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erected in Elizabethtown for the first person handling stamped paper, 36; declared unconstitutional, by various bodies of Sons of Liberty in New Jersey, 42, 65, 72, 108, 110; disregarded by the courts of Cumberland coun- ty, Sussex county, and Eliz- abethtown, 40; hostility to, used to enforce the payment of a debt, 31; Benjamin Franklin accused of having had a principal hand in pro- moting, 206; William Frank- lin accused of desiring to see the act enforced, 207; Charles Read oversets his scheme, 207; the Act said to have been formed and projected under the joint in- fluence of Lord Bute and George Grenville, 206; John Hughes recommended for Stamp Distributor for New Jersey, 207; Hughes and Joseph Galloway favor en- forcing the Act with the aid of troops, 208; comments on the foregoing accusations, by Joseph Galloway and Governor Franklin, 212; con- duct of the Presbyterians and Proprietary party of Pennsylvania relative to, 197; discussion of the right of, 382-4. See Sons of Lib- erty.
Stamp Act, repeal of: petition of London merchants, 84; pro- ceedings of the Stamp Act Congress, 102; news re- ceived of the repeal, 77; re- joicings over, 122, 143; ad- dresses of thanks of several
INDEX. 561
Colonies presented to the King, 227, 249, 392.
Stamping mill for sale, 10.
Stanbury, Recompence, assignee, 285.
Standall, John, deceased, farm to let formerly occupied by,
457.
Stanley. - murdered, 81.
Stansbury, John, 89.
Starn, Jacob, servants ran away from, 370; Sheriff, prisoner escaped from, 464.
Staten Island, 325.
Stathem, Aaron, drift wherry tak- en up by, 341. Isaac, cable and anchor taken up by, 495.
Staves, 50.
Steel, Henry, 278.
Steel manufactory carried on at Perth Amboy, 484.
Steelman, Jeremiah, land for sale late the estate of, 418, 447.
Steigleman, George, bound ser- vant, 355. John, 355.
Steleman, Jeremiah, 423.
Stelle, Benjamin, degree of Bach-
elor of Arts conferred upon, 221; admitted to a Master's degree at Rhode Island Col- lege, 224.
Rev. Isaac, pastor of the Bap- tist church at Piscataway, 224.
Stennard, Elizabeth, house to be let by, 245.
Stephens, Thomas, suit of, 339.
Sterling, James, bale directed to, stolen, 119.
Sterling, Lord, land for sale near building of, 350.
Sterling iron works, 203; sale near, 350.
Steuben, Baron, Francis Barber appointed Assistant Inspec- tor General under, 469.
Stevens, John, drawing of lottery to be conducted by, 257. Stevenson, Daniel, 359.
John, land for sale by, 170; negro for sale by, 170.
Thomas, conveyance from, 5; conveyance to, 5. Williamson, insolvent debtor, notice to creditors of, 287. Stewart, Captain, 514.
Mr., a London merchant, 40; furnishes copy of petition sent to Parliament, 84.
Stille, Jacob, land for sale by, 283. John, land for sale by, 283. Stillwell, Col. Nicholas. 344. Dr. Richard, land for sale by, 299.
Stites, Michael, servant in cus- tody belonging to, 419. Stoats, Samuel, land for sale by. 465.
Stockton, Job, Sheriff, land for sale by, 11, 24; High Sher- iff, 138; witness to the weight of mutton furnished to Princeton College, 291;
takes affidavit on the same important subject, 292. Joseph, assignee, 195; land for sale by, 330.
Richard, 415, 470; member of New Jersey Bar, 6; land for sale lately belonging to, 329; land for sale by, 330; Gov- ernor of the College of New Jersey, 364; invited to dine with the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, 377; presented with the freedom of that city, 378; speech of, in re- ply, 378; article perhaps written by, 384. Robert, 292; assignee, 195; Justice of the Peace of Som- erset County, 291.
Samuel Witham, graduates from Princeton College, 469; sketch of, 470.
Stoddard, Josias, admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, 469.
Stoe creek, meadows on the south branch of, 68.
Stokes, Samuel, conveyance to, 5.
Stone grist mill for sale, 216.
Stony brook, mill on, for sale, 59. Strahan, William, bookseller, let- ter from, 483.
Stratton, Isaac, young man with a horse came to the house of, 210.
Stretch, John, meadows adjoining, to be banked, 57, 367.
Strettel, John, a London mer- chant, 39.
Strickney, Captain, 262.
Stuart. Archibald, administrator, 243.
Stubbs, Rev. Alfred, "A Record of Christ Church, New Bruns- wick," by, 473.
Sturgeon cured and for sale, 146, 226. 372, 460.
Subscription paper for increasing manufactures and laying aside certain enumerated articles approved of, 490- 491.
Suffolk county, L. I., 224.
Sullivan, General, Adjutant Gen- eral Francis Barber with, 469.
Silvester, 411.
Supreme Courts, Justices of, trus- tees of Queen's College to be properly and duly qualified by any one of the, 345; ses- sions of, 401.
Sussex county, 227, 233, 243, 261, 312, 321, 359, 370, 391, 452, 453, 455, 464; bills of cost of, 490; carpenter escaped from, 464; confined in. 21; Court of, opened, 40; Court of, holding of, 402; Court of Oyer and Terminer of, 271; goal, 67; goal, confined in, 18; goal, confined in for debt, 67; Inferior Court of Com- mon Pleas in and for, 18;
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land for sale lying in, 285, 327, 333, 411, 437, 438; Court House, 21; extract of a let- ter from, 264. Sussex county, Del., petition of the government of, 103. Swacamockhum, negro, taken up, 416.
Swain, Cornelius, wife eloped from, 130. "Swan," horse, 82.
Swart, Cornelius, land for sale by, 22.
Swedes church, Philadelphia, 354. Swedesborough, land for sale near, 276, 418. Sweedland, Christopher, land for sale by, 74.
Swett, Benjamin, jun., 135; land to let by, 501. Swope, George, 355.
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Tanner, 56. Tanner's bark-house burned, 300. Tanner's Run, 248.
Tappan, 344.
Tate, Captain, 406.
Taverns, 21, 35, 75, 81, 87; Black Point, 28; Black Horse, 94; Blazing Star, Philadelphia, 25, 125, 342; Elijah Dun- ham's, 143; Indian King, 53; Philip Palmer's, 146; Mrs. Elves', 38; Richard Cox's,
140; Robert Rutherford's, 130; Sign of the New Jer- sey College, 428; Sign of the College, Princeton, 485; Sign of the George, 91; Sign of the King's Arms, Perth Am- boy, 120; Sign of the Mar- quis of Granby, for sale, 152, 211; Sign of the Mermaid, 176; near Trenton, 255; Sign of the Tree of Liberty, 228; Sign of the Old Tun, Phila-
delphia, 226, 460; Indian Queen, Philadelphia, 169, 239; White House, Elizabeth- town, 75; Widow Heard's, 38; Barnaby Shute's, Eliza- bethtown, 96, 152; John
Ross's, Woodbridge, 113 Princeton, 201, 428, 485; for sale, 105, 152, 174, 176, 211, 327; to let, 21, 28, 75, 201.
Tavern keepers, 16, 113, 115, 285, 304, 327, 490.
Taylor, Captain, 79.
George, land for sale by, 233. Jacob, apprentice and servant ran away from, 430.
John, 359; subscriptions for Pennsylvania Chronicle re- ceived by, 428; assignee, land for sale by, 102. Robert, junior, petition of, 57; creditors of, 57. Taylors, 138, 318, 359, 488, 498.
Templar, Major, 26th Regiment under command of, 406.
Templeman's survey, 449.
Ten Eick, Peter, insolvent debtor, 45; mine of, for sale, 349.
Teneriff, sloop from, ashore, 50. Ten Eyck. Jacob H., 344. Teniack, Andreas, innholder, horse strayed formerly owned by, 169.
Ten Mile Run, land for sale at, 191; horse stolen at, 466. Tennent, Rev. William, 359; suc-
ceeded by John Woodhull, 224; school opened under the inspection of, 261.
Tennessee, 220. Terrill, Capt. Ephraim, of Eliza- bethtown, house to let by, 38; manager of a lottery, 257.
Test, Edward, Sheriff, land for sale by, 56.
Test and Johnson, Messrs., store of, robbed, 355. Teeste, Edward, Sheriff, 104; land for sale by, 247. Teteconk Bridge, land for sale at, 426.
Thatcher, Jeremiah, 359. Thetford, Richard, runaway ser- vant, 135, 153.
Thomas, Edward, assignment to, 30. Joseph, goaler, 419.
Mr., pasture lot to be let in the possession of. 306. Thomas and Waddel, ship, 283. . Thompson, Benjamin, executor, 113; Judge, order of, 141, 142.
Charles, horse strayed from, 169.
General, corps of, for Canada, 222.
James, merchant, land for sale by, 24, 75. Mr., subscriptions for book re- ceived by, 455. Samuel, servant ran away from, 318. Thomas, 233, 302; assignee, 301. Thomson, Benjamin, 112; Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Somerset, orders of, 43, 115; executor, land for sale by, 205. Hugh, 112.
Margaret, 112.
Peter, executor, 353; land for sale by, 353.
Thomas, innkeeper, land for sale at the house of, 209.
William, deceased, attorney at law, 112; notice to debt- ors of, 112; last will and testament of, 113; land of, for sale, 205.
Thornton, Captain, 516.
Thoroughfare creek, 367. Three Brothers, ship, 370. Three Run Mills, Del., 452.
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Throckmorton, Job, former ser- vant of, ran away, 23.
John, land for sale in the pos- session of, 327; tavernkeep- er, 327; land for sale at the house of, 327.
Thrum Caps, Delaware bay, 446. Tickell, Mr., poem by, 485.
Tilghman, Tench, witness to res- ignation of William Coxe as Stamp Distributor, 9. Tilton, Daniel, insolvent debtor, 301.
Timber, 32, 35; for sale, 22.
Timber creek, 306, 475; land for sale lying on, 250, 306.
Tinicum, Pa., 251. Tom, runaway negro, 30.
Tom, runaway mulatto, 128.
Toney, runaway negro, 20. Tony, broke goal, 227; negro man, escaped custody, 253. Torbert, James, 359. Towers, Robert, land for sale by, 317.
Town mills. Elizabethtown, for sale, 96.
Townsend, Jacob, servant ran away from, 260.
Micah, degree of Bachelor of Arts conferred upon, 221; sketch of, 224. Sylvanus, Sheriff, 137. Towrs, Lawrence, murder of, 459, 460. See Tuers, Nicholas. Traxeller, Christopher, 19.
Treat, Rev. Richard, sermon preached by, on the death of Rev. Dr. Samuel Finley, 166, 167.
Trecotheck, Mr., a London mer- chant, 40.
Trecothic and Hanbury, 122.
Trecothick, Barlow, letter to, 235. Tredwell, Thomas Star, 204.
Trenchard, George, executor, land for sale by, 95; subscriptions for the Pennsylvania Chron- icle received by, 428.
George. junior, land for sale by, 95; subscriptions for the Pennsylvania Chronicle re- ceived by, 428.
Trenton, 2, 3, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 27, 30, 34, 56, 57, 59, 65, 82, 83. 105, 124, 130, 132, 140, 148, 160, 170, 174, 175, 191, 214, 216, 220, 221, 243, 257, 258, 268, 286, 333, 359, 374, 387, 462, 470, 498, 513; American capture of, 220; bridge, 130;
confined in, 36; court house in, meetings at, 14, 56; stur- geon cured at, 226; ferry, 359; ferry road, milestones affixed on the, 322; gentle- man from, 408; goal, 104; goal, negro taken and brought to, 416; grammar school in, 220; house in, for sale, 315; land near, for sale, 46, 47, 106, 188, 304, 308, 311, 321, 330, 436; land near the middle of, for sale, 462; land for sale fronting up the river to, 314; land for sale situate in, 333; Library Company, election of officers of, 82; mills, house near, for sale, 315; post office, let- ters remaining in, 358; stage waggon, 422; struck by lightning, 402; Presbyterian church of, 220.
Troops, British, in America: Roy- al American Battalion, 138; Royal Train of Artillery, 460; Sixteenth Regiment, 406; Seventeenth Regiment, 417, 422; Twenty-sixth Regi- ment, 406, 411; Twenty- eighth Regiment, 417, 423; Forty-sixth Regiment, 417, 422; Royal Train of Artil- lery, 460.
Tucker. Phillips, land for sale by, 268.
Samuel. assignment to, 14, 15; land for sale by, 15, 268; ex- ecutor. land for sale by, 327; Sheriff, 20; Sheriff, land for sale by, 106; late Sheriff, land for sale by, 174. 175; late Sheriff, fulling mill for sale by. 174.
Tuers, Nicholas, murdered by his slave, 458; his murderer compelled to touch the corpse, whereupon blood flows, 458; his murderer burnt alive, 458.
Turk's Island, 121.
Turtle-Gut bar, ship ashore on, 78.
Turner, John, apprentice ran away from, 479.
Two Brothers, brig, of Amboy, 440. Tyger, supposed runaway on board the, 193. Tyse, Richard, land for sale by, 250.
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Union iron works, 356; horse in custody at the. 249. Union school, Hackensack, 348. Union, schooner, 299. University of Pennsylvania, Pro- vost of the, 482.
Upper Freehold, 427, 430; land for sale situate in, 324. township of, 251, 272. 331; land
for sale situate in the, 326; fulling mill situate in, to be let, 443. Upper Middle, Delaware bay, buoy on the, 446.
Upper Penn's Neck, land in, for sale, 95. Ute, John, reward offered by, 76.
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Vaghte, Garret, offers reward for stolen horse, 466.
Valany, Charles, runaway servant, 187. Van Alstyne, Matthew, judgment obtained by, 23.
Vanarsdalen, Juryah, land for sale by, 70.
Van Buskirck, Lawrence Jacobus, servant ran away from, 389.
Van Campen, Abraham, Judge of the Sussex county Inferior Court of Common Pleas, or der of, 18.
Vance, Hugh, admitted to the de- gree of Bachelor of Arts, 469; sketch of, 470.
Vancleaff, John, assignee, 69, 301. Vancrust, Moses, 132.
Van Dearin, David, horse in the custody of, 250.
Vandelip, Elias, run in debt by wife, 260. Elizabeth Murrie, 260.
Vander Veer, Jacob, land for sale adjoining, 339.
Vandervoort, Nicholas, insolvent debtor, 301.
Van Dorin, John, servant of, broke goal, 227.
Vandorn, John, mulatto ran away from, 128.
Van Dorn, John, negro man be- longing to, escaped custody, 253.
Van Duveer, Jacob, land for sale adjoining the property of, 294.
Vanettas farms, land for sale near, 437.
Van Harlengen, Rev. Martinus, of Rariton, 345.
Van Horn, Rev. Peter P., 223.
Philip, Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the County of Somerset, or- der of, 43, 115.
Van Horne, Jacob, land for sale by, 325.
Mathias. estate of, 301.
Philip, Judge, Somerset coun- ty, order of, 141, 142.
Vanhoyse, James, insolvent debt- or, 301.
Van Kirk, Mrs. land for sale late- ly belonging to, 323.
Van Liew, Magdalena, 352.
Van Martyr, Joseph, extraordinary size of calf belonging to, 378.
Vanmeter, Joseph, land for sale by, 241.
Van Meteren, Jan, 345.
Vanness, Abraham, elected a rep- resentative for the county of Somerset. 440.
Van Ness. John, 486; horse sto- len from, Andrew Leake in the possession of. 486.
Van Order, Tobias, land for sale by, 229.
Vansciver, John, conveyance from, 5; conveyance to, 5.
Vantilburgh, William, tavern in the possession of, for sale, 176.
Vantile, Abraham, land for sale by, 325.
Vantine, Jaques, land for sale by, 22.
John, land for sale by, 22; land formerly belonging to, for sale, 495.
Van Veghten, Dirck, land for sale near, 294; land for sale op- posite, 340.
Van Wyck, Theod., 344.
Theodorus, forge for sale by, 49, land for sale by, 49. Veghte, Nicholas, deceased, prop- erty of, for sale, 10.
Veight, Nicholas, runaway slave removed from East Jersey by, 452. New Verbrykek, Rev., minister at Tap- pan, 344.
Vermont, 223, 224.
Vernon, John, cooper, broke goal, 104.
Vessels-
Amity Admonition, transport ship, 406.
Amity's Assistance, transport ship, 406, 411.
Amity's Benediction, trans- port ship, 406.
Amity's Production, transport ship, 406.
Ann, sloop, 89.
Archer, 305.
Beaver, sloop of war, 479.
Charming Sally, brig, 514.
Chester, pilot boat, 292.
Coventry, ship of war, 263, 479.
Dominica, 422.
Eagle, transport ship, 406, 411, 455, 460.
Edgar, 475.
Ellen, transport ship, 463.
Ellis, ship, 45, 49, 50, 81, 119, 282.
Francis, brig, 486.
Garland, ship, 435, 436, 479.
Hannah, brigantine, 456.
Hanover, transport ship, 406.
Harriet, packet, 439.
Jersey, snow, 489.
John, sloop, 493.
John and Jane, sloop, 90.
Julius Caesar, snow, 487.
King George, snow, 498.
Liberty, pilot boat, 292.
Liberty, transport ship, 406.
London Packet, ship, 493, 497. Lyde, transport ship, 406, 411. Mercury, ketch, 489. Morgan, 305.
Nancy, snow, 40, 77, 78, 89, 113, 352.
Patty, brig, 321.
Peggy, sloop, 514.
Penn, snow, 260. Philadelphia Packet, brig, 321.
Phoebe, schooner, 188.
Phoenix, schooner, 90.
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Polly, brig, 245. Polly, sloop, 145. Rose, ship, 277. Sally, schooner, 439. Sally and Polly, sloop, 258.
240,
Scarborough, transport ship,
406.
Shearer, ship, 282.
Susanna, schooner, 50.
283.
and
Waddel,
ship,
Three Brothers, ship, 370. Two Brothers, brig, 440. Tyger, 193.
Union, schooner, 299.
Vialars, Anthony, junior, a Lon- don merchant, 39. Vickers, Peter, 359.
Vining, John, land for sale by, 32.
Virginia, 11, 40, 77, 121, 184, 219, 222, 223, 383, 448; sports- men of, 146; government of, 316; road, stones affixed on 322; Tuscarora and
Back Creek churches in, Hugh Vance ordained pas- tor of, 470; sloop John, from, in distress, 493; sloop belonging to, 497; gentle- man from, 508; sloop for, 516.
Voltaire, extract of letter from, 99.
Voorhees, Coort, horse stolen from, 233.
Hendrick, deceased, estate of, for sale, 61.
Peter, executor, land for sale by, 62.
Stephanus, conducts a gram- mar school at Hackensack, 69, 292, 355.
William, land of, for sale, 62. Voorhise, John, creditors of, 71; insolvent debtor, petition of, 71. Vrooman, Rev. Barent, minister at Schenectady, 344. Isaac, 344.
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Waddell, Henry, degree of Master of Arts conferred upon, 124. Waddle. William, supposed thief, 249, 250.
Wade, Nehemiah, assignment to, 30. Waightstill, Avery, sketch of, 219. Wainwright, Captain, 121.
Waldron, Mr., whale bought by, 203.
Walkeer, Justus, insolvent debtor, 68; petition of, 12, 113; es- tate of, 114.
Matthias, runaway servant, 251.
Wallace, Captain, sailed for Dub- lin, 25.
Wallpack copper mine, Richard Reading's share in, for sale, 438.
Walpack, 464. Walsh, William, runaway appren- tice, 478.
Walton, Thomas, farm to be let by, 457. Wambough, Henry, 175. Wanton, Stephen, land for sale late the property of, 431, 432. Wappetaw, S. C., Independent Church of, 222. Ward, Captain, arrival of, 388. Edward, Major, 475. James, land for sale late the estate of, 465.
Matthias, of Newark, stage waggon from Newark to Powle's-Hook belonging to, 489.
Warder, Jeremiah, assignee, 200. Ware, Thomas, Dr., servant girl ran away from, 52. Warren, Richard, escaped goal, 242. Warren county, 220, 312. Watch found, 215. Watches stolen, 260, 371.
Waterford, township of, land in, for sale, 53, 193, 305, 353, 399; land to let in, 500. Water lot and wharf for sale, 373. Watkins, Paul, and wife, convey- ance from, 6; land for sale belonging to the estate of, 312.
Watson, Captain, 406, 411.
Gawin, land for sale near, 329. Thomas, land taken in execu- tion at the suit of, for sale, 185.
Watson's creek, 131.
Watt, James, receives the degree of Master of Arts from Princeton College, 223. Wattson, William, flatman, de- clines to pay bond and note obtained from, 305. Weehock landing, land for sale near, 304.
Wehaken ferry to let, 267.
Weibel, John, blacksmith, runa- way servant, 253. Weldon, James, indicted for grand larceny, 357. Wells, Richard, engine for sale by, 317; waggon contrived by, for sudden release of horses, 491: Sir Francis Blake Delaval experiments with, 491, 509.
Wentz, Peter, negro belonging to, held in custody, 246. West, Charles, land for sale by, 296.
George, stallion kept by, 68.
John, at the Old Ferry in Phil- adelphia, 171, 272, 443. John, of Elizabethtown, insol- vent debtor, 39, 275. West Calan township, Pa., 365. West Chester, N. Y., 153.
Westcote, Richard, negro in the custody of, 55.
the,
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Westcott's causeway, land for sale near, 200.
Westerlo, Rev. Eliardus, minister at Albany, 344. West Jersey Proprietors, commit- tee of, 220. West Indies, 222.
West Jersey Society tract for sale, 328.
Westmantil township, Pa., 245.
Westminster bridge, London, ex · periment tried on, 509. Wetherill, John, conveyance to, 5; drawing of lottery conducted by, 257; ìand for sale near, 294.
Whale killed, 194, 202.
Weyman, William, printer, land for sale now occupied by, 269.
Wharton, Baynton and, ship con- signed to, 80.
Charles, merchant, runaway slave to be delivered to, 452. John, executor, 342, 358.
Joseph, junior, 119.
Thomas, land to let by, 20; land for sale by, 46, 333.
Whaton, Jonathan, notice given by, 455.
Wheat, 1, 15, 17, 23, 37, 46, 47, 48, 55, 106, 263, 308; abundance of, 263; for sale, 304.
Wherry drift taken up, 341.
White, Mr., Sons of Liberty wait- ed on, 31. Robert, insolvent debtor, 301. Rufus, 488. Samuel, 360.
Whitehall, London, 392.
White Hall, New York, 74.
Whitehead, William, assignees of, 195.
William A., "Contributions to the Early History of Perth Amboy," by, 473.
Whitehill, Burlington county, 393, 396.
White House, 75; tavern, 75; first Government house in East Jersey. 75.
Whitlock, Richard, 210. Reuben, 210. Whitemarsh, Captain, arrived, 78. Whorekiln Road, Delaware bay, directions for sailing into, 445.
Wickes, Stephen, A. M., M. D., "History of Medicine in New Jersey, and of Its Medical Men," by, 473.
Wickoff, John, 364.
Wickward, Samuel, conveyance to, 5.
Wives eloped, 124, 130, 133, 149, 264, 312, 324, 356, 429.
Wikoff, Isaac, grist mill for sale by, 59; land for sale by, 59.
John, grist mill for sale by, 59; land for sale by, 59.
Peter, grist mill for sale by, 59; land for sale by, 59. Wilday, John, merchant, forge for sale by, 297.
Williams, Captain, arrived at Jamaica from Salem, 305. Daniel, merchant, 249; French burr millstones for sale by, 249. Jenkin, attorney at law, 415. John, land for sale at the house of, 426.
Rensselaer, insolvent debtor, petition of the creditors of, 143. Simon, Master of Arts, 223. Thomas, estate of, 301.
William, 356, 360; runaway servant, 370.
Williamson, David, executor, land for sale by, 62; land for sale at the house of, 70; inn- holder, 70; ran away from, 97; forge for sale by, 297. Dr. Hugh, Professor of Math- ematicks and Natural Phl- osophy, 470.
Matthias, land for sale by, 211; house to be let by, 339. Willingborough township, land for sale lying in, 439.
Willingburg township, 429. Willis, George, conveyance to, 5. Wilkinson, Thomas, runaway ser- vant, 370.
Willson, Captain Charles, sailor, drowned, 49.
James, 302: insolvent debtor, petition of, 120
Rev. Mr., drowned, 90. William, Captain, drowned, 90.
Wilmington, Del.,
the Three
Brothers to, 370.
Wilson, Charles, Collector of his Majesty's Customs at Am- boy, drowned, 49.
Edward, insolvent debtor, con- fined in Bridgeton, notice given to the creditors of, 140.
Elizabeth Louisa, runaway servant. 429.
James, tutor in Princeton Col- lege, receives the honorary degree. of Master of Arts, 124.
James, of Freehold, assignee of John Astin, insolvent debtor, 301.
Mr .. drowned, 45; Comptroller of the Custom House at Am- boy, 45.
Mr., death of, 506; killed by horses running away with the carriage, 506.
Peter, schoolmaster, 348; Pro- fessor of Greek in Columbia College, New York, 348.
Thomas, 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 maintaining the dam, bank, &c., 325.
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Windsor, 44, 130.
township of, 37, 415, 420; saw and grist mills for sale in, 283. Windsor, Conn., 221; land for sale in, 339.
Winter, Garret, 280.
Wire, Thomas, physician and sur- geon, advertises his removal from Burlington to Phila- delphia, 392.
Wishard, Thomas, house to be let by, 246.
William, house to be let by, 245.
Wistar, Caspar, glass house of, 32. servant ran away from, 409; Dutchman ran away from, 479.
Wister; Richard, 413; servant ran away from, 413.
Witherspoon, Rev. Dr. John, elect- ed President of the College of New Jersey, in 1766, 364; reported to have accepted, and about to embark for America, 386; declines the election, 415; again elected, in 1767, 506. Wolf-Pit Point, 57.
Wolff, John, servant ran away from, 253.
Wood, Captain, 121. Edward, 475. Jechonias, horse Swan belong- ing to, 82. Peleg, drowned, 90. Robert, 215.
Woodberry, 354, 411, 417; land for sale in, 381; land for sale situate near, 465; creek, land for sale situate on the northerly side of, 465.
Woodbridge, 6, 7, 10, 38, 42, 43, 73, 76, 113, 133, 143, 154, 338, 428, 471, 472; post road to, 16; road, murder on, 73; township, land in, for sale, 194; murder near. 263; fire at, 300; horse racing in, 338, 373.
Woodbridge and Piscataway, bar- barous murder between, 73. Woodcock, Anthony, servant ran away from, now in custody, 225.
Woodhull, John, degree of Bach- elor of Arts conferred upon, 222; sketch of, 224.
Woodman, Joseph, degree of Bach- elor of Arts conferred upon, 222; Congregational minis- ter, 224.
Woodrow, Henry, land for sale by, 305; assignee, land for sale by, 399.
Woodruff, Elias, subscriptions for book received by, 455.
Joseph, tavern, grist mill and land for sale by, 152.
Joseph, junior, land for sale by, 96.
Samuel, Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of Essex county, order of, 29.
Samuel, junior, house and lot to let by, 306.
Wood's Mill, 352. Wood's Town, 82.
Woolever, Henry, land for sale adjoining the lands of, 327. Woolsey, Henry, grist mill for sale by, 59; land for sale by, 59.
Woolston, John, conveyance to, 5. Woolwich, 513; township of, 418, 512; land for sale situate in the, 417, 418. Worlow, John, payment stopped on bond and note given to, 305.
Worthley, Obediah, land for sale by, 299.
Wrath, William, deceased, prop- erty of, for sale, 209.
Wrecks, 40, 44, 45, 49, 50, 77, 78, 79. 80, 81, 89, 90, 95, 113, 119, 121, 155, 278, 355, 370, 440, 484, 486, 489, 514.
Wright, Captain, 337.
David, wife eloped from, 124. Hester, eloped, 124.
John, carpenter, petition of, 137.
Mahlon, horse stolen from, 44. Samuel, horse stolen from, 393.
William, horses to be entered with. for Perth Amboy races, 71; innkeeper, 120; house of, 120; land for sale at the house of, 507. Wybery, Rev. Philip, minister at Philadelphia, 345. Wynkoop, Benjamin, merchant, land for sale by, 32.
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Yard, Isaac, members of the Tren- ton Library Company to meet at the house of, 82. Joseph, innholder, 139; cred- itcrs to meet at the house of, 139; creditors of, re- quested to send in their ac- counts, 364.
Yard and Richmon, sturgeon cured by, 226.
Yardville, 6. Yeng, Hercules, estate of, for sale, 74.
York, Pa., Hezekiah Balch pastor at, 219. York, Va., sloop belonging to, 497. York road, 245; milestones af- fixed on the, 322; land for sale on the. 339. Yorktown, Va., 77.
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York, Captain, 40.
Philip, 356.
Young, Captain, sailed for the West Indies, 25.
George, confined in the gaol of the city of New Bruns- wick, 38: insolvent debtor, notice to creditors of, 38.
Younglove, Isaiah, schoolmaster,
subscriptions for book re- ceived by, 455.
John, subscriptions for book received by, 455.
"Young Sterling." horse, 334.
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Zabriskie, Hendrick Christians,
Peter, 345.
negro belonging to, sus-
pected of murder, 457.
Zutphin, Dirick, executor, land for sale by, 62.
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