FREDERICKSBURG, March 3, 1773,
Upon the Night of Saturday the 27th Ult. the store kept by the subscriber, in the absence of his employer, George Mitchell, of Fredericksburg, merchant, was broke open and robbed of a drawer containing cash, a bill of sale from George Mitchell to Col. Fielding Lewis, sundry other papers, and the under mentioned tobacco notes; also a case with money scales and weights, and a garnet necklace set in gold, like open roses, valued at about twenty guineas.
| Warehouses. | When Received | Marks | No. | Gross. | Tare. | Neat. | |
| Fredericksburg | Dec. 21, 1771 | E C, | 483 | 1204 | 133 | 1071 | |
| Jan. 19, 1773 | W H | 1132 | 952 | 124 | 828 | ||
| Jan. 27, 1773 | R D, | 1131 | 1374 | 127 | 1247 | Remarked W Crowsfoot D, No. 2 | |
| Feb. 9, -- | R D | 377 | 1096 | 153 | 944 | ||
| 155 | 1142 | 108 | 1034 | ||||
| 800 | 1108 | 104 | 1004 | ||||
| Feb. 24, -- | W A | 175 | 1286 | 110 | 1176 | ||
| On Royston's | Jan. 11, 1773 | H E | 1143 | 823 | 119 | 704 | |
| Feb. 12, -- | R Y | 1218 | 800 | 114 | 686 | ||
| On Dixon's | Jan 27, -- | I A | 384 | 1160 | 120 | 1040 | |
| 385 | 1130 | 124 | 1006 | ||||
| Feb 24, | M B | 2 | 1343 | 187 | 1156 | ||
| 4 | 1190 | 100 | 1090 | ||||
| On Morton's | -- 23, -- | M | 148 | 1284 | 125 | 1159 | |
| 1284 | 128 | 1156 | |||||
| W G, | 142 | 1114 | 96 | 1018 | |||
| On Conway's | --16, -- | L W, | 355 | 1120 | 118 | 1002 | |
| On Roy's | Jul 22, 1772 | I L | 1158 | 1090 | 102 | 988 | |
| On Quantico | Mar 10, -- | I C, | 1912 | 1149 | 107 | 1042 | |
| On East York River | Jan 7, 1773 | C D, | 1 | 1128 | 123 | 1005 | |
| 2 | 1156 | 114 | 1042 |
Upon making out a proper list of the above tobacco, in Fredericksburg, Royston's, and Dixon's, the notes have been got; lists of tobacco on the other warehouses have been sent, and the notes are expected in course; of which the publick are desired to take notice, as well for the particular safety of individuals as for the detection of the villainous banditti, whose education being probably of a degree with their humanity, they may be ignorant enough to expose the above contents, wherein they cannot fail of being detected after this timely notice, and to which the publick are again entreated to pay due regard-if any persons, having a just suspicion tending to discover the above robbery, or have got any of the above contents ignorantly, or otherwise, their discovering the same to the subscriber shall be duly acknowledged.
JOHN MUNRO.
For George Mitchell