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To BE SOLD,
A Plantation, on Great Timber Creek, it is now rented to Thomas Done, containing 200 acres, near 100 of which is wood land, and the rest is cleared, 22 of which is good meadow, and the rest is good for rye cr Indian corn; there is a dwelling-house, milk-house, smoke-house, and a well of good water at the door; there is a large barn, stable and corn cribs, with a young bearing orchard, the fruit makes good cyder; it is about 8 miles and a half from William Cooper's Ferry, so that it is convenient for those that have a mind to tend our market. The purchaser, paying one third of the purchase money down, may have time to pay the rest, giving security, if required, and pay- ing interest. The place may be entered on the 25th of next month. For further particulars, enquire of DANIEL COOPER or CHARLES WEST .- The Pennsylvania Gazette. No. 1991, February 19, 1767.
TO BE SOLD,
By public vendue, at the London Coffee House, in Phila- delphia, on Wednesday the 25th of March, at II o'clock in the forenoon.
A FORGE, on Monolopan river, commonly called South river, not above four miles from the landing on said river,
1 Probably Anthony Benezet.
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where boats go to New-York, and is the nearest but one to a landing, of any forge in the provinces of New York or New-Jersey, so that all the land carriage is but four miles; the forge has three fires, and is capable to make I20 tons of barr-iron per annum; with as good a stream as most any in the country. On the premises are also one GRIST MILL, of one pair of stones, in the heart of a coun- try where they can purchase sufficiency of wheat and other grain to grind; and a very good SAW-MILL, lying near the post road, about eight miles eastward of Cranbury. On part of the premises are 100 acres of land, which, by being properly ditched, can be made as good meadow ground as any in the government of New-Jersey; and whatever lands are wanting for the use of the iron works, can be easily obtained from the proprietors of Jersey, who have lands contiguous or adjoining the premises. The only reason for disposing of the works, is, that the owners live at some distance and cannot well attend the overlook- ing the works. Pigs may be had at New-York at the market price, and will not cost above 6 or 7s. per ton for transportation, till within four miles of the works; or if the purchasers should be inclinable to turn the works into a blomary, oar of a good quality is at hand in great quan- tities, and to be had on very reasonable ternis. There is a sufficient quantity of coals on hand to make 40 or 50 tons of barr-iron, and 1000 cord of wood ready cut to carry on the coaling business in the spring.
Any person inclinable to purchase the premises before the day of sale, can apply to John Wilday, merchant, at Philadelphia; Derick Brinckerholf and Co. at New-York; David Williamson, at the Fresh Ponds; or to Robert Smylee on the premises, who will agree an very reason- able terms.
N. B. If money cannot be paid down, bonds with good
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personal security will be taken. Teams of oxen, carriages. and other utensils, will be sold at first cost .- The Pennysl- vania Journal, No. 1263, February 19, 1767.
Mr. GODDARD,
UPON reading the History of New-Jersey, lately pub- lished, I observed in the Summary of the first Laws made in the Eastern Division of that Province, one very singu- lar Article, "That Fornication should be punished at the "Discretion of the Court, by Marriage, Fine or Corporal "Punishment." I called this singular, but upon Recolec- tion, I have been told, that there was a Law of the same Import in the early Times of Pennsylvania. Whether Records of the Proceedings of any Court, under either of those Laws, are now to be found, I do not know; but fear if they are, that the worthy Judges who presided, may have omitted entering the Reasons on which they founded their discretionary Judgment. If Minutes properly en- tered and kept of this Kind, could be exhibited to the Public, I fancy they would be esteemed as great Curiosi- ties in the Literary Way, as any Thing found in Hercu- laneum.
A. B.1 -The Pennsylvania Chronicle, No. 5, February 23, 1767.
To BE SOLD,
A Plantation very well improved, containing 312 acres of good land, deem'd to be some of the best in the parts, well watered, timbered and fenced; lying at a place called Squancom, in the township of Shrewsbury, and the county of Monmouth, New-Jersey; the up lands afford good pasturage, as well as grain of all sorts peculiar to the clime; the meadows abound with grass of all the kinds
1 This was evidently not Anthony Benezet.
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for fodder, and in season may be cut thereon enough to winter one hundred head of cattle, whilst more may be improved to the same advantage; (to this may be added the benefit of thousands of acres of land, and meadows for summer range, which it is likely will not be improved in one century. ) On it is a saw mill with two saws, seated on one of the best and most plentiful streams in the prov- ince, which never fails in the greatest drought, to which may be easily added, a grist or fulling mill, or both, as there is plenty of water, in a growing part of the country, which increases its inhabitants; lands daily rising in value, and huntsman's toil paid with the best of venison, wild turkies and other game. It is conveniently seated for a shop-keeper, as there is none within 10 miles to sup- ply a thick settled and growing part of the country. On the same is two tenements, besides a mill house for the sawyer, a good large barn, a bearing young orchard yield- ing 50 barrels of cyder from the best of grafted fruit. with a variety of other fruit trees. For further particulars enquire of Doctor Richard Stillwell in Middletown, or Obediah Worthley, living on the premises, by whom a good and indisputable title will be given or made to any purchaser.
OBDIAH WORTHLEY
Shrewsbury, Feb. 1, 1767.
-- The New York Journal or General Advertiser, No. 1260, February 26, 1767.
BASSETERRE, in St. Christophers, Jan. 28.
The Schooner Union, Jonathan Mason, commander, arrived at St. Eustatius on Monday last, from Monte Christi, bound for Salem, who meeting with a hard gale of wind on the coast the 29th ult. received so much dam- age as obliged him to make for the first port. He was then in lat. 42, 21, N. long. 28. 25 \V.
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NEW-YORK, February 19.
We hear from Woodbridge, that last Monday evening a chair-house and chair, with a stable, and a good quan- tity of hay, were destroyed by fire, by the inadvertence of a boy's going into the stable with a candle .- The Penn- sylvania Journal, No. 1264, February 26, 1767.
New-York, February 26.
Last Tuesday se'ennight, a Tanner's Bark-House at Lyons Farms, in Elizabeth-Town, having made a small Fire made in it to warm the People at Work, in the Even- ing the Master put it out himself, as he thought, with Snow, but when he got up in the Morning, he found the Bark-House, with a good Quantity of Bark, and upwards of 30 Hides in it, all reduced to Ashes, and neither he nor any of his Neighbours saw or heard any Thing of the Fire .- The Pennsylvania Chronicle, No. 6, March 2, 1767.
Mr. GAINE,
A Number of the Practitioners of Physic and Surgery in East-Jersey having form'd themselves into a So- ciety, for their mutual Improvement in their Profession, and other good Purposes; and as their Meetings may occasion some speculation among the Inhabitants where they reside, they have thought proper to insert in your Paper the Laws and Constitutions by which their Society is governed, as well to obviate any Misrepresentations which may arise from Prejudice or Mistake, as to con- vince their Employers that their Scheme is design'd to be of Publick Utility.
NARRATIVE of the RISE and ESTABLISHMENT of the NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SOCIETY.
T HE low State of Medicine in New Jersey, and the many Diffi- culties and Discouragements, alike injurious to the People and the Physician, under which it has laboured, and which still continue to
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oppose its Improvement in Utility to the Public, and its Advancement to its native Dignity, having for several Years passed engrossed the Atten- tion of some Gentlemen of the Profession, and occasionally been the Sub- ject of their Conversation, it was earlv last Winter, determined to at- tempt some Measure for rescuing the Art from that abject Condition (not to say worse) into which it seemed too fast to decline.
To this End a Legislative Interposition appeared in the first Place greatly to be desired; and an Application for that Favour was proposed; but in this it was necessary to have the Concurrence of the principal Practitioners, and as many other Persons of Weight and Influence as possible; a voluntary Association therefore of such Gentlemen of the Fac- ulty, as might approve of the Design, was next projected; a Society of this Kind, it was thought, besides considering of a proper Application to the Legislature, and promoting it most effectually, could in the mean Time take such Measures as were of immediate Importance, and from such voluntary Regulations, as would greatly conduce to the Usefulness and Honour of Medicine, and should the Legislature in their wisdom think it not expedient to interfere, might in a great Degree answer the Purposes of a more authoritative Establishment; not to mention that whether under a Law, or otherwise, a Medical Society well conducted, would naturally derive ' Credit on the Profession, and ever be of the high- est Advantage, both to the Public, and to the several Members. With these good Views the annexed Advertisement was inserted in the Mercury. 2
N. B. The next General Meeting of the Society is to be held at Perth Amboy, the first Tuesday in May next.
W hereas Peter Schenck, Assignee to the Estates of Benjamin Beears, John Boultinghouse, David Griffis, Nicholas Vandervoort, Thomas Potter, Micajah Ketcham, Robert White, Daniel Tilton, Thomas Will- iams, John Davison, Samuel Layton, Sen. James Kelly, Mathias Van Horne, Humphrey Mount, Mathew Rob- erts, James Vanhoyse, Corbitt Smith, Mathew Anderson, Samuel Romine and Joseph Harbour, insolvent Debtors; and Thomas Thompson and Isaac Covenhoven Assignees, to the Estate of John Shepherd insolvent Debtor; and John Vancleaff Assignee to the Estate of John Hunt, in- solvent Debtor; and John Vancleaff and James Wilson, Assignees to the Estate of John Astin, insolvent Debtor;
1 Confer.
2 See Wickes's History of Medicine in New Jersey, and of its Medical Men, for advertisement and Association and Constitution, page 44.
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having respectively disposed of said Estates and collected the out-standing Debts, as far as may be; pursuant to a late Act of Assembly, made for the Relief of insolvent Debtors: Now these are to give Notice, to the Creditors of said Debtors, That they or their Attornies meet to- gether, at the House of Peter Schenck, Inn-keeper, in Freehold, on the third Tuesday of April next, then and there to receive the first Dividend of said Estates; and to consult on Measures to be taken pursuant to said Act.
PETER SCHENCK, THOMAS THOMPSON, ISAAC COVENHOVEN,
Freehold, Monmouth County, East-Jersey, March 2, 1767.
JOHN VANCLEAFF, JAMES WILLSON.
W HEREAS a Law was passed, by the Governor, Coun- cil, and General Assembly, of the Province of New-Jersey, in the Year of our Lord 1763, to appoint Commissioners to make a division, and sub-division, of the Common Land belonging to the Township and Pre- cinct of Bergen; accordingly Commissioners were ap- pointed, and they the said Commissioners laid out or allotted a certain Piece or Parcel of Wood Land and Meadow belonging to the said Common Lands of Bergen. and allotted the same to the Patent of Seecaucus, and to be sub-divided by them to such of the Freeholders as they should adjudge intitled to the same; but the aforesaid Commissioners have left the same undivided : These are therefore to give Notice to all Persons interested in said Patent of Seecaukus, that a Petition will be presented by the Freeholders of the aforesaid Patent, to the Governor, Council, and General Assembly, at their next sitting, pray- ing that a Law may be passed, and Commissioners ap- pointed to sub divide the aforesaid Land, among such of
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the Freeholders as they shall adjudge to have the best Right thereto.
Seecaukus, March 2, 1767.
To be sold at publick Vendue,
O N the first Day of April next, or at private sale any time before, the noted forge or iron works, called, Beeman's Forge, in the county of Morris, in New-Jersey, situate upon the main stream of Rocaway river: said forge has two fires, and water at all seasons plenty; there is good oar, within three miles of the forge. Also to be sold at same time, a good new grist-mill, and saw-mill, , adjoining the above forge. Also a very good new house, with four rooms upon a floor, with a fire place in each, a good orchard &c. A good New Barn, also one hundred and twenty acres of exceeding good meadow Land, about forty acres of it cleared, and fit for the schythe. The above premises are all together, and within a Quarter of a mile of Rocaway meeting-house, the situation very convenient for any publick Business, as the Hibernia furnace is with- in four miles; the said forge may with ease be made a refinery.
DAVID BEEMAN
-The New York Mercury, No. 800, March 2, 1767.
To BE SOLD, by the SUBSCRIBER,
A Good Plantation containing 350 Acres of Land, sit- uate in Perquanock, in Morris County, East New-Jersey, by Rockaway-River, in a public Road, about 4 Miles be- low Hibernia Furnace; (where there is a good Market for all Country Produce) well situated for a Tavern, and Store, with about 100 Acres of Plough Land cleared, and more may be cleared, with a good Log-House, Stone and Lime Stone provided for a Stone House, a fram'd Barn
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and Barracks, a Tan-Yard; and also a young bearing Orchard, and about Twenty-five Acres of cleared Meadow, which affords between 45 and 50 Loads of Hay in a Year, and as much more may be made, all in good Fence, the whole well timbered and watered: Any Per- son inclining to Buy, may apply to the Subscriber on the Premises.
ADAM MILLER.
N. B. There is also, about Twenty-five Acres of Wheat and Rye in the Ground, may be purchased with the Prem- ises; and also a sufficient Quantity of Shingles and Boards to build a House, and also Twelve Head of Cat- tle.
To BE SOLD,
At public vendue, at the house of Johannes Dedrix, Tavern-keeper, in the town-ship of Bergen, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, on the 21st day of April next.
Two lots of 22 acres each; situate in the said town- ship; the cne exceeding good wood-land, within one mile of Weehock landing, the other fine meadow ground, and joining Capt. Brown's ferry, on the Hackinsock creek. Any person inclining to purchase the same, at private sale, before the 21st of April, may apply to John Debow, in Stone-street, New-York, who will agree on reasonable terms, and give an indisputable title.
JOHN DEBOW
-The New York Journal or General Advertiser, No. 1261, March 5, 1767.
NOTICE is hereby given, that there is a plantation to be sold, lying and being in Maidenhead,1 on the post road, three miles from Trenton, in West-Jersey, containing 120 acres of land, 20 acres whereof is good meadow, lying on
1 Now Lawrenceville.
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Shabicunk Creek, 70 acres of cleared land, 30 acres of wood land, well timbered, having thereon a good dwell- ing-house, barn and stable, with a good orchard, and a good well at the door; this plantation is well watered, and lies very pleasantly on the aforesaid road, and might be a pleasant seat for a gentleman. Whoever inclines to pur- chase the said estate, may treat with the owner, on the said place.
JOHN EVERAT.
ARRIVALS
At Barbadoes. Morgan from Salem.
At Antigua. Captain Provost from Perth-Amboy.
At Jamaica. Captain Williams from Salem.
At South Carolina. Archer from Salem.
To be SOLD or LETT,
A PLANTATION, situate in Waterford township, Glou- cester County, and province of New-Jersey, adjoining the river Delaware, five miles from Philadelphia, containing 140 acres of land, about 8 acres of meadow, and 16 more may be made, a good bearing orchard, a stone dwelling- house and kitchen, a well of water at the door, a frame raised for a barn, and a log stable. Any person inclining to purchase the above plantation, may have time given for payment of the money, with giving security, and pay- ing interest; and whoever inclines to rent or purchase, may apply to JACOB BURROUGHS, HENRY WOODROW, or DAVIS BASSETT, in Philadelphia, and know the terms.
WHEREAS John Worlow, of Gloucester County, has obtained of William Wattson, Flatman, a bond of Fifteen Pounds, and a note of Three Pounds One Shilling, for flat: This is to forewarn all persons not to take an as- signment on either bond or note, as I will pay neither of them.
WILLIAM WATTSON.
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The Subscriber hereof forewarns all Persons whatso- ever, from taking an Assignment of a Bond, bearing Date the first Day of August, in the Year of our Lord, 1753, in the Penalty of Sixty Pounds Money of West-Jersey, conditioned to pay the Sum of Thirty Pounds; which Bond was given by him to JAMES JAGARD, of the County of Gloucester, in New-Jersey, he being determined not to pay the same, unless compelled by Law.
WILLIAM LENARD.
To be SOLD by the Subscriber, living on Timber Creek, Gloucester Township, Gloucester County, 100 Acres of very good Land, or more, very well timbered, and extra- ordinary well watered, one Mile and a Half from a very good Landing, a Mile from a good Grist and Saw-mill. The Land joins Jacob Matlock's, and is the Property of JOHN HUNSINGER, living near the Place. Any Person inclining to purchase, for further Particulars, may en- quire of said JOHN HUNSINGER, near Captain JOHN HIDER's, on Timber Creek .- The Pennsylvania Gazette, .No. 1993, March 5, 1767.
To be LETT,
In ELIZABETH-TOWN,
T HE House and Lot in Possession of JOHN GILL, Esq; remarkable for the Pleasantness of its Situa- tion. The House and Lot adjoining Mr. GILL's, in Pos- session of WILLIAM GREY, and the Pasture Lot in Pos- session of Mr. THOMAS. For further Particulars enquire of Mr. SAMUEL WOODRUFF, jun. in Elizabeth-Town, or Mr. WILLIAM KELLY, in New-York, who has for Sale, a Parcel of Fine FRENCH INDIGO.
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To be SOLD at publick Vendue, on Wednesday the 8th of April, or at private sale any time before;
T HE noted farm at Springfield, near Elizabeth-Town, whereon David Ball now lives: It contains about 160 acres, great part of which is excellent meadow; There is a good house, barn and orchard, on the prem- ises, with as good a saw-mill as any in America, that sel- dom or ever wants water; and as the said farm has been advertised several times before, a farther description at present is thought needless. Whoever inclines to pur- chase the same at private sale, may agree on reasonable terms, by applying to Doctor Jonathan Dayton, or Thomas Ball .- The New York Mercury, No. 801, March 9, 1767.
New-York, March 12. Publicola's Reply to Mr. Baldwin's Piece came to Hand too late for this Week's Paper, and as the Writer mentions his having wrote in haste, if he will let the Printer know how to direct a Let- ter that may get to his Hand, a Passage would be pointed out to him, that it is supposed he would choose to alter before it goes to the Press.
To be sold by the subscriber, on reasonable Terms.
A Plantation, lying on the great Road from Bound- Brook to Baskin-Ridge, and about 2 Miles from Bound- Brook, containing, besides the usual Allowance for high Ways, 103 Acres of Land, whereon is a good Logg- House, a living Spring at the Door, and about 30 Acres of cleared Land: Whoever inclines to purchase the said Place, may apply to CORNELIUS BOGART, on Rariton, in the Township of Bridgewater: who will give an indis- putable Title for the same.
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To be Sold at public vendue, on Tuesday the 31st in- stant, March, (or at any time before at private sale) a valuable farm, containing about 320 acres of land, situ- ate in the Township of Amwell, in the county of Hun- terdon, West-New-Jersey, about 200 acres thereof cleared, and in good fence, the remainder well timbered; it is good kind land for wheat, a sufficient quantity of meadow cleared, and in clover, timothy and spear grass, and more might be made, great part of which might read- ily be watered with little expence, on said premises is pleasantly situated a good brick house, genteely finished, two stories high, 48 feet long, and 33 feet wide, cellars under the whole, four rooms on a floor, a fire place in each, with a large entry, and the same above, a good brick kitchen and store room adjoining, with a well of constant good water by the door; a new brick shop, a few rods from the house, with a counting-room, cellar, &c. a large frame barn, covered with cedar shingles, barracks, cow- house, &c. mostly new, and in good repair; several good bearing orchards, consisting of a large collection of the best grafted fruit; a stone grist mill laid in lime and sand, 50 feet long, and 40 feet wide, with two pair of stones, in good order, boults, hoists, &c. by water; it stands on the south-branch of Rariton-River, a never failing stream of water, in the centre of a beautiful wheat country, where any quantity might be bought reasonably; it is 25 miles from Trenton, and the same distance from Brunswick, 12 miles from Delaware River, which is navigable great part of the year to Philadelphia, it being conveniently situated for New-York or Philadelphia markets, and a good place for trade, there having been a store kept for a number of years past; there is near the mill several con- venient buildings for a miller, cooper, &c. The mill will be sold separate from the farm, if required, with a suffi-
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ciency of meadow, pasture, timber land, &c. to accommo- date it, as might suit the purchaser. At the same time will be sold with the above farm, a lot of wood land, con- taining between 60 and 70 acres, well timbered, about 3 quarters of a mile distant, with good level ground for a road to the same.
It is expected the purchaser will pay one-third of the purchase money on the executing of the deed, one-third a year after, and the remaining third at two years, or might have any reasonable time to make the two last pay- ments, paying interest, and giving security if required. If it should suit the purchaser, they can have the stock on the farm at a very reasonable price, consisting of horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, and all sorts of farmer's uten- sils, &c. also about 60 acres of green wheat and rye in the ground. An indisputable title will be given for the prem- ises, by me.
GEORGE READING
To BE SOLD
A Plantation within the Bounds of Middletown, in East New-Jersey, containing two or three Hundred Acres, more or less, as may best suit the Purchaser, lying within one Mile and a half of Middletown Point, within 2 Mile of a Grist-Mill, and half a Mile of a Saw-Mill; also about two Miles from Singerora-Bay, where is great plenty ot Fish, Oysters, and Clams; there is on the Land, a good Dwelling-House and Orchard, about sixty Acres of Up- land and Meadow cleared, all in good Fence; on the Wood-Land is good Timber for sawing, together with fencing Timber, and Cord Wood: The Tract is bounded Southerly and Northerly by two clear Brooks, and West- erly by Lands of James Kearny: Whoever inclines to purchase may apply to said JAMES KEARNEY, near the Premises, who will give an indisputable Title for the same.
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[1767 -The New York Journal or General Advertiser, No. 1262, March 12, 1767.
STOLEN out of the stable of PHILIP ANTHONY, in Leb- anon, near the Old Union Furnace, in the Jerseys, on the 16th of January last, a strawberry roan horse, with a blaze in his face, branded P A on the near thigh, betwixt 4 and 5 years old, 14 hands high, a natural pacer, and paces very fast. Whoever takes up said horse, and brings him to the owner, shall have Four Dollars reward; and if horse and thief Three Pounds, and reasonable charges, paid by PHILIP ANTHONY
PHILADELPHIA, March 12. We are informed, by one of our Pilots from Cape May, that last Monday se'nnight, a Brig from Sea got into the Road, but a very hard North- Wester coming on, it was imagined she parted her Cables, as the next Morning, she was seen lying to, under Cape May, and afterwards drove away to the Southward.
On the Fourth Instant, at Night, Peter Dalbo, and an- other Man, in a Wood Flat, with an antient Woman, of the Name of Kerr, as Passenger, set off for Philadelphia from Raccoon Creek; but the Wind blowing very hard, they put back again into the Creek, when the Stern of the Vessel touching the Ground, she swang round, filled and sunk; by which Dalbo and the Woman were drowned; but the other Man was saved by sticking to the Shrouds, till some People came to his Assistance. The Woman was found in the Cabbin; the Man on the Shore, near the Vessel.
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