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WALTER RUTHERFORD.1
Lebanon, Hunterdon, 8th June, 1779.
ALL persons who have any demands against the estate of John Leferty, Esq. deceased, are desired to bring their accounts to Bryan Leferty, one of the subscribers, at Pluck'emin, by the first day of August next; and those who are indebted to said estate are desired to make pay- ment by the time above mentioned. Whereas there are many bonds, notes &c. put in the hands of the said John Leferty in his life-time, and now in the possession of the said Bryan Leferty, those to whom they belong are desired to apply for them.
BRYAN LEFERTY 2 - Adminis- trators.
STEPHEN HUNT
June 16.
ALL persons indebted to the estate of John Ringo, late of Amwell, deceased, by bond, bill, note or book debt, are desired to make immediate payment to the subscriber;
1 For a sketch of Walter Rutherfurd, see N. J. Archives, 2d Series, 2 : 455-6.
2 For a sketch of the Lafferty or Lefferty family, see New Jersey Archives, 20 : 285.
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and those who have any demands against the same, are desired to bring in their accounts properly attested.
MARTHA RINGO, Administratrix.
To ALL CONCERNED.
THE Board of Justices and Freeholders of the county of Burlington, taking into their serious considerations the alarming state of affairs in respect to the depreciation of our currency, occasioned, as we conceive, by the high prices of provisions and other necessaries of life, both the produce of this and other countries, are of opinion that a stop ought to be put to this growing evil as soon as may be; for which purpose we do recommend it to the In- habitants of each township in this country to assemble in a General Town Meeting, at the usual place of holding their annual town meetings in each township respectively, on Saturday the 26th inst. at one o'clock in the afternoon, and there elect three or more judicious persons to repre- sent said township in a general committee of said county ; and the said township committees do respectively meet at the Court-house in Burlington on Tuesday, the 20th of July next, in order to devise means for regulating and lowering the prices of provisions and other necessaries of life, manufactures, &c. as they in their discretion may think most equitable.
By order of the said Board,
JOHN How, Clerk.
Black Horse
June 15, 1779.
N. B. It is hoped every other county in the State will enter into measures for the important purpose of appre- ciating our currency, or, what is the same thing, lowering the price of the necessaries of life.1
. 1 It will be seen elsewhere in this volume that similar action was taken by several counties, but of course their action was perfectly futile in regulating prices.
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To all whom it may concern.
New Jersey, ss. NOTICE is hereby given, that a Court of Admiralty will be held at the house of Gilbert Barton, in Allentown, on Tuesday the 13th day of July next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, then and there to try the truth of the facts alledged in the bill of John Fuld, (who as well, &c.) against the sloop or vessel called the Retrieve, lately com- manded by Capt. Robinson, 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 per- sons 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, June 18, 1779.
Pursuant to an order from the Assembly, I do hereby notify the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the county of Somerset, that an Election will be held at the Court-house of said County, on Wednesday the 4th day of August next, in order to elect a Member to represent said county in Assembly, in the room of William C. Houston. The town clerks of said county are desired to make returns of the names of the persons who are chosen, for the Courts of Appeals.
PETER DUMONT, Sheriff.
June 18, 1779.
SIXTY DOLLARS Reward.
MADE his escape a few days ago from the Provost Guard near Raritan bridge, a Negro Man named CUFF, well set, speaks very slow but good English, about 40
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years old, very black; he was confined for killing his mas- ter, Joseph Moss, of Stoney hill. Whoever secures the said Negro, so that he may be brought to justice, shall have the above reward, and all reasonable charges paid by PETER DUMONT, June 18, Sheriff of Somerset county.
FORTY DOLLARS Reward.
STRAYED or stolen on Sunday night the 13th inst. out of the pasture of the subscriber, a brown Mare, some part English, with a white spot under her neck about as large as a dollar, her main cut short, the under part of her foretop cut close, about 14 hands and an half high, shod before, trots and canters, and is four years old this grass. Whoever takes up the said mare, and will deliver her to the subscriber in Barnard town, Somerset county, and the thief, shall have the above reward, or Twenty Dollars for either, paid by me
JOHN CROSS. -The New Jersey Gazette, Vol. II., No. 81, Wednesday, June 23, 1779.
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
An ACT to prevent persons from passing through this state without proper passports.
WHEREAS the liberties of the United States may be greatly endangered, while spies and other disaffected persons are suffered to travel at large, and carry intelligence to the enemy ; for preventing of which in this state,
1. Be it enacted by the Council and General Assembly of this State, and it is hereby Enacted by the Authority of the same, That from and after the publication of this act, no person or persons what- soever, residing within this State, except the Members of the Legisla- ture and publick officers of government, shall be permitted to pass and repass through any part of this state, other than the county in
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which he, she or they reside, without having a commission under this State, or the United States, or a certificate from his Excellency the Governor or from cne of the Members of the Legislative Council or General Assembly of the county in which he, she or they reside, or from one of the Justices of the Supreme Court, or one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas or Justices of the Peace of such county, certi- fying that the bearer- - is an inhabitant of the county of- and a person of good repute, and generally esteemed a friend to the present government, as established under the authority of the people ; in which certificate shall be inserted the name and rank of the person, and the town and county in which he resides; which commission or certificate shall entitle the bearer to travel in any part of this State, except near the enemy's lines, where he shall not be permitted to travel without some apparent business consistent with his rank and station, and the good of the state.
2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no person or persons whatever, not residing in, or being an inhabitant of this state, shall be permitted to pass and repass through any part of this state, without having and holding a commission under the United States, or without a pass from the Commander in Chief or other General Officer in the army of the United States, or from the Governor or Commander in Chief, or one of the Delegates in Con- gress for the state in which such traveller usually resides, or from one of the Legislative or Executive Council of such state, or being a non-commissioned officer or soldier without a pass or furlough from some one of the officers of the regiment to which he or they may belong ; which commission or pass shall entitle the bearer to pass into or through this state, while behaving and conducting as becometh such traveller.
Provided always, That nothing herein contained shall be taken or construed to extend to the hindering any person living in adjoining counties of the neighboring States, not immediately in the possession of the enemy, from passing into the next adjoining county in this State, having a pass from some one Justice of the Peace in the county to which he or she may belong, provided such person do not attempt to pass out of such county without obtaining a permission or passport agreeably to the directions of this act.
3. And in order to carry this act into effect, it is further enacted, that it shall and may be lawful for any officer of this State, civil or military, in the presence of two or more witnesses, in a publick manner to examine all travellers whatsoever, and for all innholders publickly to examine all such as may put up at their houses, and for all ferrymen and drivers of publick stages to examine all passengers who may offer or desire a passage, and to detain and carry before some Justice of the Peace of the county all such person or persons who, upon such examination, shall not produce a commission, certifi- cate or pass, authorizing them to pass as aforesaid; and without which, by this act they are herein before denied permission to pass
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and repass through any part of this State. And each and every person taken up and carried before a Justice of the Peace in any county of this State, pursuant to the directions of this act, who are denied permission to pass as aforesaid, shall by such Justice be either com- mitted to gaol by a mittimus, there to remain till duly discharged, or be obliged to return the directest way to his place of residence, as the said Justice upon examination of the person apprehended, and hearing the evidence produced, shall in his discretion judge most proper. And the said Justice of the Peace who shall cause any person to be committed to gaol as aforesaid, or any two Justices of the Peace of the same county, shall be and hereby are authorized and empowered to discharge from gaol any such person so apprehended and com- mitted, who shall prove to the satisfaction of such Justice or Justices that he ought to be discharged upon his paying the costs accrued on taking up and committing such person, as the same shall be taxed by the Justice or Justices : And all persons apprehended and com- mitted as aforesaid, who shall not appear to be spies from the enemy, or otherwise guilty of any capital offence, but shall otherwise be of doubtful or suspicious characters, shall be discharged from confine- ment, upon paying the cost as aforesaid, and also the expense of a sufficient guard to conduct and remove such person or persons out of this State, the directest or securest way toward his place of resi- dence ; which guard the said Justice or Justices are required to pro- cure, upon receiving a sum sufficient to hire and support the same and to give a pass for that purpose.
4. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every boat- man or ferryman who shall bring into this state, or over any ferry within the same any person without a passport as aforesaid, and every publick innkeeper or other householder who shall entertain any person not having such passport, and all stage drivers who shall grant a passage to any such person, every such ferryman, publick innkeeper, householder and stage driver so offending, contrary to the true intent and meaning of this act, shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay the sum of twenty pounds; to be recovered in any court of record where the same may be cognizable, with costs of suit, to be applied one half to the support of the poor of the town- ship where the offence was committed, and the other half to the prosecutor. And all officers civil and military within this State are hereby strictly ordered and enjoined to give all needful aid and assistance for carrying this act into execution.
Passed at Trenton, June 10, 1779.
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TRENTON, JUNE 30.
Last week Benjamin Van Cleve,1 Esq. was duly elected a Representative in General Assembly for the county of Hunterdon, in the room of the Hon. John Hart, Esq. de- ceased.
1 Benjamin Van Cleve resided at Maidenhead (now Lawrenceville), near Princeton. He was a son of John Van Cleve, who took up his residence at Maidenhead, where he died in 1772, aged 72 years, and is buried there in the old cemetery. Benjamin Van Cleve was elected chosen freeholder from Maidenhead in 1775, and a member of the township committee 1774- 76 and 1802. He was commissioned First Lieutenant, First Regiment, Hunterdon county militia, at the beginning of the Revolution ; Captain of the same; Captain, Colonel Johnson's battalion, Heard's brigade, June 14, 1776 ; Second Major, First Regiment, Hunterdon, March 15, 1777 ; resigned November 13. 1777, on his election to the Assembly. He was again elected to that body in 1779, taking his seat September 16, as the suc- cessor of John Hart. deceased. He was elected in the fall of 1779 for the full term of one year, and again in 1780, 1781, 1783, 1784, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805. He was elected Speaker of the Assembly November 19, 1784, to fill a vacancy, and was again chosen in 1785, 1786 and 1788. He was appointed a justice of the peace for Hunterdon county September 7, 1776 ; September 29, 1781; November 7, 1786; November 9, 1791; Novem- ber 4, 1796, and January 28, 1797. On December 18, 1782, he was ap- pointed one of the judges of the Hunterdon county court of common pleas, which probably accounts for his non-election to the Assembly in that year.
When "the Presbyterian Church in the township of Maidenhead" was incorporated in 1787, Benjamin Van Cleve was one of the trustees named in the certificate of incorporation. The board of justices and freeholders of the county chose him to be clerk of that body in 1791. Benjamin Van Cleve m. 1st, Mary, dau. of Joseph Wright ; she d. 1784, aged 38 yrs. ; he m. 2d, September 20, 1786, Anna, dau. of the Rev. Caleb Smith, of Orange, and wid. of George Green, of Maidenhead ; she d. 1789, aged 40 yrs. Issue (by his first wife) :
i. John Wright, graduated at Princeton College, 1786; licensed as an attorney, September term, 1791 ; as a counsellor, November term, 1796; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Isaac Coates, of Philadelphia ; d. 1802. Children : 1. Mary, m. Dr. Garbett, of Georgia ; 2. Eliza beth ; 3. Cornelia, m. Daniel Barnes, of New York.
ii. Phebe, m. John Stevens ; d. s. p.
iii. Cornelia, m. Thomas Stevens.
iv. Elizabeth, m. Dr. Israel Clarke, of Clarkesyille. Children : 1. Mary, m. Dr. Alexander Hart, of Philadelphia ; 2. Elizabeth.
v. Joseph W:, b. 1777; m. Charity Pitney, of Morristown (prob. b. March 31, 1782 ; dau. of James Pitney and Elizabeth Carmichael) ; d. 1864, aged 87 yrs. Children : 1. Mary, m. Stacy Paxon, of Trenton ; she d. May 26, 1847, aged 49 yrs .; 2. Phebe ; 3. Ben- jamin Franklin, m. Phebe, dau. of Joshua Anderson and Jemima Broadhurst. both of Trenton ; 4. Elizabeth, d. young.
Issue by his second wife, Anna (Smith) Green :
vi. A son, d. in inf.
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RAGS.
The highest price, paid in either cash or paper, will be given all the year round, for any quantity of clean linen or cotton rags, by the printer hereof.
One Hundred Dollars Reward.
STRAYED or stolen from the tail of the subscriber's waggon, at Pennington, on Monday night last, a bay HORSE, about 6 years old, about fourteen hands high, paces, trots and gallops, but most natural to his pace, and has no particular mark except that of a saddle. Whoever takes up said horse, so that the owner may get him again, and if stolen, the thief be brought to justice, shall have the above reward, or fifty Dollars for the HORSE only, paid by the subscriber, in Kingwood.
JOHN FIELDS.
To be sold at public vendue, on Thursday the 8th July next, at the forks of Little Egg-Harbour,
THE privateer sloop Jenny, with her guns, stores, tackle, apparel and furniture, per inventory there to be seen- Also the schooner Maria Ta Page, and the schooner , a Virginia built vessel, about 90 tons burthen, with their respective tackle, &c .- Also the cargoes of said schooners, consisting of rum, sugar, salt, coffee, cocoa, &c. Vendue to begin at 10 o'clock, and continue till all is sold.
By order of the Court of Admiralty, . Jos. POTTS, Marshal.
N. B. No credit will be given, therefore those who ex- pect to purchase will be provided with cash.
New-Jersey, June 22, 1779.
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Is WANTED, a young LAD of about 13 or 14 years of age, that can be well recommended for his abilities and moral character, to serve in a country. Merchant shop till of age. Apply to William Verbryck, Esq. at New-Shannick, in Somerset county, State of New-Jersey.
To all whom it may concern:
New NOTICE is hereby given that a Court of Ad-
Jersey, ss. miralty will be held at the house of Gilbert Barton, in Allentown, on Tuesday the 20th day of July next at ten o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, then and there to try the truth of the facts alledged in the bills of Samuel Ingersoll (who as well &c. ) against the sloop or vessel called the Jenny, lately commanded by Noble Cald- well; the schooner or vessel the Maria Ta Page; and a schooner or vessel Virginia built, supposed about ninety tons burthen, drove ashore by a British privateer near Hog-Island, and part of her cargo taken out by the hands : 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 vessels and cargos should not be condemned according to the prayer of the said bills,
By order of the Judge, JOSEPH BLOOMFIELD, Reg. Salem, June 21, 1779.
THE Subscribers, two of the Commissioners in and for the county of Cumberland, in the State of New Jersey, having compleated the sales (in part) of the estates of Richard Cayford, Daniel Stretch, Daniel Bowen, Jacob Hall, Sylvanus Tubman, Hugh Barber, Francis Pilgrim, James Barrat, jun, Ambrose Fitzgerald, William Wood- land, John Phipps, and David Watkins, all late of said county, whose estates are become forfeited to and vested in the state of New Jersey for-ever-These are therefore to give publick notice to all persons having any lawful
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claims or demands against any of the estates above men- tioned that they appear at the Court-house in Bridgetown in said county, on Monday the fifth day of July next, with their respective accounts duly stated in writing, and lay the same before two of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said county, who will attend for the purpose aforesaid from day to day by adjournment, until the twelfth day of May next, after which time no accounts can be taken in against any of the above said estates under any pretence whatever.
Enos Seeley -
Commis- William Kelsay sioners. June 12,
TO BE SOLD, .
By way of publick vendue, on Tuesday, the 28th day of September next, at the Court house in Bridgetown, at 12 o'clock said day,
A VERY valuable plantation of seventy-five acres of land, situate in the township of Deerfield, joining Newcomb Thompson on the East, Preston Hannah and John Del- siver on the South, West and North, &c. On said prem- ises is a good new two story house well furnished, with a cellar under the same, a new frame kitchen joining the same, a well of good water near the door: a barn and other out houses, all in good order; apple and peach orchards, &c. late the property of Peter Sowder jun. deceased.
About 300 acres of exceeding good salt marsh, situate in the township of Fairfield, joining on the West by the Delaware Bay, by Back Neck Creek on the North, and on the other sides by the Society Rights, late the property of Richard Cayford, all seized and to be sold as forfeited to the State, for ready money, by
ENOS SEELEY,
WILLIAM KELSAY $ - Commis- sioners.
June 12.
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TO BE SOLD,
At the PRINTING OFFICE in Trenton, the following Books, STATIONERY, MEDICINE, &c.
TESTAMENTS,
Dilworth's spelling books,
Croxall's Aesop's fables
Powers of attorney
Quills, dressed and undressed,
Black lead pencils,
History of New Jersey
Wafers in boxes
Vicar of Wakefield
Black sealing wax,
Ivory folders
Pocket books
Clark's Cordery,
Ink stands of different sorts
Schoolmasters assistants,
Oeconomy of human life,
New England, Manson's Woolman's primers
and
Best grey hair powder,
Rhubarb in the gross or powdered.
Jesuits bark, ditto
Brimstone,
Senna.
Gum assafoetida
Tartar emetic
Epsom's salts
Bateman's drops
British oil
Godfrey's cordial
Turlington's balsam,
Anderson's and Hoppers' pills,
Gum myrrh,
Camphor,
Sweet oil in flasks
Blank bonds
Corks, &c &c.
Apprentices indentures
Also a quantity of men's shoes.
THE subscribers who are indebted for this Gazette for 1778, and for the first six months of the current year (which will expire the 30th inst.) are requested to make immediate payment, agreeable to the accounts transmitted, errors excepted. The cash to be sent by the respective posts, or other safe conveyance.
ISAAC COLLINS.
Trenton, June 23, 1779. -The New Jersey Gazette, Vol. II., No. 82, Wednesday, June 30, 1779.
Daniel Stanton's journal
Clarks vade mecum
Negotiator's magazine
Clark's Suetonius' history of the XII Caesars, in Latin and English,
The voyage and adventures of Mons. Viaud.
Watts's divine songs for chil- dren,
The mighty destroyer displayed Horn books
Writing paper
Ink powder
Lampblack
Relly's Christian hymns.
Journals of Congress the first 2 vols.
A law library, consisting of 61 vols.
Allinson's edition of the body of laws of New Jersey,
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CHATHAM, June 22.
On Sunday night last, it was discovered that the negroes had it in contemplation to rise and murder the inhabitants of Elizabeth-Town. Many of them are secured in gaol. -The New York Packet, and the American Advertiser, No. 132, July 1, 1779.
Forks, Egg-Harbour, June 27.
To be SOLD by Public Vendue,
On Monday the fifth day of July, at Ten o'clock in the forenoon, at the house of Henry Thorn.
THE SCHOONER ADVENTURE,
Burthen about seventy tons, with part of her CARGO, consisting of about thirty hogsheads of Molasses, about 400 1b of best Cotton, five hogsheads of Sugar, and a small quantity of Rum. The money to be paid on the spot, as no credit can possibly be given
JOSEPH BALL.
Forks, Egg-Harbour, June 25. SIXTY DOLLARS REWARD,
RAN AWAY last night, from on board the prize sloop Retrieve, a Negro boy named PETER, a native of Vir- ginia, about sixteen years of age, pretty tall and slender ; had on a blue coat, oznabrig shirt and trousers, and an old hat. Whoever takes up and secures the said boy in any gaol so that he may be had again, or delivers him at the Forks of Little Egg-Harbour, shall have the above reward and all reasonable charges.
JOSEPH BALL. -The Pennsylvania Packet, July 1, 1779.
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New-York, July 3.
On Wednesday night a party of rebels landed on Staten Island, and carried off Col. Cortelyou, and Mr. William Smith,1 of Woodbridge.
-The Royal Gazette, No. 288, July 3, 1779.
Last Tuesday Night a Detachment from his Majesty's 37th Regiment, with a Party of Col. Barton's, and some Refugees, went over from Staten-Island to a Place called Woodbridge Raway, where they surprised a Party of Rebels in a Tavern, killed their commanding Officer Cap- tain Skinner of a Troop of Light Horse, and another Man[,] and took the following Prisoners, viz[:] Capt. Samuel Meeker, Christopher March, Joseph Stephens, Benjamin Willis, David Craig, Stephen Ball, Lewis Marsh, Jotham Moore, Jesse Whitehead, John Tharp, Thomas Bloomfield, Jeremiah Corey, and David Hall. -The New-York Gazette: and the Weekly Mercury, No.
1446, July 5, 1779.
WAS FOUND,
On the 20th inst. (June) at or near the mouth of Newtown Creek, between Philadelphia and Gloucester, in New-Jersey, -
A Small Beaver Hat, with a silver lace, and some capital letters stamped in the lining; now in the posses- sion of the subscriber, living near the same place. Any person describing the letters and hat, proving property and paying charges, may have it again.
JOB HAINES. -The Pennsylvania Packet, July 8, 1779.
1 William Smith was a prominent Loyalist, of Woodbridge, and his property was confiscated and sold by the State.
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One Hundred and Fifty Pounds Reward
Was Stolen on the night of the twenty-sixth of June, from the subscriber, living near Wise's Mills in the Dutch Valley, in Roxbury township, Morris county, New-Jersey, a bright bay Horse, about fourteen and a half hands high, blind of his right eye, a white strip down his forehead, newly shod before, eight years old this spring, a natural trotter, and gallops short. Likewise an iron grey Mare, having a good deal of white in her forehead and running over her left eye, shod all round, is near fifteen hands high, three years old, is half blooded, and trots naturally. Whoever takes up and secures said creatures so that the owner may get them again, shall have One Hundred Pounds reward, and for the creatures and thief the above reward, paid by
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