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THOMAS SHINN, Sheriff. -The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 919, July 17, 1 760.
BURLINGTON, July 10.
Yesterday arrived here Mr. BOONE, our new Gover- nor, and, after his Commission had been opened in the usual Manner, the Corporation waited upon him with the following Address.
To his Excellency THOMAS BOONE, Esq ; Captain Gen- eral, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over His
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Majesty's Province of Nova-Cæsarca, or New Jersey, Chancellor and Vice Admiral in the same, &c.
May it please your EXCELLENCY.
The Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of Burlington, beg leave to congratulate your Excellency on your safe Arrival to your Government, and particularly into the City of Burlington; and to as- sure your Excellency, that though we have not the Pleasure of being personally known to you, yet, from the favourable Report of your Character, we receive the Appointment of your Excellency as a fresh Instance of His Majesty's Wisdom and paternal Goodness towards His Colonies.
And though it is with Regret we part with Governor BERNARD, whose mild and constitutional Administra- tion, during his short Stay among us, has given univer- · sal Satisfaction; yet, when we reflect on your Excel- lency's good Character, and polite Accomplishments, we cannot doubt but that your Excellency is disposed to do all in your Power to promote the Good of the Province, to protect this Corporation in all its just Rights and Privileges, and that you will fully supply the Loss of our Late Governor.
The Citizens of the City of Burlington would be well pleased to see your Excellency reside among them ; they flatter themselves that the agreeable Situation and Conveniencies of the Place may invite you to favour, with your Presence, this Capital of the Province.
Signed, by Order of the City Richard Smith, Recorder.
To which his Excellency was pleased to return the following ANSWER,
Gentlemen,
I am sincerely affected with the cordial Welcome that I
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have already received from all Parts through which I have passed ; and I return my sincere Thanks to the good Cor- poration of Burlington for this they now favour me with. I value too much this Mark of His Majesty's Favour not to consult, as far as my Capacity will allow, what the best of Sovereigns has most at Heart, the Happiness of His People. Your Privileges, Gentlemen, shall be sacred; and if I decline your kind Invitation, to reside among you, I beg you to ascribe it to my Intention of deviating as little as possible from the Example of my worthy Predecessor, tohose Place I shall be ambitious of supplying, in your Affections, as in the Government of New-Jersey.
THOMAS BOONE.
Then the Rev. MR. COLIN CAMPBELL, M. A. Rector of St. Mary's in Behalf of the Vestry, presented the following ADDRESS
To his Excellency THOMAS BOONE, ESQ; Governor and Commander in Chief of the Province of New Jersey.
The ADDRESS of the Minister, Church Wardens and Vestry-men of St. Mary's Church, in the City of Bur- lington.
May it please your EXCELLENCY
WE the Minister, Church-Wardens and Vestry-men of St. Mary's Church, in Burlington, beg Leave to con- gratulate you on your safe Arrival to your Government of New-Jersey, and look upon your Appointment to this Government as a Mark of His Majesty's paternal Re- gard for His Subjects here, in appointing a Gentleman of a considerable Fortune, in the Southern Parts of His Dominions, to preside over us; who, by his late Travels through these Parts, must have had an Opportunity of knowing and seeing the mutual Connections and Inter- ests the several Colonies have with one another, and
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consequently more capable to judge of Men and Things than a mere Stranger could. We hope, therefore, from the excellent Character we have received of you, that your Administration will be happy for this Province, as we, in our several Stations, shall endeavour to make it easy and comfortable. As Members of the established Church of England, we have Reason to hope your Ex- cellency's Protection and good Offices will be kindly extended to us, on every Occasion; and we sincerely pray that your Administration may be attended with Peace, Unity and Concord, among ourselves, and a gen- eral vigorous Pursuit of the public Good.
Signed, by Order of the Vestry, COLIN CAMPBELL, Missionary.
To which the GOVERNOR was pleased to answer.
GENTLEMEN,
The Address of the Minister, Church Wardens and Vestry-men, cannot but be highly acceptable to me. I am doubly bound, Gentlemen, as well by the Character I have the Honour to appear in, as my own particular Education, to testify my Readiness to encourage and protect the estab- lished Church of England. If from several Trips to these Colonies I had derived no other Advantage, this, at least, I can assure with Truth, that a Regard for, and good Opinion of the Inhabitants, is imprinted in me; and the hearty Reception that I meet with, from all Ranks and Professions, cannot but confirm my Partiality to the flour- ishing Province.
THOMAS BOONE.
In the Evening his Excellency supped with the Cor- poration, and this Morning departed for Amboy.
The under-written valedictory Address was sent to Governor BERNARD.
To his Excellency, FRANCIS BERNARD, Esq; Captain
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General, Governor and Commander-in Chief of His Maj- esty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New England, Chancellor and Vice-Admiral in the same, &c.
The ADDRESS of the City of Burlington. May it please your EXCELLENCY,
The Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of Burlington, having a due Sense of the many Benefits received by this Province, on Account of the worthy Discharge of the Trust His Majesty was pleased to repose in your Excellency, embrace the present Op- portunity to return our grateful Acknowledgments. And tho' we cannot but congratulate you, on your Ap- pointment to the Government of the Massachusetts- Bay, and wish you all the Success imaginable, in every Undertaking, yet we assure you, we take our Leave with Concern, and that it could admit of no Allay, but by the Hopes we conceive from the great Accomplishments of the Gentleman appointed to succeed you.
Burlington July 9, 1760.
Signed, by Order of the City, RICHARD SMITH, Recorder.
FIVE POUNDS Reward.
To any Person that shall deliver to the Subscriber a light roan Mare, which strayed away from the Union Iron-Works, in the County of Hunterdon, and Prov- ince of West Jersey, about the 14th Day of May last; she is about 14 Hands high, eight Years old, shod be- fore, paces and trots, has a long, bushy Tail, branded on the near Shoulder or Buttock, but the Brand forgot; if rid hard she shews a Lameness in one of her hind Legs, and if rid in the Night is very apt to stumble. Whoever takes up and secures said Mare and Thief, if stolen, will
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be entituled to the above Reward; but if not stolen Thirty Shillings, with reasonable Charges, paid by me. David Willey.
-The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 1647, July 17, 1760.
Prince- Town, July 8, 1760. His Excellency THOMAS BOONE, Esq; lately appointed Governor of this Prov- ince, passing thro' this Town, attended by Mr. Chief Justice Morris, and several other Gentlemen of Distinc- tion, was introduced into Nassau-Hall by the President and Tutors, who presented the following Address
To his Excellency THOMAS BOONE, Esq; His Maj- esty's Governor and Commander in Chief of the Prov- ince of New-Jersey, Chancellor and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c.
The humble Address of the President and Tutors of the College of New-Jersey.
SIR,
HE President and Tutors of the College of New-Jersey give your Excellency a most cor- dial welcome to Nassau-Hall, and beg Leave warmly to congratulate your Excellency up- on your Accession to the Government of this Province, where the Minds of so many are happily pre-possessed in your Favour, by the agreeable Anticipations they have received of your Excellency's Character.
Tho' we form a very high Estimate, Sir, of the Im- portance of your Excellency's Patronage to the Pros- perity of this Infant College, which has been founded by one, and countenanced by another, of your worthy Predecessors; yet we would use no Artifice to pre- engage your Excellency's Friendship and Protection, without the Sanction of your own well-informed Judg-
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ment; but we lay ourselves open to your Excellency's Inspection, and invite you to enquire into its Constitu- tion, the Modes of Instruction and Discipline, the Care taken of the Principles and the Morals of the Students, and their Progress in the various Branches of Litera- ture, and then we shall leave your Excellency to follow the Conduct of your own Judgment, and the Impulse of a Patriot-Heart; ever friendly to true Learning and Virtue, but ever an Enemy to Pedantry, Bigotry, and idle Pretensions; only begging your Excellency would make some candid Allowances, for those unavoidable Imperfections, that result from the present infant State of this Institution, which has been raised from nothing, in a few Years, by the Hand of public Charity, recom- mended only by its Poverty, and apparent Subservency to the general Good.
We beg Leave, Sir, particularly to request your Ex- cellency to honour the next public Examination with your Presence, when you will have the best Opportunity of informing Yourself, what are the Branches of Litera- ture taught in this Seminary, and what Proficiency has been made by the young Gentlemen under our Tuition.
We hope, Sir, our future Conduct will verify the En- gagements which we now voluntarily assume to your Excellency, that we shall continue with the utmost As- siduity to instill into young Minds such Principles, as, thro' the Blessing of Heaven, form the SCHOLAR, the PATRIOT, and the CHRISTIAN. And should we neglect so essential an Article of our Duty, we should anticipate our own Doom, and expect your Excellency's severest Animadversions, in Conjunction with the other Trus- tees, of whom you are now President, and who, we doubt not, will give your Excellency proper Expres-
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sions of their Duty and Congratulation at their next Convention.
May all the Happiness a Patriot can diffuse, or a free People enjoy, attend your Administration ! and may all the Felicities which Heaven has made the Rewards of such a beneficient Administration, ever attend your Excellency.
To which his Excellency was pleased to return the following Answer.
Gentlemen,
I am exceedingly obliged to you for this polite Salu- tation on my Arrival amoung you.
The proper Education of Youth Influences so materi- ally all Government, that this laudable Establishment has a natural Claim to the Patronage of his Majesty's Substitute, and with the Advantage of such eminent and respectable Tuition, I have not the least Doubt, but the Youths will be distinguished by the Acquisition of every useful and valuable Accomplishment.
THOMAS BOONE.
His Excellency was also complimented by two young Gentlemen of the Senior Class, in a Latin and an English Oration, and an Air of Sincere Congratulation appeared in every Countenance.
To His Excellency THOMAS BOONE, Esq; Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over His Majesty's Province of Nova Caesaria, or New-Jersey, and Terri- tories thereon depending in America, Chancellor, and Vice Admiral of the same, &c.
The humble Address of the Judges, Justices of the Peace, the High Sheriff, and Grand Jury of the County of Middlesex.
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May it please Your Excellency,
W E, His Majesty's dutiful Subjects, the rep- resentative Body of the County of Middle- sex, in our General Quarter Sessions assem- bled, chearfully embrace this first favourable Oppor- tunity of waiting upon Your Excellency with Our humble Address, to congratulate You upon Your Ar- rival to this Your Government of New-Jersey.
Nothing can in a greater Measure extenuate the Con- cern we are under at parting with our late Governor, (whose Inclinations as well as Abilities, seemed to be studiously employed in promoting every plausible Scheme for the Welfare and Prosperity of the Province) than this fresh Instance of His Majesty's Favours and Goodness to us, in appointing a Gentleman to succeed Him, whose universal good Character and amiable Be- haviour in a private State of Life, afford us the most promising Prospect of our still continuing a happy Peo- ple.
Many and perplexing (it must be confess'd) are the Cares and Difficulties which attend the prudently guid- ing the Reins of Government; but these are rendered easy and agreeable, by the loyal Behaviour and peace- able Demeanour of a well disposed People. This is a Duty incumbent upon us; and we beg Leave to assure You, Sir, that we will pursue it with the most ardent Application.
May Your Excellency continue long to preside over us, bless'd with the Smiles and Favours of the best of Kings, and happy in the Affections of a grateful People ! May Your Days here be many and prosperous! And may You finally enjoy that State of Bliss and Felicity.
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By Order of the Court,
J. SMYTH, CI. Perth-Amboy; July 15, 1760. His Excellency's Answer,
Gentlemen,
I Return you many Thanks for this affectionate Ad- dress, and for your obliging Expressions of Satisfaction on my Appointment to this Government.
I am too well appriz'd of the disadvantageous Light I must appear in, to aim at a Competition with my de- servedly esteemed Predecessor, in any Thing but Zeal for His Majesty's Service, and Ardour for the Prosperity of his People.
It will, Gentlemen, be highly flattering to me, if by a becoming Conduct, I can be the Instrument of continu- ing you in your present Tendency to Loyalty and Con- cord; this is the present Object of my Ambition, and to this an honest Man may be allowed to aspire.
THOMAS BOONE. -- The New York Mercury, July 21, 1760.
CUSTOM HOUSE, Philadelphia, Inward Entries. Ship Hercules, John Hazlewood, from Salem. Snow In- dustry, James Carman, from Amboy.
Philadelphia, July 23, 1760.
Run away this Morning from the Subscriber, living in Greenwich Township, Gloucester County, New-Jersey, a Servant Girl, about 16 Years of Age, named Jane Rattlife: Had on when she went away, a short striped blue and white Linen Gown, a striped Lincey Petticoat, a coarse Tow Apron, a Pair of old blue Stockings, an old Pair of Pumps, and an old white Bermuda Hat; she
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is Pock marked, low in Stature, has black Hair, and has a very large Mark of the Small Pox on one of her Arms. Whoever takes up said Servant, and secures her, so that her Master may have her again, shall have Twenty Shil- lings Reward, and reasonable Charges, paid by me Henry Hendrickson. -The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 1648, July 24, I 760.
LIST of LETTERS remaining in the POST-OFFICE in PHILADELPHIA.
John Andrews, and Timothy Akins, East-Jersey.
Isaac Blange, Egg Harbour; Francis Burtis, New Jersey.
John Carty, Burlington; John Chapman and Colonel B. Chambers, Cumberland County; Adam Collins, New Jersey; Jacob Clement, West New-Jersey.
William Ellis, Cumberland County.
Thomas Farr and William Frazer, Esq; New-Jersey.
Joseph Goldy, Gloucester; Maurice Granvill, Hunterdon County.
John Hinchman, Gloucester County; Robert Hacket, New-Jersey.
Henry Ireland, West Jersey.
Mary Kully, Cumberland County ; Sarah Kimsey, Gloucester.
Nicholas Lysaght, N. Jersey.
Tobias Morgan, Gloucester County ; John Moore, Lucretia Moore and Thomas Miller, all in New-Jersey; Thomas M'Connel (2) Somerset County.
Thomas Patrick, Gloucester County.
Tom Robinson, New-Jersey.
Edward Test, New-Jersey.
William Vankirk, Freehold.
Richard Woodnitt, Salem; Sarah Windsor, Mount Holly.
- The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 1649, July 31, 1760.
Custom-House, Philadelphia, Entered In. Schooner Swan, Giles Seaward from Piscataway.
Outwards. Snow Industry, James Corman for Am- boy .- The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 921, July 31, 1760.
NEW-JERSEY. To His Excellency Thomas Boone, Esq; Captain
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General and Governor in Chief in and over His Maj- esty's Province of Nova Caesaria, or, New-Jersey, and Territories thereon depending in America, Chancellor, and Vice Admiral of the same, &c.
May it please Your Excellency,
T O permit us, Clergymen of the Church of England, in Behalf of ourselves and the rest of our Brethren, within this Province, (whom we are authorized to represent) sincerely to congratulate your Excellency upon your Accession to this Government, and to express our Gratitude to His Majesty for this fresh Instance of His paternal Regard.
The great and amiable Character, by which, Sir, you stand particularly distinguished in private Life, hap- pily assures us, that the Appointment of your Excel- lency to this public Station is not more a Testimony of your Merit, than an Event advantageous to this Prov- ince; and consequently must be Matter of the highest Pleasure to every worthy Inhabitant of it.
To us, Sir, it cannot but be a peculiar Joy that we are encouraged to believe, that we shall receive from you the same Favour, Countenance and Protection, we hap- pily experienced under the Administration of your worthy Predecessor. Influenced by these Hopes, we have only to wish, that it may please God to continue your Excellency long a Blessing amongst us.
We beg Leave to assure your Excellency, that we feel ourselves, as well from Inclination as the Nature of our Office and Duty, indissolubly bound to contribute, to the utmost of our Powers and Abilities, to the Ad- vancement of your Honour and Happiness.
S. COOKE, T. B. CHANDLER, R. M'KEAN.
Perth-Amboy, July 26th, 1760.
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To which his Excellency was pleased to return the following Answer.
Gentlemen,
A MONG the many Congratulations that I have been favoured with, this of the Clergymen of the Church of England, is neither the least agreeable or the worst received: The Course of my Education has engaged me in an Acquaintance with many. That, and the Esteem you are in, in this Province, is sufficient to secure you the Consideration and Countenance, that your Profession has a Claim to.
It is a great Pleasure to me, Gentlemen, to have your Assurances of contributing as much as you are able to my Happiness. Recommend Thankfulness to the Cre- ator for the Blessings our Countrymen enjoy, under His Majesty's happy Government: Recommend Con- cord and Harmony: Upon this my Satisfaction de- pends.
THOMAS BOONE.
Perth-Amboy, July 26th, 1760.
New- York, August 4. The 10th of May last, as the Son of Thomas Ward,1 a Boy about 10 years old, of the County of Bergen and Province of New-Jersey, stood on a Rock fishing for Trout, in Long Pond River, near Ringwood, a large Wild-Cat, supposed to be on the Limb of some Tree near the River, jumped on his Head, and he being much frightened fell into the River, and the Cat with him, when he was scratched and bit in so dismal a Manner, that it was with the greatest Diffi- culty the Lad could by any Means extricate himself out
1 Thomas Ward was an Irishman, who in the early part of the eigh- teenth century settled near Long Pond (now Greenwood Lake), where he probably was connected with the iron works, perhaps as manager of the store of the American Company. His son Peter, born in 1756, died in 1812, was a man of much local prominence in the Revolution, and in the affairs of Bergen County.
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of her Claws; but at Length both being much Fatigued he seized his Antagonist by the Throat, draged her on Shore, and there with Stones beat her Brains out. The Lad then went home, and the Doctor being sent for, he had his Wounds dressed, which were all healed up in a few Weeks, and he seemed quite well, until the 20th of June in the Morning, he was suddenly taken with Pains all over his Body, but complained most of the Places that had been bit, and was in such an Agony that Day and Night, that next Morning he ran to a Neighbours about two Miles Distance, and told them their House and Barn, the Road and himself was all on Fire: He was sent from thence home, and about Sunset on the 2Ist of June he died quite mad, being just Six Weeks from the Time he was bit by the Cat. After his De- cease, the Marks of the Wounds where he had been bit, turned very black.
New-Jersey, July 25, 1760. On Sunday last two Capts. of the New-Jersey Provincials having finished recruit- ing, proceeded with near Seventy Men to Albany from Elizabeth-Town; and we hear the Backwardness of the Service of this Province this Year, is chiefly owing to the raising a Company of Rangers on the Government Establishment, which was compos'd of the old Corps.
R UN-away, from the Subscriber living at Ber- gen, in New-Jersey on Wednesday the 30th of July, a Negro Fellow named Robin, about 25 Years of Age, five Feet 8 Inches high, and speaks good Dutch and English, this Country born, is a slim yellow Fellow, and had a down look: Had on when he went away, a blue Cloth Jacket, and Tow Trousers. Whoever takes up and secures the said Fel- low, if in New-York, shall have Forty Shillings, and if
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out of the Province of New-York, Three Pounds and all reasonable Charges paid by Thomas Brown, in New- York, or
GEORGE CODIMENTS.
N. B. All Masters of Vessels and others are forbid to carry him off, or harbour him.
-The New York Mercury, August 4, 1760.
Custom-House, Philadelphia, Entered In. Schooner Recovery, Joseph Brown from Salem on Delaware.
Cleared. Schooner Swan, Giles Seaward to Piscat- away.
To be Sold in the whole or in three parcels. A cer- tain Lot of Ground on the East side of Front-street, and on the West side of Plumb-street, in the City of Phila- delphia, in Breadth on each of the said Streets, 60 Feet, with a Cooper's shop thereon erected. ALSO a certain Tract of Land, situate on or near Prince Morris's River, now or late in Salem County, and Province of New- Jersey, formerly belonging to Abraham Chatton, begin- ning at a Pine Tree marked A. C, standing Northwest 26 Degrees 50 Chains, from the first Run above the Bridge and over Prince Morris's River, on the East side of the said River, thence Northeast 164 Degrees 165 Chains to another Pine marked A C, thence Southeast 26 Degrees 100 Chains, across the said run to another Pine marked A C standing by said Run, thence South- west 64 Degrees 165 Chains to another Pine marked A C, thence Northwest 26 Degrees 100 Chains crosing the said Run to the Place of begining, containing 1380 Acres and an Half Acre with Allowance for Highways. For Terms apply to Mr. JOHN REILY, Conveyancer in Chestnut-street, Philadelphia .- The Pennsylvania Jour- nal, No. 922, August 7, 1760.
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Boston, August 4. Saturday last about One o'Clock came to Town by Land from Providence, His Excel- lency Francis Bernard, Esq; with His Majesty's Royal Commission to be Captain-General and Governor in Chief, in and over His Majesty's Province of the Massa- chusetts-Bay; as also a Commission from the Right Honorable the Lords of the Admiralty, to be Vice- Admiral of the same, &c. His Excellency embarked from his late Government of New-Jersey, on board the Massachusetts arm'd Sloop last Tuesday, and arrived at Rhode-Island on Wednesday Evening, and the next Morning proceeded from thence to Providence in a Passage-Boat provided for that Purpose, accompanied by the Honourable Mr. Secretary Oliver, who waited at Rhode-Island to attend him.
Camp at Oswego, July 15, 1760. We have now here the first Battalion of the Royal Highlanders, the 55th Regiment, one Battalion of the Royal Americans, three of the New-York and Jersey Blues,1 with Gage's Light Infantry, 100 of the Ruff Heads, and two Provincial Regiments .-- The New York Mercury, August 11, 1760.
Tuesday, 5th of August, at 10 o'Clock in the Morn- ing, arrived off Sandy-Hook, the Ship Minehead, Cap- tain Forrest, in eight Weeks from Lisbon, with Salt. The Ship of War lying in that Road sent a Boat to de- mand her Men; but on the Refusal of the Ship's Com- pany (who had seized all the Small Arms, and confined the Captain and Officers and were determined not to surrender till the last Extremity) Signals from the Long-boat were made for more Assistance; soon after which three more Boats were manned, and come under
1 The New Jersey troops were thus designated as early as 1747, when they went to Canada, to fight the French.
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the Minehead's Stern, sometimes discharging Small- Arms, and demanding Admittance, but were still re- fused by the Men, who had then the sole Command of the Ship; which the Officers in the Boats knew, as they were informed of it several Times, both by the Master from his Cabbin, and the Pilot from the Deck: Not- withstanding, the Ship continued Firing Grape-shot, Langrage, Twelve-pounders &c, many of which lodged in her Whales,1went through her Boltsprit, and Main- top-mast, damaged her Sails considerably, killed one Man and wounded another.
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