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SAMUEL OAKFORD
-The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2282, September 16, 1772.
Francis Groome, Waldron Blaau, Baltus Van Kleck, Jacob Remsen, Edward Doughty, Jonathan Holmes,
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Just PUBLISHED, and To BE SOLD, by WILLIAM AND THOMAS BRADFORD, PRACTICAL DISCOURSES ON THE LEADING TRUTHS
OF THE GOSPEL, By JOHN WITHERSPOON, D. D. Prsident of the College of New Jersey.1
-The Pennsylvania Journal, and the Weekly Adver- tiser, No. 1554, September 16, 1772.
New-York, September 17. Captain Miles, in a Brig belonging to Georgia, from Jamaica for this Port, was cast away about 3 o'Clock in the Morning of the second Instant, at Barnagat, the Vessel, in Ballast, is intirely lost, but the Crew saved .- The New York Journal; or The General Advertiser, No. 1550, September 17, 1772.
The Ist of September, there was a most violent Storm at Ocracock, in North Carolina; which has done consid- erable Damage to the Shipping, etc .- We have not been able to obtain a particular Account of the Loss sustained; the following we have learnt from a Person belonging to a Vessel that was cast away at that Place, and arrived here from thence last Week .- The Wind was N. E. then shifted to N. N. W. and continued for 14 Hours, blowing excessive hard, during which Time 15 Sail of Vessels out of 16, that were lying at Ocracock, drove from their An- chors; five of which were entirely lost, viz. Cap- tain John Conway, in a Sloop, belonging to Newark, New- Jersey, both the Vessel and Cargo lost; Several
1 In Hildeburn's Issues of the Pennsylvania Press, he lists (No. 2618) a title similar to this, under date of 1770, but does not mention this announcement in 1772. No such book has been found, of either date.
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of the Vessels that were on Shore, it was imagined would be got off again.
NOTICE is hereby given, that Mr. John Fish de- parted this morning from Powles Hook, for New Castle, with the blanks and prizes of the second New Castle Lot- tery rolled up, and with pressing letters to the managers to begin the drawing without loss of time after his arrival, which in all probability will be next Monday evening, if not sooner; so that the drawing may begin on Wednes- day next, or Thursday at farthest. There are a few tick- ets yet on hand, to be sold at Powles Hook as usual : And as it's very probable the sale will be closed next week, such as intend to become adventurers are desired to apply in time. Orders left with the Gentlemen of this city, mentioned in the scheme, will be carefully forwarded.
And Mr. Alexander Robertson will insure a lot or lots of a hundred of the above tickets, at six shillings per ticket, that such lot shall respectively draw £. 170, free of the deduction
New-York, Sept. 18, 1772 -The New-York Gazette, or The Weekly Post-Boy, No. 1536, September 21, 1772.
AMERICAN COMPANY IRON WORKS. NEW-JERSEY.
N OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That Reade and Yates, in New-York, or Robert Erskine,1 Esq; on the Premises, are impowered to receive Proposals either for the sale or lease of the well known Works of CHAR- LOTTEBURG, LONG-POND, and RINGWOOD; whoever there- fore is inclined to treat for the Sale or Lease, either of Part or Whole, are desired to apply as above. Subjoined is a Description of the Works, taken by desire of his Ex- cellency Governor Franklin, in the Year 1768.
1 For a sketch of Robert Erskine, see N. J. Archives, 2d Series, 1:114.
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SIR,
I N compliance with your Excellency's request communi- cated to us by your letter of the 27th of June last, we proceeded on Monday the 2d inst. to view the iron-works erected by Peter Hasenclever,2 Esq; within this Province, and began with those of Charlottenburgh, on the west branch of Pequanock River, which is the boundary be- tween the counties of Morris and Bergen. We there found a very fine blast furnace erected in 1767, and now nearly finished; this we think one of the best pieces of work of the kind we ever saw in America: The dams and water-ways, the casting-house, bellows-house, wheel- house, ton-house, coal-house, &c. are all well-contrived and executed in a workman-like manner; here are also a number of dwelling-houses, store-houses, workshops, and stables, necessary and convenient to the works; also a good saw-mill. This furnace when in blast is capable of making from twenty to twenty-five ton of pig-iron per week, and can be worked at a small expence, as there is plenty of wood and ore at hand, and need never stop for want of water at any season of the year. On the same stream, about three miles lower, is a very fine forge and four fires, and two hammers for converting pig-iron into bar-iron, and is, according to the information we received from the overseer, and workmen, capable of making 250 ton of bar- iron yearly, single handed, and from 300 to 350 ton double handed. The dam here is upwards of twenty feet high, and is remarkably substantial and well secured: Here are also the necessary coal-houses, dwelling-houses, store- house, workshops and stables. About a mile lower down the stream is another forge of the same dimensions and capability with the last, with all the necessary buildings: about half a mile lower down is another saw-mill, capable of sawing a thousand feet of plank per diem; all these
2 For a sketch of Peter Hasenclever, see N. J. Archives, 9:583.
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works together are comprehended under the general name, of Charlottenburg, and on the whole, consist of one fur- nace, two double forges, two saw-mills, three very large coal-houses, three blacksmiths shops, six large frame dwelling-houses, filled in with brick and clay, thirty-seven good and comfortable log-houses, besides a number of smaller houses in the woods, for the wood-cutters and col- liers.
This work appears to us to have every natural conve- niency necessary to make them profitable, and these seem to have been improved with judgment, and to the best ad- vantage; every part of them is well supplied with abun- dance of excellent wood for coaling; they are situated on a fine lively stream, which at most seasons is sufficient to keep all the works employed, and in times of very great droughts it is so contrived that the natural stream may have an addition of water from two large natural ponds of some miles in circumference, called the Makapin and Dun- ken1 ponds, in which the water is dammed up, and raised several feet above its natural surface, and have flood-gates, to let off any quantity of water which at any time shall be thought necessary, for carrying on the works; the roads which have been made here, we apprehend, have been very expensive. Places which before were inaccessible, even to horsemen, on account of the steepness of the rocks and mountains, are now good carriage roads; but this expence was absolutely necessary to enable them to carry off the iron to market, to have access to their woods and mines, and to a fine grain country from whence they are supplied with provisions, and to open a communication between the different works.
From Charlottenburg we proceeded about thirteen miles to Ringwood, situate on a more northerly branch of Pequanoc River, which is called Ringwood River, and is
1 Now called Dunker pond, probably from the German, donker, dark.
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in Bergen county; here we were told were formerly the iron works belonging to a company from whom Mr. Has- enclever purchased, but very little of them remains now to be seen, the present works being entirely new; and here we found first, a blast furnace of nearly the same dimensions with that of Charlottenburg, and capable of making about the same quantity of pig-iron. This fur- nace is not at present in blast, but may soon be so, as there is nothing wanting but the finishing of a hearth, which was putting in; within fifty yards of this furnace stands a very good forge of three fires and two hammers, and a stamping-mill, for separating the iron from the cinder in the old cinder bank, which we were informed is a profit- able work; and at about five hundred yards above the fur- nace stands another very fine forge, of four fires and two hammers, and also a very good saw mill. About half a mile beloro the furnace is another forge of two fires and one hammer, and a very good grist mill; and about two miles lower down the same stream is also another forge of two fires and one hammer; at each of these forges, and at the furnace, are the necessary coal-houses and dwelling- houses for the workmen, and near the furnace is a large dwelling-house for the Manager, or Chief Clerk; also a new brick house for a store, &c. a large stone house and ovens, and for various other uses; eight frame houses, four log-houses, four barracks, two blacksmiths shops, one powder magazine, one large horse stable, and carpen- ter's shop, besides sixteen other log-houses in the woods, for wood cutters and colliers. The furnace at this place, as well as that at Charlottenburg, is capable of making from twenty to twenty five tons of pig-iron per week, while in blast, which may, with good management, be at least nine months in the year; the forges, like those at Charlottenburg, are capable of making yearly 250 ton of
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bar-iron single handed, or 300 to 350 ton double handed, at each four fires, of which there are in all eleven.
These works were formerly liable, in droughts, to be in zeant of water, so that it has sometimes happened that the works were obliged to stand still for several weeks, at the best season of the year for working; but this defect is now entirely remedied, by an immense Reservoir, in which the water is collected in rainy seasons, in such proportions as is found necessary to supply the deficiency of the natu- ral stream of the Ringwood River. The Reservoir is a pond called Toxito1 pond, is about three miles long, and near one mile broad; it formerly emptied itself into Ram- apogh River, but by an immense dam of 860 feet long, and from 12 to 22 feet high, the natural out let is stopped up, and the water raised to such a height, as to take its course with a head of ten feet high, into a long canal, which con- ducts into the Ringwood River.
When Mr. Hasenclever purchased the ruin of Ring- wood Works, there was to all appearances plenty of good iron ore, in several places; within a mile or two of the furnace several others have since been discovered; some of them have since worked out; some proved coalshear, others have too much abounded in sulphur or copper, or had qualities which rendered the goodness of the iron du- bious. But all doubt as to the quality and quantity of iron ore is now removed by draining the water off the Peter's mine, which was overflown, and by the discovery of an- other mine, which was first made in July 1767, on Wales Mountain, about one mile and a half westward from the furnace, and since called the Good Hope mine; it has been opened in five different places on the same course, and already shews the extent of the vein for near a mile in length, and in some cases fourteen feet in breadth; the quality of it we saw tried at the Long Pond works, where
1Tuxedo.
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it made a fine tough bar-iron. The works at Ringwood can never fail for want of coal, as there are many thousand acres of wood-land in sight of them, within a circle of two miles round: The woods, if cut regular and clean, will grow faster than they can have occasion to use it.
The making of the roads about Ringwood, must have been attended with great labour and expence, as they are very considerable ones over rough rocky mountains, to the oar beds and coal grounds, besides others for bringing provisions to the works of several miles in extent, which in some places, through swamps and over brooks, have considerable bridges of timber. From Ringwood we pro- ceeded three miles south westward to the Long Pond works, which are situated on a stream, which issues out of the Long Pond, and falls into Ringwood River, about four miles below the furnace. The Long Pond is about six miles in length, and near two miles in breadth; across the out let or mouth of it is a dam of 200 feet in length, and about 5 feet in height, by which the water is raised four feet above its natural level; and the pond is now a never failing resource of water for the supply of the works be- low, in the dryest season of the year. The Long Pond works are about two miles below the out let of the pond, and consists of a blast furnace much like that at Charlot- tenburg; is now in blast, and is capable of making from twenty to twenty-five tons of pig-iron ber week, and of a very fine forge of four fires, and two hammers; and is capable of making as much bar-iron as either of those at Charlottenburg or Ringwood. There is also a very good saw mill; the other buildings are two large coal-houses, three framed dwelling-houses, six logg-houses, one stone house, one horse stable, and one blacksmith's shop, besides smaller houses in the woods for colliers, &c. The furnace here is now supplied with oar from the Peter's mine and
1 Now generally known as Greenwood Lake.
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Good Hope mine; at three miles distance of which it makes excellent iron; there are other mines nearer to the works; but they cannot, as yet, be depended upon.
The roads about the Long Pond works, like those at the other before-mentioned places, have been attended with much expense and labour, as there was a necessity of carrying them, in some places, along the sides of rocky mountains, and in others through deep swamps and gul- leys, which could not be rendered passable by bridging them with timber.
We have now finished the survey of the works erected by Mr. Hasenclever, within this province, so far as they have been shewn to us. We shall subjoin a sketch of the situation of the works, in order that your Excellency may the better understand our description of them; and also a general table of particulars, by which the whole may be seen in one view; and we would here beg leave to remark, that we think that Mr. Hasenclever has made several great improvements in the iron works under his direction; he is the first person that we know of, who has so greatly im- proved the use of the great natural ponds of this country, as, by damming them, to secure reservoirs of water for the use of the iron works in dry seasons; without which the best streams are liable to fall in the great droughts we are subject to. He is also the first we know of, who has rendered the old cinder beds of the furnaces useful and profitable; for at Ringwood he has erected a stamping- mill to separate the waste iron from the cinders, by which means some hundred tons of small iron have and may be obtained; which is as good as the best pig-iron; he has also made a great improvement in the construction of the furnaces, by building the inwalls of slate; which, by the experience he has already had of it, will, in all probability, last many years; whereas the stones commonly made use
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of for that purpose, seldom stood longer than a year or two, and would often fail in the middle of a blast.
Another improvement worth attention, we think, is the building the stack of the furnace under roof, so as to shel- ter them entirely from wind and water. The forges are also greatly improved, by the wheels being all made over- shot, and the hammer wheel shafts being armed with strong cast iron rings, whose arms serve as cogs to lift the hammer handle; those are also new contrivances, at least they are new in America; Mr. Hasenclever has, in several places, cleared and made some extensive pieces of meadows, which, when in order, will yield at least two tons of hay yearly per acre; and must be of great use in supplying the working cattle belonging to the works with fodder, especially as there is little of the up-land near the works fit for raising corn or any kind of water fodder.
On the whole, it is a matter of surprize to us, to see such a number of great works of various kinds, at different places, executed in so compleat and masterly a manner, under the direction of one person, in a new, uninhabited country, within the short space of time that has elapsed since Mr. Hasenclever first began them; and we must here observe, that the buildings of all kinds seem to us to be commodiously contrived, all of them useful, and none of them unnecessary.
Mr. Homfray, the present manager, and the under man- agers, on being asked of us, whether they thought any of them superfluous, declared that they knew of none that could be spared. We are,
Your Excellency's most humble servants,
STIRLING,1 JAMES GREY,2
Newark, July 8, 1769.
THEUNIS DEY ,3 and JOHN SCHUYLER.
1 William Alexander, calling himself Earl of Stirling, of Baskinridge.
" An ironmaster at Little Falls.
3 Of Lower Preakness.
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To be sold at public VENDUE,
By the subscriber, at his house in Newark, on the 4th day of November next,
S EVERAL lots of land, some well situated for building, and a farm at the Mountain, five miles from said town, containing eighty acres, joining on two publick roads, one on each side of said land; it will be sold to- gether or divided, as it suits for the sale thereof. Twelve months payment, six without interest, six with interest, and longer if required, with good security.
ELIHU CRANE.
-The New-York Gazette; and the Weekly Mercury, NO. 1091, September 21, 1772.
Somerset County, New Jersey, Sept. 18, 1772 STOLEN out of the pasture of the subscriber, at Rariton, a. Bay Horse, 6 years old, about 141/2 hands high, a nat- ural trotter, has a drooping star in his forehead, one white hind foot, short switch tail, branded TP on his right but- tock, and on his left shoulder with the letter S; he is a light horse, and is middling low in flesh. Whoever takes up the said horse, so that the owner may get him again, shall receive FORTY SHILLINGS reward, and for the horse and thief, so that the thief may be brought to justice, THREEE POUNDS, paid by
PHILIP TUNISON
Gloucester County, New-Jersey, Sept. II, 1772.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the Subscriber, now living at Haddonfield Mills, intends to carry on the Fulling and Dying Business, in all the different Branches, in as ex- tensive a Manner, and at cheaper Rates than at any other Mill in New Jersey or Pennsylvania, he having the best of Tools and Presses and all Conveniences suitable for the same. Those Persons that please to favour him with their Custom, may depend on having their Work done in the
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neatest and best Manner, and with the greatest Expedi- tion. Cloth for the Mills will be taken in by John Cox, in Moore's-Town, Abraham Allen in Evesham, and Robert Murray, near Woodberry; at which Places Attendance will be given once a Week, the Cloth taken to the Mills, and returned again when dressed, according to Directions, by JAMES M'DOWELL.
-The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2283, September 23, 1772.
PHILADELPHIA. Saturday last arrived here the schoon- er Dove, Capt. Stafford, from Newbern, North Carolina, who informs, that on the 3Ist ult. they had a hard gale of wind, which rose the waters considerably, did some dam- age to the wharves, filled many of the warehouses, and drove the brig Resolution, Capt. Garrigues, of this port, into a corn field, but she is since got off. At Ocracock bar were drove ashore nine sail of vessels, among which are,
Captain Conway, in a sloop, belonging to Wood- bridge, New-Jersey, and a schooner, not known, it is im- agined will be got off.
STOLEN from the Subscriber, living in Hopewell Township, Hunterdon County, on Monday evening, the 3Ist of August last,
A DARK ROAN HORSE, about fourteen hands and one inch high, seven years old past, branded with the letter O. on the near fore shoulder, trots and canters, his hoofs much broken, shod before, and has a pretty large whart on the near side of his mouth .- Whoever takes up and secures said horse and Thief, so that the owner may get his Horse, and the Thief brought to justice, shall have TEN DOLLARS reward, but for the Horse only, FIVE DOL- LARS, paid by WILLIAM DOLLAR.
-The Pennsylvania Journal, and the Weekly Adver-
tiser, No. 1555, September 23, 1772.
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PURSUANT to an Order of the Inferior Court, of Com- mon Pleas of the County of Essex and Province of New- Jersey: Notice is hereby given to the Creditors of Gilbert Taylor, an insolvent Debtor, that he hath filed his Sched- ule and complied with the Directions of a late Act of the Governor, Council, and General Assembly of the Province aforesaid, entitled, "An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors;" that the said Creditors be and appear at the Court-House in Newark, in said County, on Tuesday the 20th Day of October next, at two o'Clock in the After- noon, before John Ogden, Daniel Pierson, and Joseph Riggs, Esqrs. (or any two of them) Judges of the said Court, to shew Cause (if any they have ) why the said Gil- bert Taylor, should not be discharged, agreeable to the Directions of the said Act.
Newark, September 16, 1772.
-The New York Journal, or The General Adver- tiser, No. 1551, September 24, 1772.
Just received, and to be Sold | BY JOHN DUNLAP, IN MARKET-STREET, A FEW VOLUMES OF THE HISTORY OF NEW-JERSEY. 1 IN BLUE BOARDS .- The Pennsylvania Packet, and the General Advertiser, No. 49, September 28, 1772.
NEW-YORK, September 28. Capt. Lawrence, on the Passage, the 21st of August, in Lat. 38, Long. 40, was in a most violent Gale of Wind, from the S. S. W.
With Captain Lawrence the following Gentlemen came Passengers, viz. The Hon. Frederick Smith, Esq; Chief Justice of New-Jersey, Mr. John Conner, Mr. William Bailey, Mr. John Thornbur, Merchants, Capt. William Stevenson, and Mr. Henry Bowers, jun. of New-England.
We hear from Elizabeth-Town, in New-Jersey, that
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the general Convention of Delegates from the Clergy of the consociated Churches in Connecticut, and from the Synod of New-York and Philadelphia, met there on Wed- nesday last. The Convention was opened with a Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Clark, and the Rev. Mr. Cotton Mather Smith, was chosen Moderator.
WOODBRIDGE, July 1, 1772 WOODBRIDGE LOTTERY,
For raising the Sum of One Hundred and Sixty-eight Pounds New York Currency, for repairing and finishing of the Metuchin Presbyterian Meeting House, in the up- per Part of said Woodbridge, in the Province of East- New-Jersey.
THE SCHEME.
Number of Prizes. Value of each.
Dollars.
I Prize of - 200 Dollars
is 200
I Ditto, -
100 - 100
3 Ditto, -
50
are
150
6 Ditto, -
25
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150
20 Ditto, -
IO
- 200
40 Ditto, -
5
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200
887 Ditto, -
2
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1774
I First drawn,
I3
I3
I Last drawn, I3
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I3
960 Prizes, -
2800 -
1840 Blanks,
2800 Tickets, at One Dollar each, are 2800 Not two Blanks to a Prize.
It is with great Reluctance that this Scheme is offered to the Public; but as the Congregation of said Meeting are unable to repair and finish their Meeting House, they humbly ask the Assistance of the Public in this Method,-
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under the Consideration that it will be for the Advance- ment of Christ's Church, and also relieve their Necessity; it is hoped will reduce the benevolent to encourage this Scheme, which will prove more advantageous to the Ad- venturers than many of the like Kind, as there is not Two Blanks to a Prize.
The following Gentlemen are appointed Managers, who are to be upon Oath for the faithful Discharge of the Trust reposed, viz. Benjamin Thornal, James Manning, Ebenezer Ford, and Benjamin Manning, all of Wood- bridge.
The Drawing will commence the second Day of No- vember next, and a List of the fortunate Numbers will be published in Inslee and Car's New-York Gazette, as soon as possible after the Drawing is finished; and the Prizes will be paid, subject to a Deduction of Fifteen per Cent by said Managers .- The New-York Gazette, or The Weckly Post-Boy, No. 1537, September 28, 1772.
The following was sent us by a Correspondent .- "We hear from Morris-Town, in New Jersey, that the beauti- ful, incomparable and wonderful Horse of Lieut. John- ston, of that Place, a few Week ago fell a Sacrifice to the Jaws of some merciless Disorder. 'Tis hoped that this dreadful Stroke of Fate, will in future caution the af- flicted Lieutenant against placing his Hopes solely in Horse-Flesh.
T HE sale of the house and land belonging to Colonel John Low, at Newark, is postponed until Wednes- day the 14th of October next, when it will on that day be sold at the house of James Banks, at Newark aforesaid.
A PURSE of TWENTY POUNDS, to be run for at Eliz- abeth-Town, on Tuesday the 6th Day of October next, by any Horse, Mare, or Gelding, (carrying Weight for
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Age and Blood) the best of three two Mile Heats. Horses to be entered by Broughton Reynolds, at Elizabeth- Town Point. No Race, without three noted Horses start.
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