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stand further apart than common from each other, rosey cheeks, has a small scar under her left nostril resembling a cross, she has lost two of her front teeth, talkative, and very much for singing ; she com- monly wears a large pair of silver buckles, the rims carved, and holes through the rims.
August 30, 1771. THOMAS ELTON.
September 5, 1771.
To WILLIAM GOLDEN,
Whereas a certain Patrick Braidy, alias Beatty, has1 advertised in the Gazette of July 4, 1771, by you, for feloniously taking certain Goods, not yet all known : And whereas the said Advertisement may be some- thing prejudicial to my Character, I take this Method to acquaint you and the Public, that my Place of Abode, or Residence, is in the Township of Water- ford, in the County of Gloucester, my Occupation is Flatting and going by Water, and am well known in Philadelphia, or up and down the River, and if you have any Demands upon me, I am ready and willing to answer you or any other Person that appears against me. PATRICK BRADY.
Gloucester County Goal, September 12, 1771. TAKEN up on suspicion, as a runaway servant, and now confined here, a young man about 5 feet 6 inches high, marked with the small-pox, has on a blue coat, homespun shirt, and check trousers, says his name is Hugh M'Cage, and that he belongs to one William or John Miller, living near Lancaster. His master, if any he has, is desired to fetch him
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away, and pay charges, otherwise he will be sold out in 3 weeks from the date hereof.
Richard Johnson, Goaler.
Gloucester County, New-Jersey, September 12, 1771. BENJAMIN COLLINS, being under Confine- ment in the Goal of the said County, for Debt ; hereby give Notice to all my Creditors, that I intend to apply to the next Sessions of General Assembly of this Province for Relief, of which all Persons are hereby required to take due Notice. I
BENJAMIN COLLINS.
-The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2229, Septem- ber 12, 1771.
TO BE LETT, For a Term of Years, Not less than TEN YEARS,
The subscriber's third part of Sharpsborough fur- nace and forge : The forge has three fires, and one hammer, wooden bellows ; they are both on one dam, near together, with a good saw-mill, dwelling-house, kitchen, store, smith's shop, barn, stables, a large coal house, 62 by 64 feet, out houses, sufficient for the workmen ; the whole in good repair, been going three years. Also the third part of 4000 acres of land, to accommodate the works, whereon is cleared eighty acres of good meadow fit for the scythe, and ploughland sufficient to raise eight or nine hundred bushels of winter grain a year, all in good fence, and the farthest part not exceeding one mile and a half from the furnace ; the remainder part exceeding well timbered and very handy to the furnace, not exceed- ing three miles from the works to draw coal. Also
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the fourth part of a forge, with four fires and two hammers all built with stone, coal houses, stone dwell- ing-houses, and all out houses necessary, one mile and a half from the above furnace; also the fourth part of a good stone grist-mill, with one pair of stones overshott, on a constant spring, one mile from the fur- nace and half a mile from the last mentioned forge ; the mill and forge, last mentioned, have been built 4 years. The works are situated in a fine country for wheat, beef, pork, and all sorts of country produce, on a fine stream of water. called the Wall Kill, in the county of Sussex, in East New Jersey, 12 miles from the Court-House, 14 from Andover, 18 from Char- lotteburg Furnace. The tenant may have a suffici- ency of teams and carriages, and the privilege of car- rying on the remainder of the works during the lease, with the half privilege of the store, without any hin- drance or molestation whatsoever, during the sub- scribers life, or ten years certain. Any person inclin- ing to lease may have them on reasonable terms, by applying to the subscriber on the premises, or to Mr. ALEXANDER TOD, merchant in Philadelphia, for particulars. ABIA BROWN.
CUMBERLAND STAGE.
THE subscriber returns his hearty thanks to his friends and kind customers, for the encouragement they have given to his Stage, and begs a continuance of their favours, as he has taken the house wherein Uriah Bacon formerly lived, which is a convenient house, and well situated for his business in the center of Roads town, he has likewise a good new waggon
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compleatly fitted to carry twelve persons comfortably, the body of which riding on springs, from whence he sets out every Tuesday morning, and proceeds to William Cooper's ferry, and returns again on Thurs- days performing the stage on the same days and hours as usual. For the convenience of his customers in and about Greenwich, and of passengers going to and from thence, his stage will attend at Seth Bowen's in Greenwich every Monday evening and Friday morn- ing, those who please to favour him with their custom, may depend on the best usage from their
Humble Servant,
Roadstown, Sept. 12, Michael Lee.
N. B. All letters, packets, and other things de- signed for his stage, are to be left at the Widow Aus- tin and Son's, at the new ferry-house Philadelphia.1
-The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1501 Sept. 12, 1771.
The Public are cautioned to beware of coun- terfeit New Jersey Thirty Shilling Bills, dated April 16, 1764; the Work badly executed, especially the Arms and the Border. The Bills appear fresh and clean, and are signed with the Names, John Johnson, Rich. Smith, and S. Smith, imperfectly resembling the Signing of the true Bills.
-The New York Gazette, or the Weekly Post-Boy, No. 1480, September 16, 1771.
1 The Pennsylvania Gazette, No 2232, Oct. 3, 1771, has in addition to the fore- going advertisment the following :
Whereas the Articles of Agreement between Michael Lee and Malachi Long, res- pecting the Cumberland Stage, being for no limited Time, and said Lee finding it ex- tremely inconvenient for him to drive his own Horses and Waggon twice a Week to and from said Long's House, he has therefore taken the House wherein Uriah Bacon formerly lived, which is a convenient House, and well situated for his Business, in the very Center of Road's Town.
N. B. All Letters, Packets, or other Things designed, etc., etc.
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TAKEN up adrift last Friday Morning, a Ship's Long-Boat. Any Person owning said Boat, and pay- ing Charges, may have her, by applying to the Sub- scriber, living near Sandy-Hook.
Middletown, Sept. 9. ESEK HARTSHORNE. -The New York Gazette ; and the Weekly Mer- cury, No. 1038, September 16, 1771.
The Piece signed a TRADESMAN OF NEW- JER- SEY, will be inserted in our next. Also a Piece signed PHILOTHETOICUS.
CUSTOM-HOUSE PHILADELPHIA, | CLEAR- ED. ... Brig Unity, G. Ord, N. Jersey.
-The Pennsylvania Chronicle, No. 245, Septem- ber 16 to September 23, 1771.
To be SOLD or LETT,
THE House lately occupied by Mr. Nicholas Gouv- eneur, situated on Hunter's Quay : Is an excellent well built House, and very convenient, having four Rooms on a Floor, with Fire Places.
Also, a large convenient Store House and Stable, in New-Street, proper for the Flaxseed Business, for which it was built, Bonds with good Security, will be taken in Payment. For further Particulars, en- quire of Nicholas Gouveneur, at his Place near New- ark, or Herman Gouveneur in New-York.
-The New York Journal, or The General Ad- vertiser, No. 1498, September 19, 1771.
Gloucester County, N. Jersey, Sept. 14, 1771. RICHARD DAVIS, being under Confine- ment in the Goal of the said County, for Debt ,
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hereby give Notice to all my Creditors, that I intend to apply to the next Sessions of General Assembly of this Province for Relief, of which all persons are here- by required to take due Notice.
RICHARD DAVIS.
NEW-YORK, September 16. | Yesterday Capt. Cobourn arrived here in a sloop from Philadelphia ; on Wednesday morning last, in a hard northwest wind, off Barnegat, he had the misfortune to loose his mast. Captain Cobourn saw a sloop on shore near the same Place, but could not discover who she was.
-- The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2230, Septem- ber 19, 1771 ..
BY HIS EXCELLENCY | WILLIAM FRANKLIN, Esq; | Captain General, Gov- ernor and Commander in Chief in and | over the Province of New-Jersey, and Territories thereon | depending in America, Chancellor and Vice Admiral in | the Same, &c.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS His Majesty, by two several orders in Council at St. James's, bearing date the Seventh day of June last, hath been pleased, with the advice of his Privy Council, to declare his disallowance of two Acts of the Legislature of this Province, one of which said Acts was passed in November, 1769, and is in- tituled, "An Act to erect Courts in the several coun- "ties in this colony for the trial of causes of Ten " Pounds and under." The other is an Act passed in March, 1770, intituled, "An Act, to explain and
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"amend an Act of the General Assembly, passed in "the tenth year of his Majesty's reign, intituled, An " Act for the relief of insolvent debtors, and for other " purposes therein mentioned." And pursuant to his Majesty's royal pleasure thereupon expressed, the said Acts are thereby disallowed, declared void and of none effect. I HAVE THEREFORE thought fit to publish his Majesty's royal disallowance and repeal of the said two Acts by Proclamation, to the end that all his Majesty's subjects, whom it may concern, may take notice thereof, and govern themselves accord- ingly.
GIVEN under my hand and seal at arms, at the city of Burlington, the thirteenth day of Septem- ber, in the eleventh year of the reign of our Sove- reign Lord King GEORGE the Third, Anno Domini 1771. WILLIAM FRANKLIN .. By his Excellency's Command,
CHARLES PETTIT, D. Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE KING.
PRINCETON, September 17.
The public anniversary of the Grammar School in New-Jersey College, will begin at nine o'clock in the forenoon, on Monday the 23d instant.
On the next day, Tuesday the 24th, in the Public Library Room, a number of the College-students will contend in several branches of classical learning, for premiums each of Three Pounds value. Any gentle- man of liberal education may be present, and give his vote in adjudging the premiums. The merit and preference of the several competitors to be deter-
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mined by ballot. Public speaking, reading the Eng- lish, Latin, and Greek languages with propriety, written and extempore translation, will be among the exercises. The competition to begin at nine o'clock in the forenoon.
The anniversary Commencement for conferring Degrees in the Arts, will be held in the Church here, on Wednesday, the 25th instant. The exercises be- ginning punctually at ten o'clock in the forenoon.
September 16, 1771.
CUMBERLAND STAGES for BRIDGETOWN, GREEN | WICH and CAPE-MAY. |
D' ANIEL STRETCH returns thanks to his former customers, begs a continuance of their favours, and hopes to merit their esteem. Having two sets of horses and a good carriage, he intends to set off from Bridgetown on Tuesday Mornings as usual, and proceed to the cross roads, where William Shute formerly did dwell. And for the conveniency of Greenwich, MALACHIA LONG will drive down every Monday Evening for orders and passengers, and return back to meet Daniel Stretch's stage and proceed to William Cooper's ferry. And every fifth day set off from William Wells's at the Old Ferry ex- actly at sunrise (accidents excepted) and proceed to Cumberland county, where passengers will be taken to Greenwich by Malachia Long, and to the bridge by Daniel Stretch. And DANIEL TAYLOR has erected a New Stage to Cape May ; to set off from Bridgetown every Friday, and return every Monday following. All gentlemen and ladies that please to
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favour us with their custom, shall be properly attend- ed, and their orders punctually obeyed. We are the Publick's humble servants.
DANIEL STRETCH, MALACHIA LONG, DANIEL TAYLOR.
Cape-May stage will begin the 18th of October. -The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1502, Septem- ber 19, 1771.
PHILADELPHIA, September 30. | On Sunday se'nnight died at Princeton, in New-Jersey, JOB STOCK- TON, Esq; one of the Judges of the Court of Com- mon Pleas for the County of Somerset.
- The Pennsylvania Chronicle, No. 246, September 23, to September 30, 1771.
To be SOLD by the SUBSCRIBER, Altogether, or divided into 2 or 3 parts, to suit the purchasers,
THE large and pleasant situated farm, called Corn- wall, on which he now lives, in the township of Alexandria, and county of Hunterdon, in the prov- ince of West New-Jersey, containing about 680 acres of land, about 400 of which are cleared, and laid into regular fields, the rest well timbered; there is on said farm a handsome stone house, two stories high, with a piazza in front, and two wings, the one a kitch- en, the other lodging rooms; a well built shingled barn, two old orchards, and one large young orchard, of 400 apple trees, beginning to bear, chiefly grafted fruit, about 40 acres of English meadow, situated along the front of the house, great part of which is
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watered by several fine springs, about 15 or 20 acres more may be made; the fields are all well watered by living springs, the house pleasantly situated on an eminence, nearly in the middle of the farm, and so conveniently, that the meadow, and all the fields, may be seen in one view from the door; there is an English church at about a half a mile distance from, and in view of the house ; it also lies very conven- ient to several mills and stores, Pittstown being on one side, about one mile and a half distance, where there are two grist-mills, a fulling-mill and saw-mill, a large well assorted store; and on the other side, about two miles distance, is another mill; it is also about 5 miles from the town of Alexandria, adjoining the river Delaware, which is about 42 miles from Philadelphia, from whence all goods and produce are conveniently brought and carried by water. On the whole, it is a well situated farm or seat, for any gen- tleman that inclines to purchase and live in that part of the country. Whoever wants to purchase Said farm, may apply to the subscriber, living on the premises, who will dispose of it on very easy terms of yearly payment, giving 4 or 5 years to pay the whole (if required) paying interest .--- There is a good stock of cattle, horses and sheep, with a com- pleat sett of farming utensils on said farm, which the purchaser may also have at a reasonable rate with the farm.
He has also to sell, about 800 acres of good land on Paulinskill, in Sussex county, New-Jersey, divided into farms, now on rent; this tract is some of the best land in the county, and exceedingly well calcu-
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lated for the keeping of stock of all kinds, as there is a large quantity of meadow already brought into English grass, and convenient outlets to a fine range ; it is situated about 4 miles from the Court-house in that county, and 9 miles from the Andover Iron- works. The same easy terms of payment will be given to the purchaser of this tract, as mentioned for the aforesaid farm, and an indisputable title given to the purchasers of the whole by
LEWIS STEVENS.
WHEREAS HANNAH, the wife of the subscriber, did, on the IIth day of this instant September, 1771, without my consent, elope from me ; these are there- fore to forbid all persons to trust her on my account, for I will pay no debts of her contracting after this date; and all persons are forbid paying to her any money that is now due to me, or shall hereafter be- come due for rent, or otherwise.
SILVANUS TOWNSEND, junior, of Cape-May.
TO BE SOLD,
A VALUABLE plantation and tract of land, situate in the township of Greenwich, and county of Gloucester, in West New-Jersey, lying on the great road from Gloucester to Cape May, near a place called the Lake, late the estate of George Miller, de- ceased, and where he formerly kept a public house, containing about 487 acres, about one third part whereof is excellent meadow ground, the remainder good upland, well timbered, about 50 acres of which is cleared and within good fence ; whereon there is
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an orchard, and a good dwelling house, with a well of good water near the same, a good barn, stables and other out-houses, all in good repair. The said plantation will be very suitable for any person that inclines to follow raising of cattle, and grazing, by reason of the great quantity of meadow that may be made thereon, and the vast outlet or range for cattle, which it affords, as it is but thinly settled thereabouts. Any person inclining to purchase the said premises, may know the terms, by applying to JOSEPH MATHER, in Germantown township, in the county of Philadel- phia ; WILLIAM HUGG, in Gloucester ; or JOHN BEAS- LEY, at Alloway's Creek, in Salem county, West New- Jersey.
Gloucester county, New-Jersey, Sept. 16, 1771.
JAMES MAFFETT, being under confinement in the goal of the said county for debt, hereby gives no- tice, that he gives up all his goods and chattels to his creditors, and has applied to the next session of General Assembly of the said province for relief, of which all persons are hereby to take due notice.
JAMES MAFFETT.
JUST PUBLISHED and to be SOLD, by ISAAC | COLLINS, at his Printing Office in Burlington, | THE BURLINGTON ALMANACK, for the Year of our Lord 1772 : Containing, besides the usual astronomical calculations, the following useful and entertaining matter, both in prose and verse, viz. I. A Poem on the season ; 2. A short essay on ag- riculture ; 3. On the education of youth ; 4. On the pleasures and advantages of society with the fair sex ;
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5. On drunkenness ; 6. On gaming ; 7. On integ- rity ; 8. On solitude ; 9. On detraction ; 10. On marriage ; 11. Advice to the ladies ; 12. On a con- sultation of four physicians; 13. The triple plea ; 14. The honest confession ; 15. Approved maxims, and wise sayings; 16. A list of his Majesty's coun- cil of New-Jersey ; 17. A list of the Representatives of Assembly for New-Jersey; 18. The time of hold- ing the supreme and other courts in this and the ad- jacent provinces ; 19. The stated times of meeting of the eastern and western councils of proprietors ; 20. Quakers general meetings; 21. A table of the value and weight of coins ; 22. A table of interest at 6 and 7 per cent. 23. Time of holding fairs ; 24. Roads northeastward, &c. 25. Receipt to make an excellent diet drink for the Dropsy; 26. To cure the gripes in children; 27. For the hives in children ; 28. For the worms ; 29. For the vertigo, or head- ach [sic]; 30. For a sore throat; 31. For the Rheumatism ; 32. For the gripes ; 33. For the piles ; 34. To make a safe and universal purging potion ; 35. For a wound made by a rusty nail, &c. 36. To make a very useful salve ; 37. For an ague ; 38. To backen a fellon ; 39. To cure a fellon ; 40. To stop vomiting ; 41. For the yellow jaundice ; 42. To cure a swelling from a bruise ; 43. For hoarseness ; 44. A method to make the deaf hear ; 45. To make child- ren cut teeth easy ; 46. To make an emplaster of white and red lead ; 47. To make soap without fire or sunshine ; 48. To cure the botts in horses ; 49. To cure the rot in sheep, &c. &c.
Where also may be had, on very reasonable terms,
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a variety of books and stationary, drugs and medi- cines.
CAME to Greenwich point Ferry, opposite Glou- cester, in June last, a bright sorrel MARE, white mane and tail, a blaze down her face, her fore and hind feet white, a natural trotter, and appeared to have been lately docked. The owner is desired to come, and prove his property, pay charges, and take her away. RICHARD RENSHAW. - The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2231, September 26, 1771.
To be Run for in Elizabeth-Town
ON Tuesday the first day of October, A Purse of 50 dollars, by horses agreeable to an advertisement in Mr. Gaine's paper of September 23. Horses to be entered by Capt. Samuel Smith, at the sign of the King's arms.
Newbridge, Hackinsack.
The Public are informed, that as Mr. Barber has declined his School : the Subscriber being liberally educated in New-Jersey College, is unanimously chosen to succeed him in the Care of the Youth .- The same approved Method of Education will be continued, which hath heretofore been practised in this School.
Boys will be fitted for College in the most accurate and expeditious manner, by
The Public's most obedient And very humble Servant, JOHN WRIGHT.
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N. B. All the Branches of an English Education will also be taught with the utmost Care and Atten- tion.
-The New-York Journal, or The General Adver- tiser, No. 1499, September 26, 1771.
Mr. GODDARD,
Please to let the following observations of a TRADES- MAN of New-Jersey, have a place in your useful paper, by which you will oblige many of your readers, besides your friend and constant customer.
To the PRINTER:
SIR, Y "OU must know I am a Tradesman of New- Jersey, and for many years have carried on considerable business in my way; by which I necessarily contracted many debts, which through the great scarcity of circulating cash, I was unable to pay in time: Actions of course were brought against me for small debts, but one of which exceeded Ten Pounds, in the courts of common pleas, which remained some time in court before I was able to discharge them; at last, having got some mon- ey, which I thought would be sufficient to pay my debts and costs, I wait- ed on the attorney concerned against me. The first debt was Eight Pounds Nineteen Shillings and Sevenpence, light money, the costs Seven Pounds Fifteen Shillings and Sixpence, proclamation ; the second was Seven Pounds Seventeen Shillings and Fourpence, the costs Six Pounds Nineteen Shillings and Sixpence ; the third was Nine Pounds Eleven Shil- lings and Sevenpence, light, the costs proc. Six Pounds Seventeen Shil- lings and Sixpence. These three actions took all iny present cash to dis- charge them, and there yet remained a fourth debt of Fourteen Pounds Seventeen Shillings and Ninepence unpaid. I posted to my creditor, and, after much entreaty, prevailed with him to give me an order to his attor. . ney to stay further proceedings for four months, with which I waited on the attorney, who received me with a good deal of civility-I desired him to be so kind as to let me know what costs were then due, which he gave me in writing, Ten Pounds Seventeen Shillings and Sixpence, at the same time telling me, if I had not come, he should have given the sheriff an ex- ecution against me the next day. I then asked him, as he seemed a bet- ter natured man than those I had been with before, how so much costs could be made on those small debts that I had paid, and shewed him the bills of costs ; he examined them, and said he believed they were right, according to the tables of fees, if the services charged were done, which he
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could not doubt, but, if I thought otherwise, I might get the bills of costs retaxed, &c. however I went home determined, if possible, to get money to pay him in the four months, which, with hard labour, and disposing of my horse and cow, I obtained ; on the day appointed, I went and paid the debt, interest and costs, amounting in the whole to Twenty-seven Pounds Eighteen Shillings and Sixpence, light. This was in August, 1769-I really thought myself very happy from what I had heard of oth. ers, when I thus got clear, for a short time must have taken all I had in costs-however, I continued my business with all industry, and the next year was, notwithstanding, sued again before Justice B --- , for a debt of Eight Pounds Seventeen Shillings and Tenpence. I went to the justice, and told him the debt was justly due; he told me I was intitled to three months stay of execution as I was a freeholder-I confessed a judg- ment, and some days before the time was up, I paid the justice the debt and interest. He told me there were Three Shillings and Threepence cost, which I chearfully paid him, and then informed him what costs I had paid the last year, and desired him to inform me the reason why all my credit- ors had not been so kind as to have let him sued instead of the lawyers. He informed me the Governor, Council and Assembly had passed an act in December 1769, impowering justices of the peace to recover all debts under Ten Pounds, which before that time could not be done; that the costs, if he had given an execution against me, would have been but Six Shillings and Ninepence, and that if I had stood a trial, and did not like to trust his judgment, I might have had a jury of six men to have judged the cause, and then the costs would have been, in Common, not above Eighteen Shillings. Finding the great advantage of this excellent Ten Pound law, I begged the justice to lend it me, which he did. I took it home, and read it over twenty times ; the more I read it, the better I liked it ; it clearly appeared to me to be one of the best laws this province ever had, the whole tenor of it being consonant with reason, therefore consist- ent with all laws -- that small debts should be recovered with small fees, is so exceedingly reasonable, that it astonished me that so advantageous a law had not been passed almost as soon as the colony was settled. - I re- turned the law to my good neighbour the justice, who asked me how I liked it ; I told him that I really thought there was not a man in the colony that could dislike it. He told me I was mistaken, for all the gentlemen law- yers disliked it. On recollecting myself, I told him I did not doubt that, because by this law the industrious poor tradesmen and others were taken entirely out of their hands, to the amount of all debts under Ten Pounds. I asked the justice what was the material objection that the lawyers had against this excellent poor man's law. He answered the attornies thought it too large a sum to trust a single magistrate with. I replied, that was really no objection at all, for, by the law, either plaintiff or defendant could have a jury of six men of the neighbourhood, being freeholders, if they did not choose to trust to the justice's determination, and the verdict
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