The Virginia Gazette from Williamsburg, Virginia • Page 1

I I I A A 7, i 0 freedom oj werrejj one oj we great jstuwarKS oj L.iDtriyy ana can never ve retrained but by dejpottc lioyernments. i August 15, 1777. Williamsburg: Printed by Dix on HuNTERi; No. 1376. Halifax County, North Carolina, 1777.

TO BE SOLD, it public Sale, at the Houfe of the Subfcribers, on the Wefitrn Branch, in Netnfemond County, Virginia, on Monday the firft Day of September next, all their Houfehold and Kitchen Furniture, moil of whkh arc alraoft new, and of the very beft Quality, three Negroes, and a valuable Collection of Books, with a Quantity of Coffee and AUfpice. Twelve Months Credit will be allowed, and Bond, with approved Security, will be required. At the fame Time will be rented asaboye, the Houfes arid other Improvements, lately occupied by them, for one, two, or three Years, as will be moft agreeable to the Per ion wanting them. As we intend foon to leave the Continent, we deiire all Perfons who have Claims againft us in Virginia, to bring them in and receive Payment from Mr. Macdowall, or Mr.

John Halbert in Nanfemond, with whom thpfe indebted to us are requefted to make Settlements, and grant Bond, or other Specialties, for their Balances. Any Claims that may be againft us in North Carolina will be anfwered by applying to Mr. Archibald Hamilton in Halifax Mr. John Hamilton at Neivbern, and Mr. James Martin in Wake County, to whom it is hoped thofe having Claims will make Application for Payment as foon as poflible; it is alfo requefted that all Perfons indebted to them in that State will apply as and grant Bonds for their refpective Balances before their Departure.

ARCHIBALD HAMILTON, Sf Williamsburg, Augufi 7, 1777. TO BE SOLD, and entered on immediatelya valuable Houfe on the Market Square in this City, with 4 handfome Rooms below neatly papered, and a Fire Place in each, with 3 Clofets, and 6 Rooms above, with dry Cellars under the Whole, a good Kitchen and Laundry, with Wet3 Houfes. with a Flower and Kitchen Garden, well paled in; alfo afmall Houfe adjoining, with a Rooms and Fire Places, a good Cellar, and Yard," the Whole in good Repair. With the above Houfes may be had, all or any Part of the following valuable Furniture, i'iz. Mahogany Dining Tables, Pcmbrook, Card, Toilet, and other Tables, large and fmall handfome Looking Glaffes, an eight Day Clock, Mahogany Chairs, with Brocade, and Furniture Bottoms, green Paflage Chairs, Carpets, ajid Carpeting, a large Mahogany Plate Cafe, with Glafs Doors, a Mahogany Bureaus on Brai's Caftors, a Tea Urn with a Mahogany Stand, Beds, Bedfteads, and Curtains, Tea, and Table China, Bowls, and ornamental japanned, Glafs, and Queen's Ware, a Brafs Grate, a Bath Stove, Handirons, Brafs and Wire Tenders, a good Jack, and a Quantity of Kitchen Furniture, alfo a large imported Flour Mill, with a Variety of other Articles too tedious to mention.

The Terms may be known by applying to the Subscriber, on the Premifes, who intends leaving this State in a fhort Time, and requefts thofe who have any Claims againft him immediately to apply for Payment, and all who are indebted to him, either by Bond or Account, will be fo good todif charge their feveral Balances as foon as JOHN BAKER. 12 10, 1777. I DO hereby forewarn all Perfons from crediting my Wife Sarah Matthews, as I will not be anfwerable for any Debts (he may contract; and I do forwarn all Perfons from entertaining or harbouring her in their Houfes, as they mutt anfwer it hereafter at their Penil. il THOMAS MATTHEWS. i FOR SALE, 700 Acres of LAND about 6 Miles from the Falls of Nuce River, in Wake County, North Carolina, it is exceeding good for Tobacco, Wheat, Indian Corn, lies well, a beautiful and plea fant Situation for building, very well watered, good Range for Stock, Gf c.

fituated in a very healthy Part of the Country, about 60 Miles from Halifax, and about 73 from Crofs Creek. Any. perfon inclinable to purchafe fame may apply to Mr. Drury Harris in Wake County, for Terms, Cjff. Alfo for Sale, 700 Acres of LAND in Bute and Granville Counties on Whetfone Creek, betwixt Burton Ferry and Callur'i Ordinary; this Land is kind and good for Corn, Oats, Rye, c.

For Terms apply to the Subfcriber, (sH) JESSE BENTON, TJ 15, 1777. i 0 BE SOLD, by the Subfcriberin Granville County, North Cart. linat the Traft of Land whereon he now Jives, about 11 Miles 1 from Sir Peyton Skipwith's Ferry, containing toco Acres, great. Part of i which is excellent Tobacco Land, on which is a commodious Dwelling Houfe with 4 Rooms below and 4 above Stairs, neatly finifbed a good Kitchen and Spinning Room, Smokehoufe, Dairy, and every Ouihoufe" neceflary for a Family, a Garden neatly paled in, and Orchards that contains 350 Apple Trees of choice Fruit, alfo an exceeding convenient Storehoufe and Compting Room adjoining, with a Brick Chimney, a Lumber Houfe, and a Houfe calculated for a Tavern, two Rooms below and two above Stairs, pi altered and whitewashed, with a BrickChimney, Kitchen, Stable, rand a Smith's Shop. A TracT: of Land in Ced County, on both Sides of Map Creek, about 15 Miles trom the above, containing 300 Acres, all prime Tobacco Land, and on which is a goud Dwelling Houfe and other Outhoufes, a fine Peach Orchard, and adjoin ing is an Entry of 640 Acres, Part of which is very 'good, for Tobacco, and there is a tolerable Plantation with fome nectffary Alfo a Trad in the faid County, about two Miles from the above, con taining oo Acres of choice Tobacco Land, on which there are ncf eflary Hufes; likewife an Entry of 640 Acres adjoining, with a middling Plantation, and fome few Houfes a Traft in the laid County, on the Branches of tar River, containing 340 Acres, Part of which is very good Tobacco Land, and inferior to none in jthat County for Range; a Traft in the fame County, containing 100 Acres, and an Entry of J40Acresjdjoining; Joth of thofe Tracts art within about (ixrMiJes of General Perfon', and a Traft in the County of Halifax, Virginia, on.

Warren Creek, containing 1 60 Acres. Twelve Months Credit will be given. An undoubted Title will be made the Purchasers, and Bond with good becunty, will be required. THOMAS MUTTER. RUN away from the Subfcriber, in Amelia County, the 19th of lalt June, a large young Mulatto Fellow named SAM, of the Indian Breed.

I expeft he is in James City County, as he has a Mother who lives there with one Mr. Francis Riddkhurf. I will give THREE POU NDS to any Perfon who will take up thefaid Slave, and confine him fo that I get him again. () DANIEL HARDAWAY. TEN POUNDS REWARD.

LOST by the Subfcriber, "on Friday the 4th Inftant (July) a red Morocco Leather Pocket Book with about TWENTY, EIGHT, POUNDS paper Currency, befides Accounts and other Papers of Con quence, amounting in the Whole to upwards of one Hundred Pounds. One 5I. Bill of the James River Bank Notes, one BUI of 30 Dollars, one of 10 Dollars, one of 8 Dollars, one of 7 Dollars, and one of 6 Dollars. The Numbers, and fome other Bills I cannot recolleft. The Evening of the Day on which I loft the Book, I went to Mr.

John Kerbf, in the lower End of Charles Pari(h, York County, within a Mile of where I lived, and aftei (laying about an Hour at Mr. Kerty I got upon my Horfe, and had not rode five Paces before I miffed the Book" out of my Pocket. Whoever will deliver the faid Book and Contents mall receive the above Reward, paid by THOMAS HANSFORD, Senior. 1777. WANTED immediately, for the celebiated and well known Brig of War STURDY BEGGAR, under the Command of Jambi Campbell, Eiq; now fitting out at Newbern, North Carolina, for a (hort Cruife againft the Enemies of the Thirteen United States, a few good SEAMEN and MARINES.

The Sturdy Beggar is allowed to be the handfomeft Veflel ever built in America is completely fuinilhed with all Kinds of warlike Stores, Ammunition, is remarkable for faft failing, having never chafed a Veflel hut (he came up with. For the Encouragement of fuch Seamen as may choofe to enter on, Board faid Veffel, TWENTY DOLLARS Bounty will bo fciven and their Expences paid from hence to Nrwbern. Such Seamen anq Marines are requefted to repair to faid Veffel immediately, that die may bigot to Sea in Time for the grand Jamaica Fleet; of the failing and tfouijf which there is the moft undoubted Intelligence received. Priic Manccs4 alfo Petty Officers; are wanting. (fl):.