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15th 12th mo. 1689; 11. Mercy, born 12th 5th mo. 1693; married Lawrence .- N. Y. Gen. and Biog. Record, XIV., 95.
Hugh, son of Richard, born 1685, as above, was foreman of the Mon- mouth County Grand Jury in 1711, and lived at Middletown-Old Times in Old Monmouth; 269, 291-2. His plantation of 600 acres at Middletown was advertised for sale in 1744 by his executors-Catharine Hartshorne (presumably his widow), Robert Hartshorne. Joseph Field and William Hartshorne, jun .- N. J. Archires, XII., 242. His children were: Mar- garet White, Rebecca Wright, Catharine Bowne. Richard, Sarah Van Brakle, Robert, Mary Garrison, Eliza, Mercy .- N. Y. Gen. and Biog. Rec- ord, XIV., 96.
The Hugh Hartshorne mentioned in the text was doubtless the son of William (born 1678-9, son of Richard); the latter died in 1746, and in 1748 his executors advertised for sale "The High Lands of Nave- sinks and Sandy-Hook lying in Middletown, East Jersey, consisting of 2800 Acres," including "a good Dwelling-House, 40 Feet Long and 30 Feet broad, with Sash Windows, two good Stone Cellars under it, with three Kitchens adjoining, pleasantly situated upon Navesinks River." -N. J. Archives, XII., 325, 467, 523. Hugh Hartshorne married Hannah Pattison in Burlington Monthly Meeting in 1741 .- Friends in Burlington, by Amelia Mott Gummere, Philadelphia, 1884, 93. He was living in Bur- lington early in 1743, and was still there in 1755 .- N. J. Archives, XII., 171, 467; XIX., 481. He was one of the signers of the N. J. currency in 1754-56 .- Ib., VIII., Part II .. 39, 230, 232. On April 18, 1758, he was allowed £26, 15, 2, for "39 Days Attendance as Clerk of the House of Repre- sentatives at this and another Sitting of the Assembly and for Copying the Laws and Votes for the Printer During the Said Sessions."-Ib., X.VII., 170. This appears to have been the extent of his service as Clerk of the Assembly.
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On the First Day of August last were published PRO- POSALS for Printing by SUBSCRIPTION
A NEW AMERICAN MAGAZINE
To be published Monthly, and to contain Six Half- Sheets in Octavo, printed on a good Paper, and fair Character.
By SYLVANUS AMERICANUS. The CONDITIONS as follow,
Those who are willing to encourage this Undertak- ing, are desired to give in their names to the following Persons, viz. James Parker,1 in Woodbridge, who is pro- posed to be the Printer of this Magazine; Mr.
Samuel Neville in Perth Amboy; Mr. Furman, Post-Master in Trenton; Mr. Boudinott, 3 Post-Master in Prince-Town; Mr. Willianı Ouke4 in New Brunswick; Mr. Francis Bra-
sier 5 at Rariton-Landing ; Mr. Tobias Van
1 For a full sketch of James Parker, see History of New Jersey Newspapers and Printers, prefixed to this volume.
2 For a full sketch of Samuel Nevill, see History of New Jersey News- papers and Printers, as above.
3 Elias Boudinot, a prominent merchant at Princeton, born Aug. 8, 1706; died July 4, 1770. He married, in Antigua, Catharine Williams, daughter of a Welsh planter. He removed from Princeton in 1760, or later, to Elizabethtown, where he and his wife are both buried. Of his sisters, Mary Boudinot married John Chetwood, of Elizabethtown, afterwards a Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey; Jane Boudi- not married the Rev. Thomas Bradbury Chandler: Suzanne married Pierre Vergereau, of New York, one of whose daughters, Suzanne, born Dec. 21, 1743, married the Rev. William Tennent, Jr., of Charleston, S. C. Elias Boudinot was the father of Elias, member of Congress, etc .; of Elisha, Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, and of other well- known children.
4 William Ouke was a prominent inerchant at New Brunswick, where he had been engaged in trade prior to 1740. He was active in the Re- formed Dutch Church of that place. He was baptized Aug. 4, 1708, be- ing the son of Aucke Janse, who removed from Flatlands, L. I., to the Raritall. The latter was the son of Jan Auckersz, sometimes called Jan Auckers Van Nuyse. Ouke was a Justice of the Peace in 1740, and in 1744 was elected to the Assembly from Middlesex, serving one year. The confidence with which Mr. Ouke was regarded by his neighbors is attested by his selection as executor for numerous estates. There are many references to him in Vols. XII. and XIX., N. J. Archives.
5 Francis Braisier was probably a merchant at the Upper Landing on the Raritan, near New Brunswick. He was a vestryman of St. Peter's Church, Perth Amboy, in 1744-5 .-- Whitehead's Perth Amboy, 239. He was authorized to receive subscriptions for Nevill's Laws, Vol. I., in 1750, and was one of the distributors of the volume when printed, in 1752 .- N. J. Archives, XII., 589; XIX., 10, 28. In 1759 he was one of the managers of a lottery for the benefit of Christ Church, New Bruns- wick. See post, under that date.
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Norden at Bound-Brook; Mr. Williamson 1 at Elizabeth-Town; Mr. Uzal Ogden2 at New- ark; Mr. John Taylor3 at Middle-Town;
1 Matthias Williamson was born about 1716, being the son of William Williamson, of Elizabethtown, who died Jan. 10, 1735. His mother was Margaret, daughter of Capt. Matthias DeHart; she married, second, William Chetwood, who kept a famous inn, known by "The Sign of the Hogshead," in that ancient town, which she continued some years after his death, and as late as 1759. In that year Matthias lived near the tavern. He was Lieutenant of a company of cadets at Elizabeth- town in 1740; was High Sheriff of Essex County in 1757, and was ap- pointed one of the quorum Justices of the Peace in 1769. On Dec. 6, 1774, he was appointed by his fellow citizens to serve on the Committee of Correspondence for Elizabethtown. He was commissioned Colonel of a regiment of light horse, Oct. 27, 1775; Brigadier General of the New Jersey Militia, Sept. 6, 1776: Brigadier General commanding a brigade, State troops, Nov. 27, 1776, which last named commission he resigned, Feb. 6, 1777. He also served as Assistant Deputy Quarter- master General, as Assistant Quartermaster General, and as Quarter- master General. In all these various positions he rendered good ser- vice to the patriot cause during the Revolution. He was a vestryman' of St. John's Episcopal Church in 1749, and was an active and liberal supporter of that church for many years. He married Susanna Hal- sted. His residence was some years ago occupied as the Union Hotel. He died at Elizabeth, Nov. 8, 1807, aged 91 years. He was the father of Isaac H. Williamson, who was Governor and Chancellor of New Jersey, 1817-1829, and who died July 10, 1844; the latter was the father of the late ex-Chancellor Benjamin Williamson.
% Uzal Ogden was a son of Capt. David Ogden, who died July 1, 1734, aged 56 years; the latter was the eldest son of David Ogden, who re- moved from Elizabethtown to Newark about 1676, he having been one of the first settlers of the former town, in 1664. Uzal Ogden was a leading merchant in Newark many years. He was appointed one of the Common Pleas Judges for Essex County, in 1749, one of the Surro- gates of the Prerogative Court in the Eastern Division of New Jersey, March 22, 1762, and was High Sheriff of Essex County in 1763. He died July 25, 1780. He is spoken of as "a gentleman of undissembled goodness and universal esteem." He was the father of the Rev. Uzal Ogden, a prominent clergyman of New Jersey, who was born in Newark about 1744, and died in that town, Nov. 4. 1822.
3 Matthew Taylor, said to have been a distant connection of Sir George Carteret, came to New Jersey to speculate in lands, and dying in New York in 1687 without issue devised his lands to his brother Ed- ward, then living in London. The latter came to America in 1692, and bought an additional tract of about 1,000 acres at Garret's Hill, Middle- town, and settled on it. He died in 1710, leaving four sons and one daughter. George, one of his sons, resided at Garret's Hill, and died there, leaving three sons-George, Edward and John .- Hist. Monmouth Co., by Franklin Ellis, Philadelphia, 1885, 524. The John Taylor just men- tioned, son of George, son of Richard, was born in 1716, and was known as 'Squire John. He lived at Upper Freehold. There was a John Tay- lor High Sheriff of Monmouth County in 1753, doubtless the same man, although the writer just quoted says the Sheriff was the son of Ed- ward, and nephew of 'Squire John, which is obviously improbable. In 1754 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Assembly .- N. J. Archives, XIX., 382. Being a man of large wealth, and presumably of influence in the community, he was selected by Lord Howe, when he came to America to offer terms to those in arms, to be "His Majesty's Lord High Commissioner of New Jersey." This arrayed his patriotic neigh- bors against him, and he was compelled to join his British friends in New York, while his property was applied to the uses of the Continen- tal forces. His lands in Monmouth County were advertised to be sold
in 1779. After the war he returned to New Jersey. He died at Perth Amboy, aged 82 years. His daughter Mary married Dr. Absalom Bain- bridge, and two of her sons distinguished themselves in the War of 1812, in the United States Navy-Commodore William Bainbridge, and Post-Captain Joseph Bainbridge. The early education of the future Commodore was superintended by his maternal grandfather, John Taylor .- Old Times in Old Monmouth, 48; Life of Commodore Bainbridge, 3.
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Mr. John Wardell1 at Shrewsbury; Mr.
Thomas Leonard at Freehold; Mr. Andrew
Gordon 3 at Cranberry ; Dr. Newell4 at Allen- Town; Mr. Joseph Borden, jun, at Borden-
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1 John Wardell, of Shrewsbury, was a Coroner of Monmouth County in 1762, and in the same year was appointed one of the Common Pleas Judges of that county. At the beginning of the Revolution he arrayed himself on the British side, and was sent to New York. His lands were confiscated, and were advertised to be sold on March 29, 1779.
2 Thomas Leonard was a prominent citizen of Freehold, residing on Lahaway creek, near its junction with Crosswicks creek, on the place where his father, Capt. John Leonard, was murdered by Wequalia, an Indian, in 1727. Thomas was a Loyalist during the Revolution, and so early as April 3, 1775, the Committee of Inspection for the Township of Freehold decided that he had "in a number of instances been guilty of a breach of the Continental Association, and that, pursuant to the tenour of said Association, every friend of true freedom ought imme- diately to break off all connexion and dealings with him, the said Leon- ard, and treat him as a foe to the rights of British America." He nar- rowly escaped arrest once by disguising himself as a negro, and so passed out from his home forever. He was a Major in the First Bat- talion of New Jersey Loyalists in 1778. He went to New York, and after the war removed with his family to St. John, New Brunswick, where he was granted Lot No. 1 in Parr Town (afterwards incorpo- rated in St. John), in 1783. His property in Monmouth County was con- fiscated, and in 1779 was sold to Gen. David Forman, of Revolutionary fame.
3 Andrew Gordon, of Cranberry (now written Cranbury), in the south- ern part of Middlesex County, was living there in 1748, when applica- tion could be made to him, it was advertised, in reference to the sale of lands in that vicinity .- N. J. Archives, XII., 468. He was perhaps the son of Capt. Andrew Gordon (son of Thomas Gordon, one of the most distinguished men in the early annals of New Jersey), who was a Captain in Col. John Parker's regiment on the frontier, in 1721; and who was probably the Andrew Gordon, of Perth Amboy, who had a map of lands for sale in 1733, and who in 1752 was charged with having instigated some contemptuous remarks about Lewis Morris Ashfield .- N. J. Archives, XI., 315, 328; VIII., Part I., 42; Whitehead's Perth Amboy, 67.
4 James Newell, son of Robert Newell, of Upper Freehold, was born in 1725, and was sent to Edinburgh to receive his medical education, receiving his diploma at London in 1746. Returning to America, he practiced his profession through a wide region in and about Monmouth County. He was elected President of the New Jersey Medical Society in 1772. During the Revolution he acted as Surgeon of the Second Regiment of the Monmouth County Militia. He married, Dec. 14, 1749, Elizabeth, daughter of Elisha Lawrence. He died Feb. 20 and his wife died Feb. 21, 1791, of malignant fever. Both were buried on the same day.
5 For a biographical notice of John Lawrence, of Burlington, see N. J. Archives, X .. 302-3. (It is there stated, on p. 303, that his son, James Lawrence, entered the U. S. Navy in 1796. The correct date was Sept. 4, 1798, according to a letter of Capt. Lawrence, dated Oct. 18, 1812, pub- lished in the Magazine of American History, XXV., 283. John Law- rence was appointed one of the commissioners to erect a suitable house at Burlington for the preservation of the public records, by act of the Legislature passed Dec. 5, 1760 .- Nerill's Laws, II., 343. By act passed April 7, 1761, he was appointed one of the commissioners to grant relief to townships for the support of soldiers disabled in the French war .- Ib., 389. He was for many years one of the most influential men in the Western Division of New Jersey.
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Mr. Price 1 at Hattonfield; Mr. Gibbons2
1 Robert Friend Price was appointed, by act of the Assembly, passed March 25, 1760, one of the commissioners to see that the soldiers dis- abled in the war with Canada were properly provided for .- Nevill's Laws, II., 264. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Glou- cester in 1761 .- N. J. Archives, XVII., 274. He was elected to the Assembly from the same county in 1769, and re-elected in 1772. On Feb. 8, 1774, he was appointed by the Assembly on a "Standing Committee of Corre- spondence and Inquiry." He does not appear to have attended the sub- sequent meetings of the Assembly .- Minutes of Provincial Congress, 1774-5, passim.
2 Edmund Gibbon was a merchant in New York, 1673-1682. - Calendar of N. Y. Hist. MSS., II., 34. 100. In 1677, in order to secure a debt due to him by Edward Duke and Thomas Duke, he took from them a deed for 6,,000 acres of land in West Jersey, which had been conveyed to them by John Fenwick. in England. Gibbon, by virtue of this deed, had a tract of 5,500 acres surveyed for him by Richard Hancock, in 1682. It was resurveyed in 1703 by Benjamin Acton, and lay in Cohansey Precinct, now in Greenwich and Hopewell Townships, Cumberland County, in- cluding Roadstown, extending southward to Pine Mount Branch, and westward to the Delaware. He devised this tract to his grandson, Edmund, who devised it to Francis Gibbon, of Bennensdere, England. In 1700 Francis devised it to his two kinsmen, Leonard and Nicholas Gibbon, of Gravesend, in Kent, England, describing it as "all that tract of lands called Mount Gibbon, upon the branches of unknown creek, near Cohansey in West Jersey," provided they settled upon it. Nicholas Gibbon, born in 1702, was a son of Arthur and Jane Gibbon, of Gravesend, Kent, England. Nicholas and his younger brother, Leonard, came to New Jersey and erected one of the first grist-mills near Cohansey. They later built a fulling mill on Mount Gibbon (now Pine Mount) Run. They soon became influential in that neighborhood. In 1730 they divided their tract, Nicholas taking the southern part, in- cluding the mill and 2,000 acres of land. Leonard erected a stone house about two miles north of Greenwich. Nicholas built a substantial brick house in Greenwich, which he occupied until about 1740, when he removed to Salem. Both houses were still standing in 1868. The two brothers gave six acres of land in Greenwich for a Presbyterian Church, to be erected by 1729. They were Episcopalians themselves, and erected at their own expense St. Stephen's Church, in Greenwich, in 1729, and provided for regular services there. Nicholas was in mer- cantile business, in partnership with Samuel Fenwick Hedge and Capt. James Gould, the last-namel being located in New York, while Gib- bon kept store at Greenwich and afterwards at Salem. He was Sher- iff of Salem County, 1741-1748, and in the latter year was appointed County Clerk. He was also one of the Commissioners of the Loan Office for Salem County. Hedge dyng in 1731, Gibbon married the widow, Anna Grant Hedge. He died 2d of 2d mo. 1758, aged 55 years, 3 months. His widow died 24th of 3d mio. 1760, aged 57 years. They had five children:
1. Nicholas, born 5th of 11th mo. 1732; died 7th of 1st mo. 1748.
2. Grant, born 28th of 11th mo. 1734. He was a merchant at Salem, and appears to have been a man of superior education and culture. He was one of the Surrogates of West Jersey, was appointed a Jus- tice of the Peace in 1759, a Judge in 1762 and again in 1767, and was Clerk of the County of Salem after his father's death. He was an ardent sympathizer with the American cause, which he evinced in a sub- stantial manner, when, at the solicitation of his fellow citizens, he was appointed, 13th of 10th mo. 1774, to solicit funds for the relief of the people of Boston, when that port was closed to commerce by the British. He collected £157 3s. 2d. for the purpose. He was elected to the Assembly in 1772. He died 27th of 6th mo. 1776.
3. Jane, born 15th of 5th mo. 1736, married Robert Johnson, jun., 3d of 11th mo. 1767, and was the mother of Col. Robert Gibbon Johnson, the historian of Salem; she died 16th of Sth mo. 1815; her husband died 28th of 12th mo. 1796, aged 69 years
4. Ann, born 29th of 4th mo. 1741; married Judge Edward Weatherby.
5. Francis, born 14th of 5th mo. 1744; died 11th of 1st mo. 1788 .- History of the Early Settlements of Cumberland County, by Lucius Q. C. Elmer, Bridgeton, 1869. 18; Historical Account of the First Settlement of Salem, by Robert C. Johnson, Philadelphia, 1839, 79, 118, 122; Hist. and Genealogy of Fenwick Colony, by Thomas Shourds, Bridgeton, 1876, 105-108; N. J. Archives, XII., 324; XVII., 205, 342, 455, 517; XVIII., 438; N. J. Hist. Proc., IV., 43-44.
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at Salem; . and Mr. Ebenezer Miller1 at Green- wich ; all in the Province of New Jersey.
NEW YORK, November 14. Thursday last Captain Prince came up from Philadelphia, in a Schooner; who, last Saturday Se'ennight, spoke with a Privateer Sloop lying at Anchor under Cape-May, the Captain whereof informed him, he was bound into New York. A Schoon- er lay at Anchor at the same Place, under the Privateer's Guns.
To be sold by the Subscriber, a Plantation and Tract of Land, containing 170 Acres, between 20 and 30 whereof is mowable Meadow, and more may be made, with a good two Story House, four Rooms on a Floor, and a good Cellar under it, also several Outhouses, a Barn, and good Orchard, being situated in Gloucester Township, Gloucester County, in West New-Jersey, on the great Road leading from Philadelphia and Haddon- field to Egg-Harbour, convenient either for a Tavern or Store. A great Part of said Land is cleared and within Fence, and the Title for the whole is indisputable.
William Brittin
To be SOLD by the Subscriber.
A Plantation, containing about 200 Acres, near 100 of which cleared, with a good Dwelling-house and Barn, and a good Orchard, situated, in Cumberland County, in West-Jersey, about six Miles from the Town of Greenwich, upon the main Road from that Town to
1 For a sketch of Ebenezer Miller, see N. J. Archives, XIX., 392, note. Some account of his descendants is given in Shourds's "History and Genealogy of Fenwick's Colony," 153-160. He is frequently mentioned in Elmer's "Cumberland County." An interesting memorial of his old- est. son, Ebenezer Miller, jun., born in 1728, died 11th of 7th mo. 1800. will be found in "Memorials of Deceased Friends," Philadelphia, 1821, 106-109. He had been a minister among Friends about thirty-five years before his decease.
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Philadelphia, and five Miles from the Court-House at Cohansie Bridge. The Title is indisputable. Any Per- son inclining to purchase the same, may apply to the Subscriber, living upon said Plantation.
Samuel Moore.
-The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 1508, November 17, 1757.
NEW-YORK, November 14.
We have a particular Satisfaction in informing the Public, That Col. PETER SCHUYLER, of the New-Jersey Forces taken at Oswego the 14th of August 1755, and carried Prisoner to Qubec in Canada, where he has been kept ever since, - arrived at Fort Edward in good Health, some Day last Week, having been released by the French, and conducted by two Indians and a Frenchman.
Custom-House, Philadelphia, Entered In. Schooner Dolphin, Peter Doliver from Salem.
Cleared. Schooner Dolphin, Peter Doliver to Salem Sloop Charming Molly, E. Cushing to Piscataway .- The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 780, November 17, 1757.
New-York, November 21. Saturday last, the brave Colonel PETER SCHUYLER arrived here from Canada, by Way of Albany. Many of the Inhabitants of this City were so sensible of the Services done this Province by THAT GENTLEMAN, that in the Evening a Bonfire was made in the Common, most of the Houses in Town were illuminated, and the Publick in general testified great Joy on his safe Arrival.
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J I 1 UST published and sold at the Printing-Of- fice in Hanover-Square, A FUNERAL SER- MON, preached at the Interment of the late Excellency, JONATHAN BELCHER, Esq ; Gov- ernor of his Majesty's Province of New-Jersey, &c. who departed this Life at Elizabeth-Town, August 31, 1757, aged 76. By the late Reverend Mr. AARON BURR, President of the College of New-Jersey .- The New York Mercury, November 21, 1757.
Custom-House, Philadelphia. Outwards Schooner Elizabeth, Edward Bowen, for Salem .- The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 1509, November 24, 1757.
NEWARK (in New-Jersey) Nov. 23. Last Sunday Even- ing the Hon. Colonel PETER SCHUYLER, passed through this Place, in his Way to his Seat at Petersbor- ough ;1 upon his Arrival at his House he was saluted with the Discharge of 13 Pieces of Cannon. The Even- ing following the Inhabitants of Newark, upon his com- ing into Town, attended by several Gentlemen of Dis- tinction, saluted him as before: There was a large Bon- fire erected, and the Houses of the principal Inhabi- tants were illuminated the Remainder of the Evening, as an Honour due to his great Attachment to the Inter- est of his Country, and uncommon Zeal for his Majesty's Service. The principal Gentlemen of the Town met to- gether upon this Occasion, where the loyal Healths were drank, at the Discharge of several Rounds of Can- non, and a general Joy appeared among all the Inhab- itants .- The New York Mercury, November 28, 1757.
Newark, in New Jersey, November 23, 1757.
Last Sunday Evening the Honourable Colonel PETER
1 Opposite Belleville.
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SCHUYLER arrived at his House at Peterborough, and was saluted by this Town with the Discharge of thirteen Cannon. The Evening following he was attended by several Gentlemen of Distinction to the Town, and was paid the same Compliment: All the principal Houses were illuminated, a Bonfire erected, which was attended by several hundred People, and the Cannon continued firing the Remainder of the Evening: Joy was conspic- uous in every Countenance, and each one manifested his Regard due to the Merit of that Gentleman; whose kind and humane Treatment to his Fellow Sufferers while in Captivity, as well as his great Attachment to the Inter- est of his Country, and uncommon Zeal for his Majes- ty's Service, merits universal Esteem.
Extract of a Letter from Lieutenant Rickey, dated at the Head Quarters, on the Frontiers of New Jersey, Nov. 17.
"Sir, I have the melancholy News to tell you, that your Friend John Doty was killed, scalped and butch- ered in a barbarous Manner yesterday, within two Miles of the Fort; as was likewise Serjeant Mahurin; there was a Soldier with them, all on Horseback, when five Indians in Ambush fired, killed the two, and shot thro' the Soldier's Great Coat, when he immediately got down, and one of the Savages run towards him with his Tomahawk, but the Soldier fired his Piece and stopt him, then took up Doty's Piece and snapt it (for by Doty's Fall he had hurt the Lock) however he kept it presented until he mounted and rode off. This alarmed the People, but as yet we have discovered nothing more than the usual Marks, a Quantity of Blood. The Soldier is positive he killed one of them. The Inhabitants on the whole Frontier are so terrified, that they are mov- ing, the rest gathering together, and stockading them-
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selves in the best Manner they can."- The Pennsylvania Gasette, No. 1510, December 1, 1757.
PHILADELPHIA, December 8.
Capt. Scheman, from this Harbour, is arrived at St. Christophers; as are the Captains Carman and Basden, from Perth-Amboy.
To be sold, by the subscriber, a good Plantation, sit- uate and being in the Upper Precinct of the County of Cape May, containing 260 Acres of Land and Marsh, 60 Acres whereof cleared, and in good Fence; there is a good Frame house on said Place, Barn and Orchard, being the Plantation whereon Robert Townsend now lives. Any person inclinable to purchase may apply to the Subscriber, and be informed of the Title and Terms of Sale. Also to be lett, in the County and Township, aforesaid, a good Saw mill, and Grist mill, for the Space of five Years, or under, standing on the best Stream of Water in said County. Any person inclinable to rent said Mills may be further informed by applying to JOHN TOWNSEND, living near the premises.
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