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School house, 376, 399 Schools: Elizabeth Town, 603 Hackensack, 595, 602 New Bridge, 575, 602
Penn's Neck, 497 Schooly's Mountain, land on, to be let, 394
Scotland, 104, 584
Scotland Branch, Morris river, 612
Scots Irish, in Virginia, 548 Scots Plains, wife eloped from, 291
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Scott, John, land to be let by, 395 Rachel, servant ran away with, 465
Scudder, Dr. Nathaniel, Sec'y, New Jersey Medical Society, 105, 134, 302
Scuder, Thomas, 303
Scull, John, land for sale by, 588 William, land for sale by, 413
Schuurman, John, auditor of· Benjamin Dunham, 157
Schuyler, runaway horse thief,
25
Col. John, petition of, for reim- bursement for building causeway, 526, 527 Schuylkill, Pa., improvement of navigation of, 1, 2, 191, 599 Seabrook, Capt., 383
Seacaucus, common land in, 229 Searing, Joseph, wife of, eloped, 291, 292 Sarah, eloped, 291
"Seawing's Arabian," 438
Second River, land for sale at, 325, 395, 441; mills for sale at, 422
Seeley, Ephraim, Judge of Cum- berland county, 87
Sell, Thomas, insolvent debtor, 629
Sellers, Hall &, printers, 35
"Serenicus," letter from, 357, 359 Servant lad for sale, 611
Setlemton, 438
Sharp, Anthony, 72
Elizabeth, land for sale by, 248, 410
Isaac, land for sale by, 72, 101; biographical sketch of, 72, 73, note
Joseph; iron works to be let by, 409; land for sale by, 49, 248, 409
Sharpe, Miss Polly, marriage of, 327
Sharpsborough iron works to be let, 72, 409, 563; for sale, 101 land near for sale near the, 248, 432
Sharpstown, Salem county, 73
Shaver, Baltes, insolvent debtor, 645
Shaw, John, tavern kept by, 127, 129, 203
Sheep for sale, 4; laws for pres- ervation of, 231
Sheep raising, profit on, 244 Shenstone, quoted, 660
Sheriff's sales, act for suspension of, proposed, 85
Shields, Daniel, 303
Shinn, Thomas, 393; sale of house of, 30
Ship wrecked, 5
Shippen, Dr. William, 585; body of executed murderer sent for dissection to, 144
Shivers, Mr., creditor of, 496; father-in-law of John Budd, 512
Samuel, land next for sale, 518 Shoes for sale, 450
Shotwell, Daniel, on committee of correspondence, 217
John, goods imported and for sale by, 524, 525 Joseph, on committee of corre- spondence, 216, 233
Joseph, goods imported and for sale by, 524, 525 Joseph, jun., 217
Shrewsbury, 80, 312, 359, 516, 649 boat from, wrecked, 316
death at, 579
land for sale at, 38, 41
marriage at, 551
negroes, etc., for sale in, 248
Road, land for sale on, 128
petition for banking meadows in, 467
river, land for sale on, 175 servant run away in, 360 tavern in, for sale, 133
churches and meeting houses in, 133 township, 18, 457
Shroudy, Captain, arrival of, 36 Shute, William, declines the stage business, 416, 569; stage from house formerly occupied by, 436; stage run by, 639
Shuttleworth, Doctor, inoculator, 481
Silas, runaway negro lad, 140 Silk cocoons, prizes claimed for raising, 588
Silk culture, prizes for, 352; en- couragement of, 176
Silver, Aaron; stage-driver, 331; live stock for sale by, 174 Silver stolen, 447
Simpson, James, insolvent debtor, 131
William, fifer, deserter, 237
Sinclair, Sir John, 366
Sixteenth (British) Regiment, transferred from New York to Pensacola, 155
Sixty-fourth Regiment, at Hali- fax, 238
Skillman, Abraham, flying ma- chine erected by, 446, 447, 472; stage driver, 164, 512, 538
Skillman family, biographical sketch of, 538
Skinner, Cornelius, 362
Cortland, Speaker of the Gen- eral Assembly, 120
Stephen, 140; Jersey bills sign- ed by, 513, 565; appointed member of the Council, 225; brick 'for sale by, 589; ferry and house to be let by, 98
Stephen, Judge, Middlesex county, 6, 16, 39, 46, 97, 110, 148, 203, 209, 259, 617, 634, 645
Skirm, Abraham, fuller wanted by, 631
Slave trade, 631
Slitting mill to be let, 273
Sloan, Capt., driven out to sea, 26 Sloop ashore, 8
Small cause courts in New Jersey,
INDEX. 705
632, 650, 660; proposed in- crease of jurisdiction of, 137; criticism on Royal disallow- ance of act establishing, 596 Small-Pox, inoculation for the, 180, 181
Smith, Belcher Peartree, third
premium adjudged to, at Princeton College, 582
Captain, 386
Daniel, 613
Frederick, Chief Justice, 607
George, graduates from Prince- ton College, 266, 278
Rev. Hezekiah, collects £300 for intended Rhode Island College, 112
Isaac, Trenton, 361
Isaac, graduates from Prince- ton College, 266, 278
James, lands for sale patented to, 549
Jecamiah, 325; negro run away from, 416
John, 140
John, graduates at Princeton College, 267, 268; defends Non-Importation Agreement, 268, 276
John, Westchester, 658
John, confederate of horse thief, 50
John, Perth Amboy, ferry and house to be let by, 98
John, Middlesex county, insol- vent debtor, 16
John, of Burlington, land for sale by, 183; obituary notice of, 417, 419; land of, for sale, 462; house of, for sale, 653
John, sen., inoculator in Vir- ginia, 481
Joseph, Morristown, land for sale by, 183
Joseph, Salem, 500
Joseph, Burlington, executor, land for sale by, 462, 653
Richard, Clerk of Assembly, 44, 461
Richard, Jersey bills signed by, 513, 565
Robert, Little Egg Harbor, 516 Robert, Judge, Burlington county, 202, 203
Robert, English runaway ser- vant, 430
Robert, Irish runaway servant, 535
Samuel, drowned, 617
Samuel, Mannington, Salem county, horse stolen from, 10 Samuel, Alloways Creek Neck, Salem county, horse stolen from, 420
Capt. Samuel, Elizabeth Town, horses to be entered with, 575
Thomas, receives the degree of Master of Arts, 586
William, Philadelphia, mana- ger silk filature, 177
Rev. William, Philadelphia, to receive subscriptions for Ev-
ans's poetical works, 14; writes introduction to same, 406
William, Burlington, trustee of John Gosling, senior, deceas- ed, 554
William, Burlington, executor, land for sale by, 654
William, East Jersey, horse stolen from, 627
William, Elizabeth Town, horse stolen from, 595, 634
William, Woodridge, on com-
mittee of correspondence, 217; boat of, destroyed, 425
William Lovet, Burlington, ex- ecutor of . John Smith, land for sale by, 183, 462, 653 by, 47, 408; negro run away from, 302
William P., 184, land for sale by, 47, 408; negro run away from, 302
Smith's shop for sale, 48 Smithtown, L. I., 267
Smitzer, Peter, administrator, no- tice given by, 508
Smyth, Frederick, Chief Justice, address to, 78; sails for Lon- don, 491
John, land for sale by, 322, 541, 556; register East Jersey proprietors, 545, 606; Seacau- cus commissioner, 229
Snowden, Leonard, 150; brewery occupied by, for sale, 263
Society's Great Tract, part of, for sale, 539, 555
Sockwell, Jonadab, wife eloped from, 653
Lydia, eloped, 653
Common Pleas, 45
denounces behaviour of New York merchants, 253 Somerset county, 33, 361, 362, 589
act to repair damages done by dogs in, 306 goal, 15; insolvent debtors, 45, 69
land for sale in, 375 negro run away in, 279
"Sons of Liberty," New York, 104; expected to assist Newark rioters, 55
Sourland church, 608 .
South Amboy, 369, 451, 516 South America, 339
South Carolina, proposed repre- sentation of, in the British Parliament, 466; vessel from, 382, 385, 389
warm against the New York revolters, 293
South Carolinian. 584
South-Field, W. I., 181
South Hanover, Morris 267
county,
South River, house and land to be let, 484
landing, land near for sale, 40. 460; mills for sale near, 290 Southwark, Pa., 19
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Sowderback, Peter, servant run
away from, 350
Spain, poverty of, 246 Spangenberg, John, 362 "Spaw," the plantation known as, for sale, 609
Spence, John, runaway servant, 500
Spencer, Rev. Elihu, land for sale by, 38, 39, 42
Oliver, land for sale in the pos- session of, 47
Robert, intending for England, 618
Spicer, Jacob, land for sale near, 15; deceased, notice to debt- ors and creditors of, 99
Samuel, administrator of Jacob Spicer, 99
Spring, Samuel, graduated from the College of New Jersey, 584; oration by, 583; biogra- phical sketch of, 586
Springfield township, Burlington county, 454, 663; land in, for sale, 71, 183, 462, 653; steer raised in, to be killed, 99, 120; supports. Non-Importa- tion Agreement, 260
Springfield, Essex county, ap- prentices run away in, 552; negro run away from, 416; theft in, 591, 592
Spy glass left at the house of Brook Farmer, 238
Squan, 457
Squan Beach, sloop ashore at, 8
Squire's Point Forge for sale, 520; land near for sale, 273 Stafford, 603
Stage, 184, 364, 434, 550, 564, 565, 569
from Bridge-town to Cooper's Ferry, 415
from Roads Town, 436
waggon, 137, 138, 149, 163, 233, 331, 340, 341, 446, 447, 472, 537; fare in, 472
Newark-Powles-Hook, 139
Pilesgrove to William Cooper's, 638, 639
Stage-Road, land for sale near the, 322
Stamp-Act, cause of repeal of, 256, 280; resistance to en- forcement of, 104
Stanbury, Recompence, assignee, notice given by, 411
Stanford, Conn., 25
Stark, Abraham, runaway vant, 339
ser- Charles, 330 John, 330
Staten Island, 324, 499, 501, 530 Bluff, buoy erected near the, 491 ferry, right to, 368
Stathem,
Aaron, pocket
book
stolen from, 18, 19
Stationery for sale, 222, 413 St. Augustine, Fla., 382 St. Christophers, W. I., 386 St. Croix, W. I., 182
St. Eustatia, W. I., 182, 339, 383, 389, 585; schooner bound for, 474; sloops touched at, 321
St. George's church, Penn's Neck, 599
St. Martin's salt for sale, 631
St. Peter's Parish, Barbados, W. I., 618, 632
Steel, act of Parliament to pre- vent making of, 250
furnace at Philadelphia, 103
iron adapted to manufacture of, 271
Steel, John, repudiates bonds, 382
Steele, John, tavernkeeper, land for sale by, 399
Steer of extraordinary size, 99, 120, 130
Sterling, Lord, 544
Stevens's Ferry, Perth Amboy, house to be let near, 97 Stevens, Benjamin, 362
John, marriage of only daugh- ter of, 249
John, Northern boundary com- missioner, 460
John Austin, 658n
Lewis, land formerly of for sale, 508
Mr., Collector of Amboy, arriv- al of, from London, 478
Richard, insolvency of, 466; act for the relief of ,466, note; notice by, 632, 638 Sarah, 362
Stevenson, John, land for sale by, 440
Steward, Andrew, alias McCalla, 480
Stewart, -, struck by lightning, 504
Archibald, 362; furnace to be let by, 272; servant run away from, 242
Capt., 371, 382
James, runaway servant, 306 John, 362
Lewis, land formerly of, for sale, 508
Robert, graduates from Prince- ton College, 266, 278; vale- dictory oration by, 269 William, 362
Stiles, Child and, notice to deb- tors of, 30
Still-run, Gloucester County, land on, for sale, 518, 612
Stilwell, Capt. N., 227
Stirling, William Alexander, Earl of, 544; Speaker of Council, 108, 116
Stockdale, Mary, 437
Stockton, Job, Judge, Somerset county, 45, 69, 127; death of, 570, 587
Richard, land for sale by, 388 Samuel, receives degree of master of arts, 266, 278; ora- tion by, on ambition, 269, 277 Stoddard, Josiah, receives degree of master of arts, 267, 278 Stolen, clock, 437
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horse, 488, 545, 594 Jersey bills, 508, 509 pocket book, 18, 19 silver, 447 silver watch, 602 watch, 292, 656 Stone, Samuel, 217 Stony Brook, 128, 160, 624; death at, 541
Stony Island bridge, toll on, 581
proposed
Storms, 383, 386, 389, 392, 503
Storms, Isaac, receives the de- gree of master of arts, 586
Story, Enoch, land on Greenwich Island for sale by, 363; mer- chandise for sale by, 364 Stout, Benj., 362 Captain, 339 Grover, 85, 86, 87 Hezekiah, 622n John, land for sale by, 144 Joseph, 86, 87
Nathaniel, 86, 87, 539
Stow Creek, land on for sale, 480; marsh on, 419
Stow creek township, land for sale in, 331
Stowe, Miss Betsey, marriage of, 606 Stratford, Conn., 179, 508, 633 Statford township, Monmouth county, 237
Stratton, Dr. James, 600
Stretch, Daniel, stage run by, 416, 569, 570 John, 419 Strettle, Amos, 317 Stricklan, Thomas, insolvent debtor, 648
Striker, Elizabeth, 538
Stryker, Abraham, witness, 539 Mary, 539
Sarah, 608
Stuart, Archibald, 361
"Studens Medicinae," letter from, 400-402.
Suffolk, L. I., Presbytery of, 267 Summerset County, 361
Surveying, new work on, by Thomas Moody, 477
"Surveyor's Pocket Companion," for sale, 412
Susquehanna, land for sale on east branch of, 183
run away slave seen on the, 514 Sussex, Del., 214
Sussex County, 362, 445, 479, 632 act for choosing of represent- atives for, etc., 429
act to repair public roads and highways in, 306
action of freeholders and in- habitants of, on New York's defection from Non-Importa- tion agreement, 252
court-house, land for sale near the, 572
forge in, to be let, 272; for sale, 520
goal, insolvent debtor confined in, 153 iron works in, to be let, 72
land in for sale, 49, 408, 431, 613 land to be let in, 272 market for sale, 387 Sutphen, Benjamin, insolvent debtor, 34
Suttan, John, 229 Suttonian Inoculation, 481
Swart, Cornelius, 226
Sweden, King of, 599
"Swedes, Annals of the," cited 600 Swedes Ford, Pa., 191
Swedesboro, 598, 600 church rec- ords, 599
Swedes-Borough, land to be sold in, 322; land near for sale, 472
Swedish Church, Curate to the, 598
Church in Wilmington, broken open, 590
Del.,
Consistory, 598
government, 598 King, bounty of the, 600
parishes in America, dean of, 598 Sweesy, Caleb, 381
Sweet-River, W. I., 181
Swinburn, William, 438
Swinfen, John, insolvent debtor, 593 Sykes, Anthony, land for sale by, 273
John, land for sale by, 273 death of, 647 Synickson, Andrew, Judge, 42
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Tallman, Peter, 243, 259
Tanton Forge for sale, 287, 344, 345; negroes, etc., for sale at, 248
Tan-yard for sale, 76, 112 Tappen, Isaac, 217
Tatem, William, 454
Tavern for sale, 133, 459 Taverns:
Abraham Godwin's, at Passaick Falls, 347
Banks's, James, Newark, 324, 377
Barnaby Shute's, formerly Eliz- abeth-Town, 285
Campbell's, Freehold, 459 Cornelius Neefie's, Falls, 149
Passaick
David Clayton's, Burlington, 127, 129
Elijah Allen's, Newton, Sussex county, 317
George, in Philadelphia, 446, 465, 472, 550
"Golden Eagle," 15 Indian King, 342
John Raser's, Philadelphia, 291 John Shaw's, Burlington, 127, 129, 203
Josiah Halsted's, Shrewsbury, 133
Michael Duff's, New Bruns- wick, 105
Mrs. Chetwood-Johnson's, Eliz- abeth-Town, 285
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Nathaniel Drake's,
township, 533
New Blazing Star, stage wag- on kept at the, 340
Reeder's, Pa., 136
Richard Renshaw's . Point House, 471
Rising Sun, Philadelphia, 381 Robert Price's, Sussex county, 408
Samuel Hunt's, Trenton, 148
Sign of the George, Philadel- phia, 446
Sign of the King's arms, Eliz- abeth-Town, 575
Trenton Ferry, 274
White-hall, New Brunswick, 162, 643
Widow Comron's, near Mantua Creek, 554
William Wright's, Perth Am- boy, 545, 605
Taxation without representation, denunciation of, 261
Taxes imposed by England on Americans, 28
Taylor and Gardiner, store kept by, 443
Anthony, 243, 259
Daniel, stage run by, 569, 570
James, apprentice run away from, 17
James, graduated from the Col- lege of New Jersey, 584; de- bates by, 583
John, graduates from Princeton College; 266, 278; discusses National character, 269
John, Judge Monmouth County, 2, 3, 34, 50, 120, 324, 629
John, Seacaucus commissioner, 229
Joseph, insolvent debtor, 34 Lawrence, insolvent debtor, 3
Rev. Nathaniel, sermon by, 284 Tea for sale, 367; Parliamentary duty on, unconstitutional, 261; tax upon, 255 "Teazer," 438
Templer, Colonel, house for sale occupied by, 366; of the XXVIth Regiment of Foot, 508
Tenant's Creek, land for sale on, 11
Ten Eyck, Harmanus, horse thief, 25
Jacob H., 25
Matthew, land for sale by, 375 Tenicke, Peter, land for sale in the occupation of, 150
Ten Mile Run, 396
Tennant, Richard, innkeeper, 391 Tennent, Dr. Gilbert, deceased, notice to 'debtors and cred- itors of, 163; biographical sketch of, 163, note William, administrator of Dr. Gilbert Tennent, deceased, 163 Rev. William, 362
Tenney, John, land for sale oc- cupied by, 540, 555
Roxbury Ten pound court, criticism on Royal disallowance of act es- tablishing, 578, 596; import- ance of, 635-8, 649, 660-662 Teple, William, insolvent debtor, 127
Test, Edward, communication by, 493; attacking John Budd, 474, 477; Budd replies to, 483, 493, 498
John, land for sale by, 15 Thatcher, Bartholomew, death of widow of, 541
Elizabeth, Mrs., obituary no- tice of, 541; remarkable fe- cundity of, 541
Jeremiah, land for sale by, 387 Thaw, great, 32
Theft, 7, 18, 214, 508, 656
"The Time Piece and Literary Companion," publication of, 585
Thomas, Joseph, goaler, 323 Joseph, insolvent debtor, 131 Mary, eloped, 131 Samuel, wife eloped from, 131 Thompson, tavern-
keper, 191 607; in company of utterer of counterfeit bills, 607
Benjamin, servant lad run away from, 626
Charles, supposed thief taken up, 447 Frances, 454 Stephen, 232
William, insolvent debtor, 50 Thorn, Mahlon, land for sale by, 581
Thoroughfare creek, Salem coun- ty, 419
Thorp, John, Jun., on committee of correspondence, 217 Tice, Richard, land for sale by, 560
Tice's Big Mill for sale, 560 Tillbury, England, 72
Tilton, James, receives degree of Doctor in Physics, 518
John, insolvent debtor, 34
Timber Creek, 150, 612; fulling mill on to be let, 178; land for sale on, 8, 323, 398
Tindall, Thomas, act for the re- lief of, 306
Tinicum township, Pa., land for sale in, 136
Tinton, 359 Toby, Nathaniel, 362
Tod, Alexander, iron works to be let by, 409, 564; land for sale by, 409, 410; merchant, mar- riage of, 327
Tohiccon creek, Pa., land for sale near, 136 Tole, Richard, farm for sale by, 42 Tom, runaway negro, 535 Tomlinson, Joseph, 633 Tonkin, Edward, deceased, 30 Edward, insolvent debtor, 9, 42
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John, immense steer raised by, 120, 130
Tonkins, Samuel, land next for sale, 537 Totoway Bridge, 346
Totten, John, insolvent debtor, 69
Townley, Richard, accidental death of son of, 299
Townsend, Hannah, eloped, 572 Silvanus, junior, wife eloped from, 572
Tracy, Stephen, graduates from Princeton College, 266, 278; biographical sketch of, 268
"Tradesman of New Jersey," ob- servations of a, 576
Trenchard, Curtis, servants run away from, 656
George, executor, land for sale by, 31
George, Judge Salem county, 42
George, Seacaucus Commis- sioner, 229
Trenton, 29, 38, 42, 106, 158, 168, 221, 238, 253, 308, 312, 355, 359, 361, 362, 376, 387, 391, 392, 467, 489, 501, 534, 554, 581, 618, 631
battle of, 266
Court House, land for sale at the, 239
Falls, land near, for sale, 600 sturgeon cured at, 173
Ferry, 631; for sale, 159; to be let, 274
Forge, servant run away from, 213
Friends burying ground in, 469 goal, 6, 112, 646; lad for sale, committed to, 590; man com- mitted to, 398
horse stolen near, 328
land for sale near, 151, 190, 366, 443
mulattoe run away near, 554 negro run away in, 155
Post Office, list of letters re- maining in, 361 servant ran away in, 191
stage waggon goes through, 163, 446, 538 tavern to be let near, 275
Trinity Church, New York, 288 Trinity Church, Wilmington, Del., robbed, 590
Triplets born at Northampton, 104
Troops, an act making provision for his Majesty's, 306 Troops assisted in resisting fire, 389
Troup, John, 374 "True Britton," stallion, 109
T. S., article by, on lawsuits in New Jersey, 635
Tucker, Joseph, junior, clothing stolen from, 591
Samuel, auditor, 239
T(ucker?), S(amuel), article by, on lawsuits in New Jersey, 635; criticised, 660
Tuft, Mary, 73
Turks-Island, W. I., 403
Turner, Daniel, puffs Dr. Gra- ham, 616 Joseph, 242
Robert, 437
Tuthill, Samuel, assignee, notice by, 534
Samuel, Seacaucus Commis- sioner, 229
Tuttel, Joseph, land for sale by, 348
Tuttle, Col., 374; land next for sale, 520
John, farm for sale formerly occupied by, 520 Col. Joseph, sale of land of, 406
Moses, land for sale by, 132 Twenty-first Regiment, at Phila- delphia, 533, 558
Twenty-sixth Regiment, 237; re- moved from the Jersies to New York, 155; address of New Brunswick authorities to 161; at New York, 238; Jer- sey bills stolen from a pri- vate in the, 508; at New York, 533,558
Twenty - ninth Regiment, to
march to Amboy, 153, 155; arrives, 162; removed from the Jersies to New York, 155; address of New Bruns- wick authorities to, 161; de- serted from, 237, 532; soldiers of, to sail for London, 491; their vessel obliged to return, 503, 557; arrival of re- cruits from England, 593; to be transported from Amboy to Augustine, 629; compli- ments to, from Perth Amboy, 640; and from New Bruns- wick, 641
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Ulster county, N. Y., land for sale in, 457 Union Furnace, 361; land for sale near, 502
Union Iron-works, to be let, 273; lands for sale near, 540, 556; stolen horse to be returned to the, 507
Union of the American Colonies, Plan of, 466
"United Company of New Jersey" proposed, 295
"United States Magazine," 584, Unslacked lime, 389 585 danger from, Upper Barebrook, grist mill on for sale, 410
Upper Bridge, Stone creek, land near for sale, 480
Upper Dublin, Pa., 480; appren- tice run away in, 435
Upper Freehold, 323, 370, 519: death at, 442; land for sale
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in, 128; servant run away' in, 303, 306, 436
Upper Marsh Creek, Pa., Presby- terian Church of, 584 Upper Pennsneck, 599; land for sale in, 31
Upsal, Sweden, 598; archbishop and consistory of, 598, 600 Usbeck, John, 274
Usher, Abraham, executor, land for sale by, 29
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Vaghte, Nicholas, land for sale by, 578 -, Dr., alleged quackery Van of, 400
Van assurances by, 401 Van Bus Kerk, John, land for
sale by, 528
Van Buskirk, Andrew, land for sale by, 372; stage of, 434
Van Campen, Isaac, horse stolen from pasture of, 507
Vance, Alexander, land and cat- tle for sale by, 338
Van Der Hoof, Jacob, land for sale by, 126
Vanderippe, John, insolvent debt- or, 648
Vanderveer, Garret, land for sale by, 370
John, land for sale by, 375
Vandevere, Jacob, former ser-
vant of, 487
Van Deursen, Elizabeth, 608 Vandike, Roelof, negro run away from, 280
Van Dyck, Elizabeth, land for sale by, 508
Henry, land for sale by, 508 Van Dycke, -, murder of, 493, 498
Van Emberg, Mr., 454
Van Emburgh, John, 243, 259
Van Hartinggen, Rev. Johannes Martinus, on faculty of Queen's College, 608; bio- graphical sketch of, 608n
Van Horn, Philip, Judge Somer- set county, 45, 127
Thomas, Judge Sussex county, 49, 52, 86, 205, 206
Van Horne, Mr., 553 Van Houstan (Houten), Johan- nis, executor, notice of sale by, 434
Vanhouter (Van Houten), John, fire at the house and barn of, 135, 140
Van Kirk, William, Jr., insolvent debtor, 3
Vanlear, Dr., subscriptions for book received by, 363
Van Neste, George, land for sale by, 375
Van Norden, land
Tobias, for sale by, 388
Mrs. Tobias, land for sale by, 373
Van Orden, Tobias, land for sale by, 33
Vanover, Cornelius, insolvent
debtor, 52
Van Veghte, Direck, 219, 226 Van Winckle, John, pettiaugre
for sale by, 286
Van Zant, John, witness, 539 Vassall, Tho., 181
Vennard, Captain, 645
Verbrych, Mr., 623
Verree, James, land for sale by, . 183
Vessels: Ann, sloop, 356
Aurora, 585
Carolina, 389 Carpenter, brig, 386
Centurion, sloop, 230 Chance, snow, drove ashore,
386
Charlotte, sloop, 427
Charming, brig, 386
Dove, brig, drove out to sea, 26
Duke of Cumberland, packet, 392
Earl of Dunmore, ship, 491 Edward, ship, ran ashore, 172, 174 Endeavour, sloop, 183, 519
Endicut, snow, 12
Friendship, brig, 339
Generous Friends, 20, 21
George, ship, 382
Happy Return, schooner, 228
Herring, sloop, 388
Hetty, sloop, 121
Hope, sloop, 392
Honest Endeavour, sloop, 51, 182 Iris, British frigate, 585
Jupiter, brig, ashore, 6
Lady Gage, ship, 593
Lisbon, packet, 389
James, brig, ashore, 35
John and Betsey, 478
Mary, schooner, 633, 644
Minerva, ship, 385
Nancy, brig, drove out to sea, 26
Nesbit, ship, 135
New York, ship, 491, 503
Packet, safe arrival of, 383
Parragon, brig, 20
Polly, brigantine, 386
Polly, schooner, 517, 521, 545
Polly, sloop, 87 Richard, brig, 35
Sally, sloop, 511, 549
Santa Maria, sloop, 382, 385
Susanah, brig, drove out to sea, 26
Two Brothers, sloop, 516, 521 Unity, brig, 566 Wallworth, 342 West-India packet, 389
Vickers, Joseph, 421
Peter, land rented to, for sale, 136
Vining, John, obituary notice of, 312, 314 Violet, runaway mulatto slave, 514
Virginia, 268, 356, 487, 593
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Convention, 586 Gazette, extract from, 166 inoculation in, 481 late transactions in, relative to an American Episcopate, 659 proposed representation of, in the British Parliament, 466 religious bodies in, 547 settling of, by farmers from the Jerseys, 399 Voorhes, Widow, innkeeper, 445
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Walker, Edward, apprentice run away from, 435
John, skinner, broke goal, 183 Samuel, insolvent debtor, 16 Walkill River, Sussex county, iron works on, for sale, 101 Wallace, Caleb, graduates from Princeton College. 266, 278; biographical sketch of, 268 Hugh, assignee, land for sale by, 364
Joshua Maddax, receives degree of Master of Arts, 278 William, 130
Wallen, Joseph, land for sale
lying near, 432
Wall Kill, Sussex county, iron works to let on, 564
Wallkill, Ulster county, land for sale at the, 549 river, land for sale on the, 49 Waln, Richard, 653
Walter, John, insolvent debtor, 10
Walton, Jeremiah, 599
Wamsley, William, land for sale by, 444
Ward, passes counterfeit bill, 607
Capt., arrival of, 12 Josiah, boatman, 439 Matthias, stage driver, 233 Uzal, quarries run by, 439 Wardell, John, Judge of Mon- mouth county, 50, 129, 324
Warner, Joseph, executor, no- tice by, 299
Warren, Joseph, land for sale near, 408, 432 · Watch stolen, 602, 656
Waterford township, Gloucester county, 130, 562; wife eloped from, 131; land for sale in, 146, 147; servant run away from, 147, 453; horse stolen in, 434, 552
Watering Place, at the Highlands of Navesinks, 143
Water melons, a luxury, 27 Waters, Israel, 553
Watkin's Ferry, on Patowmach, 399
Watson, Aaron, land for sale by, 104
Alexander, assignee, land for sale by, 364
Marmaduke, land for sale by, 104; prize claimed by, for silk cocoons, 588
Thomas, Bordentown, 362 Thomas, Perth Amboy, land for sale at the suit of, 11 . Watts, Sarah, marriage of, 437 Stenhen, land for
190
Way, Nicholas, receives degree of Doctor in Physic, 518 "W. C.," contribution by, 471 Weather, hard, 8
Webb, John, run away, 328 Weed, George, physician and
apothecary, formerly of
West Jersey, wonderful cure by, 201, 319
Well, Daniel, plantation of, for sale, 487 Wells, Richard, horse strayed or stolen from, 489; land for sale by, 136, 183, 453
Thomas, run away 436
servant, William, 264, 569; land for sale by, 121
West, Charles, executor, notice by, 299
Deborah, executrix, notice by, 299
John, insolvent debtor, 3
John, land for sale by, 121, 468 Thomas, deceased, notice to . creditors and debtors of, 299 Westchester, borough town N. Y., 658 of,
Western Islands, W. I., 474 West-Indies, 8, 435 West Jersey, proposed represen- tation of, in the British Par- liament, 466
Rights, for sale, 551
Westmoreland
parish,
Jamaica,
W. I., 181
West-Nantwell
township,
Pa.,
servant boy run away in, 581
West New Jersey, inland trade
of, 1
Wheat land for sale, 150
Wheeler, James, boatman, 439 Whilan, Michael, runaway ser- vant, 531
Whiponong River, plan to ditch swamp on, 374, 383 Whisky Insurrection, 585 White, Mr., 333 Thomas, 29 Whitefield, Rev. George, jour- neys of, 182
Whitehall Slip, New York, 439 White-hall tavern, New Bruns- wick, entertainment at, 162, 643
Whitehill, John, 599
Whitridge, Capt. L., 183
Wicaco, 600; church, 600; parish of, 599
Wickoof, Isaac, quarrel of, with Moore Furman, 622
Wicsell, Mr., 598 Wiet, Mr., 494 Wife beater flogged, 10, 18, 19, 34 Wife eloped, 131, 602 f Wikoff, Peter, land for sale by,
sale by,
712
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502
Wilely, Mr., 362
Wilkins, Isaac, negro slave run away from, 517
Wilkison,
Nathaniel,
insolvent
debtor, 135
Will, runaway
negro,
579;
“of
the blackest cast," 251
William, Captain, arrival of,
36
Williams, Bedford, graduate of Princeton College, 266, 278; in debate, 269, 277
Benjamin, coats stolen from, 310
Charles, insolvent debtor, 648 Ensign, arrives from England, 593
George, runaway servant, 412 Giles, insolvent debtor, 34
James, deceased, land of for sale, 5
John, runaway servant, 147 John, land for sale by, 248 Williamsfield, W. I., 181 Williamson, Jacob, graduates
from the College of New Jersey, 584; debate by, 583
Matthias, graduates from Princeton College, 266, 278; dissertation by, on religious freedom, 276, 268; biograph- ical sketch of, 268
Wills, Aaron, land next for sale 488
William, land for sale by, 469 Willson, Charles, 438
Wilmington, Del., 87, 155, 330, 518, 624; apprentice girl run away from, 249; church, rob- bery in, 590, 591
Wilmot, Mr., private Secretary to the Lord Chancellor, and agent in London for New
Jersey, 167, 172
Wilport, Benjamin, 120 George, 120
Wilson, Isaac, blacksmith, run- away apprentice, 198 James, insolvent debtor, 106
Wilson, James, graduates from Princeton College, 266, 278; oration by, on commerce, 269, 277; biographical sketch of, 268 Gen. James Grant, 658n John, 362
Peter, notice by, of Hacken- sack grammar school, 595
Samuel, receives the degree of master of arts, 586
William, runaway servant, 343, 453, 522
Windsor township, 410
Winsh, Anna Margaret, legacy to, 274
Ulrich, deceased, legacy left by, 274
Winter, Mordecai, 613
Woodruff, Isaac, land for sale Wistar, Richard, servant run away from glass house of, 146
Withers, William, servant of,
committed to goal, 320 Witherspoon, David, premium awarded to, at Princeton College, 582
James, graduates from Prince- ton College, 266, 278; oration by, on individual liberty, 126, 267, 268, 276; biographical sketch of, 268
Rev. Dr. John, 268, 586; visit to purchase Rittenhouse's or- rery for the college of New Jersey, 145, 426; "Practical Discourses, on the Leading Truths of the Gospel," by, for sale, 190, 471 Mrs. John, 584
John, Princeton College sopho- more, first prize in Greek and Latin, given to, 582
Wittes, William, 181
Woldridge, Thomas, from England, 593
passenger
Wolf, Lion, 362 . Wolley, Mr., 516
Wolper, Wolpper, Benjamin, 99, 120, 130
Geroe, 99, 120, 130
Wood, Henry, marriage of son
of, 16
Isaac, marriage of. 16 John, 243, 259
Joseph,
assignee,
notice
by,
534
Mary, with runaway negro, 625 Richard, escaped bail, 184
Woodbridge, 109, 270, 284, 377, 385, 390, 424, 447, 448
boat for sale in, 371 ducking of importer at, 220
funeral of James Parker at,
195, 202
land for sale in, 321
negro run away in, 180
Non-importation resolutions made by the Freeholders and Freemen of, 215, 233; repudi- ated in part, 251
Rev.
George
Whitefield
to
preach at, 182
· stage waggon goes through, 163, 446, 538 tar and feathers kept in readi- ness in, 217
Woodbridge-Raway, land for
sale at, 430
Woodbridge-Raway Neck. land
for sale lying, in, 378 Woodberry, 343
Woodberry, Capt. T., 517, 521, 545
Woodbury, 8, 598, 613, 656; death of John Ladd at, 380 Woodhouse, William, bookbinder and stationer, 330 Woodnut, Richard, 581
Woodrow, Henry, trustee, land for sale by. 146
by, 47 Isaac, executor, land for sale by, 544 Isaac, foreman of Essex coun-
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ty Grand Jury, 80
Joseph, deceased, land of, for sale, 408
Joseph, Jr., deceased, land of, for sale, 47
Wood's grist mill, 480
Woods-Town, 639
Woodward, Nathaniel, land for sale by, 606
Samuel, land for sale by, 606 Wool for sale, 521; product of, 245
Woolfe, Mathew, insolvent debt- or, 648
Woolman, Jonathan, land next for sale, 488 Woolwich township, 332, 626; land for sale in, 15, 322, 537; negro run away in, 191
Wooster, Thomas, receives the degree of master of arts, 586 Worcester goal, Mass., Baptists and Quackers confined in, 334
Workmen's houses for sale, 48
Worrell, Peter, brewery for sale by, 263
Worth, Henry, insolvent debtor, 34
Joseph, 303
Worthley, Obadiah, insolvent debtor, 3
Wotherill, Thomas, 613
Wrecks, 5, 20, 21, 316, 382, 386
Wright, David, insolvent debtor, 617 Ezekiel, land to be let by, 443
Israel, servant run away from, 367
John, appointment of, as schoolmaster, 575, 603 John, deceased, the daughter of, 424
Jonathan, land for sale by, 480
Mahlon, land and grist mill for sale by, 410 Mary, 424, 437
Richard, on committee of corre- spondence, 217; letter from, denouncing Thomas Haddon, Jr., 423, 424
Sarah, 437 Thomas, 73, 362
William, race horses to be en- tered with, 110; tavern keep- er, 545; vendue of land at the house of, 605
Wyoming, Pa., 417
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Xenophontic Banquet, 376
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Yale College, 586 Yard, Joseph, insolvent debtor, Yard's 236 Island, Delaware River, 301
York, Capt., 155
Young, Jeremiah, 516 Moses, notice of petition by, for ditching Pinch Bogg swamp, 377 William, servant run away from, 531
Younglove, Isaiah, land for sale lately the property of, 375
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Zabriskie, John, land
for sale near, 372
Justice, supposed thief brought before, 447
Zubly, Rev. John Joachim, re- ceives degree of Master of Arts, 267, 278; see Lubley
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