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<p>DECEMBER 31, 1767. NUMBER 867.<br />THE<br />VIRGINIA GAZETTE<br />With the latest ADVICES, FOREIGN and DOMESTICK.</p>
<p>IN CIVITATE LIBERA LINGUAM MENTEMQUE LIBERAS ESSE DEBERE. ----- <em>Suet.</em> in <em>Tib.</em> S. 28.</p>
<p>Printed by <em>ALEX. PURDIE,</em> and <em>JOHN DIXON,</em> at the POST OFFICE.</p>
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<p><em>To Mess.</em> PURDIE & DIXON.<br />GENTLEMEN,<br />AS the following piece has never, that I know of,<br />appeared in either your or Mr. Rind's gazette,<br />and may be of general use, if attended to, I give you<br />an opportunity, which I know you will cheerfully<br />embrace, of publising it in your very useful paper.</p>
<p>It is an extract of a letter from Dr. HUBER, an<br />eminent French physician, to the Secretary of the<br />Royal Society, London. I have made no other alte-<br />ration in it than by rendering some hard words, and<br />terms of art, intelligible, I think, to the meanest<br />capacity.</p>
<p>If the publick receives any benefit by this extract,<br />I shall think myself amply rewarded for my trouble in<br />transmitting it to you.</p>
<p>I am, Gentlemen,<br />Your constant reader,<br />And humble servant,<br />P.H.</p>
<p>DOCTOR Huber, on dissecting a child of<br />eight months old, tells us its death was<br />owing to accident and bad management,<br />not to any thing in nature. He says he has<br />observed something like it in many children, but this<br />was in so singular a degree that he could not but think<br />it deserved particular notice. The breast stood very<br />much out, and was sharp before, and pressed in at<br />the sides. Besides [crease/tear, illegible] of the breast that<br />appeared outwardly, several of the ribs, especially on<br />the left side, were, upon dissection, found to be forced<br />in, and the gristly parts hollowed, the hollow appear-<br />ing upwards, or on the outside, and bending in on the<br />lower or inside. All this had tended to render the<br />hollow of the breast still smaller, and consequently to<br />give less room than nature had intended to that part of<br />the bowels contained therein. In consequence, this<br />child had perished miserably; and many others, who<br />escape the fortune of so easy a death, live miserably,<br />and grown under diseases acknowledged to be incurable,<br />and said to arise from an ill conformation of the breast;<br />which conformation, this author very justly observes,<br />is often not owing to nature, but to servants and nurses<br />intrusted with the care of the children, while very<br />young.</p>
<p>These people, ignorant of the tender structure and<br />delicate frame of these young creatures, are not at all<br />upon their guard as to their method of handling them.<br />It is common to please or quiet a child by setting its<br />buttocks on the left hand, and inclining the body<br />forward, so as to receive the breast in the right hand<br />open. In this situation they hoist the child up into<br />the air, and poise it on the right hand only as it comes<br />down again. They do this commonly, perhaps fifty<br />times together, the child crying all the time, and they<br />tossing it the more violently, not discovering that the<br />first cause of the distress is over, and that the crying<br />now is from the pain they give, by the very means by<br />which they attempt to ease it.</p>
<p>It is not uncommon to see the marks of a thumb on<br />the right side of the infant's breast, and those of the<br />four fingers on the left, deeply impressed, when the<br />child is let down again. But this is not all: Dr.<br />Huber absolutely attributes the narrow and sharp form<br />of the breast wholly to this pressure and squeezing of<br />it; and, what is much more to be attended to, he<br />found the ribs displaced in the dissection, just as they<br />would, and must be, by the pressure of an open hand,<br />many on the left side, and fewer on the right, where<br />the thumb only comes, in this method of holding the<br />child. And as to the hollow places in the gristles, he<br />found them exactly correspond to the places where the<br />four fingers and thumb of the nurse had pressed, in<br />these exploits, as above. And on applying his own<br />hand, with the fingers open, to the breast, the ends<br />of his fingers exactly fitted those depressed parts. That<br />this infant, therefore, perished by this way of holding<br />is certainly out of dispute; nor does it appear much<br />less certain that numbers of others, whose deaths have<br />been attributed to very different causes, have died in<br />the same unhappy manner.</p>
<p>The Doctor wishes that his observations on this<br />head may fall into the hands of those good women who<br />[torn, illegible] of infants. He adds that many deaths<br />[torn, illegible]</p>
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<p>After what the Doctor says on the subject, I hope<br />I need not caution the mothers in this colony not to<br />trust their children in the hands of young giddy Negro<br />girls (as is too commonly done) but to employ the<br />most sensible careful Negro woman they have to look<br />after those tender young creatures. By this method<br />they will preserve many lives, and prevent deformities<br />in those who may possibly survive the treatment men-<br />tioned and exposed by the Doctor.</p>
<p><em>Mess.</em> PURDIE <em>and</em> DIXON,<br /><em>AS the following verses mean well to the publick, they<br />are sent to be inserted, if you think proper, in your<br />next week's paper. I am, Gentlemen,<br />Your constant reader.</em><br />THEOPHILUS BEZA.</p>
<p>JOYFUL CHRISTMAS smiling comes,<br />Welcom'd by ten thousand tongues;<br />Waking all the sleepy powers,<br />By its cheerful merry hours.<br />Lovely youths assume the air<br />Pleasing to the lovely fair,<br />While the fair their charms display,<br />Far exceeding blooming May.<br />Care and sorrow now myst end,<br />Even for a dying friend;<br />And the business be to please,<br />With the most obliging ease.<br />Balls, assemblies, now appear,<br />Greeting the approaching year;<br />While a loud [torn, illegible]<br />Sounds applause [torn, illegible] more:<br />Time flies forward on the wing,<br />When the thoughtless laugh and sing;<br />Followed by the <em>months</em> and <em>years,</em><br />Joys distributing, and tears!<br />Pleasure gives the <em>hours</em> the chase,<br />Pleasure man pursues apace;<br />Death disguis'd the man pursues,<br />Stops his breath, and ends his views!<br />Think of this, nor once complain,<br />Matron, maid, old man, or swain,<br />Of the graveness of the lines,<br />As ill fitting Christmas times;<br />'Midst life's ever shifting scenes,<br />You may need the gravest themes,<br />Pointing to your shunless fate,<br />And the dark succeeding state.<br />If some questions ask'd is rhyme,<br />Free from every ill design<br />Can't offend, pray let me hear<br />How you can with conscience clear,<br />Or, without a heart-felt dread,<br />Eat the sacramental bread,<br />Drink the consecrated cup,<br />Then go swear, and dance, and sot?<br />This resembles Corinth's shame,<br />Loaded with a blacker blame; But can these be honours done<br />To the GREAT INCARNATE SON?<br />Or what likeness can there be<br />In such sports to Calvary?<br />Will the Eucharist alone,<br />These high-viced crimes atone?<br />Friends, this life, and piety,<br />Ever widely disagree;<br />And demands a quick redress,<br />Lest it prove remediless.<br />Take the path which wisdom says<br />Leads, with ease, to happy days;<br />Trodden by the prudent few,<br />Differing much from most of you.<br />Pitying GOD! forgive, I humbly pray,<br />Those guilty wanderers from the peaceful way<br />Ascending gradual to the blissful plains,<br />Far mov'd from trouble, where Emmanuel reigns;<br />Ador'd and lov'd by all the happy throngs,<br />Who shout his honours in the softest songs.<br />Thou GOD incarnate! save poor sinning man,<br />And show his ransome in thy bleeding hand;<br />Make him, though ruthless, in obedience move,<br />And own the pleasing energy of love!<br />Thou Holy Spirit! lend thy aid divine,<br />And every power of the foul refine,<br />That when the fretted thread of life gives way<br />It may possess a happy endless day;<br />Where deathless joys, unmix'd with pain or fear,<br />Fill the wide circle of th' eternal year!</p>
<p><em>On</em> CHRISTMAS DAY.</p>
<p>ASSIST me, muse divine, to sing the morn<br />On which the Saviour of mankind was born;<br />But oh! what numbers [torn, illegible] can rise,<br />Unless kind angels aid me from the skies?<br />Methinks I see the tuneful [torn, illegible] descend,<br />And with officious [torn, illegible] attend;<br />[torn, illegible] the road,</p>
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<p>For when th' important era first drew near<br />In which the great Messiah should appear,<br />And to accomplish his redeeming love<br />Resign a while his glorious throne above,<br />Beneath our form should every wo sustain,<br />And by triumphant suffering fix his reign,<br />Should for lost man in tortures yield his breath.<br />Dying to save us from eternal death;<br />Oh mystick union! salutary grace,<br />Incarnate God our nature should embrace!<br />That Deity should stoop to our disguise,<br />That men recovered should regain the skies!<br />Dejected Adam! from thy grave ascend,<br />And view the serpent's deadly malice end;<br />Adoring, bless th' Almighty's boundless grace,<br />That gave his Son a ransome for thy race!<br />Oh never let my soul this day forget,<br />But pay in grateful praise her annual debt<br />To him whom, 'tis my trust, I shall adore,<br />When time, and sin, and death, shall be no more.</p>
<p>ISLE of WIGHT, <em>Dec.</em> 21, 1767.</p>
<p><em>On</em> WINTER.</p>
<p>I.<br />NOW WINTER comes with hasty pace,<br />And strips the fields of every grace;<br />The trees lament their glories past,<br />And bend before the rushing blast.<br />From the fair flower the colour flies;<br />Drooping, it hangs the head and dies.<br />But why should I this theme pursue,<br />Or why this desolation view?<br />I quit the gloom and turn my eyes<br />To see what beauties yet can rise:<br />Come on [torn, illegible] Winter, with thy sable train,<br />Thy [torn, illegible] pass, and Spring return again.</p>
<p>II.<br />Instead of green, the fields shall boast<br />A curious robe of glittering frost,<br />Wildly magnificent, and show,<br />In curled heaps so pure and bright,<br />Our eyes are dazzled with the sight,<br />And crystal icicles shall please,<br />In varied forms on rocks and trees:<br />Then welcome, Winter, with thy chilling train,<br />These have their charms, and Spring shall smile again.</p>
<p>III.<br />Now all the glories of the sky,<br />The moon, and rolling orbs on high,<br />With burnish'd beam shall clothe the night,<br />In all the luxury of light;<br />The sparkling worlds above shall show<br />The glittering of the earth below;<br />In strongest characters shall shine,<br />Almighty power and art divine:<br />Then welcome, Winter, with thy sable train,<br />Thee I'll admire 'til Spring return again.</p>
<p>IV.<br />Although the smooth meand'ring rill<br />No more with gentle murmurings fill<br />The listening ear, now swell'd with rain,<br />Redd'ning it rushes o'er the plain,<br />Scorning its low and narrow shores,<br />Down the rough rock in thunder roars,<br />Then foaming falls; in this we find<br />A grandeur that exalts the mind:<br />Then welcome, Winter, with thy sable train,<br />Thou hast thy charms, and Spring shall smile again.</p>
<p>V.<br />When lowring clouds obscure the day,<br />And rattling tempests round me play;<br />When raging winds drive on the rain,<br />O'erturn the trees and flood the plain;<br />When the storm howls with hideous din,<br />How blest am I to be within,<br />With social friends and cheerful fire!<br />What should I wish, what more desire?<br />Then welcome, Winter, with thy sable train,<br />Thou hast thy joys, and Spring shall smile again.</p>
<p>VI.<br />Then shall the poet's varied strain<br />Give pleasing artificial pain,<br />Or with heroick ardour fire,<br />Or soft beneficience inspire.<br />From the divine and moral page,<br />I'll lay up treasures for my age,<br />Nor think the task too grave for youth<br />To seek and trace eternal truth:<br />Then welcome, Winter, with thy sable train,<br />Thou hast thy joys, and Spring shall smile again.</p>
<p>VII.<br />Oft to relieve the pleasing toil,<br />With jocund mirth the hours shall smile,<br />And all those joys that noise and show,<br />Crowds, dress, and dancing, can bestow,<br />Shall shift the scene, and with the gay<br />The frolick hours shall glide away;<br />To minds [torn, illegible] season brings</p>
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<p>CORTE, <em>August</em> 4.</p>
<p>PAOLI is making great preparations for war. He<br />hath already obtained possession of Algagliola;<br />and as the French troops have now evacuated Calvi<br />and Ajaccio, he is actually laying siege to both these<br />garrisons. The spirit with which our General con-<br />ducts his enterprises is only equalled by the wisdom and<br />steadiness with which he secures every advantage ac-<br />quired by our arms.</p>
<p>GENOA, <em>Sept.</em> 5. The French commissary who<br />was sent from Bastia to Hiace has concluded a suspen-<br />sion of hostilities between the Republick's troops and<br />the Corsicans. Another commissary has been sent to<br />Calvi, for the like purpose. This convention is to<br />subsist until the epocha of time expires that the French<br />were to keep garrisons in those towns. The Spanish<br />frigates and transports, with the expulsed Jesuits, are<br />still in port, waiting for orders from the Court of<br />Madrid. There was a violent storm of rain and hail<br />the 1st instant, accompanied with the loudest thunder,<br />and flashes of lightning, known in the memory of man.<br />Seven persons were killed, and much damage done to<br />several churches and houses. The foremast and top-<br />mast of one of the Spanish frigates were so much<br />shivered that they must be changed; one man was<br />killed, and two others wounded, by the lightning on<br />board the frigat.</p>
<p>LONDON, <em>Sept.</em> 3.</p>
<p><em>Extract of a letter from</em> Warsaw, <em>August</em> 19.</p>
<p>"Prince Radzivil has never seen the King since he<br />had an audience of his Majesty. His highness's reti-<br />nue, when he goes abroad, is little inferiour to that of<br />the King. He has caused several of the Grandees to<br />raise small bodies of troops; and the Starost Danja-<br />dinski, among others, has levied a company of 150<br />horse grenadiers, for the service of that Prince."</p>
<p><em>Sept.</em> 12. They write from Campeachy that the<br />General of the Jesuits, with 48 of those Fathers, had<br />been taken into custody, in consequence of orders of<br />the Court, and were preparing to be sent home in a<br />man of war.</p>
<p><em>Sept.</em> 15. A letter from Warsaw, dated August<br />22d, says: "The King continues to enjoy a perfect<br />state of health, notwithstanding his constant application<br />to the affairs of state at this [torn, illegible] juncture. On the<br />26th the Prussian Minister [torn, illegible] of his Ma-<br />jesty, which lasted near two hours.</p>
<p>A sum, not less than 80,000 l. is monthly remitted,<br />by two houses in the city of London, for the use of<br />the English Nobility and Gentry at Paris.</p>
<p><em>Extract of a letter from</em> Leghorn, <em>August</em> 29.</p>
<p>"The Jesuits disembarked at Calvi, in the island<br />of Corsica, amount to 800; and the Corsicans in-<br />trenched in the convent of the Capuchins, a musket<br />shot distant from them, consist of 400 men. On the<br />other hand, the Genoese garrison, which succeeded<br />the French there, is composed only of 150 soldiers.<br />Ajaccio is already in the power of the Corsicans, the<br />inhabitants having taken arms and opened the gates<br />to them immediately after the departure of his Most<br />Christian Majesty's troops."</p>
<p>By a letter from Barbados there is advice of an<br />English schooner, belonging to Bridgetown, having<br />been carried into Cuba by a Spanish frigat, under<br />pretence of illicit trade with the subjects of the<br />Catholick King.</p>
<p>We hear that orders are given from the War Office<br />for raising a number of recruits for completing the<br />regiments lately arrived from North America and the<br />West Indies.</p>
<p>A letter from Dunkirk, dated August 27th, says:<br />"The French are repairing their fortifications, and<br />building a bridge over the harbour. The general talk<br />is of an approaching war."</p>
<p>It is said that a Gentleman who lately belonged to the<br />Royal Navy has invented a cannon shell, of a new<br />construction, for naval service, to answer the purpose<br />of a bomb, proof of which has lately been made with<br />a 40 pounder; and it has been found, in every respect,<br />to answer.</p>
<p>The late behaviour of the Spaniards to the British<br />ships in the West Indies occasions strang rumours,<br />which in all probability will bring on much altercation<br />between the two Courts, if not an open rupture.</p>
<p><em>Sept.</em> 17. James Brownrigg, and John his son,<br />were arraigned for assaulting, stripping, and whipping,<br />Mary Mitchell, their late servant, and will be tried at<br />Guildhall next sessions.</p>
<p><em>Sept.</em> 22. Yesterday Mr. Durant, charged with<br />the affairs of France in the absence of the Ambassadour,<br />received a packet with despatches from his Court, and<br />this morning he had a long conference with Mr.<br />Secretary Conway.</p>
<p>On Monday last the remains of the Right Hon.<br />Charles Townshend were interred at Ramham, in<br />Norfolk. On a plate, on a crimson velvet coffin, was<br />the following inscription:</p>
<p>CHARLES TOWNSHEND,<br />CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, aged 42.<br />The pall was supported by the Earl of Oxford, Earl<br />[torn, illegible]</p>
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<p>Miles Branthwayt, Henry Lee [torn, illegible]rner, and Thomas<br />Beever, squires. Sixteen of Lord Townshend's<br />tenants attended as under bearers.</p>
<p>Within these few days several Noblemen and<br />Gentlemen, whose servants had thicksets, and fustian<br />clothes, with buttons on them covered with the same<br />stuff, ordered they should be carried to their tailors to<br />have proper buttons set on on their room. The penalty<br />inflicted by act of Parliament on the wearers of clothes,<br />with buttons covered with the same stuff, is 40s. per<br />dozen, and the like penalty on the tailors who make,<br />or cause them to be made; one half to the informer,<br />the other half to the poor of the parish.</p>
<p>His Majesty's marine forces are to be formed into<br />five battalions of 800 men each, the command of<br />which is to be given to his Royal Highness the Duke<br />of Cumberland, with the rank of Major General, and<br />an appointment of 6l. a day. His Royal Highness is<br />also to have other advantages; which is imagined will<br />amount to near 6000l. per annum.</p>
<p><em>Extract of a letter from</em> Paris, <em>Sept.</em> 12.</p>
<p>"The greatest attention is paid by the French<br />Ministry to the increase of their African trade, for<br />which purpose four frigates are now fitting out at Brest,<br />with a view, it is thought, to establish a new factory<br />somewhere on that coast."</p>
<p>We are assured, by the last letters from Hanover,<br />that orders have been received to keep up an army of<br />25,000 men in that electorate, to be in readiness to<br />act as the emergencies of affairs may require.</p>
<p>A Corsican ship, commanded by Count Peri, has<br />taken in the Levant two Barbary xebecks, and carried them into Malta.</p>
<p>A Tunisian corsair is taken by two Neapolitan gal-<br />liots, after an obstinate engagement, in which 25 of<br />the corsair's people were killed.</p>
<p>They write from Cagliari, in Sardinia, that 14<br />xebecks and armed gallies, with 2 English built frigates<br />of 30 guns, are now fitting out there, to cruise against<br />the Algerine corsairs and other Barbary pirates in the<br />Mediterranean.</p>
<p>We are now well informed that Lord North will<br />be appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in the room<br />of the Right Hon. Charles Townshend, deceased.</p>
<p>On Friday there was a great Board of Admiralty,<br />when it is said several small ships were put into com-<br />mission; the command of which, he hear, was given<br />to Lieutenants on half pay.</p>
<p>Letters from Lausanne, dated August 5th, say:<br />"According to the last advices from Geneva, the<br />unhappy dissensions which have long embroiled the<br />Republick still subsist, the two parties being, to all<br />appearance, [torn, illegible] any thing of their<br />respective pretensions."</p>
<p>Some letters lately received at the Hague from Poland<br />advise that since the Dietines have been held in the<br />respective Waywodies great animosity prevails among<br />the Grandees, occasioned by the instructions given to<br />the Nuncios sent to the Diet. These letters add that<br />it is much to be feared that the national assembly will<br />break up without doing any business.</p>
Last week died the wife of one Godwin, a labouring<br />man, at Little Shelford in Glamorganshire. THe sor-<br />rowful widower, unable to bear the thought of a single<br />state, set off the next morning, and was married to a<br />woman at Linton. At their return, in the evening,<br />to Shelford, the dead wife was removed from his bed<br />into a coffin, to give way to the new married couple<br />to celebrate their nuptials. The coffin remained in<br />the room all night.<br /><p>At last Chester assizes a cause came on between a<br />young Lady of Stockport, in that county, and a<br />Gentleman of Penwortham, near Preston (an Ensign<br />in the Lancashire militia) for refusing to marry the<br />young lady agreeable to promise; when in the course<br />of the trial it was fully proved, both by his own hand<br />writing, and some credible witnesses, that he was guilty<br />of a breach of promise with her: The court adjudged<br />him to pay 500l. damages, and all costs of suit.</p>
<p>DUBLIN, <em>Sept.</em> 15. In digging for a foundation<br />near St. John's well, by the Hospital Fields, the bones<br />of a man were found of a gigantick stature, and a<br />sword lying by his side. It is imagined he has lain there<br />near 400 years. It is said the sword was silver mounted.</p>
EDINBURGH, <em>Sept.</em> 18. We hear that Sir<br />Laurence Dundass, Bart. has presented the merchant<br />company of this place, for the use of their poor, with<br />300l. sterling; 200l. to the Merchants Maiden Hos-<br />pital; and also 500l. to the Trades Maiden Hospital.<br />ROSEAU <em>(Dominica) October</em> 10.<br /><p>We are credibly informed that there are now in this<br />island upwards of 3000 white inhabitants, and 15,000<br />Negroes, which must appear a very amazing number<br />to any one who considers the uncultivated state in<br />which the greatest part of this valuable island at present<br />is; and it certainly must give pleasure to all its well-<br />wishers to observe the daily increase of settlers, the<br />high advanced price for which lands sell, and the great<br />spirit that buildings are now carried on with in the<br />several towns; as it fully evinces its great importance<br />as a trading colony, and the value it will soon be of to<br />the Crown. There are now upwards of 20 houses<br />building in the town of Roseau only.</p>
<p>A man of war is [torn, illegible] from France at Martinico<br />and Guadaloupe, by [torn, illegible] Royal edict is come out<br />directed to the [torn, illegible] West India<br />[torn, illegible]</p>
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<p>English vessels from entering any of their ports after<br />the 31st day of December next, either to bring in, or<br />carry off, any commodity whatever, lumber and mo-<br />losses not excepted.</p>
<p>CHARLESTOWN, <em>October</em> 30.</p>
<p>They write from West Florida, of the 10th instant<br />that Governoir Browne had issued writs for calling a<br />new Assembly; the members were elected accordingly,<br />and the assembly prorogued, by proclamation, to the<br />30th of November next. A small party of Chickesaw<br />Indians, going to the Ilinois, fell in with a hunting<br />party of French people; the Indians made a man, a<br />woman, and two children, prisoners, whom they car-<br />ried to their nation, and delivered them to Mr. Com-<br />missary Mackintosh. Three of the French party made<br />their escape. General Haloiman, and Charles Stuart,<br />Esq; Deputy Superintendent, have ordered the pri-<br />soners to be sent down to Pensacola. The Indians<br />offered no violence to them, only told them "that<br />"the ground they were on was not French, and<br />"therefore they had nothing to do there." About<br />the beginning of September the Creeks killed ten<br />Choctaws, four near Lake Pnchartrain, and six at<br />the village of Youanie, the nearest to Mobille; they<br />lost only one man. A number of small parties were<br />gone out to revenge the loss; and a very large body,<br />commanded by the Red Captain, was almost ready to<br />go on the same errand. The Choctaws appear sick of<br />the war, and it is thought a pacification between them<br />and the Creeks will soon take place.</p>
<p>The Creek Indians complain much of encroachments<br />made on their lands; and when they were told of the<br />outrage committed by some of their people at St.<br />Mary's river, the Headmen answered, "If the Go-<br />"vernour cannot prevent the Virginia people (Crack-<br />"ers) from taking our lands, how does he think we<br />"can restrain our mad young men?"</p>
<p>The disturbances in the back settlements of this<br />province are not yet entirely at an end; the horsestealers<br />and robbers, we are told, are almost quite driven away,<br />but the reforming gentry are not altogether satisfied.<br />We hope soon to hear that peace and good order are<br />restored.</p>
<p>The brigantine Fenn, James Williamson master,<br />of and from Cape Fear, for Bristol, on the 11th inst.<br />struch on a rock about five leagues N.W. of Bermuda.<br />The vessel is entirely lost; the people are saved, and<br />about 100 barrels of tar, part of her cargo.</p>
<p><em>Nov.</em> 6. Capt. Mark Robinson, of his Majesty's<br />ship Fowey, of 28 guns, who arrived here last week<br />from Britain, is commanding officer, or Commodore,<br />of all his Majesty's ships from Virginia to Cape Florida,<br />including the Bahama islands. Commodore Hood,<br />stationed at Halifax, commands as far south as New<br />York; and it is said a third Commodore will be stati-<br />oned at Virginia.</p>
<p>They write from Georgia that the Creek Indians<br />who had their houses burnt by the Crackers are satis-<br />fied, compensation having been made them for their<br />losses by Governour Wright. Those who took pos-<br />session of Lemmon's store, on his abandoning it, re-<br />turned most of the goods, and have left that part of<br />the country.</p>
<p><em>Nov.</em> 13. A letter from Dominica to a Gentleman<br />here, on the 22d ult. confirms the account of a Royal<br />edict being received from France at Guadaloupe and<br />Martinico, for preventing all English vessels from en-<br />tering any port in the said islands after the 31st of next<br />month. A proclamation was likewise issued, ordering<br />all British subjects to depart those islands by the day<br />above mentioned. THe letter concludes: "We shall<br />not be able to get any of your new crop to that market,<br />supposing it could arrive before the edict takes place,<br />as the French would take advantage of the edict, and<br />order away your vessels without your effects."</p>
On Wednesday last Alexander Cameron, Esq;<br />Commissary for the Cherokee nation, with Oucon-<br />nostota, or the Great Warriour, Attakullakulla, or<br />the Little Carpenter, the Prince of Chote, Tifftoe of<br />Keeowee, and the Raven of Toogoloo, formerly of<br />Nookasee, all principal Headmen and Chiefs of that<br />nation, arrived here, in consequence of directions for<br />that purpose given by the Hon. John Stuart, Esq; Su-<br />perintendent of the southern district; and this day they<br />had an audience of his Excellency the Right Hon. Lord<br />Charles Greville Montagu, GOvernour in Chief, &c.<br />of this province, to congratulate him on his arrival<br />here, this being the first opportunity they have had of<br />waiting on his Lordship. They sung the peace song,<br />and danced the eagle tail dance, in honour of his Ex-<br />cellency. We hear that as soon as his Honour the<br />Superintendent returns from the southward, whence<br />he is daily expected, so many of the principal Chero-<br />kees, now here, as he shall direct, will embark for<br />New York, to treat of, and endeavour to conclude<br />a peace with the Northern Indians.<br /><p><em>Nov.</em> 20. They write from West Florida, of the<br />29th past, that the whole number of Choctaws that<br />mustered to go out against the Creeks was upwards of<br />800; but they all returned without seeing the enemy,<br />except the Red Captain, one of our fastest friends in<br />that nation: He, with a party of 42 men, were set<br />upon near the Cahaba river by the Creeks, who killed</p>
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<p>a white man, a trader, for betraying them to the<br />Creeks. Letters from the country of the Creeks say<br />that they were 100 in number, that they killed 30 out<br />of 40 Choctaws, and brought a prisoner home, whom<br />they burnt. They declare the Choctaws behaved with<br />great bravery, for when they had fought until all their<br />ammunition was expended, they rushed in among the<br />thickest of their enemies, knocking them down with<br />their tomahawks, and the but ends of their muskets.<br />The Creeks own the loss of 12 men, among whom<br />were Molton, another good friend of ours, his son,<br />and the Oaksuskee King. The victors delivered the<br />gorget, medal, and commission of the Red Captain,<br />who was a Great Medal Chief, to Mr. Hewitt, a trader,<br />in order to be transmitted to the Commissary, or the<br />Superintendent, who appointed him.</p>
<p>We hear his Excellency Governour Grant, and the<br />Superintendent's deputy, are now holding a meeting<br />with a great number of Creek Indians at Picolata, in<br />East Florida.</p>
<p>We are assured that every bad impression is removed<br />that might have been apprehended would have occasi-<br />oned mischief to the southern provinces, from the<br />outrages committed by the Crackers at Okonee and<br />elsewhere, and by the Creeks at St. Mary's river.</p>
<p><em>Nov.</em> 23. The two last, and all future West India<br />packetboats, called, and are to call, at Madeira and<br />Dominica; so that their route is from Falmouth<br />to Madeira, Barbados, Grenada, Dominica, Antigua,<br />St. Christopher's, Jamaica, Pensacola, and South<br />Carolina (with mails also for Georgia and East Florida)<br />and from thence back to Falmouth.</p>
<p>It is reported that Ouconnostota, Attakullakulla,<br />and other Cherokee Headmen, are on their way to<br />Charlestown, under the care of Alexander Cameron,<br />Esq; Commissary for their nation, being appointed<br />deputies to proceed to New York to treat of and con-<br />clude a peace with the Six Nations, and other Northern<br />Indians.</p>
<p>Captain Savery, just arrived from St. Augustine, in<br />the brigantine Augustine Packet, carried there 70 Ne-<br />groes from Africa, the first ever imported directly from<br />thence to that province. He informs us that Doctor<br />Stork, and a great many other settlers, were arrived<br />there from England, in the Aurora, Captain Fuller;<br />and that upwards of 2000 Negroes were contracted for,<br />by the Noblemen and Gentlemen in Great Britain<br />concerned in that province, to be imported there from<br />Africa the ensuing summer; and that Dr. Turnbull<br />was soon expected, with about 300 Greeks, from<br />Scanderoon and Smyrna, skilled in the culture of silk,<br />cotton, olives, vones, and other articles proper for the<br />climate of East Florida.</p>
<p>BOSTON, <em>Nov.</em> 30.</p>
<p>Last Sunday we had here a very violent storm, at-<br />tended with snow, which it is feared has been destruc-<br />tive to the vessels which might then be on the coast.<br />We hear that Captain McFarland, in a sloop belonging<br />to John Hancock, Esq; which sailed from hence for<br />London the day before, was cast away at a place called<br />Welfleet, on Cape Cod; and that the vessel, and most<br />of her cargo, would be lost, but the people saved. We<br />also hear that a snow from Jamaica for Marblehead,<br />and a schooner from Louisbourg, were ashore near the<br />same place, but would be got off again; also that a<br />sloop from the West Indies, bound to Casco Bay, was<br />lost on the back of the Cape, and the Captain and three<br />of the people drowned.</p>
<p>We are informed that a child of a merchant of this<br />town, was carried out the last week for christen-<br />ing, was wholly dressed in the manufactures of this<br />province; ann that the use of ribands is almost out of fashion.</p>
<p>A Clergyman from the country lately appeared in<br />town with a black cloak, made of fine cloth, manu-<br />factured in his family, and finely died and dressed by<br />a clothier in this town.</p>
<p>A number of Gentlemen in a country town in this<br />province have agreed that no more bohea tea shall<br />come into their families than can be purchased with the<br />rags saved for our paper manufactory.</p>
<p>We hear the town of Newton, at their meeting last<br />week, voted unanimously to adopt the same measures<br />with Boston, respecting economy and home manufac-<br />tures; and that warrants are issued for calling meetings<br />in a number of other towns, this and the next week.</p>
<p>The great demand for Labradore or Hyperian tea<br />has raised the price above that of bohea, a full supply<br />of which is expected in the spring from our Eastern<br />Shores. Bohea tea is now wholly laid aside, or used<br />but very sparingly, in many of the best families in this<br />town.</p>
<p>PROVIDENCE, <em>Nov.</em> 28.</p>
<p>On Wednesday last there was a town meeting held<br />here, called by a special warrant, to deliberate and<br />agree upon some effectual measures for promoting in-<br />dustry, economy, and manufactures, for the prevention<br />of misery and ruin, as a consequence of the unnecessary<br />imports of European goods. The meeting was very<br />full, and consisted of the principal merchants and<br />persons of interest and fortune, as well as other free-<br />men, of the town. The general voice was for entering<br />upon some measures to extend our own manufactures,<br />and to lessen the imports from Europe, especially of<br />superfluous articles; and it was unanimously voted by<br />the town that they would take all prudent and lawful<br />[torn, illegible]</p>
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<p>ries. A committee was appointed to draw up a form<br />of subscription, and what else they should think neces-<br />sary for the purposes aforesaid, who are to report to the<br />town meeting on Wednesday next, to which time the<br />same was adjourned.</p>
<p>It is with great pleasure we can inform the neighbour-<br />ing colonies that a spirit of industry and manufacturing<br />hath sprung up here, in a surprising degree. There is<br />the most hopeful prospect of being able, in a short time,<br />to manufacture all our necessaries; and that superflui-<br />ties will be wholly given up.</p>
<p>We hear that sundry manufactures from abroad will<br />be very soon introduced here, if it may be done, as<br />several Gentlemen are exerting themselves for bringing<br />about this great and good design.</p>
<p>The late noble proposal and example from Boston,<br />for "saving a sinking injured country," is highly<br />applauded here, by all ranks of people.</p>
<p>To the PRINTER.</p>
<p>A NUMBER of the households in this town will<br />engage to supply the publick with the article of<br />cat skins, of American breed, not inferiour to British<br />ones, for making muffs and tippets. There are at this<br />time a large number of his Majesty's American cats,<br />finely coloured and spotted, who are bad mousers, and<br />now ready to be sacrificed for the grand purpose of muffs<br />and tippets; and it is hoped that all persons who wish<br />well to America will give the preference to his Ma-<br />jesty's American cat skins, before those of foreign<br />growth. As muffs and tippets are of the last import-<br />ance, it would be well worth the consideration of all<br />lovers of this country whether we ought not to en-<br />courage the use and consumption of our own cat skins,<br />in preference of all others. The learned assure us that<br />the American cat skins are vastly superiour to those of<br />Europe, being of a finer fur, and more beautifully vari-<br />egated with spots and streaks.</p>
<p>N.B. A cat lately kittened in this town thirteen<br />kittens, the most beautiful, in colour and spots, ever<br />seen in any part of the world.</p>
<p>NEW YORK, <em>Dec.</em> 3.</p>
<p><em>By a vessel from Albany, we learn that the snow fell<br />in such large quantities, the </em>22<em>d and </em>29<em>th of last month,<br />that there was good sledding; and it lay above </em>9<em> inches<br />on a level, quite down to the Highlands.<br /></em></p>
<p>We hear a small sloop belonging to Amboy, John<br />Hamton, master, was overset in the storm on the 17<em>th of<br />October last, off Chincoteague in Virginia; the masts,<br />sails, and rigging, all carried away, and one man<br />drowned. The rest continued on the wreck a considerable<br />tinme, until she drove ashore, in Accomack county; the<br />master has since returned [torn, illegible] and it is doubtful whether<br />the vessel will [crease/tear, illegible]<br /></em></p>
<p>We hear from Elizabethtown that the Hon. Col. Sir<br />John St. Clair, Bart. died there last Thursday, and<br />was buried on Saturday evening, with all military ho-<br />nours. Two lands being left together at a house in the<br />town, during the time of the funeral, one of them got a<br />gun which was loaded, and shot the other dead.</p>
<p>Tuesday night one Leisner was committed to gaol in<br />this city, for an assault on a soldier of the Royal Train of<br />Artillery, and wounding him in so dangerous a manner<br />that his life is despaired of.</p>
<p>The same night some rogues attempted to rob the Post<br />Office and Surveyor General's office, in Stone street. The<br />back door was broke open, and both offices rummaged;<br />but no money being ever left in those places, the rogues<br />were doubtless much disappointed. They cut and damaged<br />a fine table, and broke some drawers.</p>
<p>Dec. 7. <em>The brig Diana, Captain Wilson, arrived<br />here from Antigua, in lat. </em>39:49,<em> lon.</em> 72, <em>spoke with<br />a ship from Virginia for Bristol; and the next day, in<br />the same latitude, with Captain Bashford, from Dublin<br />for Maryland, with some passengers.</em></p>
<p>Extract of a letter from a merchant in <em>London.<br /></em></p>
"Mr. Townshend, late Chancellor of the Exchequer,<br />is dead. He was the finest speaker I ever heard, had<br />withal a great turn for satire, which he dealt out pro-<br />fusely, but without any malignancy. Lord Bute has lost<br />a friend, and the King a greater one. To many private<br />men he had much private friendship and personal attach-<br />ment, but was intoxicated at times with his own genius<br />and power; by which vanity got possession of him, and<br />left him unsteady in himself. Lord Chatham is better"<br /><p>PHILADELPHIA, <em>Dec.</em> 10.</p>
<p><em>Captain Lockton, from the Grenades, on the </em>22<em>d ult.<br />in lat. </em>28:29,<em> lon. </em>70:4,<em> sple a brig, Capt. Morgan,<br />from Antigua for Virginia, out </em>18<em> days, all well.<br /></em></p>
<p>By Captain Guitton, in 30<em> days from Pensacola, we<br />learn that the sickness which prevailed there some time ago<br />was much abated, and that the place was very healthy<br />when he came away; that Governour Elliot was daily<br />expected there, to take the command of that government.<br /></em></p>
<p>Capt. Singleton, from St. Christopher's, informs us<br />that on the 21<em>st ult. he met with a very hard gale of<br />wind, which last three days, and obliged him to lie to<br />part of the time, but luckily he received no damage. Two<br />days after the gale, in lat. </em>37:7,<em> lon. </em>70,<em> he fell in with<br />a double decked sloop, loaded with logwood (supposed to<br />be Capt. RObinson, from the Bay for this port) without<br />any body on board. He imagines she had been in the above<br />gale, as her boom and quarter deck rails were carried<br />away, and her hold almost full of water, the sea making<br /></em>[torn, illegible]<em> the people, he thinks, had<br /></em>[torn, illegible]<em> vessel, as the bnoat was left<br /></em>[torn, illegible]<em> together with chests,<br /></em>[torn, illegible]</p>
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<p><em>in with him, being of opinion she could not long keep above<br />water.<br /></em></p>
<p>We hear from Princetown that yesterday se'nnight, as<br />the New York stage waggon was crossing at Waters's<br />ferry at Staten Island, the flat not having a sail set, and the<br />wind and tide being against each other, the sea raised<br />the side of the flat so that the wind took her bottom and<br />overset het, by which accident Mrs. Morris, wife to<br />Mr. Morris the player, with her maid servant, were<br />drowned; the other passengers, together with the driver<br />and boatman, were with great difficulty saved. Two<br />horses were also lost.</p>
<p>Last week was brought to town from New Jersey a<br />live hog which weighed upwards of 850<em> pounds, thought<br />to be the largest ever raised in America.<br /></em></p>
<p>Dec. 17.<em> Friday last Captain McKenzie arrived<br />here from Liverpool, by whom we are informed that his<br />Royal Highness the Duke of York died in Italy, of a<br />fever, on the </em>15<em>th of September last; and that orders<br />were issued for a general mourning. Captain McKenzie,<br />in lat. </em>27,<em> lon. </em>58,<em> spoke a snow, Captain Walker, from<br />Whitehaven for Virginia, </em>6<em> weeks out.<br /></em></p>
<p>Captain Cox, from St. Martin's, advises that a little<br />before he sailed a quantity of shingles and apples, several<br />empty water casks, some barrels, oars, &c. had drove<br />ashore there, by which it was imagined some vessel had<br />been lost on the island of Barbuda. That Captain Dunbar,<br />in a schooner, sailed from thense the 15<em>th of last month,<br />bound to Virginia; and that on the </em>4<em>th instant, a little<br />to the northward of Cape Hatteras, he saw the brig<br />Prince of Wales, Captain Mason, bound to South Caro-<br />lina from this port, but did not speak her. On his out-<br />ward bound passage, on the </em>15<em>th of October, about </em>25<br /><em>leagues to the westward of Bermuda, he took an Indian,<br />and a Negro man, out of a fishing boat, that had been<br />blown off from that island </em>4<em> days before, and were with-<br />out provisions during that time.</em></p>
<p>ARRIVALS <em>from</em> VIRGINIA.</p>
<p><em>Captain Breakbill, at Liverpool; Captains Utilso, and Thompson, at Jamaica; Captains Cooper, Keeble, Peebles, Morgan, Sturdivant, and Gregory, at Antigua; and Captain Smellie, at South Carolina.</em></p>
<p>WILLIAMSBURG, <em>Jan.</em> 1, 1768.</p>
<p>We have advice that Captain PEEBLES, in a schooner from<br />Antigua, bound to Accomack, was unfortunately lost on the<br />passage, having been knocked overboard at night by the boom.</p>
<p>A young man was found dead in the road one morning this<br />week, having been thrown from his horse the night before, and<br />dragged about, his foot hanging in the stirrup.</p>
<p>And Mr. JAMES BURWELL had the misfortune to have a<br />Negro boy of his shot this week, by accident.</p>
<p><em>We wish our</em> CUSTOMERS <em>a happy</em> NEW YEAR.</p>
<p>TICKETS <em>in the Hon.</em> WILLIAM<br />BYRD'S LOTTERY <em>to be had at the Post<br />Office.</em></p>
<p>Advertisements.</p>
<p><em>Petersburg, Dec.</em> 22, 1767.<br />THE subscriber hath got a quantity of<br />fine TIMOTHY SEED to dispose<br />of, which he will sell at 1s. 3d. per quart.<br />EDWARD STABLER.</p>
<p>THIS is to give notice that the sale of<br />Capt. <em>Mordecai Throckmorton's</em> NEGROES, advertised<br />to be sold on the 7th of <em>January</em> next at <em>Hanover</em> court-house,<br />is further postponed until the 18th of the same month, when they<br />will be sold ot the plantation of the said Capt. <em>Mordecai Throck-<br />morton</em>, in <em>Caroline</em> county. Credit will be allowed for part of<br />them until the 29th of <em>April</em> next, and for the remainder until<br />the 29th of <em>April</em> 1769. Likewise will be sold, at the same time<br />and place, stocks of horses, cattle, and hogs, together with a <br />quantity of corn and fodder. Bond, with approved security,<br />will be required by<br />GABRIEL THROCKMORTON.<br />ROBINSON DANGERFIELD.<br />N.B. All persons are desired to bring in their respective<br />claims against the estate, that they may be adjusted.</p>
<p><em>To be</em> LET <em>on</em> CHARTER <em>to any part of</em><br />Europe, <em>or the</em> West Indies,<br />THE brigantine ORANGE,<br /><em>Ralph Elliot</em> master, now at <em>Norfolk,</em><br />burthen about 300 hhds. and ready to take in<br />a load immediately. For terms apply to<br />WILLIAM ORANGE at <em>Norfolk,</em> or the<br />Captain on board.<br />N.B. I have a quantity of rum, sugar,<br />and molasses, to dispose of for ready money, or credit until <em>April,</em> or barter for corn, pork, or pease.<br />|| WILLIAM ORANGE.</p>
<p>TAKEN up, in <em>Mecklenburg,</em> a dark<br />bay mare, about 4 feet 1 inch high, with a small star in<br />her forehead, trots, has on a small bell, dockt, and branded on<br />the near buttock resembling B.<br />THOMAS STOVALL.</p>
<p>TAKEN up, in <em>Charlotte,</em> a sorrel horse,<br />about 4 feet 7 inches high, with a blaze face, has a large<br />scar on his hip, and branded on the near shoulder and buttock<br />C; posted, and appraised to 3l. 20s.<br />JAMES WATKINS.</p>
<p>IMPORTED in the LEEDS, Captain<br />ANDERSON, a bale of GOODS, No. 2, marked W C H,<br />with a crow's [torn, illegible] which has never yet come to hand. Any<br />person who [torn, illegible] by contriving it to <em>Jamestown,</em> or <em>Bur-<br />well's</em> ferry [torn, illegible]</p>
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<p><em>To be</em>SOLD, <em>and entered on immediately,</em><br />A CLEAR see simple estate in<br />a plantation and 250 acres of land, lying<br />on the western branch of <em>Elizabeth River,</em> in<br />the county of <em>Norfolk,</em> whereon is a good dwel-<br />ling-house, kitchen, barn, stables, and other<br />out-houses, all new and in good order; a good<br />apple orchard, and a good garden well paled in. This cleared<br />land, in a good fence, is sufficient to work six hands; and the<br />uncleared land is very good, and well furnished with white oak<br />and pine timber. For terms inquire of Mr. NEIL JAMIESON,<br />merchant in <em>Norfolk,</em> Mess. <em>Gibson</em> and <em>Cranbery,</em> merchants in<br /><em>Suffolk,</em> or the subscriber, living on the premises.<br />6 JOHN BRICKELL.</p>
<p><em>To be</em> SOLD <em>at</em> Albemarle <em>court-house, on<br /></em>Thursday <em>the</em> 11<em>th of </em>February <em>next,</em><br />A VALUABLE TRACT of LAND<br />in the said county, upon <em>Hardwire</em> river, adjoining the<br />lands of <em>John Hudson</em> and <em>William Moon,</em> containing about 500<br />acres, great part of which is valuable low grounds, equal to the<br />best upon that river. The plantation, with the necessary houses<br />thereon, are in good order for cropping. One third of the money<br />to be paid in <em>April</em> next, one third in <em>December,</em> and the other<br />third in <em>April</em> following. Any person inclining to see the land,<br />or to purchase at private sale, may apply to Mr. <em>David Ross,</em> merchant in <em>Goochland,</em> who constantly attends <em>Albemarle</em> court,<br />and is authorized to act for<br />JOHN RICHARDS.</p>
<p><em>To be</em> SOLD <em>for ready money, on</em> Monday<br /><em>the </em>25<em>th of next month, at the plantation<br />of the late Mr. </em>William Waters, <em>deceased,<br />in </em>Halifax<em> county, whereon Mr. </em>Benjamin<br />Boxley now lives,<br />About fifteen valuable<br />SLAVES,<br />WITH large STOCKS of HORSES,<br />CATTLE< SHEEP, and HOGS, and many other<br />articles too numerous to be particularly mentioned.<br />All persons who have any claims against the estate of Mr.<br /><em>Waters</em> are requested to make them known, as soon as possible,<br />to JOHN TAZEWELL, Executor.<br /><em>Dec.</em> 20, 1767.</p>
<p>STOLEN out of the sub-<br />scriber's pasture, on <em>Thursday</em> the 10th<br />of this instant (<em>Dec.</em>) in <em>Hanover</em> county,<br />at the <em>Meadow Bridges,</em> a three quarter<br />blooded likely dark bay (almost black) mare,<br />with a hanging mane and long switch tail,<br />one of her hind feet white, and the inside of<br />both her fore feet, large blaze [crease, illegible] her hind feet<br />a little, trots and gallops pretty well, but not branded. Who-<br />ever secures the said mare, so that I may get her again, shall<br />have 20s. reward, if taken above 50 miles from home 40s. and<br />on conviction of the thief, so that he may be brought to justice,<br />5l. DANIEL TRUEHEART.</p>
<p>TAKEN up, in <em>Bedford,</em> a bay horse,<br />about 4 years old, with a star in his forehead, not dockt,<br />and branded on the buttock V; posted, and appraised to 3l. 10s.<br />|| CHARLES TALBOT.</p>
<p>TAKEN up, on <em>Tie</em> river, a sorrel mare,<br />about three years old, about 4 feet 6 inches high, with<br />a white mane and tail, but neither dockt nor branded.<br />|| GEORGE GLASBY.</p>
<p>YORK, <em>December</em> 10, 1767.<br />IMPORTED last summer, in the ship<br /><em>Madeira Packet,</em> a pipe of <em>Madeira</em> WINE, marked FF,<br />with a crow's foot between the letters, which hath not been de-<br />livered to the owner, and is supposed to have been sent by mistake<br />with other winses to <em>James</em> river or <em>Rappahannock.</em> Whoever<br />will give intelligence of the said pipe of wine to the subscriber, so<br />that it may be conveyed to him at <em>York,</em> will extremely oblige<br />him; and any expense shall be thankfully repaid by<br />W. NELSON.</p>
<p>AS I have made an absolute conveyance<br />of my whole estate for the benefit of my creditors<br />as shall within three months signify to the trustees named therein<br />their approbation thereof, I must request the favour of all those<br />who have not yet had an opportunity of informing themselves of<br />the nature of this trust that they will, without delay, make appli-<br />cation to Mr. <em>Jerman Baker</em> in <em>Williamsburg,</em> with whom the<br />original conveyance is lodged, or Mr. <em>James Belsches</em> at <em>Cabin<br />Point,</em> and Mr. <em>David Jameson</em> in <em>York,</em> who have copies thereof,<br />and likewise copies of the certificate granted me, and signed by<br />all such of my creditors as I have had an opportunity of seeing,<br />which is by far the greater part. I must request their most speedy<br />application to the Gentlemen above mentioned, as the trustees are<br />to carry on the copper mine, and dispose of the profits arising<br />therefrom, and from every other part of the estate, among the<br />creditors, in the most advantageous manner. The trustees named<br />in the deed are Mess. <em>Warner Lewis, Fielding Lewis, George<br />Riddell, Richard Randolph, James Belsches, Jerman Baker,</em> and<br /><em>David Jameson,</em> who are empowered to appoint any three of<br />their number to act for the whole.<br />8 WILLIAM KENNON.</p>
<p>NORFOLK, <em>Dec.</em> 12, 1767.<br />THE subscriber, intending to leave the<br />colony soon, but now on hand a large assortment of<br />garden and grass SEEDS, and implements, of the best kinds,<br />which he will sell on very low terms for ready money.<br />+ JOHN EDWARDS, Gardener.</p>
<p>NANSEMOND, <em>Dec.</em> 11, 1767.</p>
I INTEND to leave the colony soon.<br />JOHN CUMING.</div>
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<p><em>To be</em> SOLD, <em>and entered upon immediately,</em></p>
FIVE hundred acres of LAND,<br />on <em>Nottoway</em> river, in <em>Amelia</em> county,<br />whereon <em>Hampton Wade</em> formerly lived, and<br />carried on a considerable trade. There is a<br />good dwelling-house 36 feet by 20, with two<br />rooms below and two above, two brick chimnies,<br />and a flush cellar, with a kitchen, stable, and<br />three barns. The land is good, and enough of it cleared to work<br />six hands. Twelve months credit will be allowed, on giving<br />bond with approved security. For terms apply to Mr. JOHN<br />BAIRD in <em>Blandford,</em> or to me in <em>Halifax</em> county.<br />WILLIAM WADE.<br /><p>TAKEN up, in <em>Beford,</em> a gray mare,<br />about 4 feet 3 inches high, about 7 years old, branded<br />on the buttock M; posted, and appraised to 50s.<br />|| ROBERT RUSSEL.</p>
<p><em>To be</em> SOLD, <em>and entered upon immediately,</em><br />A TRACT of LAND,<br />lying in <em>King William</em> county, plea-<br />santly situated on <em>Mattapony</em> river, whereon<br />Col. <em>Thomas Moore</em> now lives, containing<br />500 acres, to which is added about 40 or 50<br />acres of marsh, which produces good hay,<br />and is capable of great improvements. On<br />the plantation is a commodious brick house two stories high,<br />handsomely wainscotted, with four rooms on a floor, two of them<br />with a large passage, four large cellars and cellar passage, with<br />brick partitions to the top; the out-houses are good and large,<br />are fit for every convenience, and in perfect repair. There is<br />also on the said plantation an orchard of about 2 or 300 bearing<br />crab trees, and a large garden in good order. The land is good for<br />either grain or tobacco, is well timbered, and is a very convenient<br />situation for carrying on a <em>West India</em> trade, living in the hear of<br />a grain country, where a vessel of 250 tuns burthen may load<br />opposite to the house, and has also the advantage of fine fishing and<br />fowling. Five hundred pounds of the purchase money to be paid<br />in <em>April</em> next, for the remainder one, two, or three years<br />credit will be allowed, as may be agreed upon, by aplying to<br />either of the subscribers, in <em>Hanover</em> county.<br />Tf GEORGE THOMAS. JOHN SMITH.</p>
<p>The death of Captain MORDECAI<br />THROCKMORTON having prevented the sale of the Ne-<br />groes advertised to be sold at <em>Hanover</em> court-house in <em>November,</em><br />we purpose now to sell 30 likely <em>Virginia</em> born SLAVES, at the<br />aforesaid place, on the 7th of JANUARY next. Credit will be<br />allowed until the 25th of <em>April,</em> the purchasers giving bond with<br />approved security to<br />7 GABRIEL THROCKMORTON.<br />ROBINSON DAINGERFIELD.</p>
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<p>RUN away from the subscriber<br />a Mulatto fellow named<br />AARON, about 5 feet 10 inches<br />high, about 19 years old, and<br />marked on each cheek IR. Who-<br />ever brings the said fellow to the<br />subscriber, in <em>Chesterfield,</em> shall have Forty<br />Shillings reward, besides what the law al-<br />lows. HENRY RANDOLPH.</p>
<p><em>To be</em> SOLD, <em>on twelve months credit,</em><br />ABOUT 20,000 acres of<br />LAND, in <em>Amherst</em> county, to which<br />an indusputable title will be maid, and lad off<br />in lots as may best suit the purchasers. Ap-<br />play to Col. <em>William Cabell</em> (who is Attorney<br />for the executors of <em>Philip Grymes,</em> Esq; de-<br />ceased, and lives in <em>Amherst</em> county) or to<br />Tf LUNSFORD LOMAX, Jun.</p>
<p>SCHEME OF A LOTTERY,<br />FOR disposing of 146 LOTS of<br />LAND, in the town of <em>Hanover,</em> yet remaining unsold.<br />The least valuable of the lots, according to the prices of those<br />most remote from the river, which have been sold, not being<br />less than 20l. which is far below what was given for several near<br />the river.</p>
<table><tbody><tr><td></td>
<td><em>Lots.</em></td>
<td><em>Val.</em></td>
<td><em>Rents.</em></td>
</tr><tr><td>Inspection at <em>Page's,</em> five lots, at 12 years}<br />purchase,- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -}</td>
<td></td>
<td><em>L.</em>840</td>
<td><em>L.</em>70</td>
</tr><tr><td>Do. at <em>Crutchfield's,</em> six lots, at do. - - -</td>
<td></td>
<td>710</td>
<td>60</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td>------</td>
<td>----</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td><em>L.</em>1560</td>
<td>130</td>
</tr><tr><td>Lots unimproved, each half an acre, at 20l.</td>
<td>135</td>
<td>2700</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>---</td>
<td>------</td>
<td>----</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td><em>L.</em>4260</td>
<td>130</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td>------</td>
<td>----</td>
</tr><tr><td>137 Prizes, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td>137</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>263 Blanks. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>400 tickets, at 10l. each, - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td></td>
<td><em>L.</em>4000</td>
<td></td>
</tr></tbody></table><p>The said lottery will be drawn at Mr. ANTHONY HAY'S, in<br /><em>Williamsburg,</em> on the 4th <em>Thursday</em> in <em>April,</em> 1765.<br />Those who do not pay for their tickets on the day of drawing<br />may give bond, to carry interest from that time.<br /><em>Robert Carter Nicholas, George Wythe, Thomas Everard, John<br />Thompson,</em> and <em>Jerman Baker,</em> Esquires, managers, or any three,<br />of whom tickets may be had, and of the subscriber.<br />Tf MANN PAGE.</p>
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<p>A SCHEME,<br /><em>For disposing of, by way of</em> LOTTERY, <em>the</em> LAND <em>and</em> TENEMENTS <em>under<br />mentioned, being the entire towns of </em>Rocky Ridge <em>and</em> Shockoe, <em>lying at the Falls of<br /></em>James <em>river, and </em>[torn, illegible] <em>thereunto adjoining.</em><br />THE advantageous situation of this estate is too well known to require a particular<br />description, though it may be necessary to inform the publick that the obstructions through the Falls, and in other parts of<br />the river above, will shortly be removed, and the river made navigable to the said towns: The navigation will thereby be extended,<br />and made both safe and easy for upwards of two hundred miles above the said Falls, and a communication opened to the western<br />frontier of the middle colonies, whereby there will not be more than sixty or seventy miles portage from <em>James</em> river to the <em>Ohio;</em><br />so that the immense treasure of that valuable country must necessarily be brought to market to one or other of the abovesaid towns,<br />which will occasionally raise the rents, and enhance the value, of the lands and tenements under mentioned, beyond the powers of<br />conception.</p>
<table><tbody><tr><td></td>
<td>LOTS.</td>
<td>VALUE.</td>
<td>RENTS.</td>
</tr><tr><td>A double forge, a mill, with two acres and a half of land adjoining, the use of the}<br />landing, the canal, with ten feet on each side, and 2000 acres of back land, the }<br />furthest part of which is not more than five miles from the forge, - - - - - - - - }</td>
<td></td>
<td><em>L.</em>8000</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>Inspection at <em>Rocky Ridge,</em> at 12 years purchase, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td></td>
<td>780</td>
<td><em>L.</em>65</td>
</tr><tr><td><em>James Lyle,</em> his tenement, at do. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td></td>
<td>540</td>
<td>45</td>
</tr><tr><td><em>Archibald Buchanan,</em> at do. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td></td>
<td>540</td>
<td>45</td>
</tr><tr><td><em>Alexander Stewart,</em> at do. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td></td>
<td>510</td>
<td>42</td>
</tr><tr><td><em>Elizabeth Todd,</em> at do. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td></td>
<td>480</td>
<td>40</td>
</tr><tr><td><em>Robert Gordon,</em> at do. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td></td>
<td>90</td>
<td>7</td>
</tr><tr><td><em>Joseph Hopkins,</em> at do. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td></td>
<td>60</td>
<td>5</td>
</tr><tr><td><em>John Shackleton,</em> at do. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td></td>
<td>36</td>
<td>3</td>
</tr><tr><td><em>James Gunn,</em> formerly rented to <em>Thomas Yuille,</em> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td></td>
<td>540</td>
<td>45</td>
</tr><tr><td>Ferry on the south side, at 20 years do. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td></td>
<td>2000</td>
<td>100</td>
</tr><tr><td>A fishery on the south side, at 20 years do. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td></td>
<td>600</td>
<td>30</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td>--------</td>
<td>------</td>
</tr><tr><td>Number of improved lots, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td>12</td>
<td><em>L.</em>14,176</td>
<td><em>L.</em>428</td>
</tr><tr><td>Lots unimproved, each half an acre, to be laid off in a town convenient to the river}<br />with publick landings, at 25l. each, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -}</td>
<td>300</td>
<td>7500</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
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<td>------</td>
</tr><tr><td>The amount of lots on the south side of <em>James river, in <em>Chesterfield</em> county, - - - -</em></td>
<td>312</td>
<td><em>L.</em>21,676</td>
<td><em>L.</em>428</td>
</tr><tr><td>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</td>
<td>-----</td>
<td>--------</td>
<td>------</td>
</tr><tr><td><em>Shockoe</em> inspection, at 12 years purchase, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td></td>
<td><em>L.</em>780</td>
<td><em>L.</em>65</td>
</tr><tr><td><em>Byrd's</em> do. at do. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td></td>
<td>780</td>
<td>65</td>
</tr><tr><td><em>Watson's,</em> at do. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td></td>
<td>720</td>
<td>60</td>
</tr><tr><td><em>James Buchanan,</em> at do. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td></td>
<td>720</td>
<td>60</td>
</tr><tr><td><em>Patrick Coutts,</em> at do. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td></td>
<td>420</td>
<td>35</td>
</tr><tr><td><em>George Ellis,</em> at do. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td></td>
<td>120</td>
<td>10</td>
</tr><tr><td><em>James McDowell,</em> at do. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td></td>
<td>480</td>
<td>40</td>
</tr><tr><td><em>David Ross,</em> at do. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td></td>
<td>480</td>
<td>40</td>
</tr><tr><td><em>Thomas Younghusband,</em> at do. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td></td>
<td>540</td>
<td>45</td>
</tr><tr><td><em>James Rozer,</em> at do. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td></td>
<td>60</td>
<td>5</td>
</tr><tr><td><em>James Howling,</em> at do. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td></td>
<td>60</td>
<td>5</td>
</tr><tr><td><em>John McKeind,</em> at do. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td></td>
<td>144</td>
<td>12</td>
</tr><tr><td><em>McPherson & Menzies,</em> at do. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td></td>
<td>420</td>
<td>35</td>
</tr><tr><td><em>James Daley,</em> at do. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td></td>
<td>36</td>
<td>3</td>
</tr><tr><td><em>Lewis Warwick,</em> at do. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td></td>
<td>60</td>
<td>5</td>
</tr><tr><td>Ferry, at 20 years do. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td></td>
<td>2000</td>
<td>100</td>
</tr><tr><td>Fishery, at 20 years do. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td></td>
<td>2000</td>
<td>100</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>-----</td>
<td>--------</td>
<td>------</td>
</tr><tr><td>Number of improved lots, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td>17</td>
<td><em>L.</em>9820</td>
<td><em>L.</em>685</td>
</tr><tr><td>10,000 acres of land, to be laid off in lots of 100 acres each, valued at 30s. per acre,</td>
<td>100</td>
<td>15,000</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>10 islands, on some of which are very valuable fisheries, - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td>10</td>
<td>300</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>Lots unimproved, valued at 25l. each, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td>400</td>
<td>10,000</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
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</tr><tr><td>The amount of lots on the north side of <em>James</em> river, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td>527</td>
<td><em>L.</em>35,120</td>
<td><em>L.</em>685</td>
<td>The amount of lots on the south side of do. as above, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td>312</td>
<td>21,676</td>
<td>428</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>-----</td>
<td>--------</td>
<td>------</td>
</tr><tr><td>839 Prizes. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td>839</td>
<td><em>L.</em>56,796</td>
<td><em>L.</em>1113</td>
</tr><tr><td>9161 Blanks. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td>-----</td>
<td>--------</td>
<td>------</td>
</tr><tr><td>------</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>10,000 Tickets, at 5l. each, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</td>
<td></td>
<td>L.50,000</td>
<td></td>
</tr></tbody></table><p>The said lottery will be drawn at SHOCKOE'<em>s</em> in <em>June</em> 1768, under the management and direction of the Hon. PRESLEY<br />THORNTON, Esq; PEYTON RANDOLPH, JOHN PAGE, CHARLES CARTER, and CHARLES TURNBULL,<br />Esquires, trustees for the same, who will execute conveyances for the prizes drawn by the fortunate adventurers in this lottery.<br />Tickets to be had of the trustees, also of Col. ARCHIBALD CARY, JOHN WAYLES, and the subscriber.<br /><em>W. BYRD.</em></p>
<p>ALL Persons may be supplied with this PAPER at 12<em>s.</em> 6<em>d.</em> a Year, [torn, illegible] of a moderate Length) inserted in it for 3<em>s.</em> the<br />[torn, illegible]</p>
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The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data
Ink on paper
Dublin Core
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Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Purdie and Dixon.
Title
A name given to the resource
The Virginia Gazette, no. 867, December 31, 1767
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1767-12-31
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
SCNP1967.2
Subject
The topic of the resource
Newspapers--Virginia--Williamsburg
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