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PHILADELPHIA, December 28. Captain Ross, from Nevis, the same day, [the 18th] spoke a sloop, Capt. Buck, from St. Eustatia for Cohansey, out 25 days. -The Pennsylvania Packet, and the General Advertiser, No. 62, December 28, 1772.
To the PRINTER of the NEW-YORK GAZETTE and the WEEKLY MERCURY.
SIR,
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SEE you have published a Letter from a Person who conceals himself under the Signature of Causidicus, containing Remarks on the Address, signed by me, to the Inhabitants of the West India Islands, in Behalf of the College of New-Jersey. I do not think your publishing a Tract of this Kind, without the real Name, can be wholly justified. However, being resolved by no Means to enter into a News-paper Controversy; be pleased only to inti- mate to the Publick, that a concealed Slanderer deserves no Answer and therefore the greatest Part of his Letter shall have none. But there are two Particulars which I cannot pass uncontradicted. I. I was so far from any Intention to attack other Colleges, that I avoided the very Suspicion of it with the utmost Care. I have pleaded the Cause of American Seminaries in general through the greatest Part of that Address, and as to what is said of Princeton-College, let us ask this plain Question : Must we not avail ourselves of the Circumstances that are favor- able to us, because, by Implication, it may be supposed a Reflection upon those who want them? There are many real Advantages attending a College in a large City, for the Instruction and Improvement of Youth. Should any
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Gentlemen think fit to recommend the College of New- York, on these Accounts, pray how would it be taken if I should resent it as an injury to the College of New-Jersey ? 2. The other Particular is still more extraordinary. He supposes that I have in View a particular Family that has Influence in the College of New-York. No Man that reads the Address with Candour can suppose any such Thing. The Argument was stated in general, from the Way in which Things happen in Britain, and in which they may happen in America. By Family-influence is meant, a Family of great Distinction represented by one Person as the Head, which may obtain the Government of a College, or County, or Borough. If there be any such in New-York, it is wholly unknown to me. I have heard of several Families of the same Name, who may be supposed to side together in the Politics of the Prov- ince, but this is quite different from the Management of a College. In short, I suppose this was rather intended as a Compliment to the Family hinted at by Causidicus. How acceptable it is to them they themselves best know; and how well conceived by this Author, I leave the Pub- lick to determine. Princeton,
Dec. 18.
I am, SIR, Yours, &c.
JOHN WITHERSPOON.
W HEREAS there was left in the hands of the sub- scriber, while he lived at Raway, New-Jersey, a piece of drugget cloth, in order to be drest, which is now done; and as no owner has appeared to pay the expense, this is to give notice, that unless the said cloth is sooner called for by the owner, it will be sold within one month from this date.
Hanover, WILLIAM DENNESTON.
Morris Co., Dec. 22, 1772.
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P URSUANT to an Order of the Inferior Court of Common-Pleas, held at Morris-Town, in and for the County of Morris, Notice is hereby given to the respective Creditors of William Mockeridge, William Throckmor- ton, and Andrew Chidester, Insolvent Debtors, now con- fined for Debt in the Goal of the County of Morris; that the said Creditors appear before Jacob Ford and Samuel Tuthill, Esquires, two of the Judges of the said Court, on Wednesday the third Day of February next, at Two o'clock in the Afternoon, at the Court-House in Morris- Town aforesaid, to shew Cause, if any they have, why the said Prisoners should not be discharged from their Imprisonment, agreeable to the Directions of a late Act of the Governor, Council, and General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey, entitled, An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors.
THIRTY DOLLARS Reward.
B ROKE Gaol and made their Escape from the County of Morris, in East New-Jersey, on Monday Night the Seventh of this Instant, the following Prisoners; namely, JOHN NORRIS, about Twenty Eight Years of Age, near Six Feet high, a stout sturdy Fellow, charged with stealing a Negro Man from one Morgan of East-Chester, in the Province of New-York, who says he has a Wife and Brother in that County. GEORGE HALL, a West-countryman, about Twenty Five Years of Age, near Five Feet, Ten Inches high, slim built, has a brown Broad-cloth Coat and Vest, and a Pair of old Leather Breeches on. GEORGE CAMPBELL, an Irishman, about Twenty Four Years of Age, near Five Feet Six Inches high, thick set, well built, walks a little lame, having all his Toes froze off. DANIEL M'CURDY, about Twenty Four Years of Age, near Five Feet, Ten Inches high, slim built, has remarkable large
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white Eyes, and brought up in Suckersunny in this County. JAMES DOUGLAS, about Twenty three Years of Age, near Five Feet, Eight Inches high, well built, had on a Homespun Wilton blue and white Coat, Vest and Breeches, and is a profane Swearer, and much addicted to Gaming and excessive Drinking.
Whoever apprehends, and secures the above Persons in any of his Majesty's Goals, so that the Subscriber may have them again, shall be entitled to the above Reward, or Ten Dollars for Norris, and Five for each of the other Four, paid by me,
Morris County, Dec. 8, 1772.
JONATHAN STILES,1 Sheriff.
P URSUANT to an Act of the Governor, Council, and General Assembly of New-Jersey, passed in the 12th Year of the Reign of his present Majesty King George the Third, entitled, "An Act for the Relief of in- solvent Debtors," Notice is hereby given to the respective Creditors of Ephraim Darby, David Shepherd and Nathaniel Casterline, that they appear before two of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Sussex, on Monday the 25th Day of January next, by 2 o'Clock in the Afternoon, at the Court-House in Newtown, at the said County of Sussex, to shew Cause (if any they have) why Assignments of the respective Estates of the said Ephraim Darby, David Shepherd, and Nathaniel Casterline, shall not be made, &c. their Bodies discharged, &c. and made free from Arrests, &c. agree- able to said Act.
SAMUEL OGDEN,
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ANUFACTURERS in the best manner, at his works in Booneton; bar iron for rudders, grist-
1 Frobably a son of Jonathan Stiles, who died Nov. 15, 1758, aged 80 years. He was b. 1721, and d. Oct. 6, 1806. He was appointed Sheriff of Morris County, April 6, 1770.
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mills and saw-mills; share moulds, large and small, square and flat iron of all sizes; and also cart, waggon and chair tire: Which he will deliver at New-York on the most reasonable terms, drawn agreeable to any given directions, immediately after application made therefor, to him at said works, or to Mr. Nicholas Hoffman merchant, in New-York .- The New-York Gazette; and the Weekly Mercury, No. 1105, December 28, 1772.
BOSTON, December 17. | We hear that a Commission came by the Cruizer under the Great Seal, appointing and authorising Joseph Wanton, Esq; Governor of Rhode Island, Daniel Horsmanden, Esq; Chief Justice of New York, Frederick Smith, Esq; Chief Justice of the Jersies, Peter Oliver, Esq; Chief Justice of this Province, and Robert Auchmuty, Esq; Judge of the Admiralty, to make enquiry into the affair of burning his Majesty's schooner Gaspee; and that Admiral Montagu is ordered to hoist his flag in Newport harbour. As Governor Wanton is first named in the Commisssion, it is supposed he, will notify the time for holding the Court.
If the burning the Gaspee schooner was a matter of serious importance, much more so are the methods pur- sued by the British administration in consequence of it.1 This affair was transacted within the body of a county, in a free English government; one would think therefore it should be the subject of the inquiry of the grand jury of inquest for the same county: Instead of which we are told, that five gentlemen, four of whom are of superior rank in different colonies, the other indeed a judge of the admiralty, are appointed by commission to make the en- quiry. By a gentleman lately from Rhode Island, we are
1 This was one of the burning questions that led up to the Revolution. See Bancroft's Hist. U. S., Vol. VI. (ed. of 1854), 416, 441; Mahon's Hist. of England, V., 463; Works of John Adams., II., 307-308; Gordon's Hist. of the Revolution, I., 311: N. J. Archives, X., 375, note, 395.
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informed, that three of these commissioners are empow- ered to act, at whose call the army and navy are to attend ; that any persons accused, against whom the commission- ers shall judge there is evidence sufficient to convict them, are to be apprehended, and together, with the evidences sent to England for trial. And that Capt. Keeler, of the Mercury, has notified Gov. Wanton, in consequence of orders, that his ship is ready to receive such persons for the purpose aforesaid. Draper1 tells us, that "Admiral Montagu is ordered to hoist his flag in Newport harbour." The purport of this parade is obvious to common sense. The Admiral will no doubt acquit himself to the satis- faction of his masters upon this occasion. It is said that he has recommended that those who, it is supposed, can give evidence of this matter, and refuse to do it, be put on board the men of war, and there kept until they do; which perhaps may be rather more eligible of the two, than the torture of the RACK. The indignity offered to all the Colonies, and particularly Rhode Island, says a gen- tleman of a neighboring town in a letter to his friend in this, is not to be equalled. To have a set of crown offi- cers commissioned by the ministry, and supported by ships and troops to enquire into offences against the crown, instead of the ordinary and constitutional method of a grand jury carries an implication that the people of that colony are all so deeply tinctured with rebellious princi- ples, as that they are not to be trusted by the crown. The inhabitants of this town and province can feel for their brethren of Rhode Island, having themselves tasted of the cup of ministerial vengeance; when to aid and protect the commissioners of the customs, in carrying into execu- tion a revenue act of the British parliament, Hills- borough's troops were stationed in the capitol, and the
1 Probably referring to Richard Draper, publisher of The Boston News-Letter. He died in 1772.
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city turned into a garrison !- And though these troops, after slaughtering some of our innocent inhabitants, were obliged to retire from the town, they are yet posted in the principal fortress and key of the province. What shall hinder the like scene of blood, rapine and slaughter in the capitol of Rhode Island, if the commission of en- quiry there, should so readily call for the military aid as the commissioners of the customs did here? Such treatment of the colonies calls for the most serious atten- tion; and however prophane it may be called by Mr. Dra- per's writer of the Yeoman, or his canting neighbor, we have reason with firm affiance in HIM who hateth oppres- sion and tyranny, devoutly to acclaim, How Long !- O, LORD !- How Long !- The Pennsylvania Journal, and the Weekly Advertiser, No. 1569, December 30, 1772.
JUST PUBLISHED, and to be SOLD, by JAMES HUMPHREYS, junior At his Printing-Office, in Front-street, the lower Corner of Black-horse-alley.
RESIGNATION, a FUNERAL SERMON, occasioned by the Death of the Rev. ISAAC EATON, A. M. late Minister of the Baptist Church, at Hopewell, in New-Jersey; preach- ed at Hopewell by SAMUEL JONES, A. M.1
Your Fathers, where are they? and the Prophets, do - they live for ever ?- Zach. I. 5.
To be SOLD by the SUBSCRIBER
THE PLANTATION, whereon he now lives, situate in
1 Hildeburn (No. 2785) gives the title as above, but apparently never saw the book, and does not locate a copy. The following is the full title, from a copy in the John Carter Brown Library, Providence, R. I .: RESIGNATION. | A | FUNERAL SERMON, | OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF THE | REVD. ISAAC EATON. A. M. | LATE MINISTER OF THE BAPTIST CHURCH, | AT HOPEWEL, IN NEW-JERSEY, | WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE. JULY 4, 1772: | PREACHED AT HOPEWEL, | THE 26th OF THE SAME MONTH. | BY SAMUEL JONES, A. M. | Your Fathers, where are they? and the Prophets. do they | live for ever? ZECH. i. 5. | PHILADELPHIA, PRINTED; | BY JAMES HUMPHREYS, JUNIOR: | IN FRONT-STREET, AT THE LOWER CORNER | OF BLACKHORSE ALLEY. M.DCC, LXXII. 8ยบ Title 1 leaf; pp. [1]-34. Signatures: A-E, 4s; E4 blank.
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Pilesgrove, Salem county, West New-Jersey, containing 150 acres, about 80 acres thereof are cleared, and in good fence, about 12 acres of the same being good mowable meadow, and more may be made; there are on the prem- ises a good framed dwelling-house, two stories high, with a brick cellar under the same, and a framed kitchen ad- joining the same; there are likewise on the premises a good framed barn, about 30 feet by 36 feet long; the whole in good repair. For further particulars, and the terms, apply to the subscriber, living on the premises.
December 17, 1772. SAMUEL MORGAN.
To be LETT, and entered on the 21st of March next, A LARGE commodious HOUSE, pleasantly situated in the center of the town of Haddonfield, 7 miles from Cooper's ferry, in West-Jersey; there is a good two story kitchen adjoining the house, a pump of excellent water at the kitchen door, brick still-house and smoke-house in the yard, and ten acres of land, lying immediately adjoining the house, on which is a barn, with sufficient stabling, and a very good bearing orchard. The whole of the premises are in good order, and would suit a person inclining to live retired, or a shopkeeper; but a butcher in particular would meet with encouragement, and considerable advan- tage might be reaped by one, from the handiness of the situation to attend this market, and his being able to sup- ply the inhabitants, in the town and neighbourhood, with butcher's meat. For terms, apply to the subscriber, in Philadelphia; or to Benjamin Hartley, near the premises, who will show the same.
MATTHEW ASPBEN.
FORTY SHILLINGS REWARD
RUN away from the subscriber, living in Haddonfield, Gloucester county, on the 26th of this instant December,
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an English servant lad, named JOHN HAMMER, about 20 years of age, is about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, slim built, light brown hair, and has a scar on the middle of his left cheek; had on, a good drab-coloured homespun cloth coat, with wooden buttons, a fustian jacket, and a pair of leather breeches, almost new, blue-grey yarn stockings, pumps, and a good castor hat, with green silk lining. Whoever takes up said servant, and secures him in any goal. so that he may be had, shall receive the above re- ward, paid by
JOHN GILL.
* All masters of vessels are forbid to carry him off.
Philadelphia, December 9, 1772.
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, That, in Pursuance of an Act of Parliament, intitled, An Act for vesting certain Estates in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland, be- longing to the Proprietors of a Partnership commonly called The Pennsylvania Land Company, in London, in Trustees, to be sold, and for other Purposes, therein men- tioned, on the tenth Day of June next, at eight o'Clock in the Morning will be exposed to Sale, to the highest and best Bidder by Public Cant or Auction, at the Old Ferry- house kept by JOHN HYDEN, in Water-street, between Market and Mulberry-streets, in this City, the following PLANTATIONS or Tracts of LAND, in Mispillion Hundred in the County of Kent .- The Pennsylvania Gazette, December 30, 1772.
BOSTON, December 21.
We hear that a Commission came, by the Cruzier Man of War (lately arrived at New-York from London) under the Great Seal, appointing and authorizing Joseph Wanton, Esq; Governor of Rhode-Island, Daniel Hors- manden, Esq; Chief Justice of New-York, Frederick
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Smith, Esq; Chief Justice of the Jerseys', Peter Oliver, Esq; Chief Justice of this Province, and Robert Auch- muty, Esq; Judge of the Admiralty, to make inquiry into all the circumstances relative to the attacking, taking, plundering and burning his Majesty's Schooner Gaspee; and to the insults offered or obstructions given, on that occasion to his Majesty's officers, within the colony of Rhode-Island, and offering his pardon to any of the said offenders (excepting the persons who wounded Lieut. Duddingston, and two others who assumed to be the Sheriffs of the colony; and the Captain or Leader of the Insurgents ) who shall discover any of their accomplices; and that Governor Wanton, being the first named in the commission, it is supposed, will convene the Commis- sioners very soon-any three of whom has power to act : That when they are convened at Newport, they are to receive their commission from Admiral Montagu, who is to hoist his flag there .- That the King deems all the per- sons concerned in burning the Gaspee, to be guilty of high treason; and that all those that are accused thereof, against whom the Commissioners shall think there is sufficient evidence to convict, are to be apprehended and sent home for trial; and that the evidences against them are also to be sent to England; and those who are sup- posed can give evidence, but refuse so to do, the Admiral, it is said, has recommended that they should be put on board the men of war until they do :- And that the army and navy are to attend the call of the Commissioners, or any three of them.
We likewise learn that Capt. Keeler, Commander of the Mercury, in consequence of orders, has notified Governor Wanton that his ship is rigged and ready to receive any persons that may be apprehended for being concerned or knowing to the above affair .- In this situation of Affairs, every friend to our violated consti-
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tution cannot but be greatly alarmed. The idea of seizing a number of persons, under the points of bayo- nets, and transporting them three thousand miles for trial, where, whether guilty or innocent, they must unavoidably fall victims alike to revenge or prejudice, is shocking to humanity, repugnant to every dictate of reason, liberty and justice, and in which Americans and freemen ought never to acquiesce .-
We further learn, that the Admiral has recommended to the Governor of Rhode-Island, that Captain Keeler, for some time since stationed there, should not be subject to any arrest for the seizures he has made.
The following Law was made and passed by the General Assembly of the colony of Rhode-Island, at their sessions in Newport, on the Ist of March, 1663, and not since repealed, viz .- "BE it enacted, That no Freeman "shall be taken, or imprisoned, or deprived of his Free- "hold, or Liberty, or free Custom, or be outlawed, or "exiled, or otherwise destroyed, nor shall be passed upon, "judged or condemned, but by the lawful Judgment of "his Peers, or by the Law of this Colony. And that no "Man, of what Estate and Condition soever, shall be put "out of his Lands and Tenements, nor taken, nor im- "prisoned, nor disinherited, nor banished, nor any ways "destroyed or molested, without being for it brought to "answer by due Course of Law."
December 31, 1772.
WHEREAS, on the night of the 28th of this instant December, one David Sheppard, late of the township of Pilesgrove in the County of Salem Province, West New- Jersey, a carpenter, upon a falling out between said Shep- pard and one William Gwin, he the said Sheppard did feloniously kill and slay the said William Gwin, as ap- peared by my inquest, and he the said David Sheppard,
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immediately at the death of the aforesaid Gwin and be- fore I had knowledge thereof, made flight, and is gone as I have been since informed to Philadelphia, in order to ship for some West India island. He is a lusty fellow of a dark complexion, very noisy and troublesome in com- pany. These are therefore, in his Majesty's name, de- siring and requesting all officers and others and all christian people to be diligent and make strict inquiry after the aforesaid fellow, and secure him in any gaol, so as I the subscriber or any of the magistrates in said county of Salem may have knowledge thereof, strictly forewarning all masters of vessels and others from carry- ing him off at their peril.
JECHONIAS WOOD, Coroner.
N. B .. He served his time in Philadelphia, and has several relatives there, one brother and sister at least .- The Pennsylvania Chronicle, No. 312, January 2, 1773.
THE publick is hereby informed that on the 28th of December last, a school was opened at Newark Moun- tains, for the instruction of youth in the Latin and Greek languages and other branches of literature, necessary for their entering any class in college, by CALEB COOPER, once master of the grammar school at New-Brunswick.
This school is to be under the immediate inspection of the following persons (who will take particular care respecting the morals of the youth) viz. The Revd. Jededeah Chapman, Caleb Crane, Esq; Mr. Bethuel Pierson, Mr. John Peck, Doctor Mathias Pierson, and Mr. Isaac Morrison.1
The tuition is stated at Four Pounds, New York cur- rency, per ann. entrance (excepting the benefactors and
1 In the "History of the Oranges, in Essex County, N. J., From 1666 to 1806." by Stephen Wickes. M. D., Newark, 1892. will be found sketches of the Rev. Jedidiah Chapman, pp. 190-204; Bethuel Pierson. 305-6: Judge John Peck, 312; Dr. Matthias Pierson, 290-294.
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those that join the school in one month from the time it begins) ten shillings. The board for the boys, in but very few places will exceed seven shillings, like currency per week, and in many creditable families it may be had for less. This school under these regulations and with these advantages, it is hoped will meet with proper encouragement from the publick, it being situated in a healthy and not unpleasant part of the country, among a sober, friendly people, about three miles and an half from Newark, and not exceeding twelve from New York.
To be sold at private Sale,
TWO Houses and Lots of Ground, in Beaver-Street, belonging to the Estate of the late James Parker, Printer; they are in a genteel Part of the Town, and very con- venient for a Gentleman, Tradesman, or others. Any Person inclining to treat for the same, may know the particulars, by applying to Daniel Marsh, on Roosevelt's Dock, North-River, or Mary Parker, at Woodbridge.
To be let or sold, in the city of New York. Enquire | of John Beekman, in Wall-Street; separate or alto- | gether,
Also to be sold a large convenient two story house,. kitchen and spacious garden, very pleasantly situated in the city of New-Brunswick, in which Jaques Mulford now lives, fronting Burnet's-Street, near the Presby- terian Meeting-House; which has been lately new ruffed,1 and compleatly repaired.
Also to be sold, a tan yard adjoining the said house- and garden. For the house and tan yard, enquire as above, or Bernardus La Grange, Esq; attorney at law, im New-Brunswick.
1 "Roofed," in the New York Journal.
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To be sold at public vendue, on the 5th day of January | inst. at the Merchant's Coffee-House, or at pri- vate | sale any time before.
Two houses belonging to the estate of Tiesie Hender- son, deceased, one a brick building situate in Queen- Street, in the possession of John Imlay; the other a fram'd building, situate in King-Street, in the possession of John Smith, Esq;
Also 1000 acres of land, being part of Henderson's patent, laying on the south side of the Mohawk River, about seven miles from the German Flats, and is said to be equal in goodness to the German Flat land. For par- ticulars enquire of William Proctor, or John Imlay in New York; Peter Corne in Dutchess County, or Alexan- der Moore at Bordentown, West New-Jersey .- The New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, No. 1106, January 4, 1773.
To the PUBLIC.
THERE is a Grammar school lately | opened at Goshen; where board may be had at a reasonable rate, taught by Mr. SAMUEL M'CORKLE, graduated last fall at New Jersey College, and well recommended by the Rev. Dr. Witherspoon.
The school is under the inspection of the subscribers. who will pay it a quarterly visit, examine what pro- ficiency is made, and will take special care that the morals of the pupils be carefully guarded.
Rev. NATHAN KER,
HENRY WISNER, Esq;
Rev. JOHN SAYRE,
BENJ. TUSTEN, Esq;
Rev. AMZI LEWIS,
SAMUEL GALE.
MICHAEL JACKSON, Esq;
STRAYED or stolen out of the | pasture of the subscriber, living in Newark, on the night of the 21st instant No-
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