The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg, Va.), 1775-04-07 00:00:00

VIRGINIA
GAZETTE.
ALWAYS FOR LIBERTY,
AND THE PUBLICK GOOD.
ALEXANDER PURDIE, PRINTER.
An appeal to the justice and interests of the people of GREAT BRITAIN, in the present disputes with AMERICA. By an old MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT.
It is against the franchise of the land for freemen to be taxed, but by their own consent. Sir Edw. Coke.
Resolved, that the ancient and undoubted rights of every freeman are, that he hath a full and absolute property in his goods and estate, and cannot be taxed but by common consent. Comm. Journ. N. 1, P. 878.
A tax granted by the Parliament of England shall not bind those of Ireland, because they are not summoned to our Parliament.
Opinion of the Judges of England, 20th of Henry VI.
Ireland hath a Parliament of its own, and maketh and altereth laws; and our statutes do not bind them, because they do not send Knights to our Parliament.
Opinion of the Judges of England, 2d of Richard III.
You have no right to tax America. I rejoice that America has resisted. Two millions of our fellow subjects, so lost to every sense of virtue as tamely to give up their liberties, would be fit instruments to impose chains upon the rest. Lord Chatham.
My researches have more and more convinced me, that you have no right to tax America. I will maintain it with my last breath, taxation and representation are inseparable. Lord Camden.
A STATE of contention between Great Britain and America is not only disagreeable, but dangerous. We have every influence of interest and affection to attach us to each other; and make us wish to preserve the union indissoluble. The same laws, the same religion, the same constitution, the same feelings, sentiments, and habits, are a common blessing, and a common cause. We have these general benefits to defend against the rest of the world, which is hostile to all, or to the greater part of them.
With ties so strong to bind us to each other, is it not strange, is it not deplorable, that we should differ? Do they who talk of chastising our colonies, and reducing them to obedience, consider how much we hazard when we dissolve these ties? What are we to substitute in their place? Force and fear! which Tacitus wisely tells us, are infirma vincula, quae ubi removeris, qui timere desierint, odisse incipient . When these consequences follow from the coercive measures we are now pursuing, will the counsellors who have impelled us to them, by representations not, I am sure, very fair, defend us from their fatal effects?
It is from experience only that nations learn wisdom; but unhappily, sometimes, the injury of the experiment is irretrievable. We have too much reason, I think, to apprehend that this will be the event of our present conduct. The course of the war gave us proof of the strength and success which arises from the cordial agreement of our colonies; and, in all probability, the next war will consist of the secession which flows from dissatisfaction. I hope to prove, incontestably, that they aided us during the last
war with a degree of zeal and efficacy which we can never again expect, at least unless our language and conduct be totally reversed. The war found us united; it was conducted gloriously upon the strength of that union, and left us in perfect harmony. Unhappy were the counsels which disturbed that harmony; unhappy was the idea of taxation, which, without being productive of any one of the benefits expected from it, has given birth to a thousand calamities which were not foreseen. From the era of this innovation, we are to date all the disturbances which have shaken the whole empire; and which, if we do not treat them with more wisdom, must inevitably end in the dissolution of all American dependence on the parent state. In considering this subject, two very material questions immediately present themselves.
Whether we have a right to tax the colonies? And, whether it be expedient to exercise that right?
If a dispassionate examination should show, that both, or either of these, must be answered in the negative, it will prove that our present measures are not dictated by political wisdom.
In order to determine whether we have a right to tax the colonies, we must consider the nature of taxation, in whom the right of granting money resides, and from whence that right arises.
Taxation is the giving and granting the property of the people, by themselves, or by persons authorised by them, who are called their delegates or representatives. From hence it follows, that the right of imposing taxes resides originally in the people, and then in the representative body, and that it arises from the delegation of the people.
The very idea of property involves in it an exclusive right of giving it by the immediate or intermediate consent of the possessor; for, as Mr. Locke says, what property can I have in that which another may take away at his pleasure? It is therefore a fundamental principle in our constitution, and was, until the reign of Henry VI. the invariable practice of it, that the property of the people, not one man excepted, could not be granted but with his own consent, given by himself. It was upon this principle, that, until that reign, every man in the kingdom gave his vote, or had a right to give his vote, for the election of a representative, on whom that power was devolved. The 7th of Henry IV. made upon complaint of this right having been disturbed, ordains, that all the people shall elect indifferently. Their being residents in the county is the only qualification required. It was not until the 8th year of Henry VI. that the possession of 40s. per annum, in any part of the kingdom, was made necessary to give a right of voting; which qualification was, in the 10th year of the same reign, restricted to freehold in the county. It is plain from this, that the writers who have controverted Mr. Locke's position, that, upon the principles of the constitution, the supreme power cannot take away any man's property without his consent,
were either unacquainted as well with the principles as the practice of the constitution, or artfully misrepresented them. This view of our constitution shews also the propriety of that emphatical and brilliant expression of Lord Camden, that "there was not a blade of grass which, when taxed, was not taxed by the consent of the proprietor."
That taxation and representation are constitutionally inseparable, and that it was the fixed principle of government that the property of the people could be given by their consent only, signified by their representatives, chosen by themselves, appears beyond controversy, both from general considerations, and from a variety of particular proofs, arising from ancient and undoubted records.
The general considerations which support these positions are: That it is an eternal law of nature, so incident to, and inseparable from, the very idea of property, that no property can exist without it.
"Whatever is a man's own, no other person can have a right to take from him, without his consent, expressed by himself or his representative. Whoever attempts to do it, attempts an injury; whoever does it, commits a robbery; he throws down and destroys the distinction between liberty and slavery."
Nor is this the discovery of Mr. Locke, or the peculiar provision of the English constitution. It was long since set forth by Cicero, in these words, Hae sunt fundamenta firmissima libertatis, sui quemque juris retinendi ac demittendi esse arbitrium . It pervaded every feudal constitution in Europe, and was exercised with as much precision and jealousy by the States of France and the Cortes of Spain, as by the English House of Commons. Auxilia , says Bracton, funt de gratia, et non de jure; cum dependeant ex gratia tenentium, et non ad voluntatem dominorum *. Dr. Robertson tells us, "when any extraordinary aid was granted by freemen to their sovereign, it was purely voluntary." And again, "it was a fundamental principle in the feudal system of policy, that no freeman could be taxed unless by his own consent." Every one knows, from the most authentick accounts, that in the German constitution, from its earliest date, all the people had a right to be present in their assemblies, and assent to what bound them: De minoribus principes consultant, de majoribus omnes ¶. Hottoman informs us, that in France it was not lawful to debate on any thing concerning the commonwealth, but in the general council of the states*. So tenacious were they in Spain of this general consent, that in the Cortes it was necessary every member should give his assent before the act was binding. And I am well informed, that at this very day no taxes can be raised upon the free cities of Brussels, Antwerp, &c. even by the Empress Queen, without the consent of every individual citizen who is present in the assembly.
* L. 2. C. 16. ¶ Hist. Charles V. P. 360. § Ib. P. 36. ¶ Tacitus. * Franco Callia, C. 31. ¶ Martil Cotho de Arrog.

To the sacred, eternal, and universal right of giving property, even a tyrant of the North has been obliged to bear his testimony. We have heard the present King of Sweden publickly declare to his people, that to be taxed by others was repugnant to the most precious part of their liberty, which consists in taxing themselves. "To this right," says he, "of the nation to tax itself, I would have the greatest attention paid, because I am engaged by oath to let my subjects enjoy their liberties and privileges, without any restriction."
From these external proofs and illustrations of the doctrine, that the consent of the owner is essential to the just disposal of property, so that the supreme power cannot, and never could, in any free state, take away any man's property without his consent, we come now to demonstrate it from the practice of our own constitution.
It is certain that originally, and before the conquest, the right of being present in the great council of the nation, in which grants, if any, were made, belonged to every freeman in the kingdom. In an ancient record, quoted by my Lord Coke, so far back as the reign of Canute, in the year 1030, the Parliament is said to have consisted not only of great men, but quamplurimis gregariis militibus, ac cum populi multitudine copiosa, ac omnibus adhuc in eodem Parlamento personaliter existentibus, votis regis unanimiter consentientibus, preceptum et decretum fuit. *
The same recognition of the right of assent in every individual, to the disposal of his property, we find thus declared in Magna Charta : "And for this our gift and grant of these liberties, and of other contained in our charter of liberties of our forest, the Archbishops, Bishops, Abbots, Priors, Earls, Barons, Knights, Freeholders, and other our subjects, have given unto us the fifteenth part of all their moveables."|| It was not the supreme power, whether you mean by that the King or the Parliament, as it is now constituted, nor the representatives of the people in Parliament assembled, but the people themselves, every one having a right to be present and consent to the grant or disposal of his property.
Upon the same ground, the King, in the statute de tallagio non concedendo , declares, that "no tallage or aid shall be taken or levied, by us or our heirs, in our realm, without the good will and assent of the Archbishops, Bishops, Earls, Barons, Knights, Burgesses, and other freemen of the land."§ And the more expressly to show how necessary the consent of every individual was deemed, to the gifts which affected his property, the same statute says: "No officer of ours, or of our heirs, shall take corn, leather, cattle, or any other goods, of any manner of person, without the good-will and assent of the party to whom the goods belong."
* Pres. to the 9th Rep. || C. 37. Arl. 4. § 34 Edw. I. C. 1, 2. (To be continued.)
BOSTON, March 20.
Extract of a letter from a Gentleman in London, to his friend in this town, dated December 24, 1774.
THE proceedings of the General Congress, and of your colony, have had every effect you could wish, upon the people, the Parliament, the Ministry, and the Merchants. The petition of the Continental Congress was presented through the hands of Lord Dartmouth; the answer was in these words, "His Majesty has been pleased to receive the petition very graciously, and to say, that as it was a matter of great importance he would lay it before the two Houses of Parliament." The Ministry begin to disavow individually the late measures, and to accuse Mr. Hutchinson as the instigator of the whole. You have every thing to expect from that firmness and unanimity which have thus been their councils, confounded their
plans, and set them mutually at variance. Perseverance in the same spirit is that alone which will obtain effectual redress. Appearances are certainly favourable, but not so as to justify the least remission of those measures which have produced this temper."
Another letter says: "I have been in the country with Lord Chatham; he very highly approves of the petition of the Congress. The interior Cabinet, which rules every thing, appears convinced of the necessity of redress, but are determined to give it with as little grace as possible. They had two councils to decide upon receiving, or rejecting, the petition; the first was divided, the second had a majority for receiving. The fact is, the cogent reasoning on which your demands are founded meets the approbation of the publick, and renders your cause irresistibly popular."
Another letter, of Dec. 28th, says: "Notwithstanding the pacifick appearances held out, there is a determination to persist in the present system and measures."
Another letter, dated Jan. 4th, says: "The number of your friends among the people at large increase every day. The Ministry are determined to persevere in the great system of American taxation. They are alarmed at the unanimity of the Congress, and the people of the Massachusetts Bay and their Provincial Congress, which are universally approved of here by the friends of English liberty. My earnest advice is, to prepare for the worst, and persevere in the plan adopted by the Congress. Lord Chatham and Lord Temple approve entirely of the proceedings of the Congress. For Heaven's sake, for your own sake, and that of posterity, do not relax your vigilance."
Extract of a letter from a merchant of great veracity, dated London, Jan. 4.
"We have this day had as numerous and respectable a meeting of the merchants and traders to America as I ever saw. We have agreed to petition Parliament on your behalf, unanimously; and a committee is appointed, who this day se'nnight are to show it for our approbation. We have agreed to avoid all political disputes, and to take it up on commercial grounds only. I hope it will be attended with success, though I am not very sanguine in my expectations."
Another letter, of the 4th of Jan. says: "The King has received the petition of your Congress, and will lay it before Parliament. Much good is expected, and you may depend a great deal will be given up."
Another letter says: "It is strongly agitated amongst the American merchants, to wait upon the King with a very spirited address relative to American affairs, and the deplorable state of our trade and manufactures, which is immediately to be backed with a strong remonstrance from the three branches of the corporation of London, in Common Hall assembled, upon the general score of publick grievances."
NEW YORK, March 13.
Extract of a letter from London, Jan. 5.
I AM amazed to find how little the importance of America, and the connexion of the two countries, are strictly understood. Indeed people are now listening to information, and beginning both to feel and foresee bad effects from the present quarrel, whence the late measures are becoming matter of general censure. We have good reason to believe Administration is at present greatly embarrassed; from every quarter, I learn that the Ministers themselves are desirous of adopting conciliating measures. The great difficulty, I guess, is to erase past measures, and their baneful consequences. The different addresses from the American Congress are generally adopted and admired; that to the King is not yet come abroad, but it is said he is much pleased with it, as polite and sensible. Some think the project concerted is for the King to take up the matter, and
strike out something new as of himself, to screen the Ministers, and prevent a change of them. The subject becomes daily more and more popular, and your friends increase. I hope Providence will so scatter the clouds, that a glimpse may be had of the land before the ship is fast aground." Extract of a letter from London, Jan. 6
"There were two meetings yesterday one of the North American merchants and another of the West India merchants they severally appointed committee to address the House of Commons. They are at the same time, stimulating the large manufacturing towns to address also. The matter grows serious; people begin to fear."
Extract of a letter from London, Jan. 3
"We shall not give you, or any other person with whom we have formerly had connexion in New York, or other parts of North America, cause to censure us, by sending over books, or other things, until you have again a general and free authority to import goods as heretofore."
"We hope your just ground of complaint will speedily be removed. Lord North who is at the head of Administration, is in great tribulation; owing, in a great measure, to the well-timed, sensible, and spirited pamphlet of Extracts from the votes and proceedings of the American Continental Congress . These proceedings, we hope, will have the desired effect; they are reprinted in this place, and are circulating in every part of the kingdom. The two Houses of Parliament have adjourned for the holidays, and will not assemble again till the 21st instant. The principal business of the House of Commons will proceed upon will be the North America grievances, and by the next packet you will certainly know whether the acts passed last sessions, and others made some years back, with all, or a part of them, be repealed. The merchants, particularly trading to North America, meet together this week, with a view to petition his Majesty that he would recommend it to his Ministers to be early on the affairs of America, and grant the prayer of the petition by rescinding the acts. The petition from the General Congress to the King was presented to him by Lord Dartmouth last week; his Majesty has ordered it to be laid before his Parliament."
Extract of another Letter from London
"People in general here are in favour of America; the manufacturing towns will in general petition. The Ministry are resolved to grant some particular privileges to the province of New York, in order to draw them off from the other colonies, which if they effect they will carry their point; if not, they will certainly give over their present dispute."
Extract of a letter from London, Jan. 4.
"The reasons why I hope the unhappy differences between Great Britain and the colonies will soon subside are these following. viz. that the deliberations of that celebrated body of Gentlemen who constituted the General Congress are held in the highest esteem, by every sensible man in this metropolis; and our great patriot, Lord Chatham, has declared, that he wants words to express the great satisfaction he received in reading them, and that he does not think there are 52 men besides in the universe that could have done what those Gentlemen did, and that they must have been divinely inspired in their glorious work."
PROVIDENCE, March 4
ON Thursday last, about 12 o'clock noon, the town crier gave the following notice through the town: 5 o'clock, this afternoon, a quantity of India tea will be burnt in the market. All true friends of their country, of freedom, and haters of shack-cuffs , are hereby invited to a good disposition, by bringing something into the fire, a necessity for a long time hath lamented to our liberty, inter
It was then ordered by the common Council that a number of the People & all who were personal

About five in the afternoon a great number of inhabitants assembled at the place, when there was brought in about 300 lbs. weight of tea, by the firm contenders for the true interest of America. A large fire was kindled, and the tea cast into it. A tar barrel, Lord North's speech, Rivington's and Mills and Hicks's newspapers, and divers other ingredients, were also added. There appeared great cheerfulness in committing to destruction so pernicious an article: Many worthy women, from a conviction of the evil tendency of continuing the habit of tea-drinking, made free-will offerings of their respective stocks of the hurtful trash. On this occasion the bells were tolled, but it is referred to the learned whether tolling or ringing would have been most proper. Whilst the tea was burning, a spirited son of liberty went along the streets with his brush and lamp-black, and obliterated or unpainted the word tea on the shop signs.
Thus the funeral of Madam Souchong was observed. She was a native of China, and after travelling into several parts of Europe, where she found great notice amongst the opulent and luxurious, she took a trip to America. She came into this colony about 40 years ago, and hath been greatly caressed by all ranks. She lived in reputation for several years, but at length became a common prostitute among the lowest class of the people. She became very poor, and her price was so lowered that any one might have her company for almost nothing. The quality deserted her, and by hard living, in log houses and wigwams, her health was impaired. Broken spirits and hystericks seized her, and she died on the first day of March 1775, at midnight.
PHILADELPHIA, March 23.
WE are well informed, that information has been given to some of the committees on this continent, from the West Indies, of several persons who carried off sheep contrary to the association of the Congress, and that our friends in the islands nobly refused to buy the sheep, and treated the offenders with so much contempt that they were obliged to push their adventures to some other market.
The following advertisement, in a handbill, was received yesterday from New York.
To the PUBLICK.
BEING informed that many of our fellow citizens entertain apprehensions that we may continue as usual to transact trade and business in this city, by which means they fear there will be continual infractions of the association, we do hereby declare to, and engage with, the publick, that we will shut up our store, under the inspection of several respectable citizens, whose seals will be fixed thereon, so as to prevent any unfair conduct; and that we will not, after the committee's publication of our case, transact or carry on any trade whatsoever, which will be, either in ourselves, or in others, a breach of the association.
ROBERT MURRAY.
JOHN MURRAY.
NEW YORK, March 18, 1775.
Extract of a letter from a Gentleman in Barbados to his friend in this city, Feb. 8.
"A subscription was opened at the house of John Prettjohn, Esq; for our worthy and distressed brethren of Boston, to be sent in rum, the first week in April. It is imagined the sum will exceed 1000l. this currency. The Assembly are forming a petition to send to his Majesty, by the first European vessel."
WILLIAMSBURG, April 7.
WE are desired to assure the publick, from good authority, that sundry orders for goods from the Northern governments have been sent to Glasgow, which the merchants purpose complying with, but no goods from that port will be sent to Virginia or Maryland, the Gentlemen that trade meaning to pay due respect to the resolves of the General Convention respecting the non-importation Great Britain.
Extract of a letter from Whitehaven, Jan. 11.
"There is a vessel called the Patty , Captain Shepherd, put in here, bound from Liverpool to New York, loaded with coals, 199 crates and 4 puncheons of goods, and 4 bales of sailcloth, but nobody knows what sort of goods. The Captain says, crockery and hardware; and I understand there are two or three more of the same sort. Pray what will the people in the two Carolinas, Virginia, and Maryland, say to their faithful brethren to the Northward? I should be glad you would put this into all the papers, that peoples eyes may be opened. She arrived at Whitehaven on Sunday the 8th instant, after parting an anchor and cable in Ramsey bay, where they chose at this dismal season to ride, rather than come in here, lest a discovery should be made. This vessel is said to belong to New York, and is a small snow, with a woman figure head."
Captain Sampson, of the snow Elizabeth , of Bristol, who was lately published as a violator of the association, and an enemy to American liberty, for refusing to take on board again his cargo of salt, which the Norfolk committee had permitted him to unload, till he could get his vessel repaired and in order for sailing, has at last found it convenient, after repeated prevarications, and much indiscreet and disrespectful behaviour, to take in his load of salt, and is sailed back for Bristol, without any other cargo.
*** The piece signed A Customer being levelled at a Gentleman of this city, upon the supposition that he is the author of N. G. in last week's supplement, and as it is my invariable resolution never to publish any performance which reflects upon individuals, unless the author furnishes me with his name for my justification, I hope my customer, as well as the candid publick, will see the propriety of such a conduct.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
WILLIAMSBURG, April 5, 1775.
AS I intend to leave the colony as soon as I can settle my affairs, I must earnestly request all persons indebted to me on my own account, or in partnership with Mr. William Maitland , to discharge their balances by the ensuing meeting of the merchants. As there are probably some of those who may not have it in their power to comply with this request, it is expected they will give bond for what they owe, which will in some measure answer my purpose, and enable me to support my credit in future.-----The goods I have on hand, amounting to upwards of 600l. sterling, I would gladly dispose of at a low advance, and allow twelve months credit, the purchaser giving bond with approved security.
ROBERT MILLER.
MANCHESTER, March 25, 1775.
ABOUT 7 or 8 years ago, a bond from Jones and Hooper to Harrison , for upwards of 30l. was left with me to receive payment. In 1769 I received the money, with the interest then due, and some time after advertised in the Virginia Gazette , that the Gentlemen who put this bond into my hands might apply and receive the money, but no application hitherto hath been made. The bond was left with me at the time Col. Harrison sold negroes at this place, but by whom I know not.
JAMES LYLE.
WILLIAM COSBY, Wheelwright, in WILLIAMSBURG,
BEGS leave to inform his friends and customers, that having been in a bad state of health for these twelve months past, he has not been able to give that satisfaction he would willingly do; but being now quite recovered, he is determined that no one shall make better and more substantial work than him, or upon shorter notice, and therefore hopes for a continuance of their favours. He repairs all sorts of carriages, and furnishes iron work for the different branches of his business.
W A N T E D,
A YOUNG chestnut-sorrel HORSE, not less than 15 hands high, with his mane and tail of the same colour with his body. As he is designed for a carriage, he must be a trotter; and if he is a blooded nag, it will be so much the more agreeable. Inquire of the Printer. (2)
NORTH CAROLINA, March 15, 1775.
WHEREAS my wife Marhew has made an elopement from me, I forewarn all persons from harbouring or crediting her on my account, as I shall not pay any debts that she may contract.
1|| JOHN HOLAMAN.
Y O R I C K
IN full health and vigour, covers this season at the usual price and place. Country produce will be received at market price, if delivered before the mares are taken away, of which good care shall be taken, but no ensurance for escapes, by the publick's obedient humble servant,
JOHN WHELDON.
MOUNT AIRY, March 28, 1775.
K I N G H E R O D
WILL cover mares the ensuing season at 4l. each. The Gentlemen who send mares will be expected to make payment upon taking them away; and should any stray from the pasture, and be lost, I will not be answerable for them.
RALPH WORMELEY, junior.
ROSEGILL, April 1, 1775.
Ten Pounds Reward.
RUN away from the subscriber, near the upper church in Middlesex , on Saturday the 18th ult. a convict servant named JOSEPH HIGGINSON , one or two and twenty years of age, who is a native of London , but can neither read nor write; he is a small man, being little better than five feet high, has a remarkable down look, bends back in the knees when he stands, has no beard, but a remarkable strong voice for one of his size, and straight dark hair, not long enough to tie. He has been in the country four years last September , and was sold by Mr. Hodge to one Strother , by Strother to Roger Bell , who sold him to Reuben Daniel of Orange county, from whom I had him. He served his time to a screwplate maker, but I have since taught him to do all sorts of jobbing work very well; and although he pretends to understand brass and silver work, he is but an indifferent hand in those branches. He had on, and took with him, a Virginia cotton coat, kersey-wove, of a pale lead colour, white breeches, the same stuff as his coat, old English leather breeches, a mixed red Wilton jacket without sleeves, a coarse blue jump jacket, a pair of white cotton stockings, one pair of pale blue Virginia yarn do. a pair of mixed red coarse sale do. a pair of old shoes, turned pumps, and since he has been gone I understand he has bought a pair of new black grain dogskin shoes. I think he had a pair of silver buckles and a stone set brooch, but I am not certain. He had likewise a fine holland shirt and a muslin neckcloth, one osnabrug shirt, and a fine small hat almost new. I hear he was seen on his way towards, York . Whoever apprehends the said servant, and secures him in any jail of this colony, so that I get him again, shall have 5l. reward; if taken up in any other province, and brought home, I will give the above reward of 10l. I hereby forewarn all persons from harbouring him, or giving him employment; and as I suppose he will endeavour to make his escape by water, I caution all masters of vessels from taking him on board, or carrying him out of the country.
SAMUEL DANIEL.
*** As I had my house robbed the night before he went away, and two new cotton shirts carried off, I suspect him to be the thief.

WILLIAMSBURG, March 30, 1775.
THE Visitors and Governors of William and Mary College are desired to meet on Tuesday the 18th of April next.
By Order of the Rector.
MATTHEW DAVENPORT, Cl. Visit.
JOHN LAMB,
HOUSE CARPENTER and JOINER,
BEGS leave to inform the publick that he carries on the said business on his own account, and that it shall be his constant study, in prosecuting the different branches of the same, to give satisfaction to all who may please to employ him.
Williamsburg, March 28, 1775.
WILLIAMSBURG, March 31, 1775.
I INTEND to leave the colony soon.
ARCHIBALD WILLIAMSON.
*** All persons indebted to Mr. Patrick Telfer, merchant in Glasgow, are earnestly requested to make speedy payment, to Benjamin Waller, Esq; of this city, who is fully empowered to grant sufficient discharges.
WANTED immediately, two vessels, one of 3, the other of 5000 bushels burthen, the former for Boston, the latter for Britain. Inquire of the Printer.
The beautiful high bred chestnut horse
DAMON
WILL stand at my plantation in Glocester county, the ensuing season, and will cover mares at 20s. the leap, or 4l. the season. He was got by Fearnought out of a full bred mare, and is five feet five inches high. The mares will meet with good pasturage gratis, but I will not be answerable for any that are lost.
MANN PAGE.
*** The money to be paid before the mares are taken away, or corn at 10s. per barrel.
MERRY TOM
IN high perfection, stands at my house to cover mares at 20s. a leap, 50s. the season, or 3l. 10s. to ensure. He and his colts are so well known, that a description of them is unnecessary. Good pasturage for the mares gratis, but I will not be answerable should any be stolen or get away, although the greatest care shall be taken to prevent it.
JOHN BAIRD.
APPAMATTOX, GRUNCROFT,
March 24, 1775.
TAKEN up , in Bedford, a black MARE about fourteen hands high, trots, had on a bell marked I. K. and branded on the near shoulder O with a stroke through the middle. Posted, and appraised to 7l.
PRIOR WRIGHT.
STOLEN from the subscriber, in Louisa, the 2d of February a large likely black MARE eight or nine years old, near five feet high, has a brown mouth, some saddle spots, carries lofty, paces and trots, had shoes on before, and is a pleasant hackney. Whoever secures her, so that I may get her again, shall have 40s. reward, and reasonable charges, paid by
JOHN TODD.
THERE is now in my care at Col. Landon Carter's plantation, in York county, known by the name of Rippon Hall , a negro fellow named HARRY . He formerly belonged to Mr. Richard Booker , who sold him to Mr. Joseph Atkin , and by Mr. Atkin he was sold to Mr. Michael Little of North Carolina . As I was obliged, in taking the said negro, to shoot him, and have been at a good deal of expense in having him cured, I should be glad the owner would apply for him as soon as possible, pay charges, and take him away.
WILLIAM JACKSON.
PETERSBURG, March 25, 1775.
THE subscriber has for sale a quantity of Russia drillings and sheetings, a few boxes of sagathies and duroys sorted, with trimmings, and a parcel of narrow hoes, which he will dispose at a moderate advance, for ready money, or short credit. Also Barbados and Northward rum, muscovado sugar, molasses, bar iron, coffee, and white ginger, on reasonable terms.
2 EMANUEL WALKER.
OSCAR
STANDS at my house, near Petersburg , and will cover mares from this time till the end of the season, at a pistole the single leap, the money to be paid down; or three pistoles, payable in October , for the season. He is a horse of great size and activity, a fine forrel, and in high order.
" He was got by young Snip , his dam " by Lord Morton's Arabian , his grand- " dam by old Crab , his great grandam " by the bald Galloway , his great great " grandam by Dailey's Arabian , out of " bay Bolton's dam.
JOHN BANISTER.
For S A L E,
A NEW BRIG , burthen about 115 Tuns, now on the stocks, and ready for launching. Her upper timbers are altogether of black walnut, cedar, locust, and mulberry. The terms of sale will be made known to any person inclining to purchase, by applying to the steward at Stratford , the seat of the late Honourable Philip Ludwell Lee , Esq; in Westmoreland county.
FIVE POUNDS REWARD.
RUNAWAY from the subscriber, the 9th of February , a Scotch servant man, named ALEXANDER NORRIS , by trade a house carpenter; had on, when he went away, a brown coat much worn, a green waistcoat, and a pair of black stocking breeches. It is supposed he went to James river , or Norfolk , as he was seen at Aquia inquiring the way to Fredericksburg . Whoever brings the said servant to me, in Dunfries , shall have the above reward.
REGINALD GRAHAM.
TAKEN up , in Spotsylvania , a red STEER about three years old, marked with a crop and slit in each ear, and an under-keel in the left. Posted, and appraised to 2l. 2s. 6d. ANDREW MCWBRY.
TAKEN up , in Bedford, a bay HORSE with a blaze face, appears to be old, four feet seven inches high, a scar on his side, and another on his breast, all his feet white, is newly shod, and branded on the near shoulder W. Posted, and appraised to 8l.
WILLIAM JONES.
TAKEN up , in Bedford, a black MARE about four feet seven inches high, has a small white spot on the near side of her nose, several saddle spots, paces naturally, had on a small bell, and branded on the near shoulder AB in a piece.---Also a bay HORSE COLT two years old this spring, and has some white down his face. Posted and appraised, the mare to 8l. and the colt to 4l.
JOHN HEBBER.
TAKEN up , in Buckingham , a bay MARE about four feet six inches high, a star in her forehead, a long mane which hangs on the left side, sprig tail, trots and paces, has no brand perceivable, and appears by her feet not to have been used last summer. She had with her a bay horse COLT with a large star in his forehead, a long tail, and his mane hangs on the right side, but has no brand to be seen. Posted and appraised, the mare to 9l. 10s. and the colt to 3l. JOHN WHITE.
KING WILLIAM, March 23, 1775.
I INTEND to leave the colony for a few months. JOHN G. FRAZER.
For S A L E,
THE high blooded horse DOTTEREL . He is full fifteen hands three inches high, and remarkable for the strength and beauty of his form, being in every respect worthy of his high descent, which is from the best stock in England , as may be seen by his pedigree in the hand writing, and signed by, Sir John Pennington , who bred him. The Gentlemen of the turf are well acquainted with Dotterel's performances in Great Britain , and that he was esteemed the swiftest horse in England , Eclipse excepted. He is remarkable for getting colts, and they are uncommonly beautiful, and fit for the turf or the road. The above mentioned pedigree may be seen, and the terms of sale made known, to any person inclined to purchase, by applying to the steward at Stratford , the seat of the late Honourable Philip Ludwell Lee , Esq; in Westmoreland county.
TAKEN up , in Orange , a black HORSE about six years old, four feet three inches and a half high, a few white hairs in his forehead, a white spot above his tail, a cut mane and switch tail, has been broke down in his left hind foot, paces well, but has no perceivable brand. Posted, and appraised to 5l.
JOSEPH SMITH.
THREE months ago I purchased, from the executors of Littlebury Hardiman , a negro woman named RACHEL , formerly Mr. Hardiman's cook, since which I have not seen her. I am informed she has a husband at one of Col. Carter's quarters on James river , through whose benevolence I imagine she is now harboured. Whoever brings her to me, at Drummond's Neck , near Cowles's ferry, shall receive 30s. or 20s. if conveyed to Charles City prison. I am determined not to dispose of her, and will sue any person who entertains her.
6 JOHN AYLETT.
TAKEN up , in Culpeper , a middle sized red Cow, with some white on her rump and belly, branded on each horn IWH, and on the hip with something resembling a W. She had with her a cow CALF, near the same colour, with a star in its forehead. Posted and appraised, the cow and calf, to 2l. 7s. 6d.
ELIZABETH POLLAD.
S L O E
WILL begin to cover on the first day of April , at my farm near York , for 10s. a leap, or 40s. the season. There will be a pasture for the mares, and great care taken of them, but I cannot be answerable for any that may stray. As it will be inconvenient to collect so small a sum from each individual, it is expected that the money shall be sent with the mares, or they will not be received.
THOMAS NELSON, Junior.
For S A L E,
A TRACT of LAND in Caroline county, near Newmarket , containing about 3000 acres of well timbered land, having thereon two plantations, in good repair, with proper and convenient edifices for farming, or making tobacco. For terms apply to the subscriber.
(tf) JOHN BAYLOR.
For S A L E,
A TRACT of LAND in Caroline county, contiguous to Mattaponi , containing about 2000 acres of well timbered land, the property of Mr. Robert Baylor . The terms may be known by applying to Mr. Nathaniel Burwell in King William , Mr. John Armistead in Caroline , or Mr. John Baylor , Executors. (tf)
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