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To be sold by the subscriber,
A Plantation, containing 200 acres of land, part meadow; with a very commodious dwelling house, kitchen, shop, and store-house, stable, garden, and a fine young orchard ; 'tis very convenient for keeping of shop, there having been one kept there many years ; it is commodiously situated on Oldman's creek in Penn's neck, in the county of Salem, W. New Jersey : 'Tis well watered with springs, and well timbered. Any person inclining to purchase,
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may agree with the subscriber, living on the said ¡ remisses, upon reasonable terms
BENJAMIN BISPHAM. -The Pennsylvania Gazette, Dec. 16, 1746.
New-York, January 12. Last Week a small Sloop from Shrewsbury,-Price Master, bound hither, was caught in the Ice, drove ashore on Coney-Island, where she was stove to Pieces, and all her Cargo lost. The Men with much Difficulty got ashore .- The New York Weekly Post Boy, Fan. 12, 1747.
WHEREAS a Charter with full and ample Privileges, has been granted by his Majesty, under the Seal of the Province of New-Jersey, bearing Date the 22d October, 1746, for erecting a College within the said Province, to Jonathan Dickinson, John Pierson, Ebenezer Pem- berton, and Aaron Burr, Ministers of the Gospel, and some other Gentlemen, as Trustees of the said College ; by which Charter equal Liberties and Privileges are secured to every Denomination of Christians, any diff- erent religious Sentiments notwithstanding.
The said Trustees have therefore thought proper to inform the Public, that they design to open the said College the next Spring ; and to notify to any Person or Persons who are qualified by preparatory Learning for Admission, that some time in May next at latest, they may be there admitted to an Academic Education. -The New York Gazette Revived in the Weekly Post Boy, Feb. 2, 1747.
New-Brunswick, Jan. 24, 1746 [7.] Mr. Parker
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of the Soldiers who went from this Province of New- Jersey, on the present Expedition against Canada, whereof the following is a Copy, which my late good Opinion of our present Assembly and Commissioners prevented me crediting, 'till being informed of the Truth of the Facts therein by some of our Officers, who are now come from the Army into this Province, to procure Fire Arms in the Room of the defective Ones mentioned in said Letter ; and as the Behaviour of the Gentle- men hinted at in said Letter affects this Province in general, your giving the same a Place in the Post-Boy will oblige many of your Readers, and in Particular, your most humble Servant,
P-M-r. From 4 Miles above. Albany, Nov. 15, 1746. Dear Sir,
I Believe you are desirous of hearing from me and the rest of our Friends, who embarked from New- Jersey as Soldiers on the present Expedition against Canada, do therefore inform you, that since our Arrival at this Place, we have not received the sev- eral Things promised us at inlisting: You and our Friends with you, who live in Plenty, may think light of our Treatment, but we who feel the Smart of the Neglect of our Commissioners, who were to provide for us, cannot help complaining ; and do assure you, were it not for our Zeal for the publick Good, and the great Hopes of subduing a barbarous and cruel Enemy, most of us would at all Hazard, before this Day, have deserted from the Army. I know it is re- mark'd, that Soldiers often complain without any sufficient Reason, shall therefore omit mentioning
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those Things which only relate to us as Soldiers ; but at the same Time cannot omit such Impositions which affects my Country in their Estates and Interest, and us poor Soldiers in our Safety and Lives ; I mean the sending us out on a long and tedious Expedition, with three hundred Guns, (or rather Things in the Shape of Guns) so defective that the Gun-Smiths who viewed the same in Albany, very justly reported to our Officers, that they were so rusted and rotten as not to be of the Value of old Iron ; those few that can be fired are more likely to break than to stand one fire ; I have known several to break only by using the common Exercise; I can't describe the Badness of these Guns : Many of our Cutlasses are not much better, they will bend, and stand bent like Lead. Yet these are the Instruments of War with which we, in our prudent Commissioners Judgments, must haz- ard our Country's Cause, and our own Lives; and, bad as they are, our Commissioners gave of our Country's Money, Thirty Shillings Proclamation Money for each Gun, and Nine Shillings for each Sword, amounting to near Six Hundred Pounds. Another Instance of the Care and Frugality of our Commissioners, is their purchasing stinking Beef for us, Twenty Barrels whereof were at one Time con- demned by our Officers.
On my first being acquainted with this Expedition, I was at once fired with a Zeal to forward it, even to the leaving of my Wife and Family and hazarding my Life. I was also rejoyced to hear that our As- sembly had voted a Supply for supporting Five Hundred Men from New-Jersey, thinking that our
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Assembly's Zeal for promoting the Expedition, was also thereby apparent; but finding by the Law they had passed for that Purpose, that twelve Commis- sioners were appointed, six of them Members of the Assembly, and the other six their peculiar Friends, and of their own Appointment; finding also that those Commissioners lived in different Parts of the Prov- ince, some upwards of one hundred and twenty Miles distant from others of the Commissioners ; finding also that by said Law the Commissioners were to have five per Cent. on all the Monies expended on Account of the Jersey Forces, amounting to One Thousand Pounds on the {20000, supposed to be the Charge thereof; my Opinion of our Assembly con- sulting the publick Good ceased ; and instead there- of, their own private Interest seemed to be shame- fully substituted in its Room: For had the pub- lick Good been their Design, instead of appointing those twelve Commissioners, and putting One Thou- sand Pounds of the Country's Money in their Pockets ; they would have sought for two Persons · capable of the Trust, living near each other, who without Doubt could have been procured, to have undertaken the whole Affair for {200 and been well rewarded for three or four Weeks Service, and have thereby saved the Country Eight hundred Pounds ; besides, had they purchased stinking Beef, Guns or Swords not worth one Penny; they and their dear Friends, not being Judges, would without any Scruple be made accountable for their Neglect, and liable to make good every Thing by them purchased unfit for the Use of the Expedition, and near Six hundred
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Pounds would also in this Case have been saved for the Province ; but as the Case now stands with the present Assembly, Can you expect so strict an En- quiry in this Affair as if none of the Assembly or their Friends were Commissioners ?
One of our Commissioners purchased some, an- other other Things, and were approved of by all ; as was the Case of those defective Guns and Swords being bought by a West-Jersey Commissioner by the Consent of the other Commissioners ; and several were sent to the Eastern Commissioners, even as far as Newark, and by them approved of and delivered to us poor Soldiers : so that all the Commissioners were equally concerned in the Purchase, and ought to be in making Satisfaction for the Abuse done to the Country : But who shall call them to Account for this extraordinary Piece of their Conduct? Who shall say what Money they must refund? Who shall determine what Damages the Country will suf- fer in procuring other Arms and bringing them to this Place? Or, Who shall judge what Reward those Commissioners ought to receive for their lavishly dis- posing of the Country's Money? Why truly them- selves, or their own dear Friends. A fine Court of Judicature this, when Men are their own and their best Friends Judges ! which I am sure ought not to be the sad Case of our injured Country. And that it may not be your unhappy Condition, now before it is too late, rouze up a Spirit of Justice among you, and joyn with one Voice in a Petition to his Honour our President,1 to give us a new Choice of such Repre-
1 John Hamilton, President of the Council, and acting Governor pending the arrival of Governor Belcher.
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sentatives as will make the publick Good the Rule of their Actions, and will call our Commissioners to a just Account, and make them answer for our Country's Wrongs ; which is the hearty Prayer of your's and my Country's Friend, but abused Soldier.
Alexander Miles. 1
-The New York Gazette, Revived in the Weekly Post Boy, Feb. 16, 1747.
Philadelphia, February 17. 1746-7.
Made his escape out of Gloucester goal, in the province of West-New-Jersey, on the 8th of this in- stant, at night, one Hugh Coffy, by trade a house- carpenter, about 5 foot 10 inches high, slim built, of a pale countenance, pock-mark'd, long face, long chin, and short dark hair. Had on when he went away, a shag drab colour'd great coat, a brown home- spun double breasted Jacket with flat metal buttons, an inside pale blue jacket, watered; and perhaps a pale blue hair camblet coat. Whoever secures the said prisoner, so that he may be had again, shall have a reward of Six Pounds, and reasonable charges, paid by me
FRANCIS HADDOCK, Under-sheriff. -The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 24, 1746-7.
Philadelphia, March 3. 1746-7. To be sold at publick vendue to the highest bidder, on Wednesday the 6th of May next, at the house of the widow Roberts, in Front-street, Philadelphia.
Several tracts of land, with a large quantity of swamp and meadow which lies contiguous, and con- tains according to the deeds of conveyance, 1344
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acres, besides the customary allowance for roads and highways, situate on the south branch of Mantua creek, in Gloucester County, West-Jersey ; together with a saw-mill and plantation in the possession of Jonathan Fisher, and all the improvements thereunto belonging.
For satisfaction in the title, enquire of George Emlen, of the city of Philadelphia .- The Pennsylvania Gazette, March 3, 1746-7.
Philadelphia, March 3, 1746-7.
All persons indebted to the estate of John Jones, late of the town of Salem, attorney-at-law, deceased, are desired to make speedy payment to the adminis- tratrix, and save trouble.
And all those that have any demands against said estate, are desired to bring in their accounts that they may be adjusted. Attendance will be given at the house of said deceased, in Salem, on Monday and Saturday in every week.
Mary Jones, Administratrix. -The Pennsylvania Gazette, March 3, 1746-7.
To be sold by Publick Vendue, by said Adminis- tratrix, at the place aforesaid, on Monday the 30th of March next,
Sundry valuable household goods, a new riding- chair, with or without a horse; a large parcel of red- cedar posts, wheat in the ground, a very good riding horse, two draught ditto, with many other valuable things .- The Pennsylvania Gazette, March 3, 1746-7. 24
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Philadelphia, February 17. 1746-7.
All persons indebted to the estate of William Nevill, late of Greenwich township, Gloucester county, deceased, are desired to make speedy pay- ment: And all persons having any demands against said estate, to bring in their accounts, that they may be adjusted by David and Hannah Jones, and Mary Nevill, Administrat in Philadelphia, at the widow Doze's the corner of King-street, on Walnut- street wharff .- The Pennsylvania Gazette, March 3, 1746-7.
Nantucket, February 19, 1746, 7.
Two Ships of War one mounting 50 Guns the other 30, sail'd from France the 4th Day of March last, and on the 8th Day took a Brigantine from London bound to Barbados, John Holdham Com- mander, with 14 Men on board ; the 13th Day they took a Sloop belonging to Amboy bound from Newfoundland, commanded by one Johnson, having on board 4 Men ;
-The Boston Evening-Post, March 9, 1747. No. 604.
New-York, March 9. It's publickly reported that a Boat which sail'd from here last Week for Shrews- bury, with a Coffin and sundry Things belonging to the Funeral of Mr. Carney, deceased, unfortunately run upon some Rocks and stove to Pieces, four of the People were drowned and the rest with great Difficulty saved their Lives, it is said there are some persons gone down to know the Truth of it.
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Last Week Capt. Wilson in a Snow, arrived at Sandy-Hook from Hambourgh, but last from New- Castle, in about 8 Weeks, and is not come up yet .- The New York Evening-Post, March 9, 1746-7.
To be SOLD,
TWO Likely Negro Men, one of them a Ship- Car- penter by Trade, and the other understands a Team or Plantation-Work ; Also a Negro Wench with two small Children ; the Wench understands House-Work. Any Person inclining to purchase, may apply to Susannah Marsh, Widow, at Perth-Amboy, who will dispose of them on reasonable Terms .- The New York Weekly Post Boy, March 9, 1747.
Philadelphia, February 24, 1746-7.
All persons indebted to the estate of Japheth Woodward, hatter, late of Hattonfield, deceased, are desired to make speedy payment: And those who have any demands against said estate, are desired to bring in their accounts, that they may be adjusted, by
ELIZABETH WOODWARD, Administratrix. N. B. Attendance will be given by said Adminis- tratrix at Hattonfield, till some time in June next .- The Pennsylvania Gazette, March 10, 1746-7.
Philadelphia, March 16, 1746-7. · To be SOLD,
A Pleasant country seat, fit for a gentleman or storekeeper, store having been kept there upwards of 20 years, adjoining to Rariton road, which leads from Weil's Ferry down to Rariton Landing, seven
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miles from said landing, and nine miles from New- Brunswick. Whereon is a very good dwelling- house, 52 feet front, and 32 feet back ; it hath an entry of 10 feet, a parlour on each side, a room over each ; the rooms and entry well sealed and wains- coted, and sash windows ; there is also a cellar the whole length and breadth of the house, part thereof a large kitchen, the remainder a dairy and cellars ; there is a fire-place in each room, excepting over the entry ; a barn 60 by 30 feet with 10 feet lintels ; a dwelling-house or shop, 24 by 20 feet, with a lintel to store rum, melasses, salt &c. An out kitchen, about 20 by 16 feet, with a large hearth of 10 feet wide, a waggon-house 26 by 20 feet, with lintels, and a granary over-head; the whole being well shingled, and in very good repair ; a good orchard, containing about 200 apple trees, and may be extended at pleasure ; a screw-press, and wheel and trough to turn with a horse to make Cyder ; a very good kitch- en garden, at the back of which is a grass-plot, with a prim hedge round and pal'd, situate on level up- land, and a fine prospect of low land, lying opposite the front (to be sold by Mr. Joseph Read, merchant in New-York, who has also woodland adjoining to the aforesaid premises) containing about 90 acres, includ- ing a piece of English meadow, about 12 acres, and more may be made, about 40 acres being cleared, the remainder woodland ; there is also a fine spring of running water near the house, and a brook, whereon may be built a grist-mill, easy damm'd, the clear land in good fence and repair.
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Whoever inclines to purchase, may apply to Doc- tor William Farquhar, in New-York, Benjamin Franklin, in Philadelphia, or Jacob Janeway living on the premisses, and be informed of the conditions of sale. The title is indisputable .- The Pennsylvania Gazette, March 16, 1746-7.
NOTICE is hereby given, that a good School- Master is very much wanted at the Landing, near New-Bruns- wick, where a full School may be had as soon as a Master will settle there, as there is not one in all that Place .- The New- York Gazette Revived in the Weekly Post Boy, March 16, 1747.
From my House near Wesel, Feb. 28.
Mr. Parker.
HAVE waited with a great deal of Patience, T to see whether any of our Commissioners would answer Mr. Alexander Miles's Letter, in your Postboy, No. 213, as I am a true Friend to one of them, I could not bear to see such gross Reflections cast, without proper Animadversions ; upon which, for the Benefit of your Readers, I take the Liberty to make in the following Manner.
The Man that's steady to his Trust,
Sincerely good as well as just,
Prefers the Publick, far before The adding Riches to his Store.
The great Number of Commissioners appointed, may be a wrong Thing in those who appointed them, but surely can be no Reflection on the Commission- ers ; neither do I think it any Reflection on those that appointed them ; and for this Reason, that it £. 1000
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of the Country's Money was to be given away, surely it was more prudent to oblige twelve People by it, than two.
But to the Point; The Commissioners are grossly reflected upon for sending 300 Guns, or Things in the Shape of Guns, which were condemned by the Gun- smiths at Albany, as not of the Value of old Iron: This may be true ; but in what are the Commission- ers to blame, if Mr. Miles would have considered that those Commissioners were appointed by an As- sembly that were of the People called Quakers, and those that were governed by them ? Can it be imag- ined then, that any Commissioner so appointed, would have gone against the Bent and Inclination of his Constituents, as to have purchased such Arms as would have killed the Enemy? No ; that would be a Justification of Friends going to War, so contrary to their pacifick Principles ; besides, the Commissioners knew very well that those very Arms had been in Oliver Cromwell's Army ; and they were not so ig- norant, or unacquainted with the English History, but that they also knew, that Oliver Cromwell's Arms and Name struck the greatest Terror into the French Nation ; therefore if they could purchase such Things as would terrify the French, without killing them, would not the Commissioners have been wrong to have acted otherways, when such Actions must have interfered with their Friends avowed Principles.
I must further observe, that all the Commissioners were not equally concerned in purchasing these Guns and Swords ; and what makes me think so, is what a Commissioner, one of my Friends, say (who
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often makes my House his Home) when the Affair was mentioned to him, he was told those Guns were good for nothing; he answered. Aye, perhaps you think I am a Fool; don't you think I can see what one of the Designs was, of raising these Forces ? why aye, I will tell you; when this Expedition is over, these very Men will be employed to quell the Rioters, and then if their Arms are no better than Clubs, we shall stand a good Chance. It is plain, that some of the Commis- sioners are known to every Body to have opposed the Rioters, their Abettors and Ring-leaders ; there- fore that Number never would have consented to put useless Arms in their future Protectors Hands.
The price of the Guns and Swords I believe may be right; but then the Swords were manufactured in the Country ; they are properly Country Produce, and the Manufacturers were such as never make use of those Instruments, so could not be so good Judges as your fighting Men : But Mr. Miles must be a Novice, not to know, that Commissioners are ap- pointed to get Money ; the very Name implies it ; a Commissioner that can't make it worth his While, is not fit for his Office. As for that sly-Rub, of the Commissioners Frugality, in purchasing stinking Beef, to say no more of it than it deserves, it is a Falsehood : The Case is this; if a Commissioner has Beef of his own that he can't sell, having been a little too sparing in his Salt, pray which is most reasonable, that one Man should lose 20 Barrels of Beef, or the Country pay for them ? the Answer is plain; besides, I am told that Beef won't keep so well on a fresh River, as it will when sent to Sea : It would be un-
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reasonable the Commissioners should attempt to alter the Laws of Nature, or be censured for natural Con- sequences. But without making a Joke of the Thing, I appeal to all the World, Whether there are not a thousand Instances to be given, where Beef has stunk after it was purchased. So much for your stinking Beef, Mr. Miles.
I shall just touch upon your fine Court of Fudic- ature, as you are pleased to call it, and then conclude. Mr. Miles must know, if he knows any Thing, that it is a peculiar Priviledge of an Englishman to be tried by God and his Country, and Noblemen for the greatest of Crimes, by their Peers, which are also their Country ; to be tried by God, is to appeal to him who knows our Conduct, to put it into the Hearts of good Men, to acquit the Innocent, and punish the Guilty : To be tried by our Country, is to be taken in a very extensive Sense; by 12 Men upon their Oaths, or the Representatives of the People in General Assembly, which in this Province (if I may be allowed to compare great Things with small) is something like the Trials of the House of Lords in Britain ; because the Members do it upon their Honours being not under any Oath; and the Members here only under the political Tye of an Affirmation ; but to pretend to say, when a Man is tried by his Country, he is not tried by the Laws of England, but by his Friends, is such a Reflection upon our Representatives, that I think they ought to resent it in the most publick Manner, by their Resolves : In my poor Opinion, the Reflec- tion would not have been so great, if they had even
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said, that the Majority of the Assembly had joined in supporting the Rioters in their Invasion of private Property and Obstruction of publick Justice ; for to take a Person out of Goal, that is in Debt or under Prosecution, shows a longing Desire to relieve the Distressed at any Rate, and may be esteemed an Act of Charity. But let the people petition for a Dissolution of the present Assembly when they think fit, and if it should be granted them, I can tell the Petitioners, there are sufficient Numbers, that de- pend upon being protected with Impunity for past Crimes, that will make their getting into the Assem- bly necessary, as well as their Election sure.
It gives me great Comfort, to think that my Friend, who is one of the principal Heads and Directors of these same Rioters, will get clear: Upon my asking him, What would be the Case when the new Gov- ernor came ? Aye, says he, I will consent to make as much Paper Money as he wants, and let him have the sole Management of it ; and if it be found necessary, for the Peace of the Government, to hang some of those Rioters, I will shrink my Neck out of the Collar, and give in the Names of those that are proper Sacrifices, to the injured Owners of the Land, and then will retire and become your Neighbour.1
1 This delightful bit of sarcasm greatly irritated the authorities, as will be seen by the replies it elicited, printed hereinafter. The Legislature in 1746-7 passed several acts in relation to the Canadian expedition. By the first, John Eatton, Pontius Stelle and Hendrick Fisher, for the Fastern Division, and Jacob Spicer, Stephen Williams and Joseph Scattergood, for the Western Division, were appointed commissioners to disburse the moneys .- Nevill's Laws, 1., 317. Another act provided for the issue of £16,000 in bills of credit for the same purpose, to be disbursed by Andrew Johnston, Samuel Nevill, and John Low, of the Eastern Division, and John Allen, Charles Read and Thomas Shaw, of the Western Division .- Ib., 328, 331. With perhaps one excep- tion. the commissioners from West Jersey were all Quakers. The friend who frequent- ly made Mr. Vreeland's house his home was doubtless John Low, living at Belleville,
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Now Mr. Alexander Miles, if I find this is not a full Answer to your Letter, the next Time the Com- missioner or his Son comes to my House, I will get them to answer it; and in the meantime, am my Friends and the People's.
Most obedient humble Servant,
M. VRELANDT. -The New York Gazette Revived in the Weekly Post Boy, March 16, 1747.
Just Published and Sold by Kneeland and Green in Queen-Street, and J. Edwards in Cornhil MIra- bilia Dei inter Indicos. Or the Riseand Progress of a Remarkable WORK of GRACE amongst a Number of the INDIANS in the Provinces of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Justly Represented in a JOURNAL kept by Order of the Honourable Society in Scotland, for promoting Christian Knowledge. With some general Remarks. By David Brianerd,1 Minister of the Gos- pel, and Missionary from the said Society. Published by the Reverend and Worthy Correspondents of the said Society. With a Preface by them .- The Boston Evening-Post, March 16, 1747. No. 605.
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