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To be Sold by Publick Vendue,
Ox Thursday, the 7th of May next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, by the subscriber, sundry household furniture, viz. Tables, chairs, andirons, shovel and tongs ; hogsheads, barrels, &c. an eight day clock; two sets of surveying in- struments ; books of various kinds; chocolate, coffee, and many other things, too tedious to mention, Attendance will be given, and the conditions made known, by
THO. MOODY.
Princeton, April 23, 1778.
WAS taken up the 6th of October last, a BLACK HORSE branded on the near buttock with a horse-shoe and some letters but unintelligible, has a slit in the near ear, and very grey about the head and mane; supposed to be 20 years ; was badly foundered when he was taken up. The owner is requested to come, prove his property, pay charges and take him away.
NEILLE MAGILL.
Hopewell township, Hunterdon
county, April 26, 1778.
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WILL COVER at Obadiah Meeker's, between Newark and Elizabeth-Town, for sixteen dollars the season, six dollars the single leap, and twenty-two dollars to warrant the mare with foal, the beautiful horse MAJOR GENERAL, allowed by the best of judges to be in equal size, figure and activity to any horse on the Continent. Major General was got by Grandby, his dam by Bullrock, and his Grandam by Frederick. He has all the beauties of those capital horses, without their blemishes. He is rising five years old, 15 hands and a half high, seven-eigths blood, a dark bay, with two white feet, a star and snip. The colts of his getting are esteemed equal to any whatever. Good care will be taken of mares. Pasture at half a dollar per week, and good attendance given by the subscriber
OBADIAH MEEKER.
N. B. The money to be paid when the season is over. Those mares that go by the season, and do not prove with foal, shall be entitled to a single leap gratis the season fol- lowing.
A strong four horse WAGGON to be sold, enquire of the Printer.
GOOD encouragement will be given to any man who will hire as a journeyman for one, two, three or six months, or a year. The person will be exempted from military duty. Enquire of Daniel Smith, saddler, at Morris-Town.
Freehold, April 17, 1778.
ALL persons that have any demands against the estate of MARY BASS, deceased, are desired to bring in their accounts to the subscriber, living near Monmouth Court- House, by the twentieth day of May next, that they may be settled.
JOHN LONGSTREET, Execut.
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TO BE SOLD,
AT publick VENDUE, for ready money only, on Monday the 18th day of May, at the house of Robert Norris on Whatnung Plains: Several tracts of land, lying and being in Morris-town and Hanover on Whatnung Plains : A plantation whereon Thomas Coe now lives, about 131 acres of good land, 10 acres of meadow land and more may easily be made; there is a good frame house and barn on said tract, with a good orchard: A lot of land about S acres, with a young orchard of near 50 apple- trees on it: A lot of wood-land, lying on Whatnung mountain; likewise a very good forge-fire with all the privileges thereto belonging. The above-said lands and premises were formerly the property of William Demayne, absconded, and to be sold by us the subscribers, by virtue of an attachment levied on said land by suit of Thomas Coe, plaintiff, against William Demayne, defendant. The vendue to begin at ten o'clock on morning of said day, where due attendance will be given by us
JOSEPH WOOD, JOSHUA LAMBERT, RICHARD JOHNSON, 7 1 Auditors.
N. B. All persons indebted to the estate of William De- mayne, absconded, either by bond, bill, or book debt, are requested to make speedy payment to the auditors by the above-mentioned time, or else they may expect to be dealt with as the law directs.
Morristown, April 20, 1778.
Wanted immediately, in Trenton,
A SCHOOL-MASTER, who can come well recommended for his abilities and moral conduct. Such a person will meet with good encouragement. Apply to the Printer hereof .- New-Jersey Gazette, Vol. 1, No. 22, April 29, 1778.
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For the NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE.
THOUGH I never had any apprehensions that Great-Britain could reduce us to her iniquitous terms of unconditional submission by the force of her arms; I was not without my suspicions, that as soon as she discovered the impracticability of her purpose, she would attempt, by the stratagem of negociation, what she found unattainable by the strength of her military prowess. Accordingly in the desperation of Lord North to subdue us by war, he is now determined (and I suspect from his incessant blunders, with the help of a better head than his own) to divide us by insidious proposals, to gain time for reinforcing the British troops, while he expects to divert us by a ridiculous accom- modation, from augmenting our own.
To prevail upon the nation to lay aside all thoughts of conquest with which he has constantly flattered it, he is obliged to acknowledge such mortifying truths as no other consideration would have extorted from him. "Our army," says he, "is great; our navy is great; but the resistance of America is greater; and the war has lasted longer than was at first apprehended. To strengthen our force, and continue the war upon the present plan, is attended with too great an expence of men and money ; an expence which conquest itself would not balance." It is therefore evident that he quits his pursuit of conquest . only from the want of men and money necessary to effect it. But incapable of executing his original sanguinary design, what does he substitute in its room? Only to trick us into that same taxation under a more specious form by dint of artifice, into which he could not beat us by the length of his sword. For what is the right of taxing the merchandize of a trading people which Britain now proposes, but the right of drawing from them what sums she pleases? Would not the farmer, would not the artificer, would not every citizen of America who consumes any of the commodities, upon which a duty was imposed, pay the tax of the price advanced in proportion to the duty? And in the extensive manner in which the draught of the bill is worded, of not imposing any duty, &c. except only such as may be expedient to impose for the regulation of commerce, will not their Parliament (which is intended to be the sole judge of this expediency) impose just what duties it shall think proper? Will it not think it expedient to debar us from trading with any nation except their own, and with themselves at their own prices? And thus from the most glorious prospect of being the happiest and most flourishing people upon the face of the earth, by appointing our own rulers and trading with the whole world, we are voluntarily to resign ourselves to the most igno- minious bondage, and to sacrifice our commercial interest to a nation that, while we were connected with them, abused the exercise of their regulating power to such an oppressive degree, as constituted one of the principal causes of our revolt. And what can be more provoking than for Great-Britain, after acknowledging the superiority of our arms, to propound such a controul over our commerce as we remon-
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strated against before the commencement of the war ; and which would infallibly render us and our remotest posterity the slaves and tribu- taries of a nation venal, corrupt, abandoned, and rushing headlong into inextricable perdition? But to palliate this ruinous measure, it is sugar'd over with "that the net-proceeds of such duties shall be always paid and applied to and for the use of the colony, &c. in which the same shall be respectively levied ;" that is, in plain English, to main- tain legions of hungry ministerial dependents, who are to be sent amongst us to accumulate fortunes, and then to recross the Atlantic to dissipate in luxury what they amassed by iniquity, and thus make room for another set equally penurious and rapacious. For my own part I would rather pay the tax immediately into the English exchequer, as I think it infinitely more eligible to support a number of rogues in London than in America. No wonder therefore, that this subtle Minister is willing in appearance to yield to our independence, if we would but yield to him the right of regulating our trade, as by that very cession we should make the fullest recognition of our dependence.
Nor is the draught of the bill to enable the King of Great-Britain to appoint Commissioners, &c. less insidious than the other, there being no security that Parliament will confirm their negociations, and the whole evidently designed to induce us to a cessation of hostilities, to give them an opportunity to increase their troops, and spread dis- sention amongst us : But the disguise is too thin to delude the sagacity of an American. Nor does it even revive the drooping spirits of a single tory. Britain has out-lived her day of grace respecting us. And how Lord North could flatter himself that any man of common sense would put the least confidence in him, while he makes the most shame- less sacrifice of truth whenever it serves his purpose, is as unaccount- able as Tryou's imagining that we should give the more credit to a paper for the sake of his certificate. To support my charge against his Lordship, I shall enumerate several passages in his speech as desti- tute of truth as the Parliament itself is of publick virtue.
1. I have great reason to believe from the declarations of the colo- nics, that they are willing to contribute their share to the publick support. Then Governor Hutchinson must be your informer.
2. I thought it necessary to show them (the colonies) that we were not fighting for taxation, for I never thought that such taxation would be very beneficial to us. The greater your guilt for endeavouring to enforce it by war.
3. In many of the Assemblies there was an inclination to have accepted it (his conciliatory proposition) before the war. Multiply New-York by nought and the product is one.
4. My intention was from the beginning at the moment of victory to have proposed the same proposition in terms obviating all the mis- representations and misunderstandings concerning it .- Unconditional submission !
5. I never thought taxation a sufficient objcet for the contest. Pray what else has the contest been about?
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6. But I sought for the dependence of America .- And did America ever dream of independence, till the oppressions of Britain compelled lier to declare it?
7. The Congress claimed independency. I suppose by openly and solemnly disavowing it.
S. The colony of the Massachusetts claimed it. When, where, and how, my Lord? Why a great outrage was committed on our mer- chants-The affair of the tea, I presume. And if so, did not New-York and every other colony that destroyed the tea or the stamps, claim it as much ?
9. The contest was for supremacy. I dare be bound no man will ever contest with Lord North his supremacy in the art of falsification.
10. Our customs are not diminished. To be proved, I suppose, by the Virginia entries.
11. I never proposed any tax. For witnesses to this fact, call Lord North's speeches of last year.
12. The Commissioners ucre men trusted by America. As a trav- eller trusts a robber with his purse.
13. The farmers of America are ruined-as sure as that wheat at twelve shillings the bushel is less than at five.
Here is what is called a baker's dozen of such palpable deviations from the truth, as no private gentleman, who had the least regard for his character, would chuse to stoop to; and which, before the total extinction of all virtue, a British Nobleman would have deemed pecu- liarly disgraceful. But the artifice is too visible to deceive any man of common discernment. It is plainly intended to lull us into security. Britain apprehends a war with France, and wants all her forces for her own domestic defence. Her present offers are no argument for her relenting at the bloody measures she has hitherto pursued. Her dis- position to treat at all, arises from her inability to prosecute the war. She would listen to no accommodation while she thought herself able to subdue us. She rejected our prayers with disdain. She called us rebels, because we armed in defence of our liberty. And why treat with us continuing in arms, and consequently equally rebels? But how can we treat with her while she claims the exercising of the right of taxing us, since rather than acknowledge this right we have revolted from her? And shall we negociate with her still claiming it, and that after finding that she despairs of enforcing it by the sword? God forbid.
Hortentius.
TRENTON, May 6.
Mr. COLLINS,
I Do not remember whether your Gazette has hitherto given us the production of any woman correspondent- Indeed nothing but the most pressing call of my country could have induced me to appear in Print. But rather
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than suffer your sex to be caught by the bait of that arch- foe to American Liberty Lord North, I think ours ought, to a woman, to draw their pens, and enter our solemn pro- test against it. Nay, the fair ones in our neighborhood have already entered into a resolve for every mother to disown her son, and refuse the caresses of her husband, and for every maiden to reject the addresses of her gallant, where such husband, son or gallant, shews the least symp- toms of being imposed upon by this flimsy subterfuge, which I call the dying speech, and last groans of Great Britain, pronounced and grunted out by her great oracle, and little politician, who now appears ready to hang him- self, for having brought the nation to the brink of that ruin from which he cannot deliver her .- You will be kind enough to correct my spelling, a part of my education in which I have been much neglected.
I am your sincere friend, BELINDA.1
We also learn2 that a considerable body of the enemy landed a few days ago at Cooper's ferry,3 opposite Phila- delphia, in order to cover a number of wood-cutters - - - who are procuring wood for the transports.
Saturday se'nnight John Taylor, a Serjeant belonging to Col. Baylor's regiment of light-dragoons, as he was rid- ing along street in this town, being in liquor, fell from his horse, and so much bruised, that he died in a short time after.
1 This is probably the first political communication ever written by a New Jersey woman and addressed @ the editor of a newspaper. Attention is called to the verses written in honor of Colonel Peter Schuyler, the author of which was doubtless Annis Boudinot Stockton. See New Jersey Archives, Vol. XX .: Newspaper Extracts, p. 169.
2 Extract of a letter from camp at Valley Forge, dated May 1st, 1778.
3 Camden. For sketch of the Coopers and the Ferry see New Jersey Archives, 2d Series, Vol. I., p. 542.
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A LIST of LETTERS now in the Post-Office at Trenton.1
JOSEPH Wetherill, Burlington ; Elizabeth Green, Had- donfield; William Fandran, Hides-Town; Capt. Hame- lin, Bordentown; Capt. Benjamin Davis; Daniel Bray, New-Brunswick; Robert Freeman, (2) George Dillwyn, Burlington; Samuel Young; John Bishop, Bordentown; Capt. John M'Nachtane, Ancocus Creek; Mary Reeves, Cranberry ; Elizabeth Adams, Amwell; Capt. Kenneth Hankeson, Freehold; William Marshall, Gloucester County ; Andrew Hodge, Bordentown; Yest Beem, Tren- ton ; Thomas Bunting, Burlington County.
New-Brunswick, April 15, 1778.
LAST night made his escape, out of the gaol in this town, Charles Ford, belonging to the service of the United States, in the thirteenth battalion of Pennsylvania troops; had on when he went away, a green coat faced with red, a buff coloured jacket, leather breeches, yarn stockings, and half worn shoes. It is supposed he will make the best of his way for the enemy, as some person has assisted him in get- ting off his handcuffs. Whoever takes up the said Ford, and secures him in any gaol, so that I may get him again, shall have fifteen dollars reward, and all reasonable charges, paid by JOHN VAN KIRK, Sheriff of Middlesex county.
Wanted immediately,
A MAN with a small family, who understands farming, and something of a saw-mill, and keeping of cattle. Such a one, coming well recommended, will meet with the best
1 Trenton Post-office, located on the southeast corner of State (Second) and Warren (King) streets, was a mail center for what is now large portions of Hunterdon, Middlesex, Burlington, Monmouth. Ocean and Gloucester counties.
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encouragement, and the highest wages by applying to Isaac Wood, inn-keeper in Mount-holly : Likewise a Carter, applying as above, will meet with the like encouragement. Mountholly, May 2, 1778.
To all persons interested in the lands adjoining on both sides of Manamuskin creek,1 in the county of Cumberland : These are to acquaint them, that the subscribers intend to apply to the Legislature of the State of New-Jersey, at their next sitting on the 27th of May instant, for a law to enable the owners and possessors to erect a dam, bank and other works across the said creek, to stop out the tide from overflowing the meadows.
HENRY REEVE, ISAAC BUSBY.
May 1, 1778.
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NOTICE is hereby given to all persons indebted to the Millstone Lottery, either by single tickets or in clubs, that they pay off the respective demands, on or before the first Monday in June next, either to the managers or to the ex- ecutors of the managers that are deceased, or to the persons from whom they purchased their tickets: And all persons who have taken tickets for sale, are requested to meet the managers at Millstone Court-house, on the above-said day, at ten o'clock, to render an account of the tickets they have sold, and of the money they have in hand. Those who neglect to comply with this request, may be assured that such measures will be taken as will compel them to a com- pliance thereto.
WILLIAM VERBRYCK, - Managers. HENDRY VANDIKE. April 28, 1778.
1 The improving of tide-water creeks emptying into Delaware bay and its tributaries, was not only to secure power for mill purposes, but to obtain pasturage for cattle by draining adjacent marshes.
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WHEREAS I the subscriber did, on the 27th of last month, purchase a BLACK HORSE, known by the name of the Dutch Minister's black, of Amwell, of a certain David Cock, of Readington, and in the evening of the said day he deliv- ered, in the dark, a horse 23 years old to defraud me; and now refuses to give me the horse. This is to forewarn all persons not to trade with the said David Cock for the horse, as I am determined to have him.
NICHOLAS EGBERT. Readington, May 2, 1778.
BY The advice of the several members of the Synod of New-York and Philadelphia, it is proposed that the ensu- ing annual meeting of that reverend body be held at Bed- minster, in the county of Somerset, in the State of New- Jersey, on the third Wednesday of May next, at ten o'clock A. M. at which time and place the members of the Synod . are requested to attend.
J. CARMICHAEL, Syn. Modr.
April 20, 1778.
WANTED immediately a number of good waggoners for the Continental Army;1 those that are well skilled in driving teams and taking care of the cattle, and will engage for one year's service, shall receive Ten Pound per Month for Wages, and a suit of clothes for bounty, after six months service upon good behavior. Apply to the Wagon Master General to be engaged, in camp at the Valley Forge.
NATHANIEL GREENE, Q. M. G. April 28, 1778.
SUCH vouchers as are out-standing, to be lodged with Col. Sullivan, at the Quarter-master's office in Trenton, he giving certificates of the same, and transmitting the vouch- ers to me, to be laid before General Mifflin, and the money shall be drawn and transmitted to him for payment .-
1 Many New Jerseymen enlisted in this service.
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Those for the light-horse forage certificates at and near Pennington and Trenton, from their going to Jersey to the 25th of January .- The vouchers and certificates to be numbered.
CLEMENT BIDDLE, C. G. F.
Moore-hall, April 18, 1778.
Easton, April 16, 1778.
WANTED,
For the USE of the UNITED STATES,
A Number of experienced TEAM DRIVERS, to serve for one year from the time of their inlistment; they are to be paid at the rate of ten pounds per month. They may inlist with me at Easton, Col. Jacob West in Sussex county, at Bethlehem with Mr. John Okely, or with Mr. Anthony Lerch in Lower Saucon, when, if required, they shall receive ten pounds advance pay, and at the expiration of six months, if they produce a certificate from the Wag- gon-Master General, that they behaved well, they shall then each receive as a bounty, a new suit of clothes .- I want to hire a number of FOUR HORSE TEAMS, completely fitted for service. For terms apply at my office, or to Col. West. ROBERT L. HOOPER, Jun. D. Q. M. General.
Camp, Valley Forge, March 25, 1778.
THE several Assistant Commissaries of Purchase in the States of New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Mary- land, as also the counties of Orange and Ulster, in the State of New-York, are most earnestly requested to bring in their accounts of purchases to my office, at camp, by the 20th of April next. Those who cannot conveniently settle at camp, will give their attendance at York-Town,1 before the 25th
1 York, Pennsylvania.
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of May, as the subscriber intends to repair there, to receive and settle all the accounts of purchases in the Middle De- partment. Such as neglect to make application in the above-mentioned time, their accounts will be deemed as given gratis to the Publick.
EPH. BLAINE, D. C. G. of P.
WHEREAS it is justly suspected that many persons in this and the adjacent counties may have in their possession, by concealment or otherwise, horses and other effects belong- ing to the United states .- Notice is therefore hereby given to all such, that they forthwith deliver up the same to me, in Easton, or some of my deputies, otherwise, on failure, they may expect to be prosecuted with the utmost rigour of the law. All persons who know of, or can discover any such concealed property, are hereby requested to give im- mediate information thereof; for which, besides the satis- faction of doing their country so essential a service, they shall be handsomely rewarded.
ROBERT L. HOOPER, Jun. D. Q. M. Gen.
Easton, April 20, 1778.
To be Sold at Publick Vendue,
AT Garritson's tavern, in the county of Somerset, on Saturday, the ninth of May next, sundry sorts of household furniture, among which is an elegant eight-day clock, a bed, table, chairs, knives and forks, pewter dishes and plates, brass kettles, &c. The vendue to begin at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, where attendance will be given by the sub- scriber, or a person on the spot.
SAMUEL H. SULLIVAN, Administ. Trenton, April 28, 1778.
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150 Dollars Reward.
STOLEN out of the mill of Moore Furman, Esq. at Pitts- Town, at different times, five barrels of rum, the property of the United States. Any person that will discover the thief or thieves, so that they may be brought to conviction, shall be entitled to the above reward, paid by
J. JOHNSTON, A. C. of Issues. Pitts-Town, April 17, 1778.
Ten Dollars Reward.
RAN-AWAY from the subscriber, living in Great Egg- harbour, Gloucester county, on the 13th of April last, a NEGRO MAN, named Sambo, a well built fellow, about twenty-seven years of age; had on and took with him, a homespun great coat of a whiteish colour, a drab-coloured jacket with sleeves, and one without sleeves, dowlas trousers, black yarn stockings, old shoes, round hat, and three shirts, two of them new. 'Tis supposed he will en- deavor to get to Philadelphia. Whoever takes up the said Negro, and secures him in any gaol, so that his master may get him again, shall have the above reward, and rea- sonable charges, paid by me
JOSEPH M'CULLOII.
Great Egg-Harbour, May 4, 1778.
Carlisle, April 18, 1778.
Wanted immediately,
A number of good TRADESMEN, that are single, such as Carpenters, Smiths, of all branches, Armourers, Gun- stockers or Wheelwrights. Any of the above Tradesmen
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that are willing to serve themselves and country, shall, by applying to Cap. Wylie, at the grand Continental works at the above-mentioned place, receive twenty-dollars bounty, thirty dollars each man per month pay, one suit of clothes per year, and a ration and a half each man per day, and good quarters.
THOMAS WYLIE, Capt. Art. Artific.
FIVE Hundred Acres of LAND to be sold, situated on the banks of the pleasant river Raritan, county of Somerset, and State of New-Jersey, about thirteen miles above New- Brunswick, in the midst of a well settled country, and agreeable neighborhood; about one hundred acres are cleared, and subject to one year's parole lease, on which there is a frame house, barn and young orchard, and the whole in good fence, the residue is in timber of the largest and best kinds, from which great quantities of staves may be made, and readily sold to the millers in the vicinity, of which there are several from two to six miles distant, who are all purchasers of wheat and other country produce. The soil exceeds most of the lands in these parts in quality, near a quarter part thereof being very rich deep black swamp, which, when cleared from the timber, may with very small ditches be turned into the best of meadow or wheat land. Besides these advantages shad and other salt water fish are taken in the river in the spring, and fresh water fish all the year round. Produce may in the spring of the year be transported by water in flat-bottomed boats to New Bruns- wick: All which are advantages to be met with in few farms. For conditions of sale apply to Samuel Staats Coejemans, Esq. living opposite to, and who will shew the premises, or the subscriber at Beverwyck, near Morris- Town, Morris County, New Jersey.
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