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F O L I O S.
 C HURCH Bibles.  Chambers's Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, 2 V.  Jacob's new Law Dictionary.  L'Estrange's Josephus.  Poſtlethwayt's Dictionary of Trade & Commerce, 2 V.  Laws of Virginia. 
Q U A R T O S.
 Aſtruc on the Venereal Diſeaſe.  Blackſtone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, 4 V.  Boyer's French and English and English and French Dictionary.  Complete Farmer; being a General Dictionary of Husbandry in all its branches.  Priestley on Electricity.  Dalrymple's Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland.  England's Bloody Tribunal, or Popiſh Cruelty diſplayed.  Foſter's Diſcourſes on all the Principal Branches of natural Religion and Social Virtue, 2 V.  Hedrick's Greek Lexicon.  Kenrick's new Dictionary of the English Language.  Luciani Phaſalia.  Life of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, written by himſelf.  Macbride's Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Phyſic.  Pope's Works, 5 V.  Preacher's Directory, or a Series of Subjects proper for Public Diſcourſes.  Warden's Syſtem of Revealed Religion.  Young's Experimental Agriculture, 2 V. 
O C T A V O S.
 Aſtruc on Midwifery.  Alexander's Experimental Eſſays.  Adanſon's Voyage to Senegal, the Iſle of Goree, and the River Gambia.  Addiſon's Miſcellaneous Works in Proſe and Verſe, 4 V.  An Account of the Spaniſh Settlements in America.  Ainſworth's Latin Dictionary abridged, by Thomas Morell, D.D.  Burn's Juſtice of the Peace, 4 V.  Buchan's Family Phyſician.  Brookes's Practice of Phyſic, 2 V.  Buchanan's Hiſtory of Scotland, 2 V.  Broughton on the Nature and Circumſtances of the Life to come.  Ball's Practice of Phyſic.  Bradley on Husbandry and Gardening.  Book of Martyrs, or the Hiſtory of Paganism and Popery.  Beattie on the Nature and Immutability of Truth.  Isocrates, 2 V.  Callender's Voyages to the ſouthern Hemifphere, 3 V.  Charlevoix' Hiſtory of Paraguay, 2 V.  Crantz' Hiſtory of Greenland, containing a Deſcription of the Country and its Inhabitants, 2 V.  Dobſon's Annals of the late War, from its Beginning to the preſent time.  Delaney's Life of David King of Iſrael, 2 V.  Dreſſincourt's Defence againſt the Fears of Death.  Duhamel's Elements of Agriculture, revised by P. Miller, 2 V.  Dialogues of the Dead.  Dittion's Diſcourſe concerning the Reſurrection of Jeſus Chriſt.  Dowling's complete Syſtem of Italian Book-keeping.  Dyche's English Dictionary.  Dialogues between a Pilgrim, Adam, Noah, &c. containing the Hiſtory of the Bible and the Jews.  Duclo's Hiſtory of Lewis XI. King of France, 2 V.  Every Man his own Lawyer.  Eſſay on the Nature and Conduct of the Paſſions and Affections.  Emerson's Aſtronomy.—Do. Fluxions.—Do. Arithmetick.  Elements of Opticks.  Eſſays ſelected from the Encyclopedy.  Edinburgh Diſpenſary.  Fenning's English Dictionary.  Frevall on the Character of true Chriſtian Charity diſplayed.  Ferguſon's Aſtronomy.—Do. Tables and Tracts relative to ſeveral Arts and Sciences.  Fraſer's Hiſtory of Kouli Khan, preſent Emperor of Perſia.  Gillie's Devotional Exercises on the New Teſtament.  Gordon's Univerſal Accountant and Complete Merchant, 2 V. General Compting-houſe, and Man of Buſineſs.  Glaſs's Art of Cookery made plain and eaſy.  Gaſt's Rudiments of the Grecian Hiſtory, from the firſt Eſtabliſhment of the States of Greece.  Guthrie's Geographical, Hiſtorical, and Commercial Grammar, and preſent State of the ſeveral Kingdoms of the World.  Gibſon on the Diſeaſes of Horſes, 2 V.  Gregory's Treatiſe of Practical Geometry.  Harmonia Sacra, or a choice Collection of Pſalm & Hymn Tunes.  Hall's Contemplations on the hiſtorical Paſſages of the Old and New Teſtament, 3 V.  Hutchinſon's Xenophon.  Hill's Family Herbal.—Do. Arithmetick.  Hammond's Hiſtorical Narration of the whole Bible.  Hutcheſon's Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue.  Harte's Hiſtory of Guſtavus Adolphus King of Sweden, ſurnamed the Great, 2 V. 
 Hiſtory of the Iſland of St. Kilda.  Howell's Hiſtory of the Old and New Teſtament, in which are inſerted the Occurrences that happened during the Space of about four Hundred Years from the Days of the Prophet Malachi to the Birth of our bleſſed Saviour, 3 V.  Howell's Familiar Letters, domeſtic and foreign.  Hiſtory of the Iſlands of Cape Breton and St. John.  Harris's Treatiſe of the acute Diſeaſes of Infants.  Hume's Eſſays on ſeveral Subjects, 2 V.  Johnſon and Steven's Shakeſpear, with Correction and Illuſtrations of various Commentators, 10 V.  Johnſon's English Dictionary, 2 V.  Jenty's Courſe of Anatomico-Phyſiological Lectures on the Human Structure and animal Economy, 3 V.  Keill's Aſtronomical Lectures, read in the Aſtronomical School of the Univerſity of Oxford.  Kennett's Antiquities of Rome.  Langhorne's Tranſlation of Plutarch's Lives, 6 V.  Locke's Eſſay on the Human Underſtanding, 2 V. on the Conduct of the Underſtanding.  Lord Bacon's Letters, Speeches, Charges, Advices, &c.  Ledran's Obſervations and Operations in Surgery.  Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to his Friend in London, giving an account of the Manners and Cuſtoms of the Highlanders, &c. 2 V.  Macbride's Experimental Eſſays on Medical and Philoſophical Subjects.  Miller's Gardener's Kalendar, directing what Works are neceſſary to be performed every Month.  Mofs on Gauging.  Morgan's diſquiſition concerning Human Nature, Free Agency, Moral Government, and Divine Providence.  Melmoth's Cicero, 3 V.  Maxwell's Practical Husbandman, being a Collection of miſcellaneous papers on Husbandry.  Manning on the Diſeaſes of Pregnant and Child-bed Women.  Medical Obſervations and Inquiries, by a Society of Phyſicians in London, 3 V.  Moore's Practical Navigator and Seaman's New Daily Aſſiſtant.  Martin's English Dictionary.  Mafon's Poems.  Macpherson's Tranſlation of the Works of Oſſian the Son of Fingal, 2 V.  Nugent's Life of Cellini, a Florentine Artiſt, containing a Variety of entertaining Particulars relative to Painting, Sculpture, and Agriculture, 2 V.  Nugent's Obſervations on Italy and its Inhabitants, 2 V.  Nelſon's Feſtivals and Faſts on the Church of England.  Noble's Elements of Linear Perſpective, demonſtrated by Geometrical Principles.  Nettleton on Virtue and Happineſs.  Prideaux' Hiſtory of the Jews and neighbouring Nations, from the Declenſions of the Kingdoms of Iſrael and Judah, to the Time of Chriſt, 2 V.  Pfingle's Obſervations on the Diſeaſes of the Army.  Price's Review of the principal Queſtions and Difficulties in Morals.  Potter's Syſtem of Practical Mathematics.  Pafcal's Thoughts on Religion and other curious Subjects.  Price's Obſervations on Reversionary Payments, &c.  Patoum's Treatiſe of Practical Navigation, to which are added the Theories of Menſuration, Surveying, and Gauging.  Prieur's Abridgment of Boyer's French and English and English and French Dictionary.  Quincy's Complete English Diſpenſary.  Ray's Travels through the Low Countries, Germany, Italy, and France, 2 V.  Ruffhead's Life of Pope, compiled from original Manuſcripts.  Robertſon's Hiſtory of Scotland, 2 V.  Rural Economy, or Eſſays on the Practical Parts of Husbandry.  Rapin's Hiſtory of England, 21 V.  Revival of Shakeſpear's Text, wherein the Alterations introduced into it by the more modern Editors and Critics are particularly conſidered.  Switzer's Nobleman, Gentleman, and Gardener's Recreation, 3 V.  Smith's Complete Houſe Wife or Accompliſhed Gentlewoman's Companion.  Seed's Sermons, 3 V.  Shaw's Chemical Lectures for the Improvement of Arts, Trades, and Natural Philoſophy.  Shaw's Practice in Phyſic, 2 V.  Simpſon's Algebra.  Geometry.  Swift's Hiſtory of the four laſt Years of Queen Anne.  Secker's Sermons, 4 V.  Salmon's Geographical and Hiſtorical Grammar.  Stewart's Phyſical and Mathematical Tracts.  (Mrs.) Meditations upon ſeveral Texts of Scripture.  Sherlock's Diſcourſe concerning a future Judgement. concerning the Happineſs of Good Men, and the Punishment of the Wicked in the next World. on Death.  Sermons, 2 V.  Smellie's Theory and Practice of Midwifery, 3 V.  Stackhouſe's Hiſtory of the Bible, 6 V.  Smollett's Travels through France and Italy, 2 V.  Swan's Tranſlation of Dr. Sydenham's Works.  Smith's Complete Body of Diſtilling.  Schrevelii Lexicon.  Sherwin's Mathematical Tables. 
 Smith's Longinus.  True Briton, 2 V.  Taylor's Rule and and Exercise of Holy Living and Dying.  Tillot's Advice to People in general with Regard to their Health.  Temple's Works Complete, 4 V.  The Attorney's Practice in Court of K.B. & Common Pleas, 4 V. Complete Pocket Book, 2 V.  Univerſal English Dictionary.  Univerſal Arithmetick, by Sir Iſaac Newton, revised & corrected by Mr. Cunn, and others.  Van Swieten's Commentaries abridged by Dr. Schömberg.  Wright's American Negotiator, or the various Currencies of the Britiſh Colonies, as well the Iſlands as the Continent.  Walch's Hiſtory of the Popes from the Foundation of the See of Rome to the preſent Time.  Wyld's Practical Surveyor.  White's Remarks in Surgery.  Watt's Philoſophical Eſſays on various Subjects. firſt Principals of aſtronomy and Geography. World to come, or Diſcourſes on the Joys and Sorrows of departed Souls at Death.  Wilſon's Elements of Navigation.  Wingate's Arithmetick.  Young's Six Months Tour through the North of England, 4 V. Latin and English Dictionary. 
D U O D E C I M O S.
 Addiſon's Miſcellaneous Works in proſe and verſe, 4 V.  Adventurer, 4 V.  American Gazetteer, 3 V.  Adventures of a Jeſuit, with ſeveral remarkable Characters and Scenes in real Life, 2 V.  Apocrypha.  Alleine's, Alarm to Unconverted Sinners.  Bunyan's, Law and Grace unfolded. Holy War. Heart's Eafe in Heart's Trouble.  Buchanan's Introduction to a Grammar School Education. British Grammar.  Bollingbroke's Miſcellaneous Works, 4 V.  Brown's Sunday Thoughts.  Bracken's Farrier, or Complete Horſe Doctor, 2 V. Midwifery.  Balbe Berton's, Life and Heroic Actions, 2 V.  Brown's Paſtoral Works, 3 V.  Boyle's Receipts in Phyſic.  Brightland's English Grammar.  Boyſe's Pantheon or Fabulous Hiſtory of the Heathen Gods.  Baxter's Call to Unconverted Sinners.  Book of Knowledge.  Cryſſal, or the Adventures of a Guinea, 4 V.  Connoiſſeur, By (Mr. Town) Critic and Cenſor General, 4 V.  Clariffa Harlowe, or the Hiſtory of a Young Lady, 8 V.  Count Fathom, by the Author of Roderick Randeam, 2 V.  Clergyman's Companion in Viſiting the Sick.  Centaur not Fabulous.  Complaint or Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality.  Cecil and Gray, or the Hiſtory of a Gentleman and Lady, in a Series of Letters, 2 V.  Citizen of the World, or Letters from a Chinese Philoſopher reſiding in London, to his Friend in the Eaſt, 2 V.  Claſſical, Hiſtorical and Biographical Dictionary.  Cibber's Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland to the time of Dean Swift, 5 V.  Cocker's Arithmetick.  Croxall's Elop's Fables.  Crumbs of Comfort and Godly Prayers.  Clarke's Homer, 2 V.  Don Quixote, (by Smollett) 4 V.  Dryden's Antient and modern Fables.  Doddridge's Riſe and Progreſs of Religion in the Soul. Hymns.  Duncan's Elements of Logic.  David Simple's Adventures through the Cities of London and Weſtminſter, in Search of a Real Friend, 2 V.  Dodd's Viſitor, 2 V. Do. Sermons to Young Men, 3 V.  Devil on Crutches, 2 V.  Exemplary Mother, or Letters between Mrs. Villars and her Family, publiſhed by a Lady, 2 V.  Edinburgh Entertainer, containing hiſtorical and poetical Collections for the Uſe of Schools.  Eliza Muſgrove, her Hiſtory, in a Series of Letters, 2 V.  Entertaining Fabuliſt, containing a Variety of diverting Tales and Novels.  Erkine's Goſpel ſonets, or Spiritual Songs.  Fool of Quality, or the Hiſtory of Henry Earl of Moreland, 5 V.  Fielding's Works, with the Life of the Author, 12 V.  Falconer's Voyages and Dangerous Adventures.  Fairy Tales, containing many uſeful Leſſons and Moral Sentiments, 2 V. Tales and Novels, written by that Celebrated wit of France the Counteſs D'Anois, 3 V.  Family Inſtruction, relating to Father and Children, Maſters and Servants, Huſbands and Wives, 2 V.  Fortunate Country Maid, or the Memoirs of the Celebrated Marchioneſs of L—— V——, who from a Cottage became a Lady of the firſt Quality in the Court of France.  Fugitive and Miſcellaneous Pieces, 3 V.  Forms of Devotions for the Uſe of Families, by Dr. Leland and others.  Female Cavalier, a Story founded on Faſts, 3 V. 

Fontenelle's Dialogues of the Dead. False Step, a Novel, 2 V. Fisher's Instructor or Young Man's Best Companion. Fenning's Arithmetick. Gay's Poems, 2 V. Fables. Gil Blas, by the Author of Roderick Random, 4 V. Gentleman's Companion and Tradesman's Delight. German Spa (New Amusements of the) 2 V. Gulliver's Travels into several remote Nations of the World, 2 V. Greenwood's English Grammar. History of Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Essex. Henry's Communicants Companion or Instructions and Helps for the Right receiving of the Lord's Supper. Humphrey Clinker, by the Author of Roderick Random, 3 V. Hume's Essays and Treatises on several Subjects. History of Arfacs, Prince of Bethlis, by the Editor of Chrysal, 2 V. Halifax's Familiar Letters, on Various Subjects of Business and Amusement, written in a Natural Easy Manner. Historical Miscellany. Home's Dramatic Works. Hutcheson's Introduction to Moral Philosophy. Johnston's Pronouncing and Spelling English Dictionary. Joseph Andrew's Adventures, and his Abraham Adams, 2 V. Idler by the Author of the Rambler, 2 V. Jenk's Prayer and Devotions for the Use of Families. Knight's of Malta, or the History of the Knight's Hospitalers of St. John of Jerusalem, 5 V. Kidnapped Orphan. Kimber's English, Scotch, and Irish Peerage. Life of John Bunce, Esq; containing various observations and Reflections made in several Parts of the World, 4 V. Ladies Library, written by a Lady and Published by Sir Richard Steel, 3 V. London Practice of Physic. Letters from a Persian in London to his Friend at Ispahan. Letters wrote by a Turkish Spy, who lived five and forty Years undiscovered at Paris, 8 V. Lewis's Catechism. Lowth's English Grammar. Moral Miscellany, being a Collection of Select Pieces in Prose and Verse. Memis's Midwife's Pocket Companion. Massey's Travels and Adventures translated from the French. Martin's Universal Gazetteer. Marrow of Modern Divinity. Mademoiselle De La Sarre's Life and Adventures. Manners translated from the French. Memoirs of several Ladies of Great Britain, 2 V. Moral Tales after the Eastern Manner, 2 V. Milton's Paradise Lost and Regained, 2 V. Pious Country Parson instructed. Plutarch's Lives, 9 V. Pope's Works 6 V. Pompadour, wherein are explained the motives of the wars, treaties of peace, embassies, and negotiations in several Courts of Europe, 2 V. Persian Letters by Montesquieu. Tales, 2 V. Pamela, or Virtue rewarded. Pleasing Instructor, or Entertaining Moralist. Practice of Piety, directing a Christian how to walk that he may please God. Robinson Crusoe, his life and adventures. Ramsay's Poems 2 V. Reliques of ancient English Poetry 3 V. Religious Courtship being historical discourses on the necessity of marrying religious husbands and wives only. Roman History by Question and Answer, for the Use of Schools. Roderick Random, his Adventures, 2 V. Rambler, 4 V. Rowe's (Nicholas) Works, 2 V. (Mrs.) Devout Exercise of the Heart. Richardson's Esop's Fables. Sermons to Affes, Spectator, 8 V. Scipio and Berganza, two dogs belonging to the city of Toledo, giving an account of their lives and adventures, with their reflections on the lives, humours, and employments of the masters they lived with, written by the author of Don Quixot. Smollet's Don Quixot with Cuts, 4 V. Authentic and entertaining Voyages, 7 V. Sophronia, or Letters to the Ladies. Scarron's Comical Works, 2 V. Sherlock's Discourses and Sermons, 4 V. Swift's Works, in 24; 13, and 3 V. Tom Jones or the History of a Foundling, 4 V. Tom Brown's serious and comical Works, 4 V. Thompson's Seasons. Took's Pantheon, representing the fabulous Histories of the Heathen Gods, and most illustrious Heroes. Triumvirate or the authentic Memoirs of A, B. and C. 2 V. Taler, or Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq; 4 V. Telemachus the Son of Ulysses, in French and English, 2 V. The New Whole Duty of Man, containing the Faith and Practice of a Christian, necessary for all Families. Vicar of Wakefield a Tale, 2 V. Voltaire's Miscellaneous Poems, 3 V. Willison's Balm of Gilead. Sacramental Directory. World by Fitz-Adam, 3 V. Warden's Collections, for the use of Schools. Winter Evening's Companion, or Compendious Library. Wallis's Farrier's and Horinan's Complete Dictionary. Watt's Death and Heaven, or the last Enemy conquered. Yorrick's Sermons, 7 V.  SONG BOOKS.  The London Songster, or polite Musical Companion, to which are added a genteel collection of the various Toasts, Sentiments, and Hob Nob now in Fashion. The Robin, or Ladies polite Songster, Allan Ramsay's collection of Scotch Songs.  SCHOOL BOOKS.  Cicero, Horace, Ovid's Epistles and Metamorphoses, Salust, and Terence in Usum Delphini. Castellio's Bible, 4 V. Clarke's Justin, Salust, and Nepos; 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.—Clarke's Introduction to the making Latin, Clarke's Erasmus, and Florus, Mair's Introduction, Salust and Vocabulary, Esop's Greek and Latin Fables, Ruddiman's Rudiments. Willimott's Examples, Cicero's offices, Grammatical Exercises, Lilly's and Ward's Latin Grammar, Beza's Latin Testament, London Vocabulary.
AMHERST, December 10, 1775.
We intend to leave the Colony in a short Time.
JOHN M'KINDLAY. PATRICK HART.
AT Marlborough Iron Works, in Frederick County, in the Colony of Virginia, is immediately wanted a sufficient Number of Hands to cut 5000 Cords of Wood. The Cash will be paid for any Part of the above Quantity that may be contracted for, as soon as complied with.
8||
ISAAC ZANE.
JUST COME TO HAND, And to be SOLD by the Subscriber, at the Store lately occupied by Mr. TURNER, a large Assortment of GOODS, consisting chiefly of the following, viz.
BROADCLOTHS, Shalloons, Dorset-teens, Durant's, Velverets, Shags, Serge-Denims, Chair and Curtain Lace; Thread-Worsted, and Silk Breeches and Waistcoat Patterns; Silk Lasting, Armozeens, India Perians, Lorettes, Macaronies, Burdets, Tobines, Floridas, Taifetas, Bombazeens, Crapes, India Dimity, dark and light grounded Cottons and Callicoes, Lawn, Lawn and Gauze Handkerchiefs and Aprons, Satin Cardinals and Bonnets, striped and figured Gauze, Parisinet, Catgut, worked Muslin and Patent Aprons, a Variety of Minionet and Blond Lace, Pins, Fans, Ribands, Necklaces, Gloves, Table-Cloths, Russia Drab, Stockings, Worsted and Cotton Caps, Rappée Snuff, handsome painted Table Covers, Mahogany Coffee Chests, Minute and Hour Glasses, Hoes, Axes, Iron and Brass Nails, Desk and Drawer Furniture, Whips of all Sorts, Window Glass, Paints, Garden Seeds, Millinery, Jewellery, Cutlery, Tinnery, and Brassery, Pewter, Copper, Iron, Glass, China, and Earthen Ware, &c. &c. &c. The Terms on which the above were purchased render it absolutely necessary that I should sell for CASH ONLY.
WILLIAM PITT.
I expect an Assortment of LINENS in a few Days.
CAROLINE, Dec. 7, 1775.
WHEREAS a certain false and scandalous Report, highly reflecting on our public Character, has been propagated against us in this Paper of the 2d Instant, by a certain Joseph Dejarnet, Senior, of this County, viz. That we, by the Assistance of a Negro Fellow, made a Number of unfeable Spinning-Wheels, and vended the same in his (the said Dejarnet's) Name, and also passing for his Sons: In Order, therefore, to undeceive People that are Strangers to us, who might give Credit to the Advertisement of such a fawning Sycophant, that we never sold any Wheels where we were not acquainted, nor ever sold Wheels in said Dejarnet's Name, neither did we assume to ourselves to be Dejarnet's Sons, neither do we believe that he the said Dejarnet has the least Proof for such a Report, but entirely the Result of his own malicious Suggestion, as he apprehended we obstructed his Trade and Custom; for, at the Commencement of our Trade, he, the said Dejarnet, uttered several Expressions meaning to prejudice us as much as in his Power. We could heartily wish the Public was as well acquainted with his Character as his Neighbours are, to have saved us the Trouble of this Advertisement; but, in Regard to his Family (who are all very good Members of Society) we at present omit characterising him in his true Colours.
WILLIAM & JAMES SUTTON.
CAROLINE County, to wit, This Day came before me, Edward Brown, Richard Edmonson, Junior, and William Southworth, Junior, and made Oath that they were employed by William and James Sutton to sell a Parcel of Spinning-Wheels, and that they never had any Directions whatsoever to sell any the said Wheels in the Name of Joseph Dejarnet, nor to pass for any of his Sons.
Given under my Hand, this 16th Day of December, 1775. 2|| G. GUY.
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 slim 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 taunt rigged, with Topmasts standing, but had no Yards across; her Foreail new, and her Mainail and Jib Half worn. The Hook over her Boltsprit 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 Charleston, 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.
WILLIAMSBURG, December 20, 1775.
STRAYED, or STOLEN, from Mrs. Orr's in this City, a LIGHT GRAY HORSE about 14 1/2 Hands high, has a long Back and high Hips, his Mane and Tail, which are thin, are rather darker than his other Parts; he paces and gallops agreeably, and has a small Scar at the Root of his left Ear, occasioned by the burning of a Wair. Whoever brings the said Horse to Mr. George Reid of this Town, or to the Subscriber, in Southampton, shall be handsomely rewarded.
EDWIN GRAY.
TO BE SOLD,
On Thursday the 11th of January 1776, if fair, otherwise the next fair Day, at the Plantation of the late Mr. James Burwell, in King William County,
ALL the Estate at said Plantation, consisting of STOCK of every Kind, the Crop of CORN, WHEAT, &c. PLANTATION UTENSILS, &c. Credit will be allowed for all Sums exceeding ten Pounds till the 30th of October next, and for all Sums under, ready Money will be expected. Bond and approved Security will be required.
WILLIAM RUSSELL, D. S. York.
Monsieur LAFONG, HAIR-DRESSER, &c.
IN Order to carry on the Business more extensively, has taken a Partner, and returns his Customers his most sincere Thanks for past Favours, requesting those in Arrears will pay him as soon as possible. From Mr. Alexander Wiley's great Success in Hair-Dressing, and the general Satisfaction which Monsieur Lafong flatters himself to have given hitherto, they have the greatest hopes of Encouragement from the Ladies and Gentlemen of this City, for whose Approbation the greatest Pains will be taken, and the utmost punctuality observed, by
The Public's most obedient And most devoted humble Servants, LAFONG & WILEY.
Forty Shillings Reward.
RUN away from the Subscriber, some Time in August last, a likely Virginia born Negro Man Slave about 18 Years of Age, 5 Feet 6 or 7 Inches high, rather inclineable to be knock-kneed, is remarkably sensible, fluent of Speech, and very insinuating. The Season being warm, he carried but few Clothes with him. All I can recollect are, a red and white striped Jacket, with some Osnaburg Shirts, and a Pair of Breeches of the same Kind. I bought him, not long since, of Mr. Holt Richeson of King William, where I believe he has many Relations and Acquaintances, and am engaged to think he is harboured by some of them. Whoever will deliver him to me, or secure him that I get him again, shall have the above from Wm. DANDRIDGE, Jun.
HENRICO, Dec. 22, 1775.
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. Posted, and appraised to SEVENTEEN SHILLINGS and SIXPENCE. 2|| JOHN BLACKWELL.
NEWPORT, Nov. 27.
AST Wednesday arrived here, from Georgia, Mr. John Lewis, who some time past failed from this colony in a small sloop, Capt. John Wanton, loaded with apples, cider, &c. bound to Georgia; but off Charleston, South Carolina, in a fog, they fell in with the Tamar sloop of war, on board of which was Governor Campbell, of South Carolina, who brought Capt. Wanton to, took out some of his apples, &c. told him he was a good prize, and put on board the gunner of fort Johnston (who made his escape from said fort when the Carolina people took possession of it) and one hand more, with two chests of arms, and two trunks of pistols and cutlasses, leaving Capt. Wanton and his men on board, and gave the gunner orders to go to St. Augustine for 200 men to come to South Carolina, to retake fort Johnston. When they got out of sight of the Tamar, Capt. Wanton and his men shut the gunner down in the hold, carried the vessel into Georgia, and informed the committee of that place with their proceedings, who treated them very genteely; they valued the arms, &c. at 200l. sterling. On examining the gunner, they found he had a letter from Governor Campbell, which they sent to the Congress, contents unknown.
IN CONGRESS, DECEMBER 6, 1775.
WE, the Delegates of the Thirteen United Colonies in North America, have taken into our most serious consideration a proclamation issued from the Court of St. James's on the 23rd day of August last. The name of Majesty is used to give it a sanction and influence; and, on that account, it becomes a matter of importance to wipe off, in the name of the people of these United Colonies, the aspersions which it is calculated to throw upon our cause, and to prevent, as far as possible, the undeserved punishments which it is designed to prepare for our friends.
We are accused of "forgetting the allegiance which we owe to the power that has protected and sustained us." Why all this ambiguity and obscurity in what ought to be so plain and obvious, as that he who runs may read it? What allegiance is it that we forget? Allegiance to Parliament! We never owed—we never owned it. Allegiance to our King! Our words have ever avowed it, our conduct has ever been consistent with it. We condemn, and, with arms in our hands, a resource which free men will never part with, we oppose the claim and exercise of unconstitutional powers, to which neither the Crown or Parliament were ever entitled. By the British constitution, our best inheritance, rights, as well as duties, descend upon us. We cannot violate the latter by defending the former: We should act in diametrical opposition to both, if we permitted the claims of the British Parliament to be established, and the measures pursued in consequence of those claims to be carried into execution among us. Our sagacious ancestors provided mounds against the inundation of tyranny and lawless power on one side, as well as that of faction and licentiousness on the other. On which side has the breach been made? Is it objected against by the most inveterate and the most un candid of our enemies, that we have opposed any of the just prerogatives of the Crown, or any legal exertion of our allegiance? We have performed our duty: We have resisted in those cases, in which the right to resist is stipulated as expressly, on our part, as the right to govern is, in other cases, stipulated, on the part of the Crown. The breach of allegiance is removed from our resistance as far as tyranny is removed from legal government.
It is alleged that "we have proceeded to an open and avowed rebellion." In what does this rebellion consist? It is thus described: "Arraying ourselves in hostile manner to withstand the execution of the law, and traitorously preparing, ordering,

“and levying war against the King.” We know of no laws binding upon us, but such as have been transmitted to us by our ancestors, and such as have been consented to by ourselves or our representatives elected for that purpose. What laws stamped with these characters, have we withheld? We have indeed defended them; and we will risk every thing, do every thing, and suffer every thing in their defence. To support our laws, and our liberties established by our laws, we have prepared, ordered, and levied war: But is this traiterously, or against the King? We view him as the constitution represents him: That tells us he can do no wrong. The cruel and illegal attacks, which we oppose, have no foundation in the royal authority. We will not, on our part, lose the distinction between the King and his Ministers: Happy it would have been for some former Princes had it always been preserved on the part of the Crown!
Besides all this we observe, on this part of the proclamation, that “rebellion” is a term undefined and unknown in the law. It might have been expected, that a proclamation, which, by the British constitution, has no other operation than merely that of enforcing what is already law, would have had a known legal basis to have rested upon. A correspondence between the inhabitants of Great Britain and their brethren in America produced, in better times, much satisfaction to individuals, and much advantage to the public. By what criterion shall one, who is unwilling to break off this correspondence, and is, at the same time, anxious not to expose himself to the dreadful consequences threatened in this proclamation, by what criterion shall he regulate his conduct? He is admonished not to carry on correspondence with the persons now in rebellion in the colonies. How shall we ascertain who are in rebellion, and who are not? He consults the law to learn the nature of the supposed crime: The law is silent upon the subject. This, in a country where it has been often said, and formerly with justice, that a government is by law and not by men, might render him perfectly easy. But proclamations have been sometimes dangerous engines in the hands of those in power. Information is commanded to be given to one of the Secretaries of State of all persons “who shall be found carrying on correspondence with the persons in rebellion, in order to bring to condign punishment the authors, perpetrators, or abettors of such dangerous designs.” Let us suppose, for a moment, that some persons in the colonies are in rebellion, and that those, who carry on correspondence with them, might learn, by some rule, which Britons are bound to know, how to discriminate them: Does it follow that all correspondence with them deserves to be punished? It might have been intended to apprise them of their danger, and to reclaim them from their crimes. By what law does a correspondence with a criminal transfer or communicate his guilt? We know that those who aid and adhere to the King’s enemies, and those, who correspond with them in order to enable them to carry their designs into effect, are criminal in the eye of the law. But the law goes no further. Can proclamations, according to the principles of reason and justice and the constitution, go further than the law?
But, perhaps, the principles of reason and justice and the constitution will not prevail: Experience suggests to us the doubt: If they should not, we must resort to arguments drawn from a very different source. We, therefore, in the name of the people of these United Colonies, and by authority, according to the purest maxims of representation derived from them, declare, that whatever punishment shall be inflicted upon any persons in the power of our enemies for favouring, aiding, or abetting the cause of American liberty, shall be retaliated in the same kind and the same degree upon those in our power who have favoured, aided, or abetted, or shall favour, aid, or abet the system of ministerial oppression. The essential difference between our cause and that of our enemies might justify a severer punishment: The law of retaliation will unquestionably warrant one equally severe.
We mean not, however, by this declaration, to occasion or multiply punishments: Our sole view is to prevent them. In this unhappy and unnatural controversy, in which Britons fight against Britons and the descendents of Britons, let the calamities immediately incident to a civil war suffice. We hope additions will not from wantonness be made to them on one side: We shall regret the necessity, if laid under the necessity, of making them on the other.
Extract from the minutes, CHARLES THOMSON, Sec’y.
NEW JERSEY.
To his Excellency WILLIAM FRANKLIN, Esq; Captain General, Governor, and Commander in Chief, in and over the Province of NEW JERSEY, and Territories thereon depending in AMERICA, Chancellor and Vice Admiral in the same, &c.
The Humble ADDRESS of his Majesty’s COUNCIL for the said Province.
May it please your Excellency,
WE beg leave to express the satisfaction we feel in the opportunity you have given us of meeting your Excellency in General Assembly, at this time, for the despatch of such business as the exigencies of the province require; and thank you for that freedom with which you communicate to us, from time to time, such parts of the letters you receive from his Majesty’s Ministers, as may be of consequence to the welfare of this province.
It is with the greatest pleasure we assure your Excellency, that we know of no reason to doubt but that the confidence you are pleased to pay you have in the affection and regard of the good people of this colony, is well founded. We are sorry, however, to observe that, notwithstanding this confidence and trust, your Excellency expresses some degree of apprehension as to the safety of your own person and the persons of the other officers of the Crown. We can, with truth, declare, that we are totally ignorant as to any circumstances, in this province, that may give rise to such an apprehension, and are happy in believing that it must be without any real foundation.
You are pleased to call on us for an explicit declaration of our sentiments respecting those aims at an independency on Great Britain, which, you say, are at this time openly avowed by some men of present consequence: In answer to which, we make no hesitation to assure your Excellency, that we have the utmost abhorrence of any design whatever to subvert that happy constitution of government, under which, not only this, but every other colony in America, hath long enjoyed the blessings of security and prosperity; and that we will, by every means in our power, exert ourselves in the defence of it, and in defence of your Excellency and the other officers of the Crown, acting under the influence and by virtue of that inestimable constitution.
We flatter ourselves that your Excellency will not doubt but that we shall be ready, on all occasions, to join you in the promotion of peace, order and good government; and eagerly improve every opportunity that may tend to the restoring this province to its former state of happiness and tranquility.
COUNCIL CHAMBER, } By Order of the House, Nov. 25, 1775. } JOHN STEVENS, Speaker. To which his Excellency was pleased to make the following Reply.
GENTLEMEN,
I AM greatly obliged to you for the sentiments of regard expressed in this address, and heartily thank you for the assurances you give me of your readiness to exert yourselves in the defence of our happy constitution, and of the officers of the Crown, in this province.
At the same time it gives me concern that I cannot agree with you in opinion, that there are not any circumstances in this province,
which may justify some degree of apprehension as to the safety of myself and the other officers of government. It is true I have not actually seen the associations signed, nor the orders and resolutions of Congress or Committees issued, yet I cannot on that account, without being guilty of a subterfuge, which Gentlemen of your candor must disapprove, pretend a total ignorance either of their contents or of their effects, both in this and the neighbouring colonies. From what has already happened, the officers of the Crown will be naturally led to form a judgment of what may happen. Such of them, therefore, as have conscientiously done their duty here, must of course have some reason to expect the same fate with those who have done their duty elsewhere. It must be allowed, however, that those who, from timidity or other motives, have been induced to pursue a different conduct may have present safety, but then, as it must be at the expence of their honour, it is not likely that there will be found many of them who will choose to pay such a price for such a consideration, nor is it probable, if they should, that they would meet with your approbation.
To his Excellency WILLIAM FRANKLIN, Esq; Captain General, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over his Majesty’s colony of NOVA CAESAREA, or NEW JERSEY, and territories thereon depending in AMERICA, Chancellor and Vice Admiral in the same, &c.
The Humble ADDRESS of the Representatives of the said colony in General Assembly convened.
May it please your Excellency,
WE, his Majesty’s loyal and dutiful subjects, the Representatives of the colony of New Jersey, in General Assembly convened, have considered your Excellency’s speech at the opening of the present session.
We sincerely lament the unhappy situation of public affairs; and we regret that though we have presented a dutiful petition to his Majesty, yet we have little prospect of his favourable interposition for the removal of those grievances under which we suffer in common with his other American subjects.
There is nothing we desire with greater anxiety than a reconciliation with our parent state on constitutional principles; but if the Resolution of the House of Commons of the 20th of February could, without departing from the duty we owe to our constituents, have been accepted or made the basis of a negotiation which would probably have led to any plan of accommodation, we have been and still are greatly mistaken.
We are surprised to hear that any persons could have advised your Excellency to have sought an asylum on board of one of his Majesty’s ships: We cannot imagine that your Excellency could have had any just reason to fear any insult or improper treatment from the people of the colony; and if your retreat would necessarily be attributed to either the effect or well grounded apprehensions of violence, and be productive of mischiefs to the inhabitants, however such advisers may deserve to be esteemed your “best friends,” We cannot suppose them to be really so to the colony.
Your Excellency’s safety, or that of any of the officers of government, we apprehend to be in no danger. We place our own safety in that protection which the laws of our country and the executed powers of the government afford to all the King’s subjects. It is the only asylum which we have to fly to; and we make no doubt but that it will be, as it hitherto hath been, found fully equal to the purpose both of securing your Excellency and others: And we hope to find that the officers of government will conduct themselves so prudently as not to invite any ill usage; and that they will not make any supposed “Infatuation or disorder” of the times a pretence to leave the province, and thereby endeavour to subject the inhabitants to any calamities.
We know of no sentiments of independency that are by men of any consequence openly avowed; nor do we approve of any essays tending to encourage such a measure: We have already expressed our detestation of such opinions, and we have so frequently and fully declared our sentiments on this subject, and in particular in our petition to the King at the last session of Assembly, that we should have thought ourselves, as at present we really deserve to be, exempt from all suspicion of this nature.
We have already resolved to support his Majesty’s government, and look upon it to be our duty to use our influence to promote peace, order and good government.
By Order of the House,
CORTLAND SKINNER, Speaker.
House of Assembly, Nov. 29, 1775.
To which the Governor was pleased to make the following answer.
GENTLEMEN,
I RETURN you my thanks for your resolution to support his Majesty’s government, and cannot but approve your determination to promote peace and good order.
I shall avoid, for the reasons I gave you in my speech, any remarks on your sentiments respecting the present unhappy situation of public affairs, and shall transmit to his Majesty your opinion of the Resolution of the House of Commons.—Thus much however I would only observe, that if you really thought, or still think, that the making that Resolution the basis of a negotiation would not have led to some plan of accommodation, on terms that Americans have heretofore solemnly and repeatedly declared would give them full content, then you have been, and still are, greatly mistaken.
Your surprise that any persons could advise me to seek an asylum, when so many Governors and Crown officers had been before compelled to do the like, is as extraordinary as your supposition that those persons must therefore be no friends to the colony.
It gives me pleasure, however, to find that you make no doubt but that the laws of our country, and the executive powers of the government will afford safety and prove an asylum to ALL the King’s subjects. On the strength of this assurance, his Majesty’s officers, who have now the misfortune of being confined in Trenton by some supposed unlawful authority, cannot hesitate to apply for that legal remedy an Habeas Corpus, nor can any of his Majesty’s justices of the supreme court have the least scruple to grant it, nor ought any one to doubt “but that it will (as you say) be found fully equal to the purpose.”
Your hope that the officers of Government will conduct themselves prudently will, I trust, be greatly gratified, at least by some of them, if a manly conscientious discharge of their duty to their King and country, as far as may be in their power, is consistent with your ideas of prudence. As they have not even made the real disorders of the times a pretence for leaving the province, it seems rather unkind to intimate any suspicion that they would do it on a “supposed disorder of the times.” Equally unjustifiable is it to insinuate, that any of them would be so absurd as to “invite ill usage,” or so wicked as to “ENDEAVOUR to subvert the inhabitants to any calamities.” But such suspicions and such language must, I suppose, be attributed to the FASHION of the times.
In speaking of the sentiments of independency openly avowed by some men of present consequence, I had not the most distant thought, that you would consider the remark as at all meant for or applicable to your House. If any faith is to be put (as you say) in your frequent and full declarations of your sentiments on this subject, you certainly deserve to be exempt from all suspicions of that nature. I even intimated in my speech that you must entertain “an abhorrence of such design.” Your present disappointment of the essays tending to encourage that measure gives me great satisfaction, and I sincerely wish that both you and I may ere long have the happiness to see those, who either openly or privately avow sentiments of independency, men of no consequence.”
NEW YORK, Dec. 4.
Ship Dutchess of Gordon, New York harbour, Dec. 4, 1775.
SIR,
I DESIRE you will lay before the corporation, the enclosed paper, containing my sentiments on the present convulsed state of this country; and that you will please to make the same public.
I am, Sir, your very humble servant.
To WHITEHEAD HICKS, Esq; } Mayor of the city of New York. } WM. TRYON.
To the inhabitants of the colony of New York.
I TAKE this public manner to signify to the inhabitants of this province, that his Majesty has been graciously pleased to grant me his royal permission, to withdraw from my government, and at the same time to assure them, of my readiness to perform every service in my power to promote the common felicity.
If I am excluded from every hope of being any ways instrumental towards the re-establishment of that harmony, at present interrupted between Great Britain and her colonies, I expect soon to be obliged to avail myself of his Majesty’s indulgence.
It has given me great pain to view the colony committed to my care, in such a turbulent state, as not to have afforded me, since my arrival, any prospect of being able to take the dispassionate and deliberate sense of its inhabitants, in a constitutional manner, upon the resolution of Parliament for composing the present ferment in the provinces. A resolution that was intended for a basis of an accommodation, and if candidly considered, in a way which it will be most probably successful, and treated with that delicacy and decency, requisite to the cultivation, of a sincere reconciliation and friendship might yet be improved, for the purposes of restoring the general tranquillity and security of the empire.
I owe it to my affection to this colony, to declare my will, that some measure may be speedily adopted for this purpose; as I feel an extreme degree of anxiety in being witness to the growing calamities of this country, without the power to alleviate them. Calamities that must increase, while so many of the inhabitants withhold their allegiance from their Sovereign, and their obedience to the parent country, by whose power and patronage they have hitherto been sustained and protected.
WILLIAM TRYON.
WILLIAMSBURG, Dec. 30.
BY yesterday’s mail we have accounts of sundry vessels being lately taken by American privateers out of different ports in New England, particularly a vessel with a present from his Majesty to the soldiery at Boston, consisting of coals, and 50 butts of porter; also a store ship laden with necessary implements of war, bound to Boston, the articles of which cargo are too numerous to insert at this time. A ship and sloop, laden with hay for Burgoyne’s light-horse, were lately struck with lightning; the ship was burnt to the water’s edge, but the sloop, being disabled, fell into the hands of the provincials. Fresh provisions are still very scarce and dear at Boston; the enemy about 6000 strong, exclusive of 360 marines who arrived the 10th ult. Four ships arrived at the same time with artillery, stores, &c. under convoy of the Phoenix man of war, and fifteen more transports hourly expected, with marines and marines, in the whole, to the number of 2000. The ships of war now in that harbour, are, the Preston, Phoenix, Lively, Scarborough, Raven, Scimitar, Viper, George, the Spitfire and Cruiser of eight guns, Hope of six, and three small tenders of four guns each; the Somerset, Fowey, Adventure, Canceaux, Faulcon, and Nautilus, are at Halifax. The Boyne man of war had failed for England with General Burgoyne, and carried off a number of masters and mates of vessels who had been taken by the enemy on the coast.
The last advices from Canada mention that the Gaspee brig of war with all the shipping that lay at Montreal, were taken by General Montgomery, with all the prisoners taken near St. John’s, except Col. Allen; that the fleet, with Carlton on board, had failed for Quebec, but being intercepted by a gondola and a battery rested by Col. Easton near the river Sorel, were taken, with 150 soldiers, &c. among whom was Col. Prescott; and that Carlton, Luke La Corn, and two others, went off in a boat before the fleet struck, but were made prisoners by Col. Arnold, near Quebec.
The 10th instant Capt. Wallace of the Rose man of war, with about 200 marines, sailors, and negroes, went on shore in Connecticut, plundered and burnt a number of houses, and retreated to the ships, but not without the loss of a Captain of marines killed, and 7 or 8 men wounded. Further particulars of this affair we are obliged to defer till our next.
On the 18th ult. a terrible fire broke out in the town of Saint George in Grenada, which continued burning till the 5th, when all the houses, except a few at a place called the Cannault, were consumed, together with their provisions.
An express from Norfolk brings advice that the ships of war had demanded a supply of water and provisions from the town, but as no satisfactory answer had been given by the commanding officer when he came away, he imagined they had fired upon the town, hang, whilst on his way, heard several heavy discharges of cannon and as several other persons have since heard firing in that quarter, it is probable the town is by this time destroyed.
On the death of Miss FANNY STEVENSON of York, who was snatched away in the very prime of life, to the great regret of all who had the pleasure of her acquaintance. By a young Lady.
Forthree, blest maid, I’ll tune the youthful lyre, Which nought but real friendship could inspire; And my the mules deign to assist my verse, Whilst with truth my Fanny’s praise rehearse: Yes, she was good, affectionate, and mild, A tender sister, an obedient child; Sincere friendship till her latest breath, And qui regn d—she seem’d to welcome death. Nor did she with in tears to leave us all, When she obey’d her heavenly father’s call. Why weep ye then whom she has left behind, Since, without doubt, a blest exchange she’ll find? Yet, while thus reprove, the starting tear Forces its way, and bids my pen stop here. Accept, m friend, this tear, this witleless lay, The poor, ut only tribute I can pay.
AUGUSTA, November 20, 1775.
ALL Persons having Claims against the
Estate of M. Francis Kirtley, deceased, are desired to bring them in by the 1st Day of March next, properly proved, or they will not be allowed by
FRANCIS KIRTLEY, Executor.
FOR SALE,
THE noted an well accustomed TAVERN in James City County, about 15 Miles from Williamsburg, on the main Road from said City to New Kent Courthouse, Ruskin’s Ferry, and the Brickhouse Ferry with about 500 Acres of LAND in good Order for Cropping, sowing six Fields under good Fences. It is as fine a Place for a Merchant as any in the Colony, being within five Miles of several Landings on York and Chickabominy Rivers. Any Person inclining to purchase may be shewn the Land, and know the terms (which will be made easy) by applying to the Subscriber, on the Praises.
THOMAS DONCASTLE.

POETS CORNER.
To a Friend on the NEW YEAR.
ALL happiness, devoid of care Pursue you through this rising year;
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
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. are desired to give Bond and Security.
ANTHONY WALKER.
RUN away from the Subscriber, in Staunton, 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 2, 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 Paulet 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 NANSON.
WANTED
A WET NURSE, of good Character, without a Child. Inquire of the Printers.
To be SOLD, on Monday the 26 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 21st at the Butter-wood 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 13th, at the Tombaton 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 Butter-wood Quarter, a large Number of VALUABLE SLAVES.
ON Monday the 8th of January will be sold at public Vendue, at Sack Point, Nansemond County, two CABLES and some SMALL RIGGING, for the Benefit of the Underwriters on the Ship Rockingham.
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 Ashley, deceased, about six Miles from Williamsburg, on the main Road leading to Hanover.
ROBERT C. WARREN.
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 Cuningham 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 Haskins 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.
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.
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.
SUFFOLK, Dec. 6, 1775.
I INTEND to leave the Colony soon, and to return in a few Months.
SAMUEL DONALDSON.
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.—ANDREW M'GILL, a Scotchman, by Trade a Blacksmith, about 5 Feet 7 Inches high, wears short dark Hair, of a swarthy Complexion; had on a dark blue Cloth Coat and Jacket, Leather Breeches, and striped and Check Trousers.—I imagine they will endeavour to pass for Sailors, as from the ships of war. I have heard that they were seen going towards North Carolina, and will give 5l. for each if secured in any Gaol
JOHN SHIPHARD.
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. He has been seen lurking about Mr. William Robins's, in Robins's Neck, Gloucester County, and it is thought he is now there, supported and harboured by said Robins's Negroes, who are his Relations. Whoever will apprehend the aforesaid Slave, and deliver him to me, in James City County, the above 3l. Reward, and all reasonable Charges, paid by
JOHN STRINGER.
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; one of them is the Property of Major Peterfield Trent, the other of the Subscriber. One of the Horses is about 14 1/2 Hands high, without any Brand that I remember, or any White about him; has a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, droops in his Rump, about 7 Years old, paces fast, and remarkably easy; with him was a small Hunting Saddle, with a Hogskin Seat, a Saddle Cloth and Housing of blue Cloth, in a Piece, and bound round with buff-coloured Cloth, in Imitation of Lace. The other Horse, which is Mr. Trent's Property, had a hanging Mane and Switch Tail, about 13 Hands high, trots and gallops, and when out of Hand very hard to catch; I am neither acquainted with his brand nor age. On him was a large Hunting Saddle, with a quilted Buckskin Seat, and a Leather Slip Cover that fitted exactly to the Saddle.—The said John Gwynn is by Trade a House Carpenter and Joiner, a middle sized Man, wearing his own light brown Hair, and had on a light blue Cloth Coat, with, I think, Metal Buttons; his other Articles of Dress I cannot recollect. He flutters so very remarkably, that, when attempting to speak, the Muscles of his Face, and most Parts of his Body, seem as if convulsed. I understand he worked some Time on Colonel Fielding Lewis's House at Fredericksburg, with Mr. Jerome in Williamsburg, and lately on Mr. Carter's House at Shirley, in Charles City. He also has lived with the Man with whom he served his Time, at St. Inego's, in Saint Mary's County, Maryland; it is therefore probable he may have gone that Way, and it is requested of the Gentlemen at the different Feries on Potomack to take Notice of such a Traveller. The largest black Horse was bred by, and purchased of, Capt. John Ottoway Clarke, in St. Mary's County, Maryland. I will give 40s. for the Horses and Saddles, delivered here, and allow reasonable Expenses in bringing them, and 5l. on Conviction of the Villain, who I hope will be secured in some Gaol convenient to where he may be apprehended.
CHESTERFIELD.
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 smallest Saddle, without any Saddle Cloth.—It has been discovered, since Gwynn went off, that he obtained Credit from Mr. James Lyle, Merchant in Manchester, to the Amount of above 8l. by Means of a forged Order in the Name of Mr. Hardyman of Charles City.
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 Didbury and other capital Tradesmen in that Branch. As we purpose continuing and carrying on this Business to a considerable Extent, we shall endeavour to do the Work well, and at a moderate Price; but no Credit will be allowed by
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JOHN BLANEY, & Co.
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.—Twelve Months Credit will be allowed, the Purchasers giving Bond, with approved Security, to
Mrs. Martha Bickerton claims her Dower in said Land.
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. Whoever secures and delivers the said Negro, either to Col. Rootes or to one of us, shall receive 40s. Reward.
THE EXECUTORS.
ALEXANDRIA, June 5, 1775.
EIGHT POUNDS REWARD.
RUN away from the Subscriber, two indentured 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 Cattle 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. Shaw is about 5 Feet 10 Inches high, has a swarthy Complexion, dark short frized Hair, a long Scar on his right Arm, appears bold, and talks much. Ingles is about 5 Feet 5 Inches high, has short straight Hair, swarthy and long featured, has a Scab over his right Eye, his right Leg is sore, he is fond of Liquor, and talks more in his Country Dialect than Shaw.—THOMAS WALSON, a Convict, about 27 Years of Age, a Barber by Trade, about 5 Feet 6 Inches high, has a Laddish down Look, brown straight Hair, a little knock-kneed, and a leering Look; had on, and took with him, two white Linen Shirts, an old Drab coloured Cloth Coat, one red and one striped Holland Jacket, one Pair of new Drilling Breeches; one Pair of old Buff coloured Stocking Breeches, one Pair of white and one Pair of white and blue spotted Stockings, a new Felt Hat bound with black Ferreting, has a black Silk Handkerchief, and some other Things which cannot be described.—WILLIAM LEE, by Trade a Cooper, about 5 Feet 9 Inches high, marked with the Smallpox, has a remarkable large Nose, speaks thick, and is impudent; he took with him a yellow Bull-Dog, with cropped Ears, one Side of his Face white, has a Glass Eye, and white Breast and Neck, is very fond of going into the Water, and answers to the Name of Turk. The said Lee had a Variety of Clothes, which cannot well be described. Whoever takes up, and secures the said Servants, shall have the above Reward, or 40s. for each, paid by
JAMES KIRK. ROBERT ADAM. GEORGE PURVIS.