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Hessian troops ; copies of letters from your Lordship to the lords commissioners, of the admiralty, of 26th April, and to Sir William Erskine, of the 1st same month; also copy of a letter from Colonel Faucitt to the Earl of Suffolk, on 9th April.
These dispatches were delivered to me by Captain Emmerick, ac- companied by a letter from your Lordship, setting forth his good ser- vices in the late war; I apprehend he might be employed here to great advantage, should this contest continue for another year, by returning to Europe, and bringing a corps of 500 German chasseurs, but in the present campaign, without proper troops for him to act with, or a knowledge of the country, he can be but casually em- ployed, yet I hope to good effect.
The utmost attention shall be given to the experience and great abilities of Sir William Erskine in the military line, and I shall with pleasure make known to him your Lordship's commands to me in his favour.
The contents of Colonel Faucitt's letter has given me much satis- faction, and I shall not fail to make a proper use of the knowledge it contains.
While writing this I have advice that some transports with High- landers are arrived at the entrance of the harbour, and I am not without hopes, that we shall all join under sail tomorrow. I cannot take my leave of your Lordship without expressing my utter amaze- ment, at the decisive and masterly strokes for carrying such exten- sive plans into immediate execution, as have been effected since your Lordship has assumed the conducting of this war, which is already most happily experienced by those who have the honour of serving here under your auspices. That you may finally receive the acknowl- edgements of a gratified country, the lasting glory which such ser- vices merit ; and that I may in some degree contribute to the comple- tion of measures so vigorously concerted, is the fervent wish of your Lordship's, &c.
Wil. Howe.
TRENTON, MARCH 1.
Jonathan Bowen, jun. Esq. is elected a Representative in General Assembly for the county of Cumberland,
in the room of James Ewing, Esq. lately appointed Auditor of Accounts. At the last sitting of the Legisla- ture at Mountholly, Abraham Clark, Esq. was appointed a Representative in Congress for this state, in the room of Dr. Thomas Henderson, who declined taking his seat. -N. J. Gazette, Vol. III, No. 114, March 1, 1780.
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W ERE it probable that Dr. DAVID COWELL intended to submit the validity of his engagement for my freedom, or the decision of the performance of my part thereof, to the impartial tribunal of the publick, I would cheerfully lay the facts before them, having no doubt but the undeniable proof in my possession will carry inevitable conviction before any tribunal in heaven or on earth ; but as he still pretends to be desirous of a legal de- termination, it is not necessary to give the publick that trouble at present: However, since he has mentioned two Gentlemen, I sincerely believe, without "any desire to expose their conduct," because that would be the only means of rendering their characters more amiable; yet, as they will not descend to take notice of his notable per- formance, I might be justified in exposing his conduct by open design, when perhaps attempting to violate his solemn engagement with me would appear the least exceptionable part of his character. But I will forbear, only observing, that if a person should become notorious for having de- frauded his father, robbed his brothers and sisters of their patrimony, and by venality and debauchery, render his person as nauseous as his character is contemptible, an exposition would avail no more than the repeated curses of an injured country on that Doctor by whose negligence and misconduct numbers of brave soldiers have been sent to eternity, at a time when their services here were most necessary. Wishing that every foot may wear the shoe that fits it, while I continue to pray for the prosperity of that government which protects the rights of a poor Negro. Feb. 28.
ADAM
Two Hundred Dollars Reward.
S TRAYED, or driven away from the Subscriber, living in Monmouth county, some time last August, Twenty SHEEP; sixteen ewes, as he thinks, four or five of them black, one remarkable black grey ewe with white eye-brows, and all marked with the likeness of a
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saw-tooth the underside of the right or off ear. Any per- son that will give intelligence of said sheep; so that the owner may get them again, shall be entitled to the above reward. JOSHUA ANDERSON.
Freehold, Feb. 25, 1780
THE Publisher of the New-Jersey Gazette, in his paper No. 83, of the 28th of July last, gave notice that the price of the Gazette, as then fixed, would be raised or low- ered at the commencement of each quarter, according to the general tenor of the prices for the necessaries of life. He has, however, waved the privilege of increasing the price of his paper, and continued it for now more than two quarters since that date without alteration of terms, except in a very few instances, voluntarily made by some of the subscribers, from a conviction that those then stipulated were inadequate to the expense of paper and printing. He has also for some time past flattered himself that the propo- sition he is now constrained to make, would be rendered unnecessary by the introduction of a limitation of prices, by which all pecuniary transactions must have been placed upon an ascertained and stable footing. He did not suffer himself to doubt that this measure would have taken effect, when recommended by the most respectable authority, highly approved by the people of this state, and so early and unanimously adopted by the Legislature. Why the same laudable and disinterested motives have not influ- enced the counsels of other states, he leaves to those who are more dexterous at solving political mysteries. It is a matter of no difficulty to calculate what the price of the Gazette ought to be, compared with the prices current for the necessaries of life, and it will occur to a single thought that stating it at Thirteen Dollars by the quarter will leave it below the mark of profit, and convince the publick that gain cannot be the only view of continuing it; and the Publisher will be happy in an opportunity of proportion- ably diminishing the price upon an appreciation of the currency. This sum he expects for the current quarter,
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advanced in the same manner as proposed in his advertise- ment above-mentioned. From those who are near to the Office he still expects the same kindness of being paid in Produce at the former rates, agreeably to the terms pub- lished the 30th of June last, which is a great convenience to him, and he trusts not inconvenient to the customers. He desires that all arrears may be paid up without loss of time to avoid confusion in accounts, and that the Packet- Masters will be so good as to attend to this object,-observ- ing to collect an adequate sum for depreciation, the which is submitted to themselves.
Trenton, March 1, 1780.
TO BE SOLD,
By JACOB BENJAMIN, opposite the Printing-Office in TRENTON ;
COPPER coffee-potts ; a small sauce-pan; a brass candle- box; brass candle-sticks; a brass dredging-box ; a pair of brass stands for snuffers; a small burnt China dish; China bowls; quart decanters tinn'd; a quart flower'd decanter ; pint decanters and half-pint ditto ; large hard metal pewter dishes, London make; 1 large pewter dish, with 6 lesser size, and a soup ditto; a copper sauce-pan, ditto with a cover; a copper tea-kettle; a large stew-pan ; a large japan waiter, round; ditto, wooden ; a plated coffee-pot; a chimney glass and branches; a damask settee cover; a pier glass, plain; a mahogany side-board, with castor and marble slab; marble mortar pestle ; four large burnt China dishes ; blue & white ditto ; double flint pint flower decanters; a small round japan waiter; a gold watch; a quantity of Spanish brown; six neat mahogany tea-tables, some round and some square ; and a time-piece.
N. B. A house to be let in Amwell, inquire of Jacob Benjamin.
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ROBERT and JOHN SINGER,
Have for SALE at their Store in TRENTON, the fol- lowing goods:
B EST bohea tea and Musca- vado sugar, Black drawboy
Sewing thread of all sorts, Gun powder,
Indigo
Black cotton-velvet
Nutmegs,
Brown, blue, and scarlet duroys,
Alspice,
Brown, blue, and olive serge,
Playing cards,
Dark chintzes,
Wool ditto,
Cambricks and lawns
Skeleton wire,
Muslins,
Bonnet and hair pins,
Thread and silk gauze,
Broad and narrow tapes,
Gauze handkerchiefs,
Sleeve buttons,
Barcelona ditto,
Shirt ditto,
Check ditto,
Very handsome Italian flowers,
Shallaons and calamanco,
Pins and needles,
Worsted bindings,
Pint tumblers,
Men's gloves,
Half-pint ditto,
Broad and narrow ribbons,
Earthen ware,
A quantity of TAR,
Ell-wide mode, Narrow ditto,
and a variety of other articles.
BE SOLD at publick vendue, on Tuesday the 14th day of March next, at the house of the subscriber, in Middletown, Pleasant Valley, a certain Brigan- tine or Polacre, stranded on the shore at Manaskunk,1 her full set of sails, four anchors, a number of cables, stand- ing and running rigging, together with all her apparel and furniture; with a number of other things, such as pots, kettles, grind-stones, coils of rope, old iron, &c. &c. The vendue to begin at eleven o'clock precisely, where the con- ditions will be made known, and attendance given by me, CORNELIUS COVENHOVEN, Son of WILLIAM.
Monmouth county, Feb. 27, 1780.
N. J. Gazette, Vol. III, No. 114, March 1, 1780.
1 Manasquan.
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Two days after the departure of the Granville Packet, Capt. Kempthorn from Sandy Hook, he was attacked by three rebel privateers; a Sloop of 14 guns, a brig of 12, and a schooner of 10, all which after a brisk action of about an hour he forced to sheer of .- The sloop being the most powerful vessel engaged him nearest, and from ap- pearance must have suffered very considerably, as she was obliged to bear away, and made signals of distress to her consorts, which bore away after her, and hove too a good way to leeward to give her the assistance she must have needed .- When she bore away both pumps were at work; in the course of the action, the sloop was so near the Gran- ville, that she frequently ordered her to strike in language peculiar to American privateers, of which no other notice was taken than by plying them more hotly with their guns .- The Granville received no material damage, except in the wounds of two of the people; one of whom was Mr. Steele the first mate, who lost his eye by a piece of an iron bolt weighing 13 ounces, which buried itself in the socket of his eye, and the upper part of his cheek bone, turning his eye quite over his nose; the piece was extracted and the eye replaced by the surgeon Mr. Walpole, who by re- ducing it, performed a very capital cure, and Mr. Steele is now in a fair way of recovery .- The piece of iron was so uncommonly large, to lodge in so mortal a place without occasioning death, that it was thought a curious present for the British Museum, where it now is with the history of the case.
N. B. The Granville only carried 12 four pounders, and 45 men. .
-- The Royal Gazette, March 4, 1780. No. 358.
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NEW-YORK, March 6.
Extract of a Letter from New-Jersey, February 25, 1780.
"Nothing can equal the Tyranny we are under. The Property of the People is at the Mercy of Commissaries and other Agents for Congress. They give us Certificates instead of Money for our Goods. Though we are now under the most oppressive Taxes, not a Farthing can be got on the Certificates. Congress will not enable their Agents to take them up. I have hitherto laboured in vain for a Law to oblige the Tax-gatherers to receive the Certificates in Pay- ment, on the old and fair Maxim, that Discount is good Pay. If I don't succeed what follows, but that we are un- der the Government that will not, or cannot pay its Debts, and yet are daily exacting new Spoils from the wretched Slaves they have made us ? We must proceed to further Sales of our Property to satisfy the Collectors of Taxes, or be subject to ruinous Distresses .- Oh! the Folly of trusting to the delusive Promises, and Assurances, that the Expences of the War should be defrayed by the Sales of the Crown Lands! We have saved at the Spicket, but our Tyrants draw from us the Bung. We have strong Debates on this and other Subjects; you shall know the Issue of them in a few Days. If Congress will not pay their Debts, a Commission of Bankruptcy must go out against them. The Hour is at Hand-you see their Certi- ficates are no better than Blank Notes-worse than their Paper Dollars."
A NY Person or Persons who may be willing to contract for any Quantity of FIRE WOOD, to be delivered at New-York, Powles-Hook, and other Places upon this Island, this present Year, are requested to bring in
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their Proposals in Writing immediately to the Barrack- Master-General.
Barrack-Master-General's Office, Water-street, 25th Feb. 1780
-The New-York Gazette; and the Weekly Mercury, March 6, 1780. No. 1481.
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 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- tigious to the Academy where Reading, Writing, Arith- metic, and several branches of Mathematics are taught with care. Parents and guardians may be assured, that the strictest attention will be paid not only to the education but likewise to the morals of Youth, by their most obedient servant WILLIAM THOMSON.
N. B. Boarding may be had on the former moderate terms.
-The Pennsylvania Journal, March 8, 1780.
Mr. RIVINGTON,
I send you a List of their High Mightinesses in the Con- gress for the current year, and wish to see it frequently re- published in your Paper.
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AN it be disagreeable to such as desire at the close of our calamaties to be distinguished from the rest of
their countrymen ? But be this as it may, it cer- tainly is a tribute every Loyalist owes to the honour of the British nation, to shew, as the truth is, that only a few of
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the unnatural confederates with the French and Spaniards were reputable citizens of Great Britain or America. Here indeed it is known to every body, but it may not be abroad, that in all the provinces, the better sort, and indeed a vast majority of the people, despise the trusts and shun the elections of the usurpers; only the violent and inter- ested attend them; and as is the fountain, so are the streams.
I have annexed to the names of some of the members a note of their occupations ; and hope you'll make enquiries for the true and proper additions to the rest. The intelli- gent Refugees of the several Colonies can give you the necessary information. I wish it to be done with candor. Some of the present Delegates had the rank of gentlemen in the happy days of America; and they will be fortunate, if when restored to us, they are able to shew that they have resisted the malignant councils which have wasted the blood and treasures of their countrymen.
It would doubtless be very grateful to the Public to have a succinct history of the origin and fortunes of the illustri- ous Statesmen now in the Congress, who, tho' not elected by a tenth part of the American commonalty, have the hardiness to pledge themselves, by the powers they assume, to prosecute the arduous designs which their predecessors hare sagaciously abandoned for reasons not yet perhaps proper to be explained.
CONGRESS ROLL for the Year 1780.
NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
Josiah Bartlet ; a Farmer.
John Wentworth ; a Merchant. William Whipple ; a Shop-keeper. George Frost; a Fisherman.
Peabody ; a Farmer.
Langdon ; a Merchant.
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MASSACHUSETTS-BAY.
Eldridge Gerry ; a Marblehead trader
James Lovel ; Town Schoolmaster at Boston. Samuel Nolton.
George Partridge ; a Schoolmaster.
Artemas Ward, a, farmer, afterwards an attorney.
Samuel Adams ; a Maltster.
John Hancock ; a Merchant.
RHODE-ISLAND.
Henry Marchant; an Attorney.
Stephen Hopkins; a Blacksmith.
William Ellery ; a Lawyer.
John Collins ; a Blacksmith.
CONNECTICUT.
Samuel Huntington ; an Attorney.
Roger Sherman ; a Ditcher and Shoemaker, and Author of the Almanack, entitled Poor Roger's.
Jesse Root ; a country Attorney.
Titus Hosmer ; an Attorney.
Eliphalet Dyer ; a country Attorney.
Oliver Elsworth ; an Attorney.
Andrew Adams; a Tavern-keeper, and lately a country Attorney.
NEW-YORK.
Philip Schuyler ; a Merchant.
Robert R. Livingston ; a Lawyer.
John Morin Scott; a Lawyer.
James Duane ; a Lawyer.
William Floyd ; a Farmer.
Ezra L'Hommedieu ; a country Attorney.
NEW-JERSEY.
Charles Houston ; a Tutor of Princeton College.
Abraham Clarke ; a County Surveyor.
John Fell: a Ship Captain in the Merchant Service, and lastly a Farmer.
DELAWARE COUNTIES.
John Dickinson; a Lawyer. Nicholas Vandyck ; an Attorney. Thomas M'Kean ; a Lawyer.
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PENNSYLVANIA.
Frederick Mulenburgh ; a Parson.
John Armstrong ; a Surveyor.
James Searle ; a Merchant.
James M'Leane ; a Farmer.
William Shippen ; an Apothecary.
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MARYLAND.
George Plater ; a Gentleman.
James Forbes ; a Merchant.
Thomas Johnson ; a Lawyer.
John Hall; an Attorney.
Edward Lloyd ; a Gentleman.
John Hanson, jun. a Merchant.
VIRGINIA.
James Henry ; a country Attorney.
Joseph Jones ; ditto.
James Madison, jun.
John Walker; a Gambler and Farmer.
Cyrus Griffin a Lawyer.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Cornelius Harnet ; a country Trader.
Sharpe ;
John Penn ; a country Attorney.
John Williams ; ditto.
Whitmil Hill ; a Farmer.
Thomas Burke ; formerly a Doctor, and now a country Attorney.
SOUTH-CAROLINA.
John Mathews ; a Lawyer.
Henry Laurens ; a Merchant.
Thomas Heyward ; Rice Planter.
Richard Colston, ditto.
Rawlins Lowndes, Prothonotary of the Common Pleas.
The few blanks in the above catalogue of Legislators it was intended should now be filled up, but we must defer it to a future day, when some further portraits and remarks will be exhibited by way of supplement to this seal'd, miserable motley groupe.
-The Royal Gazette, March 8, 1780. No. 359.
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To be SOLD by private Sale,
On or before the first day of April next, The Farm called the Mount Airy, pleasantly situated on the banks of the Delaware, on the Jersey side, just above Burlington island, consisting of about two hundred and fifty acres, forty of which are woods, back from the river; there are about thirty acres of meadow, reaching from the woods through the center of the farm to the river, where the tide is stopped out by flood-gates at only the expence of keeping up about sixteen rod of bank: the extensive water front will make it considerably more valuable some future day, and well adapted for a gentleman's country seat, having ' fishing and fowling in season. The House is a decent frame, forty-six feet front, with a spacious piazza ten feet broad, situated on an eminence commanding an agreeable prospect both up and down the river; two rooms and a kitchen on the ground floor, with stone cellars paved with brick; two good bed-chambers and garrets ceiled; a good orchard on each side the house, with an interval left for a spacious garden .- The land along the front of the river is laid down with red clover. There are two other houses on the premises, one ranging with the above near the water, a tolerable house, suitable for a family, having a small orchard, &c. The other at the entrance of the woods, built for the conveniency of an overseer, a new log-house, with a barn, &c. a fine spring running near the door, which yields a constant stream through the whole plantation. For further particulars enquire of the proprietor, living on the premises.
DRURY WAKE
-The Pennsylvania Journal March 8, 1780.
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TRENTON, MARCH 8.
Extract of a letter from Jersey Camp, near Morris-Town, dated Feb. 24, 1780
"From Mr. Ludlow, who has left New-York and thrown himself upon the mercy of that state, besides other persons from the same place, we learn, that the situation of the Refugees is more doleful than ever. No supplies have arrived from Europe since the fore part of the fall of any kind, nor any intelligence of the troops since their de- parture, except what has been conveyed them thro' our hands. The high toned loyalists sing small, and hang their drooping guilty heads."
A Court of Oyer and Terminer is appointed to be held at Hills borough, in and for the county of Somerset on Monday the 27th day of March, instant.
The navigation is now open from this place to Philadel- phia, after being stopped near three months by the ice.
THE TRUE PATRIOT is received, and will be inserted as soon as possible.
To be DISPOSED of on the
15th day of this inst. at Pleasant Valley, in the township of Middleton,-The
SAILS and RIGGING
Of the Brigantine Britannia, lately captured by Colonel Asher Holmes and others.
March 6, 1780.
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TO BE SOLD,
At Private Sale or RENTED, the estate at Spotswood, in the county of Middlesex, New-Jersey.
C YONSISTING of two grist-mills, one saw mill, and the iron-works, with a large tract of land and a number of houses, all in tolerable good repair; they will be disposed of all together or separate, as may best suit. For further particulars inquire of the sub- scriber in Allentown.
March 6, 1780.
JOSEPH HAIGHT.
TO BE SOLD,
A
LOT of good Pasture Ground, in the city of Burling- ton, consisting of four acres and twenty-seven perches. The title indisputable. Immediate pos- session will be given the purchaser. For terms apply to the Printer of this paper.
THE highest price given for Bills of Exchange on France by ROGERS and HILLEGAS, at Bordentown ; -who have for sale sundry articles of Wet and Dry goods.
March 3.
Let the PUBLICK BEWARE.
W HEREAS the Commissioners for selling the confiscated estates in the county of Monmouth, and state of New-Jersey, have, in this paper of the first of March instant, advertised, among other things for sale, "a well improved farm, containing 300 acres, lying in Upper Freehold," which they are pleased to suppose be- longs to John Perrine, now with the enemy ; But this may assure the publick that the said farm doth not, nor ever
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did belong to the said John Perrine; but that the same is the property of, and was duly devised to John, Peter, Matthew and Joseph Perrine, sons of the said John the Refugee, in and by the last will and testament of their grand father, John Perrine, deceased, as will fully appear by the said will, duly proved, and remaining in the Secretary's office at Burlington .- Therefore in behalf of the said devisees, now under age, the subscribers, guardian of the said children, and the executors of the estate of the said deceased, do forewarn all manner of persons from purchasing the same, as they are determined to defend the said devisees' estate, according to the laws of this free and independent state.
Mary Perrine, Guardian
March 6, 1780 James Perrine 1 Execu-
Joseph Perrine tors.
TO BE SOLD,
A T Publick Vendue, on Saturday, the eighteenth day of March inst. on the premises, SIX LOTS of LAND, containing 420 acres in the whole, late the property of Abraham Probasco, in the township of Middletown, Monmouth county, about 12 miles from the bay shore; a very convenient place for a grist-mill and saw-mill; two dwelling houses and five orchards, situated in a very pleas- ant part of the country; about one half of said land cleared, about twenty acres of meadow, and more may be made. Any person inclining to purchase said tract of land, can see the premises by applying to the subscribers. The vendue to begin at 10 of the clock said day, where due attendance will be given, and conditions of sale made known by
DAVID RHAY, JOHN HAZLITT.
March 6, 1780
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TO BE SOLD
At Publick Vendue on Tuesday the 21st day of March instant, at the house where Nicholas Amerman, deceased, formerly lived, at Sourland in the county of Somerset, State of New-Jersey, Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, and almost all sorts of Household and Kitchen Furniture and Farmers Utensils, too tedious to mention; also will be sold the same day, the farm whereon the said deceased lived, containing about 200 acres of land, with a good dwelling-house and kitchen, a barn and good orchard on the same, including woodland and meadows sufficient for said farm; also a wood lot near the premises about 7 acres. The vendue to begin at 10 o'clock where attendance will be given and the conditions of the sale made known by Daniel Amerman, John Amerman, Exectrs.
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