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DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE COLONIAL HISTORY OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY
FIRST SERIES --- VOL. XXXI
EXTRACTS FROM AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS RELATING TO NEW JERSEY FOR THE YEAR 1775
EDITED BY A. VAN DOREN HON EYMAN
SOMERVILLE, N. J.: THE UNIONIST-GAZETTE ASSOCIATION, PRINTERS, 1923
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From the Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2413, March 22, 1775.
FORTY SHILLINGS REWARD.
PHILADELPHIA, March 20, 1775.
Lost, on the evening of the 6th instant, at the house of Thomas Ellis, Inn-
keeper, on the road leading from Burlington to Philadel-
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phia, a silver watch, the maker's name, J. Grantham, London, on the face, and a
cypher on the outside case, I. S. Whoever will bring the same to the Printer
hereof, shall receive the above reward, and no questions asked.
This is to give notice to the creditors of John Mills, to appear at the house
of Mr. Macelroy, Inn-keeper, in Salem-Town, on the 15th day of April next, to
shew cause why the said John Mills should not be discharged from the confinement
he now is in.
TO BE SOLD,
At public vendue, to the highest bidder, on Friday, the 7th day of April next,
by the subscribers, Executors of the last will and testament of Joseph Reed,
Merchant, late of Amwell, in the county of Hunterdon, West New-Jersey, deceased,
a small farm, situate in Amwell aforesaid, fronting on the great road leading to
the Union Iron-Works, about a mile from King's tavern, and 16 miles from
Trenton, containing 48 acres of land, on which is a large two story dwelling-
house, 4 rooms on a floor, in excellent repair, where a store for the sale of
all kinds of merchandize has been kept with very good success for upwards of 40
years past. There are on the premises a store-house, smoke-house, chaise-house,
large new barn, stable, barracks, bearing orchard, a well of good water that
never fails in the driest season, about six acres of good clover and speargrass
meadow, watered by living springs, a garden paled in, with a variety of fruit
trees; the whole in good fence and divided into proper fields, except about
eight acres of woodland. Also to be sold, the same day, 27 acres of woodland,
situate about a mile from the said small farm, fronting the aforesaid great
road. The title to the whole is deemed indisputable; the vendue to begin at 2
o'clock in the afternoon, on the premises, when attendance will be given and
conditions made known by James Kirkpatrick, John Hart and Samuel Tucker,
Executors.
Trenton, March 2, 1775.
From the Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1685, March 22, 1775.
NEW-YORK, Committee Chamber, March 16, 1775.
The Committee met by adjournment this evening at the Exchange. Mr. Lewis, from
the sub-committee appointed to state the case of Messrs. Robert Murray and John
Murray, respecting their having landed goods from on board the ship Beulah,
report a letter from the Committee of Elizabeth-Town to this Committee, which
letter is in the words following, viz.
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ELIZABETH-TOWN, Friday evening, March 10, 1775.
Gentlemen: In consequence of the information received from Captain Sears,
relative to the suspicion that some part of the cargo of the ship Beulah had
been unladed before she quitted this coast, the Committee of Observation for
this town met this evening, and made enquiry respecting the affair; and
thereupon have to inform you that it appears to them that a boat belonging to
this town did, last Monday morning, sail from New-York to Sandy-Hook; that on
Tuesday evening she returned here. Two of the witnesses examined were the
boatman and the person who we suspect engaged the boat, who refused to be sworn,
but from their behaviour, and what they said on examination and other
circumstances, we believe that this was the boat seen to be hovering about the
Beulah, and took Mr. John Murray out of the ship, and that goods from said ship
were landed by the said boat at Staten-Island. We are not able at present to
furnish you with any further particulars. The Committee will make further
enquiry into this matter, and if any thing further appears, will give you
immediate information. In the mean time we thought proper to give the above
early intelligence, to furnish you with a clue in all probability of making more
important discoveries on Staten-Island, where we think the goods were
undoubtedly landed, at the east end or in the Kills.
By order of the Committee, JONATHAN HAMPTON, Chairman.
To the Committee of Observation of New-York.
The said Sub-Committee further report another letter to this Committee, from
the Committee at Elizabeth-Town, which are in the words following, viz.
ELIZABETH-TOWN, March 11, 1775.
GENTLEMEN: The Committee of Observation of this town have this day used their
endeavours to make a further discovery relating to the unlading part of the
cargo of the ship Beulah, but are not able to give you the information you
desire. Samuel Lee, a boatman of this town, employed and accompanied by Ichabod
B. Barnet, Esq. (son-in-law to Robert Murray), appear from very strong
circumstances to have been the persons concerned in that affair, who went from
New-York on Monday last to the ship. We have had Lee before us; he appears
greatly perplexed, but cannot be persuaded to give any clear information of the
matter, he being under an apprehension that he by that means may be the ruin of
some particular persons in New-York. The said Barnet was also before us, but
refused to answer the questions proposed to him; he only offered to swear (if it
would be any satisfaction to us) that no goods from the
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Beulah were landed at this town, which, however, we did not accept. And there is
reason to believe Lee would have given information, had it not been for said
Barnet, who, it appears, has prevented him from making the discovery.
We have only to add that the boat employed on this occasion is the property of
Isaac Woodruff, Esq., who, it clearly appears, was perfectly innocent, and knew
nothing of the affair.
Signed by order of the Committee.
JONATHAN HAMPTON, Chairman.
The said Sub-Committee also report, that on the same evening, and before this
Committee had received any further evidence respecting this matter, Messrs.
Murrays, voluntarily produced to this Committee at their meeting on the 13th of
March instant, a letter in the words following.
To the General Committee for the City and County of New York. . . .
CITY OF NEW-YORK, SS. John Murray, of the city of New-York, merchant, being
duly sworn, saith that the above is a full, just and true inventory of all the
goods which were lately taken out of the ship Beulah, at Sandy-Hook, by the
deponent, and were by him landed at Elizabeth Town, in New-Jersey. That the
deponent did, yesterday, voluntarily make an acknowledgment to the Committee of
Elizabeth-Town aforesaid that he had so taken and landed the said goods, and did
this day deliver the whole of the said goods to the said Committee, who took the
same into their custody and possession; where he believes the same now are. That
the boat in which the said goods were taken out of the said ship belonged to
Isaac Woodruff, which this deponent hired for that purpose of Samuel Lee, who
was master of the said boat. That Mr. Woodruff did not know (as this deponent
believes) for what purpose the said boat was hired, nor did the deponent inform
the said Mr. Lee on what business he wanted the said boat; nor did he appear to
know, at the time the boat was hired that he was employed on any business
contrary to the Association. That the agreement with the said Lee was only to
go with the boat where he was directed, and to do what he was bid. That Mr.
Ichabod Barnet, of Elizabeth-Town, and Samuel Read, of this city, went with the
said Samuel Lee in the said boat down to the said ship at the time aforesaid.
That Mr. Barnet was acquainted with the design of the boat's going down to the
said ship, but the deponent does not know that Mr. Read was previously
acquainted with such design, though at the vessel he assisted in taking the said
goods out, by the direction of this deponent, in whose store he is as an
assistant. That John Graham,
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Clerk to this deponent, and his partner, were on board the ship with the
deponent, at the time when the goods were taken out, but he did not see the
goods taken out, being (as this deponent believes) asleep at that time in the
cabin; and that his business on board was to copy invoices and letters; neither
does this deponent know or believe that the said Graham ever heard any
conversation between this deponent and any other person, respecting the taking
out the said goods. That when the goods were on board the boat, the deponent,
and all the other persons abovementioned, proceeded with her for Elizabeth-Town,
but stopped at Staten-Island, where they all went on shore, and Graham and Read
took passage from thence in the Staten-Island ferry boat for New-York; and the
deponent, with Lee and Mr. Barnet, proceeded from Staten-Island to Elizabeth-
Town in the said boat, where all the said goods were landed by them, and put
into Mr. Ichabod Barnet's store; that the said Ichabod Barnet had no interest in
the said goods, but what he did in the said business was merely at the request
of this deponent and his said partner, and the deponent believes with an
intention entirely to oblige them. That while the ship lay at the watering
place, the Captain and this deponent took into Kipp's small sailing boat sundry
small articles, the principal of which, the deponent believes, were presents,
but does not know the particulars. That the deponent at the same time took into
the said little boat a small cheese, about 200 lemons and oranges, and a dozen
and 9 bottles beer, and about a bushel of potatoes, for the use of the deponent
and his brother; all which were brought up in the said boat by this deponent and
Capt. Bussell; and the cheeses, and the other aforementioned articles, except
the beer, were presents from the Captain. That in the whole of this
transaction, so far as respects the delivery of the goods from on board the ship
at the Hook, Capt. Bussell acted by the order and direction of this deponent and
his partner, having no interest in the goods so delivered. And this deponent
further saith, that he neither knows nor believes that any goods were taken out
of the said ship after her arrival here, nor since her sailing from Sandy-Hook,
except the baggage belonging to some passengers, and except the goods
hereinbefore enumerated and mentioned; nor that any other persons than those
above mentioned had any agency or concern in taking out or landing the said
goods, except the ship's crew, and except also one Marsh, who, at Elizabeth-
Town, accidentally passing by was employed to assist in landing the same; but
the deponent believes he did not know where the goods came from, and further
saith not. JOHN MURRAY.
Sworn the 15th day of March, 1775, before me.
ANDREW GAUTIER.
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[Some other similar affidavits appear, and several accounts of the doings of
the New-York General Committee, etc., in the foregoing matter, on preceding and
succeeding dates, but are of too slight interest to New-Jersey to reprint,
presenting no substantially new facts. - EDITOR].
On Monday, the 6th instant, departed this life, in the thirty-sixth year of
his age, after a long and painful illness, Joseph Warrell, of Trenton, Esq.,
Attorney at Law. A gentleman whose affability, good humour and generosity,
endeared him to all those who had the pleasure of his acquaintance. He was a
warm, sincere friend, a most tender and affectionate husband, which, with his
many other engaging qualifications, renders the loss of him exceedingly
lamented.
IMPORTED FROM ENGLAND
Last Summer, the beautiful bay horse Lofty, allowed to be the handsomest that
ever came to this country. [To be] at Mr. William Phillips, in Maidenhead, in
Hunterdon county, West New-Jersey. . . .He is near 16 hands, and superior in
strength and figure to any full bred horse in America; his colour is a fine
blood bay, with a star and snip; his legs, mane and tail black. He won, when in
the possession of the Duke of Roxborough, his Majesty's plate of one hundred
guineas. at Leith; was lamed in running at Durham and never started afterwards.
He was got by Young Partner, out of Mr. Hutton's celebrated mare Diana, who won
the purses at Hambledon, Doncaster and York; his grand dam by Blase, his great-
grand dam by Childers.
From the New York Journal, No. 1681, March 23, 1775.
The Academy lately erected in a healthy part of the pleasant town of Newark,
in New Jersey, about eight miles from the city of New York, will, on the third
day of April next, be fit for the reception of the Masters, proper for the
instruction of youth, and of such children as can with conveniency lodge and
board therein.
There will be taught the learned languages, and several branches of the
mathematicks. There will be also an English school for the teaching of reading,
writing, arithmetick and book-keeping in the usual and Italian methods;
different rooms will be made use of for each branch of instruction, and such as
choose may have their children taught the English tongue grammatically. The
boys are separated from the girls in the English school. Those who can't board
in the Academy may have good lodgings near the same in private families. The
regulation and general direction of the instruction of the
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scholars will be under the auspices of the Governors of the Academy, who will
from time to time inspect the conduct of the several Masters and examine the
improvements of their pupils in learning. Mr. William Haddon, one long
experienced by several of the said Governors to be well qualified to teach the
learned languages and mathematicks, will have the superintendency of the youth
to be taught in those branches of learning, and Robert Allen and Son to have the
care and keeping the schools for the instruction of reading, writing,
arithmetick and book-keeping, who have discharged those trusts with great -
satisfaction to their employers.
As the intention of the benefactors and builders of this stately edifice is
for preparing of youth to be useful members of the community, the greatest care
will be taken, not only to have them well instructed in the branches of
learning, which their parents respectively order, but also in the paths of
virtue and morality. Care also will be taken that they attend public worship at
the usual times of holding the same at the church to which they severally
belong; there being in the said town two churches, one the church of England,
and the other Presbyterian, the ministers of which, for the time being, are
always to be of the number of the said Governors, and it is hoped that they,
with other Governors, will give that attendance to the trust they have
undertaken as will answer the laudable end proposed, and give ample satisfaction
to the parents and guardians of children sent to the said Academy.
N. B. - The tuition money for teaching, the learned languages and branches of
the mathematicks is £5, New-York currency, per annum; reading the English
language 8 shillings per quarter; reading and writing English 10 shillings per
quarter; reading, writing and arithmetick 12 shillings per quarter.
Newark, 10th March, 1775.
From Rivington's N. Y. Gazetteer, No. 101, March 23, 1775.
TO THE PUBLIC
A certain publication in Mr. Rivington's New-York Gazetteer of the second of
March instant, intitled, "Particulars of a Riot, that happened at Elizabeth
Town," &c., without doubt, highly reflects upon the character of the subscriber;
and [were] now the false and malacious charges mentioned in that publication
confined merely to him in his private capacity, he probably should have taken a
very different method than the one he now has to convince, in an especial
manner, the author of their falsity. But as they seem principally calculated to
expose him in the public character he sus-
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tains, as one of his Majesty's justices of the peace, he therefore looks upon it
to be incumbent upon him to exculpate himself in that public manner in which he
has been accused. This he hopes fully to do, and for that purpose thinks it may
not be improper to shew the following particulars relating to that Riot (as it
is called), so far at least, as he is alleged to have been concerned in it, for
the truth of which he appeals to the affidavits hereunder written. That on
Wednesday the 8th of February last, a canoe with oysters belonging to Staten
Island was, as she was coming to the bridge, seized by a number of people, and
drawn up into the street he verily believes to be true; but that he either knew
of the seizing the canoe before she was drawn up, or that he advised in seizing,
or advised, aided, or assisted in drawing up the same, he utterly denies. And
that the oysters were distributed to hungry vagabonds, who were headed in the
centre of the town by Jonathan Hampton, a justice of the peace, &c., he does
assert is an absolute falsehood. That he lately attempted to obstruct the
passage of his Majesty's Royal Regiment of Ireland over the ferries, and
prevented the waggons from carrying their baggage, he also declares it equally
false. However, thus much he will acknowledge, that upon being applied to by
some of the officers belonging to that regiment for a warrant to procure
waggons, he did refuse granting it, as warrants in such cases had always
heretofore been granted by the Mayor, Recorder, or some of the Aldermen of the
town, some of whom, before the application by the gentlemen of the army for this
warrant, came to him, and requested he would not grant any such warrant. That
he was the man who raised a Riot lately in Sussex county, attacked a pedlar, and
destroyed his property, is likewise without the least foundation, for at the
time of this attack upon the pedlar, he was in Elizabeth town, at least sixty
miles distant, nor did he know, or hear, that any such affair happened, till a
considerable time afterwards. That he has a high regard for the liberties of
America he will readily acknowledge; but never entertained the most distant
thoughts of supporting them otherwise than in a legal and constitutional way,
well knowing that true liberty consists in the power of doing whatever the laws
permit. Mobs, riots and unlawful assemblies he ever bore an aversion to; and so
far from being an encourager or promoter of them, as the author of that
publication would insinuate, he can with the fullest assurance call upon many of
the first characters in the province to vouch that he has ever heretofore shewed
himself forward, and stood forth, in preventing and suppressing them. Thus much
in justice to himself he thought proper and necessary to lay before the
impartial public, not doubting but that this
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late publication in which his character is so severely attacked will ever
hereafter be looked upon in the light it justly deserves, to wit, that it is
both malicious and false.
JONATHAN HAMPTON.
Elizabeth-Town, March 13, 1775.
The substance of the affidavit of James Johnson of the county of Richmond, in
the province of New-York, seaman, as taken the 13th day of March, 1775, before
David Alston, Esq., one of his Majesty's justices of the peace for the county of
Middlesex, in New-Jersey, is as follows:
That on or about the eighth day of February last past, he, this deponent, went
up to Elizabeth-town with a canoe load of oysters for sale; that before he got
up to the bridge his canoe was seized by a number of people, who soon after drew
up with the oysters into the road opposite the court house; that some time after
the canoe had been drawn up, upon understanding that Jonathan Hampton, Esq., one
of the magistrates of the place, was at the house of Samuel Smith, he, this
deponent, applied to him for his assistance, who used this deponent very kindly
and assured this deponent that neither his person or effects should be injured
or damnified, but then advised this deponent, as most prudent, to let his canoe
and oysters remain for some time till the minds of the people should be a little
settled, which he, this deponent, readily consented to do. He, the said
Hampton, then also assuring this deponent that should any person be so unkind as
to destroy his, this deponent's property, that he, the said Hampton, would make
up the damage to this deponent; this deponent also saith that no person offered
to take any of his oysters without paying him the price he asked; and this
deponent further saith that he did not see Mr. Hampton till after his canoe was
drawn up, nor has he the least reason to believe that the said Hampton either
advised, aided or assisted in drawing up the said canoe, and more especially as
the said Hampton, when he, this deponent, applied to him that day, treated him
with the greatest civility, and gave this deponent the fullest assurance that
he, the said Hampton, would use his endeavours to prevent this deponent from
being injured either in his person or property. And further this deponent saith
not.
JAMES JOHNSON.
Sworn this 13th day of March, 1775, before me,
DAVID ALSTON.
BOROUGH of ELIZABETH, ss.: Capt. James Arnett, of said borough, maketh oath
that on or about the 8th day of February last, James Johnson, of Staten Island,
came to this town with a canoe load of
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oysters; that as soon as he arrived in town his canoe was hauled up into the
street; that this deponent, being acquainted with said Johnson, advised him to
apply to Jonathan Hampton, Esq., who was then in the house of Capt. Smith; that
this deponent went with Johnson to Mr. Hampton as a magistrate to protect him.
Mr. Hampton then told Mr. Johnson he should not suffer either in person or
effects or words to that effect; and, further, that he might sell his oysters
about town, and that he had better let his canoe in there till evening; that the
people would soon disperse, and that, if his canoe or oysters suffered any
damage, he, Mr. Hampton, would see that he had full satisfaction for the same;
and that in the evening the canoe should be put into the water again; upon which
Mr. Johnson seemed well content, and went to selling his oysters about town. And
this deponent further saith, that some time afterwards he saw Johnson on Staten
Island; that Johnson spoke much in favour of Mr. Hampton, and said, Mr. Hampton
used him very kindly. And further this deponent saith not.
JAMES ARNETT.
Sworn, 14th March, 1775, before me,
JOHN BLANCHARD.
ESSEX COUNTY, ss.: Mrs. Sarah Longworth, house-keeper for Capt. Samuel Smith of
Elizabeth Town, maketh oath, That on or about the 8th day of February last
Jonathan Hampton, Esq., and Joseph Tooker came into said Smith's, about 11 or 12
o'clock; that sometime after they were there people were gathering on the other
side the street, and it was said were going to haul up a canoe; that Mr. Tooker
asked Mr. Hampton if he would go out. Mr. Hampton said he would not go amongst
them; nor did he go until the team was going to haul up said canoe. Then he
went out, but soon returned to Smith's again. And the owner of the canoe (or
oysters) applied to Mr. Hampton, then at Smith's, and Mr. Hampton told him to
let his canoe be there, that the people would soon be gone, and to go sell his
oysters; that his canoe should be put into the water again in the evening; that
if he suffered any damage, he, Mr. Hampton, would see full satisfaction was made
to him, and the man seemed much obliged to Mr. Hampton for his protection, and
further this deponent saith not.
SARAH LONGWORTH.
Sworn the 14th March, 1775, before me,
MATTHIAS WILLIAMSON.
From the New-York Gazette, No. 1224, March 27, 1775.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY: By virtue of a writ of fieri facias, to me directed, against
the goods and chattels, lands and tenements of,
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and belonging to Jacob Bergen, Jun., at the suit of his creditors, I have seized
and taken the grist-mill, with all the appurtenances thereunto belonging,
together with the houses and lots of lands, situate in Windsor, which I shall
expose at public sale, on Wednesday, the 3d day of May next, at the said mills,
between 12 and 5 o'clock P. M. All persons concerned herein, will take this
notice.
THOMAS SKINNER, Sheriff.
The Trustees of Queen's College, in New-Jersey, are desired to meet at the
city of New-Brunswick, on Tuesday, the 2d of May next. By order of the trustees.
J. R. HARDENBERGH, Clerk.
FIFTEEN DOLLARS REWARD.
PRINCETON, November 8, 1774.
Ran away from the subscriber, on Monday, the 19th of September, last, a negro
man named Peet, about 27 years of age . . . . Whoever takes up said negro, and
secures him in any of his Majesty's gaols, so that his master may have him
again, shall receive the above reward, and all reasonable charges paid by
DIRICK LONGSTREET.
NEW-JERSEY, Morris-County, ss.: By order of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas
in and for the county aforesaid, notice is hereby given to all the creditors of
Aaron Burnet, John Jacks and William Pettit, insolvent debtors confined in gaol
of said county, that they be and appear before any two of the judges of said
court of said county on Monday, the 24th day of April next, at one o'clock in
the afternoon of said day, to shew cause (if any they have) why an assignment of
the said debtors estates should not be made. [Etc.]
NEW-JERSEY, Morris-County, ss.: By order of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas
in and for the county aforesaid, notice is hereby given to all the creditors of
Richard Edwards and John Stevens, insolvent debtors, confined in the gaol of
said county, that they be and appear before any two judges of said Court, at the
court house of said county, on Monday, the 24th day of April next, at one
o'clock in the afternoon of the said day, to shew cause (if any they have) why
an assignment of said debtors estates should not be made to such persons as
shall be then and there appointed, and they to be released from their
confinement, agreeable to the directions of an Act [Etc.].
From Dunlap's Penna. Packet, No. 179, March 27, 1775.
March 22d, 1775.
The subscriber has purchased that noted horse Whynot, rising eight years old,
from his Excellency, Governor Eden. [To be] at the
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plantation of Whitten Cripps, within one mile of Salem, West Jersey . . . .
Whynot is a beautiful bright bay, full fifteen hands high, with a star and snip,
black legs, main and tail; and is allowed by competent judges to be one of the
handsomest horses on the Continent. Whynot was got by Fearnought, a son of old
Regulus, his sire the Godolphin Arabian. Whynot's dam was got by Othello, his
grandam by Spark, and his great-grandam was an imported mare, called the Old
Field mare. He won the following purses, in seventy three, £50 at Nottingham; in
seventy-four, £50 at Nottingham; £50 at Baltimore; f50 at Newtown, Chester; he
likewise won a purse of £50 in Virginia, when in the possession of Mr. Lee. He
will be sent to Mr. Cripps on the 25th of March, and will be shifted every ten
days from Mr. Cripps to my plantation. . . .
JAMES TALMAN.
March 22, 1775.
Was left with the subscriber, at the sign of the Death of the Fox, in New-
Jersey, by one Richard Shee, a sorrel horse, and a saddle. The owner is desired
to come and prove his property and pay charges, otherwise he will be sold for
the same in six days after date.
WILLIAM ELDRIDGE.
From the Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2414, March 29, 1775.
JUST PUBLISHED.
(Price three shillings), by Samuel Dellop, "The Letters of Abelard and
Heloise." To which is prefixed a particular account of their lives, amours and
misfortunes, by the late John Hughes, Esquire. To which is now first added,
"The Poem of Eloisa to Abelard," by Mr. Pope, embellished with a neat
copperplate frontispiece. . . . To be sold by . . . Messrs. Furman and Hunt,
Merchants, Trenton.
TWO DOLLARS REWARD.
Supposed to be stolen out of the stable of the Widow Woolverton, living in
Amwell township, Hunterdon county, a white mare about 14 1/2 hands high . . . .
Whoever secures said mare, and gives notice, so that she may be got again, shall
have the above reward, paid by SAMUEL BARNS.
The reputed, thorough-bred running horse, True Britain, which formerly
belonged to Anthony Waters, but now the property of the subscriber, is in
excellent order and sound. [To be] until the first of August next at the stable
of John Dickinson in Salem, West New Jersey. DAVID HENRY.
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From the New-York Journal, No. 1682, March 30, 1775.
TO BE SOLD OR RENTED.
The house and lot in Elizabeth-Town, New-Jersey, in which Isaac Woodruff,
Jun., lately lived. There are on the premises a good stable, chair-house, and
cow-house, with an extraordinary garden abounding in different sort of fruits of
the best kinds. The whole very convenient for a large family, and may be
entered on immediately. Inquire of the subscriber at Elizabeth-Town, or of
Lewis Protard, in New-York. ELIAS BOUDINOT.
HENRY DOUGAN,
Late Surgeon to his Majesty's 29th Regiment of Foot, takes this method to
inform the public in general, and his friends in particular, that he has taken
the house and lot nearly opposite to Thomas Latham, and now occupied by Joseph
Shotwell, Jun., at Raway, in the province of New-Jersey, where he proposes to
practice surgery, physick and midwifery. The experience he has had by attending
the Military and the advantage of walking all his Majesty's hospitals during a
thirteen years service in the above department, he flatters himself will be a
sufficient recommendation to the impartial public, whose favours he is, and
always will be desirous to gain and merit, by his constant assiduity and close
attendance on business.
He begs leave further to acquaint the public that, after serving a regular
apprenticeship to the branches of surgery and physick, he separately studied,
for the term of three years, the art of midwifery, under one of the most eminent
practitioners in Europe; after which he attended upon the Lying-in Hospital for
several years, and had daily experience in that important science.
Raway, March 23d, 1775.
THREE POUNDS REWARD.
Run-away from the subscriber, living in Morris county, East New-Jersey, an
apprentice lad named Daniel Turry, about 19 of age, of a middling size, about 5
feet 5 inches high . . . . Whoever takes up the said apprentice and secure him,
so that his master may have him again, shall have the above reward and
reasonable charges, paid by me HARTSHORN FITZ RANDOLPH.
From Rivington's N. Y. Gazetteer, No. 102, March 30, 1775.
Mr. Printer: We hear from Woodbridge-Rahway, New-Jersey, that on the 17th
instant, notwithstanding the badness of the weather,
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the sons of Bacchus went several miles to procure an emblem of licenciousness,
by them miscalled a Liberty-pole, which was of the stupendous height of
fourscore feet; they dragged it with much ado and no small fear to the place of
its destination at the cross roads; a proper place of erecting a pillory, stocks
or whipping-post, (which are all extremely necessary in that place). After
having got it so far safe, they, according to the custom common in such
achievements, repaired to the nearest tavern, which was at the distance of 4 or
5 rods, on the opposite side of the way. It by this time grew dusk, and those
guardians of our sacred rights, after exulting, swaggering, and menacing mobbish
vengeance to any that should be so daring as to offer the least violence to
their Deity; at length, by the influence of Mr. Grogg, who was present, they
slackened their attention, and between 7 and 8, the tumblers happening to be
empty, and the landlord somewhat weary of their company, they repaired to the
shrine to pay the final homage of the night to their ever adoreable Goddess,
when, to their remorse, they found her severed in twain by means of a hand-saw,
agitated as they suppose by some fiend of a Tory. Ah! the mortification both of
the principals and abettors, who now thought that such a catastrophe portended
the ministerial destruction of America; for you must know, Reader, that those
people are as superstitious as they are congressional, and are much cast down
with the appearance of any ill omens. However, after a night's repose, and
recovering the use of their limbs, the next day, when their pious souls were
well recruited with the nectarian spirits of the place, they began to think of
erecting a part of their ensign of folly; but they were under the utmost chagrin
when they reflected on their loss, as the height of their beloved Diana fell so
amazingly short of what they had the day before in contemplation.
N.B. - It is thought that their pole, under its present contemptible
appearance, will not strike even the rabble, either with the complacency or awe
that was intended.
From the New-York Gazette, No. 1225, April 3, 1775.
The subscriber hereof takes this method to inform the public that he intends
erecting a stage waggon, to ply between Hacketts-Town, in Sussex county, and
New-York, once a week, for one year, to commence the second Monday in May next,
and continue to set out on every Monday morning from said place, through
Flanders, Black-River, Mendem, and so to Morris-Town that day; the next morning
proceeds from thence through Newark to Powles-Hook Ferry; there tarry on
Wednesday; Thursday return back as far as Morris-Town, and on Friday proceed on
to Hackett's-Town again, calling at the
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different stages aforesaid. All persons who may have business in town which can
be transacted by him, he hopes will favour him with their commands, and they may
rest assured he will do his utmost endeavour to perform them in a satisfactory
manner. Good accommodations will be provided for passengers, and the best of
treatment given by the public's most obedient humble servant,
THOMAS DOUGLAS.
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
That the stage belonging to Abraham Godwin, at the Great Falls, is to set out
from his house on Monday, the third day of April, ensuing, at 7 o'clock in the
morning to Powles-Hook, and to return the next day from Powles-Hook, at ten of
the clock in the morning, to the Great Falls; also to set out on Friday and
return on Saturday the said week, and to continue twice a week till next
December. Any gentlemen and ladies that come up to see the Falls, and do not
like to stay for the stage day, that the stage shall return next day. The price
of the stage from the Falls to Powles-Hook is three shillings, York money, and
so in proportion at two pence per mile for each passenger.
ABRAHAM GODWIN.
March 22, 1775.
STATE OF THE DELAWARE LOTTERY,
Consisting of 12275 tickets. Tickets sold 4510. Tickets unsold 7765. The 4510
tickets sold a £4 each, is £18040. The prizes drawn to them amounted to 14101.
Loss, 3938.
The 7765 Tickets unsold, at £4 each is £31060.0.0
The prizes drawn to them, amounted to 34998.7.6
__________
£3938.7.6
Whereas many who purchased tickets in the Delaware Lottery for the sale of
lands belonging to the Earl of Stirling have, under divers pretexts, refused to
pay for them; and, as his Lordship has no remedy at law to compel payment, it is
impossible to collect monies sufficient to discharge the incumbrances on the
lands contained in the said Lottery; and notwithstanding the said Earl of
Stirling has been so fortunate as to draw to the tickets remaining in his hands
unsold, prizes which amount to near Four Thousand Pounds more than the amount of
the price of the tickets so remaining on hand, as appears by the annexed State
of the Lottery, yet he is willing to forego the advantage of that profit, and is
desirous of leaving every purchaser of tickets on the same footing as if the
Lottery had never been drawn. It is conceived that no reasonable man will
complain of this, who
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candidly considers that if the Lottery is not carried fully into execution it is
wholly owing to the purchasers of the tickets who now refuse to pay for them.
He is, therefore, under the necessity of declaring to the World, that the said
Lottery and every part thereof, and every transaction therein, must be null and
voil [sic] to all intents and purposes; and hereby gives notice that all such
persons as have purchased tickets in said Lottery, and have paid for them, to
apply to the persons to whom they paid their money for repayment; and all
persons who have sold tickets for money, or value thereof, in said Lottery are
hereby requested to repay the same to the persons from whom they received it.
STIRLING.
From the Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2415, April 5, 1775.
The Partnership of George Bartram and Peter Shiras being dissolved, it is
requested of all those indebted to said partnership, by bond, note or book-
account, to make immediate payment to Peter Shiras, of Mount Holly, who begs
leave to inform his friends and customers that he intends to continue the
business at the same place, and has for sale a general assortment of dry goods
and groceries, which he is determined to sell on the lowest terms for cash or
country produce.
PHILADELPHIA, April 5. - Last week the Committee of Salem county, in New-
Jersey, paid into the hands of the Chairman of this Committee of this city, Four
Hundred and Twenty Dollars, to be forwarded to their suffering brethren in
Boston.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, Philadelphia. - Inward Entries . . . . Sloop Brittannia, J.
Newman, Perth-Amboy. . . .
TWENTY SHILLINGS REWARD.
Run away from the subscriber, living in Greenwich township, Gloucester county
and province of West New-Jersey, on the 2d of this instant April, a certain John
Casperson, about 19 years of age. . . . Whoever takes up the said runaway, and
secures him in any of his Majesty's gaols, so that his master may get him again,
shall have the above reward, paid by SAMUEL PAUL.
From the Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1687, April 5, 1775.
Messrs. Bradfords: The following Plan bears so strong a resemblance to that
introduced into the late Congress by a Delegate from this Province as his own,
that I cannot but think it right to take
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the child from its reputed, and restore it to its real parents. Had it been
produced, as undoubtedly it should have been, as perfect and complete as this,
it is possible it would have met with a more favourable reception; but this
perhaps would not have so entirely corresponded with the views of this
gentleman, as it would have lessened his title to it, and rendered his claim to
be more doubtful, or liable to detection. A. R.
Plan of an Union of the several Colonies of Massachusetts-Bay, New-Hampshire,
Connecticut, Rhode-Island, New-York, New-Jerseys, Pennsylvania, Maryland,
Virginia, North-Carolina and South-Carolina, for their mutual defence and
security, and for extending the British settlements in North-America; as
proposed by Benjamin Franklin, Esq., and unanimously agreed by all the
Commissioners of the several Colonies aforesaid, met, by order of the Crown, in
Congress at Albany in July, 1754.
It is proposed that humble application be made for an Act of Parliament of
Great-Britain, by virtue of which one general government may be formed in
America, including all the said Colonies, within and under which government each
Colony may retain its present Constitution, except in the particulars wherein a
change may be directed by the said Act, as hereafter follows.
That the said general government be administered by President-General, to be
appointed and supported by the Crown, and a Grand Council, to be chosen by the
representatives of the people of the several Colonies, met in their respective
Assemblies.
That within - months after passing of such Act, the House of Representatives,
in the several Assemblies that happen to be sitting within that time, or that
shall be specially for that purpose convened, may and shall choose members for
the Grand Council, in the following proportion, that is to say
Massachusetts Bay 7
New-Hampshire 2
Connecticut 5
Rhode-Island 2
New-York 4
New-Jerseys 3
Pennsylvania 6
Maryland 4
Virginia 7
North Carolina 4
South Carolina 4
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Who shall meet, for the first time, at the city of Philadelphia in
Pennsylvania, being called by the President-General, as soon as conveniently may
be, after his appointment.
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Was left at the House of Joseph Haight, Inn-keeper in the city Of Burlington,
New-Jersey, by some person unknown, about the beginning of last Summer, a bag of
straw-hats, directed to Joseph Tatton, New-York. The Owner, proving his
Property, may have them, by paying for the Advertising.
ELIZABETH-TOWN, April 3, 1775.
The Trustees of New-Jersey College are hereby desired to meet at their Hall in
Princeton, the Third Wednesday of this Month, at 9 o'clock.
By Order of the Board, JAMES CALDWELL, Clerk.
From the New York Journal, No. 1683, April 6, 1775.
ELIZABETH TOWN, March 27, 1775.
It being fully proved to the Committee of Observation of this Town, after
enquiring into the conduct of Ichabod B. Barnet and John Murray, respecting the
landing of goods imported from London after the first day of February last, that
a ship called the Beulah arrived from London at the watering place at Staten
island, in the Colony of New-York, after the said first day of February, where
she lay some time under pretence of fitting for the seas; that on Sunday, the
5th instant, she fell down to Sandy hook, where she came to anchor, and on
Monday evening following the said Ichabod B. Barnet, with a boat by him provided
for that purpose, went on board the said ship, where John Murray then was, out
of which ship the said Ichabod B. Barnet and John Murray, the same night took
and received into the said boat a quantity of goods imported in the said ship
from London, of considerable value, and in the night following, privately landed
them in Elizabeth Town, which transaction is contrary to part of the tenth
article of the Continental Association, which is in the words following, to wit:
"If any goods or merchandizes shall be imported after the first day of February,
the same ought to be forthwith sent back, without breaking the packages
thereof."
The Committee, therefore, order the above conduct of the said John Murray and
Ichabod B. Barnet to be published, according to the eleventh article of the said
Association.
Signed by Order of the Committee, JONATHAN HAMPTON, Chairman.
THE NOTED HORSE FIGURE,
Imported by Doctor Hamilton, is now in good health, and excellent order, and
[will be] at the plantation of the subscriber, in Mon-
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mouth county, in the Township of Middletown . . . . Figure is a beautiful dark
bay, full fifteen hands and one inch high, and is allowed by the best judges to
be the gayest and handsomest horse in America. He was bred by the late Duke of
Hamilton, and got by old Figure, which was got by Standard, sire of Sir James
Lowther's Jason, a good racer. Young Figure's dam was called Young Mariamne,
was got by old Partner; Figure's great-granddam was called Luggs, and got by the
bald Gallaway. Figure has won the following purses: one purse at New-Castle
upon Tyne; and ditto at Lancaster; one ditto at Sterling; one ditto at Rugby; he
also got a premium at Preston; at Lancaster he beat Mr. Barry's Spinner, a good
runner, and the odds against him were fifty pounds to five. As to his
performances in America, it is well known in a few months after he was imported,
he took a purse in Maryland, and beat a number of capital horses; also another
purse for which he beat Selim and others, proving himself on that occasion to be
one of the stoutest and steadiest racers that ever started for a plate, or
match, upon this continent. BARNES SMOCK.
New-York, March 21, 1775.
Whereas Peter Waglom, from Staten-Island, has lately come to this place and
brought a quantity of India tea, and exposed the same to sale, contrary to, and
in violation of the agreement and Association of the Continental Congress lately
held at Philadelphia; and as we, the Committee of Dover, in the county of
Monmouth and colony of New Jersey, having full proof of the above fact, are of
opinion that the said Waglom ought to be shunned as a publick enemy: Therefore
we advise every friend to his country (in this town) not to have any kind of
dealings with him.
JOSEPH SALTER, DAVID WOODMENSEE, GABRIEL WOODMENSEE, JOHN COOK, JAMES MOTT,
JUN., Committee of Dover.
TO D. C., ESQ., NO. 1.
DEAR SIR: You expect my sentiments on our public affairs, and, indeed, I can
with freedom unburden my full heart to one whom I esteem a true friend to George
the III., our rightful Sovereign, to the Protestant succession in his family,
and to the real interest and greatest good of the whole British empire. And
were such as truly the character of every British subject as it is yours, and
every mind properly informed, all our unhappy differences would soon be amicably
settled, and every disagreeable commotion and unfriendly passion subside. But a
strong party too near the Throne, of a quite opposite character, are opposing
the general good of the nation, to the great
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danger of the King, the Protestant succession and interest, and even the very
existence, of the empire as such. You need not be told, Sir, the many well
known facts on which this great danger is founded. Have not that party invaded
the rights of mankind in every part of the empire? Hath not that invasion
stir'd up a spirit of jealousy, disaffection and opposition to those hateful
measures, more or less, in almost every city, county and colony in the British
dominions? For instance, the noble spirit and manly opposition shewn by the
citizens of London and the electors of Middlesex when their right of election
was trodden underfoot by that party in the case of Wilkes and Lutterel. And the
many petitions and remonstrations from every quarter are so many instances of
the like kind. Hence it appears that America is not singular in her opposition.
He must be ignorant of the present state of our nation who is not sensible
that there are still millions in Great Britain and Ireland, who are possessed of
the same virtuous principles with us, and who have shewn, or soon must shew,
themselves on the side of Liberty, Protestantism and the Constitution. Their
eyes are opening. They see more and more this great truth, that the ruin of the
whole empire is involved in that of America. In short, such is the state of our
public affairs that should the friends of despotism carry their point a little
higher, and begin with the sword to enforce submission to tyranny, the whole
empire would fall into the most dreadful convulsions and shake to the very
centre. Then, when these convulsions shall have subsided, through the loss of
much blood, then, (may heaven prevent it) the Atlantic ocean, the Irish sea, and
the river Tweed will probably be what the English channel is now, a divider of
Kingdoms, or the whole be swallowed up by Bourbon.
Nor can Stuart himself, whom America abhores, expect more than a part of the
empire. For France and Spain, now grown strong, will no doubt at such a time do
all that in them lies to divide and weaken the British empire, when the Romish
religion in Ireland, the love of Stuart in Scotland and the lust of gold in
England will forward their design. For what but the love of money could have
calculated the present ministerial plan, so exactly to suit the meridian of
Paris? Some may imagine that America may be subjugated without any such ill
consequences to the European part of the British dominions; and that the
Americans, were the case once to be put sword in hand, would make but a feeble
resistance. Because, they say, many in hopes of present profit, or future
favours, and many thro' fear of punishment, will join the ministerial party, and
thereby so divide as to destroy, in a great measure, every mode of opposition;
and that those who still continue their opposition will be so disheartened, and
unsupported, as to fall
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an easy prey to their enemies. On which, let it be remarked, that those who hold
and endeavor to propagate such slavish Anti-American doctrines, betray in
themselves either ignorance, cowardice, or treachery, which are directly
opposite to the true character of America in general. The Americans are a
sensible, learned, brave, loyal, free, Protestant people. And though there are
some who are otherwise, yet they are a diminutive number, so comparatively few
that they never have, and it is to be hoped they never will, take the lead in
our public affairs. Those who think England may be safe while in an open
rupture with America do not duly consider their danger from their internal and
external enemies, the French, Spaniards, Catholicks, Jacobites, and Tories, of
which it is hard to say who are the greatest enemies to the British
constitution, and the Protestant interest. Be that as it may, it has been
openly declared in Parliament that, were the banners of rebellion once spread in
America, England would be a ruined land . . . . The most sensible Britons are,
therefore, often calling upon us to stand firm and united in our virtuous
opposition, adding that thereby we shall save ourselves and them. This is
doubtless true. And it is allowed by friends and foes that our danger
principally, if not wholly, lies in our being divided among ourselves. What
punishment, therefore, is adequate to their guilt who use every vile artifice to
deceive and divide us, and thereby ruin the whole empire? And yet, these same
traitorous vermin would cloak all their foul conduct under the specious pretence
of Loyalty, and curse the honest Whigs for Traitors; whose loyalty in fact is
the very thing that vexes them. Would it then be any wonder if under such
provocations the friends of the Constitution should, in some instances thro'
their zeal for the public good, go beyond the line of duty? The Americans are,
of all his Majesty's subjects, the greatest admirers of the British
Constitution, because they esteem it the grand charter of their liberties, civil
and religious, which they love as they do their lives; and their loyalty to the
present reigning family is as preeminent as their love of Liberty, and always
has been; because they esteem that family as the proper guardians of the
Constitution, on which alone their throne is built, and under the protection of
which we hold our Liberties.
In this view of things, no wonder if we should esteem those Traitors to the
King who are using their utmost efforts to undermine his throne, by destroying
its basis, the Constitution. Hence, Loyalty itself justifies us in opposing
such men and such measures. This view justifies all the military preparations
now making in America. The stronger we are in these, the safer is the Empire.
We mean to act only on the defensive. We ought by no means to
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strike the first blow, nor to provoke those who would. This is certainly a
great point to carry against those who call us Rebels, and would make us so, if
they could. I know you will strictly adhere to the wise directions of our loyal
Congress, according to which, while you encourage the doubtful and instruct the
ignorant, you will punish the guilty and thereby greatly oblige your humble
Friend. ESSEX.
New-Jersey, 18th March, 1775.
From the New-York Gazette, No. 1226, April 10, 1775.
By order of the Hon. Frederick Smyth and Richard Stockton, two of the judges
of the Supreme Court for the province of New-Jersey, the creditors of William
Radley, Samuel Searring and John Toft, insolvent debtors, are hereby notified to
appear before the said judges on Wednesday, the tenth day of May next, at the
Court-house, in the City of Burlington, and province aforesaid, to shew cause,
if any they have, why an assignment of the said debtors' estates should not be
made, and they discharged from their confinement, agreeable to a late Act of the
General Assembly of said province.
Elizabeth-Town, April 8, 1775.
STOLEN,
Out of the stable of William Hopper, of Ramapo, in Bergen county, on the 23d
of March, 1775, a black gelding, with a star in his forehead, about 6 years old,
and 15 hands high, or thereabouts. He is natural to all gates, and carries his
head and tail high, and is branded on his right thigh W. H. Likewise stolen at
the same time a breasted saddle, the brass loop on the breast broke half off.
Any person that will secure the said horse and saddle, so that the owner may
have them again, shall have five dollars, and all reasonable charges paid by
WILLIAM HOPPER.
N.B. - Any person securing the thief in any of his Majesty's goals, shall have
the like Five Dollars reward, provided the owner gets his horse.
The house of Mr. Benjamin Hathaway, of Morris-Town, in New-Jersey, was burnt
to the ground last Thursday week, with every thing therein contained, except one
bed; occasioned by a spark from the chimney falling on the roof.
PUBLIC NOTICE.
Is hereby given to all the creditors of James Morgan, of the city of Perth-
Amboy, county of Middlesex, and province of East-New-
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Jersey, insolvent debtor, that the said James Morgan has, agreeable to the Act
of Assembly, applied to the Supreme Court, now sitting at Perth-Amboy aforesaid,
for relief from confinement; and, agreeable to the aforesaid Act, said Court
ordered all his creditors to meet at the city of Burlington, on Wednesday, the
10th day of May next, then and there to appoint one or more assignees to receive
all the estate, both real and personal, of him the said James Morgan, for the
benefit of all his creditors. In default of the creditors meeting, the Court
will appoint one or more assignees to receive said estate.
From Dunlops Penna. Packet, No. 181, April 10, 1775.
This is to give notice to the creditors of Henry Voorhees, prisoner, confined
for debt in the gaol of Burlington, that they be and appear before the
Honourable Justices of the Supreme Court held at Burlington, in and for the
province of New-Jersey, at the Court-house, on Wednesday, the tenth day of May
next, to shew cause why the said debtor should not be discharged, agreeable to
an Act of the legislature, entitled, An Act for the relief, &c., of insolvent
debtors.
From the Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2416, April 12, 1775.
Whereas the managers, for the owners and possessors of the Repaupa meadows,
marsh and swamps, to erect water-works to keep the tide from overflowing the
same, and other services required of them by an Act of Assembly of the province
of New-Jersey made and provided for that purpose, have several times attended
with their accounts, and desired the company to settle with them for what monies
they have disbursed or expended in casting up the bank, laying the floodgates
and sluices, and stopping the creek, &c.; and whereas the owners and possessors
have neglected to settle the same, the managers refuse to act; therefore we,
some of the owners and possessors of the said marsh, meadows and swamps, do
notify the rest of the owners and possessors to meet at the house of William
Eldrage, on the 29th of this instant April, by 10 o'clock in the forenoon, to
chuse managers, and settle the late managers' accounts. All persons that have
any claim to the said meadows, marsh or swamps, are desired to appear and make
their claims and produce their surveys, that they or the managers may proceed to
lay off or survey their several lots in the most proper manner; to consult the
most proper place for the road or roads to suit the company, and to give the
managers instructions what farther they would have done; and all those that have
any unsettled accounts are desired to produce them; and as there are several
services required to be done
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by the said managers, agreeable to the said Act, and the time limited is near
expired, the attendance of the owners is particularly requested.
JAMES STEELMAN, JAMES HINCHMAN, THOMAS CLARK, DANIEL SUTHERLAND, JOHN LOCK,
WILLIAM HOMAN, PETER LOCK, DAVID HENDRICKSON.
TO BE SOLD, BY PUBLIC VENDUE,
At Samuel Cooper's Ferry, opposite Philadelphia, on seventh-day, the 22d of
April, at two o'clock in the afternoon, two flats, one new, carries 12 cords;
the other not four years old and carries between 6 and 8 cords; both built of
the best of oak timber and plank, and now in good repair. They belong to the
estate of Patrick Brady, deceased, and will be sold by Joseph Cooper and John
Reily, Executors. The conditions of sale will be made known at the time and
place.
N.B. - All those that are indebted to said estate are desired to make speedy
payment; and those who have any demands against it, to bring in their accounts,
properly proved, at the above time and place, where attendance will be given by
the said Executors.
FIVE POUNDS REWARD.
Run away from the subscriber, living in Woolwick township, Gloucester county,
on the 10th day of March last, an Irish servant man, who calls himself Matthias
Cane, but who has changed it to Michael Coda; he is about 5 feet 6 or 7 inches
high, has forged a pass, and is about 28 or 30 years of age . . . . Whoever
takes up said servant, and secures him in any of his Majesty's gaols, shall have
the above reward, and reasonable charges, paid by
PETER KIER.
TO BE LEASED OUT
For a term of years, on reasonable terms, the Iron Works, known by the name of
Sharpsborough Iron Works, situated in the county of Sussex, East New-Jersey, on
a stream of water called the Walkiln; the works consist of a furnace, with the
houses necessary, all in good repair; also a forge near said furnace, with 3
fires and 2 hammers, in good repair, and a good saw-mill; and one other forge a
mile distance from the above, with 2 fires and 1 hammer, with coal houses, and
other houses necessary; there are between 3 and 4,000 acres of land, whereon is
a sufficient quantity of timber for said works; also 100 acres of good English
meadow, and 300 acres of good plough land, in fence, fit for tillage; there is a
sufficient quantity of good
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iron ore within a mile and a half of said furnace, easy to be raised, on the
above premises, also an excellent grist-mill, newly repaired last summer, with
one pair of stones and bolts, one mile distance from the furnace, and half a
mile from the last mentioned forge; stands on a spring-run, which never fails;
the whole is situated in a fine country for all kinds of produce that is
necessary for the supply of carrying on the above works. Any person inclining
to lease the above may have possession in September next, or sooner if agreeable
to the tenant; the terms may be known by applying to Abiah Brown, on the
premises, or to the subscriber, living in Salem county, West-Jersey.
JOSEPH SHARPE.
BRIDGETOWN, New-Jersey, Cumberland county gaol, April 3, 1775.
Was committed to my custody on the 23d day of March last, two servant lads,
the oldest about 17 years, the other about 16 years of age; they say they belong
to one Thomas Stedhams, in Caroline county, in Maryland; the same lads answer
the description published in the Gazette, both in age and stature, the one named
John Norman, the other John Holder. Their master is desired to come, pay
charges, and take them away in three weeks from this date, or they will be
sold out for their fees. ELIAS WHITAKER, Goaler.
FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT
Of the breed of good serviceable horses, the subscriber keeps the noted
English Dray Horse; a jet black, 17 hands high, measures 16 inches round the
knee joint, and is well proportioned otherwise; he is judged the broadest horse
in the province, and is much admired for courage, shape, marks and beauty, and
likewise for his strength and trueness in drawing, as there is none in this
province able to exceed him . . . . The said horse was foaled in Lincolnshire,
in old England; was imported by Colonel Francis, and is now kept by the
subscriber in Newtown township, Gloucester county, about two miles from Cooper's
Ferry, opposite Philadelphia. MARMADUKE COOPER.
THREE POUNDS REWARD.
Run away on Wednesday, the 5th of this instant April, from the subscriber,
living in Pilesgrove, Salem county, an English servant lad named George Crowder,
but it is likely he will change it, as he ran away from his former master out of
Maryland, and went under the name of George M'Gennis, when he was taken up, and
put into Gloucester goal, and was sold to John Kidd, a shallopman, in January,
1774; three months after his master from Maryland came,
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and took him from John Kidd, and sold him to the subscriber.
Whoever apprehends said servant, and secures him in any of his Majesty's
gaols, so that his master may have him again, shall be entitled to the above
reward, and, if brought home, reasonable charges, paid by
ROBERT CLARK.
From the New York Journal, No. 1684, April 13, 1775.
NEW JERSEY, Morris County, ss.: William D. Hart, Esq., against Dr. Thomas
Budd, Attachment. To be sold at vendue on Monday, the 15th day of May next, all
the lands belonging to the said Thomas Budd, situated in Hanover, in the county
of Morris, adjoining the plantations of Messrs. Ralph and Jasper Smith, supposed
to be about two hundred acres, to be sold in small lots. The vendue to begin at
ten o'clock, at the house of Mr. Ralph Smith, by
JABEZ CAMPFIELD, MATTHEW LUM, JOSEPH WOOD, Auditors.
RUN AWAY
On Sunday, evening the 9th instant, an indented servant, Cornelius Bubary, a
Swede by birth, and speaks broken English, about 25 years of age, 5 feet 9
inches high . . . . He lately arrived here from London, in the ship York, Capt.
Ackland, and is indented for four years. Whoever takes up and secures in gaol,
or returns the said servant to the subscriber, living in Westfield, near
Elizabeth-Town, New-Jersey, shall be paid five dollars reward, and all reason-
able charges, by MELYN MILLER.
From Rivington's N. Y. Gazetteer, No. 104, April 13, 1775.
NEW-YORE:, April 13.
The important intelligence from England, inserted in this paper, would not
allow a place for the flagellation of snarling, pediculous litter of raccoons
stiling themselves a Committee at Freehold, in New-Jersey, who in M[r.] Holt's
last exhibition have dared, in violation of the late solemn declaration from
Carpenter's-Hall, to attack the Grand Palladium of American Freedom, the Liberty
of the Press; argal, it must be deferred.
From Dunlap's Penn'a Packet, No. 182, April 17, 1775.
APRIL 14, 1775.
These are to give notice to the creditors of James Davis, Samuel Johnston, and
Garrit Voorhees, prisoners confined for debt in the
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gaol of Burlington, that they be and appear before the Justices of the Court of
Common Pleas for the county of Burlington, to be held at the Court-house in
Burlington, on Tuesday, the sixteenth day of May next, to shew cause why the
said debtors should not be discharged, agreeably to an Act of the Legislature,
entitled, An Act for the relief, &c., of insolvent debtors. [See further notice
under newspaper date of June 12, post. - EDITOR].
From the Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2417, April 19, 1775.
PHILADELPHIA, NEW-CASTLE, FRENCH-TOWN AND BALTIMORE STAGES.
Notice is hereby given, that Joseph Tatlow and Thomas Frisby Henderson have
entered into articles for the term of seven years to carry on their stages
between the City of Philadelphia and Baltimore, by the way of New-Castle and
French-Town, on Elk River. The stage days are as follows: Joseph Tatlow's stage
boat will leave the Crooked-billet wharff, in Philadelphia, every Sunday (except
when the navigation is obstructed by the ice) and proceed to New-Castle, where a
stage waggon will set off on Mondays for French-Town. A packet boat kept by
Thomas Henderson will set off on Tuesdays to Baltimore-Town, in Maryland, and on
Saturdays she will return, to French-Town, where the stage waggon will be ready
to convey the goods and passengers to New-Castle, from whence said Tatlow's boat
will proceed to Philadelphia on Tuesday, where she generally arrives the same
day, at which place the Borden-Town and Burlington stage boats will receive any
goods and passengers for New-York. This being the nearest communication by land
and water from the City of Philadelphia to Baltimore-Town, and at the same rates
as other stages, we flatter ourselves it will be a great inducement to the
public to give us the preference. The greatest care and punctuality will be
observed by each of us in the performance of the stages. Goods will be received
by Mrs. Terry, at the Crooked-billet wharff, in Philadelphia, in the absence of
the stage.
N.B. - The said Henderson has an excellent warehouse (his Landing being now
open) for the reception of goods at any time. He also keeps a public-house for
the entertainment of passengers, who may chuse to come from Virginia, Maryland,
or elsewhere, by the way of French-Town to Philadelphia, he having proper
waggons for conducting the same.
SIX DOLLARS REWARD.
Run away about the 2d inst., April, from the subscriber, an indented servant
man, named John O'Neil, born in Ireland, a weaver by trade,
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aged about 28 years, about 5 feet 6 inches high . . . . Whoever takes up the
said servant, and secures him in any gaol, so that his master may have him
again, shall be entitled to the above reward, and reasonable charges, paid by
JAMES DYE, in Salem-town, West New-Jersey.
PHILADELPHIA, April 19. - At Burlington, Mr. Richard S. Smith, Jun., to the
amiable Miss Burling.
FIVE POUNDS REWARD.
Run away from the subscriber, living in Newtown township, Gloucester county,
the following persons, viz., William Far, an Englishman, about 22 years of age,
a thick set fellow, about 6 feet high . . . . James Bryant, aged 17 years, a
smart lad . . . . All masters of vessels are forbid to take them off.
BENJAMIN VANLEER.
THE FAMOUS ENGLISH DRAY HORSE COLOSSUS.
[To be] at the stable of John Dickinson, in the Town of Salem, West Jersey . .
. . He is a beautiful dark bay, well marked, rising 4 years old, and is allowed
to be the largest of that age of any horse imported into America; he is an
excellent horse for a draft, and goes very light, fleet and gay under the
saddle, with great spirits and ease to the rider . . . . DAVID HENRY.
THIRTY SHILLINGS REWARD.
Run away from the subscriber, living in the township of Chester, Burlington
county, West New-Jersey, on the 10th instant, an Irish servant man, named
Nathaniel Anster, about 32 years of age. . . . Whoever takes up said servant,
and secures him in any of his Majesty's gaols, so that his master may get him
again, shall have the above reward, with all reasonable charges, paid by
JOHN CHAMBERS.
From the Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1689, April i9, 1775.
At Mr. John P. Hunt's in Hopewell, Hunterdon-county, West New-Jersey, that
elegant horse Whirligig, imported from England by John Allen, Esq., in August,
1773. He is a beautiful dark brown, with a star, rising ten years old, sound
and free from blemish, full fifteen hands high, very strong, bony and handsome,
and allowed by the best judges to have as much spirit and move equal to any
full-blooded horse in America. In April, 1769, when he was rising four years
old, his owner received forfeit 1,000 guineas from the owner of a horse called
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Rapid. The same year he beat Volunteer, for 200 guineas. In October, 1770, he
beat Warwickshire-Wag, for 100 guineas over the Beacon. The same year he beat
Atrides for 100 guineas. Whirligig's pedigree shall be inserted in a future
paper; in the mean time, it may be depended on, that he is as well bred as any
horse in this country.
From the New York Journal, No. 1685, April 20, 1775.
Run-away from the Subscriber, living in Reading Town, Hunterdon County, West
New-Jersey, on Saturday night, the 15th instant, an indented servant man, named
Hugh Smith, about 5 feet 6 inches high. Whoever takes up and secures said
servant, in any of his Majesty's Gaols, or delivers him to any of the
subscribers, shall have five dollars reward, and all reasonable charges, paid by
us the subscribers, who bought him to teach a school.
THOMAS STOUT, JAMES VAN DER VEER, CASPER BURGER, JAMES VANSICKLE, JOHN
VANSICKLE.
To D. C., Esq., No. 2.
DEAR SIR: Since the writing of No. 1, we have been agreeably entertained with
intelligence from London favorable to the good cause, in which not only these
colonies, but Great-Britain and all her other dependences are so deeply
interested. I congratulate you and the rest of the friends to the Constitution
on the receipt of these and every other appearance in our favour. Permit me to
enumerate a few of these, for a proper and general attention to them would do
much toward strengthening our union and defeating the base designs of those who
oppose the general good. And the first thing to be remarked is the greatness of
the union subsisting among ourselves, on which, under Providence, depends our
greatest hope of success. This union appeared remarkably in the sentiments of
all the colonies respecting the propriety and necessity of appointing Delegates
to meet in general Congress, and since, in their appointing so many men who,
when met, were so exactly suited to one another in sentiments, as they in fact
were. For when Representatives are properly chosen, without bribery or any
other undue influence, they naturally carry with them the sentiments of their
electors, from whom they also receive the outlines of their conduct in general
directions. When these Delegates met, they began their solemn and important
business by bowing themselves before the great Sovereign of the universe, to
whom they could with a pure conscience appeal as to the justice of their cause,
and on whom they, in the use of proper means, depended for all that assistance
which was necessary to ensure success. And for this they humbly implored the
Divine clemency and goodness. At the same time, or
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as near it as the provinces could judge, there were many hundreds of
congregations of their constituents beseeching Almighty Goodness for the same
Divine aid. They believed their cause was His, and could therefore go boldly to
the Throne of grace.
Here, Sir, is union. A continent on their knees imploring the alliance of a
God! This is an appearance favourable to us. And in this view the enemies of
America might do well to remember the advice of Gamaliel. Let us revolve in our
minds the proceedings of this Congress, and see what appearances here are
favourable to us; caution, justice, loyalty, knowledge, moderation, wisdom,
benevolence, deliberation, humanity, resolution, fortitude, self-denial, self-
defiance, piety, and, to crown the whole, a remarkable union in all these.
Antient Rome in her highest pitch of power and glory never produced an Assembly
of worthies better qualified to govern an empire than these. The desire of this
Congress appears evidently to be that all the disturbances, divisions,
conclusions, ill will and oppression in the whole of his Majesty's dominions
should cease; and that peace, union and harmony, with constitutional liberty and
a just dependence of one part on the other, should exist throughout the whole of
this great empire, which they desire should be governed, in all its parts, by
his present Majesty, George III., and a Protestant succession in his family,
together with such other legislative powers as are, by the British Constitution
and Provincial charters, established.
No wise and good men, I conceive, when once truly and sufficiently acquainted
with their designs, as stated above, can wish that they should be defeated. If
we pursue this union in the resolutions of the Congress to their being put into
execution in the several united provinces, we shall find that it prevails
against all opposition, and that the opposers of Congressional measures are
comparatively but very few. I do not at present recollect more than three towns
in the opposition in all the four provinces of New-England, and those none of
the most considerable. The names, in tenderness to the virtuous part of their
inhabitants, are here omitted. However, considering the measures taken with
them by their wiser neighbors, it is very probable they will soon be brought to
a sense of their error and will return to their duty.
In this and the Southern provinces, I believe, the opposition is as full as
small. Some few places in the province of New-York are delinquent, but they
appear to be returning to their duty. The city and county of New-York have been
esteemed by far the most so; but by a late fair trial it appears that there are
more than five to one in favour of the Congress. And this probably will break
the heart of all the opposition in America. The news from Great-Britain and the
West-India islands, so favourable to us, will contribute much
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to the same valuable purpose. Some indeed have lately attempted to land goods
in America contrary to the Association of the Congress, but such is the
vigilance of those excellent inspectors, the Committees of New-York and
Elizabeth-Town, and such the awful guilt of the delinquents that they could not
be hid. They have confessed their fault and laid a heavy fine upon themselves
for their base conduct. Another person concerned in the same dark affair is
also detected, and will, it is thought, be sufficiently punished. In fine, if
we continue to pursue the wise measures of the Congress, the merchants and
manufacturers in England and the West-India islanders will do all in their power
to procure a redress of all our grievances. And we have great, great reason to
hope, that by the favourable interposition of Divine Providence their united
endeavors will soon produce the desired effect. I remain, dear Sir, Your's and
the Constitution's friend, ESSEX.
New-Jersey, March 25, 1775.
From Rivington's N. Y. Gazetteer, No. 105, April 20, 1775.
[Extract of a Letter from London, March 10, 1775].
"I have just time to acquaint you that a bill is ordered to be brought into
the House, similar to the restraining bill for the fishery from New-England,
including Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the Jersies. My
sincere wishes are that we may be united with America in promoting one general
power, and that we may live in peace and harmony."
Last Thursday was hung up by some of the lower class of inhabitants at New-
Brunswick an effigy, representing the person of Mr. Rivington, the printer at
New-York, merely for acting consistent with his profession as a free printer.
[Here was inserted a wood-cut representing a man with a rope around his neck,
tied to the branch of a tree].
TO THE PUBLIC.
The printer has been informed that a number of Bacchanalians, at Brunswick,
flushed with the inebriating draughts, not of the juice of the vine but of New-
England rum, have lately sacrificed him to the idol of Licentiousness. Lest
this piece of heroism should not be sufficiently known, he has thought proper to
exhibit a representation of the scene in which he was thus offered up a victim,
that the fame of the exploit may spread from "Pole to Pole." From this
publication
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too, these little, shabby, piddling politicians may know how much their
vengeance is regarded. But while he consigns these snarling curs (who, he is
well informed, were, and indeed could be no other, than the very dregs of the
city) to the same infamy with the pediculous Committee at Freehold, he begs
leave to address himself to the respectable Public:
The Printer is bold to affirm that his press has been open to publications
from all parties; and he defies his enemies to produce an instance to the
contrary. He has considered his press in the light of a public office, to which
every man has a right to have recourse. But the moment he ventured to publish
sentiments which were opposed to the dangerous views and designs of certain
demagogues, he found himself held up as an enemy to this country, and the most
unwearied pains taken to ruin him. In the country wherein he was born he always
heard the Liberty of the Press represented as the great security of freedom, and
in that sentiment he has been educated; nor has he reason to think differently
now on account of his experience in this country. While his enemies make
liberty the prostituted pretence of their illiberal persecution of him, their
aim is to establish a most cruel tyranny, and the Printer thinks that some very
recent transactions will convince the good people of this city of the difference
between being governed by a few factious individuals, and the good old laws and
Constitution, under which we have so long been a happy people.
JAMES HUMPHREYS'S
Pennsylvania Leidger or the Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New-Jersey Weekly
Advertiser, is published every Monday. Subscriptions are taken in by James
Rivington.
From the New York Gazette, No. 1227, April 17, 1775.
NEW-JERSEY, Middlesex: By order of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, in and
for the county aforesaid, notice is hereby given to all the creditors of
Jonathan Dunham, an insolvent debtor, confined in the gaol of said county, that
they be and appear before two of the judges of the said court of said county, on
Saturday, the thirteenth day of May next, at Gershom Lot's, in Perth-Amboy, at
two of the clock on said day, to shew cause, if any there be, why an assignment
of the said debtor's estate should not be made to such person or persons as
shall then and there be appointed, and he be discharged from his confinement;
agreeable to an Act [etc.].
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From the New York Gazette, No. 1228, April 24, 1775.
THE VENDUE
For selling and disposing of the real estate late of Cornelius Van Horne,
deceased, is further adjourned to Thursday, the 27th inst.; then to be held at
the dwelling house of the widow Van Voorhies, in the city of New Brunswick, in
the county of Somerset. WM. M'DONALD, late Sheriff.
WANTED
Some persons who understand the nailing business. Good encouragement will be
given by Samuel Ogden, at Boonston, New-Jersey.
NEW-JERSEY, Essex County: By order of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in
and for the county aforesaid, notice is hereby given to all the creditors of
John Vander Pool, John Dow, William Jenkins and Daniel Cayswell, insolvent
debtors confined in the gaol of Newark in said county, that they be and appear
before any two judges of said county, at the Court-house of said county, on
Tuesday, the 16th of May next, at one o'clock in the afternoon of the said day,
to shew cause, if any they have, why an assignment of the said debtors' estates,
should not be made to such persons as shall be then and there appointed, and to
be released from their confinement, agreeable to the direction of an Act [etc.].
NEW-JERSEY, Essex County: By order of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, in
and for the county aforesaid, notice is hereby given to all the creditors of
Moses Clark, an insolvent debtor, confined in the gaol of Newark, in the said
county, that they be and appear before any two judges of said Court, at the
Court-house of the said county, on Tuesday, the 16th of May next, at one o'clock
in the afternoon of the said day, to shew cause, if any they have, why an
assignment of said debtor's estate should not be made to such persons as shall
be then and there appointed, and he be released from his confinement, agreeable
to the directions of an Act [etc.].
From Dunlap's Penn'a Packet, No. 183, April 24, 1775.
In Newtown township, Gloucester county, opposite Philadelphia, Young Valliant
. . . . Is jet black, rising four years old, fifteen and an half hands high,
with a beautiful blaze in his face, well built, remarkable for courage and lofty
carriage, and is thought by good judges suitable to get good stock for the draft
or saddle. He was got
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by that noted English dray horse imported by Colonel Francis, from
Lincolnshire (Old England). MARMADUKE COOPER.
N.B. - The English dray horse imported by Colonel Francis, was advertised to be
kept at the subscriber's, but for some reasons was let go to Chester county,
upon Brandywine.
LONDON, FEB. 16.
By the bill now depending for restraining the commerce and navigation of the
American Colonies, particularly their fishery, after reciting the former acts,
by which such trade and navigation were permitted, it enacts that during the
combination and disorders which at this time prevail within the province of
Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire, and Colonies of Connecticut and Rhode-
Island, it being unfit that the inhabitants of the said provinces and Colonies
should enjoy the said privileges of trade to which his Majesty's obedient
subjects are entitled, after a time to be limited, and during the continuance of
this Act, no merchandizes enumerated by former Acts, being the manufacture of
the above Provinces, which are to be brought to some other British Colony, or to
Great-Britain; or any merchandize which shall at that time have been imported
into the said Province or Colonies, shall be shipped from any of the said
Provinces or Colonies to any place whatsoever, other than to Great Britain, or
some of the British islands in the West Indies; and that no other merchandizes
whatsoever of the manufacture of the said Provinces or Colonies, or which shall
at any time have been imported into the same, shall after the said limited time
be shipped from any of the said Colonies to any place whatsoever, except Great-
Britain or Ireland, or the British islands, in the West-Indies, on forfeiture of
ship and cargo.
Also, that after a limited time, and during this Act, no sort of wines, salt,
or any goods or commodities, whatsoever (except horses, victuals and linen
cloth, the produce and manufacture of Ireland, and goods for the victualling his
Majesty's ships, and for his Majesty's forces or garrisons, or the produce of
the British Islands in the WestIndies) shall be imported on any pretence
whatsoever, unless such goods be shipped in Great Britain, and carried directly
from thence, upon forfeiture of goods and vessel.
Likewise, that if any vessel, not belonging to Great Britain or Ireland, or
the islands of Guernsey or Jersey, shall be found, after the limited time,
carrying on any fishery upon any part of North America, or having on board
materials for such fishery, unless the master produce to the commander of any of
his Majesty's ships of war stationed for the superintendance of the American
fisheries a certificate under the hand of the Governor of the Colonies of
Quebec, Newfoundland, Saint John, Nova Scotia, New-York, New-Jersey,
Pennsylvania,
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Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, Georgia, East Florida, or
West Florida, setting forth that such vessel hath cleared out from some one of
the said Colonies, and that she actually belongs to his Majesty's subjects,
inhabitants of the said Colony, it shall be lawful for any of the commanders of
his Majesty's ships of war stationed for the protection of the fishery upon the
coast of North America, to seize, and prosecute all such vessels, with a
proviso, that nothing herein contained shall extend to any vessel belonging to
the French King, which shall be found fishing, and not carrying on any illicit
trade.
These constraints to be discontinued, so soon as obedience to the laws shall
be restored. Persons giving false certificates to be declared incapable of
serving his Majesty, and subject to other pains and penalties.
A LIST OF LETTERS
Remaining in the Post-Office in Burlington, April 21, 1775.
Thomas Anderson, Chester Township; Thomas Adams, Burlington.
Elijah Bond, near Trenton; Robert Beveredge, Burlington (2); Job Burkit,
Northampton Township; David Brotherton, Hides Town.
Jonathan Carmalt, David Collins, Mount-Holly.
Ashton Dixon, Little Egg-Harbour (2).
James Fargason, Chester Township.
Messrs. William Garritson and James Golden, Cape May; Messrs. William Golden
and James Garritson, ditto; Joseph Garwood, Gloucester County; Henry Graff,
Amwell; John Guffage, Mount Holly.
John Hinchman, Esq., Hattenfield; Charles Huse, Mount-Holly; Mr. Hobson,
Burlington.
Thomas Ladd, Bordentown.
Messrs. M'Elroy and Finley, Salem; Patrick M'Granahan, Mount Hope Furnace;
John M'Collister, Piles Grove; Richard Mousley, William Legg, Burlington.
Evan Reynolds, near Trenton; Daniel Rice, Bordentown.
Aaron Schuyler, William Scott, Burlington; Nicholas Stupper, Hides Town;
Martha Stevenson, Bordentown; Samuel Sharp, Mansfield.
Rev. Mr. Townsend, Salem; Peter Touch, Burlington.
Robert Wallis, Burlington; Thomas Woodward, Ames Town; Caleb Wallace, New-
Jersey.
From the Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2418, April 26, 1775.
A dwelling-house, and 3o acres of land, pleasantly situated on the river
Delaware, two miles above the city of Burlington, and adjoin-
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ing Drury Wake, Esquire. There is an Orchard of good fruit on the place, and a
shad fishery before the door. For terms, apply to
RICHARD SMITH, in Burlington.
Notice is hereby given to the Proprietors of the Western Division of New-
Jersey, that they are requested to meet at the House of Joseph Haight, in the
City of Burlington, on Thursday, the 11th of May next, at 11 o'clock in the
forenoon, to consider of and proceed on particular business which will be then
laid before them. By order of the President.
DANIEL ELLIS, Clerk.
Notice is hereby given to the creditors of Thomas Dunwoody and Andrew Lock,
now confined in the gaol of Salem county, in the Province of West-Jersey, that
they be and appear before the Honourable Justices of the Supreme Court, held at
Salem, for the County of Salem, at the Court-house, on Thursday, the 18th day of
May next, to shew cause why they should not be discharged from their
confinement, agreeable to an Act of the Legislature [Etc.].
TO THE PUBLIC.
I find in Messieurs Bradford's Journal, No. 1687, "A plan of an union of the
several colonies, &c., proposed by Benjamin Franklin, Esq., and unanimously
agreed to by all the Commissioners of the several colonies, met, by order of the
Crown, at Albany, in July, 1754," with the following introduction: "The
following plan bears so strong a resemblance to that introduced into the late
Congress," [etc., see page 300]. Having perused this introduction, I slightly
ran my eye over the plan, expecting to find, after it, some strictures proving
the alledged "strong resemblance" between it and the one proposed in the late
Congress - but not a remark followed; the reader is left to believe the
similitude upon the futile and false accusation of an anonymous scribber. . . .
[This article is over 2 columns long, and is signed - "C. E." Immediately
following, and as though of the same article is the following. - EDITOR].
The plan of 1754 being published in Messrs. Bradford's paper, it is necessary
to lay the one proposed in 1774 before the public, that it may judge of their
resemblance, and how far the Pennsylvania Delegate has acted an inimical part to
America in proposing the last:
"A plan of a proposed union between Great-Britain and the Colonies. "That a
British and American Legislature, for regulating the administration of the
general affairs of America, be proposed and estab-
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lished in America, including all the said colonies, within and under which
government each colony shall retain its present constitution and powers of
regulating and governing its own internal police, in all cases whatever. That
the said government be administered by a President-General, to be appointed by
the King, and a Grand Council, to be chosen by the Representatives of the people
of the several colonies, in their respective Assemblies, once in every three
years. That the several Assemblies shall choose members for the Grand-Council
in the following proportions, viz.:
New Hampshire, Delaware Counties,
Massachusetts-Bay, Maryland,
Rhode-Island, Virginia,
Connecticut, North-Carolina,
New-York, South-Carolina,
New-Jersey, and
Pennsylvania, Georgia.
"Who shall meet at the city --- of for the first time, being called by the
President-General, as soon as conveniently may be after his appointment."
Broke out of Salem Gaol, on the 22d of February last, at night, three
servants, viz., John Toodle, John Norman and John Holder . . . . Whoever takes
up said servants, and secures them in any of his Majesty's gaols in the province
of West New-Jersey, shall have six dollars reward, paid by
JOSEPH HAINES, Gaoler.
Likewise broke the same gaol, two men, one named William Huston, an Irishman .
. . . The other named Patrick M'Guire. . . . Whoever takes up and secures said
servants, shall have three pounds, reward, paid as above.
From the New York Journal, No. 7686, April 27, 1775.
The members of the New-Jersey Medical Society are desired to take notice, that
their next half-yearly meeting is appointed to be held in New-Brunswick, at the
house of Mrs. Vorehise, on the second Tuesday in May next, when it is hoped the
gentlemen of the faculty in general will attend. A medical dissertation will be
delivered by the President before dinner. H. STITES, Secretary.
Cranberry, April 20, 1775.
NEW-JERSEY, Essex County. By order of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in
and for the county aforesaid, notice is hereby given to all the creditors of
Timothy Higgins, an insolvent debtor, con-
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fined in the gaol of Elizabeth Town, in the said county, that they be and appear
before any two judges of said Court, at the Courthouse of said county, on
Wednesday, the 24th of May next, at one o'clock in the afternoon of the said
day, to shew cause, if any they have, why an assignment of said debtor's estate
should not be made to such persons as shall be there and then appointed, and he
be released from his confinement, agreeable to the directions of an Act [etc.].
From Rivington's N. Y. Gazetteer, No. 106, April 7, 1775.
CORNELIUS HARING
Begs leave to present his most respectful compliments to the public, and to
inform them that he intends, on Monday, the first of May next, to open the new
established ferry from the remarkable pleasant and convenient situated place of
William Bayard, Esq., at the King's-Arms Inn, from which place all gentlemen
travellers and others, who have occasion to cross that ferry, will be
accommodated with the best of boats of every kind suitable to the winds, weather
and tides, to convey them from thence to the New Market, near the new
Corporation Pier, at the North River, opposite Vesey-Street, in New-York, at
which place a suitable house will be kept for the reception of travellers
passing to and from his house, and will have his boats in good order.
Said Haring takes this public method to inform all gentlemen travellers and
others, that he has a most elegant and convenient house suitable for the
purpose, where they will be provided with lodging, eatables, and liquors of the
best kind; and particular attention will be given to the clean feeding and doing
strict justice to all travellers' horses. The elegance of the situation, as
well as its affording many amusements, such as fishing and fowling, added to
these, its being stocked with the greatest variety of the best English fruits,
will make it an agreeable place for the entertainment of large companies; having
besides a number of convenient rooms, one of fifty feet in length, by which
means (as he will have the best cooks, particularly for the dressing of turtle,
and every other dish fit to set before either gentlemen or ladies), he hopes to
be honoured with their company, assuring them there shall be nothing wanting on
his part to make it convenient and agreeable, as well to intitle him to the
honour of their countenance as custom. And as his boats will always be ready to
attend travellers and those gentlemen and ladies from the city of New-York, as
well as those of the province he lives in, at a minute's warning, flatters
himself he will make it so convenient that during the summer season such as do
not choose to come over to dine may always
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be provided with tea, &c., &c., pass the afternoon, have the best of fruit the
different seasons afford, and return again to town before night, or honour him
with their custom longer, as he will be strict with having good beds for the
accommodation of gentlemen and ladies that are going to any part of the Jersies,
Philadelphia, or the northern country, and choose to have their horses and
carriages brought over that night, and set out early the next morning; or such
as are coming from Philadelphia or elsewhere, that choose to stay at his Inn
that night, and the next morning go over to the city of New-York.
He has one of the best wharfs for landing horses and carriages at all times of
the tide; and he may say the completest cause-way in this country between the
island he lives on and the main ocean.
The boats are to be distinguished by the name of The Hoobook Ferry, painted on
the stern.
TAKEN FROM A MAN ON SUSPICION,
A silver watch and a leather pocket book. He had on a light-coloured
soldier's coat. By applying to Jacob Smith, at the Little Falls, above
Aquackenack, Essex county, in the Jersies, may have the said watch and pocket
book by paying all reasonable charges.
TO THE PUBLIC.
Notice is hereby given, that on the 17th of March last, one William Clark came
to my house, having a silver watch, and by some queries and circumstances I
conceived that he did not come honestly by said watch; therefore have kept it in
my custody, and any person describing it, and paying a small matter of cost and
charges, may have it restored. He says he came from towards Philadelphia.
JACOB SMITH, jun.
Near Little Falls, New-Jersey, April 24, 1775.
From Dunlap's Penn'a Packet, No. 184, May 1, 1775.
FORTY SHILLINGS REWARD.
Ran away from the subscriber, living in Waterford Township, Gloucester County,
West New-Jersey, an English servant lad, named Thomas Robins, about sixteen
years old . . . . Also took a likely black mare, about nine years old, with star
in forehead . . . . Whoever takes up said servant and secures him in any of his
Majesty's gaols, so that his master may get him again, shall have the above
reward, and reasonable charges for bringing the mare home, paid by
FRANCIS KAY.
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TO THE PUBLIC.
The subscriber begs leave to inform the public in general and his friends in
particular, that he has furnished himself with a convenient house in the town of
Berkley, near Mantua-Creek, where he intends to erect a stage-waggon, to go to
Philadelphia and back to said town twice every week; such person or persons as
will favour him with their commands may depend that no endeavours shall be
wanting to execute their orders with care and punctuality in order thereby to
merit their kind custom, which will be gratefully acknowledged by, the public's
very humble servant. MICHAEL LEE.
N.B. - I propose to commence attending passengers from my house to William
Cooper's Ferry, on the first Tuesday in April next, to return the day following;
to go again on Friday, and return the next day. Price for passengers 2s. 6d.
each, luggage, letters, &c., as usual, to come to William Austin's, in Arch-
street, at the New-Ferry.
From the New York Gazette, No. 1229, May 1, 1775.
The Trustees of Queen's College, in New-Jersey, are desired to meet at the
city of New-Brunswick, on Thursday, the 4th of May inst.
By order of the Trustees. J. R. HARDENBERGH, Clerk.
From the Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2419, May 3, 1775.
THREE POUNDS REWARD.
Was stolen, in the night of the 23d of April last, from the stable of the
subscriber, living in Manington township, Salem county, a bright sorrel mare,
about 14 hands high, with a star in her forehead . . . . JOHN SMITH.
From the New York Journal, No. 1687, May 4, 177$.
NEW-YORK, May 4. - On Monday last the General Committee was reformed and
enlarged to 100 members, the names of whom we have not room to insert. The
whole city and province are subscribing an Association, forming companies,
learning the military exercise, and taking every method to defend our rights.
The like spirit prevails in the province of New-Jersey, where a large and well
disciplined militia are now fit for action. All the other Colonies, we hear,
are equally well prepared.
Whereas the co-partnership of Van Nest and Van Liew is dissolved, therefore
all persons indebted to said co-partnership are desired to
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make payment to Abraham Van Nest. And all those that have any demands against
said co-partnership are desired to send in their accounts to said Abraham Van
Nest, in order that they may be discharged.
Millstone, May 1st, 1775.
NEW-JERSEY, Monmouth County, ss.: By order of John Anderson, John Taylor and
James Lawrence, Esqrs., judges of said Court, that the creditors of Richard Cox,
James Hankinson, Abraham Jones, Jacob Moon and Benjamin Yeats, insolvent
debtors, in the gaol of said county, do appear at the court-house of said
county, on Monday, the 5th day of June, at 10 o'clock of said day, to shew
cause, if any they have, why an assignment of said debtors' estates shall not be
made for the use of their creditors, and their bodies discharged from their
confinement, as they have been duly sworn, and filed their schedules, pursuant
to an Act of Assembly [etc.].
NEW-JERSEY, Somerset County, ss.: Pursuant to an order of the Inferior Court
of Common Pleas in and for the county of Somerset, notice is hereby given to all
the creditors of Peter Dumont, Legrange Lapool Young and William Wallace,
insolvent debtors, confined in the gaol of the county of Somerset aforesaid,
that they be and appear before any two of the judges of said Court, at
Hillsborough, in the county aforesaid, on Saturday, the 27th day of May next, at
10 o'clock in the forenoon of said day, to shew cause (if any they have) why an
assignment of said debtors' estates should not be made to such persons as shall
that day be appointed, and they be released from their confinement, agreeable to
the directions of an Act of the Governor, Council and General Assembly of the
province of New-Jersey, lately made, and passed at Burlington, intitled An Act
[etc.].
From Rivington's N. Y. Gazetteer, No. 107, May 4, 1775.
THE FLYING MACHINE
That used to ply between Hackensack and Powles-Hook, will, for the sake of a
better and shorter road, begin on Saturday, the 13th day of May, and
thenceforth, continue to drive from Hackensack to Roebuck. It will set off from
Hackensack every Monday, Tuesday and Saturday, at six o'clock in the morning,
and return from Hoebuck at two o'clock in the afternoon of the same days. As
the subscriber in this alteration has consulted the convenience and benefit of
the public, has furnished himself with four good horses and provided a new and
very commodious machine for the better accommodation of passengers, he hopes for
the countenance and encouragement of the public, and
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shall endeavour to merit their favour, by care and attention. The price is 2s.
6d. for each passenger, and baggage at a reasonable rate.
ABRAHAM VAN BUSKIRK.