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Beautifully printed on a fine American Paper, and with elegant Types; POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, WITH
SOME OTHER COMPOSITIONS. BY NATHANIEL EVANS, A. M.1
Late MISSIONARY (appointed by the SOCIETY for PROPA- GATING the GOSPEL) for GLOUCESTER COUNTY, in NEW-JERSEY; and CHAPLAIN to the LORD VISCOUNT KILMOREY of the KINGDOM of IRELAND.
The Subscribers for this Work are requested to apply at the above place for their Copies :- And those who design to become purchasers, are entreated to apply speed- ily, as there are but few copies thrown off above those subscribed for; and their names will be printed in the List of Subscribers to the Second Edition .- The Pennsyl- vania Packet, and the General Advertiser, No. 43, August 17, 1772.
1For notices of the Rev. Nathaniel Evans, see N. J. Archives, 25: 121, 482.
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Mr. GAINE,
Please to insert the inclosed in your next Monday's Gazette, and you will greatly oblige your Customers in Elizabeth Town.
A T a Meeting of the Merchants, Traders, and others, Inhabitants of Elizabeth-Town, taking into Consid- eration the ultimate Determination of the Majority of the Members of the Chamber of Commerce in New-York, of the 3d of March, 1772, respecting the Members of that Board taking JERSEY Money at a less Value than it doth, and hath a long Time passed current for in the Eastern Division of New-Jersey; which we think may be very injurious to the Inhabitants of the said Eastern Division; and being also of Opinion, that it hath not been of any Disadvantage to the Merchants of New-York do there- fore in Justice to ourselves, think ourselves, bound so far at least to counteract the said Determination, as not to trade or have any Dealings with any Merchants or others, who shall adhere to and act in Pursuance of the said De- termination .- The New-York Gazette; and the Weekly Mercury, No. 1086, August 17, 1772.
To be SOLD by PUBLIC VENDUE, on Wednesday, the 30th of September next, at 7 o'clock in the evening, at the house of Mr. William Hick, the sign of the College, in Princetown, being the day of the annual Commence- ment at Nassau-hall.
A VERY valuable plantation, situated within one mile of Princetown College, containing 116 acres, 25 whereof is good meadow, and II acres of choice woodland; there is on said plantation a new and elegant dwelling house, which, with the other buildings are 70 feet front, and 30 feet deep; an extraordinary good barn, 40 feet square; a fine spring and milk-house, within a few yards of the mansion house; a large pailed garden, and good bearing
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orchard. Conditions will be made known, and attendance given, at the time and place of sale, by
WILLIAM COATS
N. B. Any person inclining to view the premises, are desired to apply to Mr. William Hick, or Mr. Joseph Horner, at Prince-town.
New-Jersey, Gloucester County, August 15, 1772
WHEREAS the subscriber, living in Waterford town- ship, in the said county, did execute one bond or obliga- tion (bearing date the 5th day of March last) unto a cer- tain Thomas Ring, for the sum of Thirteen Pounds, pay- able on the 5th day of this present month. And whereas the said Thomas Ring, shortly after execution of the said bond, did assign the same unto Francis Wilson, of the township and county aforesaid, Innholder. The sub- scriber hereby cautioneth all persons not to take any as- signment of the said bond, from the said Francis Wilson, as he, the subscriber, is determined not to pay the said bond, unless compelled thereunto by due course of Law, as the said bond was fraudulently obtained from the sub- scriber, JAMES GILL
Hunterdon County, New-Jersey, August 5, 1772.
WHEREAS EZEKIEL JOB, a prisoner, now in the county goal, at Trenton, in and for the county of Hunterdon, for debt, at the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, held at Trenton, and for the county of Hunterdon aforesaid, in the term of August, 1772, preferred a petition to the said Court, signed by two thirds of his creditors, in value, praying to be admitted to the benefit of an Act of the Gen- eral Assembly of the province of New-Jersey, entituled, An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors; and at the same time, gave into the said Court, a true inventory of
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his estate, and a list of his debts, and took the oath, and all other things required by the said Act; and the said Court then and there appointed the 15th day of Septem- ber next, for the Creditors of the said Ezekiel Job, to ap- pear before William Clayton, Esq; and Micajah How, Esq; two of his Majesty's Judges of the said Court, at Trenton aforesaid, to shew cause, if any they have, why the said Ezekiel Job should not be discharged from his confinement, pursuant to the aforesaid Act of Assembly.
EZEKIEL JOB
Burlington, August 13, 1772.
WHEREAS Moses Wood, Benjamin Ong and Jacob Morris, Prisoners now in the Goal of Burlington, having at the last Inferior Court of Common Pleas, held for the County of Burlington, petitioned the Judges of the said Court for the Benefit of the Insolvent Act, and taken the Qualification prescribed by Law, the Court having ap- pointed for the Creditors to meet on the 16th Day of Sep- tember next, at 3 o'Clock in the Afternoon of said Day, at the Court-house in Burlington; all Persons concerned are desired to meet at the Day and Place above mentioned, to shew Cause, if any they have, why an Assignment of said Debtors Estates should not be made, and their Bodies discharged from Confinement. MOSES WOOD, BENJAMIN ONG, JACOB MORRIS.
To the PUBLIC
WHEREAS the Subscriber intends some alterations in the course of his STAGE WAGGON'S progress to Philadel- phia; he returns his hearty thanks to his Friends and kind Customers for the encouragement they have given to his STAGE, and begs the continuance of their favours. The Stage will set out on Mondays, from the house of Mr. Seth Bowen, Innkeeper, in Greenwich, which house the
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Subscriber has rented, and proceed from thence to the town of Salem, and will put up at the house of Joseph Burrows, Esq; where orders are taken for said Stage: The Stage sets out every Tuesday morning at sun-rise, from Salem, proceeds to Mr. William Cooper's Ferry, and then crosses to the New Ferry-House, the corner of Arch- street, in Philadelphia; He returns on Thursdays, as for- merly, to the town of Salem, and on Friday morning re- turns home to Greenwich as aforesaid. Gentlemen and Ladies, that will please to favour him with their company or orders, will be treated with the utmost respect and gratitude, by their humble servant.
MICHAEL LEE
-The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2278, August 19, I772.
EDWARD POLE,
Has lately removed his GROCERY STORE into Second-street, between Market and Chestnut streets, a few doors be- low Captain Rankin's, Philadelphia, where he has for sale,
FISHING TACKLE | Of all sorts, for use of either sea or river, viz. | Fishing rods of various kinds, best Kerby and common hooks of all sizes, artificial flies, wheels, silk, hair and trolling lines of every kind, length, and degree of goodness, deepseas, casting, minnow and scoop nets, swivels for lines, hooks ready hung on silk, hair, Indian grass, &c. the best kind of fish-hooks, made by ROBERT CARTER, fish-hook maker, from Trenton. -The Pennsylvania Chronicle, and Universal Advertiser, No. 294, August 22-29, 1772.
New-York, August 24. On Tuesday last, from the melancholly Accident of a Fall from a Carriage, died sud- denly Mrs. K. Eckley, the valuable Consort of Thomas
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Eckley, Esq; of Hanover, New-Jersey, to the inexpres- sible Grief of a respectable Family, and universal Regret of all who had the Happiness of her Acquaintance, or had heard of her Virtues and Merit. She was indeed a Lady of superior Accomplishments :- The affectionate Wife, the tender Mother, the indulgent Mistress, the warm and benevolent Friend, formed the most striking Lines of her Character ;- but, as her crowning Excellence, through her whole Life and Conduct, shone with distinguished Lustre, -the sincere, the rational Christian.
[Late last Night we received the following, with a Desire that it should be published as early as possible; we have, therefore, to gratify our Readers, been obliged to omit several Pieces, &c. we had composed for this Day's Paper, to make Room for it. ]
PERTH-AMBOY, August 22, 1772.
Thursday last the General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey, met in this City, when his Excellency Governor Franklin, was pleased to open the Session with the following Speech :
Gentlemen of the Council, and
Gentlemen of the General Assembly,
It affords me particular pleasure to have it in my power, at the opening of this Session, to congratulate you on the addition which, by his Majesty's gracious allowance, has been made to the number of Representatives of the good people of this province. An event at which I the more rejoice, as I flatter myself it will be a means of uniting all the parts of the colony, in promoting many schemes of public utility, which have hitherto been too much neglect- ed-A fatal sentiment has long unhappily prevailed in this province, that every measure which must be attended with expence, and has not a tendency to benefit every part of the province equally, ought not to be adopted by the
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Legislature .- It is, however, scarcely possible to contrive any scheme for the public advantage, which can have so extensive an effect. In the nature of things, some situa- tions must be more immediately benefited than others; yet whatever procures an advantage to any part of the province, which it did not enjoy before, is ultimately a benefit to the whole. For want of a due attention to this truth, this province, which has equal natural advantages with any of the neighbouring colonies, is, though one of the most ancient, shamefully behind all the others in its trade, roads, bridges, public buildings, and such other improvements as denote a sensible and spirited people. Every unnecessary expence should indeed be carefully avoided, but it is neither consulting the interest nor rep- utation of the province to decline any expence which the public good does at any time require.
Gentlemen of the General Assembly,
In the year 1765, the Assembly thought proper, on my recommendation, to grant a bounty upon the raising of flax and hemp, and planting of mulberry trees in this col- ony, for raising of raw silk. The bounty on the two first articles has, I am told, been productive of very good ef- fects; but the bounty on the latter has, I believe, never been applied for, owing to the people not being, till lately, sensible of the advantages which might accrue to them from the culture of silk. From the success of the trials which were made last year in this colony and Pennsyl- vania (a particular account of which is printed in the minutes of the Assembly) there can be no doubt but that it would be greatly to the interest of the province to en- courage the raising of that article: I cannot therefore but recommend it as a matter worthy of your particular attention; and, for the same reason, I must like-wise re- quest that you would continue the bounty on flax and
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hemp, which is near expiring, and grant others on the making of wines and potash in this colony.
In providing for the support of government, I would wish you to consider how greatly inadequate the usual salaries allowed the public officers of this province are to the encreased expences of living, and to the encreased abilities of the inhabitants, since the time they were first established. An ill judged parsimony has hitherto pre- vailed in this respect; but I should think myself wanting in real regard to the province, if I did not warn you at this time against a conduct, the continuance of which will most probably be found to be as impolitic as it is unbe- coming the honour of the province you represent. On this head I am to inform you, that it has been signified to me, that the Chief Justice having been under a necessity of representing the insufficiency of his support to the King, His Majesty has been graciously pleased to give him an adequate salary, which mark of his Majesty's at- tention to the dignity and independence of that Officer, it is hoped will give great satisfaction ;- and as it is his Maj- esty's pleasure that he should no longer accept any allow- ance from the Assembly, the province will be relieved from any further expence on account of that establishment.
Gentlemen of the Council, and
Gentlemen of the General Assembly,
I have now only to express my wishes, that an uninter- rupted harmony and good understanding may prevail in all your deliberations for the public welfare, and to assure you that you shall ever find me ready to exert myself to the utmost in whatever may best promote the true inter- est of this colony. WM. FRANKLIN.
Council-Chamber, August 20, 1772.
-The New-York Gazette, or The Weekly Post-Boy,
No. 1532, August 24, 1772.
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PERTH-AMBOY, August 26
To his Excellency WILLIAM FRANKLIN, Esq; Captain- General, and Governor in Chief, in and over the Colony of NEW-JERSEY, and territories thereon depending, in America, Chancellor and Vice Admiral in the same
The HUMBLE ADDRESS of the REPRESENTATIVES of the said Colony, in General Assembly met.
May it please your Excellency
We his Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Rep- resentatives of the colony of New-Jersey, in General As- sembly convened, truly sensible of the advantages result- ing to the good people of the colony, by his Majesty's gracious allowance of the act for enlarging the number of the Representatives, receive your Excellency's congrat- ulations with great pleasure, and rejoice at this fresh in- stance of the King's paternal regard to us. Whenever any schemes are recommended to the House, the utility of which appears more than adequate to the charge of an experiment, and such as the ability of the colony will ad- mit of, we hope your Excellency will find the present As- sembly ever ready to consult the true interest of the col- ony, and to exert themselves in supporting every salutary measure. Fully determined to consider the general wel- fare of the colony, without injurious attachments to any part, the fatal sentiment which your Excellency is pleased to say hath too much prevailed in the province, we think will find no place in our house : And we flatter ourselves, that our future conduct will evince our inclinations to be correspondent with our present profession.
As the act mentioned by your Excellency to have passed the Legislature for the raising a bounty on flax, hemp, and mulberry trees, as far as it regards the two first, which we conceive to be the most material objects of our notice and encouragement, will not expire until the end of the
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Session of Assembly to be held after October next, we think it unnecessary at this time to bestow our attention on it, but must leave it to the care of a future session, and as the bounty on the last, hath never been applied for, we apprehend no detriment will likely ensue to the colony, by postponing it at least for the present. Whether the province is in such a situation, as to enlarge the number of our bounties, we have not formed an opinion, but will take the same into our deliberation.
When we consider the small extent of our colony, that we are behind all others in trade, and so deficient in the principal source from whence opulence is derived-When we consider that almost every officer here is dependant on the will and pleasure of the Crown (though the good- ness and regard we have experienced from our present most gracious Sovereign induces us to hope that such power will not be exerted to the disadvantage of the col- ony )-we cannot agree with your Excellency, that the salaries of the officers of this government are greatly in- adequate to the purposes for which they were given :- Some, we imagine, equal to the dignity of the station, and others proportionate to the interest we have in them.
Warmly attached to the august Monarch, who presides over us by affection as well as principle; conscious of the excellency of the institution, under which we in part enjoy the liberty and privileges of British subjects; and earn- estly solicitous to preserve all unaffected and unprejudiced -we trust your Excellency will find us not only chear- fully disposed to shew our gratitude and loyalty to the one, but also fully determined to pay a proper attention, and carefully to maintain ourselves in the other.
We heartily rejoice to find your Excellency possessed of the importance of the harmony you so kindly wish, and as we are fully resolved to take every method to cultivate a good understanding between the several branches of the
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Legislature, so we hope we shall find each ready to concur with us in the adoption of every salutary measure to pre- serve what appears so necessary to the welfare of the peo- ple we represent; and at the same time that we sincerely thank your Excellency for the assurance, that we shall find you ready to exert yourself to the utmost in what- ever may promote the true interest of the colony, we do assure you, that you will always find us disposed to sup- port the government with honour, whilst the methods, naturally to be expected from that inclination, are con- tinued to obtain the regard and affection of the people.
By order of the House,
CORT. SKINNER, Speaker.
House of Assembly, Aug. 26, 1772.
The GOVERNOR'S REPLY to the above ADDRESS
GENTLEMEN,
I am glad to find you so truly sensible of his Majesty's goodness in allowing an additional number of Represent- atives.
If any of the schemes which I have recommended to your House are either not adequate to the charge of an experiment, or beyond the ability of the colony, you are certainly right in rejecting them. I did flatter myself, in- deed, that the encouragement of trade, the making of roads, the erecting of bridges, and suitable public build- ings, and the granting bounties to promote the raising of sundry valuable kinds of produce, would at least be deemed "salutary measures," worthy of a trial, and within our power. The only motive I could have in recommending these matters to your attention was the public good; and if it is not agreeable to you to adopt all or any of them, I have only to say, that I am ready to co-operate with you in promoting any others which may be thought more likely
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to answer that desirable purpose. All I wish is to have the province roused, by some means or other, from that lethar- gic stupor which has hitherto benumbed its best faculties, and prevented it from improving those advantages which it has received from God and nature.
As you acknowledge that you "are behind all others in trade, and that trade is the principal source from whence opulence is derived," I shall hope that you will not fail to pay due attention to that object.
This colony is by no means so much inferior to the ad- jacent provinces, either in extent or opulence, as is the sup- port allowed to the public officers of Government, and they hold their commissions by the same or the like tenor in this province, as they do in the others: Your assertion, therefore, that the "salaries are not inadequate, and that you imagine some of them equal to the dignity of the sta- tion, and others proportionate to the interest you have in them," needs no comment. It is a notorious fact, that none of them are proportionate to the ability of the prov- ince, and that most of them are so extremely low, that they would be thought a disgrace to any other colony on the continent. However, when I mentioned this subject to you in my Speech, it was not so much with an expectation of your deviating from the example of your predecessors in the Assembly, as to guard against any reflections that might hereafter be cast on me, for not having duly ap- prised you of the ill consequences which would probably ensue, from a continuance of the like conduct.
Your professions of attachment to his Majesty, and your resolution to cultivate a good understanding between the several branches of the Legislature, are very commend- able. And, as I am convinced, that neither my inclination nor endeavours to deserve and "obtain the regard and af- fections of the people" will ever be wanting, so I shall rely with confidence on your kind assurances, that I shall al-
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ways find you disposed to support the Government with, honour.
August 26th, 1772.
The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2281, September 1772.
POWLES-HOOK Race.
T o be run for at Powles-Hook, on Thursday the 17th day of September next, a purse of FIFTY POUNDS, free for any horse, mare, or gelding, full bloods excepted, carrying weight for age and blood, the best of three mile heats. Four years old, half blood, 7 stone 6 1b. three quarters do. 7 stone 13 1b. Five years old, half blood, 8 stone 4 lb. three quarters do. 8 stone II 1b. Six years old, half blood, 9 stone 2 lb. three quarters do. 9 stone 9 1b. Aged, half blood, 9 stone 12 1b. three quarters do. 10 stone 5 1b. Not less than three reputed running horses to run for the above purse, and certificates to be produced from the breeders, or such as the judges will approve of. All horses, &c. to be shewn and entered the day before running, at the stand, paying entrance £2:10, or double at the post.
N. B. To prevent disputes, no particle of blood between each quarter to be taken notice of; and if bad weather the races will be postponed till good. No owners of horses to start more than one horse, or to be concerned in any con- federacy.
T o be sold, the pleasantly situated HOUSE at Morris- Town, belonging to the estate of Augustine Moore, Esq; deceased ;- the house is two stories high, with four fire-places, and a kitchen convenient; a barn and good garden, with 3 acres and four square rods of land, the whole being a young orchard of the best grafted fruit; with a variety of the best cherries, plumbs, and peaches.
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Also one other tract of land, containing ten acres and a quarter about three quarters of a mile from the court- house, situate on the highway at a place commonly call'd Jockey Hollow road; a part of which is cleared, and the remainder good timber land. For further particulars, en- quire of John Chetwood, Esq; of Elizabeth-Town, Will- iam Dehart, Esq; of Morris-Town, or Mary Moore, who will give an indisputable title for the whole.
M ARY MOORE, the widow of Augustine Moore, Esq; late of Morris-Town in New-Jersey, deceased, will be much obliged to any person that can give any informa- tion of the sum of £. 42, supposed to be paid to some Per- son on Account of Dr. JOHN TWEEDY, of Rhode-Island, in the year 1766. If a reward is required, it will be thank- fully paid .- The New-York Gazette; and the Weekly Mercury, No. 1087, August 24, 1772.
LOST,
A Very small PINCHBECK WATCH, in a fish-skin case, spotted green and white, maker's name, Green, London, a black ribbon and key were fixed to it; supposed to be dropt at Woodbury, West Jersey, on Thursday last. Who- ever brings it to Mr. SAMUEL JEFFERIES, watch-maker, in Second-street, Philadelphia, shall receive TWENTY SHIL- LINGS reward. If offer'd to sale, all watch-makers and others, are requested to stop it.
August 26.
-The Pennsylvania Journal; and The Weekly Ad-
vertiser, No. 1551, August 26, 1772.
To be LETT
A Very convenient HOUSE, situate in the town of Glou- cester, which is now occupied by Gabriel De Veber, it is an excellent stand for a shop, or store, and has been kept as such many years, and is very convenient for the recep-
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tion of both wet and dry goods, being well provided with cellars; a salt house, and a large store on a wharff; it is very convenient for taking in pork, being within 4 miles of Philadelphia, and also in a part of the country, where a great quantity of the best pork may be had. Any per- son inclining to take the same, may be informed of the terms, by applying to
WILLIAM HUGG.
Run away from the subscriber, an English servant man, named James Johnson, about 5 feet 6 inches high, of a swarthy complexion, a little pitted with the small-pox, and has black hair; had on, when he went away, a half- worn castor hat, 2 jackets, one green, the other red, a check shirt, striped ticken trowsers, thread stockings, and old calf-skin shoes, with plated buckles. Whoever takes up said servant, and secures him in any of his Majesty's goals, or delivers him to his master, living at Evesham, in Burlington county, shall receive FORTY SHILLINGS re- ward, from
SAMUEL LIPPINCOTT -The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2279, August 26, 1772.
This is to give NOTICE, that several of the owners and possessors of a tract of marsh and swamp, lying in the township of Upper Penn's Neck, in the county of Salem, intend to apply to the next General Assembly, of the prov- ince of New-Jersey, for an Act to empower them to bank in the same, from the bank of William Beetle, to John Pitman's fast land.
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