The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg, Va.), 1773-02-04 00:00:00

VIRGINIA
GAZETTE.
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WILLIAMSBURG, February 4, 1773.
MR. RIND,
SIR,
IT was with much pleasure I observed, after the forgeries of our paper currency were happily detected, the exceeding great pains taken by most Gentlemen, assembled from the different corners of the country, to make themselves thoroughly acquainted with the principal, leading marks, which materially distinguish the counterfeited from the true bills. They are fully guarded against impositions upon themselves, and I am persuaded have carried home with them every good disposition to assist the people in all parts with their best opinions and advices. What measures may be taken, to work a radical cure of the evil complained of, I presume not to determine; but in the mean time, till some better expedient can be adopted, I take the liberty of recommending it to all such as cannot safely rely upon their own judgments, to make all their money contracts payable either at the house of some judicious Gentleman in their neighbourhood, or at the principal towns where the merchants chiefly reside, or in this city. I advise this from a persuasion that any of these Gentlemen will readily give their opinions of such money as may be tended in payment. For my own part, I will most cheerfully examine any notes that my opinion may be desired of. I will do more: Such persons as cannot conveniently come hither to receive their money, may send their orders to me, and I will receive it for them, payable to their order in writing, drawn for the whole amount at once . The money shall be sealed up in separate parcels, with the owners names endorsed, and deposited in the country's iron chest. By pursuing some or all of these measures, I flatter myself that the credit of our paper money may still be supported, whilst it is suffered to continue in circulation. Let not the poor industrious planter be tempted by the chinking of a little gold or silver in his ears to part with the fruits of his labour at an under rate, but rather let him be persuaded that by pursuing one of these methods, which will cost him but a little more trouble than he has been used to, he may receive the full worth of his commodities in other money, equal in value, and perhaps more convenient to him. I by no means propose myself as a general receiver; the services I offer are solely intended for such as doubt their own judgments; neither do I, as I am far from thinking myself infallible, intend to warrant the money I may receive, either as to its goodness, nor against any unavoidable accidents. All I engage for is to use the same care and attention as I would do were it my own. The only recompence I desire, or will receive, shall arise solely from the satisfaction and pleasure I shall take in contributing every thing in my power towards relieving those who may be distressed from the perplexities and uneasinesses they may be involved in. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
RO. C. NICHOLAS.
To be SOLD, at public auction, on the premises, on Thursday the 25th of February,
A TRACT of LAND, pleasantly situated on Mattaponi river, in King & Queen county, containing about 650 acres, whereon is a genteel two story brick house, and convenient outhouses, all of brick, and in good repair; also a large warehouse, 60 by 24, with a brick cellar the length of the house, and within 30 yards of a wharf, where vessels of a hundred tons may load. One half the purchase money to be paid on the 25th of October next, and the other half on the 25th of April, 1774, the purchasers giving bond, with approved security, to
JOHN MEREDITH.
*** There are, belonging to the above mentioned tract of land, 100 acres of marsh, on the other side the river, which will be sold with the land. Likewise, at the same time and place, will be sold, on twelve months credit, all my flock of horses, cattle, hogs, &c. with a considerable quantity of household and kitchen furniture.
J. M.
WHEREAS I intend shortly to remove from the place where I now live to Fauquier county, on the Western waters, it is expected that all those Gentlemen who have business to do with me will attend at the Raleigh tavern in Williamsburg, where I shall be from the 15th of April next to the 25th of said month, in order to have all those accounts which are now unsettled properly adjusted.
ISRAEL CHRISTIAN.
TREASURY OFFICE, January 29, 1773.
IT is with INFINITE concern that I find there is immediate occasion to caution the public against several very ingenious and therefore the more dangerous forgeries of many of the FIVE POUND BILLS, emitted in November 1769, and July 1771.
From the peculiar sort of paper on which these notes were impressed, the many different devices and checks with which they were guarded, it was hoped that they would have baffled the attempts of the most crafty and designing to counterfeit them. Suspicion, it seems, have been for some time entertained in the upper parts of the country; but it is only within these few days that the forgeries of the emission of 1771, and not till this morning those of 1769, have been detected and fixed upon with certainty. Let it be remarked, that in the genuine good bills of both emissions the ornaments, by some called the entablatures, by others the feathers, which are raised, and partly turned over, the mens heads in the coats of arms, are different, as the original devices are; the one is much broader than the other; the point of the halbert, or spear, held by each of the men in his left hand, runs up so as to touch the broad entablature, but in the arms with the narrow entablature, the point of the halbert falls considerably below it; so that this difference alone does not prove any of the bills to be forged, as it is common to both sorts. The five pound bills of both emissions, hitherto discovered to have been counterfeited, have all the coats of arms with the broad entablature, or feather, which, with all the other devices and types, very nearly resemble those of the genuine bills. Some of the most apparent, striking differences, in those dated 1771, are these: In the good bills the T W in the white water letters, under the signers names, appear plainly, when held up to the light, to be wrought in the texture of the paper itself; these letters appear to sink equally both on the faces and backs of the bills, and are equally transparent, whereas in the forged bills they appear to sink into the paper only on the face of them, as if done with a stamp after the paper was made, and appear a little raised on the backs of the bills. In the good bills the first double stroke of the W, wrought in the paper to the left hand, is wider where it joins the middle stroke than it is at the top; but in the counterfeits these double strokes are at equal distances, and nearer each other. The tops and bottoms of the T and W stand exactly square, and even with each other, in the good bills; but in the forged the right hand corner of the top of the T is generally raised above the top of the W, and sinks a little to the left hand. The bars, or white water strokes, observable in all writing paper, which runs down from the tops to the bottoms of these bills, are a little more than the tenth part of an inch wider from each other in the good than they are in the forged bills. The counterfeits of 1769 appear to have been made on a different paper; they all have the broad entablature, or feather; the bars, or white water strokes, above described, in these are near a quarter of an inch wider than in the true bills; nearly the same remarks may be made on these, in respect to the T W, as on the same letters on the other emission, both as to the double strokes of the W, and the situation of both letters, in relation to each other; but it is very observable that the left corner of the W comes very near to the bar, or white stroke, running down the bill in the counterfeits; but in the genuine bills the same corner is at a greater distance from the bar, or water stroke.
There are several other remarkable differences in both emissions, which cannot be so well described in writing, but which many Gentlemen, in different parts of the country, are made well acquainted with.
I cannot too earnestly again recommend it to all holders of the paper money not to suffer any thing to be pasted on the backs of the bills; such as are pasted will not be received at the Treasury.
RO. C. NICHOLAS, Treasurer.
DELAWARE LOTTERY,
FOR THE SALE OF LANDS
BELONGING TO THE EARL OF STIRLING.
THE public may be assured that this LOTTERY will be drawn by the 20th of May next; and till then no money will be required for TICKETS, which may be had of the subscriber, in Williamsburg.
JAMES COCKE.
MR. RIND,
Please to insert the following piece in your next paper.
ON MARRIAGE.
IT is one of the greatest unhappinesses of our times that matrimony is so much discountenanced, that in London, and other great cities, so many never marry, and that the greater part have got into the unhappy and unnatural way of waiting the best years of their lives in a giddy round of vain amusements, and criminal pleasures. The advantages of early marriage, both to the community, and to particulars, and the mischiefs which might thereby be prevented, are not to be expressed. If a judicious choice is made, it will be found as much beyond the happiest single state as ease and affluence are beyond the narrowest circumstances. Indeed, what can be conceived more delectable than an inseparable union of interests between two persons who love one another with sincerity and tenderness, who mutually desire to oblige one another, and who can, with the utmost freedom, unbosom to one another all their joys, and all their griefs, whereby the one may be doubled, and the other divided? If friendship has afforded matter for so many commendations, worked up with innumerable rhetoric embellishments, what may not be said of that most perfect of all friendships which subsists between married persons?
I do not deny that there are women whose natural tempers are so unhappy that it is not easy to live with them, nor that the Ladies of our times give themselves up too generally to an idle and expensive manner of life, to the great detriment of economy, and the vexation of prudent masters of families; but it must be owned, at the same time, that the greatest number of unhappy husbands have themselves chiefly to thank for what they suffer. If a man will be so weak, as for the sake of either beauty or fortune, to run the desperate hazard of taking to his bosom a fury, or an ideot; or if he will suffer a woman, who might, by gentle and prudent ways, be reclaimed from her follies, to run on to ruin, without having the spirit to warn her of the consequences; or if, instead of endeavouring by mild and affectionate methods of remonstrance, and persuasion, joined with the endearments of conjugal affection, which a woman must be a monster to resist; if, I say, instead of having recourse to such means for pointing out to her the errors of her manner of life, he will persist to carry things with a high hand, and use a woman of sense, birth, and fortune, every way equal to himself, as a slave, or a fool, it is no wonder that domestic peace is interrupted, and economy subverted.
It is not the exquisite beauty, the most sprightly wit, or the largest fortune, nor all three together, nor an hundred other accomplishments, if such they were, that will make a man happy in a partner for life, who is not endowed with the two principal accomplishments, good sense, and good nature. If a woman has not common sense, she can be in no respect a fit companion for a reasonable man. On the contrary, the whole behaviour of a fool must be disgusting and tiresome to every one that knows her, especially to a husband, who is obliged to be more in her company than any one else. A female fool is proof against all reason and argument; and if she has not a little good nature, to attempt to advise her would be only arguing with a tempest, or rousing a fury. If between the two married persons there be, upon the whole, enough for a comfortable subsistence, according to their station, and temper of mind, it signifies very little whether it comes from the one side or the other, or both. Nothing is more absurd than that it should seem of such importance, in the judgment of many people, for a Gentleman to make a match suitable to himself, as they often very improperly call it; by which they mean that he is in duty bound to find out a Lady possessed of a fortune equal to his own, though what he has already may be more than sufficient to support the rank he was born in. The consequence of this mercenary way of proceeding is only the accumulating of more and more materials for luxury, vanity, and ostentation; the perversion of the institution of marriage, which was ordained for the mutual support and comfort of the parties, into a mere affair of bargain and sale; the alienating or cooling the affections of the parties for one another, by shewing each of them that the union was not entered into by the other on account of any personal regard, but from mercenary motives only, and the separation in-

Read of the union of interests. It is no wonder that such marriages prove unhappy; and each should look upon the other as a clog annexed to the fortune, which was the principal object each aimed at, and should therefore mutually with one another well out of the way. I do not mean to insinuate that every woman of fortune must of course be of little intrinsic value, but that a man of affluent circumstances, or even a man that has nothing, is much to blame, who, for the sake of a large fortune, or for adding to an heap already too large, enters into an engagement to which inclination does not lead him, and deprives himself of an opportunity of gaining and fixing the affections of an amiable and virtuous person, raised by him to a rank above her expectations, and thereby inspired, if she is not wholly devoid of goodness, with such a sense of gratitude to her benefactor as must influence all her actions. On the other hand, many people will say that they offer so many warm arguments upon this side of the question as will confound what has been said before; they will say nothing is more dreadful than the prospect those people have, who, from romantic love, run precipitately into an engagement that must hold for life, without considering or providing for the consequences. Two young persons who marry without a reasonable prospect of an income to support them and their family, are in a condition as wretched as any I know of. Let a man consider a little, when he views the object of his passions, to whom he longs to be united by a sacred and indissoluble band, how he will bear to see those eyes, every glance of which makes his heart bound with joy, drowned in tears, at the thought of misery and poverty coming? How will he bear to see that face, whose smile rejoices his soul, grown pale and haggard through anguish of mind? Or how will he bear to think that the offspring she is going to bring forth is to be born to beggary and misery.
Such arguments as these are very often prejudicial, because, if we are to follow what is laid down in the preceding lines, no person would marry but those who are in suitable circumstances to maintain a family. If we were to follow that rule, by what I have seen of the world, it would soon be at an end, otherwise the illegal propagations of mankind would become so frequent, that fornication would no more be looked on as a deadly sin, but would be encouraged by most people. I am afraid it is too generally so now; and what is it owing to? Certainly discountenancing matrimony is the occasion of it. And if, I say, we were to follow the preceding lines, the greatest part of matrimonial happiness would be at an end; for it is certain that the poorer kind of people enjoy the greatest happiness in the marriage state; for where we see a happier people than the poor shepherds, who have nothing to depend upon but coarsest of victuals, and often clothed in rags; yet they, and they only, in general, enjoy that reciprocal happiness in the married state that the Lords of the realm are entire strangers to.
It may often happen that the family and connections with which a woman is engaged, may alone be of more advantage to a man than a fortune; as, on the other hand, it may happen that a woman of fortune may be so given to expence, or may bring with her such a tribe of poor relations, as thence the income of her fortune would not be sufficient to maintain. In either of these cases a man's prudence is to direct him to make such a choice as will be the best upon the whole. It is a fatal error, in the conduct of many young people in the lower ranks of life, to make choice of young women who have been brought up in indolence and gaiety, and are not possessed of fortunes suitable to the manner of life they have been accustomed to.
The probable consequences of such matches are great, and remediless misery. For such women as have never been practised in the economy of families are incapable of applying themselves with that attention and assiduity, much less condescension, to the meaner kinds of household affairs, which is absolutely necessary where the income is but moderate. If a young trader's gains are but small, and his helpmate neither brings in any thing to the common stock, nor knows how to make the most of a little, and at the same time there is a prospect of a numerous family of children coming on, with the casualties of sickness, a decay of trade, and the like, the man who finds himself involved in such a scene of troubles, may justly be pitied. Those marriages, in short, are likely to be crowned with all the happiness this state admits of, where a due regard is had to the qualities of the mind, to personal endowments, as an agreeable appearance, and a suitable age, and to prudential considerations; and where either the one or the other is neglected, misery is the consequence to be looked for.
There is no care or diligence too much to use, nor any enquiry too curious to be made, before one engages for life. In an unhappy marriage every little occurrence, every trifling circumstance, calls to remembrance the wretchedness of the state, and happiness one has missed by making an injudicious choice; as, on the contrary, in a happy union, no accident is too trifling to pass without furnishing something to
give pleasure or entertainment, which must be heightened by being mutual. Let young people therefore be advised, above all things, to be careful what choice they make; and that they may be effectually divested of all prejudices in favour of any person, whose outward appearance, fortune, birth, or other circumstances, separate from the endowments of the mind, may be apt to mislead them, let them consider the character of the object, abstractedly from the glare of beauty, or the lustre of fortune, and then be true to themselves, and act the part which the judicious and impartial approve of.
Let a young man observe, before he allows his affections to fix upon a particular object, what figure and character she bears in the world; whether others admire her as well as himself, especially whether the cool, judicious, and elderly people, approve her character, conduct, and all circumstances, as well as the young, thoughtless, and passionate. The bloom of beauty will soon wither, the glitter of riches, and the farce of grandeur, will quickly become insipid; nor will any thing earthly give peace to the wretch who has taken a serpent into his bosom, and whose sting he feels every moment in his heart. During the time of courtship, though a man must resolve to put on a smooth and engaging behaviour, there is no necessity for it; nor is it expected, by the reasonable part of womankind, that the dignity of the nobler sex should be laid aside, and the lover debase himself, from a man of spirit to a slave, or a sycophant. On the contrary, it is absolutely necessary, if people are resolved to consult the happiness of the marriage state, to behave to one another in courtship in such a manner as neither may have reason to reproach the other with having acted a deceitful and unworthy part. For if mutual love and esteem be the very cement of matrimonial happiness, and if it be possible to love and esteem a person who has deceived and imposed on one, how cautious ought both parties to be, before entering into so close an union, of doing what may tend to lessen their mutual love and esteem for one another.
Nor is there less prudence for preserving the happiness of the marriage state than for establishing it at first. When it happens, as it will unavoidably at times, that the husband or wife is a little out of humour, it will be highly imprudent in the other to insist on reasoning the matter out, or decide the point in question at that time. The dispute ought to be let alone, at least till some time afterwards, or, if possible, dropped entirely. It may even be proper often to give up the point, and agree (contrary to one's own judgment) to what is advanced by the other; which will shew that one does not oppose for mere perverseness, but on grounds. Again, if one happens to be in a thoughtful, serious mood, it must be very injudicious in the other to put on a very gay behaviour. Married people ought to think nothing trifling, or of so small consequence, that may please or disgust one another's looks; to study one another's tempers, to fly to oblige one another, and to be afraid of the blowing of a feather, if it has the least chance to displease; for while the husband consults the wife's satisfaction, he is studying to promote his own happiness, and so of the wife.
WILLIAMSBURG, February 4.
"Departed this life, in the 72d year of his age, Colonel JOHN WILSON, representative for Augusta county. His conduct through life was unblemished; he was the object of his country's love, and their continual choice, as member of their Assembly, for the space of twenty seven years; he discharged his trust with that sincerity of heart only experienced by the truly virtuous; his actions through life were impartial, and guided by the unerring hand of wisdom and reason; by his death the public is deprived of an amiable member, his family of an affectionate parent, and indulgent master, his acquaintance of a sincere friend, and the distressed of a benefactor whose breast was ever disposed to soften the rigours of their situation."
JANUARY 30, 1773.
A C C A R D.
THE CHRISTIAN LAYMAN presents his respectful compliments to the ORTHODOX LAYMAN, and begs leave to inform him that it is some months since his reply to the ORTHODOX LAYMAN's letters was transmitted to Mr. Purdie, in expectation that he would have given it a place in his Gazette: But Mr. Purdie has refused the CHRISTIAN LAYMAN that favour; and, after keeping the reply by him many weeks, returned it yesterday to the CHRISTIAN LAYMAN.
This unexpected, and, as the CHRISTIAN LAYMAN presumes, unmerited treatment from Mr. Purdie, would have put a final end to the debate, had not the very obliging and very deserving Mr. Rind promised the CHRISTIAN LAYMAN the use of his paper. The ORTHODOX LAYMAN therefore may expect a renewal of the CHRISTIAN LAYMAN's correspondence with him in Mr. Rind's next week's paper, in which the CHRISTIAN LAYMAN's fourth letter will be published.
To be SOLD, on the 10th instant (February) THE remains of Matthew Holt's store, with credit till April next, by virtue of an assignment to me, together with his book debts, &c.
JOHN HOLT.
I WILL sell twelve or fifteen hundred acres of rich LAND on each side of Fish Pond creek, in the lower end of Buckingham, whereon are all necessary houses for cropping; also the CORN, FODDER, and STOCK on the said land, and six valuable Virginia born SLAVES. If my debtors had not unjustly kept me out of considerable sums of money for a long time I should have had no occasion to have sold land or Negroes to have paid my debts. Land that I sold eleven years ago I am not yet paid for, and a cargo of goods I entrusted a notorious villain with several years ago, I have not received forty pounds from him, and he refuses to let me see the books to copy them, or to settle with me.
ANTHONY WINSTON.
*** The land shall be laid off in parcels if not sold soon.
I INTEND to sell the following tracts of LAND, in Cumberland county, to wit, the land whereon I now live, which contains about 1500 acres, on which is a good dwellinghouse, and all convenient outhouses, in good repair; also a peach orchard which contains about 8000 fine young trees of the best fruit, an apple orchard which contains about 250 fine young trees, and almost every other kind of fruit trees in a flourishing state. On the said plantation is sowed about 60 acres of land in timothy; there is likewise a well accustomed grist mill on a constant stream. Also a tract about three miles below the former, which lies near the courthouse, and contains about 900 acres, on which is an apple orchard, convenient houses for cropping, and about 100 acres of as good meadow land as any in the colony, which may be overflowed in a few hours by a stream that runs through it; about six acres of said land is sowed in timothy. Likewise about 600 acres, lying on both sides of Willis's, of which there are about 200 acres of low grounds, a good apple orchard, and all convenient houses for cropping. Also 200 acres on Muddy creek, with a plantation thereon. The above lands, except the last mentioned, lie as well, and is as suitable for the culture of corn, tobacco, and wheat, as any in this part of the country. I have also for sale, on Dan river, near Dix's ferry, about 1500 acres. For terms apply to
JOHN MAYO.
To be LET, to the lowest undertaker, at Prince Edward courthouse, on the 15th of this instant (February)
THE building of a WOODEN COURTHOUSE, 46 by 24, and 12 feet pitch. Particulars will be laid before the undertaker on the day appointed. One hundred pounds will be advanced in October next, and one hundred pounds more, if that be the balance, in October 1774, the undertaker giving proper security. Attendance will be given by
PETER LE GRAND, JOHN MORTON.
Imported in the THOMAS, Capt. ROBINSON, from Glasgow, in spring 1771,
A SMALL BOX containing WEARING APPAREL, BOOKS, &c. which are not yet come to hand. I will be much obliged to any person, who knows where the said box has been landed, to inform Mr. Andrew Johnston, junior, merchant, in Petersburg, of the same, to whose care it was directed. ROBERT SPENCER.
To be SOLD, in the town of Newcastle, on Tuesday the 16th of this instant (February) to the highest bidder,
THE remainder of Mr. Joseph Tropp's store, consisting of European GOODS to the amount of five hundred and eleven pounds eleven shillings and seven pence, at first cost; also sundry currency GOODS and STORE FURNITURE, too tedious to mention. The time of payment to be agreed on at the sale.
JOHN SYME, JAMES OVERTON, junior.
CABIN POINT, February 1, 1773.
AS the store formerly kept at Richmond town by Mr. Andrew Chalmers, for Messieurs William Cuningham, and company, of Glasgow, has been under my management since the 1st of November last, I think it necessary to give this public information that the said concern will not think themselves obliged, from that time, to answer any contract or engagement entered into by Mr. Chalmers, as manager for the company at that place.
WILLIAM HENDERSON.
TAKEN up, in Prince George, a large black horse, appears to be very old, has been much worked, paces slow, branded I on the near buttock, has a short sprig tail and a divided mane. Posted, and appraised to 3l. 5s. WILLIAM ANDERSON.
TAKEN up, in Augusta, a bright bay mare, about 5 years old, 13 hands high, has a blaze in her forehead, paces and trots, but neither docked nor branded. Posted, and appraised to 4l. 5s.
JAMES TRIMBLE.

NAUSEMOND, February 2, 1773. WANTED IMMEDIATELY. Upon CHARTER, for PORT GLASGOW, VESSEL of about 400 hogheads. For terms apply to JOHN HAMILTON, and company.
TO BE SOLD, BETWEEN 4 and 500 acres of valuable LAND, on Cedar Run , in Fauquier county; the land is of the pignut soil, whereon is a well improved plan- tation, a dwellinghouse with two brick chimnies, three fireplaces, and four rooms on a floor, with con- venient outhouses, a very good apple orchard, be- tween eight and twelve acres of improved meadow ground on the low grounds of Cedar Run , inferior in soil to none below the Ridge , with a great quantity of land, proper for meadow, unimproved; the land is well timbered, in a healthy part of the country, convenient to church, court, presbyterian, and other dissenting meetinghouses, several fine boltimg mills, particularly Churchill's famous mill, which, when converted to a merchant mill, will make the land of great value, as the soil is proper for any kind of grain, as well as Tobacco. For terms apply to Mr. John Chilton , near the premises, or the subscriber. WILLIAM RANSDELL.
THOMAS GLASS, GOLDSMITH AND JEWELLER, BEGS leave to inform his friends in particular, and the public in general, that he carries on his business as usual, at his shop in Hanover town; but having experienced the inconvenience of giving credit, is determined for the future to deal for ready money only. He returns thanks to his friends for past favours, and assures them that they may depend on having their orders executed, and at the lowest prices.
STRAYED , or stolen, out of my pasture, the 11th of January , a sorrel mare near 14 hands high, with a blaze face, some saddle spots, her hind legs white up to her knees, and a white spot on each flank, paces slow, has a half roached mane, and switch tail, trots hard, is long bodied, and branded Z, but scarcely perceivable. Whoever brings the said mare to me shall receive TWENTY SHIL- LINGS , besides a reasonable allowance if taken up above 50 miles from my house, near Littlepage's bridge, Caroline county; or if stolen, I will give FIVE POUNDS on conviction of the thief. DUNCAN GRAHAM.
STRAYED , or stolen, from the upper part of King George , a large black mare, with some of her feet white, a sprig tail, a star in her forehead, and a fore back when she went away, but no brand that I remember. Whoever takes up the said mare, and will contrive her to the subscriber, living near Boyd's Hole , in Stafford county, shall have TWEN- TY SHILLINGS reward. LAWRENCE WASHINGTON.
FROM  New England and New York were shipped, last year, to Great Britain and Ireland , POT and PEARL ASH to the value of near two hundred thousand pounds sterling; three fourths of which we must give the economical wives credit for, owing to their household ashes, which they save, and sell to the pot and pearl ash makers. It is now become a manufactory of so much notice that it is carried on in every town through New England provinces. In Russia , Hungary , and Switzerland , almost every fa- mily manufacture their own household ashes to pot ash, and carry it to market in small quantities, and there sell it to the merchant. And although the staple commodity of remittance in this colony, in tobacco and wheat, are equal, if not superior, to any other, yet if we can add one more to it, it must be to our credit, and an advantage to the community, as well as to the manufacturer. The landed Gentlemen here would reap great advantages by manufacturing their own ashes; for, on taking the method practised in other parts, of clearing their land, on one hundred acres, that are well timbered, they would have nine hundred bushels of ashes. These ashes will make 15 tons of pot ash, which would be worth here 600l. and where the labour is done by the family servants, the whole expence attending it will not amount to 300l. The apparatus for this purpose will not cost more than 20l.—The subscriber now acquaints the public that they may have of him, at the house of Mr. Freer Armiston , in Norfolk , for a reasonable pre- mium; the process of making POT and PEARL ASH , warranted to answer the design, with a method of clearing land of the wood, so that the ashes, when burnt, and made into pot ash, will answer the above calculation. Numbers of Gentlemen in Maryland , and other northern provinces, have bought the pro- cess, and are now taking the method prescribed for clearing their lands, and making pot ash. BENJAMIN LEIGH.
CAPTAIN  John Johnstoun , of the Lord Camden , who was lost in his passage to London in 1770, with all his books and papers, by which accident his executors know not of whom to demand payment of his debts, all Gentlemen indebted to him will be pleased to make it known to Mr. Joseph Lane , of Westmoreland county, or to the subscriber, who is empowered to receive his debts. W. CARR.
R U N A W A Y From Captain M c KILLUP'S BRIG , Lately stranded on E G G I S L A N D , A B O U T F I F T Y IRISH CONVICTS,
Many of which are said to have landed in Gloucester county. Whoever apprehends the said servants, and will bring them to me, in York town, or secure them in any gaol, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS reward for each, and be allowed all reasonable ex- pences.
THOMAS LILLY.
On the first day of April next will be exposed to sale, for ready money, THE well known TAVERN sometimes called Baylis's , sometimes Farrow's , at present Reno's ordinary, situate in the center of Prince William , eight miles from Dumfries , where all back roads terminate, and I believe more tobacco passeth by this door in one year than is made in the whole county in the same time, which renders it an excellent place either for tavern keeping, or a back store, with all convenient houses for either of those purposes, a well of good water, and about 400 acres of land. Also another tract of land, adjoining the aforesaid, con- taining about 250 acres; with a large dwellinghouse thereon in good repair, orchards, gardens, &c. and is in tolerable good order either for farming or crop- ping, the whole surrounded perhaps with as good a range for cattle of all kinds as is on this side the Blue Ridge . The whole will be sold together, or in parts, as may best suit the purchasers; and by application to the subscriber, four miles from the premises, any person may be shewn the land, and plats thereof, according to an accurate survey. CORNELIUS KINCHELOE.
NORTH CAROLINA, January 1, 1773. THE subscriber will be in the neighbourhood of Salisbury during the months of March , April , and May next, in order to treat with such Gentle- men as may be inclined to purchase any of his lands in this province. What are now in his hands are the choice of several large surveys, run as far back as the year 1739, and are laid off in several hundred tracts, from 200 to 1000 acres. The soil is remarkably suited to the culture of wheat and tobacco, and is generally allowed to be equal in goodness to any on the continent. Time of payment will be allowed as may be agreed upon; and the lands may be viewed, and further particulars known, by applying either to Benjamin M c Culloch , Esquire, of Halifax county, William Johnson and Michael Holt , Esquires, of Orange county, John Kimborough , Esquire, of Guild- ford county, Thomas Frohock , Esquire, of Rowan county, Thomas Polk , Esquire, of Mecklenburg coun- ty, and Felix Kenan , Esquire, of Dublin county. JOHN E. M C CULLOCH.
To be SOLD, by the proprietors, at public vendue, on the first day of April, 1773, together, or in parts, as may best suit the purchasers, for cash, or short credit,
THE OXFORD FORGE , or BLOOMERY , in Bedford county, with all the lands thereunto belonging, being 6000 acres, well timbered, advan- tageously situated for coaling, the stream is good, there are several banks of ore, sufficient for any num- ber of iron works the owner or owners may think proper to erect. The quality of the iron that has already been made in the bloomery, or blooming way, is not inferior to any on the continent. There are two seats for furnaces, the farthest not exceeding a quarter of a mile from the ore banks; and we can venture to assure any person or persons, that may inclined to purchase, that a furnace may be built at either of the said places as cheap, and carried on at as small expence, as at any place in America . Pig or bar iron may be exported at a small expence, as the forge lies within one mile of James river, which affords an easy carriage within six or seven miles of navigation. The country in which the said works are situated is very extensive, and as there are no iron works to intercept their market, the demand for iron will be very great. A considerable part of the said lands is very capable of farming, or planting. There is also a large quantity of meadow ground. The terms of sale may be known by applying either to Robert Harper , of Berkeley county, Thomas James , late of Carlisle ironworks, in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania , or to Benjamin Elledge , on the pre- mises, who will shew the lands, &c. Indisputable titles will be made the purchasers.
ROBERT HARPER, THOMAS JAMES.
N. B. There is an exceeding good sawmill with- in a hundred yards of the forge, with sundry conven- iencies for mills of any other kind, which the pur- chaser may think proper to erect.
TAKEN up, in King George , a grey horse, brand- ed on the near buttock LR , and about three feet nine inches high. Posted, and appraised to 2l. WILLIAM BRYAN.
TAKEN up, in Louisa , a fleabitten mare about 4 feet 6 inches high, branded on the near but- tock C , paces well, and appears to be very old. RICHARD PHILLIPS, sen.
FALLS OF POTOWMACK, Sept. 10, 1772. THE subscriber am the manufacturer of SNUFF and TOBACCO , who formerly resided at Blad- denburg , in Maryland , and at this time have a quan- tity of very good old snuff by me, grown better by age, which I would willingly dispose of by wholesale on very reasonable terms; that is, in such a manner as to allow the purchaser a very good profit in retail- ing it. Those who incline to become customers to me may be furnished with any quantity on notice given, and it shall either be packed in Weston's or Kippen's bottles, or in country made pots, agreeable to orders. From my own observation, patriotism in Virginia and Maryland is not so dormant but it may be awakened by a proper application to a person's real interest; and I am convinced that many Gentle- men, through choice, and taste likewise, would prefer mine to foreign snuff, provided they could be furnish- ed with it in their own neighbourhood; which induces me to think that the Gentlemen merchants can have no objections to procure it for them, when I can assure them that customary commissions will be allowed them; or that they will have a sufficient profit in retailing it. However, such Gentlemen as would take one dozen bottles, or more, at a time, and lodge payment for the same with some merchant convenient to them, shall have it at my wholesale prices; and I will en- gage to deliver the same to their orders at general landing places, on both sides of the rivers Potowmack and Rappahannock , and at Norfolk for Gentlemen on York and James rivers, they paying package and freight, the charge whereof will be very small, and shall not forget to recommend it to the care of their merchant. The prices will be as follow: For one dozen, or more, of snuff, commonly called plain Scotch , in Kippen's bottles, three dollars per dozen; in Weston's bottles five dollars per dozen; and in pro- portion for pots. Those who chuse it, may have the snuff packed in bulk, either, in large pots of twelve to twenty pounds each, or in tight casks from thirty or forty pounds each, to four or five hundred pounds, at two shillings and eight pence, Maryland currency, per pound, payable in dollars, at seven shillings and six pence each, exclusive of the charge for pot or cask. I likewise make round high toast at two shillings and six pence, rappee at four shillings, and Spanish snuff at five shillings, Virginia currency, per pound, when six pounds, or more, are taken at a time. The two latter kinds, either plain or scented, at choice of the purchaser. I would gladly enforce an encouragement of my manufacture by a reiteration of my good op- inion of the taste of the Gentlemen and Ladies of Vir- ginia and Maryland , as well as of the readiness and willingness of the merchants to oblige them, by taking quantities of me for the purpose of retailing; and would recommend it to Gentlemen at a distance to give their orders to their merchant, who will forward them to me; all which orders shall be strictly and punctually complied with, both as to the kinds of snuff they may direct, and in every other respect. Those Gentlemen merchants who may receive snuff from me, to be distributed by them to Gentlemen in their neighbourhood, shall be entitled to 10 per cent. for their trouble; and I only request from them a re- mittance of the balance, after deducting their com- missions. A collection of all orders that may be offered them is therefore desired, and their forwarding them to me immediately by post, or otherwise, will be acknowledged a particular favour. I would like- wise furnish cut tobacco of two sorts, viz. shag and saffron; the first for chew, the latter for the pipe; provided orders of consequence enough to induce me to manufacture it are timely received. The price of each will be nine pence, Virginia currency, per pound, by the dozen, and in smaller quantities at ten pence per pound. I have now only to observe that those Ladies and Gentlemen who are not already acquaint- ed with the quality of my snuff and tobacco (which I affirm to be good) may receive information from many Gentlemen concerning it, in most parts of Vir- ginia and Maryland , who have heretofore had trial of both; and I wish for no other recommendation. I humbly conceive that the interest of the public is con- cerned in the encouragement of country manufactures, and I shall, in future, if properly supported by it, in this very useful branch of its commerce, gratefully acknowledge the favours that may be conferred on the public's very humble servant, RICHARD THOMPSON.
TAKEN up, in Bedford , on Molly's creek, a bay mare, about 4 feet 4 inches high, with two glass eyes, branded on the near shoulder T M in a piece, and on the near buttock L , has some saddle spots, one hind foot white, and about 14 years old. Posted, and appraised to 5l. ROBERT MEANS.
TAKEN up, in Mecklenburg , a bright bay horse, about 12 years old, has a star in his forehead, and some saddle spots, about 4 feet 6 inches high, paces slow, and branded on the near buttock WL in a piece. Posted, and appraised to 3l. 10s. THOMAS NETHERY.
TAKEN up, on John's creek, in Botetourt , a roan mare, about 13 hands 3 inches high, 11 years old, has a small star in her forehead, a natural pacer, and branded on the near shoulder IC . Posted, and appraised to 9l. EDWARD CARVIN.

General Post Office, New York, Nov. 1, 1771. NOTICE is hereby given, that on account of the new regulation of the post from Canada , which is to arrive every Tuesday evening at this office, and the weekly post from the eastward and southward arriving every Wednesday , the mail going from hence by the packets will, for the future, be closed at twelve o'clock at night, on the first Wednesday in every month (being the same time it closes at the General Post Office in London for America ) and a packet despatched therewith, the next day, for Falmouth . By command of the Deputy Postmaster General. ALEXANDER COLDEN, Secretary.
To be SOLD, on Tuesday the 16th of February, pursuant to the last will and testament of Captain Servant Jones, deceased, in Warwick county , ALL his personal estate, consisting of Negroes, Stocks of different kinds, &c. Twelve months credit will be allowed, on giving bond, with approved security, to THE EXECUTORS.
CANDLES Of all sorts MADE and SOLD by the subscriber, in Norfolk , for CASH, SHORT CREDIT, or COUNTRY PRODUCE. CHRISTOPHER CALVERT.
PETERSBURG, December 28, 1772. SOME time ago Mr. John Alston advertised some Negroes for sale, as part of the estate of Mr. John Monro, deceased , since which I am informed a considerable number of them belong to the estate of Col. Andrew Monro, deceased , this is to give notice to all persons that the whole estate of the said Andrew Monro , consisting of several tracts of land, forty Negroes, and their increase, stocks of cattle, &c. is all mortgaged to Sir Lyonel Lyde, Baronet, of London , for a very considerable sum, which is recorded in the General Court, and as any purchaser can have no right to any part of the mortgaged effects till this debt is discharged, I have taken this method to inform the public, that no person may be deceived in making a purchase of any part of the mortgaged effects. RICHARD HANSON, Attorney for Sir LYONEL LYDE, Baronet.
*** All persons indebted to Sir LYONEL LYDE, Baronet, and company, are desired to make immediate payment; and as great indulgence has been given, suits will be brought against all those who do not discharge their accounts at the next April General Court.
ALL persons who have any demands against the estate of Major Travers Tarpley, late of the county of Richmond, deceased , are desired to send their accounts, properly proved, to the subscribers, on or before the last of April next. As we then intend to settle our accounts with that estate, we shall not think ourselves liable for any debts that shall be demanded after that time. JOHN BELFIELD, RICHARD MITCHELL.
A YOUNG man, who understands accounts, and can be well recommended, would willingly engage with a merchant, or private Gentleman, on reasonable terms. Apply to the printer hereof.
RUN away from the subscriber, in King George , on Wednesday the 30th of December , a Virginia born Negro fellow named WILL , about 40 years of age, is very tall and slender, has a long visage, very talkative, and is by trade a carpenter; had on an oznabrig shirt, a Negro cotton coat and breeches of a green colour, a spotted jacket of the same, and a pair of white Virginia knit stockings. I will give THREE POUNDS to any person who will deliver the said slave to me, and FORTY SHILLINGS to secure him in any gaol, and give notice thereof. I do strictly forewarn all masters of vessels from carrying him out of the colony. JOHN TALIAFERRO.
TAKEN up, in Cumberland , 5 hogs, about 2 years old, most of them white, marked with a crop in the right ear, and a swallowfork and under-keel in the left. Posted, and appraised to 5l. LITTLEBURY MOSBY.
TAKEN up, in Mecklenburg , a bay mare, about 3 years old, 4 feet 3 or 4 inches high, has some faddle spots, a star in her forehead, and docked, but not branded. Posted, and appraised to 8l. WILLIAM ALLEN.
TAKEN up, near Staunton , in Augusta , a bay horse, about 14 hands high, 9 or 10 years old, with a blaze and snip, a long scar on his back, his hind feet white, trots and paces, and has no perceivable brand. Posted, and appraised to 8l. JOHN BINGHAM.
WILLIAMSBURG, January 21, 1773. TO BE SOLD, THE HOUSE and LOT adjoining me, wherein I formerly lived. Twelve months credit will be allowed the purchaser, on giving approved security. WILLIAM PASTEUR.
JUST PUBLISHED, And to be SOLD, wholesale and retail, By WILLIAM RIND, HYMNS AND SPIRITUAL SONGS, Collected from the WORKS of several AUTHORS. IN THREE BOOKS. I. ON BAPTISM. II. ON THE LORD'S SUPPER. III. ON VARIOUS OCCASIONS. Large allowance will be made to those who purchase to retail.
NORFOLK, January 5, 1773. WHEREAS the partnership of Bolden, Lawrence, and company , expired on the 1st of this instant, this is therefore to request all persons indebted to them to pay off their accounts immediately, or settle their balances by bond, and those to whom they are indebted are desired to apply, and receive payment. The business of the house will be continued, and carried on to its usual extent, by JOHN LAWRENCE, and company.
To be LET, to the lowest bidder, on the second Monday in March next, if fair, if not, the next fair day, on the land of Joshua Evans, in Cameron parish, Loudoun county ,
THE building of a BRICK CHURCH 53 by 40, two feet in the clear, and the walls to be 28 feet high from the surface. One hundred and fifty pounds will be paid the undertaker the day the work is let, he giving bond, and approved security. Three hundred and fifty pounds more will be paid in June next; and the other payments to be agreed on the day the work is let. Any person inclined to engage in the said building is desired to attend at the time and place appointed. JOHN MOSS, JEREMIAH HUTCHISON, } Churchwardens.
TAKEN up, in Prince William , a bay mare, branded on the off buttock X, has a few white hairs in her forehead, a switch tail, and is 14 hands high. Posted, and appraised to 10l. ELY HARPER.
JUST PUBLISHED, And to be SOLD, by EDWARD CUMINS, At the NEW PRINTING OFFICE In WILLIAMSBURG,
THE STORER, OR THE AMERICAN SYREN: BEING A COLLECTION OF THE NEWEST AND MOST APPROVED SONGS. Price one PISTEREEN.
HANOVER town, January 1, 1773. I HEREBY give notice that against the 1st of March next the business now under my management will be put into the hands of Mr. John Davis , who has full power to settle and collect the debts due to Messrs. Murdochs, Donalds, and company , contracted at the stores kept at Biswell's by Mr. William Donald , and at this place by me. As many people have hitherto put off the settlement of their accounts, they cannot expect longer indulgence, unless their debts are ascertained; for which purpose I will give constant attendance here till the 1st of March , except the time of the merchants meeting in Williamsburg , and some of the adjoining county court days, which can be no inconvenience to those who come to settle, as Mr. Davis , who is thoroughly acquainted with the business, will then attend. The debts due to Messrs. Andrew Cochran, Robert Donald, and company , will be collected by Mr. Richard Morris , as formerly. JOHN JOHNSON.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
RUN away from the subscriber, living in Westmoreland , the 12th of August , an Irish convict servant man named MATTHEW THARP , by trade a gardener, about 5 feet 5 inches high, well made, much pitted with the smallpox, has short dark hair, but generally wears a dark wig over it clubbed; had on, and took with him, a pair of leather breeches, light coloured cloth coat, old striped jacket, several white and oznabrig shirts, one check ditto, an old brown holland coat, striped holland trowsers much stained, shoes and stockings of many sorts, a hat almost new, with a band and buckle. This fellow was convicted last June Oyer Court was a twelve-month for horsestealing. Any person that will secure him in any of his Majesty's gaols, so that I get him, shall receive the above reward. JOSEPH PIERCE .
N. B. I have reason to believe he has taken a half blooded bay mare, as I cannot find her; she is about 14 hands high, and without a brand.
NORFOLK, January 25, 1773. THE subscriber intends for the West Indies soon, and returns in a few months. ROBERT TAYLOR.
A SCHOOLMASTER, capable of teaching READING, WRITING, and common ARITHMETIC, will meet with very good encouragement by applying to the subscriber in Mecklenburg . PEYTON SKIPWITH.
COMMITTED to the gaol of Accomack a runaway slave, about 21 years of age, 5 feet 4 inches high, very likely, and has a scar over his left eye, at his first commitment said he belonged to Mr. Otto Ball on James river , but now says he belongs to Mr. Morgan Sabb in Charleston, South Carolina , and formerly was the property of Mr. Cornelius Dickwick of Maryland , and was sold by Capt. Benjamin Hammond to the said Sabb , and that his own name is ABNER ; had with him, when taken up, two oznabrig shirts, and one pair of trowsers. He says he has been from his master two or three years, and has followed the water ever since. The owner, on proving his property, and paying charges, may have him of ISAAC DUNTON, Sheriff.
TAKEN up, in Prince William , a black mare about 13 hands high, branded on the near buttock C, has a small star, some faddle spots, paces naturally, and has on a small bell. JAMES WARDEN.
RUN away from the subscriber, at Petersburg , about the middle of September last, a very likely Negro man named PHIL , about 20 years of age, of a yellowish complexion, about 5 feet 9 inches high, and proportionably made; he is a native of Africa , but speaks broken English , having been some years in the West Indies , and has lost two joints off two of his fingers on his right hand; had on an oznabrig shirt, an old Virginia cloth waistcoat, with a new Negro cotton jacket over it, and a pair of old check trowsers. As he has been used to the sea, he will probably endeavour to get on board some ship, and make his escape out of the colony; all masters of vessels are therefore forewarned from harbouring or carrying him off, at their peril. I will give THREE POUNDS reward to any person who will deliver said slave to me, or to Mr. Hugh McMakin at Portsmouth , and FORTY SHILLINGS to secure him in any gaol, and give notice thereof. THOMAS GORDON.
WE the subscribers take this method of informing the public that a stage is now carried on between Philadelphia and Baltimore , by the way of Wilmington and Charles Town : The advantages that will attend this stage, we hope, will induce every person that wants a quick dispatch to Baltimore to favour us with their custom. As Wilmington is situated on Christiana , two miles from Delaware river , and Charles Town , on North East river , eight from the mouth of Elk river , we shall never be detained by contrary winds, which is frequently the case with other stages. Foudrey and Bush's stage leaves the Crooked Billet wharf, in Philadelphia , every Wednesday , and returns every Friday : Patrick Hamilton's stage waggon leaves Charles Town every Thursday , and returns every Friday from Wilmington ; and his packet leaves Charles Town every Saturday , and returns every Wednesday . Passengers pay from Philadelphia to Wilmington two shillings; from Wilmington to Charles Town five shillings; from Charles Town to Baltimore four shillings. Goods are received in Philadelphia by Messieurs Edwards and Marris , Chestnut street wharf. PATRICK HAMILTON, FOUDREY AND BUSH.
WARWICK, November 1, 1772.
THE subscriber has for sale about five thousand acres of LAND, lying in different parts of Pittsylvania county, and mostly upon Smith's river , the soil of which is well calculated either for making tobacco or hemp. The terms may be known by applying to John Rowland , who lives near the land, and will shew it to any person inclining to purchase. PATRICK HUNTER.
WARWICK, October 25, 1772. AS the store formerly kept by Alexander Stewart at Rocky Ridge , for James and Robert Donald , and company, is now broke up, and the debts put into my hands to collect, all those indebted for dealings there are desired to pay off their accounts immediately, or settle their balances by bond; and those who have any demands against the store are desired to apply to me for payment. PATRICK HUNTER.
Who has for sale a TRACT OF LAND lying on the forks of Roanoke , in Mecklenburg county, containing about 600 acres, on which is an exceeding good dwellinghouse, storehouse, and other necessary buildings, as also several valuable improvements. As the land lies within sixteen miles of the courthouse, and eighty from Petersburg , it would answer any person very well who intends keeping a back store.
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