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RICHARD JOHNSON, Goaler. -The Pennsylvania Packet, and the General Ad-
vertiser, No. 27, April 27, 1772. -
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
RUN AWAY from the subscriber the 21st inst. living in Salem county, Mannington township, two servant lads, one named HENRY SHARP, about 19 years of age, five feet seven or eight inches high, has straight light coloured hair, and round shouldered. Had on when he went away an old hat, a light coloured cloth homespun jacket, half worn, with sleeves, a flannel under jacket, an old shirt, a pair of buckskin breeches, black stockings, old shoes with two sorts of brass buckles in them: He talks Dutch and English .- The other, JAMES M'INTOSH, about 20 years
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of age, five feet six or seven inches high, straight light coloured hair, and fair complexion. Had on when he went away, a felt hat, a light coloured cloth jacket with sleeves, and an under jacket of tweelled blanketing, a home-made shirt, tow trowsers, and half worn shoes. Whoever takes up and secures said servants, so that their master may have them again, shall have the above reward, or six dollars for Henry Sharp; and twenty shillings for James M'Intosh, if taken in the county, if out of the county four dollars, with reasonable charges paid by
MICHAEL JORDAN.
-The Pennsylvania Packet, and the General Adver- tiser, No. 27, April 27, 1772.
New-York, April 27. From Rocky-Hill, in the Prov- ince of New-Jersey, we have an Account of the Death of John Berrien,1 Esq; Third Judge of the Supreme Court for said Province .- The New-York Gazette, or The Weekly Post-Boy, No. 1515, April 27, 1772.
P ursuant to an order of the inferior court of common pleas, of the county of Essex, Notice is hereby given to the creditors of Thomas Vander Pool, Cornelius Stib- bens, John Havens, and John Jenkens, four insolvent debtors, that have severally filed their schedules, and complied with the directions of a late act of the governor, council, and general assembly of New-Jersey, entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors." That the said creditors be and appear at the court-house in New- ark, in said county, on the 20th day of May next, at two o'clock in the afternoon, before Daniel Pierson, and Joseph Riggs, Esqrs, two of the judges of the said court, to shew cause, if any they have, why the said Thomas Vander Pool, Cornelius Stibbens, John Havens, and
1For some account of the Berrien family, see N. J. Archives, XXVI., 208.
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John Jinkens, should not be discharged, agreeable to the directions of the said act. Dated April 18, 1772.
To be sold at public vendue, on Tuesday, the nineteenth day of May next, on the premises;
A Farm containing 400 acres of land, situate in the township of Mendem, Morris county, seven miles distant from the court-house; on said farm is a dwelling- house, a good new barn, an orchard of 350 good bearing apple trees, all grafted with choice fruit, and a young peach orchard, with many other choice fruit trees. The land good for grass and grain, about one hundred of which is plow land, cleared and in good fence; about 90 acres of meadow, producing timothy and English grass, very good; and about 40 acres of meadow more to clear, extraordinary good. Said place is well watered and tim- bered, and has a convenient stream running through it sufficient for a grist-mill or any kind of water works whatever. Its situation is convenient for merchant or tavern-keeper, lying where four public roads meet, and lying about three miles from the Presbyterian meeting- house, within a mile of a quaker meeting-house. The said vendue to begin at twelve o'clock on said day, when the conditions will be made known, and attendence given, by
NATHANIEL MITCHELL.
T HE Members of, The NEW-JERSEY Medical Society, are desired to attend their general Meeting, which is to be held at Brook Farmer's, in New-Brunswick, on the 12th Day of May.
PHILADELPHIA, May 4. SALEM, in New-Jersey, May 2, 1772. At a Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery held here last Week, Mr. Talbert (who was
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confined in Gaol on Suspicion of murdering his Wife, as mentioned in the Papers last February) was honourably acquitted, there being no Bill fonud against him.1
GLOUCESTER, in New-Jersey, May 3, 1772 . This Day a Negro Man was found drowned; his Master is not known. He had a Silver Watch in his Pocket .- The Pennsylvania Chronicle, and Universal Advertiser, No. 277, April 27-May 4, 1772.
To the PRINTERS of the PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE,
By inserting the following Observations, on the Piece signed A. B. in your Paper, No. 2256,2 you will oblige a Customer. C. D.
What A. B. says of the Constitution of New-Jersey, requiring an equal Number of Representatives in each Division, may possibly be so, and he might have added, that the same Constitution as much requires an equal Number of the Governor's Council for each Division, which is so little observed, that of twelve Counsellors, there have been but four in the Western Division, for many Years past. However, the Reasons that occasioned this Regulation to be judged necessary at that time, is not our present Concern, but to enquire, whether there can any real Disadvantage arise from its being otherwise. He tells us, that by choosing two more Members on the Western Side of the Line, than on the Eastern, the equal- ity of Representation is immediately destroyed, and ap- pears very apprehensive of the Consequences; had he informed us what those mighty Consequences that "claims the immediate and particular Attention of the ensuing Assembly, to provide for and guard against," were, we could then have judged of their Importance, but not hav- ing done this, and my Discernment being unable to dis-
1See ante, pp. 51, 59.
2See p. 85, ante.
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cover any, likely in the least to affect the Public, must take the Liberty to believe them wholly imaginary, and in this, I presume, am one in Sentiment with the several Branches of the Legislature, who passed the Law that occasions this Outcry, for we cannot suppose them igno- rant of the Constitution, or so unmindful of their duty, as not well to consider, if this Measure could have any bad Effects. But was I to hazard a Guess at the true Motive, should suppose A. B. to be an Inhabitant of one of those Boroughs, who, at that Time, were very impor- tunate to have Members, and hopes the ensuing Assem- bly will be more propitious to their Wishes.
As the Division Line relates only to private Property, and since the Surrender, a Distinction unknown in Legis- lation, and which no Tax, Burthen, Imposition, or execu- tive Act of Government, is concerned with, wherein, or how can a Balance of Power operate ?- When there is no separate Interest to pursue, a Balance of Power is a Non-entity : But did any thing of that Nature really exist, A. B. must know the Situation of Sussex is such, as confines their Trade and Connections to East-Jersey, and consequently, their Weight and Influence will rest in that Scale, that in fact, East-Jersey is possessed of a Majority in both Houses : This plainly shews, something else is aim'd at, than this chimerical Equilibrium; never- theless, if the Gentleman can persuade our Legislature to form a new County, and give them Members, I have no Objection, but if under this specious Pretence, he is endeavouring to introduce Borough Members (thereby to effect a Balance of a very different Nature) I hope every honest Man in the Government, will give the Scheme Opposition. The venal Purposes, those Mem- bers are made to answer in our Mother Country, and fatal Effects they are likely, there, one Day, to produce, is so well known, that a Detail would be superfluous.
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Lord Chatham, in one of his Speeches, in Parliament, calls the Right of electing them, "a rotten Part of the Constitution." I should therefore think our Assembly extremely wanting in Foresight, to suffer that unsound Part to be joined with ours, where the Fewness of the Electors, puts it in the Power of a - - - Prime Minister, or designing Man, to procure the Election of whom they please, to serve a Turn, or promote private Views; this can rarely be effected where there are several hundred Voters, scattered over a whole Country; therefore, while we consider a free Representation so inestimable a Bless- ing, I hope our Representatives will keep the strictest Guard over this Palladium, and thereby defeat every Artifice to wrest it out of our Hands, or sap its Founda- tion.
PHILADELPHIA. On Saturday Morning, between Eight and Nine o'clock, two small Shocks of an Earthquake were felt by many People in this City and Places adja- cent. And a Gentleman at Cohansie, in New-Jersey, writes, the Shocks were so sensibly felt there, that Dishes, &c. in Cupboards, rattled one against another, and some were shook off the Shelves.
EIGHT DOLLARS Reward.
Run away from the subscriber, living in the township of Greenwich, Gloucester county, and province of West New-Jersey, on Monday, the 20th day of April, at night, an indented servant man, named WILLIAM BUTLER, but very likely he may change his name, and forge a pass, as he is an artful grand rogue, and can write a middling good hand, says he was born in New York government, and served his time there, a Taylor by trade, a slim, thin vis- age, about 5 feet 9 or Io inches high, wore his own dark hair, tied behind, and long locks over his ears, and turned
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up before, but very likely he may have cut it off ; he has several blue specks under his left eye, which he says was marked with powder, has a large bottle nose; had on, when he went away, a reddish brown coat, very much pieced in the side seams, and on the shoulders, and the lining patched in the fore skirts with new shaloon, darker than the old lining, a fine beaver hat, a good deal wore, an old pair of dirty leather breeches, pale blue woollen stock- 'ings, footed with yarn paler than the legs, old shoes, tied with strings, a coarse ozenbrigs shirt, very much worn about the wristbands; stole and took with him, a lightish coloured coat, about half made, one striped Bengal jacket, only cut out, one halfshicks jacket, new made up, but too small for him, lined with red, with metal buttons, one superfine scarlet jacket, very much worn, but has been turned. Whoever secures said servant in any of his Maj- esty's goals so that his master may get him again, shall have the above reward, and if brought home TEN DOL- LARS paid by me
THOMAS HEWITT.
N. B. All masters of vessels, or others, are forbid to harbour or carry off said servant, at their peril.
-The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2262, April 30, 1772.
Filature at Philadelphia, April 30, 1772.
THE Managers of the Contributions for the CULTURE of SILK have the pleasure to inform the public, that they have now the prospect of being able to carry on this laud- able undertaking to the greatest advantage. The accounts they have received from England, concerning the Silk of last year transmitted thither, are very encouraging, and they expect by the first ship a more full and particular account, both of the quality of the Silk and the prices it will bring. The honorable House of Assembly of New-
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Jersey having had the proceedings of the Managers for last year laid before them, have been pleased to give the same a place in their Minutes; and to express their opin- ion, that "the culture of Silk is a matter of great conse- "quence to the interest of that colony."-And it is not doubted but they will fall on some method of encouraging the same; in which the Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania have set a laudable example by the follow- ing Vote, viz.
"Resolved, That a certificate for the sum of One Thou- "sand Pounds, payable to the Managers of the Contribu- "tions for promoting the Culture of Silk in this Province, "be signed by the Speaker, as soon as they shall make it "appear to the Governor and the Speaker of Assembly "for the time being, that they have procured subscrip- "tions to the amount of One Thousand Pounds, for the "said purpose."
RAN away from the subscriber, living in the corpora- tion of Burlington, on the 26th of this inst. April at night, an Irish servant man, named Alexander Coails, but perhaps he may change his name, and may forge a pass, as he can write very well. He looks to be 5 feet 5 inches high, is a pale faced thin man, and squints with one of his eyes, but not certain which, a blemish in his eye quite perceiveable, he has strait black hair, which has been lately cut on the top of his head. Had on or took with him when he went away, a light grey bearskin great coat, which was too short for him, a pale blue jacket without sleeves, and an under cross bar ditto of cotton and silk, a lapell'd linen jacket, and a pair of blue trow- sers patched on the knees : he also took with him, two new oznabrigs shirts. Whoever takes up said servant, and delivers him to Ephraim Philips, gaoler, in Burlington, or secures him in any of his Majesty's gaols, so that his
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master may have him again, shall receive Eight Dollars reward, paid by Ephraim Philips, or
JOHN MARNS.
Burlington, April 27, 1772.
-The Pennsylvania Journal; and The Weekly Ad- vertiser, No. 1534, April 30, 1772.
NEW-YORK, April 30. Custom-House, New-York, Inward Entries. J. Stout, Perth Amboy.
THE respectable Public is hereby informed that, agree- able to a former Advertisement, a Seminary of Learning was opened at New-Brunswick, last November, by the Name of Queen's College, and also a Grammar School, in order to prepare Youth for the same .- Any Parents or Guardians who may be inclined to send their Children to this Institution, may depend upon having them in- structed with the greatest Care and Diligence in all the Arts and Sciences usually taught in public Schools; the strictest Regard will be paid to their moral Conduct, and (in a word) to every Thing which may tend to render them a Pleasure to their Friends, and an Ornament to their Species.
Also to obviate the Objection of some to sending their Children on account of their small Proficiency in English, a proper Person has been provided, who attends at the Grammar School an Hour a Day, and teaches Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic with becoming Accuracy .- It is hoped that the above Considerations, together with the healthy and convenient Situation of the Place, on a Pleas- ant and navigable River, in the midst of a plentiful Coun- try; the Reasonableness of the Inhabitants in the Price of Board, and the easy Access from all Places, either by Land or Water will be esteemed by the considerate Public, as a sufficient Reccommendation of this infant College,
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which (as it is erected upon so Catholic a Plan) will un- doubtedly prove advantageous to our new American World, by assisting its Sister Seminaries to cultivate Piety, Learning, and Liberty. Per Order of the Trustees, Frederick Frelinghuysen, Tutor
N. B. The vacation of the College will be expired on Wednesday the 6th of May, any Students then offering themselves, shall be admitted into such Class, as (upon Examination) they shall be found capable of entering.
Pursuant to an Order of the inferior Court of Common Pleas, of the County of Somerset; Notice is hereby given, to the Creditors of Andrew Smalley, an insolvent Debtor, that he hath filed his Schedule and complied with the Directions of a late Act of the Governor, Council, and General Assembly of New Jersey, entitled, an Act for the Relief of insolvent Debtors, that the said Creditors be and appear at Princeton, in said County, at the House of Mr. William Hicks, on the 29th Day of May next, at eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon of said Day, before Robert Stock- ton and-Cochran, Esqrs. two of the Judges of the said Court, or before any other of the Judges of the said Court, to shew Cause, if any they have, why said Andrew Smalley should not be discharged, agreeable to the Direc- tions of the said Act. Dated the 22d Day of April, 1772.
February 19, 1772.
Personally appeared before me David Alston, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Mid- dlesex, Reuben Fitz Randolph, being of full Age, and was duly affirmed, that in the Trial depending between William Stone, or his Daughter, and William Smith, Son of James Smith, so called, that the said William Smith came to the said Randolph, asked him if he ever had to do with the said Girl? (meaning as the said Randolph thought, to have
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carnal Knowledge of the Body of the said Elizabeth Stone, Daughter to said William Stone) the said Randolph answered said Smith, no; and said he never had any Thing to do with her in that Shape, nor never was an Hour in her Company in private to his Knowledge; with that the said Smith replies to the said Randolph, whether or no the said Randolph heard any Body say, that they had any Thing to do with the said Elizabeth Stone, in Manner above mentioned ? Furthermore in particular, said Smith asked said Randolph, whether or no he ever heard his Brother Isaac, or Stephen Carman say, that both or either of them had to do with the said Elizabeth Stone, Daughter to William Stone, in the Man- ner aforesaid? And said Randolph replied, no, he never did; then said Smith said to the said Randolph, if you will swear, or fetch any Man that will swear, that they ever had to do with the said Elizabeth Stone, Daughter to William Stone, that the said Smith would give the said Randolph one of the best Cows in his Yard.
REUBEN FITZ. RANDOLPH.
Taken and affirmed before me the Day and Year above,
David Alston, Justice.
-The New York Journal; or The General Adver- tiser, No. 1530, April 30, 1772.
PHILADELPHIA, May 4. Yesterday a negro man was found drowned at Gloucester, but it is unknown to whom he belonged : He had a silver watch in his pocket.
At a Court of Oyer and Terminer, and General Goal Delivery, held at Salem, last week, Mr. Talbert of Quin- tent's Bridge, was honourably acquitted of the suspicion of murdering his wife, there being no bill found against him.
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Capt. Gorham, from Boston, about 16 leagues off our Capes, discovered a dead whale floating on the water, which he took up and brought to this place-The Pennsyl- vania Packet, and the General Advertiser, No. 28, May 4, 1772.
P ursuant to an Order of the Inferior Court of Com- mon Pleas, of the County of Somerset, in the Prov- ince of New Jersey : Notice is hereby given to the Credi- tors of Abrraham Covenhoven, jun. Abraham Suthard, jun. and Frederick Van Fleet, jun. three Insolvent Debt- ors, that having severally filed their Schedules, and com- plied with 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," that the said Creditors be and appear at the Court-House, at Millstone, in said County, on Friday the 5th Day of June next, at twelve o'Clock of said Day, be- fore Philip Van Horn, Peter Schenk, Walter Livingston, and John Roy, Esqrs, or any two of them, Judges of the said Court, to shew Cause if any they have, why the said Abraham Covenhoven, jun. Abraham Suthard, jun. and Frederick Vanfleet, jun. should not be discharged, agree- able to the Directions of the said Act.
T HE vendue of the real estate of the late 100 Joseph Woodruff, Jun. of Elizabeth- Town, came on the 28th ult. when the several houses and lots, which are amongst the best and most conveniently situated in the place, where put up to sale, but very few bidders appearing, the vendue was ad- journed until To-morrow the 5th day of May, when those fine houses and lots will be peremptorily sold to the highest bidder, without farther adjournment. All gen- tlemen who incline either to double their money, or desire
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to become proprietors of pleasant country seats, will give their attendance at 2 o'clock afternoon.
N OTICE is hereby given, that the vendue held this day by the high sheriff of Somerset county in New- Jersey, for the sale of goods and chattels, lands and tene- ments, of Thomas Aten, stands adjourned the second time, for want of buyers, to the 15th day of May next, in the afternoon, when the premises will be sold at all events. The lands lay in two parcels, the one is a tract of one hun- dred and thirty acres of good land, having a good dwell- ing-house, barn and a saw-mill on the same, also a fine orchard and plenty of meadow ground, with considerable of timber land; the whole well watered. The other is a lot of fifty five acres, near half clear land, and the remain- ing part well timbered. If any person inclines to purchase the land at private sale, may apply to the subscribers, who will agree on reasonable terms. THOMAS ATEN, April 23d, 1772. CORNELIUS SEBRING.
To be sold at publick vendue on Tuesday the 7th day of July next, on the premises, or any time before at private sale,
T wo plantations formerly the property of Johannes Schenk, situate, lying and being in the township of Reading, in the county of Hunterdon and province of New-Jersey, within half a mile of Mr. Marston's mills; the one farm contains 232 acres of good land, with a good new dwelling-house and barn thereon, as also a fine large orchard. The other farm contains 200 acres of good land, with an old house and barn on it, and a large orchard; the said farms are so situated that they will answer very well for one farm. They will be sold sep- arate or both together, as it may suit the purchasers best. Whoever inclines to purchase the whole, or any part, may
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apply to Peter Schenck, at Millstone, in Somerset county, New-Jersey; or to James Jauncey, Gerardus Wm. Beek- man, or Isaac Low, in New-York, who will agree on rea- sonable terms.
W HEREAS Mary, the Wife of Edward Wilkison, of Woodbridge, in New Jersey, hath removed to dwell in the Family of her Father William Flat, of the same Place, and refuses to return to dwell with her said Husband : These are therefore to forbid all and every Person or Persons whatsoever, to trust her on his Account for any Article or Thing of what Nature or Kind what- ever, as he will not pay any Debt or Debts of her con- tracting. As Witness his Hand this 20th Day of April, I772.
EDWARD WILKISON.
-The New York Gazette; and the Weekly Mercury, No. 1071, May 4, 1772.
POWLES-HOOK RACES.
T o be run for round the New Course at Powles-Hook, on Tuesday the 9th Day of June next, a Purse of £.90, free for any Horse, Mare or Gelding, carrying Weight for Age and Blood. The best of three four Mile Heats.
Stone. 1b.
Stone. 1b.
4 years old 1/2 Blood, 6 IO
5 years old 12 Blood, 7 7
Three Quarters Do.
7
3
Three Quarters Do. 8 O
Full Do. 7
IO
Full Do. 8 7
6 years old 12 Blood, 8
3
Aged Half Blood, 8 12
Three Quarters Do.
8
IO
Three Quarters Do. 9 5
Full
Do. 9
3
Full
Do 9 I2
On Wednesday the tenth, a Purse of £ . 50, ( full Bloods excepted) the best of three [three]. Mile Heats; Weights as follows.
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Stone. 1b.
Stone. 1b.
4 years old 12 Blood, 7
6 5 years old 14 Blood, 8 4.
Three Quarters Do. 7 I3
J Three Quarters Do. 8 II
6 years old half Blood, 9 Aged half Blood, 9 J2
Three Quarters Do. 9 Three Quarters Do. IO 5
On Thursday the eleventh, a Purse of £ .25, free only for three and four Years old, under full Blood, The best of three two Mile Heats.
Stone. 1b.
Stone. 1b.
3 years old 1/2 Blood, 6 62. 4 years old 12 Blood, 7 6
Three Quarters Do. 6 12 Three Quarters Do. 7 12
Not less than three Horses to run for any of the above Purses; and Certificates to be produced from the Breeders, or such as the Judges will approve of. All Horses, &c. to be shewn and entered the Monday before running, at the Stand, paying Entrance for the first Day £.5, Second Day £ .2 10, third Day I 10, 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 'til good. No Owners of Horses to start more than one Horse for any of the above Purses, or to be concerned in any Confeder- acy .- Supplement to The New York Gazette, and The Weekly Mercury, No. 1071, May 4, 1772.
PHILADELPHIA, May II. The following TOASTS were drank at Mr. BYRN's on the first Instant, by the Sons of King TAMANY
13. His Excellency Governor FRANKLIN, and Pros- perity to the Province of New-Jersey .- The Pennsylvania Chronicle, and Universal Advertiser, No. 278, May 4-1I, 1772.
THREE POUNDS Reward.
STOLEN from the subscriber, living in the County of
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Middlesex, and in the Corporation of New -- Brunswick, a large brown Horse, about 15 hands high, trots and paces, his mane hanging all on the left side, with a small star on his forehead, a long tail, and is a flat sided horse, 7 years old. Whoever takes up the said horse and thief, and se- cures the thief in any goal, so that the owner may get his horse, and have the thief brought to justice, shall receive the above reward, or Four Dollars for the horse only, and all reasonable charges, paid by
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