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NEW-YORK, June 29. Wednesday last Capt. Brass arrived here in 7 weeks from the Bay of Honduras, who spoke on the 19th with the brig Franklin, Capt. Lyell, from Amboy for Madeira, out forty eight hours .- The Pennsylvania Journal; or The Weekly Ad- vertiser, No. 1543, July 2, 1772.
PHILADELPHIA, June 29. The GENERAL ASSEMBLY of New-Jersey are to meet at Perth-Amboy on Wednesday, the 19th of August next .- The New York Journal; or, The General Advertiser, No. 1539, July 2, 1772.
BY VIRTUE OF A WRIT to me directed, will be exposed to public sale on the premises, on the Ist day of August next, between the hours of twelve and five o'clock in the afternoon, that valuable Plantation, commonly known by
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the name of the Neat Farmer's Plantation, situate in Greenwich township, Gloucester county, on Salem road; containing One Hundred Acres, more or less, of Land and Meadow, with a good stone dwelling-house and kitchen, and an excellent well near the door. Also, an apple orchard, and about sixty acres of clear land, bounded by the lands of Alexander Randall, Esq; William Trem- bell, Moses Clava, and John Sauders; the property of William Scull of Pennsylvania, seized and taken in execu- tion by
THOMAS DENNY, Sheriff.
THREE POUNDS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the Subscriber, living at Clomell, in the Jersies, on the first inst, a servant man, named Hugh Burns, about five feet six or seven inches high, of a dark complexion, with short black hair. Had on an old wool hat; a light coloured blue coat; a light coloured inside jacket, without sleeves, and the fore part of the skirts made round; two pair of trowsers made of striped ticken; an old course linen shirt, and a pair of good pumps. Said fellow served the first part of his time with one Cumming, a tinker in Bucks county, and has often travellel through many parts of this country with tin-ware; he has likewise been at Carolina, and came from Charles-Town, aboard of a sloop about eight weeks ago, and pretends to be a seaman. It is probable he may try to get away on board of a vessel, or gone to Maryland to the harvest: He may have a pass with him from Carolina, which he got before he was my servant. Whoever takes up said Hugh Burns, and brings him to Thomas Mullan, in Front-street, or confines him in any of his Majesty's goals, so that his master may have him again, shall receive the above reward and reasonable charges paid by
LUKE M'CABE.
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N. B. All masters of vessels, and others, are forbid to harbour or carry him off, at their peril .- The Pennsyl- vania Packet, and the General Advertiser, No. 37, July 6, 1772.
Philadelphia, June 25. From Lowe's Ferry, Cumber- land County,1 we hear, that on Wednesday the 24th ult. a farmer near that place went into his orchard in the morn- ing, where he shot himself, by putting the muzzle of his gun to his forehead, and pulling the trigger with his toe, which carried away all the upper part of his head .- The New-York Gazette, or the Weekly Post-Boy, No. 1525, July 6, 1772.
THREE POUNDS Reward.
S TOLEN the 24th of June last, at night, out of John Stacy's shallop, at the falls of Trentown, the fol- lowing goods, viz. A silver watch, maker's name Thomas Vernon, Liverpool, No. 1099, a coat of arms carved on the outside case, and opens with a point of a pin : A white cloth coat with yellow catgut buttons; the coat and holes bound with binding of the same colour: A red striped jacket, the back part of linen, and lined with stripe the same of the fore parts: A beaver hat with a silk lining and very greasy. The above articles were stolen by a certain Daniel M'Daniel, born in Scotland; he is a slen- der fellow about 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, thin visage, with a long thin beard, the calf of one of his legs is very much swell'd and sore, which makes him hobble and limp in his walk, dark brown hair. Had on when the things were stole and he absconded, a pair of striped ticken trowsers, and two old check shirts; he will lye and boast, and is very noisy; he formerly lived at Port-Penn, in New-Castle County. Any person or persons securing the
1Query: New Jersey?
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said M'Daniel, in any of his Majesty's gaols, so that the goods may be had again, shall receive the above reward, (but for the thief thirty shillings only) so that he may be brought to justice, and all reasonable charges paid by the Subscriber, living at the corner of Front and Almond streets, at the sign of the Rainbow in Southwark, Phila- delphia.
JOHN STACY. -The New-York Gazette; and the Weekly Mercury, No. 1080, July 6, 1772.
Burlington, July 3, 1772.
WHEREAS we the subscribers, directors appointed by law, to build a DRAW-BRIDGE over Croswicks Creek, in the county of Burlington, did petition the late General Assembly, praying a law to erect the said Bridge into a Toll, or to make it a public charge in such manner as they should think most conducive to the good of the commu- nity. And whereas it appears by the minutes of the As- sembly, Dec. 17, 1771, that it is their pleasure we should make this our application public, and if no reasonable objection should appear at the next session of Assembly for doing public business, we shall then have leave to bring in a bill for the purposes aforesaid : Notice is therefore hereby given to all whom it may concern, that those who have any objections to the premises, may attend at the next General Assembly, and offer their reasons for the same.
JOSEPH BORDEN, ISAAC PEARSON, ROBERT PEARSON.
Hopewell, West New-Jersey, July 10, 1772. FIVE POUNDS Reward.
STOLEN, last night, out of the pasture of the subscriber,
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a LIGHT BAY HORSE, about 14 hands and 3 inches high, 5 years old, has a large blaze in his face, three white legs and feet, two behind; has a large scar on his near fore hoof, and barefooted. He trots and canters .- STOLEN, likewise, an OLD SADDLE, with a blue cloth, has a patch on the under side, and white binding; the pad and stirrup leathers are new. Whoever secures the said Horse, so that the owner may have him again, and the Thief brought to justice, shall receive the above reward, or THREE POUNDS for the Horse only, and reasonable charges, paid by
FOSTER BURROWES.
-The Pennsylvania Chronicle, and Universal Adver- tiser, No. 287, July 6-13, 1772.
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given to all concerned in cer- tain Meadows and Marshes, situate in the township of Lower Alloway's Creek, in the county of Salem, in New Jersey, known by the name of the Back Marsh, that appli- cation will be made to the next session of General Assem- bly of this province, by the owners and possessors of the meadows and marshes aforesaid, for an act to enable them to erect, uphold, and maintain a tide bank, dams, sluices, and other water works, so as effectually to prevent the tide from overflowing the same; beginning at a point of fast land, called Tyler's Point, late the property of Will- iam Waddington, deceased, and running to Tyler's Creek 40 rods, from thence 160 rods to Long Point, late the property of Nathaniel Street, deceased. Such persons as have objections against the same, may attend and make them.
Alloway's Creek, June 29, 1772.
Saturday last - Smart, alias M'Cormick, was executed at Burlington. We hear he owned, that himself
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only was guilty of the Murder and Robbery for which he suffered, and acknowledged the Justice of his Sentence.
Gloucester, New-Jersey, July 9, 1772.
WAS found in the possession of a certain person, who calls himself DANIEL BRIAN, committed to goal in the county aforesaid, for horse-stealing, and now in the cus- tody of the subscriber, a likely brown bay HORSE, about 8 years old, 14 hands high, has some white hairs in his forehead, and both hind feet white, trots and hand gal- lops; supposed to be stolen. The owner of said horse is therefore desired to prove his property, pay the charges, and take him away, in 4 weeks from the date hereof, oth- erwise he will be sold for the same.
ISAAC KAY.
WAS STOLEN, the 24th of June, from the subscriber, living in Amwell township, West New-Jersey, a dark brown MARE, about 14 hands high, 5 years old, a natural pacer, no brand nor ear mark, has a large double mane and fore-top, a good neck and breast, a thick place in the left hind fetlock, and a scar in it. The thief is supposed to be a Negroe with a brown jacket, or short coat, with a slit in the back between the shoulders. Whoever takes up the thief and mare, so that the owner may have her again, and the thief brought to justice, shall have THREE POUNDS reward, and reasonable charges; for the mare Twenty Shillings only, paid by me
HENRY DELS, junior
-The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2272, July 9, 1772.
NEW YORK, July 9. The Man lately murdered at Stockbridge, in New-England, proves to be one James Farrel, of Greenwich in New-Jersey, where he left a Wife and several Children; the Murderer is said to be one
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Harvey, who had broke Albany Gaol, where he was lately committed for Theft .- The New York Journal; or The General Advertiser, No. 1540, July 9, 1772.
Philadelphia, July 9. Extract of a letter from Prince- town, July 7.
"About two weeks ago, some coals were discovered to have been put at the south end of Dr. Witherspoon's house, together with a bottom of an old chair, which was stuffed between the boards: Happily they went out, and no damage was done. The President procured a watch for some succeeding nights, but as the attempt was not renewed, the thing was forgot, and the coals supposed to have got there by accident.
"Last Wednesday evening one Gaa, a barber, smelling a stench, like burning rags, searched narrowly about, and at length discovered a large coal wrapped up in a piece of linen, which in a few moments would have set the house on fire. This, and the foregoing attempt, convinced them, there was some mischief brooding, and accordingly they seized an old man, who has since been found innocent.
"On Friday night we were alarmed with the cry of fire; I looked out of my window, and discovered a small light in Mr. Baldwin's barn; but before I had run twenty rods, the whole barn was in a blaze; before any body arrived, it was beyond our power to save it. All that could be done, was to prevent the neighboring barracks. Our steward lost most of this year's hay, a vast deal of grain and straw, a waggon, which was loaded with hay, a new saddle, all his implements of husbandry, &c."
Some accounts from Princetown say, that while the Collegians were at the fire, some person, or persons en- tered the College and ransacked their rooms, and carried off a quantity of Plunder.
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PURSUANT to an order of the Inferior Court of Com- mon Pleas of the county of Morris; Notice is hereby given to the respective creditors of Thomas Hallock, Willis Pierson, William Crane, Joshua Douglass, James Totten, Nathaniel Salmon, and Aaron Burnett, insolvent debtors, to shew cause, if any they have, on Tuesday the eleventh day of August next, at two o'clock in the after- noon of the same day, at the Court House in Morris Town, in the County of Morris, before the Honourable Jacob Ford and Samuel Tuthill, Esquires, two of the Judges of the said Court, why an assignment of the said debtors estate should not be made, and they discharged agreable to the directions of a late act of the Governor, Council and General Assembly of this province of New Jersey, entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debt- ors."
Morris Town, July 10, 1772.
-The New-York Gazette, or the Weekly Post-Boy, No. 1526, July 13, 1772.
New-Jersey, Middlesex County, July 9, 1772. N OTICE is hereby given, that the sales of the lands belonging to the estate of the late Lewis Morris Ashfield, Esq; deceased, that was adjourned to the 9th of April last, at the suit of Richard Morris, Esq; contain- ing about four hundred acres, lying in the south ward of the city of Perth Amboy, near Cranberry, is farther ad- journed to Thursday the 20th of August next, between the hours of 12 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon of said day, at the house of Elijah Dunham, tavern-keeper in said city. Per ISAAC BONNELL, late sheriff.
To be sold by the subscriber,
T HE farm whereon he now dwells, containing 220 acres, one mile distant from Trentown, situate upon
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the river Delaware; about 170 acres of cleared land, 30 acres whereof is excellent meadow ground, the tillable part of a very kind warm soil; that which remains wood land, is well timbered; the whole watered with living streams plentifully. The agreeable and extensive pros- pect on the Delaware, fitly adapts it for a gentleman's seat, and the goodness of the soil, for the farmer. A neat well built dwelling-house, compleatly finished from the bottom to the top; a good kitchen, barn, stables, and other conveniences thereon. A very good collection of the best kinds of apples, pears, peaches, cherries, and plumbs, &c. Any gentleman inclining to purchase the house and 100 acres, may have it layed out very conve- nient, and will be sold separate, if it best suits the pur- chaser, by
BENJAMIN BILES.
N. B. Said Biles has to sell a negro wench, about 24 years old, with a child 2 years and 6 months old; also a negro girl 7 years, and a boy 5 years old. The wench was born in New-York.
SIXTY FIVE POUNDS Reward.
W HEREAS there is great Reason to suspect that the Barn of the Subscriber, at Princetown, in New- Jersey, which was consumed by Fire, on the Evening of the third Day of July Instant, was wickedly and mal- iciously set on Fire, by some evil minded Person or Per- sons, at present unknown : The Subscriber therefore promises to pay the above Reward of Sixty-five Pounds, to any Person who shall discover the Perpetrator or Per- petrators of so attrocious a Crime, in such a Manner that he, she, or they be legally convicted thereof.
JONATHAN BALDWIN. -The New-York Gazette; and the Weekly Mercury, No. 1081, July 13, 1772.
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The PHILADELPHIA STAGE COACH, a very pleasant, easy and delightful Carriage, will set off for New-York, by Way of Bristol, Trenton, Brunswick, Elizabeth and New- ark, To-MORROW MORNING, at 5 o'Clock, from Capt. John Little's, at the Sign of the Indian Queen, in Fourth- Street. Gentlemen and Ladies, who may have occasion to travel that Way, are requested to engage Places this Evening. The Price will be Thirty Shillings for each Passenger. The Proprietor of the Coach, Joseph Hart, who intends to drive himself, will undertake to transact Business at New-York, or at any Place on the Way thither, in the most careful accurate Manner, at a reason- able Rate.
To the PRINTER of the PENNSYLVANIA CHRONICLE.
I presume, Sir, from the candour you shew the Public, that a few animadversions on a piece in your last paper [No. 287] will meet with a place in your next.
It is natural for people in a bad habit of body to behold every thing in a decaying situation. Thus it was with the author of the Voyage to Lisbon, and with Mr. Sharpe, in his description of the people of Italy-Perhaps Misericordus was troubled with the stone or gravel, which occasioned a very excruciating pain at the time he was obliged to read some particular piece of Poetry which rendered it disagreeable; but I will rather suppose he imagines himself a man of superior GENIUS, which, he says, "nature has joined with an insep- arable "companion-ambition."-This inseparable companion of genius has excited his envy, and he is ready to accuse Providence of partiality, under the appearance of modesty, for not bestowing the gift of Poetry on him .- He strives to render contemptible the first dawnings of that beautiful art, and very wisely considers that-unless a man is born a proficient, he can never become one !- He concludes, that "no man can make himself a Poet," because he finds that nature never designed him for one, and he has so good an opinion of his own genius, that he judges of all the world by it.
I would not, by any means, encourage the newspapers being filled with juvenile performances; which, though no doubt agreeable to a number of readers, are tiresome to such as our critic Misericordus, who, regardless of that excellent advice,
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well-
is lavish of abuse upon early poetical productions, when proper en- couragement would improve a young author's abilities, and he might in time arrive on the top of Parnassus, and enjoy the laurel in com- mon with Pope, Shakespear, Milton and Young.
But Misericordus will not tell us what he is displeased at-He first ridicules the endeavours of a young miss, and says, that "among the ladies of high and low degree, "many are more eager to mix the in- gredients of a little "piece of this (meaning verse) manufacture, than to "mix the ingredients of a pudding."-I have not yet learned that it is customary for ladies of high degree to study the art of mixan- dum, boilandum fracasseandum, &c. or even to prepare the ingredients of a pudding, for that is understood to be only necessario in use cookeraro; nor, indeed, can I conceive any other opinion of a man in high life, who would make a cook of his lady, than that he does not understand his station: But the conversation of a sensible woman and good poet (for such a thing may be, by a proper culti- vation of an early genius) fills us at once with admiration and de- light.
Misericordus (I wish he had chosen a more handsome name) next says-"None are so much possessed with this "evil spirit as the lads who have just entered or have "just left the college"-This, I think, may easily be accounted for-according to the humorous maxim of an ingenious poet, that pa-pa, ma-ma, are the first words of a child born with the gift of poetry, so it is natural to suppose that his poetical turn increases with his years, that he shews some sign of it at his entering the college; and at his leaving it, his judgment is sufficiently ripened to give the world a specimen-then, I cannot con- ceive how this critic would be so ill-natured as to deprive him of the privilege of a public news-paper for this purpose !- He must be conscious that every author is ignorant of the applause or condem- nation of his performance-Authors are anxious to know the opin- . ions of the Public, and he readily allows, that hypocrisy is so common with politeness, that they cannot get a candid opinion without this method.
'LIBERTY, a Poem, said to be written by a hermit in New-Jersey has lately made its appearance, which I suppose is what Misericordus is pleased to condemn-chained and shackled most unmercifully! that is, the Poem does not please him, and for this reason he breaks out into that ill-judged exclamation-How it is chained, or shackled, I cannot see; but that it is ENHANCED is very evident, which (though I am unacquainted with the author, or his design) I believe was his motive.
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Thus, having noticed his imagined capacity to judge of other people's performances, I would just mention a few eulogiums on his politeness, for doubtless he is a man of delicate ideas, or he could not so elegantly describe the poet in his garret; though even here he is somewhat mistaken; because, in this happy age and country, a poet of a tolerable capacity may find a parlour to study in-There was, indeed, a time when genius found not merit, but the present are not those times, unless from the discouragement of such men as Misericordus-I say, Sir, he must be a man of delicate ideas, or he could not suppose the high flights of poetry to proceed from the garret he describes, where a chamber-pot is introduced to represent a purling stream-with many other as ridiculous absurdities, which, without doubt, he has the vanity to call humorous similies.
Now let Misericordus go on, with this assurance, that so long as he is troubled with the itch of writing, which Mr. Pope says is an endless one, he will now and then meet with a comfortable RUB, from AMICUS MUSARUM.
July 17, 1772.
Wanted immediately,
A JOURNEYMAN TANNER and CURRIER, who under- stands his business, and is sober, diligent, and faithful; also, a Journeyman SKINNER, of a good character, who can dress Deers Leather after the best manner. Such a person will meet with employment, on advantageous terms, by applying to STACY POTTS, at Trenton, in New Jersey .- The Pennsylvania Chronicle, and Universal Ad- vertiser, No. 288, July 13-20, 1772.
PROPOSALS | For PRINTING by SUBSCRIPTION, THE
1 WORKS OF FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS.
SUBSCRIPTIONS are taken in by Mr: Abraham Hunt, Trenton. Mr. William Hick, Princeton. Mr. Frederick King, Morris Town. Thomas Anderson, Esq; Sussex County, New-Jersey. .- The Pennsylvania Journal; and The Weekly Advertiser, No. 1545, July 15, 1772.
I, The subscriber, having been afflicted with a dizziness, or swimming of the head, so that I could not walk without
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staggering, and was sick at my stomach sometimes, and I applied to an able physician, and received but little help, so that I was quite discouraged, and was afraid it would turn to fits. Being advised to take a bottle of Dr. George , Weed's Tinctura Amara, after some persuading, I com- plied, and took one bottle, which gave me great relief, and by continuing of it for some time my disorder was quite removed; and since I have made great use of it in my family, which has proved very successful in curing them of many complaints. I advised my neighbours to try it, and used it in their families with great success, and I must recommend it as an excellent medicine
New-Jersey, March 4, 1771
C. SMITH
Messieurs HALL and SELLERS
Please to give the following EXTRACTS, &c. a Place in your next GAZETTE.
I AM one of your constant Customers, and have great Pleasure in reading the many entertaining, as well as in- structing Observations in your useful Paper, but I am alarmed when I look over the Advertisements; the almost innumerable Villainies that are committed in these Col- onies, on this extensive Continent, among which Horse- stealing, like an epidemical Distemper, has so spread over the whole Country, that the honest Farmers must be un- done, unless some Remedy be applied. I proposed to my Neighbours to petition the Legislature for Relief, when one, more accurate than the others, put into my Hand an Act passed without Limitation, in the 13th Y'ear of the Reign of Queen ANNE, which, if put in Execution, would in a great Measure prevent or detect the villainous Per- petrators, that are now permitted unmolested to travel through this and the neighbouring Colonies. The 7th and 8th Sections of the Act are as follow.
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Be if further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all Seamen, Soldiers, Servants, and other Labourers and suspected Persons, who shall travel in and through this Province without a Pass, from one or more Justices of the Peace in this or the neighbouring Provinces, signifying that he, she or they, are free Persons, it shall and may be lawful for any Constable, or other Person or Persons whatsoever, to take up all such vagrant Persons, travelling without Passes as afore- said, and him, her or them, to carry before any Justice of the Peace of this Province, who shall strictly examine all such Persons so brought before him, and all such as can give no good Account of themselves, and the Causes and Reasons of their Travelling, shall be by the said Justice committed to the Common Goal of the County, where taken up, there to remain till thence delivered by Order of their Captain, Master, Mistress, or other due Course of Law.
And be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That any Boatman, or Ferryman, who shall carry or transport into or out of this Prov- ince, or over any Ferry, within the same, any of the Persons above mentioned, without Passes as aforesaid, or any Keeper of a Public House, who shall entertain such Servants, Seamen or Soldiers as aforesaid, not having Passes, and not apprehend the said Persons, and secure them, so as the said Persons may be brought before some of her Majesty's Justices of the Peace, every Person so offending, con- trary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, shall, for every such Offence, forfeit the Sum of Forty Shillings, to be recovered by the Captain, or other Commanding Officer of such Soldier or Seaman, the Master or Mistress of such Servant, or any other, injured by such Carriage, Ferriage, Transportation or Entertainment, before any Jus- tice of the Peace of said Province as aforesaid.
I make not the least Doubt but our neighbouring Col- onies have Laws similar, if not superior, now in Force, which if put in Execution, would in a great Measure pre- vent the Evil, so much complained of, and also prevent the almost innumerable Number of Deserters and Servants, daily advertised, from escaping. And can you, my Coun- trymen, complain, when you have such excellent Laws for your Protection and Security, and you will not put them in Execution? I am amazed at your Supineness and In- activity. Let us, one and all, put the aforesaid Law in Execution, and we shall at least rid this Colony of those idle Vagrants. They will, like the Natives in the late War, be afraid of the Jersey Shore. And if our Neigh-
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