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militia, commanded by Col. Panning hnd CoL
Heftor MfNeill, inarched to Hillfborough, and
there had a (mart fkkmifh with fome continental
troops, whom they defeated, they then proceeded
I t© a place at forpe distance, where the titular Go
vernOT", Bnrke, and 11 or 12 continental officer?,
with fame of {Ate Council, had met, the whole of
these they furpffeed and made prisoners; after this
they were agaiftfattacked by aconfiderablebody of
Rebels, whom they also defeated, killed a number,
and brought off prisoners to the amount of 200.
Major Craig, with between 3 and 40° n*n,
marched yeftendey to join and support Col. Fanning
and his party, who are now on their route to this
place, and expected here in a few days.*’
A LARGE Quantity of Pine
J Lumber of different Sorts*
- iomeThoiifands White Oak Staves,
iand a Quantity of Tar, to be dil
pofed of, and'tnay be delivered at
a Landing on Savannah River, a-
bout eight Miles from Town.
Apply to the Printer.
¥o so disposed of on reafonabk ¥trm for
Cap ,
r T'HREE Hundred and Fifty Pounds
j*, Ok) Lawful Paper Currency of
thris Province : Alio good Bills of Ex
change on England for One Hundred
and Se venty‘Pounds* Inquire of the
Printer^
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TAKEN tJP the 14thof Augußlaft af.New
port, A NEGRO'FELLOW', about five’
and an half feet.high, of a black complexion, has
been wounded in the thighs with buck (hot, fays
his name iv WILL, and that he belongs to one
James Tannier in South Carolina. The owner
mud prove his property and apply at Newport to
< JAMES HOLT.
STRAYED or Rolen off the
Common of Savannah, A
Gfey Roan Mare, about 13!
hand* high, bunded on the near
also a Bay Mare of the fame heighth and brands..
Whoever will bring them to the Quartermailer
General's waggon yard at Yamacraw (hall be
fcandfbmcfy rewarded.
; OTRAYED or flolen last Monday night out of
■O Mr. SMithers's plantation,
A large'Park Brown GELDING,
five years ©ld,Branded upon the fhoukferfi P, and
fome other brand upon the buttock. ~ Whoever”
will deliver the said horse to Mr. Struthers, Mr.
Rolfes at the ferry, or the subscriber near Sunbury,
hull receive four dollars reward.
loth oa. 1,781. PETER TAARLINO.
. Council Chamber, 10 th Oft obey, fjJT.
I PURSUANT to the powers veiled
in the Governor and Council, in
and by an Aft of the General Assembly
relative to the fortifications and other
’works t>f defence in this province:
That every owner or other person hav
ing the.care or management of more
than two male slaves, between the ages
of sixteen and sixty years, do return to
the Captain, or other Officer com
manding company of militia of the
dilWft; within which such Haves (hall
Vefide, and* If, is no Officer in the
didrift, then to the Militia Officer of
the diftrift next to which the owner
lives, a true and particular account in
writing of all such male slaves, under
the penalties in the said law particularly
: Notice it hereby given,
That all and every the laid persons,
who re fide in the parilhes of Christ
Church, St. Philip,?aml St. Matthew,
do, within fifteen days from the date
hereof, make the several returns re
quired by the said law, as they will
answer the contrary at their peril.
By JmExcellency’s Order in Council,
GEO. D’ERBAGE, A, C. C.
Gentlemen who wiih to fubfaibe to the
Savannah Dancing Aflemblies
arc requested to fend their names to one of the
Managers, if possible, before the 23d inltant.
N. B. Subscription, Two Guineas.
Lieut. Col. Campbell,!
Capt. Da Peyster., I
Dr. John Johnson, l Managers.
Charles in aw, Esq. f 0
y$M. Wylly, Esq.
Dr. Bbecroft, J
a ¥ O BE SOL TANARUS),
Xuefday 13th November
Jjjjjjliii , next, to the highell bidder,
4 ‘OB ‘ eTk: SI ’ for cash or bills of exchange,
‘RB JB iTSt A Lease of 3 Years
of the fubferiber's well known
lirge Brick lloufe on the Bay,
tonfifting of eight rooms neatly finilhed, fix of
which have fire places, a large (bop compleatly
fitted up, a large back store, three large cellars all
divided with brick walls, a kitchen, a liable for
three horses, a carriage house, and every other
building that is necessary. The whole is now oc
cupied by Mr, Daniel Silfby. Thepurchafer may
have poffeflion in January next.
JAMES MOSSMAN.
Savannah, Oft. 8, 1781.
RAN AVVAY from the subscriber on Monday
the Bth inltant,
The following Negroes.
Hercules, a Ihort thick fellow, of the Angola
country; Betty, his wife, of a yellpwilh com
plexion, has a large fear oyer one of her eysj, speaks
good Englifl)Peter, about 13 years old, and
.Winter,-about j, bejr children-.: |uptter,
>• * Aafes; fPfvSif *
with her Ton Sine ho,, about 9 years old, and a
fucking child: And Jack, about 45 years old; of
the Angola country, ‘(peaks bad- Engliih. They
went off in anew yawl, .about 26 feet long, which
had only her feAius paid over with pitch, and it is
fuppoftd are gone towards Kilkenny on Ogechee
Neck. One guinea re.vard will be paid on the de
livery of eacli grown negro to Peter JJenry Morel
in Savannah, or to the subscriber at Bevvlie, two
dollars for each of th® children, and otic guinea for
the boat; and upon information of their being har
boured by a white pet foil a reward of ten guineas
will be given, and if by a negro five guineas, to be
paid on conviftion of the offender.
JOHN MOREL.
SAVANNAH, Oftobcr n.
Mr. Printer,
I T is well known that, besides the
port or inlet of Savannah, there arc
in this province seven others, viz.
JVaffaw, -QffitkiWy St. Catherine's or
Sunbury, Sapclo, St. Simon's,. St. And
rew, and St. Marys, all which arc e~
qually good (indeed the molt of them
better and fafer) as that of Charleftown
in South Carolina, having easier access
and greater depths of water on their
bars, and molt excellent anchoring
grounds within; but although there
are many inhabitants already fettled,
and many more wish to fettle, on and
near the lands adjoining these southern
inlets, yet so it is fteps vet.
Taken, nor no means used, to afford
security or proteftion anywhere beyond
the limits of Savannah river, If a
galley, or gallies, have at times been
sent to protest places molt exposed to
danger, we have all Teen how fopn they
have been ordered tlfewbere ; and if
troops have been placed here we have
seen them' too ordered away from us,
and the country everywhere left open
to the cruel insults and depredations of
the mod abandoned mifereants that
ever existed in any age of the world.
Much was expefted from the Mer
chants, and it has been recommended
to them,, it seems, to fend vefßls here
to load with cargoes of lumber and na
val (lores for the King’s yards in the
Weft Indies: But what can Merchants
do, what can any set of ipen do, when
their (hips and vcffels are left m the
manner they have been, at the difpofii
of every Rebel galley or row-boat that
chose to come amongst us ?
It were to be wilhed that those whose
business it more immediately concerns
would pay fome little attention to the
above hints; they are not thrown out
in an evil hour, or with any design of
Towing the feeds of diffention, as fotnt
will be very ready to find out; they
have a good and well meant tendency
whatever may be said to the contrary [
and if hints of this fort Ihould not have
the desired effeft, then, indeed, the
matter n\ay go through another chan
nel. y
Sunbury, 28th Sept. 1781.
We are well allured that a number
of families, driven from their fettle,
ments on the Natches, Baton Rouge,
and other parts in Weft Florida, were
coming through the Indian Nation on
their way to this province, and that
they meant to have petitioned fqr lands
in lome of our southern parilhes, but
hearing that they were likely to be in
no better state of fan ity there than on
the Banks of the Mifllfippi, they have
for the present let themselves down in
various parts of the Lower Greek
f'uerjajriaft. aV three o,’rlock in the
afternoon, a number of the inhabitants
of this province gave a genteel enter
tainment to his Majesty’s Land and
Sea Officers, and many other Gentle
men, at the State-house, in comme
moration of the remai kable defeat of
the. French King's army commanded
by Count d'Estaing, and the Rebels
Under Lincoln, before the lines of this
place, by the (mail but brave army of
M ijor General Prevoft, on the morn
ing of the 9th of Oftober, 1779.
Died.] On his way from Augusta
to this place, John Milledge fen. Esq.
o and •
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Mr. Job/t/ion, Savannah, Otlober 8, X7Bl.
I WOULD willingly attempt to draw this Bow
of Ulyffcs with the gentlemen who appeared
lately in your Gazette for arnf again ft inJi [criminate
depreciation, bttt for the present Tfliail mily potr
lilh a Political Creed ; if it is not orthodox, I lhall
be obliged to any of yourcafiiillicaJ readers to point
out the errors, as I intend to make it a foundation
for fome futu;e effhv.
I believe in the jullice and clemency of hjs moft
sacred Majesty George the Third, that he is of
right my lawful King, and to abjure him would
be, in me, an unpardonable crime: That a few
of the many persons who took the Oath of Abju
ration during the Rebellion in this province were
aft.uated by fear more than difaftCftion; and a de
bility of inind painted the tniferies of exile in such
dreadful colours that they fliuddercd at the thought
of eviL which did not cxilt in experience: That
the men who Raid without gulping the bitter pill
were so lucky that not more than one of these in
cidents ftvould be expefted in a long life : TlpE
needfity and choice, loyalty and rebellion, virtue
and vice, affluence and poverty, have not the fame
meaning ; That the advocates for vidifcriminate
depreciation , who would blend them together, have
not duly weighed the confluence of endleL law
suits, contentions, and poverty of the few divided
inhabitants, who fhouid be united in One comiTUJU
inlterell by every political means that can be dcvif
ed: That Loyalilts who have been exiled, and
their efiat©6 101 l by it, are not upon an equal foot*
ing with those that remained behind ana had tha
advantage of proteftion, making money by plant*
ing, and by divers other means, which the time#
afforded an ample choice of, and enabletkfHem IQ
pay the depreciation, and to iccover it fioin others,
while the Lnyalilts, who were compelled to receive
Rebel money for good debts, and to pay it away
before their departure, have no rtfource; they
cannot recover k from hbfentees, who paid it to
them by compulsion, while the others could (as can
be proved) wrth impunity refufeit; and if the
abfentecs become fubjefti in future, they me a):Cady
beggared with attachments and judgment.*! j with
Uuth I can affirm, that for near 20001. lterling, so