The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg [Va.]), 1773-11-25 00:00:00

VIRGINIA
GAZETTE.
With the freshest ADVICES,
FOREIGN and DOMESTICK.
IN CIVITATE LIBERA LINGUAM MENTEMQUE
LIBERAS ESSE DEBERE. — Suet. in Tib. S. 28.
Printed by ALEX. PURDIE, and JOHN DIXON, at the POST OFFICE.
From the NEW YORK Papers.
THE ALARM. No. IV.
THE pernicious Effects of the intended Importation of the East India Company's Tea, in a commercial View, were in general pointed out to you in my last Number. It shall now be the Amusement of an Hour to answer Objections, and to unfold to you more particularly some of the numerous Evils that unavoidably await you if they succeed in that Project. Unfortunately for human Nature, the States which have enjoyed the greatest Share of Liberty have given Birth, Opulence, and Importance, to Miscreants who have prostituted these Blessings to enslave, instead of protecting their Country. Rome had its Cæsars, and England its Staffords. Happy had it been for this distressed Colony if no such accursed Atkins were found in your Camp. But, Thanks be to God, there are not many who are so hardy as openly to declare for, or patronize, the Machinations either of the Ministry or that Company to enslave this Country. Those, therefore, who desire to see their Country sacked by Harpies and Parricides, that they may share the Plunder, have Recourse to insidious Arts to impose on the Ignorance and Credulity of the unscrupulous Few who are dependent on or connected with them. As the first are sensible of the publick Abhorrence, and dare not openly abet a Measure, which, to their great Mortification, and the Joy of all good Men, is considered as replete with the Ruin of your Commerce and the Liberties of America, their Arguments in Favour of the Importation can only be collected from the Whispers of their Creatures. These shall be fully considered, and every Appearance of Argument that may occur in Favour of it. Should it be said there is no Danger of your being subject to the Company's Extortion, because Merchants, when the Tea is once introduced, will import it as usual from London, and, as the Sale of it will be in many Hands, the Country will be supplied upon as moderate Terms as usual, whoever asserts this must either be a Knave or a Novice, totally a Stranger to Commerce. Can any Merchant purchase Tea of the Company in London and dispose of it here upon equal Terms with them? No. Because the first must purchase it of the last, and therefore he will not attempt to bring that Article to the same Market with those who have it at first Hand and at the cheapest Rate from India, as he must know they can and will under sell him; and therefore, as he will not import any, you will fall a Prey to the Avarice and Monopoly of the Company. Here then their Advocates fail. Equally futile will it be to assert, that, as the Sale of the Company's Tea will be at publick Vendue, you will be supplied with it at a moderate Price. Common Experience evinces, that whether the Sale of any Commodity be publick or private it does not alter the Price. If such Article be in Demand, and within the Consumption, there will be Competitors for the Purchase; for the higher any Article is the quicker the Sale, and consequently the greater the Encouragement to the Retailers to buy it. For although the Sale of Tea is publick in London, they expose only such a Quantity of it as they know, from the Demand, will produce a Price to their Satisfaction. And there have not been wanting late Instances there of such notorious and manifest Extortion, from such Sales, that the Citizens were obliged to petition the Parliament for a Law to dissolve the Company, or to enable them to import Tea from abroad, when it exceeded a certain Price. Hence, you see that a Complaint to Parliament was necessary to check their Extortion. But have you any such Security against it? No. Will the Parliament, who is in League with the Company to fleece you of your All, hear your Complaints against the Instruments of their Tyranny? No. Here then the Advocates of the Company fail.
I know it is said "that the Colony will not be in Danger of Extortion from the Company, because whenever Tea shall rise to an exorbitant Price the Holland Traders will import it. Let the Reader now pause a little, and consider this Objection. Does it not, in so many Words, declare, that unless the Trade to Holland is prosecuted you will be in the Power of the merciless Company, to extort from you, for their Commodities, whatever Price their Avarice shall dictate? Nay, does it not declare against the intended Importation of the Company's Tea; as this Article has, at no Period since the Settlement of the Colony, been sold so cheap as it has since the Non-Importation Agreement?
From that Period, to this, the mean Price has been under 4s. a Pound, and not higher for any considerable Time than 4s. 6d. and if it had not been apprehended, for some Time, that the Company would risk the Tea to America, which prevented the Orders of your spirited Merchants, you would have had this Article under 4s. And you will be thus supplied, whenever you disappoint the Hopes of those who are like Enemies to your Commerce and Liberty. Here then the Advocates of the Company fail. But it can be demonstrated, as the Company is to establish a Warehouse in this City, they will prevent your Trade to Holland for the Commodities of India. I grant, that whenever the Holland Traders conceive the Company raises the Price of their Tea, or other Articles, so high as to make it the Interest of the former to run the Risk of importing those from Foreigners, it will be done, but not repeated. The Company are so connected with the Ministry, and play into each others Hands, that the first can borrow Millions of the Government. This, and other Advantages from their Capital, will enable them, upon such Importation, to lower the Price of their Tea, &c. so as to make the Holland Traders, if they sell theirs, smart for their Temerity; or, if they keep it for a better Market (which they cannot get) suffer by the Loss of Interest. Whenever they have disposed of their Tea, at either of those Losses, the Company will raise their Tea at Pleasure; and if the Holland Traders will be bold enough to make a second Attempt, they will easily be defeated, by repeating the same Expedient.
This will be effected at the Expense of a few Thousands Sterling, which they can put on the Tea when the entire Sale returns to them. Thus disappointed with the Loss of their Interest, the Holland Traders will decline the Pursuit of a Trade subject to a certain if not a total Loss of their Property; and thus will you be entirely in the Power of the East India Company. Should it be said, that you may as well be in their Power as the Holland Traders, let the Experience you have had of the latter, for near four Years, and of the former, since the Settlement of the Colony, be the Answer.
Whenever a Merchant, or Company, has the sole vending of a Commodity, they impose on the Consumers; and infinitely more so are they subject to the Extortion of a Company who has a permanent Monopoly, and those Advantages to support the true Spirit of it. Therefore, the Publick is always best served when there are Competitors for the publick Favour, or Commerce. Cast your Eyes now to the Loss the Colony will sustain by the Company's engrossing the Trade of all the India Commodities consumed and imported into it. When the Account of the Inhabitants of the Colony was taken in the Winters of 1770 and 1771, the Return amounted to 121,000 Souls; but as many Families were inclined to give up their Number, from an Apprehension that a Poll Tax was in Contemplation, I am confident that Numbers concealed. The Increase since that, and the Number of those who emigrated from Europe, will make our Number at least 450,000. From this deduct a fifth Person, for all those who are unable, disinclined, or otherwise prevented, from purchasing Tea, and the Number of Tea Drinkers will be 120,000. Allowing each of these to consume three Pounds of Tea a Year, besides Coffee, &c. the annual Consumption of this Colony will be 363,000 Pounds of Tea, equal to 1000 Chests. The Importation of this Article
* The Colony of Connecticut, in 1757, had this Number of Inhabitants.
to supply our Trade to the west Part of Connecticut, and the east Part of Jersey, may very moderately be fixed to Half the Quantity we consume. This Quantity, at the moderate Price of 5s. Currency a Pound, amounts to 136,125 l. From this Sale deduct the Freight of 30s. a Chest, Ensurage, and Commission for Shipping, at five per Cent. the neat Sum on which the Profit is to be calculated will be 127,181 l. 5s. Currency. Suppose this yields the moderate Profit of ten per Cent. to the Purchasers of Tea in London, the annual Loss to your Merchants will be 11,561 l. 18s. 6d. To this add the Freight of 1500 Chests at 30s. 2250 l. which their Ships will lose, as the Company will send the Tea in their own Ships, then the annual Loss to them on our Importation of Tea will be 13,811 l. 18s. 6d. The India Silks, Cottons, Spices, and China, imported for the Consumption of this and those two Colonies, may be computed to Half the Value of the Tea we import for those Consumptions. Allowing Half the Profit on those Articles at the above Rate on Tea, and Half the Freight of it for the Freight of those different Commodities, lost to your Merchants, 4603 l. 19s. 6d. added to the Loss they will sustain by the Company's importing Tea you would import, amount to the enormous Sum of 20,717 l. 17s. 9d. Currency annual Loss to this City. To this add the Duty on Tea consumed in this Colony, 4537 l. 10s. Sterling, at 75 per Cent. 7940 l. 12s. Currency, will be 28,658 l. 9s. 9d. annual Loss to this Colony. But this is but a small Part of what the Company will export from you, by the Monopoly of all the India Commodities you consume. As no Man can conceive, and far less describe, to what Pitch their unbounded Avarice will carry them, you have abundant Reason to dread the Consequences. You have been fully informed to whom this Sacrifice of your Commerce will be made. To a Company which connived at, if not abetted, the most horrid Inhumanities and Cruelties the Sun ever beheld; to a Company now made the Instruments of a corrupt, a tyrannical Ministry, to give the last and finishing Stroke to your Commerce and your Liberties. It therefore concerns you to act with a Vigilance and Resolution that become a free and trading People, if you would avert the Storm that now hangs over you, ready to strip you of both, or you will be left Monuments of Folly and Pusillanimity to all Eternity! HAMPDEN.
On the Misapplication of our Time, and Talents.
NOTHING is more common than to hear People complain of the Shortness of Life, who waste it with thoughtless Wantonness, and seldom extend their Thoughts beyond its Limits. Few, very few, seem inclined to contemplate that awful Event, which, before the Expiration of the present Hour, may happen to us; or to anticipate that vast Scene which lies beyond the Confines of Time, although it is a Subject wherein we are essentially interested. It is indeed "an undiscovered Country, from whose drear Bourn no Traveller has returned;" yet, so far as Reason and Revelation can guide us, we ought to explore it. The Neglect of this important Business is a Proof of Folly. To a sensible Mind, unacquainted with the World, it would appear almost impossible that reasonable and accountable Beings, whose Days are uncertain, and whose Happiness in a future State depends on the due Performance of present Duties, should be so regardless of their best Interests as not frequently to consider their latter End. But general Experience confirms it to be a Truth: The present Moment engrosses our Attention, and we silently pass on to "the House appointed for all the Living," without Thought, and without Reflection.
Whence can this Inconsistency of Conduct arise? Is it because it is pleasant to behold the Sun, and that even the bare Apprehension of being taken from visible Things covers the Mind with a melancholy Gloom?
To the Virtuous, this can never be the Case; to the Vicious, indeed it may. They cannot reflect on their final Separation from what now delights them without feeling a secret Horror; their Desires and Prospects are bounded by Sensuality, and they consider no Loss so great as that of those Objects which now delight them. Eternity, in their View, is one vast gloomy Waste, and stands arrayed in the Horrors of Annihilation. They have no just Idea of that Felicity, of those celestial and permanent Enjoyments, which await the Virtuous, when they are removed from the illusive Objects of Time and Sense, and centred in a State unchangeable and everlasting. They consider not the End of their Being, or the imperishable Nature of an immortal Spirit; are not conscious that they possess Faculties capable of everlasting Improvement, Faculties which only bud in Time, but which, if properly cultivated, will gloriously expand and flourish in immortal Vigour for ever.
Man is constituted of two different Natures, animal and rational. With Respect to the first, he may, with Propriety, say "to the Worm, thou art my Mother and my Sister." By Virtue of the latter, he may exult in his divine Origin, and claim Kindred with the celestial Inhabitants of Heaven. But so great is the Degeneracy of Mankind, in general, that Numbers seem unconscious of their Dignity, and act more inconsistently with the Duties of their Station than the Beasts that perish. They voluntarily degrade themselves from their Rank in Creation, and instead of aspiring to the substantial Happiness of their reasonable Nature are indulging themselves in the meanest sensual Gratifications. The licentious Indulgence of Passions, given to be governed, and not to command, employs those Faculties, and that Time, which ought to be employed in Acts of Goodness, Benevolence, and the Exercise of every moral, every social Virtue. Every Trifle that floats before the Eye of Vanity calls off their Attention from Considerations of infinitely greater Importance, and that great Work which the most active Life can barely accomplish is put off to the Evening of Age. Those Faculties and Powers of the Mind which were given us for the noblest of all Purposes, to adore the Deity, and investigate his glorious Perfections, are debased to the mean Employment of accumulating Wealth instead of Honour, and empty Fame instead of a just and virtuous Praise.
How shocking must the Condition of those be, who have thus mispent their Time and Talents, when the fatal Mandate arrives which will summon them to the Tomb, when every Thing will appear in its true Colours, when the illusive Phantoms vanish, and the awakening Voice of Conscience shall at once proclaim their Crimes, and their Destiny? At that Season, what are Riches, Honours, Titles, external Pomp and Grandeur? What, indeed, but the Ignis fatuus of a mistaken Fancy! which, having danced before us for a Moment, disappears for ever, and leaves us all in the dark Horrors of a dreadful Uncertainty.
If such look backward, the black Catalogue of their multiplied Transgressions, like the Roll which Ezekiel saw, "is written, within and without, with Lamentation, Mourning, and Wo." If they look forward, the Prospect is gloomy: "Clouds and Darkness hang upon it." The Day is ended, and the Night appeareth wherein no Man can work.
Then "all that now sparkles in the Eye of Hope, or pants in the Bosom of Desire," will lose its Power of pleasing. The Certainty of those solemn Truths will be felt, which, in the Days of Festivity, have been treated as idle Chimeras, or enthusiastic Reveries. How far the Mercy of a gracious God may be withheld from such, I will not presume to determine; far be it from me to limit its glorious Extension, or to assign the Ministration of his Judgments to any of the human Race. But who, that thinks right, would presume to risk the Happiness of an Eternity on so doubtful a Cast? We ought to bear in Mind that Justice is one of the Attributes of the Deity, and that the incorrigible Offender has no Claim to divine Favour.
Were we more frequently to contemplate on the End of our Days, and the Dignity of our Calling to Glory and Virtue, it would weaken our Attachment to Things of inferior Moment, and excite us to Circumspection and Diligence.
To a Mind sensible of its Weakness, and desirous of acting consistently with its necessary Duties, this Employment can neither be unpleasing nor unprofitable. It is the highest Mark of true Wisdom to number our Days, that, when they are accomplished, we may review them with Joy, and look forward with a holy Triumph in the Anticipation of a glorious and permanent Reward. This excellent and desirable End can only be attained by a Course of Action agreeable to those Duties which are required of us, the Performance of which will increase our present, while they fit us for future Felicity. The divine Being who formed us, and whom we ought diligently to serve, is no hard Master; he requires Nothing of us but what tends to increase our Happiness. This is a Consideration which ought to have due Place, with those especially who are Candidates for present Pleasure. The best Method of promoting the Success of their own Plan is to be governed by the Rules of Virtue, Morality, Temperance, Justice, and Benevolence. The Practice of these Duties will exclude many Evils, and preserve us in Safety and Innocence, while they afford every Gratification that can yield true Delight to the Mind. Were all Men influenced by these noble Principles, how happy would be the State of human Society! The Voice of Contention and Discord would be no longer heard: "Righteousness and Peace would kiss each other," and the present State of Existence would be a happy Prelude to that which is still more glorious in the Realms of Immortality.
However the Sons of Vanity, and Votaries of guilty Pleasure, may now deceive themselves, they will, in an approaching Season, be convinced of these solemn Truths. The Dream of Folly will at length be broken, and they will find Cause to lament their past inconsiderate Conduct. On a Review of the Days that are past, Life will appear a barren Waste, wherein they have neglected to accumulate that substantial Treasure which is the durable Portion of the Virtuous beyond the Grave.
But those who have early applied their Hearts unto Wisdom, and made her sacred Precepts the Rule of Action, will approach the Confines of the Land of Spirits with a Hope that can never perish, a Hope which is full of Immortality and eternal Life.
BOSTON, October 28.
CAPTAIN Scott was offered the Tea intended to be sent here, as were several Captains of Vessels for this Port, but they all refused taking it on Board. It was not thought, when he left London, that the East India Company would send any Tea, fearing it would meet with a Reception not at all to their Advantage in America.
A Correspondent informs us that Letters from London say that the great Persons about the Court, after reading the Letters which have made such a mighty Buffle, were of Opinion that they were not a sufficient Foundation for the Resolves, and that it was not likely the Governor would be removed.
November 1. By a Schooner, in about a Week from Halifax, we learn that his Excellency Francis Legge, Esq; lately appointed Governor of the Province of Nova Scotia, was arrived there in the Brig Adamant, Captain Crowne. We also hear that his Excellency Lord William Campbell, the former Governor, and his Family, were soon to embark for England, in the same Vessel.
It is positively asserted, said to be from good Authority, that Barracks would be built, or the Foundation for Barracks laid, on Fort Hill, before July next.
By a Vessel just arrived from New Providence, we learn that two Companies of the 14th Regiment had arrived there from St. Augustine, and that they all died in the Course of a Week, except two.
We hear that, in Answer to a Petition from our Assembly, respecting the Appointment of Judges, &c. his Majesty declared his Intention of supporting the Supreme Authority and Right of the British Parliament to make Laws binding on the Colonies, and expressed his great Displeasure that Principles repugnant to this Right should be held forth in the Petition.
NEW YORK, November 28.
ON Friday last his Majesty's Royal Regiment of Welsh Fusiliers, under the Command of Lieutenant Colonel Barnard, and the Royal Regiment of Artillery, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Cleavland, were reviewed by his Excellency Major General Haldimand, commanding in chief his Majesty's Forces in North America. There were present his Excellency the Governor and his Lady, together with all the principal Inhabitants of this City and its Vicinities, who returned full of the most perfect Satisfaction afforded by the brilliant Appearance, and animated Manoeuvres, of these two gallant and finely appointed Battalions.
Extract of a Letter from St. George's Key, Honduras Bay, August 29. "The Day before yesterday arrived at this Key the Garland Man of War, in Consequence of a Petition from the Inhabitants of this Place to Admiral Rodney in Jamaica; she is to stay here until there is an End to the Rebellion. Great Matters were expected from the last Party we had out in Search of the Insurgents, but to the great Grief of every Body here they have returned unsuccessful, not being lucky enough to fall in with them. It is uncertain whether they have gone back towards the Spaniards, or whether they have encamped some Where nigh hand. Until the Truth of this is known, we apprehend ourselves almost in as much Danger as ever, and Heaven only knows when there will be an End to it.
"The Garland, in her Way hither, called at Port Obispo, at which Place she spoke a Register Ship bound for Old Spain, who gave the following melancholy Account, viz. that on the 29th of July last the City of Guatemala was sunk by an Earthquake, and upwards of 30,000 Souls perished. It was but a few Days before the Garland spoke the Ship that she received the Express to carry home. As this is the first Vessel for America since we received the News, we beg you will have it inserted in your Newspapers."
By Letters of good Authority from England, we are informed that the 14th Regiment, now at St. Augustine, the 16th at Pensacola, and the 52d at Quebec, will be relieved next Summer; and that the 4th or King's own, and the 5th Regiments, are ordered out for that Purpose, but we cannot yet learn what other Corps is to be added to them to complete the Relief. And we are likewise informed, that for the future the Garrisons in the West Indies will be relieved by Regiments doing Duty in North America, which will be always supplied by fresh Battalions from Great Britain and Ireland.
Next Week his Excellency the General will set out for Philadelphia, to review the Royal Regiment of Ireland, commanded by Major Hamilton; and on his Return his Excellency will pay the same Compliment to the 47th Regiment, under the Command of Lieutenant Colonel Nesbit, at Perth Amboy.
PHILADELPHIA, November 8.
WE hear from London, by Way of Boston, that notwithstanding the pompous and authoritative Style in which the several Accounts of the Insurrection of the Chilians is contradicted, in the Gazetteer of August 20th, yet we have full as good Authority to say that the native Chilians have actually taken Arms against their Tyrant Masters, the Spaniards, whom they in several Battles defeated, and at length regained Possession of Baldivia, in the Manner related in almost all the publick Prints. The Spanish Minister, it is said, is instructed to conceal as much of these Particulars from the English as possible, and accordingly, with Spanish Effrontery, he hath ventured to represent the whole as a Fiction; but the Don should be told, that though he can settle Matters with the Hague Gazette, yet the publick Prints of this Country are not so corrupt as to scotch from the Eyes of the People a Transaction of such Importance as the Opposition of a brave Nation to Spanish Tyranny, Catholick Perfidy, and Most Christian Cruelty, even if Spanish Gold should be offered them to suppress the Facts.

Extra of a Letter from Edenton, North Carolina, September 6. "On the first of this Instant we had the most violent Gale of Wind that has been known for a long Time. There were 15 Sail of Vessels at Ocracoke Bar, mostly outward bound; all of which, except one, were drove on Shore or lost. Indeed, the greatest Part of them is entirely lost; and a Number of Persons, some say near fifty, perished. The hardest of the Gale was about North."
We hear that the General Assembly of the Lower Counties have appointed a Committee of the House to correspond with the Committees of the other Houses of Representatives on the Continent, to inquire into the Nature, &c. of the new Court opened at Rhode Island, for inquiring into the Affair of the Gaspée Schooner, and to have a particular Attention to all such Acts of the British Parliament as may in any Way affect America.
The Prince of Wales, Captain Morrison, is arrived at Baltimore from Londonderry, with about 200 Passengers, which makes no less than 3500 that have left that Port only within one Year.
WILLIAMSBURG, November 25.
THE following Advertisement was published in Boston the 4th Instant, by Order of the Selectmen: "The Freeholders, and other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, qualified as the Law directs, are hereby notified to meet at Faneuil Hall on Friday the 5th Instant, at ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, then and there to consider the Petition of a Number of the Inhabitants, setting forth that they are justly alarmed at the Report that the East India Company in London are about shipping a Cargo or Cargoes of Tea into this and the other Colonies, and that they esteem it a political Plan of the British Administration, whereby they have Reason to fear not only that the Trade upon which they depend for their Subsistence is threatened to be totally destroyed, but, what is much more than any Thing in Life to be dreaded, the Tribute laid upon the Importation of that Article will be fixed and established, and our Liberties, for which we have long struggled, will be lost to them and their Posterity; and therefore praying that a Meeting of the Freeholders, and other Inhabitants, may be immediately called, that to the Sense of the Matter may be taken, and such Steps be pursued as to their Safety and Wellbeing shall appertain."
The Mars, Captain Mitcheson, from Whitehaven, is arrived in James River.
Marriages] Mr. HERBERT CLAIBORNE, of Sussex, to Miss MOLLY RUFFIN, of King William.
To the PRINTER.
THE enclosed Publication, which fell lately into my Hands, I wish to see published on Account of its Singularity. Possibly, it may not be unentertaining to a Number of your Readers; and to some, perhaps, it will be edifying. It circulated in BEDFORD previous to an Association entered into by Part of the Inhabitants of that County, Not to pay their Debts unless they can get such Prices for their Commodities as they have offered.
THE Behaviour of the trading Part of Virginia, and the lamentable State of the poor Inhabitants (Planters) induced me to endeavour to describe the present State and Condition of this almost ruined Country, and to form some Plans and Rules to avoid the destructive total Combination of the Merchants against the People and Interest of this Colony; and in Order that none may be deceived, or mistaken, I shall begin at the Root of our Misfortunes, which is our Pride, our Luxury, and Idleness. Want of Industry compels us to buy many Linens and Woollens which we might make in our own Families, and with the Help of our Neighbours; and our Pride and Luxury compel us to seek after and desire many Articles which we do not really stand in Need of, and which we cannot afford. The Scotch Nation, about fifty Years ago, being informed of this valuable Country, and of the weak and blind Side of its Inhabitants, chose, some of them, to quit their Packs, and leave their poor Fare, and barren Country, and make an Experiment in the Tobacco Trade; which, by a little Industry, and the mechanick Turn of Mind and the artful Craftiness and Cunning natural to that Nation, they soon not only raised great Estates for themselves, but found a Plant to enrich their Country, and raise Glasgow, from being a poor, small, petty Port, to one of the richest Towns and trading Ports in his Majesty's Dominions, and all by Fawning, Flattery, and outwitting the indolent and thoughtless Planters. But not to take up Time in searching into what has been, let us view Things as they stand at present. Suppose a Person, or a Company, sends a Cargo of 1000. consigned to a Friend and Factor in Virginia. With it they, some of them, too often send not Tradebills Notes, but an Invoice on which they add from 20 to 25 per Cent. according to the Success and Industry used in buying said Cargo, and the Usefulness and Sortableness thereof. This, at ten per Cent. makes the Stock delivered here 1100. which arrives in March for a Spring Cargo. About three Fourths of it is rated at 87½. The rest is rated as they can catch Advantages on the Ignorant and Needy, and on this they commonly advance about 150 per Cent.
Suppose first Outset ½ of it is £. 825. viz. the Advance is £. 721 - 17 - 6 ¼ of £. 1100 is £. 275. 150 per Cent on it is £. 412 - 10 - 0
This is the Profits in Virginia, £. 1134 - 7 - 6 And the Advance at home is £. 100 - 0 - 0
And another of the same in September is £. 1234 - 7 - 6
So this Sum of £. 2468 - 15 - 0 is gained in two Cargoes of £. 1000 each, except bad Debts. And when this is remitted in Tobacco, they all agree to give such a Price for it that they may gain 25 per Cent. by it; that is, to fetch as many Pounds Sterling as it cost Currency, and more, if possible, which amounts to 6171. 3s. 6d. And this makes their Profits on 1000. Sterling to be 30851. 17s. 6d. exclusive of bad Debts and Expenses, which is a great Drawback and will greatly lessen the Profits. But this Drawback is chiefly owing to themselves, for their Pride, Wantonness, Extravagance, and sumptuous Way of Life; fulfilling the old Saying, Set a proud Beggar on Horseback and he'll soon ride to Old Nick. And the bad Debts are much owing to their extortionable Views and Practices, of selling to the Needy, Ignorant, and Careless, on the most unreasonable Terms, with Hopes of immense Gains by these and other Measures and Advantages that the Trade do take of the poor Planters. Is it not evident that we are not far from being enslaved, under the Face of Friends, and that by those who are charged with selling their King for a Sum that amounted to only a Great a Man? And what better Treatment can we Strangers expect from them? Therefore, it is our Duty to be strictly and constantly on our Guard, and combine to extricate ourselves and our Country before it is too late. And, in Order thereto, let us directly set a Price on our Tobacco, and bind ourselves by the most solemn Ties not to Part with it for less than the Price established by us Planters, in every County. And let this Price be settled yearly, or monthly, as the Matter shall require. And let us associate and choose two or more Persons in every County to regulate and conduct our Affairs, and by advertising, or otherwise, inform us how to behave. And let us contribute our utmost to raise a Stock of Tobacco, or Money, in every County, to be by our said Agents sent to the most independent and promising Port for our Interest; and that such Agents do not only carefully ship our Tobacco, but also order such Goods as shall by each Contributor be required, not exceeding about four Fifths of the Value or Produce thereof.
I suppose the Merchants will run down this Calculation, if they do make it appear to be wrong. Then how is it that a Storekeeper shall in seven Years make an Estate in Virginia, and be about twenty Years raising the same Sum at home; and that a Storekeeper, by his Poverty, is obliged to pay Interest for a Stock to begin with, which is the Case with many Scotch Traders that are settled here!
HEARING of your aiming at something of this Kind, made me throw these Thoughts before you. If they are serviceable, I am glad of it. If you should find out who I am, don't discover me; for I can do more Good to the Cause undiscovered than known. Therefore copy this, and then burn it; but examine whether my Regulations and Calculations are right, though I think you'll find Nothing omitted but Freight, &c. which doth not amount to above ten per Cent. which, added to the 25 per Cent. Difference of Money, makes about 35 per Cent. which deducted from 87½ makes 52½ per Cent. on each Cargo. And as they have two Cargoes yearly, they will gain 105 per Cent. for every Year they trade here; and if they will fool away a great Part of it in fine Clothes, fine Buildings, fine Horses, fine Whores, and in every Kind of Luxury and Wantonness, why should the Planters be squeezed to make it good, or the Trade of the Country be blamed for their Pride and Misconduct? Let us BEDFORDMEN lead the Van to Liberty and Renown, and turn the Channel from centring in Glasgow (richly overflowing all Scotland, and aggrandizing all Scotchmen) to centre in Virginia; which may be done very easily, by dealing with none that don't choose to reside here and spend their Riches here, instead of in Glasgow. And let us directly raise at least fifty Hogheads, and as much more as possible; and let the Agent
for Bedford ship them to the best Port, and order Goods near the Value to be shipped in Return. And my Opinion is, that we do choose Richard Stith, and Guy Smith, to be Agents for the first Year; and that they, or whom the People choose for their Agents, do give Notice, by Way of Advertisement, or otherwise, that they shall find Needful to enable the said Agents to exert themselves for their Country. But our whole Country have imbibed Scotch Principles (for Craft and Extortion reigns in all alike) or else how can the Smith, the Tailor, the Canoe Men, &c. demand such unreasonable Prices for their Labour! So if you are for banishing Fraud and Extortion, and all that is hurtful to our Country, don't indulge them even in ourselves, and in all Ranks and Degrees. And if we do so, we must choose such Burgessies as will join us and help us. Consider, our Fee Bill was made and settled at ten Shillings the Hundred for Tobacco, and by the Rise of that Commodity every Officer is made rich, and above his Calling. Consider, every Court ought to choose their own Clerk, and not the Secretary, who has no Right to appoint Clerks. If the Court would act right, they might hire a Person to act as Clerk for less than 100l. a Year; and all above that Sum could build Bridges and lessen the Levies, which will be better than making all Clerks great Men, for such small Service. Consider, the Prison and Workhouse, and a Tavern, ought to be in the County's Hands; and all Profits from them would also ease the Levies. Since we are for Amendments, let us do it thoroughly, and leave no Stone unturned to destroy all Extortion, all Kind of Pride and Idleness, and all Appearance of Wantonness, Luxury, and every Kind of Vice. Wishing you Success, I am yours to serve the Publick.
To Mr. GUY SMITH, } TILLIAS. BEDFORD. }
COSMOPOLI, November 22, 1773.
Mr. PURDIE,
I AM very sorry to see that some wrong headed and reflexless People at Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, seem to be endeavouring unseasonably to revive the Disputes which were so happily put to Sleep after the Mother Country had generously given up the Contest in the Matter of the Stamp Act. I thought the Merchants, by this Time, had found out that Stagnation is not Circulation ; and that many Self-interested Knaves, under the Mask of Patriotism, had, at Boston, pretended to fend back or store their Goods, but sent or stored the Packages only, either Half empty or quite so, and sold the Goods imported in them (Nails particularly) at 500 to 1000 per Cent. Advance, when Nobody had any left but themselves. I am sorry to see the American built Ships have refused to take in Tea from the East India Company; lest, if the English find that they can export their Product or Merchandise only in English built Bottoms to America, they should take it into their Heads to reinforce the Act of Navigation, and import no American Produce, or at least not grant any Bounties on American Products imported in Ships of our building, or else lay a Tax. But I forbear, lest I should teach English Ministers (which Nobody in England will do without either Honour or Profit) how to impose Taxes. I cannot conceive that we have any Thing to do with the Bargain the East India Company may make with the Treasury about the Debentures or Drawbacks on Tea, so as we can but get it here cheaper than we can smuggle it from St. Eustatia; nay may even make it an Article of Trade and send it to all our Sugar Islands, and perhaps to the French, Dutch, and Spaniards themselves. The People at Mobile or Pensacola may transmit it to Mexico perhaps, and the Jamaica Men to Peru. However, we shall certainly supply ourselves by this Means much cheaper than ever we did, viz. so as to buy that Tea for ten Shillings a Pound at most which now costs us a Pistole, if we cannot proceed farther according to the above mentioned Scheme of,
Sir, your most humble Servant, LANDON HONDURAS.
P. S. I perfectly agree with so much of the first of the Resolves of the Inhabitants of Philadelphia, assembled in the Statehouse there, "That the Disposal of their own Property is the inherent Right of Freemen;" but by what Right then did a Set of lawless Vagabonds ( Anglicè , a Mob) take away Peoples Goods from them against their Wills, and put them in Stores, when such Goods were not prohibited to be imported by any Act of Parliament, or any Act of any Assembly upon the Continent? Or, unless from Envy of their having the Profit, why should any Merchants, or others, prohibit Mess. Wharton and Company from importing or exporting Tea, as well as any other Goods? Are not they Freemen as well as the others?
Advertisements.
PETERSBURG, November 15, 1773.
THE Death of Mr. RICHARD BOOKER occasioning a Discontinuance of the Business carried on by him at this Place, under the Firm of Richard Booker & Co. this is to request those who have Dealings with the said Concern to pay off their respective Balances immediately, to Mr. Thomas Shore, who is properly authorised to receive and settle the same, as also to treat with any Person inclining to purchase the Goods on Hand, which consist of a large Assortment suitable for the Season. The surviving PARTNERS.
CHESTERFIELD, November 19, 1773.
WHEREAS the PARTNERSHIP of WRIGHT, FOWLER, and Company , was dissolved the 1st of October last, it is requested of all Persons indebted to the said Concern immediately to discharge their Balances, as the Situation of the Concern will admit of no Indulgence; and those who are unable are desired to settle and grant Bond, with Security, if required. The GOODS on Hand will be SOLD on Thursday the 16th of December next, altogether or in Parcels, as may best suit the Purchasers. The Credit will be agreed on at the Day of Sale. Bonds with Security will be required. WILLIAM FOWLER.
ALL Persons indebted to JOHN and JAMES TAYLOR are desired to settle their Accounts this Meeting, as I do not intend to come to Williamsburg again on that Account. Those who fail may depend on being sued, without Distinction. (1) JAMES TAYLOR.
A YOUNG MAN of good Character, who can take Care of Horses, and will travel with a single Person, may hear of good Encouragement by applying to Mr. Cuttler Hubbard, near the College, in Williamsburg. If he can play upon the FRENCH HORN, it will be the more agreeable. (2||)
YORK TOWN, November 24, 1773.
THERE is in the Subscriber's Possession a very valuable NEGRO MAN between twenty and thirty Years of Age, for Sale, who is a good Plantation Negro, and can saw at the Whip saw very well. Any Person inclining to purchase such a Slave may know the Terms by applying to SEYMOUR POWELL. (2)
MANCHESTER, November 20, 1773.
I HAVE for SALE, on reasonable Terms, several Bales of Rugs, Duffils, Duffil and Bed Blankets, &c. also some Bales of Osnabrugs and Rolls, and a Parcel of well assorted Saddlery. JAMES LYLE.
LOST in Williamsburg, the 24th Instant, a small BUNDLE containing Bonds and Accounts payable to the Executors of Francis Jerdone , deceased, and George Pottie . FORTY SHILLINGS Reward will be given to any Person who delivers it to the Printer. (|||)
PETERSBURG, November 23, 1773.
THE Subscriber RETAILS GOODS at fifty per Cent. for ready Cash, Tobacco, or Wheat. WILLIAM HARRISON.
THE BONDS for Negroes sold of the Estate of Roger Dixon, deceased, become due the 15th of December, when we shall attend at the House of Benjamin Johnson, in Fredericksburg, to receive the Money. Our great Distance from the Purchasers will make it necessary to put such Bonds in Suit as are not punctually paid. (2) ROBERT PLEASANTS, } Attorneys for the Mortgagees. THOMAS BATES, }
To be SOLD, on Tuesday the 4th of January next, if fair, otherwise next fair Day, at Samuel Watson's Plantation, in Amherst County, about five Miles from Penn's Ordinary,
EIGHTY choice SLAVES, consisting of Men, Women, and Children, most of whom are Virginia born, a large Quantity of CORN and FODDER, sixty or seventy Head of CATTLE, some PLOW HORSES, MARES and COLTS, and many PLANTATION UTENSILS. Credit will be allowed until the first Day of April 1775; but if Payment is not made then, the Bonds to carry five per Cent. Interest from the Day of Sale. Bond and approved Security to be given to Mess. William Cabell, James Allen, John Hawkins, and William Womack, who are empowered to conduct the Sale. Six per Cent. Interest will be allowed for ready Money, and also for some Merchants Notes, after they have accepted Orders drawn on them. At the same Time and Place will be rented, if not before sold, several valuable Plantations, in fine Order for Cropping, sufficient to work thirty Hands, with all necessary Houses. (6) CARTER BRAXTON.
N. B. Some of the SLAVES will be sold for ready Money.
For SALE,
ABOUT twelve Thousand Acres of exceeding rich TOBACCO LAND, in Amherst County, whereon are several Plantations and Improvements sufficient to work forty or fifty Hands. There is on the said Land for Sale a very valuable GRIST MILL, lately built, with a Stone Dam and a Pair of good Cologne Millstones, which Mill has for two Years past got upwards of 100 Barrels of Toll Corn, and is situated on a never failing Stream. The Land will be shown by William Womack, who lives at one of the Plantations, and the Prices of the Land made known by him. One or two Years Credit will be allowed, Interest being paid for the second Year, and also for the first, if the Money is not paid agreeable to Contract. The Land is to be laid off and surveyed by Colonel William Cabell, at the Expense of the Purchaser. Deeds will be made upon Bond and approved Security being given, either to Colonel William Cabell, or the Subscriber. Six per Cent. Discount will be allowed for ready Money, or good Merchants Notes. If any Person will choose to exchange Lands in the lower Part of the Country, on or near some navigable River, that are good, it is more than probable we should agree. (1) CARTER BRAXTON.
To be SOLD at Fredericksburg, on Thursday the 16th of December,
A TRACT of LAND containing about 2000 Acres, which lies near Levees Bridge, Spotsylvania, not far from the aforesaid Town, formerly the Property of Mr. Benjamin Gwynn, and mortgaged by him to the late Colonel Peter Randolph, whose Executors have empowered the Subscriber to sell it. The Land is laid off in three Lots, and will be sold separate, or altogether, as most convenient. The Terms will be made known at the Day of Sale. Any Person inclined to purchase privately may do it by applying to the Subscriber, who will show the Land to any Person, and therefore thinks a Description unnecessary. The Subscriber has also for SALE on the same Day, privately or publickly, altogether or in Lots, about 900 Acres of LAND whereon Concord Forge stood. The Stream is equal to any in Virginia, and the Place is well situated for a Merchant Mill. ANTHONY THORNTON, Junior.
To be SOLD, or RENTED, to the highest Bidder, on Tuesday the 7th of December, upon the Premises, and entered on immediately,
A TRACT of good Tobacco and Grain LAND in Louisa, near Mr. John Marshall's Store, containing 275 Acres. There is upon it a good Dwellinghouse, and other necessary Buildings, a Garden, Orchards, &c. The Plantation is in fine Order for Cropping, and has a pretty Crop of Wheat growing upon it. At the same Time will be SOLD the Stocks of all Kinds, together with the Crops of Corn, Fodder, and Plantation Utensils. Two Years Credit will be allowed, the Purchaser giving Bond and Security, with Interest from the Date if not punctually paid. A Discount of ten per Cent. will be allowed for ready Money. The Land may be seen by applying to Mr. David Anderson, or Mr. Frederick Harris, near the Premises. MATTHEW ANDERSON, Junior.
To be SOLD upon the Premises, on Tuesday the 14th of December, if fair, otherwise the next fair Day,
A TRACT of LAND in Louisa, containing, by Estimation, 1200 Acres more or less, adjoining the Lands of Mess. John Fox, James Dabney, and John Anderson. It is convenient to Church, Mill, and Courthouse. The Soil is exceeding good for Wheat, Corn, or Tobacco, and there is a Quantity cleared sufficient to work eight or ten Hands, now in good Order for Cropping. Any Person, inclined to purchase, may see the Land by applying to Mr. James Dabney, before the Day of Sale. Also a large Stock of Cattle and Hogs, and a Crop of Corn and Fodder, for which twelve Months Credit will be given. A long Credit will be allowed for the Land, and agreed upon at the Day of Sale, the Purchaser giving Bond and good Security to REBECCA CHAMBERLAYNE. N. B. I would treat with any Person for the Land privately, before the Day of Sale. CHARLES CITY, November 23, 1773.
To be SOLD, on Tuesday the 11th of January next, at the Rocky Ridge, fifty fine Virginia born NEGROES, for whom twelve Months Credit will be allowed, the Purchasers giving Bond with good Security. All Bonds not paid in fourteen Days after they become due to carry Interest from the Date. BENJAMIN HARRISON.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidders, on Monday the 13th of December, if fair, otherwise next fair Day, at the late Plantation of Captain Merryman Payne, deceased, in Lancaster County,
SEVEN likely Virginia born NEGROES, Men and Women, about 150 Barrels of CORN, a Yoke of OXEN, and sundry other Articles. Credit will be allowed until the 1st of May next, the Purchasers giving Bond with approved Security to MERRYMAN PAYNE, } Executors. HENRY TOWLES, }
To be SOLD at Norfolk, and entered on immediately (by Virtue of a Power of Attorney from Nathaniel Boush to the Subscriber) on Thursday the 16th of December, being Court Day,
A TRACT of LAND containing by Estimation 375 Acres, adjoining Mason's Creek and Sewell's Point, convenient to Church and a Water Mill now erecting. The Terms will be made known at the Day of Sale. ARTHUR BOUSH.
To be SOLD at the Plantation of Richard Allen, Senior, deceased, in New Kent, on Monday the 13th of December,
THE STOCKS of CATTLE, SHEEP, HOGS, and HORSES, HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN FURNITURE, and the CROP of CORN and FODDER. Twelve Months Credit will be allowed, on giving Bond and Security to RICHMOND ALLEN, Executor. (2||)

To be SOLD on Tuesday the 21st of December, at Mr. Edward Barnett's,
BETWEEN 7 and 800 Acres of LAND in Goochland , about twenty Miles from Richmond Town , equal in Quality to any in the Neighbourhood, and is well adapted for Tobacco, Wheat, or Corn. The Terms are, one Third payable in April twelve Months, another Third April two Years, and the Remainder April three Years; the Purchaser giving Bond and Security, to carry Interest from the Date, if not punctually paid. Any Person inclined to purchase may be shown the Land at any Time before the Sale, by applying to Mr. Edward Barnett .
THOMAS TOWLES. STOCKLEY TOWLES.
To be SOLD, SEPARATELY or TOGETHER, TWO TRACTS of LAND. One lies in Albemarle County , on Hardacre River , about five Miles from the great River, containing 370 Acres, 100 of which are the best Kind of low Grounds, and situated so as always to have the best Range for Stock of any Land between the Capes and Little Mountains.
The other Tract lies in Goochland County , on Lickinghole Creek , near the Three Notched Road , and contains 700 Acres. The high Land is equal to any in these Parts, fine for Tobacco and Wheat, or any Kind of Grain or Meadow. About 200 Acres are cleared, now under good Fences, laid off in three Fields, and in fine Order to work about ten Hands to great Advantage. The Improvements are a good Dwelling-house, Kitchen, Smokehouse, a Dairy, four good Tobacco Houses, with Negro Quarters, and other convenient Buildings, also a fine Apple and Peach Orchard. The Place is pleasantly situated, has fine Water, is as healthy as any Part of the Colony, and is convenient to Church or Providence Meetinghouse, and several Mills, besides one on the Land turned by a Spring Branch to grind for three or four Families the whole Year, and is not in the least unhealthy, as the Water may be ground off every Day. Credit will be given for Part of both Tracts. Any Person inclined to purchase may know the Terms by applying to Mr. William Mirbell , Merchant in Richmond , or to the Subscriber, who will show the Land.
(tf) WILLIAM PRYOR. GOOCHLAND, November 3, 1773.
THE Subscriber has for SALE (the Money to be paid on the 25th of April ) about 1500 Acres of very good LAND, in Middlesex , convenient to the Church and Mill, and the Rivers Rappahannock and Pianketank , both of which abound with the finest Kinds of Fish and Oysters. It will be laid off in such Lots as may best suit the Purchasers.
WILLIAM CHURCHILL.
STOLEN from the Subscriber's Plantation near Newcastle , Hanover County , the 14th Instant ( November ) a likely young BLACK MARE intermixed with gray Hairs, has gray Ears, her Forehead is rather round, with a Star in it, about four Feet ten Inches high, branded on the near Buttock with three Dots, trots rough, not dockt, has had her Tail lately cut, and has a white Spot on the Side of her Belly. Whoever brings the said Mare to me shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward, and on Conviction of the Thief FORTY SHILLINGS.
JAMES BROWN.
AMHERST, November 23, 1773.
RUN away from the Subscriber, about the Middle of July , a Virginia born likely Negro Fellow named BURTON , about 23 Years old, has a down Look, near five Feet ten Inches high, rather of a yellowish Complexion, and has a large Scar in his Breast, which was made, I believe, by a Burn. He carried off with him the usual Dress of a working Negro, besides a Pair of short Drill Breeches, a Pair of blue Shag Ditto, a blue striped Damask small Jacket, and a little Felt Hat bound with black Ferret. I purchased him of Mr. George Nafsworth , of Isle of Wight , near the Ragged Islands , and expect he has made that Way, if not about Norfolk , or in the Neighbourhood of Captain Williamson , on Blackwater . One of the two Fellows, who broke out of James City Jail the 8th of October , and said he belonged to me, I am very sure was mine, though he had changed his Name, from the Description Colonel Philip Johnson gave me, who committed him. Whoever secures said Negro in any Jail in Virginia , so that I get him again, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward, besides what the Law allows; or if delivered to me, in Amberst , FIVE POUNDS.
(||) WILLIAM PENN.
SUFFOLK, November 22, 1773.
RUN away from the Subscriber, on Saturday the 6th Instant, a likely Virginia born Negro Man Slave named CATO , about twenty Years old, about six Feet high, slim made, and has one of his Ears bit by Fighting. I imagine he has got some false Indenture, or a Pafs, and that he will endeavour to get into North Carolina and pass as a free Man; as he once attempted before, but was taken up in Halifax County , in that Province. Whoever takes up the said Negro, and delivers him to me, shall have 5l. Reward, and reasonable Charges paid, according to the Distance he is brought.
(||) WILLIAM DIXOON.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in the upper End of King William , about the 1st of September , two new Negro Men, of the Ibo Country, named CHARLES and FRANK , who have been in the Province about twelve Months, and it is supposed cannot tell their Master's Name. Charles is a large Fellow, with his Country Marks in his Face, and has lost or broke off one or two of his fore Teeth, which he says was done by a Cow in his Country. Frank is a smaller Fellow, well set, and has sharp Teeth. They carried with them a Dutch Blanket, had each a coarse Hat, and other usual Summer Clothes. Whoever delivers both or either of them to me, or secures them and gives me Notice thereof, shall be well rewarded for their Trouble, besides what the Law allows.
JOSEPH HILLYARD.
COMMITTED to Isle of Wight Jail , an outlandish Negro Fellow named WILL , about six Feet high, has two Jackets, one of a blue Colour, the other made of Cotton, and neither Shirt or Breeches. He speaks English badly, and either cannot or will not tell his Master's Name, but sometimes says he belongs to Mr. Mitchell . The Owner is desired to prove his Property, pay Charges, and take him away.
JOHN TAYLOR, Jailer.
COMMITTED to Westmoreland Jail , the 3d Instant ( November ) a SERVANT MAN about five Feet nine Inches high, near 25 Years old, and says he lives in South Carolina ; he had on, when taken up, an old brown Jeans Coat, blue Shag Jacket, brown Sheeting Shirt, a Yarn Cap, brown knit Breeches, a Pair of brown Trousers, and an old Pair of Shoes. His Owner is desired to pay Charges, and take him away.
RICHARD BARNETT, Jailer.
TAKEN up, in Buckingham , on Fifpond Creek , a WHITE HORSE about four Feet four Inches high, has black Spots on his Breast as if he had been galled, and one on his near Hamstring, seems to have been cut with a Crupper, paces, trots, and gallops, appears to be old, and is branded on the near Buttock W with a C at the Top. Pofed, and appraised to 5l.
(||) JOHN LEE.
TAKEN up, in Prince William , a WHITE GELDING about twelve Hands high, has no Mark to be perceived, except a Crop on the left Ear, Part of a roached Mane, a Switch Tail, trots and gallops, and appears to be between nine and ten Years old.
(||) JAMES ANDERSON.
TAKEN up, in Amberst , a RED HEIFER marked with a Swallow Fork in the right Ear, and a Slit in the left Ear. Pofed, and appraised to one Pound.
(||) HUGH ROSE.
TAKEN up, in Lunenburg , a young SORREL MARE with a Star in her Forehead, but neither dockt nor branded. The Owner may have her upon applying to
(||) BENJAMIN CLARK.
TAKEN up, in Buckingham , on the Branches of Fifpond Creek , a BLACK HORSE about four Feet seven or eight Inches high, appears to be old, is shod before, his Mane hangs on both Sides, is gray under the Foretop, has some Saddle Spots, is marked with Geers as if done in a Waggon, paces some, but trots and gallops in general, has the Appearance of a Brand resembling WH, and a Bell on marked. . . . and a round Buckle to the Collar. Pofed, and appraised to 3l.
(||) NEHEMIAH EVATT.
THURSDAY, December 4, 1766. ORDERED , that the Clerks of the several County Courts in this Colony do transmit to the Clerk of this House, in the first Part of every Meeting of the General Assembly, a List of the Titables in their Counties, containing the Names of such Titables; and that they transmit also, at the same Time, a List of the publick Charges of their respective Counties. Ordered, that the Clerk of this House do cause the same to be published in the Virginia Gazette .
By the House of Burgesses. (4) GEORGE WYTHE, C. H. B.
Just ARRIVED from London, in the Ship Bland , Captain Danby ,
AN Affortment of DRUGS and MEDICINES, to be SOLD by the Subscriber, by Wholesale and Retail, at a moderate Advance, for ready Money. Most of the Patent Medicines, such as Norris's Drops , Keyser's Pills , &c. &c.
ALEXANDER GORDON.
PETERSBURG, November 15, 1773. FOR CHARTER , the SHIP Canadian , Captain Abbott , Burthen about 400 Hogfheads, or 10,000 Bushels. For Terms apply to
JOHN TABB.
THE Royal Exchange , Thomas Woodford Master, lying at Bermuda Hundred , will take in Tobacco, on Liberty of Consignment to London, at eight Pounds Sterling a Tun. Orders will be received by Mr. Patrick Coutts , at Richmond , or on Board the said Ship. Great Part of her Cargo is already engaged.
T. WOODFORD.
A YOUNG GENTLEMAN , who has lately taken his Batchelor's Degree at Nassau Hall College, in New Jersey , would be glad of Employment as a PRIVATE or PUBLICK TUTOR, and will wait on any Gentleman, on Notice being given by Letter directed to Mr. William Carr , Postmaster at Dumfries , if the Terms proposed are approved.
BERKELEY, November 15, 1773.
A good COOPER , who can be well recommended, will meet with Encouragement by applying to
BENJAMIN HARRISON, Junior.
To be SOLD upon the Premises, on Friday the 3d of December, to the highest Bidder, by Virtue of a Decree of Pittsylvania Court,
THE LAND and PLANTATION whereon Colonel Archibald Gordon formerly lived, in the lower End of said County, containing 585 Acres more or less, esteemed one of the best Plantations in that Part of the County, has valuable Improvements, and an exceeding fine Range. One Hundred and thirty five Pounds of the Purchase Money to be paid on the Day of Sale, and the Time of Credit for the Balance to be then agreed upon. Any Person, inclined to view the Land, may apply to Mr. Thomas Meredith , living near the Land.
HALIFAX, November 1, 1773. JOHN SMITH.
To be SOLD at Cumberland Town, on Monday the 29th Instant (November)
ALL the HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN FURNITURE of James Underwood , deceased. And on Tuesday the 14th of December, at Landy Richardson's , in Louisa , will be SOLD between thirty and forty Head of fine CATTLE, belonging to the said Estate, at six Months Credit.
Also, on Saturday the 18th of December, will be SOLD at Thomas Underwood's , in Goochland , pursuant to the last Will and Testament of the said James Underwood , deceased, a TRACT of LAND adjoining the said Thomas Underwood , and contains 200 Acres more or less, at twelve Months Credit.
The Purchasers to give Bond and Security to the Executors. RICHARD ADAMS. GEORGE PARKE.
N. B. There will also be SOLD at Cumberland Town , the 29th Instant ( November ) a forty Hogfhead FLAT, and one of 25 Hogfheads, HORSES, CATTLE, HOGS, and sundry other Articles belonging to Adams and Underwood , at six Months Credit, on giving Bond and Security to
R. A. Surviving Partner.
To be SOLD on Tuesday the 14th of December, if fair, otherwise next fair Day, at the late Dwelling-house of Colonel William Macon, in New Kent, VERY valuable Stock of CATTLE, SHEEP, HOGS, and HORSES, all the Crop of CORN and FODDER, some HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN FURNITURE, with several other Articles. Twelve Months Credit will be allowed, the Purchasers giving Bond and Security, to carry Interest from the Date, if not punctually paid.
(2||) WILLIAM MACON, } Executors. HENRY MACON, }
To be SOLD on Thursday the 9th of December, at Burwell's Ferry, if fair, otherwise next fair Day,
ALL the personal Estate of Mr. Samuel Coke , deceased, consisting of a HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN FURNITURE, HORSES, a SEINE very little worn, CARPENTERS TOOLS, and sundry other Things. Credit will be allowed for all Sums above forty Shillings until the first of October next, the Purchasers giving Bond and Security to
JUDITH COKE, Administratrix.
N. B. Any Person inclining to rent a GRIST MILL convenient to Williamburg , known by the Name of Coke's Mill , may know the Terms at the above Sale, or of Mr. John Brown in Williamburg .
To be SOLD on Wednesday the 22d of December, at the House of Mrs. Lucy Dixon, in Frederickburg,
A TRACT of LAND in Gulpeper County , about six Miles above Germania , known by the Name of Jones's , containing about 400 Acres, upon which is a Dwelling-House and sundry other Buildings lately built. Likewise eighteen valuable SLAVES. Credit will be allowed till the 10th of June , upon Bond with approved Security, to carry Interest from the Date, if not punctually paid, to
(4) JOHN DIXON, Administrator. THOMAS DIXON, Mortgagee.
N. B. I desire those who bought Negroes of me last December to take Notice that their Bonds become due the 15th of next Month, and beg they will not fail to discharge them at the Time of the above intended Sale. A Compliance with this Request will save them a Year's Interest, and the Consequence of Neglect will be a Suit immediately against every Person failing.
JOHN DIXON.
ALL Persons indebted to the Partnership of Purdie & Dixon are hereby requested to make immediate Payment, as every account which remains unsettled after the ensuing Court will be put into the Hands of an Attorney. Mr. William Russell will collect the Debts due to the said Partnership in York and James City Counties. PURDIE & DIXON.
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, the 3d Thursday in December, upon the Premises, in Obedience to a Decree of Gloucester Court,
ABOUT 400 Acres of good CORN and TOBACCO LAND , pleasantly situated on Carter's Creek in the said County, adjoining the Seat of Lewis Burwell , Esq; There is upon it a comfortable Dwelling-house with several Offices, and a good Apple Orchard. Credit will be allowed the Purchaser till the first of May next, on giving Bond and approved Security to the Sheriff.
N. B. At the same Time will be SOLD Mr. Zachariah Row's Right, in Reversion, to the Dower Slaves now in Possession of Mrs. Rebecca Row , Widow of the late Mr. Benjamin Row , deceased, on the above Terms of Payment.
RUN away from the Subscriber, near Wil- liamsburg , about a Fortnight ago, a Negro Man named JACK , of a very small Size, about forty Years old, and has lost his left Eye. Whoever delivers him to me shall have 10s. Reward, besides what the Law allows.
ANDREW ESTAVE.
TAKEN up, in Prince William , near Joseph Florence's Ordinary, a SORREL MARE about thirteen Hands and a Half high, her left Foot is white behind, has some white Spots about her Neck and Shoulders, branded on the near Shoulder D, and on the near Buttock G. Also a SORREL HORSE COLT one Year old this Spring, belonging to the said Mare. They are pofed, and appraised to 3l. 10s.
(||) WILLIAM FOSTER, Junior.
TAKEN up, in Goochland , a BLACK MARE about four Feet ten Inches high, seven or eight Years old, and branded on the near Buttock 5. Pofed, and appraised to 20l.
(||) DEVERIX JARRATT.
TAKEN up, in Louisa , a BLACK MARE eleven or twelve Years old, four Feet eight Inches high, a Scar on her right Thigh, some white Hairs in her Tail, branded on the near Shoulder C, and on the Buttock B. Pofed, and appraised to 3l.
(||) GEORGE ADAMS.
PORT. ROYAL, October 10, 1773.
THOSE indebted by open Account, to the Store lately kept by the Subscriber, in Port Royal, are requested to come and settle, pay off, or give Bond, as he will be under the Necessity to order Suit on all Accounts which shall be open after November. He has for SALE 740l. Sterling worth of DRY GOODS, which he will barter for Tobacco, Corn, Wheat, West India Goods, or sell on Credit, at a very low Advance, the Purchaser giving Bond and approved Security.
(4) ROBERT GILCHRIST.
Just IMPORTED in the Ships Neptune and Bland, and to be SOLD at John Carter's Store, in Williamsburg, the following Goods, viz.
SUPERFINE and coarse Broadcloths, German Serges, Beaver and Burk Coating, Dutch Blankets, Halfticks, Osnabrugs, Rolls, fine and coarse Irish Linens, Damask Tablecloths and Napkins, Cambricks, Lawns, Muffins, Mens Buckskin Gloves, Womens and Girls Thread and Leather Gloves, Net Hoods, Glove Knots, black Catgut and Patent Net, black and white spotted Blond, Cotton Threads, India Ditto, Flos Silk for working Catgut, white and black Thread Edgings and Lace, Womens white and coloured Satin Pumps, Womens and Girls Calimanco Pumps, Childrens Purple and red Morocco Leather Pumps, Mens and Boys fine and coarse Hars, Ladies Riding Hats trimmed, Hair Brooms, painted Hearth Brooms, Plate Baskets, brown Copper Tea Kitchens, Copper Tea Kettles and Trivers, Coal Scoops, Cinder Shovels, round Iron Fenders, square Iron Chaffing Dishes, Locks and Hinges o fall Sorts, Glue, Sets of Bed Screws, wooden and Bras Casters, Bras Door Knockers, Bras and wooden Screw Pullies, yellow and white Chair Nails, Bras Chaffing Dishes, House Bells, Scales and Weights, Jar Raisins, Currants, Almonds, Figs, white and brown Sugar Candy, Barley Sugar, Corlander Comfits, white and coloured Carraway Comfits, candied Orange Peel and Chips, Mace, Cloves, Cinnamon, Nutmegs, white Ginger, Pepper, Allspice, Anchovies, Capers, Olives, India Mangoes, pickled Barberrys and Samphire, Linseed Oil, white Lead, Lampblack, Verdigris, Dutch Pink, Umber, Vermilion, Prussian Blue, Alum, Brimstone, Rotten Stone, Powder Blue, Fig Blue, Starch, Saltpetre, best Ballad Oil, Sacks of Salt, Playing Cards, old Gin, Hardham's best Strasburg , No. 9, Bohea and very fine Hyson Tea, Chocolate, Coffee, Mustard, &c. &c.
For SALE, At our STORE in PORTSMOUTH, Madeira, Tenerif, St. Michael's, Calcarvella, and Malaga WINES. Loaf and Muscovado SUGARS. West India and Northward RUM. Jamaica and old Barbados CANE SPIRIT. COFFEE. PIMENTA. CHOCOLATE. WHEAT FANS. MARBLE SLABS. A few HOLLAND made IRON CHESTS. And a Quantity of fresh South Carolina RICE, and SOLE LEATHER. INGLIS & LONG.
NORFOLK, October 25, 1773.
FOR CHARTER, the SNOW Hopewell, John Aylett Master, Burthen about 340 Hogfheads, or 10,000 Bushels. For Terms apply to (tf) GREENWOOD, RITSON, & MARSH.
For SALE, THE LOTS near the Capitol in Williamsburg, held in Coparcenary by the Orphans of the late John Palmer, whereon is an exceeding good Brick House two Stories high, also a small wooden One, very convenient for a Gentleman's Study, with two Rooms, all other necessary Outhouses, and a Garden. The Payments shall be made easy to the Purchaser, and a good Title when Possession is given, which will be on the 1st of January. LEWIS TYLER.
DUMFRIES, November 7, 1773.
To be SOLD at Cockpit Point, on Wednesday the 1st of December, for ready Cash, by the Administrator, all the ESTATE of Travers Downman, deceased. There are several very likely Slaves, and some of them are remarkable good Watermen.
To be RENTED for a Life, or Term of Years, as may be agreed upon, or the Interest of my LEASE to be SOLD,
HOG ISLAND FERRY and ORDINARY , to which there is a fine Plantation, in excellent Order. For the Crop of Wheat now growing thereon I will oblige myself to allow to a Purchaser one Hundred Pounds; but if I leave the Place, I shall reserve the Crop to myself. As much Money as I have received in twenty Days by the Premises will satisfy me for the annual Rent.
H. U. ST. GEORGE.

POETS CORNER.
An ADDRESS to the GOUT, on its first Visit, by a young Country Patient.
WELCOME! thou friendly Earnest of Fourscore, Promise of Wealth, that hast alone the Power, T' attend the Rich, unenvy'd by the Poor; Thou that dost Esculapius deride, And o'er his Gallipots in Triumph ride; Thou that art us'd to attend the Royal Throne, And underprop the Head that bears the Crown; Thou that dost oft in Privy Council wait, And guard from drowsy Sleep the Eyes of State; Thou that upon the Bench art mounted high, And warn'st the Judges not to tread awry; Thou that dost oft from pamper'd Prelate's Toe Emphatically urge the Pains below; Thou that art ever Half the City's Grace, And add'st to solemn Doodles solemn Pace; Thou that art us'd to sit on Lady's Knee, To feed on Jellies, and to drink cold Tea; Thou that art ne'er from Velvet Slippers free; Whence comes this uncaught Honour unto me? Whence does this mighty Condescension flow, To visit my poor Tabernacle?—Oh! As Jove vouchsaf'd on Ida's Top, 'tis said, At poor Philemon's Cot to take a Bed, Pleas'd with the fare but hospitable Feast, Jove bade him ask, and granted his Request; So do thou grant (for thou'rt of Race divine, Begot of Venus by the God of Wine) My humble Suit, and either give me Store To entertain thee, or ne'er see me more!
To be SOLD to the highest Bidder, at Dumfries , on the 10th of December , a NEW SCHOONER of about 1200 Bushels Burthen. Three Months Credit will be given, and undoubted Security required. The Bond to carry Interest from the Date, if not paid at the Time. (2)
STOLEN out of the Subscriber's Shop, or given to a wrong Person by Mistake, a SILVER WATCH with a Silver Dial Plate, Maker's Name Hipkins, London, No. 3723 . I should be obliged to any Master Watchmaker who finds the said Watch, and any Person bringing it to me shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward. JAMES GEDDY. N. B. Just IMPORTED, and SELLING at the lowest Price, an Assortment of PLATE and JEWELLERY, consisting of Table and Tea Spoons; Tureens, Punch, and Pap Lades; Paste Shoe, Knee, and Neck Buckles; Corals, Buttons in Gold and Silver, Seals in Ditto, Paste and Crystal Earrings, Lockets plain and ornamented, plated Spurs, Ditto Buckles, Paste Pins and Combs, Watch Chains and Keys, Brooches, Rings, &c. &c. J. G.
WILLIAMSBURG, November 7, 1773. RUN away last Sunday Morning, from the Subscriber, an English Servant Man named SAMUEL JOHNSON, of a middle Size, thin Vlage, has dark Hair tied behind, stoops a little in his Shoulders, is much subject to Liquor, and at those Times very talkative and fond of singing; he had on a light coloured Cloth Coat and Jacket, blue gray Breeches much dusted with Flower, a black Handkerchief round his Neck, his Hat cocked, and pretty long before. He is a Baker by Trade, pretends to be well acquainted with the City of London, and says he has been in the East Indies. Whoever brings the said Servant to me, or secures him so that I get him again, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS Reward, and all reasonable Expenses paid. JOHN DRAPER. N. B. All Masters of Vessels are forewarned from carrying him out of the Colony.
RUN away from the Subscribers, at Mr. Lewis Ball's, the 14th of October, at Night, five Convict Servant Men, who were taken the Day before from on Board the Taylor , at Four Mile Creek , viz. OLIVER MARTIN, 22 Years of Age, five Feet ten Inches high, of a brown Complexion, born in Ireland, is pert and looks well, and by Trade a House Carpenter and Joiner; he had on an old brown Coat, and red Waistcoat and Trousers. JONATHAN BOOTHMAN, an Englishman, 23 Years of Age, five Feet five Inches high, of a dark brown Complexion, and a thievish Look; he had on a white Cotton Waistcoat, and Trousers. PAUL PRESTON, a Pennsylvanian, thirty Years of Age, five Feet high, of a sandy Complexion, and good Countenance; he had on a blue Waistcoat, and black Everlasting Breeches. JOHN THOMPSON, born in New England, 35 Years of Age, five Feet four Inches high, of a black Complexion, and surly Look; he had on a blue Waistcoat, another of Cotton, black Breeches, and Trousers. JOHN GAGAHAGAN, an Irishman, five Feet four Inches high, 43 Years of Age, of a black Complexion, is a well looking Man, and by Trade a Grocer; he had on a light coloured Coat, blue Waistcoat, and Leather Breeches. The four first are Seamen. Whoever takes up and secures them, or any of them, so that we may get them again, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward for each, if taken within twenty Miles of Richmond, and if farther, FORTY SHILLINGS for each. SAMPSON & GEORGE MATHEWS. N. B. All Masters of Vessels are hereby forewarned from harbouring or carrying either of the said Convicts out of the Colony, at their Peril.
TAKEN up, in Buckingham, a DARK BAY MARE supposed to be about ten Years old next Spring, about four Feet two Inches high, has a Star in her Forehead, a Snip on her Nose, is Crest fallen, a natural Pacer, and branded on the near Shoulder I. Potted, and appraised to 5l. (||) JAMES MEREDITH.
For SALE, A VALUABLE TRACT of LAND lying in Chesterfield , containing 1800 Acres, with a fine Apple Orchard, a great Quantity of Meadows and Marshes, with fine Fishing and Fowling. It does not exceed five Miles to Petersburg , nor six to Osborne's . A TRACT of LAND lying in the aforesaid County, containing 1600 Acres, which is well timbered, and lies level. At a very small Expense may be erected upon it a fine Grist Mill, on Swift Creek . It is convenient to Petersburg and Osborne's , not exceeding six Miles to either. I will sell this Tract of Land altogether, or in Parcels, as may best suit the Purchaser. Also a TRACT of LAND in Amelia , containing 1250 Acres, with a very good Dwellinghouse, Kitchen, and all other necessary Outhouses, a fine Apple and Peach Orchard, an exceeding good Grist Mill, and the Plantation is in good Order for Cropping. Any Person, inclineable to purchase the above Tracts of Land, may know the Terms by applying to the Subscriber in Chesterfield . (6) JOHN RANDOLPH.
NORFOLK, October 20, 1773. FOR CHARTER, to any Part of Europe, the SHIP Sparling , William Priestman Master, Burthen about 500 Hogheads, or 12,000 Bushels. For Terms apply to (5) JOHN LAWRENCE, & Co. Who have for Sale a Quantity of Liverpool SALT .
THE Subscriber has a neat Assortment of EUROPEAN and INDIA GOODS for Sale, which he will lump off cheap for Cash, Bills of Exchange, or Tobacco; and will give long Credit, if desired, upon Bond with Interest, and approved Security. (5||) G. MASON.
THE Subscriber has just opened TAVERN in the Town of Newcastle , in the new House lately built by Mr. Charles Tinsley for that Purpose, and well adapted for the Business, having an extraordinary good Pasture very convenient to it. All who will favour him with their Custom may depend they shall be well accommodated, and great Care taken of their Horses. (tf) DAVID CLARKE.
KING & QUEEN, October 10, 1773. THE Subscriber, from several Years Experience of the very bad Management of Overseers, together with his own Want of a proper Knowledge in the Business of either the Farmer or Planter, though in Possession of Lands extremely well calculated for raising Wheat, Tobacco, or Indian Corn, has come to the Resolution to offer for SALE the following TRACTS of LAND, all of which may be entered upon at Christmas , namely, That beautiful Seat and Plantation on Mattaponi River , in King and Queen , whereon John Robinson , Esquire (late Treasurer) lived, containing 1381 Acres of high Land, and about 650 Acres of very valuable Marsh, also a very good geared Water Grist Mill in proper Repair, the Toll of which maintains near sixty in Family, besides several Horses, stands within 100 Yards of the River, and, at a small Expense, may be constructed into a very convenient Merchant Mill. The Improvements on this Seat, I am credibly informed, cost better than 5000l. and in Point of Convenience, Taste, or Situation, is exceeded but by very few in the Colony, and so well known that a particular Description is unnecessary. The Marsh is remarkably rich and high, and the Subscriber, intending to reclaim the Whole, has already done a considerable Length of very substantial Bank; a good Quantity of inland Marsh has been for some Time laid dry and in Meadow, and, from the Trial made, he is well satisfied it is practicable, at a much less Expense than is generally thought to attend Works of that Nature.
A Tract of very valuable Land in King William , formerly the Property of Colonel Bernard Moore , and known by the Name of Woromonkoe , containing 1780 Acres, and running near three Miles on Pamunkey River ; the Soil is remarkably good for Wheat, Tobacco, or Corn, and is generally allowed to be as valuable and convenient a Plantation, for the Number of Acres, as any in the lower Parts of the Country. There are on this Tract a Dwellinghouse seventy Feet long and twenty wide, in which Colonel Moore formerly lived, with many good and convenient Outhouses, and very fine Peach Orchards. There also is, belonging to and adjoining this Land, a good Water Mill lately rebuilt on a fine and constant Stream sufficient to carry two Pair of Stones in the driest Times, situated between the Branches of York River , not above a Mile from either, and is capable of being easily made a very valuable Merchant Mill, Mattaponi being navigable up to it. When the late Speaker's Administrators advertised some Part of this Tract, in two Parcels, they say of the lower Part, containing 586 Acres, "It abounds with such a Quantity of White Oak, that it is thought 1000l. Worth of Plank and Timber may be got off it." See the Gazettes, May 10, 1770.
Another Tract on Roanoke , in Mecklenburg, Virginia , known by the Name of Black's Ferry , 65 Miles from Petersburg , about 250 Acres of which are very rich low Grounds well adapted for raising good Tobacco, a fine natural Meadow, and good Range for all Sorts of Stock. There is, at this Place, a publick Ferry established by Act of Assembly, already very profitable, and promises to be as much so as any on the River, being thought the nearest, from Appomattox , to the large Tobacco Settlements in Bute County , and other Places in North Carolina . On the two first Plantations there are and will be put in the Ground 250 Bushels of Wheat, and as the Mills do more than maintain all the Hands and Horses necessary to be kept on these Plantations, all the Corn made thereon will be always for Market. There are large Stocks of all Sorts at all the three Places, which the Purchasers may have, with Corn, Fodder, Hay, and most Sorts of Plantation Utensils. The Terms of Sale are, one Eighth of the Consideration Money next Christmas , when Deeds are passed and Possession given, another Eighth the April Term following, and the remaining three Fourths to be paid in three annual Payment, without Interest, upon Bond and Security being given to
WILLIAM BLACK. (4) THE Subscriber begs Leave to inform the Publick that he has got an extraordinary good PAINTER, who understands his Business as well as any Man in the Colony. He is a good Limner, Landscape Painter, &c. and an excellent Hand at painting all Sorts of Signs, Coats of Arms, and Ciphers on Carriages. He can paint any Kind of Pictures as well, and as much to the Life, as those imported from England . All those who want such Painting may depend on having it done in the best and most expeditious Manner, by applying to me in Newcastle . (tf) CHARLES TINSLEY.
Pursuant to the Will of Mr. John Smith, deceased, will be SOLD, on Friday the 3d of December, at his late Plantation in King William ,
A VALUABLE Stock of Horses, Cattle, Hogs, Sheep, a large Crop of Corn, Fodder, and Plantation Utensils. And on Tuesday, the 7th of the same Month, will be SOLD, upon the Premises, a very valuable TRACT of LAND known by the Name of Pickensock , lying in Henrico , situated on the Brook Swamp , about four Miles from Richmond , and contains, by an old Survey, 200 Acres, 100 of which are very rich well timbered low Grounds drained by an extraordinary Piece of Dam Work, and the Place is in good Order for Cropping, having a sufficient Quantity of Wheat now sowed upon it. Likewise all Kinds of Stock, together with the Crop of Corn, Fodder, and Plantation Utensils. And on Tuesday the 21st of December will be SOLD, on the Premises, a TRACT of rich and well timbered LAND containing above 2000 Acres, and lies in Goobland , on James River , near the Mouth of the Great Bird , and opposite Elk Island . There is upon this Land a Plantation sufficient to work sixteen Hands, and the Soil is very suitable for Tobacco, Wheat, and Corn. For the Convenience of Purchasers it will be divided into several Lots, before the Day of Sale. At the same Time and Place will be SOLD 91 valuable SLAVES, fifteen of whom belong to the Estate of Mr. Joseph Smith, deceased, likewise a large Stock of Horses, Cattle, Hogs, and Sheep, with the Crop of Corn, Fodder, and Plantation Utensils. One Half of the Purchase Money for the Lands to be paid the 1st of May, and the Balance twelve Months after that Time. Credit for the Slaves, Stocks, &c. will be allowed till the 1st of July, the Purchaser giving Bond and Security, which is to carry Interest from the Date, if not punctually paid. (10) WILLIAM ANDERSON, Executor of John Smith, And Administrator of Joseph Smith. N. B. If it should rain on any of the above mentioned Days, the Publick may depend the Sale will be the next fair Day. There will be forty SLAVES more SOLD in Goobland , at the Bird Plantation , opposite to Elk Island , on the above mentioned Day (the 21st of December) for whom the Purchaser, if required, may have longer Credit. And on Wednesday, the 1st of December, will be SOLD, at the late Mr. John Smith's Plantation in Hanover , all the Stock of HORSES, CATTLE, SHEEP, and HOGS, on Credit till the 1st of July.
W O O L L E N S. JUST IMPORTED in the Kingston Packet , Joseph Turner Master, a few Bales of WOOLLENS, consisting of low priced BROADCLOTHS, DUFFILS, FRIEZES, with suitable Trimmings; a few Bales of DUTCH BLANKETS, also a Quantity of SEINE TWINE; which I will sell on reasonable Terms, for ready Money or short Credit. (tf) JOSHUA STORRS.
NORFOLK, September 23, 1773. WE have lately imported a Quantity of EUROPEAN GOODS, in small assorted Packages, which we will sell at a low Advance, for Cash or short Credit; namely, KENDAL COTTONS, SADDLERY, IRISH LINENS, OSNABRUGS, low priced HATS, CHECKS, stamped COTTONS, SUITS of CLOTHES with TRIMMINGS, RUSSIA LINEN, DUFFILS, &c. We have also for Sale, a Quantity of Cadiz and Lamatta SALT , GINGER, PLMENTA, and choice Lisbon WINE in Quarter Casks. (tf) GREENWOOD, RITSON, & MARSH.
For SALE, sundry Tracts of LAND, in Orange County, North Carolina , namely,
FIVE Hundred and thirteen Acres on Dan River , formerly the Property of George Lumpkins , has on it convenient Houses, good Orchards, and a good Quantity of fine low Grounds. 147 Acres on Hagan's Creek , on which is a remarkable good Seat for a Mill, and is convenient to the above Tract. 320 Acres on Mill Creek , which formerly belonged to Abraham Miles , has on it some Improvements, and is good Land for Hemp or Tobacco. 270 Acres on North Hico River , which also belonged to Abraham Miles , and is exceedingly good Land. Also one Tract of Land in this Colony of 25 Acres, being an Island in Dan River, Pittsylvania County , which is said to be the best Fishing Place on that River. The above Lands are about 140 Miles from the Falls of Appomattox . For a more particular Description of them any Person, inclining to purchase, may be informed by applying to Mr. Roger Atkinson, or Mr. John Jones, at Petersburg . I shall be in Williamsburg at the November Meeting, and will there let such as want to buy know the Price for the Whole, or any separate Parcel, and allow a reasonable Credit. Bond, with approved Security, will be required at the Time Deeds are executed. (9) CHARLES YATES, Attorney in Fact for the Assignees of Younger, Wilkinson, & Co. FREDERICKSBURG, September 15, 1773.
WILLIAMSBURG, September 10, 1773. COMMITTED to the publick Jail, from Cumberland , a Runaway Negro Man called TOM, five Feet ten Inches high, remarkably black, his Face much scarified with his Country Marks, both Ears bored, his right with four Holes and his left five, appears to be upwards of forty Years old, and cannot speak to be understood, had on a Crocus Shirt and Trousers. His Owner is desired to take him away and pay Charges. (12) PETER PELHAM.
TO BE SOLD, FIVE Hundred and fifty Acres of LAND in the County of Charles City , with a convenient Dwellinghouse and other Improvements. Two Hundred and twenty Acres, in the same County, pleasantly situated on James River . Two Thousand five Hundred and twenty Acres in the County of Cumberland , commonly known by the Name of Saint James's . And one Thousand four Hundred and twenty one Acres in the Counties of Goobland and Cumberland , on both Sides of James River , opposite to Elk Island . The above TRACTS of LAND were of the Estate of the late John Wayles, deceased, devised to the Subscribers, and are now offered for Sale. Persons disposed to purchase may be informed of the Terms, on Application to any one of the Subscribers; and the Times of Payment will be made easy, on giving Bond and Security to
THOMAS JEFFERSON. FRANCIS EPPES. HENRY SKIPWITH. (tf) W O O L L E N S. THE Subscriber has now upon Hand several Bales of coarse Woolens properly assorted for a Store, from 60 to 80l. Sterling Value, also a large Quantity of COARSE CLOTHS and TRIMMINGS, in small Bales, from 3s. 6d. to 12s. Sterling a Yard, which he intends selling by the Bale, or retailing by the Piece. He expects more coarse Woolens, of all Sorts, in very soon. He sells at a low Advance, for Cash or short Credit. Any Person applying to him, at Mr. John Woodside's in Norfolk , or at the General Courts, may depend on being served to Satisfaction. (tf) JOHN STONEY.
For SALE, immediately, altogether, or to any Number of Persons that will agree on a Division among themselves, TWELVE HUNDRED ACRES of LAND, in Suffex , one Mile below the Courthouse, and joining Nottoway River for about a Mile, which affords Plenty of Fish, and makes near 100 Acres of low Ground well stocked with Cypress and other Timber; in the Banks are Plenty of Shells very good for Lime. Great Part of the high Land is rich, on which there is a pretty Situation for a House, and sufficient cleared for ten or twelve Hands to cultivate Grain on. Mr. Clements, Mr. Homes, or Mr. Balsfure, will show the Lands; and for Terms apply to David Rofs, Esquire, Merchant at Petersburg . (tf) J. SYME.
NEWCASTLE, July 14, 1773. THE Subscribers have on Hand between six and seven Hundred Pounds Sterling Worth of EUROPEAN and EAST INDIA GOODS, which they will dispose of at a low Advance, by Wholesale, and make the Terms of Payment convenient to the Purchaser. We request the Favour of all those indebted to us to come and settle their Accounts immediately, by Bond or Payment, otherwise they may be assured their Accounts will be put into an Attorney's Hands, without Respect to Persons. (tf) JOHNSON & TINSLEY.
TO BE SOLD, And may be entered on immediately, A VALUABLE Tract of LAND in Brunswick , containing about 1000 Acres, of which about 100 Acres are cleared. On the Plantation is an exceeding good Dwellinghouse, underpinned with Brick, with three Brick Chimneys, a Kitchen with a Brick Chimney, and all other Outhouses necessary for a Family and Cropping, all new built; also a very fine Apple and Peach Orchard. The Land lies within twelve Miles of Hick's Ford , and joins the Road to Eaton's Ferry . A good Title will be made the Purchaser, and the Terms may be known by applying to the Subscriber, at Cabin Point . (tf) ADAM FLEMING.
YORK Town, June 9, 1773. THE Subscribers being very solicitous to comply with the Will of their Testator, the late Honourable William Nelson, desire that all Persons who were indebted to him will endeavour to make as speedy Payments as possible. Those who have Accounts open on his Books, and who cannot immediately discharge the Balances, are desired to give their Bonds. This Request is the more necessary, as most of the Legacies bequeathed by the Testator are to be paid in Sterling Money, and he has directed that his younger Sons Fortunes shall be placed out at Interest upon undoubted Securities, so soon as it can be done. Those who have any Demands are desired to make them immediately known. THOMAS NELSON. THOMAS NELSON, Junior. HUGH NELSON. RO. C. NICHOLAS. (tf)
TO BE SOLD, ABOUT fourteen Thousand Acres of exceeding good LAND in the County of Pittsylvania . For Terms apply to Mr. Hugh Rose of Amberst , who will treat with any Person inclineable to purchase, and be empowered to make a legal Title. CAROLINE, May 1, 1773. (tf) THOMAS LOMAX.
ALL Persons may be supplied with this PAPER at 12s. 6d. a Year, and have ADVERTISEMENTS (of a moderate Length) inserted in it for 3s. the first Week, and 2s. each Week after. All Sorts of PRINTING WORK done at this Office in the neatest Manner, with Care and Expedition.