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WHEREAS many of the horses belonging to the United States, in forwarding on from camp to the Westward, have by weakness and other unavoidable accidents, been left be- hind and strayed away. It is therefore earnestly requested of all those who may have taken any of them up, that they do forthwith deliver them to me or my deputies at Sussex, in the state of New Jersey; Northampton and Bucks county, in the state of Pennsylvania .- all persons conceal- ing them after this notice, may depend on being prosecuted. Information where any of them may be concealed, will be thankfully received and rewarded by
Robert L. Hooper, Jun. D. Q. M. G. Easton, December 23, 1778.
To be sold for current Money,
THE plantation William Walker lives on in Maiden- head, also about 200 acres of woodland adjoining John
township, Burlington county, and Sarah, his wife, conveyed to George Campbell, Esq., of the city of Philadelphia, 1881/2 acres of the said tract, beginning at the River Delaware, at the old reputed John Dugless' corner, etc., in Nottingham township, reserving the privilege of having two rods wide all along the river shore to pass to and repass from, for loading and unloading the ferry boats belonging to Hugh Runyan. The consideration was £ 12,767 10 s., quite a startling price, until it is borne in mind that it was in the inflated currency of the day .- Liber A K of Deeds, in the Secretary of State's office at Trenton, p. 577. He probably carried on a general merchandising business, including the sale of drugs and the man- agement of the ferry at Trenton Landing, in Lamberton .- Stryker's "Tren- ton One Hundred Years Ago." He was appointed a justice of the peace for Hunterdon county, November 26, 1794, and again October 30, 1799. He died in Kingwood township, Hunterdon county, whither he had removed, probably before 1794. His will, dated June 23, 1821, was proved July 22, 1823. In this instrument he names his wife, Sarah, and children-John Runyan, Henry L. Runyan, Evan Runyan, Elizabeth Marseilis, Sarah Ten Eycke, and Maria Smith, wife of Israel Smith; also grandchildren-Hugh Runyan, son of Mill ( ?) Runyan, Sarah Runyan, daughter of John Runyan, Hugh Runyan Marseilis, and Hugh Capner ; also great-grandson-Hugh Betron, son of Samuel Betron ; also legatee, Friend Charles Ewing. Exec- utors-Charles Ewing, attorney-at-law; son-in-law, Peter Ten Eycke ; friend, Thomas Capner, Sr., Esq. Witnesses-Daniel Snyder, John W. Scott and Philip Case. The inventory of his personal estate, dated July 19, 1823, made by Benjamin C. Pursell and John W. Scott, appraisers, foots up $428.8912 .- Hunterdon Wills, 1822-1825.
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Rosewell, Job Rosewell, Timothy Baker and Stephen Jones, called Little Bear Swamp, heavily timbered, and most of it the same rich soil with the Maidenhead meadows. For terms apply to William Cope near Bristol, in Penn- sylvania.
January 1, 1779.
To Be Sold,
A Valuable plantation or tract of land, situate in the township of Dover, county of Monmouth, and state of New Jersey, adjoining Barnegat Bay, and bounded by land of James Mott, Esq, and the Pennsylvania salt works, con- taining three hundred acres; about seventy acres thereof excellent salt meadows, ten acres of good fresh meadow may be made with little expence; the remainder chiefly good timber land, the soil very good for corn and rye, and with a small expence (by bringing on the sea-weed) will be very good for raising wheat-There are on the premises a log house, also a cellar dug and walled twenty feet by twenty-six, together with a good frame, two stones, ready for raising, with boards, shingles and bricks sufficient for said building. The situation is peculiarly advantageous for erecting salt works. For terms apply to the subscriber living at the Blackhorse, in Burlington county.
Edward Thomas.
Dec. 21, 1778.
Came to the plantation of the subscriber, living at West- field, the latter part of last November, a BLACK HORSE, 13 hands and a half high, about five years old, his hind feet white, has a strip in his forehead, a natural trotter, and shod before. The owner is desired to come, prove property, pay charges, and take him away.
Ephraim Scudder.
Westfield, near Elizabeth- - Town, Dec. 29, 1778. .
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THE Legislature having appointed me Commissary of Prisoners for this state, of New Jersey, I do hereby request the friends of all such persons who have had the misfortune to fall into the power of the enemy, to furnish me with their respective names, together with the time and place of their capture, that I may be enabled to negotiate their exchange as soon as possible.
Elisha Boudinot,1 Com. Pris. for the State of New Jersey. Elizabeth Town Jan. 1, 1779.
A few TIERCES of the best WEST-INDIA COTTON,
To be Sold very Cheap, by JOHN REYNOLDS, In TRENTON.
TO BE SOLD,
A VERY valuable tract of LAND, situate on the Raritan River, two miles from the town of New Brunswick, in the state of New Jersey, commonly known by the name of the Island Farm, containing about two hundred acres. There is a very large proportion of woodland to it, which renders it particularly valuable, as from its vicinity to the river, the conveyance of the same to the New York market will be attended with very little expence. The land is in gen- eral good, and seldom fails of producing good crops; its situation is remarkably high and healthy, commanding a most beautiful and extensive prospect from the place where the house stood, so much so, that the city of Amboy lies open to view. There is a large quantity of fresh and salt meadows, and much more may be made; a fine thriving
1 For a notice of Elisha Boudinot, see New Jersey Archives, 2d Series, 2: 525.
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orchard, and sundry other improvements and advantages, which are unnecessary to enumerate, as the character of the farm is so well known and established. The tract was divided in the survey into three separate farms, on one of which are a house and barn, and some improvements, and will be sold together or separate, as may best suit the purchaser.
The dwelling houses, barn and outhouses having been de- stroyed by the enemy, and the Proprietors being obliged to reside at a distance from the farm, induce them to dis- pose of it. Those who are inclinable to view the premises are requested to call on Mr. John Dennis, in New Bruns- wick, and for the terms are desired to apply to Thomas Lawrence, or John Lawrence, jun. in Philadelphia, or to Anthony White,1 Esq. now residing at the Union Iron Works, in Sussex, in the state of New Jersey.
1 Anthony White, said to have been a son of Leonard White, of the Bermudas, is believed to have come to New York about 1715. There (in the Dutch Church) he m. Joanna Staats (b. Jan. 31, 1694, dau. of Dr. Samuel Staats), Jan. 26, 1717, perhaps her second husband. They had a son, Anthony, bap. in the N. Y. Dutch Church, Nov. 6, 1717. The father is reported to have died soon after, on a voyage to the Bermudas. His wid. m. Admiral Norton Kelsall, Sept. 29, 1726.
Anthony White, 2d, gave a receipt, July 29, 1737, to Frederick Morris, for the (judgment ?) roll in the case of Patrick Campbell vs. James Wal- lace .- Calendar N. Y. Hist. MSS., II., 529. He was admitted as a freeman of the City of New York the day after he became of age, or on Nov. 7, 1738, being styled "gentleman" in the record .- N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1885, p. 137. It was probably very soon after this date that he married Elizabeth, dau. of Gov. Lewis Morris, of New Jersey, and became identified with and a resident of this province, for on June 19, 1741, he was com- missioned by his father-in-law, the Governor, as Clerk of the Peace and Clerk of Monmouth County .- East Jersey Deeds, E 2, p. 509. Gov. Morris appointed him Surrogate of the Prerogative Court, Feb. 15, 1744-5, an- office to which he was reappointed Oct. 13, 1746, by President John Hamil- ton, after the death of the Governor. On removing to New Jersey he took up his residence at New Brunswick, or on the Raritan river opposite that city. His house was afterwards the Pool home, and in late years was occupied by Mr. George Metlar. It is said to have been built about 1740 by Anthony White .- Local Tradition. When Samuel Myers Cohen, a New York merchant, was about to sail for England, in view of the great perils of such a voyage he made his will Aug. 11, 1741, and Anthony White was one of the witnesses .- N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1894, p. 406. He was the mediary through whom William Chetwood, of Elizabethtown. transmitted a letter written April 7, 1747, by Edmund Bainbridge, of Maidenhead, to
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As the Proprietors will not have occasion for the money, the purchaser may have any time for the payment of the same, on giving security and paying interest.
Dec. 8, 1778.
Nathaniel Camp, of Newark, in relation to a plan on foot to contest the claims of the East Jersey proprietors, White sending the letter to his brother-in-law, Robert Hunter Morris .- N. Y. Col. Docs., 6: 346. He was in a group of distinguished citizens at Burlington, May 15, 1750, when Counsellor John Coxe declared that it was no use for him to practice in the Court of Chancery before Governor Belcher .- N. J. Archives, 7: 543. Anthony White, Esqr., of Somerset county, and Elizabeth his wife, con- veyed to Robert Tilton, of Middletown, Monmouth county, yeoman, by deed dated May 8, 1751, consideration £ 930, a tract of 309 acres and a fraction, in the city of Shrewsbury, Monmouth county .- E. J. Deeds, Lib. H 2, p. 263. The lands of Dirck Schuyler, and his wife Anne Mary, were advertised to be sold on Oct. 28, 1754, and information in relation thereto was to be had of Anthony White, at New Brunswick, among others .- N. J. Archives, 19: 411. The dwelling-house, storehouse, stabling, wharf and lot of land on which Dirck Schuyler lately lived, in the City of New Brunswick, and other property, were advertised to be sold on March 25, 1755, by William Walton, of New York, Anthony White of New Brunswick, and others .- Ib., 454. White also about the same time advertised the grist-mill and land late of Mathew Clarkson, deceased, and Gerardus Depeyster, on the Raritan river, opposite to Raritan Landing, and within a quarter of a mile of his own residence .- Ib., 453. The debtors of William Symonds, late of New Brunswick, were desired by public advertise- ment, July 31, 1758, to pay their debts to Anthony White, Esq., at New Brunswick .- Ib., 20 : 256. On Jan. 11, 1759, White advertised the farm and plantation known as Lawrence's Island, on the Raritan river, about two miles from New Brunswick. At the same time he offered for sale "sundry of the best and most valuable farms and plantations on the West- New-Jersey Society's 100,000 acre tract in Hunterdon county."-Ib., 20 : 316, 317. Governor Josiah Hardy commissioned him, Jan. 26, 1762, Clerk of Hunterdon county, and on March 22, 1762, one of the Surrogates of the Prerogative Court in the Eastern Division of New Jersey .- N. J. Archives, 9 : 360. He was one of the managers of the Bound Brook bridge lottery, to raise £ 400 for the erection of a bridge across the Raritan river at that . point, the scheme being advertised in The New York Mercury, May 10, 1762 .- N. J. Archives, 24: 36. On the death, July 3, 1762, of Lewis Morris, Jun., Judge of the Court of Admiralty of New Jersey, Gov. Hardy commissioned Anthony White to succeed his deceased brother-in-law .- Ib., 378. On Jan. 26, 1763, he was appointed one of the Justices of the Peace, in the counties of Morris and Somerset .- N. J. Archives, 17: 342. He presented a petition, dated July 19, 1764, to Lieutenant-Governor Colden, of New York, for a ferry from Staten Island to Bergen Point-probably desiring the franchise .- Calendar N. Y. Hist. MSS., II., 748. This was probably in anticipation of the transaction next recorded, to wit: The commissioners appointed by the Legislature to partition the Bergen com- mon lands sold a tract of land at Bergen Point, at public auction Sept. 7, 1764, to Hendricus Kuyper, the highest bidder, for £ 7300, "proclama- tion or lawful money of New Jersey," and gave him a deed, Sept. 10, 1764.
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ALL Persons indebted to the estate of James Jackson, · jun. of Upper Freehold, in the county of Monmouth, de- ceased, on bond, bill or book debt, are requested to make immediate payment. All those that have any demands against said estate, are once more earnestly requested to bring their accounts properly attested, within three weeks
-E. J. Deeds, Lib. A 3, p. 413. He endorsed on it a declaration that he held the same in trust for Anthony White, of the city of New Brunswick (2-18ths), and others, who had furnished the money for the purchase. Mr. White died seized of three lots of the tract on the Kill van Kol, and three lots on Newark Bay, and they were partitioned among his three surviving children, Aug. 27, 1798 .- Winfield's Land Titles of Hudson County, 135, 141, 144. Gov. Franklin commissioned him one of the Jus- tices of the Peace of Somerset county, Sept. 21, 1767, and one of the Jus- tices of the quorum of the same county, April 21, 1768 .- Lib C 2 of Com- missions, p. 322; N. J. Archives, 17 : 504. He was commissioned a Judge of the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Somerset county, Aug. 26. 1768; Aug. 30, 1769; May 14, 1770; Oct. 30, 1770; Aug. 28, 1771; Oct. 1, 1774. -Lib. A B of Commissions, passim. Under date of Dec. 8, 1778, he again advertised tne Lawrence Island Farm, which he had offered for sale in 1759, as already mentioned. He was now living at the Union Iron Works, in Sussex county .- 2 N. J. Archives, 3: 10. The will of Anthony White, of Middlesex county, dated Feb. 14, 1780, was proved at New Brunswick, Nov. 12, 1787, indicating that his last days were spent in the city which had so long been his home. He devises to his son, Anthony Walton White, two-fifths of his estate, and to his daughters, Isabella, Joanna and Euphemia, each one-fifth. He does not refer to his wife; she had doubt- less died before the date of his will. All four of the children were made executors. The witnesses to the instrument were Anne hearny, Ravaud Kearny (his wife's kin), and Edward McShane .- Liber No. 29 of Wills, in Secretary of State's Office, p. 360. Anthony White and Elizabeth Morris, his wife, had issue :
i. Joanna, b. Nov. 14, 1744 ; m. about 1787, Col. John Bayard (his 3d wife) ; d. June 26, 1834, without issue ; he was b. Aug. 11, 1738 ; d. Jan. 7, 1807, at New Brunswick .- N. Y. Gen. & Biog. Record, 15: 63.
ii. Euphemia, b. Dec. 10, 1746; m., about 1785, William Paterson (his second wife), Governor of N. J., 1790-1793 ; Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1793-1806 ; she d. Jan. 29, 1822, in the 86th ( ?) year of her age .- Penn. Mag. of Hist. & Biog., 3: 431, 434; N. Y. Gen. & Biog. Record, 23 : 91.
iii. Isabella ; mentioned in her father's will, in 1780. No further ac -. count. She probably died before him.
iv. Anthony Walton, b. July 7, 1750, at New Brunswick ; he took his middle name after his godfather, William Walton, a distinguished merchant of New York; m. 1783, Margaret Ellis, then in her 15th year. For a full and interesting sketch of Gen. Anthony Walton White, see N. J. Hist. Soc. proceedings, 2d Series, 7: 105-115 (January, 1882), reprinted in The Magazine of History, with Notes and Queries, 1: 40-44 (January, 1905). .
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after the date hereof, in order to receive their just dues, and enable the subscriber to make up his accounts with the legatees.
Edmund Beakes,1 Admin.
December 30, 1778.
One Hundred Dollars Reward.
RANAWAY from the subscriber, living in New Britain, Bucks county, the 20th instant, (Dec) a Negro Man called TOM, well made, about 6 feet high-Had on when he went away, lightish surtout coat, a brown close bodied coat, a fine hat half worn, a pair of leather breeches with boot- straps behind, and a pair of boots with him; he also took a fiddle with him and plays with his left hand. Said negro was bought from one William Brown at or near Ten Mile Run, in New Jersey, where he, the negro says he is well acquainted, and imagine he is gone that way. Whoever secures said negro, so that his master may have him again, shall have the above reward, paid by me.
TOBIAS SHULL.
December 22d, 1778.
30 DOLLARS Reward.
RANAWAY from Benjamin Vancleave's Esq. in Maiden- head, the 26th instant, (Dec) a negro WENCH named Dinah, 28 or 30 years of age, five feet six or seven inches high, black and very lusty. She was lately bought of Parson Van Arsdall2 at Springfield, and lived formerly at Rocky-Hill, and hath a brother living with Colonel
1 For some notices of the Beakes family, see New Jersey Archives, 20 : 557.
2 For a sketch of the Rev. Jacob Van Arsdale, see New Jersey Archives, 24: 638.
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Scudder, in Freehold, and its likely is gone there. Any person apprehending said wench and applying to Mr. Phillips, innkeeper, in Maidenhead, shall be entitled to the above reward and reasonable charges, paid by William Crab.
On the 20th of November last a certain person who called himself Daniel Nucom, and said he was a drover, and lived in Pennsylvania, sold a bull to the subscriber as his property ; and about two weeks after Samuel Rusk came for the said bull, which he proved to be his own : This is therefore to warn the publick of the impostor. He is a short well set fellow, about 35 years old, and speaks a little broad : He had on a light coloured coat, swanskin jacket, leather breeches, half-leg boots, and scalloped hat ; he rode a sorrel horse, with a white mane and tail, and one wall-eye. Any person taking up said Nucom, and se- curing him so that he may be brought to justice, shall have FORTY DOLLARS reward, paid by
JOSHUA STOUT.
Hopewell, Dec 20.
TO BE SOLD by
FRANCIS WITT,
opposite Captain CLUNN's in Trenton,
LINENS, checks, cambricks, muslin, tea, coffee, pepper, alspice, hard soap, indigo, snuff, shoes, shoe and knee buckles, ribbands, coat and vest buttons, decanters, pint tumblers, China dishes; also a bark to make excellent bit- ters or cordials.
WANTED immediately TWO JOURNEYMEN FULLERS, who will have good encouragement, and be exempted from mili-
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tary duty, by applying to WILLIAM DENNISTON, near Morristown, East Jersey.
Dec. 12, 1778.
To all whom it may concern :
State of New Jersey, ss.
NOTICE is hereby given that a Court of Admiralty will be held at the house of Gilbert Barton, Innholder, in Allen- town, in the county of Monmouth, on Tuesday the 12th day of January next, at 10 of the clock in the forenoon, then and there to try the truth of the facts alledged in the bills of Yelverton Taylor, (who as well, &c.) against the schooner or vessel called the Good Intent, lately com- manded by John Rosely ;- against the schooner or vessel called the Fame, lately commanded by Francis Coflin 2- of John Leake, (who as well, &c.) against the schooner or vessel called Fortune, lately commanded by Garret Beek- man-of Moses Griffin, (who as well, &c.) against the schooner or vessel called the Rambler, lately commanded by Bayne Smallwood-of Seth Johnson, (who as well, &c. ) against the sloop or vessel called the Charming Polly, lately commanded by Ebenezer Ward-of David Stevens, (who as well, &c.) against the schooner or vessel called the Friends, lately commanded by James Conn-of Nathaniel Fitz Randolph, (who as well, &c.) against the sloop or vessel called the Polly, lately commanded by Richard Read- ing-of John Voorhees,3 (who as well, &c.) against the sloop or vessel called the Sally, lately commanded by Thomas Crowell, jun. with their respective tackle, apparel, furniture and cargoes : To the end and intent that the owner or owners of the said vessels respectively, or any
1 Mr. Denniston died October 29, 1807, aged 71 years.
2 In the same advertisement in the Pennsylvania Packet, January 7. 1779, this name is given as "Coffin."
3 In this advertisement in the Pennsylvania Packet, this name is given as "John Neilson."
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person or persons concerned therein, may appear and shew cause, if any they have, why the said vessels and their re- spective tackle, apparel, furniture and cargoes should not be condemned according to the prayer of the said bills,
By order of the Judge,1 JOSEPH BLOOMFIELD,2 Register
TO BE SOLD,
BY THE SUBSCRIBER.
Two very good brick dwelling-houses and lots of ground, situated in the town of Salem, between the church and court-house. The lots contained 75 feet front and about 300 feet depth. The dwelling-houses were both put in very good repair lately. On the premises is an excellent garden well planted with fruit and fenced in with cedar, and other conveniences. The situation is as good as any in the town, and will either suit a gentleman of fortune or may be divided into two convenient lots so as to suit a couple of families. Also about eight acres of excellent meadow within a quarter of a mile of the town, very capable of improvement, will be sold together with the above premises. The reason of sale is that the subscriber is going soon to remove his family to Burlington. For particulars enquire of
John Carey.
Piles-grove, Salem County, Dec. 2d, 1778.
1 This advertisement in the Pennsylvania Packet is dated "Allen Town, Dec. 21, 1778."
2 For a sketch of Joseph Bloomfield, see New Jersey Archives, 2d Series, 1:341.
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Ogden and Curtis,
Have for SALE at their STORE near the Court House in Morristown,
RUM and whisky
¡Needles
Sugar
Cap wire
Hyson and bohea tea
¡Fine ivory & horn combs
¡Indigo
¿Spectacles
¡Brimstone
Scissors and razors
¡Snuff
*Ink powder
¡Plug and pigtail tobacco
¡Writing paper Brass ink stands
¡Castile soap
¡Blacking ball
Sealing wax
¡Ginger
¡Paste boards
Pepper, alspice, & rosin
¡Pocket books
#Imported & shore salt
Bed cords
Gun Powder
Leading lines
¡Chalk
#Family and pocket almanacks
¿Cloths
¡Testaments
Buckram
¡Spelling books
Linen and cambrick
¡Primers
Pistol lawn
¡Baxter s saints rest
+Bombazene
¡Blank books of all sizes
Black taffety
Carpenter's hammers
Black ell Persian
Gimblets
Velvet
Tap borers
Shallon
Brass cocks
Threads and ribbands
¡Corks Pnuladel. earthenware
¿Sewing silk
Pins
¡Iron potts & kettles, &c.
N. B. The articles thus marked ; they have by the quantity.
JOSEPH MILNER,
Has for SALE at his STORE in TRENTON, Wholesale or Retail, the following articles :
MADERIA wine, French brandy, old spirits, West-India rum, tea, coffee, sugar, alspice, sweet oil in flasks, snuff, tobacco, rosin, allum, 20d, 10d and 6d nails, shingles, pine and cedar boards, bar iron: a large quantity of linens, handkerchiefs, of different kinds, Russia and ravens duck ;
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hand, pannel, and crosscut saw files, hair combs, small shot, loaf sugar, earthenware, imported salt, and sundry other articles.
TO BE SOLD Wholesale and Retail, by the Printer hereof,
THE New Jersey ALMANACK, For the year of our Lord 1779, CONTAINING,
Besides the usual astronomical Observations, A Variety of useful, instructive, and entertaining MATTERS, in Prose and Verse.
PETER HULICK,
STAY-MAKER, in TRENTON, from New York,
BEGS leave to acquaint the Ladies of this town and the country in general, that he makes on the shortest notice, stays of all kinds, turned, plain, pack thread, and straw cut, after the newest, neatest and most fashionable man- ner, either French or English; like wise growing Misses to give and preserve a shape truly perfect. Those Ladies who please to favour him with their employment shall find him ever ready to serve them to the utmost of his ability, with integrity, gratitude and dispatch. He returns his grateful acknowledgments to those Ladies who have already favoured him with their custom, and assures them that it shall be his chief study to merit theirs and the public's esteem.
P. S. Ladies may be served at the greatest distance, by sending their length before and the width of the top and bottom of their waist.
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To be sold by the subscriber,
In the Lane opposite the College in PRINCETON,
SNUFF in bladders or smaller quantity, needles by the thousand, imported salt at seven pounds a bushel, alman- acks for the year 1779, by the gross or dozen, as low as may be purchased at the printers, and the high Dutch almanacks by the dozen or single, writing paper, sewing silks of various colours, and sundry other articles.
JOHN DENTON.
Princeton, Dec. 17. 1778.
Stephenson and Canfield,
At their STORE opposite Capt. Peter Dickenson's1 in Morris Town, have for sale a suitable assortment for the season, such as
COARSE broad cloths, coatings, scarlet cloth for cloaks, shoes, stockings, beaver, castor and wool hats, callicoes, Irish linen, check, muslins, lawns, cambrick, pelong, buck- ram, camblets, everlastings, sagathy, sewing silk of all colours, fine thread, pack and pound pins, needles, playing cards, pipes, pen knives, knives and forks of the best kind, ink powder, gun powder, snuff, tobacco, basket buttons, regimental buttons, silk twist, coloured thread, ribbands, ferreting, tape, ivory and horn combs, crooked and coarse ditto, coffee, alspice, indigo, scissors, silver shoe and knee buckles, and stock ditto, brass shoe ditto, thimbles, hatters bow strings of the best kind, some mathematical and navi- gation books, one large brass kettle, salt of a good quality, which they will sell as reasonable as the times will admit, for cash or country produce.
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