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TO BE SOLD, a stout Negro WOMAN, mostly used to coun- try work, and her son about eight years old.
MOORE FURMAN,2 Pitts-Town, January 10, 1778.
1 For a notice of Stacy Potts, see New Jersey Archives, 2d Series, 1 : 238
2 For a sketch of Moore Furman, see New Jersey Archives. 20 : 148.
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FURMAN & HUNT.
HAVE FOR SALE,
WEST-India and French rum, French brandy, Holland gin, Maderia wine, sugar, tea, coffee, pepper. &c &c.
Trenton, January 19, 1779.
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FRANCIS WITT,
opposite Captain Clunn's, in Trenton, has for SALE,
BROADCLOTH, linens, checks, cambrick, lawn, muslin, sarsnet, handkerchiefs, white thread, mohair, sewing silk, knee garters, crewells, silk laces, packet pins, ivory combs, black ribbon, razors, scissars, shoe and knee buckles, cards, door and desk locks, brass cocks, large garters, gravy ladles, 3-4 inch augers, a beaver hat, flannel vests and drawers. Also coffee, tea, pepper, alspice, indigo, hard soap, tobacco, snuff, candles, wafers, stone and earthenware; likewise sugar by the barrel or smaller quantity, &c &c.
N. B. Said Witt will take in payment the two emis- sions now called in, dated May 20, 1777, and April 11, 1778, or country produce.
TO BE SOLD,
at public VENDUE, on Wednesday, the 17th of February next.
A VALUABLE Plantation, containing near 130 acres of good land, whereon is a good frame dwellinghouse, a good frame barn covered with cedar shingles, a good waggon and smoke house, an excellent orchard, containing about 400 trees, a large quantity of which is grafted fruit of the best kind, with a great number of peach trees, and like-
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wise cherry trees, a great many of which are the best English sort; also a number of pear trees. The land is good for grain and grass, having a large proportion of excellent woodland and meadow. The whole pleasantly situated, joining the Old York road, about eight miles from Coryell's ferry, in the township of Amwell and county of Hunterdon, nearly joining the old Presbyterian meeting-house. Any person inclining to purchase, may see the plan by applying to William Schanck, or George Prall, who lives on the place. The vendue to begin at twelve o'clock of said day, when attendance will be given, and conditions of sale made known by
Amwell, Ja- nuary 12, 17.79. JACOB SUTPHIN
JOHN PRALL - Exrs.
WILLIAM SCHANCK.
THIS is to request all persons indebted to John Dixon of Bottle-Hill,1 Morris county, on book, bond, or note, to come and settle with him by the tenth of February, or depend on being dealt with as the law directs.
January 6.
Forty Dollars Reward.
WAS stolen out of the Fulling-mill, in Amwell, Hunter- don county, on the 4th or 5th of this instant, a piece of broadcloth consisting of 8 yards in length, and near 3-4 wide, a brown colour, shear'd and press'd, being finished ; the number cut in the corners at one end, and at one corner of the other end marked B, worked in the cloth, belonging to Mr. Ten Brook. Whoever secures said cloth and thief, so that the subscriber may have the cloth, and bring the thief to justice, shall be entitled to the above reward, or for the cloth only Twenty Dollars and if required no questions asked, and all reasonable charges paid by me JOSHUA MOTT, Fuller.
1 Now Madison.
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N. B. All taylors are requested to take particular notice of brown cloth, and whether the marks are cut out of the ends, or new ones put in, which may easily be discovered by the marks not being fulled in.
January 16, 1779.
To be sold, on Saturday, the 23d instant, at the Vendue- House opposite the Church,1 in Trenton,
HORSES, a bed, men's apparel, ready made shirts, rum by the hogshead or smaller quantity, and sundry sorts of merchandize, by
JACOB BENJAMIN.
N. B. Wanted, a quantity of flaxseed, for which cash will be given by said Benjamin or John Plasket.
STOLEN on Sunday night, the 17th inst, out of the stable of the subscriber, a brown HORSE, 15 hands high, has a blaze in his forehead, his hind feet white, branded I B on the near thigh, worn a good deal with the gears, shod all round, paces and trots. Whoever takes up said horse, so that the owner may have him again, shall receive THIRTY DOLLARS, and for the thief, if prosecuted to con- viction, FIFTY DOLLARS, to be paid by me
JASPER SMITH. 1
Maidenhead, Jan. 19. 1779.
LOST or stolen, on the seventh instant, a small English Spaniel DOG, the grounds of his colour is a very shining white, his ears mark'd with yellow; as likewise two or three yellow broad spots on his side and rump, his tail extremely bushy ; had on a brass collar with General Lee's name. Whoever will bring him to Capt Clunn's, at Tren- ton; to Mr. Clarkson's, at Brunswick; Mr. Stockton's, at Princeton; to Mr. De Hart's, at Elizabethtown; to General Knox, at Pluck'emin, shall receive TWENTY Dol- lars reward.
Jan. 12, 1779.
1 St. Michael's Church, in King (now Warren) street.
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OF EDWARD BROOKS, Junior,
In Bordentown, may be had the following articles of MERCHANDIZE, viz.
LONDON brown and light coloured second broad cloths at 30 dol- lars per yard
Grey and drab colour'd coarser ditto
Black and cloth colour'd knit worsted breeches pattern
Blue serge denim
Red and white flannel serge
Blue, green, striped and flowered, red and blue mixed, brown and dove colour'd camlets
Black taffety, pelong and ell-wide French mode
Black, green and cloth colour'd ell-wide Persian
Sewing silk and bonnet whale- bone
Book muslin
Cambrick and lawn
'Long lawn and gauze
Red, pink, green, deep and pale blue, brown, black and flowered ribbons
Womens white gloves
Snuff boxes
Ivory and horn combs
Crooked ditto
Mens and womens leather shoes
Ticklenburg and common Ozna- brugs
Fine and coarse dowlas
Dutch and Irish sheeting
Striped Holland and checks
Irish and Dutch white linens
Check handkerchiefs
Sewing and knitting needles
Black and white small beads for necklaces
Spectacles
West India rum
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Molasses
Sugar, tea and coffee.
Pepper, alspice, nutmegs
Ginger and lump brimstone in kegs or less quantity
Genuine Castile soap
Imported G B woolcards
Ditto cotton ditto
Wheat and flax-seed riddles
Indian meal sieves
Sand ditto
Ink powder
Writing paper
Leading lines, halters and bed cords
Chest and cubbard locks
House ditto
Door bolts and thumb latches
Iron candlesticks and snuffers, cork screws
Polished steel sliding tobacco boxes
Iron ditto with springs
Table and box hinges
Nail gimblets, tap-borers
Fire shovel and tongs
Half inch, inch, and inch and half flat head woodscrews
Rat and mouse traps
Hobnails by any quantity less than thirty thousand
Four sizes of awl blades
Horse-and razors
Watch keys and gun worms
Shoe and knee buckles
Packet and pound pins
Marking irons
Small iron pots
Country made earthen ware
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Continental SALT.
Fifteen shillings per bushel will be given for good mer- chantable flax seed. Six dollars for good grey fox skins. Four dollars for raccoon, and five shillings for good musk- rat skins.
WILL be exposed to sale at publick vendue on Wednes- day the third of February, the following tracts of land, lying as follows: One piece containing. 28 acres, within four miles of Elizabeth town on the main road that leads to Morris and Sussex, very convenient for a merchant or tavern, the latter has been kept 20 years; there is a good dwelling-house, large barn, smith's shop, two coal houses, chair and corn-house, with other necessary buildings, 120 young apple trees mostly grafted with the best fruit, which bears plentiful; one other orchard with fifty trees of natural fruit. Thirty-six and one third acres joining the above, with about 300 young apple trees mostly grafted with the best collection of fruit. One other tract of land lying within one mile of the above land, with an orchard that will produce 30 barrels of cyder in a year, well watered and good mowing land, contains about 50 acres. One other farm lying in the township of Newark, at a place called Canoe-brook, ten miles from the town, con- taining 133 acres on which is a dwellinghouse and barn, a large orchard where 60 barrels of cyder may be made in a year, there is plenty of timber and water, some very good swamp fit for hemp. Any person having a mind to view the premises before the day of sale, may call on the subscriber.
N. B. The sale to begin at ten o'clock.
A few axes may be had of the subscriber made of the best Crawley's steel, for country produce.
Connecticut Farms,
January 16, 1779.
Jacamiah Smith.
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To all whom it may concern :
State of New- NOTICE is hereby given that a Court of Jersey, ss. Admiralty will be held at the house of Gilbert Barton, Inn holder, in Allentown, in the county of Monmouth, on Tuesday the 23d day of February next, at 10 of the clock in the forenoon, then and there to try the truth of the facts alledged in the bill of James Green, (who as well, &c.) against the sloop or vessel called the Betsey, lately commanded by James Parks-Of Samuel Reed (who as well, &c.) against the sloop or vessel called the Franklin, lately commanded by George Clerk, 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 person or persons concerned therein, may appear and shew cause, if any they have, why the said vessels and their respective tackle, apparel, furniture and cargoes should not be condemned according to the prayer of the said bills.
By order of the Judge,
JOSEPH BLOOMFIELD, Register. -The New Jersey Gazette, Vol. II., No. 59, January 20, 1779.
New-York, January 20.
Last Wednesday a Mr. Allen, ensign in the rebel army, with three Jersey militia men, were apprehended on Bergen Point, by a party from Captain Anstruther's company, of the twenty-sixth regiment .- The Royal Ga- zette, No. 241, January 20, 1779.
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TO BE SOLD.
For good emissions of May 20th 1777, and April 11th, 1778, within the Western division of the State of New Jersey.
Ten thousand acres of unappropriated rights to lands, the title warranted good and indisputable.
Application may be made to Mr. JOHN LEE, at Mount Pleasant, near Mount Holly, New Jersey.
N. B. Any quantity from fifty acres upwards may be had .- The Pennsylvania Packet, January 21, 1779.
PHILADELPHIA January 21.
A gentleman from Jersey informs, that some row boats, about a fortnight ago, went from Jersey to Sandy hook, where, in the night, they boarded and took four sloops, one of which was armed. In carrying them to a place of safety, three of them, by the unskilfulness of the pilots, ran a shore, and were burnt ? The other, with nine- teen prisoners, got safe to New Jersey. It is farther said, the persons concerned will share about four hundred pounds, each man .- The Pennsylvania Evening Post, January 21, 1779.
A Philadelphia paper of the 7th inst. announces the arrival of the French squadron, under Mons. d' Estaing, at Martinico; Admiral Byron sailed sometime after the Marquis from Rd. Island in quest of that fleet; Com- modore Hotham proceeded, early in November, with a very respectable naval force for the West Indies ; these powers, when united, will enable Admiral Byron to act with every advantage against the French fleet and any of their possessions in that part of the world. The rebels, greatly
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alarmed at the successful operations of the Loyalists and Indians, under young Mr. Butler and Mr. Joseph Brant, upon the back settlements, have occasioned, we are in- formed, three brigades to be detached from Jersey to Cherry Valley to defend, if possible, the townships in that district .- The Royal Gazette, No. 242, January 23, 1779.
NEW-YORK, January 25.
Two or three Whale-Boats put out of Egg-Harbour in the late hard Weather, after some Vessels that were seen in the Offing, but most of their Crews perished before they could reach the Shore, the Creeks being inaccessible on Account of the Ice .- The New-York Gazette: and the Weekly Mercury, No. 1423, January 25, 1779.
To be SOLD at Private Sale.
A VALUABLE PLANTATION on Little Egg-harbour River, Chestnut Neck, having three or four valuable fishing places, with a large dwelling-house, barn, stables, and cow-houses. Any person wanting said place may pur- chase houshold goods, waggons, plows, and several other things for carrying on Farming, by applying to MICAJAH SMITH. -The Pennsylvania Packet, January 26, 1779.
PHILADELPHIA, January 14.
The sloop Franklin, Capt Clark, from Surinam, with a cargo of molasses, bound to and belonging to Nan- tucket, was taken by the letter of marque brig Sir William Erskine, Capt. M'Callister, of New York, who put a prize master and four hands on board her, and ordered them to New-York, but off Egg-Harbour some of the sailors secured the prize master below, and ran for Egg Harbour, where they arrived safe about ten days ago.
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TRENTON, JANUARY 27.
Extract of a letter from Monmouth, Jan. 23, 1778.
"On the 10th day of December last at six o'clock in the morning, the armed sloop Two Friends, commanded by Captain Alexander Bonnet, was cast away on the Long Beach near Barnagat. A number of people from the shore went to their assistance, and saved all the men, but one that was drowned. She was from Cape Nichola Mole, bound to Philadelphia, laden with 1600 bushels of salt, 40 hogsheads of molasses, some rum and sugar. She went to pieces in a few hours, and all was lost except about 160 gallons of rum. The hands went to Phila- delphia and Captain Bonnet went on board the sloop Endeavor at Toms River, to take his passage home to Hispaniola, but unfortunately, on the 25th of last month in the night she parted her cable and was cast away in the bay, and Capt. Bonnet, with every soul on board, perished."
** The LAWS passed at the two last sittings of the Gen- eral Assembly of this State, are now ready to be delivered, agreeably to the orders of the Members of the Legislature.
Mr. COLLINS,
IN your Gazette of the 30th of December, there appeared an attempt against General Lee's character, as wicked in its intentions as false in its assertions ; whether the sterility of the brain obliged, or the villainy of the heart induced the author to adopt the rascally produc- tion of a mercenary retainer of Lord Dunmore's, so fam'd for his enmity to this country, the publick must judge.
But the original composer of this calumny is comparatively a man of sense and candor, because it is obvious his motives were to answer a political purpose, whereas the motives of your correspondent could at best be but a pitiful attempt to blast the character of a man who has sacrificed his friends and voluntarily staked a solid independent fortune on the fate of the liberties of a people, from whom, if he was as avaricious as he is in defiance of notorious facts represented to be, and his most sanguine expectations answered, he could not possibly expect a recompence equivalent to what he depriv'd himself of.
The hero of this performance, in order to give credit to his scandal- ous libel, has artfully taken it up upon the wild supposition that General Lee aims at shaking the confidence of the people in General
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Washington. This, from the long personal acquaintance I have had the honour of having with General Lee, is equally as false as the sequel ; but even admitting it to be true, does it prove him to be a scoundrel, a villain, a Cataline, a Samnite, a penurious wretch that would change sides for a farthing more to his pay?
I am conscious every man who is a friend to this community, a friend to virtue or justice, and every man who would reprobate Gen- eral Lee in any attempts to depreciate so valuable a character as Gen- eral Washington's, must despise the rancorous villain, who from the baseness of his soul, could be capable of composing, or instrumental in publishing such false, such dastardly, and such malignant calumny.
Your's
EVAN EDWARDS.
January 18th, 1779.
To be sold at publick Vendue on Tuesday the 16th of February next, at New-Brunswick, the
SLOOP SALLY. On the 17th, at Woodbridge, the SLOOP POLLY.
On the 18th, at Elizabeth-Town, the SLOOP CHARMING POLLY,
With their respective tackle, furniture, and apparel, per inventory to be seen the times and places of sale.
By order of the Court of Admiralty of New Jersey.
JOS. POTTS, Marshal Jan. 23, 1779.
Pocket Almanacks
For the current year, are to be Sold by the dozen or single at the Printing-Office in Trenton.
THE CITIZENS of Philadelphia who wish to become Sub- scribers for this GAZETTE, may enter their Names with MOSES BARTRAM, Apothecary, in Second street, a few Doors above Arch street, or with ROBERT AITKEN, Printer
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and Bookseller, in Front street, nearly opposite the Coffee house-at One Dollar and an Half per Quarter, the Money to be paid at the Time of Entrance.
THIRTY DOLLARS REWARD.
TAKEN through mistake from the stable of Mr. Samuel Smith, innkeeper, at Elizabeth-Town, on Friday evening the 13th of November last, and carried to the public stables at Head-Quarters in town, from whence was either stolen or strayed away, a dark brown MARE, rising six years old, has a star in her forehead, about fifteen hands high, large thick mane which lays on the near side, is a natural trotter, and carried a tail as if somewhat nicked. Whoever takes up the said mare and returns her to Mr. Smith, or the subscriber at Booneton, in Morris county, shall receive the above reward, and all reasonable charges.
ANTHONY JOLINE.
Jan. 15, 1779.
To be sold by THOMAS HANKENSON, near Robertson's Ferry, on Delaware, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, a QUANTITY of
SHORE SALT,
For good emissions of continental currency of May 20, 1777, and April 11, 1778, at Thirteen Dollars per bushel, or Ten Pounds of Flax for one bushel of salt.
On Wednesday the 3d of February next, WILL BE SOLD at the Forks of Little Egg Harbour,
THE Sloop Franklin, per inventory, to be seen at the day of sale .- Also her cargo, consisting of about 60 hogs- heads molasses. Vendue to begin at 10 o'clock.
By order of the Court of Admiralty of New Jersey,
JOS. POTTS, Marshall.
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Notice is hereby given to all persons who have any claim, interest, or demand to, in or against the estates of James Stuart, Christopher Insley, Joseph Bear, George Myre, William Carnel, John Kitchen, Andrew Kitchen, Ozias Park, Henry Mills, Jacob Insley, Philip Kline, Wil- liam Schooley, Andrew Schooley, William Millack, Jacob Kline, Philip Kighline, Robert Goodman, Peter Apple- man, Conrad Reightmyre, John Waddington, Ludowick Wessigh, David Young, Joseph Lawery, senior, Joseph Lawery, junior, John Rice, William Rice, Isaac Ammer- man, Reuben Green, Philip Farce, William Ekler, John Smith, senior, John Smith, junior, Michael Lemon, John M'Cowin, James Moody,1 Richard Mountain, John Dun- field, Peter Anderson, Ozias Insley, Thomas Richardson, James Morden, John Insley, William Hutchenson, John Cummins, Christopher Young, James Briton, James Blain, Benjamin Harned, William Briton, John White Smock, Obadiah Hoagland, Matthias Zimerman, John Clendenon, Christopher Hoofman, John Hutcheson, Cornelius Dugan, Richard Boulsbery, Abraham Boulsbery, William Dedman, John Gorman, William Park, Robert Thompson and Thomas Turpin, to appear with their accounts, vouchers and evidence before the subscribers, in Greenwich, on or before the first day of March next ensuing, then and there to have the same adjudged and settled .- And all persons indebted to the above persons, are desired to make speedy payment to the subscribers; and any person possessed of any monies, bonds, bills, notes, mortgages, books of ac- counts, or any instruments of writing whatsoever, belong- ing to either of the above persons, and do not make discovery thereof to the subscribers within one month after this publick notice is given, shall, if convicted thereof, forfeit treble the value of such property as shall be by them so detained .- And all persons indebted to the sub-
1 The noted Lieutenant in the New Jersey Volunteers (Loyalists), whose daring marauding expeditions struck terror into the hearts of many a patriotic fireside, and whose exploits are still a household word in Sussex county.
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scribers for goods bought at the several vendues, are desired to make speedy payment to prevent trouble.
WILLIAM BOND, George Warne, Commissioners. Sussex County, December 10, 1778.
PETER CROLIUS.
Has for SALE, opposite the Printing-Office, in Trenton, BLUE, buff, green, red, brown and grey broadcloths; blue and brown naps; shalloons, callimancoes; striped and plain camblets ; moreens; fine and coarse linens; lawn ; cambricks ; muslins; taffety ; ell-wide Persian; callicoes ; striped hollands ; checks and check handkerchiefs; sewing silk; mohair; threads; buttons; tea; sugar; chocolate; alspice ; pepper; indigo; snuff; and many others articles too tedious to mention.
N. B. Said Crolius will take in payment the two emissions now called in, dated May 20, 1777, and April 11, 1778, or country produce.
SUCH persons as have demands on the Forage Depart- ment before the 2d of March last, for forage delivered at this post, and proper certificates signed by the subscriber, or persons acting by his appointment, are desired to bring in their accounts any time between the 8th and 11th of February next for payment; for which purpose I shall attend at the house of Capt Joseph Clunn, in Trenton.
SAM. H. SULLIVAN.
Jan. 25, 1779.
INQUISITIONS having been found and final judgment entered against Nathaniel Richards, William Stiles, Thomas Bruen, Uzal Ward, David Ogden, jun. Griffin Jinkens, Stephen Skinner, David Ogden, Esq., Benjamin Booth, Joseph Kingsland, Stephen Farrand, Lewis Green- field, John Wheeler, Isaac Ogden, Esq;, Nathaniel
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Williams, Jonathan Sayers, Isaac Longworth, Thomas Longworth, Peter Browne, Peter Mowrison, George Walls, Abraham Van Geson, jun, Isaac Kingsland, and Henry Stager, of Newark, Robert Drummond, Garret Jacobus, Richard Yates, and Richard Stanton, of Aquackanonck ;1 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the houses and lands and all the real estate lately belonging to them, in the county of Essex, will be exposed to sale at public vendue, on the first day of March next, at the house of Capt. Josiah Peirson, in Newark. The vendue will begin at 10 o'clock in the morning, and continue by adjournments from day to day, until the whole is sold. A map of the several pieces of land to be seen at the time and place of sale. There are some elegant houses and many agreeable situations. The land is excellent and. the place healthy.
JOSEPH HEDDEN, jun. - SAMUEL HAYES, Commissioners.
1 For a sketch of David Ogden, Sr., one of the most eminent lawyers of his day in New Jersey, see New Jersey Archives, 10: 372. The Supreme Court allowed a writ of certiorari to the Essex Oyer and Terminer, direct- ing the indictment to be sent up for review, but the inferior court disre- garded the writ, and ordered the trial to proceed, with the result that Ogden was convicted of treason. See N. J. Hist. Soc. Proc., 2d Series, 13 : 88, and 27 N. J. Law Journal, 4.
Isaac Ogden was a son of David Ogden, Sr. He was admitted to the bar May 12, 1763, and resided in Newark. He accompanied his father to New York, and with him joined the British. An extract from a letter writ- ten by him to Joseph Galloway, February 6, 1779, telling what he had heard and what he thought of the above proceeding, is given in New Jersey Archives, 10: 372. Other letters from him are published (not entire, however), in the Historical Magazine, 1st Series, 5: 335; 6: 178-181. (The originals of these and other letters from Ogden to Galloway were destroyed in the fire at Paterson, N. J., February 9 and 10, 1902).
Sketches of Isaac Longworth and Thomas Longworth, of Newark, are given in New Jersey Archives, 2d Series, 1: 419.
Robert Drummond-see New Jersey Archives, 2d Series, 1: 251.
Griffin Jinkens was a school teacher in Newark, who owned a small farm between the present Belleville avenue and the Passaic river, near the pres- ent Clark street. He was the author of a pamphlet of forty-eight pages, "A Brief Vindication of the Purchasors Against the Proprietors in a Chris- tian Manner," New York, 1746. It is a curious medley of argument and appeal, legal and religious, in prose and verse.
Richard Stanton was a tailor who married a Ryerson and lived for some time on the northern shore of the Passaic river, at the foot of the present Clinton street, in the city of Paterson, then Saddle River township, Bergen county. It would seem that in 1779 he resided, or at least owned property in Acquackanonk township.
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State of New Jersey, county of Essex, January 19th, 1779. New Jersey, AT an Inferior Court of Common Essex county, Pleas held for said county of Essex on the 12th day of January inst., were returned inquisitions for joining the army of the King of Great-Britain, and other treasonable practices, found against Peter Duboise, Aaron Peirson, Hugh Gaine, Isaac Stiles, Samuel Hudi- not, Nicholas Hoffman, Dr. Uzal Johnson, John Courter, jun, and Capt. James Gray, of which proclamation was made at said court, that if they or any on their behalf, or any persons interested, would appear and traverse, a trial should be awarded ; but no traverses were offered : There- fore notice is hereby given, that if neither they nor any in their behalf, nor any interested, shall appear and traverse at the next court to be held for the said county, the inquisitions will be taken to be true, and final judg- ment entered thereon in favour of the State.
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