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Title The Virginia Gazette. Number 1240, May 13, 1775 - CWF-owned copy

Contributor J. Dixon & W. Hunter (Firm) (Printer)

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Date (of original object) 1775-05-13

Date (of original object, free text) 1775-05-13

Subject (LoC) Newspapers--Virginia--Williamsburg

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Citation Virginia gazette (Williamsburg, Va.), 1775-05-13; Number 1240. Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library. Special Collections https://digitalcollections.colonialwilliamsburg.org/asset-management/2RERYDTSQFRH

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Content ing the minds of your Majefty’s faithful American fubjeéts, and of reftoring that harmony and cordial union between the mother country and us, which is fo effential to the welfare and proiperity of both. We befeech your Majetty to believe, that our earheit prayer'to Heaven is, that your ‘Miajetty may contmue long the happy and beloved monarch of a brave, @ fvee, a virtuous, and united people, and that your children after you may continue to ill the Britifh throne to the lateft generations. By order of the General Afiembiy, JOHN CRUGER;, Speaker. Affembly Chamber, city of New York, 2 March 2 1975. 4 To the Right Hon. the LorDs SPIRITUAL aud ‘TEMPORAL of GREAT BRITAIN, i Parliament affembled. The MEMORIAL of his Mayelty’s faithful fubjects the re- prefentatives of the colony of NEw YORK, in GENERAL ASSEMBLY convened. May it pleafe your Lordjhips, E, his Majelty’s moft dutiful and loyal fubjeéts, the re- - ~ prefentatives of the colony of New York, ’in General ] Afferably convened, are confcious, when we addrefs your Lord- fhips, that we are applying to a body who have ever been diftin- guifhed for the firmeft attachment to the principles of liberty, and that happieft refult of them, the Britifh conftitution. We acknowledge ouritlves, and the people we reprefent, ftriétly bound by the ties of faith and allegiance to our moft gracious Sovereign, that we juftly owe the fame faith and alleciance a$ are due to him from his fubjects in Great Britain; /that we regard him with the utmoft veneration, and that we fhail ever be ready to centribute to his feryice, and to fupport. the dignity of his. crown and government. . We efteem ourfelves happy in our connection with the parent ftate, whofe true interefts are infeparably united with our own, and we are fully feniible that none but the enemies of both coun- tries could ever wifh to disjom them. a impreffed with thefe fentiments, we confider ourfelves as parts of une great empire, in which it is neceflary. there fhould be tome fupreme regulating power. But though.we acknowledge the ex- iftence of fuch power, yet we conceive it by no means compre- hends a right of binding tis in all cafes whatfoever; becaufe a 7 power of fo unbounded an extent would totally deprive us of f{e- curity, and redu¢e us to a ftate of the moft abjeét-fervitude. The colonies, as your Lordfhips know, were not in contem- ylation when the forms-of the Britifh conftitution. were eftab- ifhed; it followed, therefore, from‘its principles, when coloni- zation took place, that the colonilts. carried with-them all the rights they were entitled to in the country from which they emi- grated; butas, from their local circumftances, they were pre- cluded from fharine' in the reprefentation: in that legiflature in which they had been reprefented, they, of right, claimed and en- joyed a jegiflature of their own, always acknowledging the King, or his reprefentative, as one branch thereof: This right they have pointedly, repeatedly, and zealoufly afferted, as what only could afford them that fecurity which their fellew fubjeéts in Great Britain enjoy, under a conftitution at once the envy and admiration of furrounding nations;.* becaufe.no money can be raifed upon the fubjects-in ‘Great Britain, nor any law made that is binding on him, withou’ the concurrence of thofe who have been cletted by the people to reprefent them. : for what happinefs ¢an the colonifts expect, if their lives‘and propertics are at the abfolute difpofal of others, and that power, which, when reftrained within its juft bounds, would difpente light and heat to the whole empire, maybe employed, -like.ade- youring fame, to coniume and deftroy them? | Your Lordfhips will excufe, nay, we doubt not, will commend us for fpeaking, at this important junéture, with the freedom be- coming the reprefentatives of a free people, when addrefline our- feives to this moft dluftrious body. ~ -- ¥ We therefore beg leave, .on this occafion, to declare, that we conceive the people of the colonies entitled to equal rights and privileges with their fellow fubjeéts in Great Britain. That, ‘upon thefe principles, it is a grievance of a moft alarm- ing nature that the Parliament of Great Britain fhould claim a right to enact laws binding the colonies in all cafes whatfoever. Incompatible as this claim is with the very idea of freedom, your Lordthips cannot wonder that the colonies fhould exprefs an invincible repugnance tout. Abfolute and uncontroulable power in any man, or body of men, neceflarily implies abfolute flavery in thofe wlio are fubjeét to it, even fhould fuch a powernot be carried into execution; yet let it be remembered, that the liberties of an Englifhman are his rights, and: that freedom ¢onfifts not in a mre exemption from oppreffion, but-in a right to fuch exemp- tion, founded cn law and principles of the conftitution. But your Lordfhips cannot be ignorant that this elaim has been exercifed in fuch a manner as to give the colonifts the utmoft un- eafineis, and the moft unexceptionable grounds of complaint. Duties, for the exprefs purpofe of raifing arevenue in America, have been impofed upon feveral articles imported directly. from Great Britain, or the Britith colonies, and on foreign’ wines, an article which does not in the leaft interfere with:the produtts of ‘Great Britain, or any of its colonies. igre , The juridiction of the Admiralty Courts has been extended be- yond its ancient limits; the judges of thofe Courts invefted with new and unconititutional powers; the fubjects in America; in “many cafes, divefted of that invaluable privilege, a trial by jury, and a difcrimination highly injurious, held up between us and our feilow fubiects in Great Britain. and laying an unreafonable reftraint upon us, with in the colony. employed in the adminftration, of juftice have ‘been independent of the people, with refpeét beth to their dalarics and the tenure of their commifiions, whereby they are freed from thofe checks to which, as feryants of the public, they cucht to be fubject, although the repréfentatives of the people have ever been ready, and now declare their willinonefs to make fuit- ble’provilion for their fupport. , : New and unconititutional aéts have been pafled, and conftruc- tions made of an old oné, by which.the American fubjcét is di- rected to be tried for offences, either real or fuppofed; not in the | piace ond their characters are known, but ina ftrange country, where et ee endtred be afcertained. We ave caxtremely unhappy that occafion has been ‘given us to add to the catalogue of our grivances, the laws enacted gn the laft feflion of the late Parliament, for fhutting up the port of Bofton, for altering the government of the Maffachufetts Bay, and for the impartial ddminiftration of juftice in certain cafes in that province. 7 , Although it is no to uri ntention to enterinto a juftification of the meaiures: which occafioned thofe aéts,- or to intimate an approba- tion of the mode purfued for redreffing the grievances of which they have been produftive, yet we cannot help viewing them as forming precedents of fo dangerous a nature as mult render the privileges, ‘the property, and even the lives of all his Majelty’s Americarfubjects, precarious and infecure.’ By other ats of the fame feffion, the bounds of the province of Quebec are confiderably extended; the Roman Catholic religion “~~ : . é' may be conitrued to be eftablifhed throughout that province; and duch régulations are-enatted refpecting its trade, as not only held ms oa rig ‘ ‘ - Sai = s i> ae ait up a difcrimination between.the continental and other colonies, injurious to the former, but, in the eftablifhment of the port of entry, cannot fail totally to deprive thiscolony of an extenfive and important commerce, which it formerly carried on with the native Indian inhabitants of that vatt traét of country now includ- ed within the bounds of that government. _, ‘Thefe are the principal gricvances under which our conftituents at prefent labour ;~ but though. we conceive :t our duty thus fully to lay them before your Lordfhips, we beg leave to aflure you, that we fhall always cheerfully fubmit to the conftituticnal exer- cife of the fupreme regulating power, lodged in the King, Lords, and Commons of Great Britain, and to all aéts calculated for the general weal of the empire, andthe due regulation of the trade and commerce thereof. We conceive this. power includes a right to lay duties upon all articles imported directly into the colonies from any foreion country or plantation, which may. interfere with produéts or ma- nufactures of Great Britain, or any other part of his Majefty’s dominions; but that it is eflential to freedom, and the undoubted rights of our conftituents that no taxes be impofed on them, but with their confent given perfonally, or by their lawful reprefen- tatives. Whilft, ,therefore, we entertain fuch difpofitions of obedience to the lawful powers of government, all allegiance to our moft gracious Sovereign, and attachment to the parent country, we humbly. hope your Lordfhips will aid and concur in redrefling our grievances, removing all cautes of diflention with Great Bri- tain, and eftablifhing our rights and privileges upon a folid and lafting foundation. snd your memorialifts fhall ever pray. By order of the General Ariembly, JOHN CRUGER, Speaker. Acffembly Chamber, city of New aaa: March 25, 19775. Bo Oss EO oN, aa, AST Tuefday night the grenadiers and light companies be- longing to the feveral reciments in this town, were ferrying in long boats from the bottom of the common over to Phips’s Farm in Cambridge; from whence they proceeded on their way to Con- cord, where they arrived early yefterday. The. firit brigade, commanded by Lord Percy, with two pieces of artillery, fer off from here yefterday morning at ten o'clock as a_ reinforcement, which, with the grenadiers and light companies} made about eioh- teen hundred men. Upon the people’s having notice of this move- ment on Tuefday night, alarm suns were fired throushout the country, and expreiles fent off to the different towns ; fo that very early yelterday morning large numbers were aflembled from all parts of the country. A general battle enfued, which, from what we can learn, was fupported with great fpirit on both fides, and continued until the King’s troops retreated to Charleftown, which was after funfet. Numbers are kiHed and wounded on both fides. The reports concerning this unhappy affair, and the caufes that concurred to bring on an engagement, are {o various that we are not able to colleét any thing confiftent or reeular, and cannot therefore, with certainty, give our readers any. further ac- count of this fhocking introduction to all the miferies of a civil war. WIC) oa + L eee (Be S: ee Sle NEW YORK, My t. "E hear there are letters in this town, from Connetticut, which fay, that the number of men lately affembled at | Botton, including thofe from Conne&ticut and Rhode Ifland, amounted to 60,000; that they are moftly returned to their re{pec- tive homes, leaving an army of about 15,000 to watch General Gage’s motions, who, we are told, \has given the inhabitants of Botton permiffion to leave the town, on condition they left their arms behind them; that two frigates, and three general officers, were arrived at Bofton from England, and a larce number of troops hourly expected; and bor General Gage and the inhabi- tants of Bofton, had fent exprefles to Great Britain with accounts of the late action at Lexington and Concord. We ftill feem to be in great fulpenfe about our accounts from Bofton, the authenticity of part of them being doubtful; however, we make not the leaft doubt there has. been a {mart engagement between the King’s troops and the provincials, in which we hear the former has loft 302 men, killed, wounded, and taken pri- foners, and the latter 37; but-we do not learn there was any general officer loft on either fide; and the regular poft being now ftopped between this place and Bofton, it is probable we will remain fomewhat longer in the dark concerning this very difagree- able, unhappy, and melancholy tranfaction. A letter from Bofton, dated laft Monday, and received fince writing the above paraecraphs, fays, ‘¢ the communication between this town and country is entirely {topped up, and not a foul per- mitted to go in or out without a pais. This day the Governor has difarmed all the inhabitants, after giving them his word and honour that the foldiers fhould not moleft nor plunder them. Cambridge is the head quarters of the provincials, and they are commanded by General : ‘They are entrenching them- felves at Roxbury, and ereéting batteries to play on our lines. ANN AP OL ES, May ft, L778. In PROVINCIAL CONVENTION. Refolved unanimoufly, that all exportations from this province to Quebec, Nova Scotia, Georgia, and Newfoundland, or any part of the fifhng coaft, ‘or fifhing iflands, and to the town of Bofton, ought immediately to be fufpended until the Continental Congyrefs thall give further directions therein. WILLIAMSBURG, May 13. l Y a letter from New York, dated the 27th of April, el Guthenticated, we have advice that a large number of men had embodied, and that they were making the utmolt preparations for their fecurity; that they had taken poffeffion of the cuitom- houit, ~and refolved-te-thut a> their port entirely, unle{s for in- ward bound and whaling veficis, &c. that they had the ereatett reafon to believe an exprefs had been fent off to the General, re- quefting a number of troops, and therefore defired the utmoft and moft efficacious affittance from their friends. It is faid they are hourly gaining further intelligence of the dark defiens of their internal and external enemies. ‘They expcét the bett effe&ts from their meafures, provided all the colonies will adopt the fame. From another authentic letter, dated at Philadelphia, April 29, 1775, we learn that they had refolved in that city to ftop all trade to thofe colonies: which had not acceded to the 1efolutions of, the General Congrefs, among{t which Newfoundland and its dependencies are included. We have it from unqueftionable authority that all veffels loaded with provifions, &c. for Botton, and the adjacent provinces, are feized by order of the General. Yefterday afternoon the Countefs of Dunmore, and the ref of the Governor’s family, returned to this city, from on board the Fowey man of war. His Excellency Governor Gage has iffued writs for calling a General Affembly, to be convened at Bofton on Wednefday the gif inftant. GovernorFranklin has alfo, by proclamation, called a meeting of the General Afiembly of New Jerfey to be on the x sth of this month, his Excellency having received difpatches from one of his Majéfty’s principal Secretaries of State, containing matters of great importance to the colony, jn the prefent fituation of pub- lic affairs, and calculated to reftore that harmony between Great eh peor er ee a ad _ i = ad, _ A rs ve - r Z ao + ora al i B ray Wty rg wey © re - Fe - 25 s% yb u - : 2 ie Ln Ye teen : ae td - a. 4 an. er Beis es , ty = tee et ms ong pe es ~ = ef } Ne ee a ae te Bites ae Se eRe FF yk Gene Faw a. a0) atten ae, or eer 7, A tat FF Pride | i I tee S co ga aS eae gas . ra, goer ee = fy aie HG. Ue ep aka. ct bie oe Bi aes | eae ly ~ * ae 7 * ‘eit 4 ae ] ee ie a aah L™ Paka Ae NS ae ig ern AS Eee fs a i ry Peel Sal " “ i. ae © asd i = of ee TD aot aS ete aie 4 a. ak. * as > nes arr. “al hee ay a i us Britain and her American colonies, fo effential to the inte * i Ar fifhermen of New England. ge hadi &. letter from London fays, that two general officers, who were appointed to go to America, have abfolutely refufed. Yeilerday William Pitman, ‘for the murder of his flave, John Watkins, for arape, and-John. Wood and William Gray, for. burglary, were executed at the gallows, puriuant to their fentence at the latt General Court. When the therif and his attendants entered the gaol to take. them into cuftody, Pitman made forme re- fiitance, -but was foon overpowered; he behaved with decency at the place of execution, and attributed his unhappy fate to be the effect of intemperate drinking. The Sufanna, Dobbie, from London, -is armived in Rappahans-: nock; john, Power, from ditto, at Norfolk; Richmond, Pat- terfon, trom Glafgow, in James river; Profperity, London, and Sarah, Drew, from Briftok.

Reyer JOHN SYME, SAMUEL OVERTON, WILLIAM CRAGHEAD, MERIWETHER SKELTON, RICHARD MorrIs, BENJAMIN ANDERSON, JOHN PENDLETON, JOHN ROBINSON, NEL- SON BERKELEY, and GEORGE, DABNEY, junior. GREEABLE,.to a refolution of the committee held at Newcaitle the 2d inftant, fetting forth, that they, being fully informed of the violent hoftshties committed by the King’s troops in America, and of the danger arifing to the colony by the lofs of the public powder, and of the condué of the Governor, which threatens altogether calamities of the efeateft macnituile, and moftt fatal confequences to this colony, and therefore recom- mending reprifals to be made upon the King’s property fuflicient to replace the gunpowder taken out of the magazine, 1t appearsito this commuttee, that the voJunteers who marched from Newcafile, to obtain fatisfaction for the publicpowder, by reprifal, or other- wife, proceeded on that bufinets as follows, to wit: .*€ That an officer with 16 men was detached to feize the King’s Receiver Ge. neral, with orders to. detain him; is, It was es chs and this, might be done without impeding the progrefs of the main body, The faid Receiver General not being apprehended, owing to his abfence from home, the {aid detachment, according to orders, proceeded to join the main body on its march to Wilhamiburg ; andthe junétion happened the.3d inftant, at Doncaftle’s ordinary, about funfet. A little after funrife next morning, the command- ing officer being affured that proper fatisfattion, in money, fhould be inftantly made, the volunteers halted, and the propotal being liberty and Amerita; now rendezvoufed here in confequence: burg and neighbourhood have had’full affurances from his — a ei a te ot ‘ ; . : . r i: 7, * Y ; R D i? R E DLhat De Ci ts bs ay lé PZ A Ms hall ayes “od w Kent, -May 4, 1775; received from the Hon. Richard to attribute to the regard he profefled; and which we Mattered our- Cy om Ms ee: ogre ee Je i etait ik, - «© Corbin, Eig; his Majelty’s Receiver General, 3301]. as a com- felves he had, for his Government, proceeded only tron his rears Paap Bie 7 ee af the Ep ge es, i ELS eae hie “$ penfation for the gunpowder lately teken out of the public of the difgrace of a difappointment; and we find, as foon as it 8 a / Gu peta BW V fied Tih ee ee ‘ 3 ga 3 : ‘ + @ their CouUntzeS,> COTA: Dé Wp - , » Gd tive f <¢ magazine by the Governor's order; which money I promile to was known that letter would be made public, the mafk was thrown thy : oe we alli 335 ei be Ti heer fe h g aT EG, bQE z : ; : i t = é : = : = 7 a : Z cs ) ' - ia ? 7 ; We ? ra" f " « convey toithe Virginia Delegates at the General Congrefs, to oif, and the firft ftep taken’ to open the cyes of the people was the “ A sek Aiea ae oe Jame Lime, a Lit of the publick Charges of | RE SED prearer oe =) RODE eee em ; re iwino oF. : . ay 4 Le iC macavzine n the {t feeret me i di CAP GE : : rs «¢ be, under their direction, «laid out in sunpowder for the colo- feizing of. the gunpowder in the public magazine in the moft fecre Seo , , hall 4 fae Be Bo ea te ae te . E bat the Cler we to L “«“ ny’s ufe, and to-be ftored as they fhall direct, ‘until the next manner: How far fuch a manceuvre is juftifiable is not our in- Blithe F ig sae 2 eg thes Honfe do cause the fame to be « Colony-Cénvention, of General Affembly,: unlefs it fhall be tention at prefent to inquire into, that being a point on which thie PuolLned in ae P es PEs ae ss. heceflary, -in the meantime, to uiethe fame in the defence of this public will undoubtedly undertake to judge for themfelves; but ws ERE. ‘tee ie tian! . eae - Fy ; nevi pe , ‘x71 t $414 = z ' iets alle re Js i 7) a as ‘colony. itis agreed, that in cate the next Convention fhall we cannot help giving it as our opinion, that his Exccellency’s eee cane? ‘© determine that any part of the faid money ought to be returned anfwer to the addrefs of tlre re{pectable Corporation of the city of ewe een ‘© to his Mayjelty’s faid Receiver Seneral, that the fame fhall be Williamfburg on that occafion is highly difrefpectrul and evative. WAN T&F D, “done accoxdinigly. eee 7 And now, my countrymen, let us; by our ftea dy perfeverance in i Sr Tef, bo PAWRICK “HENRY, fun.” virtue and unanimity, convince his Excellency, when he fays that An A P P R 3 N [ -¢ | > SAMUEL MEREDITH. A true copy) every {tep we take muft inevitably defeat its own purpofe, that he : Parke GOODALL. (A tr ed (to ufe the phrafe of our late truly worthy and noble Governor) TO THE BUSINESS OF A “It was then confidered, that as a General Congrefs would meet has not augured right. stia.te : A in a few days,-and probably a Colony Convention would fhortly We thought ourfelves under the indifpenfable neceflity of making S ap O C K I N Gs M A 1G E R afemble, and that the reprisal now: made would amply replace the foregoing itriétures on the above-mentioned letter, leaft our ue a3 5] 2 i : - , “ 7 : i : 3 jos a = . ¥ . = F i ere che-powder, mee thescharoes of tranfportation, the commafiding oe Pea be Svea by = ee roy ee ee a A Lad about 14 Years of Age.———Apply to re in Williamfburg. | | PRES 0 i ae ap acit corfenion of our guilt; and now we fubmitto the public how er wrote the following letter, and fent it by expre{s. BE) Sul; ep , A | one af ag ati ae ee far his Excellency merits the continuance of that unlimited confi- AD AM ALL AN. eS TKS. Ree aie si Ubi eos dence heretofore placed in him: ‘The tribute of our refpect we ST : , Tbe OY ar the Laas 4 es ed, [0 AS t0 pe ee he are {till willing to pay him as ottr Chief Magiftrate, and the re- WILLIAMSBURG, May 13, 1775. tion to xe, and I earnejily wih to the colony in general. 7€ people prefentative of our moft gracious Sovereign, to whom we fhall al- HE Treafurer Truttees and Sub{eri= here hawe it in charge from Hanover conmuttee to tender their Jes “ways pay all due obedience, - PARES eee ee i HE a we ae aie alla Aten ay the Aurhole of elrnrt: iC y 2 : ae PuUNd ror the Nelief of the 14OWS a ‘ vice to yOu, AS a puolic ED LOANS Ml of €fcoi aes pa Ordered, .that the Clerk fend a copy of thefe proceedings to phans of Glereynien éslesied latt ‘Sunday. from the fact oa “qanijer ; ; - - 2 ned : ; Ans treafury to any place in t Spans, eae 5A oh) ave ee ee Meff. Dixon and Hunter, and Mr. John Hunter Holt, to be pub- ences, £ sae coe ite Rene ee es te i Pht ees ei. f P lbure. ‘ * a a eA S = g 5 =" 3 * Gn 1 Cou .f eq - “4 4 is more fate than in the city of Willianyou &. Lhereprifal now made by lifhed; and they are defired to publith them in their next gazettes. Thanks: toatheladnsreres@sn oil “J a 5 Heya 1 the the Hanaver volunteers, though accomplifbed ia manner leaft hable | “BENTAMIN CROOKER.- Clerk, : no wontiibuters.~ On the Day following to the iniputation of violent extremity, may poffibly be the caufe of | A har bc 3 settee, : they ordered £.81'to bediftributed among hve Widows, and the U P bh in bet 4 ‘ fe ccd : 6 rae eran yh AS NS ae | d + np $ : ed SO NTs pe ihe ae future injury to the treafury. If therefore you apprehend the leapt | Diites 7 : Pee oe : d ; Orphans of fix Clergymen, and appointed Officers for the enfuing’. | dancem a jiufficient guard is at your fervice. I beg the return of the ar a he FP, eeholdei J Qj thofe OuUnLLeS AN . Year, UB. the Reverend Meflrs. Fohn Cano, ‘Treafurer, Adam F | hediee may be infant, becaufe the men vaijn to know their defitnation. Corporations who may not yet have chofex Deputies to reprefent them | Smyth, Thomas Field, W iam Harrtjon, Alea ander White, Henry With great regard, Iam, Sir, | Your moft humble fervant, in a general Convention ard defired to do it without Lofs of Time, as | Skvring, and Samuel Klug, “Truftees; Thomas Davis, June Morn- | PATRICK, HENRY, Jun. it 15 judged neceffary, by jome refpeclable Gentlemen, that all the De- ing, and Samuel Sheild, Evening Preacher. fin ae 2 | s z j Py cock Fae ; oe Prandin ht VATA oa | a Fe) A I 1C)F TT Be fo | Yo ROBERT CARTER NicHoLas, E/g; Treasurer. sy 5 ag baile ae eg On HAS Se ee theWifh Ft “f JACOB BRUCK, Clerk, Pas SAMUEL MEREDITH. | and Lifire yf ihe worthy Delegates from this Colony, awho are now Ata VESTRY |, oe : —— 7 Left, ine ANDER (A true copy) attending the General Cougrefs, that others may bé chofen to fupply RY held for NORTH FARNHAM Pap YO the 21 of Bay GARLAND ANDERSON. 4 hen DIL iin ee Re APRIL, 1776 | eas ee ae oo eit | ir necefjary Abfence. nen é To which an anfwer was received from the faid Mr. Nicholas, EE ees, CHL ATESUCETT HE CEN ET) 421 Rese Riess 5G Po oN Ps Pe 7 apprehenfions:.of the:neceffity or pro- Joun Smir. Le Roy Grrery importing, that he had no apprehentions of t eos ok Wt A ie 0 PA tee AR dy eu ts Ze ON ty at gL ee TA -E KOY GRIEFIN, priety of the proffered fervice. For which reafons, and under- OS ORS A AS EE ASA OSES ASE JOHN Larerey, WILLIAM SMITH, , ftandine, moreover, jrom others, . that the re i ic ot : A DVERTISEMENTS NICHOLAS Freon; CHuarurs M‘CARTY, \ Gentlemen, ge de penal Se rel a was as pAaeeN al + a + & rier = . te 1 Py 4 ai } a Wy “a PE Wilhamfbure were in a great meaiure quieted from thetr late WILLIAM PEACHEY, Hupson Muse : i o. ie een . am ee uP Go tn ENO UNE ) fey ey 4 ® apprehenfion foy their perfons and property, the voluntecrs judged | p> WAR a SAR Sa LA Ren PAR an ORR Le Roy Peacugy, Wiziiram Cotsron, it beft to return home, and did fo accordingly, in order to wait | | —-— a ae —_— eee ee ee OP ee ee — -, Pr he m ae vo nk aor vie a aT he ear eres | ‘oo = =. aa rat fat ee — at as at Ten at = ee Sy is 2 eT: Ordered, that the Clerk do tranfmit a copy of thefe proceedings to the printers, and defire that they will be pleafed to publith the fame in the gazettes, as foon as poffible. By order of the committee, {A copy) ~BARTLETT - ANDERSON, Clk. t a mecting gf the Committee of the county of .N ORPOLK, of the courthoufe of faid county, on Lhurfday the 4th of May, 1775: HE refolves of the Convention held at the town of Richmond, on the 20th of March-laft, wereread, and unanimoufly ap- proved. y Refolved, that the thanks of this Committee be prefented to Thomas Newton, junior, and James Holt, ‘Ejquires, our worthy Delegates, for their faithful difcharge of the important truft re- pofedin them. Aiyietpse . f Having heretofore placed the higheft degree of confidence in the good intentions of -our Chief Magiltrate towards his Majefty’s mio loyal and faithful fubjects, the good people of this dominion, over whom he pretides, which we can fafely athrm had gained him their univerfal efteem and refpect, with equal lurprife and forrow we have feen, in our public gazettes, extracts of a letter faid to be wrote by our faid Chief Magiltrate, on the 24th of December laft, to the Earl of Dartmouth, one of his Majeity’s principal Secreta- ries of State, moft grotily mifreprefenting all the good people of this colony, particularly the magiftrates, and thofe whom the people have elected as committees to be the guardians of their in- eftimable rights and liberties; and as his Excellency has not thought proper to difavow being the author of fuch letter, we mutt take it for granted that the extract publifhed ‘is @ faithful copy: - We therefore think it our indifpenfable duty, in juftice to our own reputations, and that of our conitituents, who have honoured us with fuch marks of their confidence and efteem, to refute fo un- juftand unmerited, fo defamatory and atrocious a charge. Firit, then, we declare that we know of no inftance wherein any com- mittee in this or the neighbouring counties has affumed an autho- rity to infpeét the books, or any other fecrets of the trade of mer- chants. We admit to have known fome inftances where {ome merchants, being fufpected of a breach of the aflociation, have vo- luntarily offered fome private letters and books to be infpected, in order to acquit themfelves of fuch charge. | He next fays, we itigmatize thofe we difcover to have tranf- grefied what we hardity call the laws of the Congrefs; which fticmatizine, to'ufe the words in tHe faid ‘extra&t, “ is no other «¢ than inviting the vengeance of an outrageous and lawlefs mob <¢ to be exercifed on the unhappy viétims.”* Several in this bo- and county have'been held up for public cenfure for breaches eo ‘ouch of the aflociation, but no vengeance of any mob or individual has been inflicted on them, not even that fafhionable one lately intro- duced by the troops under the command of General Gage;- and we could call upon fundry perfons here, who were thus ftigmatized, to juftify this affertion. We wiih his Excellency had deigned to name the county where the committee had proceeded fo far as to {wear the men of their independent company to execute all orders which they fhould give them, as it is a piece of information entirely new to us, as wellas | that of every other county forming an independent company for the avowed purpofe (as he fays) of protecting their committees, and to be employed againit Goverment, if occafion require. We hope all the dark plots of our moft fecret or declared enemies will prove imeffectual in bringing matters to that unhappy iflue; and we have fo hich an opinion of the virtue of our countrymen, that we look upon the folemnity of an oath altogether unneceflary to ftimulate them to ftand forth firm and. intripid upon all juft oc- cafions in fupport of their civil and religious rights and liberties. Whillt we were thus fondly flattering ourfelves that we had, in his Excellency, a moft powerful advocate in order to accommo- date the unhappy difputes fubfifting between Great Britain and the colonies, we leave the world to judge what poignant forrow we mutt feei on the difcovery that it was a vain delufion, and that, snf{tead of the good offices we expected, he was all the time widen- ing’the breach by muifreprefenting fo greatly out conduct to thofe 1 power; and we now difcover, from his Excellency’ faid let- = ter, that his gentle and lenient conduét, which we were too ready 3 Pa 2 By bis Excellency ihe Right Hon. JOHN Earl of DUNMORE, his Majeftys Lieutenant and Governor General of the Colony and Do- minion of VIRGINIA, and Vice Adniral oj the fame: PR CL ene ACT Oe ' prorogued to the firit Thurfilay ‘in Sep- tember next, but it is judged expedient and neceflary that they fhould be fooner convened: I have therefore thought j proper, by this Proclamation, in his Majetty’s Name, to appoint the firft \: Tharjfday in the next Month for that 7 Purpofe; at which Time their Atten- darice 1s accordingly required at the Ca- pitol, in the City of Willhiamfourg, for the Defpatch of public Bulinefs. , GIVEN under my Hand, and the Seal of the Colony, at Williamfbure ajforefad, this 12th Day of May, ix the 15th Year of his Majeftys Reign. Pre IN NEO RE, | GOD SA WE (THE ‘KING. By bts Excellency the Right Hon.. JOHN Earl of DUNMORE, }i Majefty’s Lieutenant aud Governor General of the Colony and Do-. | , minion of VIRGINIA, andVice Admiral of the fame: 4 J AP ReQ Coa MOAT. l-O.N VIRGINI-A, to wit, HEREAS [I have been informed, from undoubted Au. thority, that acertain Patrick Henry, of the County of Hanover, and a Number of deluded Followers, have taken up Arms, chofen their Officers, and ttyling themfelves an Indepen- dent Company, have marched out of their County, encampéd, and put themfelves in a Pofture of War; and have written and defpatched Letters to divers Parts‘6f the Country, exciting the People to join in thefe outrageous and rebellious Pra&tices,; to the great Terrour of all his Majefty’s faithful Subjects, and in open Defiance of Law and Government; and have committed othey Aéts of Violence, particularly in extorting from his Mayefty’s Receiver General the Sum of 3301. under Pretence of replacing the Powder I thought proper to order from the Magazine; whence it undeniably appears, that there is no longer the leatt Security for the Life or Property of any Man: WHEREFORE I have thought proper, with the Advice of his Majefty’s Council, and in his Majetty’s Name, to iffue this my-Proclamation, ticthy charging all Perfons, upon their Allegiance, not to aid, abet, or give Countenance to, the faid Patrick Henry, or any other Perfons concerned in fuch unwarrantable Combinations; but, on the Contrary, to oppofe them and their Detigns by every Means; which Defigns muit, otherwife, inevitably involve the whole Country in the moit direful Calamity, as they will call for the Vengeance of offended Majefty and the infulted Laws, to. be ex- erted here, to vindicate the conftitutional Authority of Govern- ment, GIVEN under my Hand, and the Seal of the Colony, at Williamfburg, this 6¢4 Day of May, 1975, and in ihe 15th Year of bis Majeflys Reign. ¢ é GOD & SAVE FHE KEEN G. By bis Excellency the Right Hon. JOHN Earl of DUNMORE, his Majefty s Lieutenant and Governor General of the Colo: wy and Do- minion of VIRGINIA, and Vice Admiral of the fame: A ek OR OFC lL A Aas ON: VIRGINIA, to wit, Vales ss Iam informed that JAMES HOPKINS, who was committed to the Public Gaol from the County of Orange, to take his Trial at the General Court for Horfe-Steal- ing, did laft Night make his Efcape from thence: The {aid Jamies Hopkins is a {tout well made Man, about 5 Feet ro Inches high, has a Scald-Head, and had on an Ofnabrug Shirt and Troufers ; he has ufually wandered about the Country, {ome Times pretend. ing to be dumb, at other Times to have lot the Ufe of his _ Limbs, and at others affuming the Office of a Baptift Preacher: In Order, -therefore, that the faid Fames Hopkins may be brought to Juitice, I do hereby offer a Reward of TWENTY POUNDS to any Perfon who thall apprehend and deliver Him to the Keeper of the Gaol aforefaid. GIVEN under my Hand, and the Seal of ihe Colony, at Willamfburg, this 11th Day of May, 1775, andin ihe 15th Year of his Majefy’s Reicu. D-U N MO R-E. KN G. GOD Si arV BE 6) i t cr ° DUN WM On RAE THURSDAY; December 4, 1 766. \iv HEREAS a Report hath been indut- Credit to fuch falfe Reports, the Veitry ef the faid Parith having mediately publifhed, im the Churchyard, and in the Virgizie Ga~ zettes, as foon as may be convenient, an Advertifement to con-= tradict the faid Report, and to oive public Notice, that the Cure of the faid Parith is (til! vacant, and that the Vettry of the faid Parifh would not be fo wanting to their Duty, nor fo unmindful of their Charge, as to keep the Parith vacant for fich a Number of: 7 7. = . 7 & Years as muit neceflarily pafs over before the faid ‘Mr. Fitzhugh | Mackay. will be of a proper Age to-receive Ordination ‘to quality himfelf to difcharge the Office of a Clersyman. ts LE ROY PEACHEY;, f Charch d - Tet, HUDSON MUSE; mp? i NaS SAMUEL Weruintams, Clerk of the Veltry. _ LANCASTER, April 20, 795, I intend to leave the Colon immediately. , JOHN MAXWELL. Tin Ska EN oh Ee R UN away from the Subfcriber, in New Kent, the 27th of April lait, a Negro Fellow named MI- CHAEL, about 25 Years old, 5 Feet 7 Inches high, had on 2 Cotton Warnftcoa', an Oinabrug Shirt, Leather Breeches, and a Pair of black Stockings. He walks remarkably ftraisht, and hag. been in William/burg offering to hire himfelf. Whoever brings him to me thall have 40s. Reward, or 20s. if fecured In any Gaol. tf 5 SAMUEL’ APPERSON. RUN a MAR EDWARDS.. Pees a . ee ered to receive, and grant Difcharges for, the Debts fill due to Gordon & Ramfay. BLANDFORD, May Ek a} HOSE indebted to Ram/fay, Monreizé, and Co. are defired to take Notice, that their Bufink{s at this Place, formerly under Mr. Patrick Ramfay’s and lately wnder my Direction, is now managed by Mr. William Bogle, who is tully empowered to wanfact the fame, and to whom they are defired to make Payment. When the Times admit, it willbe catried on as ufual. WILLIAM ROBERTSON. TO BE SOLD To the bigheft Bidders, at the Davelling-Houfe of James Bucwa- NAN, deceafed, in SURRY County, on Tuurspay the 25th Inflant, Ro alias . ONDRY Articles of HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN FUR- S NITURE, fome PLATE, and four valuableNEGRO HOUSE SERVANTS. Credit will be allowed the Purchafers for all Sums of 25s. or upwards, until the 25th: of April 1776, giving Bond and approved Security to _ : HENRY SIMMONS, Adiminiftrators of Bu. DENJAMIN SIMMONS, f chanan &F Simmons. - TO} Bobo 8 O' ED; On three Years Credit, to the highef Bidder, on MONDAY the 5th of JUNE, at oneo Clock, in the Road, on the Premijes, WELVE Hundred Acres of LAND, movré or lefs,.on the north Side of Pi/cataway Creek, in Effex County, nearly oppofite to the old Warehoufes. .The Land was lately recovered by a Judgment of our Honourable General Court. An inconteftable Right will be made the Purchafer, on giving Bond (with sood Security) to carry Interef from the Date if not punctually paid. Mi. Francis Vauchan wilt thow the land. A ale EDWARD THWEATT. 2 ||