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The children of Joseph Borden were:
i. Mary5, m. Thomas Mckean, of Newcastle, Del., marriage license dated July 21, 1763; d. March 12, 1773, in her 29th year. Thomas Mckean was one of the Delaware Signers of the Declaration of Independence. He was elected Gov- ernor of Pennsylvania in 1799, 1802 and 1805, serving nine stormy years.
ii. Nancy5, married Francis Hopkinson (afterwards one of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence), Sept. 1, 1768. For the announcement of the marriage, in the flow- ery language of the day, see N. J. Archives, X., 427, note. iii. Joseph5, born in 1755. He was an ardent patriot during the Revolution, being Captain of a troop of light-horse, which he raised in Burlington county. He was wounded at the battle of Germantown, in 1777, but although his injury inconvenienced him the rest of his life he repeat- edly volunteered for active service when he felt he could be of use to the cause. He was a United States loan offi- cer, and was appointed one of the commissioners to sell lands confiscated to the State for treason. He married Mary, daughter of Langhorne Biles, of Bucks county, Pa. He died Oct. 16, 1788, leaving one child, Elizabeth Borden, who married Azariah Hunt, of Hopewell, N. J.
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cere Friend; a tender Husband, and an affectionate Parent."-The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 1921, October 17, 1765.
T O be sold by the subscriber, a very fine farm of 500 acres of land, lying upon the road leading from Freehold court-house to Princetown in New-Jersey, near Cranbury, at the place formerly known by the name of the Indian Town, about 16 miles from Brunswick and Amboy, 10 from Princeton, and 4 from Cranbury town, where there is a constant market for all kinds of produce : There is on it 300 acres of cleared land in good fence, great part of which has not been tilled for many years, the timber remarkably fine, and lies so, that it may be di- vided into two or three farms, as the land is remarkable for wheat and grass. The subscriber also proposes to sell the estate he now lives on, near the town of Shrewsbury, consisting of a tract of about 1000 acres; the greatest part of which is already, and may be made excellent mowing ground, it bearing prodigious burthens of English grass : He intends to divide it into such lots as the purchasers and he can agree upon : There is on it a very large house, barn, stables, and other out-houses, with valuable orch- ards, which he will sell with such a quantity of land as can be agreed on: There is also a peach orchard, consisting of all the different choice kinds of that fruit in the known world; and as the house is situated near the famous spaw spring, it would suit extremely well a person who would keep a boarding house for the numbers that come to that spring for their healths, and might in a little time, become a considerable place of resort for people of the best fash- ion. It will be sold upon reasonable terms.
LEWIS MORRIS ASHFIELD1
1 Lewis Morris Ashfield was a grandson of Gov. Lewis Morris. For some account of his descendents, see N. Y. Gen. & Biog. Record. XXIX., 92.
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New-Jersey, { ss. P URSUANT to an Order made by the Honorable Frederick Smyth, and Monmouth, 5 John Berrian, Esqrs. two of the Judges of the Supreme Court for the Province of New-Jersey, Notice is hereby given, to all the Creditors of John Tunison, an Insolvent Debtor, confined, &c. that they appear before the said Judges, on the sixth Day of November next, at Nine o'Clock in the Forenoon at the Court-House in Burling- ton, to shew Cause, if any they have, why an Assignment of said Debtors Estate should not be made to such Per- sons as shall be appointed, and the said Debtor discharged from his Confinement, pursuant to an Act of Assembly, made this present Year, intituled, An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors.
Dated October the 4th Day, 1765.
New-Jersey, SS. P URSUANT to an Order of the Hon- ourable Frederick Smyth, and John Berrian, Esqrs. Judges of the Supreme Court in and for the Province of New-Jersey, upon the Petition of John West, an Insolvent Debtor, and the Major Part in Value of his Creditors; Notice is hereby given, by the said Peti- tioners, to all the Creditors of the said John West, to shew Cause, if any they have, before the Justices of said Court, at the Court-House in Burlington, on Wednesday the sixth Day of November next, (being the Day and Place appointed by the said Judges for that Purpose) why an Assignment of the Estate of the said John West, should not be made to Robert Ogden, Esq; and Elias Dayton, Assignees, appointed by the said Creditors, for the Use and Benefit of all the said John West's Creditors, pursu- ant to the Prayer of the said Petition, and the said John West, discharged from all his Debts, according to an Act of the Governor, Council, and General Assembly, passed
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in the fifth Year of his present Majesty's Reign, intituled, "An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors."
Dated October 14, 1765.
I N pursuance of an Order made by Jacob Ford, and Robert Goble, Esquires, Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, for the County of Morris, and Province of East New-Jersey, upon the Petition of Elijah Gillet, and Henry Sweet, Insolvent Debtors, and sundry of their Creditors; Notice is hereby given by the said Petitioners to all their Creditors, to shew Cause, if any they have, be- fore said Judges, at the Court-House, in Morris County, on the 31st Day of this Instant, at three o'Clock of the said Day, being the Day and Place appointed by said Judges for that Purpose, why an Assignment of the Es- tates of Elijah Gillet, and Henry Sweet, should not be made unto Benjamin Halsey, and Joseph Morris of the County aforesaid; why the said Henry Sweet and Elijah Gillet, be not thereupon discharged according to the Di- rection of an Act of the Governor, Council, and General Assembly of this Province, made and passed in the Fifth Year of his present Majesty's Reign, intitled, "An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors."
Dated the 15th Day of this Instant October, 1765.
-The New York Gazette or Weekly Post Boy, Oc- tober 17, 1765.
SAVANNAH (in GEORGIA) August 29.
We hear the following gentlemen are appointed Sur- veyors-general of his Majesty's Customs in North Amer- ica, viz. John Temple Esq; for Newfoundland, Cape Bre- ton, the Island in the Gulph. of St. Lawrence, Nova Sco- tia, New Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island, and Connecticut; Charles Stuart, Esq; for New-York,
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Canada, East and West Jersey, and Pennsylvania; Peter Randolph, Esq; for Maryland, Virginia, and North and South-Carolina; and William Randall, Esq; for Geor- gia, East and West-Florida, the Bahama Islands, and Jamaica.
We hear from New-Jersey, that one family in that province, had manufactured and wore as much cloth, &c. as would, by a moderate computation have cost 501. had they purchased it. A noble example, worthy of the imi- tation of at least every one who lives in the country. If one family can save the country 50l. a year, how much would 20,000 in each province save?
BURLINGTON, October 10, 1765.
THIS is to give notice to all the creditors of Amos Wil- lits, an insolvent debtor, imprisoned in the goal of Bur- lington, to appear on the 7th day of November next, be- fore Robert Smith and Thomas Rodman, Esqrs; at Bur- lington, and there to shew cause, if any there be, why the said Willits shall not assign over to Ebenezer Antrum and Lott Rindyway1 his whole estate, both real and per- sonal, to them in trust for the benefit of his creditors in general.
ALL persons that have any demands against the estate of Messrs. REED and PETTIT, late of Philadelphia, mer- chants, are desired to send them in to JOSEPH REED Esqr; at Trenton, or to THOMAS WHARTON or MOOR FURMAN at Philadelphia. And all those who are any ways indebted to said REED and PETTIT, are requested immediately to make payment to the above mentioned persons, who are impowered to receive the same .- The Pennsylvania Jour- nal, No. 1194, October 24, 1765.
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New York, October 24. On Tuesday Evening arrived the Ship Edward, Captain William Davis, in nine Weeks from London, and six Weeks and three Days from Fal- mouth, with whom came Mrs. Nichols, of Amboy.
To the PRINTER
A SIR,
T a time when every person, who is in the least accessary to the countenancing or forwarding that enemy of our peace (the Stamp Act) is just- ly rendered odious to every friend of Liberty; common benevolence will lead the generous mind, to pre- vent such a curse from falling on the innocent. Therefore it is that the Public are again troubled with the following simple detail of the proceedings of the gentlemen of the law in this colony, and the behaviour of the Chief Justice, on the occasion, which, I am sorry to say, has not been candidly given in a late publication.
The unhappy state of the whole continent in general, and some of the colonies in particular, flowing from this most extraordinary instance of ministerial influence, had determined the principal gentlemen of the profession, to obtain a general meeting of the lawyers, at Amboy, in September last, in order to consult on some necessary measures, whereby at once, to bear a public testimony against such oppressive measures, and at the same time, by easing the minds of the people, to prevent any undue and indecent behaviour to the lawful authority of the gov- ernment, as far as our influence should extend.
After the gentlemen attending, had taken their seats, (a president being chose) the nature of the act was opened, together with a state of the colonies, and the effect it would naturally produce in them. They then proceeded to a free discussion of every point worthy of observation; and on the whole, the following question was stated, and
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put to vote : "Whether, if the stamps should arrive in the province, the gentlemen present (as lawyers) would make use of them for any purpose, or under any circumstances whatever? It gives me pleasure to say (as it must to every lover of his country) that it was carried in the neg- ative, without a dissenting voice : And a number of the gentlemen, respectively undertook to answer for the great- est part of the absent members.
This was the whole of the transaction on this day: But the next day the Chief Justice requested the attendance of all the practitioners, on some matters he was desirous of laying before them: When assembled, his Honour in- formed them, "that he would be glad of their advice on a few questions he had to propose," but first informed them, that he had heard it was reported, "that he had solicited, and endeavoured to obtain the office of stamp distributor for the colony." In answer to which he observed, that the impropriety of such a step in him, was a sufficient testi- mony of the falsity of the report: but in order to settle the matter, he declared, upon his honour, that he had neither directly or indirectly, solicited, or any ways at- tempted to obtain that office, which he hoped would sat- isfy them, as well as the inhabitants of the colony, on this subject. He then proposed the following questions : "Whether if the stamp paper was ready to be distributed at Burlington, by the first of November, they would take the trouble of sending there for them?" Each gentleman present gave his answer separately, but all to the follow- ing purpose : "That they would by no means do any thing that should bear the appearance of opposition to the rightful authority of the government; yet as it was in their choice to use the stamps or refuse them, they would entirely give up the advantage arising from their profes- sion, rather than join in enslaving their country." The
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next question was, "As the act pointed out the Governor and Chief Justice, as persons to whom the distributor was to be accountable; if the Governor should insist on the Chief Justice's taking the burden of that office of distrib- utor upon him; whether it would be consistent with his duty and interest to accept it?" To which it was unani- mously agreed, that there was no words in the act that gave the Governor the least authority to appoint such an officer; and if there was that the Chief Justice should be the last man to accept it, as it would be the direct means to render him odious to the people, and uncomfortable in his administration.
On this the Chief Justice applauding the coolness of these deliberations, and recommending peaceable meas- ures as the most likely means of obtaining a repeal of this act, returned them his thanks for their kindness, and dis- missed them. The whole of the Chief Justice's behaviour, being evidently in confidence, treating those gentlemen as his private friends, I was much surprised to find these questions made public, especially in the form they have appeared to the world, tending obliquely to charge the Chief Justice with endeavouring to solicit an office, so detestable to all the colonies. I therefore could do no less in justice to every one concerned, than to give this plain state of the matter, that every fact might have its due weight.1
New-Jersey, Oct. 1765. A. LAWYER.
THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED
The LIFE and CHARACTER of the late Reverend Mr. JONATHAN EDWARDS, Late President of the College at NEW-JERSEY Together with a Number of his SERMONS, on various important Subjects :
1 See Field's Provincial Courts of N. J., 159-162.
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Sold by GARRAT NOEL,
Bookseller; next Door to the Merchant's Coffee-House.
Of whom may be had, just published, The said Mr. EDWARDS'S Two DISSERTATIONS :
I. Concerning the End for which God created the World.
II. The Nature of true Virtue.
T HIS may serve to inform the Public, That it was not Mr. BAYARD's claiming the Common Lands be- longing to SEKAKUS, that prevented the late Commission- ers from finishing every Matter of Dispute relative there- to, they being all of Opinion, that he had no Right in them; but it was owing to several Disputes among oth- ers, (in some of which they were equally divided in Opin- ion) that they did not say to whom and among whom the said Common Lands do belong .- The New York Gazette or Weekly Post Boy, October 24, 1765.
Hunterdon County, ss. October 20, 1765.
PURSUANT to an Act of General Assembly, lately passed, intituled "An Act for the Relief of insolvent Debt- ors;" Christopher Leverton, an insolvent Debtor, now confined in Trenton Goal, hereby gives Notice, that he intends to take the Benefit of the said Act, in order to his Discharge; and the Judges of the Inferior Court of Com- mon Pleas, for the County aforesaid, have appointed Sat- urday, the 16th Day of November next, for the Creditors of the above insolvent Debtor to meet at the House of Richard Cox, Innkeeper, at Trenton, at 3 o'Clock in the Afternoon, to shew Cause, if any they have, why an As- signment of the said Debtor's Estate should not be made, and the said Debtor discharged, according to the Form
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and Effect of the said Act .- The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 1922, October 24, 1765.
Hunterdon County, ss. Trenton, October 26, 1765.
PURSUANT to an Act of General Assembly, lately passed, intituled, "An Act for the Relief of insolvent Debtors," Robert Rutherford,1 and. Hugh M'Can, now confined in Trenton Goal, hereby give Notice, that they intend to take the Benefit of the said Act, in order to their Discharge; and the Judges of the Supream Court for the Province of East and West New Jersey, have appointed Tuesday, the 26th Day of November next, for the Cred- itors of the above insolvent Debtors to meet at the City of Perth-Amboy, to shew Cause, if any they have, why an Assignment of the said Debtors Estates should not be made, and said Debtors discharged, according to the Form and Effect of the said Act, &c.
Hunterdon County, ss. October 28, 1765
PURSUANT to an Order of the Judges of the inferior Court of Common Pleas, for the County of Hunterdon, Notice is hereby given to all the Creditors of Joseph Skirm, that on the Petition of the said Skirm, with the major Part in Value of his Creditors to the Judges afore- said, the 20th Day of November is appointed for the Creditors of the said Skirm to meet at the House of Rich- ard Cox, Innkeeper, in Trenton, to shew Cause, if any they have, why an Assignment of the said Debtor's Es- tate should not be made, and the said Debtor discharged, agreeable to the late Act of Assembly, made and provided for that Purpose.
New Jersey, ss.
PURSUANT to an Order of the Hon. Frederick Smith,
1 For sketch of Robert Rutherford, see N. J. Archives, XX., 168.
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Esq; Chief Justice, and the Hon. John Berrian, one of his Associates, Justices of the Supream Court of Judicature, in and for the Province of New-Jersey, upon the Petition of Benjamin Severns, an insolvent Debtor, Notice is hereby given by the said Petitioner to all his Creditors, to shew Cause, if any they have, before the said Justices at Amboy, on Tuesday, the 26th Day of November next, being the Day and Place appointed for that Purpose, why an Assignment of the said Benjamin Severns's Estate should not be made to the Assignees then to be appointed for that Purpose, for the Use and Benefit of all the said Benjamin Severns's Creditors, pursuant to the Prayer of the said Petition, and the said Benjamin Severns be there- upon discharged, according to the Directions of an Act of the Governor, Council and General Assembly of the Colony of New-Jersey, made and passed at Burlington, in the Fifth Year of his present Majesty's Reign, inti- tuled, "An Act for the Relief of insolvent Debtors."
Hunterdon County, ss. . October 28, 1765.
PURSUANT to an Order of William Morris and William Clayton, Esquires, two of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the County of Hunterdon, Notice is hereby given to all the Creditors of Jacob Moore and Henry Young, insolvent Debtors, now confined in the Goal of Trenton, that they appear before the said Judges on the Twentieth Day of November next, to shew Cause, if any they have, why an Assignment of the said Debtors Estates should not be made, and the said Debtors dis- charged, pursuant to an Act of Assembly, made at Bur- lington, the last Sessions, intituled, an Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors.
Now in the Press, to be speedily published, in one Vol- ume Octavo, neatly bound and lettered, and sold by DAVID
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HALL, in Philadelphia, and JAMES PARKER in Burling- ton;
The HISTORY of the COLONY of NOVA CÆSAREA,
or NEW JERSEY.
Containing an Account of its first Settlement, progress- ive Improvements, the original and present Constitutions, and other Events, to the Year MDCCXXI.
With some Particulars since, and a short View of its present State
By SAMUEL SMITH
WANTED,
An honest, sober, industrious Man, that writes a toler- able good Hand, that is willing to do the different Sorts of Business about a Shop, he may hear of a Place by ap- plying to WILLIAM FOSTER of Burlington County, in New-Jersey.
N. B. Before he enters in the Service, he must be well recommended by Persons of Credit for his Honesty, as the Keys will at Times be intrusted in his Hands, if he is 40 or 50 Years of Age, it will be no Objection, but must be a single Man.
Gloucester County, October 24, 1765. FIVE POUNDS Reward
WHEREAS a certain Man, who calls himself Richard Cox, born in the North of England, and speaks very broad in that Dialect, is about 5 Feet 10 Inches high, well set, had on a light coloured twilled Linen Coat, a light col- oured Cloth Waistcoat, a striped Shirt, an old Pair of Leather Breeches, black grey Yarn Stockings, Pinchbeck Buckles in his Shoes, wears grey Hair, tied behind, being at the House of the Subscriber, in Waterford, in the County of Gloucester, and Western Division of the Prov-
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ince of New Jersey, did, on the Night of the 22d inst. take from the Subscriber's House, 10 Pounds and an Half of Worsted, a French Buccaneer Firelock, and a large black Dog. Whoever takes up the said Richard Cox, and se- cures him in the common Goal of the County of Glouces- ter aforesaid, shall have the above Reward, paid by
HUGH MIDDLETON
Gloucester County, October 31, 1765.
WHEREAS James Whitall, late of the County of Glou- cester, deceased, did purchase 200 Acres of Land of John Reading deceased, by Deed, dated the Seventh Day of June, 1701; These are to desire any Person or Persons, who have purchased any Part or Parcel of the said Land of the said James Whitall, or of his Son Job Whitall de- ceased, to inform James Whitall, the Grandson of the said James Whitall, and Son to the said Job Whitall, in order that he might not take up the said Land again, if already sold by either of them; which will be very kindly taken by me.
JAMES WHITALL
NOTICE is hereby given, that the Subscribers, Owners of the Marshes, called Kilcus Hook Marshes, in Lower Penn's Neck, in the County of Salem, and Province of New-Jersey, intend to Petition the Honourable House of Assembly of said Province, at their next Meeting, for an Act to enable them to bank and drain the said Marshes, and for supporting and maintaining the same. Edmund Weatherby, Charles Green, William Mecum, Allen Con- gelton, David Alexander.
CAME to the Plantation of Joshua Lippincott, of Eves- ham, in the County of Burlington, and Province of West- Jersey, on the Ioth Day of August last, a young bay
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Horse, of a darkish Colour, has neither Brand nor Ear mark, paces and trots, and has a switch Tail, with some white Hairs in the Root of his Tail, about 14 Hands high, and 3 Years old last Spring; the Horse has never been fairly broke, if any at all. The Owner coming and prov- ing his Property, paying Charges, may have him again.
JOSHUA LIPPINCOTT
October 28, 1765.
A WHITE Man was taken up, and brought to Trenton Goal, on the 24th Instant, he calls himself by the Name of John Stanforth, about 5 Feet 10 Inches high, about Fifty Years of Age; he has an Iron Collar, with two Prongs to it, about his Neck, is full faced, wears his Hair; has on a black old under Jacket, and a brown outside One, with long Trowsers; he says the Reason of the Collar being about his Neck was, that he was caught in Bed with a married Woman in New England, and was judged by two Justices to wear the same, or else be branded in the Fore head. And whereas he was brought here on Sus- picion of being a Runaway Servant, any Man that has any thing to say against him, is desired to come and prove his Property before the 19th of November, or else he will be sold out for the Cost by me
GEORGE BROWN, Goal-keeper.
RUN away from the Subscriber, living in Chesterfield, Burlington County, an indented Servant Man, named Nathaniel Smith, about 5 Feet 10 Inches high; he is of a dark Complexion, and hath a down Look; has strait black Hair, a thin Visage, is very fond of strong Liquor and apt to swear; had on, when he went away, an Ozenbrigs Shirt and Trowsers, a Frock, a Pair of white Stockings, and turned Pumps, with Steel Buckles in them; a green dou-
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ble breasted Jacket, and a Calicoe Jacket both without Sleeves, and an old Beaver Hat. Whoever takes up the said Servant, and brings him to his Master, or secures him in any of his Majesty's Goals, so as his Master may have him again, shall have Three Pounds Reward, and reasonable Charges, paid by
JOSEPH NEWBOLD
N. B. All Masters of Vessels are forbid to carry off said Servant .- The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 1923, Oc- tober 31, 1765.
New-Brunswick, October 29, 1765.
T HIS morning, on an eminence in this city, was hung the effigy of a wretch, who on a late solemn occa- sion, subtilly procured himself an employment, and at once shewed the wickedness and dirtiness of his head, and the vileness and rancour of his heart, by basely betraying that important trust. Papers denoting his horrid crime were affixed to his breast, and from his mouth hung labels expressing such words and sentiments, as may well be supposed to come from the lips of such an abandoned mis- creant in his last moments. The Figure is to hang all day, and in the evening will be attended by all true sons of freedom, to a funeral pile erected on the common, where it will be reduced to ashes, amidst the acclamations of the beholders.
May such be the fate of every vile traitor, in whatever sphere they move! may they live despised ! die unpitied ! and if they are remembered, let that remembrance only increase the detestation of posterity.
This signal act of justice, (tho' we own the object al- most too low for resentment) will however, we think, evince to the neighbouring colonies, that neither the dirty insinuation of pimps and pandars, nor the frowns of pow-
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