The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg, Va.), 1777-08-29 00:00:00

VIRGINIA
GAZETTE.
ALWAYS FOR LIBERTY
AND THE PUBLICK GOOD.
High HEAVEN to GRACIOUS ENDS directs the STORM!
WANTED, a quantity of OLD LINEN, proper for making lint and bandages, at the several stations of the troops of this state. Five shillings per pound will be allowed for all such linen, delivered to the hospital surgeons at Williamsburg, York, Hampton, and Portsmouth. Those whom the advanced price will not induce to bring in an article so necessary to our army should reflect on the sufferings which their relations, friends, and countrymen, may be exposed to from the want of it. I M'CLURG.
PRINCE WILLIAM, Rippon Lodge, August 1, 1777.
WANTED, a manager for a farm, on which there are 200 or more tithables, and plenty of land opened to carry on business to advantage. Either a yearly salary, or a fixed proportion of the crops, will be given, as can be agreed on. I could wish the person applying to have a wife who would undertake the charge of a dairy, raise poultry (of which last she may have a share) and also take under her care three or four spinners. Any person properly qualified to undertake such business must procure certificates from gentlemen of character, of his abilities, integrity, and sobriety, without which he need not give himself the trouble of an application || T. BLACKBURN.
FOR sale, on reasonable terms, the following tracts of land in Virginia, viz. Eight surveys in Hampshire, containing 1800 acres. Three tracts in Dunmore county, containing 3000 acres. One tract in Frederick containing 442 acres. Three tracts in Fauquier, containing 3000 acres. These lands being of different quality, any person inclinable to purchase may be shewn the several tracts by applying to the subscriber, who will attend the courts in October in the respective counties where the lands lie. Letters for the subscriber may be directed to the post office, Dumfries. || ROBERT SCOTT.
CHESTERFIELD county, August 4, 1777.
WHEREAS I the subscriber, having made an assignment to my brother Stephen Pankey, jun. of the said county, of all the debts due me on my own private account, and in partnership in trade with every person with whom I have been concerned, either on specialties or otherwise, I desire all persons indebted to make speedy payment to the said Stephen Pankey, jun. to whom my creditors are desired to make known their claims, and receive payment. || JOHN PANKEY.
DESERTED the 16th instant (August) from my quota of state troops, Francis Depke, a Frenchman, 5 feet 3 or 4 inches high, who had on a blue lappelled coat with a silver shoulder knot, a check shirt, and Russia drill breeches. It is probable he may be gone towards Petersburg, as he came from that place. Whoever delivers the said deserter to the commanding officer in Williamsburg shall have ten dollars reward.
2|| EDWARD DIGGES, lieut.
CHESTERFIELD, August 10, 1777. Mr. PURDIE,
WITH contempt I beheld a piece published in your paper of the 25th of July last, and the preceding paper. The author says the publick are grossly imposed upon by a number of persons who carry up and down the rivers and bay quantities of the inferior kind of coal, which they sell for the coal drawn out of Samuel Duval's pits, the weight and colour whereof is considerably lighter than Duval's, and more flate. As there are but few sellers of coal, and none in such large quantities as myself, I take these groundless and false assertions to be pointed at me, and must reasonably suppose Duval to be the author, as surely no one but himself could be the dupe of so shallow an artifice, calculated to depreciate the value of mine, and raise the credit of his. But as it is notorious, where he sells one bushel of coal I do a hundred, the great demand I have both at home and abroad for more than I dig will sufficiently prove mine of a superior quality, and I think place it above the slander of any such malicious impostor; and should he think proper to give us another specimen of his performance, should be glad he would confine himself to the truth, and then he may not be afraid nor ashamed to put his name to it; but he may rest assured, as long as I want a quick trade for my coal, the best method I can take is to inform the publick they are dug out of the pits belonging to
THOMAS BOWELL. The price is 14d. per bushel.
RICHMOND August 21, 1777.
FOR sale, a quantity of FLOUR, lying at Warwick. Any person in want may apply to me in Richmond.
PETER STONER.
A CHEST of valuable and well assorted MEDICINES will be sold at publick vendue, at York town, on Wednesday the 3d of September; likewise a quantity of medicines, just imported from the West Indies, in packages.
1|| JAMES QUARLES.
A GOOD WEAVER will meet with a proper encouragement by applying to the subscribers, in Mecklenburg county.
LEWIS BURWELL. JOHN MURRAY. ALEX: GORDON. ASA OLIVER.
STRAYED from Kingmill, a black mare 14 hands high, with a star in her forehead, one hind foot white, and branded on the near buttock I G. Whoever brings the said mare to Lewis Burwell, esq; at Kingmill, or to me in King William, shall have 20s. reward.
|| NAT. BURWELL.
LOST up in Hanover, a brindled and white pied heifer about a year old last spring, has lost an eye, marked with a crop and slope in the right ear, and a crop in the left. Posted, and appraised to 20s. || Joseph Brown.
To be SOLD to the highest bidder, on the second Monday in October next, at the town of Leesburg, Loudoun county, agreeable to the last will and testament of col. George Johnston, deceased,
FIVE half acre lots of ground in the said town, one of which has valuable and convenient buildings thereon, well situated for trade or a tavern. Twelve months credit will be allowed the purchaser, upon giving bond and approved security.----- As Mr. Johnston has directed this, with some other part of his estate, to be sold for the payment of his debts, and the education of his two younger brothers, it is desired that the creditors will, as soon as they conveniently can, furnish Mr. Hugh Nelson of Berkeley county (who will be authorised to settle the business of the said estate) with the amount of their demands, that the executors may be enabled to know how much of the said money will be left, and regulate the education of the children accordingly.
|| ARCH: JOHNSTON. } exec. LEVEN POWELL, }
THE creditors of William Irby, late of Charles City county, deceased, are requested to make their several demands known to me, on or before the court is held for the said county in October next, at which time the court propose to make provision for the payment thereof.
|| THO: BOLT, Sheriff of Charles City.
FOR sale, in the state of N. Carolina, Dute county, 600 acres of land not inferior to any upland in said county, new cleared enough to work four hands, under exceeding good fence, with a good peach orchard, and a quantity of fine apple trees. It is as beautiful a place as any in this state, and might be made so (viz) from any large water course. The crop of corn, stock of cattle and hogs, to be sold with the premises.---Also another tract on Fishing creek, in said county, containing 250 acres with a plantation thereon, and land cleared sufficient to work four hands, with a good peach orchard; also the stock of cattle, hogs, and crop of corn.---As I suppose no person will purchase without seeing, there needs no farther description, but for terms apply to the subscriber on the first mentioned premises
|| JOSHUA MABRY.
YORK town, August 13, 1777.
I TAKE this method to inform the publick in general, and the gentlemen who have favoured me with their custom hitherto in particular, that I have removed from the house on the water side to the large brick house behind the courthouse, the property of Dr. John Griffin, and formerly belonging to Mrs. Lightfoot, where gentlemen who please to favour me with their custom may depend on my best endeavours to entertain them.
2|| THOMAS WYLD

KINGSTON, August 11.
ON Monday or Tuesday last passed through this town Mr. John Adams, on express from Boston to Philadelphia, who reported as follows, viz. That on the Tuesday before, in Boston, he saw Capt. Francis (brother to the late gallant Col. Francis) who, in his hearing, told a number of gentlemen, that all the militia of the county of Berkshire and Hampshire, and also of the state of New Hampshire, were actually on their march towards the Grants and Fort Edward; that he had met several of them, all provided with 36 rounds of cartridges each man, and doubted not that in a little time there would be 10 or 12,000 men in the rear of the enemy. That one of his company, who had escaped from them after the retreat from Ticonderoga, assured him, that in the house where he had been confined there were 170 of the enemy wounded, and that he had seen 130 more of them lying dead on the field of battle. The express farther adds, that the Tuesday before he saw a number of the Eastern militia, just arrived from Boston, many of whom had come above 80 miles, and were then on their way to Fort Edward.
PHILADELPHIA, August 14.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Nook Kill, dated July 27, 1777.
THE frequent injuries and horrible actions committed by general Burgoyne's scouting parties on single unarmed men, and defenceless women, are sufficient, in my opinion, to give every man a thorough detestation of their whole conduct; and were not the Tories hearts made of more than iron hardness, it would inspire them with a desire of ridding this world of such a set of villains as their army is in general composed of. Several of our officers and soldiers have been inhumanly shot as they passed from one fort to another unarmed, and scalped while yet alive. It would take too much time to enumerate every action of this kind. One instance which happened yesterday, during the skirmish, may serve for the whole: A young lady of the name of Miss Jenny M'Crea, of a good family, and some share of beauty, was by some accident at Fort Edward when the enemy attacked the picket guard; she and an old woman, whom she was with, were taken by the savages, who generally serve as an advanced guard or flanking parties to the regulars, the latter of whom were drawn up on a hill just above the fort, and then, with a barbarity unheard of before, they butchered the poor innocent girl, and scalped her in the sight of those very men who are continually preaching up their tender mercies, and the forbearance of their more than Christian king. Is not this sufficient to congeal the heart of humanity with horror, and even oblige a Tory of liberal sentiments to curse the cause which approved or winked at such worse than hell like cruelties!
"Every circumstance of what I have related above you may depend on. The unfortunate maid's corpse was brought here last night, together with a young lieutenant, a Mr. Vanrader of Brunswick, who is also scalped, and will be interred to day. What renders this affair more remarkable is, that Miss M'Crea has a brother an officer in the British service, now at New York, and she herself leaned to that side of the question; but thus they treat their friends, as well as enemies! The young lady has also a brother a senior surgeon in our hospital, whom I am intimately acquainted with, a worthy sensible young fellow, and who, I am sure, will not forget the injury, but revenge it tenfold."
Last week divers persons who have last been in office under the late hereditary
government of Pennsylvania, or otherwise in the service of the king of Great Britain, were arrested, and indulged on parole, with a convenient degree of liberty, they however considering themselves as prisoners of war. This was done for the publick security, by his excellency the president in council, in his character of commander in chief. These gentlemen are to be considered as servants and subjects of the enemy; at least they had not renounced him, nor given any pledge or assurance of their fidelity to the state. They must be subjects of the one or the other. There can be no neutrals. It was not fit they should go longer at large.
We hear that John Penn, esq; late governor of Pennsylvania, and of the counties of Newcastle, Kent and Sussex, upon Delaware, and Benjamin Chew, esq; late chief justice, register general of wills, &c. and of the council of Pennsylvania, having declined signing paroles, are to be secured at Fredericksburg in Virginia.
Extract of a letter from Paris, to a gentleman in Pennsylvania, dated April 10, 1777.
"I think it my duty to give every information in my power, which through your means, in your publick character, can possibly be useful to the United States of America.
"I found the ministry at this court anxious to know the success of our opposition to the violent attempts of Great Britain; they were surprised they had not received more frequent intelligence and applications. Partly through the representations which I had the honour of making, a commercial company, with the sanction of administration, is formed under the form of one of the most reputable houses. By that channel you will soon receive arms, clothing, tents, cannon, mortars, gunpowder, and every other necessary article for an army of 30,000 men, together with a few good officers of artillery. We had for a long time received no certain intelligence from Congress, while English emissaries were busy in retailing the grossest falsehoods: First, that the dispute was like to be soon accommodated; and when the declaration of independence made that impossible, they pretended that dissensions prevailed amongst the colonies, and that the vast armaments employed by Great Britain would infallibly finish the contest in one campaign.
"Our total want of intelligence had for some time rendered the ministry at Versailles timid and apprehensive. In this situation of affairs I quitted France, in order, if possible, to negotiate a loan in Holland, and to open an intercourse with the court of Prussia, which by its ambassador in France had expressed a desire of knowing the true state of the 13 United Colonies, and of making some essay in our trade.
"At Amsterdam, Bremen, and Hamburg, I endeavoured to excite speculators to open a direct commerce with us; and nothing but the total want of proper and due intelligence from Congress, or of an equal share of ability in the art of coining, to counteract the abominable lies of England, who stuck at nothing to make Europe believe we were on the point of subjugation, has hitherto prevented my farther success. Companies, however, are actually formed, even in the heart of Germany, from whence our wants will certainly be supplied, and good markets found for vending our commodities.
"At Berlin I met a more favourable reception than I could possibly have expected. I made there proper representations to the king and minister, who gave me strong assurances that all the great powers in Europe wished our independence; but his majesty was pleased to say, "until we threw fixes , they must keep up ap-
pearances with England." I still have the honour of corresponding with the Prussian minister, and several persons of rank about the court, and I long to be enabled to inform the king that we have thrown fixes . The present king is infirm; his presumptive successor is rather inclined to ease and pleasure, whence it is to be presumed he will prefer commerce to war. I will soon transmit you a sketch of the Prussian trade and manufactures.
"In my way through Saxony, Lusatia, and the Palatinate, I found the capital merchants meditating a future commerce with us. I received a thousand civilities from them; they sent after me to Paris patterns of various manufactures of the different countries. I have cultivated this good disposition, and make these merchants the vehicles of communicating through Germany true accounts of every important event in the American states, to confront the false reports spread by the creatures of the British ministry.
"There is no doubt of obtaining very large supplies of money to enable you to carry on the war, as long as England is mad enough to continue it; and very large sums are already actually obtained for your use. The French nation is clamorous for war with England; the nobility breathe the same sentiments, and the court in general lean towards us. The ministers wish to provoke Great Britain to attack them; in that event, their allies, the emperor, Spain, Sweden, &c. will be obliged to support them. Your commissioners are provoking them, by taking English ships in the British channel, and selling them in French ports. Upon the whole, it appears that war on this side is inevitable, although to deprecate the stroke the court of London has stooped very low.
"This letter will be put into your hands by the marquis de ----, of a noble and ancient family in France, connected by birth and marriage with the first in the kingdom, and in possession of an estate of upwards of 14,000 l. sterling per annum, beloved and almost adored by his numerous acquaintance; but preferring glory to every enjoyment, which these, in the arms of a young and beautiful wife and young family, could give him, he courts danger in defence of our cause, which is here universally celebrated as the cause of mankind, and nothing amazes sensible men in Europe more than to hear there are any disaffected people among you.
"The situation of every friend to America residing in England is now become critical. The American refugees are parceling already our spoils, and disputing about offices and their different shares of our estates. The infatuation of the people of England almost equals the wickedness of their ministry. We had an opportunity of seeing their intended mercy, when before the affair of Trenton they expected entire conquest. I hope no proposals for accommodation will be accepted by you until that country shall be so reduced as to leave America no room to fear its farther tyranny. From the best authority, I can assure you their force this year will not equal that of the former. Their new German hirelings go out with great reluctance, and many of them have been bound hands and feet and sent down the river to the ports of embarkation. Be firm on your part; your cause is good, and must therefore be crowned with success."
Extract of a letter from Albany, August 11.
"I have the pleasure to communicate to you an agreeable piece of intelligence. Last Wednesday, about 9 o'clock, an engagement ensued between a part of the militia of Tryon county, under the command of general Herkemer, and a party of savages, Tories, and regulars, about halfway between Erskie and Fort Stanwix. It lasted till 3 o'clock in the afternoon,

when the enemy thought proper to retire, leaving general Herkemer master of the field. Unluckily, however, the general and some valuable officers got wounded and killed in the beginning. This, however, did in no ways intimidate the ardour of the men; and the general, although he had two wounds, did not leave the field till the action was over: He seated himself down on a log, with his sword drawn, animating his men. The enemy lost on the occasion some of their chief men, such as Joseph Brandt, William Johnson, Peter Johnson, bastards of the late sir William Johnson, Stephen Watts, Johannes Jost Herkemer (a brother to the general) and a number of others, Indians and regulars. About 1 o'clock the same day, col. Gransevoort having received information of general Herkemer's march, sent lieut. col. Willet out with 200 men to attack an encampment of the enemy, and thereby facilitate general Herkemer's march. In this the colonel succeeded; for after an engagement of an hour he had completely routed the enemy, taking one captain and four privates prisoners. The baggage taken was very considerable, such as money, bear skins, officers baggage, and camp equipage. One of the soldiers had for his share a scarlet coat trimmed with gold lace to the full, and three laced hats. The plunder, at the most moderate computation, exceed 1000.
"When the colonel returned to the fort he discovered 200 regulars in full march to attack him, upon which he immediately ordered his men to prepare for battle; and having a field piece with him capt. Savage of the artillery so directed its fire as to play in conjunction with one out of the fort. These, with a brisk fire from his small arms, soon made these heroes scamper off with great loss. Col. Willet then marched with his booty into the fort, where he arrived at 4 the same day, having not a single man killed or wounded. We expect daily to hear of another engagement at that place.
"We have this moment received an account that the enemy have left Saratoga, but what route they have taken is unknown"
WILLIAMSBURG, August 29. WE have heard nothing of the enemy's fleet since our last, only by an officer just arrived from head quarters, who, as he passed through Baltimore, was informed they lay off Pool's Island, and that it was thought they intended landing their troops somewhere about Cecil courthouse in Maryland. The same gentleman says, that general Washington's army was about 18 miles from Philadelphia when he left it, and in high spirits, and supposes they are by this time got to the Head of Elk, the general being fully apprised of the enemy's motions, and determined to dispute every inch of ground with them.
Last Tuesday old mr. Goodrich, with Andrew M. Cann, Leven Townshend, and Malcom Stalker (alias Chilcott) were safely lodged in the publick jail in this city, by capt. Wells and a party of Isle of Wight militia, who took them at a plantation of mr. Goodrich's in that county, on Day's neck.
Deaths.] Mrs AMEY EPPES, at her house in Dinwiddie, in the 76th year of her age, much lamented by all her numerous acquaintance. As a wife, she was ever affectionate and obedient; as a mother, tender and indulgent; as a mistress, kind and forgiving; and as a neighbour, generous, charitable, benevolent, and obliging. She never had an enemy, so inoffensive was her conduct; and her surviving friends, anxious to emulate her virtues, with nothing more than to live and die as she did. Innocent through life, and confident in death.
ALL persons who have any demands against the estate of William Vaiden , deceased, of New Kent county, are desired to bring in their accounts properly attested, and they shall be paid. All those indebted thereto are requested to make immediate payment to
2|| JOSEPH VAIDEN } executors. JACOB VAIDEN }
UPON Wednesday the 15th of October will be sold at vendue, at the late dwelling plantation of the deceased mr. John Hamilton , upon Mount Calvert manor, near Upper Marlborough , Prince George's county, Maryland , several horses, mares, and foals, amongst them a bay mare 7 years old, with a filly at her side, got by Sprightly , she was got by Figure , her dam by Dove , grandam by Othello , great grandam was the famous Selima , imported by the late Benjamin Tasker , esq. A black mare 6 years old, full sister to the above bay mare, with a foal at her side, got by Sprightly . A black colt rising two years old, who was got by Don Carlos out of the black mare; a bay filly rising two years old, out of the bay mare got by Ranger . Figure was got by Figure , he was got by the Beaufort Arabian , his dam by Standart , and was own brother to sir James Lowther's  Jason . Young Figure's dam was old Marcamnia , she was got by Victorious , her dam by old Partner , her grandam by Merlin , her great grandam by Makeless . Victorious was got by Ruffler , his dam by Hutton's gray Barb . Dove was got by young Cade , his dam by Teaser , grandam by Scawen's Arabian , cut of the Garner mare, who won six king's plates. Othello was got by Crab , out of Panton's Bonny Lass . Selima was got by the Godolphin Arabian . Sprightly was got by Wildman's Babram , his dam by old Babram , his grandam by Sedbury , out of lord Portmore's Ebony . Sedbury was got by old Partner , his dam by Woodcock . Bonds, with approved security, or Maryland currency, will be received in payment.
THOMAS HAMILTON.
BEAKELEY COUNTY, August 1, 1777. ANY person inclined to purchase LEEDS , a full blooded beautiful horse, may know the terms on which he may be had by applying to mr. Francis Willis in Gloucester county, mr. William Edwards in Bruiswick , or of the subscriber in Berkeley . I cannot with certainty assert the age and blood of Leeds , though I think the information I had was this, and I believe it may be relied on: His age 11 the ensuing spring, his sire old Fearnought , his dam got by old Jolly Roger , his grandam full blooded, and imported; he was, I believe, bred by mr. Max. Robinson near Leeds town, and by him sold to col. Peter P. Thornton . By application to either of those gentlemen, his age and pedigree may be ascertained. Leeds is full 15 hands high, a good sorrel, with a small streak in his forehead, one hind foot white. He has stood three years in this county, has had a sufficient number of mares each year, gets beautiful colts, and is in very high repute. He may be had on very reasonable terms, as I propose going into the service, and expect to march by the 20th of September , and conceive it would be hazardous to keep a horse of his value during my absence; besides which, I propose to decline raising horses until my return from the service. I have yet a few very good blooded mares for sale, four two year old colts, two good riding horses, a pair of sorrels 15 hands high, who match and draw well, one of them 8 years old, the other 6, and three waggons and teams, or the teams without the waggons. The horses are young, large, strong, in good order, and have been well managed.
FRANCIS WILLIS, jun.
Williamsburg, August 27, 1777. A QUANTITY of exceeding fine JE-SUITS BARK to be sold either wholesale or retail, at a reasonable price, by NORTON & BEALL.
A good exchange will be given for bills on any part of Europe , or the West Indies .
To be SOLD at York town , on Monday the 8th of September ,
THREE negro men that have been used to go by water, and a half worn mainsail and foresail proper for a large boat. W. REYNOLDS.
RICHMOND, August 26, 1777. THE new ROPERY now erecting at this place, by Archibald Cary and company, is in immediate want of a manager who perfectly understands the conducting and managing of that branch of business; also two or three good spinners, to whom extraordinary wages will be given, and proper dwelling-houses provided for them convenient to their work. The company proposes that the manager shall (if he chooses) be interested in one share, and the money advanced him, clear of interest, until he finds it convenient to repay it, also to furnish him with a complete dwelling house and all other convenient outhouses garden and pasturage, rent free, either for a single man or family. Provisions for the same at the expense of the company. His annual wages to be fixed upon application to me. The sooner application is made the better. None need apply but those who can be recommended as perfectly understanding the afore-mentioned branch of business,
JOSHUA STORRS , manager. for Archibald Cary & Co.
To be SOLD to the highest bidder, on Wednesday the 22d of September ,
A TRACT of land containing 200 acres, in Amelia county, lying on West creek , about 3 miles below the courthouse, it being the land that Robert Thompson , deceased, formerly lived upon. One half of the purchase money to be paid on the day of sale, the other half the first day of October 1778, for which bond with security will be required, and the bond to bear interest from the date if not punctually paid.
|| WILLIAM THOMPSON , for self and others.
Five per cent. discount will be allowed if the other half of the money is paid on the day of sale.
RUN away from New London , Bedford county, the 2d of June last, a negro lad named BEN , a well set fellow 17 years of age, about 5 feet 2 inches high; he came into the country a small boy, but speaks plain, has a good countenance, his teeth are large before and rather stand forward, his hair was trimmed on the top, and long on the out sides, he is brisk and strong, runs exceeding fast, and had irons on his legs, with a chain fast to one of them when he went away. Any person that will secure him in any jail, so that I get him, or brings him to me at Bedford courthouse, shall have 8 dollars reward.
|| JOHN CALLAWAY.
RUN away from the subscriber living in the upper end of Henrico , the 21st of this instant ( August ) a likely Virginia born negro man about 6 feet high, stout made, of a yellowish complexion, and has lost part of the little finger of his left hand. As I have reason to believe he will attempt to pass for a freeman, by the name of James Loney , I hereby forewarn all persons from harbouring or employing him, and masters of vessels from carrying him out of the country, at their peril. Whoever delivers the said negro to me shall have 20 dollars reward, or 10 dollars if secured in any jail, so that I get him again.
|| BENJAMIN JOHNSON.

TAKEN up in Augusta , near Staunton , a dark coloured mare 4 years old, 13 hands 1 inch and a quarter high, with a bright star in her forehead, some part of her tail bobbed, her mane trimmed on both sides, but the centre grows natural, is a trotter, and branded on the near shoulder and buttock D:G. Potted, and appraised to 15l. William Hamilton.
TAKEN up in Bedford , a black horse 4 feet 8 inches and a half high, 8 years old, appears to be hipshot, and walks a little lame, has a hard knot on his near shoulder, three white feet, some small white spots in his face, some saddle spots, and had on a small bell. Potted, and appraised to 15l. Joseph Tweedy.
TAKEN up in New Kent , a sorrel horse 4 feet 4 inches high, about 13 years old, with a blaze in his forehead, his near hind foot white to the fetlock, and branded on the near buttock C. Potted, and appraised to 13l. Samuel Mannin.
TAKEN up in Halifax , a gray horse about 7 years old, about 4 feet 4 inches high, branded on the near shoulder and buttock resembling the letter V and an X over it, remarkably saddlebacked, and is undockt. Potted, and appraised to 3l. Fulker Fulkerfon.
TAKEN up in Hanover , a bright bay mare 4 feet 5 or 6 inches high, with a star in her forehead, a snip on her nose, her near hind foot white up to the fetlock, and a switch tail. Potted, and appraised to 12l. Benjamin Timberlake sen.
TAKEN up in Augusta , a mout coloured mare about 4 years old, 13 hands and a half high, a natural trotter, branded on the near shoulder S, and on the near buttock B. Potted, and appraised to 11l. Valentine Coulill.
TAKEN up in Bedford , a bay horse about 4 feet 6 inches high, with a small star in his forehead, a large saddle spot on the off side, had a bell on with a double buckle, branded on the near shoulder N, on the off shoulder I R, and on the near buttock F. Potted, and appraised to 16l. John Chiles.
TAKEN up in Mecklenburg , on Roanoke , near the fork, a dun bay horse about 4 feet 8 inches high, 6 years old, shod before, and branded on each buttock C. Potted, and appraised to 9l. Daniel Gold.
TAKEN up in Mecklenburg , near Taylor's ferry, a sorrel horse about 4 feet 7 inches high, 7 or 8 years old, with white mane and tail, paces, trots, and gallops, is a horse of spirit, and branded on the near buttock HP in a piece. Potted, and appraised to 20l. Thomas Andersen.
TAKEN up in Augusta , a pied white and brindle cow, with a kind of long heart in her face, is middle sized, about 8 years old, her left ear cropped, and the right ear slit about half way, with the under piece cut off. Potted, and appraised to 3l. Nehemiah Harrison.
TAKEN up in Augusta , a black horse about 7 years old, about 14 hands high, has a star and snip, trots and paces some, his hind feet white, a little of the heel of the off fore foot white likewise, and branded on the near shoulder P. Potted, and appraised to 16l. Thomas Galbreath.
TAKEN up in Brunswick , a black and white steer about 3 years old, marked with an overkeel and nick in the right ear, and a crop in the left. Potted, and appraised to 30s. Lewis Brown, jun.
TAKEN up in King George , near Leeds town, a gray horse about 14 hands high, with hanging mane and switch tail, is a natural pacer, but not branded. Potted, and appraised to 5l. Anne Hungerford.
TAKEN up in Spotylvania , a dark bay horse about 8 years old, 4 feet 6 inches high, with a star in his forehead, and some saddle spots. Potted, and appraised to 20l. Samuel Hildruth.
TAKEN up in Charlotte , near Burwell's mill, a gray mare about 4 feet 6 inches high, 7 or 8 years old, and had a small bell on. Potted, and appraised to 11l. Valentine Mullins.
TAKEN up in the upper end of Charlotte , on Turnip creek, a small black horse about 14 years old, with a star in his forehead, a snip on his nose, several saddle spots, his hind feet white, paces and trots, but has no brand perceivable. Potted, and appraised to 8l. John Wood.
TAKEN up in Charlotte , near the Messingford bridge, a black horse 4 feet 6 inches high, 4 years old, is dockt, but not branded, Potted, and appraised to 12l. Joseph Cole.
TAKEN up in Spotylvania , a red branded yearling steer, marked with a crop in the right ear, and a crop and two slits in the left. Potted, and appraised to 25s. Joel Parish.
TAKEN up in James City , a bay horse about 4 feet 4 inches high, with a blaze face, his near hind foot white, and branded on the near buttock I. Potted, and appraised to 10l. Edmond Bacon.
TAKEN up in Isle of Wight , a large sized roan horse about 12 years old, has a blaze in his face, white feet and legs, carries his off hind leg straight, trots and canters pretty well, and paces slow. Potted, and appraised to 5l. John Pretlow.
TAKEN up on Back river in Elizabeth City , a brindled cow about 8 years old, and marked with a slit in each ear. Potted, and appraised to 4l. 10s. James Wallace Bailey.
TAKEN up in Chesterfield , a red horse with some white hairs under her belly and breast, and marked with two smooth crops and a nick in the under part of the right ear. Potted, and appraised to 50s. Henry Stratton.
TAKEN up in Bedford , a red steer about 3 years old, with a white face, some white under his belly, the end of his tail white, marked with a crop in the right ear, and an underkeel in the left. Potted, and appraised to 30s. Joseph Blankenship.
TAKEN up in Essex , near Holt's shop, a small 3 year old heifer, with a yellowish back, dark brown sides, white head to the ears, white belly and legs, and a little of the tail, but has no ear marks. Potted, and appraised to 30s. William Watkins.
TAKEN up in Orange , a red steer about 3 years old, marked with a crop in the right ear, and a crop and underkeel in the left. Potted, and appraised to 25s. John Bledsoe.
TAKEN up in Dinwiddie , on the Great creek , a white horse, much fleabitten, 4 feet 7 or 8 inches high, 10 or 11 years old, with hanging mane and switch tail, has long fetlocks, branded on the near shoulder W, and on the near buttock HP in a piece. Potted, and appraised to 15l. Peter Jones, jun.
TAKEN up in Chesterfield , a bright bay mare about 4 feet 7 inches high, about 6 years old, with a star in her forehead, but neither dockt nor branded. Potted, and appraised to 15l. Ralph C Andersen.
TAKEN up in King & Queen , a two year old black filly, about 4 feet high, a natural pacer, but neither dockt nor branded. Potted, and appraised to 5l. Henry Michelburrough.
TAKEN up in Dinwiddie , a brindled cow, marked with a crop, hole, and halfmoon in the right ear, and a halfmoon, under and over, in the left; also a heifer, of a reddish colour, about two years old, unmarked. Potted and appraised, the cow to 45s. and the heifer to 25s. John Eppes.
WILLIAMSBURG MANUFACTORY, August 11, 1777.
FOR want of an HEMP MILL, we have not been able to answer the continual demands on us for dressed hemp; but we have a mill now erecting, and hope shortly to be able to accommodate our customers. We give ready money for cotton, wool, flax, and hemp, and continue to dress the two last of those articles for others in the best and most expeditious manner. Our price for heckling is one sixth part of the gross flax or hemp. JOHN CRAWFORD, manager.
RICHMOND county, July 29. 1777. IN April last I engaged with mr. George Yerby , executor of John Yerby , deceased, to take up a protested bill of exchange drawn by the said John Yerby in the year 1773 on messrs. Clay & Midgley , merchants of Liverpool , in favour of mr. Samuel Hopkins , and endorsed by mr. David Boyd for the sum of 170l. sterling, which protest I was then informed was in the hands of mr. William Maitland , merchant of Williamsburg ; and in order to discharge the same, I instructed a gentleman soon after to inquire for the said Maitland , who was informed that he had removed from Williamsburg . The said Maitland , or whoever may hold the said protested bill, is requested to take notice that I am ready to pay the same, with the damages thereon, and desire that immediate application may be made. HUDSON MUSE.
STRAYED or STOLEN from York town, about the 1st instant ( August ) a dark bay mare 4 or 5 years old, about 14 hands high, with hanging mane and short switch tail, and branded on the near buttock T H. If strayed, I imagine she is gone towards Frederick county, as I am told she was bred there. Whoever takes up said mare, and will deliver her to me in Yorktown , shall have ten dollars reward. (2) ABRAHAM ARCHER.
STRAYED from the subscriber at Charlotte courthouse, about the middle of May last, a mare, and two horse colts a year old this spring. The mare is a bay, about 7 years old, 12 hands 2 or 3 inches high, with a blaze face, had on a very good small bell with a Dutch collar but no buckle, is dockt, branded on the near buttock I R, and I think on the near shoulder likewise, but am not certain. One of the colts is a sorrel, the other an iron gray, or may be called a roan. Both have blaze faces, are cut and docked, and branded on the near buttock and jaw with the same brand as the mare. Whoever delivers them to me, or gives such intelligence as I get them again, shall have 3l. reward. JOHN TANKERSLEY, sen.