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Burlington, Third Month 2, 1772
On Tuesday last a Fire broke out in the Shop of Mr. Flanagan, Wheelwright, in Woodberry, New-Jersey, which entirely consumed the same, with Part of the Dwelling-house adjoining, together with a great Quan- tity of Grain. It was occasioned by some Shavings catch- ing Fire, while the People were at Dinner.
THOMAS POWELL,
Master of the BOARDING-SCHOOL, at BURLINGTON, Takes this Method to inform his Friends, and the Public, that, being provided with proper Assistance, the Youth under his Care may be taught the Latin, Greek and French languages. His Dwelling-House is considerably enlarged, for the Accommodation of Boarders; he has several com- modious Apartments adjoining his House, well adapted to instruct Youth in; and assures all such who may think him worthy so great a Charge, as the Care of their Chil- dren, of his utmost Assiduity, with respect to Morals, Health and Instruction.
N. B. Due Care will always be taken of their Apparel. -The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2254, March 5, 1772.
NEW-YORK, March 5. On Wednesday last his Excel- lency the Governor, was pleased to give his Assent to the nineteen following Acts, viz.
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An Act to lay a Duty of Tonnage on Vessels, for de- fraying the Expence of the Light House at Sandy-Hook.
To be sold at public Vendue, on Monday the 30th Day of March next, on the Premises, or at private Sale any Time before,
ALL that valuable Farm, lately the property of John Anderson, Esq; situated at Freehold, in the county of Monmouth and province of New-Jersey, containing about 450 acres of very good land, and has on it a good large dwelling-house, two stories and a half high, three rooms on each floor, and a good cellar and kitchen, barn and out- houses, two good orchards, about 45 acres of good meadow ground, and plenty of timber land. The said farm is so situated as to meadow ground, orchards, and timber land, that it will suit very well to divide into two farms, and it will be sold in two farms, or one, as may best suit the purchasers.
February 26, I772
James Jauncey, 1 Hugh Wallace, Alex. Watson, Peter Forman Peter Schenck
Assignees.
N. B. If any person inclines to purchase before the day of sale, they may apply to Peter Schenck, in Somer- set, to Peter Forman, in Monmouth county, who will agree on reasonable terms, as to price or payment-The New York Journal; or The General Advertiser, No. 1522, March 5, 1772.
FIVE POUNDS REWARD.
RUN AWAY from the Subscriber, living in Maidenhead township, Hunterdon county, New-Jersey, on the night
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of the 3d March instant, a servant man, named JACOB EDMONDS, born in this country, about twenty-one years of age, a stout well made man, five feet ten inches high, fair complexion, sandy hair, a large nose, grey eyes, a large scar on his right leg very remarkable, lost one of his upper fore teeth. Had on and took with him when he went away, a homespun drugget coat, of a leaden col- our, the folds of which are not lined, with large plain metal buttons; a strip'd homespun waistcoat, with horn buttons; a blue broadcloth lapelled jacket, with mohair buttons; a pair of buckskin, and a pair of fustian breech- es; two shirts, one white with a large patch on the bosom, the other strip'd flannel; three pair of stockings, two pair of yarn, footed with black, and the other pair worsted. Also, another fellow went off in company with the said runaway, who called himself JOHN SMITH: Said Smith stole in said neighbourhood, a surtout coat of a redish col- our, bound with ferriting, a new pair of pumps, a new beaver hat, one pair of yarn stockings of a mixed colour, a buckskin, and some money : Said Smith is a short thick fellow, about five feet four inches high, of a fair complex- ion, light hair, and is a great singer and lover of com- pany. Had on when he went away, an old blue grey coat with leggings over the sleeves of it, a blue camblet upper jacket, and a red under ditto. Whoever takes up and se- cures the said fellows in any of his Majesty's goals, su that his master may have his servant again, and the other brought to justice, shall have the above reward; or Three Pounds for the servant, and reasonable charges paid by
THOMAS STEVENS.
N. B. All masters of vessels, or others, are forbid to harbour or carry them away at their peril .- The Pennsyl- vania Packet, and the General Advertiser, No. 20, March 9, 1772.
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PERTH-AMBOY.
MARCH, 1772. LATELY ERECTED, And as soon as the Season will permit, will be opened, A NEW and CONVENIENT BATH,
In which is a Room properly constructed to undress and dress in, with a Stair-Case leading into the Bathing Room, where Persons, of either Sex may bathe in Salt- Water, in the greatest Privacy; and for those that choose to swim off into deeper Water, a Door is so placed in the Bath, that they can conveniently go out and return.
The Building is near the End of a Wharf opposite to the Bay, at the Mouth of Rariton River: This Bath will be more beneficial, as at about two Miles Distance is a Mineral Water, similar to the German Spaw, which hath proved of the greatest Efficacy in many Disorders, its proper Distance procuring moderate Exercise after bath- ing, has proved in many Instances very assistant to the Medicinal Quality of the Waters; which with great Suc- cess have been directed after bathing in Sea Water. The Qualities of this Spaw have been well examined by sev- eral Physicians of Ability, and frequently recommended by them, particularly by the present Doctor Johnston, as well as his Father .- The New-York Gazette, or The Weekly Post-Boy, No. 1505, March 9, 1772.
One Thousand DOLLARS Reward.
T HE Publick are hereby advertized, that a consider- able Number of New-Jersey Bills of Credit of Three Pounds, dated the 31st December, 1763, which were de- scribed as Counterfeits in the late New-York and Penn- sylvania News-papers, hath been examined by some of the best Judges of that Province, and found to be True
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Bills; and it being with good Reason supposed that many of those described Bills are Part of the Money of which the Eastern Treasury was robbed, and designedly de- faced .- As an Encouragement to any Person who may be possessed of any of them to trace them so as to discover the said Robbery, for which the Government hath already offered a considerable Reward, besides his Majesty's Par- don to any one being an Accomplice, who should discover the same to Conviction : I do hereby offer the additional Sum of One Thousand Dollars, to any Person who, by this or any other Means, will make the said Discovery, so that the Offender or Offenders may be thereof duly con- victed.
STEPHEN SKINNER.
Anthony Van Dam will exchange any Bills that he hath defaced of the above Emission.
New-York, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, Tuesday, March 3, 1772.
Mr. WILLIAM Mc. ADAM'S motion of the 5th November last, being read in the words following.
"Soon after the establishment of this society, I purposed to your "consideration, whether it was for the interest of the community "that Jersey paper money shoul'd pass in this province higher than "it is taken for in the treasury of the province of New-Jersey. The "loss and inconvenience arising to the traders in this city, from the "present practice of passing Jersey money for more than its acknowl- "edged value by their own legislature, will I hope, plead my excuse "for renewing my proposal, that the corporation may enter into an "agreement to fix a time when they will no longer depreciate their "own currency by accepting that of another above par. I therefore "propose that a time be fixed that this corporation do agree to pay "and receive Jersey money at the same rate it is received and paid "in their own treasury."
November 5th, 1771.
WILLIAM Mc. ADAM.
The above proposal being postponed from the meeting in December to that of February, and then to the next
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meeting, it of course came under consideration this day, and it was ultimately determined by the majority, that the members of this corporation will, after the third day of September next ensuing, pay and receive Jersey money at the same rate it is received and paid in their own treas- ury, viz.
A bill of £. 6 proc. for
16 dollars, or £. 6 8 New-York
Currency.
A bill of 3 proc. 8 dollars, or 3 4 Do.
A bill of I
IO 4 dollars, or I I2 Do.
A bill of 15 shillings 2 dollars, or I6 Do.
And in like proportion for bills of a less denomination.
RESOLVED and ORDERED, That the members of this corporation, from and after the third day of Septem- ber next ensuing, shall in all their dealings and commer- cial concerns, when they receive and pay Jersey money, accept and pay the same agreeable to the foregoing reso- lutions; and ordered that a copy of the said resolves be published in the news papers of this city.
ANTHONY VAN DAM, Secry.
To be sold at publick vendue on the premises the first day of May next ensuing.
A New convenient dwelling-house and home lot, pleas- antly situated in the town of Newark, county Essex, East New Jersey, in the middle of said town, lying very near the public post road from Newark to Philadelphia. The house is very convenient, having four rooms upon a floor with each a good fire place, a large entry through the middle, a good cellar under the whole, and a con- venient kitchen adjoining newly built, with a good well near the door. Also four acres of good mowing land, part orchard, and well water'd, very convenient for pasture and well fenced; a large barn, and other conveniences on the premises, all in good repair. Any person inclining to
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purchase the said place before the day of sale, may apply to Mr. Joseph Baldwin, or Caleb Bruen, near the prem- ises, or to Elias Baldwin, at Princetown, who will agree on reasonable terms, and give an indisputable title for the premises.
ELIAS BALDWIN. -The New York Gazette; and the Weekly Mercury, No. 1063, March 9, 1772.
EIGHT DOLLARS Reward
RUN away from Change Water Forge, in Sussex county, West New Jersey, a certain DANIEL M'SHANE, about 5 feet 10 inches high, of a blackish complexion; he has a black beard, is fond of strong liquor, very quarrel- some when drunk; he stole from said works a bay Mare, about 141/2 hands high, a small star in her forehead, goes very easy, paces, trots and hand-gallops; he has taken, with him, as is supposed, a CERTAIN WOMAN named ANN GRAZIOUS, who has lived with him as his wife. Any per- son or persons that takes up the said Daniel M'Shane, and brings him to me the subscriber, shall be paid the above reward, and reasonable charges, by
JACOB STARN, January 20, 1772 -The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2255, March 12, 1772.
All persons that have any demands against the estate of Darby Durell, late of the township of Chester, in the county of Burlington, deceased, are desired to meet at his late dwelling-house, near the mouth of Rancocus creek, in the township aforesaid, on the 25th day of this instant March, with their accounts, properly proved, in order to receive their dividend of said estate, from
JOSEPH HACKNEY, Administrator.
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An old Wood Flat, belonging to said estate, will be ex- posed on public sale, the same day, by said Joseph Hack- ney.
Newtown, Gloucestor County, Dec. 20, 1771.
Stolen or went adrift, from the Landing of the sub- scriber, in Newtown township, in the county aforesaid near the mouth of Cooper's creek, on Delaware river, in the night of the 19th instant, a BATTOE, marked I. K., on the inside of the stern, cut out with a knife, had chain fixed to the floor, about 14 feet in length, with a piece of pig-iron for an anchor, fastened to the other end of said chain, and strapped thereto with iron straps; there was in said battoe, a pair of sculls, a spreet, and a rudder and til- ler; the battoe is paid inside and out, with a coat of tar and Spanish brown. Any person who will bring the said battoe to the subscriber, or to the Widow Austin's Ferry, at Philadelphia, so that the subscriber may get her again, shall receive One Dollar reward, besides reasonable char- ges, from
JONATHAN KNIGHT -Supplement to The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2255, March 12, 1772.
To BE SOLD
A Tract of 800 acres of land, formerly known by the name of Gerrard's mill, well-timbered, with a good saw- mill on the same, on an excellent stream of water, 5 miles from said mill, to a good landing on Mantua-creek, situ- ate in Greenwich township, Gloucester county, and prov- ince of West New-Jersey; being bounded by lands of Hannah Ladd, Michael Fisher, junior, deceased, and oth- ers. For terms of sale, and particulars, apply to DANIEL COZENS, in Gloucester county, or JOSEPH SHINN, in Sa- lem county .- The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2255, March 12, 1772.
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March 12.
Lately manufactured by JOHN LANE, at Trenton, and to be sold by JOHN PEMBERTON,
A large quantity of STEEL, | Either in the blister or neatly fagotted; | Good in quality, being made of the most approved iron. |
MERCHANTS and shop-keepers in town or country may be supplied on reasonable terms by the quantity, and if any bar thereof should not prove on trial, equal to expec- tation, if sent back, will be received and the money re- turned : It has been tried by many, and approved of, and its credit increases. Part of this Steel is drawn into small flat bars for springs to carriages, also for mill and cross- cut saws, and if required may be drawn for Scythes and sickles.
Also for sale, neat iron kettles, chambers for pumps, cart, wagon and chaise boxes, iron mortars and pestles .- The Pennsylvania Journal; and The General Advertiser, No. 1527, March 12, 1772.
To be sold, by the Subscribers,
THE Farm or Plantation lately belonging to the estate of Mr. Andrew Van Horn, deceased, in Piscataway, in the county of Middlesex, containing about one hundred and twenty acres of upland and meadow, whereon is a good and convenient dwelling-house, a stable, and out- houses, a good orchard, and garden, pleasantly situated on the north side of Rariton-River, about two miles below New-Brunswick; very suitable for a store, it having a good landing place, and a good wharf .- Its pleasant situ- ation, proper distance from New Brunswick, and the rear of the land bounding on the post road, renders it a conve- nient retreat, for a gentleman of fortune, retiring from business .- For further particulars, inquire of Courtland Skinner, Esq; or Philip Kearney, jun. in Perth-Amboy .-
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The New York Journal; or The General Advertiser, No. 1523, March 12, 1772.
City of New Brunswick - and County of Middlesex
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PURSUANT to an Order of the Mayor's Court of Com- mon Pleas, in and for the City of New-Brunswick afore- said, We the Subscribers Auditors appointed by the said Court, to audit and adjust the Demands of the several Creditors of John Croushorn, an absconding Debtor; do give this public Notice to all the Creditors aforesaid, that they be, and appear at the Dwelling House of Mr. Will- iam Van Deursen, in the said City, then and there to bring in there several Accounts, on or before Monday the twen- tieth Day of April next, that we may be thereby enabled to report the same to the said Court.
New Brunswick
March 3, 1772
WILLIAM VAN DEURSEN. MATTHEW SLECHT. JOHN LYLE, jun.
TAKEN up, and committed to the Gaol of the City of Perth-Amboy, in New-Jersey, a certain Servant Man, who calls himself by the Name of THOMAS HARRIS. He is a short Man, says he has been upward of two Years in the Country, is an Englishman, and owns himself to be Ser- vant to one Hendrick Viniger, at the Oblong, near Pough- keepsie, in the Province of New-York; and that he left his Master about six Months ago; says he is a Nail- Maker by Trade, and is about 19 Years of Age :- His Master (whoever he is) is desired to come and pay Char- ges, and take him away.
Woodbridge, March 5, 1772
AT ELIZABETH-TOWN, NEW JERSEY,
By Virtue of a Writ of Fieri Facias to me directed, at the Suit of John Reid, against the Goods and Chattels,
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Lands and Tenements, which were of Samuel Woodruff, Esq; late deceased, at the Time of his Death I have taken and seized, the Dwelling-House and Lot of Land, where- in the said Samuel lived, also all that Lot of Land and Store House, adjoining thereunto, all which, I shall ex- pose to Sale by Way of Public Vendue, at the Premises, on Tuesday the. 28th Day of April next, between the Hours of twelve and five in the Afternoon of the same Day .- The above Dwelling-House is two Stories high, with four large Rooms, and a twelve Foot Entry, on a Floor, all genteely finished, and a Cellar under the Whole. There are also two large wings, two Stories high, and well finished .- On the Premises are a Barn, Stable, Coach House, Cow House, and a Garden, containing about two Acres of Land, with a very fine Assortment of Fruit Trees, and an Asparagus Bed of near a Quarter of an Acre. MATTHIAS WILLIAMSON, Sheriff.
February 26, 1772
There will be exposed to Sale, at the same Time, by the Subscribers
A LARGE HOUSE and Lot in ELIZABETH-TOWN, near Robert Ogden's Esq; in which Joseph Woodruff, jun. de- ceased, lately lived .- Also a Lot of Land near the same, lying on Elizabeth River, containing about one Acre, on which are two small Tenements, and a very convenient Dock .- Also, a Lot of Salt Meadow, lying in the Eliza- beth-Town great Meadows, near the Upland, containing about four Acres. The Terms of Sale will be made known at the Day and Place aforesaid, by
WILLIAM P. SMITH ISAAC WOODRUFF ELIAS BOUDINOT
-The New-York Gazette, or The Weekly Post-Boy,
No. 1509, March 16, 1772.
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New-Jersey.
To the PRINTER.
B Y the Constitution of this Province, and also by a Law passed in the Ist of Geo. 2, it appears that the Representatives in the two respective Divisions of East and West-Jersey, ought to be equal in Number. It was for this Reason the choosing of two Members to represent the Town of Salem, in West-Jersey, as had been usual before that Time, was suspended by that Law, until an equal Number could be provided in the Eastern Division as a Counter-ballance. The Reasons that then existed to induce Government to keep up said Equality in each Di- vision, still exists, and ought undoubtedly to exist until a Seat of Government can be so fixed on, as perhaps after- wards might render the keeping up said Equality any longer unnecessary, but not otherwise; and as now the three Counties of Morris, Cumberland, and Sussex, have Liberty to choose each two Members, to sit and vote in the next, and all succeeding Assemblies, this of Course does not only throw a Majority in West-Jersey, of six- teen against fourteen, in the other, but also immediately destroys that Equality of Number or Representation. This Matter therefore seems to claim the immediate and particular Attention of the ensuing General Assembly, in order to guard against the Consequences of this Innova- tion.
A. B.
T: o be let, on or before the first day of May next, for 8 or 10 years, or any shorter time, the noted tavern at the great falls of the Passaick-river, pleasantly situated, with seven fine rooms and kitchen, a good cellar, large barn, and stables; six acres good land, a garden and or- chard of 150 bearing apple-trees all in good fence. The situation and romantick appearance of the fall, is so re-
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markable as to attract the attention of travellers from all parts, and numbers of gentlemen from New York, Phila- delphia, and several parts of the country resort there every summer, which makes it a profitable place for any person calculated for a tavern-keeper: It is well watered with a remarkable good spring. The proprietor intending to leave off that business. Any person inclining to rent the same, will hear of advantageous terms, by applying to Mr. Joseph Baldwin, at the lower end of Batteaux street, New-York.
NEW-YORK, March 23
The Sloop Nancy, Capt. Straghan, from this Port, for Newport Prat, in Ireland, was on the Night of the IIth Instant, in a violent Gale of Wind, drove on the Point of Sandy-Hook, and received so much Damage, that she is now unloading; but 'tis hoped she will proceed on her respective Voyage in a few Days .- The New York Ga- sette; and the Weekly Mercury, No. 1065, March 16, I772.
FOUR DOLLARS Reward
RUN AWAY from the subscriber, living in Manington, in Salem county, the 9th of March, 1772, an apprentice lad, named JOHN GREEN, about 20 or 21 years of age, about 5 feet 3 inches high, brownish hair, by trade a Tan- ner; stole, and took with him, a beaver hat, half worn snuff-coloured cloth coat and jacket, dove coloured velvet breeches, half-worn fine shirt; pale blue ribbed worsted stockings, a pair of coarse yarn ditto, old shoes, with round steel buckles, a raprascal or surtout coat, made of brown mixed beaver coating with black mohair buttons, and a considerable sum in cash. It is thought he will change his name to SAMUEL AUSTIN, as he stole the cloaths from him, and they will nearly fit him. Any per-
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son that will secure him in Philadelphia, Gloucester or Salem goal, so that his master may get him again, and the cloaths, shall have the above reward, paid by
CHARLES ELLET.
WHEREAS, DANIEL WHEATON, an insolvent debtor, now confined in the common goal of Salem county, pre- sented a petition to the Judges and Justices of the said county, at the last Inferior Court of Common Pleas, held in and for the said county, craving the benefit of the act of the General Assembly of the province of New-Jersey, in- tituled, "an Act for the relief of insolvent debtors:" This is therefore to give notice to the creditors of the said Dan- iel Wheaton, to shew cause (if any they have) on the 9th day of April next, at a meeting to be then had, at the house of Joseph Burroughs, Esq; in the town of Salem, why an assignment of the said debtor's estate should not be made, and the debtor discharged.
DANIEL WHEATON.
-The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2256, March 19, I772.
Messrs. BRADFORDS.
GENTLEMEN,
THE Pamphlet intitled An Address of the Clergy of New-York, &c. having been circulated through this prov- ince, and as many people who have read the Address would chuse to see the following, your inserting it in your paper, will greatly oblige a number of your readers, as well as
Yours, &c. Z.
WILLIAMSBURG, in Virginia, February 23.
A LETTER from a gentleman in the country to his friend in the city, occasioned by an ADDRESS from the CLERGY of
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New-York and New Jersey, to the EPISCOPALIANS of Virginia.
SIR,
THE controversy relative to American Episcopates has been agitated, in our public papers, with so much acri- mony and personal abuse, that I am not surprized you should be disgusted with it. But yet, I hope, you will in- dulge me in a short examination of that important subject; especially as I am led into it, by a desire to vindicate the late House of Burgesses from the severe charge of par- tiality, and precipitancy, of influence, and degeneracy, with which they stand accused by the Reverend Clergy of Newe- York and New-Jersey, in their late address to the Episco- palians of Virginia. . 1
[signed] AMICUS ECCLESIE.
-The Pennsylvania Journal; and the General Ad- vertiser, No. 1528, March 19, 1772.
PHILADELPHIA, March 30. Extract of an Act for the Support of the Government of this Province, making the Excise on Wine, Rum, Brandy, and other Spirits, more equal, and preventing Frauds in the Collecting and Paying the said Excise.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all and every Seller by Wholesale, or Retailer, of all or any of the liquors aforesaid, who shall purchase the same in the province of New-Jersey or Maryland, or in the Three Lower Counties on Delaware, or in any place in the river or bay of Delaware, shall also, from and after the said tenth day of April next, ensuing the publication of this Act, before he or they shall take into his or their houses, shops, cellars, vaults or stores, or divide or sell, barter or consume any quantity thereof, make true entry of all and every cask and vessel in which such liquors are
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contained. with the marks numbers and contents thereof, and of the name or names of the person or persons of whom purchased, with the Collector of the county, or his Deputy, where such liquors are bought or intended to be bartered, sold, divided or consumed, or with a Justice of the Peace living next to such purchasers, under the same penalty as if such liquors had been bought within this province, and not entered as this Act directs; true copies of which said entries the said Justice shall, once in every three months, transmit or deliver to the said Collector, or his Deputy; for each of which entries the said Justice or Collector, or his Deputy, shall have and receive Sixpence; and the said Justice for such copies, Sixpence, and no more.
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