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ISAAC WOODRUFF, JOHN CHETWOOD,. Executors. SOLOMON BOYLE,
N. B. Reasonable Time of Credit will be given. The Vendue to begin at Eleven o'Clock in the Fore- noon.
- The New York Gazette, or the Weekly Post-Boy, No. 1476, Aug. 19, 1771.
1 At Baskinridge. For brief notices of William Alexander, who claimed the title of Earl of Stirling, see N. J. Archives, VIII .. Part 2:214; 2d Series, 1., 182. For his Life and Letters, see N. J. Hist. Soc. Coll., II.
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To be sold at public vendue, on Wednesday the eleventh day of September next, at the house of WILLIAM WRIGHT, tavern keeper in Perth- Amboy, NEW JERSEY.
THREE tenth parts of a proprietary or twenty fourth part of all the unlocated lands in the eastern division of the province of New-Jersey aforesaid, be- ing part of the share of the propriety of the late Dan- iel Donaldson Dunster, deceased, dyed seized of ; together with three tenth parts of one twenty fourth part in common, of the valuable tract of land call'd Romopock, in Bergen county, and province afore- said, together also with a proportionable part of the proprietary house in Perth Amboy aforesaid. The title to the same may be seen at the proprietor's office in Perth Amboy aforesaid, kept by John Smyth, their register.
The sale will begin at two o'clock in the after- noon, when the conditions will be made known.
-The New York Gazette ; and the Weekly Mer- cury, No. 1034, August 19, 1771.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, PHILADELPHIA, | INWARD ENTRIES Schooner Polly, T. Woodbery, Salem.
TEN POUNDS Reward.
STOLEN, on the 22d of this instant August, out of the pasture of Catherine Covenhoven, in Blaw- enburg, Somerset county, near Rockey-Hill, New- Jersey, a black HORSE, with a large bald face, about 15 hands high, without brand or any mark, his two hind feet white about the hoofs, and trots alto- 35
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gether .- Whoever takes up said horse and thief, and secures them so that the horse may be had again, and the thief brought to justice, shall have the above Reward, or FIVE POUNDS for the horse, and all reasonable charges paid by me.
DAVID COVENHOVEN. - The Pennsylvania Chronicle, No. 241, August 19, to August 26, 1771.
TWENTY DOLLARS Reward.
RUN away from the Subscriber, living in Eliza- beth-Town Point, in the County of Essex, in New Jersey, on Friday Evening the 16th inst. two servant men, one named CORNELIUS HURRY, born in or near Bristol in old England, about 23 years of age, 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, walks a little stooping, much addicted to drinking and swearing, of a light brown complexion, light brown hair, lately cut short on the top of his head; carried with him a brown short cloth coat with large yellow metal buttons, a black calimanco jacket one light brown worsted shag ditto, with brown cloth back, one light coloured frize ditto, with sleeves, one old red duffil great coat, one old pair of buckskin breeches, one ditto of nankeen, two white linen shirts and one check ditto, old shoes with pinchbeck buckles, and had on tow trowsers and a frock made of coarse blue cloth, and a small bea- ver hat .- The other named GEORGE ARIS, or ARISON, about 27 or 28 years of age, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, born in Old England, a very red com- plexion, sandy hair, a down look and round shoul- dered, walks very dull and heavy; Had on and
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took with him two frocks, two pair of trowsers, two check shirts, a wool hat, a pair of shoes and brass buckles. They likewise stole and took away, a small skiff newly trimmed and painted, her wale yellow, with white spots under her wale; under the same a narrow streak of Spanish brown, her stern yellow, white spots and two bulls eyes forward, her inside payed with turpentine, seats and benches of Spanish brown, two oars, one a small skiff oar, the other a large scow ditto. HURRY had so many clothes that it is probable GEORGE may wear some of them, and they will likely change their names ; it is thought they are gone towards Pennsylvania or New Eng- land. Whoever takes up the above servants, and secures them, in any gaol, so that their Master may have them again, shall have the above reward of Twenty Dollars, or Ten Dollars for either of them, and Twenty Shillings for the skiff and oars, and all reasonable charges, paid by
BROUGHTON REYNOLDS.
[The following letter from a gentleman of Virginia, is thought a proper introduction, to the papers lately publish'd there concerning the introduc- tion of a Bishop to that colony ; which papers, we propose, as mention'd in our last, to lay before our readers, in a series of papers. ]
Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman in Virginia.
This indifference and disregard to religion and the clergy, which I have endeavoured to account for, proceeded to no public indecencies of behaviour, ei- ther against religion itself, or the clergy in their pub- lic administrations-The people regularly attended
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divine worship at church, and behaved there with propriety ; nor did it occasion any schism, on [sic] dissention in the church, which was one, throughout the colony, except a few of the people called Qua- kers, who had I believe been among the early settlers of the colony, who lived undisturbed, inoffensively, and socially among the church people. I have not heard of more than three of these meeting house in the colony, and their congregations were small. Thus matters continued 'till between 20 or 30 years ago, when many people came from Pennsylvania, and New-Jersey, also from Scotland and Ireland and settled in the back parts of the colony-most of these people called themselves Scots Irish : and be- ing presbyterians by education, they were often vis- ited by ministers of their own persuasion from Penn- sylvania, New-Jersey, &c. At last it was agreed by the synods of some of those presbyterians, or con- gregational Societies, not only to settle ministers among them, but one or more in the old settlements in the country, where church of England ministers were already established; several of the people in those parts having heard and approved the ministers sent from the eastern governments, who on their vis- its to the Scots Irish, used sometimes to travel through and preach in the more populous parts of the country- -
To avoid giving offence, it was thought best to apply to the governor, council and general court, to lay their designs and pretensions before them, and proceed with their approbation, in erecting meeting houses and establishing rules and officers in
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their religious societies. Accordingly application was made by the minister (the late Mr. Davies, afterwards president of New-Jersey college) and his congrega- tion-all they ask'd was presently granted, and those societies still subsist, but I have not heard that the number of meeting houses or of the people belong- ing to them, have increased since that time.1 .
[To be continued.]
-The New York Journal, or The General Adver- tiser, No. 1494, August 22, 1771.
Custom-House, Philadelphia Cleared. Sloop Sally, T. Alberson to Amboy.
-The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1498, Aug. 22, I771.
Gloucester County, Eighth Month 20, 1771.
NOTICE is hereby given to all whom it may con- cern, that at the next Session of the General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey, Application will be made for Liberty to erect a Dam across Newtown Creek, at or near where the Bridge now crosses the same ; when all persons who think themselves ag- grieved thereby, are requested to appear, and show Reasons (if any they have) why the Liberty abovemen- tioned may not be granted.
-The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2226, Aug. 22, 1771.
To be sold at private SALE,
CERTAIN parcels of land lying at the Wallkill in Ulster county, which among other lands, were formerly patented to James Smith, Esq; late Secreta-
1 This article is two and a half columns long.
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ry of the province of New-Jersey. Any person in - clinable to purchase, may apply to the Revd. Doctor Cooper, President of King's-College, or to Thomas Jones, Attorney at Law in New-York. If the lands are not sold at private sale, by the middle of Sep- tember, they will then be sold at public vendue.
-The New York Gazette ; and the Weekly Mer- cury, No. 1035, August 26, 1771.
To the PUBLIC.
The FLYING MACHINE, kept by John Merce- reau, at the New Blazing-Star-Ferry near New-York, sets off from Powles-Hook every Monday, Wednes- day and Friday mornings, for Philadelphia, and per- forms the Journey in a Day and a half, for the Sum- mer Season, till the Ist of November; from that Time to go twice a week till the first of May, when they again perform it three Times a Week. When the Stages go only twice a Week, they set off Mon- days and Thursdays. The Waggons in Philadelphia set out from the Sign of the George, in Second- street the same Morning. The Passengers are de -. sired to cross the Ferry the Evening before, as the Stages must set off early the next Morning. The Price for each Passenger is Twenty Shillings, Proc. and goods as usual. Passengers going part of the Way to pay in Proportion.
As the Proprietor has made such Improvements upon the Machines, one of which is in Imitation of a Coach, he hopes to merit the Favour of the Public.
August 23, 1771. JOHN MERCEREAU. -The N. Y. Gazette, or, The Weekly Post-Boy, No. 1477, August 26, 1771.
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NEW-YORK, August 26. The RACES at Powles Hook comes on to-morrow.
NEW-YORK, August 26. | Last Monday Even- ing was married, at Shrewsbury, in East N. Jersey, James DeLancey, Esq; one of the Representatives of this City in the General Assembly, and Son of the Hon. James DeLancey, Esq; late Lieutenant Gov- ernor of this province, of beloved Memory, to Miss Allen, Daughter of the Hon. William Allen, Esq; Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, a beautiful young Lady, in Possession of every intellectual Virtue.
-The New York Gazette ; and the Weekly Mer- cury, No. 1035, August 26, 1771.
To be SOLD by | WILLIAM HULINGS, | in BURLINGTON, | BETWEEN Eleven and Twelve Hun- dred ACRES of WEST-JERSEY RIGHTS, Fourth Dividend.
THE 9th of last month, a person unknown left a grey HORSE in my pasture in Gloucester ; this is therefore to desire said person to come and take him away, otherwise he will be sold for the charges. W. HUGG.
A HOUSE-KEEPER is wanted, to live in the country, in a family that consists of the master of the house, four other hands, and a servant girl, who can wash, iron, and do the drudgery, no other dairy is kept than what the family expends, a middle-aged- woman, that has been used to a country life would best suit : such a person, with good recommenda- tions (and any without need not offer) by applying
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to ROBERT LEWIS, in Philadelphia, or WILLIAM LEW- is at his Mill, near Croswicks, West-Jersey, may be further informed.
STOLEN out of the pasture of the subscriber, living near Egg-Harbour road, in Waterford town- ship, Gloucester county, the 21st of this instant Au- gust, at night, a likely chestnut sorrel MARE, with a blaze in her forehead, one of her fore feet white, paces a good travel, about 10 years old, about 14 hands high, middling low in flesh, the hair a little chafed off her off side, no shoes on. Whoever takes up and secures the said mare, so that the owner may have her again, shall have Forty Shillings reward, and reasonable charges, paid by
HENRY CRAWFORD.
-The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2227, August 29, 1771.
To be run for round the course on | Morris-Town green, on Tuesday the fifth day of | Novem- ber next, a silver tankard of the value of | TWEN- TY POUNDS, |
Free for any horse, mare or gelding, not exceeding three-quarters' blood, carrying weight for age and blood, three years old, half-blood to carry seven stone, the best of three two mile heats to win the plate. Two dollars and an half entrance, or double at the post. The entrance to be run for next day.
R UN away from the subscribers, living at Spring- field, near Elizabeth-Town, New-Jersey, two ap- prentice lads, one of them named Nathaniel Little,
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18 years old, 5 feet nine inches high, a weaver by trade, of a fair complexion, light hair, had pretty thick legs, and a down look: Had on a light blue cloth jacket, tow trowsers, and a white linen shirt. The other was named Ichabud Foster, a tailor by trade, 18 years old, about 5 feet 9 inches high, darkish hair and complexion : Had on and took with him, three striped jackets, 2 pair of buckskin breeches, and a wool hat, and 'tis supposed are both gone towards Princetown. Whoever takes up and secures the said runaways, so that their master may have them again, shall receive Three Dollars reward for each, or six dollars for both, paid by JAMES BLACK,
DANIEL PEARSON.
-The N. Y. Gazette ; and the Weekly Mercury, No. 1036, September 2, 1771.
NEW-YORK, September 2.
Wednesday last the Powles-Hook Races began, when the Purse of £100 was run for by Capt. Delan- cey's chestnut Colt, Sultan, Mr. Perkin's black Horse Steady, Mr. Dick's grey Horse, Vitriol, and Mr. Is- rael Waters's bay Mare, Nettle, which was won with great ease by the latter. And
The Day following the purse of £50 was run for by the following Horses, viz. Mr. Whitehead Cor- nell's Horse, Booby, Mr. Armstrong's Horse, Hero, Mr. Elsworth's grey Colt, Quicksilver, Mr. Butler's bay Horse, Bastard, Mr. Timothy Cornell's black Horse Richmond, Mr. Dick's grey Horse, Vitriol, Mr. Perkins's black Horse, Steady, Mr. Van Horne's grey Mare, Caty Crow, and Mr. William Cornell's grey
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Mare, Dove, which was won by. Booby, after three Heats hard running.
-The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2228, September 5, 1771.
Trenton, August 31, 1771.
THERE is in the Store of the Subscribers, a large BOX, containing Garden Rakes, Ropes, Traces, &c. Any Person proving their Property, and paying Charges, may have the same, by applying to
FURMAN and HUNT.
Burlington, September 2, 1771.
THE Creditors of JOHN GOSLING, senior, de- ceased, are desired to attend at the House of the Widow Comron, Innkeeper, near Mantua Creek, in the County of Gloucester, or send their Accounts duly proved, on the 29th or 30th Days of November next, as the Trustees will then attend, in order to make a final Settlement of said Estate : and all those who are indebteded to said Estate, are requested to make Payment before the time aforesaid, to prevent Trouble.
WILLIAM SMITH, JOHN LAWRENCE, Trustees.
FOUR DOLLARS Reward.
RUN away from the subscriber, the 22d of August last, near Trenton, a Mulattoe fellow, named HUM- PHREY, a lusty fellow, about 30 years of age, very near sighted; had on, when he went away, a white shirt, a bearskin coat, with white metal buttons, brown jacket, white ticken breeches, worsted stockings, half- worn shoes, large brass buckles, took with him a tow
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shirt and trowsers. Whoever secures the said Mu- lattoe fellow, so that his master may have him again, shall have the above reward, and reasonable charges paid by me ELIJAH BOND.
NEW-YORK, August 13, 1771. TO BE SOLD,
SEVERAL Farms or Tracts of Land, situate in the County of Hunterdon, in the Western Division of New Jersey, being Part of a large Tract of Land known by the Name of the Society Great Tract : The Lots are distinguished and known by Lots No. 45, whereon John Tanney now lives, containing 187 Acres, situate within 3 Miles of New-German-Town, where there is a good Market for all kinds of Produce ; about 80 Acres cleared, very good Wheat-land, and well tim- bered and watered.
No. 46, adjoining No. 45, in Possession of the afore- said John Tanney, containing 218 Acres, on which is a good bearing Orchard, and a Quantity of very good Meadow, and more may be made at a small Expence : There is a sufficient Quantity of land cleared, the rest good Timber-land, which is much wanted in the Neigh- bourhood.
No. 52, now in Possession of Matthias Camner, con- taining 287 Acres, situate about one Mile from New- German-Town, 150 Acres cleared, which is excellent Wheat land, and 10 Acres of Meadow in good Eng- lish Grass, and much more may be made with very little Trouble.
No. 80, in Possession of Peter Bloome, containing 209 and 75 Parts of an Acre, situated in the Town-
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ship of Alexandria, about 2 Miles from the River Del- aware, and 3 from Alexandria ; 100 Acres cleared, which is good Wheat land, 10 Acres of extraordinary good Meadow, and more may easily be made.
No. 83, in Possession of Joseph Fishbough, contain- ing 284, and 40 Parts of an Acre adjoining Peter Bloome's Farm; 100 Acres cleared, which is good Wheat land and a sufficient Quantity of Meadow in English Grass.
No. 139, in Possession of Richard Reid, containing 146 Acres, situate in the Township of Bethlehem, 5 Miles from the Union Iron-Works, where there is ready Market for all Kinds of Produce ; 70 Acres cleared, with 10 Acres of Meadow, and more may be made.
The above Tracts of Land are in good Repair, with sufficient tenantable Houses, Barns, and other Conven- iencies thereon. Any person inclinable to purchase, may apply to John Smyth, Esq; at Perth-Amboy, to Henry Cuyler, and Barend R. Cuyler, at New-York, or John Emley, living near the Premises. An indis- putable Title will be given.
-The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2228, September 5,1771.
TO BE SOLD, | By PUBLIC VENDUE, by JOSEPH LEONARD, Sheriff at | Monmouth Court-house, in East-Jersey, on the twentieth | of September ; | A Certain TRACT of LAND in Barneygatt, lately occupied by JOHN HAYWOOD; containing about 300 acres of upland, and about 200 acres of salt and fresh meadow, with a good two-story house, almost a new barn, and a flourishing young orchard of about 140 apple trees, with a good fence about it ; for which
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credit will be given for part of the money, the pur- chaser giving good security and paying interest for the Same.
TWENTY DOLLARS Reward. | DESERTED from his Majesty's Twenty-ninth Regiment. | Fuly 29, 1771. | JAMES GORDON, labourer, aged 2I years, 6 feet high, swarthy complexion, dark brown hair, hazzle eyes, pitted with the small-pox, round and small visage, straight and well made, born in Ennis- killen in Ireland.
JOHN LOVELL, labourer, aged 57 years, 5 feet 10 and 14 inches high, brown complexion, brown hair, light grey eyes, a little stoop Shouldered and well made.
JOHN GIBBONS, carver and gilder, aged 27 years, 5 feet 11 and 34 inches high, ruddy complex- ion, brown hair, light grey eyes, thin visage, and much carbuncled ; straight and light made.
August 30, 1771.
THOMAS JONES, cabinet-maker, aged 21 years, 6 feet and 14 inch high, fresh complexion, dark brown hair, light grey eyes, long visage, a scar over the right eye, a large mole on the left cheek, heavy limbed, in kneed, turns in his toes when he walks, a little pit- ted with the small-pox, and well made; was born in the town of Burrisakane, and county of Tipperary, in Ireland.
JOHN HART, weaver, aged 22 years, 5 feet 10 and 14 inches high, pale complexion, light brown hair inclined to curl, dark brown eyes, thin but round vis-
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age, straight and well made, born in the city of Lim- erick in Ireland.
Whoever secures either the above deserters, and lodges them in any of his Majesty's gaols, shall re- ceive the above reward for each, by applying to the commanding officers of the 29th regiment at Perth Amboy, Brunswick, or Elizabeth-town; or to the com- manding officer of the 21st regiment, at Philadelphia; or to the commanding officer of the 26th regiment at New-York.
N. B. The public are cautioned not to harbour the above deserters, as they are of infamous characters, and have robbed their Captain, and their comrades of several valuables.
GORDON is an old deserter, and was flogged out of the Royal Americans.1
-The Pennsylvania Fournal, No. 1500, Septem- ber 5, 1771.
Elizabeth-Town RACES.
A Purse of FIFTY DOLLARS, to be run for on Tues- day, the first day of October next, free for any horse, mare or gelding, not thoroughbred, carrying weight for age and blood: Three years old, three quarters blood, 6 stone 11 pounds ; four years old, quarter blood, 7 stone 4 pounds ; four years old, half blood, 7 stone 3 pounds ; four years old, three quar- ters blood, 8 stone 4 pounds ; five years old, half blood, 8 stone 8 pounds ; five years old, three quar- ters blood, 8 stone 12 pounds ; six years old, quarter blood, 9 stone 2 pounds ; six years old, half blood, 9
1 This advertisement was repeated in The Pennsylvania Journal of January 9, 1772. See N. J. Archives, XXVIII, 20.
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stone 6 pounds ; 6 years old, three quarter's blood, 9 stone 10 pounds; aged, quarter blood, 9 stone II pounds; aged, half blood, 10 stone; aged, three quarters blood, 10 stone 3 pounds : The two best of three two mile heats. Not less than three reputed running horses to start. Horses to be shown and entered the day before running, paying three dollars entrance, or double at the post. No person to be concerned in a confederacy in running their horses together, or in dividing the purse ; such matters to be determined by the judge's.
N. B. The entrance to be run for the day follow- ing, by all but the winning and distance horses.
-The New York Gazette; and The Weekly Mer- cury, No. 1037, September 9, 1771.
JUST PUBLISHED, and to be SOLD, Whole- sale | and Retail, by ISAAC COLLINS, at his Print- ing | Office, in Burlington,
THE BURLINGTON ALMANACK, for the Year of our Lord 1772 : Containing, besides the usual astro- nomical Calculations, a Variety of useful and enter- taining Matter, both in Prose and Verse.
THE MEMBERS of the CORPORATION for the Re- lief of the Widows and Children of Clergymen in the Communion of the Church of England in America, are requested to attend the Annual Meeting, which is to be held, according to adjournment, at the City of Perth-Amboy, in New-Jersey, on the Second Day of October next, being the first Wednesday after the Feast of St. Michael.
JONATHAN ODELL, Secretary to the Corporation.
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Gloucester County, Ninth Month, 2, 1771. THERE will be exposed to Sale, by Way of pub-
T lic Vendue, on the 30th of this instant (Septem- ber) at the House of Hugh Creighton, Inkeeper, in Haddonfield, the two following Tracts of Land, situ- ate and being in the Township and County of Glou- cester. One Tract containing about 400 Acres, on which there is a Dwelling-house, Barn, and Apple Orchard ; also a Saw mill, commonly called, Tice's Big Mill, the Stream on which the Mill is erected is thought sufficient for a Grist-mill likewise, which might be advantageous to the Purchaser, as the Situ- ation is convenient for the black1 Inhabitants, being near the landing Road, as well as to a number of Farmers in the Neighbourhood ; said Mill is about 5 Miles from a public Landing.
One other Tract of about 96 Acres, adjoining the above, on which there is a House and other Improve- ments, and is now in the tenure of John Bussell ; Any Person inclining to view the Premises, may apply to Richard Tice, living near the same. The Sale of said Lands to begin at One o'Clock in the Afternoon of said Day, at which Time the Conditions will be published, the whole being Part of the real Estate of said Tice, and assigned to us for the Benefit of his Creditors.
ISAAC MICKLE, THOMAS REDMAN, Assignees. N. B. There are 7 or 800 Acres of Pine Land and Cedar Swamp, situate convenient to said Mill, the Property of said Tice, which may be purchased.
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W HEREAS MARGARET, the wife of THOMAS EL- TON, of Northampton, in the county of Burl- ington and Western Division of New-Jersey, hath by her extreme ill behaviour in times past, as well as at present, eloped from her husband, the first time in company with one John Alcott, a Flatman, and took with her goods to a considerable value, leaving her husband with one child not a year old ; and by virtue of an advertisement, with a reward of Five Pounds, it is supposed they parted, and she returned without goods or her cloaths, save what she had on, and still continues in a state of not being reconciled to her husband; these are therefore to forwarn all persons not to harbour her, either by night or day, nor trust nor have any dealings whatsoever with her, at their peril, as I am resolved to prosecute whoever shall be found so doing ; and any person or persons who have received the goods which are my property, and her cloaths, which I bought for her, are desired to return them to me at Mountholly, or Burlington, where I will receive them, and gratefully reward them, and will pay any debt that she has contracted upon them. And whereas the said John Alcott is not yet apprehended, I, the subscriber, do continue the above reward of Five Pounds and reasonable charges, to any person who shall secure him, in any of his Maj- esty's goals, so that he may be brought to justice. The said John Alcott is a well set fellow, about 5 feet Io inches high, a sandy complexion, grey eyes, has a down look, a large hooked nose, and wears his hair tied ; the said Margaret is a short thick body, a round likely face, black hair, flat nose, her eyes black, and
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