The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg, Va.), 1772-10-29 00:00:00

VIRGINIA
GAZETTE.
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PHILADELPHIA, October 10.
B Y the sloop Hawke, Capt. Wadlington, arrived here on Monday last from St. Croix, we have the following account of the hurricane in that island: To give information of which, the said sloop was dispatched by his Excellency Governor Roepstorff to the first port he should make on the continent, that the distressed situation of the inhabitants should be known, as well as the encouragement offered to all persons importing provisions for their relief, and lumber for re-building their workhouses, &c. agreeable to the proclamation.
CHRISTIANSTED (St. Croix) Sept. 4.
O N Monday night last blew the most violent hurricane that has ever been known here, or perhaps on any island, in the memory of man. Words are wanting to describe the horrors of the night; the dreadful roar of raging winds and waves, the crash of falling buildings, the cries and groans of the sufferers, the dying and the wounded, together with a tenfold darkness, made visible only by the meteors, which, like balls of fire, skimmed along the hills, formed a most terrible and most distressful scene. When morning came, the dismal effects of its fury were seen in every street, and particularly on the rising grounds, where scarce a house is saved, so that nearly one half of the houses in this place were seen thrown down, or greatly damaged, which, with the sight of the several dead bodies, filled every face with astonishment. All the vessels in the harbour, early in the night, broke from their moorings, and were drove on shore, where they remain, most of them many yards on dry land. Accounts from the country are yet worse, if possible. Nearly all the dwelling-houses, and every Negro house, on the plantations, are swept away by the violence of the gale; and from Fredericksted we hear there are but three houses left standing. It is remarkable that the water, in almost every butt, is become brackish. At present, cannot give an exact account of the unhappy persons who were killed, as every hour comes loaded with its dismal tale.
On this melancholy occasion, his Excellency the General has devised every thing for the relief of the suffering poor, that the humanity and goodness of heart, which so eminently distinguish his character, could suggest; and for their benefit has issued a placard, of which the following is a translation:
By his Royal Majesty of Denmark, Norway, &c. appointed Governor General over the joint Danish islands in America, IULRICH WILHELM VAN ROEPSTORFF,
MAKE KNOWN , that whereas this island has undergone so general a desolation, by the most dreadful and hitherto unheard of hurricane, in the night betwixt the 31st of August and the 1st instant, whereby about one half of the buildings in this country have been thrown down and blown away: So it well behoves not to pray and admonish, still less to command, that they whose houses have been preserved standing, do each take in and lodge one or two families of the unhappy destitute of house and lodging; yet should there unexpectedly be any left without lodging, such have only to address themselves to me, as the churches shall be opened for them.
Nor can it be thought that any merchant, captain, or others, can think so basely and unchristian-like, as, on this occasion, to set intolerable high prices on what provision, or other thing, they may have to dispose of, to reap undue advantage by what God has, in mercy, spared to them. No! so mean a manner of thinking cannot be supposed, for which reason no fixed prices are here appointed. It is only commanded that every one who has either provision or lumber to sell shall, on a fit and visible part of his house, cause to be stuck up a list with the prices he will sell for. Who sells the most reasonable will surely be the best burgher. Should any sell any thing of the above mentioned for higher prices than stuck up, then shall the retained be confiscated.
Neither will I admonish any planter, or other, the soonest possible to procure lodging for, or in any other manner to care for the preservation of their Negroes, this article being unnecessary, in that the interest of every man commands him so to do. On the other hand, all, but especially they who are situated near the sea, are counselled to send out their canoes, and catch fish as much as possible.
What is particularly commanded, and duly to be attended to, is, that whosoever, whether white person or Negro, who shall find the goods of another, do deliver up the same unto Judge Weil, in polity chamber, as every one neglecting so to do, and who shall be afterwards detected with what pertains him not, shall be deemed a thief; and as such be punished by law.
No Negro, from this day, until farther orders, shall sell any thing, of what kind soever, except only ground provision, grass, firewood, and small stock; wherefore every one who buys aught else from a Negro shall be punished as an abettor of theft; this shall also be extended to such as buy aught from suspectable whites, on whom can be fixed the smallest doubt of the same being their property.
No Negro shall, during this month of September, let himself be seen in the streets while the sun is under the horizon, unless they have proof of going on their master's errand, and for notice a gun shall be fired in the evening from the fort; after which every Negro shall either immediately quit the town, or repair to their master's house, as the patrol and polity shall be entitled not only to whip the detected Negroes from the street, but also, if need be, arrest them unto severer and condign punishment.
Farther I have of this date, together with the Privy Council, taken the following resolution: That all kinds of provision, and building materials, also hoops, staves, and Negro cloathing, shall and may, free and without duty, be imported here to St. Croix, and that this liberty shall, for the first, continue until the 1st of January, 1773.
It is likewise resolved, that there shall be bread baked, which shall be gratis dealt out to the poorest white persons, namely, to all such as by attest from their respective Ministers shall prove their total inability and want, which shall continue until farther orders, or so long as any is left. This bread is to be had at the provision master's, at an hour hereafter to be appointed.
To conclude, I assure myself, that none will be dispirited with the misfortunes they may have suffered, but that rather every one will resume his work, and lawful employment, as the public in general, and every one in particular, may expect every thing from a gracious Sovereign, as no trouble shall be spared to make the needful most dutiful memorials for the good of all, and as the country's distress requires.
Given under his Royal Majesty's seal, and my hand, at St. Croix, the 2d of September, 1772.
ROEPSTORFF.
Yesterday arrived here the schooner Hopewell, Capt. William Lynn, from St. Eustatius, who parted his cable about nine o'clock on Monday morning last; twenty five sail of vessels put out at the same time; the wind continued blowing excessive hard from the north till about 11 o'clock in the forenoon, and about 12 the wind shifted to the east until one, then came to the S. S. E. where it blew a most terrible gale, and so continued till about 12 o'clock at night, at which time it began to moderate; and on Wednesday morning he saw four vessels in a most distressed situation, three without masts, and a large ship lying on her beam ends, but was not able to speak them, and yesterday he saw a ship under jury masts go into St. Thomas.
It is said that his Excellency, besides many other occasional donations, has set apart a very handsome sum to be shared amongst the poorest sufferers. It is to be hoped that all whom God has enabled, and on this occasion saved from notable damage, will go and do likewise.
It is said, to the honour of the 'physical Gentlemen, that they have not only with great assiduity applied all their art and skill where called, but have generously resolved to make no charge on their books on this mournful occasion.
This morning arrived here a large Dutch ship, and an English sloop, both under jury masts.
At the same time arrived the sloop —, Capt. Lightbourne, from New York.
BASSETTERRE (in St. Christopher's) Sept. 2.
We inserted in our last the account of a hard gale of wind from S. W. with some accidents that attended the same, which, to this island's inexpressible grief, were no more than a prelude of our destruction; for on Monday last, at the dawn of day, our angry hemisphere predicted violence from the N. E. which by degrees broke forth upon us with such rage, not to be
parallelled in the memory of the oldest man living, in destroying the sugar works and plantations in general, and in course nothing escaped its fury. The vessels of all denominations for safety put to sea, and by twelve at noon we were in hopes that the all-gracious Providence had finished this fatal catastrophe, but to our mortal sorrow we were very unfortunately disappointed, for about that time the wind shifted to S. W. and S. which brought on us such an incessant horrible scene of destruction till eight o'clock in the evening, that is beyond the power of man to relate. Nothing less threatened us, as we feared, than a total annihilation of the island; and those vessels that in the morning went in search of safety, and were not foundered, returned and were driven on shore on several parts of the island; and scarce a house, sugar mill, tree, or plant, in the town, Sandy Point, Old Road, or island, but what were blown down, or very much damaged. The loss sustained by the planters, house owners, and inhabitants, is inestimable. The loss of lives, we hear, is considerable; only which particular names as have yet come to our knowledge are, Richard Matthews, Esquire, Mrs. Thomas, relict to Mr. Thomas, silversmith, and a great number dangerously wounded.
Sept. 5. The horrible picture of this island's general distress, represented in our last day's prints, is greatly inferior to the original, and to enumerate and particularise on our ills in ever so manly and pathetic a manner, would not change the opaque into a mirror, but just the reverse. It must be many years fortunate experience, with much circumspection and prudence, before it is possible we can retrieve our losses; and sorry we are to pronounce the sentence of improbability on many families, that are so far reduced, according to human apprehension, ever to recover the shock; for, at the most moderate calculation, the general loss sustained cannot possibly be computed at less than 500,000. However incredible, it is possible, such a sum may appear to some of our readers for so small an island, if they rest it a moment on its value they will not be surprized; notwithstanding which we have the pleasure to inform the poor of these two parishes, that the benevolent subscription, set on foot by the Gentlemen of this town and neighbourhood, is very favourable for their immediate relief; an act of the highest satisfaction to conscientious men, as it is of the most salutary importance to their fellow creatures and benefactors; an example worthy of imitation by our friends and correspondency, which we do not doubt but there will be a charitable attention paid to it, even in a distant clime, the metropolis of our empire; particularly all those who have had and have been benefited by the existence of so fruitful a spot. Nothing crowds in upon us, from this perilous day, but the same tragical scene from our sister islands. St. Eustatia, in human existence, is, as it were, no more. Many houses and families taken from the summit, and have not been heard of; and what was not effected by the violence of one element above, was completely so by the other below, by the cruel violence of the bellowing waves, which particulars we have not learned. At Dominica, by Capt. Yard, we have an account of the loss of eighteen vessels of different burthens at Roseau, and six at Prince Rupert's bay; no farther particulars, relative to that island, we have yet got. At Antigua, we learn, by a boat that arrived yesterday, that all his Majesty's ships in English Harbour (except the Admiral's) was on shore, and all the vessels at St. John's; and it is related, by this conveyance, that the island has suffered the same unhappy devastation as ours. Seven sail are ashore at Nevis.
Sept. 9. From the leeward, we hear, that in Saba 182 houses were destroyed by the late hurricane, and that two ships (one a Guinea man) are lost on the back of that island, and every person on board perished. Our accounts from St. Martin's are more favourable, very little damage having been done there.
Perhaps a greater instance of the impetuosity of the storm cannot be given than the following, which we have just received from Sandy Point: Mr. Lewis's house, which was lofted, was separated at the runners, and the upper story laid softly in his own yard, in which he and his numerous family now actually reside, while the lower story was rent in pieces; so that he may be said to live in a garret upon the ground.

From Antigua we hear that Messrs Willock and Morrison have paid 15s. a bushel for corn, taking a whole cargo; and so great are their distress in St. Eustatia, that five half-joes have been offered for a barrel of flour.
A N T I G U A, September 5.
On Monday last a most dreadful storm happened here, far more violent than the preceding one mentioned in our last week's Mercury; it began between one and two o'clock in the morning, continued increasing till near ten, and was not properly assuaged till five in the afternoon. To attempt a detail of the mischief done to individuals, by this dreadful tempest, would be endless, as every one has suffered in a greater or less degree; we should fail likewise, were we to attempt by language to raise any adequate idea of the dreadfulness of the scene. We can only say that it can be better conceived than expressed, and even here, the most fruitful imagination would fall far short. Let it suffice then for us to say generally, that all the vessels in the different harbours (with very few exceptions, which we shall take notice of hereafter) were either sunk, overset, or driven ashore. Even that secure place English Harbour was not a sufficient asylum for the vessels there; his Majesty's ship Chatham , Active , Sea Horse , and Falcon , were driven from their moorings, and suffered greatly; the former lost her foremast, and the others have not a mast standing. One ship in the harbour of St. John, by having her masts cut away, with two sloops, in a miraculous manner, rode out the storm; one ship drove to sea, and has not since been heard of; that the church, court house, barracks, and most, if not all, the public buildings are greatly injured; that very few, if any, of the houses in St. John's have entirely escaped; that all the buildings, wind mills, works, &c. on every estate, or the greatest part of them, are levelled with the ground, many Negroes killed, and many wounded; the cattle and other live stock shared the same fate, the ground provisions destroyed, and the prospect of a crop for next year much cut off. The loss sustained by the fire in 1769 cannot be put in competition with the present calamity.
Mrs. White, wife of Mr. George White, merchant, and Dr. Gavin Montgomery, unfortunately lost their lives in the storm; Mr. White had his collar bone broke, and is since dead; and many others, whose names we have not as yet been acquainted with. By the fall of his Majesty's hospital at English Harbour, we hear ten of the sick there, and the nurse, were buried in the ruins.
From Dominica we have an account that there are fifteen sail of vessels ashore there, but the storm was not so severe, as in this island; and the like accounts of the weather from Leeward.
L O N D O N, August 21.
This day a forged bank note was offered at the bank for payment. It was so well executed that one of the cashiers had written part of his name upon it before he discovered the forgery. It was brought by a boy from a sword cutler's in Cheapside, where the person who is supposed to have forged it offered it in payment for a sword; but the mistress of the shop not having cash enough to give change, dispatched the boy to the bank with orders to return immediately; but he staying longer than ordinary, the Gentleman suspecting the discovery, said he was going farther, and would call as he came back for the sword and the change, by which means he made his escape. He has since been traced, and appears to be the son of a reputable tradesman, and 100l. is offered by the bank for apprehending him.
August 31. The Empress of Russia is said to have lately purchased a diamond of Gregory Siffras, a Greek, weighing 779 carats, at the immense price of 100,000l. and this notwithstanding the war in which she has been so long engaged.
One Nicholas Goldsmith, a cowherd, in Saxe Gotha, was lately broke upon the wheel there, for the murder of children, whom he had killed and eaten. There was a cave near his cottage in which he cooked and feasted on the flesh of the unhappy victims; and before he was discovered he had made away with no less than fifteen, which he confessed at the place of execution. Another herdsman traced him to his cave, and caught him in the act, and gave information against him to a Magistrate, by which his inhuman cruelty was detected.
P H I L A D E L P H I A, October 10.
Extract of a letter from New York, October 5.
"Captain Giffen, arrived here from St. Martin's, says, that he lay at St. Lucia the 28th and 31st of August, in very fine weather, and nothing of the gale there. The third of September passed by Prince Rupert's Bay, Dominica, and saw three brigs laying at anchor safe; but at Roseau, 17 vessels were lost; at Basseterre, Gaudaloup, saw 5 sail ashore; a schooner from Virginia with corn was arrived at St. Eustatia, selling at ten bits per bushel; three vessels were lost at St. Martin's belonging to the eastward, sails and rigging saved; two other brigs got into Simpson's Bay, and one of them purchased the masts, sails and rigging, to refit his vessel, for 130 half-joes."
Capt. Robinson, in a Bermudian sloop, having but just escaped from eight months imprisonment by the Spaniards at Porto Rico, was drove 3 or 400 yards
into the woods, where she lay some time on her starboard side, till by the violence of the wind she was fairly hove over on her larboard side.
W I L L I A M S B U R G, October 29.
Last Monday being the day appointed to be celebrated as the anniversary of our most gracious Sovereign's accession to the Throne, his Excellency the Governor gave a very elegant entertainment and ball at the Palace. The company was numerous and brilliant.
The Randolph, Capt. McNabb, is arrived at London.
The Dawes, Capt. Brown, from London, and the Homer, Capt. Miller, from Glasgow, are arrived in James river.
On Saturday last a barn belonging to Mr. John Peirce, near this city, took fire, which, with four hogheads of tobacco, and a stable adjoining, were consumed.
On Monday last the Rev. Mr. CAMM was sworn in one of his Majesty's Council of this colony.
Just imported, from London, in the Dawes, Captain Brown, and to be SOLD, at the subscriber's shop, in Williamsburg,
A LARGE and fresh assortment of DRUGS and MEDICINES , viz. best jesuits bark, rhubarb, jalap, ipecacuana, camphor, glauber salts, and sal rochel, best flaky and common manna, antimony, flour of sulphur, spermaceti, ether, extract of lead, essence of lemons and bergamot, Indian pink, castor oil, magnesia, fine jar raisins, currants, prunes, figs, and barley sugar, orange chips, carraway comfits, white and brown candies, candied ginger, ditto nutmegs, best Durham flour of mustard, salt-petre, shavings of hartshorn, fine sallad and barbers oil, anchovies, capers, olives, walnuts, cloves, cinnamon, mace and nutmegs, gold and silver leaf, rotten stone, French chalk, verdigrease, vermilion, red and white lead, Prussian blue, tooth brushes, ivory syringes, small marble mortars, small physical scales and weights, court plaister, Dutton's corn salve, Freeman's and Godfrey's cordial, Daffy's , Squire's , and Stoughton's elixirs, Jesuit's , Batemans , and Norris's antimonial drops, James's fever powders, Anderdon's and Lockyer's pills, Turlington's balsam, pectoral balsam of honey, essence of water dock, elixir bardana, smelling bottles, best and common lancets, sago, sapol, pearl barley, &c. &c. &c.
WILLIAM PASTEUR.
Just imported in the ships Neptune and Dawes, and to be SOLD very cheap, for ready money, at John Carter's store in WILLIAMSBURG, the following
GOODS: BLUE green; white, black, and cloth coloured superfine broad and narrow cloths, blue, grey, black, and coloured german ferges, Bath coating and frizes, white and striped blankets, white, blue, green, black and scarlet shallons, white tammies, white, blue, green, yellow, and pink durants, a variety of sewing and barbers silk, blue, grey, and green halfthicks, India and English dimities, yard wide and half yard figured dimity, India persians, white, blue, green, black, and pink English persians, black alamode, white saracen, white and striped silk damascus, white and striped lustrung, crimson and white figured satin, black ditto, white, crimson, and black flowered satin cloaks, wilton carpet calicoes, silk gingham, Manchester cottons and China muslins, cambricks, and lawns, a variety of silk and coloured handkerchiefs, best white, blue, pink, and black sattin pumps, best white, green, purple, and black callimanco ditto, childrens callimanco ditto, black, blue, and morocco leather ditto, Didbury's shoes and pumps, mens and boys fine hats, mens and boys felt ditto, mens and womens worsted, cotton, and thread stockings, white, black, and marbled silk stockings, black, blue, and green worsted breeches patterns, crimson silk ditto, damask tablecloths and napkins, fine and coarse Irish linens and sheeting ditto, oznabrugs at 13d. 15d. 16d. 17d. and 18d. an ell, brown rolls, wafers, wax, and playing cards, best hyson and bohea tea, best jar raisins and currants, white and brown sugar candy, almonds, barley sugar, candied orange peel as good as citron, white and coloured carraway comfits, coriander comfits, hartshorn shavings, anchovies, French olives, capers, walnuts, double and single sugar, verdigrease, ditto ground, Dutch pink, rotten stone, Prussian blue, umber, vermilion, allum, brimstone, copperas, fig, slate and powder blue, starch, indigo, best sallad oil, barbers ditto, salt-petre, sacks of salt, pepper, allspice, white ginger, cloves, mace, cinnamon, chocolate, coffee, pallage lanthorns, and a variety of painted paper for houses, &c. &c. &c.
THE subscriber, in Northumberland county, having been executor to many estates, hereby gives notice that he is now ready and willing to settle them as far as the effects extend, and to pay all just demands against himself. MATTHEW NEALE.
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. Potted, and appraised to 15l. ROBERT MEANS.
WILLIAMSBURG, October 25, 1772.
THE JUNO , Capt. M c CUNN, in the interest of Messrs. John Norton, and son, will be ready to take in a load of TOBACCO at Cumberland town, on York river, the 1st of next month. It will be convenient to receive tobacco from James and Rappahannock rivers. Notes and orders for her loading will be received by Mr. Archibald Gowan at Aylett's , Col. Snelfon in Hanover , and J. H. NORTON.
To be SOLD by the subscriber, in Westmoreland county, near Nomony ferry, on Friday the 27th of November,
NEGROES, STOCKS, and HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. Eighteen months credit will be given the purchaser for all sums above fifty shillings, giving bond and security, bearing interest from the date. The public are desired to take notice that no tobacco will be delivered out of PerSimon and Nomony warehouses without the cash paid at the time, and no old paper will be taken.
WILLIAM PEIRCE.
To be CHARTERED for L O N D O N , A FINE new ship built for private use, which will carry 500 hogheads of tobacco, and be ready to take in a cargo about the middle of next November. The terms may be known by applying to Mr. Thomas Hepburn at Norfolk , or the subscriber in Baltimore town, who intends to be at Williamsburg a few days about the first of November.
WILLIAM M c GACHEN.
NORFOLK, October 26, 1772.
A LL persons who have any demands against the estate of Mr. Jonathan Dyson, deceased, are desired to bring in their several claims on or before the 20th day of December next; those who fail so to do must abide by the consequence, as the subscribers will not, in any respect, account or be answerable for any such demands after that time. It is also expected those indebted will make immediate payment, to prevent farther trouble.
PAUL LOYALL, } Administrators. LATIMER HOLSTEAD, }
F O R S A L E,
A VALUABLE TRACT of LAND, lying on both sides of Hunting creek, in Halifax county, containing five hundred acres, the soil of which is exceeding good for tobacco and corn. There is a small plantation cleared on the land, which has been tended but a few years, and two tobacco houses, an overseer's house, and Negro quarter, almost new. Any person inclined to purchase may apply to Colonel Paul Carrington, in Gharlotte county, who will shew the land, and is fully empowered to dispose of it.
To be SOLD, on Monday the 16th of November next, at the plantation of George Christopher White, deceased, of Amelia , agreeable to his will,
SIXTEEN likely SLAVES , fifteen of them Virginia born; also all the stocks of horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, house and kitchen furniture, corn, wheat, fodder, and all the utensils belonging to the plantation. Credit will be given until the last day of June next for all sums above five pounds, giving bond and security to the executors.
BENJAMIN WARD, } THOMAS JONES. }
A BOUT the beginning of last month one Lewis brought a waggon load of goods from Petersburg to this place, in a waggon belonging to one Dennis , of Petersburg : After delivering the goods, he carried his waggon to a blacksmith's shop, and turned out the horses; there was a man along with him, who called himself Adams , and said he was a blacksmith looking for work. The night after they delivered the goods they both disappeared, and next morning two of my horses were missing; the horses were raised in this neighbourhood, and would not run away. Lewis left the waggon and team at the smith's shop, and every thing belonging to them, except two saddles; and he and Adams have been since seen with three horses in their possession on the road that leads from Petersburg to Carolina . From this I conclude that mine were stolen, and that they stole them. I will give TEN POUNDS to any person that will apprehend either or both of them with the horses, and secure them so that the law may take its course, and FIVE POUNDS more for delivering the horses to Mr. James Donald at Rocky Ridge , or to me at Bedford courthouse. The description of the horses is as follows: A white gelding about 4 feet 10 inches high, 7 years old, hanging mane and switch tail, a natural pacer, branded with I on the shoulder, and A on the buttock; a bay of the same height and age, roached mane and switch tail, a natural pacer, and branded B on the buttock.
BEDFORD courthouse, } October 15, 1772. } ROBERT DONALD.
To be SOLD, at Aylett's warehouses, in King William , to the highest bidder, on Monday the 16th of November,
TWENTY valuable SLAVES , men and women, all young, likely, and healthy. Credit until the 1st day of May next, the purchasers giving bond, with good security; the bonds to carry interest from the date, but discounted if the principal is paid at or before the day of payment above mentioned.

To be SOLD, at public auction, for the benefit of the insurers, on Thursday the 5th of November next, at the subscriber's store in Petersburg,
TWO BALES of damaged GOODS, consisting of BROADCLOTHS, DUFFILS, DUFFIL and BED BLANKETS, &c. imported in the Pompey, Captain James Yeoman. FIELD & CALL.
To be SOLD, at the RALEIGH, in Williamsburg, on Thursday the 12th of November next,
A VALUABLE tract of LAND in Gloucester county, adjoining the seat of Jonathan Watson, Esquire, containing about 1800 acres, on which are all necessary houses for a plantation, in very good repair, and land enclosed sufficient to work thirty hands. There is on the said land a fine swamp for a meadow, about ten acres of which are already cleared; also an orchard of Hughes's apples, and several other choice fruits. Twelve months credit will be allowed for one half the purchase money, and two years for the remainder, upon bond, with approved security. JOHN FOX.
* * The above land is very convenient to navigation, &c. and will be shown to any person inclined to purchase by applying to John Dudley, overseer, on the premises.
NORFOLK, October 26, 1772. Just imported, and to be SOLD by the subscriber, at a low advance, for ready money, at John Woodhouse's house,
AN assortment of EUROPEAN GOODS , consisting of linens, woollens, camblettees, hats, leather shoes of all sizes, womens callimanco ditto, hardware, tin and pewter ditto, earthen ware, of different kinds, in crates, and a variety of other articles too tedious to mention. Also WEST INDIA RUM. WOODSIDE & CARMONT.
To be LET, to the lowest bidder, on Saturday the 28th of November next, at Kemp's landing, in the county of Princess Anne, and parish of Lynnhaven,
THE building of a BRICK CHAPEL , in the upper end of the said parish, 75 by 30. The terms of payment will be made known at the time of letting the same to the undertaker, who is to provide all materials, and give bond, with approved security, for the performance of the work, to the commissioners appointed for that purpose.
SURRY, October 20, 1772. SOME time between the 4th and the 11th of this instant, the Mother church, in Southwark parish, of said county, was robbed of a red velvet COMMUNION CLOTH, the Minister's SURPLICE, a DIAPER TABLE CLOTH, and three PRAYER BOOKS, one of which was bound with red morocco leather, belonging to Maj. William Brown, and had his name wrote on one of the blank leaves in it. The said robbery is supposed to have been committed by a Negro fellow named WILL, belonging to Mr. Philip Wej., of this county, who was then run away, and is now supposed to be lurking about Mr. Henry Young's, in Charles City county. Any person who will deliver the said things to the subscribers shall receive a reward of TWENTY SHILLINGS, and, on conviction of the thief, FIVE POUNDS.
NICHOLAS FAULCON, jun. } Churchwardens. MICHAEL NICHOLSON, }
OCTOBER 20, 1772. JAMES THACKSTON, of Prince Edward county, will pay no more debts that my wife Sarah contracts from this date.
JOSEPH FAULKS, WHO has performed his EXPLOITS in HORSE-MANSHIP twice in the city of Williamsburg, with great applause, intends performing again on Thursday the 5th of November, at four o'clock in the afternoon, in the Honourable Col. Byrd's lot. He will attend at Leeds town races, and upon his return to Williamsburg will perform at any time that may be agreeable to the Ladies and Gentlemen. His performances are, riding one, two, and three horses, in many different attitudes.
RUN away from the subscriber, living on the frontiers of Botetourt, on the head waters of Holston's river, the two following convicts: SCOTTER MARSHALL, about 26 years of age, in very indifferent dress. ANNE BANKS, 33 years of age, burnt on the right arm from the elbow to the wrist, and took with her a calico gown and bed gown, two striped linsey petticoats, a dark red mantle, and black silk bonnet; likewise two half joes and a guinea. Whoever takes up the said servants, and secures them so that I may get them again, shall receive FORTY SHILLINGS. JAMES DAVIS.
RUN away from the subscriber, in Peterburg, an indented boy named AMOS THOMPSON, about 14 years of age. He is supposed to be gone towards Carolina. Any person that will bring the said boy to me shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS reward. All persons are forewarned from harbouring him. PERSONS MEANLY.
TAKEN up , in Albemarle, near the great mountains, a bay mare, branded on the near shoulder, buttock, and rump, IC, has a switch tail and hanging mane, a star on her forehead, and a lump on her belly. Appraised to 3l. JAMES WHAREY.
TEN POUNDS REWARD.
RUN away from the subscriber, in Northumberland, on Wednesday the 4th instant (October) a very likely young Virginia born Negro man named DAVID, of a yellowish complexion, above 5 feet 5 inches high, and very active; had on, and took with him, an oznabrig shirt, a pair of purple Virginia cloth breeches, lined with white linen, and rolls breeches over them, fearnought jacket, with horn buttons, brown coloured kersey ditto, and another jacket of Virginia cloth, with coarse oznabrig pockets, brown and white linen shirts, and sundry other clothes that I cannot describe; but as he is a cunning artful fellow, it is probable he may swap them away. He generally kept his hair remarkably high and well combed, though he may have since cut it off, and got himself a wig. He took with him 30 or 40 shillings in silver, and a brass medal with the images of our present King and Queen on it, which he may endeavour to pass for gold. He can read and write, and I make no doubt will forge himself a pass. I expect he will strive to get on board some vessel, or steal somebody's horse, and go to Carolina. He has always attended me as a waiting man, and is a good driver, ostler, and understands something of gardening, can work at the plough, and has some notion of hairdressing. Whoever will bring the said fellow to me, or secure him in any gaol, so that I may get him, shall receive FIVE POUNDS, and if taken out of the colony TEN POUNDS, and reasonable charges allowed for bringing home. THOMAS GASKINS.
STRAYED , or stolen, from the subscriber, in Richmond town, on the 7th or 8th of September last, a very likely dark grey horse, about 4 feet 8 inches high, 7 or 8 years old, has a switch tail and hanging mane, cloudy faced, and has white hairs at the root of his tail, paces slow, but trots and gallops well, is high spirited, and used to work in a chair, was shod before, and the shoes half worn; if he had any brand, it is forgot. Whoever will bring the said horse to me shall receive FORTY SHILLINGS, and, on conviction of the thief, FIVE POUNDS. PETERFIELD TRENT.
RUN away from the subscriber, in New Kent, a Virginia born Negro girl named MOLL, 10 or 12 years old, and has some marks in her ears. Likewise a small outlandish fellow named GEORGE, speaks broken, has some marks from the whip, and is about 40 years of age. They were seen in Williamsburg about a month ago. Whoever secures them so that I may get them again, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS for each, besides what the law allows. JAMES MOSS.
SUSSEX, July 22, 1772. ON Sunday last was put up at St. Mark's church, in Sussex, a paper signifying that Mr. M c Roberts was to preach at Sappony church, in Dinwiddie, on Tuesday the 21st of July, being the day after Dinwiddie court; and underneath, on the same paper, in a very small hand, the following curiosity literally:
"Reader are you a Sin Sick soul or Not Ide advise you to Go if the 1st you hear the Gospell preacht if the 2d you'll be well wairnd of your dainger which this useles tail heare may descive us of so long thats more than Probable if we believe what God has wrote to us some of us before its done may be in hell (if you start at this) Dear frs Depend its the very trick of the Devil to Keep us secure tell he lands us there."
* N. B. The minister was to preach that day on infant baptism, of which he had given notice the Sunday before.
If you will insert the above in your Gazette as soon as convenient, you will oblige, at least, one of your customers, G. C.
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 twelvemonth 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 PEIRCE.
* 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.
STRAYED , or stolen, from the subscriber, in Fredericksburg, on Tuesday the 22nd of September, a very likely dark bay horse, about 14 hands and a half high, 8 years old, had a black hanging mane and switch tail, two or three large saddle spots, one of his hind feet white, trots and gallops, and goes in a chair extremely well. Whoever will bring him to me shall have FIVE DOLLARS reward. WILLIAM PORTER.
VIRGINIA, to wit, By his Excellency the Right Honourable JOHN EARL of DUNMORE, his Majesty's Lieutenant and Governor General of the said colony and dominion, and Vice Admiral of the same:
A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS the General Assembly stands prorogued to the first Thursday in the next month, and I find no urgent occasion for the said Assembly's meeting at that time; I have therefore thought fit, by and with the advice of his Majesty's Council, by this proclamation, in his Majesty's name, farther to prorogue the said Assembly to the first Thursday in May next.
Given under my hand, and the seal of the colony, at Williamsburg, this 19th day of October, 1772, and in the 12th year of his Majesty's reign. DUNMORE.
GOD SAVE THE KING.
ALBEMARLE, October 16, 1772. I INTEND to leave the colony soon. WILLIAM TERRIL LEWIS.
Just imported, in the late ships from London, and to be SOLD by the subscriber, at her store opposite the RALEIGH, in Williamsburg,
A VERY neat and large assortment of MILLENERY and JEWELLERY , consisting of white fatten and lustrings, trimmings for ditto, black and coloured cloaks, hats, and bonnets, silk petticoats, wedding fans, and breast flowers, Queen's silk and satin shoes, a new assortment of patent net hoods, muslins, gauze, and catguts, dresden worked linen, quilted fatten, child bed baskets and pincushions, a large assortment of broad and narrow ribbands, ribbed and plain silk, cotton and thread hose, childrens cotton ditto, patent net aprons, and pieces for ruffles, &c. silk mits and gloves, buck, doe, kid, lamb, and fawn gloves and mits, Ladies dress tupees and curls, black short aprons, necklaces and earrings, garnet ditto, set in gold, paste sprigs and pins, paste combs, garnet, paste, and plain gold lockets, Ladies paste breast buttons, and stay hooks, garnet stockbuckles, set in gold, plain gold ditto, exceeding neat paste shoe, knee, and stockbuckles, gilt, pinchbeck, and plaited ditto, silver ditto, enamelled and plain gold sleevebuttons, moco and pebble ditto, set in gold and silver, labelled and plain silver topped decanter corks, chased and plain corals and bells, smelling bottles, tortoiseshell toothpick cases, silver pencil cases, paste bows and crosses, silver fluted butter ladles, plated soup ditto, plated candlesticks, chamber ditto; snuffers, &c. ditto snuffers, and snuff pans, ditto table crosses, tutenake salt cellars, ditto snuffers, and snuff pans, silver salt shovels, Ladies silver and other etwees, with instruments, neat reading glasses, set in mother of pearl, tortoiseshell and silver, tambour gold and coloured sword knots, Lucker's razors, silver and steel corkscrews, childrens silver papboats, and shoe clasps, gold and silver hatbands, boys silk and beaver caps, Ladies and Gentlemens fine hats and whips, silver thimbles and fruit knives, silver and ivory bodkins and toothpicks, watch trinkets, hunting knives and forks, Irish penknives, silver teaspoons, teatongs, and nutmeg graters, gilt leather for doors, a great variety of morocco and velvet new fashioned pocketbooks, black bags and roges, hairpins, soap boxes and brushes, a very large quantity of Didbury's mens, womens, and childrens shoes, flannel under jackets, childrens fashes, fine India cotton for working, Hemet's (dentist to her Majesty) essence of pearl, and pearl powder for the teeth and gums, with brushes, nail nippers, ivory and box combs, shaving powder, sword canes and walking sticks, travelling razor cases, childrens stays, and quilted puddings, toys, with a number of other articles, which will be sold on reasonable terms. C. RATHOLL.
* * She purposes (if a house can be got) residing at Peterburg, from the end of this court till April, where Ladies and Gentlemen may be supplied with the above articles.
Pursuant to an act of the last session of Assembly, will be LEASED, for the term of twenty one years, to the highest bidders, on the 23rd day of November next (if fair, otherwise next fair day) on the premises, and to be entered on immediately,
ABOUT 3000 acres of LAND , the property of the Nottoway Indians, and lying in the county of Southampton, on the south side of Nottoway river; the whole of it is very good corn land, and the greatest part will produce good tobacco. It is to be laid off in lots, not exceeding 300 acres each. The rents are to be paid annually; for the due performance of which, bond, with approved security, will be required by the trustees. And, at the same time and place, will be sold, all the LANDS belonging to the Nottoway Indians on the north side of Nottoway, consisting of two parcels, containing about 30 acres each.
* N. B. The former advertisement, for the above purpose, not getting to the press time enough to be inserted according to the above act of Assembly, will, we hope, be a sufficient apology for not leasing the lands according to the time therein appointed.
TAKEN up , in Northumberland, a bay mare colt, about 14 hands and an inch high, not branded. Appraised to 10l. KENNER CRALLE.

JOSEPH NORTHUP, SILK-DYER AND SCOWERER, IN CHURCH STREET, NORFOLK. B EGS leave to acquaint the public that he has set up the business of colouring and scowering SILKS, CLOTHS, FUSTIANS, VIRGINIA CLOTH, and other stuffs, and has got both hot and cold presses for dressing them equal to any done at home; likewise clear starches white silk, and silk stockings, and takes spots out of all kinds of womens wear, at the most reasonable rates, and with the greatest care and expedition.
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.
STOLEN , or strayed, from Brunswick county, a grey horse, about four feet two inches high, has a hanging mane and sprig tail, which are greyer than any other part of him, his left eye is out, and his brand, if any, not remembered. I will give TWENTY SHILLINGS to any person that brings or gives any intelligence about the said horse so that I may get him; if stolen, FIVE POUNDS for apprehending the thief. WILLIAM ELLIS.
TEN POUNDS REWARD. R UN away from the subscriber, in Pennsylvania , about the 25th of April last, a mulatto man slave named SIMON , about 28 years old, well made, and active, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, has many scars on his back, occasioned by whipping, and his nose is very thin and high. He has attempted to pass as a free man, by the name of Simon Harman ; and it is supposed he will endeavour to get into Accomack , as he was brought up in that county. Whoever apprehends and conveys him to me, or secures him in any gaol so that I may get him, shall have the above reward. I hereby forewarn all masters of vessels from carrying the said slave out of the colony. MARY PURNALL.
NOTICE is hereby given to all persons having any demands against the estates of Christopher Asfough , and Anne Asfough , deceased, that they are desired to bring them in properly attested, as provision may be made, if possible, to satisfy them; and those persons indebted to either of the said estates are desired to make immediate payment, or give notes for what they justly owe to them. JACOB BRUCE, Administrator.
FOR SALE. A VALUABLE tenement in Richmond town, now in possession of the subscriber, containing about two acres of ground, lying on the main street, and very convenient for trade. The improvements are, a commodious dwellinghouse, kitchen, smokehouse, dairy, stable, a garden and yard well paled in, a brick storehouse, a lumber house, and granary; the whole in good repair, and may be entered upon the first of November next. The payments will be made easy to the purchaser. For terms apply to JAMES BUCHANAN.
Just imported, in the FANNY, Capt. BARRON, and to be SOLD, by the subscriber, on reasonable terms, for ready money only,
A LARGE assortment of GOODS , consisting of a very handsome paste necklaces and earrings, marcasite, wax, and coal ditto, handsome paste collars, solitaires and sprigs, paste sleevebuttons, gilt ditto, sets of buttons for stomachers, silver papboats, coral and bells, garnet and marcasite hoops, lockets ditto, childrens watches and equipages, curious watch trinkets for Ladies, very genteel dress and undress fancy caps, and others, hair rolls, drop curls, &c. very fine point, blond point, mecklenburg, and mignonet laces, striped and figured sattins and lustrings for sacks and coats, ditto for bonnets, silver blond for trimmings, childrens fillets and quarter caps, womens blue, green, and red morocco turned pumps, womens and girls black leather shoes and pumps, fashionable stomachers and breast flowers, garnet, coal, and Italian egrets, gold loops, bands, and buttons, smelling bottles, pincushion trunks, and Gentlemens pocket books, of all prices, a large quantity of womens and girls quilts, a variety of pretty cottons and calicoes, copperplate and fancy chintzes, Chinese and other handkerchiefs, very fine bohea and hyson tea, the famous Norris's drops, hungary , Madden's oil, capers, ginger, spices, blue, hair powder, cloth cardinals, ditto sattin, with and without bonnets, Gentlemens lace and worked ruffles, Ladies ditto, and many other articles. SARAH PITTS.
VIRGINIA, &c. By his EXCELLENCY the Right Honourable JOHN EARL OF DUNMORE , his Majesty's Lieutenant and Governor General of the said Colony and Dominion, and Vice Admiral of the same:
A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS I have received intelligence from his Excellency the Governor of Antigua , that the late violent storm there hath occasioned great distress for want of provisions, and that it is absolutely necessary, for preventing the worst consequence, that as speedy a supply as possible be sent thither; I have therefore thought proper, by and with the advice of his Majesty's Council, to give this public notice thereof, not doubting but that as soon as this great calamity shall come to be generally known, many will be induced, from other motives than merely commercial, to afford to their fellow subjects of the said island the relief they so much need.
Given under my hand, at Williamsburg , this 10th day of October , 1772, and in the 12th year of his Majesty's reign. DUNMORE. GOD SAVE THE KING.
To be SOLD, on long credit, and entered upon immediately,
THE plantation whereon the subscriber now lives, lying in the upper end of Prince Edward , on a branch of Appomattox , and containing about 250 acres. There is a very good dwellinghouse, and other necessary buildings, upon the land, which is exceedingly well calculated for making tobacco, as they seldom make less than 2000 to a share. There is also a remarkable fine orchard, from which 1000 gallons of brandy may be made in a season. The terms may be known by applying to Patrick Hunter , at Warwick , and a good and sufficient right will be made to the land, by DAVID MURRAY.
WILLIAM and MARY COLLEGE, October 1, 1772. BY direction of the President and Masters, I am to give notice to the several surveyors, who have executed bonds for the proportion of their fees due to the college in tobacco, to be discharged at any particular rate, that they are required to give new bonds for one sixth part of whatever they receive for surveying, before the 15th of next month, or they will be superseded. I am also directed to inform those surveyors who doubted their right to a proportion of the fees for private surveys, that the society have had the advice of counsel, who are of opinion they are well entitled thereto, and that the question was so determined by the General Court in April last. ROBERT MILLER, BURSAR.
TAKEN up, in Cumberland , a red and white steer, has a crop in the right ear, and a swallow fork in the left. Appraised to 11. 10s. JOHN S. HARRIS.
Pursuant to a decree of the court of Loudoun county, in chancery, will be SOLD, to the highest bidder, for ready money, on Monday the 23d of November next, on the premises,
FOUR lots or half acres of LAND in the town of Leesburg ; on one of which stands a genteel stone house 40 by 32 feet in the clear, has 4 rooms with 3 fire places, and a passage, below stairs; one of which rooms, fronting the most public street, is completely fitted out for a store; there are 4 rooms, with 2 fire places, above stairs, and a convenient dry cellar the size of the whole house; also a good garden well paled in, a lumber house, kitchen, stable, and other necessary houses, together with a well of exceeding fine water, walled up, on this lot. The other three stand on streets, are also enclosed, and at a small expence may be rendered very valuable. At the same time will be sold, two hundred and fifty eight acres and a half of land adjoining the said town, the soil of which is peculiarly adapted to grain, one third of it well fenced in, and fit for the plough, about 15 acres of meadow may be made, the rest is well timbered, and inferior to none in the colony; there are on this tract of land a large new barn, with other necessary houses for farming. The country round about is remarkable for raising large quantities of wheat, and manufacturing flour; all of which is carried through Leesburg , about 40 miles to Alexandria , consequently this place is as well situated for trade as any place in the colony. A merchant or tavernkeeper would find their account in settling here. The lots and land will be sold either together or separate, as may best suit the purchasers, to whom a good title will be made, and immediate possession given. WILLIAM ELLZEY, } Trustees. GEORGE JOHNSTON, }
NORFOLK, October 12, 1772. THE subscriber, having removed hither from Portsmouth , has opened store on the main street, facing Church street, with a well assorted CARGO of GOODS suitable to the season; which will be sold reasonably, for cash, or on short credit. JAMES INGRAM.
FOR SALE, NINE four years indented servants, from London ; among which are, a SHOEMAKER , BARBER , PRINTER , PAINTER , SILK-DYER , and young men that will answer to wait on a Gentleman, or drive a postchaise. Enquire of Mr. Matthew Phripp , or the subscriber, on board the Green River , lying at Norfolk . JOHN ADDIS.
R UN away from the subscriber in Leesburg , the 4th instant, a servant woman named ELIZABETH SMITH , 25 years old, about 5 feet 4 or 5 inches high, her hair very black, has several scars on her under lip, chin, and arms, and much pitted with the smallpox; had on, and took with her, a short black calico gown, a white linen ditto, white apron, and white humbum sack and petticoat, red cardinal, flowered blue sattin capuchin, calico petticoat, black sattin laced bonnet, one pair of cotton and two pair of hose, old black calimanco shoes with plain silver buckles, one ruffled and two plain shifts. It is probable she may have taken many other things that are not missed. She was formerly indented to Capt. Gray , from Boston , and may now perhaps have an old indenture. Whoever takes up the said servant, and brings her to me, shall have FIVE POUNDS , besides what the law allows. ALEXANDER M'INTYRE.
THE subscriber, having served a regular apprenticeship to the noted Mr. JOSEPH CARN-CROSS , of the city of Dublin , coachmaker, and for many years past carried on the coachmaking trade, in all its different branches, in Ireland and in New York , where he has had the honour of making a coach, phaeton, and chaise, for his Excellency the Right Honourable Earl of DUNMORE , is now removed, with his family, from New York to Palace street, in Williamsburg, Virginia , where he proposes to make and repair all sorts of coaches, landaus, chariots, postchaises, phaetons, curricles, chaises, and chairs, with harness of every sort. Also steel springs, and iron work of every kind, relative to the coachmaking trade. Likewise painting, gilding, and japanning. The subscriber being determined to do all his work in the best manner, and on the lowest terms, humbly hopes those Gentlemen that are pleased to employ him will pay cash, at least for any piece of new work, on delivery of the same; and will be truly thankful to every Gentleman or Lady who will employ him to repair carriages, even if the repairs do not exceed half a bit. The utmost care, and dispatch of business, shall be the constant study of the public's most humble servant, ELKANAH DEANE.
The subscriber having two or three spare rooms, would be glad to accommodate Gentlemen with private lodgings.
NORFOLK, August 1, 1772. AS I intend for Britain soon, I must beg the favour of all persons who have any dealings with Logan, Gilmour , and company, to have their accounts ready to settle at the next General Court. The business will be continued to its usual extent. ROBERT GILMOUR.
TO BE SOLD, ONE thousand four hundred acres of exceeding good TOBACCO LAND in Stafford county, on the branches of Aquia and Potomack runs. The land is extremely well timbered and watered, twelve miles from Falmouth , and ten from Aquia . One half the land rents for thirty pounds a year. There is a small plantation on the other part. The land, if not privately sold, will be set up at one thousand two hundred pounds on the 10th of October , 1772, and a mill near the plantation. Also 1100 acres of land on Rocky Run , in Fauquier county (the rents of this land amount to 4130 pounds of tobacco) either in lots or together, as may suit the purchasers. An indisputable title will be made to the land by the trustees of CHARLES CARTER.
PETERSBURG, Jan. 2, 1772. FOR SALE, THE following TRACTS of LAND in Pittsylvania county, viz. Four hundred acres on Banister river, 770 acres on Beaver creek, 345 acres on Burch's creek, 380 acres on Leatherwood , 400 acres on Snow creek. These lands were formerly the property of Mr. Samuel Gordon , deceased. The price, and time of payment, may be known by applying to JERMAN BAKER.
TO BE LET ON LEASE, A VERY large and commodious HOUSE in the town of Petersburg , built for a tavern, and well fitted for that business; it is two stories high, has a number of very convenient lodging rooms, and large and small rooms for the entertainment of guests. Any person qualified for the business of a tavern keeper, with a proper capital, may find this as advantageous a situation as any on the continent. Apply to the subscriber, who lives on the premises. THOMAS EGLETON.