1757. ACCOUNT of our AMERICAN PLANTATIONS. Abstract of all the Ammunition expended in the Siege, from the 30th of April, to the 30th of June, 1756. Shells. 1972 1385 1551 5738 16572 1032 Hand granades Inches. 454 Number. 73 41 86 Total 200 deg. 40 min. north latitude, and up the former, to a ftation point at 41 deg. 20 ming north latitude; to that upon the eart and weft it is bounded by these two rivers, upon the fouth by the ocean, and upon the north by a line drawn from one of A thefe station points to the other. As this country, as well as New-York, had been first planted by the Swedes, or, as fome think, the Danes, and afterwards the Dutch; there were many planters in it when we retook it from the Dutch, and therefore the lord Berkley, and Sir George B Carteret, fent over Philip Carteret, Elq; as governor under them, foon after they got the grant; and as lands might be had here for nothing, and free even from quitrent, for fix or feven years, a good inny people, especially diffenters of all denominations, went from England to fettle C here. By this means the inhabitants became a trang mixture of people, Swedes, Danes, Dutch, English, Lutherans, Calvinists, Church of England, Prefbyterians, Independents, Quakers, &c. from whence we may believe, that it was not easy to govern them without a standing aimy of 148 D mercenary troops, which the proprietors could not afford. However, they continued pretty quiet till the year 1670, when the quit rents became payable; but then, upon the governor's demanding payment of the quit-rents, they mutinied, expelled the governor, and established a governBarrels of Powder E ment of their own, which government, or rather anarchy, continued till they were fubdued by the Dutch in 1673; and as this country was the next year restored to us by the treaty of peace, Mr. Carteret returned governor with fome new conceffions from the proprietors, which kept the 353639 Pounds, and F people quiet for fome time. But the lord 13 Ounces. GRAPE SHOT. Weight. Number. 32 Pounds 2061 18 17600 12 6059 9 1940 490 171 19 37 13 28 53 Total 959 expended. Barrels. Ib. Oz. Reduced into Pounds Account of the BRITISH PLANTATIONS in AMERICA, continued from p. 19. THE HE next colony we are to give G an account of, is that now called New-Jersey, which was originally a part of Nova-Belgia, and contained in the grant, made by king Charles the Second, to his brother the duke of York, dated March 12, 1663-4. He again made a grant of that part of Nova-Belgia, now called Nova-Cefarea, or New-Jersey, to H lord Berkley, of Stratton, and Sir George Carteret, on the 24th of June, 1664; which grant contained all the country from Hudfon's river to Delaware river, and up the latter, to a ftation point at 41 Berkley had, in the mean time, fold and affigned his right to the famous William Pen, and three other affignees, and these affignees had agreed with Sir George Carteret upon a partition of the province, by drawing a line from the fouth-eaft point of Little Egg harbour almost directly north, by which the province was divided into two equal parts, the eastermost of which was affigned, by the affignees, to Sir George Carteret, which was therefore called Eait New-Jersey, and Sir George affigned the westernmost to the affignees, which was therefore called Weft NewJersey, fo that these two continued, for feveral years, generally under diftin&t go-› vernors. Upon Sir George Carteret's death his truftces fold and affigned Eaft New-Jersey to 72 HISTORY of the JERSEY S. to William Pen, and 11 other affignees, Feb. own, that of Eaft-Jerfey being held at Perth-Amboy, and that for Weft-Jersey at Burlington. But in 1736, upon the death of col. Cofby, and no new governor being named, the government of NewYork, and the government of New-Jer fey, devolved upon the two prefidents of their respective councils, and the modern maxim of splitting all great places into different hands, in order to give falaries or rather penfions, to a greater number of perfons, having fpread thro' the whole of our conftitution, George Clarke, Efq; prefident of the council of New-York, was appointed governor of that colony, and the before-mentioned Lewis Morris, Efq; the chief juftice of New-York, was appointed governor of New-Jersey, where he died governor in 1746, and Jonathan Belcher, Efq; who had been governor of Maflachufet's Bay and New-Hampshire, was appointed and now continues governor of New Jersey; but no proper care has been taken about fettling the old difputes about the property in the lands of that colony, which always has prevented, and still muft prevent its thriving, as it might otherwise do, confidering the fertility of the foil, and its fecurity against any attack from the Indians, to which it lies no way expofed but upon the north fide, and there it hath always been defended by the long and faithful friendship of the fix nations: How long this Friendship may continue no one can tell, as we have for above 30 years, allowed the French to encroach upon their teritories, and often prevented, even by menaces, their refenting their encroachments, as they would other wife have done. As this confusion was very great at first, it made the people very unealy, and as a people that are made uneafy in their circumstances, will always be mutinous, E unless retrained by a military force; this, with the variety of their fects of religion, and difference of original, occafioned, for many years, fuch mobs, tumults, and popular revolutions in the government of both the Jerfeys, that at lait, in the year 1702, the general proprietors of both fur- F rendered the government of the country to the crown, but referved to themselves all their other rights, and, at the fame time, they took care to ftipulate fome privileges in favour of the people, which were to be given as inftructions to all future governors that should be appointed G by the crown. Upon this the lord Cornbury, then governor of New-York, was by queen Anne appointed governor likewife of the two Jerfeys, from which time they continued to be under the fame governor with New-York, until the year 1736, but H always had, and ftill have a different council and house of reprefentatives, and as to the fupreme court of law, each of the Jerfeys has ftill a diftinct one of its This fecurity, in which the inhabitants have lived, prevents our having any thing to add with regard to their military hiftory, except that they have always furnished their quota of men to our general military expeditions on that fide of the globe; and, notwithstanding the long and frequent difputes among themfelves, the colony now feems to be in a profperous way, as appears from the following ftate of their imports and exports, from June 24, 1750, to June 24, 1751. Exported. Flour 6424 Barrels. 168500 Weight. 314 Barrels. 17941 Bushels. 14000 Weight. Some firkins of butter, fome hams, beer, fax-feed, bar-iron, and lumber. Imported, 1757. Rum Moloffes Sugar pentine And of PENSILVANIA. Pitch, tar, and tur Wines Salt 39670 Gallons. 31600 Gallons. 2089 Weight. 537 Barrels. 123 Pipes. 12759 Buthels. And the country is now divided into the following counties, each of which fends two members to the houfe of reprefentatives, befides two from the city of Perth Amboy, and two from that of Burlington; and each pays the following B proportions to each 1000l. tax, viz. Eaft-Jerley. S. Monmouth 169 10 Middlesex 105 Effex 136 73 round it; which was dated August 24, 1683; and prefently after he obtained another grant, from his royal highness, of a track of land, from 12 miles louth of Newcastle, to Cape Henlopen; and as there were then a great many Swedish, A Dutch, and English families, fettled in the country contained within thefe laft two grants, they chote to remain under a diftinct jurifdiction of their own, but do ftiil belong to the fame proprietor, and have always been under the me governor, with the upper part of the country, the latter of which is called the province, and the former its territories; and in both it is one of their fundamental regulations, that none who believe in one Almighty God, and live peaceably, fhall be inolefted in their religious perfualions, or compelled to frequent or maintain any Burlington 123 10 C religious worship contrary to their mind; Hunterdon 74 and that all perfons who profefs to believe in Jefus Christ, fhall be capable of ferving the government in any capacity, they folemnly promifing, when required, allegiance to the crown, and fidelity to the proprietor and governor. Welt-Jerfey. 1. S. As foon as Mr. Pen had obtained his patent and two grants, he engaged as many adventurers as he could, most of whom were quakers, and with them he went over him'elf to his new acquired country. But tho he had got from the crown a right to a large extent of country, which then belonged to, and was poffeffed by the native Indians, he was fo juft as not to pretend to take poffeffion, or to align and parcel out any part of it to his adventurers, until he had bought it of the Indians; and he made an agreement with all the nations of Indians within his grant, that none of them fhould fell any part of their lands to any but his agents, at the fame time laying it down as a rule for his agents, that none of them fhould enter upon, or authorize the entering upon any lands, until after they had bought them of the Indians. This G prevented any fuch confufions as had happened in the Jerfeys, and, at the fame time, recommended him fo ftrongly to the fayour and good opinion of the Indians, that, before the prefent war, none of them ever attempted to make war upon the people of Penfilvania. Having now given as full an account of New-Jersey, as our defigned brevity would admit, we fhall next proceed to give an account of the colony of Penfilvania, which country was by the Dutch reckoned a part of Nova-Belgia, and was probably at firft, fuppofed to be included, tho' perhaps not particularly defcribed, in the F grant made by king Charles the Second, to his brother the duke of York, when the defign was fet on foot for regaining that part of the English territories in North-America from the Dutch, who had fraudulently, and by ftealth, got poffelfion of it as before mentioned. But when William Pen, Efq; first projected the fettling a colony in this country, for the benefit of his own fect of religion, the quakers, it is plain, that it was not then fuppofed to be included in the aforefaid grant, for this reafon he obtained a patent from king Charles the Second, H dated, March 4, 1680-1, of the upper part of the country, foon after which he obtained, from the duke of York, a grant of the town of Newcastle, then called Delaware, with a district of 12 miles February, 1757. 74 Surprizing CASE of Count DE THUN. Feb. two fhips, nine fnows, eight brigs, Most of which were, perhaps, in a few [To be continued in our next.] To the AUTHOR of the LONDON SIR, ΤΗ plan for building the city of Philadelphia, which has been purfued ever finee, and which has rendered it one of the most pleafant and regular cities in the world, tho' fome complaints are made of its being unhealthy, by reafon of its low and moift fituation, at the conflux of the De- A February, yearly. laware and Schuyl-kill rivers. He likewife bought from the Indians, and laid out among his adventurers, fuch a large track of country, that it was divided into three counties, and that part of the country contained in his grant from the duke of York, he alfo divided into three B counties; fo that the province confifted, for many years, of three counties only, called Philadelphia, Buckingham, and Chefter; and the territory ftill confists of three counties, called Suffex, Kent, and Newcastle; but as large tracks have been fince purchased from the Indians, and fet- C tled, three more counties have been, of late years, added to the province, and called Lancaster, York, and Cumberland; of thefe fix provincial counties, the first three fend eight members each, the fourth fends four, and the two laft but two members each, to the houfe of reprefen DFERDINAND Charles, count de tatives; and to thefe are added two from the city of Philadelphia. Then, as to the three territorial counties, they send fix members each, to their house of reprefentatives; and we muft obferve, with refpect to the legislature of Penfilvania, that tho' the governor has a council, yet that council has no fhare in the legiflative power, which is wholly lodged in the governor and houfe of reprefentatives. The climate and foil of this country being extremely proper for producing all forts of corn, and the people very induftrious, they not only fupply themfelves, but export large quantities, befides feveral other forts of commodities, fo that they now carry on a very extenfive trade, as we may judge from the following lift of trading veffels entered inwards, and cleared outwards at the Custom-houfe of Philadelphia, from March 2, 1748-9, to December 25, 1749. Entered inwards. Cleared out. 62 Ships 25 Schooners 303 E HE following furprizing relation, which was first published ne near 60 years ago, and caufed much wonder, I defire you to republish for the observation of the curious in electrical experiments and difcoveries. It has not been made publick fince, that I know of, but has lain buried amongst a very large collection of curious memoirs, which, at my leifure, may, now and then, be made ferviceable to your ufeful and entertaining Magazine. man I am, &c. Thun, kinfman, and great hunts-to John Erneft, archbishop of Saltzburg, prince of the empire, and le gate of the holy apoftolical fee, &c. being a perfon of a lively, but fomewhat delicate conftitution, in the flower of his age, of a quick and ftirring genius, and lofty thoughts; in March, 1692, as he was following his game, chanced to take cold in his feet, whereby the pores being contracted, the fpirits were detained, and compelled, as it were, to regurgitate upon the brain. From this time forth, for fome three or four years, he felt a heavi nefs in his head, as if it had been filled with lead; found himfelf indifpofed for reading and writing; even fo much as a letter to a friend; was troubled with watchings a nights, and paroxysms of dizzine's very often, if not daily returning; complained of a burning heat about G the region of the diaphragm, and was very much difturbed with wind; tho in all other respects he was in perfect health. F But about the latter end of December, 1696, having too much expofed himfelf to the piercing cold of the Alps, he was feized with a rheum, and a hoarseness, 112 H almoft to the total lofs of his voice; on which he returned to court. This fame. night, and fome following days, he made ufe of a remedy ordered by Dr. Lof pichler, phyfician to the archbishop and court. About a day or two after, he, to 291 And when this account was made out, there were remaining in the harbour, 19 gether 1757-1 STRANGE PHENOMENON. together with his brother count George, The count, who all this time had D F 75 dentally, or for the greater conveniency of folding, there proceeded from them a flame, in a very large and violent flash. About the very fame time, prince Sigifmund Ignatius, count de Wolkenstein, bishop of Chiempfee, and fuffragan of Saltburg, a near relation of our count, having departed this life at Infpruck, it was reported, over all the town, that the deceafed perfon had obtained leave from the powers of the other world, to vifit his living friend, and thus to with him a good night; which paffed for an undoubted truth among the generality there. It was not only this night that this extraordinary phenomenon was to be feen; it continued for the space of ten or twelve weeks: And whatfoever ftockings the count did wear, who changed then five times in fifteen days for a trial, the fame effect still fucceeded, provided, by being twice or thrice upon him, they were but once fufficiently charged with the effluvia from his body. Some there were, who, to diminish the strangenefs of the thing, alledged, that the duft of a phofphorus, or lucid fhining fubitance, had been fprinkled upon the count's ftockings, whereby himself and But there others might be impofed on. were feveral circumitances in this matter, that did manifeftly evince the vanity of fuch a thought. For, first, This light was never to be feen, without the agitation or fhaking of that from whence it appeared to proceed; whereas to that of a phofphorus, no fuch thing is required. Secondly, This was kindled of a sudden, and no lefs quickly difappeared, like a flash of a fulminating powder: But the phofphorus fhines always, with one tenor of light, when not overpowered by a greater. Thirdly, This was accompanied with a noise, each sparkle making a fenfible explosion; but that, as little attended with any found, as the light of the moon, fhining in the filent midnight. And, laft of all, it was not poffible, that fo many illuftrious and learned perfons, G of all qualities and degrees, could be any manner of way impofed upon, in a mat ter of fenfe and fight, into which they had carefully examined: For from the very beginning, this had been seen by princes, archbishops, counts, bishops, philofophers, and phyficians, all whom were fatisfied, that there was no deception therein Upon the fecond night after the use of this ointment, as his groom of the chamber was undreffing the count to bed, there appeared a very wonderful and amazing fight; for, as he was drawing off his lord's ftockings, there fell from them live (parks of fire, visible, and fenfible, with fuch a H crackling noife, as falt makes, when thrown on burning coals, which did even really fcorch his hands; and afterwards, as he was shaking them, whether acci There remain yet two remarkable cir cumftances, that ought not to be omitted: One is, that the woollen stocking, that K 2 was |