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College, 221, 222; commence- ments at, 218, 469; steward of, 285; mutton delivered for use at, 291; land for sale lying near, 320.
Pringle, Dr., 206.
Printing offices in New York, 455. Probasco, Abraham, land for sale by, 426.
Proprietors of East Jersey, appli- cation to summon a council of, 474.
Providence, R. I., 222, 224; peti- tions of the freeholders of, 102. Provincial Congress, petition to, 221.
Provost, Captain, 188; arrived at Antigua from Perth Amboy, 305; sailed from Jamaica, 481.
Pryor, Thomas, suit of, 174. Thomas, junior, assignee, 438. "Publicola's" piece, insertion of, 378.
Pugh, Thomas, 274; cedar battoe of, went adrift, 255; execu- tor, 255, 273. William, 359.
Purdy, William, conveyance from, 5. Purviance, Samuel, assignee, 135. Samuel, senior, assignee, 201.
land for sale near, 325. Quebec, 428, 483; siege of, 222. Queen Ann's county, Md., 166, 505. Queen Ann's Town, Md., 166. Queen's College, in the Province
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of New Jersey, trustees of, 344; meeting of, called to organize, 345. Queen's Town, Md., 505.
Quibble-Town, land for sale near, 229. Quick, Francis, 132; bleach-yard of, goods stolen from, 131. Quigley, Terence, insolvent debt-
or, confined in Burlington county goal, petition of, 149. Quim, John, 359.
Quin, John, servant, committed to the workhouse of Philadel- phia, 173.
Quite, Charles, runaway slave, 430.
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Raccoon Creek, land for sale on the northerly side of, 276; land for sale situate at the mouth of, 286; land for sale adjoining, 295; swamp for sale on the east side of, 513; Peter Dalbo and Mrs. Kerr set off from, 310; land for sale situate on, 418.
Raccoon, runaway servant at, 489. Ragged Island, 367. Rainfall, damage by, 159, 160.
Rall, Colonel, 3. Ramapough, 389.
Ramboe's Run, 326.
Ramboy, John, servant ran away from, 107.
Ramsay, Colonel, Maryland rep- resented in the Continental Congress by, 469.
David, historian, 469. James, 12.
Nathaniel, graduated from
Princeton College, 469; sketch of, 469.
Ramsey, James, 12.
Robert, promissory note of, 251.
Rancocus creek, land for sale ly- ing on, 421, 439; land for sale near, 440.
Randall, Alexander, Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the County of Gloucester, 11: order of, 59. Dr. Ananias, escaped custody, 138.
Range, John, land for sale by, 319. Rankin, William, shoemaker, run- away servant, 415, 420.
Raper, Thomas, conveyance from, 5. Raplejes, Garret, iron works erect- ing by, 217.
Raritan, horse stolen near the, 473.
Rariton, 307, 345; farmer at, 263; land for sale lying on, 294, 339; north branch of, 294, 340.
Landing. 22, 99, 141, 358; Rob- ert Mckean died at, 473; land for sale situate on, 495. river, 38, 59, 216. 294; south branch of, 48; grist mill on, for sale; grist mill for sale on the south branch of, 308; land on, for sale, 21, 268, 340.
"Raven," horse, 94.
Raway, sloop belonging to, 240; meadows, 75; meeting house, 16.
Ray, Alexander, 175; suit of, 106. David, burnt in the hand for manslaughter, 265.
Mr., a London merchant, 40. Robert, burnt in the hand for manslaughter, 271.
Rea, William, insolvent debtor, notice to creditors of, 135, 201.
Read, Charles, conveyance to, 5. Charles, Secretary of the Province, 51, 94; Second Justice of the Province of New Jersey, order of, 65; copy of a note from, to Gov- ernor Franklin, 212; Colonel, 515; land for sale near his iron works, 421.
John, committed to goal, 56. Joseph, appointment of, as Deputy Secretary, Clerk of the Council, Clerk of the Supreme Court, Surrogate- General and Register of the Province of New-Jersey, 463. See Reed.
Read's Iron Works, land for sale lying near, 421.
Reade, Augustin, negro ran away from, 153.
Reading, Pa., 253.
Reading, George, forge for sale by, 49; land for sale by, 49, 218, 309.
John, land for sale formerly surveyed to, 312.
Richard, land for sale by, 106; persons indebted to, 214; land for sale at the house of, 436.
Thomas, servant ran away from, 387.
Reading Town, 192, 359.
Recklesstown, 94, 246, 487; store kept at, by David Smith, 259.
Reckless's Stream, mill dams on, carried away by rainfall, 159.
Redcap, Francis, insolvent debtor, 11; petition of, 59; notice to creditors of, 59. Redman, John, executor, 241, 381. Mary, executor, 241, 381.
Thomas, executor, 241, 381; business carried on by, 241; shopkeeper, notice to cred- itors and debtors of, 381. Anna, administratrix, 261. Redstreak, John, 356.
Reed, Andrew, land for sale late the property of, 332.
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James, horses to be entered with, for Perth Amboy races, 323. Joseph, land for sale by, 46, 333; honorary degree of Mas- ter of Arts conferred upon, 124; appointed Deputy Sec- retary of the Province of New Jersey, 387, 463. Read. See
Joseph, junior, persons indebt- ed to Richard Reading to pay their accounts to, 214; administrator, 243; land for sale by, 286.
Moses, 175. Richard, 175.
Reedy Island, 514; brig and sloop aground near, 514.
Reeve, Tappan, receives from Princeton College the de- gree of Master of Arts, 223; teaches school at Elizabeth- town, 227.
Reeves, Biddle, land for sale bounded by lands of, 374. Stephen, silversmith, 250, 273. Reid, Jonathan, house, barn and good orchard for sale late in the tenure of, 327.
Joseph, merchant, land for sale in the possession of, 327.
Remar, George, insolvent debtor, petition of, 120.
Remsen, Peter, land for sale by, 426.
Representatives of the Freemen of Pennsylvania, addresses of thanks of the, 227.
Rettinghousen, Isaac, servant ran away from, 371.
Reves, Biddle, intends to present a petition to the House of General Assembly of the Province of New Jersey for a law to oblige the owners and possessors of the mead- ow and swamp lying on Ramboe's Run to contribute their proportionable share in repairing and maintain- ing the dam, banks, &c., 325. Reynell, John, tavern at Prince- ton to be let by, 201.
Reynolds, Broughton, of Eliza- bethtown, 35; creditors of Josiah Davis, jun., to meet at the house of, 132; horses to be entered with, for Elizabethtown races, 441.
John, land late of, for sale, 276.
Postmaster, at Elizabethtown, subscriptions for the Penn- sylvania Chronicle received by, 428.
William, insolvent debtor, 83. Rhea, David, merchant, lost pock- etbook to be returned to, 490.
George, servant to, 23; insol- vent debtor, petition of, 100. John, 53; merchant, lost pock-
etbook to be returned to, 490. Robert, 52.
Rhoads, John, 54; holds bill of sale for negro, 55.
Rhode Island, 11, 39, 89, 222, 223, 224, 225, 245, 383, 384, 428,
431; government of, 41; brig, master and two mates of, drowned, 90; petitions of the freeholders of, 102; College of, tutor in the, 222; pursuing measures for les- sening their foreign imports, 491; sloop from, 516.
Rhodes, Charles, assignee of Peter Ten Eick, James Patten and Robert Johnson, 45.
Rice, Daniel, indicted for man- slaughter, acquitted, 356.
David, married daughter of Rev. Dr. Samuel Blair, 221.
Richard, runaway negro, 396. Richard, Edward, runaway ser- vant, 166.
Nathaniel, negro ran away from, 195. Richards, Aquila, Quaker, 127. Captain, 240.
Joseph, conveyance from, 5. Nathaniel, negro ran away from, 196.
Richard, passenger on ship Ellis, 79.
Richardson, Francis, assignee, 200. Thomas, land for sale by, 432. Riche, Thomas, concerned in the Lamberton fishery, 371; sturgeon sold at store of, 372.
Richmond. Yard and, sturgeon cured by, 226.
Rider, John Michael, runaway ser- vant, 412.
Ridgeway, Solomon, subscriptions for the Pennsylvania Chron- icle received by, 428.
Ridgway, Job, servant ran away from, 514.
Robert, conveyance from, 5. Riggs, Joseph, petti augre stolen from, 76.
Ring, Andrew, broke goal, 357.
Ringo, Henry, land for sale at the house of, 175; property in the possession of, for sale, 175.
John, meeting of the Sons of Liberty held at the house of, 64.
Ringwood, 135, 279.
iron works, 203: miners ran away from, 129, 134; fatal fray among some workmen of the. 394.
Risley, Richard, land for sale near cedar swamp of, 198: land for sale near land of, 199. Roberts, John, insolvent debtor, confined in Trenton goal, 36. John, of Mannington, servant ran away from, 385. 386. Mathew, insolvent debtor, 301.
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Robertson, Duncan, land for sale by, 343.
Robeson, Matthew, drowned, body taken up, 435, 436. Robin, Obadiah, John Kleinbehl bound to, 234.
Robins, Daniel, insolvent debtor, notice given to the creditors of. 331.
Robinson, Henry, negro ran away from, 23.
Joseph, negro ran away from, 23.
Rockaway river, iron works for sale on the, 303.
Rocky Hill, 10, 11, 257, 452; mines, land to let near, 457. Rockingham, the Marquis of, 122. Rocky River church, N. C., 220. Rodman, Clark, land for sale bounded by land belonging to, 438; land for sale ad- joining the lands taken up by, 432.
Thomas, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Burlington, order of. 79, 137.
"Roebeck," horse, 67.
Rogers, Isaac, land for sale by, 326.
Simon, runaway apprentice, 429, 430.
Romine, Samuel, insolvent debtor, confined in the gaol of the county of Monmouth, peti- tion of, 100; notice to cred- itors of, 301.
Roos, Robert, 359. Rose, ship. 277.
Rosley's, Widow, land for sale at, 247.
Ross, George, deceased, 133.
John, innkeeper at Wood- bridge, creditors to meet at the house of, 113; payment stopped on note held by executors of, 133. John, merchant, of Philadel- phia, reward for runaway miners to be paid by, 135. Ross's tavern, 87, 88.
Round-Abouts, 17: land for sale near, 185, 244. Rounsavell, Richard, 359.
Rousby, William, 240.
Rousby-Hall, 172, 193.
Rowland, David, commissioner to Stamp Act Congress, 103.
Roxbury, 153, 455. Royal American Battalions, 138. Royal Train of Artillery, arrival of two companies of the, 460. Ruby, Charles, sold as a servant, 225.
Ruggles, Hon. Timothy, 103.
Runaways, 96, 129, 137, 169.
Runaway apprentices, 192, 281, 336, 429, 430, 432, 477, 478, 487, 488.
Runaway bail, 186.
Runaway Dutchman, 479.
Runaway miners, 129, 134.
Runaway mulattoes, 2, 3, 128, 137, 267, 499.
Runaway negroes, 20, 22, 23, 30, 99, 128, 141, 145, 150, 153, 154, 159, 165, 186, 195, 250,
273, 367, 369, 389, 396, 413, 427, 463.
Runaway servants, 51, 80, 107,
123, 135, 153, 166, 171, 172,
173, 187, 192, 196, 214, 245,
251, 253, 259, 276, 280, 281,
318, 337, 358, 370, 375, 385,
387, 394, 395, 409, 411, 412, 415, 420, 428, 432, 434, 438, 462, 484, 489, 498, 499, 514. Runaway slaves. 430, 452. Rundle, Daniel, 134; goods for sale by, 133.
Runyon. Reune, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Middlesex, order of, 113.
Russell. William. sends copy of petition of London mer- chants presented to Parlia- ment, 84.
Russia, 384. Rutgers College, 345. See Queen's College.
Rutherford. Alexander, apprentice ran away from, 282, 337.
Robert, innholder, insolvent debtor, 14, 130; creditors to meet at the house of, 130, 148; house of, for sale, 314. Walter, property taken in ex- ecution at the suit of, 195.
Rutledge, John, commissioner to Stamp Act Congress, 103.
Ryder, Bernardus, 344. Rye for sale, 304.
Rye, increase of, 408, 411.
Rynbeck, N. Y., 486.
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Sackett, Joseph, junior, physician, 373, 374; appointment of at- torney by, 373; articles sent to Mr. Holt by, 380. Saddle River, 279. Saddler, Gamage, 423.
St. Augustine, Fla., 134.
St. Christopher's, West Indies, 41, 144, 299; the Three Brothers from, 370.
St. Clair, Hon. Col. Sir John,
Bart., at Amboy, 424; death of, 502, 503; time of funeral of, 502; died from wound received on the banks of the Monongahela, 503.
Sir John, succeeds to title and estate of his father, 503.
St. Eustatia, W. I., murders at, 262. St. Eustatius, W. I., schooner Union arrived at, 299.
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St. John, Captain, 435.
St. Kitts, W. I., 188; Captain Smith bound for, 95; Cap- tain Callender from, 498. St. Paul's church, Philadelphia, land to let near, 134. St. Peter's churchyard, Perth Am- boy, Robert Mckean buried in, 473.
Salem, 20, 31, 56, 95, 104, 145, 155, 186, 197, 247, 280, 284, 295, 318, 352, 355, 356, 357, 428; arrivals from, 305, 436, 445; arrival of vessel from Kings- ton, 414; arrival of Domin- ica from, 422; arrival of Ed- gar from, 475; Baptists of, 223; Bowdich arrived from, 357; Captain Ward arrived from, 388; court house in, 13; Court of Oyer and Ter- miner and General Goal De- livery held at, 356; horse came from, 91; innkeeper in, 342; land for sale in, 295; port of, 494; schooner Union bound for, 299; stage wag- gon from, 499; creek, land for sale situate on one of the branches of, 419.
county, 13, 34, 55, 57, 82, 95, 108, 122, 134, 149, 173, 215, 225, 233, 241, 247, 259, 337, 342, 351, 356, 357, 375, 385, 409, 412, 475, 479, 484; Courts, 13, 91, 342, 352, 401; divis- ion line between Salem county and, 68; land for sale situate in, 31, 493.
Sally, schooner. 439.
Sally and Polly, sloop, 240, 258.
Salt meadow, piece of, for sale, 177.
Saltar, John, tavern to let by, 21. Joseph, tavern to let by, 21. Saltas's bank, 131. Sampson, Captain, 486.
Sanborn Town, N. H., 224.
Sanders. Thomas, insolvent debt- or, petition of, 43. Sandy Hook, 25, 411, 436; arrival of ship Eagle at, 460; ar- rival of sloop Viper at, 495; light house at, 177; struck by lightning, 155; sailed out of, 25; Captain Smith drove on the point of, 95; Captain Cunningham arrived at, 244; ship stopped at, for refresh- ments, 337; brig put in at, 396; the Harriot packet near, 439; pilot put on board the Eagle off, 455; sloop of war Beaver, arrival at, 479; wreck at, 278.
Sansfelder, Philip, 234. Santa Croix, W. I., Captain Cun- ningham arrived from, 244. Sarjant, Samuel, land for sale by, 258.
Saunders, James, runaway ser- vant, 433; runaway servant challenged by, 433.
Joseph, condemned for mur- der, 262.
Saw mills, 15, 35, 151, 306, 309, 319, 320, 352, 421; for sale, 22, 46, 69, 194, 232, 239, 279, 283, 297, 307, 388.
Sawyer. John, found drowned, 364. Say, Thomas, executor, 349; land for sale by, 349.
Scarborough, transport ship, 406. Scattergood, Joseph, deceased, 4. Rebecca, deeds and convey- ances left by, 4.
Schaeffer, Henry, runaway miner, 134; in custody, 160.
Schanck, Peter, 112.
Schenck, Abraham, land for sale by, 426.
Jacob, executor, land for sale by, 37. Johannes, 352.
Peter. 113, 302, 345; innkeeper, creditors to meet at the house of, 302; executor, land for sale by, 205; assignee, 301.
Robert C., Minister to Great Britain, grandson of William Schenck, 470.
William, admitted to the de- gree of Bachelor of Arts, 469; sketch of, 469.
Schenectady, N. Y., 344.
Schenemeral, Rev. John, minister at Katskill. 344. Schenk, Hendrick, merchant, de- ceased, notice to creditors of, 352.
Peter, executor, 352.
Schlagel, John Erhard, runaway servant, 375. Scholey, Joseph, land for sale by, 321.
Schoolmasters, 227, 330, 336, 348, 455. 512.
Schuylkill river, Pa., mother of Charles Shrismon living on, 171; body found in the, 365. Schuyler, General, Francis Bar- ber served under, 469.
Peter, Colonel, White Horse tavern belonging to, 75.
Scoggin, Scroggin, Jacob, contro- very with John Hatton, over purchase of negro boy, 494, 501.
Scotch Plains, 426. Scotland, 197, 368. 448, 449.
Scots Mountain, land at, for sale, 48; land for sale lying on, 437.
Scott, Samuel, magistrate, 12. Scott's Mountain, 312; land at,
for sale, 217.
Scudder, Dr. Nathaniel, school opened under the inspection of, 261.
Scull's Thoroughfare, land bound- ed by, for sale, 200. Scull, John, 200.
William, land for sale by, 284. Seabury, Rev. Samuel, 347. Secaucus, patent of, 408.
Schools: at Burlington, 6, 336;
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Elizabethtown, 227. 512:
Hackensack, 69, 292, 347, 348, 355; Jamaica, L. I., 348; New Bridge (Hacken- sack), 355; Salem, 355.
Sea-Corkes, horse stolen from, 378.
Seamon, Seamons, Seamor, Rob- ert, confined in Sussex goal, 88; broke goal, 89; robber, 93; murderer, 93; indicted, tried, convicted and exe- cuted for murder of Indian man, 265, 266, 272.
Seargeant, Jonathan, junior, ne- groes for sale by, 172.
Sears, committed to goal, 449; found guilty of shoot- ing and wounding one of the conservators of the peace in the borough of Elizabeth, 449; murder committed by, 449.
Second Baptist church in Boston, 223.
Second River, 160; death at, 263. Seecaucus, freeholders of the pat- ent of, 302, 303.
Seely, Ephraim, Judge, order of, 140; fuller, cloth stolen from, 151.
Sekakus, commons of, claimed by Mr. Bayard, 379.
Seminary or college to be erected by the Dutch Reformed min- isters and elders, in which American youth may be ed- ucated, 343.
Semple, Captain, sailed for Dub- lin, 25.
Sennet, Arthur, runaway servant, 387.
Serels, William, ran away from employers, 96.
Servants for sale, 512.
Servant girl's time for sale, 510.
Servant lad committed to goal, 56.
Seton, Alexander, 376. Robert, servant bound to, com- mitted to the Burlington goal, 376.
Settlements in America, new con- quered, stamps forced upon the inhabitants of, 11.
Seventh-day Baptists, two places of worship of the, in New Jersey, 317.
Seventeenth and 46th Regiments embarked aboard transport destined for England, 422.
Severnes, Theophilus, 175.
Sewickly church, Pa., 223. Sexton, Isaac, 359.
Shabicunk creek, land for sale ly- ing on, 305. Sharon, Conn., 486. Sharp, Anthony. the elder, de- ceased, 408.
Isaac, 408. John, land for sale by, 382. Joseph, 408. Hugh, conveyance from, 5.
Samuel, man belonging to,
Freehold, 224, 261, 415; committed to Burlington goal, 202; servant in cus- tody belonging to, 419.
Shaw, John, land for sale at the house of, 426.
Shearer, ship, 282.
Sheffield, gentleman from, steel manufactory carried on by, at Perth Amboy, 484.
Shelburne, Earl of, presents ad- dress of thanks to the King, 227: letters from, 390, .391, 392; acknowledgments to, 403.
Shepherd, John, insolvent debtor, 301.
Jonathan, insolvent debtor, 45.
Sheppard, John, subscriptions for the Pennsylvania Chronicle received by, 428.
Sheridan, Doctor, 228.
Sherror, Daniel, insolvent debtor, petition of, 18.
Shinn, John, land for sale by, 487. Ship's long boat taken up, 167. Shivers, Samuel, 475.
Shoemakers. 415, 429, 488.
Shop goods for sale, 438.
Shreave, Joshua, runaway vant. 280.
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Sherron, Roger, of Salem, 501.
to, Shreve, Joseph, conveyance 5. William, servant man ran away from, 80; things stolen from. 81.
Shrewsbury, 21, 28, 128, 245, 299, 423, 450, 488; road, land for sale situate on the, 319; land for sale lying in, 425; sud- den death of a number of horses in, 451; town of, land for sale situate in the, 452; township of, 298.
Shute, Barnaby, house of, for sale, 96; land lately of, for sale, 211; tavern keeper, credit- ors to appear at the house of, 285; house formerly of, for sale, 152; house to be let late the property of, 338.
Sidenham, John, runaway mulat- to went with, 137.
Sickles, John, 359.
Signe, Nicholas, 15.
Silver, Aaron, stage waggon of, 499, 500.
Silver-smith, 273.
Simms, taylor, runaway servant, 498.
Simonds, Robert, 88: confined in Sussex goal, 88; broke goal, 89; murderer, 93; robber, 93.
Simpson, John, receives the de- gree of Master of Arts, 223. Thomas, land for sale former- ly belonging to, 249.
Sinclair, Captain, 415. Magnus, 89.
Singerora Bay, land for sale near, 309.
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Sitgreaves, William, land for sale by, 447; ready money to be had for clearing and put- ting into grass twenty-five acres of marsh, by applying to, 447; vendue held every Friday and Saturday by, 447.
Skelton, Joseph, suit of, 339. Skillman, Abraham, administrator, 223.
Cornelius, administrator, 223. Isaac, graduates from Prince- ton College, 221; sketch of, 223.
Thomas, 223. Thomas, senior, 223.
Skinner, Cortland, Speaker, 158; address by, 405.
Stephen, 17; suit of, 243; land for sale by, 282, 329; store- house of, ironmongery and cutlery for sale at, 426.
Stephen, Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the County of Middlesex, 12; petitions of insolvent debt- ors to, 68, 115.
Thomas, assignee of Robert Johnson, 45; horses to be entered for the Perth Amboy races with, 323.
Skinner, Smith, Johnston, and, New Jersey bills signed by, 440.
Slate mountain, land for sale ly- ing at the foot of, 437.
Sligholm, Captain, 411. Slightholm, Captain, 406. Sloop loaded with shingles, 252. Sloop's long boat taken up with- out the Narrows, 463. Smalley, Benjamin, insolvent debt- or, 130.
Sınith, Abraham, insolvent debt- or. 139.
Captain, 95; going to Ger- many, 234.
Christopher, prisoner escaped from, 155. Corbitt, insolvent debtor, 12, 301.
Daniel, junior, land for sale by. 312.
David, robberies committed by, 246; broke goal, 258; ship- wright, broke goal 259; not taken up, 262.
Elizabeth, 6.
Frederick, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Prov- ince of New Jersey, orders of, 83, 97, 100, 104. See Smyth .
James, 2.
Jecamiah, horse to be let by, 334.
John, 175; land for sale by, 41; suit of, 106: land for sale by, 487.
Joseph, insolvent debtor, peti- tion of, 142. Michael, 27.
Nehemiah, insolvent debtor, 12.
Perro, runaway mulatto, 267. Robert, a young lad of Phila- delphia, drowned, 90. Robert, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the Coun- ty of Burlington, orders of, 79, 137.
Robert, junior, 6.
Samuel, of Hunterdon county, insolvent debtor, 57.
Samuel, of , graduates from Princeton College · in 1766, 221, 223.
Samuel, of Burlington, His- tory of New Jersey by. 282. 298, 311, 385; anecdote from, 5; lands in Gloucester coun- ty taken up by, 432.
Thomas, deceased, land for sale belonging to the estate of. 326.
William, storekeeper in Phil- adelphia, 183.
William, graduates from Princeton College in 1766, 221, 223.
William, assignee, lands in Burlington county for sale by, 440.
William, Rev. Dr., 90; preach- es funeral sermon on Rev. Colin Campbell, 188; sketch of Rev. Nathaniel Evans by, 482.
Smith, Johnston and Skinner, New Jersey bills signed by, 440.
Smyth, Frederick, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, 14, 15; orders of, 58, 65, 120; court held before, 237, 356. See Smith. Smylee, Robert, forge for sale by, 297.
Snowden, Isaac, house to let by, 493; subscriptions for the Rev. Samuel Finley's Dis- courses received by, 191, 275, 400; and for "Urania," 492; house and stables to let by, 493.
Snyder, Jacob, 175.
Society of Arts and Commerce in London, 459.
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, missionary from the, at Perth Amboy, 473; mission- ary from the, at Gloucester and Cole's Town, 121; death of, 475. 478. 482. 483.
Society for Promoting Arts, etc., meeting of, in New York, 58. Society Tract, land for sale in the, 328.
Solebury township, Pa., part of a forge situate in. for sale, 438. Somerset. county of. 10. 23. 43, 58, 82. 112. 115. 120. 138. 205, 223, 261. 291. 329. 350. 352. 359, 360. 373. 433. 457; goal of, escaped from, 138; courts of,
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43, 115, 125, 401; land for
sale in, 268, 377; creditors of John Mallison to meet at court house of, 142.
Sommers's, James, land near, for sale, 198.
Sons of Liberty, proceedings of, in Freehold township, resolutions of, 71.
Hunterdon county, ask and receive assurances that the prothonotary would transact business without stamps, 31; resolutions of, 64.
New York, 43; seize and
" purify a bundle of stamped paper, 81.
Piscataway township, resolu- tions of, 63.
Sussex county, resolutions of, 108.
Upper Freehold township, res- olutions of, 109.
Woodbridge, meeting of, 6; appoint deputies to demand resignation of William Coxe as stamp distributor, 7; let- ter to Mr. Coxe, 7; report of deputies, with resigna- tion of Mr. Coxe, 8, 9; thanks to him. 10; resolutions of, 42; celebrate the birthday of George Third, with timely and significant toasts, 143. . Soubrian, William, runaway ser- vant, 370.
South Amboy, 28, 287; township, 192.
South Carolina, 11, 40, 54, 222, 321, 383, 428; frigate put into, 25; commissioners from, to Stamp Act Congress, 103; government of, addresses of thanks from, 249; arrivals at. 305.
South Kingston, R. I., 223.
South River, land near, for sale, 185; forge for sale on, 296.
Landing, 17: land near, for sale. 70, 243, 258.
Southwark, Philadelphia, 284; water lot and wharf for sale situate in the district of, 373.
Spain, causes of war with, in 1739, 384.
Sparks. Henry, innkeeper, 417; land for sale at the house of, 417.
Sparling, John, insolvent debtor, petition of, 113.
William, ran away from, 97. Spence, George, servant ran away from, 280.
Spencer, Rev. Elihu, 218. Rev. George, 347.
Splane, Captain, 516.
Spotswood, 160, 331, 472; land for sale at, 329.
Spottswood mills and iron works, 258; land for sale near, 258. Spring. Rev. Alpheus. Congrega- tional minister, 223.
Springer, Benjamin, conveyance to, 5.
Springfield, 394, 428; horse stolen from, 237; land for sale at, 307: land for sale near meeting house, 319.
Sproull, Elizabeth, administratrix, demands on the estate of Robert Sproull to be sent to, 453.
Robert, deceased, notice to creditors of, 453.
Sprowles's ferry, land for sale near, 328.
Squancom, land for sale lying at, 298.
Staats, John, land for sale adjoin- ing the property of, 294, 339. Stable with a quantity of hay burned, 295.
Stage wagon, Philadelphia to New York, 25, 342; Newark to Powles Hook, 489; Salem to Philadelphia, 499.
Stamp Act: forced on the Amer- ican Colonies, 11; William Coxe, stamp distributor for New Jersey, forced to re- sign, 6-10, 207, 208; New Jersey lawyers agree to resume business without stamps, 31, 36; gallows
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