Documents relating to the Colonial History of the state of New Jersey, Vol. XXV, Part 39

Author: New Jersey Historical Society; Nelson, William, 1847-1914
Publication date: 1903
Publisher: Paterson, N.J. : Call Printing and Publishing
Number of Pages: 600


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Ellen, The, transport ship, 463. Elmer, Theophilus, Sheriff of


Cumberland county, negro taken up by, 166; servant ran away from, 278; pris- oner escaped from, 466.


Ellis, Captain, 282.


Daniel, 123; land for sale by, 242; to receive contributions toward air furnace, 254; manager of highway lottery, 257; lottery tickets to be had of, 258; fire engine to be sold by, 317; trustee, land for sale by, 427; as- signee, land for sale by, 440. Ellis, ship, wrecked on Absecom beach, 45, 49, 50, 81, 119. Ellison, James, land for sale by, 66, 295.


Joseph, land for sale by, 66. Samuel, assignee, 287.


Ellsworth, Oliver, graduates from Princeton College, 220; ap- pointed Envoy Extraordi- nary to France, 222. Elopements. 124, 130, 133, 149, 264, 312, 324, 356, 429, 434. Elsenborough, 357.


Elton, Anthony, conveyance from, 5. Revell, conveyance to, 5.


Elves. Mrs. tavern keeper at Woodbridge, 38.


Ely, George, land for sale by, 202; property for sale taken in execution at the suit of, 226.


Ely Town, arrival of Captain Lawrence from, 481.


Emens, Benjamin, land for sale by, 332.


Emly, John, land for sale by, 329. England, 31. 79. 99, 121, 235, 238, 346, 347. 390, 414, 448; im- ported from, 52; book pub- lished in, 340; divine of the Church of, extracts from the works of, 409; 17th. 28th and 46th regiments embarked


on board transport destined for, 422; scheme similar to Sir Francis Blake Delaval's experiment executed in, 508. English church, Burlington, land for sale near, 92, 326.


English's creek landing, 66. English grass, 32. English meeting house, New Brunswick, land for sale


facing the, 293.


Ennall's ferry, Md., 272.


Episcopalians, twenty-one places of worship of the, in New Jersey, 317.


Erasmus Academy, Jamaica, L. I., 348. Erwin, John, 2.


Essex county, 16, 29, 43, 61, 112, 132, 142, 237, 324, 331, 358; inhabitants of, petition for straightening the Passaic river, 43; land for sale in, 329; courts, 61, 401.


Europe, 145, 337.


"Eusebius," article signed. sent to the printer of the Pennsyl- vania Chronicle, 317.


Evans, Agent Henry Francis, ships under the command of, 406. Rev. Nathaniel, death of, 475, 482; sketch of, 483. Samuel, absconded, 210.


Eve, Adam, land for sale now in the tenure of, 349. Everat, John, land for sale by, 305. Everson, Nicholas, executor, land for sale by, 29.


Everton, Nicholas, plantation of, 60; executor, land for sale by, 60.


Eves, Mary, executors of, con- veyance from, 5.


Evesham, 210; land in, for sale, 91, 420. township, 356; land in, for sale. 54, 55, 242.


Ewing, Walter, 356. Exchange, rise of, 380.


Exchange, New York, 455; meet- ing held at, 58; Freeman's New York Almanack printed and published at the, 503; A Companion for the Young People of North America, printed and published at the printing office opposite the, 506, 507.


F


Fagan, Daniel, runaway servant, 438.


Fagg's Manor, Pa., 221.


Fairfield, 381; lad struck by light- ning at, 381; oxen killed by lightning at, 381; township, land to be let in, 509.


Falls meeting house (Trenton), 300.


Farmat. Mr., race won by horse belonging to, 373.


Farmer, Brook, subscriptions for the Pennsylvania Chronicle


received by, 428.


Farming utensils for sale, 438. Farms to let. 267, 275, 457.


Farrel, Captain, 514. Fast Island, 367.


Fast, extraordinary. 449.


Fauquier county, Virginia, Heze- kiah Balch taught school in, 219. Fenimore, Joseph, assignee, land for sale by, 440.


Ferguson, David, notes given by, 164; servant belonging to,


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committed to workhouse of the city of Philadelphia, 173. Ferries :-


Bergen Point, 325. Captain Brown's, 304.


Christeen, 432.


Cooper's, 20, 85, 193, 376.


Cooper's, William, 234, 296, 322, 499.


Correal's, 170.


Coryell's, 202, 226, 354.


Horn's, 202.


Howell's, 15; land for near, 437.


Old, Philadelphia, 376.


sale Sprowles's, 328. Trenton, 130, 322.


Ferry for sale, 325.


Ferry to let, 325.


Ferry boat for sale, 150.


Ferry house for sale, 226.


Ferry house road, 257.


Field, Robert, Indian ran away from, 393; negro ran away from, 396.


Finley, Rev. Dr. Samuel, book by, 190, 274; pastor of Presby- terian church in Nottingham in Pennsylvania, 168; per- sonal estate of, for sale, 171; deceased, President of the College of New Jersey, 166. 167, 218, 219, 274, 386; John Witherspoon elected in the room of, 364; a Sermon on the Death of Mr. Davies, by, 388; funeral sermon preached by, 261; a select collection of practical dis- courses, on a variety of im- portant subjects, together with some pieces already published, by. 399; Latin oration on, 218.


Finn, Mrs. Elizabeth, widow, ne- gro sold to, ran away, 195. Finney, Letitia, 472.


Fire engine. with suction pipe, for sale, 317.


Fire insurance office, example set by the directors of the, 322. Firth. John. servant ran away from. 484.


William, runaway servant,


committed to Gloucester county goal, 172, 193.


Fish for sale, 148, 372, 373.


Fish, method to keep for two years in the hottest climate, 459.


Fisher, Charles, murdered, 81, 87. Hendrick, signs petition of Stamp Act Congress to Par- liament, 103; trustee of Queen's College, 345. Michael. 411.


Fitzhugh, Colonel William, servant belonging to, committed to goal. 172, 193.


Fitzrandolph, Joseph, executor. land for sale by, 411.


Flatman. 305.


Flax, 217.


Fleming. Samuel, land of, for sale, 105; property of, for sale,


106; land in the possession of, for sale, 174; tavern house in the possession of, for sale, 174; property late of, for sale, 175.


Flood, Francis, runaway servant man, 80.


Florida, 40. Flour of mustard for sale, 447.


Flower, Samuel, land for sale by, 233.


Flying machine, 125; kept at Philadelphia and at the Blazing Star, 342.


Footman, Richard, reported that ship Ellis was driven ashore on Absecomb Beach, 50.


Ford, Ebenezer, 87; house kept by, 87.


Grace, conveyance by, 261. Jacob, 359.


Jacob, jun., servant ran away from. 438; Sheriff, 227, 253. Samuel, conveyance by. 261.


Forges for sale, 232, 296, 303; part of, 438.


Forker, John, Irishman absconded from, 210.


Forman, Ezekiel, grist mill of, for sale, 54. Joseph, land for sale bounded by mill pond formerly of, 450.


Samuel, assignee, 69; servant ran away from, 434.


Stephen, land for sale by, 229; assignee, 385, 440.


Fornication, punishment of, in East Jersey, 298. Forster, James, 285.


Fort, body of Matthew Robeson taken up at the, 436.


Fort Edward, land to let near, 275, 276.


Fortescue, apprentice, drowned. 90.


Fortescue's Island, 446.


Foster, Jacob, servant run away from, 514.


William, married daughter of Dr. Blair, 221.


Foue, William, petition of, 27; creditors of, 27; insolvent debtor, confined in the goal of Trenton, 27; notice given to creditors of, 27.


Found-small bundle of paper, 81; gold watch, 397.


Fow, Catherine, eloped, 264. Matthias, yeoman, 264; wife of, eloped, 264. France, 515.


Francis, a hermit, living in thick wood for twelve years, 516. Francis, brig, drove ashore, 486. Franklin, Ohio. 470.


Franklin and Hall, notice to debt- ors of, 123.


Franklin, Benjamin, 122, 209, 211, 380; accused of proposing and promoting the Stamp Act, 206-209; ordination rec- ommended by, 347.


William, Captain General, Governor and Commander- in-Chief of the Province of


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New Jersey, 51, 94, 209; proclamation by, 50, 92; let- ter of, 208; answer of, 212; copy of a note from Hon. Charles Read to, 212; con- troversy with William Hicks, 361, 362, 363; General Gage sets out for house of, 482; address of the Assembly to, 157; visits Philadelphia, 369, 373; speech of, to the Leg- islature, 389; address by the Council to, 155, 402; answer to address by the Council of, 404; addresses of the Legislature to, 398; his re- ply, 399: ex-officio trustee of Queen's College, 345; let- ter of the Earl of Shelburne to. 382; address of the As- sembly to, 404.


Franklyn, Mr., a London mer- chant, 40.


Frazee, Jonathan, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Middlesex. order of, 113.


David, insolvent debtor, con- fined in Essex county goal, 61; assignment of the estate of, 61; creditors of, notice given to, 61; petition of, 112.


Frederick, black horse, 52.


Freehold, 22, 52, 69, 224, 302, 323, 359, 434, 450; court house at, land for sale near, 62; Mattisonia grammar school


in, 261, 415. township of, 71, 172.


Freeman, New York Almanack by, 503.


French, George, 20. Joseph, land for sale by, 74. Philip, 345.


French burr millstones for sale, 249.


French indigo for sale, 306.


Fresh Ponds, 297; land for sale lying at the, 258.


Fresh-Water, New York city, man thrown out of cart near the, 111. Friends' school in Burlington, 6. Friends' burying place at Mount- holly, body of Francis Furg- ler, the hermit, interred in, 515.


Fromstone, William, 35.


Fry, Thomas, servant ran away from, 171.


Fuetter, Emory, negro ran away from, 145.


Fuller. 151. 368.


Fullerton, James, runaway ser- vant, 489. Fulling mill, 10; for sale. 46, 174, 299, 319; to let, 443; cloth stolen out of. 151.


Furgler, Francis, the hermit, 515. Furman and Hunt, boats of, at Philadelphia, 3.


Furman, Jonathan, land for sale by, 286.


Moore, 3, 364; land for sale by, 46, 286, 333.


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Gabbit, Colonel, 16th Regiment under command of, 406.


Gach, Thomas, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Mid- dlesex county, 12; petition of insolvent debtors to, 68; order of, 71; creditors to meet at the house of, 71; application to, 114.


Gadson, Christopher. commission- er to Stamp Act Congress, 103.


Gage, General, with his aides-de- camp, sets out for New Jer- sey and Philadelphia. 474; sets out for Governor Frank- lin's. at Burlington, 482; attends funeral of Col. Sir John St. Clair, 503.


Gaine. Hugh, negro ran away from, 153; to receive sub- scriptions for a book, 455; article sent to, to be pub- lished, 467.


Gallahan, John, runaway servant, 56.


Gallahon, Cornelius, runaway mu- latto. 499.


Galloway, James (Joseph), 207.


Joseph. 212; an extract of a letter from, to Dr. Frank- lin, 211.


Gallows erected in Elizabethtown, for the first person taking out stamped paper, 36.


Gardiner, Captain, 90.


Gardner, Richard, Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of Sussex County, or- der of, 18.


Thomas, conveyance from, 5. Garret, Charles, broke goal, 368. Garrick, Samuel, 116.


Garrigues, Samuel, clerk, 120, 121, 127. Gass, Daniel, runaway servant of, 56.


Gedess, Prudence, repudiates note signed by her, 133.


Geisinger, Charles, runaway ser- vant, 409, 412. Gentleman's Magazine, 506.


George the Third, Sons of Liberty declare their loyalty to, 42, 63, 65, 108; celebration of birthday of, 144; address of thanks to, 227.


George's road, near Cranbury, land for sale lying on, 293, 294.


Georgia, 11, 40; settling of, 383; sloop sailed from, 516.


Germantown, Moravian boarding school at, 483. Germany. 233. 234.


Gerrard, William, act vesting fee in toll-bridge in. 408.


Gibbons. Thomas, D. D., poem by, 261; discourse on the death of Mr. Davies, together with


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an elegiac poem to the memory of Mr. Davies, by, 388.


Giles, Captain, 90. Rev. Mr., drowned, 90. Gill, John, house in the possession of, to let, 306.


Gillcrease,


James,


shoemaker,


runaway servant, 499.


Gilliland, William, merchant, 12.


Gilljohnson, John, land for sale by, 420.


Girl lost, 431.


Glasco, runaway negro, 250.


Glasgow, Scotland, 364.


Glasgow, runaway negro. 273.


Glasshouse in Alloway's creek precinct, 409; servants ran away from, 459, 479. Gloucester, 52, 121, 209, 234, 255,


276, 354, 360, 374, 388, 417, 418, 459, 499; town bounds of, 20; flat overset near, 50; sturgeon cured at, 372; drowned near, 428; congre- gation of, 483; land for sale situate near, 492.


county of, 20, 50, 54, 85, 107,


123, 135, 150, 153, 171, 173, 187, 192, 193, 198, 199, 200, 210, 215, 234, 247, 260, 283, 284, 286, 305, 306, 312, 325, 351, 353, 365, 371, 376, 388,


399, 411, 413, 414. 432, 447,


465, 512; land in, for sale. 199, 295, 431, 461, 491; land to let in the, 500: courts of, 91, 342, 351, 401.


road, 417: land for sale situ- ate on, 492.


township, 306, 491; land for sale situate in the, 199, 396. 480, 491.


Goddard, William, editor, 298, 361, 400, 409, 495. Godolphin, Lord, 52.


Godfrey, Edward, absconded, 366. runaway servant, 394.


Goetschius, Rev. J. H., minister at Hackensack, 345, 346; gram- mar school to be opened un- der the direction and inspec- tion of, 69.


Rev. M., minister at N. Palts, 344.


Goldsmith, Oliver, 121. 483.


Gold watch found, 397.


Goodhue, Captain, 422. Goodridge, Captain, 387.


Goods for sale, 133.


Goods stolen, 131.


Gordon, John, committed to Bur- lington goal, 201. Thomas, broke goal, 368.


Gosling, David, assignee of John Cowlay, 45.


Goslins, David, assignee of Pat- rick O'Hanlon, 45.


Gould, Alexander, servant ran away from, 245.


William, servant ran away from, 245. Gouverneur, Abraham, land for sale by, 204. Gowens, John, wrecked, 89.


Graeme, Dr. Thomas, land for sale by, 41.


Graham, Charles, letter to, 77. John, creditors of, 29; insol- vent debtor, confined in the common gaol of the borough of Elizabeth, 29; estate of, 30.


Grain, 171, 201, 217; destroyed by heavy rainfall, 159.


Grammar school, design to open one at Hackensack, 69; tui- tion and board for, 70.


Grandine, Samuel, 359.


Grant, Robert, land in the pos- session of, for sale, 226. Gravelly Run, Great Egg Harbour township, 200; road, 199.


Gray, Captain, West Jer- sey, 255.


Great Britain, 236, 344; the Par- liament of, 122, 382: fogs of, 414.


Great Egg Harbour, 215, brig Nancy drove ashore at, 40; land on a branch of, for sale, 199.


river, 389; land on, for sale, 199, 431, 461, 492.


township, 388 land in, for sale, 198, 199, 200, 247, 418, 461.


Great Oyster creek, land for sale bounded by, 318.


Great road, land on, for sale, 107, 492.


Great Timber creek, land for sale on, 296, 492; land for sale situate on the north branch of. 396; forks of, grove for sale situate in the, 480.


Great Tinicum, 209.


Green, Richard, land for sale near land surveyed to, 286, 438.


Greenman, Rev. Mr., 411.


Greenville College, plan of, con- ceived by Hezekiah Balch, 220. Greenwich, 24, 75, 267, 428, 495, forge, run away from, 462. township of, 48, 81, 192, 210, 286, 341; land for sale in, 104, 232, 283, 284, 438.


Greenwood, Mr., a London mer- chant, 40.


Grenades, The, stamps forced up- on the inhabitants of, 11; sloop sailed from, 240.


Grenville, George, concerned in projecting and forwarding the Stamp Act, 206.


Grey, William, 306. Griffing, William, 455.


Griffis, David, insolvent debtor, 301. Griggs, John, assignee, 45. Griggs Town, 23. Grigstown, farm and mill to be let at, 457. Grime, Margaret, 132. Robert, hatter, 132.


Grist mills, 1, 10. 15, 23, 306, 309, 319, 323, 352, 410. 421. 450; for sale, 21. 22, 23, 45, 47, 53, 58, 69, 92, 96, 105, 152,


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194, 216, 239, 279, 283, 299, 308, 320, 443; land for sale near a good, 480; to let, 58. Griswold, Joseph, land for sale by order of, 450.


Grubb, Mr., servant ran away from, 170.


Guest, Henry, article by, sent to Mr. Gaine to be published in his paper, 468.


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Hack, runaway negro, 389. Hackensack, land for sale near the town of, 278; land for sale in the town of, 369; pre- paratory schools at, 69, 292, 347, 348, 355; first meeting of trustees of Queen's Col- lege to be held at, 345; mur- ders at, 457, 459, 460; mur- derer burnt at, 477.


Hacket, Elizabeth, administrator, 243.


John, deceased, persons in- debted to the estate of, de- sired to make immediate payment, 243.


Richard, 475; servant ran away from, 385, 386.


Hacket's, country leading to, 188. Hackinsack creek, land for sale near, 304.


Hackinsack river, navigation on, stopped, 341; murder in house at, 459, 460.


Haddonfield, 183, 187, 354. 381, 475; remains of Rev. Nathaniel Evans. M. A., brought from. 475, 483.


Hagard, Ebenezer, subscriptions for book received by, 275. Haight, Captain, 411.


Haines, Ephraim, land for sale by, 465.


Hannah. land for sale by, 86. Job, land for sale by, 465.


Richard, conveyance from, 5. Haight. Mr., postmaster, subscrip- tions for the Pennsylvania Chronicle received by, 428. Haley, John, degree of Bachelor of Arts conferred upon, 218, 220.


Half-Moon, above Albany, 147. Halifax. Nova Scotia, 428; sloop of war Beaver arrives from, 479.


Hall and Sellers, printers, letter to, 505.


Hall, Clement, death of negro wo- man belonging to. 357. David, Smith's History of


New Jersey to be delivered by, 282, 311: letter to, 483. John, D. D., of Trenton, 220. Hallsey, Silas, tavern, grist mill and land for sale by. 152. Halsey, Silas, land for sale by, 96. Halsted. Benjamin, gold and sil- ver smith, 204. Matthias. gold and silver smith, 204. Halter. Martin, 409; servants ran away from, 413.


Hamilton, Alexander. 81; pre- pared for college under Francis Barber, 469.


Hamman, Jack, negro man, com-


mitted to Burlington goal, 505.


Hammers, etc., for sale, 204. Hampton, Capt. J., 240, 258. John, master, 502.


Jonathan, Judge of the Infer- ior Court of Common Pleas for the County of Essex, orders of, 16, 61, 112, 132, 142; petition presented to, 114; tavern to be let by, 75; land for sale by, 244. William, 215.


Hamton, William, plantation of, for sale, 69.


Hanbury, Mr., a London mer- chant, 40.


Hanby's creek, meadows adjoin- ing the, 122. Hancock, John, 278.


William, 57; intends making application to the General Assembly for an act for the more effectual keeping up, supporting and maintaining the tide banks, dams and sluices on the south side of Alloway's creek, 57.


Handcock, Sarah, 475.


Hanes, Jases, insolvent debtor, petition of, 100.


Hanged for murder and theft, 185. Hankinson. James, land for sale by, 311. Kenneth, land for sale by, 311. Peter, land for sale by. 255; notice to persons indebted to. 255.


Hann, Mark, insolvent debtor, 139. Hannaball, runaway negro, 145. Hannah, Indian woman, mur- dered. 183.


Hannaly, Richard, runaway ser- vant. 386.


Hanney, Alexander, 40.


Hanover, Morris county, 252, 435; land for sale at, 434.


Church road, 252.


county. Va., academy estab- lished in. 222.


township, Burlington county, 393.


Hanover-Square, London, 455.


Hansman, Christopher, servant ran away from, 173.


Harbour, Garret, runaway ser- vant, 434. Joseph, estate of, 301.


Hardenberg, Rev. Jacob Rutse, of Rariton, 345.


Hardy, John. broke goal, 368. Gov. Josiah, address to, 472. Harker, Ahimaaz, "A Companion for the Young People of North America." by. 506. Samuel, negro ran away from,


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413; negro in custody be- longing to, 419.


Harkies, Capt. John, 260.


Harriman, William, land for sale by, 96; tavern, grist mill and land for sale by, 152. Harriot packet, The, near Sandy Hook, 439; Peter Hassen- clever, passenger on, 439. Harris, Dr. Jacob, subscriptions for book received by, 455. John, wife eloped from, 312. Mary, eloped, 312.


Mr., a London merchant, 40. Nathaniel, junior, land for sale by, 472.


Harrison, Captain, 321.


Mr., a London merchant, 40.


Samuel, Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the County of Gloucester, 11; order of, 59.


Harry, runaway slave, 452; sus- pected murderer, 457.


Hart, Daniel, murdered by his negro, who also attacks his master's son, and then com- mits suicide, 474.


John, land for sale by, 284, 352; executor, 342, 358; mer- chant, 284, 352.


Nicholas, runaway servant, in custody, 419.


Hartshorne, Esek, 292. Hugh, tavern to let by, 21.


John, tavern to let by, 21, 28. Robert, 292, 431.


Hartford, Conn., 221. county, Md., 220.


Hasbrock. Col. Abraham, 344.


Hasbrouck, Jacob, graduated from Princeton College, 469. Joseph, graduated from Prince- ton College. 220. Hasenclever, Peter, 345; miners ran away from, 129, 135; runaway servant of, in cus- tody, 160; men employed at works of, 463; passenger on the Harriot packet, 439. Hasset, John, 81.


Hatton. John, 81; Collector of Customs, dispute over a cer- tain negro boy sold by, 494, 502.


Haw, William, conveyance to, 5. Hawkins, William, escaped pris- oner, 277.


Hay, 15. 29. 47. 171; destroyed by rainfall. 159. Hay creek. drowned out of a flat at, 436.


Hayes. James, land for sale by, 312. Hayley. Mr., a London merchant, 40.


Haynes, Joseph, indicted for mis- demeanor, sentenced to re- ceive 39 lashes. 357.


Haynes's Neck, land for sale in, 247.


Hazard, Ebenezer. subscriptions for books received by, 191, 275.


Heard, Capt. Nathaniel, 38; house


to be let by, 38; horse racing near, 338; race won by his bay horse, 461.


Hegeman, Adrian, executor, land for sale by, 191.


Benjamin, servant ran away from, 82.


Denice, executor, land for sale by, 191.


Dolley, deceased, property of, for sale, 191.


Dolley, executor, land for sale by, 191.


Height, Joseph, servant ran away from, 123.


Hemp, 32, 217, 435.


Henderson, John, land for sale by, 324.


Hendricks, John, negro ran away from, 463.


Hendrickson, William, negro ran away from, 368.


Henry, Samuel, assignment to, 14, 15; negro ran away from, 30; servant ran away from, 214.


Henry's, Mr., letter for John Moore at, 359.


Hereford Bar, snow Nancy wreck- ed on, 77, 78, 89, 113; the Three Brothers ashore on, 370.


Hermit near Mt. Holly, death of, 515.


"Hero," horse, to be let, 334.


Herrey, Joel, horse sold to, 486. Herring, Col. Abraham, 344.


Hert, Nicholas, cooper, drowned, 428.


Heslet, Moses, graduates from Princeton College, 220. Hess-Durmstadt, 233.


Hess, William, conveyance to, 5. Hetfield. Abner, reported to have killed a whale, 194; report contradicted, 203.


Hewes, Joseph, runaway servant, 172.


Hewling's creek, land for sale sit- uate on, 421.


Hewlings, Abraham, trustee, land for sale by, 427. Jacob, land to be let by, 511.


William, land to be let by, 511.


Hibernia Furnace, land for sale near. 303.


Hick, William, subscriptions for the Pennsylvania Chronicle received by, 428; tavern taken by. 429; meeting of the Medical Society to be held at the house of. 471, 485; Sign of the College tav- ern taken by. 486; corre- spondence with Gov. Frank- lin, 361. 362, 363.


Hicks, Daniel, drowned, _body found at Point-no-Point, 436.


Hickson. Joseph. 175.


Hide's Town, William M'Dermott came from. 334.


Hider, Captain John, land for sale near, 306.


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Higby, Joseph, land for sale by, 330.


Higgins, Jonathan, 16.


Hildeburn, Charles R., sketch of Colonel Sir John St. Clair, Bart., by, 503.


Hillier, John, negro ran away from, 165.


Hilman, Joab, servant lad ran away from, 173.


Hinchman, James, executor, land for sale by, 287.


John, 55; assignee, land for sale by, 513.


Hinds, Stephen, jun., horse stolen from, 481.


Hinlopen, Cape, 89, 445.


History of New Jersey, by Sam- uel Smith. 282, 298. 311.


History of Medicine in New Jer- sey, and of Its Medical Men, by Dr. Stephen Wickes, 301.


Hoff, Charles, land of, for sale, 46; insolvent debtor. 56.


Hoffman, Col. Matthias, 344. Nicholas, land for sale by, 229; assignee, 385, 440.


Hog, largest ever raised in Amer- ica, 497, 504.


Hogeland, Hannah, 359.


Holland, brig bound for, 396; treaty negotiated with, 470. Holland. John, escaped from cus- tody, 52. Hollingshead, Jacob, watchmaker, window of, broken. 357.


Hollowan, Isaac, apprentice ran away from, 488.


John, apprentice ran away from, 488.


Holman, Mr., killed a whale, 203. Holme. John, horse to be let bred by, 334.


Holmes, Joseph, land for sale ly- ing between the plantations of, 324.


Holmes's bank, meadows to join, 455.


Holt, John. letter to inhabitants of the Province of New Jersey from, 239; letter to, 176; strictures on a piece signed "Publicola" sent to, 287; article sent to. to be printed in his paper, 379.


Home Island, 367.


Honduras, the snow Julius Caesar of. in distress, 487; Bay of, brig bound from the. 396. Hooglandt. John. representative for the county of Somerset, deceased, 433; representa- tive elected in the room of, 441.


Hooper, R. L., land for sale by, 315.


Hope, Lord Charles. 260.


Hopewell, 66, 187, 223, 462; murder committed in. 474; land for sale situate in. 471. township, 94. 133.


Hopewell, Daniel, land for sale by, 92; property for sale late of, 242.


Hopper, Samuel, deceased, land to be sold pursuant to the


last will and testament of, 286.


Horner, John, conveyance to, 5.


Samuel, creditors to meet at the house of, 101; land for sale at the house of, 176; tavern to let occupied by, 201.


Horses-drowned, 504; death of a number of, 451; for sale, 62, 102, 106, 311, 438, 512; hav- oc among the, 464; stolen, 513; contrivance for sud- denly detaching from a car- riage, 506, 508.


Horses of pedigrees:


"Dodsworth," 335.


"Ferdinand," 346.


"Fire-tail," mare, 52.


"Frederick," 52.


"Golden Lock," mare, 52.


"Greyhound," 335.


"Hero," 334.


"Hobgoblin," 52.


"Matchien," 335.


"Old Hautboy," 335.


"Old Sterling." 335.


"Partner," 335.


"Roebeck," 67.


"Saup," 335.


"Slipby," 334. "Young Sterling," 334, 335.


"Wastle Turk." 335. "White Turk," 335.


Horse breeding, 52, 67, 82, 94, 334, 344, 346.


Horse racing, 70, 146, 209, 323, 338, 373. 397, 441, 442, 461.


Horseneck, Essex county, 43.


Horton, Dr. Jonathan, subscrip- tions for book received by, 455.


Rev. Mr., land for sale near meeting house of, 423.


Hosier, , arrived at Barba- dos, 394.


Levi, master, 442; robbed, 444.


Hoskins, John, land for sale by, 312. Hough, Mr., 121.


Houses for sale. 41, 75, 188, 275, 279, 313, 314, 325, 435, 513; to let. 38. 41, 75, 245, 267, 306. 325. 337. 354, 493. 504. House of Commons, petition to the, for repeal of Stamp Act, 103.




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