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SAMUEL KER.
South Amboy, 16th Jan. 1771.
To be Sold, at public Vendue, between the Hours of one and two in the Afternoon, on Friday the first Day of March next, on the Premises, a Tract of Land containing 145 Acres, whereof about 100 Acres are cleared, on which are a good Dwelling House, with two Fire Places, three Rooms and an Entry on the lower Floor, and four Rooms up Stairs; with a good Garret, and a good Stone Cellar under the whole House, in which is a Milk Room, a Cellar, with a Kitchen that joins the House, a Fire Place in it, an Oven and Oven House, all well furnished, and a good Stone Well, close to the door, of very good Water in the driest time, with a good Garden that joins the Well and House ; also a Barn of 48 Feet by 36, cov- ered with Cedar, a Waggon House, Corn Crib, Hen- House, and Sheep-House, all under one Roof, covered with Cedar; also a young Orchard upwards of 200 Apple Trees, Peach Trees and Plumb Trees. This 24
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Tract is good for Wheat and Corn, with Water in every Field, is in very good Fence, and joins to a good out let, and an extraordinary good Neighbour- hood. There can be cut about 12 Waggon Load of Clover, Timothy, and Burding-grass in a Season, and a good deal more can be cut with very little Expense. The Plantation lies within two Miles of Monmouth Court House, within 12 Miles of Middletown Point, and 14 of Black Point, and joins the Burlington Road that leads from the said Court House to Black Point in Shrewsbury ; it is convenient to the Baptist Meet- ing House, Presbyterian, Dutch Church, and English Church, the farthest is not above five Miles : The Place is remarkable for a good Market. Any Per- son choosing to purchase before the Day of Sale, may apply to Edmund Harris, on the Premises, who will agree and give an indisputable Title for the same ; or to Daniel Hendrickson, Jun. in Middletown ; or to Garret Vanderveer, in Freehold : The Conditions of the Vendue will be made known on the Day of Sale, by us
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Edmund Harris, Daniel Hendrickson, Jun. Garret Vanderveer.
-The New-York Journal, or The General Adver- tiser, No. 1466, Feb. 7, 1771.
Upper Freehold, February 3, 1770. [sic] NOTICE is hereby given to all the Creditors of John Parker, and Benjamin Parker, jun. of Upper Freehold, in the County of Monmouth, and Province of New Jersey, to attend at the House of Andrew
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Pierse, in Upper-Freehold aforesaid, on Monday the 13th of May next, to settle and adjust their De- mands. At the Same Time and Place will be ex- posed to Sale at public Vendue, all the Estates of the aforesaid John Parker and Benjamin Parker, jun. when all Persons indebted to them, are requested to attend and make payment.
ANDREW PIERSE, JOHN ESTELL, Assignees.
BENJ. PARKER, minor.
To be Sold at private Sale.
A BOAT of about 20 Tons Burthen, suitable for carrying Wood or Hay, she having been chiefly em- ployed in that Business. The Boat is in good Order, is well rigged, has a new Mainsail, with two good Anchors, and new Cables.
For farther Particulars, inquire of HENRY FREE- MAN, in Woodbridge, East-New-Jersey.
-The New York Gazette, or the Weekly Post-Boy, No. 1497, February 11, 1771.
NEW YORK, February 11. | Saturday last Capt. Stewart arrived here from Madeira, in 7 Weeks : He came to an Anchor last Friday Evening at Sandy Hook ; but lost both his Anchors and Cables on Sat- urday Morning.
To be SOLD,
A Convenient stone dwelling house, and lot, with a good shingle roof'd barn; the lot contains about one acre, and the house has three good rooms on a floor, with two small back rooms, situated at the new
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bridge, in Hackinsack, in the county of Bergen, bounded, upon Hackinsack River, and opposite to John Zabriskie, Esq; very convenient for fishing and fowling. Also twenty five acres of good mowing ground and wooded land, within half a mile of the dwelling-house; a very convenient situation for a shop or tavern-keeper, as there has been a tavern kept for many years ; and near to the latin school, very convenient to keep boarders. Any person in- · clining to purchase, may have the whole, or the house and lot only ; For further particulars enquire of And- rew Van Buskirk, on the premises, or of John Earle, who will give a good title for the same.
N. B. The house and lot will be sold very cheap, and easy payments given, as the owner has no use for it.
To be LETT, on Cowfoot-Hill,
A convenient House, last tenanted by Capt. Rose ; also two pleasantly situated Houses and Lots in Elizabeth-Town. For particulars, enquire of Abra- ham Lott, Esq ; Treasurer, or of Henry Kelly.
To be SOLD,
At public vendue on Tuesday, the 19th day of March, at the merchant's coffee-house, in New-York or at private sale any time before by the subscriber ;
A Farm or plantation, lying in Piscataway, New- Jersey, about one mile and a half from Bound-Brook, two miles from Quibble-Town, and five miles from Rariton-Landing, containing about one hundred and fifty acres of excellent land, the greater part of it mowing ground, with a tolerable good house, and
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barn, and orchard, being formerly possessed by Thomas Clawson, deceased, and now by Burgen Cov- ert. For further particulars, enquire of Mrs. Tobias Van Norden, at Bound Brook, or the Subscribers, in New-York.
LUDLOW and HOFFMAN, LEWIS PINTARD.
NEW JERSEY, 1 THIS is to give notice to all whom Morris County, it may concern, that whereas I the subscriber, did petition the General Assembly of this - province at their last sessions, for a law to compel the owners of a certain boggy swamp, known by the name of the Pinch Bogg Swamp, in Hanover town- ship, to scour, cleance, and keep open at their own expence, a certain great ditch, and other line ditches running thro' the said bogg swamp, so far as each person joins said ditches. Likewise I intend to peti- tion the Governor and Council and General Assembly, at their next sessions, for a law to compel the owners and possessors of land benefitted by said ditch, to de- fray the expence formerly made by digging and cleaning the same, and all other line ditches in said bogg swamp, leading into said great ditch ; to be dug five feet wide, and as deep as the said great ditch, and maintained at the expence of the owners and possessors adjoining the same. All persons con- cerned therein are desired to attend at the next ses- sions of said General Assembly, and shew cause, if any they have, why said law shall not pass.
MOSES YOUNG.
Likewise this is to give notice, That we the sub-
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scribers, inhabitants of the township of Hanover, in Morris County, intend to petition the Governor, Council, and General Assembly, of the province of New-Jersey, at their next sessions, for a law to com- pel the several owners and possessors of certain lots of swamp or meadow, adjoining Whiponong River, and Black Brook, and the Muddy Run, that runs from the mouth of the Great Pinch Ditch, through Flaggy Meadow, and Swamp, to said Black Brook, to dig a ditch sufficient for draining the same; beginning at the mouth of said Pinch Ditch, thence a direct course through several lots of swamp, to said Black Brook ; then to clear out said brook, to said Whiponong River ; thence down the same to the south-west cor- ner of Col. Tuttle's land ; the several owners not to be at any charge any farther than they join said ditch, brook, or river, and so far each one to be at equal expence in making and maintaining said ditch, and cleansing the said brook and river, and so to continue from year to year, by cleaning out said brook and river, all the wood, logs, and brush that any ways ob- structs the passage of the water.
BENJAMIN PRICE, JOHN TROUP, BENJAMIN GREEN, MOSES YOUNG. -The N. Y. Gazette ; and the Weekly Mercury, No. 1007, Feb. 11, 1771.
To be sold, in the Township of Bridgewater, in Somerset County, in New-Jersey, the following Tracts or Parcels of Land, viz. One Plantation containing about 160 Acres of Land, whereon is a good new Dwelling House, with a good Cellar, and four Fire
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Places, as also a good Barn, and a thriving young Orchard, of about 400 Apple Trees ; a considerable Quantity of the Land cleared, and in good Fence, pleas- antly situated on a public Country Road, about 9 Miles from New-Brunswick, and about two Miles above Bound-Brook Town ; which Premises are so situated and supplied with Springs and other Water that it would admit of being divided into two small Farms : Also 12 Acres of Meadow Ground near the Same Pre- mises : Also another Plantation at a small Distance from the above, containing 102 Acres, whereon is a new framed House, plenty of good Meadow, and a young Orchard : As also, a small Tract of about 18 Acres, whereon is a good Saw-Mill, situated in the Midst of a great Plenty of Timber, &c. All which Pre- mises were lately the Property of Isaiah Younglove :
The Purchaser may have easy Terms of Payment, and enter on the Premises by the first Day of April next ; and an indisputable Title will be given, by
Peter Schenck, Esq ; Matthew Ten Eyck, and
John Van Derveer, Esq ; George Van Neste.
Jan. 8, 1771. All of Somerset aforesaid. -N. Y. Journal, or The General Advertiser, No. 1467, Feb. 14, 1771.
To be SOLD, by the SUBSCRIBER, and entered on the 25th of March,
A SMALL but valuable plantation, situate in Al- loway's-creek township, in the county of Salem, in West New-Jersey, adjoining a public road, leading from Salem to Cohansey Bridge, and two miles from a noted landing on said creek, called Quinton's
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Bridge, where abundance of staves and cord wood are transported to Philadelphia, and not above 5 miles from Salem, 4 from a glass-house, and near several grist and saw-mills, and near sundry places of worship, and a school-house settled on one corner of the land, containing 86 acres of land, about 30 whereof are cleared, and about 17 or 18 acres of good rich swamp meadow, the greatest part in good grass, and a great quantity more might, with a small expence be made, all in one entire body, and adjoin- ing the upland ; the improvements are, a good dwell- ing-house, almost new, 27 feet by 20, two rooms on a floor, with fire-places in each room, good stone cel- lar under the whole, kitchen, barn, apple and peach orchard, and an excellent well of water at the door, stoned up. For further information, and terms of sale, apply to LEWIS OWEN, Shop-joiner, in Salem. Feb. 5, 1771.
HISTORY. | As the completion of the grand feast of historical entertainment, by the Publication of the Third Volume of Robertson's celebrated History of Charles the Fifth is near at hand, all Gentlemen that possess a sentimental taste, so as to wish for a Par- ticipation of this elegant XENOPHONTIC BAN- QUET, At the moderate price of Three Dollars (although the British edition cannot be imported for less than Fifteen Dollars) are requested to send their names as encouragers of it to any of the Booksell- ers in Boston, New-York, Philadelphia ; or to Mr. Dunlap Adams, in Trenton-Mr. Isaac Collins, in Burlington- -
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N. B. The First and Second Volumes are already published, and may be had at the above mentioned places at One Dollar each Volume .- The Pennsylva- nia Gazette, No. 2199, February 14, 1771.
TO BE LET,
AND entered upon the Ist of May next :
The House and Lot of Ground in Beaver-Street, where Mr. James Parker, deceased, lately lived and kept his Printing-Office: The House contains on the first Floor 2 front Rooms, one conveniently fitted for a Shop, the other for a Bed-room or small sum- mer Parlour, a large handsome Parlour, and a small side Room, both with Fire Places; on the second Floor, one large and three small Rooms, two of which have Fire Places ; and on the third Floor, a Bed Room and a large light Room with a Fire Place, where Mr. Parker kept his Printing Works. This Room is capable of being divided into two or four handsome Apartments. Under the House is a Cel- lar Kitchen, in the Yard a Store House, and adjoin- ing a Tenement fit for a small Family, which may be rented separately. For terms inquire of Mr. Pan- ton, in Broad-Street, or Mrs. Parker, at Wood- bridge.
TO BE SOLD,
At Publick Vendue, on Saturday, the second Day of March next ensuing,
AT the Dwelling-House of Mr. James Banks, Innholder in Newark, at Two o'Clock in the After- noon of the same Day, by us the Subscribers, As- signees of the Estate of John and Uzal Ogden, Es-
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quires, of Newark, in New Jersey, for the Benefit and Advantage of their Creditors: ALI, the Estate, Right, and Title, which, the said John and Uzal Og- den have, in and to the Furnace, Casting-houses, Coal-houses, and other the Appurtenances ; and also in and to several Tracts or Parcels of Land, situate, lying and being in the Counties of Morris and Ber- gen, at and near Bloomendale ; which said Premises are subject to a Mortgage to Thomas and Ferdinand Pennington, of Bristol, in the Kingdom of Great Britain. The Particulars whereof, and the Boun- daries of the said Lands, will be made known at the Time of the Sale; of which all Persons concerned, and those inclining to purchase, are desired to take Notice.
JOSEPH RIGGS, jun.
Newark, in New- THOMAS LONGWORTH.
Jersey, Feb. 10, 177[.
-The N. Y. Gazette, or the Weekly Post-Boy, No. 1498, Feb. 18, 1771.
NOTICE is hereby given that the plantation of Mo- ses Conger is to be sold, by public sale, to the high- est bidder, at vendue, on the 25th day of next March, afternoon, if not sold at private sale before. It is well situated for a gentleman, tradesman or farmer, allowed good land, lying in Woodbridge-Raway Neck, adjoining that pleasant river, which affords fish in plenty in the season, and is navigable for boats, sloops, &c. There is on it a tolerable good house and barn ; it is exceedingly well watered, some wood, a fine young orchard, and another considerable old.
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It contains by estimation, between seventy and eighty acres of upland, near 15 acres of salt marsh, as handy and as good as any in that part .- Any person wanting such a place, may apply to the subscriber before the day of sale, who will give a good title, and sell on reasonable terms.
MOSES CONGER.
N. B. Said place lies convenient for a ferry to be erected across Raway river, to Elizabeth-Town.
-The N. Y. Gazette, or the Weekly Post-Boy, No. 1498, Feb. 18, 1771.
New-Jersey, Essex County, Feb. 9, 1771.
WHEREAS Sarah Druer, the wife of Timothy Druer, the Subscriber, hath behaved herself in a very dis- orderly and unbecoming manner; therefore this is to forewarn all Persons whatsoever, from trusting or crediting her in my Name, on any Pretence what- ever, as I am determined to pay no Debts of her con- tracting from the Date hereof.
TIMOTHY DRUER.
Elizabeth-Town, Feb. 5, 1771.
TO be lett, and entered on the 25th of March next, the large, convenient, and well situated Dwell- ing-House of Col. Jacob Dehart, in Elizabeth-Town, suitable for a Gentleman, or any Business, with Out- houses, a good Orchard and Garden adjoining the same; and also another House and Lot of Ground of the said Jacob Dehart, situated in a very pleasant Part of the Town, and suitable for any Kind of Busi- ness. Any Person inclining to take either of the
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above Tenements, will be pleased to apply to the Owner.
JACOB DEHART. -The N. Y. Gazette ; and the Weekly Mercury, No. 1008. Feb. 18, 1771.
DEATHS. · . At Woodbury, New Jersey, the Hon. John Ladd, Esq ;1 one of his Majesty's Council for that Province.
-The Pennsylvania Chronicle, No. 214, February II, to February 18, 1771.
To be LETT, and may be entered immediately,
A GOOD brick HOUSE, 3 rooms on the first floor, and two kitchens, and 7 on the next, 4 miles from Philadelphia, near Lancaster road ; . . Any gentleman inclining to rent the same, may know the terms, by applying to the subscriber on the premises,
JOSEPH MITCHELL.
Also to be lett, The Ferry at Bordentown, with the boats thereunto belonging, and a good conveni- ent house, and garden, and two other lots. Any person inclining to rent the same, may know the terms, by applying as above. Rebecca Potts, who lives with Mr. Joseph Borden, in Bordentown, will show the house and lots.
To the PUBLIC,
WHEREAS the subscriber has been a few years since strenuously importuned by several of the most eminent gentlemen in the province of Pennsylvania, his friends, to reassume and continue the cultivation
1 For notices of John Ladd, see N. J. Archives, IX, 395; X, 224.
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of GARDEN SEEDS; pursuant thereto he has at considerable expence for some years past, procured and reared as various and numerous a collection of garden seeds, best in kind, as any man resorting Philadelphia market whatsoever ; peas and beans of all kinds, and thinks he can supply any demands, for any kind of garden seeds, that can reasonably be expected in this part of America. And does hereby return his sincere thanks to such gentlemen and others as have favoured him with their custom, re- questing the continuation of the same, who may be supplied, in future, at the most reasonable rates, by applying on market days, at the covered stall, the north side of the Jersey market, at the upper end, or by applying to Mr. Caleb Hewes, Hatter, within a door or two of the Rising Sun, in Market-street, where he keeps his Seed Store; and likewise at his seat in Newtown, Gloucester county, New-Jersey ; whose favours shall be gratefully acknowledged, by their very humble servant, RICHARD COLLINGS, Gardi- ner.
Carlisle, February 11, 1771.
WHEREAS a certain Caleb Sweesy, of Roxbury township, in the county of Morris, in West New-Jer- sey, obtained three bonds from the subscriber, each for £115, dated May 24, 1769, and payable on the Ist of May, in the years 1771, 1772, 1773. And whereas said Sweesy has not made sufficient title to the subscriber, for the plantation or tract of land, for which such bonds were given ; these therefore are to forewarn all persons not to purchase, or take assign-
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ments on said bonds, as I am determined to dispute the payment of them, until Sweesy shall make good his covenant.
JOHN STEEL.
-The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2200, Feb. 21, 1771.
NEW YORK, Feb. 21. By a Letter from Capt. John Hampton, dated St. Augustine, December 19, (who sailed from hence some time in November last, loaded with King's Stores, bound to New Provi- dence and St. Augustine) we learn, That the third Day after he left the Hook, he had a violent Storm, in which he lost his Boom, and everything off Deck, except his Boat and Cabouce, which obliged him to put in at St. Augustine before he could proceed to Providence.
-The New York Journal, or The General Ad- vertiser, No. 1468, Feb. 21, 1771.
NEW-YORK, FEB. 14. Saturday last Capt. Stewart arrived here from Madeira, in seven weeks : he came to anchor last Friday evening at Sandy-Hook ; but lost both his anchors and cables on Saturday morning.
PHILADELPHIA. | The sloop Santa Maria, Capt. Bell, from South-Carolina, and the ship George, Capt. Gregory, from Jamaica, both for this port, came to anchor off Cape May, on Friday last, but on Sat- urday, the wind being high, the ship stood out to sea, and the sloop stood in, and got into Cohansy creek, where she lies safe.
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The sloop -- , Capt. Seabrook, belonging to and bound for Egg Harbour, from St. Eustatia, hav- ing been blown off this coast at two different times, put into Norfolk, Virginia, about the 14th of January last.
- The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1472, Feb. 21, 1771.
MARRIED. . . . At Chestnut-Grove, New-Jersey, Mr. Nathaniel Lewis, of Philadelphia, Merchant, to Miss Lucy Lawrence.
Philadelphia, March 4. A Gentleman just arriv- ed here from New York, informs, that the Packet, which had been beating some Time off Sandy Hook, was safe arrived in Port. The Letters are hourly expected by the Post.
-- The Pennsylvania Chronicle, No. 216, Feb. 2.5 to Mar. 4, 1771.
New-Jersey, Hanover, Morris County, Feb. 18, 1771.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, that the sub- scribers, inhabitants in the township aforesaid, intend to petition the Governor, council, and general as- sembly of the province aforesaid, at their next ses- sions, for a law to compel the several owners and possessors, of certain low miery swamp and meadows, in the township aforesaid, laying each side of Black Brook, running the easterly side of Great Whapping meadows; for each of the several owners or pos- sessors adjoining said brook, to clear out the same to such a depth and width, as shall be necessary for the effectual dreaning the aforesaid lands adjoining the
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same; beginning· where Muddy Run empties into said Black Brook, and from thence running up said brook as far as the same adjoins the southermost part of the Hammock plantation. The several own- ers not to be at any charge further than they join said brook. So far each one to be at equal expense, according to the length they shall join or bound on the same, and to continue from year to year cleaning out and repairing the same, as occasion shall require. JOHN BURROUGH, EBENEZER SAYRE. BENJAMIN BURROUGH, EPHRAIM PRICE, SAMUEL FORD. -The N. Y. Gazette ; and The Weekly Mercury, No. 1009, Feb. 25, 1771.
NEW YORK, February 25.
Saturday the 12th inst. his Excellency the Right Honourable, JOHN Earl of DUNMORE, gave his As- sent to the following Acts, passed this Session ; after which his Excellency recommended the Speaker to return to the Assembly Chamber, and adjourn the House till Monday the 25th Instant, and the House adjourned to that Time accordingly.
An Act for establishing the Boundary or Partition Line between the Colonies of New York and Nova Cesarea, or New Jersey ; and for confirming Titles and Possessions.
An Act to amend an Act, entitled, An Act for sub- mitting the Property of the Lands which are held or claimed by Grants under the Great Seal of this Col- ony, and are affected by the Controversy about the Boundary or Partition Line between this Colony and
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the Colony of New Jersey, to such a Method of De- cision, as his most Gracious Majesty shall think pro- per by his Royal Commission or otherwise to ap- point ; and for defraying the Expense to accrue on the Part of this Colony, on the final Settlement of the said Line.
PHILADELPHIA, February 21. Last Friday the sloop Santa Maria, Captain Bell, arrived at our Capes, from South-Carolina ; and the ship Minerva, Capt. Gregory, from Jamaica ; the sloop is since got into Cohansey Creek, but the ship either weighed, or slipped her cable, and stood out to sea.
NEW-YORK, February 25. | We hear that one of the Pilot Boats belonging to this Port, was sunk near Sandy-Hook last Week by the Ice, and it was with much Difficulty that the People on board escaped.
To be LETT. | And entered on the first of May next, | THE House in Beaver-street, wherein the Printing-Office is now kept. Enquire of Mr. Francis Panton, in Broad-street, New-York, or Mrs. Mary Parker, at Woodbridge.
-The N. Y. Gazette, or The Weekly Post-Boy, No. 1499. Feb. 25, 1771.
West New-Jersey, February 21, 1771.
RUN away on the Ist instant, from the subscriber, in Lower Penn's Neck, Salem county, an English ser- vant man, named THOMAS COLLARD, about 21 years of age, and about 5 feet 7 inches high ; had on, and took with him, a new Russia shirt, green woolen trowsers, two jackets, one of a yellow striped lincey, patched with 25
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red, the other of home made cotton, with buttons of the same colour, grey stockings, new double soaled shoes, and a half worn felt hat. Whoever takes up said ser- vant, and commits him to goal, or sends him to the subscriber, shall have FOUR DOLLARS reward, and all reasonable charges paid by me.
JONAS REES.
On Thursday last was married, at Chestnut-Grove, East-Jersey, Mr. NATHANIEL LEWIS, Merchant of this City [Philadelphia], to Miss LUCY LAWRENCE, Daught- er of ELISHA LAWRENCE, Esq ; a lady of a serious and well disposed Mind, and endowed with every Quali- fication to render the married State happy.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 28. | The Snow Chance, Captain Brown, from Georgia for this Port, loaded with Live Oak Timber, parted her Cables, and drove ashore near Cape-May, in the Snow Storm, on Sun- day, the 17th Instant; the Vessel is bilged, but the Sails and Rigging are saved.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 28. | Our Navigation be- ing again clear, Yesterday a Brigantine, supposed to be the Polly, Captain Lockton, from St. Christophers, came up to Gloucester Point.
The Brig Carpenter, Captain Smith, from Barbados; and the Brig Charming Peggy, Captain Conyngham, from Antigua, are arrived, at our Capes.
Arrived at Barbados. . Captain Richards, from New-Jersey.
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