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Miry Run. land for sale at the head of, 199; saw mill for sale situate on, 388; land for sale situate on, 431.
Mitchell, Abraham, contributions to be received by, for air furnace at Mt. Holly, 254.
Joseph, debt contracted with, 3; land for sale by, 249. Randle, assignee of William Rea, 135, 201. Samuel, 359.
Mitton, James, 356: wife eloped from, 356.
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Lydia, eloped, 356. Money missing, 444.
Monmouth county, 12, 22, 28, 61,
62. 71, 73, 109, 172, 251, 261, 272, 292, 298, 302, 323, 324, 326, 331, 346, 415, 425, 426, 427, 430, 481; bills of cost of, 490; court house in, 52, 61; courts, 12, 61, 401; fulling mill to let in, 443; land in, for sale, 69, 319, 328, 329.
Monogahala, banks of, John St. Clair wounded at, 503. Monolopan river, land for sale on, 296.
Monte Christi, schooner Union from, 299; brig Polly from, 245.
Montgomerie, Montgomery, Rob- ert, Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the County of Monmouth, 13, 61, 100; petitions pre- sented to, 60, 86, 100; ap- plied to by Thomas Nelson, 13; discharged by, 74.
Montgomery, Captain, sailed for Belfast, 25.
General, aide-de-camp of, 222. Montreal, 423.
Moody, John, shop of, 116, 126; horse at, 116.
Moore, Alexander, Judge, order of, 140.
Alexander, negro ran away from, 250, 273.
Augustine, attorney at law, land for sale bv, 435. Benjamin, runaway negro, 22. Benjamin, jun., conveyance to, 6. Henry, schoolmaster, fatal fall of, 322. 330.
Henry, Sir, arrival of, 369; set out for New York, 373.
John, 359. John, broke goal, 19.
John, runaway servant, 214.
Thomas, and wife, conveyance from, 5; farm late of, for sale, 329; land for sale by, 462.
Moores, John, Sheriff, land for sale by, 177, 339, 495.
Moore's Point, 5'7.
Moore's Town, 55, 92, 428; crime committed near, 158; mur- der committed near, 163; theft near, 184.
Moravian place of worship in New Jersey, one, 317. More, Thomas, 292.
Moreland township, Pa., 132. Morgan, , arrived at Barba- does from Salem, 305. Asher, 15; horse stolen out of the pasture of, 443.
James, creditors of William Stevenson to meet at the house of, 287. Maurice, Secretary of the Province of New Jersey, ap- pointment by, 387.
Morris, Anne, 473. Anthony, 295.
Benjamin, creditors of Daniel Robins to meet at the house of, 331.
Elizabeth, obituary notice of, 295.
James, runaway, 464.
John, 488; negroes ran away from, 129.
John, horse thief, 237; exe- cuted, 246.
Lawrence, conveyance to, 5. Lewis, Governor, 473.
Mr., the player, wife of, drowned, 504; maid servant of, drowned, 504. Samuel, conveyance from, 5. William, Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the County of Hunterdon, orders of, 27, 34, 35, 56, 57, 66, 105, 116, 130, 136, 139, 140, 145, 148; granted peti- tion, 57, 83.
Morris county, 1, 48, 128, 153, 217, 227, 237, 253, 261, 267, 303, 359, 434, 438; inhabitants of, 43; land in, for sale, 74, 423; county courts of, holding of, 402; goal of, broke out of, 416; goal of, runaway ser- vant to be delivered at, 439; three travelling gentlemen taken up for uttering false bills at a tavern in, 456; bills of cost of, 490.
Morris-don, 346.
Morris-Town, Morristown, 195, 261, 359, 435; escaped out of the gaol of, 252; goal keeper at, 227, 253; land near, for sale, 74; land for sale in, 268; murder at, 160; murder not committed near, 163; ser- vant ran away from, 438.
road, land for sale lying on the, 423.
Morris township, 359.
Morrison, James, runaway, 464. Matthew, runaway 107. servant,
Morrow, James, runaway servant, 192, 196.
Motherkiln, Delaware bay, tree in the, 446. Mott, Gersham, insolvent debtor, petition of, 18. Mr., tanner, drowned, 90.
Mounteer, William, servant ran away from, 433. Mount Clement. 186. Mount Holly, 67, 94, 210, 254, 428, 487; air furnace at, 254; brigantine Nancy for sale at, 352; land for sale at, 487; Francis Furgler, a hermit, at. 515. township, 511.
Mount Pleasant, 125.
Mount Pleasant, Monmouth coun- ty, land for sale near, 343, 450. Mount Pleasant, Pa., church at, 223.
Mullan, Patrick, runaway, in cus- tody, 419.
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Thomas, pickled sturgeon for sale by, 226; fish for sale by, 460. Mullen, Thomas, land for sale late the estate of, 418.
William, deceased, land be- longing to estate of, for sale, 327; executor of the last will and testament of, 327.
Mount, Humphrey, insolvent debt- or, 301.
Mouston, Robert, taylor, escaped goal, 138.
Muchmore, Ebenezer, deceased, estate of, for sale, 410.
Lucy, executrix, land for sale by, 411.
Mulholland, Barnaby, payment stopped on notes given to, 164.
Mullison, John, insolvent debtor, petition of, 141.
Munds, Captain, put into Sandy Hook, 396.
Munro, Rev. H., land to be let by, 276. Murderer, extraordinary test of, 457.
Murderers burned alive, 477. Murray, William, servant ran away from, 187.
Francis, waterman, deceased, 255; persons indebted to the estate of, desired to pay their debts, 255, 273.
Murrel, William, conveyance from, 5. Murrie, Elizabeth, advertised by her husband, 260.
Musconetcung river, 1, 232. Musconetkung, 456.
Muspilion, 445, 446.
Musquito creek, land for sale bounded by, 425.
Muttony. David, drowned, 90.
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Nallon, James, 81. Nancy, snow, wrecked, 40, 89, 113. 352.
Nantuxet, land to be let at, 509.
Napier, Hon. Capt. Mark, em- barked for Philadelphia, 260. Narrative of the Rise and Estab- lishment of the New Jersey Medical Society, 300. Nassau Island, N. Y., 374.
Nayland. James, runaway servant man, 80; stole a pass from Israel Bunton, 80.
Neale, Mr., a London merchant, 40.
Neave, Mr., a London merchant, 40. Samuel, assignee, 200.
Neelson, Thomas, insolvent debt- or, 13.
Negroes for sale, 63, 102, 150, 170, 171, 205, 315, 427, 480.
Negro man taken up, 166, 416. Negro men drowned, 310.
Negro woman; death of, 357.
Neil, John, runaway servant, 462. Margaret, supposed thief, 511. Peter, money stolen out of the box of, 511.
Neilson, James, Judge of the May- or's Court of Common Pleas for the City of New Bruns- wick, 38.
James, deceased, land late of, for sale, 507.
Nelson, Captain Horatio, 277.
William, "Edward Antill and His Descendants," by, 473. Nemins, Robert, runaway servant supposed to be secreted by, 432.
William, runaway servant conveyed to him by Robert Nemins, 432.
N. Palts, N. Y., 344.
Nero, runaway negro, 128. Neshaminy, Pennsylvania, 222. Nesmuth, Nesmyth, Arthur, rob- bery of, 423; supposed rob-
ber of, committed to the goal of the city of Perth Amboy, 436.
Nevies, Tobias, insolvent debtor, notice to creditors of, 34. Nevis, West Indies, 144; Captain Nelson arrived from, 277. Newark, 96, 142, 195, 397, 449, 485, 489; horse racing at, 397; land for sale lying in, 319, 331, 335, 434; mountains, 324; rivers of, navigation stopped on, 341; road, 257; Captain Provoost sailed from Jam- aica in a schooner from, 481; stage wagon from, 489.
New-Bridge, school kept at, 355.
New Brunswick, 17, 21, 23, 30, 38, 86. 87, 97, 132, 185, 189, 191, 216, 235, 257, 258, 466, 473, 477; arrival at, 472; Cor- poration of, 258; land for sale within the corporation of, 70; court house at, 38; gentlemen of, 10; horse rac- ing at, 209, 441; house of entertainment opened in, 228; land for sale near, 46, 47, 243, 258, 268, 332, 350, 377; land for sale in, 293, 349; land for sale on the main road to, 329; murder near, 81, 263; Presbytery of, 469; missionary for, 456; part of copper mines in, for sale, 349; Mayor's court of, 38. landing, land for sale near, 229.
township, 257. New Castle, Del., 413.
county, Del., 227, 433; peti- tion of the government of, 103; Presbytery of, Daniel Jones licensed to preach by the, 222.
Newell, Hugh, desires an account of James Newell. 277; ser- vant ran away from, 277.
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James, Dr., house to be let by, 246. James, sailor, 277.
New England, 220, 316: trade of, 316.
Newfoundland, Province of. 39.
New Germantown, Pa., land at, for sale, 102.
New Hampshire, 11, 39, 103, 224, 383, 428, 456; government of, 41: Governor of, 373. New Haven, Conn., 237.
New Jersey, clergy of, 347; courts of, holding of, 400; Gover- nor of, 206, 373; Governor summons the General As- sembly to meet at Burling- ton, 370; government of, 316; addresses of thanks from, 249; History of, 298, 317; in- habitants of the Province of, letter to, 238; large hog brought from, 497; Legisla- ture of, passed a law for the encouragement of the planting of mulberry trees, 340; Legislature of the Col- ony of, application to be made to, 341; Province of, orders of the Judges of the Court of the, 45; petitions of the freeholders of, 103; staples of, 316; state of med- icine in, 300; bills of Dec. 31, 1763, counterfeited, 440. New Jersey, College of, 220, 229, 428; grammar school of, 227; criticism of the steward of, 263, 269; commencements at, in 1766, 218; in 1767, 469; Rev. Samuel Blair declines the Presidency, 506; Rev. John Witherspoon elected President, 364, 386; declines, 415; again elected, 506. See Witherspoon, John; see also Princeton.
New Jersey Medical Society, nar- rative of the rise and estab- lishment of the, 300; meet- ing of, to be held at Perth Amboy, 301; notification to, 470.
New London, Conn., 472. New-Market, 455.
New Market, England, winner of horse race at, 335.
New Orleans, vessels from, ashore at the Delaware Capes, 486. Newport, R. I., 189, 431, 433.
New Printing Office in Philadel- phia, Smith's History of New Jersey to be delivered at the, 282; book for sale at the, 311.
New Printing Office in Beaver street, New York, book pub- lished at, 385.
New Providence. Pa., church at, pastor of, 222.
Newton township, 261, 432.
Newtown, 173; land for sale lying in, 437.
Newtown creek, 234, 408, 465; bridge, 20.
Newtown township, land in, for sale, 85, 234.
New York, 11, 12, 24, 25, 26, 30, 39, 40, 43, 44, 49, 54, 58, 60, 62, 64, 73, 74, 75, 81, 90, 95, 102 124, 128, 136, 141, 147,
153, 154, 155, 166, 172, 191,
201, 202, 204, 217, 222, 237,
240, 244, 245, 246, 255, 257,
263, 276, 277, 278, 279, 281,
294, 297, 300, 304, 306, 322,
330, 340. 344, 347, 348, 352,
358, 366, 373, 378, 380, 381,
383, 384, 387, 389, 396,
398, 400, 411, 414, 415,
397, 426,
431, 433, 434, 439, 440, 442, 456,
444, 449, 451, 453, 455,
457, 460, 463, 473, 477, 479, 483, 488, 495, 502, 507; at-
torney at law in, 269; arri- val of the snow Jersey from, 489; bookseller in, 492; brig Charming Sally from, 514; clergy of, 347; commission- ers from, to Stamp Act Con- gress, 103: currency, 400; establishment of the Society of Arts, etc., in, 467; farm to let near, 268; flying ma- chine to, 125; frigate sailed for, 25; Gazette, order to be inserted in, 44; General Post Office at, letters re- maining in, 423, 488; goal, counterfeiter confined in, 26; government of, addresses of thanks from, 249; Indian women traveling to, mur- dered, 158: land for sale in or near, 240, 329, 450; land for sale lying on the post road to, 311; markets, 1, 47, 59, 283, 308; money, 389; murderers went to, 88; pa- pers. lucky numbers of the lottery to be printed in, 257; pigs to be had at, 297; pork, 149; printer in. 76; pursu- ing measures for lessening their foreign imports, 491; runaway negro came to, 153; Sir Henry Moore's arrival from, 369; sloop Peggy from, 514; the snow Julius Caesar for. in distress, 487; sports- men of. 146; stage waggon upset. 504; teacher in the city of. 233; custom house, 225, 282.
Nickison, Samuel, servant belong- ing to, committed to the workhouse in Philadelphia, 173.
Niles, Nathaniel, degree of Bach- elor of Arts conferred upon, 221; sketch of, 223. Samuel, 223.
Nixon, William, gold watch found by, 397.
Noble, Captain Thomas, 406.
Noel, Garrat, 191; book published by, 260; subscriptions taken in by, 275, 400; "Urania" to be sold by, 492.
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Norcross, William, 105, 174.
North America, 39, 235, 236, 448; charters of, 110; fish cured in, 459; "A Companion for the Young People of," pro- posals for publishing, 453. North American merchants, com- mittee of, 237.
Northampton township, 165, 280. Northampton county, Va., 222.
North Carolina, 11, 40, 219, 220, 222, 383. North-East, Pa., 419.
North river, land for sale near, 240; ship Garland sailed out of, 435.
North Wales, 35. Norton, suspected thief, committed to goal, 442, 444; offering to confess, 444.
James, servant, committed to the workhouse in Philadel- phia, 173.
Norwich, Conn., 219. 223.
Nottingham township, 2, 130, 131, 276, 315; land for sale lying in, 283.
Nova Scotia, 483; settling of, 383; stamps forced upon the in- habitants of, 11.
Nuttall, fire engine made by, 317.
Oakford, Aaron, land for sale by, 86.
Margaret, eloped, 149.
William, wife eloped from, 149; servant ran away from, 375.
Oakley, Mr., runaway negro hired by, 153.
O'Bryan, Mary Ann, runaway ser- vant, 484.
Odell, Rev. Jonathan, appointed to the mission of Burling- ton, 415.
Ogden, Abraham, degree of Mas- ter of Arts conferred upon, 124.
Joseph, land to be let by, 276, 511.
Moses, Sheriff, land for sale by, 17. Robert, refused to sign the petition of the Stamp Act Congress, 103; assignee, 39, 275.
Ogilvie, Charles, a London mer- chant. 40.
O'Hanlon, Patrick, insolvent debt- or, 45.
Ohio, 470.
Oldale, Lemuel, and wife, convey- ance from, 5.
Old ferry, 272; land for sale op- posite the, 376; fulling mill to let at the, 443; house, 150, 171.
Oliphant, David, land for sale by, 422. Olive, Grey, a London merchant, 39.
Oliver, John, drowned, 90.
Oldman's creek, 413, 419; land on, for sale, 108, 283, 418; marsh to be cleared and put into grass on, 447; runaway ser- vant working down about,
489.
island, part of, for sale, 313, 365, 513.
Old Tun tavern, Philadelphia, pickled sturgeon for sale at, 226, 460.
Oneida Indian in Sussex, murder of, 88, 391; the murderer hanged, 272.
Operation of lithotomy performed on a youth at Newark, 398. Opdike, Joshua, land for sale near land belonging to, 438. Orange county, N. Y., 64.
Orchards for sale, 15, 17, 20, 22, 23, 24, 29, 38, 41, 47, 56, 59, 60, 62, 74, 75, 92, 105, 107, 108, 164, 170, 191, 194, 201, 202, 216, 224, 226, 229, 234, 240, 241, 251, 255, 264, 275, 276, 279, 280, 282, 283, 284,
285, 286, 294, 296, 304, 305,
307, 309, 314, 321, 324, 326,
327, 328, 329, 331, 332, 335,
340, 350, 365, 377. 396, 399, 410, 417, 418, 419, 435, 457, 465, 471, 480, 492, 493, 500.
Orem, James, land for sale at the suit of, 177.
Ortman, Matthias, runaway mi- ner, 129, 134.
Osborne, Jonathan, creditors to meet at the house of, 426. Oswego market, New York, 240. Otto, Frederick, broke goal, 466. Oxen killed by lightning, 381. Oxford township, 312; land in, for sale, 48, 312, 437; rob- bery at, 422.
Oxford University, degrees con- ferred at, 95.
Ouke, William, Judge of the May- or's Court of Common Pleas for the City of New Bruns- wick, order of, 38.
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Padgett, Thomas, part owner of the meadows on the South Branch of Stoe Creek, 68. Pahaqualong mountain, land for sale near, 333. Paisly, Scotland, 364. Palatinate, Germany, 32.
Palmer, Gershom, insolvent debt- or, 145.
Philip, innholder, creditors to meet at the house of, 146. Palling. Levi, 344. Pancoast, John, conveyance from, 5.
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William, conveyance to, 5. Paquaess river, land for sale lying on the, 437. Park, William, Sheriff, 259. Parke, Abner, administrator, 221. Parker, James, printer, 33, 385; prevented post carrying pa- pers, 238; Comptroller of the Post Office, 238.
James, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the coun- ty of Middlesex, order of, 71; drawing of lottery to be conducted by, 257; land for sale by, 258; lottery tickets to be had of, 258; President of the Board of Proprietors of East Jersey, 474.
Nathaniel, assignment to, 15. Samuel, ship's long boat taken up by, 167; subscriptions for the Pennsylvania Chron- icle received by, 428.
Parliament, 144; discussion of, 383. Parsons, Robert, land for sale by, 151.
Passacak, 128.
Passaic river, project for straight- ening, 43; land for sale on the, 325, 350, 366, 377, 436.
Patten, James, insolvent debtor, 45.
Patterson, Robert, insolvent debt- or, petition of, 83; promis- sory note to, 251.
William, conveyance to, 5.
William, oration by, 219; re- ceives degree of Master of Arts, 223.
Patty, brig, arrived from Barba- dos, 321.
Patuxent river, Md., 77, 172, 193. Paulin's Kiln, land for sale near, 327.
Paxson. Henry, land for sale by, 487.
Pearson, Daniel, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Essex, order of, 16.
Joseph, land for sale by, 410; plantation of, for sale, 414. Margaret, supposed thief, 422; committed to the goal of the city of Perth Amboy, 436. Robert, petition presented by, 131.
Peck's Beach, schooner Phoenix ran ashore on, 90.
Peel Hall, horse strayed away from, 91. Peek's Kill, land for sale at, 329. Peg, wife of Harry, runaway slave. 452; run away from bail, 453.
Pelton, Samuel, joiner, broke goal, 19.
Pemberton. John, land for sale by, 487.
Mr., schoolmaster, 227.
Pennington, 59, 359; land near, for sale, 188; land for sale at, 268, 364 road, land for sale on the, 329. Peggy, sloop, 514.
Penn, snow, 260.
Penn, Governor, land for sale ad- joining lands late of, 437.
Penn's Neck, 108, 122, 233, 259; land situate in, for sale, 34, 37, 493; land for sale situ- ate in the lower part of, 419. Pennypack creek, drowned out of a flat in, 436.
Pennsylvania, 11, 12, 35, 40, 53, 82, 97, 107, 184, 192, 208, 221, 222, 223, 224, 250, 257, 281, 316, 345, 380, 383, 428, 445, 453, 470, 473, 483, 507; affairs of, 213; petitions of the freeholders of, 103; Gov- ernor and Council of, ad- dresses of thanks to the King, on the repeal of the Stamp Act, 227; punishment of fornication in, 249; con- duct of the Presbyterians and Proprietary party of, relative to the Stamp office, 197; Chronicle, subscrip- tions for, 428; papers, lucky numbers of the lottery to be printed in, 257; early times of, 298; staples of, 316; land for sale near, 437; part of a forge for sale situate in, 438. Pennsylvania and New Jersey bills, counterfeiting of, 92. Penquest, 359.
Penrose, James, horse strayed be- longing to, 514.
Pepack, land for sale at. 329.
Pequanack township, 261.
Pequea church, Pa., 365.
Pequea creek, Pa., land for sale situate on, 349. Peramos, land for sale at, 239.
Periam, Joseph, 225; tutor in the College of New Jersey, 232; subscriptions taken in by, 191. 275, 400.
Perine, Daniel, land for sale by, 294. Perkins, Elizabeth, eloped, 429; advertises her graceless hus- band, 433.
Joseph, wife eloped from, 429. Perquanock, land for sale in, 303. Perry, William Stevens, D. D., "Historical Collections Re- lating to the American Col- onial Church, Pennsylva- nia," by, 347, 473.
Perth Amboy, 12, 17, 18, 24, 38, 45, 65, 68, 71, 115, 176, 177, 182, 185, 188, 194, 225, 243, 257, 258, 282, 323, 339, 426, 436, 474, 478, 495; land in, for sale, 18, 60, 75. 328. 435; land lying on the road from, for sale, 177; land on the road to, for sale, 350; horse race at, 70; session of Gen- eral Assembly held at, 161; ship's long boat taken up be- tween Sandy Hook and, 167; tickets for lottery to be drawn at, 257; Ellis for, 282: Shearer for. 282; arrivals from, 305; horse racing at
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the fair at, 323; Supreme Courts held at, 401; 26th Regiment stationed at, 411; Robert Mckean, rector at, 472.
Peters, Rev. Mr., rector of Christ church, sermon on the death of Rev. Nathaniel Evans, M. A., preached by, 475, 476, 483.
Petit, Joshua, insolvent debtor, 16; meeting of the creditors of, 426.
Petition of the North American Merchants to the British Parliament, copy of, 84.
Pettiaugre, man knocked over- board by a boom from a, 394.
Pettit, Thomas, land for sale bounded by land of, 437.
Philadelphia, 1, 9, 20, 21, 25, 26, 28, 31, 32, 33, 53, 59, 64, 73, 81, 97, 105, 121, 123, 125, 127, 130, 132, 134, 135, 145, 146,
150, 151, 171, 172, 184, 186,
188, 191, 193, 201, 206, 216,
220, 222, 225, 226, 233, 234,
237, 246, 249, 252, 254, 255,
257, 264, 266, 272, 273,
281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286,
294, 296. 297, 305, 308, 310,
313, 318, 330, 333. 342, 347,
352, 353, 354, 357, 360, 365,
366, 373, 376, 387, 392, 408,
413, 415, 420, 432, 434, 436.
447, 451, 452, 463, 470, 480,
482. 483, 486, 487, 489, 491.
492, 494. 497, 499, 504, 511,
514, 515; goal, 171, 371; house in, 8; land in, for sale, 41, 134, 349, 365, 480, 500; land near, for sale, 55, 66, 92, 283, 305, 325, 353, 376, 399, 436, 456, 471, 513; land to be let situate near, 510; post-road, land for sale lying on the, . 311; road, land for sale on the, 339, 421, 461; markets, 1, 20, 47. 53, 59, 283, 284, 353; market, land near, for sale, 439; post office in, let- ters remaining in, 20, 81, 233, 276, 285, 356, 411, 475; four kegs on board one of the boats at, 3; stamp dis- tributor in, 7: water car- riage to, 35; vessels cleared, 50; Captain Campbell ar- rived at, 64; murdered man lived in, 76; flying machine from, 125; vessels entered în, 145; ferry, 150; Rev. Samuel Finley, D. D., died at, 166: two servants com- mitted to the workhouse of the city of, 173; Mayor of the city of, order of the, 184; letter to a friend in, 206; paper read in the lodge in, 212; academy in, 222; cleared, sloop Sally and Polly, 240; merchant in, 249; wheat at, 263; inkeeper in, 278; Ellis for, 282; Shearer
for, 282; book for sale at, 311; fire engine to be used in, 317; road, milestones af- fixed on the, 322; workhouse in, 357; subscriptions taken in at, 400; vessels for, 406; Custom House, vessels out- ward, 436; Custom House, vessels cleared, 440; old ferry in, fulling mill to let at the, 443; directions from a gentleman in, 508; ferry to, 511; houses for sale sit- uate in, 513; Baptist meet- ing house in, 376; com- mencement at the College of, 124.
Philadelphia Packet, brig, 321.
Philips, Joseph, assignment to, 14. Phillips, Abner, robbed, 334; tav- ern-keeper, lost pocketbook to be returned to, 490.
Elizabeth, land for sale by, 456.
Ephraim, Goaler, 56, 202, 225, 273, 376: negro held in cus- tody by, 246; negro man committed to Burlington goal by, 505. Simeon, 359.
275, Phillipsburgh, 276.
"Philurates," letter sent to the printer by. 409.
Phoebe, schooner, 188.
Phoenix, schooner, 90.
Phyle, Francis Adam Joseph, 515. Physic and surgery in East Jer- sey, practitioners of, form a society, 300.
Physicians, 41, 52, 130, 220, 246, 254, 299, 359, 366, 392, 398, 435, 455, 470, 471, 485.
Picket, John, 411.
Pickled sturgeon cured, 226, 460.
Pidgeon, William, land for sale by, 279.
Pierson, Daniel, Judge of the In- ferior Court of Common Pleas for the County of Es- sex, 144; orders of, 112, 132, 142; petition presented to, 114.
Pilesgrove, 55, 215, 225, 337, 356, 411; land for sale at, 241; log house burned at, 356.
Pine, Lazarus, junior, land for sale by, 480.
Lazarus, senior, land for sale by, 480.
Piscataqua, Edward Godfrey ab- sconded from, 366.
Piscataway. 10, 84. 86. 194, 224, 394, 472; land lying on the road to, for sale, 177; land for sale lying in, 410; road, murder on, 73; murder in, 81.
Pitt, William, 122, 237, 313; toast to, 144.
Pittsburgh, Pa., 159.
Pittsgrove, William Schenck set- tles at, 470.
Pleasants, Samuel, merchant, 135. Pledger, Joseph, shipjoiner, left the town of Salem, 280.
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Ploughman, Mr., 77.
Plowman, Widow, manager for, 54; negro purchased by, 54. Plumb, Mr., postmaster, subscrip- tions for the Pennsylvania Chronicle received by, 428. Plumbrook, land for sale situate at, 329. Plumb island, 278.
Plumsted, Thomas, negro ran away from, 186.
Pocketbook lost, 59.
Point-no-Point, body of Daniel Hicks found at, 436.
Poland, 384. Polly, brig, 245.
Polly, sloop, 145.
Pompey, runaway negro, 128.
Pool's Bridge, Philadelphia, 21.
Pope, John, subscriptions for the Pennsylvania Chronicle re- ceived by, 428.
Poplar Tent, N. C., 220. Population of the Colonies, 154.
Porter, John, assignee, 287. Portland Road, England, 415.
Port Penn, Pa., 121.
Portsmouth, frigate sailed from, 25. Potter, Thomas, insolvent debtor, 301.
Potts, Captain, 498.
Stacy, Secretary of the Tren- ton Library Company, 82; butcher wanted by, 374.
Potts-Grove, 489.
Powell, Samuel, land for sale ad- joining the lands taken up by, 432.
Thomas, Master of the board- ing school at Burlington, 336.
Power, James, degree of Bachelor of Arts conferred upon, 221; sketch of, 223. Michael, 215.
Powers, drowned, 394. Powle's Hook, 25, 125; ferry, 378; stage wagon to, 489.
Prakenas, 195.
Presbyterians, forty-six places of worship of the, in New Jer- sey, 317.
Presbyterian meeting house, Glou- cester township, land for sale near, 480.
Presbyterian meeting, near Mid- dletown Point, land for sale near large, 450.
Presbyterians of Pennsylvania, conduct of, relative to the Stamp office, 197.
Preston, Daniel, Judge of the In- ferior Court of Common Pleas for the County of Es- sex, order of, 61.
Quakers have thirty-eight places of worship in New Jersey, 317. Quakers' meeting, Chester town- ship, Burlington county,
Prickett, John, conveyance to, 5. Price, Philip, 359.
Robert F., Sheriff, land for sale by, 53. Robert, 359. Price's mill pond, land for sale near, 198.
Prince, runaway negro, 186.
Princeton, Prince Town, 25, 37, 101, 125, 172, 176, 191, 201, 218, 222, 245, 275, 276, 287, 369, 395, 400, 428, 429, 432, 466, 485, 490, 492; dry goods for sale at, 202; extract of a letter from a correspon- dent at, 476; fair for the sale of horses, cattle, etc., to be held at, 456; grist mill for sale in, 53; grist mill near, for sale, 54; land for sale at the President's house in, 171; land to let near, 275; land for sale in, 320; road, land for sale lying on the, 321, 339; land for sale near, 329, 332; Medical So- ciety met at, 485; native of, 469; robbery at, 334; ser- vant ran away from, 432; subscriptions taken in at, 400; tavern at, 201, 485; tavern near, 428.
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