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and has a protuberance on his back where the hinder part of the saddle comes. Whoever will bring or send said horse to the Park of Artillery, or to my quarters at Mr. Jacob Van Dorer's near Pluck'emin, shall be handsomely rewarded for their trouble.
May 26, 1779. JOHN POPKIN.
TO BE SOLD,
By the subscriber at Canoe-Brook,
N TAILS of several sorts, viz, Sd. 10d. 12d. and 20d. by the quantity or single pound.
JAMES CURLIS.
Just published, and to be sold by Foster Horton, in Chatham, and John Dixon, at Bottle Hill.
V ERSES on the sixth, seventh, and eighth, chapters of Genesis, By STEPHEN HAND.1
W HEREAS my wife Elizabeth, with the advice of her mother, and by the assistance of James Shot- will, of the Scotch-Plains, has eloped from my bed and board, and sundry times swore she would destroy both my life and estate: This is therefore to forewarn
1 The author was perhaps the Stephen Hand who resided in the Passaic Valley, Morris county, a brother of Hezekiah Hand, from Westfield. Hezekiah's twenty children and Stephen's twenty-three are all listed by Littell. No copy of Stephen's "verses" has been found in any of the libraries in New York or Philadelphia, nor is the work known to bibliographers, nor is it mentioned in any bibliography.
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any person harbouring or trusting her on my account, as I will not pay any debts of her contracting after this date.
WILLIAM WILLIS.
Westfield, May 31, 1779.
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Since it was my fortune to be join'd To such a wretched mate, I've strove to reconcile my mind To my unhappy fate. I've born insults, and threats likewise, I've strove for to persuade, But them that's hardened so in vice Regard not what is said. Without a cause she left my bed, And broke her marriage vow,
So basely from me she has fled, Who then can blame me now? Then pity my unhappy fate, Beware of woman's arts,
For oft within a snowy breast Lurks a deceitful heart.
TO BE SOLD,
At the PRINTING-OFFICE in Chatham,
WIFTS works, 13 vols. Spectator, 8 vols. Clarissa, 8 vols. Beauties of Prose, 4 vols. Triumvirate, 2 vols. Collection of Poems, 2 vols. Ogilvie's Poems, 2 vols. Thereon and Aspasia 2 vols. Barford Abbey, 2 vols. David's Repentance, Life of Alexander Pope, History of Greece, Lord Sommers on Jurors, Testaments, and Spell- ing Books.
ALSO, Cole's Latin Dictionary, Greek Lexicon, Kent's Lucian, Introduction to making Latin, &c.
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Five Hundred Dollars Reward.
THE house of Stephen Haines in Elizabeth-Town, was broke open on Monday night the 10th ult. and robbed of about three thousand Continental Dol- lars. Whoever will discover the robber or robbers, so that he, she, or they may be brought to justice and convicted, and the money recovered, shall receive the above reward ; or two hundred and fifty dollars to any one that shall bring the money, and no questions asked, or a proportion- able reward for any part of the money.
W HEREAS the partnership of Arnold, Kinney, and Comp, is dissolved, all persons that have any demands against said Company are desired to bring in their accounts that they may be settled; and all who are indebted to them are requested to discharge their accounts as speedily as possible, that they may be able to close their books.
W AS found, near the subscriber's house in New- Providence, about the 21st of April last, two COW BELLS; one a remarkable good one, with a patch on it; the other with a crack and a hole in it. Any person claiming said bells, by applying to the sub- scriber, proving their property, and paying the charge of this advertisement, may have them again.
ISAAC CRANE. -The New-Jersey Journal, Vol. I., Numb. XVII., June 8,1779.
It is reported that a number of the enemy's vessels with' troops on board have gone up the North river, and that a considerable body of them have landed as high up as King's Ferry; but their intention in this movement is not yet certainly known.
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WHEREAS the Legislature of this State have, by a law passed the 26th of May last, raised the fees of the Pre- rogative Office to five times as much as they were hereto- fore: The surrogates in the different counties are desired to take notice thereof, and govern themselves accordingly. BOWES REED,1 Sec.
Trenton, June 1, 1779.
1 Bowes Reed was a son of Andrew Reed, a merchant at Trenton for many years, and Theodocia Bowes, his wife, and was a brother of Joseph Reed, some time Adjutant General of General Washington, and later President of the State of Pennsylvania. He entered public life at an early day, and continued therein for many years. In 1767 he was appointed surrogate of Hunterdon county. He was still of Trenton when Andrew Reed (his father) and Charles Pettit (his brother-in-law), late of Philadelphia, merchants, made an assignment to William Humph- reys and others, who appointed Bowes Reed, of Trenton, their lawful attorney, May 11, 1768 .- N. J. Deeds, Lib. Z, f. 163. In an agreement dated Oct. 2, 1774, to which he was a party, he is described as "of Burlington county, gentleman."-N. J. Deeds, Lib. AH, f. 103. On April 3, 1773, he was licensed as an attorney-at-law of New Jersey, but never became a counsellor. At the beginning of the Revolution the Provincial Congress appointed him, June 14, 1776, Lieutenant-Colonel of the battalion to be raised in Gloucester, Salem, Cumberland and Burlington counties. A week later he was ordered to keep under safe guard the person of William Franklin, Esquire (the late royal Governor of New Jersey), until the further order of that body. The same Congress ordered, on August 21, 1776, that there be paid to him £51 2s. 10d. in full of his account for himself and guard for Franklin, while a prisoner in Burlington, and on his way to Princeton, and the guard's pay for six nights and two days while on said service. The sum of £201 was also ordered paid to him towards defraying the expense of removing Conti- nental prisoners from Burlington to York county, in Pennsylvania, with their baggage. He was commissioned Colonel of the First Regiment, Burlington county, September 28, 1776, resigning March 31, 1778. On September 6, 1776, he was appointed Clerk of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. On May 15, 1777, he received an appointment as a Justice of the Peace of Burlington county, which office he resigned October 5, 1779. He was Deputy Secretary of State in 1778, and when Charles Pettit resigned his office as Secretary of State of New Jersey, Bowes Reed was appointed to succeed him, October 7, 1778. He was reappointed November 6, 1783, November 8, 1788, and October 25, 1793. He was succeeded on his death, in 1794, by Samuel Witham Stockton. It was, perhaps, by virtue of his office as Secretary of State that he was Register in Admiralty, under the Provincial law. In 1787 he was Clerk in Chancery, as appears by a contemporary letter of Attorney General Joseph Bloomfield, in the writer's possession. The appointment to this office was a personal one, resting with the Chancellor, under the ante- Revolutionary practice. On December 21, 1784, the joint meeting of the Legislature appointed him Mayor of Burlington, and reappointed him November 27, 1789, he holding the office until his death. He was a
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To the ELECTORS of the county of Hunterdon.
BEING duly authorized, I do appoint the 21st day of June next, for electing a fit and qualified person to repre- sent said county, in the room and place of John Hart, Esq. deceased. Election to be held at Henry Mershon's in Amwell, Ringoe's old tavern.
Town Clerks to make returns of Commissioners of Ap- peal.
JOSEPH INSLEE, Sheriff.
May 27th, 1779.
member of St. Mary's Church at Burlington, and on January 30, 1786, subscribed £6 toward an increase of salary of the rector. In 1793 he contributed £10 for the erection of a new building for the Burlington Academy. and was one of the trustees of the Academy in 1794. In General Stryker's "Battles of Trenton and Princeton" he is referred to as Dr. Bowes Reed, which would appear to be an error. General Stryker says that Colonel Joseph Reed concealed himself at his brother's house, at Burlington, in the latter part of December, in 1776, and gained important intelligence concerning the whereabouts of the Hessian advance guard at Mount Holly. The will of Bowes Reed, of the city of Burlington, New Jersey, dated September 26, 1793, was proved July 30, 1794. He states that he has advanced to his daughter Maria, money which is charged in his account book. He gives to "all my children except Maria," an "equal share of the profits of sale of my estate when of age." Executors-brother-in-law, Charles Pettit, Esquire, of the city of Phila- delphia, and son-in-law. Joseph McIlvaine, Esquire, of the city of Burling- ton. Witnesses-Joseph Bloomfield, Thomas Adams and Charles Bradley. -Liber 32 of Wills, p. 337. No inventory or accounting is on file. Bowes Reed married 1st, Margaret ; she d. in childbirth, Dec. 6, 1786, aged 36 years. He m. 2d, Caroline, dau. of Dr. Alexander Moore, of Bor- dentown ; she d. Nov. 6, 1789, aged 34 yrs. Bowes Reed d. July 20, 1794, aged 54 yrs. Issue (all by his wife Margaret) :
i. Maria, b. November 11, 1775 ; bap. in St. Mary's Church, December 5, 1775 ; m. Joseph McIlvaine, marriage license dated Sept. 19, 1793. He represented New Jersey in the Senate, November 12, 1823, until his death ; he was buried at Burlington, Aug. 20, 1826. Their children were 1. Bowes Reed ; 2. Bloomfield, b. Jan. 18, 1799; he was buried Aug. 20, 1826, with his father, in the same grave; 3. Charles Pettit, after- wards Bishop of Ohio; m. at Burlington, Oct. 8, 1822, Emily Coxe ; he d. March 12, 1873.
ii. Charles Pettit, b. April 6, 1778.
iii. Ann Burnet, bap. Nov. 14, 1781; d. May 28, 1784, "Aged 4 years," says her tombstone.
iv. Ann Burnet, b. Oct. 31, 1784; d. Nov. 3, 1787. On her tombstone she is described as "the second daughter of Bowes Reed, Esq." In the baptismal register of St. Mary's Church her name is given as Ann, merely. v. Margaret, d. Jan. 23, 1788, aged 13 mos. 4 days.
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Fire ! Fire ! Fire !
Five Hundred Dollars Reward.1
A stack of oats on the plantation of Samuel Smith, in Kingwood, in the State of New Jersey, purchased for the use of the Continental Army, was lately set on fire in the night time, by some wicked person and enemy of the lib- erties of this country.
I do therefore offer and promise to pay the above reward to any person or persons who will discover the perpetrator or perpetrators, so that they may be convicted thereof.
MOORE FURMAN,2 D. Q. M. G.
Pittstown, 18th May, 1779. New-Jersey.
TO BE SOLD by the Subscriber at RHODE-HALL, near Cranbury,
A VERY good eight day clock. Also a good silver watch. DAVID WILLIAMSON.
Burlington PUBLICK Notice is hereby given to all per- 1 county, ss. $ sons having any just demands by bond, note mortgage, or book debt, against the following fugitive's and offenders, against whom inquisitions have been found, and final judgment entered in favour of the state, viz. Daniel Cox, Joseph Taylor, John Carty, George Plato, Robert Cooke, John Leonard, Thomas Hunlock, Jonathan Odell, Joseph Hewlings, and George alias John Golden, to exhibit their accounts, &c. to the judges of the court of common pleas for the county of Burlington at the House
1 In the depreciated currency of the day.
2 A note on Moore Furman will be found in New Jersey Archives, 20 : 148.
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of Okey Hoagland, in Bordentown .- The judges will at- tend at the above place on every Monday in June, in order to have them settled. Notice is also hereby given to per- sons having any goods of any kind whatsoever, or stand indebted to any of the above fugitives, and shall neglect to make discovery to one of the subscribers within one month from the date hereof, may expect to be dealt with as the law in that case directs. Likewise all persons who stand indebted for goods or lands bought at any of the above fugitives vendues, are desired to make speedy pay- ment, that the accounts may be settled.
Commis- JOSEPH BORDEN, jun.1 } ? sioners. May 29, 1779.
JOSEPH BUTLER
Amwell, Hunterdon county, May 25, 1779.
WANTED,
AN ENGLISH SCHOOL-MASTER. A single man sufficiently qualified and of a moral character, will find employment in a very agreeable neighbourhood, and a generous sum will be given for his labours, by applying to the Rev. Mr. John Warford,2 of the said township of Amwell.
1 An account of the Borden family is given in New Jersey Archives, 24 : 651.
2 There were several Warfords in and about Kingwood, Hunterdon county, about the middle and the last quarter of the eighteenth century. Among them was John Warford, yeoman, of Kingwood, whose will, dated June 9, 1761, was proved January 3, 1770. He gives all his movable estate to his wife, Elizabeth, for life, and after her death to his five daughters-Abigail Warne, Elizabeth Colvin, Rachel Quimby, Jane Allen and Ann Fox-in equal shares. He devises all his real estate, describing the boundaries, to his son James, and gives £20 to said son James, and £20 to his son John. Executor -- son James. Witnesses-Malakiah Bon- ham, Isaac Leet and Absalom Bonham .- N. J. Wills, Lib. 15, f. 18. The Rev. John Warford was probably his son.
John 2 (John 1) Warford was b. 1745, somewhere on Martha's Vineyard, it is supposed, and it is understood that his boyhood home was there.
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THE creditors of John Bainbridge, late of New Jersey, deceased, are desired to call upon the subscriber, in Market
He graduated at Princeton in 1774, and studying for the ministry, was licensed by the New Brunswick Presbytery, October, 1775. He was called by the people of Amwell, April 3, 1776, and was ordained and installed their pastor on the last Wednesday in July (the 31st), 1776, the Rev. Elihu Spencer, of Trenton, preaching the sermon. The ceremony took place, say the church minutes, "at the upper house in Amwell," doubtless meaning the Second Church. He married Margaret, the widow of the Rev. William Kirkpatrick, his predecessor in the pastorate, who had died Sept. 8, 1769. His salary was £50 per annum, besides parson- age, and some other allowances, but during the Revolution the value of currency was greatly depreciated, and he had a hard struggle to maintain himself and family. One pew owner at that time, whose pew rent was 14s. 6d., paid £24 17s. 6d. in depreciated currency to liquidate a year's rent. In 1786 he was sent by Synod on a missionary tour through the northeastern part of New York, in the course of which he preached for a New England congregation, at what is now known as Salem, Washington county, New York, and at their request agreed in May, 1787, to supply their pulpit. He pleased them so well that in September of that year they extended him a call, signed by ninety-one persons. They promised him a salary of £120, New York currency, about equivalent to $400; also a convenient parsonage, the use of 176 acres of the glebe lands, and to pay into the Widows' Fund £116 13s. 4d. proclamation money. This was so much better than the Amwell congregation could offer that the latter people reluctantly consented to the removal of their pastor. Mr. Warford was dismissed to his new charge in May, 1788, but was not installed until July, 1789. When the Presbytery of Albany was con- stituted, in 1790, he preached the sermon at the first meeting of the new Presbytery, in Albany, on May 9, 1790, selecting his text from Luke xiv. 23. Local tradition has it that Mr. Warford was an able man, earnestly devoted to his parish, an ardent and effective worker, with a heart enlisted in the cause of Christian philanthropy and missionary work. The records of Presbytery and Synod show that he was a regular attendant on those judicatories. The Salem church grew and prospered under his ministry. He was deeply interested in the founding of Wash- ington Academy, at Salem, and was one of the original twenty-five trus- tees. He finished his pastorate and his course on earth May 19, 1802. His tombstone says, and doubtless with entire truth : "He was an affectionate Pastor, Husband, Parent and Friend; An Evangelical Preacher, Meek in his disposition, and grave in his address." He was survived by his wife, to whom the church four years later paid £809 12s. 4d. for arrears of salary due him at his decease .- Hist. United First Presbyterian Church of Amwell, by Rev. J. Kirkpatrick, page 7; Hall's Hist. Pres. Church in Trenton, 190; Gillett's Hist. Pres. Church in the U. S. A., 1: 385, 391; Princeton College in the Eighteenth Century, 180; The Salem Book, Salem, N. Y., 1896, pp. 94-96 ; Munsell's Annals of Albany, 2: 303.
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street, near Second-street, Philadelphia, in one month from the date hereof, for a dividend of the monies now in my hands. Those who do not apply, will be excluded.1
C. CLAY.
May 14, 1779.
To all whom it may concern :
New-Jersey, NOTICE is hereby given, that a Court of
SS Admiralty will be held at the house of Gilbert Barton, in Allen-Town, on Monday the twenty- eighth day of June next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, then and there to try the truth of the facts alledged in the bill of Nicholas Stillwell and others, (who as well, &c.) against the brigantine or vessel, called the Delight lately commanded by James Dawson, with her tackle, apparel, furniture and cargo: To the end and intent that the owner or owners of the said vessel, or any person or persons concerned therein, may appear and shew cause, if any they have, why the said vessel and cargo should not be condemned according to the prayer of the said bill.
By order of the Judge,
JOSEPH BLOOMFIELD, Register Salem, 28th May, 1779.
1 John Bainbridge, senior, was of Chesterfield, Burlington county, in 1688. John Bainbridge, the founder of the Mercer county family, had a tract of 200 acres surveyed for him on Assunpink creek, at Maidenhead, in 1684. He bought a tract of 504 acres on Raritan river in the same year. He bought and sold many large tracts on the Assunpink, or Stony brook, during the next ten years. The John Bainbridge mentioned in the text was doubtless of the same family.
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New-Jersey, Hunterdon county, Township of Hopewell, May 16, 1779.
Sixty Dollars Reward.
Taken from a waggon in Trenton,
On the sixteenth day of May, Some time in the night, A mare all over black, But the near hind foot white. A curl'd main and tail, And a very bad eye, About ten years old And about 14 hands high.
She being shod all round, A tender mouth I do tell A slow pace she can go, But trots and canters well
Whoever secures the thief That to justice he may come,
And likewise the beast That the owner may get her home : They may call upon me, And I will them repay
The sum above-mentioned, And that without delay.
Or half the sum mentioned For either of the two, And that I do promise I will pay unto you. And also the charges That's reasonable and fair,
I will pay without fail, And that I declare. And now, my dear countrymen, If this prize you will gain, I your humble servant, Forever will remain.
JOSEPH TITUS.
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To Mr. TIMOLEON,
Sir,
I AM at a loss what notice I can with propriety, take of your address, published in this Gazette of the 12th instant .- When I read your own account of yourself, and consider you as a hero, "Who has frequently risked his life, and nearly spent his all in his country's defence," (altho' such claims to consequence are very frequent at this day) I am impressed with the highest veneration for your character. But when I view you in so contrasted a point of light as basely attempting to stab the reputation, and wound the feelings of an honest man, you excite no other passion in me but contempt. I should there- fore pass over your performance in the silence it deserves, had you not arraigned my conduct before the publick. Regard and decency to my countrymen require that I shall remove those ill suspicions you have laboured so hard to impress.
It may not be amiss previously to remark a little on your evasive manner of accusing me. There is a mixture of meanness and timidity in your method of conveying censure under the form of interrogation. This sly mode of attacking, stamps on the minds of the people strong surmizes of guilt, and yet gives the party accused no chance of demanding proof. It betrays a wish to slander one's character, and at the same time a fear to do it in open and explicit terms.
There is another stroke which also exposes your meanness .- When you, with an invidious sneer, tell me you have long known me, and that you are well acquainted with my character and principles, it seems from your manner of expression, that you would insinuate that my character is not fair, and reputable. Where I am known, I am happy in appealing to my acquaintance for the defence of my reputa- tion ; and where I am not known, it will be a striking indication in my favor, that I meet with opposition and slander from men whose writings have so much the air of envy and ill design.
No conscious blush covers my face, nor am I less disposed to use honest boldness than when I addressed the public on the 21st ultimo. Neither am I in a disagreeable dilemma on any other account, than whether it is most proper to let your publication sink into silent disdain, or to trouble the public and myself with a reply to it. Thus far, Mr. Timoleon, you may consider the address your own; and I leave you awhile to ruminate on it, till I say something to the world concerning your imputations.
The strongest motives to faithfulness and integrity, are derived from the weighty sanctions that inforce our duties. It should be remem- bered, that the several Legislatures can, within their respective jurisdictions, suspend any purchaser from his office whom they suppose. fraudulent or incapable of executing its requirements. We are bound,
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under a heavy forfeiture, to discharge our trusts with felicity ; and . are not only liable to suffer for misapplication of money and stores, by a legal process, but to be convicted and punished by sentence of a Court-Martial. These forcible considerations, added to others still greater, the solemn obligations of an oath, the regard to our own reputation, the pleasure that arises from well-doing, the desire of avoiding the censure of a vigilant people, must be sufficient to check us from dishonest practices. If we are not deterred from the com- mission of evil by such guards and principles, it is my wish that we may be dismissed from office, and held up to view as melancholy objects of human depravity.
It has been my constant principle never to sell at an advanced price, for my private emolument, necessaries bought for the army, as that would be a practice which I consider infamous and detestable. The public officer who is guilty of it, ought to be turned out of employment with disgrace, banished from the society of virtuous men, and looked upon with as much abhorrence as a robber. Nor have I had occasion or inclination to speculate with the public money, for my own advantage; but on the reverse, the public have long been and now are many thousand pounds in my debt. I have in a few instances purchased such articles for sale as are often bought for the army, but it was at a time when I was ordered, by the Commissary General or his Deputy, under whom I act, to suspend my purchases of that particular article on public account. In this situation I have bought a few hogsheads of rum, and some small quantities of salt, which I procured at my own risk and with my own money, and con- sequently supposed I had a right to dispose of it for my own benefit. I have also once appropriated to private use a few barrels of flour in similar circumstances. Being advised by Col. Blaine, Deputy Commissary General, that it could be had at 33s. 6d. per hundred weight in the lower States, when it was eight dollars and upwards in this, it was thought proper to desist purchasing that article here. It so happened that one who purchased for me had, previous to such notice, bought a small quantity at the latter price, which I took off his hands for private purposes, and desired him to obtain a few barrels more on the same principle. This flour has been used in my own family, and dealt out to necessitous persons, who otlier- wise must have suffered ; and even at this extravagant time, I have not taken more than six pounds per hundred, altho' carted from the farther part of Monmouth at my own expence. It cannot be denied but I had a right to provide for my own family ; and if it is a crime to spare a little bread to a poor neighbour in distress, let it be said that my duty fell a sacrifice to my humanity.
Early in this contest I advanced large sums of money for public purchases, before enough. could be had from the treasury, and have frequently borrowed large sums from others, that the supplies for the army need not fail. For some of which money I now pay interest,
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