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About The Royal Georgia gazette. (Savannah, Ga.) 1779-1782 | View Entire Issue (April 19, 1781)
tM f o RJJ 1 Ed, r ?a (be HfißO, Capt. CHRISTIAN, £<*> ‘ B And to be fold on the moft rcxfon-blc Tertn* by SAWYER, MORELS K-E&LL, At their Store in Squajfe : OZN'ABRIGS, lrilh linens, d4>wh, faceting Via en, printed cottons, <;ascoes,)rhiriU*s; linen, silk, black gthiw;, arid kentins* bdndkerrftiefr; checks, Griped holland, l>ed bunts, ticking, counterpanes, loom quilting, corded, dimity, jean;*, Dutch cord, long la vn, carnVrick, huckaback, muffins, canvas K°. I to 6, ra vcniiluck, neat and. faftjioqablc silks, black fit in? ala jnodc*, pcrfianl, chip hat*, black lace, tiffany, gauze, buffongs, crape ; fufhionable silk, velveret,* arul cottpn waistcoat patterns ; gold binding and buttons, b>m baz&en, sewing silk and twiff, buckram, tammies, du rants, fhatoons, calamancoes, princes fluff, eyfirlaftinf*, fergedenifme, velverets, fuperfine broadcloths of the moll •Hhionable colours, mohair buttons, flannels, Huffil blan kets ; womens neat silk, morocco, and fluff shoes and flippers; leather ditto and pumps, mens coarse and neat shoes and pumps, childrens and girls morocco ditto ; mens and womens silk, thread, worsted, apd cotton hose; knit breeches patterns, 3uck and canvas frocks and trowfers, white linen and check shirts; kerfey, striped cotton, and fwanfkin jackets; nankeen breeches anjd waistcoats; brown and striped holland, white linen, and dimity waist coats; fwanfkin drawers, Dutch caps, mattrefics; fooll cap* pot; thin and thick folio land quarto post, and folio copy paper; gilt foolfcap and melTage paper; cartridge, whited brown, blotting, and brown ditto; wafers, wax, pounce, shining fluid, ink powder and cake, black and red inkin stone bottles, copy books; a variety of blank books, axnongft which are ledgers with alphabets properly ruled, receipt and bill of lading books ; copperplate copies, flat and round tulers, dates, pa'fteboards, files and faces, poc ket books, black lead pencils, quills, plain and perfumed hair powder, Windsor and yellow soap, walk balls, black ing balls and cakes, lavender, honey water, bergamot, Scots and Hooper’s pills, beaumde vie, James’s pearl dentifrice, powder bags, ditto boxes and puffs, (hav ing boxes and bruflies, pomatum, toothy brufhrs, Poland ft arch, mens felt and beaver round and military cocked 3iaM, brown and green reund hats with grefin and gold lace and bands, cockadei, womens fcarlct cardinals, trim med with ermine, drab ditto lined and bound, quality bindiisg, pins, whites and coloured threads, tapes, bobbing, awl wai^;oat -thread khl,. art<f lamb glove*-? and mitts; white linen and knit dit to ; mens white lamb, beaver, wash, <fbe, and- buckfk'm gloves; boys, youths, girls, afid maids beaver glove-,; double and firigle refined sugar, bohea and hyfon tea, carlo; tin saucepans, cimdkfticks, tinder boxes, funnels, .gfateis, ooffee pots, powder canirturs, flour and pepper boxes, fa gtr plain add painted ditto, quart, pint, and half pint pots, ii(h kettles, lamps, pudding and dripping pans, culinders, kettles with ccrvers, horn and tin lanterns, watering pots, blackjacks, extinguifliers, teakettles; mens, womens, and children* plated buckles; nails, brass and iron wire coarse and fine rice sieves, fpadw, auger*, fpkttiog wedges, chamber and kitchen bellows, tryingpans, hooks and hinges, crafe garnet and HL hinges, squares, thumb latches, iron rim and brass knob locks, round bolts, cur rycombs, marking irons, feiffors and (hears, pocket and pen knives, knives and forks, carving ditto, (hoc* tenives, raxdTs, lancet*, fnuffers, copper teakettles, chaffing dirti es; fUS* hooks, mother pearl and metai buttons, hangers and belts, bottle (lands, drawing knives, cotopers aJxc s, ship carpenters ditto and axes, rice (inkles indigo hooks, plane irons, two feet rules, iron candlesticks, saws, iron pots, /killets, fadirons; pewter plates and diihes, tea and tablespoons, candle moulds, measures from tone gallon to half a gill; saddles, bridles, surcingles, collar heads and hemp reins, faddlecloths, whips, portmanteaus, jockey caps, girths; seine and (hup twine; Hambro’, log, deep fca, chalk, fi firing, bass. and haircloth tine*; ihoc thread, spindle, hair brooms; fcriibbing, sane, buckle,... comb, plate, hearth, and cloth bralhes ; - clamps, (hot, faltpetre, gunpowder, Durham mullard, bed Lucca oil, ketchup, hams; pigtail, cut, Oranoque, and (hag tobac co ; pipes, heft told port in bottles; ditto London draught porter, and, for the accommodation of buyers, they may he furniihe.l with empty bottles at a rcafonable rate ; Glo’fter and Chelhire cheese, butter; white lead, Spanish brown, Vcnctiah red, yellow, black, blue, and green paints; linseed oil, dust and ground brushes, ground tools, window glass; variety of glafi ware, viz. tumblers, wijHfc and punch glasses, salty, goblets, rummers, three quart, Xwo quart, quart, and pint decanters, vinegar cruets, waffi harul glaffe*, (fabt crofts and stoppers ; queen’s wate tiiffi es, tureens, baking and falladdilbes, tea pots, fiffi plates, coffee and tea cups and faucet*, bafons, fait*, muftaid pots, pepper boxes, egg cups, sauce boats, flat, soup“ and desert plates, hand bafons and bottles, mugs, butter t*ubs and stands, sugar and milk pots, coffee pots, bowls* jugs, pitchers, gallon butter pots; black china tea pots, J'ugar diffics, coffee pots, cream jugs; red china coffee and tea pots; cupi'and saucers of china gUze, ditto tea pots, coffee cups, cans, milk pot*, and bowls; heft flour, rock ialt, cyder in hampers, bifeuit in kegs. They have also to dispose of by the Package: Red port and flurry wine, ironmongery, queen’s w*r> stationary, Durham mustard; cafe* of pickles, containing fix quart bottle* of anchovies, olives, walnuts, colliflow ers, caper*, cucumbers; fwcet oil. ketchup, painters bruflie*, vermilion, linseed oil, and different colour* of paints; felt and beaver hats, perfumery, copper tea kettle* and ooffee pot*, ditto camp fijts, cutlery, tin and hard ware, waiters, carters and cruett, Bath Loves, check, “Ik. &C. . ! 1 [ - 1 • To be fold by the Subfcriber 9 Madeira, sherry, port wine, a*i par. KER’i PORTER, by the dozen; PORTER and SHRUB by the calk or fmalier quantity. I 1 JOHN HENDERSON. * ALL persons hoping demands against the Eflate of P-~ ter Tondee, late of Carpenter, deccaf elp are desired to fond chm to Lr To*l ktr. *Jljril 18, jjsi. ** ■FOR S A LE, ACT/MMDIOUS r*4 Sfory DWELLING-’ HOUSE; : well nni(heiL?]Svitfr a kitchen, liable, chaiff hunfc, ana fome othqr cdhve(St9t buildings, situate nearly oppolite the Market'Place, where the Secretary’s Office is now kept. For terms apply to Major Thomas Kyming in Savypnnalf, or t% Mr, John Stirk there, or at hi? plantation. ‘ 13th April; lySl. ’ JAMES HAMIiTI'OKh At his S TORE in Jtrhnfbn’s Squate, HAS just openc le general Aflortment of European and Ea'ft India GOODS, suitable for the season, which he wiH fell cheap for calh or country .produce. Alio a fAv HugihcadSfof Rum and Molafles. David M‘Gredie HAS for falc, at his (lore lately occupied by Rols and M‘Credie, an Afiortmentof Haft India and Europe an GOD DS, adapted to the season, which he will fell cheap for caih, bills,, or country produce. Savar.tiab, -dfril 19; 17S1. ’ : a-- - - Two Guineas Reward. RAN AV/AY in oaober laft,a NEGRO FELLOW, fiai|fed Sampson, and his wife. Bkttv, belonging to the E(tat of William Maconchy, deceased. Sampson is about 5 feet 7 iftchet high,- Carolina-born, and speaks good Engliffi, is supposed to be harboured near Savannah. \Vjioever will deliver them to the fuWcriber, or give in formation where they are harboured, (hall have the above reward. DAVID M*CREDSE. Sat'annab, A{>r\l 18, 1781 GEORG f A. ~ The TRE.SENTMJi.PJTS of the (7randyurors for the Pro - vince aforefaid, at the General Court begun and boldeh at __ Savannah, cn TuefSay the 10th, JVcdnefday the nth, ar.d Tburfday the wh Days of April, 1781, before the Anthosy Stokxs, Eftptire , Chief J*f. the, and the Honourable Martin Jofctu and Lewis Johnston, Effuires, AJfrftant Judges. WE the Grand Jurors of our Sovereign Lord the KING, for the Body of the Province ot Georgia, upon our oaths present : . . rtt'iuri ‘rrt-f-he .anSe greft* number of idle-slaves that are harboured in them, and now are in and about the toivn of Savannah and parish of Christ Church, to the great prejudice of tfroft better inclined,- and damage of thdr owners. * 11. We present, as a rery great grievance, the hdts buMt between the town of Savannah and the Citadel, us ually called Ptirnford Village, wherein numbers of negroes art* harboured and secreted. By information of Gibbons, Esq. and Mr; William Watt. 111. We present, as a grievance, Daniel M‘C,irth and his Afiociates for keeping in arms a number of negroes cLiimrd by and in their poffrffion, in direct opposition to the Patrol Law of this province ; and for preventing Jama Cook, a Captain of Patrol, from putting the said law in execution, to the great detriment of the woll difpofcdJn habitants of the foutherrt part of this province, s well a* to the subversion of hw and good government. By infor mation of Col. Krlfall. • IV. We present, as a grievance, the ruinous (Lite of the bridges on the weffern road. By information of Wil liam Wylly, F.lq7^= It is our request that these our presentments be pnblilh ed in the next Gazette. GEO. KINCAID, Foreman, (L.S.) GEO. HOUS.TOUN, - (L S.) JOHN CHs. LUCFNA, (L S ) ALEXh. CRICHTON, (LSI FOX jun. (L S ) DAVJD JOHNSTON, (LSI JACOB C. WAI-DHAUER, (L.S.) GEORGE KEEBI.ER, * L S ) I JUIIN BOLLINGER, (l!s ) ISRAEL KINSRA, l’s’) JOHN GRAFENSTIN, (L.S) JOHN SjHERAUS, (L.s!) 14 tb April, 178?, the f.Uo-iving ORDP.PS were made by . Court cn the foregoing P reftntmen: s : Or do rn, That the Attorney General do turn as many of the laid presentments Into hills of indidlment as the nature of the said leveral presentments will admit of. “ And it t* fur thirO* nzitD, That the Clerk of the Crown do cause a copy ofthe said presentments, with these orders, to b#Jaid before hi* Excellency the Governor, the Honourable his Majefiy’s Council, ai;d the Honourable the Commons House of Aflemhly ; an J. do aUo cause a copy ot the fame to be interred in the Gazette. By i#ie Court, >■"’ e JOHN SIMPSON, P, & c. C. Crown Office, 14th Apr tl, 1781. _, r SAVANNA H, April 19. ON Monday last, at a meeting of the inhabitant, of the pariffi of Christ Church, in this place, for the purpose of choosing Parifli Officers,the following Oentle. men were unanimously chdfcn.-TheHon.SamuelFarley, Esq. Jjmes Robcrtfon, William Tones, Junes Moffman.’john Irvine, Gedrge Baillie, William Wylly, Samuel Douglaf* Efqrs. Mr. George Houfroun,’and Dr. Robert Moodie* Vestrymen: The Hon. Joliah TattnaU, Esq. and Samuel Huut Jenkins, Er 3 . Church-War dens. They are to meet at the Parfonage-Hqufe on Tuesday next, in order to qua lify and enter upon their office. Last Friday afternoon Capt. Richard Pendarvis was (hot dead within 90 yards of his house on the River May , wh * re one William Patterson was also barbaraafly raur ! dered. r I he perpetrators of these murders confiftcd of a Rebel Officer and five men ; the names of fmrofthem aye, Leacrpft, a prifoneron parole; Blackwood, Bcttifun, and Nzthan Gasihle, who had received ahd were then un der protcfelioii- The. villains afterwards went to the hpjfo -an l i'a(i;ltcd Mrs. Pendarvis with oeprobri.-us lym-'u^r leaving the plant.rton took v.ijli thfnttfucc kff fa vi n <|X’apt. Pendarvia’s gun. Mt>n.] At AtfgufUjiMr. Andrew Bifftev. ‘T* ■■ 4- | -fIE y Ml. Johnston, unfortunate death of Mr. John Iriglis, mrti6i o *> c < Xin the Caroli*.Gi.* c tt of the t nU. has *iy C ', genera! concern.—Mr. Inglis f s Umenteiis a ffrrct*i> valuable friend—a friend ! eminently JiTtingiriffied {5 the fociaj v’njue*, and whufe fmiiabl'e’h.unr* endeared him to all his acquaintance'.—The difc-efc occ fumed, by this melancfholy event i* heightened by preuli circumftanccs, fome of which, as they have Been related to the pubhek, are inter*iting to the crmrmmirty at Gfjto . —ln the hloow of life, and health, .without any provo.ari on, and without a moment’s warning, the hand of 3 T f fian hurried him into eternity; —the corpse fell to thi gromnd, ahd bathed-in blood the feet of its murderer What a fpertacle of woe ! - - tf ’*~ Eternal justice has decreed that the blooJ of the inno cent shall be revenged on the murderer, and on his aew-n plices.—Would to God! their forfeit lives could back our ffiend ; —but alas ! his fate is fixed, “ duty to fubmit.—Aft that on the partuf Ms jVL low citizehs.is to be faithful to his memory. The private chararter of this gentfvman, through the comfe of many, years rpfidcnce in Savannah, was truly amiable, and in the” midst t)t civil commotions and rebellion, which &J| V (hook the integrity es many persons around him, hit rtoj. tation and eondudt remained ‘unfullic^, —Steady in J,;! principle*,-zealous but not perfecting, his manly hr,,! was strongly attached to his native countrv, and iVvaJ to his King.—Virtues v*hieh rendered Him an ornament to society will endear his memory to the inhabitants of this town, as weM-as to hi* relations In America and In Europe -~We loft him st an early, period, by an untimely death) but, — honourable age is not that which, consists i£ “ cn Sth of days,—wifdom is the grey hairs ujfto mcc “ and an unfpottad life is old age.’* ” - * Savannah, Tburfday, ltjtb of Apt if, lygj, J he following Queries, oiiVfubjea that wil'lTvery and J become more universally interesting, are fubtrtitted to fc r j. ous consideration by a friend to justice and w*lhviflr 0? this province ; * Was not the Congrcfs money (those bills which looked tc a reconciliation only excepted, and which the figuersex. peeled to make good) issued for the purpose-s of railing troops, add making war against hi* Majelrv, to raise support rebellion ? * i Had or have these bill* any Intrinfkk value, any funi ~® r , ■'*3 al^J“ or lpr - tft/ueportAkmr ■.v -+#**. - ’ r*&&dSkf autklFky r ; . m iffued for a traitorous purpose, and confequcntly incapSble to have or receive it ? . Would such a*qucftion be admitted to a trial in Weff minster Hall, or any of his Majefty’* Courts in Great Bri. tain > U it not the rule and praflice of ail Court* of justice in the umverfe to order all t*ntrad>* to be performed in the fpccifick terms in which they were made ? If I owe a bond in guineas, can I pay it off with count!- ers ? If* a man Jcnt me and took a bond for counter*, can he demand guineas in payment t Are fifteen counters an equivalent to one guinea ? Is it praflicable, decent, *rjaft, ,te sue for and recover his Majesty a column aTuit for rebellious moru*y, and that under the fandiori of his name ar\d in his Courts ? Is the difference between legal and rebellious authority his Majefty’scoin and rebel paper, only as fifteen to one l Are they the fame in kind and differ only in degree! Are those thar would aferibe any value or legality whaj foever to Cpngrrfs hilts better friends, to Congrcls or told* JWnjcfty’s government? i —#_ Supposing a frt of men were appo*ntc*l upon their oathi <0 make an enquiry into the value of Congress bi% woull it not be just, rcafoßable, and equitable, tliat they should refceive the said paper in payment at the fame rare which upon their oath* they eftablifbed as a rule fm others t SENEX* IntbeCOURTo/riCE ADMIRALTY,GEORGIA. The Advocate General, on the relation of Samuel Wentworth, of the Laify Dumnore, a private flooto of war, on behalf of, Stc. Againji Fifty hoglhoads of tobacco, Torty. three caffes of indico, eighty-n;r>e bundlA of deer &ias, and fandry other f aV ed from the wrecked ship Santa whereof one Jofcei Oiler was late Mailer. TT7HEREAS an information hath been exhlbit- V ed Knitted, and filed, in this cause, in order to condemnation, for the causes therein af. signed, of the said fifty„hogfheads of tobacco, for ty three casks of indico, eigfit-y nine bundles of deer skin?, and certain other merchandize, part of the cargo saved from the wrecked fhrp Santa Faz, . whereof one Jofcph Oiler was late Mailer : And whereas the usual monition hath been ifTued from this Court, and duly returned, and no claim hath been made, or cause (hewn against the laid oonn demnation : I hele are thereijpre to give notice, that the Jqdge of the said Court will, on Monday the 30th day of this instant April, proceed, inThe manner, either jo condemn or aCQujc the Zr forefaid several articles of merchandize, included in t ". c ’ n * or ' nat ’ on a f° r efaid, agreeably, to the courle of the Admiralty ad the laws of nation?. By the Court, • JCIIN MACKENZIE, Afling Regll&r. Savannah, 711 l Wpril, 178). w A NT EIX ‘ A QUANTITY of TAR and BARR El, STAVES! i, r y- PETER. DEAN- April 12, jySi.