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OnTueftay last arrived here the privateer ship
hr, James Walcot Commander, with a French Kinjfs
her price; /he wa formerly his Majesty’s Ihip Rover,
fcapt. Savage, and was, not long ago, taken by the Frencn
frigate Juno of 40 guns I ffter a conflift of near an hour ;
she was retaken at flight, under the land of Guadalupe,
without firing a (hot.
Jan. 25. We are informed that the St. George,
Oyen, who,,afeey his arrival here about 14 days ago, failed
on a cruise, on Tuesday last fell in with two /hips belong
ing to the enemy, which proved to be the Experiment 0/
JO guns, and a frigate of 44 guns ; as fflnn as Capt. Oyn
perceived what they were he made fail tor this port, but,
not being able to make this island, (they being in thace of
him) bore away for St. Euftatius, where he came to an
anchor under the guns of the fort; fome time after the
Experiment and the frigate came in and hove to, one on
each fide of the St. George, and sent their boats on board
full of men and well armed, and immediately took poffef
fiohofher. She is worth 40,000!. Mynheer’s inattention
to the"Erench and Rebel flags, and his great complatfanct
and reff> eS to the Briti/h, ought to be taken particular no-?
tice of, and the compliment fully returned.
Nenv-Tork, February 3. On Wednesday last his Ma
jesty’s Ihip Iris, Capt. Dawson, arrived from the Chefa
peak, with the following account of the proceedings of
the army under Brigadier General ARNOLD :
THE fleet haaving been separated by a hard gale of
wind on the 26th and 27th December rejoined off the
Capes of Virginia, and arrived in Hampton road on the
30th, except three transports and one armed vessel with
upward* of 400 troops.
On the 31st December the troops were embarked in
small veffcls and boats, (part of which were captured on
their arrival) and proceeded up James River with the Hope
and Swift armed veflels. On the 3d of January, in the
evening, they anchored at Flour de Hundred, about half
a mi’e from Hood’s Fort, which kept up a heavy fire from
a battery of three 18 and one 24 pounders, and one brass
® inch howitzer, which only killed one man. Lieut. Col.
Simcoe, with 250 men, landed and took poffeflion of the
battery without Opposition, spiked the iron gum, and
brought off, the howitzer, On the 4th the fleet proceeded
to Weftovrr, about 140 miles from the Capes of Virginia,
where the troops*were immediately landed, and marched
to Richmond, which they reached without opposition, the
militia that was colle&ed having every where fled on their
approach. - From hence Lieut. Col. Simcoe marched vyith
a detachment of the army to Weftitam, where t-ha troops
btrnit and deftroycdpne of the fine ft founderiesfor cannon
*ljT America,’ and’ a la^ge"quantity of cannon; -ftorvir&c,
as fptcified in the return. •• *’ „
Gen. Arnold, on his arrival at Richmond, found there
large quantities of tobacco, fait, rum, sailcloth, and mer
chandize, and that part which was publick property he de-
Jlroyed.
The publick ftorei, &c. said to be at Petersburg, being
found on enquiry not an objeft worth attention, the ships
only were sent up within fix miles of that place, from
whence they brought oft” fome vefFels, several having been
previously funk by the Rebels.
The troops having effedled this service marched back
with five very fine brass field pieces, 6 pounders, which
tlye v had taken, and arrived at Weftover on the yrh, hav
ing performed a march of 66 miles, through very heavy
roads and excessive rains, in three days, in an enemy’s
country, where they were sometimes retarded for hours by
the definition of bridges, See.
The Bth, in the evening, Lieut. Col. Simcoe was de
tached with cavalry to Charles City Courthouse, nine
miles from Richmond, where with his usual address he
surprised about aop of the enemy’s cavalry and foot, killed
about 20, and took eight prisoners, with the loss of one
man killed and three wounded ; Capt. .Shanks, of the
Queen’s Rangers, behaved on this, as on every other oc
caSon, with great bravery.
On the 9th the army was joined by‘the troops in the
sniffing transports, and oa the 10th the whole fell down
the river to Flour de Hundred, where the General being
informed there was a party of 6 or 800 Rebels, under the
command of Baron Steuben, he landed with part of his
troops, and sent Lieut. Col. Simcoe, with 300 men, about
two mile* to the cross roads, where the enemy w'ere port
ed. Capt. Hatch, who commanded the vanguard, having
with great gallantry drove in their picquet on the main
body, a very heavy fire from the Rebels killed three men,
•nd wounded Capt. Hatch, Ensign Sword, and about 20
privates of the Loyal American Regiment, whose condu£l
n this occafidh does them great honour; they then charg
ed the enemy with such firmnefs and resolution that they
instantly fled on all sides, and were pursued about two
miles, but the darkness of the night, badness of the
roads, and a heavy /hower of rain falling abot the time,
put an end to the pursuit.... On their return three pieces of
heavy and fome light cannon, with a quantity of stores,
tec. taken from the enemy, were put on board, and the
troops embarked at four next morning, on the nth fell
down the river, taking fome stores, &c. on their way;
Ithey on the 14th anchored at Harding’s Ferry ; the troops,
horses, artillery, tec. were landed, and on the 15th the
army marched to Smlthfield, on Pagan Creek, 17 miles
from thence, where a quantity of provision, &c, wer©
colle&ed.
On the 16th Lieut. Col. Simcoe with 200 men was de
tached to Mackay’s Mills, three miles from Smithfield,
to dislodge about 200 of the enemy who had taken post
there, and who fled upon his approach. Mai dr Gordon.”
was at the fame time thrown over the creek to cut off their
refeat, but they took the woods. On the 18th the army
moved to Sleepy Hole on Nanfemond River, which Lieut.
Col. Simcoe passed with 200 men, and at two in
the morning the began to cross the ferry, they were
til overby 11, and marched 15 miles. When they were
within five miles of Portsmouth Lieut. Col. Simcoe was
detached thither, and arrived at 10 next morning, time
enough to prevent the town from being burnt, as threat
ened by the Rebels, and on the 2eth in the morning the
whole army, to the great joy of the inhabitants, matched
into Portsmouth in good health and high spirits.
Gen. Arnold acknowledges having received every assist
ance from Commodore Symonds, who commands th# fleer,
and speaks in the highest terms of the behaviour of the
officers .and men of the navy and army.
RETURN es Ordnance, Ammunition, Storm, Small Arms,
Aft. taken and deftreyed at Richmond and FVefbam in
Virginia, S'* January, 1781.
Brought off. i
Five brass 6 pounders, French. -
dni Jr/%*
poort£ers> Zrbfl, r . ‘ * .. •
*8 ditto, j, 3
12 ditto, %.
. 9 ditto* 3
* 6 ditto, *
4 ditto, . ®
Burnt And deffroyed at Richmond*
Car rtf on Carriages*
32 pounders; ®
44 ditto, *
18 ditto, 1
12 ditto, a
9 ditto, k-*” 4
32 ditto, land nnfini/lred, L. 3
lS for gondolas, 1 —?
Carriage of anew conftru/ftion for a32 pounder, t
Small arms, nco
Large calks with new French musket locks, con
taining each 2000, >
Bolts of canvas, - 5°
Cordage, ic cwt. hemp, 5 cwt.
‘Shot thrown into the River.
34 pounders, t(00
24 ditto, 500
18 ditto, 400
12 ditto, -■’** 600
6 ditto, _ v ~‘ ‘ f ~ 4000
4 ditto, laoo
3 ditto, 2co
I ditto, grape* tooco
8 inch /hells, 31
8 inch fuzes undrove, *6l
Wcflham.
Spiked and the Tran titans broke off.
6 pounders, iron, 44
4 ditto, ditto, 4
Stores diflroycd at Wtfibam by a Detachment commanded by
Lieut. Col. Simcoe.
Cartridge boxes and bayonets, jßoo
Barrels of powder, 330
Hog/heads of brimstone, f 19
Chests of mulket cartridges, jq
Cherts of flints, 3
Ghefts of 6 pounders cartridges, it
A foundery for carting iron cannon, a magazine, mill,
See.
• Taken and brought off from Hood's Ferry, Jamas': River.
8 inch howitzer, brass, with carriage complete, 1
Shells for ditto, empty! 4*
aOAjpaMi §ij|s£ : :
|8 ditto, : 2
All the publick stores, houses, magazines of oats, Arc.
with the armories and work /hops.
A great number of other military articles which could
not be taken an account of.
A large rope walk, with a great quantity of cordage and
fails in it.
(Signed) THOMAS BRADY, Captain, command
ing the Royal Artillery', Virginia.
Deflriyed at Richmond, stb5 tb January , 1781.
Hnglheads of rum, r 0
Warehouses full of fait, %
A quantity of grain.
(Signed) E. BRABAZON, Major of Brigade.
The whole of the above was effe&ed with the loss of
only 1 Ensign, 1 Serjeant, 5 Men, killed ; 1 Captain, j
Serjeant, 2 Drummers, and 19 Men, wounded.
Cbarlefo-wn, February 24. Yeftcrday arrived a vessel
from the Cbefapeak, by which the important advices re
fpedting Gen. Arnold’s operations have been received.
When flie left it, there were one French 64 gun Ihip and
two fri gates “there; so that, by the arrangements which
have been made in consequence of it, we may hope Ihortly
to hear *f their being under Britiffi colours.
Yesterday morning his Majesty’s /hip Aflurance, of 50
guns, commanded by Capt. Cummins, arrived off” the bar,
with a fleet of 34 transports and store /hips, from Cork.
Col. Btuce, Aid de Camp to his Excellency Sir Henry
Clinton, came passenger in the fleec.
Feb. 27. On Sunday last arrived here a fioop from St.
Croix, bound for New London, prize to his MajcftyV/hip
Assurance, laden with rum, sugar, See.
*'****s
PERSONS having demands against the Estate of th
HOll. Clement Martin, Efcj. deceafcd, are requested
to deliver them to the fubferibert by the 17th instant.
■ ,• •••—; petER EDWARDS,
NATHANIEL POLHILL, ;
H. CUYLER.
Th ereditortof th said estate are re jur.fted to meet the
aforefai 1 persons at the house of Mi 5. Patton, on Monday
the 19th inftaant, at ten o’clock,
GEORGIA, ft. By hi: Excellency Sir JAM E S
In the Court of I WRIGHT, Baronet, Captain
Ordinary. ( General and Governor in Chief in ands
• *’ ( aver bis Rfaje/ly's Province of Geor
\ gia, Chancellor, Vice Admiral, and
:::* Ordinary, es ihe fame'.
( WHEREAS Dorcas Bofwood, Wi
dow of Samuel Bofwood, deeeaf-
L. S. j ed,rhath humbly petitioned me to grant
J her letters of adjniniftration on the Estate
of the ftiitdeneafed, letting forth In her
? w said petition, That the last will and tef
•’ A * ‘ tament of the said deceafcd was destroyed
by fire : That the said aVill being de
stroyed, the said petitioner was incapable of adling in be
half of the estate of the said deceased : That the creditors
of the laid estate were continually distressing the fame, and
those indebted thereto denied to difeharge their Ipgal debts
due to said estate: That fortbefe reasons, the good of-the
creditors and the heirs of the said estate, /he prayed admi
nirtration thereof might be granted to her: These are
thorefore to cite and admoniih all and lingular the kindred
and creditors of the said Samuel Bofwood to be and appear
before me, in the Court of Ordinary of the province a
forcfaid, on Saturday the 31st day of this instant March,
to ihew cause, if any they have, why letters of administra
tion Ihould not be granted to the said petitioner.——
Given under my hand and fcal, at Savannah, the 3J day
of March, in the year of our Lord 1781, and in the
, 21st year of his Majesty’s reign.
ißy his Excellency’s Command,
Geo, Dcp. Reg, ~ ’
PMich Notice is hrely J
THAT rhe of the Peace for the Pan A, U I
Matthew are Jetenxiined to open the Coult of Cuip I
feience, ag:feib!fe to an aft. of the General Atl'enib\ V I
the house of the late John Weitfch, Esq. it Eben?l
the beginning whereof will be made witli the Mon tip* I
Court, on the firft Thursday io April nr*t, when I
causes not exceeding 40s. will be tried and determined fc I
two Justices of thfc Peace and three furymen 3 the
terly Court, where allcaufits not exceeding PI. will betriejfl
by two Justices and 12 jurymen, will come on the fU I
Thursday of May next. C. F. TRIEPNHR,
. ‘ • NAI'HANIEL POLKILi I
~ JOHN GOLD WIRE. ’■
To be fold tt publick Vcnduif
At the house df David Steiner, near the Mills, I
27th of April next,
PART of the Estate of David Steiner deceafcd, confix I
ing'ofa few Negroes, Cattle, Ca-penters Tools a ‘ n J I
Household Furniture. All perlbns indebted to the f 4 ;> |
estate are dellred to make immediate payment, and t ]j • I
having denrands against the fame to fend in their account I
attested. Max caret Stein f.r, Execut r ; x ft
Samon. K* Aus, Executor.
ALL persons havieg any demands against the Eftxt’ of I
Denys Myhony, late of Savannah tavernkeeper, ‘<j.. ft
ceased, are desired to give in their accounts, properly d l t I
tested, to the fvbfcriber; and those anywise indebted so I
ths said estate aie desired to make immediate payment 1
therwife the accounts will be put into thd hands of S! , ft
Attorney at Law, on or before the fitft day of Ami! nex . I
to be sued for without diftinftion.
Frederick Roetes, Executor J
Ogechee
JITTHEREAS a Negro fellow, formerly called Pet7 l
VV and now known by the name of Count, ran away ft
from Denys Myhony, late of Savannah, dcccafed, on th-ft
9th September last, about 20 years of age, tall and weii|
made, speaks good English, and has a cut through one of|
his lips, and it is fufpe&ed that he has a Negro wenclil
named Kate with him, as flic is his wife, and ran away I
from the fubferiber three da\s after the laid fellow; flj,- j, I
hump*backd, of a yellowi/h complexicn, and speaks eoo/l
Englilh; whoever delivers either or both of the said Ne-B
grpes to the fubferiber at Ogeche© Ferry, or to the War.B
den of the Workhouse in Savannah, /hall receive a re war/ B
of one guinea for each and all reasonable charges; and if B
any perfort or persons harbours either of the said Negroetß
after the..d*tc hereof.He, /be,. willihu pzofecute/B
to theutmoft rigour of the'law.
’ . -Fredirick Rotrxj,
Ogechee Ferry, 6th March, 1781.
RAN AWAY from the fubferiber the beginning o/i
February last,
A Negro Fellow, named Dick,
“formerly the property of Arthur Carney, deseufed, hadnafi
when he went away a pair of new yellow cloth foldiertl
breeches with a number on the buttons, anew felt hat,l
and oznabrig /hirt, a hemefpufl jacket with buttons of the ■
fame, speaks very bad Englilh, and probably cannot tel! I
his maftcr’s naane, was at Mr. Good’s plantation at South I
Newport about ten days ago, and which he then left ini
company with his wife and a thild about a month old, and 1
a Negro fellow.named Morris, belonging to the said estate. 1
A reward of a guinea, and all reafoiiabk* expenrey, vrillbel
paid on delivering him to Mr. Roifes a; Ugechee Ferry, 1
or at Ebenezer to Jacob
N. B. Any person harbouring him wilj be prosecuted t# I
the utmost rigour of the law. I
CAME to my plantation on Grcdtt Ogcchec the 3d nfl
March, 1781, TWO NEGROES, both of th: Ebo ■
Country, who fay they belong to James Stanyardat Stonrl
in South Carolina, and that they have been run away fl
long time ; one of them is a fnall black fellow, namdl
Billy, about 3 5 years old ; tht other a stout yellow wench,!
named Sue, about 35 years of a-te. The owner may have!
them by applying to me at Ogeche?.
JAMES BXTTLER.
RAN AWAY from the fubieriber between Penfacuhl
and the Lower Creeks, A NEGRO FELLOW,!
country born, about r 8 years of age, 5 fees? 5 inches high,!
formerly belonged to James M , Queen, trader in the Lower I
Creeks, deceafdi, aS3 known by the name of
carried off x very neat riftle gun belonging to the■
fubferiber, and also a dun mare belonging to the late Mr, I
David Holms and Cos. merchants in Pensacola. It is fup-|
posed the said Negrd has made the best of his way fori
Georgia; I therefore offer a reward of ten dollars to any I
person or persons who will take up the aforefa'fd Negro,!
and deliver him to me or Mr. Robert Holms, or fecurc him I
in any of the gaols in Georgia.
Pensacola, Jan. 5, 1781. Geo. Nowiaj?.
JOHN RICHARDS, Gunfoith,
INTENDS to fallow his business, all its different I
branches, at his /hop fronting the l'outh common, next
door to Mrs. Stewart’s, and flatters himfelf that he will
give fatisfz&ion to those who may. be pleased tp employ
him. ‘■ ’ March 7, 1781.^
A?x AWAY from tjie fubferiber in January last, A
IX. NEGRO GIRL, fiamed NAN, about 12 years qH,
hid on a blue wrapper xnd petticoat, speaks good Englifbi
is branded M>j on her face and right brea't. Whoever
brings her to N®. 64, near the church, lhall receive three
dollar* reward. It is requested that no person do harbour
her on any pretence; any ofl'ehding in ‘hi? ictpe<ft will be
profccuted as the law divers. Wh. Cross*
Hampjlead, St. John's River, Eaji Florida, ttb Februa
ry, 1781.
RANsA W AY from the above plantation, 1
likely NEGRO LAD, named Prince, about 18
-dyears of age, his complexion a little yellowi/h, speaks
little thick, French as well as Engl|fl; he Is reported to
have been put into the Provost a .little before the fieg? of
Savannah, from whence he is supposed to have made his
cfcape; he is fufpe&ed to have changed his n* mc
James, fays he is a free Negro, and has bocn fern about
Skidaway; he has wrought fome time with a carpenter,
and is very handy in a boat. A reward of five guineas wii
be given on his being delivered at the afore said plantation
io James Tims? or to tho Hon. Martin Jollie, ‘*
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