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Commrs.
Somerset County, Feb. 8, 1780.
To be sold, the plantation Joseph Leigh lives on, in Kingwood township, Hunterdon county, seven miles from Pitts-Town, and two from Delaware, near several shad fisheries, containing 359 acres, of which 100 is wood, the rest in six fields of about 40 acres each, with a farm house, good barn, and excellent orchard, and about twelve acres of meadow: Also about 100 acres of rich swamp in Maidenhead, six miles from Trenton, heavily timbered and of rich soil for meadow, and will be divided into lots to suit the purchasers, if desired.
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For terms enquire of William Coxe, near Bristol and Neshameny Ferries.
To be sold at publick vendue on Saturday the 19th of this inst. ( Feb.) at two o'clock, at the house of Mr. Isaac Brittain, innkeeper, Trenton, a variety of articles, among which are silk stockings, new ruffled shirts, wearing apparel for men, consisting of coats, vests, breeches and stockings; remnants of merchandize; silk gauze handkerchiefs, letter-paper and sealing-wax of the first quality ; a very neat flask to hold powder, with many other things too tedious to enumerate; being part of the personal estate of Capt. Jacob Bentson, deceased.
Catherine Bentson, Executrix. Joshua Anderson Benjamin Stevens Exectrs. Feb. 9, 1780
TAKEN up by the subscriber in Trenton, on Saturday morning last, on the Princeton road, a dark brown
HORSE, about 9 years old, 13 hands high, trots, his mane hog'd, both hind feet and near fore foot are white, has a few white hairs on his forehead, and chunky made. The owner is desired to prove his property, pay charges, and take him away.
WILL CAIN.
Trenton, Feb. 14, 1780.
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The humble PETITION of WANT and MISERY Addressed to all Christian Readers.
W HILE thro' the drear of frost and snow Shivering and shaking now we go, O cast a tender eye ! For this good end your wealth was giv'n : You are the delegates of Heav'n To stop the heart-felt sigh !
While cloth'd in fur you stand elate, You cannot feel the wretched state, You cannot form our woe ; Y'et must each sympathetic breast When once it hears how we're distress'd And how forlorn we go.
When cold and hunger both prevail, And both with equal force assail, To wound a mortal frame, Bring to each mind a horrid view, A scene as horrid as 'tis true, And almost wants a name.
The parent hears his offspring cry, The children watch the parent's eye, And catch the falling tear ; Then echo back each dismal groan, Till soon one universal moan Of sorrow rends the air.
Tho' worthless objects may be found, Who justly feel the piercing wound, Yet be the fault their own ; Leave them to Heav'n, while you dispense Those blessings you've receiv'd from thence, And gain'd the immortal crown.
How many pray'rs you'll then obtain, How many blessings not in vain, Or undeserv'd bestow'd : From morn to night, from day to day, Poor WANT and MISERY will pray, To bless the great and good.
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NO be sold by the Printer of this Gazette, one copy of an elegant edition of Miller's Gardener's Diction- ary, one vol. folio .- Also a number of The Saints Everlasting Rest, bound in leather.
-N. J. Gazette, Vol. III., No. 112, Feb. 16, 1780.
New-York, February 16.
Mr. RIVINGTON.
SEEING in your last Wednesday's Gazette, an extract taken from a rebel paper of the 2d instant, giving an account of taking and bringing Justice Hedden and Robert Neil prisoners from Newark to this city, treat- ing Mr. Hedden with great cruelty and reflecting on the officer who commanded that party, you may inform the public that the apprehending of Justice Hedden was no part of the object of the King's officers, but that one Walker a volunteer with them, who with many others had been most inhumanly and barbarously treated by Justice Hed- den, went with a few of the privates to his house and took him, without waiting long for him to put on his cloaths, which he intentionally delayed, when the officers perceived on their march his want of more cloathing they supplied him with some.
If Mrs. Hedden was wounded, it is what she merited, by her assaulting and opposing all in her power, the carrying away her husband, there was no intent to hurt Mrs. Hed- den, but to make her desist in her violence, if any harm happened to her she must blame her own fury. Mr. Hed- den and his friends, may, if they have any sense of justice remaining, find that justice hath in part overtaken him, when they reflect on the acts of barbarity, he has fre- quently committed on many of his Majesty's loyal subjects for not perjuring themselves in abjuring their lawful sover- eign and swearing allegiance to the Congress, and to the state of New-Jersey; among many of his persecutions,
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were imprisonments, keeping some several days without meat, drink, or any fire in the severity of the winter, re- ducing others to bread and water only, stripping many women and children of their cloathing, beds, and houshold furniture, and then banishing them without the necessaries of life, and seizing and selling the estates of a great num- ber of his Majesty's subjects to his no small emolument.
Robert Neil is also notorious in his way, a bankrupt four years past, since acting under the pretence of a Sub Deputy Quarter Master to the Rebel army, made it his constant practice to take and dispose of, on his own account, to the continental troops, the wheat, corn, and other grain and also the firewood he cut from many valuable lots of land, belonging to those he pleased to call Tories, and enemies to the state of New-Jersey, whereby both Hedden and Neil have amassed large estates with the properties of others, common justice it is hoped will prevent their discharge, till they have made full satisfaction to his Maj- esty's faithful subjects for the injuries they have done them.
-The Royal Gazette, February 16, 1780, No. 353.
CHATHAM, (New-Jersey) February 9.
The Magistrates of the county of Essex, abhorring the savage and detestable practice of plundering, resolved unanimously, at a meeting held the 23d ult. at Newark to exert their influence and authority to detect and convict all the inhabitants of the county of Essex, who were guilty of so much baseness, in the late incursion upon Staten- Island, contrary to the previous general orders of Major- General Lord Stirling, and contrary to every feeling of humanity, and to assist in collecting and sending back every thing they possibly can which was stolen from the inhabitants of Staten Island, agreeable to the general order of Lord Stirling, issued upon his return, and published in this paper.
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Last Saturday night a few of the inhabitants of Rahway made an excursion to Staten-Island, and brought off a militia Captain and seven loyal inhabitants. -The Pennsylvania Packet, February 19, 1780.
TRENTON, FEBRUARY 23.
Last week 22 of the convention troops and two negros, with their guide Joseph Hayes, were taken up as they were passing through Monmouth county, on their way to New- York, and are all safely lodged in the county gaol.
The pieces signed AUTHOR are too incorrect for Publica- tion. And the CROGICAL-COMEDY is not calculated for the meridian of this Gazette.
JAMES LEISHMAN, Bookbinder.
Has lately removed from Burlington to this place. ENTLEMEN who may have Libraries to repair, old books to rebind, or blank books made up, may have
their work done agreeable to specimen, or in the most elegant and best manner.
Trenton, February 22, 1780
Monmouth County W HEREAS inquisition has been found and final judgement entered against the following persons, whose real and personal estates will be exposed at publick vendue, at the house of Daniel Randolph, in Freehold, on the 28th day of March next, at nine o'clock-Dr. John Lawrence & Elisha Lawrence, some lot . of cedar swamp; John Perine, a well improved farm containing 300 acres, lying in Upper Freehold; Joseph Leonard, a small farm; Samuel Steven- son, James Stevenson and Shore Stevenson, each a small part of a farm; John Leonard, a small farm; Jesse Bur-
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ton, Jacob Burdge, Henry Segugglet, jun. Thomas Harts- horne, jun. Samuel Thorne, a small farm; John Thorne, Hendrick Van Dine, John Clark, son of Richard William Stout a small farm; John Burdge, James Cooper, Dennis Van Dine, a lot lying in Middletown; John Williams, Peter Wardell, Nathaniel Perkin, William Guillon, John Borden, Daniel Hulet, Michael Hulet, John and Morford Taylor, one third part of a farm; Joseph Price, a lot lying in Shrewsbury; Samuel Laton, Jacobus Emmons, in Freehold. Those who have no estates affixed to their names, we do not know that any can be found. The con- ditions of sale is ready money.
Samuel Forman, Joseph Lawrence, Kenneth Hankinson, Jacob Wikoff, Commissioners. February 21, 1780.
D UTY to myself, (without any desire to expose the con- duct of Nathan Beaks and Stacy Potts at this time)
requires me to inform the publick that Adam has not got, nor has ever had, any written or verbal engage- ment for his freedom, my life-time, nor any encourage- ment for it after my death, except he proved faithful; and that I have not received anything from him, or any other person by way of a consideration for his freedom-That he has proved very unfaithful by a course of disobediance, and attempting last summer to get to New-York, which occasioned me great expence, in gaol fees, money paid the guards, and riding more than two hundred miles after him -That notwithstanding he has been encouraged by the above men to leave my service ever since the 30th of last October, and is now employed in the service of one of them, against whom I have brought my action in the Su- preme Court, as soon as I found an attorney who had not received a retaining fee against me.
DAVID COWELL
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T AKEN up on the 5th day of January last, an iron grey HORSE, about 131/2 hands high, seven or eight years old, a natural pacer, has lost one eye, and is very poor. Any person proving property, and paying charges, may have him, by applying to JOHN M'COLLEM, near Trenton.
February 21st, 1780.
State of New-Jersey, Gloucester County. To be SOLD by Publick Vendue,
0 N the third day of April next, at the house of Josiah Hillman, innkeeper in Woodbury, the following tracts of land, viz. a house and lot of about 10 acres, near Mullico's hill, in Woolwich township, late the property of Hance Border; part of a grist-mill on Rac- coon Creek, near the above, late the property of John Franklin; about 30 acres of land with house and other improvements, late the property of James Thompson ; about 9 acres of meadow and upland near Mantua Creek bridge, late the property of Gabriel D'Vebber; about 50 acres of land, with house, orchard &c, late the property of William Forsman; one acre of land at Billingsport, front- ing the Delaware, and 5 acres of meadow, on Hermau- nus's island, late the property of Joseph Long, 10 acres of meadow on Shiver's island, late the property of Daniel Cozens, for life; all situated in the township of Green- wich; about 10 acres of cedar swamp in the township of Deptford, late the property of Thomas Nightingale; a piece of cedar swamp on a branch of Great Eggharbour river called Squancum, containing about 73 acres; 4 acres of cedar swamp on a branch of Little Eggharbour river, and about 12 acres of land within the town of Gloucester, late the property of John Hinchman; all confiscated, and to be sold for the use of the state.
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The sale to begin at 10 o'clock said day, when attend- ance will be given, and the conditions made known by JOHN SPARKS - Commis- SAMUEL KAIGHN sioners Feb. 18, 1780.
A Vacancy, A Vacancy,
IN the SCHOOL of TRENTON, for a Master qualified to teach Reading, Writing, Arithmetick, and some of the branches of the Mathematicks. A person so qualified, and bringing a good recommendation with him, will meet with great encouragement (as the school is large) by applying to the Printer.
N. B. A single man, or one with a small family, will answer best, and the sooner the application the better.
TO BE SOLD, by ISAAC COLLINS, At his PRINTING-OFFICE in TRENTON, A FEW copies of the Laws passed at Mountholly in November and December last, price twenty dollars ; Evans's map of the middle states ; and also a quan- tity of excellent LAMP BLACK, in neat paper barrels.
T THESE are to give publick notice to all persons inter- ested in Ashfield's Tract of land lying between the mountains in the township of Newark and Acquac- anonk, in the county of Essex, that the proprietors of the greater part of the land in said tract have signed a petetion to be preferred to the General Assembly, at their next sit- ting, praying an act to be immediately passed for a just and equitable division of said tract, among the lawful pro-
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prietors and true owners thereof. All persons interested will therefore govern themselves accordingly.
A GREEABLE to an Act of Assembly of the state of New- Jersey, passed at Trenton, Dec. 11th, 1778, inti- tled, "An act for forfeiting to, and vesting in, the state of New-Jersey, the real estates of certain fugi- tives and offenders, &c,"-Publick notice is hereby given that there will be sold at publick vendue, on Monday the 20th day of March next, at the house of Samuel Barber, innholder, in Piles-Grove, a small messuage, or tenement and lot, containing, by computation, four acres of land, be the same more or less, situated in Lower Penn's-Neck, in the county of Salem, late the property of John Booden ; being confiscated to the use of the above state. Attendance will be given at the time and place above mentioned, by THOMAS SAYRE, and WILLIAM GARRISON $ Comrs. February, 14, 1780.
TO BE SOLD,
A Very valuable TRACT of improved LAND situated in Knowlton, in the county of Sussex, adjoining the plantation of Frederick Snover, containing up- wards of 220 acres, of which a large proportion is rich swamp, capable of making excellent meadow; the upland is remarkably well timbered, rich, and great part of it free from stone-It will altogether make a very fine plantation. An indisputable title will be given by
D. BREARLEY, I. D. Cow, S. PENIER.
Trenton Feb. 18, 1780
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BERNARD HANLEN,
Has for sale at his house opposite to Mr. Milnor's store, in TRENTON
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- GOOD assortment of STONE WARE ;- POTTS, JUGS, MuGs, and PANS of different sizes; which he will sell on very moderate terms, for cash or country produce.
Feb. 15, 1780.
Excellent INDIGO to be sold.
Enquire of the Printer hereof.
State of New-Jersey, Morris County. W HEREAS there has been final judgement entered as the Act of Assembly directs against Nicholas Hoffman, Charles Bolsby, George Ludlow, Wil- liam W. Ludlow, Bernardus Legrange David Ogden, late Esquire, Isaac Ogden and Joseph French :- Notice is hereby given that the real estates which did belong to the said persons in the county of Morris, will be sold at pub- lick vendue on the fifth day of April next, to be held on the green at Morristown, to be begin at ten o'clock on said day. The estates are as follows; George and William Ludlow's farm is about 170 acres of very good land, in the township of Hanover; David Ogden's is several tracts of land;
Nicholas Hoffman's and Isaac Ogden's is near one-third part of the slitting-mill at Boontown; Joseph French's is a very good farm, in the township of Mendham, in the possession of one Lefever; Legrange's is 170 acres, south of Foxhill.
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The draughts of the land, and the conditions of the vendue will be made known at the day of sale, by us
David Thompson, Alex. Carmichael, Commis- sioners.
Aaron Kitchel,
Feb. 23, 1780.
N. B. There will be sold on said day several SILVER SPOONS.
TO BE SOLD,
B Y publick vendue, at Ringo's old tavern, the house of the subscriber, in Amwell on Saturday the 26th instant, a large quantity of BUCKSKIN BREECHES and DRESSED BUCKSKINS of the best quality. The vendue to begin at one o'clock on said day, where due attendance will be given by
Feb. 16, 1780.
HENRY MERSHON.
W As found in searching for stolen goods at the house of Negro WILL, near Kingston, the following articles, supposed to be stolen ;- A large silver watch; a pair of saddle-bags; a ruffled shirt; three pair of stock- ings ; a pair of gloves ; a pair of breeches ; a waistcoat; a pair of silver plated spurs, which were left there by a man who passed by the name of Dr. Hunt. Also was found at the house of John Van Burer supposed to be stolen ;- a sulky ; a pair of holsters ; a pair of saddle-bags; two pair of stockings, left there by a man who passed by the name of William Brown. The persons who have lost the above articles, by applying to the subscriber, and proving their property, shall have them again.
THOMAS SCOTT, Constable Trenton, February 17, 1780
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Two Hundred Dollars Reward
R AN AWAY on Saturday night the 12th instant, a Negro MAN named Tony, a light built fellow, about 5 feet 7 inches high, his hair grows down his forehead and is bare on the temples, speaks Low Dutch and English, about 30 years old : Had on a blue broadcloth coat, green plush vest, and a brown ditto over it, blue great coat with mettle buttons, a furr cap made with the crown of a hat instead of leather, leather breeches and light blue yarn stockings. He formerly belonged to Corn. Van Horn, of Reddington .- It's supposed he is endeavoring to go to the enemy. Any person taking up and securing the said Negro, or returns him to me, shall have the above reward and all reasonable charges, paid by me
PETER DUMONT.
N. B. He was taken up near Piscataway town, and hand cuff'd, but made his escape from Tunison's tavern at Raritan, on Tuesday night last.
Hillsborough, Somerset county, Feb. 14, 1780.
N OTICE is hereby given to all persons that are indebted to the estate of John Vanderbelt, late of the town- ship of Alexandria, and county of Hunterdon, de- ceased, are hereby desired to make their appearance at the house of the Subscribers in Alexandria, on Monday the sixth day of March next, to discharge and pay their several accounts, without any further notice :- And all persons that have any just demands against the said estate, either by bond, book, debt, or otherwise, are desired to bring in their respective accounts, legally proved, in order to be ยท adjusted.
JACOB VANDERBELT Extr. AGNESS VANDERBELT Extrx.
Alexandria, Feb. 7, 1780
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WANTED TO PURCHASE.
I N a publick place in either of the counties of Hunter- don, Somerset, or Burlington, a small FARM that might contain any number between 40 and 100 acres, with a proportionable quantity of woodland, pasture and meadow for two horses and as many cows, with com- fortable buildings for a small family, with good water on the place. Any person having a place to dispose of an- swering the above description, may hear of a purchaser by sending a description of the place to the Printer hereof, or to David Campbell, at Lamberton, Bedminster township, in the county of Somerset.
Feb. 13. -N. J. Gazette, Vol. III., No. 113, Feb. 23, 1780.
From the MARYLAND JOURNAL of Feb. 8. TRENTON, January 26. Extract of a letter from Baskenridge, Jan. 22, 1780.
"We have had a fast lately in camp, by general con- straint of the whole army; in which we fasted more sin- cerely and truly for three days than ever we did from all the resolutions of Congress put together.
This was occasioned by the severity of the weather and drifting of the snow, whereby the roads were rendered impassable, and all supplies of provision cut off; until the officers were obliged to release the soldiers from com- mand, and permit them to go in great numbers together into the country, to get provision where they could find it. The inhabitants of this part of the country discovered a noble spirit in feeding the soldiers, and to the honour of the soldiery, they received what they got with thankful- ness, and did little or no damage.
"As soon as the roads were broken, and the brave fellows got their bellies full, they went, with amazing alacrity, on the Staten-island expedition, but the British getting in-
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telligence, our people, after reconnoitering their strength, returned, not a little disappointed. They did little more than to burn a large fortified house, and five small vessels, after stripping them of every thing valuable." -The Royal Gazette, February 26, 1780. No. 356.
TRENTON, February 23.
Last week 22 of the Convention troops and two negroes, with their guide Joseph Hayes were taken up, as they were passing through Monmouth county, on their way to New- York, and are all safely lodged in the county goal. -The Pennsylvania Packet, February 29, 1780.
PHILADELPHIA, February 9.
By accounts from New-York, we learn, that the Vulture sloop of war, belonging to Britain, is drove ashore on the East Bank (Sandy-Hook) where it is expected she will be lost.
-The New-York Packet, March 1, 1780. No. 163.
TO THE PUBLIC.
As the Subscriber has been solicited and encouraged by several of the Trustees of the Academy of Newark and others, he intends opening a School in Newark, on Tues- day, the fourth of April next, for the instruction of youth in the Latin and Greek languages .- Nothing need be said to recommend the healthy situation of the place, as it is well known by experience. An English School is kept con- tiguous to the Academy, where Reading, Writing, Arith- metic, and several Branches of the Mathematics are taught with care .- Parents and Guardians may be assured that the strictest attention will be paid, not only to the educa- tion, but likewise to the morals of the youth, by their most obedient humble servant, WILLIAM THOMSON,
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N. B. Boarding may be had on the former moderate terms. Newark, February 18, 1780.
-The Pennsylvania Gazette, March 1, 1780. Pa. Jour- nal, Mch. 8, 1780.
Wanted immediately,
0 NE or two CHIMNEY-SWEEPS, of small stature. En- quire at Burlington, Trenton, and Princeton.
Mr. COLLINS,
Please give the following Petition a place in the New- Jersey Gazette, that the Legislature, as well as the people at large, may have the most early opportunity of being acquainted with the very great distress the late law, mak- ing the Continental Bills of Credit a legal tender in pay- ment of debts, in its deplorable depreciated condition, has brought on the innocent orphans, as well as others in this and all the states in union.
To the Honourable the COUNCIL and GENERAL ASSEMBLY of the State of New-Jersey.
The Petition of a Guardian most humbly sheweth,
MTHAT whereas your Petitioner, upwards of five years past, was appointed Trustee and Guardian of four orphan children, by the last will and testament of his deceased friend; that your Petitioner, agreeable to the trust reposed in him, received from the executors of his deceased friend the said children's legacy, amounting to near six thousand pounds, which your Petitioner placed at interest on land security. Two of the borrowers proved disaffected, and have gone to the enemy, whose estates have been confiscated, and sold; your Petitioner there- fore has now no remedy but to receive continental money at about forty for one, so that your Petitioner will get
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between thirty and forty pounds for fifteen hundred lent ; not only so, but all those who borrowed the remaining four thousand five hundred have offered to make payment, which your Petitioner has by solicitation delayed receiv- ing. Relying, therefore, on the justice and candour of the Honourable Legislature, that they will by law make some provision to prevent the total ruin of the innocent and helpless.
Your Petitioner humbly prays, that the Legislature will take this matter into their serious consideration, and grant such relief as in their wisdom they may judge most bene- ficial on this trying occasion.
And your Petitioner, as in duty bound, will ever pray A GUARDIAN.
Middlesex, Feb. 4, 1780.
Mr. COLLINS,
I SEND herewith some of the correspondence between Lord George Germain and General Howe which is ex- tracted from the Parliamentary Register; your publish- ing of it may afford some amusement to your readers .- The flattery they paid to each other, while they had ex- pectations of conquering, is perhaps the grossest that ever was written. The alteration in Sir William's stile after his loss of the Hessians at Trenton, is worthy of observar tion; he immediately demands of the Ministry a rein- forcement of 15,000 men; and on his hearing of the fate of Burgoyne, at Saratoga, desires leave to resign. I am your's, &c. A. B.
Copy of a letter from Gen. Howe to Lord George Germain, dated Halifax 8th June, 1776.
My Lord,
0 N the 6th instant, the Mercury packet arrived with your Lord- ship's dispatches of the 27th April, duplicate 28th March, copy of your Lordship's letter of 25th April, to Lieutenant General de Heister, and several papers relative to the state of the
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