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Constitutional Liberty is one of the greatest Blessings a Briton can boast of. No Possession ought to be held dearer or more sacred. An unshaken Attachment to it should distinguish every real Friend of his Country; and
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is as distant from the unbridled Licenciousness of Inde- pendents, as from the crouching Servility claimed by Des- potism. Both would equally destroy Constitutional Liberty; both are therefore to be equally detested. The Students in the College of New-York are, in general, the Sons of Gentlemen of Independent Fortunes. They have, I verily believe, as high a Sense of the Value of Constitutional Liberty, as Persons of their Years can be supposed to have; and would highly disdain all Cringing and Servility : and the Governors of that College would not fail to spurn with Indignation, any Attempts were they made, which however is not the Case, and it is in- jurious and false to suppose it,-any Attempts, I say, to diminish a due Sense of that Liberty.
Having dwelt so long on the first Article, I shall be the more concise in my Strictures on those that remain; for it is not my Design to animadvert on all that is justly ex- ceptionable. Under the second Head, the learned Presi- dent affirms-that the Number of Under Graduates, or proper Members of his College, is near four times that of any College on the Continent, to the Southward of New- England, and probably greater than all the Rest put to- gether. This is mentioned as a Circumstance to show the Esteem and Approbation of those who are nearest it and know it best. But this Gentleman has been egregiously imposed on. His Account is extremely erroneous; and the candid Reader is left to judge how such Accounts should operate in Favour of his College, or to the Pre- judice of others. He has not told us the Number of Under-Graduates in his College. But that Defect is sup- plied by a Return "of all the Inhabitants of Windsor Township, in Middlesex-County, New-Jersey, made by JOSEPH SKELTON, Esq; Assessor of said Township," and who is said to be one of the most intelligent Men in the Country. This Return was laid before the Assembly, and
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an Extract of it published in the Supplement of the New- York Journal, No. 1559.1 The College of Princeton stands in the Township of Windsor; and Mr. SKELTON informs us that in that College there are "3 Tutors-85 Scholars," or Students. Now the Number of Students in the College of New-York, as I have it from the best Au- thority, is almost 50; besides Students in the Medical School. The Reader may easily see how different this Proportion is from what the learned President would represent; and I shall make no Reflections on it. But were the Disproportion greater than it is, in Favour of the College of New-Jersey, it need not be wondered at; considering the indefatigable Endeavours and Methods used by its Friends to promote it, as well as to oppose and depress the College of New-York.
Under the third Head, this Gentleman refers us to the Numbers of Clergymen, Lawyers and Physicians dis- persed thro' the Colonies and Islands, who have received their Education at the College of Princeton, as a Proof of its Utility. But I presume there are few Colleges in America which cannot produce similar Proofs of their Utility, and make the same Appeal which he makes there. If his College has given an Education to more Gentlemen in those learned Professions, than some others have, the principal Reason is that it is older. The Colleges of Phil- adelphia and New-York, I do affirm, can boast of Pupils
greatly superior and more eniment, in each of those De- partments, than the College of New-Jersey. He says, we are willing that the Public should attend to the Char- acters and Appearance of those Gentlemen in the Law and medical Departments, who were brought up at Nas- sau-Hall, and are now in the Cities of Philadelphia and New-York,-How the Case may be in Philadelphia, I shall not stay to enquire. But in New-York, I can aver,
1 See page 324, ante.
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there is not one Physician, nor above one or two Law- yers at most, of any Eminence, who received their Educa- tion, or were graduated at his College. Here again Misinformation steps in to exalt Nassau-Hall at the Ex- pence of other Seminaries, and throw a Shade over them.
The healthy Situation of Princeton College, the Strictness of its Discipline, and the Advantages of a Col- lege in the Country, especially to secure the Morals of Youth, are held up to View in the fourth Article. Prince- ton I believe may be healthy; but not more so than New- York, no, nor is any other Place that is known in Ameri- ca. I shall not dispute the Strictness of their Discipline, as I am not so well acquainted with it as the learned President, I shall take it upon his Word; tho' I never heard that College censured for being too rigorous in this Way, as he intimates.
I would candidly suppose that all who have the Care of Colleges, keep up such Strictness of Discipline as they think most conductive to the Benefit of their Students. To determine precisely the Degree that should be ob- served, would be difficult, if not impossible; as it ought to be regulated by particular Circumstances. I am persuaded there are not fewer Irregularities committed at that, than at other Colleges, nor more Learning carried from it in general; and to prevent the former and promote the latter, are the objects about which Discipline is chiefly concern- ed. It is by no means a clear Point that Colleges in the Country, or in Villages, have the Advantage of those in Cities. I think the Reverse is true, and if the Practice of Mankind is called in to decide the Matter, it will evidently be in Favour of my Opinion. Most, if not all the Universities of Europe are in large Cities, Can we suppose this would have been so generally the Case, if wise and learned Men had not always judged such Places, upon the whole, to be most eligible and best? It is cer-
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tainly an Advantage to a Student, if whilst he is improv- ing his Mind by a learned Education, he hath Opportuni- ties also of polishing his Manners, knowing Mankind, and learning the Behaviour of a Gentleman-from which Character, I assure the President, I totally exclude the fashionable Follies, Dissipation and Vices of the present Age. Cities undubitably supply the best Opportunities of thus polishing our Manners and knowing Mankind, by the constant Intercourse with Men of Sense and Learn- ing, with Persons of Distinction in the higher Ranks of Life, which they always afford. All Places have their Temptations and Vices; not excepting the Country or Villages, where Irregularities of the lowest and basest Kind, are perhaps more predominant in Proportion, than in Cities. Attention and Discipline are necessary to pre- vent these, everywhere, as far as possible; and it is nat- ural to think that where there are most Eyes to watch a young Person; where his Conduct is open to the Inspec- tion of Numbers,-many of whom he must necessarily revere and stand in Awe of, that he will there be most circumspect. I shall .just observe further, that the Rus- ticity and Clownishness, the brutal Manners, Practices and Vices so prevalent among the lower Classes of Man- kind, will be extremely apt to infect those who frequently mingle with them, as Students at Country Colleges must do; and I appeal to Experience,-to. what we daily see, for the Truth of this Observation.
I have anticipated already a Part of what is contained under the fifth Head; the rest is not of much Consequence. There are several Things interspersed thro' the Address at which I am tempted to demur a little; such as that Students are taught Divinity by the President, (as a regular Science, I presume) and yet as to religious con- troversy, have that Science wholly to begin, when they go away-that some have left the College, (after finishing
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their Course of Studies, we must suppose) and yet the President is wholy uncertain to this Hour to what De- nomination they belong. These, and some other Matters of the Kind, I pass over as mysterious; yet, like other Mysteries, they may be, and I suppose are, true.
As a Friend to useful Science, I sincerely wish it may flourish in every Seminary on the Continent-even in Nassau-Hall; for I am no Enemy to that College, tho' I do not like to see it exalted at the Expence of other res- pectable Seminaries. There should be no Contention among us, but in our Endeavours to promote Literature; and nothwithstanding the above Strictures, I assure Dr. WITHERSPOON that I entertain no Sentiments disrespect- ful to his Character.
November 24, 1772.
CAUSIDICUS.
To be sold at private Sale,
A Piece of land, lying on the main road leading from Pracaness to Charlotteburg, Long-Pond, Ring- wood, and Goshen, containing thirty six acres, three or · four of which is in good fence; with an agreeable situa- tion for building; besides a meadow of about seven acres, partly fenced; the remainder is wood land, except some swamps, which may be made into meadow. It is an ex- cellent stand for a merchant. Whoever inclines to pur- chase, may apply to the subscriber, living at Orange Town, who will give an indisputable title for the same.
GARDNER JONES.
ROBERT G. LIVINGSTON,
W ILL dispose of the following tracts of land very cheap, for ready money; if required, half thereof, bonds will be taken, viz. A very fine farm in Aimwell, in the county of Hunterdon, New-Jersey, formerly oc- cupied by Martin Ryerson, containing about 300 Acres
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of choice land 30 Acres of it fine meadow land, wood land enough sufficient for the farm; a good fash'd house, 4 rooms on a floor; out-houses, a good barn very pleas- antly situated on the river Rariton, about 22 miles from Brunswick, about 4 or 5 miles from Messrs. Walter Ruth- erford and John Stevens, Esqrs, one mile from Thomas Atkinson's mills; about 3 miles from Thomas Lowrey's mills; a well settled country all round it. Enquire of James Hude, Esq; in New-Brunswick. ALSO, two very fine farms in Dutchess county, in Nine Partners, about 22 miles from Poughkeepsie landing, about 5 or 6 miles from David Johnson, Esq; each a fash'd house two stories, four rooms on a floor, with barns, out-houses, and each a fine young orchard of 200 apple trees, and 20 or 30 acres of fine meadow; wood land sufficient; very well situated for a country store, in the heart of a wheat country; each farm containing about 263 acres, joining each other; both occupied by Messrs. Roswell and Michael Hopkins, two brothers.
A very convenient house, and store-house joining it, now occupied by Mr. Horsfield; and another house join- ing that now occupied by Mr. Plowman, at the ferry on Long-Island.
Also will be sold at public vendue, at the Merchants' Coffee-House, the first day of May next, or at private sale before that time, two lots of land, No. 17 and 31, each about 500 Acres, more or less, lying in the county of Albany, near Cherry-Valley, at a place called Conydarage, in a patent of 43,000, granted to David Schuyler, Nicholas Pichard, G. Stuyvesant, James Livingston, John Willet, and others.1
1 An Indian deed was given, May 27, 1754, to David Schuyler. Feter D. Schuyler and Nich's Pickett (?), for a tract of 45,000 acres of land in Albany county, on the south side of the Mohawk river, and on the west side of Lake Caniadarage. On Feb. 1, 1755, a survey was returned for David Schuyler, Nicholas Pickard ( ?) and others. It was known as Schuyler's Patent, Otsego county, N. Y.
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T HE Subscriber hereof takes this method to acquaint the public, That he has erected a new fulling-mill, on Old Whippeney-River, half a Mile from Christopher Wood's Tavern, a little better than half a mile from the old forge, one quarter off the main road that leads from Newark to Morris-Town, and 4 Miles from said Morris- Town. Where he carries on the fulling business in all its several branches, to perfection; dresses cloth after the best manner, as also dyes cloth many different colours; red, claret and snuff colours, pompadours, cinnamon, bloom, purple, London brown, Spanish brown, red browns, linen, yarn and cotton dyed a good blue, and many other colours too tedious to mention. I purpose also if any encouragement be given, and as I can have my dye stuffs from England at the lowest rate, to dye scarlet, pink, crimson, rose colour, blue and green, Saxon blue and green, &c. &c.
Also takes out spots and stains out of old garments, and re-dyes and dresses them over again to the best advan- tage. Any person or persons that choose to favour me with their custom, may depend upon having their work done with Dispatch and Fidelity, per me
WILLIAM DENNISTON. from England.
N.B. As the Morris-Town stage goes to New-York every Monday, and returns the Tuesday following, any person or persons along the Newark road, or at Newark or New-York may by delivering their cloth or goods to the driver with directions on it how it is to be done, may have it again by the stage without much trouble .- The New-York Gazette; and the Weekly Mercury, No. 1102, December 7, 1772.
December 7, 1772.
RUN away, on Sunday, the 6th instant, from the Sub-
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scriber, living in Gloucester county, an Irish servant man, named JOHN MOORE, about 5 feet 10 inches high, between 18 and 19 years of age, of a brownish complexion, has long black hair, clubbed, stammers in his speech, and has a large flesh mole in the corner of his left eye; had on when he went away, a lightish brown upper cloth jacket, with cuffs, a red and white striped under-jacket, with lappels, and without sleeves, an old lightish coloured sur- tout, a pair of old leather breeches, new seated, the left knee of which was much too short, blue grey yarn stock- ings, calf skin shoes, with odd buckles in them, and a new felt hat. Whoever takes up and secures the above ser- vant, so that his master shall get him again, or brings him to JOHN HIDES, senior, at the Old Ferry-house, Phil- adelphia, shall have Five Pounds reward, and reasonable charges, paid by
JOHN HIDER, junior.
N.B. All masters of vessels are forbid to carry him off at their peril .- The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2294, December 9, 1772.
Princeton, Dec. II, 1772. STOLEN,
From the subscriber, on the tenth instant,
A LIKELY SORREL HORSE, both trots and paces, is about fifteen hands high, and branded on his thigh D L. Who- ever will secure the thief and horse, so that the owner may have them, shall receive FIVE POUNDS Reward, or FIFTY SHILLINGS for either, given by me
DIRECK LONGSTREET.
Morris Town, Dec. 6, 1772.
APPREHENDED AND TAKEN UP.
ON MONDAY the ninth day of November last, at Mount Hope Furnace, in the county of Morris, and province of
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East New-Jersey, and now secured in the common goal of said county, a certain negro man named EZEKIEL GREEN, aged twenty-six years, five feet eight or nine inches high, strait limbed and rather slim built, says that he is a forge- man and shoemaker, and was taught both trades by Jacob. Starn, Esq; of Sussex county, who sold him to Hugh Hughes,1 Esq; and said Hughes to Jacob McCummin, of Philadelphia, and said McCummin to Walter Baker of Maryland, near Seneca Creek, his present master. This is to desire his master to apply to the subscriber (who apprehended the said negro) living at Morris-town, in the said county of Morris, and pay him for his trouble and expences in apprehending the said negro and maintaining him since his confinement, together with gaol fees, &c. and the said negro shall be delivered up to his master.
FREDERICK. KING.1
Stony Brook, Dec. 7, 1772.
TO BE SOLD,
THE PLANTATION whereon the subscriber now lives,. in Somerset county, New-Jersey, pleasantly situated on the main road between Philadelphia and New-York, about a mile and a half to the westward of Princeton College, and joining upon Stoney Brook, containing two hundred and thirty acres, about one hundred of which is good wood-land, the rest divided into six fields, five of which are well watered, an orchard of excellent fruit, and about twenty acres of watered meadow. The land is esteemed as good for wheat and summer grain as any in that part of the country, and is in good fence : a large quantity of · fine manure may be got yearly, that is thrown up by the brook. There is on the premises a new brick house, with
1 For some account of Hugh Hughes, see N. J. Archives, 24:646.
1 Frederick King, son of Constant King, was b. at Southold. L. I .. Oct. 6, 1738; he was in 1782 appointed the first postmaster at Morris -- town, N. J .; he d. April 4, 1796.
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two well finished rooms and an entry below and three above, and a good cellar under the whole; a frame house adjoining, with three small rooms below and convenient lodgings above for servants, with a court-yard before the door inclosed with a good pale fence: there is likewise a good kitchen, a very large Dutch barn and other out- houses, with two wells of water. An indisputable title will be given, and the purchaser may have possession in the spring. It will be sold on reasonable terms, and sev- eral years credit given for the purchase money, if required, paying interest and giving security. For further par- ticulars enquire of Mr. RORERT RITCHIE, merchant, in Philadelphia, or the subscriber on the premises.
RICHARD COCHRAN.
N. B. If not sold by the first of April, it will be let upon shares to a single man of good character, or one who has a small family.
Cumberland County, West New-Jersey, Dec. 10, 1772.
THE PROPRIETOR of the Old Stage, kept by the sub- scriber, takes this method of informing the public, (in hopes not to disoblige his customers) that grain being at such a high price, lays him under the necessity of raising the fare on passengers going to and from Philadelphia; therefore from the first day of January next, a passenger must pay six shillings and six-pence to and from Bridge- town, and five shillings and nine pence from Kingston, where orders and passengers will be taken in by Sayre, Esq. The stage-waggon sets off from Azel Peir- son's, in Bridge-town, as usual, and proceeds to Cooper's Ferry.
He has found it necessary, by long experience, to cross from the Old Ferry on Wednesday evenings, and not on Thursday morning as usual; and the wagon will be ready to set off from William Cooper's at five o'clock. Orders
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will be taken in by JOHN HEIDER, at the Old Ferry, and all commands punctually obeyed, by
The Publick's humble servant,
DANIEL STRETCH.
-The Pennsylvania Packet, and the General Adver- tiser, No. 60, December 14, 1772.
FOR SALE
And to be entered on the 13th April next, if not sold then, to be let,
A Pleasant and Profitable farm, in Morris-County, and township of Mendem, in New-Jersey, now in the possession of Myndert La Favour, containing two hundred and twenty seven and 1-2 acres of land; a framed house, with three rooms on a floor, with two fire places; a good stone cellar; a barn; three good barracks; a young bearing orchard well laid out, containing 230 trees good fruit, abundance of good peach and cherry trees; a good well never known to freeze or dry, a fine brook running through the middle of said farm, which will make it very convenient for two farms. On said brook may be built a saw-mill, as timber is plenty, and no mills within six or seven miles; a good iron mine is on said farm; a very) good out let for cattle all over Suckesunny plains, which is a great advantage. This Farm is excellent for wheat, it produces from 24 to 27 bushels, per acre, weighing 63 to 65 pounds, per bushel, or is equally good for pasture, the land being pretty level and free of rocks, except about ten acres which is good wood; another advantage this farm has, it joins to the mine of Suckesunny, and when your team is idle you may be carting to the forges, and can make £. 40 in the winter, as the forges can't work without this ore, 90 or 100 acres of this farm is cleared land. This situation has as good a market as New-York,
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owing to the forges. It is within two miles of a place of worship, and in a good neighbourhood. Little of the money from the purchase is wanting, on giving bonds and good security.
For further particulars enquire of JOSEPH FRENCH, at Jamaica, Long-Island, who will give a title. -The New-York Gazette; and the Weekly Mercury, No. 1103, December 14, 1772.
THE LAWS AND VOTES
OF THE LAST SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY of NEW JERSEY Are JUST PUBLISHED, and to be SOLD by ISAAC COLLINS. At his Printing-Office in BURLINGTON.1
TWENTY SHILLINGS REWARD.
WAS STOLEN, out of the pasture of the subscriber, liv- ing in Maidenhead, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, on the 4th of November last, a sorrel MARE, between 14 and 15 hands high, about 7 years old, she trots and gallops very well, has a white spot in her face, with a little white snip down from it, and a short switch tail. Whoever takes up said mare, so that the owner may get her again, shall have the above reward, and all reasonable charges, paid by
ANDREW M'GALLIRD.
-The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2295, December 16, 1772.
WAS LOST, In September last, at Timber Creek,
A RED MOROCCO POCKET-BOOK, containing sundry pap-
1 For the full title and collation, see "Bibliography of the Printed Acts cf the Legislature of New Jersey, 1703-1800, and Ordinances of the Governors," by William Nelson, in "First Report of the Public Record Commission of New Jersey, 1899," Somerville, N. J., 1899, p. 74.
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ers which can be of no service to any but the owner : there was in said pocket-book eleven tickets of the Camp- ing-town Presbyterian church lottery, from No. 1008 to 1019, and four Tickets in the steel manufactory lottery, from No. 1764 to 1767. Whoever has found the same, and will bring it to the printer hereof, shall receive TWENTY SHILLINGS reward.
N. B. The managers of the above lotteries are desired to take notice and stop the tickets.
Twelfth month, 12th, 1772.
EIGHTEEN POUNDS REWARD.
STOLEN out of the subscriber's pasture, at the head of Chester, in Kent county, Maryland, about the middle of the tenth month, 1771, a likely bay HORSE.
JOHN VANSANT.
N. B. The subscriber will gladly treat with GEORGE WOOD, of East New-Jersey, in respect to a mortgage given JOSHUA VANSANT, of Maryland, for the security. of one hundred and thirty-four pounds one shilling and six-pence, dated the twenty-first day of April, one thous- and seven hundred and sixty-six: The mortgage deed and other papers relative, were lodged in the hands of PETER VANSANT, son of ISAIAH, in Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, to enquire in respect of the mortgage, but no power given to act in or settle the same; but if any person inclines to have the mortgage or land, he is requested to apply to the printer hereof for further information.
JOHN VANSANT, Son and Executor of said JOSHUA.
-The Pennsylvania Packet, and the General Ad- vertiser, No. 61, December 21, 1772.
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GARRIT RAPALJE,
H AS just imported per the last vessels from Lon- don, Bristol, and Hull, a neat and general assort- ment of European and India goods, suitable for the ap- proaching season, which he will dispose of on the lowest terms for cash, produce, or the usual credit. Also the best sort of bar iron and steel. And sundry farms to dispose of in New-Jersey .- The New-York Gazette; and the Weekly Mercury, No. 1104, December 21, 1772.
Lower Penn's Neck, in Salem County, New-Jersey, Dec. 16, 1772.
RUN away from his bail, in July, 1771, a certain man, named WILLIAM HOPKINS (but it is likely he has changed it to WILLIAM WOOD) a middle-aged man, about 5 feet Io inches high, of a dark complexion, wears his hair tied behind, short fore teeth, stoop shouldered, and commonly followed ditching; had on, when he went away, a light coloured coat, leather breeches, and a half worn castor hat. Whoever takes up the said William Hopkins, and secures him in any of his Majesty's goals, shall have FIFTY SHIL- LINGS reward, and reasonable charges paid by
JOHN M'CUNE.
-The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2296, December 23, 1772.
ROAD LOTTERY,
WILL begin drawing the 30th day of this instant, at Powle's-Hook, where tickets may be had. It is to be hoped that all gentlemen of a public spirit will encourage it; also those who would be glad to see a good road for carriages from Powle's Hook to Albany, on the west shore; the utility whereof must be obvious to every dis- cerning person. It is desired of all persons that have had the disposal of the tickets, to return them by that day
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that are not disposed of, or otherwise they will be deemed sold .- The New-York Journal; or, The General Adver- tiser, No. 1564, December 24, 1772.
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