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And joyful, hail the happy Pair May ev'ry Day like this be crown'd,
And Love and Friendship still abound :
And as each circling Year goes past,
Still find you happy as the last.
New- Jersey, 9th Sept.
-N. Y. Fournal or General Advertiser, No. 1446, September 20, 1770.
Wilmington, September 20.
ABSENTED herself from her Master's service in Wilmington, on the 8th day of August last, an ap-
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prentice GIRL named MARY HAWKES, the daughter of Jane Hawks, of Penn's Neck, Salem county, West New-Jersey. The mother had on a short gown and petticoat of dark blue broad striped linsey, the daughter had a new shift, two tow ditto, linsey short gown and petticoat, is about nine years old, full face, black eyes, and large teeth. It is supposed she is with her mother in Philadelphia, as they were lately seen there. Any person taking up the said appren- tice, so that her master shall have her again, shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS Reward, and reasonable charges paid by
JOHN GYLESE. -Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1450, Sept. 20, 1770.
The COMMENCEMENT at PRINCETOWN, will be held on Wednesday, the 26th Instant.
Kingwood township, Hunterdon county, September 12, 1770.
WHEREAS the subscriber hereof did, on the 9th of September last, sign three obligations, to a certain Thomas Herbert, the one conditioned for the pay- ment of Fifty Pounds, on the first of May following ; the other two conditioned for the payment of Nine- ty-five Pounds each, one of them payable the first of May, 1771 ; the other, the first of May, 1772 ; and, as I am of opinion, that he designs to assign the abovementioned bonds to some other person, these are to inform the public that he the said Herbert, hath, since the executing of the above bonds, cov- enanted with me, under his hand and seal, for him-
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self, and his assigns, to wait with me for the money six years, from the 6th of October, 1769.
JOHN JONES. -Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2178, Sept. 20, 1770.
FOUR DOLLARS Reward.
RAN away from the subscriber, living opposite to Philadelphia, in the Jerseys, on the 23d of September last, a lusty likely negro man, six feet high, named WILL, of the blackest cast, and about 30 years of age: had on, when he went away, a darkish coloured grey homespun jacket, without sleeves or lining, with pewter buttons, a pair of black breeches, red jacket, white tow shirt and trowsers, and a pair of new shoes ; it is supposed he is lurking about Philadel- phia. Whoever takes up said negro, and delivers him to the master of the work-house, shall have th above reward, and reasonable charges paid by
DANIEL COOPER.
N. B. His cloathing is uncertain, as he has ap- peared in divers sorts since he ran away .- Pennsyl- vania Chronicle, No. 194, Sept. 24-Oct. 1, 1770.
Messieurs INSLEE and CAR,
PLEASE to acquaint the Public, that the Advertise- ment in your Paper of August 23d [6th] last, respecting the tarring and feathering, &c. the New- York Importers, and placed immediately under the Woodbridge Resolves, as if intended to intimate to the Public, that it was inserted by the Signers, or at least with their Approbation and Consent; was, I
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have sufficient Reason to believe, the Production of a very few, if more than one Man only. The Public may, however, be assured that the respectable Free- holders and Freemen of Woodbridge (acting as a Body) never did, nor ever will do, or cause to be done, any Thing inconsistent with Law or Liberty ; and that they do highly disapprove of said Adver- tisement. Justice to the Sons of Liberty in Wood- bridge, requires this much to be said, in order to re- move any Prejudices against them, that might have been imbibed in Consequence of said Advertise- ment.
I am your constant Reader,
M. B.1
Woodbridge, Sept. 18, 1770.
Messrs. PRINTERS.
Please to give the following a Place in your Paper, and you will oblige many of your Cus- tomers in Sussex, Morris and Essex.
NEW-JERSEY.
At a Meeting of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the County of Sussex, at the Court-House, on the 14th Day of August, 1770.
IN order to shew to the World their Abhorrence I and Detestation, of the shameful Defection of the N-w-Y-s, unanimously agree with each other, and RESOLVED, THAT altho' our Connections with them, have hitherto led us to their Markets, by a long and tedious Land-Carriage, we will now turn our trade of Wheat, Iron, &c., by the more natural
1 Query: Moses Bloomfield.
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and easy Water Carriage down the River Delaware, to our Friends at Trenton and Philadelphia ; and that we will not deal with them, unless they give full Satisfaction to the Colonies for their base and un- worthy conduct. And should any of our Traders purchase of them any Goods, to retail in this Coun- ty, he may expect public Chastisement.
They also appointed a Committee of Correspond- ence.
* Delaware River runs the whole Length of this Colony ; on the N. W. and W. Side thereof, Sussex is the most Northermost County in the Colony, and joins New- York on the N. E. and Goods may and are carried down this River, from the North Station Point, with flat-bottom Boats, which will carry six or eight Hundred Bushels of Wheat, or twenty Tons of Iron, Staves, Heading, .
New-Jersey, Somerset County,
Sept. 17, 1770. Copy of a Letter sent from a Number of sev- eral Committees met here, to the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the Colony of Connecticut. FRIENDS and BRETHERN
C AN there be any Thing more surprising, than the Behaviour of all the New-York Merchants, after they have broke through their most solemn Engage- ments, and done every Thing in their Power to en- tail Slavery on us and our Posterity : Yet, not con- tent, they are daily abusing those who are honest enough to resolve against having Connections with the Enemies of their Country. Let them go on, and
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let us go on also with our Manufacturing and Oeconomy, and see whether they can better do with- out us, than we without them. We want nothing of them, as Needles are manufactured in Pennsylvania, every other Material we can readily make. And shall we be humbug'd out of our Liberty, and en- slaved only by a Sett of Traders? No sure; for depend upon it, from the opulent Merchant to the Pedler, are all interested against us, (except a few Country Patriots in Trade) Therefore let us beware of dealing with them. Let us struggle through the Winter by being charitable, and clothe the Naked with our Superfluity, if any there be in Want; and in another Year we can provide plentiful for the Winter Season. My Friends, beware of the ac- cursed Thing ; touch it not, as it will bring down upon us some Destruction. Let the Name of M -- t,1 therefore, (especially a N-Y-) be dreadful in the Ears of our Children, and learn them that they may teach their Children to the last Generation that the N- Y- - M- -t was the sole and only Cause of Slavery and Distress : Therefore let their Names st-k wherever 'tis men- tioned : Stand firm to your Resolves, as we are de- termined to do, tho' the Yorkers say: "Have you not heard, that Connecticut and Jerseymen do Re- solve."-N. Y. Gazette or Weekly Post Boy, No. 1447, Sept. 24, 1770.
Merchant.
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[The following is inserted by particular Desire.]
Bordentown, August 23d, 1770. To Messrs. J. L.
J. R. and J. L.
GENTLEMEN,
I Have every Day expected to hear the People in your Town was in Motion, in order to show the World and all honest Men, how much they detest the Judaising New-Yorkers, but I am surprised to here this Day you seem very indifferent about the Matter, can this be True? Can you se a body of People enter into the most solemn Engagements, make use of all their Skill and Argument to induce other People to join in their Polosy, which when effected and the Union made compleat, all at once in an arbitrary Manner, and underhandedly take back their Words and leave the rest in the Lurch for the sake of some present gain to themselves? I ask you can you se this with any tolerable degree of Patience? And will you not say such Men ought to be shunned, as Villians, Sharpers, even suppose the Consequence not to be worse than a Trick in Trade ? I am sure you will agree with me in this, but when you consider their Defection is like Adam, it involves us and our Posterity forever, at least its counterwork- ing the only Scheme that could posably be fell upon to gain our Freedom, but perhaps you will say the Tax upon Tea is all we complain of, and that is trifling to trouble ourselves about: I know some People have talked so that have not seen the Trick of the Ministry, but I am much Mistaken if you
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have not considered the Matter better ; you must be sensible the Tea is retained on purpose for a Test against the Americans, you will Remember they past. an Act to prevent our sliting Iron and making Steel, that made a little Noise for a while but past over, then when the thought us Ripe the Stamp-Act came, that they repealed because the Colonies was so much in Debt to England, now you se the present Act was nothing but for a Tryal, the Money arising will not half pay the collecting, you must se the Scheme is more for Posterity than for present Profit to the Min- istry so that we are to be taxed, our Lives but small, but our Children ; not only Paint, Glass, &c. but their very Stock and block, even to their Heads. Thus we are to be tax'd by act of Parliament [blank] are to be tax'd by Acts of Assembly, so we are to have nothing left but a sufficient Subsistence to get more for next Year.
My dear Friends, don't it make you Shuder and almost Outragious, when you read the Act of Par- liament, you know the Words are, the Parliament give and grant, to his Majesty, what is it? why not their own Estates, but the Estates of the Americans, and every Penny they put on us, is taken of them- selves. Do not hesitate my good Friends, but little is expected from you, only a few Days loss Time, and to put up with a few inconveniances for a little while, do not put it in the Power of your Children to Reflect on you, perhaps to curse you, and say you would not make one Strugle for them. Oh! think seriously of the Matter.
I am your Friend,
Jos BORDON.
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To Mr. JOSEPH BORDON.
SIR,
I T is an old Observation, and I believe a true one, that many a Genius, like a rich Diamond, lies buried in Obscurity, and that Fortune, ever blind to Merit, has condemned many to drive a pair of Horses, who are well qualified to hold the Reins of Government, and instead of a Waggon,1 direct the glorious Machine of well ordered Administration.
Nothing Sir, but the most unpardonable Inatten- tion could have permitted the above Letter to have remained so long unknown; and I am really amazed that the Gentlemen into whose Hands it fell, did not sooner communicate it to the World. The Elegance with which it is composed, the patriotic, generous Zeal that breaths in every Line, the Sagac- ity conspicuous in every Sentence and the Knowl- edge of American Politics which distinguishes the whole, deserve the greatest Encomiums and entitle the Author to the first Place among the New-Jersey Literati. Your Comments upon the Act for pre- venting the Erection of slitting Mills in the Colon- ies, are clear and judicious, the principles to which you impute the Repeal of the Stamp-Act are incon- testible, and the Consequences which you say will follow the Taxing the Lives and Heads, the Stock and Block as well as the Paint and Glass of our Pos- terity, are no less logical and didactic, than tremend- ous and alarming.
When the all taxing Ministry of Great-Britain shall perceive their deep laid Schemes thus discov-
ยท 1 Referring to Borden's stage-waggon route from Bordentown to Amboy. 17
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ered, and that their evil Intentions cannot escape your Discernment, it is easy to foresee that no Stone will be left unturned to silence your Pen. But my dear Sir! Let me intreat you by the Regard you profess for the Rights of America. Let me conjure you by the Groans of our departing, dying, sinking Liberties, not to turn your back upon your Country nor leave us in the Lurch in this our Day of Trial. No, oh ! Prince of epistolary Diction, let neither the allurements of Gold, the splendor of a Government, or the charms of a Title divert your Attention from our Calamities, consider that thy Pen like the Rod of Moses, can discomfit the Fudaising New-Yorkers, do not therefore put it in the Power of your Children, to Reflect on you, perhaps to Curse you, and say you would make but one Struggle for them. Oh! think seriously of these Things; let thy Heart be con- stantly inditing of a good Matter, go on writing Let- ters and the Lord prosper this thy handy Work. I am, Most learned Sir Your most obedient Humble Servant
New-Jersey, Sept. 19, 1770.
N OTICE is hereby given, to all whom it may con- cern, that Joseph Sacket, jun. late of the City of New-York, Surgeon, intends to make Applica- tion to the General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey, at their next Session, to be discharged from his Creditors, in Consequence of an Assign- ment made in New-York, of his Estate in October 1769.
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Bordentown, New-Jersey, Sept. 17, 1770.
To the PUBLIC.
W HEREAS an Extract of a Letter dated New-Jer- sey, August 29th, hath been published in the New-York and Philadelphia News-Papers, as is ap- prehended, with a view to injure the Character and Reputation of John Imlay, Esq ; of this Place, and his Son William of New-York. We the Subscribers Members of the Committee for inspecting into the Trade of these Parts, being present at the Time said Imlay laid, by his Request, a State of his Conduct respecting the Importation of Merchandize from Great Britain, before said Committee; do certify, that the aforesaid Extract contains a false and unfair representation of the Matter, and which was pub- lished contrary to the Knowledge and Intention of said Committees. Witness our Hands,
Peter Tallman, Able Middleton,
Robert Emley, Isaac Pearson.
We the Subscribers being present as Spectators at the aforesaid Time, do Corroborate the above Cer- tificate.
John Wood,
Anthony Taylor,
Daniel Hendrickson,
James Newell,
John Pope, Richard Cox,
John Van Emburgh,
Alexander Moore.
Middlesex County, ss.
Y Order of Stephen Skinner, and Jonathan Fra- B zee, Esqrs. two of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County : Notice is hereby given to all the Creditors of Andrew Bisset, an In-
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solvent Debtor, to shew Cause if any they have, be- fore the said Judges on the Eighteenth Day of Octo- ber next at Two o'Clock of said Day, at the House of Elijah Dunham in Perth-Amboy, why an Assign- ment of said Insolvent Estate should not be made and he be discharged from his Confinement agree- able to a late Act of Assembly passed for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors .- N. Y. Fournal or General Advertiser, No. 1447, Sept. 27, 1770.
Burlington County, in New-Jersey, September 8, 1770.
WHEREAS, the Merchants and Freeholders of the City of New-York have, very injudiciously, and in direct Violation of their public Faith, broke through the general Non-importation Agreement, to the great Encouragement of the Enemies to the Free- dom of America : We, the Committees of the Town- ships of Chesterfield, Mansfield, Hanover, Spring- field, and Nottingham in the County aforesaid, by Order of our respective Town meetings, convened in Mansfield aforesaid, being apprehensive of the fatal Consequences that may result from a general Importation of Merchandize from Great-Britain at this Juncture ; and lest our Silence on Such an Occa- sion might be considered as an Acquiescence in the Measure, do hand down to our Posterity the follow- ing Resolutions.
I. That we owe and will maintain all due Alleg- iance to our rightful Sovereign GEORGE the Third, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, &c.
II. That we are as much the natural Subjects of
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the Dominion of Great-Britain, as any within the Realm ; and that as such we have an undoubted Right to all the Privileges of its happy Constitution.
III. That one of the capital Privileges of the Brit- ish Constitution, is that of the Subject's being taxed by his Representative only, and that therefore the late Act of the British Parliament, imposing a Duty on Tea, Glass, &c. is unconstitutional, and oppres- sive.
IV. That as a Testimony to the World of our Dis- approbation of the New-Yorkers Conduct, we will not purchase, nor suffer to be purchased by any un- der our Direction, any Goods or Merchandize from the Inhabitants of the Colony of New-York, nor of any Person or Persons that shall or may purchase, procure, or receive them, directly or indirectly from thence, until the aforesaid Act, imposing a Duty on Tea, Glass &c. is totally repealed, they return to a Sense of the Duty they owe their Fellow-subjects, or those Resolves be dissolved by the above Com- mittees.
V. That we will not purchase, nor suffer to be purchased, by any under our Direction, any Goods or Merchandize (American Manufactures only ex- cepted) of any Pedlar or Petty-chapman whatever.
VI. That any Person or Persons, who may be sus- pected of having in his, her or their Possession, any Goods or Merchandize imported in, brought from or through the Province of New-York, who shall re- fuse, when requested by any Person or Persons, ap- pointed for that Purpose, to give an Account in what Manner they came by such Goods, &c. shall be
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deemed guilty of a Violation of this Agreement, and his, her, or their Names published, in order that they may be handed down, with deserved Infamy, to Pos- terity.
VII. That we will exert ourselves, by all legal and constitutional Means, to aid and assist those, who, by strictly adhering to the Non-importation Agree- ment, generously sacrifice their private Interest to serve the public Good.
Ordered, That these Resolves be signed by the Clerk of these Committees, and published in the Philadelphia News-papers.
ROBERT EMLEY, Clerk.
Burlington County, September 18, 1770 .. Messieurs HALL and SELLERS,
Please to insert the following Lines in your useful Paper, and you will oblige your constant Customer, and humble Servant, P. Q.
I OBSERVED a Piece in the Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2175, signed Aminter, and likewise, in the same Paper, No. 2177, another Piece signed A Jersey Man, the Authors of both which seem absolutely ignorant of the Subject of which they treat upon ;.... for, by looking over the Laws of the Province of New-Jersey, I find, that the Law levying a Tax upon Dogs, passed at a Session of General Assembly, which began May 21, 1765, and continued till the 20th of June following, and, in order to convince the Public that it is not yet expired, here follows the last Section of the said Law .... " And be it enacted, that this Act shall continue in Force for the Space of five
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Years from the Publication thereof, and from thence to the End of the next Session of General Assem- bly." .... Now, I would ask Aminter, and the Jersey Man, if the last Session of the Assembly did not end the 27th of March, 1770 .... if they will give themselves the Trouble of examining the Votes, I am persuaded they will answer in the Affirmative; consequently the Law will not expire till the End of the next Ses- sion of the Assembly.
I agree with Aminter and the Jersey Man, that the Tax upon Dogs has been found beneficial in the Province of New-Jersey ; the only Objection I have to it is, that the Sums raised did not pay all the Damage done, but I doubt not our honourable As- sembly will not only revive the Dog tax at their next Session, but will also make the Tax Two Shillings a Dog, instead of One.
A GRAZIER.
To be SOLD by PULIC VENDUE, on the premises, on the 15th day of October next, being the second day of the week.
THE BREWERY in Burlington, now occupied by LEONARD SNOWDEN, consisting of a brewhouse, with two coppers, a mill-house, a malt house, with all the utensils, in order for business, and may be entered on immediately. Any person inclining to purchase, may apply to PETER WORRELL in Burlington, or WILLIAM DILLWYN, who will make the terms easy to the Pur- chaser.
N. B. At the same time, if agreeable to the pur- chaser of the brewery. will be sold, A two-story frame house and lot, situated very near it.
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RUN away from the subscriber, living in Elsing- borough, a servant man, named Thomas M'Mewee, an Irishman, about 23 or 24 years of age, about 5 feet high, thick set, and short black hair ; had on, a brown home-spun jacket, with sleeves, and an under striped ditto, a blue pair of saggathy breeches, a fine shirt, grey worsted stockings, half worn pumps and old felt hat. Whoever takes up said servant, and secures him in any goal, so that his master may get him again, shall receive a reward of Forty Shillings, paid by the subscriber, in Elsingborough, or John Dickinson, in Salem.
JOHN MOUNTAIN. -Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2179, September 27, I770.
LOST, supposed to be taken by mistake, on Thursday the 27th of September last, out of the house of William Wells, at the Old Ferry, in Water- street, between Market and Arch streets, two small boxes, one mahogany covered with paper, locked and corded ; the other pine, and cover nailed on, direct- ed to Mr. Thomas Cooper, at his plantation near Mount-Holly ; under the direction was wrote S. Gale : Whoever took the said boxes, are desired to return them forthwith to the above Ferry-house, the owner being in great want of them.
N. B. The contents can be but of little if any ser- vice to any person but the owner .- Pennsylvania Chronicle, No. 195, Oct. 1-8, 1770.
New-York, October 4.
The SPEECH of his Excellency WILLIAM FRANK-
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LIN, Esq; Captain General Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the Colony New-Jersey, and Territories thereon depend- ing in America, Chancellor and Vice Admiral in the same, &c.
To the COUNCIL and GENERAL ASSEMBLY of the said Colony, in General Assembly convened at Perth- Amboy.
Gentlemen of the Council,
and Gentlemen of the General Assembly.
INCE the last Session, I have received his Majesty's S Royal Disallowance of the Act, for striking One Hundred Thousand Pounds in Bills of Credit. The Grounds of this Disallowance will be explained to you, by the Report of the Board of Trade upon that Law. If on Consideration you should be of opinion, that a new Act may be so framed, as to obviate those Objections, and yet answer those salutary Purposes intended by the other, you may be assured it will give me Pleasure to be able to afford it my Concurrence ; and that I will use all the Endeavours to obtain his Majesty's Confirmation of it, which may be in my Power.
Gentlemen of the General Assembly.
I HAVE only to request at present that you would make due Provisions for the Support of Government and for the Supply of his Majesty's Troops sta- tioned in this Province.
Gentlemen of the Council, and Gentlemen of the Gen- eral Assembly ;
The Experience I have had of your good Disposi- tions, renders it unnecessary to recommend to you a
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Preservation of that Harmony and good Understand- ing, which is so beneficial to the Publick: I have therefore only to wish that our mutual Endeavours to promote his Majesty's Service, and the Welfare of his Subjects in this Province, may be attended with Success equal to our Intentions.
Council-Chamber, September 28, 1770. 5
W. FRANKLIN.
Wednesday September 26th, was held at Prince- ton, the public Anniversary Commencement of the College of New-Jersey, when the following Gentle- men were admitted to the Degree of Bachelor of Arts, viz.
Samuel Baldwin,
Thomas M'Pherrin,
John Taylor,
John Blydenburgh,
John Cosens Ogden,
Stephen Tracy,
John Campbell,
Nathan Perkins,
Caleb Wallace.
Nathaniel Erwin,
Caleb Russell,
Bedford Williams,
Freder. Frelinghuysen,
Isaac Smith,
Matthias Williamson,
Joshua Hartt,
George Smith,
James Wilson,
Azariah Horton,
John Smith,
James Witherspoon,
Robert Stewart. 1
The Degree of Master of Arts was conferred upon Francis Barber, Joseph Haasbrouck, Samuel Stock-
1 The following sketches of the class of 1770 are condensed from Alexander's "Princeton College in the Eighteenth Century:"
Samuel Baldwin was a native of New Jersey. After graduating he emigrated to South Carolina, and opened a school in Charleston. But the Revolution com- ing on, he took up arms during the attack of the British upon that city. After its capture he was a prisoner in the hands of the enemy. Refusing to take the oath of allegiance, he was obliged to retire into the country. After the war, Mr. Bald win returned to Newark, New Jersey, his native city, where he died at an ad- vanced age in 1850.
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