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o'Clock Aforenoon, and continue the next Day, or Days following, until ended.
MARINUS VAN WINCKLE, and Exrs. KATHARINE VAN WINCKLE,
N. B. All Persons having any. Demands upon the Estate of the said Jacob Van Winckle, deceased, are desired to bring in their Demands to the said Exec- utors, in order to be adjusted, and paid as soon as possible; and all Persons that are indebted to the said Estate, are desired to make Payment, and save Trouble .- The N. Y. Gazette Revived in the Weekly Post Boy, May 14, 1750.
Notice is hereby given that the drawing the Phila- delphia Lottery for a College in New-Jersey, will cer- tainly begin without further delay on the 28th Instant ; mean while Tickets may be had at the usual Places, and those who have engaged any Number of them, are de- sir'd to be speedy in taking them out, there being but a very few more to be dispos'd of .- The Boston Evening Post, May 14, 1750. No. 770.
Custom-House, New-York. Inward Entries. Green from New-Jersey .- The New-York Evening Post, May 14, 1750.
On Thursday the 5th of April 1750 John Johnson, John Stewart and Edward Carryle, received Sentence of Death, at the Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Goal Delivery, holden for the County of Glou- cester, in New-Jersey, for the Murder of Joseph Young, a Farmer in the said County. Before Judge Nevill pronounced the Sentence, he made a Speech to
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the Prisoners and then delivered a Copy of the same to the Sheriff, ordering him to deliver the said Copy to those unfortunate Wretches for their Comfort and As- sistance in their unhappy Circumstances : And being desired to publish the same by some of the Hearers, we have obtained a Copy, which should have been pub- lished before, had it come to hand sooner, but hope it will not be disagreeable tho' at this Distance of Time, which is as follows :
John Johnson, John Stewart and Edward Carryle, you have all three been indicted for willful Murder : Upon your indictment you have been arraigned, up- on your arraignment you have pleaded Not Guilty, and for your Tryal you have put yourselves upon God and your Country. Which Country hath found you Guilty. And now, nothing remains further for me to do, than to pass that Sentence upon you which the Law hath awarded for Crimes of this Nature. And that is a dreadful Sentence indeed ! A Sentence which cuts you off from the Communication of Man- kind, and from the Face of the Earth. Wickedness like yours creates such Disorders in the Body of the common Wealth, that it becomes necessary to dissect the infected and mortify'd Members, in order to pre- serve the rest of the Constitution. You have had all the Indulgence which the Law allows, a fair Tryal, free Liberty of making your Defence ; you have been fully heard without Restraint, and a Jury of twelve Men, upon their sacred Oaths have pronounced you Guilty. The Crime, you are convicted of, is the most Foul and Shocking upon the List, Murder ; the very Name makes a good Man start and tremble ; you
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have defaced the Image of your Maker, deprived the King of a Subject, and left a poor disconsolate Widow and her children helpless and defenceless ; and by one fatal Stroke robb'd them of all the Comforts of their Life, and by taking away the Means of their Sub- sistence, exposed them to Poverty and Want; you have sent a poor unhappy Man to his Account, loaded with his Imperfections, before that Time which indulgent Nature allows for Repentance: But it is not so with you, for you have Time given you to State your Accounts and make up your Reckon- ings ; and I hope you will make good Use of it, by seriously considering your lost Condition, and the deplorable State into which you have plunged your- selves, by the Instigation of the Devil, who hath se- duc'd, flatter'd, and deceiv'd you, and by subtilly Decoying and Tempting you on from Sin to Sin, un- der the false and deluding Notions of Pleasure, hath at last abandoned you to shame, disgrace, and an ignominious Death ; and is still gaping, and in hopes of his Reward, by making a Prey of your poor Souls: But by the preventing Grace of Almighty God, and the Merits and Mediation of his Son JESUS CHRIST, I hope you will yet be able to vanquish him, and thereby Deceive the Deceiver. But this is no easy Task to accomplish, all the short Time allotted you in this World, ought to be employed in this great Work, you must Labour for your Salvation with Fear and Trembling, in order to which you must enter inwards, and there your Consciences will lay before you all the foul Sins you have Committed; and when you have taken a View of the Black List, then with
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Prayers, Tears, and unfeigned Repentance, beg of God to have Mercy upon you ; and of your Lord and Saviour that he would be graciously pleased, to wipe them all out with that most precious Blood which was Shed for lost Manhood : For tho' your Sins be as red as Scarlet, he can make them as white as Snow; and he hath called the worst of Sinners with this comfortable and amiable Invitation ; Come unto me all ye that are heavy Laden, and ye shall find Rest for your Souls. But then this Heavenly Host expects that all the Guests who are thus kindly and lovingly Invited, should appear in a proper Dress, cloathed with Contrition, Confession and sincere Re- pentance. Poor Wretches ! You are heavy Laden indeed ! The Guilt of innocent Blood upon your Consciences ! Which is a Thousand Witnesses. Every one that findeth me shall Slay me, was the Voice of Nature, which the Conscience of Cain ex- torted from him, when he had Slain his Brother Abel. Conscious to himself that he deserved Death, for the Crime which he had committed. You are justly Condemned by the Law of God, the Law of Man, and the Law of Nature: By the Law of God, Exodus XXI. 14. If any Man come presumptuously upon his Neighbour, to Slay him with Guile ; thou shalt take him from mine Altar that he may Die. And again, Ye shall take no Satisfaction for the Life of a Murderer which is guilty of Death, but he shall surely be put to Death. So that by the Law of God you are doom'd to Die ; the Law of Man in obedience to the Divine Law, confirms the same, and Nature not bearing to see her beautiful Production, thus destroyed, calls
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aloud for exemplary Satisfaction. I therefore Advise
you to submit to your Fate, without Repining ; let not Envy, Hatred or Malice, enter your Hearts, for your Soul's sake, and if they are already center'd there, tear them thence, and put them far away ; for these are the only Snares the Tempter hath now left,
You are now before an earthly Tribunal, composed a Man give, or part with, in Exchange for his Soul. to compleat your Destruction. And what would not
uncertain. But you must in a few Days appear be- that your fatal Periods is now Prefixed ; theirs more low you sooner or later, only with this Difference, of Mortallity as you yourselves are, who must all fol-
fore the Great Tribunal of Heaven, there to give an Account of, and to Answer for, all the Sins you have
Record kept of all our Imperfections, both private Evasion and Denial will avail Nothing: There is a committed on this Side of the Grave, where shifting and publick, which cannot be Remitted, but by true Repentance in this World, and by a sincere Faith and
tance, doth not consist of an outward Crying and you, if you do unfeignedly Repent. And this Repen- Belief in God, that he is both able and willing to save
Bawling to Man, for it is not in his Power to help you now, nor avert your Fate, therefore, fear not them which kill the Body, but are not able to kill the Soul, but rather fear him which is able to destroy both
Resignation to the Will of God without murmuring true Repentance consists in a peaceable and humble Soul and Body in Hell. St. Matthew x 28. No!
or repining : Faith in Christ, that he left his heavenly Mansions for a Time, and took upon him human
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Flesh, that he bore the Derision and Scorn of Man- kind, with Patience, and Forbearance; and that at last with humble Submission, suffered an ignomin- ious Death, to expiate the original Sin of our first Parents, to which by Nature, we were all Subjected, and thereby to save our Souls from everlasting Des- truction. All this you must stedfastly Believe, before you can have the Grace of true Repentance. For
, Faith is one Step to your Salvation. Secondly, you must with constant and unfeigned Sorrow, bewail all the Sins of your past Life, particularly this dreadful one for which you are now going to Suffer, and con- tinually ask for Forgiveness, and implore the Mercy of God, for Mercy from Man, you can expect none. Thirdly, Pray earnestly for the Gift of Charity, that God will enable you to Die in Peace with all Man- kind, for this is another Step to your Salvation. Fourthly, confess your Sins to God alone, and not to Man. I know of no Power given to him, either to confess, or to absolve you, being Mortal, and subject to Sin and Death, as you are. If you faithfully ob- serve these few Rules, with such others as the good Spirit will Dictate to you, if you pray for his Assis- tance, I hope you will be able to overcome the power and ensnaring Machinations of the evil Spirit, and all will be well with you ; which God of his infinite Mercy grant. And now comes the fatal Sentence, which I by. my Office am by Law obliged to pronounce against you ; It makes my very Heart bleed to see you stand Trembling there to receive your Doom to think that my fellow Creatures must be dragg'd to Death, and suffer Death like a Brute; but so the Law
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hath Decreed, and I cannot help it. To see a proper Youth with a promising and hopeful Countenance, cut off in the Prime of his Years, even at a Time when he might have become servicable to his King and Country, upon many Occasions. But this is the Malice and Spite of the Devil, to whose Delusions you have given Way, and have thereby brought yourselves to this untimely End. And I pray God others may take warning by your Example ; for pub- lick Offenders are publickly Executed, for an Exam- ple and Terror to others. The Sentence which the Law hath awarded against you for this Crime, of which you have been Convicted is that you the said John Johnson, John Stewart and Edward Carryle are to be carried to the Place from whence you came, from thence you are to be carried to the Place of Ex- ecution ; and there you, and each of you, are to be Hang'd by the Neck, till you are severally and res- pectively Dead. And may God of his infinite Good- ness look down upon you, grant you true Repen- tance, and a happy Issue to all your Afflictions, and have Mercy upon your poor Souls. Amen .- The Pennsylvania Journal, May 17, 1750.
Philadelphia.
On Friday last died in an Apoplectic Fit, at Bur- lington, in the Colony of New Jersey, in the 54th Year of his Age, that truly great Man, The Honour- able JOHN KINSEY,1 Esq ; of this City, the Place of
1 John Kinsey, the first of the name in New Jersey, was one of the ten commission- ers sent to this country in 1677 by the l'roprietors of West Jersey, to acquire the In- dian title, and to make other arrangements for the settlement and government of the country. He came over with his associates in the ship Kent, from London, arriving at New Castle, on the Delaware, on the 16th of 6th mo., O. S .- Smith's N. J., 92-3. He died within two months after landing, his being the first death in the Burlington
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his Birth, and was decently interr'd here on Sunday last. Upon the Death of his Father, who was Speak- er of the House of Representatives in that Colony, He was, tho' young chosen a Member and Speaker of that House, where he sat from his first Election
Friends' records. The entry is as follows : "John Kinsey allias Kelsey Latte of Had- nam in Hartfortsheere being taken wth a violent feavor & Payne in his Bowles about 8 days Passed out of ye Body ye 11th of ye 8th moth & was Layd in ye ground ye 14th of ye same 1677." His burial place is now traversed by a street .- Friends in Burling- ton, by Amelia Mott Gummere, 15; Smith, as cited, 93.
John Kinsey, second, arrived, says Smith, some time about the fall of 1677, being a young man at the time, and on the death of his father, the care of his family fell upon him .- Smith, 103. The historian is singularly vague on this subject. If the young man had been the son of John Kinsey, first, it is not probable that he would have come over in a different ship, in the fall of the same year. It is more likely that he was not the son of the first John Kinsey, although he may have been a near relative. Instead of settling at Burlington, however, he seems to have located first at Philadelphia, where he served on the petit jury in 1701, and married Sarah Stevens, removing in that year to Woodbridge, where he owned a large farm, between Six Mile Run and Milton. He was a minister among Friends, and we find him immediately after settling at Woodbridge, proposing the establishment there of a Preparative Meeting, so early as August, 1704. The next year he offered a site for a meeting house, and when an- other site was selected he was one of the two trustees appointed to receive the deed, and was authorized later to provide refreshments for the " house-raising." In 1715 he was elected chosen freeholder from Woodbridge; he was also chosen school commit- teeman in 1714 .- Penn. Magazine, V., 100; Woodbridge and Vicinity, pa-sim. He was elected to the Seventh Assembly in 1716, from Middlesex county. That body was at odds with Governor Hunter, who prorogued them for contumacy, from April 27 until May 7. On the latter day Speaker Daniel Coxe and a majority of the members pur- posely absented themselves. After waiting until May 19, a quorum was secured, and they elected John Kinsey Speaker, and then expelled Coxe and the other absentees, and ordered new elections to fill the vacancies .- N. J. Archives, X., 226, note. Kinsey continued Speaker during the existence of that Assembly, or until 1721. He was re- elected to the Eighth Assembly, in 1721.
John Kinsey, third, son of John Kinsey, second, was born in 1696 or 1697, in Phila- delphia, but lived with his father at Woodbridge from 1704 until 1730. He was elected to the Ninth and Tenth Assemblies, from Middlesex, in 1727 and 1730. He was elected Speaker in 1730, and was re-elected in 1733. Writing Feb. 3, 1729-30, Gov. Montgomerie said of him :
" Mr. Kinsey is a man of good natural parts & Sense & practices the Law with Suc- cess & Reputation, but he seems to have an Extream desire after popularity ap- plause & to be Esteemed a patriot, this desire with his natural abilities which must naturally raise an Emulation with people who seem by nature to Love to oppose every- thing that a Governour or his friends propose gave him in t' e Latter End of Mr. Bur- net's time a great ascendant in the assembly which was still more Encreased by Sundry popular acts which he proposed & got passed in Mr. Burnet's Last assembly Such as the quaker affirmation act to be perpetual, assemblys to be biennial, & Several others as popular, he aiso then put the assembly upon addressing the King for a Separate Governour for New Jersey."-N. J. Archives, V., 262. Again, under date of May 22, 1730 : "Mr. Kinsey, one of their [the lawyers'] profession, is chose Speaker, he is a Man of sense and honesty, has a great regard for his Majesties Service, and the pros- perity of the Province : I know he will do all he can to keep his Brethren in a good temper."-Ib., 270.
He was admitted to the bar May 14, 1728, and soon attained to eminence in his profes- sion. It would seem that he had been previously admitted to the Pennsylvania bar,
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till a Dissolution of that Assembly, which happen'd some Years after his coming to reside in this Place ; when the People there very much regretted, on his Account, that a Law of the Colony disabled Persons not Inhabitants from representing them: But his great Abilities and unshaken Integrity were so con- spicuous, that the Freemen of this County, at the first Election after the Removal of his Family hither, made Choice of him as one of their Representatives
for it is related that he attended the court of chancery in Philadelphia in 1725, wearing his hat on his head, according the custom of the Quakers; Sir William Keith, Gover- nor and Chancellor, ordered the hat removed, which was done, despite his protest for conscience' sake, but the Quakers made such an emphatic protest against this inter- ference with their conscientious practice that the Chancellor was constrained to enter a rule that Quakers might practice in that court without removing their hats. - Proud's Hist. Pa., IL., 197-201. In 1728 he was engaged as counsel by the inhabitants of Wood- bridge to defend them against the claims of Gabriel Stelle to their lands. A paper he drew up for the guidance of his townsmen in that matter evinces much wisdom and shrewdness .- Dally's Woodbridge, 190-92. In 1730 Kinsey removed to Philadelphia, where he practiced with great success, and was honored in various ways. In May, 1737, he was sent by the Governor to Annapolis, to adjust the boundary dispute be- tween Maryland and Pennsylvania .- Penn. Col. Records, IV., 204-9. Having been elected to the Assembly soon after removing to Philadelphia, he was elected Speaker in October, 1739. He was loth to accept, but the Governor assured him: "Your Character, Sir, sets you above all Exception, and I should betray a want of Judgment if I did not approve of the Choice the Assembly has made of you for their Speaker." -1b., 353. He was re-elected Speaker regularly so late as 1747 .- Ib., passim. He was Attorney General for some time, says Proud, Il., 231, and was appointed Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, April 5, 1743 .- Penn. Col. Records, IV., 640. " His long experience and great ability in the management of public affairs, his skill in the laws, and readi- ness for communicating his knowledge therein, often without fee or reward, and his tenderness to his friends, the people called Quakers, by whom he was deservedly es- teemed a valuable member, in their religious society, with the exercise of many civil and social virtues, are said to have rendered his life very useful and valuable, and his death much lamented as a great and universal loss to these provinces."-Proud, II., 231. John Smith, in his journal, writes :
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"Third month 4th. Heard, in the evening, that John Kinsey was taken, about noon to-day, with a fit, after he had been pleading a cause at the Supreme Court, at Burlington, and was carried into Daniel Smith's, and Dr. Bond was immediately sent for. 12th. Heard, early in the morning, that John Kinsey died about eight o'clock last evening. The loss of this great and good man occasions a general lamentation, and, at present appearance, is irreparable. 13th. About two we went to the burial. I. Pemberton, junior, William Logan, brother Samuel and I took up the corpse ; we also carried it into the meeting and brought it out again. There was the greatest con- course of people that ever I saw upon any occasion. 30th. At the vendue of J. Kinsey's goods. and 31st. Again at the same. I had before said I would give the appraisement, viz .: £86, for the four-wheeled chaise and horses ; they were, therefore, set up at that, & nobody bidding, they were cryed off to me; I also bought some plate."-The Bur- lington Smiths, 160-61.
John Kinsey had, among other children : 1. John, who accidentally shot himself, in 1748, after some curious premonitions of his approaching death .- Penn. Mag., XIII., 381. 2. James, afterwards Chief Justice of New-Jersey.
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in the General Assembly of this Province, and con- tinued him during his Life. He wou'd have been immediately chosen Speaker of our Honourable House, but that the Chair was then fill'd by a Gentle- man of like abilities and publick Spirit, whom they could not overlook; but that Patriot in the Year 1738, declining to sit longer in the House, and re- signing his Trust of principal Commissioner in the Loan Office, MR. KINSEY was fix'd upon as the most proper Person to succeed him in both Stations, in which he continued to the Time of his Decease. He was the Coryphaus of Law in this and adjacent Provinces, some Time Attorney General; and in April 1743, to the great joy of the People, made Chief Justice, of this Province, and has ever since sat in the Supream Court with unrival'd Reputation ; and indeed, would have fill'd with Honour, the first Seat of Justice even in England.
His Death gave a universal Shock to the People. We may, without attempting a particular Delinea- tion of his Character justly apply to him what was said of the great and good SIR MATTHEW HALE in the last Century, whose Spirit he much admired.
" THAT HE WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST PATTERNS THIS AGE HAS AFFORDED, WHETHER IN HIS PRIVATE DEPORTMENT, As A CHRISTIAN, OR IN HIS PUBLICK EMPLOYMENTS, As A LAWYER, SENATOR, JUDGE, OR TREASURER." So that what Horace said of his Friend Quintilius will, with Propriety close this Article con- cerning our late publick Friend.
OMNIBUS ILLE BONIS FLEBILIS OCCIDIT.
-The Pennsylvania Journal, May 17, 1750.
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As the drawing of the Lottery set up in Philadel- phia, for the benefit of the New-Jersey College, will certainly begin on Monday the 28 Instant, at Mr. Samuel Hazard's, this is therefore to inform the Ad- venturers that the Ticketts will be putting into the wheels on Wednesday, the 23d Day when such as chuse to be present may give their Attendance.
The Managers will continue Selling the few Tick- ets that are left till the said 23d Instant, and those who intend to become Adventurers are desired to apply for them before that Time, least they be dis- appointed .- The Pennsylvania Journal, May 17, 1750.
THE Lottery for the College in New-Jersey, will certainly be drawn in Philadelphia, on Monday next : Tickets will continue to be sold in this City to that Day, and no longer .- The N. Y. Gazette Revived in the Weekly Post Boy, May 21, 1750.
Philadelphia, May 17. Friday last died suddenly at Burlington, in New-Jersey, the Honourable JOHN KINSEY, Esq. Chief Justice of this Province.
-The N. Y. Gazette Revived in the Weekly Post Boy, May 21, 1750.
To be Sold, by John Jenkins, living in Trenton,
A Tract of Land, lying in the County of Morris in West-Jersey, containing 1750 Acres, very well wa- ter'd and timber'd, and a vast Body of fine Meadow may very easily be made, situate about a Mile from Delaware River, where is a good Landing ; 'tis about 7 Miles from Oxford Furnace, and within one Mile of a Grist-Mill, &c. Whoever inclines to purchase
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the said Tract of Land, and paying Cash down, or Interest for the same, may have it very reasonable, with an indisputable Title to the Premises .- The N. Y. Gazette Revived in the Weekly Post Boy, May 21, 1750.
Philadelphia.
On the Eleventh Instant, the Honourable JOHN KINSEY Esq; chief Justice of this Province, Dyed at Burlington, of an Apoplectick Fit, he was a Gentle- man. of a most amiable and unblemish'd Character, of great Honour and Humanity, a sincere fast Friend and willing to communicate; the Ornament of his Profession, and a steady Patron of his Country's Lib- erties, and on the Bench, his Justice was equal to his Abilities. No Man liv'd more beloved or desired in his City, or died more Lamented.
Quando ullum Invenient parem ?
-The Pennsylvania Journal, May 24, 1750.
Custom-House, Rhode-Island, May 25. Entred In, Gibb from Amboy .- The Boston Weekly Post-Boy, May 28, 1750.
New-York, May 28. We hear from New-Bruns- wick, that last Week two men quarelling together, about 4 or 5 Miles above that Place, one of them struck the other on the Head with a Carpenter's Iron Square, which fractured his Skull in such a Manner, that he died in three Days afterwards : We hear the other immediately surrendered himself.
The College Lottery certainly begins drawing to- Day, at Philadelphia. A few Tickets yet remain 43
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here unsold ; which may be had by applying immedi- ately .- The N. Y. Gazette Revived in the Weekly Post Boy, May 28, 1750.
Custom House, New-York. Inward Entries. Sloop Nancy, J. Willard from New-Jersey .- The N. Y. Ga- zette Revived in the Weekly Post. Boy, May 28, 1750.
Expenses incur'd in the intended Canada Expedi- tion by the several Colonies as carried into Parlia- ment.
Massachusetts, £87434:18: 7
Paid in Part,
New-York,
Paid in Part,
£56650:1:3
£34689:6:0 £84098: 8: 6
New-Hampshire,
£21446:10:10
New-Jersey, £ 2231:18: 4 Connecticut, £17191:15: 8
Rhode-Island, paid £7507: 4: 3
Pennsylvania, paid £2248: 2:1I
Maryland, paid £1452:11: 7
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