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the first sense, they will cut off about half the con- gregations from the benefit intended. The test complained is, That three principal men, and the Minister, must pledge their faith and consciences, for the faith and consciences of a whole congrega- tion ; this some Baptist Ministers consider as an im- proper requisition for any legislature to make, and unsafe for them to comply with ; and never could do it in the times of certificates under the former laws ; neither can they do it under this new law, which de- mands lists so attested. The consequence of which is, that none in those lists will be exempted from the tax. The Baptists proposed another test, which would have answered the end better ; but the Great and General Court had written what they had written. 5. The remedy which this law provides for the non- entity of old lists, and the supposed defects of future lists looks like sport on the Assembly's part ; and is certainly an additional insult offered to the Bap- tists. " The town meetings, in that case, are to de- termine whether the Baptists shall be taxed or not." This is resigning Assembly legislature to a parish meeting ; and making a parish meeting judges and juries in their own cause. If they spare the Baptists they must burden themselves the more. It is put- ting the Baptists in the power of them who have watched all opportunities to do them despite; and from whose bitterness and persecution they have so often petitioned the Assembly to deliver them. Be- sides the same law excludes from those meetings all Churchmen, Quakers, and Baptists, and leaves none in but right stanch Presbyterians. If this is not
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sporting with and insulting the Baptists, I know not what may be so called. It is cruel and tyrannical ! I know the Great and General Court have made a law to punish them that talk against them let them do what they will. But, thank God, their greatness and generality do not extend to London. 6. This law, like the rest, is of short duration. It continues for but three years; and by a contrivance before mentioned, they have docked off one of the three. It is natural to wonder, why one law would not do ; and why that one law may not be let to live as long as it can, since nothing more is desired by the petitioners, nor any thing less intended by the legis- lature (as they say) than an exemption from ministe- rial rates ? But three ends are gained. First, Fre- quent lawless interims happen, that Constables and Assessors may fall with redoubled vengeance on the few who escaped it before. This has really been the case, and will be the case this year. Secondly, This contrivance requires frequent and expensive petitions. The present law cost two years petition- ing ; and though we have but seven laws, yet the ob- taining of them cost 39 petitions. And it is in- credible what time and money have been wasted to obtain laws, which when obtained were not worth a pumkin to most of the parties concerned. And lastly, by both the Baptists are harrassed and impov- erished. This is really the effect ; for though there be 37 congregations in Massachusetts, yet they are not able to set their hard usage before the King without the help which they solicited from their brethren to the Westward, which help I hope, will
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be given, as they are necessitated the more by this new law ; a copy of which, I will endeavour to lay before the persons I address, that they may see with their own eyes whether the above remarks are just or not .- The Pennsylvania Chronicle, No. 210, Fan. 14 to Fan. 21, 1771.
New-Jersey, Morris County. This is to give Notice to all whom it may concern, That whereas I the Subscriber did peti- tion the General Assembly of this Province at their last Sessions, for a Law to compel the Owners of a certain boggy Swamp in Hanover Township, to scour, cleanse and keep open, at their own Expense, a certain great Ditch and other Line-Ditches run- ning through the same. All Persons concerned therein, are desired to attend at the next Sessions of said General Assembly, and shew Cause, if any they have, why said Law shall not pass.
MOSES YOUNG.
To be sold at public Vendue, on Thursday the seventh Day of February next, at 10 o'Clock in the Forenoon, or at private Sale any Time before ; A small but valuable Plantation, lying on the public Post Road between Newark and Elizabeth-Town, at a Place called Bound Creek ; said Plantation con- tains about 12 Acres, 10 of which is Orchard, the other Meadow; the Orchard is well known to make as good Cyder as any in the Province, 300 Barrels has been made in a good bearing Year, the meadow bears a large Burthen twice a Year : There is on said Plantation, a House, Barn and Shop, fit for any 22
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Tradesman ; a Cyder-Mill and Press, and Still House, an excellent Well, a Number of Peach Trees, Cherry, Pear, &c. an excellent Garden, moist enough the dryest Season ; there is Manure enough joining to said Place, to always keep it in Heart, which may be got with very little Expense ; Vessels of six Cord may come loaded within 100 Yards of the Door : There is in said Creek plenty of Oysters, Fish and Fowl. Any Person inclining to purchase the same, or a Part thereof, may apply to ALEXANDER VANCE, living on the Premises, who will give an in- disputable Title for the Same.
N. B. At the Same Time will be exposed to Sale at Vendue, the equal undivided Half of a large House and ten Acres of Land, Part of which is Orchard, and some Meadow; the said undivided Farm is to be sold during a Man's Life, who is now about 47 Years of Age: Likewise at the same Time, will be sold, Horses, Cows, Calves, Sheep, Hogs, Two Riding Chairs, a repeating Clock, Spin- ning Wheels both Linen and Woollen, a Quantity of Chairs of different Sorts, Looking Glasses, Pictures, Feather Beds, and a large Quantity of excellent Household Furniture, some Farming Utensils and Lumber. Any Person inclining to purchase, may apply as before to ALEXANDER VANCE.
To be SOLD, | At the Little Falls at Passaick River, any Time before | the first Day of March next ; |
A Plantation of 260 Acres of Land, great Part of which is Meadow, with a Forge of three Fires, and
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a Hammer, a Grist-mill and Saw-mill. Any Person applying to JAMES GRAY, now on the Premises may agree with him : If not sold before, then a Lease of ten Years will be given of the whole.
NEW-YORK, January 14. | ... Capt. Lee ... last Monday, about 10 Leagues from Sandy-Hook, spoke with the Captains Stout and Depeyster, from this Port for South America.
Thirty Shillings Reward.
RUN-away on the 29th of December 1770, a ser- vant lad named Abraham Stark, about eighteen years of age, about 5 feet 5 inches high, and has a large scar on his right thumb: Had on when he went away, a half-worn beaver hat, black and blue mix'd colour coat, with light colour'd jacket, both made of homespun ; a pair of leather breeches half-worn, flan- nel shirt, and new shoes of the natural colour of the leather, tied with strings. He is supposed to be in company with one Benjamin Dun, who went off the same time. Whoever takes up said lad and secures him so that his master may have him again, shall have the above reward paid by Robert Culver, liv- ing in Roxbury, Morris county .- The N. Y. Gazette and the Weekly Mercury, No. 1003, Fan 14, 1771.
NEW-YORK, January 14. | Saturday last arrived here the Brig Friendship, John Lewis Master in 8 weeks from Bristol :- . on the 12th in Lat. 40 ; Long. 74, spoke a Sloop from St. Eustatia, bound to Egg-Harbour, all well.
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RUNAWAY from the Subscriber, two Apprentice Lads, about 18 Years of Age, 5 Feet 9 Inches high, both Bloomers ; the Name of the one, is EPHRAIM CASSAMOUR, had on when he went away, a new Felt Hat, a short light coloured Coat, a check Woollen Shirt, and a Pair of Bearskin Trowsers, speaks quick, has short brown Hair. The other named JOHN PARKES, had on a good Castor Hat, a blew Coat, and a light coloured cut Velvet Jacket, a Bearskin, do. a Woollen check Shirt, a Pair of old Leather Breeches, grey Stockings, and Pinchbeck Buckles, black Eyes and Hair, moves slow, and speaks slow, supposed to be at some Iron Works. Whoever takes up the said Apprentices, and secures them in any Goal, and let their Master know where they are, shall have THREE POUNDS, and all reasonable Charges paid, by
JONATHAN FORD. Hanover, Morris-County, December 31, 1770.
To the PUBLIC.
THAT the Stage Waggons, kept by John Barn- hill, in Elm-Street, in Philadelphia, and John Mercer- eau, at the New Blazing-Star, near New-York, con- tinues their Stages in two Days, from Powles Hook *Ferry, opposite New-York, to Philadelphia ; returns from Philadelphia to Powles-Hook in two Days also: They will endeavour to oblige the Publick by keep- ing the best of Waggons and sober Drivers, and sets out from Powles-Hook and Philadelphia, on Mon- days and Thursdays, punctually at Sun-rise, and meet at Prince-Town the same Night, to exchange
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Passengers, and each return the Day after: those who are kind enough to encourage the Undertaking, are desired to cross Powles-Hook Ferry the Evening before, as they must set off early. The Price for each Passenger is Ten Shillings to Prince-Town, and from thence to Philadelphia, Ten Shillings more, Ferriage free. There will be but two Wag- gons, but four Setts of fresh Horses ; so it will be very safe for any Person to send Goods, as there are but two Drivers, they may exchange their Goods without any Mistake. Persons may now go from New-York to Philadelphia, and back again in five Days, and remain in Philadelphia two Nights and one Day to do their Business in. The Publick may be assured, that this Road is much the shortest, than any other to Philadelphia, and regular Stages will be kept by the Publick's obliged humble Servants.
JOHN MERCEREAU, and JOHN BARNHILL. -The N. Y. Gazette, or the Weekly Post-Boy, No. 1463, Fan. 14, 1771.
STRAYED or stolen from the meadows of the subscriber, near Gloucester Point, on the 10th Janu- ary instant, a bay mare, about 14 hands high, 4 years old, a hog mane, and switch tail, remarkably long bodied, a natural trotter, shod before, has neither brand nor ear-mark, but supposed to be stolen, as there was a small brown horse, about 12 hands high, with a bob tail, and bald face, with a snip, left in the place. Whoever takes up the said mare, and brings her to the subscriber, living in Market
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street, nearly opposite the sign of the Indian King, shall have Forty Shillings reward, and reasonable charges. And whoever has lost the above described horse, by making application to me, and paying the charges, shall have him again.
ANDREW BANKSON.
EIGHT DOLLARS Reward.
RUN away from the subscriber, living near the Head of Elk, in Cæcil county Maryland, on the Ioth of October last, an Irish servant man, named PETER HUGHES, about 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, straight black hair, was scalped before, but now grown about an inch long, with a small scar on his forehead, walks very smart, and speaks tolerable good English ; had on, when he went away, a small wool hat, bound with tape, a blue jacket, without sleeves, the back parts lighter than the fore parts, coarse tow breeches trowsers, two shirts, one check, the other white, old shoes, but no buckles ; he is very much addicted to steal, and may possibly have got more clothes ; he came into the country about the last of September, with Captain McCausland, in the Wallworth, and this is the second time he has run away ; he was seen in Philadelphia, and is sup- posed to be gone to New-Jersey ; he is very apt to get drunk, and, when drunk, very quarrelsome; he pretends to be a weaver by trade, but knows very lit- tle about that business ; he will probably change his name. Whoever secures said servant in any of his Majesty's goals, shall have the above reward, and reasonable charges paid by
ANDREW FRAZAR.
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Gloucester New Jersey, Fan. 11, 1771.
TAKEN up, and secured in Gloucester goal, a certain John Harrison, as he calls himself, but it is supposed his name is John Harris, and that he is a servant, belonging to John Moon, of Kent County, Maryland, as he answers the description in said Moon's advertisement ; says he was born in England, drinks hard, and swears much ; has had a sore leg, and has been about Woodberry about three years. This is to desire his master to come, pay cost, and take him away, otherwise he will be charged by
RICHARD JOHNSTON, Goaler. -Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2195, Fan. 17, 1771.
SEVEN POUNDS REWARD.
RAN away from the subscribers, living near Coop- er's ferry, in the County of Gloucester, and province of New Jersey, on Sunday, the first of October, 1769, an Irish servant man named William Wilson, about 30 years of age, had on when he went away a good fine hat, an old blue coat, an old light coloured jack- et, a check shirt, a pair of striped tickin trowsers with white patches on the knees, and a good pair of shoes with brass buckles in them. He is about 5 feet 4 or 6 inches high, well set, sandy complexion, has very sandy yellow hair tied behind and has a very sandy beard, a very thick under lip, full face, a sour look, and gray eyes. He was advertised at the time he ran away, his right name is William M'Cullen, and perhaps his advertisement may not be worded like the other, I understand that he was seen last fair at Nopentown. Whoever takes up said servant, and secures him, so
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that I may get him again, shall have the above re- ward, and reasonable charges if brought home.
BENJAMIN INSHEEK.1
TO BE SOLD.
| On REASONABLE terms by the Subscribers, | ETNA FURNACE, | IN Burlington County, 19 miles from Philadelphia, situate on a tract of near 9,000 acres of well wooded land, in a plentiful and healthy country, furnished with all houses and build- ings necessary, 7 miles from the present landing on Ancocas Creek and one may be made at five miles distance, or the produce may be transported in a pontoon to carry six tons at two miles whence boards are daily floated in rafts of 2500 feet. The land carriage to New-York market is 17 miles. Togeth- er with a small stamping mill and a grist mill close to the furnace, and conveniences therein to grind and polish iron ware by water; there is in the fur- nace a variety of nice patterns and flasks for casting ware, for which, as well as barr iron and metal of this work is very fit, and is in very high esteem at foreign markets, as will appear, by the accounts of Sales. There is also on this tract a swift going saw mill which for some years past & to come is under a rent of near {200 per year, with a provision for doing the owner's work. There is plenty of ore at different distances, and the roads so remarkably good that the carriages will last many years with very little repair. Also TANTON FORGE, two miles and a half nearer
1 The same advertisement, with some verbal charges, appears in the Pennsyl- vania Gazette, No. 2195, January 17, 1771. It is there signed “Benjamin In- speek, living near Cooper's Ferry." The name was probably Inskeep.
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Philadelphia, on an extraordinary stream, and a com- petent quantity of wood, having all buildings neces- sary. The teams used about these works are chiefly oxen, the maintainance of which cost very little dur- ing the coaling season, and they are wintered abroad at 28s. per pair. The portage of the iron is Ios. per ton to Philadelphia, and the advantages these works have in these respects, over the works far back, amounts to many hundred pounds a year.
Also to be SOLD, ONE HALF of ATSION FORGE or Bloomary of four fires and two hammers, very large and commodious, on a large stream of water, having all necessary buildings erected, the wood and ore handy, the portage of its produce to Philadelphia 17S. per ton, and to New York 15s. The loads at all these works is one ton and a half, and machines of the plainest construction are erected for weighing them if suspected. There are at the works several servants and negroes who understand different branches of the business, teams and carriages. One manager, one clerk, one carpenter, and one smith do the business of the furnace and Tanton forge with ease. The only reason for selling them is that it is necessary to have a person concerned in the works resident at Philadelphia, and a man of activity at the furnace, the present owner is very infirm, and not able to stir much. The premises will bear examin- ing. Any person or persons inclining to become purchasers of a part or the whole, are invited to view them and examine the calculations made for carrying them on, and to stay at the works a proper season to see the exactness of those calculations demon-
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strated. If the persons be strangers introductory letters will be expected.
CHARLES READ.1 -The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1467, Fan. 17, I771.
New-Jersey, ) BY order of the Honourable John Monmouth. Anderson and James Lawrence, two of the Judges of the court of common pleas for said county, Samuel Leonard, junr., a prisoner for debt in said goal, was on this 26th of April, 1770, qualified to a schedule of his effects, pursuant to a late act of assembly, an act, entitled, an act for the relief of in- solvent debtors, made this present tenth year of his Majesty's reign, &c.
Now this is to give notice to the creditors of said debtor, that they be together, at the court house of said county, on the 25th day of January, 1771, to shew cause (if any they have) why the said debtor's estate should not be assigned for the use of his creditors, and his body discharged from gaol pursuant to said act.
Monmouth Gaol.
- The New-York Journal, or The General Adver- tiser, No. 1463, Jan. 17, 1771.
THIS is to acquaint the Publick, That I the Sub- scriber, intends in the Spring to move over the River again, into Bergen County, on my plantation, oppo- site to Totaway Bridge, and intends to sell or let the House and Farm I now live on : It is a very conveni-
1 For a comprehensive sketch of Charles Read, see "Members of the New Jer- sey Assembly in 1754," by William Nelson. Paterson. N. J., 1895.
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ent Place for any sort of Business, either Store or Tavern, or any other Calling ; it is likewise a very pleasant Place for a Gentleman's Country Seat, as there is plenty of Gentleman's Exercise, as hunting and fishing ; there is on the Premises, a large Stone House, containing nine Rooms and nine Fire-places, Cellars through the whole House; there is also a fine new Shingle Roof Barn on the Place, a fine Young Orchard, containing 150 Apple Trees; the Farm contains near a hundred Acres of Land half-cleared, can mow 35 Loads of English Hay every Year. Whoever inclines to buy or hire, may apply to the Subscriber, now living on the Premises, who will give an indisputable Title for the same. This Place lies at the Foot of a large Bridge, near Passaick Falls.
ABRAHAM GODWIN.
TO be sold at public Vendue, on Wednesday, the 13th day of February next, at 10 o'clock. The Plantation belonging to me the Subscriber, contain- ing about 400 Acres, near one-third Part of it is ex- traordinary good Meadow, whereon is cut yearly, upwards of 100 Tons of good Hay, a good Part of it is English and Timothy ; and can, with a little Ex- pence, be cut as much more yearly ; there is near 40 Acres of it the best sort of Bog Meadow, ready ditch'd, fit for raising Hemp or Corn ; the Upland is very good for all sorts of Grain, in good Fence, and near 400 bearing Apple Trees, and a large Number of other Fruit Trees ; well water'd and timber'd ; there is on the Premises, a good Dwelling House, four Rooms on a Floor, with four Fire-places, a good
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Kitchen, Barn, and Barracks, and can easily be di- vided into two Farms ; the Title indisputable. There will also be sold on the Premises the same Day, a Negro Man and Boy, and a Negro Wench, if not sold at private Sale before said Day ; together with all sorts of farming Utensils, and Household Furni- ture, and Horses, Cattle, Sheep and Hogs ; and many other Things too tedious to mention : A reasonable Time of Payment will be given for the whole, and Conditions made known on the Day of Sale, by me,
JOSEPH TUTTEL. New Jersey, Morris County, January II, 1771.
JUST PUBLISHED, | And sold wholesale and retail, by S. INSLEE and | A. CARR, at their Print- ing Office in Beaver Street | [late Parker's] Price 3s. 6d. per Dozen, or 6d single, | A SECOND EDIT- ION of | ROGER MORE'S | AMERICAN | Coun- try Almanack, | For the YEAR of CHRISTIAN Ac- COUNT, 1771 : | And from the CREATION by SCRIPTURE, 5780. or LEAP YEAR. | | Being the third after BISSEXTILE, Calculated according to Art, and fitted to the Pro- | vince of NEW YORK, but may with- out any sensible | Error, serve all the Provinces ad- jacent. |
WHEREIN IS CONTAINED,
The Lunations, Judgment of the Weather, Planets Places in the Ecliptic, and mutual Aspects ; the Sun's and Moon's rising and setting, Seven Stars rising and setting, observable Days, Eclipses, &c. with many useful and instructing Pieces; the Particulars whereof are as follows :
I. THE Times appointed for holding the Supreme Courts, and Courts of Sessions and Common Pleas in the Province of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania.
2. Quakers General Meetings-the Days on which they are kept.
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3. Reflections on Life.
4. A curious Treatise on the Nature of Comets.
5. An Account of Some Experiments, made by Mr. Miller of Cambridge, on the sowing of Wheat.
6. A Method to preserve fresh meat in Summer.
7. Professors Boerhave and Osterdyke's Regimen prescribed for the GOUT.
8. A Receipt for the Gout.
9. An excellent Remedy for Agues, which has been often tried with very great Success.
IO. A very good Medicine for the Bloody-Flux.
II. A Receipt for the Cure of the Tooth-ache.
I2. to take off Freckles.
13. to take out the Spots of the Small-Pox.
14. how to make a Powder that has restored Sight when al- most lost.
15. An excellent Remedy for the Gravel.
16. A list of His Majesty's Council for the Province of N. York. 17. the General Assembly for New York.
18. members of His Majesty's Council for New Jersey.
19. the Representatives of Assembly in New Jersey.
20. A beautiful Poem on the Art of Printing.
21. Tables of Interest, at 6 or 7 per cent. from 5s. to 1001.
22. A Tide-Table, showing the times of High-water at New York, Bos- ton, Philadelphia, Perth Amboy, &c.
23. A Table of Expences, &c.
24. Table of Roads from New York to most of the capital Places on the Continent.
- The New York Gazette, or the Weekly Post-Boy, No. 1464, January 21, 1771.
RUN away from the subscribers hereof, on the 4th day of this instant January, a certain JOHN HALL, late of Pilesgrove, a Blacksmith by trade, a rough looking thick set fellow; had on, when he went away, a claret coloured coat, and other clothes ; says that he was born near Pennypack, in Pennsylvania; took with him sundry things not his own property, as also left his bail. Whoever takes up and secures the said John Hall, in any of his Majesty's goals, so that he
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may be had again, shall receive Forty Shillings re- ward, from
PETER SOWDERBACK or THOMAS HAMILTON.
Was FOUND the 21st Day of January inst. in Cherry Alley, in PHILADELPHIA,
A POCKET BOOK, full of papers, among which, an old Petition, to the Assembly of New Jersey, with several old Accounts ; it is marked, E. R. 1759. The owner, by applying to the Printers, proving his Prop- erty, and paying the Charge of this Advertisement, may have it again.
Published, and to be SOLD by ISAAC COLLINS,
At his Printing Office, in Burlington,
THE LAWS and VOTES of last Sessions of the GENERAL ASSEMBLY of the Province of New Jersey ; by whom Printing is performed in a neat and correct Manner, and the best Price given for HOGS BRISTLES, and clean LINEN RAGS.
Where also may be had, Writing and Wrapping Paper by the Ream, &c. with a Variety of School Books, &c. Stationary and Blanks, by Wholesale and Retail. Book and Pocket Almanacks for 1771, to be sold at the above Printing Office.
To be LETT for a term of Years,
THAT commodious seat, in Moores Town in the county of Burlington, West New Jersey, where Joshua Bispham lately lived, consisting of a good stone house, four rooms on a floor, two kitchens, a good conveni- ent shop for dry goods, and another for wet ditto, a
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large convenient cellar, and store, convenient for the pork trade, where 900 barrels of pork have been manufactured in one year, good convenient stables, and other out houses. Also a good bearing orchard, and large garden, contiguous to said buildings, two lots of meadow, containing about 8 acres ; the prem- ises are in a healthy part of the country, on the great road leading from Philadelphia to Mount Holly, about Io miles from Cooper's ferries. For terms enquire of John Heustis, living in Moores Town.
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