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Joseph Kaighin.
-The Pennsylvania Gasette, No. 2303, February. 10, 1773.
Philadelphia. | Extract of a Letter from Cumberland,. West New-Jersey, Feb. 6. | "On the twentieth of January,. 1773, it was so warm that the bees swarmed and were hived, the like was never known here."-The Pennsyl- vania Journal, No. 1575, February 10, 1773.
To the PUBLIC.
WHEREAS I purpose, if the Lord will, on or about the IOth. of March next, to set out on a tour through the sothern provinces, viz. Maryland, Virginia, North and South-Carolina, and Georgia, and so return home through the back settlements, in order to try to collect some debts of my own, and some for my neighbours : Therefore any person having any affairs in those parts. that I can transact for them, and applying to me in time, I will undertake on reasonable terms, and use my best endeavours to serve the mfaithfully.
JOHN MOORES.
Woodbridge, Rahway, East New-Jersey, 10th. Feb. 1773-
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To be sold at public VENDUE,
On the 21st. day of April next, on the premises, un- less sold at private sale before,
A Dwelling-house and small farm of | about 55 acres, situate at Paquanack, in Morris county, in the province of New-Jersey, formerly belonging to Lewis Stewart, and now in his possession; there is a good barn, orchard, and a quantity of meadow-land on the premises, and more can be made at a small expence. Its situation is on a public road, and very advantageous for a tavern-keeper, merchant, or tradesman. And also to be sold at private sale only, another tract of valuable woodland, containing about 70 acres, within about two miles of Morris-Town, that formerly belonged to the said Lewis Stewart. An indisputable title will be given to the purchasers of either farms, by the subscribers. The terms may be known by enquiring of Benjamin Kissam, Esq; attorney at law, at New-York, or the subscribers at Stratford, in ·Connecticut.
ELIZABETH VAN DYCK. HENRY VAN DYCK.
To be SOLD,
A Plantation lying in the township of Mendom, in the County of Morris, containing about 200 acres, well situated for a tradesman, or any public business; there is on it a dwelling-house and out houses, also a young orchard; a considerable part of the land is well cleared, and some acres of it in good meadow, and more may be easily made, as there are several acres of excellent swamp in this tract. ALSO TO BE SOLD, three dwelling-houses and lots of land, lying near the center of Elizabeth-Town, which lots are a part of the lot known by the name of the White House Lot; the houses are two stories high, well finished, and in a good stand for business. Any person
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inclining to purchase the above plantation or either of the houses and lots of land may know the terms by applying to William B. Jelf, or to John Chetwood, Esq; in Elizabeth-Town, by whom a title will be given to the purchaser or purchasers. The executors have also to dispose of the frame of a house two stories high, about thirty two by thirty, with the window frames and sashes; this frame is exceedingly well timber'd, should any person incline to purchase, they may have a good bargain. Those who have any demands against the estate of Joseph Jelf, deceased, are desired to bring or send in the same to the subscribers; and those indebted, are requested to make immediate payment that the executors may be enabled to settle the estate as soon as possible.
WILLIAM B. JELF, JOHN CHETWOOD,
Executors.
TO BE LETT,
THE dwelling-house wherein Capt. Nathaniel Heard now lives, in the township of Woodbridge, county of Middlesex, and province of East New-Jersey, with about 50 or 60 acres of land : It has been kept as a tavern for about 50 or 60 years. There is two good barns, a good stable and sundry out houses, with a good bearing orchard, and two hundred and fifty bearing apple trees, and a number of other fruit trees, and a quantity of good meadow ground. Whoever inclines to rent the same, may apply to the subscriber living on the premises.
NATHANIEL HEARD.
NEW-YORK, February 15.
Two FIFTY POUND Purses will be run for over the Course at Powles-Hook, the first of June, the Particulars of which will soon appear in this Paper.
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TO BE SOLD, | The following houses and lots of ground in this city. | Enquire of William and Abraham Beek- man.
Also to be sold 112 acres of land at Cranberry in New- Jersey about 50 of which is cleared, the remainder wood- land, on which is a good house two stories high, a store house, and several out-houses, being a good stand for business, a store having been kept there for many years. The house is situate on the publick road, midway between this city and Philadelphia, where the stage waggon passes through every week.
PURSUANT to an order of the inferior court of common pleas of the county of Middlesex, notice is hereby given to all the creditors of Davidson Hartshorn, an insolvent debtor, to shew cause (if any they have) on Friday the 19th day of February inst. at two o'clock in the afternoon, at the house of Elijah Dunham, inkeeper, in Perth Amboy, before Stephen Skinner, and Jonathan French, Esqrs, two of the judges of said county, why an assign- ment of said debtor's estate should not be made, and he thereupon be discharged, agreeable to the direction 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 .- The New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, No. 1112, February 15, 1773.
TO BE SOLD
A Certain Lor, or piece of pasture Ground, situate in the Northern Liberties of the city of Philadelphia, near Spring Garden; containing six acres. Also a Lot of ground, situate on the south-side of Chestnut-street, between Sixth and Seventh-streets; containing in breadth twenty-four feet. and extending in depth, about two
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hundred and thirty-five feet, to a certain forty feet street, called George Street. Any person inclining to purchase, will. please to apply to BENJAMIN DAVIDS, at the corner of Second and Arch-streets, or to the subscriber in Burlington. JAMES SMITH, junior.
TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC VENDUE, | On Saturday the sixth Day of March next, at six o'clock |in the evening, at the London Coffee-house (if not | sold before by pri- vate sale)
The following tracts of land, belonging to the estate of | JOHN VINING, deceased.
A Tract of Land situate in Salem county, in the province of West New-Jersey, adjoining the town of Salem, and extending two miles on a navigable creek, which ebbs and flows near six feet: This tract is accom- modated with several good landings on said creek, distant about thirty miles from Philadelphia, and four from a Glass-house, where several German families are settled. The whole tract contains 1722 acres, whereof 170 are banked and meadow, producing fine grass; 176 are marsh, which may at a small expence be banked and converted into excellent meadow for grass or hemp; 1081 acres are upland, remarkably well timbered; 81 acres are white oak swamp, of a most luxuriant soil; and the remaining 295 acres are cleared: On which are erected a large two story brick messuage, two brick kitchens, and a large frame barn, besides several other out houses. The whole of this land is perhaps equal to any in East or West Jersey, as well in the fertility of the soil, as the value of the timber; and may be conveniently divided into several excellent farms, both for cultivation and grazing, with a sufficient quantity of meadow arable, and woodland to each farm.
Also a tract, containing about 500 acres of woodland,
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contiguous to the above-described tract. The titles are indisputable, and the lands clear of quitrent. Any person inclining to purchase the whole, or any part of the above- described lands, before the day of sale above-mentioned, may know the terms by applying to the subscribers, executors of the testament and last will of John Vining aforesaid.
BENJAMIN CHEW, CHARLES RIDGELY, or BENJAMIN WYNKOOP.
Cranberry Town, Jan. 29th, 1773.
To be SOLD by PUBLIC VENDUE, In CRANBERRY Town, on Saturday the 20th day of |March next, at Eleven o'Clock in the forenoon; |
THE NOTED GRIST MILLS in said town, has two pair of Stones, four Boulting Cloths, three of them goes by water, all in good repair; two small frame Houses, a Stable, and about three acres of excellent English meadow adjoining said Mills, also a lot of Meadow laying along Phinolipine Brook, containing about twenty acres under good fence. The Mills lie on a good stream and are well situated for country or merchant work, or for a Store, being on the Stage-Road to New-York, in the county of Middlesex, and province of New-Jersey, within twenty miles of Borden-Town, and eleven of South-River land- ing, in a healthy and good Wheat country; from the convenience of the situation, the miller or merchant may send his produce to, or receive goods from Philadelphia or New-York at a small expence. There will be a good title made to the purchaser, and conditions made known at the time of sale, by
JOHN REYNOLDS.
-The Pennsylvania Packet, No. 69, February 15, I773.
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JACOB HYER,
INFORMS the public, that he has opened a Tavern in Princeton, in the large yellow house opposite the college, at the corner of the Somerset road, where he hopes that all persons who were good enough to favour him with their custom during his residence in the house lately burnt down at the sign of Hudibrass, will continue to call upon him, and where all gentlemen and travellers may depend upon good entertainment. They will take notice that he has removed the old sign to the house where he now lives. February'II, 1773.
-The Pennsylvania Chronicle, No. 318, February 15, 1773.
PHILADELPHIA, February 17. | From Burlington County we are informed, that last Week Mr. SOLOMON WATKINS was married to Mrs. MARGARET KIRKBOWER; their Ages put together make 180.
TO BE SOLD,
A TRACT of 300 ACRES of LAND, situate on the main branch of Alloway's creek, one branch running through said land, there is a house, and a small improvement, on said land, the remainder swamp and woodland, well tim- bered, a considerable quantity of good meadow may be made at a small expence; there is a large quantity of timber on the land, especially white-oak, thought to be the best in the county, and supposed to be sufficient to make one hundred thousand staves and upwards. a large quantity of good sawing timber, and a good seat and stream for a saw mill, about 3 miles, or less, to a landing on said creek, where shallops constantly ply, and a small . distance from one or two saw-mills; the land is good for wheat or other grain.
Likewise to be LETT, for a term of years, a GRIST-MILL,
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with two pair of stones, and 3 bolts, with two water- wheels, situate on Alloway's creek, a little above the tide, and about a mile from the landing, having a good custom of country work, and well situated for carrying on the merchant work in an extensive manner, having the advantage of purchasing the best of wheat in the neigh- bourhood, and of transporting the flour to market easy, with a small expence. Likewise to be lett with it, if the tenant chuses, a good SAW-MILL, adjoining the grist-mill. For further information, and for terms, apply to the sub- scriber, at Alloway's creek, in the county of Salem, West New-Jersey.
JOHN HOLME.
TO BE SOLD,
A PLANTATION, containing 479 acres, lying on Dela- ware, in Amwell, Hunterdon county, Fest New-Jersey, 20 miles from Trenton, and 34 from Philadelphia, 260 acres cleared, and in good fence; there is on said planta- tion, a good dwelling-house, barn, and a good young orchard. For further particulars, apply to the subscriber, living on Biles's Island, two miles below Trenton.
ASHER MOTT.
-The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2304, February 17, 1773.
A LIST of the NUMBERS that came up PRIZES in the NEW- BRUNSWICK CHRIST'S |CHURCH LOTTERY, January 16, 1773. 1
Those Numbers that have no Sums against them, are Prizes of FOUR DOLLARS each.
-The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1576, February 17, 1773.
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PURSUANT to an Order of the Inferior Court of Com- mon Pleas, held at Monmouth, in the County of Free- hold: Notice is hereby given, to the respective Creditors of Nathaniel Sayre, John Robens, jun. and George West, Insolvent Debtors, now confined for Debt in the Gaol of the County of Monmouth, that the said Creditors appear before John Anderson, John Taylor, or James Lawrence, Esqrs, or any two of them, Judges of said Court, on Monday the 15th of March next, at two o'Clock in the Afternoon, at the Court House in Monmouth aforesaid, to shew Cause why the said Persons should not be dis- charged from their Imprisonment; agreeable to the Direc- tions of a late Act of the Governor, Council and General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey, intitled, "An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors."-The New York Journal, and General Advertiser, No. 1572, Feb- ruary 18, 1773.
POWLES-HOOK RACE.
To be run for at Powles-Hook, on Monday the last day of May next, a purse of FIFTY POUNDS, free for any horse, mare, or gelding, full bloods excepted, carrying weight for age and blood, as follows, viz. Four years, half blood, 7 stone; three quarters, 7 stone, 6 pounds. Five years, half blood, 7 stone 12 pounds; three quarter do. 8 stone 5 pounds. Six years old, half blood, 8 stone, IO pounds; three quarter do. 9 stone 3 pounds. Aged, half blood, 9 stone 6 pounds; aged, three quarter do. 9 stone 6 pounds; aged, three quarter do. 9 stone 13 pounds. Auctioneer, the late property of Mr. Waters, and Steady, the late property of Mr. Cornell, to carry 10 stone 6 pounds.
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
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horses to be shewed and enter'd the day before running at the stand, paying entrance 21. Ios. or double at the post.
N. B. To prevent disputes, no particle of blood be- tween 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 confederacy.
The second day a purse of FIFTY POUNDS, free only for three and four years old, weights to be in the next Mon- day's paper; and a purse of FIFTY POUNDS in the fall. If any horses be sent before the race, they can have stands free, and grooms kept at the lowest rate. If any disputes arise, to be determined by the judges .- The New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, No. 1113, February 22, 1773.
FORTY SHILLINGS REWARD.
GONE from his BAIL, living in Bordentown, Burlington County, a certain man, named JOHN DUN; had on, when he went away, a pair of knit breeches, a Wilton coat, and took with him two beaver hats, one of them new, the other half worn; he has a bluff full face, sandy hair, which curls pretty much, and is marked with the small-pox; is a Carpenter by trade; it is thought that he is gone to New-York, and that he will try to go to some of the West-India Islands. Whoever takes up the said fellow, and secures him in any of his Majesty's goals, so that he may be brought to justice, shall have the above reward, and reasonable charges, paid by
Feb. 19, 1773. JOSEPH MILNOR, junior. -The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2305, February 24, 1773.
JAMES RIVINGTON, BOOKSELLER, PRINTER, and STA- TIONER, 1 In NEW-YORK. PROPOSES to publish a weekly
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NEWS-PAPER, every Thursday, differing materially in its plan from most others' now extant: He has been honoured with encouragement from the first personages in this country, and now begs leave to sollicit the public patronage in behalf of | RIVINGTON'S | NEW-YORK GAZATEER; OR, THE CONNECTICUT, NEW-JERSEY, - HUD- SON'S LIVER AND QUEBEC, WEEKLY ADVERTISER.
He will communicate the most important events, foreign and domestic; the mercantile interest in arrivals, departures and prices current, at home and abroad, will be very vigilantly attended to. The state of learning shall be constantly reported; the best modern essays, and every laudable production from Helicon, inserted; the new inventions in arts and sciences, mechanics and manufac- tures, agriculture and natural history, together with a regular journal of the proceedings in Parliament, and the speeches, which are frequently characteristic of the orator, in and out of administration, shall be constantly inserted; a review of new-books will be included, with extracts from every deserving performance, each crafty attempt with cozening title, from the garrets of GRUB- STREET, shall be proscribed. In short, every particular that may contribute to the improvement, information and entertainment of the public, shall be constantly conveyed through the channel of the NEW-YORK Gazetteer. Under these pretensions he will venture on this periodical busi- ness. All his humble labours shall be exerted to merit that beneficence which has been already very graciously and liberally bestowed upon his proposal, and the most perfect integrity and candour shall govern him in the conduct of this difficult enterprize.
The first number, shall make its appearance when the season will permit the several Post-Riders to perform their stages regularly.
Subscriptions are received by Mr. Nicholas Brooks,
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near the Coffee-House in Philadelphia. The utmost care shall be taken to send the papers regularly .- The Penn- sylvania Journal, No. 1577, February 24, 1773.
ANDOVER PIG-METAL,
T 'O be sold by the subscriber, at Elizabeth-Town. Gentlemen in New-York may be supplied with any quantity, on giving the shortest notice to
JOHN BLANCHARD.
Supplement to the New York Gazette, and The Weekly Mercury, No. 1114, March 1, 1773.
New-Jersey,
BY order of the judges of the Somerset County. S SS. court of common pleas of said county, Notice is hereby given to all the creditors of Elijah Peniton, and Andrew Tone, two insolvent debtors, to shew cause (if any they have) before Walter Living- stone, and Peter Schenck, Esquires, or any two judges of said county, on Saturday the 27th day of March inst. at Millstone court house, why an assignment of the said debtors estates should not be made to assignees, for the use of the creditors, and they be discharged from their confinement, agreeable to an act of the general assembly of said province, made for the relief of said debtors.
To be SOLD, | (And entered the first of May next) | THE dwelling-house in which the subscriber lately lived, at Elizabeth-Town in the province of New-Jersey; there are seven rooms with fire-places, on the lower floor, and three rooms on the upper. The lot contains about three quarters of an acre of land on which is a large gar- den well stocked with the best of fruit trees and a good asparagus bed. There is on the premises a good stable, chaise-house, wash-house, &c. The whole very con- venient for any person intending to take in boarders.
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Long payments will be allowed, and an indisputable title given. For terms of sale, enquire of Mr. Lewis Pintard, merchant in New-York, or the subscriber, near the above premises.
ELIAS BOUDINOT.
To be sold at private sale, | ON very reasonable terms, the large convenient and well-situated dwelling-house of the subscriber, living near the center of the town of Newark, in the county of Essex, on the main road leading from Powles-Hook to Philadelphia, and near the court- house, where all the public business is transacted, to- gether with seven acres of excellent land; being noted as a public house for many years past. The house is two stories high, with an entry thro' the whole, having proper and convenient rooms; with two good cellars; a large convenient kitchen, with a large dining-room of twenty two by thirty three feet; adjoining the same. Also a fine large kitchen garden, containing three fourths of an acre, a fine large new stable of twenty two by forty feet, with proper stables for horses, and a large loft above, sufficient to contain seven tons of hay, with a good barn adjoining thereto, also a large shed of forty feet in length, with sundry other conveniences.
Any person inclining to purchase may apply to the sub- scriber, living on the premises, who will give an indis- putable title for the same.
JAMES BANKS.1 -The New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, No. III4, March 1, 1773.
TO BE SOLD BY JOHN DUNLAP, A FEW COPIES OF THE CONDUCTOR GENERALIS : OR, THE OFFICE, DUTY AND
1 James Banks kept tavern for some years in Newark, on the west side of Broad street, between the present Branford and William streets.
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AUTHORITY OF JUSTICES OF THE , PEACE, 1 HIGH- SHERIFFS, UNDER-SHERIFFS, CORONERS, CONSTABLES, GAOLERS, JURY-MEN, AND OVERSEERS OF THE POOR. AS ALSO THE OFFICE OF CLERKS OF ASSIZE, AND OF THE PEACE, &c.
Compiled chiefly from BURN'S Justice, and the several other | books on those subjects, as far as they extend and can | be adapted to these American colonies. |By JAMES PARKER, One of his Majesty's Justices of the | Peace for Middlesex county in NEW JERSEY.
The whole alphabetically digested under the several titles; | with a TABLE directing to the ready finding out the pro per matter under those titles.
TO WHICH IS ADDED,
A Treatise on the Law of Descents in Fee-Simple : - By WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, Esq; Barrister at Law, Vinerian Professor of the Laws of ENGLAND: With several choice maxims in Law, &c.1-The Pennsylvania Packet, No. 71, March 1, 1773.
PROPOSALS for Printing, by SUBSCRIPTION,
THE WORKS of FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, in four vols. large octavo, at the moderate price of Seven Shillings each vol. Pennsylvania money, sewed in blue boards, or Nine Shillings, neatly bound and lettered. The London edition is sold for 54s. The first volume is in great for- wardness in the press, and is printed on a good American paper, and in a neat and elegant type. Each volume as soon as published to be delivered to the subscribers. Each subscriber's name to be printed in the beginning of the fourth volume. No money is expected but on delivery of each volume.
1 A thick octavo volume of pp. xvi, 592, well printed, at the press of James Parker, at Woodbridge, New Jersey, in 1764.
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To my worthy subscribers. The encouragement I have received from you, in this undertaking, obliges me in gratitude to return you my hearty thanks, and it will be my particular care and attention to render this publica- tion satisfactory in every respect. I am, with much esteem, your humble servant,
JOHN M'GIBBONS.
The first volume is in great forwardness, and the second is preparing for the press. Notice will be given in the news-papers, when each volume is published. Those who have a disposition to promote the advance- ment of useful literature, are requested to be speedy, by giving in their names as intentional subscribers. Sub- scriptions are taken in by Messieurs William and Thomas Bradford, Mr. John Dunlap, and Mr. Joseph Cruck- shank, at their Printing Offices, and Mr. Robert Aitken, at his Book-store, in Front-street, Philadelphia; Mr. Abraham Hunt, in Trenton; and Mr. William Hick, in Princeton.
The famous HORSE LIBERTY,
IS in excellent-Order, and will COVER this Season, till the First of August, at JOHN EMLEY'S, the Sign of the Black Horse, in BURLINGTON County, at Three Pounds the Season, Thirty Shillings the single Leap, or Five Pounds to insure a Foal. The Money to be paid at the Expiration of the Season, or before. Good Pastures will be provided for the MARES, at Two Shillings and Six- pence per Week, and proper Care taken of them, by
DAVID HENRY.
LIBERTY is a beautiful BAY, 8 Years old, 15 Hands and I Inch high, remarkable for Strength, and lofty Carriage; he was got by the noted running Horse Dove, and Half
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Brother to True Britton; came of Milly; she was got by old Spark, full Sister to Col. Hopper's Packolet; her Dam was Queen Mab, got by Musgrove's grey Arabian, a most beautiful Horse; her Dam by the Hampton Court Childers, her Grandam by Governor Harrison's Arabian, her Great Grandam by the Chestnut Arabian, her Great Great Grandam by Leeds, her Great Great Great Gran- dam was a Barb, and was the Dam of Mr. Croft's Grey- hound. He ran the Four-mile Heats against Lath, very young, on the Hempstead-plains, Long-Island, and was supposed to be the greatest Heats that ever were run in America; he was strained in the Sinew of the near fore Leg, but since has recovered his Lameness sound and well; though the Disadvantage of travelling 200 Miles in the Dead of Winter, he beat the famous Horse Bishop out of 800 Dollars private Betts, in the Year 1770, he was allowed to cover 20 Mares, at Three Pounds the Season, for which Colts the Owners refused from Forty to Eighty Pounds.
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