, also a pair of mens shoes
one fhiit and a pair of blue and white striped trowfers a beaver'
hat, fcolloped on the brim ; the above goods were fbTen by a
woman that called herfelf Peggy Moor, and said she fer'ved her
time with one Sleator, a Tavern-keeper ; she had on a black ca
iimancoe petticoat, a white Sort gown, a black bonnet ; wants
her teeth before, black hair, a little grey ; sh e could speak Dutch
and said ihe had been living with Dutch people. Whoever se
cures the above described woman and goods, shall be entitled to 3
reward of FOUR DOLLARS; and any person that can
give information of any of the goods, or woman, fha'l be fuffi
ciently rewarded, by JOSEPH PARK.g
r C °"^' °f P ^ d ^^ a , September 24 1776.
HE Lectures on Materia Medica, Chemistry,
T the P RACTICE 0, P HYSIC , win begin on the last
iuefday of October.
TWENTY-TWO POUNDS Reward.
THE Wardens of the City do hereby promise a Reward of
Tzuenty-rao Pounds, to any Person or Perfins who ffidl
make Difeovery to them, by whom three of the Public Lamps
were broken on Wednesday Night last, and eight others on Sa
turday Night following.---The above Reward to be paid on Con
vision of the AggrefUrs, or Forty Shillings per Lamp.
THE Collectors of the Provincial and County Tax, for the
County of Chester, who have not fettled with the Trea
surers for the fame, are heieby requested to meet the Commission -
ert, at the House of William Karlin, in Chester, on Friday the
^ h r" ^° b " ^at 10 unlock in the Morning, and the
u , ° ffice " ° f f atd County, who have not complied^ wife
the Resolves of Alfembly, in making their Returns of Associa
tors to us, are requested to make them, at or before the ab; ve ap
pointed Day. By Order of the Conifers
Sept. 24, 1776. Caleb davis, Clerk.