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EDWARD TONKIN, MICHAEL M'COSKER, WOODEY RAWLEY, JAMES M'NIGHT, ABRAHAM LORD .- Pennsyl- vania Gazette, No. 2147, February 15, 1770.
All persons indebted to the estate
of SAMUEL BARD, Attorney at Law, late of Mount- Holly, deceased, are desired to make speedy payment to ZACHARIAH ROSSELL, his Executor, and such who have
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any demands against said estate, are requested to pro- duce the same, that they may be adjusted and paid.
N. B. The Law affairs and papers, which were un- der care of the said SAMUEL BARD, at his desire were put into the hand's of SAMUEL ALLINSON, Attorney at Law, in Burlington, to prevent any delay to the clients, to him therefore they will please to apply, and give their directions.
ZACHARIAH ROSSELL, Executor. -Pennsylvania Chronicle, No. 163, February 19-26, 1770.
NEW-JERSEY
An Act the more effectually to regulate FERRY-MEN, and FERRIES, within this Colony.
Sect. I. BE IT ENACTED by the Governor, Council, and General Assembly of this Colony, and it is here- by Enacted by the Authority of the same, That the Ferry-Men owning, possessing, or employed in all or any of the Boats, Flats, Wherries, or other Vessels, for carrying Passengers to and from any Place or Places within this Colony, or to and from the Col- onies of New-York and Pennsylvania, and the Lower Counties on Delaware, or any of them, shall, and are hereby required, to give constant and diligent At- tendance, and to keep their Boats, and other Craft, at all Times in Order, with sufficient and able Hands to attend the same, and not to deny, or unnecessar- ily delay, the speedy carrying over any Passenger or Passengers, applying for that Purpose, singly or to- gether, with Horse or Carriage, or with any other Creature, or any Creature or Creatures, singly or to-
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gether, or any Thing else whatsoever, that may be lawfully carried over, upon the Penalty of forfeit- ing, for every such Denial, Neglect, or Delay, the Sum of Twenty Shillings, and the Damages such Person or Persons may have sustained by any such Denial, Neglect, or Delay. And they are also here- by further enjoined and commanded, upon the Pen- alty aforesaid, not to exact or take any unaccus- tomed or unreasonable Ferriage, which said Penal- ties and Damages respectively, shall be recovered, upon due Conviction of such Offender or Offenders, before any neighboring Justice of the Peace, and ap- plied one Half to the Person who shall complain and prosecute the same to Effect, the other Half to the Overseers of the Highways, of the Township where such Ferry is situate, to be applied towards repairing the public Roads and Bridges of the said Township.
2. AND Whereas it is necessary that a General Table of the Rates of Ferriages throughout this Col- ony should be ascertained and established: BE IT ENACTED by the Authority aforesaid, That Richard Smith, Esq; one of the Clerks of the Assembly of this Colony, shall cause this Act to be published in the Gazettes of New-York and Pennsylvania, and also in detached printed Copies, to be fixed up to public View at every Ferry in this Colony, by the Owner or Possessor of such Ferry, on or before the first Day of May next, as well that no Person or Per- sons whatsoever, may plead Ignorance of the Penal- ties hereby imposed, as that the respective Owners and Possessors of Ferries throughout this Colony, may be regularly informed, that such Rates will come
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under the Consideration of the Legislature, at the next Sitting of General Assembly, in order that the same may be ascertained and established, and that such Owners and Possessors of Ferries may then attend, if they think proper. And the said Richard Smith, shall lay his Account of the Expences that shall ac- crue in performing the Duties enjoined him by this Act, before the next General Assembly.
The above Act was passed the sixth of December, I769.
THE Votes of the late Session of Assembly of New Jersey, held at Burlington, are in the Press, and will be printed with all possible Expedition ; but as that Session has been larger than usual, it will con- sequently take the longer Time to do them.
IN Pursuance of an Order made by Philip Van Horn, Peter Schenck and Job Stockton, Esqrs. Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the Coun- ty of Somerset, and Province of East New-Jersey ; upon the Petition of John Rue, and John Denton, Insolvent Debtors, now confined in the said County : Notice is hereby given by the said Petitioners to all their Creditors, to shew Cause (if any they have) be- fore the said Judges at Somerset Court-House, on the 14th Day of March next at Ten o'Clock in the Morning of said Day, being the Day and Place ap- pointed by the said Judges for that Purpose ; why an Assignment of the said Petitioners Estates, should not be made to Persons to be nominated agreeable to said Act; and the said Petitioners thereupon be discharged, according to the Directions of an Act of
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the Governor, Council, and General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey, made and passed the last Session at Burlington, in the Tenth Year of his pres- ent Majesty's Reign, entitled, "An Act for the Re- lief of Insolvent Debtors." Dated the 16th Day of February, 1770.
RUN away the 17th of September last, from Na- thaniel Richards of Newark in New Jersey, a dark Mulatto or Negro Man named Ben, who appears to have been taken up at Albany, and committed to Goal there, and to have escaped out of the Goal, the Night of the 27th of December, and is supposed to have stole a Horse, Saddle and Bridle, from Col. Bradstreet ; for which he has been advertised by the Colonel : He is about 5 Feet ro Inches high, thin made, a large flat Nose, with curld Hair down each Cheek, and had on a long grey Surtout Coat. Who- ever shall take up said Mulatto, and secure him, so that his Master may have him again, shall have FIVE POUNDS Reward, and all reasonable Charges.
N. B. An Irishman commonly called TOBY QUIT, absconded the same Night from Albany, and appears to be the same Person who went off with him from Newark, and perhaps might have taken the Horse. He is about 5 Feet 9 Inches high, fair short Hair, tied behind, had on an old Hat, with blue half-worn Surtout Coat, with brass Buttons on each Side, and a double Cape.
New-Jersey 1 BY Order of Stephen Skinner, Middlesex County ( and Jonathan Frazee, Esqrs. two of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common
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Pleas for said County : Notice is hereby given to all the Creditors of William Carlisle, and Thomas Davis, Insolvent Debtors, in the County of Middle- sex : that they shew Cause, if any they have, before the said Judges, at the House of Elijah Dunham, Inn- holder, in the City of Perth-Amboy, in the County of Middlesex aforesaid, on Thursday the 8th Day of March next, why an Assignment of the said Debtors Estate should not be made, pursuant to a late Act of Assembly, entitled, " An Act for the Relief of Insolv- ent Debtors," passed this present Tenth Year of his Majestys Reign, and their Bodies be discharged from Gaol, pursuant to said Act.
TO BE LET OR SOLD.
A HOUSE and Lot, situate in Elizabeth-Town, in the Province of New-Jersey, late the Property of Mr. Joseph Woodruff, jun. deceased, and now in the Pos- session of Mr. Oliver Spencer. This is a convenient well finished House, and very near the publick Landing, therefore fit for almost any Kind of Busi- ness. Also, a Lot of Ground, (adjoining to Elliot Cresy's House) on which are two small Tenements and a new Wharf. Also to be Let, the House and Lot formerly the Widow Hunloke's, now in the Pos- session of Mr. Isaac Arnett: This House is pleas- antly situated on Elizabeth-River, in the Centre of the Town, and also very convenient for Business.
Enquire of the Subscribers in Elizabeth-Town. WILLIAM P. SMITH, ISAAC WOODRUFF, ELIAS BOUDENOT. -N. Y. Gazette or Weekly Post Boy, No. 1416, February 19, 1770.
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To be SOLD,
B )Y the subscriber, living in the township of Piles- grove, in the county of Salem and western divis- ion of the province of New-Jersey ; the one half of a forge, with four fires and two hammers, with coal houses and a convenient dwelling house, the whole built with stone, and in good repair, not more than three years old, with a smiths shop, and a number of workmens houses, sufficient to accommodate the workmen, together with the half part of a stone grist mill, two years old, and in good repair, on a never failing stream of water, constantly supplied with springs ; the mill overshot with one pair of stones, bolting tackling all goes by water, within half a mile of the above said forge. Also the one half part of the mine, within a quarter of a mile of said forge, containing a sufficiency of good iron ore to supply any number of works, which has been proved both in blooming and refining, and is of a superior qual- ity to any iron made in the province. Also one other forge with three fires and one hammer, with sufficiency of room to erect another hammer, and fire in the same house : A good saw mill on the same dam, the whole in good repair and new, with a fur- nace, casting and bridge horses, and other conven- iences suitable for the same, on the said forge dam, with a cole house, sufficient to contain fifteen hun- dred loads of coal ; a smiths shop, tan yard, curry shop, shoemakers shop, and a bark mill ; also a good dwelling house and kitchen, with a good spring of water near the door ; store house, stables and work- mens houses : the whole within a mile of the grist
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mill, and a mile and half of the first mentioned forge, and a mile from the mine hole; with about thirty acres of good improved meadow, within a mile of the furnace, and about four hundred acres of rich swamp adjoining, within the same distance, with two good farms within a mile, sufficient to put in a hun- dred acres of grain a year, with sufficient quantity of fine timber land, to accommodate the furnace and two forges for any time. The greatest distance to cart coal will not exceed three miles in twenty years. The purchaser may have with the works, 600 loads of coal, and two thousand cords of wood within a mile of the furnace, the greatest part set in pits. The whole is situated in a fine country for trade, where there is plenty of all sorts of country produce. To be sold reasonably, and on a good stream of water, called the Wallkill-river, in the county of Sussex, in east Jersey, forty miles from New-Windsor; where is good navigation to New-York, and thirty miles from a landing on the river Delaware: From which place, iron may be transported to Philadelphia, reas- onably. Any person inclining to purchase all, or part, may apply to the subscriber, at his house, or to Abia Brown, living at said works.
JOSEPH SHARP.
15th February, 1770
By Order of Nathaniel Pettit and Thomas Van Horne, Esqrs. two of his Majesty's Judges of the In- ferior Court of Common Pleas for the County of Sussex : Public Notice is hereby given, that Thurs- day the 22d of March, is appointed by said Judges to meet, at the Court House in said County, in order 4
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to discharge John Allen, he having complied with the Conditions of the late Act of Insolvency.
February 9th, 1770.
New- Jersey, ! By Order of the honorable John Monmouth. , Anderson, John Taylor, and John Wardle, Esqrs, three of the Judges of the court of common pleas for said county: That William Thompson, petitioner for debt, in said gaol, was this tenth day of February, 1770, qualified to his sched- ule of his effects, pursuant to a late act of assembly, an act, entitled, an act for the relief of insolvent debtors, made this present tenth year of his Majes- ty's reign. Now these are to give notice, to the creditors of said debtor, that they be together at the court house of said county, on the 20th day of March next, to shew cause if any they have, why the said debtor's estate should not be assigned for the use of his creditors, and his body discharged from gaol, pur- suant to said act .- N. Y. Journal or General Adver- tiser, No. 1416, February 22, 1770.
STOLEN, from the subscriber, living in Salem coun- ty, West New-Jersey, a sorrel HORSE, about 13 hands and an inch high, low in flesh, not trimmed, shod all round, a star on the forehead, and a natural pacer. Supposed to be stolen by one SAMUEL KING, an Irish- man, by trade a laborer, a short thick well-set fellow, grey-headed, ragged in cloaths, and wears his hair tied ; is thought said King has two confederates, viz. JOHN SMITH and his WIFE, who cross'd Cooper's Ferry last Sunday to this city, and are perhaps lurk- ing about town. Whoever takes up said Horse and
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Thief, shall, if convicted, receive THREE POUNDS, or THIRTY SHILLINGS reward, for each, and reasonable charges paid by
ELISHA ALLEN. -Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1420, February 22, I770.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, Philadelphia, CLEARE'D.
Sloop Honest Endeavorer, R. Savory, Amboy. -Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2148, February 22, 1770.
New-York, March I.
We hear from Newark, that at a court held there on Friday last, for the trial of sundry persons con- cerned in some late riotous proceedings, on account of a dispute between the provincial proprietors, and a number of inhabitants, claiming under the pur- chase of Indian titles ; when one of the rioters was fined one hundred pounds, and several others in lesser sums.
Gloucester County, March 1, 1770.
THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE, that I the sub- scriber intend to apply to the General Assembly of New Jersey, at their next sessions, to be held at Bur- lington, on the 14th of this inst. for a further indulg- ence of a supplement to that part of the act which respects me, passed at the last session, entitled, An Act for the relief of insolvent debtors. If any per- son has any objection to its being granted, they are requested to appear, and make their objections.
William Gerrard.
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By order of Nathaniel Pettit, and Thomas Van- horne, Esqrs, two of his Majesty's judges of the in- ferior court of common pleas for the county of Sus- sex, in the province of New-Jersey, Notice is hereby given to all the Creditors of CORNELIUS VANOVER, an insolvent debtor, who has petitioned for relief, and complied with the conditions of the late act of assem- bly, to appear on Wednesday, the twenty-second of March next, at two o'clock on the said day, at the court-house, to shew cause, if any they have, why he should not be discharged, agreeable to the said Act. -Pennsylvania Chronicle, No. 164, February 26- March 5, 1770.
Elizabeth-Town, New-Jersey, January 15, 1770.
To the Printers of the New-York News Papers.
H aving been great part of last week at Newark, amidst the many confusions and riots there, I
made it my business to get acquainted with the same, and of the causes thereof, as well as I could ; which pray communicate to the public through your papers, that they may not be deceived by false rep- resentations.
I found there had long subsisted a dispute between several persons claiming title to certain lands under the crown of England, and others claiming under Indian purchases ; that many years past, an amica- ble suit at law was agreed on by both parties, to de- termine the same ; and an impartial jury was struck in a foreign county, and brought to the supreme court to try the same: To prevent which trial, the Indian purchasers obtained an injunction from the
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court of chancery ; stopped the suit of law, and filed their bill in the same court ; which after some time, was answered, and the council for the Indian pur- chasers advised their clients, on examining the bill answer and proofs that they had no title, and recom- mended to them to endeavour to have the dispute submitted to arbitration, which was done at the re- quest of the Indian purchasers and their council, and the dispute was submitted to three gentlemen living on Long-Island, in the government of New-York, al- together disinterested; who, after a full hearing of several days, unanimously agreed and awarded, that the title to those lands was vested in those holding under the crown of England, and not in the Indian purchasers, and that each party should pay their own costs. That the said Indian purchasers, instead of abiding by the award, renewed their suit in chancery, and on a full hearing before the chancellor, a decree was given against them, and their bill dismissed, with costs accrued since the award. The Indian purchas- ers refusing to comply with the solemn determination against them by the court of equity, and by arbitra- tors of their own choosing, now bid defiance to the laws, government, and constitution of the country, and have with many others about twenty days past, erected on the lands in dispute a strong hold, or goal, and published laws of their own making : That the proprietors, the magistrates, sheriff and other officers coming on the lands to disturb them in the possess- ion of those lands, or to serve any writs or warrants relating to said lands, should be put into their goal and confined therein, with an iron yoke about their necks
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to be made for that purpose ; with many other threats against his Majesty's subjects ; and did then publish and declare, who had, and who had not a right to cut timber on the disputed lands, and that every trespasser contrary to their edict, should be confined in their goal.
The magistrates of Newark being informed of the building of the said goal, and the many threats made use of, issued warrants against some of the builders, who were apprehended and brought before them, and on examining into the facts, were ordered to give security for their appearance at the next court to be held for the county ; which they refusing to do, were committed to the common goal of the said county, and lay there until the night of the next day, when they were released from goal on bail, but remained in town all that night; about 10 of the clock the next day, there came to town about one hundred and fifty men, armed with clubs, (a great part of them not concerned in the disputed lands) with an intent to compel the magistrates to take the prisoners out of goal, make them ride the wooden horse, and pull one of their houses down ; but finding that the pris- · oners were out of goal on bail, they departed the town without doing any other Injury than frightening many women by their tumultuous assembly : Soon after, advertisements were set up in several parts of this and adjacent counties for the liberty boys to meet at a tavern near the courthouse in Newark, on the ninth instant, to do business; which was the first day of the county court; they gave out in speeches, that the business they were to do on that
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day was to prevent the lawyers going into court, and what further should be found necessary ; and most injuriously boasted that they should be joined by the sons of liberty from New-York, whose principles are well known to be the reverse of those rioters, - - - not to subvert, but support the laws and constitution of the country ; and also that there would come ma- ny from the adjacent counties ; wherein they were disappointed, as not one came from either of those places. In the morning of the day appointed, about one hundred came into Newark with colours, on which was inscribed "Liberty and Property": The greatest mockery ever known of those most valua- ble and dear privileges, as they. then came. to de- prive others of the same by force and violence. The mob halted when they came to the court-house doors, and when going to erect their colours there, two of the under sheriffs seeing two among them against whom they had writs (being their chiefs) went un- armed, with one assistant, into the midst of them, and told the two that they had writs against them, and walked towards them, who retreated to a fence with their clubs, where they swore they would defend themselves ; the high sheriff hearing of the situation of his under sheriffs, commanded assistance, and ran to them; which the under sheriffs perceiving, broke in upon the two men, and immediately a battle in- sued, by the spirited behaviour of the high sheriff, his under sheriffs, other officers, some of the grand jury, and many others assembled to support the authority, the rioters were in a few minutes overpowered, their colours taken from them, and five of them put into
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goal. The number of rioters increased in the after- noon to about 150, when the sheriff, with the assist- ance he had, without much resistance, seized from among the midst of them and carried to goal, one who had struck him in the forenoon in the execution of his office. The rioters dispersed after demanding of the court, by message, for leave to lay their griev- ances before the court, which the court refused to receive from such an unlawful assembly, and told them that if they would another day, let their grievances be known by two or three persons only, they should be heard, and not otherwise, which they agreed to, and nothing farther happened until two of the clock the next morning, when the town Was allarmed with the firing of two out barns and a chair house, of David Ogden, Esq .; which were burnt down. and several other buildings greatly endangered, which were by the most surprizing activity of the in- habitants of the town, and others present, preserved from the flames.
The grievance complained of was a false and ma- licious charge as it appeared in the court, against the lawyers both in New-York, and New-Jersey, who had been concerned for the Indian purchasers, ex- cept one in this town, affirming that altho' the attor nies had received large sums of money from them, they had taken bribes on the other side, and desert- ed their cause. The charge not being supported, but proved false, the complaint was dismissed, and the person who offered the same, the most notorious W ---- m C --- e, was reprimanded by the court.
On examining many, to find out the persons set-
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ting the fire, it appeared that several threats had been made the day of the riot, that the Court-House should be burnt down that night, and the whole town in flames, as the inhabitants of the town in general had opposed them ; whereupon the Justices ordered a watch of ten or twelve men to patrole the streets, ' and guard the goal, and private property at night, which watch is still kept up.
During the term, several of the rioters were ap- prehended, many were indicted, and two of them, the chief actors confessed their indictments, and were fined, who afterwards made a full confession. and discovered their advisers, being persons not liv- ing on the lands in controversy, who since declare they intend to stand their trials, and not submit to the authority, and are endeavouring to strengthen their party in gaining others to join them, in oppos- ing the King's authority, his government, and the constitution of the county, which it is every honest man's business to support.
Having thus related the true state of the northern parts of the county of Essex, I am persuaded that every man, who has any loyalty to his Majesty, or regard for the laws, peace and safety of his Majesty's subjects, and is not an enemy to his country, and to the constitution he lives in, will use his most faithful and honest endeavours to bring said transgressors to justice. I am, &c.
-New-York Gazette ; and the Weekly Mercury,
No. 952, for Monday, January 22, 1770.
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County of Essex and Province of New Jersey. Mr. PARKER,
Your inserting the following in your next, will oblige many of your constant Readers ; and it is hoped will not fail of being acceptable to all the Friends to Truth and Soberness, who may see fit to honour it with their Perusal.
OBSERVING in Mr. Gaine's Paper, of the 15th of January last, a very grievous as well as false and malicious Charge drawn up, and levelled against a great Number of the peaceable and well minded In- habitants of this County ; I looked upon it as an in- dispensable Obligation incumbent on me, as a loyal Subject of his Majesty, and Friend to Truth, to enter the List, and bear a publick Testimony against an Accusation so false in itself, and so dangerous in its Consequences ; especially, since after so long a Time, none has appeared for them.
This Writer seems very solicitous for the " Public, lest it should be deceived by false Representations." How sincere he is in this, will, I trust, appear from the following Remarks, in which it was determined that nothing shall be asserted for Truth, but what can be supported by incontestable Authority.
This inquisitive Gentleman, amongst other impor- tant Discoveries which he made during his Residence for " the greatest Part of a Week at Newark, found that there had long subsisted a Dispute between Per- sons claiming Title to certain Lands under the Crown of England, and others claiming under In- dian Purchases." This Discovery, however much
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