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"You were, when among us, a personal witness of the inclination of many wealthy individuals of this country to place part of their money in the American funds; that inclination is not altered; --- and should that desired peace be brought about by proper management, almost any sums might be procured, and at a lower rate than it would be possible in any other part of Europe. We hope to see speedily some person properly authorized for the above purpose, as well as for the granting of vacant lands, as we already observe a spirit prevailing here which agrees well with that idea. -- Thus would America reap im- portant advantages from the wealthy individuals of Hol- land being its creditors, and land proprietors, as interest would fix and increase the attachment, and produce the same effects as the English stocks have done, but on much better ground.
"Before this reaches you, the French fleet destined for America will be probably on your coast. I hope your army will be ready for co-operation-the troops on board will very considerably increase the number.
"We will persevere in promoting the cause of America in Holland, and request your continued correspondence to enable us the better so to do."
THE LAWS of the last Sitting of the GENERAL ASSEMBLY of this State, the VOTES of ASSEMBLY of a Sitting in
February and March last, and the MINUTES of the COUNCIL and ASSEMBLY in JOINT-MEETING, are printed and ready to be delivered.
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STRAYED or STOLEN,
From the subscriber on the evening of the 9th inst.
A BAY HORSE, five or six years old, about 14 and a half hands high, is branded on the near buttock with the letters C B, trots and paces, and has a wart on the near side of his jaw, and has a little white on one of his hind feet. Also a brown horse COLT, one year old, has a star in his forehead, and two white hind feet. Whoever takes up and secures said horse and colt, so that the owner may have them again, or delivers them to the subscriber in Trenton, shall be entitled to THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD, and all reasonable charges paid by
ROBERT ASHMORE.
Trenton, July 25th, 1780.
T HIS day's Gazette, No. 135, begins the year. The price is fixed by the quarter at one third of a dollar, to be
paid in produce, or half a dollar in gold or silver, or the current exchange thereof in continental money at the time of payment. The great expence of paper and print- ing renders it indispensably necessary that the cash pay- ments be punctually made at the end of every quarter, and those who pay in produce, once a year.
ISAAC COLLINS.
Trenton, July 26, 1780.
All persons indebted for this Gazette who intend to dis- charge their respective balances with cash, and those in arrear for inserting advertisements, are requested to make immediate payment. N. B. Advertisements cannot in future have a place unless they are paid for before they are inserted, agreeably to the price specified at the bottom of the last page. Letters he also requests may be sent postage paid. The PRINTER.
Trenton, July 19, 1780.
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One Continental Dollar Reward.
R AN AWAY from the subscriber last Fall, an apprentice lad named JACOB HICE, about 5 feet 6 inches high, somewhat marked with the small-pox, hath brownish hair. Whoever takes up said apprentice and brings him to me, shall receive the above reward. JESSE KNOWLES. July 25, 1780.
New-York, July 29.
The following is a faithful Copy of an original lodged with the Printer, who has done justice to the General's Orthography. No observations are necessary, but it is hoped that every one who may be detected in the threat- ened violences, will, in their turn be most exemplarily and em phatically Retaliated upon-Two Gentlemen long active in the Rebel interest, were lately made prisoners and brought from Elizabeth Town to this city, where instead of pains and imprisonment they are, through the grace and benignity of government, genteely lodged, entertained and protected from every kind of insult, whereas the King's Loyal Subjects, merely for a conscientious adherence to their principles, have been to the everlasting infamy of a rebel legislature, condemned at mock tribunals, tortured and ignominiously put to death; and hitherto not one single instance of retaliation has been attempted upon the monstrous actors in these horrid Tradegies.
In Committee of Retaliation. Monmouth County, July 1, 1780.
WHEREAS many Hundreds of the well Effected Citizens of the County of Monmouth justly alarm'd at the dareing Continuance of Plundering's, Devastations Kidnaping's & Even Murder itself per- petrated by the disaffected & Refugees from amongst themselves, and Now dispairing of any other Effectual Means of Redress, Have Solely
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on the principles of Self Preservation entered into a Most Solemn Association for the purposes of Thorough Retaliation on
the persons & full Restitution from the Property of
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of such Men of Influence & Opulence yet residing among them as are Generally known and Reputed to be disaffected, And Consiquently justly Supposed to be highly Instrumental of abeting and Encourage- ing those and Such like Barbarities .-- -
And whereas on this first Day of July, 1780. The said Associators did Meet at the Court House & there by plurality of Voices did Elect and Constitute David Forman, Nathaniel Scudder, Thomas Hender- son, Asher Holmes, Thomas Seabrook, Hendrick Smock, John Schenck, Thomas Chadwick, & Moses Shepherd, a Committee with full and ample Powers to carry into Effect the Said Association pledgeing Themselves & their Fortunes Jointly & Severally to Support and Defend them in the prosecution of this Necessary & Important Busi- ness-
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We the Said Committee haveing placed General David Forman in the Chair & Maturely Deliberated on the Affair Do Unanimously Resolve-First That this Committee will in the full Sperit of the Association & at every Hazard, retaliate on the Persons and prop- erty of the Disaffected within the County, for all Damages, & for all Injuries Sustained by any and Every of the Monmouth Associators, on or after the said first Day of July, One thousand Seven Hundred & Eighty.
Secondly That Advertisements be Immediately Issued to Different Parts of the County Notifying the Inhabitants of the Appointment & Powers of this Committee and of the Foregoing resolution, And Re- questing the Associators to give the Earliest intelligence to their Chairman, of any Damages, Depredations, Burning's, Kidnaping's, &c. committed by any of the Disaffected or Refugees, Black or White, or by their Connivence or procurement & at the Same Time to Trans- mit an Accurate Account of Every Kind of Property, Destroy'd Damag'd or Taken away, and of any Associated persons Not Ac- tually in Arms, Who may be Taken off or Paroled, by any of the Refugees &c. To the End that ample Retaliation and Restitution may as speedily as possible be Made in Behalf of the Sufferers agree- able to the Sperit of the Aforesaid Association-
N. B. By General Consent and Order of the Associators, All Such Persons belonging to the County (and Generally Esteamed well Affected) as are now in Captivity or on parole and consequently unable at present to become Subscribers, will be Considered as such until their release & Retaliation will be made in behalf of their prop- erty if Necessary-
Signed by Order of the Committee. DAVID FORMAN, Chairman.
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NEW-JERSEY.
Chatham, July 26, Last Friday General Wayne, with a detachment of 1800 men, made an assault upon a block- house of the enemy near Bull's Ferry, on the North-River, but finding it very strong, (held only by 84 Refugees) drew off the men. Our loss, we are told, amounts to near 50 killed and wounded. (But the Returns say 150.)
On Tuesday last died at Newark, in the 68th year of his age, Uzal Ogden, Esq ;1 a gentleman of undisembled good- ness, and universally esteemed .- The Royal Gazette, No. 400, July 29, 1780.
For the NEW-JERSEY JOURNAL.
Friends and Fellow-Citizens,
IN my late address to General Knyphausen, while I recollect the instances of their barbarity, I found those two effects upon my own mind, viz. Fortitude superior to their heaviest strokes, and such abhorrence and detestation of their ways, as would forbid forever any thoughts of union with them. Those feelings and senti- ments I wish to engrave in your breasts.
Arguments at this period of the war to prove the justice of our cause, or importance of the controversy, would be useless, nay would be insults upon your understandings.
1 Uzal Ogden, born 1713, was a son of David Ogden ; he married Elizabeth Charlotte Thebaut, daughter of Gabriel Louis Thebaut, of the Island of Antigua. So early as 1740 he was associated with his brothers John and David in the purchase of the Ringwood iron mines in the upper part of the present Passaic county. He was Judge of the Essex County Common Pleas, 1743-62, and in 1763 was appointed Sheriff of the county. The newspaper notice given above is the only record we have of the date of his death, and of his age at death. The Ogden Genealogy gives his date of birth conjecturally as circa 1705, and his death as circa 1780.
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But our successes in arms and in gaining the powerful al- liances of foreign nations, have lulled us into a dangerous security. You neither want wisdom to conduct, or courage to finish, what you have carried so far with unequalled reputation. But as the bravest minds are the most tender and gentle, those soft feelings of yours have betrayed you too soon into a forgiving indolence, and led you to hope that the war might be finished without those vigorous ex- ertions which might prove bloody to yourselves and must end in the total destruction of our enemies. Save Britain has been the common cry! It was my own. Themselves have schooled us out of our error, and taught us that we must entirely put out the flame, or loose the building.
Britain hath long seen the conquest of America, by force alone, is impracticable. She has therefore had recourse to stratagems, by which she hopes to gain an accomodation, if not a victory. An accomodation that will give such power to neutrals and tories as will gain a flower, but not less certain, nor less fatal, victory in the end. To accomplish this she has too well succeeded in depreciating our money, by her emissaries both without and within our lines and councils. But she can never accomplish her design unless your zeal and vigour are depreciated with our money.
This is now attempted by various means. Some they en- deavour to crush by making rapid excursions and cruelly, and totally divesting them of their property ;- others are stolen from their beds into captivity ;- others are allured by hopes and fears to trade and parole submission. By thus gradually removing from the lines such spirits as they could not tame, and enlarging their connections among the , meaner sort, they hope gradually to make their way into the country. We are therefore often told by their abet- tors, that they can go where they please, and take whom they will. One to save his house will declare, "That no rebel gun was ever fired from behind it;" Another, to save his person, seeks a parole, or refuses to take any active part. The calamities of war are held up in magnified pros-
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pects on the one hand; and the mild terms offered by the enemy more falsely trumpeted upon the other. The most horrid murders, and other barbarities, committed by them, are attributed to accident, or the error of some unsup- ported individual. And from Lord North downward, they are all declaring they do not mean to injure this country, but to watch the favourable moment of the war to give us peace and order. That all their barbarity in the field, the destruction of our property, and the far more cruelly flow murders of thousands in their prisons, was only designed for our good, and to prepare us for the olive branch. By those pretentions some are imposed upon, and our public danger increased. Yet how little reason there is for the imposition, reflection will soon convince you. The death of our paper currency, and the fall of Charlestown happen- ing near together, flushed their hopes, and, in their opin- ion, gained them the point which Lord North deemed proper for extending the olive branch. But what was their conduct ? In the South, the cruelty of their conduct, and high demands of Clinton's proclamations, were sufficient to draw the pale ghosts from the graves of their former fears, resolved to check the tyrant or deliver themselves by an honourable death in arms. And amongst us their barbari- ties rose with their hopes, till they have proved to us, by the strong language of plunder, flames, and murder, that they only waited for power, wholly to desolate the friends of liberty. Your dwelling-houses and temples in flames before your eyes; the aged, the widow, the fatherless in- sulted, beaten, plundered, without pity, are arguments you understand and feel. And Oh! that unequalled act of guilt and cruelty ! I cannot forget it myself, nor am I will- ing you should. Defended by every personal charm; pro- tected by a complete collection of the softest and most charming virtues ; guarded by a sucking infant and a large family of depending babes, and who, sitting still in her own house, might thereby claim, at least, life from the enemy, in whose power she had put her's ;- yet she falls by
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the deliberate aim of an instigated soldier! What then have you to expect if fully in their power ? Some of the enemy affect to say her death was accidental. I have seen, and you will see, sufficient proof to the contrary. But sup- pose some of the enemy thought so, did they shew one mark of grief, pity or humanity. Did one officer or one soldier. protect the corps, or save any property for the bereaved babes .- Not one. General Robertson's wagon was brought to the door and loaded by his own servants, with the beds and family goods. General Skinner knew the lady and her family. He had many years pleaded at the bar where her father was Judge. Long sat a fellow member with him in the Legislature. But the plunder of the house was more in his eyes than the murdered person of his old friends daughter. And her corps which was in part stripped, must have been consumed in the flames had it not been for the humanity of some who were not of the army.
The enemy have also insulted your understanding by as a reason why they burned your houses that you fired out of them. Had it been convenient to have used our houses as forts, we should have been justified in it, and could the enemy have fired them at that time they would also have been justified. But after they were not, and could not again be used for that purpose, the reason for burning ceases. But the whole story is false in fact. I knew but of one house out of which a gun was fired at the Farms or Springfield. If there are any more in- stances they are very few. And did not the enemy avail themselves of our houses in Elizabeth-Town, while they lay in it and fired upon us out of the windows ?
From every view then of the enemies conduct, it is evident you have nothing to expect from them but the effects of pride and malice hightened by resistance. Many may now be flattered by them and a few villains may be finally protected, to answer their purposes. But if they could conquer this country for the present, they could not hold the conquest without crushing us very low.
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That necessity will favour their dispositions to prosecute the object. As a warning, I give an extract, which I assure you is genuine, from the Journal of a principal officer of their own, when speaking of a number of persons of considerable note, who came into General Howe from Philadelphia ; he says, "they are all very politely received "for the present, but their several characters are particu- "larly known to the General, and a day of recconing is "to come hereafter."
In these circumstances, my countrymen, divine provi- dence is rouzing us to action by the most favourable prospects, our allies are gaining the superiority by sea in the different quarters of the globe; and at the same time have sent a very powerful aid to us. The remains of this campaign are big with important events. The danger and the expence of one liberal supply of one vig- orous effort, will be much less than a lingering war. While in the one case our success is morally certain, and in the other doubtful. Rouze then at once to action, and flash the final shock upon those who disgrace hu- manity. Nay, humanity cannot live till they are dead. Give the necessary supplies with your personal services. We shall either gain an honourable death, or secure a fine country in circumstances more advantageous to posterity than our fathers found it at first, even if we loose our moveable property. Free yourselves from the hope of reunion with such men. Hope, did I say ? Pardon the expression ! Your generous souls are too sensibly stung with resentment to admit the unnatural bond ! Slavery and freedom, savage insolence and soft humanity, cannot live together. The tories are now returning to their original: Horse thieves, night robbers and murderers. They are banding themselves together for the execution of their plan. Rise then together to exterpate those wretches root and branch from this continent, which was given to freemen. The late militia law is favourable beyond others to you who only deserve the country be-
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cause you fight for it. And as the government is fully in your own power you need nothing but watchful zeal to have all your own. Let me again intreat you to look back on what you have done and gained, and also to consider what you have at stake. Let not the want of a last brave effort sacrifice the whole. Do not so much as please the tories ears, by a groan under the complicated difficulties you have to struggle with. The greater they are, the more honour you will gain by chearfully sur- mounting them. In a future day we shall enjoy pleasing reflections, and feel rich, in proportion to the losses we have sustained, in preserving our country. He that has lost nothing will not dare to be seen among Freemen. Let affection strengthened by sufferings; fears, rouzed by dangers; and fortitude supported by the greatest pros- pects, unite and invigorate the grand struggle, that we mnay soon be in full liberty and peace, each enjoy all that is contained in the character of A CITIZEN.
CHATHAM AUGUST 2.
Within a few days past, upward of forty persons have been confined in Morris Town gaol for being concerned in passing counterfeit money .- By the exertions of the in- habitants, we hope a stop will soon be put to such a nefari- ous practice.
Last week one Steel, a horse thief, of Morris county, having some time since been taken, was under guard, when attempting to make his escape, received the reward due to his demerit, by being shot through the body by the centi- nel.
On Sunday last, eight of the infamous refugees, five of whom pretended to be officers in the tyrant's service, were brought to the commissary of prisoners at Elizabeth-Town from Monmouth. When they were captured, they plead they came over with a flag, and produced their orders; but
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their frivolous pretentions would not answer their end, and they are sent to Philadelphia, to occupy a corner in the new gaol until exchanged.
We have the pleasure to assure our readers, that Ensign Moody, a refugee from Sussex to the British army, and who was lately sent from New-York with a party of ruf- fians for the purpose of burning Sussex gaol, of taking or assassinating Governor Livingston and the persons who were active in apprehending the three spies lately executed, and of inlisting our inhabitants in the service of the Brit- ish tyrant, was lately captured himself by the vigorous exertions of Capt. Lawrence of the New-York state levies, near the English neighbourhood-The instructions found upon Moody, in order to give the better colour to his pri- vate directions for inlisting and assassinating, and to pre- vent his being treated as a spy from the military stile, what he was to produce, in case of his being taken prisoner, was in the following terms :
"Head-Quarters, May tenth, New-York, 1780. "SIR.
"You are hereby directed and authorized to proceed without loss of time, with a small detachment, into the Jerseys, by the most con- venient route, in order to carry off the person of Governor Livingston, or any other acting in publick station, whom you may fall in with in the course of your march, or any person whom you may meet with, and whom it may be necessary to secure for your own security, and that of the party under your command.
"Should you succeed in taking Governor Livingston, you are to treat him according to his station, as far as lies in your power ; nor are you, upon any account, to offer any violence to his person. You will use your endeavour to get possession of his papers, which you will take care of, and, upon your return, deliver at head-quarters.
By order of his Excellency Lieutenant-General Knyphausen.
GEO. BECKWITH, Aid de Camp. To Ensign Moody, 1st battalion
New-Jersey volunteers.
It is said that all Moody's party, except one, who at- tempted to swim the North river in his flight, and is sup- posed to be drowned, have been either captured or killed
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by the activity of our inhabitants ; and as to the famous or infamous Ensign himself, the great taker of Governors and general gaol deliverer of Sussex, he is at present safely lodged at West-Point; and if he has justice done him, it is generally supposed, as our correspondent observes, that he will be hanged for a spy, for inlisting our citizens in the British army, and coming with a party so small as nine, and with weapons concealed, either of which are, according to the present construction of all the nations of Europe, characteristic of a spy.
It is reported that another party was sent from Staten- Island last week for the express purpose of assassinating his Excellency our Governor. Ought not such bloody measures to be retaliated upon the enemy ?
Yesterday sennight died of the wounds, he received in an attack on the block-house, near the English Neighbour- hood, Lieut. Jacob M. DeHart, of the 2d Pennsylvania regiment (a brother to Col. De Hart.) This youth fell at the age of eighteen, bravely, and was universally lamented. -Every military honour was paid his remains by his af- fectionate brother officers.
Those gentlemen in the neighbourhood of Quibble Town, who are in arrears to the Printer, will please to pay the same to Mr. John Marseleson.
T AKEN up in Chatham, some time ago, a brown HORSE, about fourteen hands and a half high, trots and canters. The owner is desired to come, prove his property, pay charges, and take him away. Inquire of the printer.
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To be SOLD for cash, or country produce, as low as the times will admit of, by JOHN STEPHENSON, At his Store in Morris Town;
B ROAD cloths, Black mode & sattin Calicoes of different kinds
Shoe and knee buckles
Mens and womens combs
Fine and coarse ditto
Black and white gauze
Mens shoes
Ditto millionet
Skeliton and hair pins
Irish linen and cambrick
Black laces different patterns
Spelling books
Rum by the gallon
Testaments
Green Tea,
Writing paper
Coffee and pepper
Inkpowder
Spanish sugar
Pocket-handkerchiefs
Tobacco and snuff
Leather breeches
Hats
Glass tumblers, pints and half pints, gills and half gills
Fine thread & sewing silk
Wool cards, best kind
Needles, pins, and tapes
China cups and saucers
Worsted binding,
Indigo, copperas, alum
Silk twist different colours
S[h]oes heels, salt petre
Basket buttons
Womens kid gloves
N OTICE is hereby given to the publick, that WOOL- COMBING is performed at the clothiers shop of Abraham Fairchild, in Hanover, near Jacob Tap- pin's store, where people may depend upon being served in the best manner by JOSEPH HART.
To be SOLD by the SUBSCRIBER,
A LOT of excellent good LAND, containing ten acres, a young bearing orchard of near two hundred apple trees of the best kind of fruit, a good fraim house, with four rooms on a floor, a good cellar under the same; a well of excellent water close by the house. It is pleas- antly situated, adjoining the great road leading from Morris Town to East Town, in the township of Roxbury and county of Morris, near Mr. Douglas's tavern, Black
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River; and very suitable for a merchant or mechanick. A good title will be given for the same. Any gentleman inclining to purchase, may know the terms by applying to Moses Esty, near said place; or the subscriber in Trenton.
ALEXANDER CALHOUN. August 1, 1780.
S TRAYED or stolen out of the pasture of the sub- scriber, the 19th of July last, a dark brown HORSE,
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