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LETTER III.
TO THE ORTHODOX LAYMAN.
SIR,
A S I shall have Occasion, in the Course of this Letter, to speak of Christ's aionian or mediatorial Kingdom, I think it necessary to explain the Sense of the Greek Terms αἰών, αἰώνιος, which you urge as your strongest Argument against the universal Restitution of Mankind to Perfection and Happiness, in the meritorious Atonement made for the Sins of the World by JESUS CHRIST.
These Words very frequently occur in the Septuagint Version, and in the Greek New Testament, and are translated, in our English Bible, by Words of very different Import. In some Passages, they are rendered by the Words eternal, everlasting, and for ever; in others, by the Word World; in others, by the Word Age; and in others, by the Word Course; which different Renderings destroy their true Meaning, and do not answer the Use the inspired Writers intended by them. In their genuine Sense, they denote temporal Duration. Among the Greeks, they signified an Age, or so long as very old Men lived; yet sometimes they were applied to a much longer, and sometimes to a shorter Time. Homer, Herodotus, and Xenophon, apply them to the Duration of Man's Life, either long or short. In the Holy Scriptures, which follow the Hebrew Idiom in these, as in many other Words, they are never used in the Sense that occurs in the Heathen Greek Authors, but always denote a very long, though undetermined Portion or Period of Time; and do no Where signify Eternity in the common Acceptation of that Term, but always relate to Time, and the Periods of Time either before, during, or after, the Continuance of this World. This I intend to prove at large when I come to consider the Scripture Passages in which these Words are to be found, particularly that eminent One in St. Matthew's Gospel, which describes the grand and awful Appearance of the SON OF MAN at the general Judgment.
I confess I do not know any Word that will convey the proper Meaning of these important Greek Terms to an English Reader, according to their uncommon critical Use in the Holy Scriptures. The Word Age, when applied to a very long Period of Time, such as the Time from the Creation to the Deluge, called the Antediluvian Age; from the Deluge to the Departure of the Israelites out of Egypt, called the Patriarchal Age; from that Era to the coming of the Messiah, called the Age of the Jewish Law; and from the coming of the Messiah to the End of the Christian Dispensation, when the Testimony of the Gospel shall be superseded by our immediate Vision of Christ, called the Gospel Age; and from the End of this Era to Christ's delivering up his Kingdom into his Father's Hands, when all Things shall be subjected to him, all his Enemies shall be put under his Feet, and God shall be all in all: I say, the English Word AGE, used in this extensive Sense, may perhaps serve to supply the Want of a better Word to convey the Meaning of the Greek Terms. But as this Word AGE will not convey the proper Scripture Sense of the Greek Terms in the various Texts where they may be found, I shall take the Liberty, as I have Occasion to make Use of the Words aion, aionian, to express them; and I presume this Liberty will not be thought improper, since St. Paul addresses our Saviour by the Title of King of the Aions (τῶν αἰώνων τῶν αἰώνων) and the Prophet Daniel and St. Peter call his Kingdom (βασιλεία αἰώνιος) the aionian Kingdom of our Lord and Restorer (σoter) JESUS CHRIST.
I will now proceed to consider the Condition of Mankind as they are under the Government of their gracious Propitiator and Advocate with the Father for the Sins of the whole World.
It is impossible for created Thought, without the Assistance of Revelation, to find out the astonishing Things God has done for Mankind, which even the Angels desire to look into. My future Reflections, therefore, shall be drawn from the sacred Fountain of divine Truths which were given by Inspiration of God, and are profitable for Doctrine, for Reproof, for Correction, for Instruction in Righteousness; that the Man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto every good Work.
And taking the Holy Scriptures for my Guide, from whence alone we can discover rightly who is the Author and what is the true End of Man, I will endeavour, without Regard to Systems or Opinions of Men, to extend my Thoughts to the infinite Being of all Beings, and take a Survey of the magnificent and amazing Scheme of our Redemption as existing in the divine Mind from Eternity; that I may discover, as far as my finite Powers can discover, the Nature and Extent of Christ's Government, and the Condition of Mankind under it.
The Holy Scriptures every Where proclaim that God is infinite in Wisdom and Knowledge, as well as in Power; that he made the Earth by his Power, established the World by his Wisdom, and stretched out the Heavens by his Understanding; that in him are hid all the Treasures of Wisdom; that he is perfect in Knowledge; that the Ways of Men are before the Eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his Goings; that he searcheth all Hearts, and understandeth all the Imaginations of the Thoughts.
As God then is infinite in Wisdom and Knowledge, he cannot begin to know any Thing; and if he cannot begin to know any Thing, all the Possibilities of Futurity must have existed in him from all Eternity. He must have seen, at one View, all the possible Circumstances and Dispositions of Things, all their mutual Relations and Dependencies, before they were produced into Being. He must have foreseen what each of those Powers and Faculties he gave his Creatures would produce; he must have foreseen all Things that were to exist, as if they had been in real Existence. The most contingent Futurities, the Actions of free Agents, must have been open to his Presence, who gave them those very Powers of Will and Choice by which they became free Agents. He, who reciteth Men Knowledge, must have known what Degree of Knowledge Men would possess, and what Inclinations of Mind and Affections of Body such Knowledge would produce. He, without whose Knowledge not a Sparrow falleth to the Ground, must have foreseen all the Changes, Errors, Sins, and Deaths, of all his Creatures, with the Causes, Manner, and Circumstances of them; and all the possible Effects those Changes, Sins, and Deaths, would produce for ever.
And that this Presence of all future Events is an Attribute of the divine Nature, God himself declares, in exceeding strong and emphatical Terms: Thus saith the Lord, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, the Lord of Hosts, I am the first, and I am the last, and besides me there is no God; and who, as I, shall call and shall declare it, and set it in Order for me, since I appointed the ancient People, and the Things that are coming, and shall come? Let them show unto them. Remember the former Things of old; for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like unto me; declaring the End from the Beginning, and from ancient Times the Things that are not yet done, saying, my Counsel shall stand, and I will do all my Pleasure.
Now if all this is true, and it must be so if the Holy Scriptures are true, and God is infinite in Wisdom and Knowledge, then God must have foreseen from Eternity that Mankind would fall into Sin, Misery, and Death, and lose that Perfection, Happiness, and Immortality, I have already proved he intended they should enjoy; and, if he did foresee that this fatal Event would happen, then, if God acted in the Creation according to his Perfections, he must have ordered all Things so as to answer for ever the several Events he foreknew the Sins of Mankind would occasion, that his Works might not be for ever disordered, nor his Design in the Creation of Mankind be defeated by them.
And that he did so, that he provided from Eternity a Remedy, the most certain and efficacious that could be, to remove all the Evils the Misconduct of Mankind would produce, is undeniably evident from the Holy Scriptures, which declare that we are redeemed with the precious Blood of Christ, as of a Lamb without Blemish and without Spot, who verily was fore-ordained before the Foundation of the World, but was manifested in these last Times for us; according as he hath chosen us (all Mankind, Gentiles as well as Jews) in him (Christ) before the Foundation of the World, that we should be holy and without Blame before him in Love; having pre-ordained us unto the Adoption of Children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good Pleasure of his Will; who hath restored (καθιστῶν) us and called us with a holy Calling, not according to our Works, but according to his own Purpose and Grace, which was given in Christ (πρὸ αἰώνων αἰώνων) before the aionian Season, that is, before Creation began. And the Reason of this Provision, his infinite Goodness made for our Restitution to Happiness and Immortality, is, because we are his Workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good Works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
This Representation of the divine Foreknowledge surveying all the Possibilities of Futurity, all the Natures, Relations, and even Contingencies of Things, viewing the future Creation of Mankind in the original Perfection and Rectitude of their Nature, their Fall from that Perfection, and their Recovery and Restitution to Life and Immortality by the gracious Means he appointed; I say, the Consideration of the divine Foreknowledge, upon the Principles of an universal Restitution of Mankind to a Reconciliation with God in JESUS CHRIST, removes all the Difficulty that attends the Scripture Doctrine concerning the Decree of God, before the Foundation of the World, that Christ should suffer for the Sins of Mankind before they were created, and before they could possibly commit Sin.
For as God foreknew that Mankind, though endowed with Degrees of Knowledge perfectly sufficient for them to know their Duty to him, and whatever was necessary for them to know, would use their Knowledge contrary to the End for which it was given them, and thereby fall into Sin, and become obnoxious to the divine Justice, what can be a stronger Evidence of his infinite Wisdom than to provide a Remedy for the Evils he foresaw would happen in his Works by Man's Disobedience, and at the same Time preserve to them the original Liberty and Freedom of their Nature as moral Agents?
It does not argue any Inconsistency in a human Legislator to provide against Evils which may possibly happen in the State he governs, though perhaps such Evils may never happen. It cannot, therefore, be extravagant to affirm that God might, consistently with his Perfections, and the Liberty of human Nature, appoint a Remedy for the Evils he foresaw Mankind, by the Misuse of their Liberty, would most certainly fall into, and which, if not remedied, would defeat this his Purpose in their Creation.
Neither can this Prescience in God, or the Remedy he appointed for the Destruction of Sin, which he foresaw would happen, be the Cause of Sin, which did happen; because Prescience is not an Efficient, is not a Substance, and has not an impulsive Power, and consequently cannot have any Influence on the Things foreknown, or be the Cause of Action on any Being. Sin, therefore, was not the Effect of Foreknowledge in God, but of Freedom of Action in Man.
If it be asked why God created Man liable to Sin, and why he did not prevent it when he foresaw the fatal Consequences it would produce in his Works, the Answer I think is obvious: Man was to be created a religious Being, and consequently a moral Agent; he was to be made to enjoy Happiness and Immortality, and the Practice of moral Goodness and Righteousness are essentially necessary to the Enjoyment of such Happiness; he was to be made a rational Creature, which he could not be without his Actions were free, and he was left to his own Liberty. I am therefore under no Difficulty to assert, that even the divine Power could not prevent Man from committing Sin, by any Operation extraneous to his Nature, without destroying the Freedom of his Will, and making him to act necessarily; which would be the same as to make a Thing to be and not to be at the same Time, which is contradictory and impossible, and is what God cannot do. God, therefore, by providing a Remedy, consistent with the moral Liberty of Mankind, for their Restitution to Happiness and Immortality, which he foresaw they would lose, did all that was proper to be done, and all that he designed to do to induce a free Agent to determine himself, in a moral Way, to do what was right and just.
And this Conclusion is forced upon us if we consider, farther, that, though Mankind were to be created for Happiness and Immortality, yet it was not within the divine Intention to prevent them falling into Sin, which could not be done without depriving them of their moral Liberty; but it was the divine Intention to restore them from the State of Sin he foresaw they would fall into, to the State of Happiness and Immortality he created them to enjoy, by the Provision he made for that Purpose in the Person who was to reconcile the World to himself, by giving himself a Ransom for all, to be testified in due Time.
Having thus shown that the universal Restitution of Mankind to Happiness and Immortality was Part of the grand Scheme of our Redemption, as laid in the divine Mind antecedent to Creation, and was the Consequence of God's foreknowing that Mankind would abuse their Liberty, and fall into Sin, Misery, and Death, contrary to the End for which he intended to produce them into Being, I will now endeavour to discover, from the Scripture Account of this sublime Doctrine, how this Restitution is to be effected.
And the Holy Scriptures teach us that the infinitely perfect unbeginning Source of all Being has a Son like himself, a Son begotten into his own Likeness; that this Son is distinguished from his holy Father by the Name of LOGOS, or WORD; that he was in the Beginning; that he was with God, and was God. It is from thence we learn that this LOGOS-SON was the Creator of all Things; that without him was not any Thing made that was made; and that this our common Creator can love his Creatures even to Death.
It is from the Holy Scriptures we learn that this glorious Object, the Wonder of the Universe, and the Happiness of Man, who was glorified with the Glory of the Father before the World was, entered into Covenant with his holy Father for the Redemption and Restitution of Mankind to Happiness and Immortality; that the Terms of this Covenant were, that the Son, who, being in the Form of God, thought it not Robbery to be equal with God, should empty himself of his divine Fullness, should come down from Heaven and take upon him the Form of a Servant, should be made in Likeness of Man; and, being in Fashion as a Man, should humble himself and become obedient unto Death, even the Death of the Cross, giving his Soul an Offering for Sin, and his Body an atoning Sacrifice for Mankind.
It is from the Holy Scriptures we learn that this merciful and gracious Being did perform, with the most minute and perfect Exactness, all the Terms and Conditions of this Covenant; that he came down from Heaven, assumed the Nature of Man, by being conceived in the Womb of a Virgin by the miraculous Efficacy of the Holy Ghost, without the Intervention of Man, and thereby became, in a most eminent Manner, the promised Seed of the Woman; that, though of such divine Extraction, he took upon himself the Form of a Servant, lived through the whole Course of his Life in Poverty and Disgrace, without Wealth or secular Honour, regardful of Nothing but doing the Will of his Father that sent him; that, after he had finished his great Work, he suffered, as a Malefactor, a most cruel and ignominious Death, even the Death of the Cross. It is from the Holy Scriptures we learn that this adorable Personage, by a victorious Resurrection, cast out the Prince of this World, destroyed
the Works of the Devil, abolished Death, and brought Life and Immortality to Light by his Gospel; so that, as by the Offence of one Judgment came upon all Men to Condemnation, so, by the Righteousness of one, the free Gift came upon all Men to Justification of Life. It is from the Holy Scriptures we learn that this great King, and God of us all, prepared and anointed of his holy Father with a direct View to us, upon his triumphant Ascension sat down at the right Hand of the Throne of the Majesty in the Heavens, and now reigns, as LOGOS-MAN, in the Kingdom which the God of Heaven has given him as a Dominion, and Glory, and Kingdom, that all People, Nations, and Languages, should serve him.
For it must be observed, that it was stipulated in the divine Covenant, on the Part of the Father, that his LOGOS-SON, upon finishing, in the human Nature, the great Work of Man's Restitution, which he had undertaken, should possess a Kingdom as a Reward and Recompense for this amazing Service; that he should enjoy this Kingdom as his own Purchase, as his own acquired Right; and that he should reign in it as SON OF MAN, distinct from his Father, over all Mankind universally, until he should reconcile them to God, who is already reconciled to them by the amazing Sacrifice of the Body and Blood of Christ, contrived by infinite Wisdom for that Purpose. My Father, says our Lord, hath covenanted to me a Kingdom (διδόντα μοι τὸν πατέρα μου βασιλείαν). In the Days of these Kings (saith the Prophet Daniel) shall the God of Heaven set up a Kingdom which shall never be destroyed, and the Kingdom shall not be left to another People; and thou shalt call his Name Jesus, he shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God shall give unto him the Throne of his Father David, and he shall reign over the House of Jacob for ever, and of his Kingdom there shall be no End. Declarations like these are so frequent in the Scriptures that I have no Occasion to multiply Texts to prove this Truth, to any Person who is a Christian.
This is the Kingdom Daniel and St. Peter call the aionian Kingdom of our Lord and Restorer JESUS CHRIST, and this is the Kingdom in which St. Paul declares Christ, as aionian King, must reign till he hath put all Enemies under his Feet; that is, till all Things are reduced to their natural Subjection and Subordination to him, as SON OF MAN. For the Father hath given all Things into his Hands; and as all Things are delivered to him of his Father, so must all Things be reduced to a proper Subordination to him, their Liege Lord and King, and to a dutiful Acknowledgment of his Government, that they may honour the Son even as they honour the Father. When this is accomplished, when all Christ's rebellious and stiff-necked Children, who now deny his Authority, and will not have him to reign over them, who transgress his Laws, and do not the Things he commands, are brought, by his correcting Hand, by Chastisements adequate to their Offences, to a sincere, to a full Conviction of their Guilt, and from Sinners become Saints, and apply to him, by an unfeigned Repentance, for Pardon and Forgiveness; when he shall have totally invalidated all his Enemies, even Death, or be that hath the Power of Death, that is, the Devil; when all the Enemies of this great and merciful aionian King shall be subjected and reconciled, by him, to their God; when in the Name of Jesus every Knee shall bow, of Things in Heaven and Things in Earth, and Things under the Earth; and every Tongue shall confess that JESUS CHRIST is the Lord, to the Glory of God the Father; then will Christ's mediatorial Office cease, as having attained its Purpose; then will the End come, when he shall deliver up this temporal or aionian Kingdom to God, even the Father; then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him, that put all Things under him, that God may be all in all.
But though Christ's aionian or mediatorial Kingdom will cease and have an End, and this End will be when he shall have put down all unchristian Rule, and Authority, and Power, and surrendered the Kingdom to the Father, yet this aionian King, this LOGOS-MAN, this MESSIAH, as equal to the Father, the Splendour of his Glory, and his express Character, after the Delivery up of his temporal Kingdom, will inherit his restored Creatures in some immutable and purely divine Manner, infinitely transcending all that created Wisdom can conceive of it.
Christ now reigns in his aionian Kingdom as LOGOS-MAN, distinct from his holy Father; but when this Kingdom shall be superseded by God's becoming all in all, then will he begin to reign with the Father as one God; and all rational Creatures, now become his holy Family, by Means of their Oneness with him, as the Door or Passage opened, will become perfect in one, have an Access to the Father, an Entrance into the Holiest by the Blood of Jesus, the Honour of being Partakers of the divine Nature, and of being so united to God that God may be the ALL IN ALL, and ourselves filled with the Fullness of God: A Mystery, I confess, inscrutable to Man, in this finite State, in which we view the divine Government, as though a Glass, darkly, but which we shall be intimately acquainted with when we shall see him as he is; an Event which must come to pass, as it was one of our blessed Lord's Petitions to his holy Father just before he was betrayed.
The Reconciliation and Restitution of human Nature to the Favour of God, being perfected by Christ, our aionian King, on whom Yehovah hath laid the Iniquity of us all, and our Sins being purged by him, who made himself Sin for us, and gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all Iniquity, Mankind are become thereby the peculiar People and Property of Christ; their Sins no longer respect God distinct from Christ, but God in Christ, and all their Guilt is ingratitude to him, their common Lord God.
As we were God's by Creation, even so are we now Christ's by Purchase; we are his Purchase absolutely and indefeasibly. This our aionian Lord and King hath the sole Title to us till his aionian Purposes are accomplished, and he surrenders his Kingdom to the Father; and as he became our aionian King, as soon as the Promise was made to our first Parents that the Seed of the Woman should bruise the Serpent's Head, and as his Government will continue till he himself shall be subject to him that put all Things under him, all the Sins of Mankind committed within the Depths of the aionian Periods respect no other Person but him: Mankind are Debtors to no other Person but him, and are obnoxious to no other Punishment but his; their Guilt, both in its Root and in its Overflows, is recompensed and atoned for by him, their Lord and King; he is now become their only Creditor, their Redeemer, their Purchaser, and hath Authority to pardon or punish his own, when, where, and how he pleases: For the Father judgeth no Man, but hath committed all Judgment to the Son; so that all Mankind are his Servants, his Captives, his Slaves, his Forfeiture, and, when emancipated by him, his Freemen.
This Doctrine may appear strange to you, who adhere so tenaciously to a miserable Eternity; but I dare affirm it is strictly scriptural, and cannot be overthrown but by Texts mistranslated or misunderstood. It reconciles the Holy Scriptures to the divine Perfections upon the Principles of Reason, and makes the Redemption and Restitution of Mankind worthy the Concern of the LOGOS-SON of God, which a partial Redemption seems not to be.
Christ, personally, is the Plenitude of his Father; in him all the Fullness of the Godhead dwelleth bodily; he contains, in his single Person, greater Worth, greater Excellence, than exist in all the Creatures united; and is, in himself, a Sacrifice equivalent to the whole Creation. When, therefore, we consider the Dignity of Christ's Person, can it be incredible that all Mankind, with their past, present, and future Guilt, should be the purchased Possession of this infinitely holy, excellent, and perfect Being? No, it cannot be incredible; it is a certain Truth; the Holy Scriptures proclaim it, uniformly, as such; they declare that this our aionian King, our LIFE-GIVER, will: that all Men shall be restored and come to the Acknowledgment of the Truth; that he is the Restorer of all Men; that he gave himself a Ransom for all, to be testified in due Time; that he is a Propitiation for the Sins of the whole World; that all Flesh shall see the Restoration of God.

But this Truth is established by so many corresponding Facts in Scripture, and in such Variety of Expression, that the unprejudiced Mind must readily assent to it.
And this Truth is revealed to us as a Truth resting upon and having its Root in the very Nature of Things, as the Purpose or Decree of God grounded upon the greatest of all other Occurrences which Heaven and Earth has yet been Witness of, namely, Redemption provided for us; for Christ has exhausted the whole Venom of Sin in his own Body, and is, in himself singly, both the Cause and Power of our Recovery.
And hence we read, Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away (τὴν ἀμνὸν τοῦ θεοῦ) the Sin of the World. God was, in Christ, reconciling the World unto himself, not imputing their Trespasses; for he hath made him to be Sin for us, that we might be made the Righteousness of God in him. Thou hast cast all my Sins behind thy Back. The Blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanseth us from all Sin; inasmuch that though your Sins be as Scarlet they shall be white as Snow, though they be red as Crimson they shall be as Wool. And this merely because Christ is singly, and in his own Person, the Propitiation for the Sins of all. For being the Brightness of his (Father's) Glory, and the express Image of his Person, and upholding all Things by the Word of his Power, when he had by himself purged our Sins, sat down on the right Hand of the Majesty on high, having forgiven all Trespasses, blotting out the Hand-writing of Ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us; and he took it out of the Way, nailing it to his Cross. But now once (ἐν ὅτῳ) concerning our (now) about the Meeting of the Extremities of the Ages (i. e. the End of the Jewish and Beginning of the Christian Age or Dispensation) hath he appeared to put away Sin by the Sacrifice of himself.
Our Redemption, therefore, being completed and perfected in Christ, his Father is reconciled and satisfied with us in him, and our Debts are amply discharged in Christ; and as Men are become Debtors to our Lord infinitely more than they can be to one another, all Equity, foreign to this of Christ's, sinks and terminates in his Person: And hence it is that his Righteousness sets aside and supercedes all other Righteousness, spreading as far and as wide as the Universe itself; for being of one Compass and Comprehension with his Passion, it grasps the Concerns of all his Creatures, and draws all Men unto him.
Thus being his absolute Property, being Creatures devoted to the Purpose of his sovereign Will and Pleasure, our Will or ill-being are, by all the Rights of Form and Justice, at his sole Disposal. Neither is this an exclusive Privilege of the Righteous only: Sinners, all the veriest Bondsmen and Slaves of Satan, are also his Property, as truly as are the Saved, and must participate of the Efficacy of his Word, and be also restored, by being begotten anew in him. Upon this Ground, he is the Head of every Man: And to this End Christ died, and rose again, and revived, that he might be the Lord both of the Dead and the Living; as it is written, every Knee shall bow to him.
[The Conclusion of this Letter in our next]
PHILADELPHIA, July 23.
Captain Davidson, from Hispaniola, we learn that Captain All, in a Brig belonging to Rhode Island, bound to Cape Nicoloa Mole, was, on the 24th of June, cast away on the Cacussees; the Vessel is entirely lost, both the Captain and crew were taken up and carried to the Mole, by a Sloop belonging to Providence. We farther learn, that Captain Davidson, from Georgia, arrived there, and informed Captain Davidson that on his Passage he spoke a Brig from Jamaica to London, the Captain of which acquainted him that he saw a Sloop in the Gulf, mounting several Guns, which fired at and brought to three or four Vessels, and boarded them. They attempted to board him, but he fortunately got away through the Darkness of the Night. They appeared to be Pirates, as they hoisted different Colours.
On the 26th of June the French General arrived at the Mole from Port au Prince, and declared to the English Merchants, and Captains of Vessels, that while they conformed to the Limitations and Restrictions prescribed the Trade carried on there by them should meet with his Protection and Encouragement.
July 27. From Charlestown, in Maryland, we are informed that on Saturday the 18th Instant a most inhuman Murder was committed, within a few Miles of that Place, on the Body of Mr. William Simpson, a Gentleman from Georgia, on his Travels through North America for his Health. He was supposed to have had a considerable Quantity of Money about him, which induced the Villain, or Villains, to perpetrate this horrid Crime. The Body is not yet found, nor his Bags, nor Papers; but the Horse on which he rode was taken, with the Saddle all bedaubed with Blood. Two Men have been since apprehended and committed to Charlestown Jail, on Suspicion of the above Murder.
A few Weeks ago about twenty Indians, in passing through Anne Arundel to Annapolis, in Maryland, in Order to complain to the Governor of the Encroachments of the back Settlers on their Territories, took up their Lodgings in a Gentleman's Barn, when the Christian Inhabitants rose in the Night Time and massacred every one of them.
Extract of a Letter from Liverpool, May 23.
The Parliament has granted a free Importation of Rice, Wheat, Flower, and Indian Corn, till the first of December next. Should the Price of Grain be such with you as to tempt you to become an Adventurer therein, I believe you will find this Market to be full superior to any in the Kingdom; observing, at the same Time, that what you may ship, whether Wheat or Flower, must be of the very best Quality, or will not answer at this Port. The interior Sort not only meets with the most tedious Sale, but the Price much lower in Proportion. This by Way of Caution.
Captain Henry, from Hispaniola, relates that a French Frigate lay there which had boarded several English Vessels; and finding Sugar on Board, they took the Captains and put them in Prison twenty four Hours, and then released them.
Captain Ruffel, from Dominica, informs that Admiral Man was arrived at St. Vincent's with his Squadron, on Board of which were Troops, Artillery, &c. designed, it was laid, to reduce the Indians to Subjection, who had several Times been very troublesome to the English Inhabitants on that Island.
By Captain Lawrence, from Porto Rico, we learn that the Spaniards, under various Pretences, had already seized several English Vessels, the Captains and Crews of which were confined in Prison there, where they suffer very great Hardships; and that one Captain Smith, of Antigua, who formerly sailed out of this Port as Mate, died at that Place last May, by the ill Usage he received.
WILLIAMSBURG, August 13.
The following Prisoners have been lately brought to the publick Jail: Sarah Hall, from Louisa, for Child Murder; Thomas Robinson, from Dunmore, Moses Cornelius, and William Richardson, from Charlotte, for Theft; and Justin M c arty, from Botetourt, for Horse-stealing. [DEATHS.] Mr. DAVID KERR, Attorney at Law, and Clerk of Middlesex; a Gentleman of a very amiable Character.
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WILLIAMSBURG, Aug t 13, 1772.
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WILLIAMSBURG, August 13, 1772.
I HAVE remaining on Hand, at my House, for Sale, the following Articles, which will be sold very cheap, for Cash; and if any one should incline to purchase the Whole, they may have a Bargain of them, and a reasonable Credit. Plain and flowered white Satins. Black Paduas-v. White, Pink, Lemon, and changeable Lustings. White, Blue, and Green Persian. White Silk Cardinals and Hars. White Silk Shades and trimmed Bonnets. White, Black, and Gray Silk and Satin Cardinals, with Bonnets. Scarlet Cardinals, trimmed with Ermine and otherwise. Riband Stomachers. Plain Satin and Black Silk trimmed Bonnets. Black Silk Hats. Blond Lace, of various Prices. Black Hood Lace, Do. Chip Hats, Do. Panimex, Cyprus Gauze. Black and White Snail. Flots, and other Trimmings. Double white Handkerchiefs. Coloured Pocket Do. Black Love Do. Black and coloured Balladine Silk. White and Coloured Threads. Calicoes. Fans and Cakes. Fashionable Caps. French Wax Necklaces. Paste Do. and Earrings. Paste Combs, and Hair Pins. Black Silk Breeches Patterns. Mens fine White, and Black, Worsted Stockings. Thread and Cotton Do. Boys black Satin Caps and Feathered, &c. &c. A. PURDIE.
A JOURNEYMAN SHOEMAKER, who is sober, and understands making of Boots, will meet with good Encouragement by applying to me, in Williamburg. ROBERT GILBERT.
THE BUILDING of the lower Church of Warwick Parish, of Wood, fifty Feet by twenty four, will be let to the lowest Bidder, at Warwick Courthouse, on Thursday the 10th of September, being Court Day, by the Churchwardens.
PURSUANT to an Order of the Vestry of Albemarle Parish, in Sussex County, will be let to the lowest Undertaker, at Saint Mark's Church, on Friday the 25th of September, the building of a wooden Church, seventy Feet long, thirty Feet wide, and twenty two Feet Pitch. And on Monday the 28th of the same Month will be let, to the lowest Undertaker, the Building of the front Part of Nottoway Church, in the said Parish, and some other Services to be performed to the new Part of the said Church; which said Building is likewise to be of Wood, and of the following Dimensions, that is to say, sixty Feet long, twenty six Feet wide, and about sixteen or eighteen Feet Pitch. The Whole is to be performed within two Years from the Undertaking, and the Payments to be as follows: One Moiety, or Half of each Building, to be paid out of the Sales of the Tobacco of the next Levy, and the other Moiety, Half, or Residue, to be paid out of the Sales of the Tobacco of the second Levy after letting the said Buildings; provided the said Building or Buildings shall be completely finished, agreeable to Contract, and received by the Vestry of the said Parish for the Time being. A Plan of each Building will be laid before the Undertakers at the Time of letting the same, and Bond, with approved Security, for the due Performance of the Contracts aforesaid will be required by the Commissioners appointed for these Purposes.
NOTICE is hereby given to Nathaniel W. Dandridge, Esquire, and his Creditors, to meet at Hanover Town, on Wednesday the 9th of September next, when a Dividend will be made of the Profits arising from the last Year's Crop.
JOHN WAYLES. WILLIAM MACON. ROBERT ANDERSON. JOHN JOHNSON.
LOST from on Board the Snow Nancy, now lying at Osborne's, on James River, the 30th of July, a Negro Boy named LAY, about twelve Years old, has been in England, talks good English, is about four Feet three Inches high, of a pleasant Countenance, rather lighter than Blacks are in general, with a remarkable double Chin, of the Keffie or Sufo Country. He is supposed to have been stolen, or decoyed, by some of the Purchasers of the said Snow's Cargo. Whoever apprehends him, and returns him to Mr. John Fisher at Osborne's, Mr. Field Merchant at Peterburg, Mr. John Lawrence at Norfolk, or to the Printer, shall have FIVE POUNDS Reward.
JAMES E. COLLY.
N. B. Any Person concealing him after this Notice shall be prosecuted with the utmost Severity of the Law.
HANOVER County, August 7, 1772.
I INTEND for LONDON immediately. PARK GOODALL.
HANOVER, July 30, 1772.
I HAVE for Sale a LEASE, for five Years to come, in a Tract of Land on Pamunkey River, which is in exceeding good Order for Cropping, and on which there is a great Number of the most convenient Houses, a Crop now growing, fine Apple and Peach Orchards, and a good Still belonging to the Place; the Land is very good for both Corn and Wheat, is prepared to receive a large Quantity of the latter, and the Situation is remarkably advantageous, being not more than a Mile below Colonel Syme's Mill. Any Person inclineable to purchase may know the Terms by applying to the Subscriber, who lives near the Premises.
RICHARD CHAPMAN.
For SALE,
A VALUABLE Plantation and Tract of Land on James River, in Goochland County, about thirty Miles from Westham, containing five Hundred Acres, two Hundred and fifty of which are low Grounds, not inferior to any on the River; the remaining two Hundred and fifty Acres are high Lands, of the first Quality, and as level as any Land in that Part of the Country. For Terms apply to
TARLTON FLEMING.
To be SOLD,
A TRACT of LAND containing two Hundred Acres, in the County of Isle of Wight, about six Miles from Smithfield. The Plantation is in good Order, with a large Orchard and valuable Improvements thereon, and may be entered on immediately. Any Person inclineable to purchase may be shown the Place, and know the Terms, by applying to the Subscriber, who lives on the Premises.
JOHN DAY.
WILLIAMSBURG, August 13, 1772.
JUST imported, in the Lunn and Lloyd, Captain Necks, a large Quantity of DOCTOR NORRIS'S DROPS for the Cure of all Kinds of Fevers. Those who take one Dozen, or more, shall have a considerable Abatement in the Price of them.
JAMES CARTER.
LETTER from Captain STOTT, to Doctor NORRIS.
SIR, IN Justice to you, and from a Desire of being serviceable to the Community, particularly that Part of it of which I have the Honour to be a Member, I send you, attested by the Officers of his Majesty's Ship Yuno , under my Command, an Account of the Effects of your ANTIMONIAL DROPS, in the Course of my late Voyage to and from the Falkland Islands.
In the outward Passage, by the Surgeon of the Ship's Report to me, of the 5th of April last, it appeared that George Hunter and Laurence Pitman, two of the Seamen, were taken ill with malignant Fevers; that having for several Days been given the usual Medicines without Effect, he thought them past a Possibility of Recovery; judging this a fit Opportunity to make a Trial of the Efficacy of your Drops (for, notwithstanding the Recommendations which were given me of them, and which induced me to take them with me, I had resolved to let every usual Means take Place before I gave them) I then, therefore, gave a Bottle to the Surgeon, and desired they might be administered; he said it would, he believed, be of little Consequence whatever was given them, as he thought they could not live to the next Day; however, he would try them. The next Morning, in his Account to me of the Sick, he told me the Men were much better, and he believed they would recover, which from that Time they did, and were soon after able to do their Duty in the Ship.
On the 27th of July following, being in the southern Part of the torrid Zone, Mr. Jossin, the Boatwain of the Ship, was taken ill of the same Fever, with the same Symptoms as the two former, and after the Surgeon had represented to me that he had used all the Means in his Power for his Recovery, to no Purpose, the Antimonial Drops were given, and had the desired Effect, by his immediate Recovery.
Some Time afterwards, in the southern Ocean, James Hamm and Evan Williams, the one a Boy, the other a Marine, were seized with a Fever, and were, by the Surgeon's Report to me, given over for many Days; the Drops were given them also, which produced a plentiful Sweating, and their immediate Recovery. Such repeated Success gives me the highest Opinion of the Virtue and Efficacy of your Antimonial Drops, and on these Grounds I cannot too strongly recommend them.
I also enclose you the Surgeon's Attestation taken from the Journals of his Practice in the Ship, and which, as well as this Letter, you are at Liberty to make publick. Wishing you every Success, I am, Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant,
JOHN STOTT.
JUNO, Portsmouth, January 25, 1772.
WE, the undermentioned Officers of his Majesty's said Ship Yuno , do also testify what is mentioned in the above Letter, and are of the same Opinion with Regard to Doctor Norris's Antimonial Drops.
WILLIAM BARROW, 2d Lieutenant. JAMES HOLROYD, Master. WILLIAM JOSLIN, Boatwain. THOMAS TURNER, Purser.
Doctor Norris's ANTIMONIAL DROPS are particularly recommended for all putrid, malignant Fevers; inflammatory, nervous, and epidemical Disorders of every Kind, and in every Climate; Colds, inveterate Coughs, Consumptive, Gouty, and Rheumatick Habits, Disorders of the Stomach and Bowels; Indigestion, and all Nervous Complaints; giving not the least disagreeable Sensation or Uneasiness to the most delicate Constitution, yet possessing all the medicinal Qualities of Antimony.
WANTED,
A YOUNG Man capable of conducting the Business of a Druggist's and Apothecary's Shop. Such a One, properly recommended, will meet with good Encouragement by applying to us in Blandford. A. G. STRACHAN, & Co.
To be SOLD, or LET for a Number of Years,
A TRACT of LAND lying on Mattaponi River, in Caroline County, containing a Thousand and thirty three Acres, whereon are all necessary Houses for Cropping, and a well accustomed Mill, lately rebuilt, which has two Pair of new Stones and a Bolting Cloth. The Mill is worth now a Hundred Pounds a Year, and may be made much more valuable; it is about eleven Miles from Conway's Warehouse, and sixteen from Port Royal. For Terms apply to
ROBERT GILCHRIST.
To be SOLD on long Credit, and may be entered upon the 1st of January next,
A TRACT of LAND in Brunswick County, on the south Side of Meherrin River, at a Place commonly called Pennington's Ford, containing two Thousand Acres; the Soil is good for Corn, Tobacco, and Wheat, lies about fifty five Miles from Peterburg. Also upwards of twenty very likely Slaves now thereon, and the Stocks of Horses, Cattle, Hogs, &c. which belong to the said Plantation. Also a Tract containing thirteen Hundred Acres, lying in the Counties of Prince George and Dinwiddie, about a Mile from Peterburg, with seven very likely Slaves, Stocks of Horses, Cattle, Hogs, &c. belonging to the Plantation; it is exceeding good Land for Indian Corn. Any Person inclineable to purchase will be shown the first mentioned Tract by John Collins, the Overseer, and the latter by
BOLLING STARK.
N. B. The above Lands will be sold without the Negroes, Stocks, &c. if required.
** I have a genteel POST CHARIOT, lately imported, and never used, which I would dispose of for less than prime Cost.
To be SOLD, on THURSDAY the 27th Instant (August) at Day's Point, in the County of ISLE of WIGHT,
ALL the personal Estate of the late Mr. Thomas Day, deceased, consisting of large Stocks of Horses, Cattle, Sheep, and Hogs, a Quantity of Wheat, sundry valuable Household and Kitchen Furniture, and many other Articles too tedious to mention. Credit will be allowed the Purchasers for all Sums above twenty five Shillings until the 1st of April next, upon giving Bond and approved Security. Also to be sold at the same Time, for ready Money, four very likely Negroes, two Hogheads of old Rum, and a Quantity of exceeding good Muscovado Sugar.
JOHN DAY, Administrator.
N. B. All Persons who have Demands against the Estate are desired to make them known before that Day, and those indebted are requested to make Payment, as no Indulgence can be given.
To be SOLD, pursuant to the last Will and Testament of Mrs. Elizabeth Tarpley, deceased,
HER late Dwellinghouse, and Lots, in this City. The Sale will be on James City Court Day in next Month, and the Purchasers will have five Years Credit, on giving Bond, with approved Security, and paying Interest from a Year after the Sale.
All Persons who are indebted to the Estate are desired to make speedy Payment, and such as have Demands against it are requested to make them known, without Delay, to
JOHN BLAIR, } Executors. JAMES COOKE. }
To be SOLD at URBANNA, on MONDAY the 24th of this Instant (AUGUST) for ready Money,
TWO NEGRO MEN belonging to the Estate of Mr. Joseph Pritchard, deceased, one of which is an exceeding good Waterman, well acquainted with the Bay, and all the Rivers. A good Title will be made by the Executors.
STOLEN from the Subscriber, in the Evening of the 2d Instant (August) a black HORSE about fourteen Hands and a Half high, with a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, remarkable large Feet, and paces naturally, but his Brand, and other Flesh Marks, if any, are unknown. Also a bay HORSE, fourteen Hands high, with a roached Mane and Bob Tail some Time grown, a Star in his Forehead, paces slow, trots and gallops pretty well, and branded on the near Shoulder A. Whoever delivers them to me, in Richmond Town, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward.
NEILL CAMPBELL.
RUN away, on the 22d of JULY, from Norfolk, with a thirty Hoghead Flat, JAMES NICKOLAS, and carried with him, a Negro Man belonging to the Flat, and about forty Barrels of Tar, which the said Nickolas was to have delivered at Norfolk. He is a middle sized Man, about forty five Years old, with black Hair and Beard, sharp Chin, has lost several of his Teeth, walks slow, and stoops in his Shoulders; the Negro is about twenty Years old, Country born, a black stout young Fellow, named BOSON, has not been used to the Water but a Trip or two, had on an Osnaburg Shirt, Crocus Trousers, and a Negro Cotton Jacket; the Flat is Sloop rigged, has been lately raised about ten Inches with a thick Piece of Timber on her Gunwale, has Staples drove in her Bends instead of Chainplates for her Shrouds, her Mast fixed through two cross Pieces of Timber from her main Beam to her Forecastle, has Main sail and Jib, a Pump fixed with a Trough to carry off the Water, and her Ceiling is broke and gone in several Places. She has been employed in carrying Tar; her raised Work, and other Parts of her, have been laid with brown Paint, &c. but is very dull now. I have heard that such a Flat, and Hands, were seen going up the Bay, near the Mouth of Pianketank River. The said Nickolas has been used up the Bay, and on the eastern Shore of Maryland. Any Person that can get the Flat and Negro, and any of the Tar that is left, and bring them to me in Suffolk Town, on Nansemond River, shall have TEN POUNDS Reward; and if they bring the said Nickolas they shall have TWELVE POUNDS TEN SHILLINGS paid them by
JOSIAH RIDDICK.
THREE POUNDS REWARD.
RUN away, on the 8th of JULY last, from the Subscriber's Plantation near Frederick Zimmerman's Ordinary, in Culpeper, an English Convict Servant Man named JOHN BOOKER, about thirty three Years old, five Feet six Inches high, with a narrow Visage, ruddy Countenance, a little pitted with the Smallpox, dark Hair untied, was born in Yorkshire, speaks broad, is fond of Liquor, and talkative; he has been about two Years in the Country, is a good Ditcher, and well acquainted with the Country Business. He had on, and took with him, two brown coloured Coats, one with Twists, and the other with flat Metal Buttons, a lappelled Scarlet Jacket, his Breeches much the same with the Coats, several Shirts, two Pair of Shoes, Yarn Stockings, and brown Trousers; he had with him a Box of Waters, a Parchment covered Memorandum Pocket Book, will probably have some Kind of a Pais, and change his Name. This Fellow, with one belonging to Mr. William Allan of Culpeper, ran away last April, and were advertised in this Gazette; Booker delivered himself to a Man in Albemarle, who brought him home, but the other made his Escape, and my Fellow has now made another Elopement, without any Kind of Provocation. I will give the above Reward to any Person who will deliver him to Mr. Edward Stevens at Culpeper Courthouse, to the Overseer at my Plantation, or to me in Fredericksburg; or FORTY SHILLINGS if secured in any Jail, so that I get him again. (Tf)
JAMES DUNCANSON.
ALEXANDRIA, August 3, 1772.
RUN away from the Subscriber, a Convict Servant Man named JOHN JARDINE, born in Cumberland, and speaks the Dialect of that Country. He had on a brown coloured Coat, with yellow Buttons, a Jacket of the same, Leather Breeches, brown Rolls Trousers, Country made Shoes, white Cotton Stockings, and a Felt Hat bound with black Ferreting, and a Silk Band. He is a thick, short, well set Fellow, round shouldered, has dark brown lank Hair, and is much pitted with the Smallpox. He took with him a bay pacing Mare thirteen Hands high, branded on the near Shoulder and Buttock C, and has a Colt. Whoever secures the said Servant, so that I get him again, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward; and THIRTY SHILLINGS for the Mare, with reasonable Charges if brought home.
JOHN CARLYLE.

COMMITTED to the Jail of Surry County , on the 2d of this Instant (August) a Negro Man who says his Name is JOHN, that he belongs to Captain Wright Westcott of Norfolk, and that he came up the River, as far as Bull Hill, with William Cashington. The Owner is desired to take him away, and pay Charges to DRURY WARREN, Jailer.
COMMITTED to York County Prison , a Negro Man named JEMMY, about five Feet eight or nine Inches high, of a slender Make, and says he belongs to Mr. John Taylor of Southampton. The Owner is desired to prove his Property, pay Charges, and take him away. WILLIAM MITCHELL.
COMMITTED to the Jail of Gloucester County , on the 27th of July, a small Negro Man who says his Name is YORK, that he belongs to Mr. Chanda Fookes, and that he is an Apprentice to William Phillips in Fredericksburg; his Clothing is a Cotton Jacket, an Osnaburg Shirt, and Russia Drill Breeches. His Master is desired to pay Charges, and take him away. WILLIAM KEMP, Jailer.
TAKEN up, in Goochland , a red and white STEER about five Years old, marked with an Underkeel in each Ear. Posted, and appraised to fifty five Shillings. WILLIAM MITCHELL.
TAKEN up, in Henrico , a bay HORSE COLT with a Blaze in his Face, both hind Feet white up to the Footlocks, cut and docked, but not branded. Posted, and appraised to five Pounds. NICHOLAS AMOS.
TAKEN up, in Brunswick , a black MARE about four Feet three Inches high, a natural Pacer, and branded on the off Buttock thus . Posted, and appraised to three Pounds. MATTHEW HARRIS.
TAKEN up, in Bedford , a gray HORSE about four Feet five Inches high, seven Years old, with a Sprig Tail and hanging Mane, trots and gallops, has on a very good Bell, and branded on the near Shoulder M, and on the near Buttock with a Heart and an N. Posted, and appraised to five Pounds. WILLIAM MILLAM.
TAKEN up, in Westmoreland , a small black HORSE about four Feet two Inches high, and seven or eight Years old, but no perceivable Brand. Posted, and appraised to four Pounds. RICHARD ATTWELL.
TAKEN up, in Bedford , a black HORSE about four Feet six Inches high, ten Years old, with a large Blaze in his Face, mixed with white Hairs all over his Body, a gray Tail, and three white Feet; his off fore Foot is black, and differs from the rest in Shape, has some White on each Flank, a white Spot near one of his Eyes, trots and gallops, paces slow, and is branded on the near Shoulder D, and on the near Buttock C. Posted, and appraised to six Pounds. WILLIAM MILLAM.
TAKEN up, in Surry , an unmarked brindled COW, with some White under her Belly. Posted, and appraised to one Pound seven Shillings and Sixpence. WILLIAM CLINCH.
TAKEN up, in Hanover , a dark red COW about seven or eight Years old, with a Star in her Forehead, all four Feet white, and some White on other Places, marked with a smooth Crop in the right Ear, and a Slit in the left. Posted, and appraised to forty five Shillings. JOSEPH CROSS.
TAKEN up, in Amherst , a Chestnut sorrel COLT about three Years old, with a Blaze in her Face, is neither docked nor branded, and came with an old Mare which I expect is her Dam. Posted, and appraised to fifty Shillings. The Mare is a bay, with a Star in her Forehead, some Saddle Spots, a little White on one hind Foot, branded on the Shoulder P B, but seems to be blotched, and on the Buttock I H, as near as can be discerned, and had on an old Bell without a Clapper, with great Holes on one Side. Posted, and appraised to four Pounds. THOMAS WAUGH.
TAKEN up, in Caroline , a bay HORSE about four Feet seven Inches high, has no Brand perceivable, paces slow, and appears to be about nine Years old. Posted, and appraised to seven Pounds. MARGARET KENNER.
VIRGINIA, sc. At a GENERAL COURT held at the CAPITOL , MAY 7, 1772.
John Bowdoin, and Isaac Smith, Merchants, surviving Partners of Littleton Eyre, deceased, Plaintiffs, Against John Smith, Edward Smith, and Matthew Smith, Infants, Augustine Smith, Martha Jacobin, Jacobin Ambler, Sarah Smith, Thomas Smith, Wilson Miles Cary, James Buchanan and Company, of London, Merchants, Edmund Pendleton, and Peter Lyons, surviving Administrators, &c. of John Robinson, Esquire, deceased, Peter Presley Thornton, and Sarah his Wife, and Mary Ambler, Jacobin Ambler, Robert Carter Nicholas, Wilson Miles Cary, and John Blair, Executors, &c. of Edward Ambler, deceased, Defendants,
THE Defendant John Smith is appointed Guardian to the Defendants Edward and Matthew Smith, who are Infants, to defend them in this Suit; and, by Consent of Parties, this Cause was this Day heard upon the Bill, Answers, and sundry Exhibits. On Consideration whereof it is decreed, and ordered, that George Purdie, John Bowdoin, John Lee, and John Smith, Gentlemen, or any two or more of them, after giving convenient Notice in the Virginia Gazette, sell, at publick Auction, the Lands in the Counties of Gloucester and Northumberland known by the Names of Dragon Quarter and Fleet's Bay, comprised in the Indentures of Mortgage in the Bill mentioned, at twelve Months Credit, to be entered upon the first Day of January next, and also the Slaves, with their Increase, and other Things in the said Mortgages mentioned, at three Months Credit, taking Bonds, with sufficient Security, from the Purchasers, and return an Account thereof to the Court; that Dudley Digges, Thomas Nelson, Junior, and David Jameson, Gentlemen, or any two of them, do state and settle the Claims of the Plaintiffs and the Defendants, and of any other Creditors of John Smith, deceased, in the Bill named, who may desire it, and make Report thereof to the Court; and that the Sale of the Lands in the Counties of Spotsylvania and Culpeper, made by the said John Smith in his Lifetime, be confirmed to the several Purchasers thereof, upon their paying the Purchase Money; and that the several Mortgagees, the Defendant John Smith, and the Defendants Edward and Matthew Smith, when they shall arrive at the Age of twenty one Years, release to those Purchasers, and the Purchasers of the Lands and Slaves to be sold under this Decree, all their Right and Interest in the said Lands and Slaves, unless the said Infants shall show Cause to the contrary within six Months after they come of Age respectively. BEN: WALLER.
In Obedience to the foregoing Decree , the Persons therein appointed will sell, at publick Auction, at Gloucester Courthouse, on the first Thursday in September next, a Tract of Land known by the Name of the DRAGON QUARTER, mentioned in the said Decree, containing about eight Hundred Acres, on twelve Months Credit; the Purchasers to give Bond, with sufficient Security.
All Persons having any Claims against the Estate of John Smith, deceased, are desired to lay them before the Gentlemen appointed by the Decree of the Honourable General Court, between this and the 20th of October next, as the Plaintiffs in the above Suit intend to move for a final Decree at that Time. GEORGE PURDIE. JOHN BOWDOIN. JOHN SMITH. August 1, 1772.
FIFTY POUNDS REWARD.
WHEREAS Horse-stealing is become very frequent in this Neighbourhood, the Gentlemen of Petersburg and Blandford offer a Reward of TWENTY FIVE POUNDS to any Person who shall apprehend, and convict, a Freeman of having stole either Horse, Mare, or Gelding, from any of the Parties; and that the Fate of one Rascal may deter others from a Crime so pernicious to Society, they farther Promise a Reward of TWENTY FIVE POUNDS more on the Execution of the Thief.
WESTOVER, August 3, 1772. COLONEL BYRD begs the Favour of all the Gentlemen who served in the Virginia Regiment last War to meet him at Fredericksburg, or to send in their Names, on the 15th of next Month, that they may consult what Methods are best to be taken to procure the Lands they claim under his Majesty's Proclamation.
NORFOLK, August 1, 1772. AS I intend for Britain soon , I must beg the Favour of all Persons who have had any Dealings with Logan, Gilmore, and Company, to have their Accounts ready to settle at the next General Court. The Business will be continued to its usual Extent. ROBERT GILMOUR.
FREDERICKSBURG, August 1, 1772. THE Subscriber intends quitting Business in the Town of Fredericksburg in September next; and having a large Quantity of DRUGS upon Hand, will dispose of them to Gentlemen of the Faculty, or others, at a Hundred per Cent. Advance on the original Invoice, for ready Money only. He will himself give Attendance at his Shop on the main Street, in Fredericksburg, opposite to Mr. Henry Mitchell's Store, the Shop formerly kept by Mercer and Clements. EWEN CLEMENTS.
LATELY arrived from London, with Captain Jacob Peterson , and are waiting for the Encouragement of the Nobility, Gentry, and others, at Mr. Thomas Archer's, in York Town, three Persons properly qualified to survey and plot out Lands, measure and convert Timber, to give Plans, Elevations, and Sections, of any Building, from the smallest Cot to the most superb and greatest Mansion, together with drawing out the Particulars of the Manner of finishing and estimating the Expense of doing the same; and will undertake to perform any Building at a Sum fixed, to measure and value any Sort of Work that is done in the Building Branch, such as Bricklayers, Masons, Carpenters, Joiners, Plaisterers, Painters, Glaziers, &c. or to set out and direct any of the said Works that are going on, to be done in a Workmanlike Manner. And farther, the said Persons have, after a great Deal of Labour and Expense, together with the Hazard of crossing the Seas, brought over an Invention of a Machine Waggon, which, by the Assistance of only four Men and a Guide, will carry six Hogheads of Tobacco, or any other Commodity of the same Weight, and those Men to ride in the said Machine when working, which will go at the Rate of three Miles, up Hill or down, and the Work easy. As they flattered themselves of meeting with Success in this Part of the World, as well as at home, and knowing the great Utility of such an Invention in this Country, they would wish to meet with Encouragement with the said Machine, or any of the Works as above. Any Orders directed to the Subscribers shall be immediately attended to, and put in Execution, under reasonable Terms, by Their obedient humble Servants, J. HOLLAND, and Company.
AUGUST 1, 1772. THIS is to inform MARIA and GUTLIEB DILDEY , of Roppin, in the Marquisate of Brandenburg, that their Uncle, GEORGE CHRISTOPHER WHITE, who died in Amelia County, Virginia, on the 19th Day of June last, has bequeathed to them his whole Estate, supposed to be worth fifteen Hundred Pounds, or upwards. He mentions them as Daughters of his Sister Catherine, by her first Husband, Peter Dilley. They may be informed farther, by inquiring at the Post Office, Williamsburg.
FOUR likely NEGROES , namely, three Fellows and a Wench, Part of the Estate of Henry Collier, taken to satisfy his publick Dues for the Year 1771, will be sold to the highest Bidders, for ready Money, on Tuesday the 25th Instant (August) at Surry Courthouse, being Court Day. ETHELDRED GRAY, Sheriff.
To be SOLD , A TRACT of LAND , containing about a Thousand Acres, in Northumberland County, Virginia. It is exceedingly rich, beautifully situated between Point Lookout and Smith's Point, and commands a pleasant Prospect of Chesapeake Bay. There are some Gentlemen who pretend to claim a Right in the said Land; but as it was determined by Northumberland Court in Favour of the present Possessors, and their Decree was confirmed by the General Court, and left such a Report may be prejudicial to the Sale of the Land, I will give Bond and Security to make a good and indefeasible Right and Title. Any Gentleman inclined to purchase may hear farther Particulars by applying to GRANVILLE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, June 10, 1772. } JOHN GORDON.
To be SOLD , A TRACT of LAND in the County of Dinwiddie, on the Branches of Mont's Creek, containing about six Hundred Acres. The Land is level, and the Soil, with a little Improvement, good for Grain or Tobacco. It joins the main Road, lies about seven or eight Miles from Petersburg, and is exceedingly well timbered. Also a Tract near the above, containing about two Hundred and fifty Acres, well timbered, very level, and good Corn Land. The Subscriber intends to be at Dinwiddie Court in September next, in Order to treat with any Person or Persons for the same, or will sell it the next Day, to the highest Bidder, on the Premises, when the Terms of Payment will be made known. WILLIAMSBURG, August 10, 1772. } JOHN FERGUSON.
To be SOLD at publick Auction, on Monday the 24th Instant (August) at the Subscriber's Store, near the Wharf, in York Town , ABOUT two Hundred Pounds Sterling Worth of DRY GOODS , consisting of German Osnabrugs, coarse Irish Linens, Checks, striped Hollands, Kendal Cottons, Plaid Hoie, &c. &c. payable the 24th of October next, on giving Bond, with sufficient Security, to DAVID THOMPSON.
To be SOLD, pursuant to the Will of Mr. ROGER DIXON, deceased, for the Benefit of his Creditors, at the ensuing September Fair in Fredericksburg, and to be entered upon at Christmas, the following LANDS, namely:
NEAR three Hundred Acres adjoining the Town, several unimproved Lots, the Ferry opposite to Mrs. Washington's, and a Lot, with Houses, &c. in the Occupation of Mr. Crawford, in the Town of Fredericksburg, about three Hundred Acres in a Tract called Chalky Level, three Miles from the said Town, a valuable Tract in Culpeper, upon the Hedgeman River, containing fifteen Hundred Acres, the well accustomed Tavern in Fairfax Town, at Culpeper Courthouse, with sundry Lots in, and a convenient Tract adjoining, the said Town; also a Plantation in Culpeper, late the Property of Mr. Gabriel Jones, containing two Hundred Acres, with a good Dwellinghouse and convenient Outhouses thereon, about three Thousand Acres on Pretty's Creek, in the County of Albemarle, with Improvements, and a Tract of four Hundred Acres in Orange County, near Cave's Ford. Credit will be allowed until the 25th of April next, upon giving Bond, with sufficient Security, to the Administrator. The Creditors may depend upon every legal Measure being adopted for their Satisfaction, and to save the Slaves for the Benefit of the Daughters of the Deceased, who otherwise must fall short of their Portions; and the Debtors, who, by an unlimited Indulgence, have involved the Estate so as to make these Measures necessary, it is hoped will commiserate the Situation of his Children, and not fail to come immediately and settle their Accounts, give Bond, and make speedy Payment, either to Mr. Oliver Toxules, Mr. Philip Clayton, Junior, who acts under him, or to John Dixon, Administrator, with the Will annexed. N. B. Mr. Clayton will show the Lands at or near Fredericksburg, and Mr. James Barbour, Junior, those above.
STOLEN, or STRAYED, on Saturday the 25th of July , a bright bay HORSE, above fourteen Hands high, slim made, with a short Switch Tail and hanging Mane, a Blaze in his Face, two white Feet, some Saddle Spots, but no perceivable Brand. Whoever brings him to me, in Williamsburg, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward. SEVERINUS DURFEY.
WANTS EMPLOYMENT , A YOUNG Man bred a GARDENER. Any Gentleman in Want of such a Person may be acquainted with his Terms by applying to Mr. John Glassell, Merchant in Fredericksburg.
TAPPAHANNOCK, Essex County, August 1, 1772. RUN away from the Subscriber's Plantation , about a Mile distant from the said Town, last May, a likely, well made, light coloured Mulatto Wench named PHEBE, about five Feet four Inches high, and about twenty two Years old; as she had formerly been a House Servant, she had a Variety of Clothes. A Propensity for Pleasure in the Night brought a little Punishment from the Overseer, which I suppose made her run off. Some Years ago I had her of a certain Ambrose Jones, of this County, but now in Brunswick, where perhaps she may have strolled to. Whoever conveys her to me, or secures her in any of his Majesty's Jails, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward, besides what the Law allows. ARCHIBALD RITCHIE.
THE Creditors of John Semple are desired to meet at Dumfries, on Monday the 17th of August.
TAKEN up, in Amherst , a light gray HORSE about four Feet eight Inches high, with a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, and branded, as near as can be represented, O. Posted, and appraised to ten Pounds. RICHARD BALLINGER.
NEWCASTLE, July 26, 1772. AS I intend for Great Britain this Fall , and to return in the Spring, my Store at this Place will be continued to its usual Extent by Mr. James Overton, who will be properly authorised to transact all Business for me during my Absence. JOSEPH THROPP.
NORFOLK, July 29, 1772. THE Subscriber having provided convenient Warehouses for the Reception of Goods, purposes selling on Commission, either by private Sale or publick Vendue, and begs Leave to assure the Publick that his best Endeavours shall be used to dispose of any Goods given him for Sale to the most Advantage, and that they may expect the greatest Punctuality in the Payment of the Proceeds, being determined to continue the Business no longer than he finds he can do so; and, in Order to enable him to do this, he hopes every Person purchasing at any of his Sales will be punctual in their Payments, without which he must labour under Difficulties in supporting his own Credit. He has also opened an ENSURANCE OFFICE; any Orders from the Country for Insurance will be as punctually complied with as if the Persons were present, the greatest Care taken to have good People to the Policies, and that they shall be sent by the first safe Conveyance. Gentlemen who do not regularly attend the General Courts, and Courts of Oyer, are requested to forward the Premiums with their Orders, as it is customary here to pay them at signing the Policies; those who attend the Courts may pay the Premiums there. JAMES ARCHDEACON.
NORFOLK, July 29, 1772. RUN away, about a Month ago, a Negro Wench named BETTY, well known in this Town and Neighbourhood, is remarkably sensible, and very talkative. I have Reason to believe she is harboured near this Place, or in Princess Anne. Whoever brings her to me, or secures her in any Jail, on producing a Certificate of their having done so, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward, besides what the Law allows. Any Person informing me who harbours the said Runaway shall, on Conviction of the Offender, be rewarded with FORTY SHILLINGS. JAMES ARCHDEACON. ** Who has for Sale a few Hogheads of very fine Jamaica SPIRITS.
NORFOLK, July 27, 1772. THE Subscriber begs Leave to inform the Ladies for whom he has had the Honour to work that he has just imported a fresh Assortment of Goods from London, by Captain Robert Nicks, fit to carry on his Business of STAYMAKING, at Mr. John Richardson's, Tailor in Church Street, where he hopes for a Continuance of Favours from his former Customers. All Orders from the Country will be punctually executed by their much obliged humble Servant, ROBERT STEELE.
THE Subscriber intends to leave the Colony next Month. All Persons indebted to Messrs. Robert and Robert Bogle and Scott, of London, Merchants, (for whom I have done Business some Time) are desired to pay off their Balances to Messrs. Robert Gilchrist of Port Royal, or James Robb of Fredericksburg, Merchants, who are properly empowered by these Gentlemen to give Acquittances, and are instructed to prosecute immediately such who do not pay before or at the next October General Court, where Attendance will be given by them. WILLIAM BOGLE.
BUCKINGHAM, July 17, 1772. WHEREAS the Subscriber, in the Month of May last, gave two Bonds to William Walton for the Payment of thirty nine Pounds each, one payable in October, the other in April next, and as he was imposed on in the Purchase of a Negro for which these Bonds were given, thinks proper to acquaint any Person to whom the same may be offered that he will not discharge them until he is compelled thereto. THOMAS HARVEY.
THE Subscriber intends for Great Britain in September next. He has appointed Messrs. Edward Carter, Thomas Prosser, John Archer, and Alexander Trent, his Attorneys. The different Stores that he is concerned in will be continued under the Management of those Persons, who now keep them. PETER FIELD TRENT. *N. B. Mr. Archer is to settle and collect all Debts due on my private Account, as the Books will be left with him.
YORK Town, July 20, 1772. LATELY imported, and to be sold on very reasonable Terms, a large and complete Assortment of MEDICINES, either by Wholesale or Retail, with various CHEMICAL and SHOP UTENSILS. J. HAYNES.
BUCKINGHAM, July 10, 1772. ALL Persons indebted to the Estate of Major Benjamin Howard, deceased, are desired to make immediate Payment, and those who have Accounts against the said Estate are requested to make them known to SARAH HOWARD. Administratrix.
JUST arrived from Africa, the Snow Thomas, Thomas Lewis , with two Hundred fine healthy SLAVES; the Sale of which will begin at Osborne's, on James River, on Thursday the 13th of August, and continue until all are sold. BURNLEY & BRAIKENRIDGE. N. B. We propose to give Credit where good Security is given.
AS I have removed, for some Years, into Lunenburg, I propose selling all my Tract of LAND on Turkey Creek, in Pittsylvania, excepting two Thousand Acres including the Manor Plantation. The Tract consists of about six Thousand Acres, exclusive of the said two Thousand. It is well watered, has a large Creek running quite through the Middle, which makes a large Quantity of good low Grounds, some of which lies so high as never to be overflowed, and the high Land is very good for Tobacco, Corn, Wheat, &c. It is situated convenient to a fine lasting Range for Stocks. There is on the Part intended for Sale two small Plantations and a well accustomed Grist Mill. I intend to lay off the Land into smaller Parcels, so as to suit the Purchasers, and will attend on the Premises the whole Month of November next, when all Persons inclining to purchase are desired to meet me. The Lands will be shown to any Person before that Time on applying to Captain Arthur Hopkins, who lives near it. I would give a considerable Time of Payment for Part of the Purchase Money. (8) G. JEFFERSON. ** I have also several small Surveys and Entries in the said County for Sale.

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GENERAL POST OFFICE, New York, November 1, 1772. NOTICE is hereby given, that on Account of the new Regulation of the Post from Canada, which is to arrive every Tuesday Evening at this Office...
THE Ticket No. 6649, in the Honourable William Byrd's Lottery, drew a Half Acre No. 358. Whoever owns the said Ticket may dispose of the Lot, or hear of a Purchaser, by applying to the Printer hereof.
GLOUCESTER, July 25, 1772. WE intend to ENGLAND next Month. JOHN BAKER & RICHARD PRINGLE.
HALIFAX, July 20, 1772. MARPURDIE. In your Gazette of the 2d Instant I observe Doctor Gordon of Norfolk has forewarned any Person from harbouring or entertaining me.
AFTER having received several unmerited infamous Abuses from Mr. Gordon, during the Time of my residing with him, he at length carried his unprovoked ill Treatment and scurrilous Language to such a Pitch that on the 25th of February last I then expressly declared I would upon no Account live another Year with him...
I INTEND to leave the COLONY soon. NEILL BUCHANAN, Senior.
HAMPTON, July 23, 1772. THE Subscriber begs Leave to inform the Publick in general that he has moved opposite the King's Arms Tavern, where he intends to furnish Gentlemen Travellers, and others, with private Board, Washing, and Lodging...
WILLIAM WILLESS, GUNSMITH and BRASS FOUNDER, from Birmingham, at the Sign of the Cross Guns in Church Street, Norfolk, carries on these Trades in all their Branches. Such as will please to favour him with their Custom may depend on having their Work done in the neatest Manner, and with the utmost Despatch.
A Number of Guns having been left in his Shop upwards of twelve Months, he hereby acquaints their Owners that if they do not release them within three Months from this Date they will be sold to pay the Charges.
Just IMPORTED in the LORD BALTIMORE, Captain MITCHELL, from London, and to be SOLD reasonably by the Subscriber, in Petersburg.
A VERY large Assortment of DRUGS and MEDICINES; also Crucibles; Marble Mortars; genteel Sets of Tooth and Pocket Instruments; Touriquets; Logwood; Redwood; Madder; Fustick; Vermilion; Prussian Blue; Gold Leaf; Verdigris; Galls; white and red Lead; Rotten Stone; Almonds; Bailey Sugar; Sugar Candy; Spanish Licorice; Borax; Imlaial; Bolus Knives; Hungary and Lavender Waters; Cinnamon; Cloves; Nutmegs; Ladies Sticking Plaster; Eau de Luce; Doctor Hill's Essence of Waterdock; Peppermint Balsam of Honey; Walter's Jesuits Drops; Bateman's Drops; Anderson's, Lockyer's, and Cleave's Pills; Daffy's, Squire's, Radcliff's, and Franucci's Elixirs; Freeman's and Godfrey's Cordials; Fryar's and Turlington's Balsams; Fit Drops for Convulsions in Children; Greenough's Tincture for the Scurvy; Tooth Powder; Flesh, and Tooth Brushes; Glafs Funnel; Breast Pipes; Nipple Glasses; Sago; Salop; Vials; Gallipots; Pil Boxes, &c. &c.
JOHN THOMSON. To be SOLD, My Houses and Lots in the Town of York, which formerly belonged to the Honourable Robert Burwell, together with a large and well furnished medicinal Shop. The Houses are in very good Repair, with all convenient Outhouses, and in every Respect well fitted for a Family. CORBIN GRIFFIN.
HANOVER, July 15, 1772. THE Subscriber takes this Method to inform the Publick that they may be supplied, for the future, with any Quantity of PLANK or SCANTLING, of Oak, Gum, Poplar, Pine, or Black Walnut, with the utmost Expedition, and on reasonable Terms, deliverable at Cumberland, to the Care of Mr. Richard Allen, Merchant there, who also will receive and forward any Order to the Subscriber; who has now on Hand, for Sale, several Thousand Feet of choice seasoned white Oak Plank of one Inch, one Inch and a Half, one Inch and three Quarters, and two Inches, and various Lengths; also a considerable Quantity of Scantling, well assorted, and a Parcel of seasoned black Walnut of four Inches.
JOSEPH SMITH. To be SOLD, Some Time in the Month of September next, SEVERAL Tracts of LAND belonging to the Estate of Roger Dixon, deceased, lying in the Counties of Culpeper, Spotsylvania, Albemarle, and Orange; also, in the Month of December, upwards of three Thousand Acres in the lower End of Louisa and upper End of Hanover, and another Tract near Louisa Courthouse, containing six Hundred Acres. Particulars relating to the Quantity, Time, and Place of Sale of the former, and of the Time and Terms of the latter, will be published hereafter. JOHN DIXON.
To be SOLD, A THOUSAND Acres of LAND, by Computation, on Bush River, in Prince Edward, consisting of a Body of rich low Ground, free from Inundations, skirted on both Sides by fine timb red red Land of the Soil of the Mountains, and disposed in two Plantations completely prepared for Cropping; at the lowest of them is a Mineral Spring, hitherto of tried Efficacy in cutaneous and other Diseases. RYLAND RANDOLPH.
To be SOLD, FOURTEEN Hundred Acres of exceeding good TOBACCO LAND in Stafford County, on the Branches of Aquia and Potomack Runs, extremely well timbered and watered, twelve Miles from Falmouth, and ten from Aquia. One Half the Land rents for thirty Pounds a Year; there is a small Plantation on the other Part the Land, and a Mill near the Plantation, if not privately sold, will be set up at twelve Hundred Pounds, on the 10th of October next. Also eleven Hundred Acres of Land on Rocky Run, in Fauquier County, the Rents of which amount to four Thousand one Hundred and thirty Pounds of Tobacco; either in Lots, or altogether, as may suit the Purchasers. An indisputable Title will be made to the Land, by the Trustees of Charles Carter. Tf
To be SOLD, A TRACT of LAND on the Forks of Stanton River, near Bluebone Creek, in the County of Mecklenburg, containing about six Hundred and fifty Acres, on which is a good Dwellinghouse twenty eight by twenty four Feet, with two Brick Chimnies; also a new Storehouse thirty six Feet by eighteen, with a large Brick Cellar underneath, and a Counting Room adjoining; likewise a Kitchen, Smokehouse, &c. There is also a Smith's Shop, with a Dwellinghouse and other necessary Buildings, within a Quarter of a Mile of the Store. As the Houses lie within fifteen Miles of the Courthouse, and about eighty Miles from Petersburg, it would answer any Person very well that intends opening a back Store, being situated in an exceeding fine Neighbourhood for making Tobacco. Any Person inclining to purchase may know the Terms by applying to Mr. Miller Woodson, in Prince Edward, or to me, in Warwick. PATRICK HUNTER.
For SALE, SEVENTY Tierces of best Irish MESS and CARGO BEEF, just imported from Antigua, in the Schooner Hanford, Christopher Wilson Master. NORFOLK, July 27, 1772. GILCHRIST & TAYLOR.
For SALE, EIGHT Hundred and sixty Acres of LAND on Blackwater Swamp, in Surry County, about nine Miles from Cabin Point, whereon is a Dwellinghouse thirty two Feet by sixteen, with two Rooms below and two above, a Kitchen twenty four Feet by sixteen, and all other necessary Outhouses, a good Garden, very good Apple and Peach Orchards, and a Variety of other Fruits. The Land is exceeding good for Grain, and, with a little Improvement, produces fine Tobacco; it is in good Order, and sufficient to work six Hands; the Whole lies very level, and well to the Plough; it is well watered, and timbered with Pine, Hickory, Poplar, white and red Oak, and black Walnut; it is convenient to Church and Mill, and has a very good and extensive Range for Stock. Any Person inclining to purchase may see the Land, and know the Terms, by applying to me, on the Premises. WILLIAM ANDERSON.
To be SOLD on the Premises, on Friday the 4th of December next, TWO Hundred and sixty three Acres of LAND in Amherst County, adjoining to the Tobacco River Mountains, whereon is a Plantation, with all convenient Houses on the same, in good Order for Cropping, sufficient for working seven or eight Hands; the Land is exceeding rich for Tobacco, Corn, Wheat, or Hemp. At the same Time will be sold twelve very valuable SLAVES, mostly Men and Women, amongst which is a good Sawer, and one that has worked several Years in a Blacksmith's Shop; as also all the Stock of Horses, Cattle, and Hogs, belonging to the said Plantation, with all the Crop of Corn and Fodder made thereon, and all the Plantation Utensils. Twelve Months Credit will be allowed the Purchasers of the Land, or longer, if found necessary at the Day of Sale, and nine Months Credit for the Slaves, Stock, Corn, and Utensils, upon good Merchants Bonds, or Notes, bearing Interest from the Day of Sale, payable unto John Barnes, Esquire (to whom the Estate belongs) the Sale of which will be conducted by AMHERST, July 16, 1772. GABRIEL PENN.
RUN away from the Subscriber, near Rappahannock Bridge, in Richmond County, a Convict Servant Man named JOHN BAGNALL, imported last November in the Alexandria, and was bought at Leeds Town, on Rappahannock River. He is about twenty Years of Age, five Feet nine or ten Inches high, of a fair Complexion, and fresh coloured, wears his own short brown Hair unti'd, and had on a Claret coloured double breasted Cloth Coat, with a Velvet Cape and Silver plated Buttons, much worn, a Jacket of the same Colour, Leather Breeches, black Stockings, a white Linen Shirt, an old Castor Hat, and a Pair of Country made Shoes, with Buckles. He may have altered his Dress, as he carried with him a white double breasted Jacket, new Osnaburg Shirt and Trousers, two Pair of fine Thread Stockings, and several other Things unknown to me. He can read and write tolerably, and it is probable he may have forged himself a Pass. He was born in London, and served his Apprenticeship to a Tin Plate Worker. He was carried off by a Convict Servant Man named WILLIAM HARRIS, belonging to Captain Joseph Pierce, of Westmoreland, by Trade a Bricklayer, and if they did not get off by Water it is supposed they are in the back Woods, or Carolina. Whoever will bring the said John Bagnall to me in Irons shall have TEN POUNDS if taken in Virginia, and THIRTEEN POUNDS if out thereof, besides what the Law allows, and the Expense of his Irons. All Masters of Vessels are forewarned from harbouring or carrying him out of the Colony, at their peril. ROGER BECKWITH.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Northumberland, a Negro Fellow named DANIEL, belonging to the Estate of Mr. James Tapscott, deceased; he is of a yellow Complexion, Something under the middle Size, about twenty one Years old, has been mostly employed as a Waterman, was hired this present Year to Mr. Robert Gilmore here, and went in a Vessel of his when he made his Elopement. Also a Negro Fellow named CHARLES, belonging to Mr. William Powell of Lancaster. The Hue and Cry is now out against the said Fellows for breaking open Catpett Warehouse. I will give TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward to any Person that will bring the aforesaid Daniel to me, over and above what the Law allows. ENOCH GEORGE.
COMMITTED to the Jail of Cheesefield, two Negro Men, one of whom says he belongs to William Brown of Surry; he is a small Fellow, of a yellow Complexion, wears a Cotton Waistcoat and Breeches, an Osnaburg Shirt, and says his Name is WILL. The other cannot speak English, is a slim black Fellow, has on a Virginia Cloth Waistcoat, double wove, mixed with Blue and White, a Cotton Waistcoat and Breeches, and a Worsted Cap. Their Owners are desired to prove their Property, pay Charges, and take them away. JAMES BALL, Jailer.
COMMITTED to Norfolk County Jail, a Mulatto Man who says he is a Frenchman, and was bought of Mr. Buchanan, Merchant at Milner's, by Mr. James Milner of Halifax, in North Carolina. The Owner of the said Servant, or Slave, is desired to apply for him to SAMUEL PORTLOCK, Jailer.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Charles City, about the 1st of March last, a young Mulatto Fellow named JESSE, about nineteen Years old, has a Defect in one or more of his fore Teeth, and generally has his Hair tied behind, which is pretty long; his Dress was such as labouring Negroes generally wear, and he is about five Feet seven or eight Inches high. Whoever will deliver him to me, or secure him in Jail, and give me Notice thereof, shall have THREE POUNDS Reward. CHARLES CHRISTIAN.
RUN away from my Plantation, in Louisa, a Negro Man named BOB, about five Feet ten Inches high, slim made and of a yellowish Complexion. He is a sensible artful Fellow, and may probably endeavour to pass for a Freeman. I will give FIVE POUNDS Reward if he is taken out of the Colony, FORTY SHILLINGS if in Virginia, and pay reasonable Expenses, besides what the Law allows, on Delivery of the Fellow to John Bullock, my Overseer in Louisa, or to me in Hanover. JOHN SNELSON.
STOLEN from my Plantation, on Bull Run, on the 20th Instant (July) a dark bay Stallion, known by the Name of JOHN DISMAL, fifteen Hands high, very handsome, and has some white Hairs in the Footlock of one of his hind Feet. Whoever delivers the said Horse to me in Gloucester, or to Mr. Thomas Brackston in Prince William, shall be paid TEN POUNDS; and, on bringing the Offender to Justice, TEN POUNDS more. I have great Reason to believe he was carried to North Carolina, as he was heard of several Miles below the Plantation. The above Reward shall be paid on Demand. LEWIS BURWELL.
STRAYED from the Subscriber, in Petersburg, on Monday the 21st Instant (July) a bright bay MARE delicately made, about fourteen Hands high, three Years old, with white hind Feet, a small Star in her Forehead, large Ears, a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, undocked, and is newly broke to pace. TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward will be paid on Delivery of the Mare to me, and all reasonable Charges allowed. DAVID BLACK.
PETERSBURG, June 24, 1772. STOLEN from the Subscriber, in the Night of the 14th Instant, a very likely bright bay HORSE about four Feet nine Inches high, seven Years old this Spring, has a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, paces and gallops remarkably well, but his Brand, if any, is not remembered. Whoever brings the said Horse to me shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward, and TEN POUNDS on Conviction of the Thief. THOMAS GORDON.
CABIN POINT, July 2, 1772. STRAYED, or STOLEN, from Cabin Point Warehouse, on the 17th of May last, a large black MARE about twelve Years old, with a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, trots, but remarkably dull, and has the Pole Evil. It is imagined she has made for Roanoke, on Banister River. Whoever brings the said Mare to me shall have THIRTY SHILLINGS, and FIVE POUNDS on Conviction of the Thief. JOHN SLADE.
TAKEN up, in Cheesefield, a bay MARE about four Feet ten or eleven Inches high, paces fast, is docked, and branded on the near Buttock S. EDWARD WORSHAM.
TAKEN up, in Louisa, a red STEER Yearling with some White under his Belly, marked with an Underkeel and Overkeel, and a Silt in each Ear. Posted, and appraised to twenty five Shillings. THOMAS THOMSON.
TAKEN up, on Blackwater, near Hines's Bridge, a small bay MARE about four Feet four Inches high, four Years old, with a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, and a Star in her Forehead, but no Brand perceivable. Posted, and appraised to four Pounds fifteen Shillings. BENJAMIN RIVES CALEB.
RUN away from the Ship THORNTON, John Kid Commander, now lying at Leeds Town, six Convicts, namely: WILLIAM NICHOLSON, aged about twenty one Years, five Feet four Inches high, pitted with the Smallpox, and wears his own short black Hair; WILLIAM SMITH, about twenty seven Years of Age, a short well made Man, and has had fore Legs; PETER KNIGHT, of a very dark Complexion, and about five Feet ten Inches high; PATRICK BURN, a very ill looking Fellow, and about six Feet high; JOSEPH WADE, a short well made Man, about forty Years of Age, wears his own gray Hair, has been transported four Times under as many different Names, and is Ringleader to the rest; the above five are Seamen; ALEXANDER CLUBB, a very likely well made Man, six Feet high, wears his own long black Hair, has been some Time in the Army, and is by Trade a Shoemaker. Whoever secures them so that they may be had again shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward for each, and his Expenses paid, or if brought to the Ship, the same Reward, besides what the Law allows. If they are taken up in Maryland, it is desired that they be delivered to Mr. William Russell, Merchant in Baltimore Town, who will give the same Reward. JOHN KID.
DINWIDDIE, June 13, 1772. STOLEN from the Subscriber, on Friday Night the 12th Instant, a bay HORSE about four Feet seven Inches high, with a short Switch Tail and hanging Mane, paces, trots, and gallops very well, has remarkable good Spirit, was shod before, but his Brand, if any, is not remembered. I will give TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward on Delivery of the Horse to me, and FIVE POUNDS on Conviction of the Thief. (Tf) NEILL BUCHANAN, Senior.
For SALE, THE following Tracts of LAND, in Pittsylvania, namely, four Hundred Acres on Banister River, six on Hundred and seventy on Beaver Creek, three Hundred and forty five on Burch's Creek, three Hundred and eighty on Leatherwood, and four Hundred on Snow Creek. These Lands were formerly the Property of Mr. Samuel Gordon, deceased. The Price, and Time of Payment, may be known by applying to me in Petersburg. Tf JERMAN BAKER.
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. THOMAS EGLETON.