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<p>JULY 23, 1767 THE NUMBER 844.<br />VIRGINIA GAZETTE<br /><em>With the latest Advices, Foreign and Domestick.</em></p>
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<p>MADRID, <em>April</em> 3.</p>
<p>THE whole city is in an up-<br />roar since Wednesday last,<br />when the Jesuits were ab-<br />ruptly seized, and sent off<br />to different parts of the<br />kingdom, to be embarked<br />to Italy. All their treasure,<br />all their estates, are declared<br />confiscated to the Crown.<br />The Procurators, substi-<br />tutes of these Fathers, are still strictly guarded, and<br />they will be compelled to give in a detail of all the<br />possessions of the Society. Yesterday the King’s<br />decree for the banishment of the Jesuits was made<br />publick with the usual formalities, and on the other<br />hand the Pope’s Nuncio despatched a courier to<br />Rome with this striking news.</p>
<p>LONDON, <em>March</em> 23.</p>
<p>We hear that a certain German Prince, who<br />lately left this capital, a day or two before, his de-<br />parture being invited to dine at a noble Lord’s in<br />Pall Mall, happened in the course of conversation<br />to talk of leaping, and mentioned that he saw a<br />man once in his father’s dominions who leaped forty<br />yards in three leaps. A celebrated wit in company,<br />looking upon the relation as a banter upon English<br />credulity, smartly replied, “I am glad, Sir, this<br />extraordinary man (for the credit of his Sovereign)<br />did not make a fourth jump, as one more must<br />have carried him entirely out of your father’s do-<br />minions.”</p>
<p>An ingenious shoemaker near the Seven Dials<br />has invented a new method of making shoes, in<br />which neither awl, thread, nor wax, is used in any<br />part of them, and they stand rain and heat as well<br />as any other shoes.</p>
<p><em>April</em> 27. The late amiable Marquis of Tavi-<br />stock, as appears since his death, allowed a number<br />of pensions, from five to fifteen pounds a year, to<br />poor people in Bedfordshire; the loss of so benefi-<br />cent a heart is therefore a publick calamity in any<br />country, especially at a time when the beneficence<br />of the great is so immediately necessary for the sup-<br />port of the indigent.</p>
<p>The late Dutchess of Argyle always desired to be<br />buried just in whatever things she should have on<br />when she died, and no other. These happened to<br />be a shirt and petticoat; and her Grace was also<br />wrapped in half of a sheet, the other moiety of<br />which her Noble consort, the great Duke of Argyle,<br />was interred in.</p>
<p>The late worthy Mr. Tonson, the bookseller,<br />is said to have died worth two hundred thousand<br />pounds, which he has left entirely to his brother,<br />a few legacies excepted, which are inconsiderable<br />in so prodigious a fortune.</p>
<p>Yesterday two large ships were taken up in the<br />river, on Government contract, to carry over<br />artillery troops, and stores, for his Majesty’s settle-<br />ments on the African coast.</p>
<p>Private letters from Madrid inform that an advice<br />boat has been sent from Cadiz, with secret despatches<br />for the Viceroys of Mexico, Peru, and Chili, and<br />the other Spanish Governours in South America and<br />the West Indies, said to be on affairs of importance<br />relating to the Jesuits.</p>
<p>They write from Cadiz that an order has been<br />received there for the equipment of a small squadron,<br />said to be intended for an expedition to South Ame-<br />rica, to destroy a certain seaport which the Jesuits<br />of Paraguay had possessed themselves of, between<br />Cape St. Antonio and the river of Plate.</p>
<p>They write from Liverpool that some opulent<br />merchants of that town are preparing to fit out a<br />number of ships, to be employed this season in the<br />Greenland fishery.</p>
<p>We are credibly informed that the vigilance of<br />Admiral Palliser, during his station last year at<br />Newfoundland, has utterly disconcerted the views<br />of the French in their attempts to carry on any</p>
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<p>future clandestine trade with the English; several<br />of their fishermen, who carried out little or no<br />provision for the voyage, in hopes of being supplied<br />in exchange for brandies and European goods,<br />having been obliged to quit the coast before the<br />season was half expired.</p>
<p><em>April</em> 28. Several of the foreign Nobility and<br />Gentry lately arrived here, we are assured, have<br />bespoke very rich suits of clothes, which are now<br />weaving in Spitalfields, to appear in at our Court<br />on his Majesty’s birthday.</p>
<p>We hear that an extraordinary Board of Admiralty<br />will be held this week, when it is said several pro-<br />motions among the Flag Officers will take place.</p>
<p>The officers on furlough, belonging to the gar-<br />risons of Gibraltar and Minorea, have had notice<br />given them to join their respective regiments with<br />all expedition.</p>
<p>We hear from Glasgow that some fishermen lately<br />dug up, in the island of St. Kilda, two antique urns,<br />containing a quantity of Danish silver coin, which<br />by the inscription appears to have lain there upwards<br />of 1800 years.</p>
<p>We hear that French louisd’ors never were so<br />plenty at Newmarket as at present, to the agreeable<br />surprise of all the Gentlemen of the Turf.</p>
<p>The Yorkshire club, who last year were taken<br />in at Newmarket, have, it is said, this year availed<br />themselves 10,900 £. on Bay Malton.</p>
<p>A butcher in a market in the west of the metro-<br />polis has won 7000 £. by the great horse race at<br />Newmarket last Tuesday.</p>
<p>A waiter at a coffee-house at the west end of the<br />town lost 400 guineas, last Tuesday, by betting at<br />Newmarket races.</p>
<p>A Noble Lord, we hear, will shortly take a tour<br />to the continent, and stay abroad until he has re-<br />covered his losses at the present Newmarket meet-<br />ing, by a prudent observance of economy.</p>
<p>We hear that 1200 guineas were offered last<br />Newmarket meeting for the famous horse Bay Mal-<br />ton, the property of the Marquis of Rockingham,<br />and refused.</p>
<p>It is said Bay Malton will run no more, but be<br />allowed to finish his days at ease, as he has never<br />yet been beaten.</p>
<p>We hear a great number of foreign Jesuits, who<br />are possessed of immense wealth, have a design to<br />lay aside their ecclesiastical function and character<br />entirely, in order to come and settle in Great Britain<br />as merchants, where they intend to get themselves<br />naturalized; for which privilege, it is said, they are<br />willing to pay a large sum to the Government, which<br />they intend to petition for that purpose.</p>
<p><em>Extract of a letter from</em> Madrid, <em>April</em> 2.<br />”Two Jesuits arrived here lately from Paraguay;<br />one of them was the Governour, and the other<br />Chief Justice of one of the principal provinces.<br />Upon their arrival, they requested the necessary<br />passes to convey them to Rome; which were readily<br />granted, with express orders to the officers not to<br />search or examine any part of their baggage. The<br />Jesuits placed so much confidence in the orders<br />given that, without the least fear, they proceeded<br />on their journey to Catalonia, where they intended<br />to embark; but scarcely were they arrived there<br />before their persons, and baggage, were seized.<br />Upon opening their baggage there were found 260<br />heavy ingots of gold, 13 large boxes filled with<br />diamonds, and other precious stones, and bills of<br />exchange for three millions, payable at Rome.”</p>
<p><em>April</em> 30. Trade is brought to so low an ebb at <br />Lisbon that the Custom-House duties for the month<br />of February did not exceed 400 moidores.</p>
<p>We are advised from Cork that 2000 tuns of Irish<br />salt provisions are now shipping there, on board<br />some foreign transports, for the islands of Curacoa,<br />St Eustatia, and St. Croix, in the West Indies.</p>
<p>A private letter from Bengal says that Lord Clive<br />had many private enemies, occasioned by discharging<br />various persons from their several departments, and<br />(as many think) too partially promoting the interest</p>
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<p>of those whom he chooses to provide for; that he<br />had prodigiously lowered the incomes of the officers<br />in the army, and other stations; that he was secretly<br />fired at, but the bullet luckily missed him, and the<br />assassin remained undiscovered.</p>
<p>The port and town of Savanna La Mar (the<br />second principal port and town) in Jamaica, having<br />greatly increased in trade and inhabitants for many<br />years past, and being now open as a free port of<br />trade to all nations, the Lords of the Treasury have,<br />in consequence thereof, appointed a collector of<br />the customs there, instead of a naval officer and<br />others, who formerly had the management of the<br />revenue business at that place, and also a surveyor<br />searchers, and land waiters, in conjunction, under<br />the said collector.</p>
<p>Yesterday there was a numerous levee at St.<br />James’s and afterwards a Council, at which the<br />Lord Chancellor assisted.</p>
<p>The Right Hon. George Grenville was at the<br />levee, and it is said some changes in the Ministry<br />will take place in a few days.</p>
<p>The House of Commons was very full yesterday,<br />and sat late.</p>
<p>This morning the Right Hon. the Earl of Chat-<br />ham had the honour of a private conference with<br />his Majesty, for upwards of an hour.</p>
<p>It is said that yesterday some petitions were pre-<br />sented to the Board of Trade and Plantations, by<br />the Colony Agents, for obtaining a bounty of forty<br />shillings per tun on shipping employed in the Ame-<br />rican whale fishery.</p>
<p>ANECDOTE.<br />” A Lady of quality, married, going into the<br />” church of the Theatins at Naples, and passing by<br />” a Monk who was kneeling, said, “ Father,<br />” your prayers !” “ On what behalf, Madam?”<br />” That I may have children !” “ I never pray<br />” for things which I can procure myself.”———<br />” Within a twelvemonth, <em>somehow,</em> the Lady ob-<br />” tained a child.”</p>
<p>KINGSTON (Jamaica) <em>May</em> 23.</p>
<p>Two ticket porters that had committed a robbery<br />in London, in March last, to the amount of two<br />thousand guineas, and whose names are Thomas<br />Bowes and Isaac Hull, but had changed them to<br />Smith and Phillips, were on Saturday evening taken<br />up, and are under confinement in the gaol in this<br />town. We hear the greatest part of the money is<br />secured by the Gentleman who apprehended them.</p>
<p>Prices current of the following articles, viz.<br />Sugar, from 24 s. to 30 s. per 100 wt. Rum, 2 s.<br />3 d. per gallon. Coffee, from 60 s. to 65 s. per<br />100 wt. Pimenta, from 6 d. to 7 d. per lb. Moho-<br />gany, from 50 s. to 55 s. per 100 feet. Molasses,<br />12 d. per gallon.</p>
<p>CHARLESTOWN, <em>May</em> 22.</p>
<p>Advices from the Creek nation, just came to<br />hand, tell us that a party, consisting of eighty of<br />those Indians, belonging to the Upper Towns, was<br />returned from war against the Choctaws, two of<br />the party being wounded. They came up with and<br />surrounded twenty five Choctaws, ten of whom<br />they killed, and brought in their scalps, together<br />with one prisoner, whom, the next day after their<br />arrival, they put to death, by torturing him in the<br />most cruel manner. The unfortunate victim was<br />the brother of the chief, or head King of the<br />Choctaws.</p>
<p>While our copper coloured allies are exhibiting<br />such scenes of ravage, murder, and bloodshed, and<br />giving every day new proofs of their inveteracy and<br />rancour to each other, it must afford sincere pleasure<br />to all friends of their King and country to learn that<br />in no period have the Indian nations in general more<br />sedulously courted the friendship and protection of<br />Great Britain than for some considerable time past.</p>
<p><em>June</em> 5. On Saturday the commissioners of<br />pilotage laid the first stone of the new beacon, or<br />light-house, on Middle Bay island, near the bar.</p>
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<p>A letter from Pensacola, dated May 2d, says:<br />” Major Chisholm with the 21st regiment arrived<br />here from Mobille the 30th past, by orders of Bri-<br />gadier Haldiman, to assist in carrying on the works,<br />viz. chiefly enlarging the fort, building storehouses,<br />pulling down, without respect to persons, whatever<br />may in the least obstruct a free passage of air to the<br />soldiers barracks, and enclosing the square with a<br />strong regular stockade, leaving only two ports,<br />one at the east side, the other at the west, each<br />guarded by two pieces of cannon; and it is said,<br />when finished, will have each a sergeant’s guard.<br />The General proposes likewise to visit all the out<br />posts, and to put them in a proper state of defence.”</p>
<p>By some Gentlemen returned from the western<br />frontiers, we are informed that the Hon. John<br />Stuart, Esq ; Superintendent of Indian affairs in the<br />southern district of North America, went from<br />Augusta, with a great number of Gentlemen and<br />attendants, to Hard Labour, near Ninety Six, where<br />about 300 Cherokee Indians were waiting for him.<br />Every thing was conducted and finished to general<br />satisfaction; and Ouconostota, or the Great War-<br />riour, with fifteen other Headmen of that nation,<br />and the faithful Attakullakulla, insisted on attending<br />his Honour as a guard to Augusta, where the last<br />advices inform us he was safely arrived, and holding<br />a congress with the Headmen of the Upper and<br />Lower Creeks, who were come thither with Mr.<br />Commissary Mackintosh.</p>
<p>Yesterday arrived here from London the cele-<br />brated SOPHIA HUME, one of the people called<br />Quakers.</p>
<p>Rice now sells at three pounds currency the 100<br />wt. The quantity of that grain entered for expor-<br />tation at this port since the 31st of October, when<br />the first vessel with rice of crop 1766 was cleared<br />out, is eighty six thousand one hundred and sixty<br />nine barrels.</p>
<p>This day arrived here, in a ship from Belfast,<br />about two hundred and forty Protestants from the<br />North of Ireland, intending to settle in this province,<br />on the large bounty granted by the Legislature.</p>
<p><em>June</em> 12. On the 21st ult. Governour Tryon<br />(of North Carolina) received despatches from the<br />Superintendent, informing him that Mr. Commissary<br />Cameron, with the Cherokee Headmen, were to<br />set out next day, in order to meet him, and proceed<br />to run the boundary line; and accordingly his<br />Excellency, and the Gentlemen with him, the<br />same day left Salisbury, so that in a little time we<br />hope to have accounts of this very important business<br />being happily completed.</p>
<p>A letter from Savannah, in Georgia, dated the<br />4th instant, says: “ We have an account from the<br />Creek country of the murder of a packhorseman.<br />The principal Indians, at a meeting with the Super-<br />intendant at Augusta, disclaimed it, and said the<br />perpetrator was an outlawed villain; they appeared<br />very sorry on the occasion, and willing to give any<br />satisfaction. The Superintendent has settled the<br />prices of goods, to the satisfaction of both Creeks<br />and Cherokees, who all seemed heartily disposed to<br />peace. One of the stipulations he has now made<br />with them is that they shall deliver up all runaway<br />Negroes that take shelter in their country, which<br />will be of great advantage to all the southern<br />colonies.”</p>
<p>They write from West Florida, of the 18th ult.<br />that provisions of all kinds were excessively scarce<br />both at Mobille and Pensacola; the troops were all<br />put to allowance; and if some provision vessels did<br />not soon arrive, the consequences would be dreadful.<br />They had nothing left but a few barrels of rice,<br />which sold at 25 and 26 dollars. It would appear<br />the immense profits expected at the markets in the<br />Mediterranean have drawn all the New Yorkers,<br />Philadelphiamen, &c. that way, whereby the West<br />Floridans have been left without a barrel of flower,<br />though they have plenty of dollars to purchase it<br />with.</p>
<p><em>June</em> 19 On Monday last the Hon. John Stuart,<br />Esq; Superintendent of the southern district of<br />America, returned here from the western frontiers,<br />where he has been for some months past, holding<br />congresses with the Creeks and Cherokees, and<br />transacting other business of importance in his<br />department. The conferences with the Indians<br />were very friendly; treaties were settled and agreed<br />upon, to the satisfaction of the several tribes and<br />their traders, and the commerce put under proper<br />regulations. It has already been mentioned that<br />Mr. Commissary Cameron, and the Cherokee Head-<br />men, were set out to meet his Excellency Governour<br />Tryon, in order to run the boundary line behind<br />North Carolina, and we have now the pleasure of<br />informing the publick that the Lower Creeks have<br />engaged to the Superintendent that they will send<br />deputies to Augusta, before the end of September,<br />to perform the like service behind Georgia and East</p>
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<p>Florida, which done, the exact limits between the In-<br />dian hunting grounds, and all the southern provinces,<br />except Virginia, will be fixed and determined. The<br />murder of the packhorseman happened at the town<br />of Hillabies, in the Upper Creek country; the<br />people of those towns gave the Superintendent the<br />strongest assurances of satisfaction. The accounts<br />of that murder, which reached the Mortar, when<br />on the way to Augusta to assist at the congress, oc-<br />casioned his returning home immediately.</p>
<p>Attakullakulla, and the other Cherokee deputies,<br />have put off their intended voyage to New York<br />until the ensuing fall.</p>
<p>On Tuesday last came on, in his Majesty’s High<br />Court of Vice Admiralty, before the Hon. Egerton<br />Leigh, Esq; sole Judge of the same, a cause of great<br />weight and expectation, wherein James Hawker,<br />Esq; Commander of his Majesty’s ship Sardine, was<br />prosecutor <em>qui tam, &c.</em> against the schooner<br />Active, and her cargo, whereof James Gordon of<br />Winyaw, merchant, was claimant. The seizure<br />of this coasting schooner was made on pretence that<br />she had no register, and bond not having been given,<br />nor cockets and sufferances taken out from the<br />Custom House, agreeable to the directions of the<br />act of 7th and 8th of William III. and the acts of<br />the 3d and 4th, and 5th and 6th, of his present<br />Majesty’s reign; when the Judge, after hearing<br />many learned arguments from the proctors and<br />advocates on both sides, and taking due time to<br />deliberate thereon, was pleased to deliver his opinion,<br />” That nothing in the several acts above mentioned<br />” can be construed to lay unnecessary restraints<br />” upon the trade and correspondence of his Majesty’s<br />” American subjects, when any goods or common<br />” dities are carried merely for the use or sustenance<br />” of the said colonies; or, in other words, <em>when<br />” such goods are carried only from one port or place<br />” to another port or place in the same colony.”</em> And<br />forasmuch as it did appear that the vessel in question<br />had been constantly employed within this province,<br />without putting out to sea further than her burthen,<br />or the coast, made necessary for the safety of her<br />navigation to and from this port, and there was not<br />the least shadow of pretence that the said vessel had<br />been at any time employed in an illicit trade, or that<br />any fraud had been committed or intended, whereby<br />his Majesty’s revenue could be diminished or affect-<br />ed, or the fair trader undermined or prejudiced,<br />contrary to any of the wise provisions of any revenue<br />laws, or the laws of the customs, his Honour was<br />pleased therefore to <em>dismiss the information,</em> and to<br />order <em>restitution of the vessel and cargo to the claimant,</em><br />and decreed the claimant to pay all costs, except such<br />as accrued to the prosecutor on his part of the pro-<br />ceedings, the Judge being of opinion that, all<br />circumstances considered, there was a <em>probable cause<br />of seizure,</em> and the most material part of the expense<br />attending the prosecution was occasioned by the<br />claimant himself.</p>
<p>At every fitting of the Court during the continu-<br />ance of this cause, which was long, and highly<br />contested, the court-house was constantly crowded;<br />the Judge’s final sentence and decree was received<br />with uncommon and general satisfaction, it being<br />from thence apparent that no vessel whatsoever,<br />when employed in carrying goods from one part of<br />the province to another, are obliged to take out<br />sufferances, cockets, or clearances, at the Custom-<br />House; nor have vessels, employed solely in that<br />trade, or that never go to another colony, any<br />occasion for a register, they being particularly ex-<br />cepted in the 7th and 8th of William III.</p>
<p>The same afternoon we had some violent thunder,<br />which killed a Negro, struck some houses, and did<br />other damage. About two o’clock in the morning<br />of the same day the sloop Duke of Lancaster, Captain<br />David Lamb, from St. Christopher’s to this port,<br />then off Georgetown bar, was struck with lightning,<br />which shivered the topmast, and killed the Captain’s<br />son, a promising youth, in his eighteenth year.<br />Two of the sailors were likewise struck, and lay<br />senseless for about 12 hours; at the expiration of<br />which period, to the admiration of every body, they<br />recovered, and have continued well ever since.</p>
<p><em>June</em> 26. They write from Pensacola that a<br />re-enforcement of Spanish troops was arrived at<br />New Orleans, part whereof, with a convoy of<br />provisions, and a great many presents for the Indians,<br />was gone up the Missisippi, to take possession of the<br />territories on the western side of that river ceded to<br />Spain. The French government still continues at<br />New Orleans.</p>
<p><em>Extract of a letter from</em> London, <em>April</em> 18.<br />” The opposition has received a considerable<br />check by the death of a most amiable young Noble-<br />man, the Marquis of Tavistock; which has so<br />affected his father, the Duke of Bedford, that he<br />avoids all publick business. Lord Chatham keeps<br />his ground. The state of American affairs is to be</p>
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<p>taken under consideration by the House of Commons<br />on the 30th instant, both Houses being adjourned,<br />for the holidays, to the 28th; and immediately<br />after, the East India affairs come on.”</p>
<p>A number of the Irish settlers lately arrived here<br />being sickly, a subscription was opened for their<br />relief; when, according to the wonted benevolence<br />and charity of the inhabitants of this town, near<br />200 £. sterling was almost immediately raised.</p>
<p>We are informed that since Mr. Seymour’s arrival<br />at Turk Island a considerable vent is found there for<br />British and American manufactures with foreigners.</p>
<p>BOSTON, <em>June</em> 29.</p>
<p><em>Extract of a letter from a Gentleman in</em> London, <em>to<br />his friend in</em> Boston, <em>dated April</em> 7.<br />” It is with the utmost concern the friends of the<br />colonies yet see such numbers led by a few inflam-<br />matory partisans, who have no other method of<br />rendering themselves conspicuous than by outrage<br />and opposition. The late New York petition to<br />Parliament is a contempt of lawful authority, and<br />an ungrateful return to their friends; and to me it<br />appears evident that unless they come to sober reason,<br />with a due subordination to order and government,<br />that they will bring infamy upon themselves, and<br />ruin upon their country. A noble stand hath been<br />made for liberty, but let not redress lead to licen-<br />tiousness. In short, I fear you stand upon a preci-<br />pice, and dread the consequence. God grant my<br />fears may be groundless.”</p>
<p><em>Extract of another letter from</em> London, <em>April</em> 14.<br />” If the present Ministry continue, they have<br />every one declared for maintaining the authority of<br />the Crown, and of the Legislature, in its full force;<br />and I am well satisfied that no other Ministry can<br />be formed, without Mr. Grenville at the head of it.<br />The consideration on trade and finances has produced<br />a very great change in the sentiments of people.</p>
<p>” Within the House of Commons Mr. Grenville<br />needs no such testimony: His own conduct this<br />session has shown such an extent of knowledge, and<br />such strength of parts, as has convinced the House<br />of the superiority of his abilities, and all parties now<br />say he must be the Minister the first change that is<br />made.</p>
<p>” I am very sorry to find that your Assembly has<br />been induced to imitate that of New York. Those<br />men surely must have very little concern for the<br />interest of this province who have been using every<br />art to mislead an honest well meaning people into<br />their own factious purposes.</p>
<p>” I attended the House of Lords all the time the<br />American affairs have been mentioned, and what-<br />ever diversity of sentiments there might appear in<br />other respects, yet all the Lords had but one opinion<br />about the necessity of preserving the King’s authority;<br />so that the fury and violence of those firebrands (I<br />hope I may say firebrand, and that it is but one man)<br />who have been driving things among you to such<br />excess have at last produced one good effect, to unite<br />all people here in the same sentiments. Lord Mans-<br />field made an extreme fine speech in the House of<br />Lords, upon the folly and wickedness of your incen-<br />diaries; who, against the conviction of their own<br />minds (if they understand any thing of law and con-<br />stitution, as they pretend) are endeavouring to raise<br />jealousies and alienate the affections of his Majesty’s<br />subjects there.”</p>
<p>NEW YORK, <em>July</em> 2.</p>
<p>Monday last arrived here the ship Frances, Capt.<br />Inglis, in 9 week from Cadiz. Capt. Inglis con-<br />firms the account given in the papers of the expulsion<br />of the Jesuits from Spain; and that a great number<br />of them were embarking at Cadiz for Civita Vecchia,<br />in the Pope’s dominions. He heard no talk of the<br />Manila ransom at Cadiz, but says the AEolus frigat<br />sailed from thence for England a few days before he<br />left it, with a great quantity of cash on board, on<br />account of the merchants; and the Aquilon was to<br />sail in a few days after him, with some of the same<br />commodity on board, for Italy.</p>
<p>Captain Baldwin, from Barbados, but last from<br />Connecticut, left that island about 35 days ago, and<br />acquaints us that such a general drought has prevailed<br />there this last season that few of the planters will<br />have more than half crops, and many pieces of cane<br />not worth cutting at all.</p>
<p><em>July</em> 6. Last Saturday week was performed at<br />Newark the operation of lithotomy on a youth of<br />about 8 years of age, before several very eminent<br />Gentlemen in the practice of physick and surgery,<br />by Mr. John Jones, one of the principal surgeons of<br />this city. The largeness of the stone, and dexterity<br />with which it was extracted, were sufficient indica-<br />tions of his judgment in manual operation, and met<br />with the cordial approbation of all the Gentlemen<br />present. The symptoms are as favourable towards<br />a recovery as can be expected, from the severity of<br />so dangerous an operation.</p>
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<p>PHILADELPHIA, <em>July</em> 9.</p>
<p><em>Extract of a letter from</em> DEMARARA, <em>May</em> 18.<br />” The 24th of April, at 5 in the morning, we<br />were alarmed with another very dreadful earthquake,<br />which continued full 10 minutes; the motion seemed<br />to be from east to west, very quick and vibrating,<br />the weather very heavy rain, and calm. My family<br />and I, on the first shock, ran from our beds to the<br />fields, where we remained for some time, awfully<br />frightened, and very wet. This is a most terrible<br />country; we have had, more or less, earthquakes<br />every week since the 18th of October last.”</p>
<p>ANNAPOLIS, <em>July</em> 9.</p>
<p>The deplorable havock lately made in the family<br />of a widow Lady on the Eastern Shore, by that<br />horrid contagious distemper commonly called the<br />GAOL FEVER, ought to give fresh warning to the<br />inhabitants of this province how they admit this<br />baneful malady into their families. A casual visit,<br />it seems, from one of the felons, sometime since<br />imported in a convict ship, communicated the dis-<br />temper to the Negroes. It is confidently reported<br />that near thirty people in this family, among whom<br />the worthy Lady herself was one, fell victims to the<br />fury of this malignant ravaging pestilence. Its pro-<br />gress was rapid, and its virulence too powerful for<br />all the skill and assiduity of our ablest physicians;<br />nor did its rage intermit until, by a waste of lives,<br />it wanted subjects to prey upon. What agravated<br />the afflicting circumstances of this unhappy family,<br />was a total suspension of those tender offices which<br />this much respected Lady might have expected from<br />a humane neighbourhood. They could only be-<br />hold, with a heart-felt sympathy a distress which<br />they could not attempt to relieve without the utmost<br />hazard of their own lives. The case of Mr. Howard,<br />near Annapolis, who lost his own life, and many<br />of his family, is a recent and notorious instance of<br />the malignity of this distemper. Moved by a tender<br />concern for the inhabitants, who have too often<br />felt the direful rage of this wide-wasting contagion,<br />our Assembly, at their last meeting, enacted a<br />Quarantine Law, which will probably give some<br />check to its introduction, and save the lives of<br />thousands. It is to be wished that the people may<br />cherish and act so manifestly tending to the preser-<br />vation of their lives, their healths, and their pro-<br />perty, and that they will take every measure in their<br />power to forward the execution of it, and to obviate<br />every evasion which the arts of interested men can<br />devise to frustrate its operation, and prevent the<br />beneficial purpose of our Legislature.</p>
<p>Last week arrived here the ship Albion, Captain<br />Spencer, from Bristol, with upwards of 100 of his<br />Majesty’s seven years passengers. By means of a<br />ventilator on board, it is said they are very healthy.<br />The ship has since proceeded for Chester river.</p>
<p>WILLIAMSBURG, <em>July</em> 23.</p>
<p>Lately died at his home in Smithfield, after a<br />short illness, Capt. SAMUEL WENTWORTH,<br />merchant there for many years. He was a Gentle-<br />man much esteemed for his benevolent and charitable<br />disposition, he was an indulgent husband, a tender<br />parent, and a kind master; qualifications which will<br />render his memory dear to his family, and respected<br />by all who had the pleasure of knowing him.</p>
<p>The Betsey, Captain Atkinson, from Liverpool,<br />is arrived in James river.</p>
<p><em>The</em> ESSAY <em>signed</em> AMICUS SUPERBIAE,<br /><em>coming too late for this week’s paper, will have a place<br />in our next.</em></p>
<p><em>Advertisements.</em></p>
<p>THE QUITRENTS due to his<br />Majesty for the year 1766, and<br />the arrears of former years, the Sheriffs<br />are desired to satisfy as soon as possible,<br />that I may be enabled to make a remit-<br />tance, agreeable to my instructions.———<br />Whoever fails to settle with the Auditor,<br />and to pay the balance into the Receiver’s<br />office, before the first day of <em>September</em><br />next, will be allowed no further indulgence.<br />R. CORBIN, D. R. G.</p>
<p><em>To be</em> SOLD,<br />A VALUABLE young handsome<br /><em>NEGRO FELLOW,</em><br />about 18 or 20 years of age, has every qualification of a gen-<br />teel and sensible servant, and has been in many different parts<br />of the world. He shaves, dresses hair, and plays on the<br /><em>French</em> horn. He lately came from <em>London,</em> and has with<br />him two suits of new clothes, and his <em>French</em> horn, which the<br />purchaser may have with him. Inquire at the Printing Office<br />of Mess. <em>Purdie</em> and <em>Dixon.</em></p>
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<p>GLOUCESTER, <em>July</em> 20, 1767.<br />AS I intend to leave the colony this<br />fall, I must request the favour of all those who have<br />any demands against me to come immediately and settle, par-<br />ticularly those demands on account of gaming, I having made<br />a promise never to lay one shilling more upon any bet what-<br />soever, as it has been very harmful to<br />Their humble servant,<br />RICHARD GWYN.</p>
<p><em>To be</em> SOLD, <em>on the first</em> Monday <em>in next<br />month, at my plantation on</em> KING’s<br /><em>creek,</em><br />SEVERAL <em>Virginia</em> born SLAVES,<br />also HORSES, HOGS, CATTLE, and SHEEP, to<br />discharge the several judgements now against me. Those to<br />whom I am indebted are desired to attend the sale,, that they<br />may receive satisfaction for the same, or supply themselves with<br />such things as they think will be sufficient. As I have been<br />so long kept from home, in expectation of receiving money<br />to settle with every body, but have been disappointed, there-<br />fore take this method of acquainting my creditors. Credit<br />will be allowed until the 1st of <em>October</em> next, on giving bond<br />with good security to JOHN WORMELLEY.<br />YORK, <em>July</em> 20, 1767.</p>
<p><em>To be</em> SOLD <em>at</em> PUBLICK AUCTION,<br /><em>on</em> Thursday <em>the 3d of</em> September <em>next.<br />pursuant to a decree of</em> GLOUCESTER<br /><em>county court,</em><br />ONE hundred and fifty acres of very<br />valuable LAND, lying in Slut’s creek, in <em>Gloucester</em><br />county; also about 15 valuable SLAVES. The terms will<br />be agreed on at the day of sale.<br />Tdf LEWIS BURWELL, Jun. Sheriff.</p>
<p><em>To be</em> SOLD <em>to the highest bidder, at</em><br />Thomas Eggleton’<em>s in</em> Petersburg, <em>on<br />the 20th of</em> August <em>next (if fair, other-<br />wise next fair day) the sale to begin at<br />three o’clock,</em><br />A VERY VALUABLE<br />PLANTATION, where ROBERT<br />LANGLEY now lives, lying on <em>Appomattox</em><br />river, about four miles above <em>Petersburg,</em><br />known by the name of <em>Burlington,</em> containing<br />by estimation 372 acres, whereon is a large<br />commodious dwelling-house, and all con-<br />venient out-houses, a fine garden, orchards, &c. in very good<br />order, and suitable for a genteel family. Six months credit<br />will be allowed for one half the purchase money, and twelve<br />months for the other half, on giving bond with good security<br />to JOHN HUNT.</p>
<p>STONEN or STRAYED<br />from <em>Lunenburg</em> county, a bay roan<br />horse, with a roached mane and bob tail,<br />about 14 hands high, shod before, paces<br />naturally, had a bell on when he went<br />away, branded on the near buttock [upside down] IF,<br />and on the near shoulder I. Whoever<br />brings the said horse to the subscriber, living near the lower<br />end of <em>Lunenburg,</em> or gives such intelligence that he may be<br />had again, shall have 40 s. reward.<br />THOMAS MOODIE.</p>
<p>STRAYED or STOLEN<br />from the subscriber, the 19th of June,<br />at the Hon. <em>Richard Corbin’</em>s, Esquire,<br /><em>King</em> and <em>Queen</em> county, a dark bay horse,<br />4 feet 7 inches and a half high, with a<br />hanging mane and bob tail, a small star<br />in his face, and some white spots upon<br />his back. Whoever brings him to the subscriber, at the afore-<br />said place, shall have 30 s. reward.<br />WILLIAM GRAHAM.<br />N. B. A mulatto fellow named AMOS, who has been<br />used to go by water, and belongs to Mr. <em>William Meredith</em><br />in this neighbourhood, run away the same day the horse was<br />missing, and is suspected of having carried him off.</p>
<p><em>To be</em> SOLD, <em>at the late dwelling-house<br />of Mrs.</em> MARY PAGE, <em>deceased, on</em><br />Tuesday <em>the 28th of this instant,</em><br />ALL the PERSONAL ESTATE<br />of the said deceased, consisting of household and kitchen<br />furniture, two fine work horses, several fine milch cows, two<br />carts, and a riding chair and harness. Credit will be allowed<br />the purchasers until the 20th of <em>April</em> next for all sums above<br />40 s. on giving bond and security to<br />GABRIEL MAUPIN,}<br />2 JAMES SHIELDS,} Admrs.<br />N. B. All persons that have any demands against the said<br />estate are desired to make them known by the day of sale, and<br />those indebted to it are desired to make speedy payment.</p>
<p>STRAYED from the subscriber, in<br /><em>Brunswick</em> county, some time in <em>May</em> last, a middle sized<br />black horse about 12 years old, with a hanging main and<br />switch tail, a blaze in his face that comes down over one nostril,<br />has some white in one eye, looks shy, and is hard to catch.<br />He paces a travelling gate, drags his hind feet, and goes<br />pretty freely. His head, neck, and fore parts, are well<br />formed, but his hinder parts ugly, and is low in flesh. There<br />went off with him a small, though likely, black yearling filly,<br />neither dockt nor branded, and has no white about her. The<br />horse came from <em>Charles City</em> county, and has several times<br />endeavoured to return thither. Whoever brings the said horse<br />and filly to me shall have 30 s. reward, or for the horse alone<br />20 s. and so in proportion. THOMAS STITH.</p>
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<p><em>To be</em> SOLD <em>at publick auction, on</em> Monday<br /><em>the 10th of</em> August <em>next, at</em> JAMES<br />CITY <em>court-house, being court day,</em><br />FIVE thousand two hundred and ninety<br />nine pounds of publick TOBACCO, for which three<br />months credit will be allowed, the purchaser giving bond and<br />security. PHILIP JOHNSON, Sheriff.</p>
<p>STOLEN or STRAYED out of the<br />pasture of Mr. <em>John Worsham,</em> at <em>Bermuda Hundred,</em> in<br /><em>Chesterfield</em> county, in the night of the 3d of <em>June</em> last, a slim<br />bright bay horse, about 14 hands high, with a hanging mane<br />and sprig tail, shod before when he went away, and branded<br />on the near buttock [dark filled in circle], but not distinct. It is supposed he is<br />gone to <em>Buckingham</em> county, near the court-house, where he<br />was raised by <em>Thomas Webb,</em> and sold to <em>Jeremiah Hoy</em> of<br /><em>Williamsburg.</em> Whoever brings the said horse to the subscriber,<br />in <em>Surry</em> shall have 40 s. reward.<br />PATRICK ADAMS.</p>
<p>TAKEN up, in <em>King William</em> a black<br />steer, marked with a crop and underkeel in the right<br />ear, and a crop and overkeel in the left.<br />|| REUBEN SIZER.</p>
<p><em>To be</em> SOLD <em>together, or in parcels,</em><br />ABOUT 3000 ACRES of LAND,<br />in <em>Hanover</em> county, within six or seven miles of <em>Page’s</em><br />warehouse. I propose attending <em>Hanover</em> court in <em>August</em> next,<br />to receive proposals; but if any one should incline to treat<br />sooner, the terms, which will be very reasonable, may be<br />known by applying to me at <em>Bremo,</em> in <em>Henrico</em> county.<br />5 BOWLER COCKE, Jun.</p>
<p><em>Run away from</em> Cape Fear, <em>in</em> NORTH<br />CAROLINA,<br />THREE NEGRO FELLOWS, viz.<br />CUDGOE, about 25 years old. this fellow has no<br />mark by which he can be described, other than that he looks<br />older than he really is. JEMMY, now 24 years old. One<br />of his arms was burnt when a child, by which the main sinew<br />is visibly contracted, but not so as to prejudice his working.<br />These two have been gone about twelve months. BRISTOL,<br />a yellow young fellow. He was kicked by a horse when a<br />little boy, which has left a large scar, beginning under his<br />eye, and extending along his cheek down to his jaw bone.<br />This fellow has been gone about 20 months, and is supposed<br />to have made his way for <em>Richmond</em> county, in VIRGINIA,<br />where he has three brothers, whom the subscriber sold to Col.<br /><em>Tayloe,</em> one of his Majesty’s Council. Whoever brings the<br />said Negroes, or any of them, to Mr. WILLIE JONES, on<br /><em>Roanoke</em> river, or to the subscriber at <em>Cape Fear,</em> shall have<br />FIVE POUNDS <em>Virginia</em> money for each Negro he brings.<br />4 GEORGE MOORE.</p>
<p>NORFOLK, <em>July</em> 8, 1767<br />THE little indulgence shown me by<br />my creditors, obliges me to call in my outstanding<br />debts: This is therefore to request all those that are indebted<br />to me by bond, note of hand, or otherwise, to make imme-<br />diate payment, otherwise I shall be constrained, however dis-<br />agreeable, to commence suits immediately.<br />JOHN WILSON.</p>
<p>TAKEN up, in <em>Fairfax,</em> two heifers,<br />about 4 years old, one of them all white, except the<br />head, which is black, the right ear cropped, and a hole in<br />the left; the other a dark brindle, marked with a crop in the<br />right ear, and a hole in the left, with a nick in the under part<br />of it; posted, and appraised to 25 s. each.<br />BENJAMIN LUTHERT.</p>
<p>TAKEN up, in <em>Cumberland,</em> a small<br />dark bay mare, with a star in her forehead, hanging<br />mane and sprig tail, a few saddle spots, her left fore foot white,<br />branded on the near buttock J <sup>X</sup> C and on the near shoulder JC;<br />posted, and appraised to 30s.<br />|| THOMAS HATCHER.</p>
<p><em>To be</em> SOLD,<br />A VERY VALUABLE TRACT<br />(adjoining the town of <em>Fairfax,</em> in <em>Culpeper</em> county,<br />where the court-house stands, and surrounding the said town)<br />containing 220 acres of rich land, as also 20 lots of ground,<br />of half an acre each, one of which is improved, with a dwel-<br />ling-house 28 by 16, with two brick chimnies, and two other<br />small houses for lodging rooms, 20 by 12, with a brick<br />chimney, and a ten foot shed, a kitchen, 16 feet square, with<br />a brick chimney, a dairy, smoke-house, and stable, as also a<br />warehouse 16 by 12, shedded and planked. There is on the<br />land a large quantity of meadow ground, and a fine pasture<br />under a good fence. There cannot be a more convenient or<br />profitable place for tradesmen or manufacturers to settle at in<br /><em>Virginia</em> than this spot, which is surrounded with a very thick<br />neighbourhood and rich lands, where tradesmen of all sorts<br />are much wanted. This tract is to be sold with or without<br />the improved lot herein mentioned, or with or without the<br />tavern before advertised by me, to which it would be a great<br />advantage in supplying wood, provisions, and provender for<br />horses, as well for the use of the tavern as the town. The<br />price of the premises is separately, viz</p>
<table><tbody><tr><td>For the land adjoining the town,</td>
<td>£.400</td>
</tr><tr><td>For the improved lot,</td>
<td> 200</td>
</tr><tr><td>For the naked lots,</td>
<td> 10 each.</td>
</tr><tr><td>For the tavern, and two lots and improvements,</td>
<td> 500</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td>________</td>
</tr><tr><td>In the whole,</td>
<td>£.1300</td>
</tr></tbody></table><p><br />which is at the least 200 £. less than the real value. Whoever<br />incline to purchase are desired to apply to MR. ROBERT<br />COLEMAN, living in <em>Fairfax</em> town or me in <em>Frede-<br />ricksburg.</em><br />2 m ROGER DIXON.</p>
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<p>A SCHEME,<br /><em>For disposing of, by way of</em> LOTTERY,<br /><em>the</em> LAND <em>and</em> TENEMENTS <em>under<br />mentioned, being the entire towns of</em><br />Rocky Ridge <em>and</em> Shockoe, <em>lying at<br />the Falls of</em> James <em>river, and the land<br />thereunto adjoining.</em></p>
<p>THE advantageous situation of this estate is too well known to require a<br />particular description, though it may be necessary to inform the publick that the obstructions<br />through the Falls, and in other parts of the river above, will shortly be removed, and the<br />river made navigable to the said towns: The navigation will thereby be extended, and made both safe<br />and easy for upwards of two hundred miles above the said Falls, and a communication opened to the<br />western frontier of the middle colonies, whereby there will not be more than sixty or seventy miles portage<br />from <em>James</em> river to the <em>Ohio</em>; so that the immense treasure of that valuable country must necessarily be<br />brought to market to one or other of the abovesaid towns, which will occasionally raise the rents, and<br />enhance the value, of the lands and tenements under mentioned, beyond the powers of conception.</p>
<table><tbody><tr><td>A double forge, a mill, with 2 1/2 acres of land adjoining,}</td>
<td></td>
<td>LOTS.</td>
<td>VALUE.</td>
<td>RENTS</td>
</tr><tr><td>the use of the landing, the canal, with ten feet on each}</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>side, and 2000 acres of back land, the furthest part}</td>
<td>———</td>
<td></td>
<td> £.8000</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>of which is not more than five miles from the forge,}</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>Inspection at Rocky Ridge, at 12 years purchase,</td>
<td>———</td>
<td></td>
<td> 780</td>
<td>£.65.0</td>
</tr><tr><td>James Lyle, his tenement, at do.</td>
<td>———</td>
<td></td>
<td> 540</td>
<td> 45</td>
</tr><tr><td>Archibald Buchanan, at do.</td>
<td>———</td>
<td></td>
<td> 540</td>
<td> 45</td>
</tr><tr><td>Alexander Stewart, at do.</td>
<td>———</td>
<td></td>
<td> 510</td>
<td> 42.10</td>
</tr><tr><td>Elizabeth Todd, at do.</td>
<td>———</td>
<td></td>
<td> 480</td>
<td> 40</td>
</tr><tr><td>Robert Gordon, at do.</td>
<td>———</td>
<td></td>
<td> 90</td>
<td> 7.10</td>
</tr><tr><td>Joseph Hopkins, at do.</td>
<td>———</td>
<td></td>
<td> 60</td>
<td> 5</td>
</tr><tr><td>John Shackelton, at do.</td>
<td>———</td>
<td></td>
<td> 36</td>
<td> 3</td>
</tr><tr><td>James Gunn, formerly rented to Thomas Yuille,</td>
<td>———</td>
<td></td>
<td> 540</td>
<td> 45</td>
</tr><tr><td>Ferry on the south side, at 20 years purchase, with half}</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td> an acre of land on the bank,—————}</td>
<td>———</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></td>
<td> 600</td>
<td> 30</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>————</td>
<td>————</td>
</tr><tr><td>Number of improved lots,</td>
<td>———</td>
<td> 12</td>
<td>£.14,176</td>
<td>£.428</td>
</tr><tr><td>Lots unimproved, each half an acre, to be laid off in a}</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td> town convenient to the river, with publick landings,}</td>
<td>———</td>
<td> 300</td>
<td> 7500</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td> &nbsp: at £.25 each, ——————————————}</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td>———</td>
<td>————</td>
<td>————</td>
</tr><tr><td>The amount of lots on the south side of James river, in }</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>Chesterfield county, ——————————————}</td>
<td>———</td>
<td> 312</td>
<td>£.21,676</td>
<td>£.428</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>——————————————————————</td>
<td>———</td>
<td>———</td>
<td>————</td>
<td>————</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>Shockoe inspection, at 112 years purchase,</td>
<td>———</td>
<td></td>
<td> £.780</td>
<td> 65</td>
</tr><tr><td>Byrd’s do. at do.</td>
<td>———</td>
<td></td>
<td> 780</td>
<td> 65</td>
</tr><tr><td>Watson’s, at do.</td>
<td>———</td>
<td></td>
<td> 720</td>
<td> 60</td>
</tr><tr><td>James Buchanan, at do.</td>
<td>———</td>
<td></td>
<td> 720</td>
<td> 60</td>
</tr><tr><td>Patrick Coutts, at do.</td>
<td>———</td>
<td></td>
<td> 420</td>
<td> 35</td>
</tr><tr><td>George Ellis, at do.</td>
<td>———</td>
<td></td>
<td> 120</td>
<td> 10</td>
</tr><tr><td>James M’Dowell, at do.</td>
<td>———</td>
<td></td>
<td> 480</td>
<td> 40</td>
</tr><tr><td>David Ross, at do.</td>
<td>———</td>
<td></td>
<td> 480</td>
<td> 40</td>
</tr><tr><td>Thomas Younghusband, at do.</td>
<td>———</td>
<td></td>
<td> 540</td>
<td> 45</td>
</tr><tr><td>James Rozer, at do.</td>
<td>———</td>
<td></td>
<td> 60</td>
<td> 5</td>
</tr><tr><td>James Howling, at do.</td>
<td>———</td>
<td></td>
<td> 60</td>
<td> 5</td>
</tr><tr><td>John M’Keind, at do.</td>
<td>———</td>
<td></td>
<td> 144</td>
<td> 12</td>
</tr><tr><td>M’Pherson & Menzies, at do.</td>
<td>———</td>
<td></td>
<td> 420</td>
<td> 35</td>
</tr><tr><td>James Daley, at do.</td>
<td>———</td>
<td></td>
<td> 36</td>
<td> 3</td>
</tr><tr><td>Lewis Warwick, at do.</td>
<td>———</td>
<td></td>
<td> 60</td>
<td> 5</td>
</tr><tr><td>Ferry, at 20 years do.</td>
<td>———</td>
<td></td>
<td> 2000</td>
<td> 100</td>
</tr><tr><td>Fishery, at 20 years do.</td>
<td>———</td>
<td></td>
<td> 2000</td>
<td> 100</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>————</td>
<td>————</td>
</tr><tr><td>Number of improved lots,</td>
<td>———</td>
<td> 17</td>
<td> £.9820</td>
<td>£.685</td>
</tr><tr><td>10,000 acres of land, to be laid off in lots of 100 acres}</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td> each, valued at 30 s. per acre,————————}</td>
<td>———</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>———</td>
<td> 10</td>
<td> 300</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td>Lots unimproved, valued at £.25 each,</td>
<td>———</td>
<td> 400</td>
<td> 10,000</td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td>———</td>
<td>————</td>
<td>————</td>
</tr><tr><td>The amount of lots on the north side of James river,</td>
<td>———</td>
<td> 527</td>
<td>£.35,120</td>
<td>£.685</td>
</tr><tr><td>The amount of lots on the south side of do. as above,</td>
<td>———</td>
<td> 312</td>
<td> 21,676</td>
<td> 428</td>
</tr><tr><td></td>
<td></td>
<td>———</td>
<td>————</td>
<td>————</td>
</tr><tr><td> 839 Prizes.</td>
<td>———</td>
<td> 839</td>
<td>£.56,796</td>
<td>£.1113</td>
</tr><tr><td> 9161 Blanks.</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td> ———</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr><tr><td> 10,000 Tickets, at £. 5 each,</td>
<td>———</td>
<td>———</td>
<td>£.50,000</td>
<td></td>
</tr></tbody></table><p>The said lottery will be drawn at <em>Shockoe</em>’s in <em>June</em> 1768, under the management and direction of the<br />Hon<sup>ble</sup>, PRESLEY THORNTON, Esp<sup>r</sup>. PEYTON RANDOLPH, JOHN PAGE, CHARLES<br />CARTER, and CHARLES TURNBULL, Esq<sup>rs</sup>. trustees for the same, who will execute convey-<br />ances for the prizes drawn by the fortunate adventurers in this lottery. Tickets to be had of the trustees,<br />also of Col. ARCHIBALD CARY, JOHN WAYLES, and the subscriber.<br /><em>W. BYRD.</em></p>
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<p>TAKEN up, in <em>Dinwiddie,</em> a bright<br />bay horse, about 4 feet 8 inches high, with a short<br />switch tail and hanging mane, canters pretty well, but slack<br />of courage; posted, and appraised to 10 £.<br />BENJAMIN NEWSUM.</p>
<p>TAKEN up, in <em>James City,</em> a bright<br />bay mare, about 4 feet 2 inches high, and branded<br />on the near buttock D.<br />THOMAS DONCASTLE.</p>
<p><em>On</em> Monday <em>the 9th of</em> NOVEMBER <em>next<br />will be exposed to publick sale, at the</em><br />Rocky Ridge, <em>in</em> Chesterfield <em>county,</em><br />ONE hundred valuable SLAVES,<br />belonging to the estate of Col CHARLES CARTER,<br />deceased. Six months credit will be allowed, the purchasers<br />giving bond and security to the executors.<br />20 LANDON CARTER.<br />CHARLES CARTER.</p>
<p><em>For</em> SALE,<br />A TRACT of 3000 acres of LAND,<br />in the county of ALBEMARLE, on the three forks of<br /><em>Pretty</em>’s creek, on which is a great deal of very valuable low<br />ground, and as much cleared (with houses and proper im-<br />provements) as is sufficient for fifteen working hands. The<br />plantations thereon produce very good crops of tobacco and<br />corn, and fine stocks of cattle and hogs; the price is 900 £.<br />Also a tract of 1500 acres of good land, on the <em>Hedgeman</em><br />river, in <em>Culpeper</em> county, running three miles on the river,<br />and affords a good deal of low ground, both high and low<br />ground very good; the price is 500 £. Also a valuable tract<br />of 400 acres, in <em>Culpeper</em> county, very rich and level, where<br />Col. <em>Gabriel Jones</em> lately lived, having several valuable houses<br />and improvements thereon, now in the tenure of Mr. <em>Laurence<br />Slaughter,</em> and about 30 miles distant from <em>Fredericksburg</em>;<br />the price is 300 £. Also my tavern at <em>Culpeper</em> court-house,<br />in <em>Fairfax</em> town, being a large new commodious house, with<br />convenient one-houses, stable, garden, and all proper improve-<br />ments, and has vast custom, vending 500 pounds worth of<br />liquors, original cost in a year, the rent of which is worth 60 £.<br />a year; the price is 500 £. Any person inclinable to purchase<br />either of the above tracts of land, or tavern, will find either<br />of them a good bargain, and worth their while to apply to<br />me, at <em>Fredericksburg.</em><br />2 m ROGER DIXON.</p>
<p>N. B. The lots and houses in the tenure of Mr. <em>James<br />Hume,</em> in the most pleasant situation on the main street in<br /><em>Fredericksburg</em> (before advertised by me) are still to be sold,<br />or let for a term of years, on very reasonable conditions, in<br />order to satisfy some debts I am liable for as security for the<br />said <em>James Hume.<em> R. D.</em></em></p>
<p><em>To be</em> SOLD,<br />A FORGE, and geared GRIST MILL,<br />both well fixed, and situated on a plentiful and constant<br />stream, near <em>Todd</em>’s warehouse, in <em>King</em> and <em>Queen</em> county,<br />with several SLAVES used to work there, as finers, hammer-<br />men, and colliers, and well acquainted with the business;<br />also two valuable blacksmiths, and about 2000 acres of land,<br />adjoining or near the forge. Any person inclinable to pur-<br />chase may know the terms by applying to me, in <em>King William</em><br />county. Tf BERNARD MOORE.</p>
<p><em>To be</em> SOLD,<br />FOURTEEN hundred acres of very<br />good TOBACCO LAND, lying on <em>Turkey</em> creek, in<br /><em>Hanover</em> county, and not above ten acres cleared in the whole<br />tract. Any person inclinable to purchase may know the terms<br />by applying to<br />Tf NATHANIEL W. DANDRIDGE.</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 indisputable title will be made, and laid<br />off in lots as may best suit the purchasers.<br />Apply to Col. <em>William Cabell,</em> (who is At-<br />torney for the executors of <em>Philip Grymes,</em><br />Esq; deceased, and lives in <em>Amherst</em> county)<br />or to Tf LUNSFORD LOMAX, Jun.</p>
<p><em>Scheme of a Lottery</em><br />FOR disposing of 146 LOTS of<br />LAND, in the town of <em>Hanover,</em> yet remaining<br />unsold.———The least valuable of the lots, according to the<br />prices of those most remote from the water, which have been<br />sold, not being less than 20£. which is far below a medium<br />between that sum and what was given for several near the<br />water, the unsold lots are rated at 30£. each, accounting<br />1, 2, 8, 9, 10, on which <em>Page</em>’s warehouses stand, one lot;<br />and 24, 35, 36, 47, 48, 49, on which <em>Crutchfield</em>’s ware-<br />houses stand, one other lot only, so that there will be but 137<br />lots in the whole to be drawn for; and it is proposed that<br />there shall be no more than that number of chances, and<br />consequently no blanks. The consideration money will not<br />be required of Gentlemen willing to become adventurers,<br />and subscribing to the scheme, until <em>April</em> next; when it is<br />to be paid to the proprietor at <em>Williamsburg,</em> either in cash, or<br />3000 wt. of tobacco. The drawing will be soon after the<br />subscription shall be completed, of which notice shall be given<br />in the <em>Virginia Gazette. Robert Carter Nicholas, George<br />Wythe, Thomas Everard, John Thompsons,</em> and <em>Jerman Baker,</em><br />Esquires, will be managers of the lottery, or any three of<br />them. Tf MANN PAGE.</p>
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<p>WILLIAMSBURG: Printed by ALEX. PURDIE, and JOHN DIXON, at the POST OFFICE; by whom<br />Persons may be supplied with this PAPER, at 12 s. 6 d. a Year. ADVERTISEMENTS of a moderate Length are inserted<br />for 3 s. the first Week, and 2 s. each Week after.</p>
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