The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg [Va.]), 1775-12-23 00:00:00

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CAMBRIDGE, November 14.
TO THE AMERICAN SOLDIERY.
WORTHY FELLOW SOLDIERS,
WHEN I take a view of the extensive country we inhabit, and consider the surprising rapidity with which it has been emerged from a state of savage barbarity, in which it was a century and a half past involved, when I traverse the pleasant fields, and take a survey of the elegant buildings, and beautiful landscapes, rising to my view, where not long since the impenetrable forests, and inhospitable wilds, the haunts of prowling wolves, forbade the approach of the affrighted traveller; when I view these once dreary wastes blossoming as the rose, and seeming with an ample supply of all the convenience of life; in fine, when I attend to the almost incredible rapidity of population in the American colonies, I am struck with astonishment at the bountiful rewards of the industry of our worthy forefathers, and cannot forbear anticipating the future grandeur of this western world. The number of inhabitants, according to the most accurate estimates that have been made, double in every period of twenty five years; the Continental Congress has estimated the number of inhabitants in eleven colonies, at three millions, equal to above three-fifths of those in the whole island of Great Britain. In the year 1800, according to the foregoing calculation, it will amount to six millions. Let us stretch our ideas to the year 2000, and by our computation furnish us with the number of one thousand five hundred and thirty six millions, a computation which almost exceeds human conception; but it is not greater than what may rationally be expected if they continue to increase in the proportion they have hitherto done. It may perhaps be objected, that in indulging the sallies of too sanguine an imagination, I have neglected to consider, that as the rapid increase of inhabitants in the American colonies has proceeded chiefly from that spirit of emigration, which in consequence of the cheapness of lands, and healthiness of the climate, has actuated the Europeans of almost all nations to purchase freeholds for their families; and as those unappropriated lands are daily becoming less extensive, this source of population must in a short time fail us. I know it is an axiom in politics, that, beyond a determinate degree of population in any country, the proportion of the increase of numbers diminishes; but to answer these objections, I need only point to those almost unbounded deserts which extend from our most western settlements to the pacific ocean, regions hitherto unexplored by the most indefatigable researches: To this pleasing prospect, if we add the proportionable improvements in agriculture, the military and polite arts and sciences, together with that increase of wealth and importance, which will result from an unconfined trade; they may perhaps render this once DESPICABLE COUNTRY the most POWERFUL and AUGUST EMPIRE which the annals of history can boast. Let us look around us then, my fellow soldiers, let us contemplate this pleasing figure, let us make a solemn pause, and then ask ourselves, whether we are willing to relinquish, not only our present enjoyments, but all our hopes of securing happiness and freedom for our children; and thereby spurn those privileges which the God of nature has conferred upon us in such beneficial profusion? Let us ask ourselves whether we will see our wives, with every thing that is dear to us, subjected to the merciless rage of uncontrouled despotism? Or, are any of us at a loss concerning our duty in this day of general distress, let us repair to the graves of our sleeping forefathers, let us consult their venerable manes upon this momentous occasion; would they not, if it were possible, re-animate their intombed dust, or burst forth from their gloomy caverns, and point to those wounds they received in securing the country which gave us birth, from the inhuman depredations of their faithless enemies? Would they not recount the numerous perils to which they were exposed, in crossing a wide ocean; the hardships and almost insurmountable difficulties they encountered in every form? Would they not with a degree of noble indignation upbraid us with ingratitude to them, and want of spirit, and manly resolution, in cruelly hesitating one moment, to defend, and secure to our posterity, what cost them so much blood and treasure? Let us clothe our faces with an ingenuous blush for our criminal indifference; let us drop a grateful tear in tribute to the memory of men, the very relation of whose disinterested exertions, and unparalleled sufferings, should be sufficient to inspire us with an heroic ardour in the glorious enterprise of transmitting to our children, those sacred rights to which we ourselves were born; let us fly to the only means left for our defence, and swear to those venerable shades, that their sons will never disgrace their unfulfilled names, with the execrable epithet of slavery. But if these considerations are not sufficient to inspire us with fortitude and resolution, there are still higher motives which cannot fail to unite us in this noble struggle. We are engaged, my fellow soldiers, in the cause of virtue, of liberty, of God. For God's sake then let us play the man; for God's sake let us neglect no requisite precautions, to frustrate the cruel attempts of our remorseless foes; for God's sake let us encourage regularity and good order in the army, by paying implicit obedience to the commands of our officers; let us consider the importance of discipline, and the terror which the exactest uniformity in performing the military manœuvres generally strikes upon the most experienced army. What rendered the Spartan army the glory of the Grecian empire, and caused even Xerxes the Great to tremble, but that hardy mode of discipline to which they were from their infancy, by the
law of Lycurgus, habituated? What, but an unreserved confidence of the Roman soldiers in the abilities of their commanders, enabled them to conquer an illustrious Hannibal? What, but an unremitted attention to the art of war, procured them the empire of the world, by wresting it from the hands of the Grecian warriors? What, but a neglect of this rendered them an easy prey to their savage neighbours? — In fine, these are the necessary artifices, by which the glory of the British arms has extended to the most distant shores: Let Americans catch that beautiful regularity, and hardy form of discipline, which Britons, through debauchery and effeminacy are losing; let us not consider these matters as of little importance; they are absolutely necessary in a standing army; of the greatest importance in a militia; we may hope then that the latter will, by the wisdom of our senators, be immediately put under proper regulations, since their assistance may be rendered indispensably necessary in any emergency; let us be constant in attending our duty, and in guarding our lines, that we may be ready at all times to repel our enemy. Though they may not perhaps venture without the reach of their cannon, yet they will doubtless endeavour to plunder our pastures, to satisfy their hunger, as in the week past; and we cannot be too vigilant in our endeavours to frustrate them; let us resolve to follow our officers to an honourable death, or a glorious victory; at worst it is only dying a few days sooner, than we otherwise should, it is only losing a few days of a devoted life; if we live to conquer we gain our freedom, and reap the fruits of it.
Our cruel enemies have forced us to pass the rubicon, we have begun the noble work, and there is no retreating; the King of Britain has proclaimed us rebels. The sword is drawn, and the scabbard must be thrown away; there is no medium between a glorious defence and the most abject slavery, if we fail in our endeavours to repel the assaults of tyranny, we are to expect no mercy; the brave, but miserable Corsicans, may serve for an example of the unrestrained ravages of enraged despotism. On the other hand, the States of Holland supply an instance of happiness and glory, procured by a noble stand against absolute power. We would not wish for the absolute independence of the latter, would our inexorable oppressors but listen to our just complaints; but at all events, we are determined not to submit to a system of tyranny, little inferior to that slavish thralldom in which the subjects of the Turkish Sultan are held. Our enemies have ridiculed our courage and military skill, but by dear-bought experience they have been convinced of their error; they are obliged to submit to the mortification of being confined within a few acres of land, miserably fed upon a beggarly pittance of half-starved animal food. We are driving them from our fortresses in the west, our privateers are daily seizing valuable cargoes of provisions, and other articles upon the seas, where we least expected success. In fine, we are supplying ourselves with every thing necessary to support the war. New schemes of economy are inventing, and I doubt not, but we shall find our calamities, in a short time, considerably alleviated, if not by foreign trade, yet by industry and frugality, which are making such rapid progress throughout the continent. Approving Heaven has hitherto smiled upon almost every enterprise. Though from a natural affection to our mother country, and a reluctance to the effusion of human blood, we quietly suffered the enemy to take possession of, and fortify the town of Boston, yet they can boast no advantages which they have acquired by their arms, except one dear-bought spot which, by superiority of numbers, they with difficulty obtained. A few more noble exertions, my brave fellow soldiers; a few more spirited struggles; and we secure our liberties; a few more successful battles, and we are a free and happy people; we will then retire to our families, and whilst we are regaling ourselves with social felicity, entertain our listening children with the fatigues and dangers to which they owe their freedom, and shew the scars of the honourable wounds we received in the field of battle. Happy the man who can boast that he was one of those heroes that put the finishing stroke to this arduous work in serenity may he pass his future days, and when satisfied with life, and expiring under the smiles; of an approving conscience, bequeath the inestimable patrimony to his grateful children. A SOLDIER.
From the LONDON EVENING-POST.
THE following is said to be a true relation of what happened at the burning of Charlestown, in America. — In the confusion, while part of the town was in flames, a Scotch soldier belonging to the regulars forced his way into one of the houses, where he found in one of the rooms a woman just coming out with her daughter above five years old, in her hand, to go to her husband's chamber, where he was confined by illness, to assist him in his escape. The mother on her knees, and the little infant, who following the example of her mother, begged that the soldier would spare their lives, they conceiving the Russian intended to murder them. The screams of the mother and daughter reached the room where the husband lay, and though he had been confined for a long time to his bed, he leaped up, and with a drawn sword in his hand, rushed into the apartment which was the scene of distress, and instantly ran the soldier through the body. The wretch, though mortally wounded, had just time to turn about to see from whom he received this condign punishment, when, to his astonishment and confusion, he discovered the injured person to be his brother, and died. The unfortunate husband had but just time to see his wife lying in a fit, his child running about in a phrenzy, his brother lying dead at his feet; and having cried out, I have killed my brother! fell down in a swoon. The nurse, who had followed her master, had just heard his last words, when she perceived the house in a flame, and running forth, in hopes to get assistance to save this unfortunate family, had just got out of the house, when the roof, which had first taken fire, fell. It was
some days before the nurse recovered her recollection, sufficient to give any account of this fatal event, but it now appears that the unfortunate husband had left Scotland about seven years ago, and gone to settle in New England, where he shortly after married much to his advantage, and soon afterwards went to settle at Charlestown, where he lived with great credit and in domestic happiness till the day of that general confusion.
From the LONDON GAZETTE.
WHITEHALL, August 5.
THE following address to the King, from the Council and General Assembly of Antigua, having been delivered to the Earl of Dartmouth, one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, by Mr. Salmond, agent for that island, hath been presented to his Majesty; and was very graciously received.
TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
Most Gracious Sovereign,
WE, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Council and General Assembly of this your island of Antigua, impressed with the most unalterable sentiments of loyalty, humbly beg leave, at this time, to convey our assurances of them to your Majesty, joined with our most unfeigned and grateful thanks, for the many instances of your paternal care extended to us, although remotely placed from your throne and royal presence.
Your Majesty's wisdom and attention to the interest and welfare of all your people, we must in common with our fellow subjects participate in the due acknowledgments of; but it is with hearts full of peculiar duty and gratitude we acknowledge that regard and attention to us, which is strongly expressed by your Majesty in the choice of that Governor, whom you have been pleased to appoint over us; whose unwearied zeal to your Majesty's service, and regard to the just rights and liberties of your people, are so sensibly felt by us, as to mark in him the happy consequences of that choice.
When we reflect on the able and mild exercise of power in our excellent Chief Governor, your Majesty's servant, Sir Ralph Payne, Knight of the Bath; and at the same time see how other governments have been rent by faction, while we have lived in a continued state of union and tranquillity; we cannot restrain our expressions of attachment to him, as the true representative of the royal master.
Thus endeared to us by his conduct, from a faithful discharge of that high trust with which you have honoured him, permit us, Sire, on the departure of our Governor for Europe, to supplicate your most gracious favour for the reception of him into your presence, with such marks of your royal countenance and approbation as must be a reward of his faithful services, and an acceptance of our testimonial of gratitude. And permit us further in our supplication to add, that your Majesty would condescend to indulge the woes of your faithful subjects of Antigua, by rendering them again happy in his return to the exercise of the government of these your Leeward islands.
THOMAS JARVIS, President. THOMAS WARNER, Speaker.
NEW BERN, December 1.
WE hear from Cape Fear, that Governor Martin has been reinforced with 300 men, that he has issued a proclamation, offering to spare the towns of Brunswick and Wilmington from the flames, on their laying down their arms, and giving hostages for their future behaviour. But Col. Moore, at the head of the provincial forces stationed there, we hope, will stop his Excellency's intentions of destroying his fellow subjects.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 29.
Extracts of several letters brought by Capt. Robbins, in the Schooner Two Sisters, lately seized by an armed vessel in the service of the United Colonies.
Published by order of the Congress. CHARLES THOMPSON, Secretary.
Continued from our last.
Extract of a letter to Lieutenant JONES, of the 63d regiment, at Boston, dated at CORKE, September 10, 1775.
THEY will be scourged severely, and it is the opinion the soldiers will have all the forfeitures. I wish you all health, and that you may finish as gloriously as you have begun. The serjeants give one guinea to every man besides the King's bounty; these people are to be formed into companies additional to each regiment to recruit it. We have taken it into our heads here that the Admiral and his fleet has not been as active as they should be, and are told he is sent for home.
I am, Sir, most affectionately your's ever, R. GORDON.
Extract of a letter to Captain Gardner, Aid de Camp to General BURGOYNE, at Boston, dated at CORKE, September 10, 1775.
I arrived here this day, and never was mortal more hurried than I am at present, but a Yankey Schooner just going to leave this for Boston's great township, I ought not to let slip the opportunity.
I enclose in this a letter to Col. Pigot, which when you have read seal it and deliver it to him, if you have any interest with him you will employ it in my favour, for you must know, there is a damned strong Scotch party in our regiment, which would be glad to deprive me of the paymaster'ship—I should have been a Major before this, if it had not been for this cursed rebellion, but every thing's for the best; perhaps I may soon get that. The Americans.

rank without purchase, if I escape the blazing irons of the Saints , for I am eldest Captain in the regiment, except Major Gray—General Burgoyne's letter to him is deservedly much admired, and though short I believe has made more converts to sound policy than any other production that has appeared upon the subject—The King's proclamation has greatly confounded the turbulent unallied patriots.
"Strike off their pensions, by the setting sun,
"All England, if not Europe, is undone."
"Some of my old acquaintances, the Skiragathy's, should be let slip upon the back settlements; I am convinced they would not desire better sport, and likewise convinced, that nothing would sooner bring those liberty mad gentry to reason—Your present situation must be very disagreeable, to be cooped up by such a set of dirty raggamuffins as I know they are: However, this may comfort you, the fiddle is tuning for them, and early next spring they will have such a dance, as I hope will bring them to themselves. Believe me, dear Harry,
To be affectionately yours,
V. GARDNER.
"P. S. The transports for the 17th, 27th, and our regiment, failed for this the 28th of August. You may depend that we shall have early next spring 20,000 Russians. Adieu, laurels and life to you."
General Lee.
Extract of a letter to an officer at Boston, dated CORKE, September 14, 1775.
"There are several young men going out volunteers, who have deposited the purchase money of commissions, so that you will not want opportunities of selling out, therefore we earnestly entreat you to come home. Were you on actual service against the French or Spaniards, our natural enemies, I should be the last man in the world to suggest a thought of quitting the profession: For though much I prize your safety, you may depend that the preservation of your character holds the first place with me.
"Any thing you may desire to have from hence shall be punctually executed, provided the quantity does not exceed the consumption of your own family, for as to assisting any other officers employed in this black business , I beg to be excused; they may even go dine with Duke Humphrey for me.
"Now for public matters. Lord Kenmare gives a bounty of 10s. 6d. to all volunteers enlisting with Major Roche. The Papists of Limerick, and the Papists of Corke, have subscribed to give as much more to the first five hundred. The Popish Bishops have likewise been applied to, to use their influence with their flocks, which they are willing to do provided the officers are Papists. These are blessed times."
TO THE WORLD.
THE proclamation is issued, the grand mandate of court despotism is thundered out, and Englishmen are now deemed rebels; aye, and by some of those who were actually rebels in 1745. O what a reverse of fortune have we! Englishmen are doomed to slavery and chains, who dare commiserate their friends and kinsmen. O England, England, where is now thy wonted glory! Where is now thy wonted virtue!
Is the spirit of this land stifled? Is the blaze of patriot freedom burnt out?
Have we no Sydneys, Ludlows, Hampdens, Marvells, left? Is our spunk dissolved into effeminate luxury? O Chatham, Camden, Richmond, Rockingham, Saville, weep o'er the wrongs of bleeding England, and raise her drooping head! It is the prayer of
THOUSANDS.
LONDON, Sept. 1.
LAST week a beautiful young girl, about 18 years of age, in boy's clothes, shipped herself on board a vessel in the river bound to the West Indies; but her sex being accidentally discovered, prevented her intended voyage. She had passed for a boy some time, and had lived near a twelvemonth as a footman to a Lady, and said her desire of seeing the world occasioned her to disguise her sex, and choose a sailor's life.
On Saturday the master of the Rose and Crown Alehouse, the corner of Downingstreet, Westminster, having an old mulkett, which had been a long time loaded for the security of his house, intending to have it cleaned, drew out the slugs, as he thought, and gave it to a man to fire off the powder, which the man did, and their being a slug left in the gun on firing, it went into the dining-room of Sir Jeffery Amherst, which is almost opposite, took with it the glass of the window, passed over Sir Jeffery's head as he sat writing, and struck against the opposite side of the room, then fell on the floor. Happily Sir Jeffery had not left the window above five minutes, or he would have been shot. The landlord and man were sent for; and the circumstance being clearly proved, Sir Jeffery forgave them, as he had received no hurt.
Extract of a letter from an English Gentleman at HANOVER.
"Several new recruits have lately been raised in this Electorate, and they are very diligent in learning their exercise. This augmentation is in consequence of some regiments being ordered to Gibraltar, &c. and, indeed, it was a necessary step, for otherwise we should have been in rather a defenceless state, which would be very improper at a time when the King of Prussia is menacing us; now he may attack as soon as he pleases, and I think we shall give him a warm reception. The men ordered from hence are in good spirits, and I assure you that there is not a soldier but what would readily lay down his life in the service of his Royal master, King George III.
It is very confidentially asserted, that some overtures of an extraordinary nature have been made by the General Congress of America, to the States of Holland, which have been communicated by their High Mightinesses to our Ministry.
If we may depend on the reports of an English family just arrived from Paris, the Spanish Minister is expressively seditious in his applications, the chief design of which is to engage the French to join them to support the cause of the provincials against Great Britain, under pretence that they suffer greatly by having all kind of commerce cut off; and that the Court of Spain is ready to concert any measures, and to co-operate with that of France in any measure that promised effectually to impede the operations of the Court of Great Britain. At present, however, the King of France is inflexible, he having been lately convinced of the vast advantage it is to his subjects to be at peace with England.
A plan is under consideration for making the island of Bermuda a free port, in consequence of a petition laid before the board of trade for the better promotion of commerce.
The following epitaph is taken from a tomb-stone at Gunwalow, near Helstone, Cornwall:
SHALL WE ALL DIE? WE SHALL DIE ALL. ALL DIE SHALL WE? DIE ALL WE SHALL.
Anecdote of the brave General PUTNAM, who is now the boast of every table, where men dare be honest in these patrid times.
"When young, he bore a commission in our army, but a Scotsman being put over his head, the spirited American threw up his commission, and entered into the Prussian service, wherein he served with reputation, and was advanced to rank: From thence he passed to America, and commanded a regiment of provincial rangers: His gallantry was conspicuous, and falling wounded in the field in a skirmish with the Indians he was scalped. His valour and military dexterity recommended him to Gen. Wolfe, who distinguished him much with his notice and friendship. He is now a brave old man with white hair, and he always goes uncovered."
Anecdote.—A play was lately acted at Paris, in which a lover is cruelly treated by his mistress. He addresses her in the most pressing manner on his knees, and swears eternal fidelity. She receives his courtship with the utmost scorn and disdain; he, notwithstanding, persists in his vows of the most ardent love, and declares that nothing but death shall put an end to his passion. This has no effect upon the hard-hearted fair; she still persists to treat him with all that disregard and aversion peculiar to the sex, when they pretend to dislike, or really hate, the person who loves them. An honest old officer, who was so far imposed upon as to think it all in downright earnest, by way of encouragement to the lover, cried out aloud from the boxes, "Don't you be discouraged for all this, 'tis her four Louis d'Ors, and my life for it, she will be as kind to you as she was to me last night for the same sum."
The King sent to acquaint Lady Charlotte Burgoyne that the General was well; that the news papers were full of lies, and desired no more might be read by such as belong to the Court. In spite of this, it is said he was wounded as he passed the bridge before the action began.
Lord Dunmore is expected from Virginia as soon as he has in some measure secured his own property from the ravaging rebels .
Some persons who are shortly expected from America, it is whispered, will never hold any post under Government again.
The Ministry have taken every pitiful, puerile, and contemptible method to distress the Colonists. They first ordered the ship-retreated Lord Dunmore to give arms and freedom to the Negroes; this the very Negroes refused to take at his hands. They then sent tomahawks, scalping knives, arms and ammunition to all the Indian tribes; and to encourage them the more, they gave them back the vast tract of lands they had conquered and taken from them the last war, to encourage them to attack the Colonists in the back settlements. They established also before papacy in Canada, and ordered an army to be raised of Roman Catholics, to attack the southern provinces. All these failed; the Canadians refuse the service, and the Indian Chiefs gave this answer, "That this was no business of theirs, it was a dispute between a family; but if King George would come and give them a talk, they would satisfy him, it was no war of theirs." The Congress then despatched messengers, and re-purchased all the grounds again of the Indians, which our wise-acres in Ministry had given up.
A certain Governor, who so gallantly quitted his government to protect his Lady and children afloat, now lies open to a prosecution at law in this country, for placing steel traps and spring guns, without placing a public advertisement to caution those who may come that way.
What a wretched piece of low cunning, and Scots revenge, when retreated from his government, to place a secret spring gun, where he durst not publicly act himself, to shoot some poor unoffending carpenter that might be so luckless to open the door—O wereched subterfuge!
Sept. 19. Yesterday an express arrived with the account of the safe arrival in the Downs of the Charming Sally, Capt. Robertson, with despatches from General Gage, dated the 16th of August, and has on board many sick and wounded soldiers.
Extract of a letter from PLYMOUTH, Sept. 15.
"This day arrived the Charming Nancy, Davison, from Boston; she was only 24 days on her passage; General Gage's Lady came passenger in her. This ship has brought home 170 sick and wounded soldiers and officers. By her there is an account that no action had happened between the regulars and the provincials, since the 17th of last June, nor did the General think it proper to hazard an engagement till reinforced by a body of fresh troops."
It is said that an address to his Majesty, on the present state of affairs in Great Britain and her colonies similar to those from Manchester, Liverpool, &c. will soon be set on foot among some of the merchants and traders of the city of London.
Sept. 21. There are letters in town by the Charming Sally, from Boston, which mention, that the provincials had made themselves masters of some important posts, which they have entrenched in a manner strongly beyond conception; and that the talk among the King's officers, of attacking them when the reinforcements arrive, is now dropped, as they confess they could not come to an engagement even supposing their number to be equal, without a material disadvantage.
Sept. 22. Two Hanoverian officers of distinction arrived in town from Hanover on Wednesday night, and yesterday they waited on his Majesty at Kew, with whom they had the honour of a conference.
It is with pleasure we hear that Lord Chatham is so well recovered as to propose constant attendance in Parliament this session.
The clerks in the plantation office are ordered to regulate and adjust the American accounts for the inspection of Parliament at their next meeting.
A bill for settling an unalterable compact between this country and America, for the future government and tranquillity of the latter country, is now under the consideration of the Cabinet. A certain noble Lord in office, who has planned the bill, is to make the motion the second week after the meeting of Parliament. The general object of the proposed regulation is to put the Americans on the same footing of freedom, and under the same advantages, with the rest of his Majesty's subjects. The whole continent is to be divided into large districts, each of which is to send a representative to the British Parliament. The number of representatives at first is to be rendered proportional to the revenue that is expected to be raised by the introduction of the same laws of custom and excise, and the same privileges of trade prevailing in Great Britain. In proportion as that revenue shall encrease, their number is to be enlarged. But provision is to be made, that at no period that number shall exceed one sixth part of the House of Commons. In consequence of this regulation, all the governments subsisting in America, except Canada, are to be dissolved. No Governor, no Council, no Assembly for the future! for as all the inhabitants of the British empire have (to use a metaphor) but one field , they are to have but one shepherd . Boards of custom and excise are to be established in places thought the most convenient; and courts of justice possessing the same powers within their respective jurisdictions with those of the King's Bench and Exchequer in England, are to be erected in the most central situations; and the mode of appeal, as here, is to be in the House of Lords. In short, every regulation now existing, calculated to keep up a distinction, is to be removed. The acts of the American Assemblies are to be entirely abrogated, and the law of England is to take place every where except in Canada. To prevent inconveniences, against which the law of England does not always provide, an act is to be passed comprehending all the necessary and local regulations contained in the acts of the different municipal legislatures of America. In a few days all the particulars of this very important bill will be printed.
Lord Cavan, it is reported, is to go over to America as commander of the foreign mercenaries, which the Parliament are to take into their pay, the first week of the sessions.
Wednesday morning four large ships were taken into the transport service, and are ordered to be got ready with all expedition, to carry over muskets, &c. for the troops in America.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
WANTED,
A WET NURSE, of good Character, without a Child. Inquire of the Printers.
ON Monday the 8th of January will be sold at public Vendue, at Sack Point , Hanover County , two CABLES and some SMALL RIGGING, for the Benefit of the Underwriters on the Ship Rockingham . (11)
To be rented for two Years, to the highest Bidder, on the 1st Day of January next,
THE Ordinary lately occupied by Mr. Isham Allen , belonging to the Estate of Samuel Alsley , deceased, about six Miles from Williamsburg , on the main Road leading to Hanover .
ROBERT C. WARREN.
To be SOLD, on Monday the 8th Day of January next, at the Plantation of Major William Poythress , deceased, on Little Roanoke , in Charlotte County ,
ALL the PERSONAL ESTATE of the said Deceased, consisting of the Crops of CORN, TOBACCO, and WHEAT, the Stocks of HORSES, CATTLE, and HOGS, and all the PLANTATION UTENSILS, at that Place. Also will be sold, on the Friday following, being the 12th, at the Butterwood Quarter , in Dinwiddie County , all the Crops of CORN, TOBACCO, and WHEAT, the Stocks of HORSES, CATTLE, and HOGS, and all the PLANTATION UTENSILS, at that Place. Likewise will be sold on the Day following, being Saturday the 13th, at the Tombeaton Quarter , all the Crops of CORN, TOBACCO, and WHEAT, the Stocks of HORSES, CATTLE, and HOGS, and all the PLANTATION UTENSILS, at that Place. Twelve Months Credit will be allowed the Purchasers for all Sums above five Pounds, on giving Bond, with approved Security, to the
EXECUTORS.
N. B. The Monday following will be sold, at the Butterwood Quarter , a large Number of VALUABLE SLAVES.
DECEMBER 14, 1775.
THE Sheriffs who are indebted to his Majesty's Revenue of Quitrents, are desired to settle with the Auditor, and pay their respective Balances into the Receiver's Office by the first Day of next January; all such who fail to make due Payment by that Time, legal Notice will be given to obtain a Judgment next April.
RICHARD CORBIN, D. R. G.
FALMOUTH, December 4, 1775.
THE Subscriber intends to leave the Colony early next Spring: As there are many Accounts yet unsettled on the Store Books, which were kept by him at this Place on Account of William Cunningham and Co. Merchants in Glasgow , and which he gave up to Mr. Walter Colquhoun on the 1st of September 1774, he desires every Person in that Manner indebted to apply as soon as they can, and have their Balances ascertained by Bond, or otherwise, as may be required. This will prevent any Dispute that might otherwise arise with Mr. Colquhoun in the Collection, and is a Piece of Justice due by the Debtor for the Credit allowed.
JAMES ROBISON.
TO BE SOLD
Under a Power of Attorney from Mr. JOHN BAYLOR,
ABOUT 1000 Acres of Land in the county of Orange , to be laid off on the upper Part of a Tract whereon John Hawkins lives. The Land in general is very good, and contains a considerable Quantity of valuable low Ground. The Terms may be known by applying to Mr. James Newman , near the Premises, or to the Subscriber, in the County of Caroline . (tf)
EDMUND PENDLETON, Jun.
N. B. I am also empowered to receive and pay Mr. Baylor's Debts, but I am apprehensive it will not be in my Power to do either, and therefore hope his Creditors will not be impatient or uneasy.
THIRTY SHILLINGS REWARD.
STOLEN, or STRAYED, from the Subscriber, on the 1st of November last, a BAY MARE 3 Years old last Spring, about 4 Feet 6 or 7 Inches high, with a small Star in her Forehead, neither docked nor branded, trots and gallops very well. Whoever brings the said Mare to me in Petersburg shall have the above Reward,
LAUNCELOT STONE.
THE Subscriber will sell his Houses and Lots in Newcastle upon reasonable Terms, and give a Year's Credit. (tf)
ROBERT CAMPBELL.
STRAYED from LILLIPUT , in JAMES CITY County , a RED HEIFER, branded on the near Buttock C, and has got a Hole through one of her Ears. Any Person finding the above Heifer, on bringing it to the Subscriber, or to the Printers, shall be rewarded for his trouble.
HENRY CHAPLIN.
Just come to Hand, and to be SOLD at this PRINTING-OFFICE,
A large and exact VIEW of the late
BATTLE at CHARLESTOWN,
Elegantly coloured, Price one Dollar.
Also an accurate MAP of
The present SEAT of CIVIL WAR,
Taken by an able Draughtsman who was on the Spot at the late Engagement. Price one Dollar.

PROVIDENCE, November 25.
Extract of a letter from a Gentleman in Philadelphia, dated the 7th instant.
THE province of New Hampshire have asked advice of Congress relative to assuming government. The Congress advised the provincial convention to grant warrants for a free and full election of representatives of the colony, who, if they think it necessary, are to choose such a form of government as they in their judgment shall think will best promote the happiness of the people, and preserve peace and good order during the present dispute with Great Britain. The same advice was given to South Carolina, and in a few months I hope every colony will be perfectly free.
WATERTOWN, Nov 27. Friday last General Howe sent 300 men, women, and children, poor of the town of Boston, over to Chelsea, without any thing to subsist on at this inclement season of the year, having, it is reported, only six cattle left in the town for Shubaal Hewes, butcher master general, to kill.
Wednesday evening last about 1000 troops of the united colonies broke ground on what is called Cobble (or rather Miller's) hill, within about half a mile in a direct line from the enemy's encampment on Banker's hill, or their shipping lying at West Boston, notwithstanding which a cannon has not yet been fired at us. Our troops are now well entrenched, they having some nine pounders and several of smaller denominations well secured; and this day we hear there will be planted several eighteen and twenty four pounders, which will command the ferries between Boston and Charlestown.
NEWPORT, Nov. 27. Yesterday morning arrived from Boston the Swan sloop of war, Capt. Ayscough, with a large armed Schooner, a small armed sloop, and a large armed snow. Soon after these vessels arrived, some officers and men came ashore at the long wharf, with several instruments, and took a survey of this harbour.
NEW YORK, Dec. 4.
WE hear that Governor Tryon has his Majesty's leave to return to England. Also that his Majesty has ordered one quart of porter, and one quarter of a pound of cheese per man, for the ministerial troops at Boston, the expence to be paid out of his privy purse. That the 17th regiment is arrived at Boston, and that thirty two provision vessels may be hourly expected there from England. That the Roebuck of forty guns, and the Venus frigate, are destined for New York, in the room of the Asia; and that from the preparations in England there is not the least prospect of a reconciliation for some time to come.
December 7. We have just heard the following verbal account, brought by the eastern post, viz.—That one of our provincial armed vessels had just taken and brought into — a store ship from England, from which they had taken the following articles, said to be as suitable for our present occasion, as if they had been sent according to an invoice from the Continental Congress, and that General Washington, when the post left Cambridge, had sent wagons, &c. to bring them to the camp, viz. 30 tons of cartridges, 2500 stand of small arms, 2 brass 24 pounders, 2 brass 18 pounders, one 13 inch mortar, some small mortars, &c. The whole estimated at 30,000 l. sterling value.
PHILADELPHIA, December 6.
YESTERDAY we were favoured with the following intelligence from several Gentlemen who left Albany a few days ago: That as they were coming away, a Sergeant-Major, belonging to Gen. Wooster, just arrived from Montreal, informed them, that just before he left it, an express arrived from Quebec, which brought the agreeable news of its having surrendered to Colonel Arnold, and a party was detached to cut off Carleton's retreat with a number of Gondolas, and that the express heard the firing, but what was the success of the attempt is not known.
A letter from Elizabeth town says, a vessel, in a very short passage from Albany, brings intelligence that an express is upon the road with an account of the taking of Quebec; that upon Col. Arnold's appearing before the city, the inhabitants threw the gates open, and received him with joy; and that General Carleton is upon lake St. Francis, between Quebec and Montreal, who, it is supposed, cannot escape the vigilance of Col. Arnold.
A person just arrived in this city, who was amongst the three hundred lately sent out of Boston by General Howe, says the number of regulars in that town amounts to seven thousand, one thousand of whom are sick; the whole garrison, not long before he left it, was for a week under arms, in expectation of an attack from the Continental army, having been informed by several deserters, who came in at various times, that Washington, Lee, and all the other Generals had agreed upon it; the inhabitants are in great distress for want of fresh provisions, the army always securing it for themselves, as well as the fish that is brought to the town; that about this day seven night, General Burgoyne's baggage was put on board the Boyne man of war, a seventy gun ship, which was to sail for England in a few days, in which the General was going passenger, not being able to obtain even elbow room upon this extensive continent; that upon a sergeant's deserting, the officers reported that the Continental army had hanged him for a spy, in order to deter others, they having reason to suspect most of the soldiers will desert when they can get an opportunity; that the inhabitants of the town are treated with the greatest severity and contempt, inasmuch that if an officer chooses any particular house for his residence, he has only to write his name upon a piece of paper, and order it to be fixed on the door, when the miserable townsman is obliged immediately to turn his family out, and leave both house and furniture to the mercy of the officer and his attendants; and as to the tory refugees, the soldiers frequently insult them, and tell them they are ten times worse than the brave fellows in the camp.
WILLIAMSBURG, Dec. 23.
OUR most implacable enemy, Lord Dunmore, to his great grief and disappointment, through the intrepidity of our troops, has been obliged to retire to the shipping, with many of the inhabitants of Norfolk, and some Negroes. His diabolical scheme (which will perpetually disgrace him) being frustrated, and finding all attempts in vain to accomplish his designs, our troops were suffered to enter the town without opposition from the men of war. In a message to Col. Woodford, his Lordship assured him, that if his Majesty's ships should not be fired upon by those under his command, no injury would be offered to the town; and it seems, by this appearance of a peaceable disposition on the part of his Lordship, as if he thought the riflemen were rather too near him!
We have just heard that Capt. Barron, with a party of men, yesterday took a tender with several slaves on board; she was in pursuit of a vessel just arrived with salt, which Capt. Barron also took possession of, and carried both safe to Hampton.
The Liverpool frigate, of 36 guns, is said to be arrived, in order to take Governor Dunmore to England.
The South Carolina gazette of November 23d mentions the arrival of his Majesty's armed Schooner St. Lawrence at St. Augustine, from Boston, with recruits for the 14th regiment.
Extract of a letter from Col. Howe to the Honourable the President of the Convention.
"SIR, NORFOLK, December 15, 1775. THE course of service necessarily inducing an inquiry
between Col. Woodford and myself, respecting our commissions, we found that mine, from the nature of it, had the precedence of his. He conducted himself upon this occasion in that manner which his knowledge of discipline could not but dictate, and with that gentility which never forsakes him. It is with diffidence, Sir, that I undertake this charge, and I must add, however honourable, with reluctance, as I supercede a Gentleman I so much esteem, whose abilities I know to be equal to the duties of the station, and who hath so amply filled the measure of his duty. If real attachment to the noble cause in which I am engaged, and the strictest attention to my duty, can in any manner compensate for my want of abilities, the colony of Virginia may rely upon my utmost exertion to serve them, in which, I flatter myself, I shall not be wholly unsuccessful, as I am promised the assistance of my friend Col. Woodford, whose advice I shall upon every occasion ask, and whose aid I am certain will never be denied me. I shall be happy to be honoured with your instructions on every occasion, and an exact compliance with your commands shall be considered as an indispensable obligation. I have the honour to be, with great respect, Sir, your obedient servant, ROBERT HOWE."
Extract of a letter from Col. Woodford to the Honourable President of the Convention.
"SIR, NORFOLK, December 15, 1775. I wrote you last night; since then nothing material has happened; we still remain in the same situation. This morning a midshipman, with a flag of truce, arrived from the Otter. That and our answer you have enclosed. All the principal Tories, with their families and effects, have retired on board the ships of war and other vessels in the harbour, of which there is a very large fleet. What they intend I know not, and I am much at a loss to inform your Honourable Body what steps we shall take, further than to keep possession of this part of the town, and afford what protection we can to the inhabitants that claim it. We are much at a loss for your further orders, which we hoped to receive before this time, and are not without our fears that some accident must have happened to your express. I received a letter this morning from Mr. Cary Michell: Our answer is enclosed, with his letter. I have the worst opinion of the people here, and have no doubt but every thing relating to us is laid before his Lordship. If it is your intention that a part only of the present force should remain at this place, I would submit it to your consideration, whether the 2d regiment, or any part of it you may think proper to withdraw, may not, after their hard duty, be drawn off. I wrote the Convention last night that I had resigned the command to Col. Howe, as that Gentleman's military abilities, and great experience, will be full equal to every task. I would ask the Convention's leave of absence to see my family, and attend to my private affairs, for so long time as shall be agreeable to them. I do not mean this so long as there is a prospect of any actual service, either offensive or defensive. You have, enclosed, a return of the strength of the troops at this place, and for further particulars must refer you to several members of your respectable body, who are the bearers of this. I am, with the greatest respect, Sir, your most obedient servant, WILLIAM WOODFORD."
To the OFFICER commanding at Norfolk. Capt. Squire's compliments to the commanding officer, informs him that several musket balls were last night fired at the King's ship from some people at Norfolk. Capt. Squire did not return the fire, from a supposition it was done out of wantonness. Capt. Squire does not mean to fire on the town of Norfolk unless first fired at; must beg to know if any hostile intention was meant to his Majesty's ship, and people under his command. OTTER Sloop, off Norfolk, December 15, 1775.
ANSWER TO THE ABOVE. Col. Howe's and Col. Woodford's compliments to Captain Squire, and assure him they gave no orders to fire upon the Otter, and conceive the musket balls mentioned in Capt. Squire's message to have come from our guard, who fired by mistake on one of our own parties. ROBERT HOWE. WILLIAM WOODFORD.
A MORNING RETURN of the FORCES now under the command of Col. Howe. Virginia 2d regiment, 350. Virginia minute-battalion, 165. A detachment of the 1st Virginia regiment, 172. North Carolina 2d regiment, 438. North Carolina Volunteers, 150. Total strength of companies, 1275.
Extract of a letter from Col. Scott to Capt. Southall, dated Norfolk, December 17.
"DEAR SIR, I have just time to inform you that we have at last got possession of the most horrid place I ever beheld; I mean Norfolk. Almost all the inhabitants fled on board the ships. Flags are continually passing, asking water, provision, or to exchange prisoners. Duty is harder than I ever saw before, our guards have not been relieved for 48 hours. The men of war fell down last evening about a mile, and left a brig with 5000 bushels of salt behind, which our guard took, and brought to the wharf, but have not got one bushel on shore yet. We have got on board the vessel Mr. Cary Michell."
Died,—On the 28th ult. at Ware Glebe, Mrs. ALICE FONTAINE, wife of the Rev. James Maury Fontaine. She was pious—grateful—sincere—affectionate—discreet.
AT a committee held in Louisa, December 4, 1775, present, the Rev. Thomas Hall, Chairman, the Rev. John Todd, Thomas Johnston (Major) Charles Smith, Robert Armistead, Thomas Johnston (Sheriff) Col. Richard Anderson, James Dabney, Charles Barrett, Col. William White, Nathaniel Anderson, Waddy Thomson, Thomas Johnston (Minor) George Meiwether, Charles Yancy, John Bullock, William Pettus, Garret Minor, John Nelson, William Lipscomb, and William Hughes.
Resolved unanimously, that the thanks of this committee be given to the Rev. Thomas Hall and John Todd, for their unwearied application of their abilities in the service of their country, as well in checking the wild irregular sallies of those who would aim at too much, as in rousing those lethargic wretches, who would tamely submit to a deprivation of their rights and liberties, to a proper sense of their danger and duty.
Resolved, also, on a consideration of the great distress that our brethren in some of the lower counties are reduced to by the calamity of the times, that this committee, in the name of the whole county, do make the best provision for them in their power, either by offering a welcome asylum, or in contributing to their relief.
Signed, by order of the committee, HENRY GARRETT, Clerk.
THE committee of Dinwiddie, being convinced that large quantities of saltpetre may be made at Petersburg ware-houses, hath come to a resolution to attempt it, and will give all proper encouragement to a person well skilled in the process. They would give the preference to a certain JEREMIAH BROWN, who has had success in making this valuable article.
On account of the enormous expence and difficulty of procuring paper, the printers find it absolutely necessary, and it will for the future be expected, that all Gentlemen who wish to become subscribers to this gazette will pay half the subscription money upon entering their names.
TREASURY OFFICE, December 22, 1775.
PURSUANT to an Act of the General Assembly, and a Resolution of Convention, I have appointed Mr. Bartholomew Dandridge to assist in signing and Mr. William Rose in filling up and numbering the Treasury Notes. ROBERT C. NICHOLAS, Treasurer.
WILLIAMSBURG, December 23, 1775.
THE surviving Partners of Mr. John Prentis, late Manager of the Trade under the Firm of himself and Company, earnestly request all Persons indebted to the said Partnership to pay their respective Balances to Mr. Robert Prentis, the present Manager; and those who cannot possibly comply therewith will think it but reasonable to close their Accounts, by giving Bond and Security to ROBERT PRENTIS, & Co.
TO BE SOLD,
On WEDNESDAY the 3d of JANUARY next, at the Dwelling-House of the late Mr. JOHN PRENTIS, ALL the HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN FURNITURE, also several valuable SLAVES, chiefly House Servants, among which is a very good Cook.—And the Saturday following, at his Plantation in James City County, the STOCK of CATTLE, CORN, FODDER, &c. Six Months Credit will be allowed for all sums above five Pounds, on giving Bond, with approved Security, to THE EXECUTORS. WILLIAMSBURG, December 22, 1775.
PRINCESS ANNE, December 16, 1775.
THE Subscriber's State of Health making it necessary for him to leave the Colony in a few Months, he desires all Persons to whom he is indebted to bring in their Accounts, that they may be discharged; and those in his Debt, who are unable to pay off their Accounts immediately, &c. &c. are desired to give Bond and Security. ANTHONY WALKE.
Fifty Dollars Reward.
To all Men in all civilized Kingdoms, States, Provinces, Colonies and Islands;
PATRICK MACKAY, Esq; of the Island of Sappello, in the Province of Georgia hereby Gives Notice of a most daring and flagitious Robbery and Piracy, and requests their Aid and Assistance to seize, stop, and bring to Punishment, the Perpetrators of the Crime to be set forth at large in this Advertisement, for the Public Good of all commercial Countries, as well as for the Recovery of his own Property.
About Eleven o'clock in the Night of Tuesday the thirty first Day of October 1775, nine armed Men came on board a Schooner, then lying moored off the Point of Sappello, in the Province of Georgia, cut both her Cables (which were all that were on board) and proceeded immediately to Sea. Of the Perpetrators of this Piracy two only are yet known, viz. SAMUEL PRICE and SAMUEL WELLS. Price is a short thin Man, rather well made, about thirty five Years of Age, and was lately Master and Owner of a Coasting Schooner in this Province; Wells is a tall slender young Man, about twenty five Years of Age, and was born in Rhode Island.
There were on Board the Schooner, at the Time when the Pirates boarded her, a white Man, John Bacon, and three Negro Men; when they got near the Bar, they put on board a Boat belonging to the Schooner the above mentioned John Bacon, and two of the Negroes; the other Negro Fellow, named JACK (who is about five Feet eight Inches high) they carried off with them.
The Schooner is fifty three Feet Keel, twenty two Feet Beam, and about nine Feet in the Hold; she is quite new, built in South Carolina, may carry about three hundred Barrels of Rice, her Stern square and painted light blue, had bright Sides, and six Port Holes and two Quarter Lights on each Side. The Ports and Deadlights were not painted, nor the Windows sashed; neither was there any Joiner's Work done in her Cabin, being just out of the Builder's Hands. She is taut rigged, with Topsails standing, but had no Yards across; her Fore sail new, and her Main sail and Jib Half worn. The Hook over her Bolprit had been carried away, and was fixed with a Hawser. She was lately purchased by the Subscriber at the Marshal's Sale in Savannah in Georgia.
When the Schooner was boarded by the above mentioned Pirates, she was in Ballast; the only Provisions then on Board were, about five Bushels of Potatoes, and a few Casks of Water. From their being so scantily provided, they may be obliged to put into some Port or Inlet on the Coast of North America, in order to procure, by Theft, a fresh Supply; it will, therefore, behove all Persons on the Coast to keep a good Look out, in Order to prevent their accomplishing any such Purpose; or they may probably offer the above mentioned Negro Fellow Jack for Sale, that they may, with the Purchase Money, procure Necessaries.
The above Reward is hereby offered to any Person who shall apprehend and bring to Justice the above mentioned Samuel Price, Samuel Wells, and their accomplices; also a Reward of FIFTY DOLLARS for the recovery of the Negro Fellow Jack; and likewise a reasonable and generous Salvage for recovering and delivering the said Schooner to Mr. Alexander Rose, Merchant, in Charles Town, South Carolina, or to me in Georgia; to be awarded and determined upon by any three Merchants or indifferent Persons, or otherwise according to Law or Custom. PATRICK MACKAY.
GEORGIA, November 1, 1775.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in
Stanton, Augusta County, the 7th Instant (December) a Servant Boy named BARTHOLOMEW ARCHIBALD, about 18 Years of Age, about 5 Feet 6 Inches high, of a dark Complexion, pitted with the Smallpox, very slim made, with dark short curled Hair; had on, when he went away, a brown double breasted Jacket with Sleeves, and a Coat, red Plush Breeches, Yarn Stockings, and Plated Buckles. He rode away a small SORREL HORSE with one Eye, and a large Blaze in his Face. I am apt to think he will pass for a free Man, as he has been some Time in the Country. Whoever secures the said Servant and Horse, so that I may get them again, shall receive three Pounds Reward, paid by me, ROGER NORTH.
DINWIDDIE, September 1, 1775.
FOR SALE, on very reasonable Terms,
several Tracts of valuable PATENTED LAND, some of which have Plantations with considerable Improvements thereon; also several Surveys and Entries of LAND, all lying in the Counties of Halifax, Charlotte, and Bedford. Any Person inclined to purchase may see the Land, and know the Terms, by applying to Mr. Joseph Medley in Halifax, or to Mr. Thomas Paulsen or William Harvey, Junior, of Charlotte. Good Titles will be made the Purchasers by Mr. Alexander Shaw of this County, who is properly authorised to act for me during my Absence from this Colony, for a few Months. NATHANIEL MANSON.

POETS CORNER.
On CHRISTMAS DAY.
FOREVER hail! auspicious morn, On which the Son of God was born To save a sinful race.
SUFFOLK, Dec. 6, 1775.
I INTEND to leave the Colony soon, and to return in a few Months. SAMUEL DONALDSON.
HAMPDEN-SIDNEY, Nov. 23, 1775.
AT a Meeting of the Trustees of this Academy, held on the 10th Instant, Captain PHILIP HALCOMBE was elected Steward. The Steward is appointed to furnish good and wholesome Diet to the Students;
SAMUEL STAN. SMITH.
N. B. I have taken Care to furnish the Library with all the School Books that are necessary in the Course of Education, which the Students may make Use of at a very moderate annual Rate, and save themselves a great Expence in buying Books.
Seven Pounds Reward.
STOLEN, and carried off from Mr. William Hardyman's, in Charles City, the 7th of October last, by a certain John Gwynn, TWO BLACK HORSES, with SADDLES and BRIDLES;
WILLIAM BLACK.
Since the above Date, the small black Horse got away from Gwynn, somewhere about Charles City Courthouse, and was taken up in Shirley Pasture, and brought Home, together with the small Saddle, without any Saddle Cloth.
RICHMOND, Dec. 12, 1775.
I INTEND to leave this Colony immediately. 2|| SAMUEL CUTHBERT.
TO BE SOLD,
TWO Lots lying on the main Street in the Town of Fredericksburg, on which is a large Dwelling-House, and all other necessary Houses for a Family;
JAMES ROBB.
MANCHESTER, Dec. 4, 1775.
I intend to leave the Colony immediately, for a few Months. WILLIAM THOMSON.
FREDERICKSBURG, December 5, 1775.
I INTEND to leave the Colony early next Spring, and therefore earnestly request those who have had Dealings with me, and whose Accounts are still unclosed, to come and settle them.
FOR SALE,
On APPOMATTOX River, near PETERSBURG, THE Plantation whereon I now live, in a pleasant and agreeable Situation; the Land as good, or the best in the Neighbourhood, and the Improvements on it are,
JOHN BUTLER.
To be LET to the highest Bidder, at Nansemond Courthouse, for the ensuing Year, on Monday the 18th Instant (December)
THE well accustomed TAVERN in the Town of Suffolk, which for many years past was kept by Samuel Swann, deceased.
JOHN SWANN, Executor.
TAKEN up, in Orange, a BRIGHT BAY MARE about 4 Years old, about 13 1/2 Hands high, has a few white Hairs in her Forehead, some white Hairs on her off hind Foot, and branded on the near Shoulder and Buttock F C or P C.
LAWRENCE TALIAFERRO.
TAKEN up, in Hanover, a WHITE BARROW HOG, with both Ears cropped, has two Slits in the right Ear, and one Slit in the left Ear, and an Underkeel in both Ears.
JOHN BLACKWELL.
TAKEN up, on Katerwa Creek, Halifax County, a brindled and white pied Steer, about 4 Years old, marked with two smooth Crops and a large Underkeel in each Ear.
THOMAS SPRAGGENS.
SONG BOOKS and SCHOOL BOOKS For SALE at this OFFICE:
SONG BOOKS.
The Masque, a new Collection of the best English, Scotch, and Irish Songs, Catches, Duets, and Cantatas. The London Songster, or polite Musical Companion, to which are added a genteel collection of the various Toasts, Sentiments, and Hob Nobs now in Fashion.
SCHOOL BOOKS.
Cicero, Horace, Ovid's Epistles and Metamorphoses, Salust, and Terence in Usam Delphini. Castellio's Bible, 4 V. Clarke's Justin, Salust, and Nepos; Cole's, Young's and Ainsworth's Latin and English Dictionaries, Dunlap's Greek Grammar, Bailey's Exercises Latin and English, Entick's Latin and English Dictionary, Mair's Tyro's Dictionary, Rudiman's Greek Testament, Holm's Greek, and Latin ditto. Gradus ad Parnassum.
TO BE SOLD
At PUBLIC AUCTION, pursuant to the last Will and Testament of Mr. JOHN TODD BICKERTON, deceased, at HANOVER Courthouse, the first Thursday in January next, being Court Day,
ONE Thousand eight Hundred and forty six Acres of LAND lying on Falling River, in the County of Bedford; also eight Virginia born NEGROES, consisting of 4 Men, 3 Women, and 1 Child, all young, and very likely.
Mrs. Martha Bickerton claims her Dower in said Land.
RUN away from the Subscriber, the first of June last, a likely Virginia born Slave named SIMON, about 25 Years old, 5 Feet 7 or 8 Inches high, has remarkable large Feet, a Scar near his Chin, and has lost the End of his Finger on his left Hand.
JOHN STRINGER.
COMMITTED to the Gaol of Chesterfield County, a short well made Negro Man, who says his Name is PUNCH, that he belongs to Thomas Norman of Granville County, in the Province of North Carolina;
JAMES BALL. Gaoler.
TO BE HIRED
For the ensuing Year, at KING WILLIAM Courthouse, on Friday the 29th Instant (DECEMBER) if fair, otherwise next fair Day,
ABOUT fifty likely Virginia born NEGROES, consisting of Men, Women, Boys, and Girls, several of which are good House Servants, being Part of the Trust Estate of Col. Philip Johnson.
JOHN WATKINS, for the Trustees.
Who has for Sale at Williams's Warehouse, in King William, a large Quantity of excellent BROWN SUGAR, for ready Money only.
JUST PUBLISHED,
Virginia ALMANACK
FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD
ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY SIX: CONTAINING
THE Lunations, Conjunctions, Eclipses; the Sun and Moon's Rising and Setting; the Rising, Setting, and Southings of the Heavenly Bodies; true Places and Aspects of the Planets, Weather, &c. calculated according to Art, and referred to the Horizon of 38 Degrees N. L. and a Meridian of five Hours West from the City of London;
WHEREIN ARE ALSO CONTAINED,
A Table of Court Days—a List of the Council and House of Burgessers of Virginia—List of Parishes, and the Ministers in them—The Governors and Visitors of William & Mary College—List of his Majesty's Land Forces, and of the Royal Navy, distinguishing the Regiments that are abroad, and the Ships on the American Station—Manner of collecting SALT PETRE, and making of GUNPOWDER, &c. &c. With a Variety of other Matter, both instructive and entertaining.
ADJOINING the House of JAMES
FRENCH, in the new Town of Petersburg, is carried on by the Subscribers a Manufactory of Men's BOOTS and SHOES, also Women's Leather, Cloth, Callimanco, Silk, and Satin Shoes; all of which are made after the newest Fashion, and equal in Goodness and Workmanship to any imported from London, many of the Hands having worked with Diabury and other capital Tradesmen in that Branch.
JOHN BLANEY, & Co.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Williamsburg, the 16th Instant (July) two Servant Men, viz.
JOHN STAUNTON, an Englishman, very talkative, by Trade a Wheelwright, pitted with the Smallpox, about 5 Feet 7 or 8 Inches high, with short dark Hair; had on, when he went away, a brown Cloth Coat and Jacket, and striped and Check Trousers.
JOHN SHIPHARD.
YORK TOWN, September 19, 1775.
RUN away from Col. Philip Rootes, of King and Queen, a Negro Man named HARRY, who was some Years ago mortgaged to the Hon. William Nelson. It is with good Reason suspected that he is lurking about West Point, and that he is harboured by some of Col. Thomas Moore's Negroes.
THE EXECUTORS.
ALEXANDRIA, June 5, 1775.
EIGHT POUNDS REWARD.
RUN away from the Subscriber, two indent Servants named ROBERT SHAW and ANDREW INGLES, both Natives of Scotland, and Bakers by Trade. Each of them had on a Bearskin Jacket lined with Plaid, Osnaburg Trousers, old Shoes, and Half worn Caster Hats. Their Bundles consist, as it is supposed, of two Match Coat Blankets, two Pair of Leather Breeches, two Osnaburg Shirts, two Check Shirts, and two red Jackets.
JAMES KIRK.
ROBERT ADAM.
GEORGE PURVIS.
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