The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg [Va.]), 1772-01-09 00:00:00

VIRGINIA GAZETTE.
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FOREIGN and DOMESTICK.
IN CIVITATE LIBERA LINGUAM MENTEMQUE
LIBERAS ESSE DEBERE. — Suet. in Tib. S. 28.
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A NEW YEAR'S GIFT for the Reverend Mr. S. HENLEY.
Hic Stylus haud petit ultra
Nec quæquam noceat cupido mihi pacis; at ille
Qui me commovit, Flebit, & insignis tota cantabitur urbe.
Reverend Sir,
LEST you should think your Merit overlooked, or judge your two Epistles to the Church of Englandman unanswerable, I, his Amanuensis, have prevailed upon myself to answer them, though not after a long Debate with myself whether or not it is worth While to answer a Writer who makes Invective supply the Place of Argument , and whose distinguishing Characteristick is Scurrility and Abuse. And indeed, to be plain with you, I should not have given myself this Trouble was it not to wrest out of your Hands some Texts of Scripture, which you have pressed into your Service, and perverted to the worst of Purposes.
You set out with quibbling about the Word Head , and construe in one Sense what the Church of Englandman meant in another. You apply to the supreme Head , the King, what he plainly meant of a subordinate Head , a Bishop, and call this Reasoning. In the same illogical Manner you pervert his Meaning about future Rewards and Punishments, taking in a future Sense what he meant in a temporal only. He had said, that it would be good Policy in any Community, that could afford it, to propose [temporal] Rewards to excite Emulation, and make Men exert their Talents, which, for Want of such Encouragement, might for ever lie latent in their Breasts, lost to themselves and the World. "These Words you pervert to Rewards and Punishments in a future State, and ask, "Does not this convey too strongly an Insinuation that the Inspection of the Deity, and the Soverainties of his Tribunal, are incapable of influencing the Conduct of the Clergy?" This is the very art of Doctor Chauncy, which Mr. Henley has purloined, notwithstanding his Pretensions to an original Writer, and the high Disdain he holds the Thoughts of Plagiarism in. See the Truth of this in Doctor Chandler's Appeal Defended, P. 119, with the proper Answer to it; which I shall beg Leave to transcribe here, as the Book is in but few Hands.
Doctor Chandler had observed, "that of the many good Effects of an American Episcopate this would be one, namely, that the Clergy being under the Eye of their Bishop will naturally tend to make them more regular and diligent in the Discharge of the Duties of their Office." To which Doctor Chauncy replies, "that if their being under the Eye of the omnipresent, omniscient God, will not make them regular and diligent, it is a vain Thing to expect that their being under the Eye of the Bishop will do it." To this Doctor Chandler rejoins, "that with equal Truth and Propriety he might have said, of all but Atheists, that if their being under the Eye of the omnipresent, omniscient God, will not restrain them from the Crimes of Fraud and Injustice, it is a vain Thing to expect that their being under the Eye of the civil Magistrate should do it. That the perpetual Presence and Inspection of the supreme Being ought to have a greater Effect on Men than the Presence of an earthly Superior I freely allow, but that it does not produce this Effect, in innumerable Instances, is a melancholy Truth; and, upon one Moment's Recollection, the Doctor must confess it. What then is to be done? Must Men be left to do what is right in their own Eyes, "because they will not consider themselves as under the Eye of the omnipresent, omniscient God? Ought Criminals to go unpunished because they will not govern themselves by the great Motives of Religion? Or, where these are ineffectual, is it impossible that Men should be governed by Motives of a temporal Nature? Or can it consist with publick Wisdom, and the Safety of Society, that such Persons should not be restrained by human Laws. According to this Scheme of Politics, it is unreasonable to expect any Benefit either from Discipline in the Church or from Government in the State."
I have made this Quotation to show "that Mr. Henley is not only a Plagiary, but a bad Reasoner; for the Argument proves too much to prove any Thing, and by proving too much proves Nothing. Arguing, however, upon this erroneous Principle, he
asks, in his next Paragraph, "what an Opinion ought we to entertain of the Founder of our Faith, who withheld from his Followers those Incentives to Virtue, fat Livings, rich Benefices, &c. wherein he discovers an equal Ignorance of Logick, human Nature, and the holy Scriptures. His illogical Reasoning has been taken Notice of already, and his Ignorance of human Nature may be gathered from the Argument he pilfered from Doctor Chauncy; but his Ignorance, or Perversion of Scripture, must not be slightly passed over. Our Saviour's Words to his Apostles (Mark x. 43, 44) which he quotes and misapplies, are these: Whosoever will be greatest among you shall be your Minister, and whosoever of you will be the chiefest shall be Servant of all. The Enemies of Prelacy found upon these Words their Herculean Argument against Episcopacy, by construing them so as to forbid the Apostles the Exercise not only of all civil but even ecclesiastical Dominion. But they mean Nothing less. When we consider that all civil Government was instituted of God for the Punishment of evil Doers, and the Defence of those that do well, and that our Saviour, when he came into the World, made no Alteration in civil Affairs, but left them as he found them, it would be very absurd to construe his Religion so as to make it forbid a Thing so beneficial to Mankind as civil Government is; and, in like Manner, since among the Gifts distributed for the Use of the Church (1 Corinthians, xii. 8, 9, 10) we read of Government, and Mention made of those who are over us in the Lord (1 Thessalonians, v. 12) to whom we are to submit and yield Obedience. And since it is as impossible for a Church to subsist without ecclesiastical Government as it is for a State to subsist without civil , it follows that the one is as necessary, and as much of divine Institution, as the other. All, therefore, that our Saviour can be presumed to forbid, is such a Dominion as is attended with Tyranny and Oppression, a Contempt of the Governed, and a total Disregard of their Interest. As all Government is a Burthen as well as an Honour, our Saviour puts all Governours in Mind, both in Church and State, that their highest Station is not so much a Place of Dignity as a Charge, not so much an Honour as a Trust, a larger Ministry, a more painful Service, and laborious Attendance upon others. This is a natural and true Interpretation of this famous Text, which Mr. Henley and his dissenting Brethren wrest to the Destruction of Episcopacy, and make the Basis of their Arguments in Favour of Presbytery. See the Commentators.
Nor is Mr. Henley less mistaken in construing some other Texts to a total Avocation of the Clergy's Thoughts from secular Concerns, such as fat Livings and the like, though these Texts, in their literal View, seem to favour this Construction. There is no arguing from the State of the Church and Clergy in our Saviour and his Apostles Time, and for some Ages after, to the present State of it. The miraculous Powers, Gifts, and Graces, then afforded to the Church, superseded the Use of many Things which their being withdrawn makes necessary now a Days. Though our Saviour's Kingdom be not of this World, yet it is in the World; and the Ministers of it, so long as they are Men, must have some Regard to secular Matters, as well as other Men, and this too consistently with the Design of their Institution, otherwise St. Paul would not have said "that they who preach the Gospel must live of the Gospel," and called this too God's Ordinance .
However, Mr. Henley, I do not plead up for fat Livings, and such Preferment as would, in all Likelihood, have sealed your Lips against the Episcopal Order, had you been lucky or deserving enough to have got one of them. I only argue for a suitable Support, such as will enable the Clergy to answer the End of their Ministry, and prevent the ill Effects arising from that Disrespect and Contempt, which, from the Constitution of human Nature, we find inseparably to attend on Poverty and a mean Appearance. Solomon hath long since observed, "that though Wisdom is better than Strength, yet nevertheless the poor Men's Wisdom is despised, and his Words are not heard." It was reckoned Sin in Jeroboam "to make Priests of the lowest of the People." Let this be an Indication, that Men of Fortune and Family ought to undertake the sacred Office, which yet they will not do without suitable Encouragement. As no Man will sacrifice an expensive Education to an unprofitable Employment, common Prudence should put us on such Methods as are likely to excite Men of
Interest and Abilities to enter into holy Orders, that the best Cause may have the best Management, and the purest Religion the ablest Defenders.
Mr. Henley seems to think that the Episcopal Form of Government did not prevail during the first fifteen Centuries, and asks from what Church History we may gain this Information. I answer, from Scripture itself, and the concurring Testimony of the purest Ages. He says Christ left no Bishops. Be it so. But what if he left Apostles, which is much the same Thing (nay, in primitive Times, Apostles and Bishops often passed for synonymous Terms) and the Apostles left Bishops. St. Paul ordained Timothy and Titus, and made them Governours of Churches, the one of Ephesus, the other of Crete; to the latter of whom he expressly gives this Charge, "to set in Order the Things that were wanting, and ordain Elders in every City." And indeed, in his Epistles to them both, he describes the Office and Duty of Bishops, and lays down Rules and Directions both for their own Conduct and the Conduct of those under their Ministry. And, in a Word, these two Epistles are a Kind of pastoral Charge, from which both Bishops and Curates, in all Ages, may receive much Benefit and Instruction. That Timothy and Titus were ordained by St. Paul, and by him consecrated Bishops, is plain from his calling one or both of them his Sons, and from his saying of Timothy (1 Timothy iv. 24) that he received the Gift that was in him (namely, the Gifts and Graces of the holy Spirit conferred upon him at his Ordination, or his Consecration) by the laying on of the Hands of the Presbytery; meaning his own Hands, and the Hands of the Presbyters that were present. But, as if he had foreseen the bad Use the Presbyterians were to make of this Text, he explains his Meaning, (2 Timothy, i. 4.) where he puts him in Mind, "to stir up the same Gift conferred upon him by the putting on of his own Hands," without mentioning the Hands of the Presbytery; thereby plainly intimating to us, "that the Validity of his Ordination depended on the putting on of his Hands, without those of the Presbytery, though not of theirs without his." But as this is a Matter of Fact too copious to be discussed in a Newspaper, and can only be learned from Church History, thither I refer the Reader for farther Satisfaction.
Mr. Henley next tells us, "that Christ's Commission extended no farther than to disciple and baptize. What? Did it not extend also to Church Government? Aye, and to appoint Successours in the sacred Office to the End of the World. And that it did so is plain from St. Paul's Charge to Titus (i. 5) Can it be supposed that our Saviour did not leave the Power of making such Laws and Constitutions as are necessary not only for the good Government of his Church, but even for its Preservation? For in Regard the Church is a formed and standing Society, how can we imagine it left destitute of a Power without which no Society can subsist? And since, without a Succession of Ministers, Christ's Church cannot subsist to the End of the World, the same Reason which moved him to delegate Apostles, to supply his Absence, stands equally good for delegating others to supply their Mortality. Therefore, considering the Reason and Nature of the Thing, less than this cannot be made of Christ's Commission to his Apostles: "As my Father sent me, so I send you; and lo! I am with you to the End of the World."
We are next told, by Mr. Henley, "that the audacious Attempt to deprive the American Church of a Bishop was the sole Project of those who refused a Consultation with his Lordship of London." If this is not a downright Falsehood, it is at least a vile Perversion of Truth. The Case was this: In Order to prevent any Thing being done at the Convention, and to gain Time, Mr. Henley proposed to consult the Bishop of London on the Head of an American Episcopate; a Thing the Convention thought needless, being well assured, by the Northern Clergy, both of the Bishop's and King's favourable Disposition this Way. And this he calls a Consultation, a Catachresis, or Abuse of Words, not unusual with this rhetorical Declaimer. If ever any Thing should deprive the American Church of a Bishop, it is more likely to be the impious Attempts of her own insidious Sons, who put on the Mask of outward Conformity to stab undecked , and retain only the outward Profession of Orthodoxy to enable them to do the greater Execution. Such Vipers, nursed in her Bosom, are truly to her what the insidious Gift was to Troy.

Mr. Henley is very unlucky in mentioning Judas's Fidelity to his Master, between whose Character and his own there is so striking a Resemblance; the one having betrayed his Master, the other his Cause. The Church of Englandman is not used to give or receive such hard Words as abandoned Villain, and it pains him to think that any One deserves them. However, let me observe that no One deserves them more than that Man does, who, being bred up in violent dissenting Principles, comes over to the Church for the Sake of the Loaves and the Fishes, and afterwards betrays her, and that under the aggravating Circumstances of acting contrary to his Ordination Vows and Promises, and even his Oath of canonical Obedience. Mr. Henley cannot be at a Loss to make the Application.
Mr. Henley next asks, what gives the Clergy a Right to petition for a Bishop in Opposition to the Sense of the People? The Answer is, because they want a Head for themselves only, and not for the Laity. The Clergy meant no Harm to any Mortal upon Earth; much less to put a Slight upon the Legislature, with whom it is both their Duty and Interest to live in Amity; and they were fonder for Nothing than that the Commissary did not call them together, when the Assembly was sitting, that they might have had an Opportunity at least of soliciting their Concurrence, though such a Step might have implied a Doubt of their Right to petition without it. But, surely, Mr. Henley knows that all free born Subjects have a Right to approach the Throne in an humble Petition for the Redress of Grievances; and the Grievance (the Redress of which is now Solicited) is such a One as the Christian World cannot afford a Parallel, a national Church without Rulers and Teachers! Nor do I believe that the People of Virginia are so averse to an American Episcopate as the Enemies of Episcopacy would have us believe. They, indeed, have done all in their Power to prejudice and inflame them against One; but Truth is great, and will prevail. And relying on that divine Promise made by Christ to his Church (Matthew, xvi. 18) we trust that it will not be in the Power of the Devil and all his Agents to prevent the Publication of the Gospel, where it is not known, in this new World, nor its being taught in greater Purity and Perfection where it is known; nor an American Episcopate, as the most effectual Means for accomplishing these great and desirable Ends.
When we originally came from our Mother Country we brought with us all the Rights and Privileges of British Subjects, religious as well as civil ; the free Enjoyment of which was promised us by Charter , and the publick Faith given us for Security: And why these solemn Engagements should be broken through now, to deprive the Church of a natural Right, I can see no Reason nor Justice. We want the full Enjoyment of religious Liberty; we want to be upon a Footing with other Denominations of Christians, and to aim at a Toleration at least, if not an Establishment . We never can be a regular Church, we never can arrive at any Degree of Perfection, we never can be the Church of England, without a Bishop; nay we cannot answer the End of our Ministry, nor be of that Service to Religion, so well without proper Rulers and Teachers as with them. There is Nothing more visionary than to imagine that a Bishop in England can do the Duty of a Bishop here. If in England Suffragans were appointed, where the Diocese was judged too large for the Inspection and Superintendence of one Bishop, how much stronger a Claim has the American Church to a Bishop, where the Diocese extends over both Sides of the Globe? In a Word, view the Matter in what Light you will, it will bear the strictest Scrutiny, the most severe Examination; nay, the more it is searched and examined into the more reasonable, and even necessary, it appears to every thinking and unprejudiced Mind. Every reasonable Objection against it has been removed, and backed with Reasons unanswered and unanswerable. I wish we could as easily remove the unsurmountable Obstacle of Mens Passions and Prejudices; but these we must leave to Time, which will bring all Things to Light, and to that God who has the Hearts of "all Men in his Hands, and can turn and dispose them as it seemeth best to his godly Wisdom."
Mr. Henley's second Epistle to the Church of Englandman is so full of Scurrility and Abuse that it would be abusing the Patience of the Publick to answer it. He aims at Wit, in Spite of Nature, and affects a Display of his Learning sometimes, at the Expense of common Sense. Like Lord Shaftsbury, but without his Talent, he tries to turn every Thing into Ridicule, as if such Buffoonery was the Touchstone of Truth. But, after all his apish Imitation of that noble Lord's Manner of writing, he is no more than a Lump of Lead hanging at his Backside. Where is the Sense, the Truth, or the Justice, in saying an American Episcopate would bastardise the Church of England as at present established? If by the Church of England he means the American Church of England, it is bastardised already, being without its lawful nursing Fathers, the Bishops, and must for ever remain in a State of Bastardy, until it is restored and put under the Care of its lawful Parents; a Thing the Clergy are now endeavouring to do, that it may be treated not like Bastards, but like Sons.
Where is the Wit or Humour in comparing the Episcopate contended for a Hobbystone , a Monkey , &c. I can see no Wit or Humour in it, but a great Deal of Profaneness and Impiety; and the Comparison
would have come better from a Monkey than a Man . We want, and do aim at, an Episcopate here more perfect, if possible, than in England. We would have One purely primitive, with Jurisdiction only over the Clergy, and not clogged with civil Powers of any Kind. And as this will be more agreeable to the Laity, we hope it will be more serviceable to Religion. And who can be so unjust, so irreligious, so unchristian, as to oppose it!
After emitting the Gall of your Heart, through the Channel of your Pen, at the Church of Englandman, you could not conclude without a Fling at the whole Virginia Clergy, by calling him their Partisan, and saying that what he had written would not disparage him in the Eyes of the Brotherhood. Herein you exemplify the Odium theologicum in yourself, though unhappily you make the envenomed Dart you aimed at others rebound upon yourself. What the Church of Englandman wrote was with a Design to do Service to Religion, and therefore was well received both by Clergy and Laity, and indeed found Fault with by none but yourself, whose Censure he counts Fame. Your Apostasy, indeed, was occasionally animadverted upon; but you flatter yourself too much if you think it was solely aimed at you.
As to your Censures of the Virginia Clergy, and your Opponents in this Controversy, particularly the Countryman, who appears to be as much a better Man than you are, as he indisputably is a better Writer, neither they nor the Church of Englandman need mind them, considering they come from an envious, dissatisfied Man, and well known to be a constant Snarler at Virtue and Merit, in whomsoever they are found, and suffers his licentious Tongue, if not his Pen, to run out against all Orders and Degrees of Men, from the King down to a Constable. So prevalent is the Odium theologicum in yourself, that you separate from your Brethren of the Clergy to join, or rather to head, the Cry of the Milled amongst the Laity, thereby to curry Favour and make yourself popular. But let me tell you, those you make your Court to have too much Sense not to see through this slimy Veil, and will act like him of whom the Poet says,
Cui male si palpere, reculatit undique tutus.
You find Fault with your Opponents for not putting their Names to their Publications. In this, I think, they are right; because it is the best Way to have Matters fairly discussed. When a Person puts his Name to a Piece, some Affection of the Reader, proceeding from a good or bad Opinion of the Writer, mixes itself with our Reason, and too often biaseth the Judgment; but when no Name is put to it, the Merits of the Cause are only regarded, and the Writer has Justice done him. For this Reason, I would have you do so too; for without being your magnus Apollo , I will venture to prognosticate, that, for the future, whatever Piece has the Signature of S. Henley subscribed to it will be but little regarded, if thought deserving of a Reading.
Lastly, with all your Sagacity, you have not been able to find out the Reason why the Author of that Piece signed himself A Church of Englandman . It is because he really is what he pretends to be, which you are not. This is a Fact the Publick may believe, when it is asserted by
The Church of Englandman's Amanuensis, J. H.
To Messieurs PURDIE & DIXON.
Gentlemen, As the Publick has been greatly misinformed with Respect to the Behaviour of sundry Persons in this Borough, I beg you will insert what follows in your useful Gazette; and you will oblige Your most humble Servant,
CORNELIUS CALVERT.
IN 1769, a Vessel of mine went to the Island of Montserrat, in the West Indies. After her Arrival there, an Apprentice of mine (John Wilson) got the Smallpox in the natural Way, of which he died on Board the Vessel. On her Passage home, a second Apprentice (Charles Sawyer Boush) got the Infection, who was not quite recovered on his Arrival here; for which Reason I advised him to go to the Pesthouse, for a few Days, with a third Apprentice (William Borous) who I was apprehensive was infected also, though the Disorder had not made its Appearance on him. They both stayed there eight or ten Days, during which Time Charles Sawyer Boush got quite well, and there was no Appearance of the Disorder on the other. I therefore ordered them back to the Vessel, and next Day William Borous was taken with the Smallpox; upon which I sent him back to the Pesthouse, to prevent the Disorder from spreading. And as three of my Negroes had worked on Board the Vessel for eight or ten Days, who never had the Disorder, I got Doctor John Dalgleish, to whom William Borous was a Patient, to inoculate them on the 24th of May, under the same Roof with him, which confined the Disorder to one Spot. On the same Day, in the Afternoon, George Abyvon made it his Business to ask me if I had inoculated again; to whom I replied, I had, and that none but Fools and Knaves would oppose it. Both of his Sisters had received the Blessing of Inoculation before my Children and Servants. At that Time our General, who brought up the Rear of the grand Mob, the 27th of June, 1768, was at the Distance of about eight Miles from the Borough of Norfolk, on a Visit in Princess Anne County. The next Morning a Letter was sent
to him, by a Snake in the Grass, hatched in Barbados, who acted behind the Curtain to disturb the Peace, informing him that I had inoculated again. This General then told his Friend that a Mob was necessary, and wanted him to come to Town with him; but as his Friend was brought up to the Law, he knew that Mobs were not justifiable, nor could a Mob undo what I had done, therefore had more Prudence. That Day, in the Afternoon, Doctor Dalgleish was committed to Jail, and one of the Aldermen knocked down in the Street by two Ruffians; and at Night the Rioters came to my House, demanding of me to drop former Suits, and an Indictment that was brought against them, which I refused to comply with. They then broke my Windows, and frightened my Wife and Children, one of whom then lay on her Deathbed.
In this Indictment against the Rioters I have had that Justice done me which a British Subject is entitled to; and for the Good of the Community I now publish the Proceedings, to deter the Licentious, and Dregs of the Earth, as well as others, from acting as Ruffians. The Law has been slow; but when it is duly executed, Justice must at last prevail. This was Lord Botetourt's Opinion of the Matter; and that Time would bring any Set of Men to Justice, if not a Sense of Shame, let them be rich or poor. These Ruffians would never have mobed my Wife and Children had they not been set on by base Wretches, who dared not appear in it themselves, for Fear of being treated as the Coalheavers were by a Gentleman in London. As to the Ruffians, I pitied them, knowing their Understandings to be imposed on.
Inoculation was practised fifteen or twenty Years in this Colony, in different Counties, before my Children or Servants received the Benefit of it (York Town, or County, not excepted) and in several Counties since, without Riots and mobing. Shall the dastardly Behaviour of a few, that excited the Rabble to Riots and mobing, or the mercenary Views of Doctors who received a considerable Benefit, in 1767 and 1768, from the Smallpox in the natural Way, at the Pesthouse, prevent me from securing the Lives of my Children, and of his Majesty's Subjects! They were paid for the Dead, as well as for the Living. The Lives of my Children and Servants are as dear and valuable to me as the richest Man's in the Colony. No Individual has suffered by my doing what George Abyvon, and his Aldermen, agreed to; which was sufficiently proved at the General Court, in the special Verdict, twelve Copies of which Lord Botetourt caused to be printed before his Death.
Ramsay and Taylor know how much Money they received from Thomas Newton, Maximilian Calvert, and others, for the Smallpox at the Pesthouse in 1768, where my Children were drove to, amongst African Slaves which came in the said Newton's Ship.
Mr. Boush had three of his Children inoculated at Baltimore, in Maryland, before I had mine, and he was one of those who agreed to its being carried on here. He is rich, and can afford to pay twenty or thirty Pounds for each of them, which the other Inhabitants cannot be supposed to be able to do; but shall that prevent those from the Blessing of Inoculation that can get it done here at one fifth or sixth Part of the Expense that he was at, and thereby keep the Money in the Colony, especially when it can and has been done within two Miles and a Half of the Borough of Norfolk with as much Safety as he did at the Distance of two Hundred Miles? He may send them to the West Indies, or elsewhere, if he chooses it; but that is no Rule to others, who cannot afford it. His Sons were inoculated within a Mile of Baltimore Town: Did he not endanger that Place as much as I did the Borough of Norfolk, at the Distance of two Miles and a Half? Did any Set of Villains mob him, his Wife, or his Children? Or any Person become Security for Ruffians, Rioters, and Mobs, who had acted illegally? He was the first Person, after his own Sons had received the Benefit of Inoculation, that asked me if I was going to inoculate. I told him I was, knowing myself to be as free a Subject as he, and entitled, as a Parent, to do every good Office for my Children that he had a Right to, although not on the same Spot that he was pleased to send his to. Can any Set of Men, that have the least Regard for Government and good Order, open their Eyes without seeing into such Behaviour? These Men were born of Women; their Wives are Women; they have Daughters of their own. How would three of the Securities, that stand convicted of a former Riot, or the rest of them, like to have seen their Effigies carted through the Streets, and their Family treated with the same Indignity that mine was? My eldest Brother, Jonathan, died of the Smallpox in the natural Way, in a most deplorable Condition; he would have shuddered at the Thoughts of setting the Rabble on the Offspring of his Father, to gratify any Set of Villains who would have attempted to impose on his Understanding, nor would he have been Security for Rioters that mobed his Brother.
Eight of his Majesty's Subjects died of the Smallpox that went beyond Sea in different Vessels of mine, who now might have been alive had they received the Benefit of Inoculation. Besides a poor Slave of mine, worth a Hundred Guineas, I have suffered some Hundreds of Pounds by that Disorder in the natural Way; therefore I now declare that Rioters who acted under the Influence of him who deceived Women and Children, nor Securities, or

ny Mob that can be raised, shall intimidate me from securing the Lives of the rest of my Children, notwithstanding the last that my Wife bore was mobed in the Womb before he made his Appearance in the World, at a Time when I was Miles from them and the Borough of Norfolk.
As to the unjust and unnatural Oppression I have received, I hope I shall always have Spirit to treat it with the Contempt it deserves. The above relates particularly to myself. Nothing farther shall be said now, but that when the Suits in Agitation are finished the Publick shall have a distinct Account of the Whole, with the principal Actors, in their different Colours and Capacities.
NORFOLK Borough, f.c.
WHEREAS I am credibly informed that Doctor John Dalgleish did, on the 24th of this Instant, inoculate sundry Negroes with the Smallpox in the County of Norfolk, to the great Annoyance and Disturbance of the Inhabitants of the said Borough and County of Norfolk, and is also a common Disturber of the Peace; and whereas there was a Warrant for the Behaviour, dated the 24th of this Instant, issued against the said John Dalgleish, signed by John Taylor, Gentleman, one of his Majesty's Justices for the County of Norfolk, directed to the Sheriff of Norfolk County, or his Deputy, to execute, which said Warrant, Samuel Portlock, Deputy Sheriff, this Day made Return of in these Words: "The within named John Dalgleish is not to be found without the Limits of the Borough." These are therefore, in his Majesty's Name, to command you to bring the said John Dalgleish before me, or some other of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the Borough aforesaid, to answer to such Matters as shall be objected against him by Richard Brown, John Crutcher, William Ward, William Colley, and divers others, Inhabitants of the County of Norfolk and Borough aforesaid; and also that you require the said John Dalgleish to bring sufficient Securities for his good Behaviour till the next Court to be held for the County of Norfolk, on the third Thursday in June next. Herein fail not. Given under my Hand and Seal, this 25th Day of May, 1769.
To the Serjeant of Norfolk } MAX. CALVERT, and Seal. Borough, or his Deputy. }
Summons Paul Loyall, George Abyvon, Robert Fry, and Richard Bickerdike.
Executed, and committed to the County Jail. Joseph Calvert, Serjeant of the Borough.
GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. to the Sheriff of Norfolk County, greeting: We command you to summon Paul Loyall, George Abyvon, John Crutcher, William Colley, Henry Singleton, Richard Brown, and Robert Fry, to appear before our Justices of our said County, at the Courthouse, on the third Thursday in this Instant, to testify, and the Truth to say, in Behalf of us, in a certain Matter of Controversy, in our said Court, before our said Justices, depending and undetermined between us, Complainants, and John Dalgleish, Respondent; and this they shall in no wise omit, under the Penalty of one Hundred Pounds each. Witness, John Boush, Deputy Clerk of our said Court, at the said Courthouse, the 10th Day of June, in the ninth Year of our Reign.
Executed by Samuel Portlock, Sub Sheriff.
NORFOLK County.
AT a Court held the 16th Day of June, 1769, the King against John Dalgleish by Warrant for Misbehaviour, removed by Habeas Corpus.
VIRGINIA, f.c.
THE Jurors for our Lord the King, upon their Oath, present that Henry Singleton, William Ward, George Crutcher, and John Fife, late of the Parish of Elizabeth River, in the County of Norfolk, Labourers, and divers other Persons, to the Number of thirty, and more, to the Jurors aforesaid, as yet unknown, being Rioters, Routers, and Disturbers of the Peace of our said Lord the King, on the 25th Day of May, in the ninth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, now King of Great Britain, &c. with Force and Arms, that is to say, with Sticks, Staves, and other offensive Weapons, at the Parish aforesaid, in the County aforesaid, unlawfully, riotously, and routously, did assemble, and gather together, to disturb the Peace of our said Lord the King, and being so assembled, and gathered together, forty Pans of Glass, belonging to Cornelius Calvert, Gentleman, then and there being in a certain Dwellinghouse of him the said Cornelius, then and there unlawfully, riotously, and routously, did break and destroy, and other Wrongs to the said Cornelius, then and there unlawfully, riotously, and routously, did, to the great Damage of the said Cornelius, and against the Peace of our said Lord the King, his Crown and Dignity.
Witnesses: Cornelius Calvert, Prosecutor.—Sworn in Court, October 17, 1769. BEN: WALLER.
OCTOBER 18, 1769.
Our Lord the King } Upon a Warrant for the good Behaviour removed against } hither by Habeas Corpus, and a Recognizance taken thereon. John Dalgleish. }
THE said John appeared according to his Recognizance, and being fully heard, and divers Witnesses sworn and examined, touching the Matter of Complaint, it is considered, by the Court, that the said John, and his Bail, be discharged from the Recognizance aforesaid. (A Copy.) Test, JOHN BROWN, for Ben: Waller.
VIRGINIA, f.c.
At a General Court held at the Capitol, October 22, 1770. Our Lord the King, against } Upon an Indictment for a Riot. Henry Singleton, William Ward, } George Crutcher, and John Fife, }
THIS Day came, as well the Attorney General as the said Defendants by their Attorneys, and thereupon came a Jury, to wit, Thompson Swann, &c. who, being elected, tried, and sworn the Truth to speak upon the Issue joined, upon their Oath do say that the said Defendants are guilty of the Riot aforesaid, in Manner and Form as in the Indictment against them is alleged: Therefore it is considered, by the Court, that the said Defendants make their Fine with our Lord the King, the said Henry Singleton by the Payment of twenty five Pounds, and the said William Ward, George Crutcher, and John Fife, by the Payment of ten Pounds each, to his Majesty's Use; and that they pay the Costs of this Prosecution, and may be taken, &c. Costs, thirty six Shillings, two Thousand four Hundred and eight Pounds of neat Tobacco, and fifty Shillings, or five Hundred Pounds of Tobacco.
BEN: WALLER.
VIRGINIA, f.c.
AT a General Court held at the Capitol, October 22, 1770, ordered, that the Justices of the County Court of Norfolk cause Henry Singleton, William Ward, George Crutcher, and John Fife, to come before them, and enter into a Recognizance in fifty Pounds each, with two Securities, each of them in twenty five Pounds, to keep the Peace, and be of good Behaviour, for the Space of a Year.
BEN: WALLER.
NORFOLK County.
AT a Court held the 16th Day of November, 1770, present, John Hutchings, Joseph Hutchings, Goodrich Boush, Matthew Phripp, and John Taylor, Gentlemen, Justices, Cornelius Calvert, Gentleman, by Thomas Burke, his Attorney, this Day produced to this Court an Order from the General Court, ordering them to cause Henry Singleton, William Ward, George Crutcher, and John Fife, to come before them to enter into Recognizances, with Securities for their keeping the Peace and being of good Behaviour for one Year, without reciting any Cause whereby they are deprived of judging between Man and Man, agreeable to the Oath they have taken, which, on mature Deliberation, they conceive is contrary to Law, and our happy Constitution, and therefore humbly hope that the Honourable Court will reconsider the said Order.
(A Copy.) Test, JOHN BOUSH, D. Cl.
APRIL 27, 1771.
ON the Motion of his Majesty's Attorney General, it is ordered that the Sheriff of Norfolk County take into his Custody Henry Singleton, William Ward, George Crutcher, and John Fife, and there keep them until they shall enter into a Recognizance in fifty Pounds each, with two Securities, each of them in twenty five Pounds, to keep the Peace, and be of good Behaviour for the Space of one Year.
OCTOBER 19, 1771.
ON the Motion of his Majesty's Attorney General, it is ordered that the Sheriff of Norfolk County do, on this Day Fortnight, make Return of the Order of the last Court for taking into his Custody Henry Singleton, William Ward, George Crutcher, and John Fife, together with the Bonds, or Recognizances, entered into by them, according to the said Order.
Sheriff's Return on an Order of Court dated April 27, 1771.
BY Virtue of the within, to me directed, I have taken the within named Singleton, Ward, Crutcher, and Fife, and bound them over, as will appear by a Bond of Recognizance hereunto annexed.
SAM. PORTLOCK, Sub Sheriff, for JOHN TATEM, Sheriff. (A Copy.) Test, JOHN BROWN, for Ben: Waller.
** The Securities for the good Behaviour of Henry Singleton, William Ward, and John Fife (Rioters who mobed my Wife and Children in 1769) are, Joseph Hutchings, Samuel Boush, Maximilian Calvert, Thomas Newton, senior, Ramfay and Taylor, and John Hutchings.
The Securities for the good Behaviour of George Crutcher (a Rioter, one of the Mob at the same Time) are, Joseph Calvert, and Thomas Newton, junior.
Where Villains can mob their first Magistrate, abuse his Wife and Children, and can get Rioters, Doctors, Magistrates, and a Clerk whose Children have received the Benefit of Inoculation, as Securities for their good Behaviour, it becomes every well meaning good Subject to make it publick. Some may tamely sit down under it: I never shall.
CORNELIUS CALVERT.
NORFOLK, January 1, 1772.
WILLIAMSBURG, January 9. WE hear from Bedford that Mr. JOHN TALBOT, and Mr. CHARLES LYNCH, are elected Burgesses for that County.
[MARRIAGES.] Mr. HUGH INNIS, one of the Representatives for Pittsylvania, to Miss HANNAH EGGLESTON, of James City County.
[DEATHS.] Mr. BENJAMIN HOWARD, Clerk of Bedford, and one of the Burgesses for Buckingham.
Advertisements.
To be SOLD, on Wednesday the 22nd of this Month, in the Town of Smithfield, pursuant to the last Will and Testament of William Rand, deceased,
ALL the personal Estate of the said William Rand, consisting of a Variety of Household Furniture, Plantation Utensils, Carpenters Tools, a Copper Still, a Quantity of Molasses and Brandy, Crops of Corn and Tobacco, Stocks of Horses, Hogs, and Cattle, a Riding Chair and Harness, and several likely Negroes, mostly Men and Women. Also three Lots of Land in the Town of Smithfield, on one of which is a small House; and a Tract of Land containing about two Hundred and ten Acres, three Miles from Smithfield, fresh, and good for Corn and Tobacco, pleasantly situated, well timbered, and watered with several good Springs. At the same Time will be let, for a Term of Years, a Lot of Land in the said Town, with a large Brick House, and other convenient Houses, a Well, and a Garden thereon, adjoining the Courthouse, and will suit a Person in the publick Way; also another Lot adjoining the same, with a good Storehouse, Counting Room, &c. commodiously situated for a Merchant. The Sale is to continue until next Day, if not all sold before.
And on Friday the 24th will be exposed to Sale, on the Premises, about seven Hundred and sixty four Acres of Land, situated on the publick Road leading from Carolina to Smithfield, about eight Miles from Town, on the north Side of Black Water River, in the County of Isle of Wight, whereon are several Houses, Orchards, and other Improvements fit for Cropping, is well timbered, has a fine Range for Hogs and Cattle, is a very publick Place, and seems suitable for a Merchant; also a Water Grist Mill, over a very constant Stream, with two Acres of Land, near unto the last mentioned Premises.
And on Saturday the 25th will be exposed to Sale, on the Premises, a Tract of about two Hundred and sixty two Acres of good Land, Part whereof is low Ground, situated in the County of Southampton, on Broad Water River; also a Tract containing about a Hundred and eighty two Acres of Land, the same in Quality as the last mentioned, and adjoining the same, the Whole being well timbered with Cypress and white Oak, and has a fine Range, with Houses, Orchards, and other Improvements, is fit for Cropping, and esteemed a very fine Place.
The Lands will be sold altogether, or in Parcels, as may be agreed on. Six Months Credit will be allowed the Purchasers of the personal Estate for all Sums exceeding twenty five Shillings, and nine Months for the Lands, on giving Bond, with approved Security. Any Person may be shown the Land by applying to Mr. John Rand, in Smithfield, or to Mr. William Rand, on the Premises, in Southampton.
All Persons indebted to the said Estate are desired to make immediate Payment, and those who have Demands on the same are requested to make them known by the Day of Sale.
SOPHIA RAND, Executrix. LEWIS ALLMAND, Executor.
To be SOLD, on Monday the 20th of this Instant, for ready Money,
ALL the personal Estate of Mr. Thomas Thompson, deceased, at his late Dwellinghouse, in the Borough of Norfolk, consisting of sundry HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN FURNITURE, and a Quantity of TANNED LEATHER of different Sorts.—All Persons indebted to the Estate of the said Thomas Thompson are requested to discharge their respective Balances immediately, and those who have any Demands against it are desired to make them known to MATTHEW PHRIPP, } Executors. JOHN LAWRENCE, }
RUN away, on Tuesday the 6th Instant, an Apprentice named DANIEL McCARTY, about nineteen Years of Age, stout limbed, with a down Look, wears his own Hair, and is very apt to give saucy Language when spoke to; he had on a Pair of Buckskin Breeches, a short Duffel Coat almost new, and carried with him a Snuff coloured Coat and Waistcoat, with yellow Metal Buttons. Whoever brings him to me, in Williamsburg, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward. WILLIAM COSBY. N. B. He works tolerably at the Wheelwright Business.
RUN away from the Subscriber, on Goose Creek, Loudoun County, the 15th of December last, an indentured English Servant Man named RICHARD BELLS, of a low Stature, and thin dark brown Hair; he had on, and carried with him, a Ruffia Drill Coat, a light gray Cloth Ditto, a white Flannel Jacket, a spotted Cotton One, and a labelled blue Cloth Ditto, a Pair of good Buckskin Breeches, a Pair of brown Cloth Ditto without Lining, Country made Yarn Stockings and Shoes, and a Half worn Felt Hat; he shaves and bleeds well, and has Razors and Lancets with him, reads and writes tolerably, and may probably forge himself a Pass. Whoever secures him so that I may get him again shall have, if taken in this Colony, FIVE POUNDS Reward, and be allowed any reasonable Charges besides if he is taken out of the Colony. JOHN NORTON.
To the PUBLICK.
THE Subscriber having studied and practised MIDWIFERY for some Time past, with Success, under the Direction, and with the Approbation, of Doctors Puffet and Gale, flatters herself she will meet with Encouragement, as Nothing will be spared to complete her in the Knowledge of an Art so eminently necessary to the Good of Mankind. Ladies, and others, are therefore desired to take Notice that they will be waited upon on the shortest Warning, by their humble Servant, WILLIAMSBURG. MARY ROSE.
A COURSE of LECTURES on the Elementary Ideas of Poetry, including the general Principles of Composition, will be read by S. HENRY, Professor of Moral Philosophy, &c. in William & Mary College.
Gentlemen who choose to attend are requested to send their Names before the 10th of February, as the first Lecture will be delivered on the Afternoon of that Day, at four o'Clock.
Price of Attendance THREE PISTOLES.
YORK Town, January 1, 1772.
All Persons indebted to the Estate of Mrs. Elizabeth Burcher, deceased, are desired to make Payment; particularly those who failed giving in their Bonds, as they will be deemed to carry Interest from the Day they became due. All those who have any Demands against the said Estate are requested to make them known; and such as are entitled to the Estate are desired to attend at York Town on the 22nd Instant, in Order that the Estate may be settled.
JOHN BURCHER. JOHN HAY.
THE Subscriber has for Sale about seven Thousand Acres of LAND, four Thousand of which lie in the County of Buckingham, known by the Name of the Buckingham Tract, and is all very valuable high Land; the other Tract, which lies on both Sides of Willis's Creek, in the Counties of Buckingham and Cumberland, contains upwards of four Hundred Acres of exceeding rich low Ground, and very good high Land, with Tobacco Houses, and others, sufficient for twenty Hands. It will be sold in Lots, or altogether, as may be agreed on, and will be shown by Mr. Cary Harrison, at the Fork of Willis's Creek. For Terms apply to 8 ARCHIBALD CARY.
LOST, at the New Kent Election, a large red Morocco Leather POCKET BOOK, with some Notes of Hand, some Bonds, and the following Tobacco Notes signed Meredith & Timperley: No. 41, Crops 1230, Tare 107, Neat 1123; No. 25, No. 42, Crops 1235, Tare 98, Neat 1137; No. 43, Crops 1235, Tare 100, Neat 1135. Sweet scented. Whoever delivers the said Book and Papers to Rickard Timberlake, of the aforesaid County, shall have TEN SHILLINGS Reward, and be asked no Questions.
To be SOLD, on Credit till October 1772, TWO Hundred and twenty Acres of LAND on Rock Castle Neck, in Goochland County, on the Road between the Courthouse and Dungeness, and within eight Miles of the Courthouse. John Hodges lives on the Land, and will show it to any Person inclined to purchase. A good Title will be made, on giving Bond and Security to David Ross. JARVIS JACKSON.
AT Cumberland Courthouse, on Monday the 27th Instant (January) will be sold, to the highest Bidders, forty likely SLAVES. The Terms will be made known on the Day of Sale. ARCHIBALD CARY.
To be SOLD, at Cumberland Town, in New Kent, on Friday the 24th of this Instant (January) THE Sloop ELIZABETH, a Sea Vessel that carries about two Thousand five Hundred Bushels, with all her Cables, Anchors, Sails, &c. The Time of Payment will be made agreeable to the Purchasers, on giving Bond and Security as usual.
To be SOLD, at Newport Glebe, in Isle of Wight, on Monday the 10th of February, if fair, otherwise next fair Day,
SUNDRY genteel new HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN FURNITURE, seventy or eighty Barrels of Indian Corn, some Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, &c. Credit will be allowed till the June Court, on giving Bond and Security to H. JOHN BURGES.
The GLEBE is in good Order for Cropping, and will be rented to a careful Tenant.
To be SOLD at publick Auction, on Thursday the 23rd of this Instant (January) being Court Day, SEVERAL very likely SLAVES, consisting of fine Virginia born Fellows, Boys, and Wenchies; also the Stocks of Cattle, Hogs, Horses, Corn, &c. belonging to the Estate of Captain Samuel Pryor, deceased. Six Months Credit will be allowed the Purchasers, on giving Bond and good Security to the Administrator. All Sums under twenty Shillings for ready Money. WILL PRYOR, Administrator.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Northampton, about the 27th of November last, a Negro Fellow named JACOB, about twenty four Years of Age, middle sized, very black, and smooth faced, with little or no Beard, has a Stoppage in his Speech, and if strictly examined, or suddenly asked a Question, cannot directly give an Answer. He is supposed to be carried across the Bay by a certain Person who frequently passes and repasses from the eastern Shore to Norfolk and Portsmouth. Whoever secures him so that he may be restored to me shall have FIVE POUNDS for his Trouble, and all reasonable Expenses allowed, if he is taken on the western Shore. I will give TWENTY PISTOLES on Conviction of the Person who took him away. 8 JOHN STRATTON.
THOSE indebted to Robert and Robert Bogle and Scott, of London, Merchants, are desired to take Notice that if they fail to discharge their respective Balances before, or at, this next April General Court, the Subscriber (who will then attend, and is now furnished with their several Accounts, properly authenticated) will immediately commence Suits, without Respect to Persons. The Indulgence already granted, he hopes, when considered, will induce them to prevent this disagreeable Measure. WILLIAM BOGLE.
To be SOLD at the POST OFFICE, WILLIAMSBURG, DOCTOR Chandler's Answer to the Objections and Misrepresentations of Doctor Chauncy, and others, in Regard to the proposed AMERICAN EPISCOPATE. Two Volumes, Price seven Shillings. An ADDRESS from the CLERGY of NEW YORK and NEW JERSEY to the EPISCOPALIANS in VIRGINIA, occasioned by some late Transactions in that Colony relative to an AMERICAN EPISCOPATE. Price one Shilling and threepence.
HANOVER Town, December 23, 1771.
I INTEND for England immediately, and to return in the Spring. HARDIN BURNLEY, Junior.
N. B. STRAYED, or STOLEN, on the 25th of September, a sorrel HORSE about five Feet high, with a light hanging Mane and Switch Tail, branded on the near Buttock R.A. but not very plain, has a good Deal of White in his Face, two or three white Legs, his fore Hoofs much inclined to split, was shod before, and paces and gallops. Whoever brings me the said Horse shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward, and FIVE POUNDS if the Thief is secured. HARDIN BURNLEY.
LOST, in HAMPTON Road.
A YAWL belonging to the Brig Molly, of Norfolk, Samuel Mitchell Commander. It is about eighteen Feet Keel, painted green above, and yellow below, a white Bottom, rows with six Oars, and had a Chain and Rope to her. Whoever delivers her to Mr. Filbeck, Merchant, in Norfolk, shall have a GUINEA Reward. SAMUEL MITCHELL.

POETS CORNER.
On the First of JANUARY.
HAIL to the new-born Year! adieu the last, Since Life's a Dream, forgot as soon as past; The future still attracts, the present palls, Spring's Prospect pleases when the Snow Storm falls;
Mr. BAKER, Surgeon Dentist,
BEGS Leave to inform the Gentry that he is now at Mr. Maupin's, in Williamsburg, and will wait on them on receiving their Commands. He cures the SCURVY in the GUMS, be it ever so bad; first cleans and scales the Teeth from that corrosive, tartarous, gritty Substance which hinders the Gums from growing, infects the Breath, and is one of the principal Causes of the Scurvy, which, if not timely prevented, eats away the Gums, so that many Peoples Teeth fall out fresh.
LOST, on Saturday the 14th of this Instant (December) from on Board the Brigantine Alice, George Carlson Master, in Lynnhaven Bay, nearly opposite to Crump's Hill, an ANCHOR of about eight Hundred Weight, with a new ten Inch CABLE, on which was a Buoy and two empty Barrels, and a Buoy on the Anchor.
JAMES HALDANE, COPPER SMITH and BRASS FOUNDER from Philadelphia, in Church Street, near the Church, Norfolk,
MAKES and sells all Sorts of COPPER and BRASS WORK, namely, Still, Brewing Coppers, Sugar Boilers, Fullers and Hatters Coppers, Capuchin Plate Warmers, Tea Kitchens, all Sorts of Ship, Fish, and Wash Kettles, Stew Pans, Dutch Ovens, Tea Kettles, Saucepans, Coffee and Chocolate Pots, Bras Mill Work, Furniture for Coach and Chair Harness, Fenders, Andirons, Candlesticks, Cocks, &c. at the most reasonable Rates.
THIS is to inform those who bought Lands of me that I shall attend at Culpeper Courthouse from the 10th to the 12th of April next, in Order to make Deeds to the several Purchasers, and to receive the Money due on their Bonds; which if they fail in, they may expect to be immediately sued.
HAVING discontinued the Store kept at Tappahannock on my Account, I have opened, this Fall, a large and genteel Assortment of GOODS, lately imported from London, at my Landing, on Piscataway Creek, about a Mile from the Mouth of it; where all Persons may be supplied on very low Terms for Cash, Tobacco, Corn, Plank, Shingles, or Staves, as well as on Credit.
THE TALLOW CHANDLER'S Business is still carried on by the Subscriber, at the NORTH AMERICAN Coffeehouse, in Church Street; where he makes and sells the best moulded CANDLES at ten Pence Halfpenny a Pound by the Box, dipped Ditto at nine Pence Halfpenny. Gentlemen who please to favour him with their Custom may depend on his utmost Endeavours to give Satisfaction.
He keeps genteel LODGINGS for Gentlemen, with good Stables and Provision for Horses.
THE Creditors of Anthony M'Kittrick, and Company, being disappointed in the Meeting proposed at the October Court, all Persons who have any Demands against that Company are desired to send an Account of their Claims to the Subscriber, at Fredericksburg, before the April Court, when a Dividend is intended to be made.
PURSUANT to the last Will and Testament of William Stith, deceased, to be sold on the Premises, on Tuesday the 5th of February next, altogether, or in Parcels, as may best suit the Purchasers, about fifteen Hundred Acres of LAND on Herring Creek, in Charles City County, with easy Payments, which will be made known at the Day of Sale. Good Security will be required.
To be SOLD, THE Plantation whereon my deceased Father lived, in Charles Parish, York County, containing two Hundred and thirty six Acres, with a Brick House and several Outhouses; it lies convenient to Church, Mills, Fish, and Oysters. A good Title will be made, and the Terms may be known by applying to Mr. William Stevenson, Merchant, in York Town, to Mr. Alexander Graham, Merchant, at the Halfway House between York and Hampton, who lives near the Plantation, or to me, in Mecklenburg.
To be SOLD, at Colonel Boswell's, in Hanover County, on Tuesday the 14th of January, A TRACT of LAND belonging to Nathaniel West Dandridge, Esquire, which is laid off in convenient Lots. A sufficient Title will be made, and twelve Months Credit allowed the Purchasers, on giving Bond and Security to
For SALE, and to be entered on immediately, TWO Tracts of LAND, one of which contains nine Hundred and fifty Acres, and the other four Hundred, lying on the Branches of Slate River, in the County of Buckingham, with all necessary Houses for Crops, and is convenient to Church, Mill, and Courthouse. Any Person inclined to purchase may know the Terms by applying to the Subscriber, on the Premises.
ANY Person well qualified for a BOOK-KEEPER, on Application to Messieurs Purdie & Dixon, will meet with good Encouragement.
RUN away from the Poor House belonging to St. Paul's and St. Martin's Parishes, Hanover County, in November 1770, an outlawed Negro named PHILL, about five and thirty Years of Age, middle sized, of a yellow Complexion, an artful, smooth, talkative Fellow, and probably may endeavour to pass for a Freeman. He has worked some Time at the Carpenter's and Cooper's Trades, but knows very little of either. He formerly belonged to the late Speaker (Robinson) of King and Queen. When he went away he had on the usual Negro Dress, and some other Clothes. Whoever delivers him to me shall have FIVE POUNDS Reward, if he is taken in the Colony, and EIGHT POUNDS if out thereof. * * * Masters of Vessels and others are hereby forewarned from carrying him out of the Country.
STRAYED, or STOLEN, from Gharlotte Courthouse, on the 4th of this Instant (December) a white HORSE about five or six Years old, four Feet ten Inches high, paces and trots, one of his fore Hoofs is black, and the rest white, shod before, and branded on the near Shoulder G. Whoever brings the said Horse to me, upon Ward's Fork, in Charlotte County, or gives such Intelligence as will enable me to get him again, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward, if he is taken in the Colony, and FORTY SHILLINGS if out thereof, besides FIVE POUNDS on Conviction of the Thief.
For CHARTER to SPAIN, PORTUGAL, or any Port in BRITAIN, THE Snow BETSEY, Burthen about two Hundred and fifty Hogheads of Tobacco, a strong new Vessel, and built purposely for the Grain Trade. For Terms apply to Mr. Gavin Lawsons, Merchant, in Falmouth, or to the Subscriber, in Northumberland.
WHEREAS the Revenues of the College, unless more Care and Exactness be used in the Collection of them, cannot continue equal to the Expenses; and whereas a considerable Amount is due to the College, which arises from small Sums easy to be paid by each individual Debtor, all Persons concerned are therefore desired to take Notice of the following Regulations, passed at a late Meeting of the President and Masters:
If any Person who owes Money to the College on Bond does not either pay off all the Interest, that is or shall be due, on or before the 10th of May next, or in the mean Time give a new Bond, with approved Security, for the whole Debt, both Principal and Interest, his Bond shall be put into a Lawyer's Hand on the said 10th of May, with Orders to bring Suit, and obtain Satisfaction for it as speedily as the Forms of Law will permit.
A salutary Order of the Visitors and Governors, directing every Boarder, on his Admission into the College, to pay for six Months Board in Advance, is evaded and rendered nugatory if the like Sum be not paid per Advance by every Boarder at the End of each Half Year. All, therefore, who are in Arrears for Board, are required to discharge them by the said 10th of May. On Failure, the Boarder shall be dismissed from the College until the Accounts against him be discharged, or recovered by Suit. And after the 10th of May next, if Payment for Board in Advance, as above mentioned, be neglected, the Boarder shall not be suffered to continue in the College for more than one Month after such Neglect, but shall, in that Time, be sent away with his Account, and shall not be received again till it be discharged.
All Surveyors who have not settled with the Burfar of the College, for all their publick and private Surveys since the General Court in April last, are required to settle with him before the 10th of May next, under the Penalty of being superceded, and having their Bonds sued. If among these Surveyors there be any from whom Nothing is due to the College, it is demanded of them, under the same Penalty, to transmit to the Burfar attested Declarations of there being Nothing due from them to the College. And, after the 10th of May next, if any Surveyor shall omit sending attested Accounts or Declarations (as above specified) annually, he shall be superceded, and have his Bond sued.
That this Advertisement may not be treated with that Contempt which several Notices of the like Kind have met with, and that no Body may hereafter plead Want of due Information concerning the Premises, this Advertisement is to be printed weekly in the Gazette until the 10th of May next ensuing. By Order of the President and Masters.
RUN away, some Time in April last, a Virginia born Negro Man named DAVID (alias David Gafco) about thirty Years old, five Feet nine or ten Inches high, remarkably well made, has lost one or both of his great Toes by being Frost-bitten, one Finger next the little One has been hurt, which occasions it to stand erect, and has lost some of his Teeth. He had on, when he went away, a Cotton Jacket and Breeches, and an Osnapur Shirt. Whoever brings him to me, in Lunenburg, shall have five Pounds Reward.
TAKEN up, in Amelia, a brindled HEIFER with a Slit and Half Crop on the upper Side of the right Ear, and a Hole and Half Crop in the left.
TAKEN up, in Cumberland, a sorrel Mare with a Star in her Forehead, a Snip on her Nose, branded on the near Buttock P, and on the near Shoulder H K. Posted, and appraised to four Pounds five Shillings.
TAKEN up, in Dinwiddie, a small bay HORSE with a Star in his Forehead, a Sprig Tail and short Mane, and branded on the near Shoulder 3. Posted, and appraised to twenty five Shillings.
TAKEN up, in Henrico, a young bay HORSE about four Feet seven Inches high, the left hind Leg white, with a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, and branded on the near Shoulder and Buttock B. Posted, and appraised to fifteen Pounds.
TAKEN up, in Dinwiddie, a small brindled and white HEIFER, and a small red and white STEER, both marked with a Crop and two Slits in the right Ear, and an Underkeel in the left. Posted, and appraised to one Pound seventeen Shillings and Sixpence.
TAKEN up, in Dinwiddie, a small black HORSE four Feet four or five Inches high, about fourteen Years old, with a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, and branded on the near Shoulder I S. Posted, and appraised to four Pounds.
TAKEN up, in Hanover, a reddish brindled STEER with a white Spot on his Forehead and down his Face, some White on his Belly, a Crop in both Ears, and a Slit in the left. Posted, and appraised to three Pounds ten Shillings.
TAKEN up, in Augusta, a dark bay HORSE about five or six Years old, paces and trots, has a small Star in his Forehead, and had a Bell on. Posted, and appraised five Pounds ten Shillings.
TAKEN up, in Chesterfield, a red and white STEER with two smooth Crops, a Hole in the left Ear, and two Slits in the right. Posted, and appraised to three Pounds. Also a white BARROW with a Bob Tail, and marked with a smooth Crop in the right Ear. Posted, and appraised to twenty Shillings.
To be SOLD,
A VALUABLE Tract of LAND lying on Sandy Creek, in Pittsylvania County, containing twelve Hundred Acres, a considerable Part of which is low Ground, being the Land which lately belonged to Mr. William Kenyon, of Charles City. Any Person inclined to purchase may know the Terms by applying to Mr. Thomas Yule, in Pittsylvania, or to Cabin Point, Dec. 14.
For SALE,
THIRTEEN Hundred and thirty five Acres of LAND, with three Plantations thereon, lying in Nansemond County, within seven Miles of Suffolk. Also two Hundred and fifty Acres within eight Miles of Hog Island, in Surry County, convenient to James River, and well improved. Any Person inclined to purchase may know the Terms, and be shown the Land, by applying to the Subscriber, who lives on the last mentioned Tract.
To be LET on LEASE,
A VERY large and commodious HOUSE in the Town of Petersburg, built for a Tavern, and well fitted for that Business; it is two Stories high, has a Number of very convenient Lodging Rooms, and large and small Rooms for the Entertainment of Guests. Any Person qualified for the Business of a Tavern Keeper, with a proper Capital, may find this as advantageous a Situation as any on the Continent. Apply to the Subscriber, who lives on the Premises.
To be SOLD,
A TRACT of LAND containing five Hundred and forty three Acres, on Butterwood, in Amelia County, formerly belonging to Mr. Samuel Gordon, of Blandford. The Land is good, and there are valuable Improvements on it. Also to be let on Lease, or sold, two LOTS in the Town of Blandford, on Appomattox River, at present in the Occupation of Mr. Patrick Ramsay, with a Storehouse, and every other necessary Building for a Merchant in considerable Business. For Terms apply to PETERSBURG, November 10.
To be SOLD, altogether, or in Lots,
ABOUT two Thousand seven Hundred Acres of good LOW GROUNDS on both Sides of Roanoke River, and two Hundred Acres of HIGH LAND two Miles distant, lying in the Counties of Halifax, North Carolina. There are about six Hundred Acres of the Land cleared, with an Apple Orchard, a good Dwellinghouse, Dairy, Smokehouse, Negro Quarters, &c. Any Person inclined to purchase may know the Terms by applying to the Subscriber, in Prince George.
For SALE,
THE LAND whereon I live, in Middlesex, containing about two Thousand two Hundred Acres, in good Order for Crops, with Orchards and Buildings equal to any in the Colony; also thirteen Hundred Acres on the River Pianketank, in the County of Gloucester, with a Mill, and good Orchards. The Stocks, which are very large, may be had with the Lands. Any Person inclined to purchase may know the Terms by applying to
VIRGINIA, &c. At a General Court held at the Capitol October 14, 1771. James Agar, Esquire, of the Kingdom of Ireland, Plaintiff, against Lewis Burwell Martin, of the said Kingdom, and William Harrison, Defendants.
THE Defendant Martin being beyond Sea, and not having entered his Appearance according to the Rule of this Court, on the Motion of the Plaintiff, it is ordered that the other Defendant, who hath Effects of the said Martin in his Hands, as is suggested, do not pay, convey away, or secrete such Effects, except pursuant to former Decrees against him, until the farther 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 Plaintiff, unto the said Plaintiff, upon his 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 farther ordered, that the said Defendant (Lewis Burwell) do appear here on the first Day of the next Court, to answer the Bill of the Plaintiff; 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 Parish of St. Anne, in the County of Albemarle, and posted up at the front Door of the Capitol, in the City of Williamsburg.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Lancaster, on the 24th of December last, a Negro Man named WILL, about five Feet eight or nine Inches high, between thirty and forty Years of Age, but looks older than what he really is. He has been at Work in Norfolk for some Time past, and went by the Name of William Moore, as a Freeman. He is a very good Hottler and Gardener; and what may detect him sooner, he is very fond of Liquor, and when drunk very quarrelsome and saucy. Whoever will cure him in any Jail, and give me Intelligence so that I may get him again, shall have FIVE POUNDS, and if brought to me FIFTEEN POUNDS, paid on the Delivery of the Negro.