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From Cape Henlopen to Cape Henry, I Ship of 20 Guns and I Sloop.
From Cape Henry to Cape Fear, 2 Sloops.
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From Cape Fear to Cape Florida and Bahamas, 3 Sloops.
At Jamaica, the Gulph of Mexico, from the Mississippi to Cape Florida, 6 Ships from 28 to 50 Guns, and 4 Sloops.
At the Leeward Islands, 5 Ships from 20 to 50 Guns, and 2 Sloops.
NEW-YORK, September 26.
JOSIAH HARDY, Esq; late Governor of the Jersies, em- barked for England on Tuesday last, on board the Packet which sailed for Falmouth that Day. He was very re- spectfully addressed by the Corporation of Amboy, for the just Regard he had for the Interests and Rights of the People of that Province .- The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1086, September 29, 1763.
PERTH-AMBOY, September 17, 1763.
Yesterday our late worthy Governor JOSIAH HARDY, Esq; went from here with his Family to New-York, in order to embark from thence on board of the Halifax Packet, for England: He was attended to the Water Side by all the Gentlemen of the Place, who took this last Opportunity of testifying their Regard and repeating their Wishes for his future Happiness. His Behaviour in private Life, since the Arrival of Governor Franklin, has been such as to merit the Love and Esteem of all near him, who seem justly sensible of the Loss of so good a Man, and so kind a Neighbour. The Sentiments of this Corporation, with respect to his Administration, will best appear from their Address to him: The Sincerity and Truth of which there is little Room to suspect. As I don't remember to have seen this Address in any of the Papers, your inserting it in your next, will oblige
A Friend to all good Governors.
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To his Excellency JOSIAH HARDY, Esq; Captain Gen- eral, Governor, and Commander in Chief in and over the Province of New-Jersey.
The humble ADDRESS of the Mayor, Recorder, Alder- men and Common Council of the City of Perth Amboy.
May it please your Excellency,
We, the Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen and Common Council of the City of Perth-Amboy, wait on your Excel- lency, to testify our Concern upon your Removal from this his Majesty's Government of New Jersey.
Although your Continuance among us has been but short, yet you have given such Instances of your Love of Justice, and Moderation, your Attachment to the Consti- tution of your Country, and just Regard for the Interests and Rights of the People of this Province, committed to your Care, that our Breasts are filled with due Esteem for your Excellency's Merits and Goodness; and with un- feigned Sorrow for your Removal from this Government, we return your Excellency our Thanks for the Counte- nance and Favour you have shewn this Corporation; and we take this Opportunity of making our grateful Ac- knowledgements. And as your Residence among us can be now no longer expected, permit us, with due Regard, to wish your Excellency and Family, Every Happiness you can hope or desire; and that others may be as sen- sible of your Excellency's Merits, as the People whom you now leave.
Perth Amboy, Samuel Nevill, Mayor.
Feb. 17, 1763.
To the Mayor, &c. of the City of Perth Amboy. GENTLEMEN,
I am extremely obliged to you for the kind Concern you express to my Removal from this Government; and
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it gives me a particular Satisfaction to have merited your Esteem. You may be assured I shall ever retain a grate- ful Remembrance of the many Civilities I have received from this Corporation.
JOSIAH HARDY.
Trenton, in Hunterdon County, N. Jersey, Sept. 19, 1763. -
Taken up and committed to the Goal of said County, A certain Zachariah Rigton, who says his Master lives in Baltimore-Town, by Trade a Mason, and that his Name is Conrad Smith; his said Master is desired to come and pay Charges, and take him out, otherwise he will be sold out for the same, by Samuel Tucker, Sheriff for said County.
A FULLER, that can be well recommended for a good Work-man, may find Employ in Lower Freehold, in East-New-Jersey; near Monmouth Court-House, by ap- plying to the Subscriber, living in that Place.
Charles Gordon.
Cumberland County, New Jersey, September 2, 1763.
Last Week was committed to the Goal of this County, a Negroe Man, about 30 Years of Age, of middle Stat- ure and well set; he says he was born in Virginia, and belongs to Joshua Fisher, in Philadelphia. · Said Negroe speaks good English, and says he is a Blacksmith by Trade. His Master, whoever he may be, is hereby desired to take him away, paying Cost.
HOWELL POWELL, Sheriff.
FIVE POUNDS Reward
Run away the 12th of July last, from Abraham Hew- lings in Evesham, West New-Jersey, A Negroe Man,
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named Moses, about 18 Years of Age, about 5 Feet 3 or 4 Inches high, and has a Scar on the upper Side of one of his Feet: Had on when he went away, An Ozenbrigs Shirt and Trowsers, a lightish coloured Cloth Jacket, with a Piece set in the Forebody, an old Felt Hat, and a Pair of strong Shoes. He took with him a Sickle. Who- ever takes up and secures said Servant, so as his Master may have him again, shall have the above Reward, and reasonable Charges, paid by
ABRAHAM HEWLINGS.
N. B. He formerly belonged to George Keen, and it is suposed is harboured by some ordinary People; for, while he belonged to said Keen, he was concealed by a Dutch- man near Germantown .- The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 1814, September 29, 1763.
New-York, October 3. The Circuit Courts for the Eastern Division of New-Jersey, are appointed to be held as follows.
For Monmouth County, on the 29th of September In Somerset, on the 5th of October
In Sussex, on the 10th ditto.
In Morris, on the 13th ditto.
In Bergen, on the 17th ditto. In Essex, on the 20th ditto.
R UN away, last night, from the Subscriber, living in Springfield, Burlington County, an Irish Servant Man, named David Brown, came in about eight Weeks ago, and pretends to be a Weaver : Had on when he went away, a Cloth coloured Coat and Vest, either old Breech- es, or Trowsers, old Shoes very badly sewed up behind, a lightish coloured cut Wig, and an old Felt Hat. He is of a middle Stature, and very freckled in the Face. Who- ever takes up said Servant, and brings him to his Master,
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or secures him in any Goal, so as he may have him again, shall have Five Pounds Reward, and reasonable Charges, paid by
NATHAN FOLWELL
N. B. All Masters of Vessels are forbid to harbour or carry him off at their Peril.
New-York, October 3, 1763.
-The New York Gazette, October 3, 1763.
NEW-YORK, October 3.
The Snow George, of and from Dublin, bound for Philadelphia, Mr. Savage, at present Master, arrived at Sandy-Hook last Saturday, after a tedious Passage of 13 Weeks, with 120 Passengers, and the same Evening the Captain came up to Town, from whom we received the following Paragraph in Writing, viz.
"The 17th of August, 1763, Capt. John Bowen, of the "Snow George, and Mr. Armstrong, the Mate, about 6 "o'Clock, went on board the Snow George, of Dublin, "Capt. Crannel, in the Yawl, and at Half past 8, P. M. "the Snow being to Windward bore down under our Lee, "was hailed by us, asking if they were coming on board; "was answered by Mr. Armstrong, the Mate, that they "were, and ordered the Tackels to be got ready to hoist "the Yawl in; upon which the Topsails were laid to the "Mast, expecting their Coming, and continued in that "Posture for half an Hour, being close to the above men- "tioned Vessel: She made Sail, and not perceiving the "Boat, I imagined they had not left the Vessel; upon "which, with general Consent, made Sail after her, till "Day Light appeared; the Vessel being then out of Sight, "we put about, and made the best of our Way to our de- "sired Port."-The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1087, Oc- tober 6, 1763.
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Upper Freehold, (New-Jersey) October 1, 1763
Run away last Night from James Jackson, of Upper Freehold, in the County of Monmouth, East New Jersey, a Servant Girl, named Elizabeth Rainey, lately come from Belfast, in Ireland, into Philadelphia; she is about 17 or 18 Years of Age, of a very short Stature, very thick, full faced; much Pock-marked, and speaks very broad: Had on, and took with her, a streaked Lincey-woolsey Josey, a black quilted Pitticoat, two Pair of Women's channelled Pumps, not certain how many Pairs of Stockings, two Gowns, the one Calicoe, and the other a darkish Camblet; several Shifts several Gause Caps and Handkerchiefs, several Aprons, a large short red napped Cloak, with a Hood to it, and Gimp round the said Hood; and a Chip Hat.
Whoever secures said Servant in any Goal in this Prov- ince, so as her Master may have her again, shall receive Thirty Shillings Reward, and reasonable Charges, by me JAMES JACKSON.
N. B. If she is taken up in or about Philadelphia, or any Part of Pennsylvania, the Reward will be paid by Andrew Steuart, Printer, in Philadelphia.
Made his Escape out of Trenton Goal, on Monday, the 3d of this Instant October, one Thomas Fowler, a Felon, about five Feet high, thick-set, Pock-marked, pretends to be a Liminer : Had on a Kersey Sailor's double-breasted Jacket, with Horn Buttons, black Breeches, ribb'd Yarn Stockings, good Shoes, and complains of having a sore Toe. Whoever takes up said Felon, and brings him to Trenton Goal, shall have Forty Shillings Reward, paid by
George Brown, Goaler. -The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 1815, October 6, 1763.
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NEW-YORK, October 3.
Extract of a Letter from Niagara, dated September 16,. 1763. .
"I have just Time to tell you we arrived safe at Niag- ara the 13th Inst. delay'd much on Lake Ontario, by hard Gales and Storms of Rain; next Day, had an Express from Little Niagara (a Post above the Falls) that our Convoy, with the Teams employed in carrying Provis- ions to Lake-Erie, was attacked; we sent off from our Fort a Reinforcement immediately, consisting of a Major and about 70 Men, which was followed by a Captain and 50 Men, an Hour after to support them. The whole of the Indians, by the best Account, amounted to about Three Hundred, divided into two Bodies, one of which,. (i. e.) the most inconsiderable, was that which attacked the Convoy; the other lay in Ambush, about 2 or 3 Miles nigher our Post, near the carrying Place, and possessed themselves of a most advantageous Piece of rising Ground near the Road, to intercept Succours : On the first hearing of the firing by the Convoy, Captain John- ston, and three Subalterns, marched with about 80 Men, mostly Gage's Light Infantry, who were in a little Camp adjacent; they had scarce Time to form, when the In- dians appeared at the above Pass : our People fired brisk- ly on them, but was instantly surrounded, and the Cap- tain who commanded, mortally wounded the first Fire; the two Subalterns were soon after killed, on which gen- eral Confusion ensued; the Indians rushed in on all Sides, and cut between Sixty and Seventy Men in Pieces including the Convoy; ten of our Men is all we yet can learn has escaped : They came through the Woods Yes- terday. From the many Circumstances, 'tis believed the Senecas, has a Chief Hand in this Affair : I wish our Af- fairs at Detroit may not suffer by this, as all the Oxen
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and Teams on the Carrying Place is destroyed, and the Horses missing, which 'tis thought are drove off by the Indians; our Reinforcement came up too late to save them, so returned that Night, and next Day march'd and buried all they could find; most of those who came in are wounded; we are in a pretty situation.
Another Letter from Niagara, of the same Date as the foregoing.
"Most of the Provision that was in our Sloop, when cast away on her Voyage to Detroit, was saved, and the People under the Direction of Capt. Montresor, in- trenched themselves, Captain Cochran, with 900 Men, was sent from hence to succour them, and take the Com- mand. The Indians attacked Capt. Montresor in his un- finished Encampment, and after killing him three Men, were repulsed. The 12th Instant. Capt. McCleod, of the 80th, with 10 Officers, 200 Men, 2 Scows, and 20 Bat- teaus, set off in Oder, to join Capt. Cochran, whose En- trenchment was at the Catfish Creek, 12 Miles from the Mouth of the River. The 13th in the Morning, a Party, with a Serjeant, 20 Oxen, & 16 Horses, were sent off, and with them went, Capt. Thomas Johnston, of Amboy, and Mr. Stedman, our Sutler. At ten o'clock, Stedman returned on Horseback, and said, that about three Miles from the Landing, between two Bridges, in a Thicket, Sixty Indians, all naked, attacked the Party to which he belonged, and killed all but himself; and in deed on burying the Dead, we found he had not deviated much from the Truth. Lieutenant Campbell, who commanded at the Landing, hearing the Firing, took part of two Companies, with Lieutenant Frasier, of the 80th, Lieut. Rosco, of the Artillery, and Lieutenant Day- ton, of the Yorkers, in order to succour our People; but he was soon also attacked, in a Situation so disadvanta-
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geous to him, that his Men could not do their Duty, and in a short Time the whole Party save two, who came in the 14th in the Morning, were either killed or taken; we imagine Mr. Campbell made a noble Resistance with a few of his People, as his Body, with several others, were found lying together. On making a Computation of the Loss, it was found, that Lieut. Campbell, Lieut. Frasier, and. 78 Men of the Light Infantry, with Lieut. Rosco, of the Artillery, Captain Johnson, of New Jersey, Lieut. Dayton, and 8 Drivers, are missing, and also supposed to be killed, as we have Reason to think the Indians made no Prisoners. All the Oxen are killed, but no Horses, that we know, the Enemy having carried them all away."-The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1087, October 7, 1763.
The following came too late for our last Gazette To W. Weyman, Printer in New-York.
SIR,
A S you seem to be as much a Publisher for the Jer- sies as any other in your City, and your Paper equally enquired for, I beg you to insert the inclosed .. I am your obliged Humble Servant
A STUDENT.
Prince-Town, New-Jersey, Sept. 29. Yesterday the TRUSTEES of the College of New-Jersey, at their first Meeting since the Arrival of Governor FRANKLIN, pre- sented him with the following Address.
To his Excellency WILLIAM FRANKLIN, Esq; Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over His Majesty's Province of New-Jersey, and Territories, thereon depend- ing in America, Chancellor and Vice Admiral in the same.
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May it please your EXCELLENCY,
The Trustees of the College of New-Jersey esteem themselves happy, in this Opportunity of presenting your Excellency with their Respects, and begging that you. wou'd please to accept their Congratulations on your Appointment to this Government; they only have to wish. that a more early Day had been in their Power.
Your Disposition, Sir, to favour every Institution cal- culated to promote Learning, and the general Good of Mankind, is not to be doubted; and therefore with Pleas- ure we beg Leave to recommend to your Excellency's Pat- ronage the College under our Care. We can assure you, Sir, that we have endeavoured to form it upon such a Plan, and to conduct it in such a Manner, as to make it of the most general and extensive Usefulness, our Idea is to send into the World good Schollars, and useful Members. of Society. Your Excellency's Predecessors, since the founding of this College, have severally, in their Turns,. been pleased to think it worthy of their Regard; which, with the Benefactions of the Publick-spirited at home and abroad, under the divine Blessing, has brought it to its. present flourishing State. We hope for, and expect its. Increase, under your Excellency's Influence.
The Governor of this Colony, for the Time being, by our Charter of Incorporation, is a Member and President of our Board; and we hope your Excellency will be- pleased to honour this Institution by your personal At- tendance in those Capacities.
Your Excellency has our most cordial Wishes for your publick and domestic Happiness, for your Peace, Comfort and Usefulness in the Administration of the Government of this Province.
RICHARD STOCKTON, Clerk.
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To which his EXCELLENCY was pleased to give the fol- lowing ANSWER.
GENTLEMEN,
My cordial acknowledgements are due to you for this. obliging Testimony of your Regard.
I am fully sensible of the Utility of the Institution under your Care, and have the highest Opinion of the Merits of those Gentlemen by whose good Management it has been brought, in so short a Space of Time, to its present flourishing Condition. If my Endeavours can any- Way contribute to the further perfecting this salutary Work, you may depend they will never be wanting .- The- New York Gazette, October 10, 1763.
TO BE SOLD,
At public vendue the 24th of October next, on the- premises.
A Lot of ground with a good stone dwelling house, garden, stable, smoak-house, a well at the door; and other- improvements thereon, convenient for a tradesman or shopkeeper, lying on the great road from Trenton to. Prince-Town, about one mile and a half from the latter, being the place where William Worth lately lived, by- Worth's mill on stony brook. Any person inclining to purchase before the day of sale is desired to apply to Samuel Worth, joining the premises, or to the subscriber- at Trenton, and know the terms.
THOMAS WATSON. -The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1088, October 13,. 1763.
Mr. Low's CATO,
RUN-away from Raritan Landing, October 3, 1763, being a middle siz'd Mulatto slave, born in this country,.
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about twenty years of age, has a very wide mouth, bushy hair, (lately cut off) walks with his knees bending for- ward, his cloaths are a French soldier's coat, almost new, which had been white, but dyed, (not pressed) together with the lining of a brown colour, bordering upon the olive, a new vest, lin'd with white, which had also been made for a French soldier, both alter'd to fit him, with brass buttons, also an old blue coat, and old leather jockey cap, and trowsers of tow cloth.
He is an extream handy fellow at any common work, especially with horses, and carriages of almost any sort, having been bred to it from a little boy, and to the loading and unloading boats, a good deal used to a farm, can do, all sorts of house work, and very fit to wait upon a gen- tleman, speaks very good English and Low Dutch, also pretty good High Dutch; is noted for his sense, and par- ticularly for his activity at any thing he takes in hand.
It is supposed he will endeavour to pass for a freeman, and get away in the country, or go with some vessel to any part, so as not to be overtaken; all persons are forbid harbouring of him, and all masters of vessels taking him on board.
Any person that will bring him to his master Cornelius Low, of Raritan-Landing, near New-Brunswick, or se- cures him in any of his Majesty's Goals, giving notice thereof, so that he may be had again, shall have ten dol- lars Reward, and more if it can be reasonably demanded, with Proper charges.
PRINCETON, (New-Jersey) September 26th, 1763.
Yesterday his Excellency our Governor, with the other Trustees, attended the Anniversary COMMENCEMENT of the College of New-Jersey.
The Exercises of the Day were introduced by a Short, Elegant, Latin Oration, pronounced by the President; to
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which succeeded a well composed Salutatory Oration, de- livered by one of the Young Gentlemen of the Senior- Class; and then the following Theses were Maintained and Opposed by the Candidates for the Bachelor's De- gree, viz .- The Preacher of the Gospel has the best Opportunity of exercising the Art of Rhetoric, in it's whole Extent :- That Ceremonious Behaviour, usually called Polite-Manners, is not vain and senseless Parade, but useful and necessary :- Brute Creatures Think, but have not Human Reason :- Ars typographica plus util- itatis, quam detrimenti, veritati et bonis moribus attulit. - Necessitas moralis, lubentiae rationali nequaquam repugnat .- The four former in the Forensic, the latter in the Syllogistic Way. The several Disputants acquitted themselves to general Satisfaction. The Entertainment was agreeably Diversified by two Elegant English Ora- tions, one on PEACE, the other on REPUTATION, which were well pronounced.
A Beautiful Harangue on the Advantages of Health, introduced the Exercises of the Candidates for the Mas- ters Degree. This was succeeded by a Latin Disputation on this Thesis, Nulla simplex imperii civilis forma est quam optima; which was Maintained and Opposed with great Judgment. A spirited Valedictory Address con- cluded these Exercises.
The following Young Gentlemen were admitted to the Degree of Bachelor of Arts. 1
1 The following sketches of the Class of 1763 are principally condensed from "Princeton College during the Eighteenth Century," by Samuel Davies Alexander. [New York, 1872.]
James Boyd was ordained by the First Presbytery of Philadelphia in 1770, and installed pastor of the Presbyterian churches of Newtown and Bensalem, Pennsylvania, where he remained for forty-three years, or until his death, in 1813. He was a Trustee of the College at Princeton, 1781-1800.
John Close was licensed by Suffolk Presbytery soon after his gradu- ation, and immediately engaged in missionary work in North and South Carolina. Returning to the North, he was called and ordained as colleague to Rev. Ebenezer Prime at Huntington, Long Island, October 30, 1766. He was dismissed from this charge, April 4, 1773, and took charge of a church at New Windsor, New York, where he re-
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James Boyd,
Joseph Lyon,
Jolın Close.
Obadiah Noble,
Robert Cooper,
William Patterson,
David Cowell,
Topping Reeve,
John Craighead,
John Simpson,
Samuel Eakin,
William Macky Tennant,
Ezekiel Emerson,
James Watt,
Noah Hart,
Simon Williams,
James Jauncey,
Joseph Worth.
John Lathrop,
mained until 1796. He received the degree of A. M. from Yale in 1771. The few last years of his life were spent at Waterford, New York, where he died in 1813.
Robert Cooper caine from Ireland. There is a tradition among his ' descendants that he learned the business of plough-making to assist him in getting an education. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Carlisle, February 22, 1765, and was pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Middle Spring, Pa., thenceforth until April 12, 1797, when he re- signed, on account of ill health. The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him by Dickinson College in 1792. He was a zealous patriot during the American Revolution, and often visited the army to exhort the soldiers to activity and fidelity. He died April 5, 1805.
David Cowell was born in Trenton, New Jersey, and was a nephew of the Rev. David Cowell. After graduating from Princeton, in 1763, he studied medicine in Philadelphia, took his degree, and returned to Trenton, where he practiced until his death, December 18, 1783. For two years he was senior physician and surgeon in military hospitals. In his will he left £100 to the College of New Jersey; and "to the Con- gress of the United States of America, one hundred pounds, if they settle themselves at Lamberton," a suburb of Trenton .- Hall's Hist. - of the Presbyterian Church in Trenton, 291-3.
John Craighead received ordination from Donegal Presbytery, about 1767, and was settled as pastor of Rocky Spring Church, Pennsylvania. It is said that he fought and preached alternately. At the commence- ment of the war he raised a company from the members of his charge, and joined Washington's army in New Jersey. He remained at Rocky Spring until 1798, when he resigned his charge, and died April 20, 1799.
Samuel Eakin was ordained by the Second Presbytery of Philadel- phia, in 1770. From 1773 until his death, in 1784, he was settled at Penn's Neck Presbyterian Church in West Jersey, but rendered himself so obnoxious to the Tories by his zeal in the cause of American liberty that he was sometimes obliged to withdraw. He was the idol of the soldiers. Wherever there was a military training, or an order issued for the soldiers to march, he was, if in his power, always there to address them, and by his eloquence would excite their emotions of patriotism to the highest pitch. It is related of him that he was so warm a Whig that he never entered the pulpit without imploring the Lord "to teach our people to fight and give them courage and perse- verance to overcome their enemies." Mr. Eakin was an extraordinary man, and, next to Mr. Whitefield, esteemed the most eloquent preacher who had ever been in the country. See Johnson's History of Salem, 97-98.
Ezekiel Emerson, a native of Uxbridge, Mass., was ordained pastor of a Congregational church in Georgetown, Maine, July 3, 1763. He retired from the ministry in 1810, and died November 9, 1815, aged 80.
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