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CHARLES GREEN.
To be SOLD, at public VENDUE, On Tuesday, the 4th day of June next, on the premises,
A VALUABLE plantation or tract of land, situate in the township of Northampton, in the county of Burlington, about 24 miles from Philadelphia, ly- ing on the great road between Mount-holly and the new mills. The above tract of land contains 250 acres, 80 whereof are improved good meadow ; the whole divided into small lots, and in good cedar fence, 30 acres more may be made, all lying in one body; there are about 100 acres of upland cleared, and in good fence, bearing fine grain of all sorts ; there are on the above tract a good one story dwelling house, with 3 rooms on a floor, an extraordinary good barn, 36 feet wide, and 60 feet long, with two bearing or- chards of good fruit, a pump of excellent good water at the door, the remainder of the land well timbered; the whole is in good order, chiefly in cedar fence. Any person inclining to view the premises, may be shown, by applying to JOHN WEST, living on the above place. Also will be sold at the same time 150 acres
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of woodland, lying within half a mile of said place, which will be very convenient for it; likewise 50 acres of cedar swamp, in small lots. The vendue to begin at 10 o'clock on said day, where the con- ditions will be made known, and attendance given by WILLIAM WILLS.
Twenty-four ACRES of MARSH,
TO be SOLD, situate on the North side of Cross- wicks Creek in Burlington County, New-Jersey, and about four Miles from Trenton. It adjoins Meadow of Isaac and Robert Pearson. Enquire of ELIZABETH BYLES, living in Trenton, or LAMBERT CADWALADER, 112 Philadelphia.
-The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2212, May 16, 1771.
RUN away from the subscriber, living in Elizabeth- Town, New Jersey, on Sunday 12th inst. an indented English servant lad, about 18 or 20 years of age, nam- ed David Henry, and it is likely he may change his name; of a fair complexion, long light colour'd hair; he can shave, dress hair, bleed and draw teeth: Had on when he went away, a light colour'd surtout coat, striped jacket, and green plush breeches, but may
1 Lambert Cadwalader was a son of Dr. Thomas Cadwalader, for some years a resident of Trenton, where he married Hannah Lambert. He was b. (prob. at Tren- ton) 1741; educated at the famous academy of the Rev. Dr. Francis Alison, in Philadelphia. On the breaking out of the Revolution he took an active part on the American side and was commissioned Jan. 4, 1776, colonel of the Third Penn- sylvania Battalion. He was made a prisoner at the capture of Fort Washington, by the British, Nov. 16, 1776, but was paroled, and retired to his estate at Trenton. He remained a prisoner of war on parole until he resigned. Jan. 22. 1779. He m. Mary, dau. of Archibald McCall and Judith, dau. of Peter Kemble, sometime Pre- sident of the Council of New Jersey. Col. Cadwalader represented New Jersey in the Continental Congress, 1784-1787, and in the Federal Congress, 1789-1791, 1793- 1795. He d. Sept. 13, 1823, and is buried in Friends' burying ground, Trenton. He left one child, Thomas Cadwalader.
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change his dress, as he carried some other cloaths along with him. . Whoever takes up and secures the said run away, so that he may be had again, shall re- ceive six dollars reward, and all reasonable charges paid by
WILLIAM M. BARNET.
THESE are to certify all whom it may concern, that my daughter, Helen Baker, II years of age, had the misfortune to be born deaf and dumb, hath re- ceived very considerable advantage in point of hear- ing, and now begins to speak several words, of which she has hitherto been altogether incapable, thro' the means which Dr. Graham, under God, has lately made use of in her behalf; as witness my hand,
JACOB BAKER.
Elizabeth-Town, May 16, 1771.
In East New-Jersey, one hundred and seventy · three persons hath been cured since the 6th of last January, of BLINDNESS, DEAFNESS, FEMALE COM- PLAINTS, &c. The Dr. intends to be at Brunswick about the middle of June next ensuing.
-The New York Gazette ; and the Weekly Mer- cury, No. 1021, May 20, 1771.
PHILADELPHIA, May 27th. | Married. ... Mr. ISAAC COLLINS, of Burlington, Printer, to Miss RACHEL BUDD, of this City.
-- The Pennsylvania Chronicle, No. 228, May 20, to May 27, 1771.
Just PUBLISHED, and To BE SOLD by | WILLIAM AND THOMAS BRADFORD, | PRACTICAL DIS-
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COURSES | ON THE | LEADING TRUTHS | OF THE | GOSPEL, | By JOHN WITHERSPOON, D. D. | President of the College of New Jersey.
To BE SOLD | By way of PUBLIC VENDUE, at the London Coffee-house, | on Thursday the 6th of June next, at seven o'clock in the | evening ; | ALL that fine, rich and fertile price of Meadow Ground, con- taining 28 acres or thereabouts, laying and being in Greenwich-Island, about three miles from the Court- house in this city, and near Greenwich Point-house, adjoining meadow grounds belonging to William Jones and Richard Renshaw, beautifully situate with an extensive front on the river Delaware, command- ing fine views of the vessels sailing up and down the river, Gloucester Point, Red Bank, &c., embanked and under good fence, with a fine crop of grass now standing. The whole divided in the most convenient and advantageous manner for the purchasers, with suitable cart-ways to each lot, and will be sold in parcels agreeable to the plan of division to be seen at the Coffee-house, and Richard Renshaw's Point- house, where a person will attend to shew the prem- ises .-
At the same time will be sold about three acres of excellent Meadow Ground, situate on the east side of Gloucester Point road, fronting the river Delaware, and adjoining the meadows of Stephen Paschall, Jos- eph Morris, and Henry Lisle.
... For particulars and terms of sale, enquire of the subscriber at the corner of Market and Second-streets, where plans of the whole may be seen, and where a
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variety of MERCHANDISE is to be sold very cheap for CASH.
ENOCH STORY, Broker.
ABRAHAM SKILLMAN, | BEGS leave to inform the Public, that he has erected a new STAGE WAGGON, to go from Philadelphia to New-York in one day and a half. All those who are pleased to oblige the in- ventor of said waggon with their company, may de- pend on being used in the best manner, and the jour- ney performed in the above mentioned time. The waggon sets out from BENJAMIN DAVIDS'S at the sign of the GEORGE, at the corner of Arch and Second-streets, Philadelphia, every Friday morning, precisely at Five o'clock ; and from New-York every Tuesday morning. The waggon goes through Bruns- wick, Elizabeth-Town, and Newark.
N. B. Price for each passenger Twenty Shillings. -The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1485, May 23, I771.
TO BE SOLD,
A PLANTATION in Gloucester county, West New-Jersey, lying on Salem road, about 15 miles from Gloucester town, and one from Swedesborough, con- taining about 130 acres through which tract there is a never failing stream of water, with a considerable quantity of swamp, which may be made good meadow; there is likewise on said plantation an or- chard of extraodinary fruit trees, with a dwelling- house, 2 stories high, of square logs, and an extraor- dinary well of water close to the door. There are about 30 acres cleared ; likewise 6 acres of good tide
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meadow, lying on Racoon Creek, banked in. Time will be given for the payment. For terms, apply to ELIAS BOYS, living in Newport, New-Castle county, or THOMAS DENNY, Esq ; near the premises.
N. B. Said plantation is well situate for any busi- ness, such as shopkeeping. or for any tradesman, as the main Salem road runs through it.
PHILADELPHIA, May 23. | The 14th of this Instant departed this Life, at his House in Mountholly, in the County of Burlington, JOHN HATKINSON ; he was a kind and loving Husband, a tender Parent over his Children, a kind Master, and a ready and good Neighbour ; a Man more in Substance than Shew of Religion. His Corpse was, on the 16th, attended to Friends Burying ground, near the said Town, by a large Number of his Friends and acquaintance. He has left behind him a sorrowful Widow and Children, yet not without Hope, that he is taken from many Troubles of this Life to enjoy a better ; and he, who gives this Character, has no small Share in the Loss of so intimate and agreeable a Friend, having been intimate with him, both at home and abroad, for sev- eral Years. W. C.
We hear from Chesterfield, in New-Jersey, that on Tuesday, the 14th Instant, was suddenly summoned hence, in the 18th Year of his Age, by the accident- al discharge of a Gun (which it was supposed went off at Half Cock, by a Person's attempting to remove it from the Place it stood in) Mr. EDWARD PAGE, jun. only Son of Mr. EDWARD PAGE, of that place. - - He was a young Man much esteemed, and whose un-
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fortunate Death is therefore greatly lamented by all who knew him. - - -
Ye Gay and Careless, on his Fate attend !
Captain M'Carty, from the Western Islands, on the 8th Instant, in Lat. 38, Long. 56, spoke a schoon- er, Captain Gardner, from Salem for St. Eustatia, 8 Days out, all well.
-The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2213, May 23, 1771.
NEW-YORK, May 27th. | Capt. Channel, in a Brig from Newfoundland, the 18th Instant, spoke with a Schooner from Philadelphia, for Piscataque, about 25 Leagues from Sandy-Hook.
-The New York Gazette ; and The Weekly Mer- cury, No. 1022, May 27, 1771.
Mr. Goddard,
In No. 223 of the Chronicle I observed an advertisement addressed to the creditors of John Budd, and subscribed with his name-I could not pass over unnoticed the artful untruths contained in it. An imposition on individuals is culpable, on the public unpardonable ; every attempt of so flagrant a nature should be exposed, and the public have an opportunity of judging from matter of fact, which no evasion or artifice can contradict.
In the year 1769, Mr. Budd did apply to the legislative body of this province for the act he mentioned, and being directed to give notice to his creditors of his application, he published an advertisement to that purpose in Bradfords paper, which he was sensible not one in ten would see, as it was not at that time taken in the town of Salem, or its neighbourhood, where most of his creditors, and particularly his securities for his office of sheriff, resided-He was indebted to their ignorance, not their approb- ation of his application, for success. This artifice was subject of triumph to him, and on his return to Salem, he did not fail to boast of it .- He then threw off the mask, and set his creditors at defiance; flushed with the suc- cess of an imposition (which any other man, however unfortunate, would have blushed to reveal) it is not surprising that he was treated with a re- serve and coolness, the indignation such an action justly excited, and for which he assigns such absurd reasons; reasons that the consciousness of fraud could only suggest; reasons, that nothing but unparalleled assur-
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ance could publish. What could induce men of character to act upon those principles he insidiously advances as the motives of their conduct ?- What had they to fear from a review of their actions in a judicial capac- ity, when authorised by the laws of the province? What to fear from a man despicable and held in the utmost contempt by every man in the county who had a character to maintain? Memorandum (that was what he had not)-What interested views, but a detestation of repeated frauds? What friendship for a person of the same profession, but such as naturally arises from a due regard to distinguish merit and abilities? And as to his expectations of returns to favours conferred in his affluence, he was never in such an independant state as to be enabled to grant them; but at the same time that he asserted such an untruth, he should have laid his hand to his breast, and reflected UPON what OBJECTS he lavished the substance of his creditors, and his blood would have felt a turn, tho' he has forgot what it is to blush.
The act it is true was censured, not as being an act of the assembly, but as to the fraudulent methods used to obtain it; the legislature was not blamed, but it was natural to suspect and guard against every action of a man who had given such glaring proofs of his proficiency in dissimulation. This rendered him a dangerous, an unfit member of society, which cannot subsist where mutual confidence is not, and the opinion the people in gen- eral entertained of him was such, as prevented any encouragement from those, who regard other qualities in a man, than that of telling a plausible story.
It is natural for most men who are subject to particular failings to judge partially of the rest of mankind. This unfortunately happens to be his case; subtle and and possessed of that species of low cunning which subjects a man to the contempt of the honest and ingenuous, he has with the utmost effrontery charged them with evasions, that are inconsistent and groundless. - The real state of the affair is thus -- In his petition to the assembly for the act referred to, he offered as a reason to induce them to a compliance, that he would be aiding and assisting to the auditors ap- pointed in an attachment then depending against him, in settling and ad- justing his books which were in their hands, and which were so irregularly kept and posted, as to lay them under great difficulties, false entries and frequent omissions of settlement, made him liable to suspicion of careless- ness or something worse.
At his return, in order to elude the good intention of the act, on his discovering an error in the return of the attachment, he applied to the court, and obtained a rule to set it aside (the delay attending proceedings of such a nature is what he terms an artful evasion) by this means he be- came possessed of his books and monies which were in the auditor's hands, and has since then received other sums; but how has he disposed of them? Not agreeable to the intention of the act, but in partial distribution of small sums to one or two favourite creditors, without the least security to the rest of them, or the means to recover any part of their just debts.
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Thus did he evade the humane intention of the legislature, but he could not any longer deceive his creditors, who are so fully convinced of his want of integrity, that they have this session presented a petition to the assembly, praying a repeal of that very act, which he obtained by their ignorance of his application, and which, with an uncommon share of assurance, he would endeavour to persuade the public was procured with their approbation.
The very proposal which he makes to induce the world to think fav- ourably of him, by desiring a continuance of the act so long as he can pay £. 200 per annum to one or more of his creditors, exposes his artifice, and despicable exertion of that low cunning so natural to him .- He is indebt- ed to one person £.2000, to another £ 600, both of them very nearly con- nected with him by ties of blood, and by whose influence and privity alone, he says he obtained the act. No doubt "he feels. the highest satisfaction in the pleasing prospect" not of paying his debts, but of enjoying his lib- erty in defiance of the rest of his creditors, and to the absolute loss of their property, and of being able for such a term of years as it will require to discharge those debts, to be accountable to none but his relations for the payment of any money, and who no doubt will receive as much annu- ally as the rest of his creditors have hitherto done, but then, paid or not paid, they are freed from the incumbrance of his family, and would much rather see him at liberty than have an addition to the losses they have already sustained.
He very plausibly advances that he should consider his time as the property of his creditors. If that was really his intention, it was just, but the contrary is evident .- His time should be employed in a manner the most advantageous for them, and every deviation from such conduct, is not only a new imposition, but a fraud .- In Salem he proposes to pay £. 200 per annum, to reduce his debts; but if he really intends to make such annual payment, he must be conscious, he does his creditors injustice by the offer of so small a dividend. By his own account, he might afford to pay them double that sum, and enjoy a sufficiency for the maintenance of his family; it is true he cannot, he says, do this in Salem, but in an ad- jacent colony "a person undertook to get £. 700 per ann. subscribed for him by about 200 families, which subscription was almost complete, and he doubted not of making much more." Where is then the equity of his proposal, or the stress that can be laid on what he has advanced ?- Is it not more probable that his payments will be confined to those two allied creditors for years, and that the rest must content themselves with expect- ations almost beyond a degree of probability?
Perhaps he thinks he has resided rather too long in this part of the world, that he is too well known, his hypocrisy and want of candour detect- ed, but under the protection of this act, that he shall be enabled to make an excursion before the expiration of it, in better circumstances and better qualified by experience to dupe the unwary stranger, and erect his fortune
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on the basis of another's ruin. In short, he has deceived his creditors, abused the indulgence of the legislature, and if he could, would impose on the public.
A LEADING MAN.
Salem N. Y., May 1, 1771.
The Name of the Author of the foregoing Piece is left in the Hands of the Printer, to be communicated to Mr. BUDD when call'd for.
-The Pennsylvania Chronicle, No. 229, May 27, to Fune 3, 1771.
THOMAS MOODY, Philomathematicus, | from HIBERNIA, | CRAVES the attention of all mathemati- cians and lovers of learning in America, while he in- forms them, that he has lately published and has now for sale, A NEW METAMORPHOSIS of the noble and gen- uine Science of surveying ; with a small table, shew- ing at one view, the whole arcana of symbolic compu- tation, and the scope of the whole performance in- geniously comprised in the following maxims, which he has cloathed in rhyme for the sake of the mem- ory.
I. One and one addition make,
2. Two and two their difference take,
3. One and three take some of both,
4. From sixteen points for angle's truth.
The author likewise intends shortly to publish, by way of subscription, a piece entitled the SCHOOL- MAN'S COMPANION, in which he considers and refutes at large the fluctuating series of Martin, the vortexes of Descart, and Hobb's hypothesis on the monogony of the world, with a short appendix containing a cu- rious dissertation on Gordon's Trigonometrical ta-
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bles, and a new method to ascertain the sides of an irregular parallelogram. And farther the author hopes he will not be thought immoderately protuber- ant in his own praise, if he acquaints the public, that he has lately received a letter from a Briton, a very great mathematician, now in this country, highly ex- tolling his performance, and requesting him to send him three hundred copies of the aforesaid Metamor- phosis of Trigonometry.
N. B. The author would be willing to accept of a professorship in some seminary of learning, if he could meet with proper encouragement ; in which station he would give annually a course of Mathematical Lectures according to the Dublin plan.
New-Jersey, May 30.
NEW-YORK, May 27. | In the John and Betsey, Capt. Durell, from London, came passengers, Mr. Stevens, Collector of Amboy, in New-Jersey, with his lady and family.
To be sold at public vendue, at the late dwelling- house of John Hatkinson, deceased, in Mount- holly, Burlington County, West New-Jersey, on the 17th day of the sixth month, called June next, the well-known grist mill in the said town, on an excel- lent stream of water, with three pair of stones; four boulting mills, for country use; and two ditto, for merchant work, which go and hoist by water ; a sta- ble, that will hold ten horses, and other buildings, to go with the said mill: also a lot of meadow, about three acres, with a good new bake-house, and two ovens, all things in good order for carrying on the
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baking business, all adjoining the aforesaid mill : Al- so a plantation near the said town, of about 140 acres, 50 of which is meadow, in good bank, with a fine Spaw spring, a good frame house and cellar, with large cow-houses and hay-house : Also 5/8ths of a saw mill, near the aforesaid grist-mill ; several lots of land, in and near the said town, green corn in the ground ; a large fine breeding mare with foal, by the Arabian Belsize; young horses; a pair of oxen ; cows; sheep; hogs; a riding waggon, and a cart ; timber wheels and screw ; farming utensils ; beds and bedding ; household goods; and a great variety of shop goods. The vendue to begin at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, where due attendance will be given, and the conditions made known, by
ELIZABETH HATKINSON, Executrix ; JOHN HINCHMAN, and PETER HARVEY, Executors.
N. B. The vendue to continue from day to day, till the whole is sold. The purchaser of the said mill, by paying half of the money down, may have six months credit for the other half.
-The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1486, May 30, 1771.
Sussex County, West New-Jersey, May 10, 1771. FIVE POUNDS Reward.
W HEREAS some time ago, I became security for one ANDREW M'CALLA, that he should answer to an action of Bastardy, at our Court of Quarter Sessions. And since the said M'Calla has run away, and as it is like to prove very detrimental to myself
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and family, it is to be hoped that all lovers of honesty and Justice will use their endeavours to apprehend him. He is a person about 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, 25 or 26 years old, thin-faced, assumes the character of a kind of a schoolmaster, but is no great scholar ; he has been heard of on Long Island, and passes by the name of Steward, and it is very probable he may make towards Philadelphia, as he has a mother re- sides there, who keeps a dram-shop (as he says) and goes by the name of Rosanna Henderson. Any per- son taking up and securing him in any of his Majes- ty's goals on the continent, and giving notice thereof to Samuel Adams, of Philadelphia, or Joseph Braden, of Upper Dublin, or to me the subscriber, shall have the above reward, paid by ROBERT BRADEN.
To be SOLD.
A TRACT of LAND, containing 312 acres, lying in the county of Salem, bounding on Stow Creek, within a mile of the upper Bridge, where there is a good landing, and within a few rods of Wood's grist- mill; there are 16 acres lately cleared, and under good fence ; the land is good and well timbered, it is supposed by good judges, that 70 or 80 thousand of Staves may be made on it. The purchaser may have 4 or 5 years, or more, to pay the greatest part, or the whole of the money, on giving security, and paying interest. Any person inclining to see the land, may apply to JONATHAN WRIGHT, near the same ; for fur- ther particulars apply to JAMES COOPER, Hatter, in Philadelphia.
-The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2214, May 30, 1771.
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New-York, May 29th.
SUTTONIAN INOCULATION.
MR. LATHAM Surgeon to the King's (or 8th) Regiment of Foot, informs the Public, that he is the only Person who can appoint Practitioners to inocu- late after the Suttonian method, in any part of Amer- ica, North of Philadelphia ; while Doctor Shuttle- worth (Brother-in-Law to Mr. Sutton, is the only Person that can inoculate) except Mr. John Smith, sen. in Virginia, or can cause to be inoculated in the same Manner, South of Philadelphia. Mr. Latham assures the New-England People, that he will wait upon any Number, assembled together to be inoculated; and as his desire is to be of as much Service to Mankind as he possibly can, he will endeavour to bring the Suttonian System to as great Utility and Practice in America, as it is now in Great-Britain and Ireland ; where Mr. Sutton has several Partners.
N. B. Mr. Thomas Outwater, Surgeon and Pract- itioner of Physick in Orange Town, is appointed for Practice of the Suttonian System, in said County, as also for that of Bergen County: And Mr. George Pugh, Surgeon and Practitioner of Physick in Eliza- beth-Town, is appointed for the said Practice, within the Eastern Part of the Province of New-Jersey, in- cluding Princetown.
-The New-York Journal, or The General Adver-
tiser, No. 1482, May 30, 1771.
NEW-JERSEY,
BE it remembered, that on this Essex County. SS. 23rd day of May, 1771, ELIAS BALDWIN, of lawful age, personally came before me 31
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JOSEPH RIGGS, Esq; one of the justices of our lord the King assign'd to keep the peace, and being duly sworn, on the holy evangelists of almighty God, deposeth and saith, that on the 22d inst. May, he this deponent, set off from Powles-Hook about I I o'clock in the evening to go to Newark, and when he had just got off the first causeway, two men stopt him, and presented each a pistol at his breast, and one or both of them, bid him deliver what he had, but as he made no motion to deliver them anything, one of them unbuttoned his breeches pocket and took out his pocket book, which was a plain leather one, and had in it one dollar, one bill of five shillings, Pennsyl- vania money, and sundry pieces of small silver, which they carried away with them, and likewise searched his pockets afterwards; they took also from him a pillow case that he carried before him,-in said pil- low case was ten and a half yards of white linen, one pound of tea, half a pound of indigo, one pewter 2 quart bason, 2 pair of white metal shoe buckles, 2 shoe knives, one pair of wool cards, 14 of a pound of bay berry tallow, another pillow case marked with the letters I. B. or P. B. and an old bag. This de- ponent further saith, the two robbers were of a middle stature, and spoke with the Irish accent, but being in the night, he cannot describe their dress. Further, that he this deponent was not disguised with strong drink, but in his right mind, and that the above is a true relation of facts, and further saith not.
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