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AGRICOLA.
WILL COVER,
This season, at Elizabeth Town, the noted horse
MAJOR GENERAL,
Late the property of Col. Matthias Ogden, at forty dollars the season, or twenty dollars the single leap, the money to be paid at the stable door, at the first cover- ing of the mare.
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M AJOR GENERAL is 7/s blooded, sixteen hands high, and as well made as any horse in this state. At- tendance will be given by
EPHRAIM MARSH.
N. B. One dollar to the groom. Elizabeth Town, April 17, 1779.
W HEREAS many people make a practice of passing through the meadow of the subscriber, to the great detriment of the same: This is therefore to forewarn all persons to desist from the like practice for the future, as he is determined to prosecute the first offender after this public notice.
DAVID VANDERPOOL.
On Tuesday night last, a most unnatural and cruel murder was committed on the body of Joseph Morss, of Morss Town. It seems that this horrid act was con- certed by his wife's father, in conjunction with an Irish- man that formerly lived with' Morss, who, a few days since, he severely cained. They employed his own negro to be his murderer, for which he was to have his free- dom and a handsome premium, which he effected by shoot- ing him through the body when in bed. The negro has confessed the whole matter, and they are all three safely confined.
At the Supreme Court held at Somerset Court-house, on Tuesday the 6th instant, William Smith Livingston, Esq; was admitted after taking the usual oaths, to practice as an Attorney at law in all the courts of record within this state.
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Ten Dollars Reward.
S YTRAYED or stolen from the subscriber at the Hi- bernia furnace, on the night of the 12th inst. a sorrel mare, with a large white blaze down her face, nine or ten years old this spring, about 141/2 hands high, the hair worn off her sides by working in the gears, her hind legs are something crooked, her gaits a pace and rack-trot; she has neither brand nor ear mark that can at this time be recollected, has a switch tail .- Any person taking up and bringing home said mare, shall be entitled to the above reward, and reasonable charges, if strayed ; if stolen, for taking the thief, ten dollars more.
CHARLES HOFF, jun.
TO COVER.
The ensuing season, at the subscriber's plantation in Mendham, about five miles west of Morris Town, the celebrated HORSE
BOHEMIA.
THIS horse, in the estimation of good judges, yields to none on the continent for beauty and elegance of figure. He is full sixteen hands high, strong and bonny, and has an uncommon majestic form. He is half brother to True Briton, by that very famous and noted stallion Othello, so remarkable for the beauty and speed of his stock; his dam was a very fine natural Barb. Bohemia has been kept as a covering horse in Virginia, Maryland, and West-Jersey, and, by certificates, he hath not covered less than one hundred mares per season for three past, and has ever supported the highest reputation, for the strength, speed, value and size of his stock .- A .
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number of gentlemen having engaged their mares early in the season, and judging that money will be as valuable as ever, occasioned the low rate of twenty-five dollars to be fixed per season, and allowing all those mares to be brought the next season that shall miss being with foal, or shall have a colt which will likely become white. Mares from a distance pastured at ten shillings per week.
WILLIAM LEDDEL.
TAKEN from the subscriber, by force of arms, on the 2d of December last, a black mare, bridle, and sad- dle, by one Cloven, who said he was an officer in General Scott's brigade: This is therefore to desire said Cloven to bring the mare by the 1st of march to the sub- scriber, living near Chatham, or else he will be dealt with according to law.
NOAH CRANMER.
TO BE SOLD,
At public vendue, on Wednesday the 28th instant, at the house of Joseph Morss, jun. late of the county of Somerset, deceased ;
H ORSES, cattle, sheep, hogs, houshold goods, farming utensils, grist mill, saw mill, and turning mill irons, a set of blacksmith's tools, carts, a waggon, a quantity of new and old axes, several sets of ox cart irons, chains, and many other valuable articles too tedious to mention. The vendue to begin at 9 o'clock said day, where due attendance will be given, and conditions made known by
AMOS MORSS, jun. MOSES SUTTEN, Executors. ISAAC MORSS, BETTY MORSS, Executrix. 1
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To be sold the 30th inst. at public vendue, on the premises at Basking-Ridge,
A PLANTATION containing 85 acres, with a good house and barn, and two good orchards with up- wards of 200 bearing trees, situate on the road be- tween the meeting house and Bruster's tavern. The vendue to begin at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, when the conditions will be made known and attendance given by
SAMUEL WHITAKER.
TO BE SOLD,
By the subscriber, at Tuscan-Hall, five miles from New- Ark, on the road to Chatham,
TWO genteel HORSES, fit for a carriage or saddle, in excellent order .- Two horses will be constantly kept
for sale at said place, during the continuance of this advertisement.
EZEKIEL BALL. -The New-Jersey Journal, Vol. I., Numb. X., April 20, 1779.
On Friday night, the 2d, instant, were taken on Bergen Neck, by a party of the 64th regiment, Lieut. Paul and twelve privates belonging to Col. Shreve's regiment.
April 9, 1779.
Whereas Solomon Allman, late of Lower Penn's Neck, Salem County, is deceased, and has left an estate, which is in the subscriber's hands, His heirs, if there be any
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living, are desired to come and prove their property, in two months from this date.
JOSEPH COPNER. -The Pennsylvania Gazette, April 21, 1779.
To MR. WILLIAM LIVINGSTON, titular Governor of New Jersey. .
SIR,
Y OUR extraordinary conduct has once more excited my attention ; let me entreat you, my dear Livy, to pay no attention to the limited criticisms of short sighted mortals; they envy you because they dread your importance, leave them then to themselves, and permit me to assure you, that notwithstanding the respect due to my infernal rank, I mean to constitute you President of the Council in my dominions; though possessed of every maligant quality that pervades and corrodes the heart, and esteemed and courted as a Daemon of the first magnitude, I am ready to retract certain erroneous opinions concerning you, advanced in my former letter, as ghosts of every denomination now admire your subtlety ; and eagerly anticipate your arrival. I am sensible it will cost you many a pang to part with your amiable com- panions, but where my precious child of darkness can you compose your mind, your agility in New Jersey is become proverbial, they call you the invisible Governor, but conscience, the awful scourger of distinguished guilt, in spite of every turn and doubling will find you out. The British General, invariably attached to the dignity of his Prince and the honour of his country, abhors perfidy, and with one smooth dash of elegant and finished satire has pourtrayed the meanest of mankind. Since then you bear so foul a character on earth, you merit an honourable reception here. It shall be granted, Sir, I will send the Usher of the Black Rod to require your
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attendance before my throne, and proclaim your entrance to the shades in the following terms: "He comes, he comes, the mighty Livingston comes." I am, with every mark of diabolical respect, Your cordial and sincere friend, PLUTO
Infernal Regions, April 17, 1779. -The Royal Gazette, No. 267, April 21, 1779.
TRENTON, April 21. Yesterday the hon. the gen. assembly of this state met here .- The Pennsylvania Even- ing Post, April 23, 1779.
To be SOLD by Public Vendue,
On Thursday the twelfth day of May next, on the premises.
A Valuable Salt Works, situate on Faulkinburg's Island, Little Egg harbour. The buildings are lately rebuilt of the best whole price pine and cedar boards, eighty feet in length, and twenty in breadth, containing one wrought iron pan that will hold three thousand gallons, and five thousand weight of cast iron pans, the whole set on stone walls, built of lime mortars; a quantity of salt baskets, casks, &c. Also a good new boat and fishing seine, and between three and four hundred cords of wood ready cut, near a landing, which can be brought by water to the door of the works. The situation is healthy and pleasant, and allowed by judges the best adapted for profitable works of any on the shore, having the advantage of water carriage for wood, and a large and excellent salt pond within ten yards of the house. The place abounds with fish and fowl. Terms of sale will be made known at the time and place, where attendance will be given by
THOMAS HESTON and Co.
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FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD.
Ran Away from the subscriber, living in Fairfield town- ship, Cumberland county, New-Jersey, a Negro man named PRINCE, but has since he went away changed it to ADAM DICK, and has had it inserted in a pass given by some evil disposed person; He is about five feet eight or nine inches high; had on and took with him a pair of leather breeches, a felt hat half worn, a new brown home-made shirt, a light coloured jacket without sleeves, and a dark brown great coat very short, being torn or cut off; he walks somewhat crippled his feet having been frozen, and he has lost some of his toe nails; he is about twenty-two years old, and is a lusty strong fellow. Who ever takes up said Negro and brings him to the subscriber, or secures him in any gaol so that he may be had again, shall be entitled to the above reward, and all reasonable charges paid by
JOHN DANIELS.
N. B. All masters of vessels and others are forbid to harbour or carry him off at their peril.
-The Pennsylvania Packet, April 24, 1779.
NEW-YORK, April 26.
Last Wednesday Lieutenant-Colonel Buskirk sent off Capt. Ryerson, Lieut. Buskirk, and Ensign Earle with a Detachment of 42 Men of the 4th Battalion of New-Jersey Volunteers, who fell in with the Rebels about Day-Break, immediately charged and put them to the Rout, killed and wounded a considerable Number, whom they passed on the Field begging for Mercy, while they followed the rest until reinforced by their Main Body, consisting of about 100 Carolina Troops and sixty militia ; Captain Ryerson perceiving his Men much fatigued, drew off his little Party to a rising Ground, where instead of being attacked
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by them so much superior in Number, he saw them Re- treat. His loss on the Occasion was one Man missing and two wounded.
The following letter was brought to Head Quarters from New-Jersey a few days ago, but it appearing by the signature to be the production of Mr. William Livingston, titular Governor of that province, his Excellency the Commander in Chief, of course, paid no manner of attention to it.
Elizabeth-Town, 15th April, 1779.
I SIR,
Received your Excellency's Letter of the 10th instant, this afternoon, and had an opportunity about an hour after to see a copy of it in the New-York American Gazette, together with mine of the 29th of March, which occasioned it. Your Excellency by these publications, compared with a certain passage in your letter seems de- termined to close our correspondence, by precluding me from a reply. But by the laws of England, Sir (the best of which we intend to adopt) leaving the rest to our old friends of the realm, he who opens a cause hath the privi- lege of concluding it.
It is the observation of foreigners that America has shown her superiority to Great-Britain no less in the decency of her writing, than in the success of her arms. I have too great a respect for my native country, whatever I ought to have for Sir Henry Clinton, to furnish an instance in contradiction of so honourable a remark.
Perhaps, Sir, you entertain too exalted an opinion of your own importance in deeming it a condesension in you to answer a letter informing you in the most inoffensive terms, of an overture made by one of your general officers to have me assassinated. Alas! how many a hopeful gen- tleman has been made giddy by a Star and Garter! It had doubtless redounded more to your honour, and
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afforded a stronger argument of your abhorring such in- famous measures, to have called upon me for the proofs, and manifested a proper resentment against the criminal, than to flourish about the capability of your soul, and to betray a want of politeness so unusual in persons of your rank and breeding, and without any other provocation than my complaining to you of the conduct of one under your command, so repugnant to the law of arms and the sentiments of humanity.
That you have a soul capable of harbouring so infamous an idea as assassination, I was so far from intimating, that I told you, I thought it highly improbable you should either countenance, connive at, or be privy to a design so sanguinary and disgraceful; and I remember that when I used the word improbable, I had like to have said impossible; but that I was deterred, on recollecting num- erous instances, by the extreme difficulty of precisely ascertaining the utmost possibility of British cruelty. Whatever your soul may be capable of, I should have ventured, before the receipt of your letter, to have pro- nounced it impossible for you to be capable of opprobrious language. How far, Sir, I am now to believe this impossibility, I leave you in your cooler moments to determine.
However trifling an end you may suppose would be obtained by my assassination, you certainly thought my capture, not long since, important enough to make me a principal object, of what was, in a literal sense, a very dirty expedition.
What could induce you to say, that I boast of the power of being able to dispose of your life by means of intimates of mine ready to murder at my command, I am at a loss to guess : Is there a word in my letter either about your life or about murder? Or is your Excellency so haunted with the thoughts of murder, from a consciousness of British babarity, that you cannot write three paragraphs without being startled by the shocking spectre ? And if there are any intimates in the case, how do you know but
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that they are intimates of your own ? I told you that "your person was more in my power than I had reason to think you imagined." But is there no such thing as that of one person's being in the power of another, without murder ? Indeed Sir, from the specimen of your induc- tions you ought to be a much better General than you appear to be a logician, or America need be under no apprehensions about her independence during your administration.
As to your must not be troubled with any further correspondence with Mr. Livingston, believe me Sir, that I have not the least passion for interrupting you in your more useful correspondence with the Ministry, by which the nation will doubtless be greatly edified, and which will probably furnish materials for the most authentic history of the present war, and that you cannot be less ambitious of my correspondence than I am of yours; because what- ever improvement I might hope to receive from you in the art of war, and especially in the particular branches of conducting (a) moon light retreats and planning (b) secret expeditions; I should not expect from our cor- respondence any considerable edification or refinement in the epistolary way. I am therefore extremely willing to terminate it by wishing you a safe voyage across the Atlantic with the singular glory of having attempted to reduce to bondage a people determined to be free and independent.
I am, Sir, your humble Servant,
Wil. Livingston.
His Excellency Gen. Sir Henry Clinton.
(a) Sir Henry informed the Ministry that in his retreat at Monmouth, he took the advantage of the moon- light; when in reality he did not begin his retreat till some hours after the moon was set.
(b) It is remarkable that of all the secret expeditions planned by this Gentleman, since he has had the chief
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command of the British army (and those expeditions have been multifarious) not one of them has been successful. It is therefore to be presumed that Great Britain proposes to obtain, by his Generalship, a most untrifling end. --- The New-York Gazette: and the Weekly Mercury, No. 1436, April 26, 1779.
Cape-May County, New-Jersey, March 27.
The Public is hereby informed, That a petition will be laid before the Legislature of this State, at their next sitting, praying that a law may be passed to authorize the petitioners to build a Bridge by subscription (and to be maintained by the subscribers) over Turkehoe River,1 from the fast land or wharf of James Willet's, Jun. to the land of Joseph Ingolson; of which all concerned are de- sired to take notice and govern themselves accordingly.
JAMES WILLETS. -The Pennsylvania Packet, April 27, 1779.
.TO COVER,
At the stable of the subscriber, at New-Providence, the famous and well known horse 1
STERLING.
H E is a beautiful blood bay, full blooded, fifteen hands and three inches high, rising nine years old, and allowed, by the best judges, to be as well- made and as good moving a horse as any in the state. He will cover at thirty one dollars the season, or fifteen the single leap. Sterling is remarkable sure of getting colts, for out of seventy-seven mares he covered last spring, only seven missed being with foal.
RICHARD SCUDDER.
1 Tuckahoe River.
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One Hundred Dollars Reward.
STOLEN, on the night of the 15th instant, out of the pasture of the subscriber, living in Hanover, a light bay HORSE, half blooded, about fifteen hands high, four years old, natural trotter, canters large, a little white on one foot, several gray hairs on his shoulder, as tho' it had been marked by an English collar, and old shoes all around .- Whoever will take up and secure said horse and thief shall have the above reward; and for the horse alone, eighty dollars, and reasonable charges paid, if. brought home, by me
HEZEKIAH BROADWEL.
STOLEN from a waggon at Trenton, the night of the 15th instant, a black HORSE about ten years old,
has a large star in his forehead, is remarkable thick and stocky, about 14 hands high, has a large scar in his right side, a small white spot just forward of his withers, trots somewhat heavy, canters very well, and paces a small travel. Whoever takes up said horse, and secures him for the subscriber, living at Westfield, in the borough of Elizabeth, shall have a reward of FIFTY DOLLARS, and the same for apprehending the thief, on his being convicted.
JOHN ROSS, jun.
TO BE SOLD,
At public vendue, by the subscriber, at his house near Bottle-Hill, on Monday the 3d day of May next, be- ginning at 12 o'clock ;
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UNDRY horses, cows, and five pair of young steers, one feather bed, one chest with drawers, one book case, tables, and sundry sorts of household and kitchen furniture; also one set of jeweller and silver- smith's tools, and sundry sorts of joiners tools; two bar- rels of liver oil for curryers, a quantity of dressed flax, and several new spinning wheels .- Also to be let, at same time, a number of sheep.
SETH GREGORY.
TO BE SOLD,
At public vendue, on Monday the 10th of May next, on the premises,
A LOT of excellent good land, lying in Watercesson, in Essex county, containing 20 acres, four miles from New-Ark. There is on the premises an elegant new stone house, with good kitchen adjoining it, and an excel- lent well of water by the kitchen door, a good barn and blacksmith's shop, and a young orchard of 140 trees of the best fruit. The vendue to begin at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, when conditions will be made known by
CALEB DOD.
TO BE SOLD,
At public vendue, opposite the Liberty-pole, Chatham, the 29th inst. at 2 o'clock in the afternoon,
MTHE remaining effects of Eunice Horton, deceased ;- a one horse chaise, forte piano, Flavel's works, and a few other books, elegant double flint decanters, candlesticks, tumblers, &c .- Kitchen utensils, water pails, skillets, ladles, keelers, pitchers, pepper-boxes, queen's ware and stone plates, stone butter-pots, warming-pan, a beau-
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tiful set of china teacups and saucers, incompleat sets ditto, tea-pots, cream-pots, sugar-cups ;- also salt, soft-soap, sand, malt, hops, copperas, alum, rosin ;- mohair, ninety dozen of buttons, eight or ten dozen of combs, pins, needles, spectacles, fans, gimp, children's gloves, silk-gauze-hand- kerchiefs, sewing-silk, &c. &c .- Those whose accounts are still unsettled, may have them adjusted and closed by ap -- plying to the subscribers. /
AZARIAH HORTON, FOSTER HORTON.
} Executors.
TO BE SOLD,
At public vendue, on the 30th instant, at the house of the subscriber at Westfield,
TWO ox carts, two waggons, horses, young cattle, and several other articles. The vendue to begin at 1 o'clock, when the conditions will be made known by JOHN HENDRICKS.
TO BE SOLD,
At public vendue, on Tuesday the 11th of May next, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, at the house of the sub- scriber, at Mount-Pleasant, 12 miles from Morris Town, and 3 from Mount-Hope ironworks, on a very public road, within a quarter of a mile of a good grist mill;
FIVE hundred acres of LAND, with a small frame house; 250 acres of which are excellent meadow, a great part has been a black-ash swamp, 200 acres ditched and in good fence; 150 acres cleared fit for the scythe and tilling; the whole is easily watered in the
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dryest seasons : It will produce as good hay, hemp, corn, or rye as any land on the Continent; the remainder, is timber land, and good out-let for cattle, in the summer season. It will be sold altogether, or in lots, as best suits the purchaser. A map of the whole will be shewn on the day of sale, and an indisputable title given by
MOSES TUTTLE.
STOLEN, out of the subscriber's stable, in Bedminster township, Morris county, New-Jersey, on the night of the 16th instant, a brown MARE, 7 years old, 141/2 hands high, a star in her forehead, but one shoe on when stolen, a natural trotter, branded on the near shoulder with the letter S, but at this time it is not plain to be seen. -Whoever apprehends the mare and thief, shall receive Forty Dollars; for the mare only Thirty, to be paid by the subscriber, living in Bedminster township.
WM. COLWELL.
THIRTY DOLLARS REWARD.
R. AN away from the subscriber on Wednesday the 21st instant, a NEGRO BOY named PHILL, about thirteen years of age, short thick set fellow for his age; had on when he went away a sheep's black flannel jacket and breeches, much worn, a white flannel shirt, stockings without feet, very old shoes, an old beaver hat with the brim all off; it is likely his clothes by this time are all very ragged. It is supposed he will try to get towards Newark, as he has lately been persuaded by a white boy in the neighbourhood to go to the enemy .- Who- ever will take up said boy, and secure him, so that his master may have him again, shall have above reward and all reasonable charges paid by
AARON KITCHEL.
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T HIS is to give notice to all persons who are in- debted to the estate of Adoniram Prudden, de- ceased, by bond, note, or book-debt, to come and settle to prevent further trouble; and all those who have any demands on said estate, are desired to bring them in that they may be paid.
NATHANIEL WILLIS, - AARON KITCHEL.
Executors.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY.
A NUMBER of cutlers, gun-smiths, lock-smiths, white- smiths, brass founders, persons used to the file, and a good file cutter, who will meet with the best en- couragement by applying to the subscriber in Morris Town.
JOSEPH MORGAN.1
N. B. A neat joiner or cabinet maker will meet with the best encouragement likewise.
C AME to the plantation of the subscriber living at Cheapside, a dark brown MARE about 131/2 hands
high, a small star in her forehead, the hair worn off the sides with the gears and girth, low in flesh, and a white spot on the left side of her back .- Whoever owns said mare, by proving their property and paying charges, may have her again by applying to
REMINGTON PARSEL.
W AS taken out of the house of Col. M'Donald at Pluck'emin, sometime in February last, a pair of screw barrel PISTOLS, silver mounted. Any person who have them in their possession, and will return them to Col. M'Donald, or the Printer hereof, shall re- ceive a handsome reward and no questions asked.
1 Doubtless employed as a gunsmith, etc., for the American army.
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N. B. The pistols may easily be known, the bores being of unequal size.
MTHIS is to give notice to all persons whom it may con- cerni, that they need not trust John Scott 1 on my account, as I will not pay any more debts of his contracting, having as Executrix to Stephen Moore's estate, suffered enough by him that way already .- As he has been at the trouble of reporting what is not true about me and my family, I ought in duty to myself and brother and sister, to tell the truth, which will be a plain contradiction to what he has advanced. He says I eloped from his bed and board, which is a mistake, as his doors were locked and nailed against me, and when I drawed the nails and got in, he says I broke open his house, which, if I did, I had a right. He tells of my taking a great deal more than he ever had. As for sister Morris,2 she has neither aided or assisted me, no other way than to take me in in time of need, and endeavoring to help my children to get their just due, for which he is soarly offended with her. He would like her and me very well I believe, if we had given all that my children had left them to him, but I had rather suffer abuse myself than wrong my children. He speaks of an article that I signed to cut me off from his estate, which is a mistake, as it only prohibits him from destroying my chil- dren's estate, and their hurting of his. It would have been much to their advantage if he had fulfilled his bargain. He says I endeavoured to run him in debt; I did try his credit once while I lived with him, when he was in his full glory, and I made out so bad, I thought never to try it again;
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