The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg, Va.), 1774-09-01 00:00:00

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August 18, 1774. CLEMENTINA RIND.
To general GAGE.
SIR, THE inhabitants of Massachusetts Bay had nothing to fear from your appointment to the government of their province, after the administrations of Bernard and Hutchinson. They had nothing to hope from your marriage, and the birth of your children in America, after witnessing the treachery of your immediate predecessor, who was a native of Boston. They hoped for a respite from their grievances only from your want of abilities and ill temper. If, in the last of those qualities, you have disappointed them, they have reason to rejoice that in the former you have far exceeded their expectations.
I shall not ask your excellency whether you enquired into the legality of those acts of parliament you came over to enforce before you accepted of your new commission.
I shall take it for granted that you are a papist in politics, and that the will of your sovereign is the only line of your duty. Remember, sir, before we proceed any further, that political and natural justice are the same. Heaven itself cannot sanctify a violation of the laws of political equity. A common highwayman is a white-robed saint, compared with the pageant of royalty, who perpetrates a robbery upon the property and liberty of a whole province.
One of the first acts of your administration was to publish a proclamation, prohibiting a subscription to a non-consumption agreement of British goods till the late unjust acts of parliament were repealed. The Americans were struck with horror at this well known ensign of arbitrary power; and even your friends, who had attempted to persuade us that a non-importation of British goods would not affect the manufacturers of Britain, blushed at your folly, when you declared that the solemn league and covenant would be hurtful to "the commercial interests of Great Britain." They looked upon union in sentiment in the enemies to be necessary to defeat the designs of the friends of America, and they refused to praise the candour you shewed, at the expence of your understanding.
Your proclamation of pardon to the deserters from the regiments lately arrived from Britain and Ireland confirmed the agreeable tidings that the remains of British and Irish virtue were to be found among common soldiers. The officers under your command, in every part of
America, received the news with very different emotions. They were ashamed of your generalship, and many of them were obliged to beg forgiveness of public companies for charging the report of the desertion of the soldiers upon a spirit of faction and falsehood in Boston.
But what shall I say to your last proclamation for encouraging virtue and religion? Your fawning addressers are surely inexcusable for not celebrating your piety, as well as your abilities. Yes, you were new born in the temple of St. James's, and his majesty was the instrument of your conversion. Your officers were so little accustomed to the strains of your pious edict in a camp that they declared it a burlesque upon your excellency, till they read at the bottom of it the insignia of your name. Permit me only to remind you that the puritans in New England require other proofs of the authenticity of your religion than fire and sword. Withdraw your troops and ships of war, and trust to the silent operation of the more gentle, but not less powerful, weapons of truth. Do not confound the laws of God and man. The religion of the Americans consists in believing that it is impious to obey such laws as are contrary to the eternal laws of justice. Unless you adopt more pacific measures to inculcate piety and virtue in your government, you will soon have reason to complain with the prophet of old: "Who hath believed my report, and to whom is the arm of the ministry revealed?"
We have been told that you consider the opposition to the British parliament in America as fomented only by three or four factious men in Boston. This, sir, is the Shibolet at St. James's. But you ought to know better, after reading the resolves of every province, city, town, and county, on the continent. There are no such reservoirs of public virtue in America as there are of corruption in Britain. We are all alike charged with the fire of patriotism, where it has not been conveyed off by a contract with commissioners, officers, aspiring clergymen, and other base-metal coin. You learned your catechism in a school where patriotism is struck off from the catalogue of political virtues. But beware how you yield to this alteration in the articles of our constitution. There is a gradation in infidelity as well as in practice; and the same man who is now taught to believe that there is no virtue in serving or loving his country may be taught to believe that there is no virtue in serving or loving his king. Should this barrier of loyalty be broken down, be assured, sir, that guards will in a little time become useless appendages of courts and head quarters.
I shall conclude by calling upon you in the name of a loyal country to renounce your commission. You are disgracing our sovereign by your lawless acts of power. I conjure you by the sufferings of the town of Boston, by the resentment of the whole province, by the accumulating rage of the whole continent, by the distresses which await the poor people in Great Britain from a general non-importation agreement throughout the colonies, by the danger of a rupture between the two countries, and by all the calamities of a civil war, to renounce your commission. You may redeem the peace and happiness of your family by such a step, but you can gain nothing by the most strict compliance with your instructions, or the most arbitrary exertions of a passionate temper; for after all you have done, or can do, your services will partake of the feebleness of your understanding, and will be lost in the remembrance of the services of Bernard and Hutchinson.
JUNIUS AMERICANUS.
To the GOVERNOR of MASSACHUSETTS BAY.
May it please your excellency, YOUR proclamation of the 29th ult. which you thought fit to issue, "in tenderness to the inhabitants of this province, and to the end that none, who may hereafter engage in such dangerous combinations, may plead, in excuse of their conduct, that they were ignorant of the crime in which they were involving themselves," I have carefully perused again and again; and if it were fact that the non-importation and non-consumption agreements, which the several towns in this province are coming into with so great celerity and cheerfulness, were unlawful, and their subscribing the same an unwarrantable, hostile, and traitorous combination, contrary to their allegiance due to the king, and destructive of the lawful authority of the British parliament, and of the peace, good order, and safety, of the community, of high criminality and dangerous consequences to themselves,* all must acknowledge, in this case, that you have acted the part of a very tender, benevolent, and faithful governor, in cautioning, &c. the people against entering into such
* "Fully implying, if not expressly denouncing, the destruction of all that refuse to subscribe those unlawful combinations, tending directly to sedition, civil war, and rebellion, &c." as is most falsely asserted by the Worcester faction.
agreements; but I beg leave to acquaint your excellency that I am not yet convinced that these agreements of non-importation and non-consumption referred to are unlawful and criminal in any age, or in the least contrary to our allegiance to the king; and I persuade myself, that if your excellency, or any other person that is a friend to the British constitution of government, English liberty, the venerable rules of justice, the sacred faith of the king, &c. will condescend coolly to consider the following facts, the same will, and must, be of my opinion, viz.
It is fact that our forefathers, who first came into New England, fled hither from the oppression and persecution of the tyrannic Stuart race.
It is fact that when they arrived here they found this land inhabited by divers nations of aboriginal natives, who were the proprietors and lords of the country.
It is fact that they purchased both the soil and the dominion, or sovereignty, of the country of the natives, and were at the sole cost (without any help from the crown or mother state) in their settlement here, and defence of their purchased country, and jurisdiction in all the Indian wars of long continuance.
It is fact that the several colonies were incorporated into particular distinct states, and became distinct branches of the British empire, by a sacred compact betwixt the king of Great Britain and the several colonies, expressed in their respective charters; in which the king engages his faith to protect us in the enjoyment of all the privileges of his good subjects inhabiting Great Britain, and we engage our allegiance to him as our faithful sovereign.
It is fact that it is a privilege of the inhabitants of Great Britain to tax themselves for the support of government, and to be exempt from all taxation to be imposed on them, by any other state or persons whatsoever, without their own consent; and it is fact that the same privilege is engaged to the colonists by the king, in his sacred compacts.
It is fact that in an empire consisting of divers distinct states, united to one political head by a distinct compact between the said head and each state, each state must have its particular magna charta constitution, or essential form; from whence it follows as true in fact 1. that all these several states are sister states and fellow subjects of the same monarch equally, though one may be called the mother state for something merely circumstantial. 2. that the mother state (so called) has no more right or authority to give and grant the money belonging to any one of the colony states, for the purpose of raising a revenue to his majesty without their consent, than the colony states have to give and grant the money of the mother state without her consent. 3. that if the mother state claims authority over the colony states to tax them at pleasure, without their consent, the mother state does in effect say, that the colony states are not her fellow subjects, but her slaves; to say that we are subjects of the subjects of the king would be a solecism; but to claim authority to tax us without our consent is to claim more than the king claims of his subjects; tyrants claim such authority over their slaves. 4. that if the king violates his sacred faith to, and compact with, any one state of his empire, he discharges the same from their allegiance to him, dismembers them from the empire, and reduces them to a state of nature, so that, in this case, he ceases to be their king, and his governor set over such a colony, as his representative, ceases to have any lawful authority to govern that people, and the people are at liberty to incorporate themselves into an independent state, and to apply to what potentate or states they please for protection, and no state in that empire has any lawful authority to interrupt them in it.
It is fact that the British house of commons, by an act granting certain duties in the British colonies and plantations, for the express purpose of raising a revenue to his majesty, have given and granted our money without our consent; and it is fact that they claim authority to tax the colonies in all cases whatsoever; and has not his majesty given his assent to these acts? And can this be reconciled with his keeping his sacred faith inviolate?
It is fact that the East India company's teas sent to Boston, in consequence of another act of the British parliament to support the extorted revenue, would have returned to the owners without being destroyed here, as well as what was sent to the other colonies, if governor Hutchinson and the consignees had been as prudent and patriotic as the governors and consignees in the other colonies. That the town of Boston did what they could to procure the return of it to the owners, and that it has never been made to appear that so much as one of the inhabitants of Boston had a hand in destroying it! And yet it is fact that the town of Boston, as the capital of the province, has been accused, judged, and condemned unheard, to suffer a very cruel punishment by the British

parliament, for the destruction of those teas, without the least trial according to the rules of justice in all civilized nations, whether protestant, papal, or pagan! It is fact, fir, that the port and harbour of Boston is now blocked up by ships of war, that regular troops are erecting batteries against the town upon the common: By whose order? The British parliament! And did not our king give his assent to this bill? And what is all this short of a formal waging and levying war against this province? It is not a protecting of us in the enjoyment of the privileges of his subjects in Great Britain!
It is fact, fir, that we have all along been as loyal subjects to his Britannic majesty as any he has in his vast empire; that we like the British constitution of government well; that what we have been striving for is only the enjoyment of our charter privileges, and that we deprecate a being totally and finally broken off from the British empire.
It is fact, fir, that the colonies and this province in particular have all along done their quota towards the support and defence of the British empire, not only in a time of war, by supplying the fleets and armies with men; but at all times by our trade and commerce, which, it seems, the mother state of late have looked upon as nothing; therefore, as their ships and troops have beleaguered the capital of this province in a hostile appearance, as though they had in a formal manner declared war against the state, it is highly necessary that we...
It is fact, fir, that we have not so much as a distant thought, considered as a people, to submit to the pretended authority or claims of the mother state to tax the colonies without our consent: We know that we are contending for the rights of men, of Englishmen, and of christians; and though you did not see fit to appoint a day of fasting, in compliance with the united request of both houses of the general assembly, that ministers and people throughout the province might, on the same day, humble themselves before God for our sins and provocations against Heaven, and implore the almighty ruler of the world to heal the wide breach in the British empire; yet we are determined, in secret, in private and public, in our separate congregations for the worship of God, to be addressing the throne of that supreme being, by whom kings reign, and princes decree justice, who is higher than the highest, and does regard, when there is "the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of justice and judgment in a province," who in a signal manner planted, defended, and encreased our fathers, in this land, and has rebuked kings for the sake of his praying people; and we have not the least doubt, our cause being so righteous, but he will arise for our deliverance, after he has sufficiently corrected and humbled us for our sins against Heaven.
Having leave to conclude with the words of a Jewish politician upon divine record, viz. "And now I say unto you, and in proof thereof, let them alone; for if this counsel or this work be of man it will come to nought; but if it be of God, we cannot overthrow it, lest haply we be found against God." Amen.
39. 40. THE VOICE OF ONE CRY.
SAINT CROIX, July 9.
ON the 3d of June, about 5 o'clock in the morning, some small shocks of an earthquake were felt at an Indian village, about 6 leagues from Guatimala, and very near the coast of the south sea, but did then no damage, except alarming the inhabitants. The shocks continued, with trifling intermissions, till 7 o'clock in the evening, when the effects of nature began to break forth in all their terrors: Lightning and thunder were incessant, attended with a heavier rain than was ever known there; the sea rose in such a convulsive manner, that it overflowed the highest banks, and at the same time the land was so agitated by the earthquake, that the village was totally destroyed in a short time, and not a trace of it left. The major part of the inhabitants, on the first appearance of the tempest, had fled towards the city of Guatimala, but found no shelter there; that unhappy place being involved in more misery than where they fled from. The two famous mountains near that city were in a state of the greatest eruption: The one, which emits a liquid fire, and amazing large stones, threw out its most enraged force on the devoted city; the other, which, in a like manner, issues out water, deluged the land about, and was full fraught with destruction. The violent shocks of the earthquake, the lightning, thunder, and rain, made one dreadful scene of confusion, not to be paralleled. This war of nature commenced in its full force about 8 o'clock in the evening, and continued raging till the night of the 7th day, in which time the university, the public courts of justice, the cathedral, the parochial churches, and all the public edifices, were destroyed, either by the earthquake, by the fire and stones from the mountains, or by the impetuosity of the river, which rose above its banks, and bore every thing before it with the greatest violence. Chasms of a great extent were made in the earth, and many whole houses, with numbers of the miserable inhabitants, fell in, and were seen no more. But how can the anguish of the unhappy sufferers be described! The acts of devotion, which their tortured fears prompted them to use, were all in vain; their priests swallowed up, struck dead, or otherwise destroyed, in the very moment of administering absolution. Many appalled by the scene, stood fixed, and received the inevitable death that awaited; those who escaped from the city were encircled with dangers and death; the fields afforded no shelter, the earth was convulsed, as with pain, and the volcanoes and rocks, with which that country abounds, were raging with fire, and throwing out stones of a most prodigious size. On the night of the 7th, about the hour of ten, the mountain raged excessively, the earth shook with great violence, and the thunder encreased: This lasted about 5 minutes, when the whole city of Guatimala was destroyed, and swallowed in a wide chasm; and the fiery earth spread over, in a manner, which soon obscured it from sight. The elements now, as gratified with their prey, calmed most surprisingly: By the noon of the next day every thing was again calm and serene, but the face of the earth was altered, the city was gone, the burning mountain shook in its base, and other rocks sunk with their tops on the earth; the river was parted in many places, and formed into standing pools of a bitter, smoky water, and the fine vale was covered with large stones, and the lava (cooled) which had issued from the mountains. The numbers of people lost are not yet, nor possibly ever will be, really ascertained, as those who may have escaped have not yet been heard of, except the president of the audience, the bishop of the place, and about 170 others, who have providentially escaped to Trinidad, or Sonsonate, about 30 leagues from Guatimala, and about 200 who have arrived here. This event may be considered as one of the most dreadful that ever happened; in its beginning, continuance, and consequences, equally dreadful and tremendous. The vicious lives of the inhabitants of that fated city, and, in fact, of many other cities of Spanish America, would justify an opinion that the great creator of all things did not suffer such a punishment to fall in vain.
BOSTON, August 8.
SATURDAY last arrived here the Scarborough man of war, in 8 weeks from England: She has brought dispatches for his excellency general
Gage, which were immediately transmitted to the late acts of parliament. The contents are authentic copies of the proceedings of the assembly. She has also brought his majesty's troops on the Boston expedition.
EXTRACT of a letter from a gentleman in the southward, dated June 4. "I see plainly what ye are aiming at, in your non-importation, and see, with pity, what you are doing. I have aged with much ardour, but little sagacity, which perhaps may be the reason why I have not seen the late strong advocates for America, have now a plan, which they intend to lay before parliament, to put American trade on a firmer foundation than it has ever yet been; and there is no doubt it will pass into an act, as it is said lord North highly approves of it. I can add further, that it was first started by an American, one of your famous patriots on the continent, which confirms me self-interest governs the whole. I am well informed the following is one part: That no merchant or merchants, or any person whatsoever, residing in any part of England, shall have a permit at the king's customs to ship or load on board any ship or ships, within the kingdom, any goods, wares, or merchandise, of any kind whatever, to any part of North America, till such time as he, she, or they, have taken an oath that they are paid the full amount, or have two sufficient securities, that the goods so shipped shall be paid for when the shipper shall think it prudent to demand his money; which will prevent the evils that have attended the many failures on your side the water, reduce the number of importers, and encourage the monied men to put their capitals, which now lie dead, into trade. It most certainly will make more shopkeepers, and less importers, as the men of interest will be able to supply them from time to time with such articles as they may have occasion for, and prevent their having a large dead stock on hand; besides, it will put the principal merchants on a better footing than they were 30 years ago. In addition to this, an encouraging bounty will be allowed on all raw materials from America; but this is only part of what you may expect, from that party, for the regulation of American trade. They know, as well as you, how long you can do without British goods."
On Saturday last, 12 cart loads of good salt fish, also a quantity of oil, being the generous donation of our sympathizing brethren of that place. The above PROVISIONS having been judged by the revenue officers not to be "victuals" (the word in the port bill) for the necessary use and subsistence of the inhabitants of the town of Boston, it was therefore not permitted to be brought into this port 'coastwise.' The benefaction of rice from South Carolina has, since its arrival, remained there in the same predicament; but, we hear, that it is now allowed to be an article of food, and not solely of merchandise, and may be brought in by water; also that permission is given for launching the vessels that are on the stocks here, which liberty, for some time past, has been...
EXTRACT of a letter from one of the first and best of men in a distant colony to his friend at Boston.
"You and your worthy fellow sufferers would receive a glimpse of joy, amidst your distresses, to know with what sympathy the inhabitants of this province consider your case. What never happened before has happened now. The COUNTRY PEOPLE have so exact a knowledge of facts, and of the consequences attending a surrender of the points now in question, that they are, if possible, more zealous than the CITIZENS, who lay in the direct line of information. Doubt not that every thing bears a most favourable aspect. May God Almighty bless you, and my beloved brethren in Boston and Massachusetts Bay. My heart is full. The time will come, I hope, when I may congratulate them on a more stable security of their liberty than they ever yet have enjoyed. Our COUNTRY PEOPLE appear to me to be very firm. They look to the last extremity with spirit. It is right they should, if they will submit their resentment to the guidance of reason."
Last Tuesday morning came to town, from Marblehead, 12 cart loads of good salt fish, also a quantity of oil, being the generous donation of our sympathizing brethren of that place. The above PROVISIONS having been judged by the revenue officers not to be "victuals" (the word in the port bill) for the necessary use and subsistence of the inhabitants of the town of Boston, it was therefore not permitted to be brought into this port 'coastwise.' The benefaction of rice from South Carolina has, since its arrival, remained there in the same predicament; but, we hear, that it is now allowed to be an article of food, and not solely of merchandise, and may be brought in by water; also that permission is given for launching the vessels that are on the stocks here, which liberty, for some time past, has been...
NEWARK, July 22.
SATURDAY morning last arrived here the Scarborough man of war, in 8 weeks from England: She has brought dispatches for his excellency general Gage, which were immediately transmitted to the late acts of parliament. The contents are authentic copies of the proceedings of the assembly. She has also brought his majesty's troops on the Boston expedition.
Concurrences are now making in the different wards of this city for the like laudable purpose; and the committee of this place have sent circular letters to all the counties in our government, to accelerate measures of a similar kind. We have authentic intelligence that JOSEPH THORP, who was advertised in this paper, with a reward of 50l. on conviction, and 50 per cent. on the sum recovered, was at Thomas Alling's, innholder, at New London, on Saturday the 2d of July, with the money upon him; from whence he went to Newport, Rhode Island, and gave out that he was going to Nantucket, or somewhere to the eastward, to buy a vessel and cargo, to go with to the Straights. It is most earnestly requested of those who can communicate any further intelligence of the villain, that they acquaint any of the persons mentioned in the former advertisement, or George Rome, esquire, of Newport, Rhode Island.
PHILADELPHIA, August 17.
A CORRESPONDENT remarks, that the mode of opposing the British parliament by petitions and remonstrances only is the most effectual step that can be taken to betray the liberties of America. It is observed, by another correspondent, that should the general congress advise that the East India company be paid for the tea destroyed at Boston, they will establish for them one of the best markets in the world; for the company need only ship their teas to such provinces as will chuse rather to destroy it than pay the duty, and they will be sure of receiving for it an advanced price.
Since our last, arrived here the ship Hannah, captain Mitchell, from Londonderry, with 400 passengers. And captain Jones, from London, has brought with him 100 passengers, chiefly tradesmen. Wednesday last arrived here the brig Charlestown Packet, captain Wright, from Charlestown, South Carolina, with whom came passengers the honourable Henry Middleton and Edward Rutledge, esquires, two of the gentlemen who are nominated to represent that colony at the ensuing congress; the other three viz. James Lynch, John Rutledge, and Christopher Gadsden, esquires, we hear, are to come passengers in the brig Sea Nymph, captain Moore, who is to leave that port the 15th instant.
Extra of a letter from London, dated May 7.
"The public papers will tell you, that the chief business that is planning here against America, for it is not merely intended to stop with Boston, so that if the other colonies have one atom of sense or virtue they will endeavour to extinguish the burning of their neighbour's house before the fire has reached their own. You have the means of procuring justice fully in your own power, and if the colonists have not virtue to use them they are not deserving of liberty. Stop all kind of commerce with this country, both exports and imports, for six months only, and keep all the money you have to yourselves, and your own terms must be agreed to, or the minister here will lose his head."
Extract of a letter from Baltimore, in Maryland.
A gentleman of veracity and character, just arrived from Baltimore, gives us the following account: That the planters and gentlemen of that island greatly applaud the resentment shown by the North American colonies to the Boston port bill, and that, instead of being alarmed at the resolves made by some colonies, to stop our trade to the West Indies, they unanimously declare we ought to do it, rather than submit to the arbitrary dictates of a minister, and that for their parts they are willing to live on yams and such other vegetables as they can raise or subsist on rather than see America submit to slavery.
Extract of a letter from New York, dated August 15.
"The Scarborough man of war being arrived at Boston, has brought the two remaining acts. In consequence thereof, the governor had named the council agreeable thereto, who are colonel Oliver, lieutenant governor and president of the council, captain Ewing, colonel Erwing, William Vassal, Harrison Gray, Jonathan Simpson, Isaac Winslow, William Pepperell, commodore Loring, Nathaniel Ray Thomas, Timothy Ruggles, J. Worthington, Oliver Patridge, J. Chandler, colonel Edson, colonel Gilbert, James Russell, Joseph Lee, Foster Hutchinson, Daniel Leonard,
colonel Watson, Peter Oliver, colonel Royal, James Boucher, Daniel Danforth, Thomas Hutchinson, and Joseph Green; the other are appointed to the northward of Boston, but the names not known when the advices came away. It is moreover said, that the people of Boston would have their meetings at all events, and are encouraged, from the report of the colonies, to persevere under their unhappy circumstances, and bear it with patience."
A correspondent observes, that lord North is justly entitled to the thanks of America for the firm and happy union of all her councils in a union which no other minister of the present reign has had the happiness to effect.
Extract of a letter from Johnson Hall, dated August 2.
"Colonel Guy Johnson has been strongly recommended to his majesty by sir William Johnson, some time before his death, to succeed him as superintendent for Indian affairs, to which office he has been since appointed by his excellency general Gage, till the king's determination is known. The colonel has had the good fortune to bring the congress, with the chiefs of the six nations, which was interrupted by the sudden death of sir William, to a favourable issue, and they have sent delegates to the southward to endeavour at restoring tranquility at this critical period. The indefatigable pains he has taken to effect a reconciliation will, beyond a doubt, recommend him to his sovereign for that important department, as no man can be more worthy of it. He has, in some measure, impaired his health by the hurry of business he has had on his shoulders after the death of our late worthy friend."
A gentleman who came to town on Sunday last, got a passage in one of our pilot boats, which he met at sea, from on board the sloop Friendship, captain Bull, on board of which he was passenger, and informs that the said sloop was bound from Wilmington, North Carolina, to Salem, with 300 barrels of provisions, as a donation from said town, for the relief of the distressed Bostonians, and that there was another cargo of provisions, which would follow soon, that also belonged to Mr. Quincy, who generously gave it for that purpose. He also informs, that a meeting will be held in this town on the 20th day of August next, to elect the delegates to the general congress.
Resolved, that it will be highly expedient that the several counties of this province should send deputies to attend a general meeting at John's courthouse on the 20th day of August next, then and there to debate upon the present alarming state of British America, and in concert with the other colonies, to adopt and prosecute such measures as will most effectually tend to avert the miseries that threaten us.
Resolved, that we are of opinion, in order to effect an uniform plan for the conduct of all North America, that it will be necessary that a general congress be held, and that deputies should there be present from the several colonies, fully informed of the sentiments of those in whose behalf they appear, that such regulations may then be made as will tend most effectually to produce an alteration in the British policy, and to bring about a change honourable and beneficial to all America.
Resolved, that we have the most grateful sense of the spirited conduct of Maryland, Virginia, and all other the northern provinces, and also the province of South Carolina, upon this interesting occasion, and will, with our purses and persons, concur with them in all legal measures that may be conceived by the colonies in general as most expedient in order to bring about the end which we earnestly wish for.
Resolved, that it is the opinion of this meeting, that Philadelphia will be the most proper place for holding the American congress, and the 20th of September the most suitable time; but in this we submit our own to the general convenience of the other colonies.
Resolved, that we consider the cause of the town of Boston as the common cause of British America, and the inhabitants thereof as suffering in defence of the rights of the colonies in general; and that therefore we have, in proportion to our abilities, sent a supply of provisions for the indigent inhabitants of that place, thereby to express our sympathy in their sufferings, and as an earnest of our sincere intentions to contribute, by every means in our power, to alleviate their distress, and to induce them to maintain, with prudence and firmness, the glorious cause in which they are at present embattled.
THE C E N T R A L C O M M I T T E E To the P R E S I D E N T & MEMBERS of the GENERAL CONGRESS.
A this conference of British policy, which the liberty and peace of North America are at stake, and the division of a struggling people is for to be prevented, it seems that the port of Boston is shut up, that the character of the American people is cruelly infringed, and its government converted into one nearly military, to be silent would be infamous.
To avoid such an imputation to this part of the province, we, the subscribers, appointed a committee of correspondence for the town or district of Wilmington, at a most respectable meeting of the freeholders of this district, by their express command, take this earliest opportunity of acquainting you with their resolutions; a copy of which we now enclose you, and request that you would send the members, already by us elected, to represent you in general assembly, or such other persons, whom you shall approve of, to appear as your deputies at the courthouse of Johnson county, on the 20th day of August next, possessed of the sentiments of those in whose behalf they attend, and with full power to express it as obligatory upon the future conduct of the inhabitants of this province; and then and there to consult and determine what may be necessary to the general welfare of America, and of this province. We at the same time take the liberty to inform you that there has been set on foot a subscription for the relief of the poor artisans and labourers of the town of Boston, precluded by one of the forementioned measures of the British minister, from following their respective occupations, and we have reason to congratulate ourselves upon the generous contribution of the inhabitants, which has put it in our power to load a vessel with provisions, which will sail this week for the port of Salem.
We rely upon your sending an immediate answer to these our proposals, and wishing you success in all your efforts for the support of the constitutional liberties of America, permit us to subscribe ourselves &c.
WILMINGTON, July 27.
In a former paper we observed a subscription had been opened here in behalf of such people in Boston as are deprived, by the stoppage wantonly put to the trade of that place, of the usual means of subsisting themselves and families; we now observe, with particular pleasure, that several widow ladies of this town have contributed very liberally to that benevolent design.
ANNAPOLIS, August 18.
CERTAIN members of the committee of correspondence for Charles county have received intelligence from the committee of the other counties of this province, who are now at Annapolis, that they have received from London, and are bringing down copies of the acts for Virginia and Maryland; one of which is to alter the tea duty, and the other to repeal the stamp act, and another to Mr. John Ferguson, of the same place, factor for Messrs. Finlay and company, notice was immediately dispatched to other gentlemen of the committee, and a meeting was accordingly held on the 15th day of August, to deliberate what measures should be adopted on the alarming occasion.
Messrs. Peter and Ferguson were requested to attend. Mr. Peter acknowledged, that in consequence of orders communicated some time in December last, his chest of tea was shipped, and that he relied on the custom which had constantly prevailed in the province of Maryland, since the partial repeal of the revenue act, to screen him from censure, and to justify his conduct in the procedure; at the same time he submitted to the sentiments of the committee, and declared an entire willingness to abide by their determination.
It was unanimously resolved, that the importation of any commodity from Great Britain liable to the payment of a duty imposed by an act of parliament, however fractioned by the practice of a part, or even the whole of the trading part of the community, is in a high degree dangerous to our liberties, as it implies a full assent to the claim asserted by the British parliament of a right to impose taxes for the purpose of raising a revenue in America; therefore, in order to discourage the pernicious practice, they judged it expedient that the tea in question should not be landed in America, but that it should be sent back in the same ship. Mr. Peter readily acquiesced, promising that he would write by the first opportunity, to prevent a delivery of it from the ship; but should it be delivered before the arrival of his orders, he requested instructions how to act, intimating a desire that in such case it might be stored by any gentleman to be appointed by the committee; whereupon it was resolved, that in such case it should be landed here, and delivered to Messrs. Thomas Johns, William Deakins, and Bernard Oneale, to wait the future directions.

of the committee. Mr. Peter assented, and pawned his honour for the annual performance of his engagements. Mr. Ferguson declared, that as the tea addressed to him was the property of other gentlemen, he could only engage, that should he receive it, he would immediately deliver it to the above mentioned gentlemen, Messrs. Johns, Deakins, and Oneale, to be at the disposal of the committee; this was likewise deemed satisfactory, and then Messrs. Peter and Ferguson were dismissed, with thanks for their candid and disinterested behaviour. The committee having been informed that Mr. Thomas Richardson of George Town, had just received a quantity of tea immediately from Philadelphia, he was sent for, and acknowledged that he had received about 100 pounds weight, which he was ready, and willing to deliver to any persons the committee should appoint, to be safely stored until further deliberation; his proposition was accepted, his conduct highly commended, and the tea was, in the presence of the committee, delivered to the above mentioned gentlemen, Messrs. Johns, Deakins, and Oneale.
TO THE PRINTER OF THE PENNSYLVANIA PACKET.
HAVING fixed up a little poetical lath, I send you a few of the shavings that were left turned off, that you may see what sort of materials I work up; and if you have any orders for any thing in my way, I hope to supply you on the most reasonable terms, in any form, whether political, moral, physical, whimsical, or love-sick, at my lodgings in Garet Lane, towards Sky Hill, where constant attendance and kind words will be given by
TOM GINCLE.
WITH graceful air and virtuous mien, AMERIC rises to the view; Expands her arms, invites the swain, To bid BRITANNIA's shore adieu.
She points where towering forests wave, Where boundless tracts, yet unexplor'd, Await the landing of the brave, Where food and shelter she'll afford.
HIbernia's sons, in shackled state, With all the woes of abject fate, Receive from her a new-born hope, And tempt the damps of the Atlantic wave.
The Highland lads, with bonnet blue, And tartan plads, attend her call; Whole clans embark'd, their lairds may rue; Her western climes invite them all.
The sons of Taffy too shall hear, That fertile Welch like mountains rise; That peaks will grow, and goats appear, Beneath her distant western skies.
The main shall foam, the billows yield, To plowing barks from ev'ry coast; The things decreed, and fate has seal'd, That here shall land a num'rous host.
Aghast BRITANNIA shall descry The western tow'rs, and stately piles, Which rise expandant to her eye, And spread beneath fair fortune's smiles.
Extensive plains and green grown meads, Golden crops, and luscious fruit, Lowing herds, and gallant steeds, The lofty horn and softer lute.
These, these, shall meet BRITANNIA's eye: These, these, shall strike BRITANNIA's ear; And will my native sons, too, fly! Behold BRITANNIA drops a tear!
My hamlets thin, my cities mourn, My fields and plains remain unutil'd; My flocks they bleat, remain unshorn, And wander round the bry'r-grown field.
The vale, which once the oaten reed, With pleasing sound, pass'd sweetly thro'; Where shepherds taught their flocks to feed, Where milkmaids sought the friendly dew.
These, these, are still, no notes are heard, A solemn silence reigns around, These scenes, by love so oft endeard, Shall hear no more the plaintive sound.
With painful step, in anxious mood, She bends her sad and mournful way, To view yon ground where Sheffield stood; Sheffield, where Vulcan bore the way.
But ah! behold a sky serene! No sulph'rous cloud o'er hangs the vale; No warthy race compose the scene, No hammer's sound disturbs the dale.
No more shall Donn's obtruded flood Dash thro' the rattling whirling wheel: Unseen, unheard, its torrent rude, No more shall pond'rous burthen feel.
Distress'd she turns her wat'ry eye From scenes like these, so big with woes, To Leeds, to Wakefield; still a sigh Swells from her heart, where'er she goes.
The weaver's beam, the shuttle too, Alike forlorn neglected stand; The busy throng no more in view, No more the fleecy rolls expand.
All, all, deserted, all are fled; Alas! BRITANNIA must resign: 'Tis Heav'n's vengeance on thy head, For some black crime, some fault of thine.
the honest INHABITANTS of America, and true lovers of LIBERTY. Friends! Brethren! and Fellow Sufferers! LIBERTAS & NATALE SOLUM.
HAIL, sacred liberty! the found inspires, And each American with ardour fires; Their gen'rous souls, of structure nice, disdain To drag the dale, inglorious, galling chain; With passive neck, slave like, to stoop, untaught, It grates our vitals to indulge such thought; By one consent, unanimously spoke, The fons of freedom scorn the servile yoke. Can true born Englishmen their fellows fight, Who nobly struggle for their native right? A privilege so dearly priz'd by them, In us---'twould be most cruel to condemn. For are we not descendents? Form'd of clay From the best texture of true British clay? Like them our love of liberty's the same, Nor will we lose our forefathers' fame. Spirits free born, ethereal tempers grudge, In bonds of endless infamy to drudge; Than this, much rather we wou'd wish to feel The raging fury of relentless steel. Then let us rouse those inbred faculties, Let's rouse, our mem'ry to immortalize!
AMERICANS, rouse up! a decent pride, With prudence mix'd, shou'd all your actions guide; Let's ev'ry headstrong, wild career, controul, But keep an even eminence of soul; Be not too hasty, act not indirect, But be prepar'd your birthrights to protect; None can be more, but may prove less, than men, Let us the summit of our sphere attain; To make our lives and liberties secure, Be cool in counsel, and in reas'ning sure.
All friends to virtue with our zeal applaud, VIRGINIA shall find advocates abroad, Whose uncorrupted hearts, by honour sway'd, Have not their country or their king betray'd; Who dare be good, and feel no other flame, But to advance Britannia's growing fame; Friends to her constitution, strictly just, Inviolate, nor traitors to their trust; Who bias'd by no base, dishonest view, The real int'rest of the realm pursue;
Tenacious of internal rights:---These, these, Are men despotic pow'rs can never please. Then let's associate firmly, without fail, With virtue persevere, and then prevail!
The slender twigs, with cords together ty'd, When struck, prove difficult to subdivide; But soft apart, and taken, one by one, Alas! how easy is the spoil begun; How soon in shivers broke, how desperate quick, The weakest force may worth them, thick by thick. 'Tis just our lot, unless we stand resolv'd, With the same ease (wide) we're all dissolv'd. Then let each loyal patriot, hand in hand, Their country's bulwark, in one body stand; A phalanx form, not forward, nor offend, But bent to refuse, or their lives to end. Heroic souls, like adamantine rocks, Stand weather proof against tempestuous shocks; Our enemies themselves, in wonder lost, Shall find their evil expectations cross'd; America's arch foe, e'en mighty North, Shall check the rieh rick of his rising wrath, With fore amazement and admiration smote, Like the Camelion, shall change his coat; Struck with remorse, he shall his conduct curse, And clear his fingers from Boston's purg.
AMERICANS unite! your dearest ties Demand you to be diligently wise. Depriv'd of liberty, death's more than life, Altho' we leave behind a loving wife; Our virtuous dames with sense of honour glow, By them we're taught th' important truth to know; Whose merits may some Mæcenas of renown, In after times with tuneful measures crown; While I myself, with distant awe, admire Those virtues unto which the fair aspire. Have we not wives of Amazonian stamp, Whose faces not one female fear can stamp? From some of these, Camilla's might call, Whose fame detraction can not equal; But to succeeding ages shall belong And in some poet's firing line to sing. For public good, to part with priv. peace, Americans were always known propence; But to be forc'd with threats to give our gold, Is really harsh to men by nature bold. Our delegates in gen'ral congress meet, And closely of momentous matters treat; Distinguish'd worthies in that list appear, Their virtues rev'rence, and their names revere. Those who so firm against the torrent stood, Connected dearly to their country's good, Shine more conspicuous in the common cause, So strictly pious, in support of laws, Each orator extends his fav'rite theme, Each emulous his country to redeem; Supply'd with more than mortal grace, they plead And in the glorious aim may they succeed. Say to what better end was HENRY born? Why shou'd persuasive speech his lips adorn? Say why? But that our most invet'rate foes May learn, Virginia wants not Cicerones; Let two suffice:---Say, is there not in LEE Peculiar force, and ducile energy? But, above all, is not their honour such, Each for his country cannot speak too much? Besides, unnumbered chiefs of weighty sense, Endu'd with wisdom, and with eloquence, Who fir'd with glory in the grand debate, Have prov'd themselves heroically great, Who with stout firmness, and well temper'd zeal, Stood up, true flickers for Virginian zeal; To dignity their fame, in future days, Some lyric shall record their real prairie. When civil discord rears her factious head, And with wide warring wars these plains are spread; When rugged Mars, with ruthless form, Shall draw the dagger, and direct the storm; When from the north a flaming whirlwind flies, And hostile clouds of dust tempestuous rise; When greedy death with grim aspect looks on, And Britain draughts her hardy sons to join; By rigid means, distress'd our patriots soon, Should honour force us to the combat soon. We must on a superior cause rely, And fall like those who for their country die. True courage is by solid reason led; 'Tis calmly heated, and as calmly cool'd; The great (when prop'rous) are forever seen, Nor arrogant, nor in misfortunes mean; They boast a firmness by no transport toss'd, A strength by no capricious fortune cross'd; Which foil'd, soon rallying, with redoubled might, Beams forth with glory, to retrieve the fight. When life, when liberty, when all's at stake, With honour, let us our last exit make; Let's shew, my boys, a spirit brave, not rash, Whose breath no fears can daunt, nor dangers dash; And with our carriage die the neigh'ring flood, A mournful tincture of true British blood; From free born subjects to supplant us slaves, 'Twou'd open in one day ten thousand graves; Then must our enemies with wonder own, And to the spacious world it shall be shewn, Altho' our belligerent pow'rs are new, That we have Scipios and Cæsars too.
A VIRGINIAN.
WILLIAMSBURG.
BY the latest accounts from London we are informed that the ministry are determined to stand their own ground with respect to the Americans, and to trust to the chapter of accidents for support of the measures they have adopted; that a letter was received from America, importing that Messrs. Adams, Hancock, Row, and Muckintosh, the four leaders of the Bostonians, have got notice of the designs formed by administration to seize their persons, and have taken effectual methods to evade the orders sent over for that purpose; that a few days ago overtures were made to lord Chatham to take a post in administration, but were rejected, as being on too narrow a foundation; that the English are extremely busy in recruiting their military affairs; that they have now on the stocks several large ships of war; and that it is a principal consideration to render their naval armament as permanent as possible; that the Quebec bill is generally thought the most infamous and despotick, and that it makes George the third more arbitrary than even the XVth was when he ruled France with a rod of iron.---The following paragraphs contain some degree of humour: "A noble lord who has systematically supported the measures of government, being a member in the minority the other day, at the Smyrna (rather meaningly) what day a noble duke was robbed nigh Kensington, the other immediately replied, "the evening of that day, my lord, you were concerned in robbing the Americans of their liberties."---"Died a few days since at Backway, near Cambridge, Philip Billes, esquire, possessed of a considerable fortune, which he had left to two gentlemen, no relations, on condition of seeing him buried under LIBERTY TREE, at Boston, in New England." We have the most pleasing accounts from every part of this colony that there never was a more promising prospect of a plentiful crop of Indian corn than there is this year. Yesterday failed from Northampton the Lucretia, captain Brown, with FIFTEEN HUNDRED BUSHELS OF INDIAN CORN on board, contributed by the inhabitants of that country for the relief of their suffering brethren in Boston.
To be SOLD, to the highest bidder, on Thursday the 26th of September, if fair, otherwise the next fair day, on the premises,
A VALUABLE TRACT OF LAND in the lower end of Brunswick county, at Taylor's bridge, containing by estimation 8 or 900 acres, but which shall be surveyed before the day of sale, and the exact quantity ascertained. There are 4 or 500 acres of this tract fine rich low grounds on Meherrin river, and exceedingly well adapted for Indian corn, wheat, or tobacco, as also for raising of hogs, there having been considerable quantities of pork sold from this plantation for several years past. It has plenty of timber upon it, with land enough cleared to work 10 or 12 hands, and is convenient to church and mill. One half the purchase money to be paid next April, and a reasonable credit will be allowed for the remainder, on giving bond, and approved security, to
SAMUEL S. MCROSKEY.
The greatest part of the stock, utensils, &c. belonging to the said plantation, will be sold at the same time and place.
FALLS of POTOMACK, IN VIRGINIA, August 22, 1774.
THE subscriber being just arrived from Great Britain, with a number of engineers and artificers, in order to remove the obstructions to the navigation of Potomack river, at and above the lower falls; and thinking himself fully qualified for such an undertaking, agreeable to his proposals before his embarkation for Europe, he is desirous to have a meeting of his principal subscribers, and others interested in this necessary work; and considering it most convenient to all concerned to have the same at George Town, in Maryland, he proposes that it shall be there on Monday the 26th of September next, at which time and place he will certainly attend, and be ready to lay before them an accurate plan, and estimate of the expence; also an act of the Virginia assembly, and likewise a subscription from some of the principal proprietors, &c. of the province of VANDALIA, now residing in England, for the further encouragement of the proposed undertaking.
JOHN BALLENDINE.
To be SOLD, on the premises, on Monday the 26th of September next, by virtue of a deed of trust made me by John Baynham,
A TRACT OF LAND , formerly the property of doctor John Baynham, deceased, containing by estimation 500 acres, in Caroline county, lies on the main road from Hanover to Caroline courthouse; there is a quantity of fine low-ground, and exceeding fine orchards, a good dwellinghouse, storehouse, and all other convenient out houses; the situation is remarkably healthy and pleasant. One hundred and thirty pounds of the purchase money to be paid down; the other payments to be made known on the day of sale.
CHRISTOPHER TOMPKINS, junior.
*** AT the same time and place will be sold, all the personal estate of the said Baynham, consisting of flocks of all kinds, household furniture, books, some physic instruments, and other things too tedious to mention. There will be a short credit for the above, giving bond, and good security, to
(2) JOHN BAYNHAM, executor.
To be SOLD, at the next September Frederickburg fair,
THE fee simple estate of 400 acres of LAND, in the county of Orange, subject to the trust of colonel William Taliaferro and Elizabeth his wife, being the place where the said William Taliaferro lives. The land is very good, and has on it valuable improvements. The terms will be made known on the day of sale.
(2) THE TRUSTEES.
To be SOLD, or LEASED FOR A TERM OF YEARS,
THE land whereon Sussex courthouse now stands, containing between 5 and 600 acres, exceeding good for grain, well watered, and a tolerable place for stock. It will be needless to describe the improvements thereon, as any person inclined to purchase, or lease it, would chuse to take a view of it before making any contract. Any one inclined to purchase may have long credit for three fourths of the money; and any person inclined to rent it for a term of years may have it with all necessaries for carrying on a tavern, together with a valuable slave, or the place only, as may best suit. The terms may be known, either for sale, or leasing it, by applying to colonel David Mason, or the subscriber, on the premises.
(2) JOHN BERRYMAN.
FOR SALE.
A TRACT OF LAND in Charles City county, on Chickahominy river, containing 340 acres, with a brick dwellinghouse, two rooms on a floor, and a spacious passage above and below, a kitchen, brick dairy, and a number of excellent fruit trees. The above mentioned plantation is remarkable in its situation, for fishing, fowling, and for stock. It descended to the late Littlebury Cocke, on the death of his mother, Mrs. Mary Tyree, which land the subscribers are desirous may be sold for and towards the payment of Littlebury Cocke's debts. Any person inclined to purchase are desired to treat with colonel William Edloe and William Green Munford, who are properly authorized.
REBECCA H. COCKE, JAMES B. JOHNSON, REBECCA JOHNSON.
FOR LIVERPOOL.
THE ship Juno, John Windover, master, a fine, strong, new vessel, now lying at Layton's, in Rappahannock, will take in tobacco, on liberty of consignment, at 8l. sterling per ton. Those gentlemen who are pleased to favour said ship are desired to send or deliver their notes, or orders, to the master on board, or the subscriber, who will attend the different county courts.
(3) CHARLES ALEXANDER.
THE PURSE in Richmond town will be run for, as usual, the 11th day of the fair, which is the 26th of May in November, for any horse, &c. carrying 140 lbs. according to the day all horses, &c. to be entered with James Over the day.
CHUCK SHUMANY, Aug.
FOREWARN all persons from hunting, fishing, and poaching, on my LAND in James city.
JOHN C. COCKE.
RUN away from the subscriber, living at the ferry opposite Alexandria, in Prince George county, Maryland, on Wednesday night the 27th instant, an Irish indentured servant-man named Thomas Braxton, about 23 years of age, 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, much pitted with the smallpox, short sandy coloured hair, thin visage, down look, ruddy complexion, and has a rupture in his bowels; had on, and took with him, a light coloured wilton coat, blue broadcloth jacket, striped country ditto, ozanbrig shirt, Irish linen ditto, a pair of ozanbrig trousers, striped holland ditto, buckskin breeches, country made pumps, plated buckles, and felt hat. As he can write a tolerable good hand, it is probable he may forge a pass. Whoever takes up the said servant, and secures him so that his master may get him again, shall receive 3l. including what the law allows, and reasonable charges paid, if brought home, by
JOHN CLIFFORD.
*** As the aforesaid servant has made several elopements and forged passes, and after being confined, has privately made his escape, whoever apprehends him are desired to take particular care to confine him. He has stolen sundry clothes.
COMMITTED to the gaol of Charles City, on Wednesday the 17th instant (August) a very likely black negro fellow, who says his name is JACK, and that he belongs to Griffin Stith, on the Eastern Shore. He is about 5 feet 10 inches high, and appears to be about 25 years of age. He says he run away from his overseer, in Brunswick county, about 18 months ago, and has passed for a free man ever since. The owner is desired to prove his property, pay charges, and take him away.
(3) SMITH GREGORY, gaoler.
COMMITTED to the gaol of Charles City, on Thursday the 27th instant (August) a likely Virginia born negro woman, who says her name is AMEY, and that she belongs to John A. Finnie, of Surry county; she is about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, and has on striped Virginia cloth clothes. The owner is desired to take her away, and pay charges.
(3) SMITH GREGORY.
TAKEN up, in the Robinson Fork, in Culpeper, a bay mare, about 4 feet 7 inches and a half high, and appears to be about 4 years old, branded on the near shoulder K, has a star in her forehead, and one of her hind feet white. Posted, and appraised to 10l.
(1) JOSEPH HENDERSON.
JAMES H A L D A N E, COPPERSMITH AND BRASSFOUNDER, in CHURCH STREET, near the CHURCH, NORFOLK,
CONTINUES TO CARRY ON HIS BUSINESS AS USUAL, MAKES and sells all sorts of COPPER WORK, viz. Kettles, brewing coppers, sugar boilers, fullers and hatters coppers, brass mill work, capuchin plate warmers, tea kettles, all sorts of ship, fish, and whale kettles, stew pans, Dutch ovens, tea kettles, sauce pans, coffee and chocolate pots, &c. at the most reasonable rates. He gives the best prices for old copper, brass, pewter, or lead.
*** Those who are so obliging as to favour me with their employ in the mending or tinning old work, may depend on having them soon done, and in the neatest and completest manner.
(5) KING WILLIAM, August 10, 1774.
INTEND TO ENGLAND IMMEDIATELY.
(3) JOHN HURT.
THERE is now in my possession FOUR BALES of SAIL CANNVAS, marked G N I, No. 114, shipped at Liverpool by one Mr. Bain, and to be delivered to some gentleman in Norfolk. As no bill of lading was signed for them, the gentleman who has a right to receive the four bales must pay the craft hire, forage, and the expence of twice advertising in this paper.
(3) ISAAC YOUNGHUSBAND.
THE subscriber intends soon for Great Britain, and will leave his son Henry Martin, junior, as his lawful attorney, to transact his affairs in his absence. All persons to whom I am indebted are desired to apply to him for payment; and those who are indebted to me are requested to make as speedy payments as possible, which will prevent further trouble.
(5) HENRY MARTIN, senior.
COMMITTED to the gaol of Westmoreland a runaway negro slave who calls herself Dinah, and says she is the property of Richard Faulk, of Stafford; she is a small wench, and has had both her feet frostbitten. The owner is desired to come for her, and pay charges to
(1) JAMES MUSE, gaoler.

FAUQUIER, August 16, 1774. R UN away on the 3d of this instant (August) from my quarter, on Carter's Run, a negro wench named WINNEY; she is about eighteen or twenty years of age, 5 feet 3 or 4 inches high, of a yellowish complexion, had on when she went away an osnabrig shirt, petticoat, and jacket; she also took with her a white dowlas jacket and petticoat, and a great variety of other clothes. She being an artful, subtle wench, I imagine will frequently change her dress. I do not recollect any particular mark she has in her face, though I am told there is a lump upon the back of her neck, occasioned by the cut of a switch. About three years ago she made an elopement, and got into Maryland, near Port Tobacco, where she passed several months for a free woman, and went by the name of Winney Redman. Whoever will take up the said wench, and deliver her to me, in Fauquier county, near the courthouse, or to my overseer, on Carter's Run, in the said county, shall receive TWENTY SHILLINGS reward, if taken up in the said county, if in the adjacent counties FORTY SHILLINGS, if out of the colony FIVE POUNDS, besides what the law allows, and all reasonable charges paid. JAMES SCOTT, junior.
FREDERICKSBURG, August 9, 1774. A PERSON of the name of William Foster Croft having procured a recommendation to me, I lent him, the 19th of last month, my SINGLE CHAIR and a MARE to visit captain John Lee, on Rappahannock, to whom he said he was recommended, to return in four days at the most; but not hearing of him since, except that he had mistaken his way, and got to Richmond, on James river, and colonel William Fleming's, in Cumberland county, I am obliged to take this method of recommending him to all honest men, as a profound knave. Such a flagrant act of injustice, accompanied with such ingratitude to me, will no doubt engage every gentleman to endeavour to strip him of the price of his villainy: But I will gladly pay FORTY SHILLINGS to have my mare and chair detained till I can send for them, or FIVE POUNDS to be delivered here. As the knave is young, I had rather he should turn from his wickedness and live!
He is about twenty, of slim and genteel make, and fair complexion, rather pale and foul skin, black hair, very long, and clubbed like a macaroni! He is exceedingly vain, boasts much of his learning, particularly of geography, and professes teaching the classics, music, dancing, and fencing; he grins much when he laughs, which he often does at his own wit. His dress was shabby; I believe, one only coat, formerly a pale blue, or sea green, the cuffs of which have been lately let down, and the original colour makes a remarkable ring round his arm. He passed on my friend, as from New England, and said he intended to visit Virginia, in his way to Charles town, South Carolina, in order from New England to see the country; expecting here some supplies he had ordered from New England.
I cannot recollect whether the mare has any brand or flesh marks; she is about 14 hands and a half high, half blooded, well made, rather round, a chestnut bay, with a full long bob tail, and hog mane, very small feet, and shod before, trots very nimble, and remarkably low. The carriage of the chair is new, the springs and axle tree are iron, the body is painted green, with the initials of my name on the back, in a double cypher, in blue letters, in a gilt ground; it has been new lined, and has now a carpet bottom; but I suspect he will quit the chair for a saddle.
He borrowed a SILVER WATCH, quite new, made by Thomas Walker, of Frederickburg, who will, I presume, give something to recover it. JAMES MERCER.
To be SOLD, the first day of November next. SUNDRY HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN FURNITURE. Six months credit will be allowed for all sums above 5l. on giving a conditional bond, to carry interest from the date, if not punctually paid. Five per cent. discount for ready money will be agreed to. At the same time will be offered for sale, the LOTS and HOUSES whereon I live, conveniently situated in Frederickburg, for either store, tavern, or private family, and are as valuable as any lots and houses in the town of the same size. Also two lots, well enclosed with a stable 50 by 60 feet; and two lots, near the courthouse, enclosed with a dwellinghouse unfinished, 50 feet square, the finest situation in the town, and commands a fine view of both town and country. Likewise 15 acres of meadow ground, near the town, and under a good fence. Also 391 acres of land, near the center of this county, on 328 of which is a lease for six years, at a good rent; and 100 acres of land on East North East Bridge: For all, or either of which, may be had great bargains, both in price, and time of payment; or, in case the purchasers chuse it, and will give a price agreeable, they may never pay, upon paying the interest annually; for which the lands will be taken in part, as security. In case I do not sell, I would willingly rent on reasonable terms, for a year, or term of years. BENJAMIN JOHNSTON.
WHEREAS I have lately purchased a tract of LAND, formerly the property of Anthony Strather, merchant, deceased, lying in Culpeper county, on the Robinson Fork, and sold by him to colonel Philip Roates, of King & Queen, but I am informed it was conveyed by the honourable John Tayloe, esquire, to Mr. Roger Dixon, deceased, any person who has any right in the said tract of land are desired to make it known immediately. CHRISTOPHER DICKON.
THREE POUNDS REWARD.
R UN away from the subscriber, on Herring Bay, in Anne Arundel county, Maryland, an indentured servant man named HENRY REED, who professes the coachmaker's business, is about 22 years old, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, well made, full face, dark hair, little or no beard, and very talkative; had on, and took with him, a white negro cotton jacket and waistcoat, trowers of ditto, half worn, 2 osnabrig shirts, coarse shoes, old hat, and a check handkerchief; but probably he may change his dress, as he went away with one John White, an indentured servant. I understand they stopped at a plantation belonging to the earl of Dunmore, in Berkeley county, Virginia. Whoever secures the said servant, so that I get him again, shall be entitled to the above reward. I imagine he has got in some coachmaker's shop in Virginia. All masters of vessels are forewarned from taking him on board their vessels. ISAAC SIMMONS.
FIFTY POUNDS REWARD. W HEREAS on the 19th of June last past a certain JOSEPH THORP was entrusted with a considerable sum in half johannes, of nine penny weight, to be delivered by him at Quebec, and as he has not yet made his appearance there, with other suspicious circumstances, it is apprehended he is gone off with the money. He is a native of England, about 6 feet high, swarthy complexion, very dark, keen eyes, and pitted with the smallpox, of a slender make, stoops as he walks, talks rather slow, and has some small impediment in his speech. He lived some time in Boston, from whence he removed to Quebec, assuming the character of a merchant in both places; he was also once in trade in Newcastle, Virginia, and has a brother settled there. It is believed he went on board captain John F. Pruyms, for Albany, and took with him a blue casimir, and a dark brown cloth suit of clothes. Whoever secures the said Joseph Thorp in any of his majesty's gaoles on this continent shall be entitled to ten per cent. on the sum recovered, and the above reward of 50l. when convicted. Apply to Cusson and Seton of New York, Joseph Wharton, junior, of Philadelphia, Robert Christie of Baltimore, James Gibson and company of Virginia, John Bondfield of Quebec, Matthias Bourne, or John Roue, of Boston. It is requested of those who may have seen this Joseph Thorp since the 19th of June last past, or know any thing of the route he has taken, that they convey the most early intelligence thereof to any of the above persons, or Greenwood, Ritsou, and Marlys, in Norfolk, or to Mr. Robert Pleasants and company, at Four Mile creek, Henrico county; the favour will be gratefully acknowledged. All masters of vessels are forewarned from taking him off the continent. WILLIAM BERNARD.
DUMFRIES, July 28, 1774. THE DUMFRIES JOCKEY CLUB PURSE of 100 GUINEAS is to be run for on Tuesday the 18th of November next, which is fixed on for the 1st day of the Dumfries races for this year. No person will be allowed to start a horse, mare, or gelding, for this purse, but an actual member of the club. There will be a SUBSCRIPTION PURSE run for the second day, and another the third day, of the races. The particulars with regard to them will be advertised hereafter. A premium of five GUINEAS will be given to the person or persons that brings the largest and fattest bullock to this market the Saturday before the races; a premium of three GUINEAS to the person or persons that brings the six largest and fattest muttons; and a premium to the person or persons that brings the two largest and fattest veals. RICHARD GRARAM, SECRETARY.
TWO THOUSAND ACRES of exceeding fine LAND for tobacco, wheat, or Indian corn, lying on both sides of Bull Run, in Loudoun and Prince William, about 300 acres of which are rich low ground and meadow land. It lies within four miles of two merchant mills, and about ten miles of two other merchant mills in Loudoun; thirty miles from Colchester, Alexandria, and Dumfries. If any person or persons incline to purchase the whole, or any part of the said lands, they may be shewn them, and know the terms, by applying to captain Francis Peyton, in Loudoun county, who has full power to treat for the same, or to the subscriber. It is laid off in lots of two, three, and four hundred acres, with an equal quantity of low ground and meadow land to each lot. (1 m tf) ROBERT BURWELL.
R UN away from the subscriber, in Amherst, the 10th of July, a mulatto woman slave named SALL, though commonly goes by the name of SALLY GREY; she is of the middle size, well shaped, Virginia born, about 25 years old, and had on a brown linen jacket and petticoat; I cannot learn that she carried any other clothes with her. She is of a numerous family of mulattoes, and formerly belonged to a gentleman of the name of Howard, in York county, from whence I purchased her a few years ago, and where probably she may attempt to go again, or perhaps into Cumberland or Amelia, where, I am informed, many of her kindred live. I shall esteem it as a particular favour of those gentlemen who have of her relations in their possession to have her apprehended, should she be lurking about their plantations; and I will give a handsome reward, besides what the law allows, to any person who shall deliver her to me. GABRIEL PENN.
TO BE SOLD, THE noted and well accustomed TAVERN, at present occupied by the subscriber, lying in James City county, about 15 miles from Williamsburg, on the main road leading to New Kent courthouse and Ruffin's ferry, with 500 acres of LAND in good order for cropping, and 6 fields under good fence. The terms of payment will be made easy by the subscriber. THOMAS DONCASTLE.
FOR SALE, NINE hundred and forty acres of valuable land, lying on both sides of Contrary River, in Louisa, with three plantations thereon, two of which has sufficient houses for overseers and negroes; the other is improved with all necessary buildings, and orchards of all kinds, fit for the reception of a gentleman, the houses being finished in the best manner. This tract is well timbered and watered, lies within 32 miles of Fredericksburg, and 43 of Page's warehouse; there are at least 400 acres of low grounds, of the best soil, 300 of which are now to cut. The three plantations are under good fences, and in good order to work 12 or 15 hands. Robert Fleming, John Massey, and John Lain, are now in possession of the plantations, who will shew the land to any person inclinable to purchase, and Major Thomas Johnson will agree with them for the price. The above tract is esteemed the most valuable in Louisa for growing corn, wheat, or tobacco, and situated in the best range for stock of any below the great mountains. (tf 1*)
R UN away, from Neabsco furnace, the 16th of March, a light coloured mulatto man named BILLY, or WILL, the property of the honourable John Tayloe, esquire. When I tell the public that he is the same boy who for many years used to wait on me, in my travels through this and the neighbouring province, and by his pertinacity, or rather impudence, was well known to all my acquaintances, there is the less occasion for a particular description of him. However, as he is now grown to the size of a man, and has not attended me for some time past, I think it not amiss to say that he is a very likely young fellow, about 20 years old, 5 feet 9 inches high, stout and strong made, has a remarkable swing in his walk, but is much more so by a surprizing knack he has of gaining the good graces of almost every body who will listen to his bewitching and deceitful tongue, which seldom or ever speaks the truth. He has a small scar on the right side of his forehead, and the little finger of his right hand is quite straight by a hurt he got when a child. Had on, when he went away, a blue fearnought jacket, and an under one of green baize; cotton breeches, osnabrig shirt, mixed blue sale stockings, country made shoes, and yellow buckles. From his ingenuity, he is capable of doing almost any sort of business, and for some years past, has been chiefly employed as a founder, a stone mason, and a miller, as occasion required; one of which trades, I imagine, he will, in the character of a free man, profess. I have some reason to suspect his travelling towards James river, under the pretence of being sent by me on business. Whoever apprehends the said fellow, and brings him to me, or to his master, the honourable John Tayloe, at Mountairy, or secure him so as to be had again, shall have treble what the law allows, and all reasonable charges paid. THOMAS LAWSON.
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 this land for sale a very valuable GRIST MILL, lately built, with a stone dam and a pair of good COLOGNE MILL-STONES, 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 shewn 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 expence of the purchaser. Deeds will be made, upon bond and approved security being given, either to Call, William Cabell, or the subscriber. Six per cent. discount will be allowed for ready money, or good merchants notes. If any person would chuse 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. CARTER BRAXTON.
F O R S A L E, FIVE hundred acres of land, lying on Deep Creek, in Louisa, about 45 miles of Richmond town, and is exceeding good land, well watered by Deep Creek, and a large branch thereof, which runs through the middle of the land, and affords a large quantity of rich meadow ground. Any person inclinable to purchase may see the land, and know the terms, by applying to the subscriber, living near it. tf 1* GEORGE MERIWETHER.
To be SOLD, at public auction, at Westmoreland courthouse, on Tuesday the 27th day of September, being Westmoreland court day,
TWENTY very likely VIRGINIA born SLAVES. Credit will be allowed until the 10th of November following, on giving bond and good security. The bonds to bear interest from the date, if not punctually discharged. tf RICHARD PARKER.
TO BE RENTED, FROM YEAR TO YEAR, OR FOR A TERM OF YEARS, B E L V O I R, THE beautiful seat of the honourable George William Fairfax, esquire, lying upon Potowmack river, in Fairfax county, about 14 miles below Alexandria. The mansion house is of brick, two story high, with four convenient rooms and a large passage upon the lower floor, five rooms and a passage on the second, and a servants hall and cellars below; convenient offices, stables, and coach house, adjoining, as also a large and well furnished garden, stored with great variety of valuable fruits, in good order. Appertaining to the tract on which these improvements are, and which contains near 2000 acres (surrounded, in a manner, by navigable water) are several valuable fisheries, and a good deal of cleared land in different parts, which may be let altogether, or separately, as shall be found most convenient. The terms may be known of Colonel Washington, who lives near the premises, or of me, in Berkeley county. tf FRANCIS WILLIS, junior.
NORFOLK, April 21, 1774. N OTICE is hereby given, that a number of vessels will be wanted this summer to bring about 6000 tons of stone from Mr. Brooke's quarry, on Rappahannock, and land the same on Cape Henry, for the lighthouse. Any person inclinable to engage in such work are desired to treat with Matthew Phripp, Paul Loyall, and Thomas Newton, junior, esquires. The directors of the lighthouse will also be glad to purchase one or two flat bottomed vessels from 80 to 120 tons burthen. tf BASSETT MOSELEY.
For SALE, A TRACT of land, on Charles river, York county, containing about 600 acres, part of which is marsh, that may be drained with very little expence. The situation of this place is very convenient for a family, as it lies upon a river that abounds with oysters and fine fish, particularly sheepsheads; it is within 200 yards of a mill, and 2 miles of the church. My reason for selling it is, my having bought a tract of land more convenient to me. Whoever inclines to purchase may know the terms by applying to the subscriber, in York town. THOMAS NELSON, junior.
WANTED for the lighthouse directors eight second-hand ANCHORS, nearly a thousand weight each. Any person having such for sale are desired to make their terms known to the subscriber in Norfolk. t. f. BASSETT MOSELEY.
FOR SALE, AND VERY CHEAP, A PLANTATION in good order for cropping, none of the land having been cleared above six years, with all necessary houses, quite new, together with 1500 acres of exceeding rich land, the soil of which is so good that it will bring large tobacco for five or six years without dung. I have made on this plantation above three thousand pounds of tobacco per share. The place is very healthy, and has a fine range for stock. This land lies in the lower end of Buckingham county, near to Appomattox river, on each side of Great Ducker's and Mayo creeks. Tobacco has been carried above this land near to Petersburg by water, and last month, in the dry weather, two canoe loads of wheat were carried near to Petersburg, and the canoes brought back; they were loaded but a little below this land. I make no doubt but Appomattox river will be soon cleared, and then the expence of sending wheat, tobacco, &c. will be trifling. Any person inclinable to purchase will see, by the produce of the land, that it is exceeding rich. I really do not know any better high land in the colony. This tract of land is well timbered, and has excellent water on it. I do not know a better place for a merchant mill than is on Ducker's creek. People are going much on raising wheat in these parts, and a good mill would be very advantageous to the owner. Also another tract of land of 826 acres, in Albemarle county, I believe about ten miles from the courthouse, joining Mr. James Harris and the quarters of Mr. John Winton. On this land is a small plantation, a good apple orchard, &c. The land is good, and my price so low, that I am convinced any person who viewed either of the above tracts of land would not hesitate to give the price I shall ask. Neither of these tracts are under any incumbrance whatsoever. A reasonable time of payment will be allowed. tf ANTHONY WINSTON.
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, HUGH NELSON, THOMAS NELSON, jun. RO. C. NICHOLAS.