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ded voya{ge, being put on board any thip, or
Other vessel (not prohibited by any Resolve
of Con_grpfi, or Law, or Resolve of this colo
;_ny) arriving at, trading with, or failing from
any Port, Harbour or other place in thisco
lony, such voyage not being prohibited by
any Resolve of Congress, or Law, or Resolve
of this colony.
And the Committees of Safety, &c. in the
several towns, and other places within this
colony, are hereby ordered and directed to
fee that this Resolve be effe¢tually carried
into execution. ,
‘ Sent up for Concurrence.
.. Timothy Danielson, Speaker, P.T.
In Council June 19, 1776.
Read and concurr’d. j
__ John Lowell, Dep. Sec’y, P. T
Consented to by Major Part of the Council:
Attest. John Lowell, Dep’y Sec’y, P.T:
. WILLIAMSBURG, June 8.
- We learn, by express from N. Carolina,
that about 1300 of General Clinton’s men
were landed under cover of the shipping ;
likewise that a troop of horse, who were sent
eut to watch the enemy’s motions, had fallen
in with a party of them, killed 4, and forced
the rest to retire with precipitation,
~ Yesterday afterncon an express came in
from General Lee, with advice that the fleet
1s gone from Cape Fear ; that it was the pre
vailing opinion they were bound to South
Carolina, tho’ General Lee thinks it is most
likely they are coring round to this colony.
- Itis an undoubted fa&, that all the Tories
that were in Lord Dunmore’s service have
Jest him, there not being above half the fleet
now at Gwyn’s Island ; where they are gone
1s uncertain. This, it is imagined, was oc
casioned by a Fever which had raged with
great fury amongst them for some time patt,
and from the funeral processions that have
been seen there; very probably have proved
fatal to some persons of distinction.
The piratical vefle] commanded by Bart
et Goodrich, is taken, and himfelf and ten
others tirade prisoners. She mounts 4 carrizge
guns, arid had on board a quantity of Weft
India produce, some gun powder, small
arms, and a number of other very ufeful
articles, ~
PHILADEBPHTA, June ig.
Yesterday the deputies from the counties
of this province met in provincial confer
rence in this city, in consequence of the re
solution ot the Continental Congress of the
15th of May, declaring it ¢“ to be neceflavy
¢ that the exercise of any kind of authority
¢ under the crown of Great-Britain thould be
€ totally fup»reffed, and all the powers of
“ government exerted under the authority of
“ the people.”
In CONGRESS, Philadelphia, June 3. 1750,
RESQLVED, That a flying camp be im
& % mediately eftablithed, and that it consist
¢t 10,000 men, to make up which number,
fefolved, that the colony of Peanfylvania be
¥cquefted to furnith of the militia 6000
~ Maryland of their militia 2400
. Pelaware government of theirs 600
F'hat the militia be-engaged to the firft day
of December next, unlets sooner discharged
by Congress, S v
That 'the pay of the militia comnience
from the #ay of their marching from home,
and thit they be dllowed one penny a mile,
kawiul money, in lieu of rations for travel
ing éxpences, and one day’s pay for every 20
files, between home and general rendez
vous, going and returning.
'T'hat three provincial Brigadier Generals
be employed for the flying camp, two from
Penntylvania and one fromn Maryland.
CHARLES THOMPSON, Secretary,
In CONGRESS, June 18, 1776.
f ) ESOLVED, That no man in these colo-
R nies charged with being 2 TORY, or
UNFRIENDLY TO THE CAUSE OF
AMERICAN LIBERTY, be injured in his
perfomor property, orin any manrer what
ever disturbed, unless the proceedings against
him be founded on an order of thisCongrefs,
¢t the Assembly, Convention, Council or
Committee of fafety of the colony, or Com
mittee of inspection of the diftri® wherein
he resides : provided, that this resolution shall
not prevent the apprehending any person
found in the commiflion of some 26t daftruc
tive of American liberty, or jultly fufp=cted
of a design to commit such act, and intend
ing to escape, and bringing such person be
fore proper authority for examiration and
trial. - Extra& from the minutes,
CHARLES THOMPSON, Sec'’ry
PHILADELPHIA, Junegs.
Extra? of a letter from New York, dated
| Fune 24, 1776. 4
¢ Since my letter on Friday last, a most
barbarous and infernal plot has been disco
vered amongst the tories. The particulars
I cannot give you, as the committee of ex
amination consists of but three,who’re sworn
to secrecy, two of Wathington’s guards are
concerned, and a third, who they teripted
to join them;made the firft discovery. The
general report of their design is as follows :
Upon the arrival of the troops, they were
‘to murder all the ftaft officers, blow up the
magazines, & secure the pafles of the town.
Gilbert Forbes, gtinfmith in the Broadway,
was taken between two and thiree o’clock
Saturday morning, and carried before our
Congress, who were then fitting. He re
fuled to make any discovery, upon which
he was sent to)ail, & putinirons. Young
Livingston went to fee hini early in the
morning, told him he was sorry to find he
had been concerned, and, as his time was
very short, not having above three days to
live, advised him to prepare himfelf. This
had the desired ¢ffect. He asked to be car
ried before the Congress agaio, and he would
discover all he kaew-; {cveral have been
since taken, between 20 & 30, among them
our Mayor, who are all now under confine
ment. Itis said their party consisted of
about five hundred.
“ On Saturday afternoon our men tetur
ned from' the Hook, without being able t 6
effect their design ; not having heavy can
non fufficient to make any breach in the
light house, they made the attack Friday
morning tweaty minutcs after three,& con
tinued firing till about {ix ; no lives are loft
cn our fide,only two very {lightly wounded.
¢ I have just heard the Mayor has con
feffed bringing money from Tryon, to.pay
for rifle guns that Forbes had made. A
large party goes off this morning to the
Hock with heavy cannon, &c. the men of
war there I am afraid will hurt them, as they
can command the pass.—Burgoyne is arri
ved at Quebec with his fleet. No account
of ours, 1 expe& to go to Long Island this
day, in a party of about two hundred, in
et of Tones)”” + | w
oNEWYOR K, June 24 :
Extract of a letter from St. Eaitatia ay 31.
‘“ By a veflel that arrived here this moment
from Antigna, we learn that a vefiel had ar
rived there from London, who brought an
account that the grand fleet of toreigness
were not to leave England till the middle of
April, their failing orders being postponed
(it e© - . | ;
Last Friday morning the two Philadelphiz
battalions, comimanded by the Colonels Shee
and Magaw, marched from this tity for
King’s Bridge, where, we hear, they are to
begncamped. -2 AT .
N E"W-Y O R K, Fuez7.
~ The transport ship from Greenock, (ha
ving on board a company of the 424 regi
ment) which was larely taken by oone of
Commodore Hopkin’s fleet, who after tak
ing out the soldiers, except the officers and
their wives, ordered her for New-Port, but
which was soon after retaken by the Cerbe
rus, and under the convoy of an armed
{loop tender, sent for Sandy-Hook ; on
their way, (back of Long-Island) met wich
thie continental armed {loopSchuyler, which
tock both th= tender and%, and bro't
~them into a place of fafety.—The thip had
. on:board; when last taken, 8o butts cf por
ter &¢: with fve commiflion’d officers, two
e s 00l S S SRR RE e B
ladics’and four privates, who were bro’t @
town oh Tuclday Jalt, ~. | ™. %, s
On Teéelday last, the Hon, M:jor Gen,
- Gates, being, we hear appointed Comman
der in chief of the Centinznial forces in Ca
nada; embarked, with several Gentleirien of
his {uite, and failed ORI, .
Extral® of o letter from Cha¥leGrzn, Sonth.
ST SR
“ My laf} letter to you I feht by Captain
Brown rrom Middleton point, who fZiled out
of the harbour in the morning with a v aluas
ble cargo, and was taken before noon by one
of bis Britannic Majeny’s pirates, who three
days after wis taken by ore of our provincial
veifels of war. We are flill fotityis g and in
creasing our force, both by land & sea. . The
insurgents in both provinces are {ubidued, and
now very quiet. General Clinton who came
, 10 join and head them, has for the present
left us.——By a remarkable providence the
Creek indians have engaged in our favor—s
A party of men camie to Georgia, expedting
! by the tavour of the toriesto carry all before
f them, and to make that a provision colony,
- At that very time, a few head men of thag
- nation, happened to be at Mr. Bryant’s, to
- warn him ot the danger of an indian war,~—
At this moment, he being absent, his hcufe
- was attacked by some ot the enemy, wko had
- gotup the river Savannah : the fayages find
~irg thatinthe absence of their old [riend,his
house was aflaulted defended it, and one of
~ their thieves (the only man that was hurt)
~ was wounded in the thigh; this {5 enraged
~ them, -that they feiit off a runner, whdin 4
~ few days, brought down goo, who have since
- kil¥’d several men of the fleet,who had landed
- to water. | e
' B QST Ny e
We learn from Halifax, by a person who
left that place this Day three Weeks, that
the troops Gen. How left there were fuppe
fed to be about 1500, mostly Marines { and
the Regt. of light Horse (which lats were
wantonly tutor’d in a Hcale ot con in this
Town) was at Windsor, waiting for Gen,
Howe to get Foothold at New-York, when
they were to follow; and march (or galiop)
thro’ this Continent ; that they were busily
employed in fortifying Citidale Hill & othet
places, being under apprehension of an at
tack ; that Brigadier Ruggles and Son from
Hardwick, Wm. Tyng, formerly High-
Sherriff, John Hicks & John Howe,Printers,
were gone Yolunteers with Gen. Howe, and
.2 number of others which our informant
could not recolledt, - S T S
‘We also learn from Halifax, That when
the New-York Tories arrived there, they
applied to General Howe for Subfifterice 3
but were inform’d, T hat unless they took up
Arms in Defence of Government, they could
have no Relief, when some of thein volun=
tarily enter’d theService, and others throughe
Neceflity were oblig’d to ; & that tb?..fourtlfi
Day after their Inlifiment, they, togethez
with the Boston Negroes, were ordered todig,
in the Coal Mines at Nova-Scotia, where we
hope they will remain during Life.
We hear that five of King George’s Offi«’
cers (like their mafier) paying but little re
{peét to their word and konour, have gone
off from Lcbanon, where they lately resided,
as prisoners of war, on their Pzrole of Ho
nour. . The frequent forfeitures of this kind,
will, no doubt, oblige the Americans tocon~
fine such as they take, to parrower bounds.
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