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On the 6th they landed a Small reconnoitering Party at Shark, but the Wind coming to the Eastward, occasioned so high a Surf, that they were under the Necessity of re- embarking, which prevented them from demolishing the Salt-works that the Rebels had at that Place. They then weighed Anchor and arrived at their Cantonments on the 7th .- New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, April 13, 1778.
To Be SOLD or EXCHANGED.
For Houses or Lands, in or near this City, the fol- lowing Lands and Premises, situated in the county of Cumberland, New-Jersey.
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Two Lotts of Ground, near the Market-house in Road's Town, fronting each other on the main-street, containing about a quarter of an acre in each Lot, on which are erected a well finished two story brick House, with a cel- lar under the whole, and well paved with brick; a good Frame House, well finished and painted, adjoining the Brick House, with a Frame Kitchen back of the same, and part of a Pump of excellent water, near the front door; a good strong Frame Store House, a good Frame Barn, well covered with cedar, and stable room for six or eight horses, a Chair House, a Smoak House, and other out-buildings and garden well paled in with cedar. The whole of the buildings are good, having been built not many years since. It is an excellent place for a store or shop-keeper, as the subscriber has found by several years experience and would serve for any tradesman inn-keeper or private gentleman.
Twelve other Lotts of excellent Grass Land, in said town fronting the main street aforesaid, containing half an acre in each Lott, all under good fence, with a number of good bearing apple and peach trees on several of said Lotts; the whole is pleasantly situated in as good a part as any in said town for building thereon.
Nine Acres of Grass Land, adjoining on the back of the last mentioned Lotts, and under good fence.
Five Acres of good Wood Land, about half a mile from said town, joining a main road leading from the town of Greenwich to Salem, and a stream of water on one end of said Land.
A Plantation, containing 125 Acres of good Land, situate about a half a mile from Road's Town aforesaid, 80 Acres or upwards of which is cleared and under good fence, the remainder is good woodland: The whole is well watered, having springs of water in different fields, and a stream of water, being the line on one side of said Plantation which is thought sufficient for an oil or fulling mill, and is in a fine part of the country for such business.
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There is on said Plantation a good Brick House, with a large cellar under the same, a large frame Kitchen, a good Well of Water near the door, a large frame Barn and other out-buildings, about one hundred bearing Apple Trees of good Fruit, a young Peach Orchard, of about the same number of Trees, as also Cherry and other Fruit Trees on the premises.
Five Acres of Salt Marsh, lying in the township of Greenwich ; and is between three and four miles from the said Plantation.
Seventy-four Acres of Cedar Swamp, lying on the west side of Morris-River, which would be profitable at this time, either for making rails or boards, it being within SO rods of a landing, where vessels of burden pass and repass to and from this city, and is joining to cedar swamp of Joshua Brick, Esq; 1 and others.
All the above mentioned Premises (except the Cedar Swamp and Marsh) are in a healthy part of the country, that abounds in corn, flax, &c. and are about five miles from Bridgetown, where the county courts are held and about four miles from the town of Greenwich, where there is navigation for sloops and is very near to sundry good grist mills, and very handy to places of worship such as the Friends, Presbyterians, First Day and Seventh Day Baptists.
They will be sold together, or separate as will best suit the purchaser, and may be viewed, by applying to Mr. ELIJAH OWEN and Mr. ELIJAH TOMBLESON, on and near the premises.
For terms apply to the subscriber, in Union Street, three doors below Second-street Philadelphia, where the deeds and draughts of each, and all the premises may be viewed, and an indisputable title given by
. DAVID BOWEN.
-The Pennsylvania Journal April 14, 1779.
1 Joshua Brick and his son, Joshua, were large landowners of the south- ern portion of Cumberland county.
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BY HIS EXCELLENCY
WILLIAM LIVINGSTON, EsQ.
Governor, Captain-General and Commander in Chief in and over the State of New-Jersey, and the Territories thereunto belonging, Chancellor and Ordinary in the same:
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the honorable the Congress did, on the 7th day of this present month of March, pass a resolution in the words following, to wit, 'Whereas Almighty God in 'the righteous dispensation of his providence, hath per- 'mitted the continuation of a cruel and desolating war in 'our land; and it being at all times the duty of a people 'to acknowledge God in all his ways, and more especially 'to humble themselves before him when evident tokens 'of his displeasure are manifested; to acknowledge his 'righteous government, confess and forsake their evil, 'ways, and implore his mercy.
'It is therefore recommended to the United States of 'America to set apart Wednesday the 22d day of April 'next, to be observed as a day of fasting, humiliation and ‘prayer; that at one time and with one voice, the inhabi- 'tants may acknowledge the righteous dispensations of 'divine providence, and confess their iniquities and trans- 'gressions for which the land mourneth; that they may 'implore the mercy and forgiveness of God; and beseech 'him that vice, profaneness, and extortion and every evil 'may be done away, and that we may be a reformed and 'happy people: That they may unite in humble and 'earnest supplication, that it may please Almighty God 'to guard and defend us against our enemies; and give 'vigour and success to our military operations by sea and
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'land; that it may please him to bless the civil rulers 'and people; strengthen and perpetuate our union, and 'in his own good time establish us in the peaceable en- 'joyment of our rights and liberties; that it may please 'him to bless our schools and seminaries of learning, and 'make them nurseries of true piety, virtue and useful 'knowledge; that it may please him to cause the earth 'to yield its increase, and to crown the year with his 'goodness.
'And it is further recommended to the inhabitants of 'the United States, to abstain on that day from all labour 'and recreations.'
I have therefore thought fit by and with the advice of the Privy Council, to appoint the said 22d day of April next, to be set apart and observed throughout this State as a day of publick fasting, humiliation and prayer for the purposes in the above-recited resolutions mentioned : Whereof all the inhabitants of this State are required to take notice and govern themselves accordingly. And I do hereby recommend it to the ministers of the gospel of every denomination, in this State, to perform divine ser- vice, and to the people committed to' their charge to at- tend on publick worship on that day; and to observe the same, with the devotion and humility, the gratitude and fear becoming sinful dependent creatures, towards the inexhaustible source of all their mercies; who, by his all- wise and superintending province, hath hitherto enabled us to resist a powerful enemy meditating the total ex- tinction of our Liberty, and whose indignation would be justly exasperated for our spending, with levity, a day, peculiarly appropriated to his honour; and which, our manifold offences and unnatural ingratitude against him, render it our indispensable duty, to sanctify, with the most awful veneration for his transcendant majesty, the most unfeigned thanks for his unmerited favours, and the deepest contrition of soul for the innumerable transgres- sions, by which we have provoked his righteous dis-
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pleasure - - - And as no external forms of humiliation, or corporal austerities, or any momentary sorrow for sin, can propitiate an offended God; nor avert his vengeance from a guilty land; without genuine repentance, real amendment of life and reformation of manners; it is devoutly to be wished, that the appointed solemnity may be the happy means of bringing us to an utter dereliction of all our prevalent vices; our avarice and extortion ; our want of bowels for houseless impoverished exiles; our criminal languor in the glorious cause of Liberty, our profaneness and infidelity; and our contempt of things sacred and serious: That it may by a thorough reno- vation of hearts, render us conspicuous for our generosity and beneficence; our patriotism and publick spirit; our virtue and purity of manners, and our habitual reverence for Almighty God, his holy revelation, and instituted ordinances --- In a word that, in the language of the prophet, it may appear to have been a fast, chosen of the Lord, by our subsequent practice, of dealing our bread to the hungry, and bringing the poor that are cast out into our houses; by covering the naked when we see him, and not hiding ourselves from our own flesh; by loosing the bands of wickedness, AND BREAKING EVERY YOKE.
GIVEN under my hand and seal at arms at Trenton, the 19th day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight.
WIL. LIVINGSTON.
By His Excellency's command,
Wm. LIVINGSTON, jun. D. Sec.
GOD SAVE THE PEOPLE.
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BY HIS EXCELLENCY
WILLIAM LIVINGSTON, EsQ.
Governor, Captain-General and Commander in Chief in and over the State of New-Jersey, and Territories thereunto belonging, Chancellor and Ordinary in the same.
IT is his Excellency's order, that Brigadier-General Heard's brigade consist of the militia of the counties of Middlesex, Hunterdon, Burlington, and Monmouth ; and that the militia of the counties of Bergen, Morris, Essex, Somerset and Sussex, compose the brigade of General Winds: And that the said Brigadiers-General, and every Colonel or commanding officer of a regiment, and every Captain or commanding officer of a company of the militia of this State, not having already made a return of the number of men in his regiment or company, and of their accoutrements and ammunition, pursuant to his Excel- leney's order of the thirteenth of December last, is hereby directed to make such return on or before the first day of May next, on pain of being prosecuted for default thereof, agreeable to the direction of the Act of Assembly in that case made and provided. And the said officers are further directed particularly to specify the persons in their re- spective corps who have procured, or pretend to have procured substitutes in any of the four New-Jersey regi- ments in the continental service, with the names of such substitutes, and the time when, place where, and the officers by whom such substitutes are said to have been inlisted.
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GIVEN under my hand at Princeton, the 6th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hun- dred and seventy-eight.
WIL. LIVINGSTON.
By His Excellency's command,
WM. LIVINGSTON, jun. D. Sec.
Mr. COLLINS,
IF any thing but final despair of succeeding in their iniquitous and sanguinary purpose of enslaving a free people, induces the British troops to violate every rule of war, to extinguish every sentiment of humanity, and to perpetrate the most deliberate murders on people utterly defenceless and absolutely in their power, it will only aggravate their infamy and deepen the black dye of the black catalogue of their Gothic barbarities. It is surely a perfect novelty in the history of modern war, to treat people the worse for bravely defending themselves; and threatening a whole country with savage devastation, for not tamely submitting to the demands of an enemy, and bowing their necks to the yoke of bondage without any resistance. The proscribing of individuals and dooming them to destruction by the hands of their own country- inen, is another innovation in the laws of arms peculiar to those who boast of their national valour and humanity. I doubt not, however, but the intended victims are greatly obliged to Colonel Mawhood for this consummate at- testation to their virtue and their patriotism, as I dare say every worthy citizen deems his character the more illustrious in proportion to the enemy's resentment against him; and would be almost tempted to suspect himself of some infidelity to America, if he did not excite the keenest vengeance of those who seem to have declared war against everything good and excellent; and whose favour is only to be conciliated by turning traitor to ones native country. As an instance of the most unsoldierly
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and cruel conduct of the British troops, and the laudable and spirited behaviour of our militia, I enclose you a copy of Colonel Mawhood's letter to Colonel Hand, and of Hand's answer to the insolent demand, both of which have accidentally fallen into my possession, and which I shall be obliged to you for inserting in your paper as soon as possible.
COLONEL Mawhood, commanding a detachment of the British army at Salem, induced by motives of humanity, proposes to the militia at Quintins Bridge and the neigh- bourhood, as well officers as private men, to lay down their arms and depart each man to his home: On that condition he solemnly promises to re-embark his troops without delay, doing no further damage to the country ; and he will cause his commissaries to pay for the cattle, hay, and corn, that have been taken, in sterling money.
If, on the contrary, the militia should be so far de- luded, and blind to their true interest and happiness, he will put the arms which he has brought with him into the hands of the inhabitants well-affected, called tories, and will attack all such of the militia as remain in arms, burn and destroy their houses and other property, and reduce them, their unfortunate wives and children to beggary and distress; and to convince them that these are not vain threats, he has subjoined a list of the names of such as will be the first objects to feel the vengeance of the British nation.
Given under my hand at Head-Quarters, at Salem, the twenty-first day of March, 1778.
C. MAWHOOD,1 Colonel.
1 Conspicuous in the Battles of Trenton and Princeton.
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Edmund Keesby, Thomas Sinnickson, Samuel Dick, Whitten Crips, Ebenezer Howell, Edward Hall, John Bowen, Thomas Thomson, George Trenchard, Elisha Cattle, Andrew Sinnickson, Nicholas Keen, Jacob Hufty, Benjamin Holmes, William Shute, Anthony Sharp, and Abner Penton.
SIR,
I HAVE been favoured with what you say humanity has induced you to propose. It would have given me much pleasure to have found that humanity had been the line of conduct to your troops since you came to Salem. Not only denying quarters, but butchering our men who sur- rendered themselves prisoners in the skirmish at Quintin's Bridge last Thursday, and bayonetting yesterday morning at Hancock's Bridge, in the most cruel manner in cold blood, men who were taken by surprize, in a situation in which they neither could nor did attempt to make any resistance, and some of whom were not fighting men; are instances too shocking for me to relate, and I hope for you to hear .- The brave are ever generous and humane .- After expressing your sentiments of humanity, you proceed to make a request which I think you would despise us if we complied with. Your proposal, that we should lay down our arms, we absolutely reject. We have taken them up to maintain rights which are dearer to us than our lives, and will not lay them down, 'till either success has crowned our cause with victory, or like many ancient worthies contending for liberty, we meet with an honourable death. You mention that if we re- ject your proposal, you will put arms into the hands of the tories against us ; we have no objection to the measure, for it would be a very good one to fill our arsenals with arms .- Your threats to wantonly burn and destroy our houses and other property, and reduce our wives and children to beggary and distress, is a sentiment which my humanity almost forbids me only to recite, and in-
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duces me to imagine I am reading the cruel order of a barbarous Atila, and not of a Gentleman, brave, generous, and polished with a genteel European education-To wantonly destroy, will injure your cause more than ours -it will encrease your enemies and our army .- To destine to destruction the property of our most dis- tinguished men, as you have done in your proposals, is, in my opinion, unworthy a generous foe; and more like a rancorous feud between two contending Barons, than a war carried on by one of the greatest powers on earth, against a people nobly struggling for Liberty-a line of honour would mark out that these men should share the fate of their country-If your arms should be crowned with victory, which God forbid, they and their property will be entirely at the disposal of your Sovereign. The loss of their property, while their persons are out of your power, will only make them desperate; and, as I said before, encrease your foes and our army; and re- taliation upon tories and their property is not entirely out of our power. Be assured that these are the senti- ments and determined resolution, not of myself only, but of all the officers and privates under me.
My prayer is, Sir, that this answer may reach you in health and great happiness.
Given at Head-Quarters, at Quintin's Bridge, the twenty-second day of March, 1778.
ELIJAH HAND, Colonel.1 To c. Mawhood, Colonel.
Extract of a letter from Kildare, Monmouth county, April 9, 1778.
"About 135 of the enemy landed on Sunday last about ten o'clock, on the south side of Squan inlet, burnt all the salt-works, broke the kettles, &c. stripped the beds, &c.
1 First Battalion Cumberland, June 6th, 1777.
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of some people there, who I fear, wish'd to serve them- them crossed the river and burnt all excepting Dirrick Longstreet's: after this mischief they embarked. The next day they landed at Shark river and set fire to two small works, when they observed fifteen horsemen heave in sight, which occasioned them to retreat with great pre- cipitation, indeed they jumped in their flat-bottomed boats in such confusion that they sunk one or two of them. One of their pilots was the noted Thomas Oakeson. The enemy consisted chiefly of Greens, the rest Highlanders."
On Saturday the 11th instant died at Burlington, in the 29th year of her age, Mrs. RACHEL HELME, wife of BENJAMIN HELME, esquire .- Her agreeable manners rendered her very amiable to those who had the pleasure of her acquaintance: and her patience and fortitude, during a long and painful illness, fully evinced her entire resignation to the Will of Heaven, Her remains were decently interred on Monday following in Friends burying-ground in Burlington, attended by most of the inhabitants.
We hear, that Mr. John Gordon, of Somerset county, who lately married Miss Sukey Lane, (mentioned in Number 18 of this paper) was, a few days ago, thrown from his horse, by which he was hurt so much that he died in a short time after; in consequence of which, it is said, a considerable estate falls to his widow.
This PAPER will be published next week on Thursday.
YOUNG SELIM,
STANDS at the stable of Benjamin Slack, junior, in Maidenhead, in the State of New Jersey, and will COVER MARES the ensuing Summer at three pounds the season, forty shillings the first leap and ten shillings for every leap afterwards, or four pounds to warrant a foal. Selim
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is full bred, his sire was Old Selim the celebrated racer, his dam a full bred Dorsan mare, is fifteen and a half hands high, very gay and handsome. Good pasture will be provided.
Maidenhead, April 6, 1778.
TO BE SOLD,
BY the box, 7 by 9 and 8 by 10 window glass; a few pieces of good broadcloths of neat colours, with a parcel of buttons; best scarf twist; knee-garters, &c copperas at a low price; Lancaster ginn; port and claret wine; best French cotton, &c. by THOMAS NIXON, about two miles from Trenton, at the widow Stevens's near Skirm's and Phillip's mills. April 14.
TO BE SOLD BY
ROBERT SINGER,
BEST green and bohea tea, muscovado sugar, melasses, coffee and chocolate, pepper, allspice, and cinnamon ; linens, calimancoes, calicoes, and camblets; damask, per- sians, duecapes, and taffetys ; a large variety of ribbons, superfine broadcloths, common ditto, white dimitty, men's and women's gloves, men's and women's worsted stockings, children's thread ditto, silk and thread, gause, fine and coarse thread, silk and hair twist, nankeens, worsted binding, and fine and coarse tooth combs, &c. &c.
Trenton, April 15, 1778.
TO BE SOLD,
AT PUBLICK VENDUE by George Brown, on Saturday the 18th instant (April) at the market-house in Trenton,
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at two o'clock in the afternoon, a number of men's plain and welted saddles; also women's hunting ditto, and a number of blind bridles.
EIGHT DOLLARS REWARD.
STRAYED OF' STOLEN from the subscriber, a bright bay mare, about fourteen hands high, a natural trotter, of a low carriage but very nimble, a blaze on her face reaching down to her nose, three white feet, a short switch tail, and about nine years old; her breast has been galled by the collar which may be seen by the short hair on the spots · in several places; also a small gall on her withers, oc- casioned by the saddle, and remains bare; is branded on her left thigh with a mark resembling a hay-fork the points downward, and shod all round. Whoever takes up and secures the mare, that the owner may have her again, shall receive the above reward and all reasonable charges, paid by
JOHN THOMSON.
New-Brunswick, March 31, 1778.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
STOLEN out of a stable at Trenton, on Friday night, the 27th of March 1778, a red roan horse fourteen hands and a half high, trots, marked in the right ear with a half penny, large mane, and shod all round. Whosoever takes up said horse so that the owner may have him again, and the thief is brought to justice, shall have the above re- ward; or for the horse TEN DOLLARS and reasonable charges paid by the subscriber, living near Kingston, in Middlesex county.
JOHN BASTEDO.
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PUBLICK notice is hereby given to the Subscribers for the New-Jersey Gazette at Allentown, Hight's-town, Cranberry, English-town, and Monmouth Court-house, that I will, if encouraged, ride post at the moderate price of 786 to Allentown, per annum, to Hight's-town for 10s. to Cranberry for 11s. to English-town for 12s6. and to Monmouth Court-house for 15s. provided there are 250 subscribers to the post, (one quarter of the money to paid in hand) and as many more as shall sign for the paper, and pay the post equivalent.
JOHN VANKIRK. Middlesex County, April 3, 1778.
THOSE in the Eastern parts of this State who are will- ing to favour the State Lottery, may apply to Mr. Caldwell, at Springfield, Essex County, any time between the 20th of April and 1st of May, where tickets may be obtained. April 13, 1778.
BOND and PAIN,
Have for sale at their Store in Morristown,
A QUANTITY of dry goods; likewise a few barrels of brimstone, which they will dispose of at a very reasonable rate. April 3, 1778.
AMERICAS,
A BEAUTIFUL chestnut brown. horse, is in excellent order, full 15 hnds high, will COVER MARES the ensuing season at the stable lately belonging to Peter Vanderveer, deceased, in the county of Somerset, within two miles of Rocky-hill, at FIVE DOLLARS the single leap and TWELVE DOLLARS the season. Americas is a full blooded horse, was
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bred by the Earl of Stirling,1 and came from a horse and mare imported by him from the best stock in Old Eng- land ; he is very strong and neat, his carriage and courage equal if not superior to any horse in America. Good care will be taken of mares, and pasture provided at a reason- able price.
Rocky-hill, April 4, 1778.
TO BE SOLD.
AT publick vendue, on Friday the 24th of this instant, at two o'clock in the afternoon, a HOUSE and LOT of GROUND at Raritan landing, very pleasantly situated near the bridge, a shop and store-house adjoining the dwelling house; also a stable large enough to hold eight or ten horses, with an extraordinary good garden; is a good stand for a merchant or inn-keeper. For further particu- lars enquire of
PETER SCHENCK, Jun.
April 6, 1778.
Young Bullerock,
A BEAUTIFUL bay horse, in excellent order, 5 years old this grass, fifteen hands high, will COVER MARES the ensu- ing season at the stable of Mr. Matthias Vandike, in Mid- dlesex county, within one mile of Kingston, at the old stated price of Three Pounds per Mare the season-The money to be paid when the mares are covered. Young Bullerock is a full blooded horse, was got by the famous horse Old Bullerock, and his dam Brittania, whose stock and blood being so well known in the State of New-Jersey wants no further pedigree. Good care will be taken of mares, and pasture provided at a moderate price. March 4, 1778.
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