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WIL. LIVINGSTON, President.
1 For text of the act, see New Jersey Archives, 2d Series, Vol. I., p. 535.
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January 26, 1778.
TO BE SOLD,
By publick vendue, on Wednesday the 4th of Feb- ruary next, at the vendue-house near the market, in Mountholly,
A LARGE parcel of GOODS, among which are the follow- ing articles : Quality bindings ; linen checks and stripes ; cotton Turky stripe; cloth coloured and brown sag- gathies ; silk sucees, Loretto's and Damascus; calicos, handkerchiefs, and linens; sewing thread; needles and pins; awl blades and tacks; H and HL door hinges ; writing paper; mohair, silk and hair, and scarf twist; coat and jacket buttons ; shoe and knee buckles; tanned calf skins; scarlet hair plush; bed cords; household furniture; and many other articles. The vendue to begin at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, where attendance will be given by the subscribers, who will receive all kinds of goods intended for publick sale, at their respective places of abode in said place.
JOSEPH REED, JOHN SHIELDS.
N. B. Three plantations in Middlesex county to be let, and entered on the first of March next. Enquire as above.
January 26, 1778.
RAN AWAY the first of this month a mulatto negro man named JACK, about five feet five inches high ; pretty well set ; and exceedingly scar'd in the face, especially about the eyes, having been burnt when young; which of itself may distinguish him. Had on, when he went off, a homemade bearskin coat, white flannel shirt and twill'd linen breeches. Whoever will secure him so that his master Thomas Forman in Arney's Town, Burlington county, may have him again, shall receive FIVE POUNDS reward, and be paid reasonable charges.
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January 21, 1778.
STRAYED OR STOLEN
From the Widow TITUS's Vendue, held in Pittsgrove, Salem County, on the 19th of January,
A LIKELY stone colt, two years old past; a bright sorrel, with a blaze in his face, one hind foot white, near fifteen hands high, a natural trotter, a full mane hanging to the right side, with a large saddle lock, a switch tail, a full breast, and a sharp ear. Whoever takes up the said horse and thief, shall have FIVE POUNDS reward, or THREE POUNDS for the horse, with reasonable charges by me,
WILLIAM CRUM.
IF Mr. NATHAN JONES will call on the person in Tren- ton to whom he applied a few weeks ago, the business he then spoke of may probably be effected to his satisfaction. This intimation would have been made to him by letter, had it been known where to direct to him. He will not be at a loss for the meaning of it when he recollects a conversation with the same person last winter at Had- donfield.
January 28, 1778. 1
TO BE SOLD,
A HOUSE and LOT in Bordentown; also a house and lot of nine acres of land and meadow near Richard Waln's mills, in Upper Freehold: And also a plantation of 200 acres of land and meadow, with a house, barn, and orchard thereon, near Allens-Town, in Middlesex county. For further particulars enquire of the subscriber in Bordentown.
SAMUEL ROGERS.
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Bordentown, Jan. 22.
BY ORDER OF MAJOR-GENERAL MIFFLIN :
ALL persons having demands on the department of the Quarter-Master-General in New-Jersey previous to the first instant, for waggon-hire, forage, &c. are desired to bring their respective accounts, properly certified by the Assistant, or Deputy-Quarters-Master-General of the dis- trict to which they belong, to my office at Mr. Samuel Prince's in this town, without the least delay, as my stay in this state will be very short: Such accounts or cer- tificates only as are signed by one of the above officers, and for debts contracted before the present month, will be paid. And the said A and D Q M G's are requested to inform those in their several districts who have not yet exhibited their accounts, of the contents of this advertisement.
NATHANIEL CRANCH, Pay Master to Q. M. G.
Waterford, Gloucester County, Jan. 24, 1778.
THE present precariousness and situation of public as well as private affairs, oblige the subscribers, executors of the last will and testament of Richard Matlack,1 late of Gloucester county, deceased, earnestly to call upon those who are indebted to said estate, to make payment by the 20th of next month, or they will be under the necessity of putting their bonds, accounts, &c. in the hands of an at- torney for prosecution. And those who have any de- mands against the same, to exhibit them for settlement.
ABRAHAM MATLACK, - JOSEPH MATLACK,
Executors.
1 Richard Matlack, son of William, settled in Waterford, upon a planta- tion of 200 acres, in 1721. He is buried in the Matlack yard, upon his own plantation.
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TO BE SOLD BY
ROBERT KNOX, At Mr. JOHN TONKIN's in Spring- field, A few bushels of imported SALT, and
a quantity of POUND PINS.
January 28, 1778.
TO BE SOLD, by public vendue, on Thursday the fifth day of February, at Bordentown, sundry new and old sails, and a copper cabbin-stove.
STRAYED OR STOLEN,
From Jacob Benjamin's door, in Trenton, on Tuesday night last,
A dark brown horse, fourteen hands high, near five years old, has a star in his forehead, with white on his heels, long switch tail, natural pacer, and has a small blaze from the star across below his left eye. Whoever takes up the said horse and returns him to Henry Drake, in Trenton John Bullion, near Basken-Ridge, Somerset county, Tavernkeepers, or to William Templeton, owner, in Morristown, shall receive TWELVE DOLLARS, and all reasonable expences paid.
For the NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE.
Mr. COLLINS,
As the celebrated Mr. Galloway, late attorney litigant, but now attorney militant, has already had such a Rowland for his Oliver, my observations on his low artifice in the Pennsylvania Evening Post, shall occupy but a small part of your Gazette.
This gentleman having been sufficiently flagellated for publishing an affidavit taken suppressio veri, with design thence to avail his sinking cause, by the suggestio
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falsi; I shall confine myself to his false charge, That the Americans publish falsehoods concerning the probability of a French war. Pray, Mr. Superintendent, do the Americans compose the English papers, which are full of a rupture with France? Do the Americans make speeches for the Members in Parliament, who look upon such an event as avoidless ? Did the Americans frame Lord Stormont's memorial to the Ministers of France, which appears conceived in such humiliating terms, and dictated under such apprehensions of war, that one would swear the trembling Ambassador (who lately swaggered to their High Mightiness like a true English porter) already wanted new linings to his breeches ? But let me tell this minute politician, that the Ameri- cans do not found their hopes of success against the tyrrany of Great-Britain, on the expectation of being assisted by the French : They do not pretend to be cer- tain of such an event. But were they certain of the con- trary, not a single American (except such turncoats as Mr. Superintendent) would, upon that account, be di- verted from his opposition. We have begun, we have continued, and we can conclude the war without foreign succours. It is beneath the dignity of Congress, to go cap-in-hand for despicable mercenaries, to every petty, paltry, pitiful, penurious German Prince, whose terri -. tories are not larger than the county of Bucks, and whose subjects are scarcely worth our killing, after being brought above three thousand miles to kill us. It is upon God and our Right, and not upon Lewis the XVI, that we depend for our deliverance. And considering our success hitherto, we should have no reason to be dis- couraged, tho' we knew that His Most Christian Majesty would never interfere. It was not by French assistance that we forced General Burgoyne and his whole army to surrender; nor was it by French assistance, that we defeated the British troops at Trenton, and spread the terror of our arms to Bordentown, where this gentleman
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was then an humble dependant on the Hessians, and sat shivering on his horse with a for Heaven's sake whither shall I flee? in a hard shower of rain, to which, hard as it was, he added not a little by the spontaneous efflux of a certain natural jet d'eau, prone to such involuntary ex- tillations upon any extraordinary impression of terror.
But to shew him what consternation the ruinous con- dition of Britain has already excited in the realm itself, and that if France does not speedily assist us, Britain undoubtedly will, by being divided against itself, I send you a number of queries,1 extracted verbatim from one of their own papers, which I hope you will give an early place in your Gazette.
HORTENTIUS.
New Jersey Gazette, No. 9, Jan. 28, 1778.
New-York, February 2. We hear that all the Grain in New-Jersey is to be threshed out by the first of March, and most of it to be transported to the back Part of Penn- sylvania; that those who refuse to comply with this Order, their Wheat and Rye is to be taken away in the Sheaf, and paid for in Square Dollars only as Straw; that the People in general are much averse to the Measure, and declare their Unwillingness to comply with such a Mandate; that near Morris Town, a Bacon 40 Feet high has been lately erected in form of a Block House (with a 6 Pounder on the Top) filled with Dry Wood and other Combustible Stuff, for the purpose of catching fire soon, in order to the more quick Discharge of the Cannon, on the Report of which, and the Light from the Building, the Country is to take the Alarm, and those who do not turn out, may, by their Laws, be instantly put to Death by their next Neighbour, and escape with Impunity. Buildings of a similar Construction are also erected at Long Hill, and on the Heights at Bound Brook.
1 Series of interrogatories addressed to the First Lords of the Treasury and of the Admiralty and the Minister of the American department.
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From Newark we are informed, that the Inhabitants of that Place, some Time ago having received Notice to remove from thence, many Families were already retired with their Effects back to the Mountains, and that Orders are received there for the immediate constructing of Barracks, for accommodating a very large Body of Troops.
On Thursday afternoon, on his Way to gratify an ardent Desire to see his Family, who were ill of the Small-pox, Mr. JOHN RICHARDS, of New-Barbadoes Neck, was taken near Bergen by two armed Men, and on the Road between that and the three Pigeons, was shot dead by one of them, as he was preventing the other from robbing him of his Watch. He was a Man universally known, and as universally beloved, warmly attached to his Friends, humane and candid to his Enemies, benevo- lent and hospitable to all Men, and has now fallen a Sacrifice to his unsuspecting and generous Temper, for when warned of the Danger of his intended Visit, his Answer was, "that his Countrymen, even if they should take him, would never injure him."
Mistaken Man, to trust to the Generosity of those, who have involved their Country to Ruin.
The Names of the Monsters who perpetrated this horrid Tragedy, are Brower and Le Sheair,1 the former Shot him dead.
Staten-Island, January 22, 1778.
SIR, T THE active and humane part you have taken to pro- cure Watch-Coats for the Jersey Volunteers, demand our warmest Acknowledgments. You will also please to return our Thanks to the Loyal In- habitants of New-York, whose generous and seasonable Donations have contributed so much to the Comfort of
1 Lozier.
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the Troops under our Command, and the Good of his Majesty's Service.
We are with great Respect, Your much obliged, And Very humble Servants, ABRAHAM BUSKIRK, Lieut. Col. Commandant 4th Bat. N. J. V. ISAAC ALLEN, Lieut. Col. Commandant 6th Bat. N. J. V. ROBERT DRUMMOND, Major Commandant 3d Bat. N. J. V. THOMAS MILLIDGE, Major Commandant 5th Bat. N. J. V.
To Col. William Bayard.
The following is an authentic List of the new created GREAT MEN in the Province of New-Jersey; taken from one of their own publications.
Delegates to Congress from New-Jersey
Dr. John Witherspoon, Abraham Clark, Jonathan Elmer, Nathaniel Scudder, and Elias Boudinot. William Livingston, Esq., Governor.
Members of the Legislative Council.
For Hunterdon, John Stevens. Vice President, Mid- dlesex,1 - -; Essex, Stephen Crane; Monmouth,2 -; Bergen, Robert Morris; Morris, Silas Condict; Sussex, Robert Hoops; Burlington, John Imlay; Gloucester, John Cooper; Salem, Edward Keasby; Cumberland, Theophilus Elmer; Cape May,3 -; Somerset, James Linn.
1 Jonathan Deare.
2 Joseph Holmes.
3 Jesse Hand.
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Members of the Assembly.
Middlesex, Benjamin Manning, Matthias Baker, and John Vandike; Monmouth, unknown; 1 Essex, Caleb Camp, Edward Fleming, and Jacob Brookfield; Somerset, William C. Houston, Alexander Kirkpatrick, and Roeloff Sebring; Bergen, Jost Beam, Garret Ley- decker, and John Outwater; Burlington, Peter Tallman, Samuel Rogers, and Thomas Fennimore; Gloucester, Elijah Clark, other two unknown; 2 Salem, Benjamin Holme, Whitten Cripps, and Thomas Sinnickson. Cum- berland, Ephraim Harris, Ephraim Seely, and John Buck; Cape-May, Hugh Hathorne, other two unknown ;? Hunterdon, John Hart, Speaker, Nehemiah Dunham, and Benjamin Van Cleve; Morris, Jacob Drake, Ellis Cook, and William Woodhull; Sussex, Casper Shaffar, Thomas Peterson, and John Mac.Mutrie.
Justices of the Supreme Court, &c.
Robert Morris, Chief Justice; Isaac Smith, Second Judge; John Cleves Symmes, Third Judge; William Patterson, Attorney General; John Stevens, Treasurer ; Charles Pettit, Secretary and Clerk of the Council; Bowes Reed, Esq., Clerk of the Supreme Court; Elisha Boudinot, Clerk of the Circuits .- New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, February 2, 1778.
TRENTON, January 27.
Extract of a letter from Monmouth, Jan. 23, 1778.
On the 10th day of December last at six o'clock in the morning, the armed sloop Two Friends, commanded by Captain Alexander Bonnet, was cast away on the Long
1 James Mott, Jr., Peter Schenck, Hendrick Smock.
2 John Wilkins, Jr., Isaac Tomlinson.
Henry Young Townsend, Jeremiah Eldridge.
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Beech near Barnagat. A number of people from the shore went to their assistance and saved all the men, but one that was drowned. She was from Cape Nichola Mole bound to Philadelphia, laden with 1600 bushels of salt, 40 hogsheads of molasses, some rum and sugar. She went to pieces in a few hours, and all was lost except about 160 gallons of rum. The hands went to Phila- delphia-and Capt. Bonnet went on board the sloop En- deavour at Toms river, to take his passage home to Hispaniola, but unfortunately on the 25th of last month in the night, she parted her cable and was cast away in the bay and Capt. Bonnet with every soul on board perished."-The Pennsylvania Journal, February 3, 1778.
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Phila. Yesterday about twenty West Jersey loyalists crossed the Delaware, from this city, in order to assist somne of their friends, who had expressed a desire of taking refuge here, to avoid the horrid tyranny and im- placable persecution of the rebels. At the mouth off Mantua creek, they fell in with a party of the enemy in ambuscade, whom they soon repulsed, advanced four miles into the country, and took one Wilson prisoner, who was a committee man, and, it is said, very active in dis- tressing the friends of government. They returned this day with the prisoner, and their friends. The loyalists had one man killed, but what the rebels suffered is not known. Wilson is in confinement .- The Pennsylvania Evening Post, February 3, 1778.
Wednesday the 28th ult. Mr. EDWARD CATHRALL, in the 72d year of his age, after a life well spent, paid the last debt to nature. His facetious temper and christian de- portment endeared him to his numerous acquaintances ; and, during his last indisposition, he exhibited the greatest resignation to the Divine Will, patiently waiting to be removed from this transitory state of existence to a habitation, not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
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Friday following his remains were interred in Friends burying-ground, attended by a respectable number of his friends and fellow citizens.
The public are cautioned against counterfeit . Thirty Dollar bills, dated Feb. 26, 1777, badly imitated on copperplate. The counterfeit bill is easily discovered from the smoothness. of the paper, which is always the consequence of paper passing thro' a rolling-press on a copper-plate. The word Baltimore is not only larger, but in other respects very unlike the same word in the true bill. The words Spanish milled dollars in the coun- terfeit are very ill engraved and not like the Printer's letters .- The mountains, in the device, on the face of the bill, are strongly shaded in the true bills, and are little more than a drawing in the counterfeit .- The head in the clouds on the back of. the bill, representing the wind, is much larger and worse done in the counterfeit than in the true. There are many other differences between the true and the false, easily seen on comparison, but the above particulars will be sufficient for detection.
Burlington, February 3, 1778.
THIS is to inform the Publick that I still practise the business of Farriery, nicking, docking, and curing of horses, trimming and bleeding, &c. I may be seen or heard of at Michael Harvey's Commissary store, in Bur- lington aforesaid.
JOHN RYAN.
Feburary 4, 1778.
TO BE SOLD,
By the subscriber living in Princeton.
CHOCOLATE at fifteen shillings per pound; snuff, at fifteen shillings per pound, by the small, and twelve shil-
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lings, and six-pence per pound, by the quantity, well pack'd in bladders: Likewise a few almanacks.
THOMAS MOODY.
February 4, 1778. TO BE SOLD.
For no fault but a saucy tongue, for which he is now in Burlington gaol.
A NEGRO MAN about 39 years of age. He is a compleat farmer, honest and sober. For further particulars en- quire of the subscriber in Evesham, Burlington county. WILLIAM EVENS.
To be sold By Publick Vendue, at Burlington, on Thursday the 12th instant, (February)
THE schooner LITTLE HOPE, now lying in Ancocas1 near Wallace's Ferry, burden about 45 tons, with her tackle, apparel, furniture and cargo, consisting of a number of blankets, several pieces of baiz of divers colours, tea, pepper, claret, port wine, London porter, corks, &c. &c. Also a vessel known by the name of LEWIS'S MILL BOAT, now lying in Ancocas aforesaid, near the Ferry aforesaid, burden about 30 tons, with her tackle, apparel, and fur- niture. The Vendue to begin at ten o'clock on said day, and attendance given by
ISAAC KAY, Marshal.
N. B. The cash to be paid on the delivery of the goods.
1 Rancocas river.
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January 28, 1778.
TO BE SOLD
By way of Publick Vendue on Friday the 6th day of Feb- ruary next, at the late dwelling-house of Daniel Howell of Trenton, deceased, the following articles, viz.
WORKING horses, mares with foal by the best blooded horses, several colts, two yoke of oxen, several __ cows, some sheep, one feather bed and furniture, one pleasure sleigh, one waggon and cart, ploughs and harrows, with sundry other farming utensils too tedious to mention. The Vendue to begin at ten o'clock, at which time and place attendance will be given, and the conditions made known by
JOHN HOWELL, Executor. MARY HOWELL, Executrix.
Second month 4th, 1778.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
STRAYED Or STOLEN out of a stable in Trenton, on the 26th ult. at night, a large bay HORSE 15 or 16 hands high, with a star in his forehead, a longish thick tail, his mane hangs on both sides of his neck, trots, paces and gallops; of a lowish carriage, rising 8 years old, not shod when taken. There was a bay mare, with a star in her forehead, taken at the same time.
Whoever takes up and secures said horse, so that the owner may get him again, shall have the above reward, and reasonable charges paid by the subscriber at Mountholly.
JOSIAH WHITE.
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Bordentown, Jan. 31, 1778.
FOUR POUNDS REWARD.
Strayed away sometime last September from Bordentown two cows, one a black with white in her face, and some letters branded on her horns, intended for the name Knox, five years old. The other a small brown cow, with crumpled horns, three years old. FORTY SHIL- LINGS will be paid for either, or FOUR POUNDS for both, by
OKEY HOAGLAND.
February 2, 1778.
THIRTY DOLLARS REWARD.
STOLEN last night from the subscriber in Nottingham township, Burlington county, near Trenton, a black MARE, fourteen hands three inches high, nine years old, with a bald face, three white legs, shod all round, is very lusty for her height, trots and gallops. Whoever takes up the said mare, and secures her, so that the owner may have her again, shall have TWENTY DOLLARS for the mare only, and for the thief TEN DOLLARS, with rea- sonable charges, paid by
ELIZABETH PEARSON, or TALLMAN SMITH at Bordentown.
Burlington County, February 4, 1778. WAN'TS to engage in partnership with some gentleman that is inclined to carry on the works for making Epsom's salts, at Great or Little Egg Harbour, a young man who will constantly attend and carry on the business. Any gentleman inclinable to engage as above, by con- veying a line to the printer hereof, shall be waited on immediately.
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LIKEWISE a young man that would be glad to serve any gentleman as a clerk to iron works, or clerk and manager at public salt works, being capable of that business. For further particulars, enquire of the printer hereof.
WANTS employ as a schoolmaster, a young man who writes a good hand, and can teach vulgar and decimal arithmatick in all its branches, and the different branches of the mathematicks; also book-keeping, &c. after the methods taught in England. Any gentle- man' inclined to employ such a person, by sending pro- posals (either inclusive or exclusive of militia fines) to the printer hereof, shall be duly answered.
To the PRINTER of the NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE.
SIR,
IT has frequently happened, and may happen again, that the militia of New-Jersey make prize of vessels be- longing to, or in the service of the enemy; and as privatering is rather a novel business to landsmen in general, it may be of use to them if you will make them acquainted with the following extracts from the resolu- tions, orders, and regulations of Congress, by which they may the better know how to conduct themselves in the business, and in what manner to proceed in order to as- certain their property in any prizes they may take.
Extracts from the resolutions, orders and regulations of Congress respecting prizes.
In CONGRESS, November 25, 1775.
Resolved, 4. That it be, and is hereby recommended to the several legislatures in the United Colonies, as soon as possible, to erect courts of justice, or give jurisdiction to the courts now in being, for the pur- pose of determining concerning the captures to be made as aforesaid, and to provide that all trials, in such cases, be had by a jury under such qualifications as to the respective legislatures shall seem expedient.
5. That all prosecutions shall be commenced in the court of that Colony in which the captures shall be made, but if no such court be
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at that time erected in the said Colony, or if the capture be made on open sea, then the prosecution shall be in the court of such Colony as the captor may find most convenient ; provided that nothing contained in this resolution shall be construed so as to enable the captor to remove his prize from any Colony competent to determine concerning the seizure, after he shall have carried the vessel so seized within any harbour of the same.
March 23d, 1776.
Resolved, That all vessels, with their tackle, apparel and furniture, and cargoes belonging to any inhabitant or inhabitants of Great- Britain, and all vessels which may be employed in carrying supplies to the ministerial armies, which happen to be taken near the shores of any of these Colonies by the people of the country or detachments from the army, shall be deemed lawful prize, and the Court of Ad- miralty within the said Colony is required on condemnation thereof, to ADJUDGE that all charges and expences which may attend the capture and trial, be first paid out of the monies arising from the sales of the prize, and the remainder equally divided among all those who shall have been actually engaged and employed in taking the said prize. Provided that where any detachments of the army shall have been employed as aforesaid, their part of the prize-money shall be distributed among them in proportion to the pay of the officers and soldiers so employed.
RULES for the regulation of the Navy of the United Colonies. One of the articles is as follows.
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