The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg [Va.]), 1770-11-29 00:00:00

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From the General Evening Post.
HARING in Lancashire what vast improvements had been made in town, and how beautifully the streets of it were paved, and the houses adorned. I could not help, old as I am, having the curiosity to see so fine a sight, and therefore took a place in our stage coach for London, where I arrived on Wednesday last; but being fatigued with so long a journey, I resolved to rest myself at my inn in Fleet street all Thursday, and to begin my view next day. Accordingly on Friday morning I set out from my inn, to walk as far as Westminster Abbey. I found the footpath in the streets much better and easier for my feet than they were when in town last, and was much pleased with the improvement; but as I was crossing the way in the Strand, and not dreaming of any danger, I very narrowly escaped being rode over by some coaches, which came upon me in full gallop, as if riding a race. However, with some difficulty, I escaped the danger, and resolved to take care how I crossed the streets again. I then proceeded in my walk, and took notice, as I went along, what large houses and fine shops all sorts of tradesmen now had, and concluded from thence that trade must be in a very flourishing condition. At Charing Cross some men were mending the pavement with new stones, and I had the curiosity to ask them from whence the stones were brought, and they told me from Scotland; from whence I concluded things went well with Scotland, and that Scotch stones were better than English. At length I arrived at a beautiful building that faces St. James's park, and inquired whose house that was, and was informed it was the Horse Guards. I fancied it to be a kind of fort, and from the elegance of the structure I concluded that our army was in a very flourishing condition. From thence I continued my route until I came to Westminster Abbey, opposite to which I observed a new stately stone building, and inquired whose house that was, and was informed it was built for the better convenience of our members going to the Parliament House; from whence I concluded that the Parliament was in a very flourishing condition, and that the old ways to the Parliament House were not good enough for the new ways in it. After making a short stop in this place, I thought I had ambulated enough for one day, and therefore turned homewards again. But when I came into Parliament street, two chairmen, carrying a Lady in a hurry, jostled hard against me, and threw me down; when a well dressed Gentleman, in a laced waistcoat, immediately stepped to me, and helped me up. For which I was very thankful to him, and concluded that fine Gentlemen in London were very obliging; but presently feeling in my pocket for my handkerchief, to wipe off some dirt on my coat, it was gone. This made me feel in my other pockets, when, to my surprise, my purse was gone too; and (what vexes me most) my gold watch, which was my father's, and had been in the family above a hundred years, was gone also. I turned about directly to look for the fine Gentleman, and saw him at a vast distance off running apace; from whence I concluded that my fine Gentleman was no better than a thief, and had got my watch and purse. Upon this I hobbled home to my inn as fast as I could, and then began to reflect that there was no judging by appearances, and that I might be as much mistaken in concluding that fine houses and shops proved the great trade and riches of the shopkeepers, or that fine ways to the Parliament House was a proof of fine ways in it, as I was in taking an errant thief for a fine Gentleman because of his dress. In short, I have seen enough of your fine town, and shall make all the haste I can back into Lancashire.
OLD SQUARETOES.
GREAT BRITAIN and AMERICA how affected by the present dispute.
IT seems to be a prevailing opinion in Great Britain that the Parliament have a right to tax the Americans, and that unless they have such a right America would be independent of Great Britain; and it seems to be a prevailing opinion in America that by taxing them without their consent, and where they are not and cannot be represented, you deprive them of the rights of Englishmen, nay, in time, with the loss of the constitution, you will deprive them of liberty and property altogether.
This is a very interesting subject, the consequences in each case very important, though neither so alarming nor so dangerous to Britain as to America.
With regard to Great Britain, if it should not prove so as is claimed, the consequence can only be this, that then no tax can be laid, or revenue raised, on the Americans, inconsistent with their natural rights as men, and with their civil and constitutional liberties as Britons; but the dependency of the Americans upon Great Britain will be as full, and firm, as ever. But, with regard to America, the mischief is beyond all expression, if the contrary should take place. If they are not to raise their own taxes, all their Assemblies become useless in a moment, all their respective legislatures are annihilated at a stroke. An act passed by persons, most of whom probably never saw nor cared much for America, may destroy all the acts they ever passed, may lay every burthen upon them under which they are not expected immediately to sink; and all the civil and religious liberties for which their forefathers went into this wilderness, and, under the smiles of heaven, turned it into a garden, of immense consequence to the mother country, will, or may, be at an end at once. Probably the present Parliament, or generation, would never carry matters to this length; but who knows what may be done in the next? The first letters of the American wilds never expected that would come to pass which we have seen already. They never expected it would be drawn into question whether they themselves should give and grant their own money where they are legally represented, or whether the Parliament of Great Britain should give and grant their money where they are not represented. Surely this proposition can never be admitted to be just, without admitting at the same time that the Americans are upon a level with the meanest slaves; a situation into which, I should think, Englishmen would disdain to reduce their fellow subjects.
PARIS. Sept. 11.
MADAME Louise, his Most Christian Majesty's daughter, who has been for some time in a convent of the Carmelites at St. Denis, took the white veil last Monday. The Dauphine attended the ceremony. The Pope's Nuncio had an extraordinary character, to represent the Pope upon this occasion. His Most Christian Majesty, on that account, has made the Nuncio a present of his picture richly set with diamonds.
LONDON, August 9.
THIS day their Majesties came from Richmond to St. James's, when the Prince of Hesse Darmstadt, with his family, appeared at Court, and received particular marks of their Majesties attention. Her Majesty made the young Princess a present of a rich diamond and pearl necklace, in a manner no less noble and generous than genteel. After showing the jewels to the Princess, her Majesty asked if she might put them about her Highness's neck; which honour being politely accepted, after adjusting the collar her Majesty declared they became her much, and hoped she would wear them as a token of her remembrance and regard. The Prince, with his family, who appeared incognito, took leave of their Majesties, and a few days after set out for Paris.
A quarrel happened between a man and his wife in Bermondsey street, Southwark, when the woman snatched up a red hot poker and ran it in the man's eye; the husband, in his agony, threw a knife at the wife, and killed her on the spot. The jury brought in their verdict accidental death.
August 17. An odd circumstance has lately occurred to an officer of the customs at Portsmouth, by the seizure of a large case, which he took to be sweetmeats; but on opening it, he found it to be human bones. The ridicule which this has brought upon him is the circumstance alluded to; for now the boys follow him in the streets, crying, Daddy, who seized the sweetmeats!
Some officers of the army are highly displeased with the late orders from the War Office for numbering the buttons on their regimental clothes. "Damn me," says a young Ensign, at St. James's coffee-house, the other day, "what a degradation is here! Why it was but this day, as I was passing the Temple, a ticket porter came up to me and insolently accosted me with, Brother what number?"
The following is sent us for a real fact. A governess teaching her young heedless pupil to spell, cries, bless me, Lady Susan, you spell as bad as the Duke; why, child, you'll see yourself one of these days the ridicule of every newspaper. Shall I (replied the young Lady) I vow I will never learn to read, and then I shan't see it; and away she ran as fast as she could.
A ship of a very ancient construction was discovered and weighed up near Newcastle, the keel of which is upwards of 70 feet; her planks overlap one another, and she appears to be Spanish built, and is supposed to be one of the ships sunk at the Spanish invasion.
August 21. On the 22d of June the Gentlemen of the House of Burgess joined the body of merchants of the province of Virginia in a more firm association than has yet been entered into by any respectable body of men in any of the colonies, and they have pledged themselves to support their non importation agreement at the hazard of their lives and fortunes. It was signed by 168 of the first people in the colony.
August 22. A letter signed Junius appeared this day in the Publick Advertiser, and in Lloyd's Evening Post. It is addressed to Lord North, and contains a charge of rewarding Colonel Luttrell at the risk of the national safety. It is written with the usual spirit of the admired author, but of the truth or fallacy of its contents we can say nothing.
August 26. In the garden of Mr. Burrowes, of Stepney, have been dug up a large iron pot full of silver commonwealth money, which it is thought will fetch a large sum.
August 31. The Society of Arts have voted a silver medal to Mr. Jaffey, a farmer in the Isle of Thanet, for his account of the culture of the new kind of winter's food for cattle, called the turnip rooted cabbage. This plant kept growing to the end of the spring. His produce from it, including both herb and root, was in proportion to 45 tons an acre. This is the proper time of sowing the seed in order to be planted out early in the spring, and the spring following these plants will be at their full growth.
Sept. 18. Friday the Lord Mayor sent cards to all the Aldermen and Common Councilmen of this city, with his compliments, desiring the favour of their company to dine with him next Thursday at the Mansion House. At the bottom of every card was put the following: "N. B. Sir, please to return an answer by the bearer, by which method his Lordship will know the exact number that will dine with him, and the cooks will be better able to judge of what quantity of provisions, &c. they must provide." It is said most of them returned answers that they would wait on his Lordship.
Sept. 19. We learn from Hexham that on Wednesday last they had some showers of rain, attended with thunder and lightning; and that day, as Mr. Trotter, of Readmouth, was sitting at table after dinner, a flash of lightning broke in at the window, which killed him and a greyhound which lay at his feet. His daughter, and a maid servant, were both considerably hurt, but it is hoped they will recover.
Extract of a letter from Paris, Sept. 10.
"The Parliament have issued an arrest concerning what passed in the Bed of Justice on the 3d, wherein it is said: "that the many acts of arbitrary power exercised against both the spirit and the letter of the constitution of the French monarchy, and indeed against the solemn vow of the King, leave no room to doubt of a premeditated project to change the form of government; but that the Parliament, inviolably attached to the laws, will still, without ceasing, make it their aim to carry truth to the throne, and continue more and more to give proof of their fidelity, and their love of an orderly, firm, and steady conduct, notwithstanding all the endeavours that have been used to throw them into trouble and confusion, by the repeated acts of rigour exercised against them."
"The farther deliberation upon what passed in the late Bed of Justice is postponed to the 3d of December next, when all the members will be summoned to attend."
To our correspondent, who is desirous of knowing the occasion of the present war between the Russians and the Turks, we must answer as the soldier did Babouc in Voltaire's World at it goes. Babouc addressed himself to a soldier in the Persian army, and asked him what was the cause of the war in which he was enlisted. The soldier made answer that, for his part, he knew nothing of the matter; but if he (Babouc) was curious to learn the cause, he might apply to his Captain. Babouc made himself acquainted with the Captain, and asked him the same question. How canst thou think that I should know? said the Captain. My business is to fight and make my fortune, or to fall in the field by a glorious death. Babouc, struck with astonishment at the ignorance of men who were cutting one another throats, got himself introduced to the commander in chief, who, with some diffidence, told him that he believed it might take its rise at first from a quarrel between an eunuch belonging to one of the concubines of the great King of Persia and the clerk of a factory belonging to the great King of India. The dispute was about a claim which amounted nearly to the thirtieth part of a darick. Our first minister, and the first minister of the enemy, maintained the rights of their respective sovereigns with becoming dignity; the dispute grew warm; both parties sent into the field armies of a million of soldiers, that are annually to be recruited with 3 or 400,000 men. Massacres, burning of towns, ruin, and devastation, are daily multiplied; the whole country suffers, and their mutual animosity still continues. The first ministers of the contending monarchs frequently protest, that they have nothing in view but the happiness of mankind, and every protestation is attended with the destruction of mankind, and every protestation is attended with the destruction of a town or the desolation of a province. Nothing can be a truer picture of the present war.
OXFORD, August 25. Early on Tuesday morning last died, aged 46, Mr. Stephen Law, of this city, mercer, who about a year ago had been obliged to decline business, under indispositions, and whose illness, which was extremely tedious, as well as painful, was brought on by the dreadful apprehensions he had imbibed from the treatment of three or four of his creditors only, out of the whole, who most cruelly refused to accept the best composition his all would afford. Under these circumstances the Faculty could administer no relief, and the poor man absolutely died of a broken heart. He was universally allowed to be a very honest, though unfortunate, man.
We remember to have met with an anecdote of the great Doctor Radcliffe, which does honour to his humanity. Being called in by a person of great credit in the city, whom he found apparently labouring under an uncommon depression of spirits, the Doctor conceived what the patient meant to conceal, and after a friendly chitchat stepped down stairs and left the following nutrum:
To Messrs. — & Co. Pay the bearer one thousand pounds, and place it to the account of J. Radcliffe.
This prescription was ordered to be immediately applied, and the patient was directed to attend the Doctor at a tavern, where his case should be farther considered. The medicine proved so efficacious that the sick man instantly left his bed, and in a few hours returned home perfectly recovered.
CHESTER, August 21. One day last week a schoolmaster in this city, receiving intelligence that two of his scholars were playing truant, despatched two others in quest of them, who found them robbing a Gentleman's garden of some fruit, near the city walls; whereupon the lads acquainted the owner of it, who directly, with his man, went with them to the spot where they were. But one of the scholars, perceiving them coming, nimbly mounted the walls, and said, I'll take my bible oath I'm not on the issue of the garden, and then ran off. The other, who was in a tree, and could not readily make his escape, cried out, in a sorrowful tone, I hope, Gentlemen, you will not hurt me. The Gentleman was so pleased at the just application of their speeches that he not only forgave them their trespasses against him, but saved them from a severe flagellation, which they otherwise would have received from their master for playing truant.
BOSTON, Nov. 1.
IN our last we mentioned that at the Superior Court held here on Wednesday began the trial of Captain Thomas Preston, of the 29th regiment, who was indicted by the grand jury, in several indictments, for the murder of Mr. Gray, Maverick, and others, on the 5th of March last. The examination of evidences, and the pleas, were continued from Wednesday, each day (Sunday excepted) until Monday, when the Hon. Judges summed up the evidences, and gave the charge to the jury. The jury went out about five o'clock, and it is said agreed by eight o'clock. The court was adjourned until the next morning at eight o'clock, at which time they brought in their verdict, NOT GUILTY, and Captain Preston was dismissed.
On Thursday last the Hon. House of Representatives chose Dr. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN agent for the House; and yesterday they made choice of Dr. LEE, of London, as agent in case of the death or absence of Dr. FRANKLIN.
Extract of a letter from London, Sept. 6.
"Mr. Hutchinson is Governor. The province, I am sure, ought to be very thankful for the having one born among themselves for their Governor, one who so well knows their condition, and who has all his lifetime shown himself a friend to it. This government could have done nothing that ought to be more acceptable to the colony, or that will put them more evidently in the wrong if they do not agree with him. After that it will be manifest that their quarrel is not against any particular person, but against the having any Governor at all."
Extract of another letter from London, of the same date.
"Web goes on, I think, to be a little more testy; and, if no new accident happens, I do not doubt but the Ministry will set out next session with a much greater majority, and that will soon bring us into better order."
It is said in London that the demand of goods for New York is so great, and the manufacturers engaged to supply it, that if orders should arrive from Boston the manufacturers could not fulfil them until next spring.

WILLIAMSBURG, Nov. 29.
THE Regulators of North Carolina having threatened, we hear, to pay the Assembly a visit at Newbern, in order to force them to enact what laws suit their notions of government, his Excellency Governor Tryon has ordered the militia of several counties to repair to that place, and to remain there during the session.
The Fairfield, Hamilton, from London, is arrived at Norfolk, in which came passengers Dr. JAMES BLAIR, and Dr. WALTER JONES, of this city.
[Marriages.] CHARLES CARTER, Esq; of Corotoman, to Miss NANCY MOORE, second daughter of Colonel Bernard Moore.
WILLIAM NELSON, jun. Esq; clerk of Caroline, to Miss LUCY CHISWELL.
FRIDAY, Nov. 30. This being St. Andrew's day, which is appointed by the charter of this city for the election of a Mayor, JOHN RANDOLPH, Esq; his Majesty's Attorney General, was chosen into that office for the ensuing year. At the same time Mr. HALDENBY DIXON was elected one of the Common Council.
This day Jesse Townsend, from Augusta county, for murder, was executed at the gallows near this city, pursuant to his sentence. He seemed very penitent, but denied his having committed the crime for which he suffered.
Advertisements.
A CATALOGUE of BOOKS, &c. to be SOLD at the POST OFFICE in Williamsburg.
POSTLETHWAYT's Dictionary.
Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Hume's History of England. Smollett's History of England. Puffendorf's Law of Nature and Nations. Anson's Voyages. Byron's Voyages. British Zoology. Present State of the British Empire in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. Butler's Remains. Birch's Life of Henry Prince of Wales. Baxter's Saints Everlasting Rest. Bennet's Christian Oratory. Burnet on the Thirty Nine Articles. Chandler's Life of King David. Campbell's present State of Europe. Dictionary of the Bible. Dictionary of Ruscium. Dinsdale's Isocrates. New Whole Duty of Man. Drelincourt on Death. Crevier's Roman History. Dryden's Works. Dufresnoy's Chronological Tables. Farmer's Guide. Goldsmith's Roman History. Guthrie's Epistles to Atticus. Gibson on Horses. Gerard on Taste. Harris's Life of Cromwell. History of Cape Breton. Howell's Letters. History of California. History of Greenland. Harris on the Globes. Howell's History of the Bible. Heisham's Lectures. Leland's Demosthenes. Miller's Gardeners Calendar. Musical Dictionary. Models of Conversation. Travels into Italy. Rushhead's Life of Pope. Osmer on Horses. Review of Nations. Religious Philosopher. Reimarus's Dissertations. Revival of Shakespeare's Text. Sheridan on Education. Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws. Smith on Distilling. Ulloa's Voyages. M'Laurin's Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries. M'Laurin's Algebra, and Fluxions. Melmoth's Translation of Cicero's Letters. Potter's Antiquities of Greece. Ferguson's Astronomy, Lectures, and Tables and Tracts. Simpson's Geometry, and Euclid. Smith's Moral Sentiments. Watt's Logick. Emerson's Fluxions, and Mechanicks. Potter's Mathematicks. Stewart's Tracts. Love's Surveying. Wild's Surveying. Sir Isaac Newton's Universal Arithmetick. Youth's Introduction to trade and Business. The Preceptor. Martin's Philosophical Grammar. Salmon's Geographical Grammar. Tiffot on Health. Tiffot on Diseases incident to sedentary Persons. Miss Glass's Cookery. Mrs. Brooke's Cookery. Gordon's Geographical Grammar. Johnson's, Bailey's, Dyche's, and Buchanan's, Dictionaries. Hoyle's Games. Kimber's English Peerage, Scotch Peerage, and Irish Peerage. Etkine's Sermons. Doddridge on Religion, and on the New Testament. Brown's Sunday Thoughts. Fox on the New Testament. Kettlewell's Companion. New Practice of Piety. Nelson's Festivals. Secker's Lectures on the Catechism. Stanhope on the Epistles and Gospels. Taylor's Holy Living and Dying. Heister's Surgery. London Dispensatory. James's do. Pemberton's do. Edinburgh do. Astruc on the Diseases of Women, and on Venereal Diseases. Brooke's Practice of Physick, and Introduction. Cheselden's Anatomy. Harris on the Diseases of Infants. Armstrong on the Diseases of Children. Huxham on Fevers. Lewis's Pharmacopoeia. Ledran's Observations, and Operations. London Medical Observations. Monro on Diseases. Mihler's Surgery. Sharp's Surgery. Mackenzie on Health. McBride's Essays. Pringle on the Diseases of the Army. Smellie's Midwifery. Culpeper's Midwifery. Lind on the Scurvy, and on Diseases in hot Climates. Van Swieten's Abridgment. Columella's Husbandry. Pardon's, Fenning's, Dilworth's, Mair's, and Cocker's, Arithmetick. Fenning's Book of Knowledge. Young Man's best Companion. Voltaire's Works, and Age of Lewis XV. Pope's Works. Swift's Works. Young's Works. Addison's Works. Tom Brown's Works. Relicks of ancient English Poetry. Fordyce's Art of Preaching. Beveridge's Thoughts. Adventures of a Bank Note. British Plutarch. Baron Biefeld's Letters. Bartlet's, and Brecken's, Farriery. Marmontel's Belisarius, and Moral Tales. The Connoisseur. Clarissa. The Complete Gamester. Chambeaud's Geography. Life of Charles XII. Life of the Duke of Marlborough. Life of Prince Eugene. Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Death of Abel. Noah. Messiah. Manners. Langhorn's Letters, and Consolations. Memoirs of Ladies of Great Britain. Epistles for the Ladies. Telemachus. England's Gazetteer. Milton's Works. Sentiments of Pamela. Family Companion for Health. Barclay's Apology for the Quakers. Rudiments of Grecian History. Saxby's British Customs. Du Freval on Charity. Duke of Wharton's True Briton. The Partizan, or the Art of making War in Detachment. Commentaries of Marcus Antoninus. History of Kuli Khan. Walsh's History of the Popes. Whaley's Poems. History of Classical Authors. Hutchinson on Beauty and Virtue. Cambray's Dialogues on Eloquence. Cambray on Charity. History of Lewis XI. Gentleman's Dictionary. Instructions for the Indians. Impartial Inquiry into Faith. Dittion on the Resurrection. Morgan's Physico-Theology. Durham's Astro-Theology. German Spy. Switzer on Gardening. Voltaire's Letters on the English Nation. Swift's History of the four last Years of Queen Anne. History of the Spanish Settlements in America. The Spectator. Rabelais's Works. The Grand Tour. Biographical Dictionary. Letters on Physiognomy. Historical Companion. Soliman and Almena. Secret History of Persia. James on Gardening. History of the Germans. Edinburgh Medical Essays. Marquis D'Argens's Philosophical Dissertations. Naval History of Great Britain. Nature Displayed. Maxims of Christina Queen of Sweden. Roderick Random. Shaftesbury's Characteristics. Female Spectator. Joseph Andrews. Seneca's Morals. Lord President Forbes's Works. Spincke's Devotions. Gay's Fables. Farrier's Dictionary. Steel's Poems. Shakespeare illustrated. Turkish Spy. Prior's Poems. Works of the Minor Poets. Trenchard's and Gordon's Tracts. Winter's Evening Entertainment. The Wiltshire Beau. Rollin's Ancient History. Rollin's Belles Lettres. Thompson's Works. Tom Jones. The Life and Adventures of a Lap Dog. Hogarth moralized. Hogarth's Analysis of Beauty. Watt's Poems, Psalms, and Hymns. Boston's Fourfold State. Hervey's Sermons. Etkine's Gospel Sonnets. Alleine's Alarm to Unconverted Sinners. Baxter's Call to the Unconverted. Wesley's Poems. Hughes's Poems. Pilgrim's Progress. New Week's Preparation. Bunyan's Holy War. Crosby's Navigation. Atkinson's Epitome. Mariner's Compass. Mariner's New Calendar. The Royal Farrier. Fielding's
Works. Emily Montague. Taitram Shandy. Yorick's Sermons. Hervey's Meditations. Hervey's Letters. Smollett's Gil Blas. Don Quixote. Lord Halifax's Advice to a Daughter. Doddley's Collection of Poems. Doddley's Pleasing Instructor. Richardson's Elop. Arabian Nights Entertainment. Mulso's Calitas. The Cottage, by Miss Minifie. Cotten's Works. Dryden's Fables. David Simple. &c. &c. Ainsworth's Dictionary. Gradus ad Parnassum. Castalio's Latin Bible. Castalio's Dialogues. Mair's Tyro's Dictionary. Lilly's Grammar. Ward's Grammar. Rudijman's Grammar, Rudiments, and Grammatical Exercises. Clarke's Introduction, Grammar, Cordery, Elop, Eutropius, Florus, Erasmus, and Ovid's Metamorphoses. Duncan's Cæsar, and Cicero's Oations. Davidson's Virgil and Horace. Prosodia Consuetud. Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Salust, Justin, Juvenal, Cicero's Oations, and Terence, Delphini. Sterling's Ovid, Terence, and Florus. Hutchinson's Xenophon. Mantua's Homer and Virgil. Pearce's Longinus. Trapp's Pælectiones. Martial's Epigrams. Latin Common Prayer Book. Greek Testament. Greek Sententiae London Vocabulary. Boyer's Dictionary. Memoirs of Madam Pompadour, and Pamela, both in French.
A great variety of history and other pretty books for children. Spelling books of all kinds. Church Bibles and prayer books. Family and pocket do. School Bibles, Testaments, and Psalters. Instructions for the violin and flute, the Beggar's Opera, Love in a Village, and the Padlock, set to musick, a great variety of other musick by the best masters, and blank musick books.
Musick ruling pens. Cremona and Steiner's VIOLINS, with best screw bows. Silver basses and best Roman strings. German and common flutes, of different sizes. Surveyors instruments. Best temple spectacles, both green and plain. Common do. Reading glasses, for different ages. Best penknives. Pewter ink chests and stands. Edinburgh ink pots. Message cards, plain, gilt, and mourning. Broad and narrow red tape. Ivory and als skin memorandum books. Morocco pocket books of all sizes. Pounce and boxes. Ivory folders. Best wafers, and Dutch sealing wax. Slates and pencils. Sand boxes. Black and red lead pencils. Black and red ink powder. Red ink in vials. Gold leaf. Best Dutch quills and pens. Hudson's Bay quills. Playing cards. Blank books, and alphabets, of all sorts and sizes. Paper of all sorts and sizes. Parchment, and every other kind of stationery.
Also the following MEDICINES, from Dr. Bateman's original wholesale Warehouse in London, which we will sell at little more than prime cost. Dr. Bateman's Pectoral Drops, Dr. Hooper's Female Pills, Dr. Fraunce's Female Strengthening Elixir, Swinfen's Electary for the Stone and Gravel, Dr. Bolderson's never failing Worm Cakes, Bettan's true and genuine British Oil, Fryar's Balsam, Bateman's Golden and Plain Spirits of Scurvy Grals, Dr. Stoughton's great Stomachick Elixir, the true Daffy's Elixir, Dr. Bofcock's famous Purging Elixir, Dr. Radcliffe's famous Purging Elixir, Squire's Grand Elixir, Dr. Anderson's famous Scots Pills, Godfrey's General Cordial, Chase's Balsamick Pills, right French Hungary water, fine Lavender water, Eau de Luce, Pibe's Patent Ointment for the Itch and all Cutaneous Eruptions, Issue Plaisters, which stick without filleting, and Madden's sovereign Oil for Bruises and Strains.
* We have a few of the late REVIVAL of the LAWS, neatly bound, more than what were printed for the use of the country, to dispose of. Also MERCHANTS, COUNTY COURT, and a variety of other useful BLANKS.
NORFOLK, Nov. 26, 1770.
A LARGE and complete assortment of GOODS, suitable for the season, is just imported by the subscribers, and to be sold at their store (newly opened) adjoining to the dwellinghouse of Mr. Neil Jamieson, upon the most reasonable terms, either by wholesale or retail.
HECTOR McALESTER & Co.
WILLIAMSBURG, Nov. 29, 1770.
IMPORTED by the subscriber, in the Neptune, Captain White, an assortment of goods suitable for the season, which he ordered before he left London. Mens, womens, and childrens worsted hose, English and Dutch blankets, womens and childrens quilted petticoats, cloth cloaks and cardinals, satin cloaks, worsted stuffings, poplins, olinabrug, bearfkin, bays, halfticks, forrest cloth, cottons, superfine fashionable broadcloths, womens quiltings, velveteens, winter gloves, muslins, Gloucester cheese, porter at 3 l. 5 s. a hhd. &c. &c.
He continues to sell for ready money only, and has no doubt that those who have been pleased to apply at his store, from his prices, are sensible of an advantage in that way of dealing.
ROBERT MILLER.
WILLIAMSBURG, Nov. 29, 1770.
WILLIAM BROWN, born at Bently in Derbyshire, Great Britain, is supposed to have come into this colony, with a son and family, some time before the year 1716; he left several brothers and sisters in England. If he, or any of his descendents, are living, they may hear of something to their advantage from
BEN. WALLER.
WILLIAMSBURG, Nov. 29, 1770.
ON Tuesday next, if fair, otherwise next fair day, at ten o'clock in the morning, at the late dwellinghouse of Nathaniel Walthee, Esq; deceased, in this city, will be sold great part of his personal estate, consisting of household furniture, desks, and a variety of other articles, on six months credit for all sums above 40 s. bond and security being given. His valuable collection of English, Latin, French, and Italian BOOKS, are to be sold altogether or separately, at any time, such as are lent out are desired to be returned. The books themselves, or a catalogue of them, may be seen by applying to
BEN. WALLER, Executor.
THE subscriber, intending to go immediately to Great Britain, requests all persons indebted to him to pay their respective balances to Mr. Edward Johnson at Rocky Ridge, or to Mr. John Edmondston at Richmond, who are properly authorized to receive and give acquittances for the same.
ANDREW EDMONDSTON.
MIDDLESEX, Nov. 23, 1770.
A SINGLE man that understands teaching of reading, writing, and arithmetick, and can come well recommended, will meet with good encouragement, by applying to
WILLIAM CHURCHILL.
W A N T E D,
A PERSON capable of acting as a CLERK at Recovery furnace, near Fredericksburg.
ANTHONY THORNTON, jun.
Just imported from LONDON, in the Two SISTERS, Captain TAYLOR, and to be SOLD by the subscriber, at the store next door to the POST OFFICE, on the most reasonable terms, for ready money, a very large and fashionable assortment of MIL-LINERY, and other goods suitable for the season, viz.
VERY rich China tafetas of all colours, white lusting, fine chintz, printed cottons, linens and calicoes all wid., book mullin, striped and thick all wide do. long lawns, cambrucks, clear lawns, plain all wide and yard wide gauze, striped, flowered, and sprigged do. catgut, paulmet, new fashioned tetelas, laced and flounced casting handkerchiefs, checked gauze do. spotted, striped, bordered and flowered do. yard wide black silk handkerchiefs, striped bordered lawn do. beautiful flower cups, egrets, plumes with leaves, single do. lace and gauze caps, fashionable luffs of gauze, genteel puffs, great variety of ribands, new fashioned figured and piated do. silver thimbles, shenell, riband, lace, and flowered do. best Italian nolegays and breast flowers, shenell in bunches, very nice hair rolls and tates, single and double curls, woolpacks, paste combs, plain, hollow backed, tortoiseshell, and horn do. paste sprigs, marcasite and pearl birds, marcasite and pearl half moons, very large French paste sprigs, do. star pins and fancy, do. union and thistle sprigs in close work, do. in form of leaves, real garnet do. marcasite, &c. a genteel assortment of necklaces, fine French, shot, and oval wax agates, jet and common do. real and mock garnet do. pearl and set necklaces, do. earrings, bugles, fine stone buckles, London gilt do. in sets, bath, pinchbeck, and common do. all sizes of velvet collars, beaded do. all sorts of wedding, second mourning, and ivory fans, in cases, common do. plain and bordered lawn aprons, striped and minionet lawn do. Jacob's ladder, edgings, minionet and blond laces, sifs to work mullin with, Lisle and other threads, needles, pins, tapes, silver thimbles, pinchbeck, ivory, and common do. sarpicks, toothpicks, childrens blue caps and feathers, waiting boys do. Ladies riding hats and feathers, gloves for do. cap wire, Gentlemens very fine furred hats, watch fringes, purlies, thread gloves, white silk, buckskin, beaver, yellow wash, and black shamois do. Ladies black and white silk gloves and mits, nice grained kid, coloured lamb, purple, and black shamois do. Didbury's and Dawit's shoes, blue and white satin pumps, calimanco and leather shoes, boys and girls do. childrens black and blue bonnets, gloves for do. mens best spun silk hose, do. raw silk, marble do. fine worsted do. white, gray, and black do. for women, boys and girls do. plain and flowered fatincloaks and bonnets, Denmark hats, Gentlemen and Ladies Morocco pocket books and glasses, ivory combs, plain do. in cases, tortoiseshell do. buffalo sliding knives and forks, tortoiseshell penknives, common do. black and white satin quilts, double camblets, flannels and checks, Denmark and chipped hats, dressed in the newest fashion, Gentlemens best hair pins and powder, plain and spangled gold loops, buttons, and bands, for hats, white and blue farcenet quilts, very good white sheeting, flaxen and hempen obnabrugs, sewing silk of all colours, in grain, fashionable broadcloths, trimmings suitable for do. Bath coating, Irish and other linens, scissors, spuff boxes, toys, Queen's china, and confectionary of all sorts, with a multiplicity of other articles too tedious to enumerate.
MARY DICKINSON.
N. B. She returns those Gentlemen and Ladies who have honoured her with their custom her most cordial thanks; and as the above will be sold on lower terms than the former, she hopes it will be an inducement for a continuance of their favour, which will be gratefully acknowledged by
Their very humble Servant. M. D.
To be SOLD at Fredericksburg, on the 15th of December,
SEVENTY five choice SLAVES, several blacksmiths, carpenters, and house servants. The negroes consist chiefly of young fellows, wenches, boys, and girls. Bond and security to be given to the administrators of John Robinson, Esq; Joseph Jones, and John Skinker. Credit until April twelve-month.
CHARLES CARTER.
To be SOLD on the premises, on Thursday the 20th of December, if fair, otherwise next fair day, to the highest bidder,
A VERY valuable tract of the best kind of tobacco land, about 45 miles from Petersburg, containing about 1000 acres, lying in the county of Brunswick, near Ingram's ferry, on Meherrin river, and bounded on both sides Shining creek, with all convenient houses for cropping, sufficient for fifteen hands, all of which have been built but a few years; also a very good new dwellinghouse, with two rooms below and one above, plank above and below, and all convenient outhouses for a family. Credit will be allowed until the 25th of April next, bond and sufficient security being given; and a proper title will be made for the land at the day of sale.
Also will be sold, the same day, for ready money, several valuable SLAVES, and a large quantity of CORN and FODDER, with the stock of HORSES, CATTLE, HOGS, and PLANTATION UTENSILS.
STERLING THORNTON.
To be SOLD at Nanzattico, on the 20th of December,
NANZATTICO, which was particularly described some time since. I therefore think it unnecessary to say more than that it has all advantages of an agreeable seat, fish, fowl, and a pleasant situation, the land fine, and there is now growing between 300 and 400 acres of fine wheat. The terms will be made known at the sale. Also a large quantity of genteel HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE of all sorts, mahogany desks, dressing tables, chairs, standing beds, and many things too tedious to mention. Also a number of good PLOW HORSES, CATTLE, and HOGS, a quantity of CORN, and FODDER. Credit until the first of October next. Bond and security to be given to Joseph Jones, and John Skinker.
CHARLES CARTER.
To be SOLD for ready money, for the benefit of the enjurers, the following damaged goods, at West Point, on Saturday the 8th of December,
A COMPLETE CHAISE and HARNESS, &c. also a quantity of NAILS, and some other goods, imported in the schooner Neptune, Benjamin Hammond master.
JOHN G. FRAZER.

Just imported in the Two Sisters, Captain Taylor, from London, and to be sold very cheap, for ready money, at the subscriber's store.
A LARGE assortment of goods for the season, viz. Woollens, linens, cambricks, muslins, lawns, calicoes, damask table cloths, plain and striped lustrings, flowered satins, white, black, and crimson satin cloaks, womens white hats and bonnets, India and English perians, farcenets, and modes, India dimities, wide and narrow figured dimities, variety of fashionable plain and figured ribands, millinery and jewellery, mens, womens, girls, and boys leather gloves, womens white and black silk gloves and mits, mens, womens, and childrens silk, cotton, thread, and worsted stockings, mens, womens, and boys beaver and felt hats, mens, womens, and childrens satin, calimanco, and leather, shoes and clogs, hyson and bohea tea, double and single sugar, best jar raisins and currants, best salad and barbers oil, French olives, capers, anchovies, hartshorn shavings, mustard, rotten stone, salt petre, black pepper, copperas, powder and shot, playing cards, variety of Latin books and other books for children, variety of glass ware and Queen's china, &c.
JOHN CARTER.
To be SOLD for ready money, on Monday the 3d of December, at RICHMOND town,
A BALE of Dutch BLANKETS, imported in the Lord Clive, Duncan Murray master, for the benefit of the ensurers.
M'KEAND & BUCHANAN.
Just imported from LONDON, in the Two Sisters, Captain Taylor, and to be sold at the subscriber's shop, three doors below the Raleigh tavern, in Williamsburg,
A COMPLETE assortment of DRUGS and MEDICINES, chymical and galenical; also fine jar raisins, currants, prunes, white and brown sugar candies, barley sugar, orange chips, carraway comfits, capers, olives, anchovies, fine salad oil, mustard, spices of all sorts, vermacelli, salop, sago, ivory syringes, court plaister, lint, tow, gold leaf, &c. &c. &c.
WILLIAM PASTEUR.
To be SOLD at publick auction, on Friday the 14th of December, for the benefit of the ensurers, at Port Royal,
S UNDRY WOOLLENS, imported in the Lord Clive, Duncan Murray master, from Hull; consisting of coarse broadcloths, beaver coating, bear skin, Dutch and other blankets, and cottons.
JAMES BOWIE, jun.
PRINCE GEORGE county, Nov. 23, 1770.
R UN away from the subscriber, on Monday the 19th instant, a negro fellow named FRANK, 5 feet 6 inches high, about 27 years old, of a yellow complexion, has a scar on his right cheek, and the sinews of one of his hams seem to be drawn up in knots. He carried away sundry clothes with him, viz. an old green stuff coat and breeches, a short blue and white mixed Virginia cloth coat, an old blue plains coat, an old red frieze jacket, a pair of old buckskin breeches, and sundry other clothes. He has run away twice before, and always got on board of some vessel or other and worked as a freeman. I understand he will attempt to get out of the country, if he possibly can; therefore I forwarn all masters of vessels, and others, from employing or harbouring the said slave, or carrying him out of the country, at their peril. He has got a wife among the Indians, at Indian town, on Pamunkey river, and may possibly be sculking about there. Any person that will bring the said slave to me, if taken in the colony, shall have FIVE POUNDS reward, and if out of it, TEN POUNDS.
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DAVID SCOTT.
S TRAYED, or STOLEN, from the subscriber, at Rocket's landing, on James river, the 3d of this instant (November) a middle sized bright bay mare, shod before, with a small star in her forehead, has a hanging mane and twitch tail, her tail much rubbed, and her fore legs much rubbed by hobbling. Whoever brings the said mare to New Kent courthouse shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS reward; and if stolen, on conviction of the thief, FORTY SHILLINGS.
STEPHEN WILLIS.
T AKEN up, in Amelia, a light gray horse, 6 or 7 years old, 4 feet 7 or 8 inches high, with a hanging mane and twitch tail, paces and trots, has a scar on his right side, near his back, had a bell on, is branded on the near shoulder J, and on the near buttock C. Possed, and appraised to 5 l.
WILLIAM SOUTHALL.
I F Elizabeth Holland, daughter of William Holland, heretofore of James river, in Virginia, shipwright, and of Agnes his wife (and which said Elizabeth Holland is supposed to have lived in or near New York, or on or near James river, or York town, in Virginia, in North America) be living, or (if dead) hath left any issue, she, or such issue, may hear of some thing greatly to her or their advantage, by applying to Alexander Colden, Esq; postmaster at New York, or Mr. John Dixon, postmaster at Williamsburg, in Virginia; and any person who knows of the death of the said Elizabeth Holland, when she died, and whether she left any and what issue, is requested to give information thereof to the said Alexander Colden, Esq; or Mr. John Dixon.
W HEREAS a letter, dated Whitechurch in Shropshire, England, August 22, 1770, directed to Mr. Philip Keay, Virginia, signed by one of the same name, and giving an account of the family now living in that county, and neighbourhood, by being addressed to the town of Hampton, with a particular addition, fell into a person's hands there, he (as it may be of consequence to the parties) gives this notice to Mr. Philip Keay that on applying to the printers of this paper, and paying for the advertisement, they will deliver to him the said letter.
To be RENTED, THE HOUSES and LOTS at the Capitol Landing where I now live, which may be entered upon the first of January,
MATTHEW MOODY, sen.
Falls of POTOWMACK, Nov. 10, 1770.
O N the 10th of December next, at this place, if fair, otherwise next fair day, will be sold near one hundred hogheads of choice TOBACCO, with a considerable quantity of WHEAT and CORN, for ready cash, bills of exchange, or merchants notes; likewise fifty head of SHEEP, with some very likely COLTS, a set of SMITH'S TOOLS, a set of COOPER'S do. and a considerable quantity of HOUSEHOLD furniture, consisting of a number of good FEATHER BEDS, TABLES, CHAIRS, and other necessaries, too tedious to mention.
The lands in Prince William and Fauquier will then be sold, to the highest bidders, viz. 499 acres on Powell's run, in Prince William, within eight miles of Dumfries, and a fine road. It is well watered, and abounds with white oak in such quantities that great advantages may be made from slaves; besides, it is tolerable land, and affords at least one half meadow grounds, and the best range for flock of all kinds. Another tract adjoining, containing 150 acres, with a settlement, and much the same advantages in timber, meadow grounds, &c. well watered. Another tract near Captain Davis's, in the said county, on the branches of Occoquan, containing 400 acres; a plantation thereon that rented for 800 lb. of tobacco. Also a small tract in Fauquier, containing 91 acres, rich low grounds, lying on Cedar run, well timbered, and is very valuable. Any person inclined to purchase any of those lands may depend on a bargain, and may have near three years credit, on giving bond and approved security.
At the same time and place I propose letting out, for a number of years, all those valuable improvements at the said falls, on the following reasonable terms. The merchant mills at the landing, with two pair of stones, and all conveniences, together with the room above, 151 feet long by 36, for cooling of flower and flooring large quantities of wheat. The said mills are sufficient to manufacture, in the space of twelve months, 50,000 bushels into good merchantable flower, with proper attendance. The whole thereto belonging I would let out for the sum of 150 l. a year. The bakehouse with three ovens, all complete, with fine bread rooms, &c. and firing very convenient, for the sum of 40 l. a year. The stores, granaries, cellars, and counting rooms, well situated at the landing, and very convenient, where large vessels may meet with despatch, either to load or unload, and is well calculated for a considerable trade, to be let for 50 l. a year. The publick house, well finished, with ten fireplaces, good cellars, and very convenient to take in boarders, a fine French cook, and firewood sufficient, altogether, for 50 l. a year. A new gristmill for two pair of stones, just above on the same stream, built for the country custom, for the annual rent of 100 l. although the last year's toll from the country will exceed 200 l. at the lower mills. A saw-mill likewise, at the same place, and timber convenient, for 60 l. a year. The houses and gardens on the hill, with firewood, &c. for 20 l. a year.
The country gristmill and sawmill are not quite finished, but I shall readily discount for completing out of the rent, as likewise for any thing necessary to be done at or about the other improvements, so that there shall be no complaint on delivering up in good repair.
There are also about forty lots for sale, including the tobacco warehouse, which are very conveniently situated to the landing, and will be sold very reasonable as town land. Each lot is subject to a ground rent of 7 s. 6 d. sterling, payable to the Hon. Philip Ludwell Lee, Esq. A good title will be made to the purchasers, in fee.
The great advantages at the falls are so well known that there needs nothing more at present but just mentioning that it abounds with fine building stone, has fine cool water from the best of springs, and is a remarkable place for fishing the whole season through. It is the most convenient landing to the back country, and must be allowed to be one of the best places for the purchasing of wheat on Potowmack, as well as for disposing of all kinds of merchandise, being ten miles and a half nearer to the back trade than Alexandria.
I likewise give notice, and do earnestly request the meeting of all my creditors at the falls on the day appointed, that whatever balance I may fall short in payment they may depend on being well secured in a just compromise from the estate I hold in lands and slaves, the profits to be applied for that purpose; and those who have not adjusted and settled their accounts with me are desired to do it any time between this and the said 10th of December. I will attend, and be ready to give all the satisfaction in my power.
JOHN BALLENDINE.
For SALE, on long credit (if required) in Gloucester county, Kingston parish,
T WO hundred and fifty four acres of land lying on the head of East river, in said county; there are eight feet water up to the landing, and fish and oysters in great plenty within 200 yards of the house. Upon it is a good dwelling-house, almost new, with two rooms and a passage, and two rooms above stairs, brick chimneys, and underpinned with brick, a good kitchen, and a storehouse, both with brick chimneys, and all other necessary outbuildings, and is very well timbered, especially with fine pine, fit for the best of plank. Any person inclined to purchase is desired to apply to the subscriber, living on the premises.
EDWARD HUGHES.
CABIN POINT, Nov. 20, 1770.
I NTEND to shut up my store here on the 11th day of January next, and in the mean time will sell what GOODS I have on hand (about 600 l. sterling worth) by wholesale or retail, at a very moderate advance, upon credit, and make a proper discount for ready money or commodities. I will give close attendance all the month of February, to settle my accounts; which I expect will be closed in that time, by bond or payment. All those who have open accounts with me, after that time, must blame themselves for the consequences.
WALTER PETER.
HENRICO, Nov. 12, 1770.
W HEREAS I bargained with a certain Jeremiah Russell, of Brunswick county, some time last March, for a tract of land in Mecklenburg county, for which I paid him part of the purchase money down, and gave him three bonds, to be paid at different payments, for the following sums, viz. One bond for eighty pounds, another for thirty seven pounds ten shillings, and a third for the like sum of thirty seven pounds ten shillings, current money; which said three bonds, or either of them, I do hereby forwarn all persons from taking an assignment of, for I will not pay them, he having failed to comply with his positive agreement in building two dwellinghouses, and repairing a water grist mill, on the land I purchased of him.
MILES GATHRIGHT.
I HEREBY give notice that I propose conveying, and delivering up on oath, all my estate, of every kind, to Mr. Carter Braxton, George Webb, Thomas Walker, Thomas Jefferson, and Jack Power, as trustees, to be disposed of by them for the benefit of all my creditors, to whom I intend equal justice, though by mistake it was inserted in my last advertisement that I regard would be had to the dignity of their demands, by which I only meant that as my estate was under mortgage the mortgagees should be first paid. I shall get a friend to wait on my creditors with the deed of trust, and a letter of license, which I hope they will all sign; for those that refuse will be postponed to the other creditors, and lose the benefit intended them by their humble servant,
BERNARD MOORE.
To be SOLD by the subscriber in Williamsburg, next Oyer court,
A VIRGINIA made light single CHARIOT, to go with shafts or a pole, and harness for a pair of horses. CHARLES TALIAFERRO.
YORK Nov. 21, 1770.
N OTICE is hereby given that a person will attend at Amberst court in January next to receive the money due for SLAVES sold at that place on the 12th of December 1769, and that he will be ready to deliver to each purchaser a deed of sale, with a warranty, upon payment of the money.
Just imported from London, and to be SOLD by the subscriber, at his store, corner of Church street, Norfolk, by wholesale or retail, upon reasonable terms, for ready money or short credit,
A COMPLETE assortment of India and European goods, consisting of osnabrugs, Irish linens, haberdashery, shoes, cutlery, nails, stationery, spices of all kinds, Gloucester and Cheshire cheese, cask and bottled porter, raisins, currants, single and double refined sugar, with variety of other grocery articles, pewter, copper, and tin ware, w-tiled thread, and silk hose, mens felt and castor hats, copper and japanned tea kettles, square and octagon japanned bread baskets, wickered plate baskets lined with tin, japanned Roman wafers, japanned candlesticks and snuffers, pinking irons, milliners wire pins, copper fish kettles, tea kettles, saucepans, round castor sets, steak tongs, green and white Chinese ivory and buck horn handled table knives and forks, dessert do. of the same kinds, mahogany knife cases, peeling satin and persian petticoats of all colours, Ladies shades, figured silk cloaks, womens bonnets and hats, trimming for Ladies gowns, silk stomachers, lustrings, wide and narrow persians, paduasoyes, satins, damasks, tosets, gauze, poplins, silk crapes, farcenets, womens silk mits and gloves, trolly lace, variety of plain and figured ribands, gauze handkerchiefs, coxcomb edging, narrow and lappet blond lace, open and black catgut, gauze caps and dress caps of the newest fashion, fans, ribands, ruffs, blond stomachers and bows with Italian flowers, complete suits of blond treble ruffles, tu kers, ruff, nippets, handkerchiefs, &c. with great variety of JEWELLERY, and other articles too tedious to mention.
F. A. DOEBER.
VIRGINIA, sc.
At a General Court held at the CAPITOL, November 5, 1770.
John Spoor, and Matthias Spoor, Executors, } Sc. of John Woolrich Spoor, deceased, plain- } tiffs, } against } In Chancery. John Judia, late of Frederick county, Virginia, } and Henry Grapel, defendants, }
T HE defendant John Judia being beyond the rule of this court, on the motion of the plaintiffs, by their counsel, it is ordered that the other defendant, who hath effects of the said John Judia in his hands, as is suggested, do not pay, convey away, or secrete such effects, until the further order or decree of this court concerning the same; but that he deliver up such effects, or so much thereof as will be of value sufficient to satisfy the demand of the plaintiffs, unto the said plaintiffs, upon their giving security to the clerk of this court for the return of such effects, in such manner, and to such persons, as the court shall hereafter adjudge. And it is ordered that the said defendant, John Judia, do appear here on the first day of the next court, to answer the bill of the plaintiffs; and that a copy of this order be, within fifteen days, inserted in the Virginia Gazette, for two months successively; and published on some Lord's day, immediately after divine service, in the church of the parish of Frederick, in the county of Frederick; and be also posted up at the front door of the Capitol, in the city of Williamsburg.
BEN. WALLER.
T HE decree for the sale of Mr. Anderson's land, on Pamunkey river, having been altered last General Court, prevented its being sold at the time formerly advertised; therefore notice is now given that it will certainly be sold pursuant to the last decree, on Tuesday the 18th of December next, before the Raleigh tavern in Williamsburg. The tract contains, according to a late survey, 1143 acres, 330 of which are exceeding fine low grounds. There is on it a delightful situation for a dwellinghouse, the land in general very good, is remarkable for producing fine grass, and lies within four miles of Page's warehouse. Twelve months credit will be allowed for one third of the purchase money, two years for another third, and three years for the residue, paying interest for the whole after the first year. Bond, with good security, will be required; and the subscriber, who has a right to dower in the land, will relinquish it to the purchaser, reserving only the liberty of living on her dower one year, if she shall think fit.
JOANNA STITH, Executrix.
For LONDON,
T HE ship BLAND, Hugh Wylie master, now loading at Portsmouth, and will certainly sail by the first of next month. As she has good accommodation for passengers, those who incline to go in her will please to signify their intention, by letter or otherwise, after the 25th instant, to the Captain, addressed to the care of Mr. Robert Spedden, merchant in Portsmouth.
For FREIGHT, to any part of Europe or the West Indies,
T HE brigantine FANNY, William Westcott master, now lying ready at Norfolk, in about 300 bhs. or 7000 bushels, well fitted, has made but one voyage, and has good accommodation for passengers. For terms apply to the said Captain, or to the subscriber; who has Liverpool SALT for sale. WRIGHT WESTCOTT.
RICHMOND town, Nov. 14, 1770.
I MPORTED last December, in the India, Captain Lowry, two casks of HARDWARE, marked PH in a piece, No. 1 and 2, which have not come to hand. Whoever can inform where they may be had will oblige THOMAS ADAMS.