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HENRY LUSE, Capt. 2d Jersey Regt. now at Elizabethtown. July 16th, 1778.
THIRTY DOLLARS REWARD.
STOLEN out of the pasture of Mr William Tenbrook, at Raritan landing, on the night of the thirtieth of June, a dark brown horse, nine years old, fourteen hands one inch high, trots and paces, but most natural to his pace, has a snip on his forehead, and hind foot somewhat white, branded with the letter M. on his near thigh. Whoever takes up and secures said horse and thief, so that the owner may have him again, and the thief brought to justice, shall be intitled to the above reward, and for the horse only Twenty Dollars and reasonable charges, paid by me
JOHN MYER.
WAS taken up by the subscriber the 10th of June last, living in the Borough of Elizabethtown, on the road lead-
1 Minnie Van Voorhees, a resident of New Brunswick, New Jersey, and was a commissary at the General Hospital, Continental army. He was afterward a Captain and Quartermaster in the State service. He died August 3d, 1794, and is buried in the Dutch churchyard of New Bruns- wick .- Manuscript of the late William S. Stryker.
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ing from said town to Boundbrook, a POCKET-BOOK with a quantity of Continental Money in it. Whoever proves their property and pays charges, may have said pocket-book and money by applying to ABIGAIL FITZ RANDOLPH, living near John Littell, Innkeeper, Elizabethtown.
July 20th, 1778.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
STRAYED Or STOLEN out of the pasture of James Dunster, of Baskenridge, Somerset County, a brown MARE, about thirteen hands and an half high, has a very thick mane and tail, and long hair on her legs, a small star in her fore- head under her foretop, large white spots on each side of her back caused by being galled by the saddle, has a low carriage, branded H C on her near shoulder, shod all round, thin in flesh, lately came off a journey from Red- stone. Whoever takes up said mare and brings her to the subscriber at Mendham in Morris County, shall receive the above reward and all reasonable charges, paid by me
June 4th, 1778.
SAMUEL HUDSON.
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THIRTY DOLLARS REWARD.
A SILVER WATCH stolen from the subscriber in Spring- field, Burlington County, State of New Jersey, about the 10th of July, with a silver face, has a brass star between each hour, but one of the stars has been peeled off, only 11 remains; on the face Thornton, London, the number for- got, has a bruise in the case, a steel chain with long links and a crown seal with a chrystal or glass in the shank thereof; said watch has not been cleaned this 7 or 8 years. All watchmakers are desired to secure it, if it comes to
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their hands, so that the owner may get it again, shall have 15 Dollars reward. or 30 for the watch and thief, if con- victed of the theft, paid by
JONATHAN FOX, junr. -New-Jersey Gazette, Vol. 1, No. 34, July 29, 1778.
Burlington, July 29, 1778.
The subscriber proposes sending a quantity of BEER, as good as what is brewed at present, for 6 £ per barrel, delivered at Chestnut street wharf. Those who chose to leave their names with Mr. WILLIAM FALCONER, in Mar- ket-street, near Strawberry Alley, may be supplied till the stock of grain is brewed up.
WILLIAM INNES.
N. B. A Still containing 22 gallons, with Worm and Tub, for sale. Enquire as above .- The Pennsylvania Packet, July 30, 1778.
New York, August 3. A Party of Rebel Light Horse came down as far as Bergen Point last Tuesday Night, and returned next Morning towards Hackinsack: They visited Hoebuck in their way and carried away a great Number of Cattle from the Inhabitants.
A poor industrious Farmer from Morris County, in New-Jersey, named Edward Bolsbay was taken Prisoner by the above Party, and after being robbed by them, they whipped him with Rods on the Back and Shoulders, in a most cruel Manner, and left him for dead .- New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, August 3, 1778.
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD.
Was taken from Princeton, in New-Jersey, last Feb- ruary was a year, a new copper STILL, but considerably bruised by the pulling down of the Still house when the
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enemy was at Princeton; it was marked 61 gallons, and the maker's name [B. Town] stamped on it. Whoever can give information where said Still is, so that the owner may get it again, shall receive the above reward from the subscriber living at Princeton.
THOMAS WIGGINS.
N. B. It is suspected that the said Still was carried to the back parts of Pennsylvania, as there was a number of the militia from those parts stationed at Princeton about that time .- The Pennsylvania Packet, August 4, 1778.
To be SOLD very reasonably.
A NEGRO MAN about 32 or 35 years of age, a good tem- pered, ingenious, handy fellow, is a tolerable cook, and can shave and dress a wig very well- He has been employed as a house servant for some time past, and is now sold for faults which will not be likely to affect a purchaser who need not intrust a servant with liquor or the laying out of money. Enquire of Colonel THOMAS LOWRY, in Flemington, New-Jersey, or of The Printer .- The Penn- sylvania Packet, August 4, 1778.
We hear that a large ship, laden with dry goods, ran upon the Jersey shore, near Shrewsbury, last Friday morn- ing, when a party of the militia took her, notwithstanding a heavy cannonade from a British man of war and a frig- ate .- The Pennsylvania Evening Post, August 4, 1778.
BOSTON, July 20.
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A small vessel of war, with very few guns and men, fitted out from Salem, has been at Egg-Harbour, between
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New-York and Philadelphia, and taken 14 sail of the enemy's vessels, laden with tories and their effects to a great value, bound from the Delaware to New-York.
TRENTON, August 5. 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.
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by a late Act of the Legislature of this state, the Generals in the service of the United States were authorized to grant passes to the citizens of New-Jersey to go into the enemy's lines and encampments, and into places in their possession :- And whereas the said Act is since expired by its own limitation, and some of the said Generals, as well as other officers of the army never there- unto authorized by any law of this State, have, since the expiration thereof, granted such passes; the continuance of which practice, from their unacquaintance with the true characters of the applicants, who are generally dis- affected, may prove greatly injurious to the interest of America. I have, therefore, thought fit to issue this Proclamation, to notify to all the citizens of this State, that they are not to expect, by virtue of any such passes, to be exempted from the punishment prescribed by law for going into the enemy's lines, unless they shall be sent by such General Officers, or by Officers having the com- mand of detachments stationed in this State, on publick
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occasions, or for military purposes ; but that they will be proceeded against with the utmost rigour of law, any such passes notwithstanding.
Given under my hand and seal at arms, at Morris-Town, the twenty-eighth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight.
By his Excellency's command, William Livingston, jun. Deputy Secretary.
WIL. LIVINGSTON.
Extract of a letter from Monmouth, dated July 18.
"I have been waiting from the time the enemy passed thro' this county till the present, in expectation that some of your correspondents would, thro' the channel of your paper, have given the public an account of their conduct to the inhabitants - - - but not having seen any as yet, and as it has been such as every honest person ought to de- spise, I take this opportunity of giving a short sketch of it; which, if you think will be any satisfaction to your readers, you may insert in your paper. The devastation they have made in some parts of Freehold exceeds per- haps any they have made for the distance in their route thro' this State, having in the neighbourhood above the Court-house burnt and destroyed eight dwelling-houses, all on farms adjoining each other, besides barns and out- houses - The first they burnt was my own, then Benja- min Covenhoven's, George Walker's, Hannah Solomon's, Benjamin Van Cleave's, David Covenhoven's and Garrit Vanderveer's ; John Benham's house and barn they wan- tonly tore and broke down so as to render them useless. - It may not be improper to observe that the two first men- tioned houses that were burnt adjoined the farm, and
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were in full view of the place wherein Gen. Clinton quar- tered. In the neighbourhood below the Court-house they burnt the houses of Matthias Lane, Cornelius Covenhoven, John Autonidas, and one Emmans; these were burnt the morning before their defeat. Some have the effrontery to say, that the British officers by no means countenance or allow of burning - - - did not the wanton burning of Charleston and Kingston in Esopus, besides many other instances, sufficiently evince the contrary, their conduct in Freehold I think may -- - the officers having been seen to exult at the sight of the flames, and heard to declare that they never could conquer America until they burnt every rebel's house, and murdered man, woman and child. Besides, this consideration has great weight with me to- wards confirming the above, that after their defeat, thro' a retreat of twenty-five miles, in which they passed the houses of numbers well-affected to their country, they never attempted to destroy one. - This much for their burning.
"To enter into a minute detail of the many insults and abuses those inhabitants met with that remained in their houses, would take up too much room in your paper; I shall therefore content myself with giving you an account of Gen. Clinton's conduct to one of my neighbour's, a woman of seventy years of age and unblemished reputa- . tion, with whom he made his quarters. After he had been some time in her house, and taking notice that most of the goods were removed, he observel that she need not have sent off her effects for safety, that he would have secured them for her, and asked if the goods could not be brought back again - the old Lady objected: But upon the repeated assurances of Gen. Clinton in person, that they should be secured for her, she at length con- sented, and sent a person along with the waggon he had ordered to shew where they were secreted. When the goods were brought to the door, which was in the latter part of the day, the old Lady applied to Gen. Clinton in
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person, for permission to have them brought in and taken care of, but he refused, and ordered a guard set over the goods. The morning following, the old Lady finding most of her goods plundered and stole, applied again to him for leave to take care of the remainder; he then allowed her to take some trifling articles, which were all she saved ; not having (when I saw her, and had the above informa- tion from her) a change of dress for herself or husband, or scarcely for any of her family. - With regard to per- sonal treatment: She was turn'd out of her bed-room, and obliged to lay with her wenches either on the floor, without bed or bed-clothes, in an entry exposed to the passing and repassing of all, &c. or sit in a chair in a milk-room too bad for any of the officers to lay in, else its probable she would have been deprived of that also. - If the first officers in the British army are so far divested of honour and humanity, what may we not expect from the soldiery ?"
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Elizabeth-Toun, dated July 29, 1778.
"We have certain information that the enemy are get- ting water on board their shipping with the utmost in- dustry.
"This morning a certain Jonathan Chew, Captain in the New Levies, deserted over to us from Staten Island, bringing with him his son; also come off about the same time, a private of artillery. Chew was formerly an in- habitant of Billingsport, in Gloucester county."
Lately retaken and brought into Great Egg-harbour, by the privateer sloop Cornet, Capt. Yelverston Taylor, the schooner Carolina Packet, Capt. Walter Belt, from St. Ubes, with 1600 bushels of coarse salt. Also the sloop Lucy, Capt. Thomas Grandle, from South-Carolina, with 112 tierces and 30 half tierces of rice, one tierce and half ditto indigo.
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The sloop Lark, Capt. John Laing, bound from St. Kitts to Philadelphia, was lately taken and sent into a safe port. Her cargo consists of 77 hogsheads of rum, one ditto dry goods, 18 kegs of nails, 3 tierces and 1 case joiners and carpenters tools, door locks, hinges, &c. The schooner Phoenix, Captain Robert Gilbert, from Bermuda for New- York, with 30,000 oranges and lemons, and a considerable quantity of onions. And a schooner from Antiqua, with rum, brandy, &c.
Retaken and brought into Little Egg-harbour, by two New-England privateers, in company with Capt. John Rice, a brig and sloop loaded with tobacco.
We hear that several refugees, despairing of the suc- cess of the British arms, and being greatly neglected by those they esteemed their friends, have, within a fortnight past, left New-York, and come into this State, throwing themselves on the mercy of their country.
We are informed, that on Wednesday last a British frigate came within the Capes of Delaware. About the same time a large tender was cruising off our coast, which drove several of our small privateers into the inlets of this State.
It is reported that the prizes which were taken by the French fleet, since its arrival on our coast, are sent into some of the New-England ports.
By a gentleman from the army we learn, that ten de- serters upon an average come over every day from the enemy's post near Kingsbridge.
To be sold by the subscribers, in behalf of the pro- prietors, at May's Landing, on Great Egg-harbour, by publick vendue, on Monday, the tenth inst. (August) at ten o'clock in the morning, about 1600 bushels best St. Ubes coarse Salt; 112 tierces and 30 half tierces Caro- lina Rice; one tierce and a half best Carolina Indiga.
THOMAS SINNICKSON,
THOMAS LEAMING, jun. August 2, 1778.
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To be sold a PLANTATION, containing eighty-one acres of excellent land, lying at Chatham, in the county of Es- sex, New Jersey; fifty acres of which is in excellent Eng- lish meadow, which has produced upwards of fifty tons of timothy and blue grass in one season; eight acres in good plough land, from which there have been but two crops taken; the rest is the best of wood land; the whole in good fence. It lays very level, and natural to grass. The whole can be laid in mowing with little pains. There is on the said plantation, a dwelling-house with two fire- places, and a small bed room, a good barn frame almost new, a good well of excellent water, a good orchard that. yields a considerable quantity of good fruit every year. The whole is in good repair, and pleasantly situated; it is fit for a gentleman, merchant, tradesman or farmer. For terms apply to the subscriber, on the premises.
WILLIAM WRIGHT.
Chatham, July 30, 1778.
WEST-INDIA COTTON of the best quality, To be had for CASH or COUNTRY PRODUCE, of JOHN REYNOLDS, At the house formerly occupied by the Widow Cum- mins, opposite to Capt. Joseph Clunn's tavern,
TRENTON.
TAKEN up as a stray, about the twentieth instant, near Elizabeth-Town, a dark bay GELDING, six years old, four- teen hands high, branded on the near shoulder with the letter S, short square dock, trots and canters. Whoever may have lost said gelding, is desired on this notice to come, prove property, pay charges and take him away.
JOHN BURROWS, Capt. Col. Forman's regt.
Elizabeth-Town, July 21, 1778.
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By FURMAN and HUNT,
At their Store in Trenton,
WEST-INDIA Rum by the hogshead or gallon, Geneva, Apple Brandy and Whiskey by the barrel or gallon; and a few chests best Bohea Tea.
STOLEN out of the pasture of Zebulon Heston, on the night of the 28th of July, a brown HORSE, about fourteen hands and an half high, five years old past, trots, paces and canters well, branded on the off side under his mane Z, a little white on each of his hind heels. Whoever secures said horse, so that the owner may get him again, shall be entitled to the reward of Twenty Dollars, and all reason- able charges, and an addition of Twenty Dollars for the thief, if convicted thereof, paid by me John Coryell, at Coryell's Ferry.
July 29, 1778.
ALL persons indebted to the estate of Theodorus Van Wyck, late merchant of New-York, deceased, either by bond, note or book debt, are requested to pay their respec- tive accounts to the subscribers, at the house of the Rev. Jacob R. Hardenburgh, in Raritan, Somerset county ; and those who have any demands against the said estate, are desired to bring in their accounts, properly attested, to the subscribers, at the place aforesaid, that they may be dis- charged.
Abraham Van Wyck, Executor. Helena Van Wyck, Executrix. Helena Bogart,
-New-Jersey Gazette, Vol. 1, No. 35, August 5, 1778.
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TO BE SOLD.
A Tract of land, containing twelve or thirteen hundred acres, in Piles Grove, Salem County; also three hundred acres joining the Glass-house.1 Enquire of the subscriber in Reckless Town.2
New Jersey, July 30. WILLIAM GAMBLE.
TO BE SOLD by public vedue, on Thursday, the 3d. day of September next, on the premises.
A COMPLEAT SET OF SALT WORKS, commonly known by the name of Kennedy & M Culloh's situated about three miles from Great Egg Harbour Bar. Also the stores, dwelling-house, four horse teams, an ox team, a stout active Negro man, 100 acres of wood, of which there is 300 cords already cut, a compleat well constructed new shallop that will carry 14 cords of wood, in good order. Likewise the unexpired lease of 5 years to come of 40 acres of land on which the works are erected, subject to an annual rent of 25 £. The said works is to be sold for cash only. Attend- ance will be given at said time and place by
August 3, 1778. JOSEPH M'CULLOH
-The Pennsylvania Packet, August 6, 1778.
1 Erected at the close of the French and Indian war. The first estab- lishment of the kind built in New Jersey.
2 In Burlington county, now known as Chesterfield.
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Extract of a letter from Piscataqua, New-Jersey, dated July 17, 1778.1
"I beg you will permit me to inform you, that in my passage from Martinico I unfortunately fell into the hands of the enemy on the last of February, about 5 leagues from Cape Charles in Virginia; after which I was carried to Rhode Island, from thence to the Chesapeake again, and back to New York. In this circumnavigation I frequently suffered great hardship, as well from the savage cruelty of my captors, as for want of cloathing, being separated from the principal part of what I had with me by an accident. My arrival at New-York was, however, but the beginning of my calamities, and a pestilential prison ship the place of my abode, where the KING OF TERRORS became so fa- miliar with me, that he often times appeared a beneficent friend-To fill up the measure of my distresses, I had not been many days on board before I was seized with the epidemical fever, raging among the prisoners, which in general proved mortal to healthy, fresh men, in less than six days; but through mercy, I had a more favourable paraxysm of this malignant distemper in less time than
1 It has been thought that this letter may have been written by Philip Freneau, the satirist, who was so long a resident of Monmouth county. Mr. John Rogers Williams, of Princeton University, after a careful exami- nation of this letter, concludes that Freneau's experiences do not coincide with those of the writer of this communication. From November, 1775, to June 15th, 1778, Philip Freneau was living peacefully upon the estates of his friend, Captain Hanson, on the island of Santa Cruz, West Indies. Upon June 15th. 1778, Freneau commenced his return voyage to the United States. Off the Delaware capes the vessel was taken by the British, but Freneau, proving to be but a passenger, was landed on July 9th, and returned at once to Mount Pleasant, New Jersey. Freneau's experience with the prison ships came later. On the 26th of May, 1780, while a passenger on the ship Aurora, bound for the West Indies. he again had the misfortune of falling into the hands of the British. The Aurora was captured off the Delaware capes (not Cape Charles) by the frigate Iris, and Freneau, with the other prisoners, was sent to New York and placed on board the prison ship Scorpion "lying off the college in the North river." Freneau's experiences are detailed in his journal describing the capture of the Aurora. This journal has been published. The second reason is that the letter is not in Freneau's easy and graceful style.
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that, which miraculously saved my life, and the only one living from 30 inclusive, that came with me on board the same day. In the most reduced and emaciated state of. body, with scarcely strength in my limbs to sustain the skeleton, I was on the 25th ult. put on shore at Elizabeth- town, as a matter of great favour, on my parole, not to act in the cause of my country until properly exchanged. I have the pleasure, however, of a retrospective and satis- factory view of the innumerable escapes I have had, as well from civil as military persecution in the glorious cause of my country, though much alloyed with the mortifi- cation for the little service I have done it: I, however, hope that a favourable occasion will be put into my possession shortly, to compensate for all my unfruitful services and sufferings. When my health shall be again re established, in statu quo, on the wholesome respiration of my native air, and on which I have already very much recruited, I shall be happy to join immediately in the assistance of my country."
ELIZABETH-TOWN, JULY 29, 1778.
SIXTEEN DOLLARS REWARD.
DESERTED from my company, about the first of July, a certain CORNELIUS BARCALOW, about five feet ten inches high, thin visage, ruddy complexion, light brown hair, about twenty two years of age; 'tis believed he is lurking somewhere about the neighbourhood of Allen-Town. Who- ever takes up said Deserter and secures him in any gaol in the United States, or delivers him to any officer belong- ing to the regiment, shall receive the above reward, and all reasonable charges, paid by
JOHN BURROWES, Captain.1
1 Of the First Regiment, Monmouth.
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N. B. All persons are forewarned not to harbour said deserter at their peril .- The Pennsylvania Packet, August 8, 1778.
New-York, August 10. The following Anecdote we believe may be depended on.
Whilst the Count D'Estaing's Squadron lay off Sandy- Hook, a Marine Officer belonging to one of the Ships, a Scotch Man by Birth, went on Shore at Shrewsbury, the Inhabitants finding he spoke good English crowded to con- verse with him, and told him how happy they were made by the Arrival of the French Fleet, as they did not doubt their Independence would be established by their Co-opera- tion. Whereat the Scotch officer with a significant Shake of the Head answered them, "he believed they were mis- taken, that he looked upon their Independence only as a Dream, for that France or Britain must have this country."
The effect this Speech had, may be better conceived than described .- New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, August 10, 1778.
Chesterfield, Burlington County, Aug. 7, 1778.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD. 4
WAS STOLEN from the subscriber, a silk and worsted long gown, a blue quilt, a fine shift, a pillow-case, and fifteen shillings in money; supposed to have been taken by a woman who left Philadelphia when the enemy did, and who has been in the neighborhood ever since: she is a short thick woman, pockmarked, with brown hair, and stutters in her speech; had on a black petticoat, a callico short gown, a black bonnet, and was bare footed: Perhaps she may put on some of the stolen cloaths. Whoever takes up said woman and delivers her to JONATHAN GESS or ADAM PARKER, living in Burlington, or JOSEPH VANDYKE
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in Water-street between Arch and Race-streets, Philadel- phia, shall have the above reward and reasonable charges, paid by
ISRAEL WRIGHT.
TRENTON, AUGUST 12.
The following DEPOSITION was omitted last week for want of room.
BE it remembered, that on the 30th day of July, Anno Domini 1778, personally appeared before me, Peter Schenck, one of the Justices of Peace for the County of Monmouth, Mrs. Elizabeth Covenhoven, who being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, deposeth and saith, That on the 26th of June last, when the enemy came into that county, General Sir Henry Clinton, with his suite, made his quarters at her house, and promised on his honour that every thing she had should be protected and nothing injured : That some time after they had been there, she saw a soldier driving her horses away, upon which she applied to them to perform their promises, and one of the General's Aids said she should be paid for them ; she answered she could not spare them ; he then took down the marks, and declared they should be returned ; but she heard no more of them. Some little time after she perceived all her cattle, including her milk cows, driving by in the same manner ; she then made a like application and said, they must go without milk themselves if their cows were taken away; they then gave orders to have them stopped ; but before they went off they killed and took every one of them, not leaving her a single hoof. This deponent further saith, That the General and his Aids finding her fur- niture chiefly sent away, were exceedingly urgent to have them sent for, declaring it likely they would be destroyed where they were con- cealed, but if they were in the house they should be safe ; she told them she had no way to send for them; upon which they ordered a waggon and guard to go with the Negro wench to bring the goods, and they brought one waggon load home and placed a guard over it, and refused absolutely suffering her to have any thing out of it: That the next morning she found almost every thing of value was taken out of the waggon, and only a bible and some books; with a few trifles, left, which were scattered on the ground ; she then applied to the General himself to have liberty to take these few things his Honour had left her-he ordered one of his Aids to go to the guards and suffer her to have them-she followed him, and he said, here you damned old rebel, with one foot in the grave, take them. This deponent also saith, That, though a very old woman, she was obliged to sleep on a cellar door in her milk room for two nights, and when she applied for only a coverlet it was refused her: That by the time they went away her house was stripped of her beds, bedding, the cloaths of her whole family, and every thing of any value. The farm was also left in the same situa-
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