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Where attendance will be given respectively, and the conditions made known at the different places by
ISAAC MARTIN, - Commis- SAMUEL MIEKER, sioners. -
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Let the PUBLIC BEWARE.
W HEREAS Bernard Hanlon, of Trenton, has adver- tised in the New-Jersey Gazette a plantation for sale, lying in Nottingham township, and county of Burlington-I the underwritten subscriber take this method to inform the public that the said land originally belonged to John Porterfield in fee-simple, and after the death of my grand-father was regularly attach'd by my father as lawful executor of my deceased grand-father, to answer a debt due to the estate of my said grand-father from the said John Porterfield, and, according to a regular course of law, was sold by the then sheriff, Joseph Hol- lingshead, at public sale, when my father proved the pur- chaser; but my father dying before he received the sheriff's deed for the said land, his administrators has since been told that they must wait till I, who was the heir of my deceased father, should become of age-Therefore being now of full age, do forewarn all manner of persons from purchasing the same, as I am determined to defend my title against any claim founded on any attachment made on said land to answer any other debt of said Porter- field since it was sold at public sale, as above.
ISAIAH YARD.
Trenton, March 14, 1780.
H AVING closed the sales of the estates of the following fugitives and offenders, to wit, Thomas Russel, Robert Graham and Miles Sherebrook, of Middle- sex county ; William Burton, or Somerset county; Rich- ard Cochran, of Hunterdon county; and John Demot, of New-York; those who have any claim against them are requested to exhibit their accounts fairly stated, to two of the Judges of the Courts of Common Pleas for this county,
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who will give their attendance at Job's tavern, at the cross roads, between Cranberry and New-Brunswick, on Mon- day the 20th inst. for the purpose of adjusting the same, as the law directs.
WM. SCUDDER, - Commis- JOHN LLOYD, sioners.
Middlesex, March 4, 1780.
The high bred Spanish HORSE called the
LION,
Ts in excellent order, and will cover mares the ensuing season, at the stable of the subscriber Readington, Hunterdon county, near Potter's Town, at Two Bushels of Wheat, or the price thereof, the season, ready pay. The Lion is a beautiful chestnut colour, near sixteen hands high, moves, trots, and canters, exceeding well, five years old this grass, and is allowed to be one of the stoutest horses in the state; got by the old Spanish horse called Ferdinand; his dam an excellent mare from the Dawson breed.
Good attendance will be given by
PETER COVENHOVEN.
HEREAS inquisitions having been found, and final judgement entered against William Dumayn, late of Morris county, and Jacob Tooker, late of Essex county, in the state of New-Jersey-Notice is hereby given that all the real estate of the said William Dumayn and Jacob Tooker, that is within the said county of Essex, will be sold at publick vendue on Monday the first day of May next, at the house of Samuel Smith, innkeeper, in Eliza- beth-Town, at 2 o'clock, P. M. of said day; at which time
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the said estates may be seen, and the conditions of sale made known by
JOHN CLAWSON, 1 Commis- DANIEL MARSH, sioners.
Elizabeth-Town Feb. 28, 1780.
T AKEN up a-drift in the Delaware, near Burlington, part of a Raft of Ship-Timber, consisting of thirty- five logs : The owner, on proving his property and paying charges, may have it again, by applying to the sub- scribers in Burlington.
THOMAS HARRIS, JOHN VAN SKIVER.
March 8, 1780.
TO BE SOLD,
On Monday the 27th day of this instant, at the house of Cornelius Dorne, in the township of Middletown, Monmouth county,
T THE Sails and Running and Standing Rigging of the brigantine Britannia, with a number of Blunder Busses, Muskets and Pistols, Cutlasses, Fire Ar- rows, &c. &c. lately captured by Colonel Asher Holmes and others.
SAMUEL DENNIS.
Hunterdon, township of Hopewell, March 8, 1780.
W ILL be exposed to sale by way of publick vendue, at the house of Johnson Titus, where Samuel Titus deceased, on the 22d day of this inst. at 9 o'clock in the forenoon, horses, cattle and sheep, a wag- gon and gears, a plough and harrow-teeth; some hives of
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bees, and sundry farmers utensils, such as hoes, axes, spades, shovels, &c. and likewise household and kitchen furniture, pots, pails, pans, trammels and kettles; also feather beds, bedding and bed spreads; one case of draw- ers, tables, looking glasses, chairs, spinning wheels, pewter and earthen ware, and many things too tedious to mention. Likewise a loom and tackling, and a number of cherry boards. Due attendance will be given by
Johnson Titus, Joseph Titus, John Johnson, administrators.
N. B. A very good Negro Girl to be sold at the same place.
To be sold for continental money, a good cow with calf, about 7 years old, gentle and in fine order; also a colt, three years old this grass, well broke to the gears ; one ditto, two years old; two ditto, one year old; one of the latter got by a colt of Granby, the other by old Hector; remarkably large, well mark'd, and in good order ; also a man's saddle, new. Any person inclining to pur- chase may see the creatures, and know the prices, by apply- ing to TIMOTHY BRUSH, jun. in Hopewell township, Hun- terdon county.
March 13, 1780.
N. B. The said Brush will make a generous abatement to any person purchasing the whole.
THE subscriber purposes to attend at Trenton every Monday in the present month; at other times he may be found at his farm near the Baptist meeting house in Hopewell ;- and request all that have not certifi- cates for any demands against said post, contracted before the first instant, to attend, as he intends to make a close immediately after the expiration of the month.
March 14.
PETER GORDON, late Quartermaster, Trenton
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ROBERT EASTBURN,
Hath for SALE, in New-Brunswick,
NOOD West-India rum, choice white powdered sugar, muscovado ditto, tea, coffee, chocolate, pepper, al- spice, starch, rice, nutmegs, cinnamon, cloves and raisons; snuff in bottles or by the pound, pins by the packet or paper, knitting, sewing, and darning needles ; fine white and colour'd thread, cotten ditto, sewing silk of different colours ; sprig'd and brown ground chintzes and callico, black gauze; men's and women's shoes, women's kidd gloves, neat black silk laces and bindings; spelling books and primers, neat black and red pocket-books, writ- ing and bonnet paper; black Barcelona handkerchiefs, silk knee-garters, mohair buttons, sleeve and shirt ditto; silver plated shoe-buckles, white metal, brass shoe, knee and stock buckles ; fine strait ivory and crooked horn combs ; bridles ; scissors ; short and long pipes ; a parcel of ware, such as dishes, plates, mugs, bowls and stone juggs; a quantity of excellent indigo, rosin, brimstone and tar, on which allow- ance will be made to those who buy to sell; French and common wooden heels by the dozen or pair.
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'COLLUM, near Tren- ton.
Feb. 21st, 1780.
-N. J. Gazette, Vol. III No. 116, March 15, 1780.
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To the Printer of the ROYAL GAZETTE.
SIR,
Your giving the following account a place in your paper will much oblige your most humble servant,
A JERSEY LOYALIST.
TT would seem incredible to say that human nature could be so deprav'd as to delight in adding cruelty to distress, if recent instances did not evince the contrary.
That such as come under the above description may be held in durance, so as not to have it in their power to repeat such savage acts in future, is the only reason of this painful detail; of one of the many instances of barbarity exercised by Joseph Hedden of Newark, in New-Jersey, a rebel judge and justice, who, in the heat of summer 1777, issued his mandate to banish a helpless woman and chil- dren, for no crime, except her husband being a friend to his Majesty's government, and accordingly sent a rebel guard to execute his order; who, when they came to the house of the disconsolate woman, (six miles from Newark) found her very weak, and unable to travel, having been delivered of twins about fourteen days, which excited so much compassion in the guard as to cause them to forego their orders and return without the woman, which only produced a new and absolute decree from Hedden to bring her at all hazards to Newark, and from thence to be sent to Bergen, and when the rebel captain remonstrated to Hedden that executing his order would be the death of the woman. Hedden replied, Let her die there will be one damn'd Tory less; and accordingly the guard was sent the second time and brought her and her children in a waggon to Newark, although she fainted, (through weakness) on the waggon; when the woman arrived at Newark her de-
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plorable case drew tears even from the eyes of rebels; and the kind offices of some friends of her sex enabled her the next day to go through the last stage of her journey to Bergen, where, (soon after) her death, and the death of her two innocent babes, closed the dismal tragedy.
If any should require satisfaction (as to the truth of the above narrative) please to call on the Printer.
-The Royal Gazette, March 18, 1780. No. 362.
TO BE SOLD,
For Continental Money, Bills upon France, or Loan Office Certificates drawing interest on France,
A PLANTATION containing two hundred and eighty- four acres of land, pleasantly situate on the main road leading from Trenton to Allentown, within two and a half miles of Trenton and the same distance from a, landing, which makes it much more valuable as a team may haul four loads of wood in a day from it to the landing. There is a small dwelling-house and a small orchard on it; about fifty acres cleared, the rest good woodland on which there may be about twelve acres of meadow made. For terms apply to Mr. Alexander Nelson, Merchant, in Water street, above Walnut street, Philadelphia, or to the subscriber in Trenton, state of New-Jersey, where the premises may be viewed and the terms made known.
BERNARD HANLON. -The Pennsylvania Packet March 18, 1780.
CHATHAM, March 15.
The Legislature of this state have suspended the oper- ations of the act for the limitation of prices until the states of New-York, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, enact and carry into execution laws for establishing a general limi-
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tation of prices throughout their respective Jurisdictions, on the principles recommended in the resolutions of Con- gress.
NEW-YORK, March 20.
Jersey Intelligence.
Nothing can more clearly discover the exhausted Hopes of the Republican Politicians, than their late Propagation of Scraps from French and other Papers respecting Ire- land. Governor Livingston has compiled them, and writ- ten an Introduction to lead the Populace to the Use he wishes to make of them-Three hundred Extra-Copies are struck off at the public Expence for the public Delusion- The Commissariat Parson of Elizabeth-Town, is flying about, in the utmost Anxiety, for his worldly Treasure, asserting that the Kingdom of Ireland has declared for the Congress-But not a Word said or printed of the late Addresses of the Irish Lords and Commons. Deacon Lou- don, of Fish-Kill, is sounding the same Trumpet, and without Doubt, the Importance of these Lies, like others, will cause them to be insinuated to a credulous Multitude, especially in the eastern Country, in Prayers and Sermons from the Pulpit. There are however, strong Marks of Terror in the introductory Composition of the Mob Gov- ernor. The Printer is able to give it to his Readers.
From the New-Jersey Journal, March S.
TT is impossible not to admire the spirit which animates the speakers in the Irish Parliament; so daringly pointed, and so expressive of Liberty and Independ- ence, or not to wish Ireland a similar station among na- tions, as that we enjoy. And it is not now to be doubted, but that a people so long oppressed, and so ardent in their love of Liberty, will use the present moment to recover
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their freedom; especially as they can have from the most powerful confederacy ever formed against England (as her King expresses it ) every assistance they may want.
We cannot but judge of the humilated condition of Great Britain, from the different reception of the Irish demands, for a free and unrestrained trade, &c. and the humble peti- tions of America. The one was treated with a silence the most disdainful and mortifying ; the other with that hypo- critical politeness which is afraid to offend, while at the same time it promises nothing. Our petitions were not even read. But Mr. Flood was most graciously received, and every thing promised to the Irish which mature de- liberation would warrant .-- This contrast of treatment, must sink his Britannick Majesty, if possible, still lower in the eyes of all Europe; nor is it to be supposed, that any power will think it wise or polite, to involve their fate with that of a nation evidently crumbling to pieces. We are authorized to say this in the following declaration of Lord North in the House of Commons on the 25th of November, 1779 :- "I do not deny but that the conjuncture "was very alarming and dangerous; a powerful confedera- "tion was formed against Great-Britain, who even to this "very moment finds herself without allies: If this last "circumstance is disadvantageous, is it just that you should "blame the ministers?" The fact is, that no foreign power has judged it proper or necessary to espouse the cause of Great-Britain.
-The New-York Gazette: and the Weekly Mercury, March 20, 1780, No. 1483.
TO BE LET
The following PROPERTY in the county of Cape May, in the State of New-Jersey.
On a lease for a certain rent-One third of the herbage of the Seven-mile Beach, which will support forty cattle
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annually from October till July, without any person to take care of them.
On a lease for any number of years, for such a propor- tion of the produce as will be advantageous as well to the tenant as landlord, - - - Three Plantations and tracts of land and marsh, lying on the waters of Dennis's creek, two of which have good landings, from which there may be an easy carriage in shallops to Philadelphia, and the third within half a mile of a landing; each tract will keep thirty or forty cattle, the land equal to any in that country, will bear a plentiful crop of every kind of grain, and the tenant will have liberty to clear any quantity of land he chuses, upon terms beneficial to him.
A large quantity of very valuable timber, within one . mile of a landing, to be made into pipe, hogshead and barrel staves, by delivering the owner one half at the stump.
Also a number of lots of cedar swamp on a share. In short, any persons who have plenty of labourers may be assured of making a profitable contract by applying to THOMAS LEAMING, senior, near the premises, or the subscriber in Front street, below the Draw-bridge, Phila- delphia.
THOMAS LEAMING, junior. -The Pennsylvania Journal, March 22, 1780.
Mr. RIVINGTON,
I Find you have published in your paper a few of the many instances of barbarity of Mr. Justice Hedden, the most vile, base, and inhuman ever known in a civilized country, which Savages would blush to perform; yet give the Devil and his Imps their due, and publish also Justice Heddon's plea for his censured conduct, which is : That the many instances of his treating the Tories, called cruelty and inhuman, where done by the express orders
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and directions of his great patron Governor Livingston, who frequently declared him the best Magistrate in New- Jersey, often recommending his spirited behaviour as an example for other Justices' to follow. Whether Justice Hedden's acting in obedience to the commands of a merci- less tyrant, will exculpate him, or mitigate his guilt, is submitted to the public.
Justice Hedden being a necessary person among the rebels, ever ready to carry into execution the most tyran- nical and oppressive measures against his Majesty's liege subjects, there can be no doubt but great artifice will be made use of by Governor Livingston, and others, to liberate him, that he may again be an instrument of persecution, ten-fold more cruel than ever.
To the KING's PRINTER,
SIR,
As the Jersey Refugee and Loyalist, in your papers, No. 360, and 362, have taken no notice of Robert Neil, who was made prisoner at the same time and place, with the Rebel Justice; and although he cannot vie with Hed- den in some particulars, yet for robbing his Majesty's faithful subjects, for chicane, dissimulation and treachery, perhaps Neil may claim the bays: For proof thereof, please to insert in your Royal Gazette, the following speci- men, which will oblige your very humble servant,
VERITAS.
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THAT he came a few years ago from some part of Europe to New-York, where his fawning address gained on the credulity of some merchants to in- trust him with a stock of goods, with which he opened a store at Newark, where after a fine run of custom, for above one year, he had the effrontery to turn bankrupt;
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take the benefit of the act of insolvency, and pay his Cred- itors about ten shillings and six pence in the pound, which raised his credit so much with Phoebe, the daughter of Caleb, that he took her to wife; and on the arrival of his Majesty's troops in Newark, pretended to be a loyal sub- ject to the King; applied for, and received ample protec- tion of the King's officers; passed and repassed to, and from New-York, to Newark in safety, on his own busi- ness, until the Trenton defeat, which raised the drooping head of Rebellion, and caused the King's troops to evac- uate Newark, which was immediately taken possession of by the Rebels, when the champignon suddenly grew to an enormous size, and displayed his Cameleon quali- ties. In short, Neil u[n]masked; and boasted, that he had taken protection among the King's troops, only to find out who were Tories; which declaration proved him a fit son of Rebellion, to be appointed to a lucrative post in their service, to provide forage and wood for the Rebel army, which office he executed to the great grief of some women, (whose husbands were in New York) by taking from them their grain and hay, but more especially, by seizing and cutting off several fine groves of wood, the property of the King's loyal subjects, for which he was paid by the Rebels, and thereby amassed a large estate.
As the Loyalist declares his design was only to pre- vent such unmerciful men from having it in their power to commit such savage acts in future I humbly conceive, that Neil ought to be held in custody, for the same reason.
Quere. As Neil has raised his fortune, by seizing and selling the property of some men in New-York, suffering for their fidelity to their Sovereign: Ought he not, in justice, to be held in custody, until he has made them satisfaction for the damages as far as he is able.
[If any person thinks the above portrait is not genuine, please to enquire of the Printer.]
-The Royal Gazette, March 22, 1780. No. 363.
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PHILADELPHIA.
By accounts from Egg-Harbour we learn, that a few days since the Thames frigate and the cutter Retaliation (late the Revenge) were cruizing off there. That the cutter had taken the sloop Hazard, from Hispaniola for this port, and ordered her for New York, when the Rattle- Snake fell in with, retook and sent her (the Ranger) into Egg-Harbour.
-The Pennsylvania Journal, March 22, 1780.
MR. COLLINS,
T HE flaming production of your correspondent, A Farmer, had blazed away in the world for a considerable time before I saw it, in your No. 101. With your leave, Sir, I ask that gentleman the cause of his rage, discovered in this famous perform- ance? Is it because I gave a sample of his nonsense, and declared my opinion of his jargon. As a new specimen of the latter, I desire the reader to guess at his meaning when he says, towards the con- clusion of the peace under consideration, "and in lieu of the more virtuous part of the community's indemnifying the tories estates, I would recommend the mode of Virginia, where persons who breathe the air of liberty, and do not deserve pay for it;" and here he stops If such jumble of words does not deserve the epithet, jargon, I con- fess I know not what does. And I humbly conceive that the evi- dences of nonsense and jargon do not license an anonymous author to obtrude his bare assertions upon the respectable public for proof. It is true, the ipse dixit or bare word of an ancient sage, influenced his pupils ; but the man's virtue and solid judgment were universally acknowledged : but who is this Farmer, that his ipse dixit must pass for proof? Perhaps he is a farmer who cannot call a foot of land his own, and trembles at the issue of a little money he possesses .- I submit it to others, whether such characteristics in composition, are not descriptive of a dwarf in the literary world ?- Here Mr. A Farmer, you have my reasons for my using the terms nonsense, jargon and pigmy of an author. If you can be gratified by fancying this to be Billingsgate eloquence, Grubstreet rhetoric and calumny, you have my leave for that satisfaction.
This gentleman seems here to put on the garb of reasoning, and pretends to prove,-The tendency of my writings to depreciate our currency,-The injustice of the plan I had recommended, &c. The first he attempts, by asserting that I had been at so much pains to prove the depreciation to be twenty for one, when the most virtuous- part of the community sold at a much lower rate .- The first proposi-
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tion is a palpable non-truth. All I have said upon the subject is bare supposition and mere opinion. I have said, No. III, "It is universally acknowledged that our paper currency is much depreciated, at a medium twenty for one, at the least." No. IV., "The Pennsylvania author before recited, asserts, that our money is depreciated on some articles ten, others twenty, others thirty : Supposing then we should take it at the medium, twenty for one." No. V, "Let us suppose that the depreciation is only fifteen for one at a medium, and I am positive it is that throughout the continent, if it is one farthing." No. VI, "If lands and houses, as they generally now sell, may also be considered as the barometer, then probably the depreciation would be, at a medium, ten for one." Here is the whole of what he calls proof :- I would blush to have offered this for argument! Still this dictator avers it to be so; and with an air of authority, oracle like, pronounces the depreciation at that time much lower. I am however still of opinion, that if a due enquiry was made, and the prices of imported articles, exclusive of the reasonable allowance for risk and charges, compared with those of the necessaries of life at that period, my suppositions and opinions would be found near the truth .- Behold the futilnes of his argument! But it is no wonder; for to prove what he undertakes is like holding a candle to the sun. Admirable ! The bare suppositions and mere opinions of a piddling politician should have such powerful influence over all the continent, as in so short a time to increase the depreciation from, I do not know how low, to twenty for one. He may perhaps insist, saying, people have often offered that as a reason for asking so high .- And has he not more frequently heard the heavy taxes offered as a reason? How come such legislative depreciators to escape his notice?
He also, by a kind of argument ad hominem, attempts to prove, that I had received my money fifteen or twenty for one, long before my more virtuous countrymen did; because I was willing to part with it at that. His argument, syllogistically considered, stands thus,- None are willing to part with their money so, but only such as re- ceived it at that value long before their more virtuous countrymen did; but the Patriot is willing: Therefore he has received it so. Or thus, All who have received their money fifteen or twenty for one, long before their more virtuous countrymen did, are willing to part with it at that; but the Patriot is: Therefore, de. Can your cor- respondent believe his major propositions, on which his conclusion depends? It appears to me impossible. If anything, it proves me (at least in this instance) an honest man; in desiring no more for my money than it cost me. And will it not be difficult for him to suggest reasons for my extortioning, without a desire for unlawful gain? He proceeds in some sort of dilemma,-"and if he has no money, he is an improper judge."-If I have neither money nor real property, I am an impartial judge. If only real property, he will allow I may sell for present enormous prices ; and then have an equal chance with others to have mine appreciated. But I am weary of, and fear to tire my readers by animadverting on my antagonist's
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