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sloop overset, 502.
sprung mizzen mast, 436.
stage wagon upset, 504. struck by lightning, 381.
struck dead by lightning, 402, 408.
two horses struck dead by lightning, 398.
Accomac county, Va., 222.
Achquegkenah, 345.
Acts of the General Assembly -. for the relief of insolvent debtors, 11. 13, 16. 19, 21, 27, 30, 39, 57, 58, 61, 67, 71, 83, 86, 97, 100, 101, 105, 112, 114, 115, 120, 140, 142, 143, 148, 149; to prevent extor-
tion, by
ascertaining the
rents of houses, prices of provision, lumber, and oth- er commodities for a lim- ited time, 149; appointing
commissioners for supplying the several barracks erected in this colony with furniture and other necessaries, 161; empowering the Justices and Freeholders of the county of Burlington to pur- chase a lot of ground, to build a new gaol and other necessary buildings thereon, 161; explaining the right of voting at town meeting, and the elections of township officers, 161; for building a court house and gaol in the county of Middlesex, 161; remonstrance against, 178; for building and maintaining
a
bridge over the north
branch of Great Timber creek, in the county of Gloucester, at Abraham
Roe's landing, 161; for lay- ing out and establishing a road from Bergen Pointalong up Newark Bay, and from thence to Paulus Hook on Hudson's river, 161; for the support of government of his Majesty's Colony of New Jersey, to discharge the public debts and contingent charges thereof, 161; pre- venting the counterfeiting of bills of credit, or uttering the same knowing them to be so counterfeited, 161; to amend and further continue an act entitled An act for the better settling and reg- ulating the militia of this Colony of New-Jersey, for the repelling invasions and suppressing insurrections and rebellions, 161; to repeal an act entitled An act for the relief of insolvent debtors, 161; supplementary to an act entitled An act for lay- ing out a road from Newark, in the county of Essex, to the public road leading from Bergen Point to Paulus Hook, on Hudson's river, in the county of Bergen, and for erecting and establishing ferries across the rivers Passaic and Hackensack, 162; for the improvement of the navigation of the south-
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west branch of Ancocas creek, 162; to empower the
Justices and Freeholders of
the counties of Essex and Bergen to build a bridge over Passaic river, near the Dutch church, at Acquack- anock, 162; to extend cer- tain acts of Parliament of Great Britain, for the pre-
serving all such ships and goods thereof which shall happen to be forced on shore or stranded, 162; to lay out a road on the south- erly side of Cohansey creek. in the county of Cumber- land, and to establish a ferry across the said creek,
from the town of Greenwich
to the said road, 162; to
prohibit the setting of nets, seines and other devices to obstruct fish from going up in the proper seasons of the year, 162; to repair the pub- lic roads in the township of
Hanover, in the county of
Morris, by a tax on the in-
habitants of the same, 162; to enable the owners and possessors of the meadows and marshes bounding on Delaware
Long Point and Kilk's
river, between
Hook, in Lower Penn's
Neck, in the county
Salem, to stop out the tide from overflowing the same. 163; to enable the owners and possessors of a certain body of meadow and marsh,
lying on the westerly side
of Raccoon creek, to keep up and maintain the banks and other water works around the same, and to constitute all ten foot ditch-
es thereon lawful fences,
163; to enable the owners and possessors of the marsh and swamp lying on the south branch of Stow creek to maintain the bank, dam and other water works across the said creek, to prevent the tide from over- flowing the same. 163; to naturalize Jacob Hertel and John Jacob Faish, 163; ap- pointing commissioners to run out straight public roads through the Province of New Jersey, between New York and Philadelphia, and empowering them to raise a sum of money by a public lottery, 256; to ap- point commissioners to make a division and subdivision of the common land belonging to the township and precinct of Bergen, 302; for dis- charging the arrearages due to barrack masters, and for supplying the King's troops
quartered in the colony with necessaries, 398, 399, 405; for investing a fee in the toll bridge lately erected over Newtown creek, in William Gerrard, his heirs and assigns, and to em- power the said William Ger- rard to build a house within
the bounds of the road, for the more convenient receiv- ing the toll of said bridge, 407; for laying a duty on the purchasers of slaves im- ported into this colony, 407; for the support of govern- ment of the Colony of New Jersey, and to discharge the public debts and contingent charges thereof, 407; to appoint commissioners for supplying the several bar- racks erected in New Jersey with furniture, etc., for ac- commodating the King's
troops in or marching through the same, for sup- plying deficiencies, etc., 407; to empower the inhabitants of the townships of Green- wich, Deptford and Wool- wich. in the county of Glou- cester, to repair their pub- lic highways by hire, and raise money for that .pur- pose, 407; to divide the town of Shrewsbury and an- nex parts thereof to the towns of Freehold and Up- per-Freehold, 407; to pre- vent the pasturing the Eliz- abeth-Town great meadows in common, 407; to restrain the bringing certioraries, and to alter the mode of deter- mining appeals in small causes, 407; for barring the estate tail in certain lands and tenements in the Prov- ince of New-Jersey, lately belonging to Anthony Sharp, the elder, deceased, and also forvesting the same in Isaac Sharp and Joseph Sharp, his grandsons, their heirs and assigns, pursuant to an agreement made with the tenant in tail. 408; for the relief of James Brooks, Esq., late sheriff of Middlesex, with respect to certain es- capes, 408; to revive an act entitled An act to prevent waste from being committed upon the common land al- lotted to the patent of Sea- caucus, in the corporation of Bergen, 408.
Adams, Alexander, servant run away from, 166.
President, appointed . Oliver Ellsworth Envoy Extraordi- nary to France, 222.
William, lands of, 57.
Addresses of thanks presented on
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the repeal of the Stamp Act, 249.
Air furnace for the purpose of running iron ore into pig metal or castings, 254. Albany, 147, 344.
county of, land to let in the, 276.
dock, robbery at, 442.
Alberson, Captain R., 50.
Aldbridge, David, land for sale by, 108.
Alden, Rev. Timothy, "A Collec- tion of American Epitaphs," by, 473.
Alexander, S. W., "Princeton in the Eighteenth Century," by, 469.
Allen, Captain, sailed for Belfast, 25.
Isaac, assignment to, 15.
John, debt contracted by, 3.
Mr., horses belonging to, death of, 451.
Rebeccah, land for sale by, 41. William, land for sale by, 249. Allen's Town, Allentown, 20, 245, 246, 469; land for sale near, 321; land for sale, lying on the great road leading from Trenton to, 321.
Allinson, David, 6.
Elizabeth, 6.
James, 6.
Margaret, 6. Mary, 6. Samuel, Surrogate of New Jersey, 6; accused of exact- ing extortionate fees, 6; ap- plied to by Hugh Doran to collect a sum of money, 4; attorney and counsellor at law, 6; deeds and convey- ances left in the hands of, 6. Sibyl, 6. William, 6.
Allison, Rev. Francis, D. D., Rob- ert Mckean studied for the ministry under, 472.
Richard, land of, for sale, 187. Alloway's creek, 149, 367, 375, 409, 411.
precinct, 412. township of, 342, 357.
Allstine. Johannes, executor. 294; land for sale by, 294, 340. Amboy. 38, 60, 179, 182, 258. 329, 388, 436, 440; custom house at. 45; collector of his maj- esty's customs at, 49 ; bridges and mill dams carried away by rainfall. 159; land near, for sale, 177; 28th regiment embarks at, 422; regiments at, 423; Col. Sir John St. Clair at, 424; commanding officer at, application to, 425; part of regiment quartered at, 425; arrival of two com- panies of Elizabeth-Town from, 434; arrival at, 439; road. 245, 450; sloop belong- ing to, overset, 502.
America, 52, 121, 145, 230, 236, 352, 380, 390, 422, 448, 468, 472;
agriculture of, 122; friends to. 122; friends of, in Great Britain, 144; friends in Ire- land, 144; sturgeon cured in, 147; College of New Jersey in, 363; merchants trading to, 381; propriety of taxing, 382; people of, 384; Rev. Doctor Witherspoon to em- bark for, 386; paper cur- rency in, 390, 404; distur- bances in, 392; government of. 392; independence of, 414; largest hog ever raised in, 504.
"Americanus," ran in consort with George Grenville's "Stamp Act," 313.
American bishops, plan of ap- pointing, 473.
American clergy, 347.
American lawyers, 244.
American Stamp-Act, repeal of, 227.
Amwell, 64, 139, 174, 286, 327, 359,
370; land in, for sale, 15, 105, 170, 175, 327.
township of, 131, 387; horse stolen in, 354; land in, for sale, 47, 106, 201, 215, 308, 436.
Anacreon, a translation of the third ode of, 496, 497.
Ancocus Brook, land for sale at, 239.
Anderson, James, insolvent debt- or, 21; confined in Sussex county goal, 67.
James, attorney at law, sketch of, 261; notice to persons indebted to the estate of, 261.
John, administrator, 261.
John, Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the county of Monmouth, 16, 60. 61, 74, 86, 100.
John, land for sale by, 324. Kenneth, administrator, 261.
Matthew, insolvent debtor, 12, 301.
Andover Furnace, 243; land for sale near, 286.
Andrew, Joseph, condemned for murder, 262.
Andrews, Isaac, land for sale bounded by land of, 374; in- tends to present a petition to the House of General As- sembly of the Province of New Jersey for a law to oblige the owners and pos- sessors of the meadow and swamp lying on Ramboe's Run to contribute their pro- portionable share in repair- ing and maintaining a dam, banks, etc., 325.
John, notice given by, 332; sloop's long boat taken up by. 463.
Anen, Anin, Annin, James, hanged for murdering two Indian women. 160. 165, 183-5. Ann. sloop, 89.
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Anthony, Philip, horse stolen out of the stable of, 310.
Antigua, stamps forced upon the inhabitants of, 11; govern- ment of, 41; sloop from, 79; sloop John and Jane from, 90; arrivals at, 305.
Antill, Edward, 473; daughter of, 473; Rev. Mr. Mckean de- parted this life at the resi- dence of his father-in-law, 472. Isabel Graham, wife of Robert Mckean, 473.
Antrum, John, conveyance from, 5.
Aquacanack, Aquakanack, land for sale situate in, 366; gold watch found near, 397.
Arbour, Joseph, insolvent debtor, 27.
Archer, arrived at South Carolina from Salem, 305.
Benjamin, land for sale now in the tenure of, 353.
Armagh, county of, Ireland, 12. Armstrong George, mulatto run away from, 267.
Arnwine, Jacob, fulling mill of, for sale, 174; land of, for sale, 174.
Asheron, John, 233.
Asheton, Ralph, Dr., land for sale by, 130.
John, estate of, 61, 100; in- solvent debtor, petition of, 60, 100.
Ashton, Edward, runaway bail, 186.
Ash-Swamp, 61.
Assembly of New Jersey, petition to be presented to, for an act to be passed for draining the meadows on Caesarea river, 455; petition to, for straightening the Passaic river, 43; addresses of, to Governor Franklin, 158, 404; acts passed by, in 1766, 161; in 1767, 407; Governor Frank- lin's conduct toward, in ref- erence to the Stamp Act, 207; petition to, to make part of Delaware river a lawful fence, 131,
Astin, John, insolvent debtor, 301. Athawes, Mr., a London merchant, 40.
Atkinson, John, title page of book published by, entitled "The Hermit," etc., 515.
Philip, 2 .. Samuel, land for sale formerly surveyed to, 312.
"Aurelius, Marcus," article by, 385.
Avery, Waightstill, delivers Latin oration on late President Finley, 218; graduates from Princeton College, 219.
Axtell, Mr., land for sale formerly of, 268.
Axtill, William, assignee, land for sale by, 102. Ayres, Colonel, 77. Obadiah, to receive subscrip- tions for a new book, 455.
B
Back Marsh, Alloway's Creek township, petition for main- taining a certain bank along the, 367.
Bacon, Jeremiah, one of the own- ers of the meadows on Stoe Creek, 68.
Badger, Rev. Moses, missionary in the Province of New- Hampshire, arrival of, 456. Bain, Robert, 358.
Baker, Jeremiah, fish for sale by, 148. John, 359. William, negro purchased from, 54.
Balch, Hezekiah, 219; degree of Bachelor of Arts conferred upon, 219; conceived plan of Greenville College, 220. Hezekiah James, degree of Bachelor of Arts conferred upon, 220.
Baldwin, Jonathan, steward of Princeton College, strictures on a piece signed "Publi- cola," by, 291; "Publicola's" reply to, 285, 307.
Balis, Daniel, 433.
Ball, David, land for sale on which he lives, 307. Thomas, land for sale by, 307. Ballston, New York, 470.
Baltick manner, sturgeon cured in, 226.
Baltimore county, Md., 4.
Baltimore, Sons of Liberty of, 77. Nathaniel Ramsay practiced law in, 469.
Bank meeting house, Philadelphia, 28.
Banks, James, land for sale at the house of, 335; horses for Newark races to be entered with, 397.
Baptists, nineteen places of wor- ship of the, in New Jersey, 317.
Baptist church at Piscataway, 224. Baptist meeting house in Phila- delphia, land for sale nearly opposite the, 376.
Baptist school at Hopewell, the first in America for the edu- cation of young men for the Baptist ministry, 223.
Barbados, Barbadoes, 149, 483; ar- rivals at, 305, 394, 436; stamps forced upon the in- habitants of, 11; Bowdich arrived at, 357; arrival of Edgar at, 475: arrival of ship London Packet from, 493, 497; arrival of Captain Cook from, 497.
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Barber. Colonel Francis, sketch of, 469.
Eliada, executor, land for sale by, 201.
John, executor, land for sale by, 201.
John W., "Historical Collec- tions of the State of New Jersey," by, 473.
Samuel, deceased, land of, for sale, 201.
Barberie, John, land for sale by. 282, 329.
Barbrie, John, property taken in execution at the suit of, for sale, 175.
Barclay, Mr., a London merchant, 40.
Bard, Peter, 254; conveyance to, 5. Barker, Peter, taylor, runaway apprentice, 488.
Barnagat, Barnegat, 62; schooner ashore at. 40.
Barnhill, John, 125; flying ma- chine of, 125, 342, 428; stage waggon of, 25, 26.
Barnes, John, Sheriff of Hunter- don county, superseded, 221. Lambert, creditors to meet at the house of, 79, 83, 137; land for sale by, 130.
Thomas, land for sale by, 462. Barnet, William, conveyance from, 5.
Barracks, Perth Amboy, 478.
Barre, Colonel, 122.
Barrocloue, Daniel, horse stolen from, 466.
Bartlet, Captain W., 145.
Basking-Ridge, Baskinridge, 455; meeting-house road, land for sale near the, 350; meeting house, land for sale near, 377; land for sale lying on the, 307.
Basset, David, assignee, land for sale by, 399.
William, servant ran away from, 337.
Bassett. Davis, land for sale by, 305.
Basseterre, West Indies, 299.
Bates, Elizabeth, 81.
Thomas, fell from his horse, 252.
Battery, Philadelphia, 133.
Baum, Bartholomew, runaway miner, 129, 134; in custody, 160.
Baynton, - ship consigned to, 80.
Bayard. Mr., claim of, 379; letter communicated to the Society for Promoting Arts, &c., by, 58.
William, commissioner to the Stamp Act Congress, 103. William, farm to let by, 268; land for sale by, 204, 279. Beach, Rev. Mr., missionary for New Brunswick, arrival of, at Boston, 456. Bearcroft, Rev. Dr. Peter, letter written to, 472.
Beatie, Isaac, runaway servant, 281.
Beaumont, John, conveyance from, 5. Beaver-dam brook, land for sale. situate on, 217.
Beaver-dam creek, land on, for sale, 48. Beaver Run, bridge on, 248.
Beaver, sloop of war, arrived at Sandy Hook, 479.
Beck, John, alleged thief, 151.
Bedminster, township of, land for sale in, 268.
Beears, Benjamin, insolvent debt- or, 301. Beekman, Gerardus, 30. John, 30.
Beeman, David, forge for sale by, 303.
Beesley, Joseph, escaped custody, 155. Beesly, Morris, 367. Begwell, John, 233.
Belcher, Governor, site of his for- mer residence at Burlington for sale, 67.
Belfast, Ireland, 277; sailed for, 25. Bellangee, Evi, land for sale by, 461. Bellows, Barnet, land for sale ad- joining the lands of, 327.
Ben, runaway negro. 195. Benedict, Md., 77.
"Benevolus," article by, 384.
Benezet, Anthony, letter by, 298. Bennet, Adrian, judgment against goods and chattels of, 23. Captain, 370. James, land for sale by, 258. Bennit, Abraham, 276.
Benny, Thomas, 81. Bergen, 325; common lands of, 302, 379; in dispute, 379.
county, 195, 239, 345; land for sale in, 203, 278; courts, holding of, 401; attestation of the Coroner of, 457.
township, 267, 304.
Bergen Point ferry to let, 325; for sale, 325.
Berks county, Pa., 253.
Bernard, Governor, proclamation issued by. 262. Mr., a London merchant, 40. Bernard's Town, 350.
Berrien John, lottery commission- er, 257; letter from, com- municated to the Society for Promoting Arts. &c., 58.
Hon. John, third Justice of the Supreme Court of the Province of New Jersey, 14, 15; orders of, 58, 83, 97, 100. Beswick, Aaron, conveyance from, 5. Bettering-house, Philadelphia, house to let near the, 493.
Bevers, Robert, 475.
Bicker, Henry, hatter, 229; house of entertainment opened by, 228. 229.
Biddle. James, land for sale by. 284.
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Joseph, 2. William, jun., conveyance from, 5. William, and wife, conveyance from, 5. Biles, Samuel, assignee, land for sale by, 513.
Bill, runaway negro, 99, 141. Bills of credit as legal tender, ob- jections to, 380.
Biographical and Genealogical Notes: Allinson, Samuel, 6.
Anderson, John, 261.
Avery, Waightstill, 219.
Barber, Francis, 469.
Balch, Hezekiah, 219.
Balch, Hezekiah James, 220.
Benezet, Anthony, 296.
Campbell, Rev. Colin, 188.
Cowell family, of Trenton, 220.
Devens, Richard, 469.
Edmiston, Samuel, 221.
Ellsworth, Oliver, 221.
Evans, Rev. Nathaniel, 121, 482.
Faesch, John Jacob, 163.
Goddard William, 361, 363.
Hasbrouck, Joseph, 222.
Hasenclever, Peter, 135.
Howell, David, 222.
Jones, Daniel, 223.
Kennedy, Samuel, 350.
Lewis, Josiah, 222.
Livingston, Peter Van Brugh, 222.
Martin, Luther, 222.
MacPherson, John, 222.
McCalla, Daniel, 222.
Mckean, Rev. Robert, 472.
Niles, Nathaniel, 223.
Power, James, 223.
Ramsay, Nathaniel, 469.
Schenck, Hendrick, 352.
Schenck, William, 469.
Skillman, Isaac, 223.
Smith, Samuel, 223.
Smith, William, 223.
Spencer, George, 347.
Spring, Alpheus. 223.
Stockton, Samuel Witham, 470. Stelle, Benjamin, 224.
Samuel, William, 470.
Thomson, William, 112.
Townsend, Micah, 224. Vance, Hugh, 470. Van Cleaf, John, 470.
Wilson, Peter, 348. Woodhull, John, 224. Woodman, Joseph, 224.
Bioren, John, printer, book print- ed by, 515.
Birker, Henry, horses to be en- tered with, for New Bruns- wick races, 210.
Bishop, Thomas, land for sale near Great Timber creek, in the tenure of, 396.
Blackham, Richard, land to let by, 500.
Blackler, Captain, arrival of, 436. Blackman, Andrew, land for sale near cedar swamp of, 200. Black Point, tavern at, 21.
Black River, 1. Blacksmith, 253, 353.
Blackwood, Hugh, servant ran away from, 413. Samuel, assignee, land for sale by, 513.
Samuel, Sheriff, 247; land for sale by, 209, 234, 276, 375, 396, 417, 418, 465.
Blair, Rev. John, John Woodhull studied theology with, 224; Professor of Divinity and Moral Philosophy, 470. Rev. Dr. Samuel, 221; President and Professor of Rhetoric and Metaphysics, 470; de- clines Presidency of the Col- lege of New Jersey, 506.
Blazing Star, tavern, 342. Blockley, Penn., 249.
Bloomfield. Moses, Secretary, no- tice of the meeting of the members of the New Jersey Medical Society given by, 471.
Blue-Point, sloop from, sprung a leak, 278.
Boat for sale, 358; one-half of, 338.
Bolton and Sigell, assignees of the estate of William Clawson to meet at the house of, 440.
Bombay Hook, 446.
Bond, Elijah, negro ran away from, 21.
Bond's fishery, removal of Edward Broadfield to, 459.
Bonnell, Samuel, blacksmith, de- ceased, 353: notice to cred- itors of, 353: land for sale in pursuance of the last will and testament of, 353.
Sarah, 354; executrix, land for sale by, 353. Thomas, 354; executor, 353. Books printed, 6, 190, 260, 282, 311, 385, 399, 454, 490, 492, 503, 506, 515.
Borden, James, land for sale by, 55.
Joseph, plantation of, in Piles- grove, for sale, 55; member of the Stamp Act Congress, 103; Hugh Newell in care of, 277; subscriptions for the Pennsylvania Chronicle re- ceived by, 428.
Richard, conveyance to, 5; ser- vant ran away from, 499. Bordentown, 202, 257, 277, 334, 359. 428; house in, for sale, 188; land for sale near, 66, 240, 321; land for sale at, 241; road, 257.
Born, Anthony, runaway servant, 318. Robert, taylor, 318.
Boston, 39, 78, 384, 386, 428, 456, 470, 490; schooner Phoenix from, 90: Second Baptist church in, 223.
Boulby, Thomas, part of the sur- vey made to, for sale, 312; land for sale adjoining the lands surveyed to, 437.
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Boultinghouse, John, estate of, 301.
Boulting mills, 15.
Bound Brook, 160, 229; land for sale near, 307, 350.
Bourns, Anthony, runaway ser- vant, 318. Robert, taylor, 318.
Bout creek, meadows adjoining the, 122.
Bowdich. - -, arrived at Bar- badoes from Salem, 357.
Bowlby, Bowlsby, John, 221. Samuel, 221.
Bowne, Anna, executrix, land for sale by, 164. Cornelius, pilot, 64.
Obadiah, deceased, land of, for sale, 164.
Safety, constable, man arrest- ed by, 292.
Boyd, Hugh, 276.
Boyde, Daniel, 233.
Boyle, John, land for sale by, 377. Solomon, mill of, land for sale near, 35.
Boys, Nathan, house of, broken open. 198.
Bracken, Henry, runaway servant challenged at the house of, 433. Braddock, defeat of, 503. Bradford, Messrs., essay to be printed by, 205; letter to, 360.
Mr., 116; letter to, 125.
W. and T., letters sent to, to be printed in their paper, 196.
William, subscriptions taken in by, 191, 400.
Bradford's supplement, 212. Braintree, Massachusetts, 223. Brandywine, buoy on the, 446; forks of, 56; lower buoy on the, 446; lower part of the, 445; negro men at the mill at, 310; rocks, 432; sloop up as far as, 498; upper part of the, 446.
Breeding, John, bail ran away from, 187.
Breese. Samuel, executor, negroes for sale by, 1.
Samuel, merchant, subscrip- tions taken in by, 190, 275, 400.
Brewer, Garrit, insolvent debtor, petition of, 142.
Samuel, goaler, 138.
Samuel, elected a representa- tive for the county of Som- erset, 433; election of, con- tradicted, 441.
Brewhouse for sale, 483. Briarley's line, 286.
Brick, John, Wood's Mill long time owned by, 352.
Joshua, 352.
Brick's Mills, land for sale for- merly of, 352.
Bricksborough, land sold at, 352. Bridge-Town, 149. Bridgetown, land for sale at, 487. Bridgewater, township of, 307.
Brigen, Mr., a London merchant, 40.
Briggs, David, part owner of the meadows on Stoe Creek, 68. Bright, George, insolvent debtor, 104.
James, flat overset belonging to, 494. Jeremiah, land lately of, for sale, 282.
Brinckerhoff and Co., Derick, forge for sale by, 297.
Brink, Jacobus, insolvent debtor, confined in Sussex county goal, 67.
Brinkerhoff, Col. James, 344. Bristol, 21, 77, 254, 362, 363; bor- ough of, land in, for sale, 41; snow Nancy left, 89; vessel Thomas and Waddel came to New York from, 284; arrival of the Ellen from, 463; ar- rival of Captain Lawrence at, 481; arrival of the snow Jersey from, 489.
British debts, 380. British Parliament, 403.
Broadfield, Edward, carrying on the manufacture of sturgeon, 146; fish for sale by, 148, 373; sturgeon cured by, 372; removal of, 459; orders an- swered by, 460.
Broadway, Warren county, 220.
Bromely, mills at, for sale, 101. Bromley, Mrs., 359.
Brook. Captain, arrival of, from London with letter, 77.
Brooks. Edward, land for sale by, 28.
James, Sheriff, land for sale by, 17, 18, 244; late Sheriff. land for sale by, 176, 185; property for sale by, 195; tavern for sale by, 176. Mary, eloped, 324. Peter, wife eloped from, 324. Brown, Abia, mulatto ran away from, 3; land for sale by, 321; grist mill for sale by, 444.
Captain, ferry of, land for sale near, 304.
George, goal-keeper, 193, 243, 416; runaways in the cus- tody of, 160. John, drowned, 90. John, land for sale by, 108. Messer, servant ran away from, 186. Moses, estate of, 100; insol- vent debtor, petition of, 100. Richard, 2; person wanted who understands the busi- ness of fulling and dyeing cloth, by, 272; fulling mill to let by, 443.
Richard, runa way servant, 395.
William, land for sale by, 313, 366; land, horses, servants and cattle for sale at the dwelling house of, 512; cred- itors of, meeting of, at the
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dwelling house of, 513; land for sale belonging to, 513. Brown's mills, 2. Brown University, 222, 224.
Bruderlein. Carl, runaway miner, 129, 134; in custody. 160. Brunswick, 59, 73, 76, 239, 345, 428, 467; land near, for sale, 70, 308; land lying on the road to, for sale, 177; arrival of two companies at Elizabeth- Town from, 434. landing, 169.
road, 294; land for sale on the, 339.
Bryan, Mary, runaway servant, 484.
William, land for sale by, 435. Bryant's, Alexander, runaway ap- prentice it is supposed will go to, 192.
Buchanan, Mr., a London mer- chant, 40.
Roberdeau, "Genealogy of the Mckean Family," by, 473.
Buck, John, escaped custody, 137. Bucks county, 41, 233, 251, 359; minister in, 345; part of forge in, for sale, 438.
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