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Advertisements omitted this Week, will be in our next.
December 19, 1777.
To all Whom it may concern.
State of New-Jersey, ss.
NOTICE is hereby given, that a Court of Admiralty will be held at Mountholly, at the house of Zachariah Rossel, on Saturday the tenth day of January next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of the same day; then and there to try the truth of the facts alleged in the bill of Colonel Samuel Dick, (who as well, &c.) against the sloop or vessel called PATTY, her tackle, apparel, furniture and cargo, burthen
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about fifty tons, lately commanded by Tunis Moun- taine :- To the end and intent that the owner or owners of the said sloop and her cargo, or any person concerned therein, may appear and shew cause, if any they have, why the same should not be condemned according to the prayer of the said bill.
By order of the Judge, BOWES REED, PRO. REG.
In the Press and speedily will be published, The BURLING- TON ALMANACK, For the year of our Lord, 1778.
LAMP, TANNERS, and SPERMACETI OIL, To be sold by THOMAS BUDD, JUN. At Julia-Town, in Burlington County, New-Jersey.
December 19, 17TT.
TO BE SOLD, a quantity of SPANISH made SUGAR, In hogsheads, barrels, or smaller quantity, by WILLIAM MONTGOMERY, near Allen-Town.
December 24, 1TT7.
TO BE SOLD, A VERY good scale beam, ropes and scale dishes all fit for immediate use, together with eight fifty- sixes, two twenty-eights, and one fourteen pound weights. Any person inclining to purchase the above, may view the same and know the price, by applying to the printer hereof.
December 21st, 1TT7.
WANTED, as soon as possible, A YOUNG WOMAN, with a good breast of milk, to take the nursing of a child. Such a person applying to the printer hereof, having a good reputation, will meet with proper encouragement. -New Jersey Gazette, December 24, 1777.
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Fish-Kill, December 4. The post brought but little news from our army. Since the evacuation of Mud Island, our Fort at Red-Bank, (which was calculated principally to support the Fort on Mud Island) was re- viewed by some of our Engineers ; they concluded that it was not worth defending, and therefore have evacuated that also. We may expect news from that quarter soon : Lord Cornwallis's army have been making considerable devastation by plundering and burning in the Jerseys. Our army by this time, 'tis hoped have come up with them, and will either have him Burgoyned or driven off.
New York, December 29. We are informed, that there is a scouting Party three times a Day on New-Barbadoes Neck, 100 of the Rebels are billeted at Second River. The following new Law was passed in the last Rebel Assembly of that Province.
" The Women that may be caught in coming to New- Jersey from New York, are to be fined 300 1. and suffer six Months imprisonment ; and all Men suspected, are to be hanged, or obliged to enlist in the Continental Army."1
" There is also an Act passed for selling the Lands of all those well affected to Government."
We are told, a very heavy Firing was heard last Tues- day, at Princetown, New-Jersey, supposed to be between the Rebel Row-Gallies and some of his Majesty's Ships of War in the Delaware ; that Mr. Washington was gone to the Southward for the Winter, and that the Rebel Army is now under the Command of Green and Gates; that the Jersey Militia seem much cast-down, and appear un- willing to serve any longer in the Army .- New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, December 29, 1777.
1An examination of the statutes of the State of New Jersey during 1777 fails to re- veal the existence of such an act, except reference be had to the act of June 5th, 1777, defining High Treason.
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To the PRINTER of the NEW JERSEY GAZETTE.
SIR,
I AM afraid that while we are employed in furnishing our battalions with cloathing, we forget the county of Bergen, which alone is sufficient amply to provide them with winter waistcoats and breeches, from the redundance and superfluity of certain woolen habits, which are at present applied to no kind of use whatsoever. It is well known that the rural ladies in that part of our State pride themselves in an incredible number of petticoats ; which, like house-furniture, are displayed by way of ostentation, for many years before they are decreed to in- vest the fair bodies of the proprietors. Till that period they are never worn, but neatly piled up on each side of an immense escrutoire, the top of which is decorated with a most capacious brass-clasped bible, seldom read. What I would, therefore, humbly propose to our superiors, is to make prize of those future female habilaments, and, after proper transformation, immediately apply them to screen from the inclemencies of the weather those gallant males, who are now fighting for the liberties of their country. And to clear this measure from every imputa- tion of injustice, I have only to observe, that the gen- erality of the women of that county, having for above a century, worn the breeches; it is highly reasonable that the men should now, and especially upon so important an occasion, make booty of the petticoats. HORTENTIUS.
INTELLIGENCE EXTRAORDINARY.
WE are well assured that Dr. Franklin, whose knowl- edge in philosophical sciences is universally allowed, and who has carried the powers of electricity to a greater length than any of his contemporaries, intends shortly to produce an electrical machine, of such wonderful force,
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that instead of giving a slight stroke to the elbows of fifty or an hundred thousand men, who are joined hand in hand, it will give a violent shock even to nature her- self, so as to disunite kingdoms, join islands to continents, and render men of the same nation strangers and enemies to each other ; and that, by a certain chymical prepara- tion from oil, he will be able to smooth the waves of the sea in one part of the globe, and raise tempests and whirlwinds in another, so as to be universally acknowl- edged for the greatest physician, politician, mathema- tician, and philosopher, this day living.
BURLINGTON, Dec. 31.
His Excellency the Governor, having signified his willingness to deposite, for the ease and convenience of the people, a competent number of blank commissions for militia officers, with persons in the respective counties (to be filled up and delivered upon producing to them the proper certificates) as should be approved of by the Resolution of both Houses; and both Houses having re- solved that His Excellency be desired to deposite such commissions with the Clerks of. the several counties in this State; the Captains and Subalterns of our militia are therefore directed to apply for their commissions, to the Clerks of the respective counties in which they reside, producing to them a certificate of their election signed by the clerk of the company, or, for want of a clerk, by the Colonel of the regiment to which the company belongs.
The next Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, for the county of Middlesex, is appointed to be held at New-Brunswick, on the third Tuesday of January next.
For two days past the weather has been so intensely. cold, that the Delaware, opposite this city, is frozen over. The Pieces signed HORTENTIUS and CATO, and
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another of Mons. DE LISLE'S LETTERS, are come to Hand, and will be properly attended to.
Just published and ready to be delivered to the MEMBERS of the LEGISLATURE,
THE ACTS passed at the late sittings of General Assem- bly, at Haddonfield and Princeton, from September 20, to October 11, 1777.
N. B. A few copies of the above acts are to be sold by the printer hereof.
WANTED a quantity of good clean LAMPBLACK. Any person having it for sale, is requested to inform the printer hereof.
Twenty-fourth of the 12th month 1777. TWENTY-FOUR DOLLARS REWARD.
WAS STOLEN out of the subscribers stable, on the 23d of this instant at night, in Nottingham township, Bur- lington county, a dun roan HORSE, fifteen hands high, four years old next spring, a natural trotter and carries well. And also on the same night, was stolen out of the stable of John Weatherill, in the county and township aforesaid, a bay MARE, three years old next spring, about fourteen hands high, with a small star in her forehead. Whoever takes up the said horses and returns them to the subscribers, and secures the thief or thieves in any gaol, shall have the above reward, or EIGHT DOLLARS for either of the horses, paid by either of the subscribers.
ISAIAH ROBINS. JOHN WEATHERILL.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY,
TEN or fifteen gallons of good old LINSEED OIL. Any . person having such a quantity for sale, may hear of a purchaser by conveying a line to the printer hereof.
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AN ACT
For regulating and limiting the price of sundry articles of produce, manufacture, and trade ; and to prevent fore- stalling, regrating, and engrossing
WHEREAS divers persons, influenced by motives unfriendly to the inter- est and well-being of their country, or by avarice or the love of unjust gain, do require, demand and receive unreasonable prices for sundry neces- saries of life ; and do also buy up and engross such of the said necessaries as, by the particular circumstances of the times, are rendered scarce and difficult to be obtained, with a view still farther to enhance their price, to the grievous oppression of the poor, distress of the army, and general det- riment of the community. AND WHEREAS the Honourable the Congress of the United States have recommended to the legislatures of the said States, to form a general plan and scheme of prices throughout the whole union ; and until this can be accomplished, have recommended that a tem- porary regulation be adopted ;
Sect. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Council and General Assembly of this State, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the publication of this act, the rates and prices of the following articles of produce, manufacture, and trade, bought, sold, or exchanged in any part of this State, shall not exceed the sums to them severally annexed ; that is to say,
Salt of home manufacture by the bushel, reckoning fifty-five pounds weight to the bushel, shall not exceed three pounds fifteen shillings at the works or place of manufacture, and six-pence by the bushel for every mile the same may be carried by land from the works or place of manufacture to any place of sale or consumption, for profit and carriage.
Bloomary bar-iron shall not exceed three pounds by the hundred weight; and
Refined bar-iron shall not exceed three pounds ten shillings by the hun- dred weight.
Pig metal shall not exceed twenty shillings by the hundred weight.
The price of rolling iron shall not exceed thirty pounds by the ton.
Open castings shall not exceed eight-pence by the pound.
Raw hides shall not exceed seven-pence by the pound.
Soal leather shall not exceed three shillings by the pound.
Upper leather shall not exceed five shillings by the pound.
Men's neat-leather shoes, of the common sort, shall not exceed seven- teen shillings and six-pence by the pair; and other shoes in proportion, according to their quality.
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Women's shoes of the same kind, shall not exceed fourteen shillings by the pair; and others in proportion, according to their quality
Wheat shall not exceed twelve shillings by the bushel.
Rye shall not exceed nine shillings by the bushel.
Indian corn shall not exceed seven shillings and six-pence by the bushel. Oats shall not exceed five shillings by the bushel.
Buck-wheat shall not exceed six shillings by the bushel.
Wheat-flour shall not exceed thirty-three shillings by the hundred weight.
Hay, of the first crop and best quality, shall not exceed seven pounds ten shillings by the ton.
Best hay, of the second crop, shall not exceed six pounds by the ton.
Pork shall not exceed nine-pence by the pound.
Beef shall not exceed eight-pence by the pound.
Potatoes shall not exceed four shillings by the bushel.
Wool shall not exceed four shillings by the pound.
Flax shall not exceed two shillings by the pound.
Cyder spirits shall not exceed twelve shillngs by the gallon.
Spirits distilled from grain shall not exceed ten shillings by the gallon. Butter shall not exceed two shillings and six-pence by the pound.
Cheese shall not exceed one shilling and six-pence by the pound.
The rates and prices of farming-labour, and the wages of mechanicks, tradesmen and handicraftsmen, shall not exceed double what they were in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five.
2. AND WHEREAS, from the present danger and precariousness of importation, the prices of foreign commodities brought into this State cannot be ascertained, fixed and limited, in like manner as those of the growth and produce of the State; but it is nevertheless equitable and necessary to restrain those who purchase from the importers, or others, from demanding unreasonable and extortionate profits thereon : THERE- FORE BE IT ENACTED by the authority oforesaid, That for all sugar imported or brought into this State, there shall be allowed ten per cent profit to the persons who shall purchase from the importers, and ten per cent. profit for every hundred miles the same may be removed from the first port of delivery, and so in proportion for other distances; and also at the rate of one shilling by the hundred weight for every five miles it may be carried by land. from the first port of delivery, to any place of sale or consumption.
For all molasses imported or brought into this State, ten per cent. profit to the persons who shall purchase from the importers, and ten per cent. profit for every hundred miles the same may be removed from the first port of delivery, and so in proportion for other distances ; and also at the rate of one penny by the gallon, for every five miles the same may be car- ried by land, from the first port of delivery, to any place of sale or con- sumption.
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For all salt imported or brought into this State, fifteen per cent. profit to the persons who shall purchase from the importers, and fifteen per cent. profit for every hundred miles the same may be removed from the first port of delivery, and so in proportion for other distances ; and also at the rate of three-pence by the bushel for every mile the same may be carried by land, from the first port of delivery, to any place of sale or consumption.
[The rest of the act mainly provides the method for its enforcement and penalties for its violation. ]
-New Jersey Gazette, No. 5, December 31, 1777.
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ADDITIONAL NEWSPAPER EXTRACTS
Obtained while this volume was in the press.
Whereas the Subscriber became bound to a certain Henry Alward,1 Esq., of Somerset county, in the province of East New Jersey, in three separate obligations, bear- ing date the 23d day of October 1775, one of them con- ditioned for the payment of 250€. one other of them conditioned for the payment of 100€, and the other of them conditioned for the payment of 50€ and as part of the money on said bonds has been already paid, and the consideration for which they were given, neither has, nor is likely to be complyed with, on the part of the said Henry Alward ; I do hereby forewarn and discharge any person or persons whomsoever to take an assignment of the said Bonds, or either of them as I am determined not to pay any further part of them, until the said Alward fulfill his engagements for which the bonds were given.
January 30, 1776.
JOHN HINDS.
West New Jersey, Jan. 29, 1776.
FOUR DOLLARS REWARD.
Ran away from the subscriber last Saturday night, a servant man named JOHN EYANSON, about 5 feet S or nine inches high : had on an old hat, a light coloured
1 Henry Alward was an influential citizen of Somerset county, a member of a family which settled circum 1730, between Basking Ridge and Liberty Corner. He is mentioned in a list of officers and freeholders in Somerset county, 1790 .- Messler's First Things in Old Somerset, 160; Littell's First Settlers of Passaic Valley, 7; History of Hunterdon and Somerset Counties, Snell, 736 .- F. B. L.
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lappelled jacket, buckskin breeches, milled yarn stock- ings, a pair of new shoes, his other cloathes unknown. He is supposed to be gone off with a certain Daniel M'Graw about 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, he is a black looking Irishman, takes a great quantity of snuff. Who- ever secures John Eyanson, so that his master may get him again, shall receive the above reward.
ISAAC MOSS.
-The Pennsylvania Journal, February 7, 1776.
TO BE SOLD.
A House and Lot of Ground containing six acres, part of it good meadow, and in excellent post and rail fence, situated in Flemingtown, in the township of Amwell and county of Hunterdon, West-Jersey, the house is new and has three rooms on a floor, well finished, with a good cellar under the whole, and is very convenient. It is well situated for a Sadler, or Turner and Chairmaker, or any tradesman or private family, being upon the Old York road, and very public to Brunswick, Trenton and Philadelphia, and in a very healthy part of the county, is twenty four miles north west from Brunswick, and fifty miles west from New-York, twenty-four miles north from Trentown, and forty-five miles from Philadelphia. There is a work-shop lately built, is tight and good, is twelve feet wide, and twenty three feet long ; also a barn and stable entirely new, and very convenient. Any one inclinable to purchase may depend on having an indis- putable title, and know the particulars by applying to JOSEPH SMITH living on the premises .- The Pennsyl- vania Journal, February 14, 1776.
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Married the 15th inst. Alexander Moore, jun.1 Esquire, of Cumberland, New-Jersey, to Miss Sally Tate, daughter of Anthony Tate, Esquire of Bucks county, Pennsylvania.
TO BE SOLD.
By the Subscriber, a House and Lot at New-Mills,2 in Hanover Township, Burlington County, having six rooms on a floor, with about 3 quarters of an acre of land, For terms, apply to Joseph Budd at said New-Mills, or the subscriber in Springfield, near Julia's Town.3
WILLIAM BUDD.4
1 Alexander Moore, Jr., was the son of Alexander Moore, the father having been one of the earliest merchants at Cohansey Bridge, Bridgeton, circum 1740. Alex- ander Moore, Sr., was one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for Cumber- land county, 1760-1781, under both royal and Whig commissions. Alexander Moore, Jr., was a member of a party of forty engaged in the burning of the tea cargo of the brig Greyhound, at Greenwich, in 1774. Although indictments were found against Moore and others, the matter never came to trial owing to the outbreak of the Revo- lution. After his marriage to Mies Tate, Alexander Moore, Jr., and his wife lived at "Moore Hall," west of Bridgeton, upon what is now the "County Farm." Subse- quent to the death of his father, Alexander Moore, Jr., in 1786, filed a caveat against his will which led to a severe coutest, the testament being upheld by the courts. With his wife, Alexander Moore, early in the nineteenth century, removed to Bucks county, Pennsylvania .- History of the Counties of Gloucester, kalem and Cumberland, Cushing & Shephard, 616 ; History of the Early Settlement and Progress of Cumberland County, Elmer, 14 et seq .- F. B. L.
2 Pem berton.
3 Juliustown.
4 In Book D of Dceds, Clerk's office, Mt. Holly, is recorded a deed between Samuel Hough, Susannah, his wife, and Barzillai Thomas and William Newbold, executors of William Newbold, deceased, and Isaac Potts. The instrument, among other matters, recites that William Budd, of New Hanover Township, in August, 1783, purchased 800 acres of proprietary rights of Abraham Hewlings, and that William Budd and his brother, Joseph, October 10th, 1789, purchased 154 acres from John Lee. Reference is also made to tracts of land located in accordance with the above Rights, recorded in the Surveyor General's office, in Burlington City, Book 7, pages 103-7, 139, 140, 172-81, 292, &c. On September 10th, 1790, William Budd conveyed one-half interest in several of these tracts of land to William Newbold. The lands so conveyed were near Egg Harbour, and had erected on them a saw-mill, called "Oswego Mill." Upon March 19th, 1793, William Budd conveyed a lot of land "in the village called Hampton Hanover, alias The New Mills" (now Pemberton), "of which sd Budd became seized by virtue of the last will and testament of his father, David Budd, dec'd." From information in the possession of Ralph Wool- man Deacon, Mt. Holly, N. J.
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WANTED
For the Third Battalion, in New-Jersey, commanded by Col. Dayton, a Drummer and Fifer : If they are well recommended may be made Drum-major and Fife-major with good pay .- Apply to Mr. Clement Biddle in Phila- delphia, Col. Dayton1 in Elizabeth-Town, or Lieut. Col. White2 at New-Brunswick.
TO BE SOLD
A House and Lot in Mount Holly, New-Jersey, The house supposed to be about 25 or 30 feet front, situated in an high pleasant part of the town, is framed and weather-boarded with cedar. On the same lot is a framed work shop, and near the house is a small pasture lot, through which there is a run of water. It will be sold reasonable. Enquire of John Pemberton, in Phila- delphia. Philadelphia, 2 month, 7th, 1776 .- The Penn- sylvania Journal, February 21, 1776.
WAS LOST
On Sunday the 25th inst between the subscriber's house in Philadelphia, and six miles up the Burlington road in the Jerseys ; a small
1 Elias Dayton, born at Elizabethtown, May 1st, 1737, died at the same place October 22d, 1807. Entering military service in the French and Indian war he rose to the rank of Captain, and conducted, in 1764, an expedition against the Indians in Detroit. Rendering active service in the Revolution, an early exploit was a participa- tion in the capture of the ship " Blue Mountain Valley." He attained the position of Brigadier-General January 7th, 1783, serving until the close of the struggle. In civil life. he was a member of the New Jersey House of Assembly, and of the Con- tinental Congress, 1787-1788. During the latter part of his life he was President of the Society of the Cincinnati, in the State of New Jersey .- Society of the Cincin- nati Register, 1898 .- F. B. L.
2 Anthony Walton White was a resident of New Brunswick, where he was born 1750, dying there in 1803. In 1775 he was Major and Aid-de-Camp to General Wash- ington. On February 16th, 1780, he attained the rank of Colonel, was shortly after- ward taken prisoner by the British, and was put on parole until the close of the war, From 1793 to 1800, Colonel White was a Brigadier-General of the United States Army. For a time he was Surrogate of Middlesex county, and from 1793, until his death, was Adjutant-General of the State of New Jersey .- 2 Procedings of New Jersey Historical Society, IX -F. B. L.
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PARCHMENT POCKET-BOOK.
With three parcels of money therein, amounting to Forty Nine Pounds Ten Shillings ; one parcel having Twenty-Two Pounds Ten Shillings, no Continental Money therein ; another parcel containing Fifteen Pounds, all Continental Money, and the other containing Twelve Pounds, having one Twenty Dollar Bill Continental Money therein, the other not exactly known. Whoever finds the same, and will return it to the owner, living in Race-street, Philadelphia, or to Samuel Cooper' at the ferry shall have FIVE POUNDS Reward.
PHILIP HALL
Was left, at the house of the subscriber, living in Trenton, some time last Fall, during the setting of the Provincial Congress, a great COAT .- The owner is de- sired to call, prove his property, and take it away, paying for this advertisement.
BENJAMIN SMITH.2
1 Samuel Cooper, son of Benjamin Cooper, extensive land owners in the city of Camden and its vicinity, was born in 1744, dying in 1812. In 1770, Samuel Cooper secured ferry rights at Cooper's Point. where he erected a large ferry-house, which bears upon its gable end, "S. & P. C., 1770," the initials of the owner and his wife, Prudence, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Haines) Brown, of Nottingham, Pennsylvania. The marriage of Samuel and Prudence occurred in 1766. After 1790, Samuel Cooper retired from business, establishing himself at " Pleasant View " Farm, Pavonia, leaving to his son, William, the management of the Cooper's Point Ferry, while the lower ferry, at the foot of Cooper street, was managed by another William Cooper, a cousin. The influence of the Cooper family upon the city of Camden has been most marked, the family name being given to the leading resi- dential street of the city, to the largest hospital in southern Jersey, to the creek upon which so many manufacturing establishments are located, and to the " Point" at the northern end of the city. The Cooper ferries were among the most con- spicuous points for distribution of travel during the Colonial and Revolutionary times, and early brought a large volume of trade from West Jersey to the city of Philadelphia .- History of Camden County, Prowell, pages 409, 410 .- F. B. L.
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