| Description | 49 Threadneedle Street, has received letters from North Carolina, enclosing copies of a law made in that province forfeiting the property of all who do not return by Oct next, has sometimes thought it would be prudent to proceed to New York and there wait the issue of the terms sent out by the Commissioners and, in case of cessation of hostilities, to endeavour to get to North Carolina, and try to bring away some of his estate, his perplexed and distressing circumstances owing to the prevailing opinion that the object of the Commissioners will not be obtained
Enclosure, 28 Dec 1778, an Act for confiscating the property of all such persons, as are inimical to the United States, and of such persons as shall not in a certain time therein mentioned, appear and submit to this state, whether they shall be received as citizens thereof, and of such persons as shall so appear, and shall not be admitted as citizens, and for other purposes therein mentioned |