The Virginia gazette (Williamsburg, Va.), 1773-05-27 00:00:00

VIRGINIA
GAZETTE.
Open to ALL PARTIES,
but influenced by NONE.
Continuation of the VOTES and PROCEEDINGS of the FREEHOLDERS and other INHABITANTS of the town of Boston.
A LIST of INFRINGEMENTS and VIOLATIONS of RIGHTS.
WE cannot help thinking that an enumeration of some of the most open infringements of our rights will by every candid person be judged sufficient to justify whatever measures have been already taken, or may be thought proper to be taken, in order to obtain a redress of the grievances under which we labour. Among many others, we humbly conceive that the following will not fail to excite the attention of all who consider themselves interested in the happiness and freedom of mankind in general, and of this continent and province in particular.
First, the British Parliament have assumed the powers of legislation for the colonists in all cases whatsoever, without obtaining the consent of the inhabitants, which is ever essentially necessary to the rightful establishment of such a legislative.
Secondly, they have exerted that assumed power, in raising a revenue in the colonies without their consent; thereby depriving them of that right which every man has to keep his own earnings in his own hands until he shall, in person, or by his representative, think fit to part with the whole, or any portion of it. This infringement is the more extraordinary when we consider the laudable care which the British House of Commons have taken to reserve entirely and absolutely to themselves the powers of giving and granting money. They not only insist on originating every money bill in their own House, but will not even allow the House of Lords to make an amendment in these bills; so tenacious are they of this privilege, so jealous of any infringement of the sole and absolute right the people have to dispose of their own money. And what renders this infringement the more grievous is, that what of our earnings still remains in our hands is, in a great measure, deprived of its value, so long as the British Parliament continue to claim and exercise this power of taxing us; for we cannot justly call that our property which others may, when they please, take away from us against our will.
In this respect we are treated with less decency and regard than the Romans shewed even to the provinces which they had conquered; they only determined upon the sum which each should furnish, and left every province to raise it in the manner most easy and convenient to themselves.
Thirdly, a number of new officers, unknown in the charter of this province, have been appointed to superintend this revenue, whereas, by our charter, the Great and General Court or Assembly of this province has the sole right of appointing all civil officers, excepting only such officers, the election and constitution of whom is, in said charter, expressly excepted; among whom these officers are not included.
Fourthly, these officers are by their commissions invested with powers altogether unconstitutional, and entirely destructive to that security which we have a right to enjoy, and to the last degree dangerous, not only to our property, but to our lives; for the commissioners of his Majesty's customs in America, or any three of them, are by their commission empowered, "by writing under their hands and seals, to constitute and appoint inferior officers in all and singular the ports within the limits of their commissions. Each of these petty officers so made is entrusted with power more absolute and arbitrary than ought to be lodged in the hands of any man or body of men whatsoever; for in the commission aforementioned his Majesty gives and grants unto his said commissioners, or any three of them, and to all and every the collectors, deputy collectors, ministers, servants, and all other officers serving and attending in all and every the ports and other places within the limits of their commission, full power and authority, from time to time, at their or any of their wills and pleasures, as well by night as by day, to enter and go on board any ship, boat, or other vessel, riding, lying, or being within, or coming into, any port, harbour, creek, or haven, within the limits of their commission; and also in the day time to go into any house, shop, cellar, or any other place, where any goods, wares, or merchandise, lie concealed, or are suspected to lie concealed, whereof the customs and other duties have not been, or shall not be, duly paid and truly satisfied, answered or paid unto the collectors, deputy collectors, ministers, servants, and other officers respectively, or otherwise agreed for; and the said house, shop, warehouse, cellar, and other place, to search and survey, and all and every the boxes, trunks, chests, and packs, then and there found, to break open."
Thus our houses, and even our bedchambers, are exposed to be ransacked, our boxes, trunks, and chests, broke open, ravaged, and plundered, by wretches, whom no prudent man would venture to employ even
as menial servants, whenever they are pleased to say they suspect there are in the house, wares, &c. for which the duties have not been paid. Flagrant instances of the wanton exercise of this power have frequently happened in this and other seaport towns. By this we are cut off from that domestic security which renders the lives of the most unhappy, in some measure, agreeable. These officers may, under colour of law, and the cloak of a general warrant, break through the sacred rights of the domicil , ransack mens houses, destroy their securities, carry off their property, and, with little danger to themselves, commit the most horrid murders.
And we complain of it as a further grievance that, notwithstanding by the charter of this province, the Governor and the Great and General Court or Assembly of this province or territory, for the time being, shall have full power and authority, from time to time, to make, ordain, and establish, all manner of wholesome and reasonable laws, orders, statutes, and ordinances, directions, and instructions; and that if the same shall not within the term of three years after presenting the same to his Majesty in Privy Council be disallowed, they shall be and continue in full force and effect, until the same shall be repealed by the Great and General Assembly of this province: Yet the Parliament of Great Britain have rendered, or attempted to render, null and void, a law of this province, made and passed in the reign of his late Majesty George the First, entitled "An act stating the fees of the customhouse officers within this province," and by mere dint of power, in violation of the charter aforesaid, established other and exorbitant fees for the same officers; any law of the province, to the contrary, notwithstanding.
Fifthly, fleets and armies have been introduced to support these unconstitutional officers in collecting and managing this unconstitutional revenue, and troops have been quartered in this metropolis for that purpose. Introducing and quartering standing armies in a free country, in times of peace, without the consent of the people, either by themselves, or by their representatives, is, and always has been, deemed a violation of their rights as freemen, and of the charter or compact made between the King of Great Britain and the people of this province, whereby all the rights of British subjects are confirmed to us.
Sixthly, the revenue arising from this tax unconstitutional laid, and committed to the management of persons arbitrarily appointed and supported by an armed force quartered in a free city, has been in part applied to the most destructive purposes. It is absolutely necessary in a mixed government, like that of this province, that a due proportion or balance of power should be established among the several branches of the legislative. Our ancestors received from King William and Queen Mary a charter, by which it was understood by both parties, in the contract, that such a proportion or balance was fixed, and therefore every thing which renders any one branch of the legislative more independent of the other two than it was originally designed is an alteration of the constitution, as settled by the charter; and as it has been, until the establishment of this revenue, the constant practice of the General Assembly to provide for the support of government, so it is an essential part of our constitution, as it is a necessary means of preserving an equilibrium , without which we cannot continue a free state.
In particular, it has always been held that the dependence of the Governor of this province upon the General Assembly for his support was necessary for the preservation of this equilibrium ; nevertheless, his Majesty has been pleased to apply 1500l. sterling annually, out of the American revenue, for the support of the Governor of this province, independent of the Assembly, whereby the antient connection between him and this people is weakened, the confidence in the Governor lessened, the equilibrium destroyed, and the constitution essentially altered.
And we look upon it highly probable, from the best intelligence we have been able to obtain, that not only our Governor and Lieutenant Governor, but the Judges of the Superior Court of Judicature, as also the King's Attorney and Solicitor General, are to receive their support from this grievous tribute. This will, if accomplished, compleat our slavery; for if taxes are to be raised from us by the Parliament of Great Britain without our consent, and the men on whose opinions and decisions our properties, liberties, and lives, in a great measure, depend, receive their support from the revenues arising from these taxes, we cannot, when we think on the depravity of mankind, avoid looking with horror on the danger to which we are exposed! The British Parliament have shewn their wisdom in making the Judges there as independent as possible, both on the Prince and people, both for place and support; but our Judges hold their commissions only during pleasure. The granting them salaries out of this revenue is
rendering them dependent on the Crown for their support. The King, upon his first accession to the throne, for giving the last hand to the independency of the Judges in England, not only upon himself, but his successors, by recommending and consenting to an act of Parliament, by which the Judges are continued in office, notwithstanding the demise of the King, which vacates all other commission, was applauded by the whole nation. How alarming, therefore, must it be to the inhabitants of this province to find so wide a difference made between the subjects in Britain and America as the rendering the Judges here altogether dependent on the Crown for their support.
Seventhly, we find ourselves greatly oppressed by instructions sent to our Governor from the court of Great Britain; whereby the first branch of our legislature is made merely a ministerial engine; and the province has already felt such effects from these instructions as we think justly entitle us to say that they threaten an entire destruction of our liberties, and must soon, if not checked; render every branch of our government a useless burthen upon the people. We shall point out some of the alarming effects of these instructions, which have already taken place.
In consequence of instructions, the Governor has called and adjourned our General Assemblies to a place highly inconvenient to the members, and greatly disadvantageous to the interest of the province, even against his own declared intention.
In consequence of instructions, the Assembly has been prorogued from time to time, when the important concerns of the province required their meeting.
In obedience to instructions, the General Assembly was, anno 1768, dissolved by Governor Bernard, because they would not consent to rescind the resolution of a former House, and thereby sacrifice the rights of their constituents.
By an instruction, the Honourable his Majesty's Council are forbid to meet and transact matters of public concern, as a Council of advice to the Governor, unless called by the Governor; and if they should, from a zealous regard to the interest of the province, so meet at any time, the Governor is ordered to negative them at the next election of Councillors. And although by the charter of this province the Great and General Court have full power and authority to impose taxes upon the estates and persons of all and every the proprietors and inhabitants of this province, yet the Governor has been forbidden to give his consent to an act imposing a tax for the necessary support of government, unless such persons as were pointed out in the said instruction were exempted from paying their just proportion of said tax.
His Excellency has also pleaded instructions for giving up the provincial fortress, Castle William, into the hands of troops, over whom he had declared he had no controul; and that at a time when they were menacing the slaughter of the inhabitants of the town, and our streets were stained with the blood which they had barbarously shed. Thus our Governor, appointed and paid from Great Britain with money forced from us, is made an instrument of totally preventing; or at least of rendering futile, every attempt of the other two branches of our legislative in favour of a distressed and wronged people; and, lest the complaints naturally occasioned by such oppression should excite compassion in the Royal breast, and induce his Majesty seriously to set about relieving us from the cruel bondage and insults which we, his loyal subjects, have so long suffered, the Governor is forbidden to consent to the payment of an agent to represent our grievances at the court of Great Britain, unless he, the Governor, consent to his election; and we very well know what the man must be to whose appointment a Governor, in such circumstances, will consent.
While we are mentioning the infringements of the rights of this colony in particular, by means of instructions, we cannot help calling to remembrance the late unexampled suspension of the legislative of a sister colony, New York, by force of an instruction, until they should comply with an arbitrary act of the British Parliament for quartering troops, designed, by military execution, to enforce the raising of a tribute.
Eighthly, the extending the power of the courts of Vice Admiralty to so enormous a degree as deprives the people in the colonies, in a great measure, of their inestimable right to trials by juries , which has ever been justly considered as the grand bulwark and security of English property.
This alone is sufficient to rouse our jealousy; and we are again obliged to take notice of the remarkable contrast which the British Parliament have been pleased to exhibit between the subjects in Great Britain and the colonies. In the same statute, by which they give up to the decision of one dependent, interested Judge of admiralty the estates and properties of the colonists, they expressly guard the estates and properties of the people of Great Britain; for all

Forfeitures and penalties inflicted by the statute of the fourth of George the Third, or any other act of Parliament relative to the trade of the colonies, may be sued for in any court of admiralty in the colonies; but all penalties and forfeitures which shall be incurred in Great Britain may be sued for in any of his Majesty's courts of record in Westminster, or in the court of exchequer in Scotland, respectively. Thus our birthrights are taken from us, and that, too, with every mark of indignity, insult, and contempt. We may be harrassed and dragged from one part of the continent to the other (which some of our brethren here, and in the country towns, already have been) and finally be deprived of our whole property, by the arbitrary determination of one biased, capricious Judge of the admiralty.
Ninthly, the restraining us from erecting sitting-mills for manufacturing our iron, the natural produce of this country, is an infringement of that right with which God and nature have invested us, to make use of our skill and industry in procuring the necessaries and conveniences of life; and we look upon the restraint laid upon the manufacture and transportation of hats to be altogether unreasonable and grievous. Although by the charter all havens, rivers, ports, waters, &c. are expressly granted the inhabitants of the province and their successors, to their only proper use and behoof forever, yet the British Parliament passed an act, whereby they restrain us from carrying our wool, the produce of our own farms, even over a ferry, and whereby the inhabitants have often been put to the expence of carrying a bag of wool near an hundred miles by land, when passing over a river or water of one quarter of a mile, of which the province are the absolute proprietors, would have prevented all that trouble.
Tenthly, the act passed in the last session of the British Parliament, entitled An act for the better preserving his Majesty's dock yards, magazines, ships, ammunition, and stores , is, as we apprehend, a violent infringement of our rights. By this act any one of us may be taken from his family, and carried to any part of Great Britain, there to be tried whenever it shall be pretended that he has been concerned in burning or otherwise destroying any boat or vessel, or any materials for building, &c. any naval or victualling store, &c. belonging to his Majesty. For by this act all persons in the realm, or in any of the places thereto belonging (under which denomination we know the colonies are meant to be included) may be indicted or tried either in any county or shire within this realm, in like manner and form as if the offence had been committed in said county, as his Majesty and his successors may deem most expedient. Thus we are not only deprived of our grand right to trial by our Peers in the vicinity , but any person suspected, or pretended to be suspected, may be hurried to Great Britain, to take his trial in any county the King or his successors shall please to direct, where, innocent or guilty, he is in great danger of being condemned, and whether condemned or acquitted, he will probably be ruined by the expence attending the trial, and his long absence from his family and business; and we have the strongest reason to apprehend that we shall soon experience the fatal effects of this act, as about the year 1769 the British Parliament passed resolves for taking up a number of persons in the colonies, and carrying them to Great Britain for trial, pretending that they were authorized so to do, by a statute passed in the reign of Henry the Eighth, in which they say the colonies were included, although the act was passed long before any colonies were settled, or even in contemplation.
Eleventhly, as our ancestors came over to this country that they might not only enjoy their civil but their religious rights, and particularly desired to be freed from the prelates, who in those times cruelly persecuted all who differed in sentiment from the established church, we cannot see, without concern, the various attempts which have been made, and are now making, to establish an American Episcopate. Our episcopal brethren of the colonies do enjoy, and rightfully ought ever to enjoy, the free exercise of their religion; but as an American Episcopate is by no means essential to that free exercise of their religion, we cannot help fearing that they who are so warmly contending for such an establishment have views altogether inconsistent with the universal and peaceful enjoyment of our christian privileges; and doing, or attempting to do, any thing which has even the remotest tendency to endanger this enjoyment, is justly looked upon a great grievance, and also an infringement of our rights which is not barely to exercise, but peaceably and securely to enjoy, that liberty with which CHRIST hath made us free.
And we are further of opinion that no power on earth can justly give either temporal or spiritual jurisdiction within this province, except the Great and General Court. We think, therefore, that every design for establishing the jurisdiction of a Bishop in this province is a design both against our civil and religious rights; and we are well informed that the more candid and judicious of our brethren of the church of England in this and the other colonies, both clergy and laity, conceive of the establishing an American Episcopate both unnecessary and unreasonable.
Twelfthly, another grievance under which we labour is, the frequent alteration of the bounds of the colonies by decisions before the King and Council, explanatory of former grants and charters. This not only subjects men to live under a constitution to which they have not consented, which in itself is a great grievance, but moreover under colour, that the right of soil is affected by such declarations, some
Governors, or Ministers, or both in conjunction, have pretended to grant, in consequence of a mandamus, many thousands of acres of vacant and appropriated lands near a century past, and rendered valuable by the labours of the present cultivators and their ancestors. There are very notable instances of settlers who, having first purchased the soil of the natives, have, at considerable expence, obtained confirmations of title from this province, and, on being transferred to the jurisdiction of the province of New Hampshire , have been put to the trouble and cost of a new grant or confirmation from thence; and, after all this, there has been a third declaration of the Royal will, that they should thenceforth be considered as pertaining to the province of New York . The troubles, expences, and dangers, which hundreds have been put to on such occasions, cannot here be recited; but so much may be said, that they have been most cruelly harrassed, and even threatened with a military force, to dragoon them into a compliance with the most unreasonable demands.
[To be continued.]
B O S T O N, April 26.
The following unhappy affair happened on Friday se'nnight at the Globe tavern, on Portsmouth Plains, in New Hampshire: Mr. John King, who kept the said tavern, being at work in his garden, Mr. Joseph Moulton, junior, a deputy sheriff, attempted to take him for a sum of about forty dollars; King observing Moulton coming towards him, and suspecting his design, ran to a tree where he had left his gun; when Moulton came near him, he told him to keep at a distance, for he would not be taken by him. However, when he had got within about ten feet of King, he fired a full charge of goose shot in his face; Moulton was taken up by a person who saw King shoot, and it was thought he would soon have expired; however, he was alive on Friday last, though but little hopes of his recovery. Three Doctors attended him, who think that both his eyes are out, part of his nose, and five or six teeth are shot away, and the whole of his face and head in a terrible condition. About a dozen shot have been extracted from his head. Two families are, by this melancholy affair, in very distressed circumstances.
Last Friday we had another specimen of the insolence of office, when R. Parker, big with a writ of assistance, presumed to break open several warehouses on the Long Wharf, on pretence that he had information of contraband goods being lodged there, which was not the case; we say on pretence, for it is only for a dirty fellow to be induced to tell such an officer that there is seizable goods in any stores, and they will be immediately broke open and exposed; nay, it is said Mr. Searcher has boasted that he had a right to make as free with our bedchambers. Thus we see what a monster, in this writ of assistance, is entrusted to the keeping of the petty officers of the navy as well as the customhouse, and the wisdom of those provinces who have not suffered such a monster of monsters to prowl about their streets for prey. As most of the men of war had lately sailed for Halifax, it is thought this wanton and affrontive behaviour was with design to excite an opposition in the trade, and so a pretence for the return of those guarda costas.
WILLIAMSBURG, May 27.
On Tuesday and Wednesday last the great COCK MATCH, between the upland and lowland Gentlemen, was fought in this city, when it was determined, by a majority of one battle, in favour of the former.
On Sunday the 16th of May died, at Charlottesville, in the 30th year of his age, DABNEY CARR, Esquire, attorney at law, and member of Assembly for the county of Louisa. This excellent person possessed a fine genius, and benevolent heart, with a taste for all that was polite, elegant, or social, and, when occasion offered, displayed a masculine eloquence, and an undaunted love of liberty.
Miss PEGGY HAY, of this city, who, with a gutta serena, was totally blind of one eye, and nearly so with the other, is now happily restored to the perfect sight of both, being able to read the smallest print, and to distinguish even minute objects at the greatest distance, by the assistance of Doctor GRAHAM, oculist and aurist, who lately arrived in this city from Philadelphia. We hear, likewise, that several persons have received great benefit in their sight and hearing, by applying to the same Gentleman. Among many others, a young Gentleman, born deaf and dumb, hath received remarkable benefit in point of hearing: So amazing, indeed, have been his attainments since Sunday last, that a perfect cure in hearing, and in speaking, can scarcely be doubted. We are the more particular in giving this intelligence to the public, that those persons who are afflicted with any disorder in their eyes, ears, or organs of speech, may be induced to apply soon, as, it is said, the Doctor intends to leave this city about the 15th of June.
WILLIAMSBURG, May 20.
** For the benefit of those whom it may concern, as well as in grateful acknowledgment of the kind care and attention of Doctor GRAHAM to my child, I think it my duty to publish her case: She was, some time, in January last, taken with a foreness in her right eye, which ended in a gutta serena; that eye was totally blind, the other so much affected that she could not see any small object. I applied to Doctor GRAHAM on the 11th of this month, and he restored her sight perfectly in seven days; she can see now to read the smallest print, and is perfectly free from any complaint, or dimness of any kind, in either eye.
ELIZABETH HAY.
By his Excellency JOHN Earl of DUNMORE, his Majesty's Lieutenant and Governor General of the colony and dominion of Virginia, and Vice Admiral of the same:
A PROCLAMATION.
VIRGINIA, sc.
WHEREAS the GENERAL ASSEMBLY stands prorogued to the third Thursday in next month, but I find no urgent occasion for their meeting at that time, I have therefore thought fit, by this proclamation, in his Majesty's name, farther to prorogue the said Assembly to the second Thursday in August next.
GIVEN under my hand, and the seal of the colony, at Williamsburg, this 20th day of May, 1773, and in the 13th year of his Majesty's reign. DUNMORE.
GOD save the KING.
By his Excellency JOHN Earl of DUNMORE, his Majesty's Lieutenant and Governor General of the colony and dominion of Virginia, and Vice Admiral of the same:
A PROCLAMATION.
VIRGINIA, sc.
WHEREAS SAMUEL WALLACE, junior, was taken up and committed to the goal of Prince Edward county by a mittimus, signed by two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for that county, being charged with robbing Richard Day of sundries, and also with stealing from James Geddy, of the city of Williamsburg, six pair of gold sleeve buttons, of the value of seven pounds ten shillings, and the 15th day of this month was appointed for a court to be held in the said county, in order to examine the said Samuel Wallace, junior, upon the several matters laid to his charge, but before that day the prisoner made his escape, whereupon the court proceeded, at the time appointed, to the examination of witnesses; on consideration whereof it was their opinion that the said Samuel Wallace was not guilty of the robbery, but guilty as to the other charge of stealing from James Geddy as aforesaid, and that he ought to be tried for the same in the General Court: I have therefore thought fit, by this proclamation, in his Majesty's name, to offer a reward of TWENTY POUNDS current money to any person who shall apprehend the said Samuel Wallace, and deliver him to the keeper of the public goal.
And all his Majesty's officers, both civil and military, and all other his Majesty's liege subjects within this dominion, are requested to be aiding and assisting therein, as they shall answer the contrary at their peril.
GIVEN under my hand, and the seal of the colony, at Williamsburg aforesaid, this 22d day of May, 1773, and in the 13th year of his Majesty's reign. DUNMORE.
GOD save the KING.
For SALE, at Mr. JOHN PRENTIS's store in Williamsburg,
AN exceeding elegant SPINNET, in a genteel mahogany case, with a music desk, spare wires, quills, &c. This instrument is entirely new, and was lately imported in the Virginia, Capt. Esten. The lowest price is TWENTY TWO POUNDS current money.
THE trustees appointed by an act of Assembly, for encouraging the making WINE in this colony, give notice that they, according to the directions of the said act, are ready to receive THREE POOR BOYS, to be bound apprentices to Andrew Estave, who is to teach them the art of cultivating vines, and making wine.
I SHALL attend at Alexandria, on the court day in June next, to dispose of two tracts of LAND in that county, for ready money, or bills of exchange: One of which contains upwards of 1100 acres, lies on Four Mile Run, adjoining to Col. Carlyle's mill, about four miles from Alexandria; the soil is equal to any in that neighbourhood, and needs no recommendation, and, I am told, will admit of as constant a water mill as any on this side of the Ridge. The other tract contains 1159 acres, lies on the waters of Pohick, about five miles from Colchester, and the same distance from Pohick warehouse. I am informed it is common forest land, but for pine and oak timber it is said to equal any in the county. A good title will be made at the sale.—The foregoing makes it unnecessary to say I am not one of the happy few who are not in great want of cash: I must, therefore, earnestly request those indebted to me, either on my own, or father's estate account, to make payment in time, to prevent further sales of my estate, or expence to themselves.
JAMES MERCER.
YORK, May 26, 1773.
ALL persons indebted to the estate of Mr. William Dudley, deceased, are desired to make immediate payment, and those who have demands against the said estate are desired to bring or send them, properly attested, to
WILLIAM CARY.
To be SOLD at Alexandria, on Potowmack river, on Wednesday the 9th of June, for cash, or good bills,
A SMALL cargo of choice GOLD COAST SLAVES, well assorted, and healthy; also a fine fellow, who understands the sailmaking business.
BALDWIN MATTHEWS BUCKNER.
To be LEASED for a term of years, or for life, THREE thousand acres of valuable LAND in Hanover county, about eight miles from the courthouse. The land will be laid off in lots of one, two, and three hundred acres. For terms apply to GARLAND ANDERSON, and PAUL THILMAN.

To be SOLD, at public sale, for the benefit of the owners, or insurers, at Accomack courthouse, on the first day of June next,
THE hull of the ship GUARDOVI, lately cast away, and now lies on Cedar Island shoals; together with her longboat, and some barrels of provision, for ready money, by
GEORGE GORDON, master, OR HIS ATTORNEY.
IMPORTED, last fall, in the EMPEROR, THOMAS COCKERILL, master, two parcels of GOODS, marked M G, No. 1, a truss; and 2, a case, which have not yet come to hand: I shall, therefore, be much obliged to any one who will inform me where I may get them; or if the person in whose care they may be will be kind enough to send them, by a safe craft, to my store at Layton's warehouse, on Rappahannock river, I shall esteem it a particular favour, and thankfully pay charges. MUSCOE GARNETT.
STOLEN, or strayed, from Robert Clopton's, near Bottom's Bridge, in New Kent county, about the last of December, a dark bay horse, about 4 feet 5 or 6 inches high, with a star in his forehead, his mane has been roached, and tail bobbed, but were almost grown out, paces quick, and branded on the near buttock with a heart, but scarcely perceivable. Whoever brings the said horse to Mr. William Talman's, in said county, near the Long Bridge, or to Mr. Thomas Anderson, in Hanover county, shall have FORTY SHILLINGS reward. HANNAH HEWLETT.
TEN POUNDS REWARD.
RUN away, last night, three English convict servants, viz. JOHN EATON, by trade a shipcarpenter, about 23 years of age, and 5 feet 3 or 4 inches high; had on, and took with him, a blue broadcloth coat and breeches, a Damascus waistcoat, a pair of ticken trousers, worsted stockings, three striped cotton shirts, one oznabrig over shirt, a felt hat, and a pair of old shoes. ALICE EATON, alias WALKER (who goes for the said John Eaton's wife) a low, well set woman, about 20 years of age, and has sandy coloured hair; had on a brown, stuff gown, a red stuff petticoat, and four red silk handkerchiefs. JOHN STEEL, by trade a cabinetmaker, about 18 years of age, 5 feet 5 or 6 inches high, his face is much bruised, and his eyes very black, occasioned by fighting; had on a light coloured waistcoat and breeches, a check shirt, an old hat, and an old pair of shoes, but no stockings. Whoever secures the above servants in any gaol, so that we may get them, shall receive FIVE POUNDS, and if brought to Mr. Sampson Matthews, in Richmond, the above reward. SAMPSON & GEORGE MATTHEWS.
All masters of vessels are hereby forwarned from carrying either of the said servants out of the colony.
COMMITTED to the gaol of Prince George county, on the 11th of this instant (May) a Negro man who calls himself JACK, about 5 feet 5 or 6 inches high, appears to be about 50 years old, and says he belongs to James Holy, of Norfolk; had on, when committed, an oznabrig shirt, a linen jacket, black breeches, a light duroy close bodied coat, and an old great coat. The owner is desired to apply to HENRY BATTE.
TAKEN up, in Chesterfield, a bay horse, about 14 years old, 4 feet and a half high, branded on the near buttock ff, has a few saddle spots, and his mane half roached. JOSEPH ASHBROOK.
WILLIAMSBURG, May 13, 1773.
PURSUANT to the decree of James City county court, the subscriber intends to sell, to the highest bidder, at the courthouse of the said county, on the second Monday in next month, a very valuable Negro man named NERO, late the property of Josiah Chowning, deceased; and the next day he intends also to sell, to the highest bidder, in conformity to the same decree, the land whereon the said Josiah lived, but subject to Mrs. Chowning's dower, unless before the day of sale she should agree to join in the conveyance for the purpose of relinquishing the same; of which, should it happen, notice will be given at the sale, which will be on the premises. A year's credit will be allowed to each purchaser, on giving bond, with good security, to JOHN BLAIR.
DOCTOR GRAHAM, OCULIST and AURIST,
TAKES this method of apologizing to several of the respectable inhabitants of this city, who having applied to him for assistance in disorders of their EYES and EARS, have not as yet been attended to. The great number of pitiable objects, blind, deaf, &c. who come daily for relief from all parts of the colony, has hitherto prevented him from complying with what he hath ever considered, not as his interest only, but as a duty, in the exercise of which he frequently experiences the most exalted pleasure that the human mind is perhaps capable of enjoying.
ANY Gentleman in want of a person to carry on any sort of CARPENTER'S or JOINER'S WORK may be supplied by one who understands both branches by applying to the printer hereof.
*** There are two more, under the said person's directions, that would also engage at the same time.
TAKEN up, in Bedford, a likely bay mare, about 8 or 9 years old, has a small star in her forehead, and a saddle spot on her left side, has no perceivable brand, and paces naturally. She had with her a forrel colt about two years old next spring, her left hind foot white, and not branded.
MARY CHENAULT.
WILLIAMSBURG, May 6, 1773.
Qui vitam vitam dat. — Cic.
THE infinitely wise AUTHOR of nature has assigned to the EYES and EARS the most useful and important offices of life. The structure of those delicately tender organs is so exquisitely minute, the mechanism and properties of their various parts so admirably curious, that they may be stiled, with propriety, the miracles of nature. The great variety of dangers and diseases, manifest and occult, to which those precious senses are exposed, the little attention that hitherto has been paid to the improvement of this noble science, and so few, properly qualified, have engaged in its practice, that to study them in any degree suitable to their importance is full business for life.
The inestimable blessing and great advantages which attend a perfect enjoyment of the sight and hearing are obvious to all; but the deplorable and truly pitiable condition of the blind and deaf is attended with such solitary discomfort, such gloomy ideas, and constant uneasiness of mind, as no one can be truly sensible of who has not, in some measure, experienced it himself. How noble, therefore, how deserving of the nicest cultivation, must that art be, that can restore sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, speech to the dumb, and keep in order the springs of those masterpieces of creative wisdom! That art must needs be divine, because, thus assisted, our minds are inspired with the grandest apprehensions of Almighty GOD!
To the INHABITANTS of VIRGINIA.
Doctor GRAHAM, Oculist and Aurist, MOST respectfully offers his best services, and acquaints them that he may be consulted at his apartments at Mr. Hyland's, in this city, in all disorders of the eye and its appendages, and in every species of deafness, hardness of hearing, ulcerations, noise in the ears, &c. Those persons, who have had the unspeakable misfortune of being born deaf and dumb, and those who labour under any impediment in their speech, by applying personally, will probably be assisted. Those persons, likewise, whose eyes are utterly perished or sunk in their heads may have the deformity removed by artificial eyes, so cutiously fixed and adapted to the orbits, as to have, in appearance, the beauties, motion, &c. of a natural eye in its healthy state.
Medicine and surgery have always been his favourite study; but the structure and diseases of those tender, sympathetic, and nearly connected organs, just mentioned, have for many years particularly engaged his attention and practice; whence, regardless of vague conjectural hypothesis, he hath on rational principles, deduced methods of cure, improved and confirmed by the most accurate observations in a course of practice, the most extensive, and, perhaps, the most successful of any of his cotemporaries in Europe, or on this vast continent.
Notwithstanding it has ever been a custom with the professed oculists and aurists of Europe to conceal their method of practice and to refuse to communicate to any one the knowledge they possessed, yet, as his concerns in England will not permit him to remain long in America, and in order that his method may be rendered of as diffusive utility as possible, he proposes to instruct and appoint, after a series of actual practice, one person in every province, through which he may pass, to succeed him in treating, after the most improved method, the diseases of the eyes and ears, and to communicate to them, from time to time, such discoveries and improvements as may result from future practice. A premium will be expected, and none need apply but those who have been regularly bred to the profession of physic or surgery.
The candid and intelligent inhabitants of these parts of the British colonies can readily distinguish true merit from pretended knowledge: To conciliate, therefore, their favour, Doctor GRAHAM begs leave to assure them that, with tenderness and moderation, even to the poorest individual, his best abilities shall at all times be exerted to serve them; and as the success which daily attends his practice is a better testimony of his skill than any thing he might advance in his own behalf, let it suffice only to mention that, after several years study at the justly celebrated University of Edinburgh, he has travelled in pursuit of knowledge, in his favourite branches, attending the infirmaries and hospitals, as well as the lectures of the most eminent professors in Europe. In the course of his practice at Philadelphia, several hundred patients have been cured or relieved of the following disorders, many of which had been of long standing, and deemed incurable by other practitioners, even by Gentlemen who otherwise do honour to the profession, the success attending their practice sufficiently evincing that they are worthy and capable of the great, the important charge with which they are entrusted. The chief disorders are as follows, viz. Total, partial, and periodical blindness; weakness and dimness of sight; squinting; pain, swelling, and inflammation of the eyes; spots, specks, pearls, or films, occasioned by the smallpox, blows, or extraneous substances; weak, watery, red, spongy, and ulcerated eyelids; spasmodic twitching of the muscles; involuntary weeping of the tears; tumours and excrecencies; fistula lachrymalis. Total and periodical deafness; thickened hearing; pain and inflammations; painful sensations in consequence of loud sounds; cracking, itching, continual, and remitting noises in the ears; offensive runnings occasioned by colds, swelling, swimming, picking, and improper applications, or by long and severe sicknesses; insects and extraneous bodies getting into the ears; ulcerations with caries of the bones, polypi, &c. and several persons born deaf and dumb; impediments in their speech, &c.
*** Business in Philadelphia will not permit the Doctor to remain in this city longer than the 15th of June. Those, therefore, who have occasion for his assistance will be pleased to apply immediately. The poor who apply, properly recommended, will be assisted gratis, with advice, medicines, or manual operations, as their respective cases may require; and for that purpose he will appropriate every morning, Sundays excepted, between the hours of five and seven.
Equè pauperibus prodest; locupletibus aequè. Equè neglectum pueris senibusque nocebit. HOR.
The Doctor, next fall, on his progress from Philadelphia to Charlestown in South Carolina, will tarry a few days at each of the places hereafter mentioned, where those persons whose circumstances or situation have hitherto precluded them from the benefit of applying for assistance in their respective complaints, may have an opportunity of consulting him, viz. Alexandria, Fredericksburg, Newcastle, Hobbs's Hole, Urbanna, Petersburg, Richmond, Norfolk, Suffolk, &c.
Choice MADEIRA WINE,
A FEW CASES OF CLARET, BARBADOS RUM, BRANDY, RAISINS, AND MAHOGANY, SOLD BY PREESON BOWDOIN, IN NORFOLK.
VIRGINIA, sc. At a GENERAL COURT, held at the Capitol May 5, 1773.
John Upshaw, and John Reynolds, plaintiffs, against John Bland, late of London, merchant, John Bland, junior, and Messrs. Field and Call, defendants, in chancery.
THE defendant John Bland being beyond sea, and not having entered his appearance according to the rule of this court, on the motion of the plaintiffs, by their counsel, it is ordered, that the other defendants, who have effects of the said Bland in their hands, as is suggested, do not pay, convey away, or secrete, such effects, until the further order or decree of this court concerning the same; but that they deliver up such effects, or so much thereof as will be of value sufficient to satisfy the demand of the plaintiffs unto the said plaintiffs, upon their giving security to the clerk of this court for the return of such effects, in such manner, and to such persons, as the court shall hereafter adjudge. And it is further ordered, that the said defendant John Bland do appear here on the 1st day of next court, to answer the bill of the plaintiffs, and that a copy of this order be, within fifteen days, inserted in the Virginia Gazette, for two months successively, and published on some Lord's day, immediately after divine service, in the church of the parish of Martin's Brandon, in the county of Prince George, and be also posted up at the front door of the Capitol, in the city of Williamsburg. BEN: WALLER.
VIRGINIA, sc. At a GENERAL COURT, held at the Capitol May 5, 1773.
Arthur Edie, and James Laird, of London, merchants and partners, plaintiffs, against
Robert Jardine, late of London, merchant, and George Mitchell, defendants, in chancery.
THE defendant Robert being beyond sea, and not having entered his appearance according to the rule of this court, on the motion of the plaintiffs, by their counsel, it is ordered, that the other defendant, who hath effects of the said Robert in his hands, as is suggested, do not pay, convey away, or secrete, such effects, until the further order or decree of this court concerning the same; but that he deliver up such effects, or so much thereof as will be of value sufficient to satisfy the demand of the plaintiffs unto the said plaintiffs, upon their giving security to the clerk of this court for the return of such effects, in such manner, and to such persons, as the court shall hereafter adjudge. And it is further ordered, that the said defendant Robert do appear here on the 1st day of the next court, to answer the bill of the plaintiffs, and that a copy of this order be, within fifteen days, inserted in the Virginia Gazette, for two months successively, and published on some Lord's day, immediately after divine service, in the church of the parish of St. George, in the county of Spotsylvania, and be also posted up at the front door of the Capitol, in the city of Williamsburg. BEN: WALLER.
TAKEN up, in York county, a brindled cow and calf, with a crop in the right ear, and a swallowfork in the left. DAVID BROOK.
TAKEN up, in King William, a small bay mare, with a blaze in her face, about 4 feet 4 inches high, appears to be about 12 or 13 years old, and has a colt, but no perceivable brand. Posted, and appraised to 7l. THOMAS BUTLER.
TAKEN up, in New Kent, a grey mare, 4 feet 5 inches high, about 5 years old, and paces well, but has no perceivable brand. Posted, and appraised to 8l. WILLIAM WILKINSON.
TAKEN up, in James City county, three white weathers, one marked with a crop, hole, and underkeel, in each ear, another with a flower-de-luce in each ear; the other is unmarked, and was a lamb last year. Posted, and appraised to 1l. 12s. 6d. RICHARD BRACK.
TAKEN up, in Culpeper, a dark bay mare, neither docked nor branded. Posted, and appraised to 2l. 10s. H. FIELD.

TO BE SOLD;
ABOUT fourteen thousand acres of exceeding good LAND in the county of Pittsylvania. For terms apply to Mr. Hugh Rose of Amherst, who will treat with any person inclinable to purchase, and be empowered to make a legal title.
THOMAS LOMAX.
RUN away from the subscriber, on the 15th of April, a Negro man named JACK, belonging to Mr. John Fox, of Gloucester county, who I am informed he purchased of the estate of one Mr. Stubbs, of said county. He is by trade a shoemaker, and once worked with Mr. Robert Gilbert in Williamsburg, is fond of the violin, and has taken with him a new one, which his master lately gave him; he is about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, very black, well proportioned, has large white eyes, is a cunning, artful fellow, and if apprehended will endeavour to make his escape. His cloathing was the same as that of other labouring Negroes. I will give FORTY SHILLINGS to any person that will bring the said fellow to me, at Warwick ferry, on James river, besides paying all reasonable expences.
THOMAS PEMBLE.
*** All persons are hereby forewarned from harbouring or entertaining him.—He is well acquainted in Williamsburg and Gloucester, and in many other places in this colony.
For LONDON,
The ship PLANTER , THOMAS LILLY , master, Burthen about seven hundred HOGSHEADS,
WILL take in TOBACCO, on liberty of consignment, for 250 hogsheads, the quantity of 450 being for the house of Mess rs . Dunlop and Wilson of London. Notes or orders may be lodged with Gavin Hamilton and company at Norfolk, or with Thomas Lilly, on board the said ship, at the Honourable Col. Corbin's, or at his house in York town.
FOR SALE,
SEVEN or eight unimproved LOTS in the town of Charlottesville, Albemarle county, several of them lying on the main street, one very near the courthouse, and several others very convenient. Also several tracts of land lying on the branches of Buck Mountain creek, upon Doyle's and Morman's rivers, in the said county, to wit, one of 822 acres, one of 650 acres, one of 400 acres, one of 364 acres, one of 300 acres, one of 260 acres, one of 144 acres, and one of 130 acres. Great part of the said lands are very rich, and are allowed, by those who know them, to be as good as any in Virginia for producing fine, large, clean tobacco, are convenient to church, courthouse, and mills, and are well watered and timbered. Those who chuse to purchase will be allowed a reasonable credit, and may view the lands, and know the particulars, by applying to the subscriber, living near the upper end of Hanover county.
BENJAMIN BROWN.
Fauquier, May 1, 1773.
HAVING administered on my deceased husband John Ball's estate, I do hereby appoint Richard Lee, and Henry Lee, Esquires, or either of them, to transact the business of that estate; to whom all persons that have demands against the said estate are to make them known, and those that are indebted are to make payment.
MARY BALL, Administratrix.
TAKEN up, in Buckingham, a small sorrel mare, about 4 feet 5 inches high, paces slow, has a blaze in her forehead, the under side of her mane is mixed with grey hairs, as also her tail, about four years old this spring, and branded on the near buttock MD in a piece. Posted, and appraised to 7l.
JOHN STRANGE.
FOR SALE,
A TRACT OF LAND, lying on the river Rapidan, in Culpeper county, and containing 3000 acres, a sufficiency of which is cleared to employ the labour of 20 slaves. As those persons who may intend to become purchasers will probably be better satisfied with respect to the quality of land by viewing it, than by a description, they are requested to apply to Mr. John Allcock, who lives on the same. There is on the said land a small dwellinghouse, with all outhouses necessary for plantation and domestic purposes. Credit will be allowed till the 10th of July, 1774, on giving bond, with approved security, bearing interest from the date if not punctually discharged when due.
BEN: GRYMES, jun.
THE Gentlemen who have subscribed for the purpose of opening the navigation from Westham to the navigable water below the falls are desired to meet at Richmond on Monday the 14th day of June next, when it is proposed to enquire what sum is subscribed, and to take some steps to forward that useful work.
STRAYED from King George courthouse, the 4th of March last, a black mare, about 15 hands high, with a switch tail and hanging mane, trots and gallops, paces slow, and clumsy made, about 12 years old, not branded, as remembered; she was bred in the upper end of Stafford by one Mr. Balls, and is supposed will make that way. Whoever will deliver the said mare to Thomas Jett, Esquire, merchant at Leed's town, shall receive TWO PISTOLES, or if to the subscriber, in Gloucester county, THREE POUNDS.
JOSEPH SEAWELL.
I AM desired to give notice to those Gentlemen who are indebted to the Dismal Swamp company for singles, that if they do not discharge their accounts by the 25th of July next they will be put into the hands of an attorney, without farther application. JOHN WASHINGTON.
A SOBER, DILIGENT, JOURNEYMAN BARBER, WHO UNDERSTANDS WIGMAKING AND HAIRDRESSING, WILL MEET WITH ENCOURAGEMENT BY APPLYING TO THE PRINTER HEREOF.
TAKEN up, in Spottsylvania, a dark bay horse, about 4 feet 4 inches high, with a small star in his forehead, and paces, but has no perceivable brand. Posted, and appraised to 9l.
CHARLES SMITH.
Hanover, May 6, 1773.
THE debtors of Mr. John Bland of London, merchant, will be pleased to take notice that by their having delayed to discharge their balances, and long with-held many thousands from that Gentleman, he was lately reduced to the sad necessity of conveying all his estate, debts, and effects, to trustees, for the benefit of his creditors, and that I am fully empowered by the trustees to act for them, and collect the debts, and settle the affairs of Mr. Bland in this colony.
I shall be happy if I can conduct this extensive business to the satisfaction of all parties, without the trouble or expence of suits at law; but the urgent demands of Mr. Bland's creditors, and the unhappy situation of himself, and of a numerous, worthy family, who are involved in his difficulties, and now tasting the bitterness of his distress, will not admit of indulgence or delay, and I therefore hope the debtors will provide for the immediate discharge of their debts, and come to settle their respective accounts with me, without farther application; for it will not be convenient or possible for me to wait on them at their respective homes.
The debts contracted at the stores kept for Mr. Bland by his son Mr. John Bland, junior, at Blandford, by Mr. Andrew Grant at Boyd's Hole, and by Mr. David Briggs at Falmouth, will be settled and collected by them Gentlemen, severally, with whom they were contracted; and the debtors are hereby required to pay their balances to them persons without delay, they having instructions to enforce payments, and to close their respective concerns immediately. The goods now on hand in the stores are to be sold as soon as an account is taken of them; and if persons inclined to purchase will be pleased to apply to the above Gentlemen, at their respective stores, they may see the goods, and know the terms of sale, as they are severally empowered to sell them.
Mr. John Bland, junior, being very worthy of confidence, and greatly interested in these affairs, has full power to act in them, on all occasions, in my absence, as he thinks right, and payments made to him, in discharge of the sterling or current debts, will be allowed by PETER LYONS.
N. B. I shall be obliged to the persons that have demands against Mr. John Bland, of London, to let me know the nature and amount of their claims, before they put his estate to the expence of attachments, or suits in chancery, as I shall be willing to pay, out of his effects, any debt that I can be justified in discharging. P. L.
To be RENTED, for a TERM OF YEARS,
THE MILLS at the falls of James river, in the town of Manchester, which consist of a double sawmill, a gristmill, with two pair of stones, for country work, which is worth about 400 barrels of corn the year, a merchantmill with four pair of best French burstones; and all conveniencies necessary for carrying on the manufacturing business in the best manner; likewise a good dwellinghouse with two rooms on a floor, and a cellar and large fireplace in it; as also a large store house, cooper's shop, stable, blacksmith's shop and tools, and a lot of two acres and a half enclosed about the works. The stream affords water enough for as many more mills, and the works are so situated that they are out of danger from freshes, having never received any damage but from the unparallelled one in May 1771. These works, being placed within a few yards of navigation, and in the most flourishing part of the country, where any quantity of wheat may be purchased, the business of manufacturing, as well as the West India trade, may be carried on to as great advantage as any where on the continent, and a ready market may be had for any quantity of plank, scantling, &c. The saw and gristmills are now finished, and the merchantmill will be finished by the 1st of September next. Any person inclinable to rent the said works may know the terms by applying to JOHN MAYO.
FOR SALE,
THE plantation whereon the subscriber lives, in King and Queen, about a mile and a half from Todd's warehouse, containing 657 acres, in good order for cropping, with a large peach and apple orchard thereon beginning to bear, and a quantity of low grounds, which may be made good meadow with very little expence. The dwellinghouse, kitchen, and other outhouses, have been built between four and five years. Any person inclinable to purchase may know the terms by applying to ROBINSON DAINGERFIELD.
FREDERICKSBURG, February 24, 1773.
WHEREAS some of those indebted on the books here have not paid due regard to my advertisement of the 1st of December last, I give them this last notice that all and every account not paid off, or a good part of it, before the 20th of April, or our May fair at farthest, or settled by bond, or other specialty, before that time, will most certainly be put into the hands of a lawyer, without respect of persons. Unavoidable reasons will oblige me to this, which I shall probably, in time, acquaint them with. Those who are put to trouble and expence cannot now blame me for want of notice. I have sold part of the goods on hand, but so as not to distort the store, and have still a large assortment by me, which I will sell in wholesale or retail on the terms formerly advertised. Any person who will purchase the whole shall have them on terms which they themselves will say are very low and reasonable. GEORGE MITCHELL.
To be SOLD, at public auction, on Monday the 14th of June next, if fair, if not, the next fair day, pursuant to a decree of the worshipful court of King William county, to satisfy a debt due from Thomas Adams to the estate of John Russell, deceased.
A VALUABLE tract of LAND containing 200 acres, about six miles above King William courthouse, whereon is a good new dwellinghouse, kitchen, and other convenient outhouses, garden, &c. This is the place commonly called the Burnt Ordinary, and where the sale will be. Also 200 acres, adjoining the aforesaid, and 50 acres, whereon the said Adams formerly lived, about four miles above the courthouse. The whole is good level grain land. Twelve months credit will be allowed, giving bond, with good security.
CARTER BRAXTON, JOHN QUARLES, ARCHIBALD GOVAN, WILLIAM AYLETT, JAMES Q. RUSSELL, } Trustees.
FOR SALE,
THE tenement at present occupied by Captain James Gunn, in that part of the town of Richmond called Shockoes, on the north side of the falls of James river, with a number of convenient houses upon it, well adapted for either a merchant, tavern-keeper, or private Gentleman, rented at forty pounds a year; also the public storehouse at the same place, rented at fifteen pounds a year; the two half acre lots, No. 400 and No. 670, in the same town; the valuable lot of one hundred acres of timbered land, near the same, known by the description of No. 799; also the two half acre lots, No. 116 and No. 267, in the town of Manchester or Rocky Ridge, on the south side of the falls of James river. For terms apply to Joshua Storrs of Richmond, or to the subscriber. THOMSON MASON.
RUN away from Eltham, on Sunday the 10th of January, a light Mulatto fellow named OTHO, about 5 feet 9 inches high, freckled in the face, has light grey eyes, and brown hair, which he wears tied behind, his skin under his clothes is very white, and had on, when he went away, a blue cloth waistcoat, and a coat of the same, with a red velvet cape. I expect he will endeavour to pass for a white man. All masters of vessels are forewarned from harbouring or carrying the said slave off at their peril. I will give FIVE POUNDS to any person who will deliver him to me, or secure him in any gaol, and give notice thereof. BURWELL BASSETT.
FOR SALE,
SEVERAL valuable tracts of land, adjoining each other, on both sides of Chappawamsick Run, in the counties of Stafford and Prince William, containing 2600 acres, being the seat whereon the subscriber formerly resided. These lands are situate four miles above Aquia warehouses, and four miles below the town of Dumfries, the soil of more than half of it exceeding good; there is on it as fine a mill seat as any in the colony, upon a large and never failing stream. There is a great appearance of iron ore, and a large quantity of white oak and pine timber, a tolerable commodious dwellinghouse, a great number of convenient outhouses, good orchards, and several tenements in order for cropping. There are also 200 acres of fine meadow ground, half of which was sowed in timothy last fall and this spring. A more particular description will be unnecessary, as it is presumed that any person inclinable to purchase will view the premises; and the subscriber earnestly entreats all such to form their ideas of the value of this estate from their own observations, and not from any accounts they may receive from others, as there are some persons, who are thought goodnatured, worthy men, amuse themselves with decrying the property of their neighbours, even at the expence of truth, and under the mask of friendship to the person injured. And the subscriber is more particular in this caution, as he hath formerly received several severe injuries of that kind from one in that neighbourhood. The above lands are under the incumbrance of two mortgages; the one for a considerable sum, made by the subscriber himself, the other for an inconsiderable sum, made by the person of whom he purchased one of the small tracts; which mortgages are to be first paid out of the money arising from the sale. For terms apply to THOMSON MASON.