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tion ; and that at a moderate computation, her loss amounted to 30001. and that she lost this in trusting to the personal honour of Sir Henry Clinton, which threw her off her guard, and made her perfectly easy, having solemnly engaged to protect or pay for every thing they used ; and this deponent declares that the sum of 51. 2s. which one of the officers gave her for 50 pounds of butter he had, was all the money or satisfaction she received for any thing she lost. And further saith not. (Signed ) ELIZABETH COVENHOVEN, 74 years of age.
Sworn before me, the day and year abore-written,
A true copy from the original.
P. SCHIENCK.
Extract of a letter from a Gentleman at camp at Elizabeth- Town, dated Aug. 7, 1778.
"Yesterday the British fleet, under Admiral Lord Howe, sailed from the Hook for Rhode-Island, as 'tis said. We are also informed that a number of transports are taking troops on board at New-York, but are uncertain as to their destination."
Extract of a letter from a Gentleman at camp at the White Plains, dated Aug. 8, 1778.
"I doubt not you have heard of the great fire in New- York. Yesterday came out from thence two Hessian offi- cers. They were of those taken at Trenton, and had contracted an affection for the country - therefore shortly after they were exchanged, as they tell the story, they resigned their commission; but not being able to obtain leave to come out, they at length effected their escape. They left the city about 8 o'clock in the evening the 6th inst. and passed King's-Bridge about one in the morning. One of them a handsome young fellow, whose brother is aid-de-camp to Gen. Clinton, tells me he saw the fire - that it began in a house filled with king's stores - - - 68 houses consumed and a vast quantity of stores. amongst which 30,000 blankets or pairs of blankets, I think the
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latter, 10,000 suits of cloaths, and a great deal of pro- visions, computed at four weeks supply. Some time after- wards a vessel struck with lightning blew up - - - this Hes- sian says she had on board upwards of 200 tons of powder, but other accounts say from 70 to 90 barrels; either was a great quantity for an explosion, and did great damage to the town. They say the inhabitants are much distressed at their present situation, and a vast many want to take their chance in the country, but cannot obtain permission. This morning the pilot who conducted Count de ESTAIGN to Rhode-Island, called on me - They arrived on Wednes- day last week, and he left them a day or two afterwards. The French fleet had taken a position to prevent any escapes ; but had not, except a ship or two, shewn them- selves in the harbour - That the enemy had evacuated Connanicut-Island, and burnt the King-fisher and two gallies which could not otherwise escape a French frigate which was after them. There is the greatest probability of success in that expedition, as I see nothing in the ordi- nary course of events to prevent it. The pilot says the fleet was ready to enter the harbour, but waited a signal from General Sullivan."
We hear that on Thursday sennight the ship Love and Unity from Bristol, with 80 hogsheads of loaf sugar, sev- eral thousand bottles of London porter, a large quantity of Bristol beer and ale, beside many other very valuable articles was designedly run on shore near Tom's River ; since which, by the assistance of some of our militia, she has been brought into a safe port, and her cargo properly taken care of.
By a gentleman from Egg-Harbour we learn, that a few days since a sloop from Jamaica bound to New-York, was brought in there. It seems a number of Americans, captured at sea, and carried into that island, had been put on board in order to be sent to New-York, and on their passage rose, secured the master and hands, and
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brought the vessel in to the above port. She was loaded with rum, sugar, &c.
Friday last John M'Kinley Esq late President of the Delaware State and Lieu Hall of Maryland arrived here on parole from New York and early next morning they set out for Philadelphia.
And on Sunday morning last about 100 Light Dragoons chiefly new recruits, neatly dressed in uniform and well mounted, under the command of Major Lee arrived here from Virginia on their way to camp.
BAPTIST ASSOCIATION.
NOTICE is hereby given to the Baptist churches belong- ing to the association1 usually meeting at Philadelphia, that being disappointed in their meeting last year, a number of Ministers met at Hopewell, in New-Jersey, in concurrence with said church :- Considering the utility thereof to the churches, it was concluded that the asso- ciation meet this year at Hopewell, Tuesday after the second Lord's day in October.
Hopewell, July 27, 1778.
1 Of the Baptist churches in New Jersey, of those which antedated the Revolution, the Cohansey congregation claimed its organization from 1683. that of Cape May from 1712, Salem from 1765, Dividing Creek from 1762. Pemberton from 1764, Pittsgrove from 1766, and Manahawkin from 1770. As early as 1688 there was a Baptist congregation at Middletown, where it is said that eighteen of the thirty-six purchasers of the Indian title were members of that denomination. It is curious that, after having "settled themselves into a church state," the Baptists of Middletown became divided, and each party was formally excommunicated by the other. What the trouble was is not positively known, for when the trouble was adjusted, in May, 1711, the record of proceedings was torn out of their church-book. In 1689 the Baptists organized a congregation at Piscata- way ; in 1747 at Scotch Plains ; in 1752 at Morristown, and in 1767 and 1769 at Mount Bethel and Lyons Farms. In Sussex county, at Wantage, the Baptists appeared in 1756, while in 1715 there were members of that faith organized in Hopewell, and in 1745 at Hightstown. Kingwood's church dates from 1742 .- New Jersey as a Colony and as a State, Vol. III., p. 315.
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THE Committee appointed by Act of the General As- sembly of the 22d of June last, for collecting, adjusting and settling the Accounts of the State, give notice to all persons whomsoever, who have been entrusted with pub- lick monies on the part of the State, and have not ac- counted for the expenditure thereof, or who are interested in any other publick accounts unsettled, to exhibit the same, with the necessary vouchers immediately, that they may be adjusted and reported to the Legislature at their next sitting, which is fixed, by adjournment, to the ninth of the next month. The Committee expect no further notice will be requisite; and observe that no accounts can be received by them during the sitting of the Legislature. WILLIAM CH. HOUSTON, JAMES MOTT, Jun. Pinceton, New-Jersey, August 10, 1778.
THIRTY DOLLARS REWARD.
STOLEN on the night of the 3d instant, out of the pas- ture of JACOB DAVIS, near Squancom in Shrewsbury township Monmouth county, East New-Jersey, a lightish coloured bay MARE, three years old, a natural trotter, about 13 hands high or more, with a black mane and tail, her hind feet spotted below the fetlock joint. Who- ever will secure said mare and thief, that he may be brought to justice, and return the mare to the subscriber at Shark River, or leave her at Dirick Longstreet's near Princeton, shall have the above reward, or Twenty Dol- lars for the mare only, and all reasonable charges, paid by me
August 10, 1778.
.JOHN DAVIS.
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A RIDING CHAIR was left at Point Breeze, near Borden- town, by the British army, in their flight from thence in December, 1776, with the letters J S A in a cypher on it. As it is likely they plundered it from some of the inhabitants of Jersey, any person, a subject of the United States, that has lost the same, may have it, on applying to the subscriber,
GEORGE DOUGLASS.
Point Breeze, July 20, 1778.
Thirty-two Dollars Reward.
DERSERTED from my company, since the battle of Mon- mouth, Benjamin Voglum, about 5 feet 9 inches high, pock-marked, and has a down look. Hugh M'Clane, an Irishman about 5 feet 8 inches high, a square set fellow, and has bushy curled hair. John Thompson, a nine- months-man, formerly belonging to the gallies, about 5 feet 8 inches high, swarthy complexion, and pock-marked. Also George Cook, born in Philadelphia, by trade a taylor, about 20 years of age, a likely young fellow, about 5 feet 5 inches high ; says he has a mother in Philadelphia. Its probable they will change their cloaths and ship themselves on board of some vessel, as two of them are sailors. The above reward will be paid for them, or Eight Dollars for either, with reasonable charges, paid by me
August 10, 1778.
JONATHAN PHILLIPS, Captain 2d. Jer. Regt.
N. B. Said Cook has been formerly advertised and taken, but deserted the second time before he joined the regiment.
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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 em- ployed as a house servant for some time past, and is now sold for faults which will not be likely to affect a pur- chaser who needs not intrust a servant with liquor, or the laying out of money. Enquire of Colonel Thomas Lowry, in Flemington, New-Jersey.
To be sold, by virtue of an order from the Judge of the Admiralty of the State of New-Jersey, on Thursday, the 20th inst. (August) at ten o'clock in the morning, by public vendue, at Samuel Cooper's ferry,1 opposite Phila- delphia, upwards of 30 hogshead best St. Kitts Rum; a quantity of Carpenters and Joiners Tools; Door and other Locks, Hinges, Hand-Saws, Files, Nails, Sod Iron, with a variety of other Hardware, &c. &c. Also a small quan- tity of Oznabrigs and bleached Russia Drabs; part of the cargo of the prize sloop Lark. Also two casks best Caro- lina Indigo, part of the cargo of the prize sloop Lucy. JOHN STOKES, Marsh.
Aug. 7, 1778.
To be sold, a PLANTATION, situate in Hunterdon county, West New-Jersey, ten miles distant from Trenton, up the River road, containing 370 acres land, 200 thereof cleared, the remainder rough, but remarkable good wood land, 20 acres good meadow made, about ten more may be made, well fenced, on the premises are a good stone dwell- ing-house two stories high, a stone kitchen adjoining, a large Dutch barn, a young orchard; and the whole farm plentifully watered. On another part of said tract are other convenient buildings. For terms enquire of the Printer.
1 Camden city.
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WHEREAS inquisition was found the 14th day of May, 1778, against Philip Van Cortlandt, John Bowlsby, Ed- ward Bowlsby, Charles Bowlsby, Richard Bowlsby, Jacob Hylor, Humphry Devenport, William Howard, George Beaty, Thomas Husk, Lawrance Buskirk, Jacob Demorest, Samuel Ryerson, Isaac Hornbeck and Nicholas Vreland; of which proclamation was made in Court, the 8th day of July, that they, or any person on their behalf, or any persons who should think themselves interested, might appear and traverse the inquisition. This is to give NOTICE that unless they, or some other person on their behalf, agreeable to the said proclamation, do appear at the next Court of Quarter-Sessions, and traverse the said inquisition, final judgment will be then entered against them.
AARON KITCHEL, Commissioner. Morris county, July 22, 177S.
CAME to the plantation of the subscriber, on the 25th of July, a sorrel horse, about 15 hands high, with a bald face, supposed to be 11 or 12 years old. The owner is desired to come, prove property, pay charges, and take said horse.
JOHN REEDER.
Trenton, Hunterdon county, 1778.
PUBLICK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN.
WHEREAS sundry complaints have been made, and great uneasiness appearing among the people in general of Colonel BEVERS's battalion of militia, in the townships of Bethlehem, Kingwood, and Alexandria, in the county of Hunterdon, New-Jersey, on account of the fines levied upon them by the Magistrates and Field-officers of said battalion, for not standing their draught, nor procuring substitutes for the nine-months-service; also on account of the fines levied upon them some time before.
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All which fines they complain were not equally and proportionably levied, according to their circumstances and situations, nor with equal justice recovered according to the warrants issued: Some having their goods dis- trained for the whole, while others are favoured and cleared by paying only one half of their fines, and great part of the monies recovered not fairly applied according to law. This being a matter of great concern and con- sequence to the publick in general, as well as to the in- habitants concerned in these three townships, it ought not to pass unnoticed in what ever part of the State it may happen. In justice therefore to those who were fined, as well as those who at all times have chearfully gone out, when called, to the field of battle, for the good of their country, some Magistrates and principal inhabitants of the township of Alexandria think necessary to request the favour of all the magistrates of the townships of Bethlehem, Kingwood, and Alexandria, the Field and other commissioned Officers of said battalion, and all the Collectors and Constables of said townships to meet at the house of William Davis at Pitts-Town, Hunterdon county, New-Jersey, on Tuesday the 18th instant, (Au- gust) at 9 o'clock in the morning, with all their accounts of the fines levied, what money they have received, how it has been disposed of, with the names and number of substitutes that have been hired and sent out from time to time, in order that a fair and just settlement may be made and rendered to the County Collector and Treasurer of all those fines, as the law directs; and thereby quiet the minds and uneasiness of the people, and prevent any slur or discredit that might hereafter be brought on the officers and inhabitants of these three townships .- It is hoped all concerned will not fail to attend.
N. B. The Constables are desired to be sure and bring in a return of all the warrants served from time to time on account of the fines. All those aggrieved by those fines are also desired to attend.
Alexandria Township, July 5, 1778.
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NOTICE is hereby given that there have been inquisi- tions found against the real and personal estate of the following persons, late of the county of Somerset and State of New-Jersey, that is against Joseph Stockton, Richard Cochran, Charles Roberts, John Harris, Benja- min Worth, William Drake and John Drake, disaffected persons, who have gone over and joined the army of the King of Great-Britain; which inquisitions have been re- turned at the last Court of Common Pleas, agreeable to an act of the General' Assembly of the State of New- Jersey, passed at Princeton on the 18th day of April, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, and no traverse hath been entered; but if all or any of the above said offenders, or any person or persons in his or their behalf, or who shall think himself interested in the premises, do not traverse said inquisitions at the next Court of Common Pleas to be holden in and for said county, final judgment will be entered against said estates.
By order of us,
JACOB BERGEN, Commissioners for the HENDRICK WILSON, county of Somerset. August 8, 1778.
-New-Jersey Gazette, Vol. 1, No. 36, August 12, 1778.
EIGHT DOLLARS REWARD.
Ran Away from the subscriber, living in the Jerseys, three miles from Cooper's Ferry, a Negro boy named SAMBO, between eleven and twelve years of age; had on when he went away, a homespun shirt and oznabrug trousers, a striped woollen twilled jacket; had a scar over one of his eyes, thick lips, and is small of his age. Who- ever takes up and secures said Negro, so that the sub- scriber may have him again, shall have the above reward, and all reasonable charges paid by
WILLIAM LAWRENCE -The Pennsylvania Packet, August 15, 1778.
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New-York, August 17. On Monday last arrived the Schooner Hammond, Capt. Bridger Goodrich, on his Pas- sage to this Port, saw eight Privateers from Tom's River in East-Jersey, three of which he took, and has brought them in; they are, the Schooner May Flower, with four Carriage, four Swivel-Guns, and 18 Men, from New- England, Andrew Geddridge, Master; the Schooner Scor- pion, William Gray, Master, one Carriage, 16 Swivel Guns, and 36 Men, from New-England, the Schooner Sally, Joshua Stutson, Master, six Carriage, ten Swivel Guns, and 25 Men, from New-Jersey.
We are well assured that Col. Butler's Party now on the Frontiers of Pennsylvania, New-Jersey, and this Province, amounts to at least between 5 and 6000 Men, and daily increasing, that the Settlers back from Carlisle in Pennsylvania, to the City of Albany, are in the greatest Tribulation, and daily retiring.
About 7 o'Clock last Saturday evening seven large Ships, Two-Deckers, came to an Anchor off Sandy-Hook, 6 of them were black sided, the other bright; one of them had a red Flag at her Main-Top-Mast Head .- New- York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, August 17, 1778.
PHILADELPHIA.
A gentleman from Cape May informs us, that a fleet of ships approached the coast of New-Jersey, somewhat south westerly of Little Egg Harbour, on Thursday and Friday last. A large ship and five smaller vessels only were seen; but it was manifest there were several others in company, by signal guns fired in the offing. The weather was hazy .- The Pennsylvania Evening Post, August 18, 1778.
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Extract of a letter from a Gentleman at camp at Elizabeth- Town, dated Aug. 11, 1778.
"Enclosed you have the copy of an advertisement which a few days ago was actually put up in the coffee-house at New-York; also a list of Admiral Lord Howe's fleet that sailed from the Hook, with which, 'tis said, he in- tends to fight Count d'Estaign-1
"Cornwal 74 guns, Eagle 64, Somerset 64, Nonsuch 64, St. Albans 64, Trident 64, Ardent 64, Raisonable 64, Preston 50, Centurion 50, Renown 50, Isis 50, Experi- ment 50, Phoenix 44, Roebuck 44, Vigilant armed ship 28 guns.
The Advertisement is as follows:
"TO BE SOLD, the British right in America ; consisting, among other articles, of Thirteen Provinces in rebellion, which Britain, in the hour of her insolence, attempted to subdue; the reversion of the government of Quebec, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, East and West Florida ; the interest of Hudson's Bay Company; a respectable body of troops; a considerable part of the royal navy; all the loyal subjects in America. The British West-India islands will be included in the Sales, if agreeable.
Apply to GEORGE JOHNSTONE, Esq.2 who is desirous to conclude a private bargain.
1 Count d'Estaign was lying off the southern coast of New England. A dispatch from Boston, printed in the Gazette, under date of July 27th, says that Count d'Estaign had with him the following ships under his command : Languedoc 90 guns, Tommant 80, Cesar 74, Zele 74, Nector 74, Marselliors 74, Protecteur 74, Guerrier 74, Jantasque 64, Provence 64, Vaillant 64, Sagitaire 50, Chimere 30, L'Engeante 36, L'Alemene 26, L'Arinable 26, besides five ships loaded with army supplies, bound for Virginia. The spelling of the ships is here given as in the Gazette.
2 One of the British Commissioners for restoring peace to America, who, on account of attempts to bribe members of Congress, was declared to be unworthy of any manner of correspondence or intercourse. Congress expressed its indignation upon August 11th, 1778.
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Conditions of sale to be seen in the hands of HENRY LAURENS, Esq. President of the Continental Congress ; and to make it easy to the purchasers, a seat in Congress will be taken in part payment, the rest in Continental dollars."
We hear from Morris-Town that his Excellency the Governor, upon intelligence that a number of people in Scooley's mountain had enlisted in the enemy's service, had several of them apprehended, and committed to gaol.
Among all the romantic stories (says a correspondent) which the tories propagate to delude the ignorant and credulous, their account of the French fleet is the most triumphantly impudent. This they represent as being dispatched by his Most Christain Majesty to co-operate with Lord Howe's squadron for suppressing the revolt in America.
We hear from good authority, that this day se'nnight two British commissaries deserted from the enemy at New-York and came over to Jersey. They report that many others of their acquaintance intend to embrace the first opportunity to do the like, so great is their aversion to their present hopeless situation.
WHEREAS sundry Juries of Inquiry have been held at different times and places in the county of Hunterdon, and inquisitions have been found against the following persons, subjects of the State of New-Jersey, who have either joined the army of the King of Great-Britain, or have otherwise offended against the form of their allegiance to this State, viz. John Allen, Christopher Voght, John Voght, George Castner, James Smith, Christopher Harris, John Oakeson, Peter Young, Conrad Eagler, Christian Rope, Michael Dennis, Joseph Lee, George Cyphers, John Van Buskirk, Rulof Rulofson, Samuel Sharp, Joseph Merril, Andrew Pickens, Nicholas Pickle, Edward Taylor, Bartholomew Thatcher, Thomas Skelton, Joseph Smith,
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Isaac Allen, John Barnes, Joseph Taylor, Absalom Bain- bridge, Charles Harrison, Alexander Kerr, jun. Brereton Pointing and Mary his wife, and Daniel Coxe, late of the county of Hunterdon, Jesse Wall, late of the county of Burlington, and Barnardus Legrange, late of the city of New-Brunswick; which said inquisitions having been returned to the last Court of Common-Pleas, held at Tren- ton for the county of Hunterdon ; and proclamation made in open Court, according to law, for the said offenders, or any person on their behalf, to appear and traverse the said inquisitions; and none having appeared : NOTICE is hereby given to the said offenders, that if they do not appear, or any person in their behalf, or whoever shall think himself interested in the premises, at the next Court of Common-Pleas, 'to be holden on the fourth Tuesday in October next, at the Court-house in Trenton, for the county of Hunterdon, to offer to traverse the said inquisi- tions, and put in the required security, that then the said inquisitions will be taken to be true, and final judgment will be entered thereon in favour of the State.
JARED SEXTON, NATHANIEL HUNT, Commissrs. PETER BRUNNER,
Hunterdon county, Aug. 17, 1778.
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
New-Jersey, ss. N OTICE is hereby given, that a Court of Admiralty will be held at the Court-house in Trenton, the 27th day of August inst. at ten o'clock in the fore- noon of the same day, then and there to try the truth of the facts alledged in the bills of Captain Joseph Cook, (who as well, &c.) against the schooner or vessel called the Hawke, lately commanded by Philies Pro- vinsal-The sloop or vessel called the William, lately
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commanded by William Hobbs - and the brigantine or vessel called Governor Henry, lately commanded by William Arthur. Of Captain Edward Turner, (who as well, &c. ) against the brigantine or vessel called the Nancy, lately commanded by James Club. Of Captain David Stevens, (who as well, &c.) against the schooner or vessel called the John and Sally, lately commanded by Rufus Gardner. Of Yelverton Taylor, (who as well, &c. ) against the sloop or vessel called the Lucy, lately commanded by Willian Sandle-The schooner or vessel called the Caro- line-And the sloop or vessel called the Lark. Of Enoch Stillwell, (who as well, &c.) against the sloop or shallop supposed to be named the Marydunceo: with their re- spective tackle, apparel, furniture and cargoes ; to the end and intent that the owner or owners of the said vessels respectively, or any person or persons concerned therein, may appear and shew cause, if any they have, why the. said vessels and their respective cargoes should not be condemned according to the prayer of the said bills.
By order of the Judge, BOWES REED, Pro. Re.
August 7, 1778.
Edward Brooks, junior,
Hath for SALE at his Store in Bordentown,
MOLASSES, Jamaica Spirit, rye whiskey, sugar, tea, coffee, pepper, allspice; Ticklenburg, Russia sheeting, check and white linen; nails, frying pans, plane irons, compasses, pins ; quart bottles ; sweeping brushes, country made earthen ware; a good assortment of excellent men's and women's leather shoes; indigo of the best quality ; cedar buckets: Likewise an assortment of castor and wool hats.
August 18, 1778.
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To be sold, the large and commodious brick HOUSE that John Imlay, Esq. formerly lived in, in Bordentown, with a stable and chair-house, a fine garden, and two grass plots, with a variety of fruit trees; it stands in an agree- able situation. For particulars inquire of Joseph Carson, in Water-street, above Market-street, Philadelphia.
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