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given that the lands, tenements, hereditaments, and all the estates real, lately belonging to the above-named fugitives and offenders, situate, lying, and being in Woodbridge, Amboy and Piscataway, in the county of Middlesex, will be exposed to sale at publick vendue, to begin on Monday the 22d day of March next, at the house of John Conger, innkeeper, at Bonemtown, at ten of the clock of said day, and continue by adjournments from day to day until the whole be sold. There are some elegant buildings, and many agreeable situations. The land in general is ex- cellent good. Attendance will be given, and deeds made to the purchasers, agreeable to act of Assembly.
WILLIAM MANNING | Commis- EBENEZER FORD 5 sioners.
February 12, 1779.
TAKEN up as a stray, on the 28th of January, 1779, a bright bay HORSE about 13 years old, near 14 hands high, no brand but much marked with a collar and traces; and I do suppose has belonged to some of the teams, im- pressed for the use of the army. The owner may have him, by proving his property and paying charges.
MARK BENTON 1st Lieut. 5th V. Regt.
Somerset WHEREAS inquisition has found, and final County. judgment entered thereon in favour of the state, against Richard Cochran, Joseph Stockton and John Van Dike, of the western precinct of said county ; Daniel Coxe, of the county of Hunterdon; John Honey- man, Charles Roberts and William Burton, of the eastern precinct ; William Drake, Benjamin Worth, of Barnard's township, and John Harris, of Bridgewater, all in said county. NOTICE is hereby given that the plantations, tracts of land and premises, with the appurtenances be-
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longing to each of them, will be exposed to sale at publick vendue to the highest bidder, at the times and manner following, that is to say,-On Monday the 15th day of March next, will be sold the plantation late the property of Richard Cochran, near Princeton: On Wednesday following, the 17th, will be sold the plantation late the property of Joseph Stockton, lying on the Princeton road, about three miles distant from Princeton: On Friday the 19th will be sold in like manner, the plantation late the property of Daniel Coxe, lying at Rocky-hill, formerly in the occupation of Capt. Hendrick Emmons: On Mon- day the 22d, will be sold in like manner, the lots and. houses late the property of John Honeyman, lying at Griggs-town, about one mile distant from Van Dorne's mills on the main road leading to Brunswick: On Wednesday the 24th, will be sold in like manner, the plantation late the property of John Van Dike, lying joining Sourland meeting-house, in Sourland: On the 26th will be sold, the plantation late the property of Charles Roberts, lying near Raritan river, now in the occupation of Thomas Arrowsmith: On Monday the 29th, will be sold in like manner, the famous house and land late property of William Burtan, formerly in the occupation of Anthony White, Esq. opposite Brunswick landing: Wednesday the 31st, will be sold in like man- ner, a plantation in Barnard's-town, late the property of William Drake: On Friday the 2d day of April next, will be sold in like manner, one other plantation, lying in Barnard's town, the property of Benjamin Worth: And on Saturday the 3d day of April, will be sold the plan- tation late the property of John Harris, in Bridgewater township .- The vendues to be held on the premises; to begin at 11 o'clock in the forenoon from place to place. The premises will be shown them at the day of sale, and a title made for the same, pursuant to an act of the General Assembly of this State, in that case made and provided .--
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Attendance will be given, and the conditions made known by
JACOB BERGEN
Commissioners.
IIENDRICK WILSON
February 15, 1779.
New-Jersey, AT an Inferior Court of Common Pleas,
Bergen county, held for the county on the 26th of Janu- ary, 1779, were returned inquisitions for joining the King of Great-Britain, and other treasonable practices, against John Merselis, Lewis Millenburg, Lawrence A. Ackerman, John Deryea, Peter T. Herring, Derick Ackerman, John Demot, Philip Peaker, John H. Van- houten, Thomas Dungan, Martin Rush, Hendrick Van- blaricum, Harrimann Vanblaricum, Jacobus Fox, Ed- ward Joans, David D. Ackerman, Henry J. Hannison, Orey Demorest, jun, Hendrick Doreamus, David Master- len, Abel Ridner, Abraham A. Quackenbush, Daniel S. Demorest, Peter Tise, John Robertson, John Tise, Jacob Vanwincle, Matthias Kenact, Peter D. Wiem, Michael Stor, Alexander M'Koy, Conrad Fredericks, John Ridner, Hendrick Ridner, Hendrick Fox, William Peaker, Hen- drick Fredericks, Thomas Lyon, Isaac Noble, Jacobus Peek, John F. Ryerson, Peter J. Vanblaricum, John L. Vanbuskerk, John J. Vanblaricum, Andrew Vanbuskerk, James Vanburen, Gabriel Vanorden, David Vanbuskerk, John Ja. Vanbuskerk, Barant Euerse, Jacob Himion, Hendrick Himion, Rinehart Puckman, Timothy Lewis, Adam Himion, Christian Pulissalt,1 Peter Nix, John J. Ackerman, Peter Leant, Martin Roeloffee,2 John C. Herrin, Abraham Lent, Charles Bekeman, and Thomas Oldwater, of which proclamation was made at said court, that if they or any person on their behalf, or person in- terested, would appear and traverse, a trial should be
1 Pulisfelt, now Pulis.
2 Roelofse.
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awarded, but no traverses were offered-therefore notice is hereby given that if neither they nor any in their behalf, nor any interested, shall not appear and enter a 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.
JAMES BOARD, Commis-
HENDERICUS KUYPER sioners.
Feb. 16, 1779.
TO BE SOLD,
At publick vendue on Monday the 8th day of March next, at the house of Lawrence Taylor, innholder, in Monmouth county.
A Plantation, containing about 220 acres of land. About 100 is cleared, 25 whereof is meadow and meadow- ground ; a stone house, a frame barn, and a young bearing orchard chiefly of the sweet apple. The said Plantation lays bounding on Rocky Brook, and joins Gaston's grist and fulling mills-Any person inclining to purchase may be informed by applying to Guisebert Gibertson, jun. living on the premises-The bills of credit, of the emis- sions of May 20, 1777, and April 11, 1778, or loan- office certificates will be taken in payment. The vendue to begin at one o'clock on said day, where attendance will be given by
JOHN BUTLER.
February 18, 1779.
-The New Jersey Gazette, Vol. II., No. 64, February 24, 1779.
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PHILADELPHIA, February 17.
Extract of a letter from Captain Douglass, of the schooner Hunter, to his owners, dated Egg-Harbour, February 9.
"Being at sea, about ten leagues from Egg-Harbour, we saw a sail to the south-east, and gave chace, wind at south- west; finding her to be a brig of force, we immediately got clear for action ; she then took in her top-gallantsails, hauled down her flying-jibb, and hoisted an English en- sign instead of a Continental one that was flying before. We gave her three cheers and poured in a broadside, being on her lee quarters. The Captain of the brig called out to board us; I immediately ordered the pikes to be got ready, and luffed to for boarding; he luffed to, like- wise, but I found he was not for boarding. We lay along- side of him for two glasses, and heard the men schreech and cry several times, and the Captain stamp and swear at the men for leaving the rammers in their guns. At length they found we warmed them so that they lacked their maintopsail, and we shot ahead, the sea running so high we could not sight our lee guns, and springing our mainmast, prevented our making sail, when they de- parted. She was called the Bellona, Captain Buchanan, of 16 six and four pounders, and 12 swivels. We lost our second Lieutenant and one private killed, two men mor- tally wounded, and the second mate and three men wounded, but like to do well .- The schooner Hunter has only 8 four and 2 three pounders, 12 howitz and 60 men .- We cannot give too much applause to the officers and men in general and in particular to Rufus Gardner, our second Lieutenant."
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Burlington, February 15, 1779.
TO THE PUBLIC.
This is to give notice That John Wills, of Burlington, in the house where Colonel Joseph Haight formerly lived, hath erected a STAGE for the accommodation of travellers from Burlington to Brunswick.
The Stage boat sets off from the Crooked Billet wharff at Philadelphia every Wednesday, and the stage waggon sets off from Burlington the Thursday morning following, and returns the next day to Burlington, where the boat is ready to take goods or passengers to Philadelphia.
This stage is very well calculated for those who dislike travelling far by water, the distance being so short, that if it should be calm, or let the wind be on what point of the compass it may, they are sure of getting from Phila- delphia to Burlington in one tide.
There is a commodious house of entertainment kept by the said Wills for travellers, &c. where those who please to favour him with their custom will be treated with every mark of respect.
JOHN WILLS
-The Pennsylvania Gazette, February 17, 1779.
Evesham Township, Burlington County, W. New-Jersey.
February 1.
FORTY DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY yesterday morning from the subscriber a Dutch servant man named JOHN GEORGE WAN- NER, about twenty-one years of age, five feet eight or nine inches high, well built but somewhat clumsy, and
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speaks broken English: Had on and took with him, a felt hat half worn, a light brown bearskin upper jacket almost new, with wooden buttons, and button holes bound with leather; a striped upper and under ditto, one coarse shirt and one check ditto, buckskin breeches almost new with pewter buttons, two pairs of yarn stockings, one pair light blue and the other blue gray, and a pair of hob-nailed shoes with strings. As his father, Jacob Wan- ner, lives near Allens-Town, in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, it is supposed he is gone that way.
Whoever apprehends said servant and secures him in Philadelphia gaol, shall receive the above reward, or SIXTY DOLLARS if brought home to the subscriber JOSHUA DUDLEY. -The Pennsylvania Packet, February 20, 1779.
Moore's-Town, Burlington County, Feb. 13.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY last evening, from the subscriber, a Dutch servant man named JUSTUS CRAMMAR, about twenty- one years of age, five feet six or seven inches high, a well built, likely fellow, with black curled hair, dark eyes, has a scar cross-ways betwixt his under lip and chin, speaks tolerable good English, and 'tis thought speaks Dutch but imperfectly : Had on and took with him, a lead coloured homespun broad cloth coattee with a small falling collar, almost new, an old patched upper broad cloth jacket nearly of the same colour, a striped worsted and wool under jacket, patched on the fore part with cloth of the same; had two pairs of breeches, one of the same cloth of his coattee, almost new, the other of leather, old and patched ; he had wooden buttons to all his cloaths except his leather breeches, part of which were brass: He had on an old
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shirt made of tow and linen, a pair of double-sealed neats leather shoes with plated buckles in them; he had also a pair of plated knee-buckles, a pair of old yarn stockings mixed red and black, and a castor hat about half worn. Whoever takes up said servant and secures him in any goal, and gives notice to his master so that he may be had again, shall have the above reward, and if brought home all reasonable charges defrayed, by
EPHRAIM HAINES.
-The Pennsylvania Packet, February 23, 1779.
TRENTON, MARCH 3.
The anniversary of our alliance with FRANCE was cele- brated on the 18th ultimo at Pluck'emin, at a very elegant entertainment and display of fire-works given by General Knox, and the officers of the corps of artillery. It was postponed to this late day on account of His Excellency General Washington's absence from camp.
General Washington-the principal officers of the army : Mrs. Washington, Mrs. Greene-Mrs. Knox; the gentlemen and ladies for a large circuit around the camp, were of the company. Besides these, there was a vast concourse of spectators from every part of the Jersies.
The barracks of the artillery are at a small distance from Pluck'emin, on a piece of rising ground which shews them to great advantage. The entertainment and ball were held in the academy of the Park.
About four o'clock in the afternoon the celebration of the ALLIANCE was announced by the discharge of THIRTEEN cannon, when the company assembled in the academy, to a very elegant dinner. The room was spacious, and the tables very prettily disposed both as to prospect and con- 'venience .- The festivity was universal, and the toasts descriptive of the happy event, which had given certainty to our liberties, empire-and independence.
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In the evening was exhibited a very fine set of fire- works, conducted by Col. Stevens-arranged on the point of a Temple of one hundred feet in length, and propor- tionally high. The Temple shewed THIRTEEN arches, each displaying an illuminated painting .- The centre arch was ornamental with a pediment, larger than any of the others ;- and the whole edifice supported by a colonnade, of the Corinthian order.
The illuminated paintings were disposed in the fol- lowing order :
The 1st arch on the right represented the commence- ment of hostilities at Lexington, with this inscription. The scene opened.
2. British clemency. Represented in the burning of Charlestown, Falmouth, Norfolk and Kingston.
3d. The separation of America from Britain. A magnificent arch broken in the centre, with this motto. By your tyranny to the people of America you have separated the wide arch of an extended empire.
4th. Britain represented as a decaying empire - - - by a barren country - -- broken arches - -- fallen spires - - - ships deserting its shores - -- birds of prey hovering over its mouldering cities - - - and a gloomy setting sun .-
Motto.
The Babylonian spires are sunk-
Achaia - - - Rome - - - and Egypt mouldering down. Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones,
And tottering empires rush by their own weight. 5th. AMERICA represented as a rising Empire. Pros- pect of a fertile country - - harbours and rivers covered with ships - - - new canals opening - - - cities rising amidst woods - - - a splendid sun emerging from a bright horizon.
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Motto,
New worlds are still emerging from the deep.
The old descending in their turns to rise.
6th. A grand illuminated representation of LOUIS the sixteenth. The encourager of letters - - - the supporter of the rights of humanity - -- the ALLY and FRIEND of the AMERICAN PEOPLE.
7th The centre arch. THE FATHERS IN CONGRESS. Motto Nil desperandum reipublicae.
8th The American Philosopher and Ambassador ex- tracting lightning from the clouds.
9th The battle near Saratoga, 7th October, 1777.
10th, The Convention of Saratoga.
11th, A representation of the Sea fight off Ushant, be- tween Count D' Orvilliers and Admiral Kepple.
12th. Warren, - - - Montgomery - - - Mercer -- Woos- ter - - - Nash - -- and a crowd of heroes who have fallen in the American contest, in Elisium, receiving the thanks and praises of Brutus, - -- Cato - - - and those spirits who in all ages have gloriously struggled against tyrants and tyranny. Motto. Those who shed their blood in such a cause shall live and reign for-ever.
13th. Represented peace with all her train of blessings. Her right hand displayed an olive branch-at her feet lay the honors of harvest-the back ground was filled with flourishing cities - -- ports crowded with ships - - - and other emblems of an extensive empire, and unrestrained commerce.
When the fire works were finished the company re- turned to the academy, and concluded the celebration by a very splendid ball,-
The whole was conducted in a style and manner that reflects great honor on the taste of the managers.
The news, announced to Congress, from the Spanish branch of the house of BOURBON, arrived at the moment of celebration, nothing could have, so opportunely, increased the good humour of the company, or added to those ani- mated expressions of pleasure which arose on the occasion.
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Extract of a letter from an officer at Elizabeth-Town, dated March 1, 1779.
"A body of the enemy consisting of the 42d and 33d regiments, and the light infantry of the guards in number about a thousand, commanded by Lieut. Colonel Stirling, attempted to surprize the troops and inhabitants of Elizabeth-Town, on the morning of Thursday last. They embarked at Long-Island the evening before, about seven o'clock, and landed on the salt-meadows better than a mile to the left of Crane's-Ferry, between two and three in the morning. From thence they were conducted through a very difficult marsh to Woodruff's-farms, which lies directly to the left of the town.
"The guard at Crane's-Ferry having discovered their landing, immediately dispatched the intelligence to town, where the alarm being sounded, the troops were afforded an opportunity to collect. The number and movements of the enemy remaining doubtful by reason of the dark- ness, our troops were marched to the rear of the town, where the whig-inhabitants likewise retired. .
"A detachment of the enemy was dispatched to the Governor's house, while the main body advanced to the skirts of the town, and from thence proceeded along the rear until they fell into the Brunswick road on the right. The Governor happened to be absent from home that night; but if he had not, they would have been un- successful in this instance likewise, as the family received timely notice of their approach.
"Finding themselves compleatly disappointed in every expectation, they made their visit to the town very short ; however, during their small halt, they set fire to the bar- racks, the school-house (in which were stored some few articles of provision) and a blacksmith's shop. So soon as they began their retreat to their boats General Maxwell
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, marched such of his troops as were yet in reserve against their rear; the number of these, however, were small, several parties having been detached at different times to hang upon them.
"About half way between the town and ferry, the enemy perceiving their rear in danger, from the sudden advance of our troops and the assembling of the militia, faced about and paraded, as if for action. A few well directed shot from our artillery induced them to renew their re- treat, leaving two dead on the field. Perceiving an em- barkation at the ferry would be attended with considerable hazard, their boats were moved then a mile up Newark bay, while the troops marched along the meadow's edge, in many places up to their middles in mud and mire. A galley and two or three gun boats covered their retreat at this place.
"Our loss, exclusive of a few aged inhabitants whom they took with them, but have since sent back, are, one private killed, two officers, to wit Brigade Major Ogden 1 and Lieut. Rewcastle,2 with four privates wounded, and seven ยท privates missing.
"Major Ogden, who was reconnoitering the enemy shortly after their landing, very narrowly escaped being made prisoner; he was wounded in his right side by a bayonet, but we hope not dangerously.
1 Aaron Ogden was commissioned Brigade Major and Aide-de-Camp to Brigadier General William Maxwell, April 1, 1778, and served until the close of the war .- Stryker's. Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revo- lution, 69.
2. John Ruecastle enlisted as a private in the Third Battalion, First Estab- lishment, Continental Troops. "Jersey Line ;" he was a private in Captain Patterson's Company, Third Battalion, Second Establishment ; Second Lieutenant, same company, November 1, 1777; Ensign, Third Regiment ; Lieutenant, ditto, to date from April 7, 1779; Lieutenant, First Regi- ment ; discharged at the close of the war; Captain by brevet .- Stryker, op. cit., 92.
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"The Rev. Mr. Hunter,1 Chaplain to the brigade, on re- . turning from the Governor's house, where he had been to give the alarm, was made prisoner by them in the night, but he had the address very soon after to make his escape.
1 Andrew Hunter, 1st, was a native of Ireland. He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, May 28, 1745, and was pastor of the churches at Greenwich and Fairfield, Cumberland county, 1746-60, and of Fairfield alone from 1760 until his death, July 28, 1775. Princeton college . conferred on- him . the honorary degree of A.M. in 1760. He m. Ann, a cousin of Richard Stockton, the signer of the Declaration of Independence ; she was buried in the Presbyterian churchyard, in Tren- ton, in October, 1800 .- Webster's Hist. Presbyterian Church, 505 ; Elmer's Cumberland County, 103 ; Hall's Hist .. Pres. Church in Trenton, 341. His son ( ?), Andrew S. Hunter, received from Princeton college the honorary degree of A.M. in 1802; at the September term of the New Jersey Supreme Court, in the same year, he was licensed as an attorney, and three years later as a counsellor-at-law. He practiced in Trenton .- Princeton General Catalogues ; N. J. Supreme Court Rules. He probably had practiced 'law in some other State before settling in New Jersey.
Andrew Hunter, 2d, was a son of David Hunter, a British officer, and was a nephew of the Rev. Andrew Hunter, of Fairfield. He was born in Virginia, in 1752. He was graduated from Princeton college in 1772, and entered upon the study of divinity with his uncle, being licensed by the Presbytery of Philadelphia about the middle of June, 1774. He seems to have been master of an academy at Wilmington about this time. Imme- diately after being licensed he went on a missionary tour in Pennsylvania and Virginia. He was a member of the Greenwich "tea party," Nov. 22, 1774. On the breaking out of active hostilities, at the beginning of the Revolution, he entered the army, being commissioned chaplain of Col. Stephen Van Cortlandt's battalion, Heard's brigade, of the New Jersey militia, June 28, 1776 ; chaplain Third battalion, second establishment, Continental army, Jersey Line, June 1, 1777; chaplain to General Max- well's brigade, June 15, 1777 ; chaplain Third regiment and brigade, Sept. 26, 1780; discharged at the close of the war. He received the personal thanks of Gen. Washington for his conduct at the Battle of Monmouth. He was taken prisoner in the raid by the British to Elizabethtown, de- scribed in the text above, but escaped. It is probable that he was some- what feeble in health, and that his strength was still further impaired by his military experiences. We have no further account of his labors until 1789, when he was pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Woodbury, and represented his Presbytery in the General Assembly of his denomination at Philadelphia. He was again a member of that body in 1794, when he served on an important committee having charge of the revision and print- ing of a report relating to the Confession of Faith and Form of Govern- ment of the Presbyterian Church in the United States. He appears to have occupied the pulpit of the Woodbury church for several years prior to 1800, being succeeded by the Rev. Thomas Picton. In 1791 he and others received from Joseph Bloomfield, afterwards Governor of New Jersey, a deed for a plot of land, for the erection of an academy thereon. He be- came principal of this academy and conducted a classical school there for some years, until he was obliged to give it up on account of ill health;
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"The enemy's loss we cannot ascertain, besides two killed whom they left behind, two made prisoners, and one boat taken. Mr. Remington allows them seven wounded in one company. Cornelius Hetfield, Smith Hetfield and Capt. Luce, late of this town, were their principal guides. They had collected a considerable number of horned cattle and horses, but their retreat was so precipitate that they were obliged to leave them behind."1
On Sunday evening the 21st of February last, was mar- ried at Reckless-Town, Col. WILLIAM SHREVE, to Mrs. ANN RECKLESS, of that place.
for the same reason we find him, in 1803, cultivating a farm near Trenton. He was a trustee of Princeton college, 1788-1804, when he resigned to accept the professorship of mathematics and astronomy. This position he retained until 1808, when he relinquished it for the purpose of assum- ing charge of an academy at Bordentown. Here he remained until 1810, when he was appointed a chaplain in the United States navy, being sta- tioned at the Washington navy yard. On giving up his professorship at Princeton, in 1808, he was again elected a trustee of the college, until 1811. He owned considerable property in and near Princeton, his residence being afterwards occupied by Prof. Arnold Guyot. His wid. d. there, after 1807. He maintained close relations with the Rev. James F. Armstrong, pastor of the Presbyterian church in Trenton, frequently preaching for him. Mr. Hunter died at Burlington, Feb. 24, 1823. He m., 1st, Ann Riddell ; 2d, Mary Stockton, a dau. of Richard Stockton, signer of the Declaration. Issue :
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