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TRENTON, April 25.
Extract of a letter from Philadelphia, dated April 17, 1781.
"We have just received a letter from General Greene, of the 30th ult. about 45 miles N. W. of Cross-Creek. Lord Cornwallis still on the route to that place, and General Greene near him. No action is likely to happen. It is evident from this letter that the enemy suffered greatly In the action of the 15th March, near Guilford Court-House, the dis- tress which embarrasses them shows it."
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Mr. Collins,
It may be recollected that in my address to the Legislature published in your Gazette, No. 149, speaking of the new emitted money, 1 ob served, that upon the principles which it was emitted, nothing but the unaccountable caprice which governs human nature in certain situations could depreciate it : Little did I then think it could be neglected by Its very guardians.
I then presumed that the Legislature would see the fatal tendeney of coupling it with the old continental, and repeal the forty for one clause : This they did, and put it perhaps on as good a footing as pos. sible, by authorizing a competent body to declare the rate of exchange as often as any alteration in it should happen. Did not this alteratles in the law and the consequent declaration of the legal exchange making it equal to the real, give universal satisfaction ? And did not the money then circulate with greater freedom than it has ever done either befute or since? Why is it then that the same spirit is not kept up? Why is not the legal exchange kept equal to the real? Is it because the state of Pennsylvania have not altered the legal exchange there ?. And what have we to do with Pennsylvania? Is not our money our own ) Will they redeem it for us? and redeemed it must be. Will they make good to the people of this state the loss they suffer by receiving it is a depreciated state, or holding it in their hands while depreciating! If not, for justice sake, let us look to ourselves, let us rouze from this lethargy, and make our money what it ought to be, by keeping up the exchange equal to gold and silver,
If the Executive of the state of Pennsylvania think proper to depre. ciate their money, by keeping it tacked to continental at half the real exchange- if they think proper to cheat their honest citizens, by put ting it in the power of knaves to pay their debts with half the value. what is all that to us? Let us not follow so weak, so wicked an ex ample-we are past the age of infancy-our interest demands it of os -let us think and act for ourselves.
SCIPIO.
All persons indebted to the printer of this Gazette, for publishing Advertisements, are requested to make immediate payment. This duty has been so much neglected that he is constrained to declare, that in future none will be inserted unless the money is paid at the time they are delivered in, agreeably to the terms specified at the bottom of the fourth page.
ISAAC COLLINS.
Trenton, April 24, 1781.
Burlington, April 13, 1781.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY,
A Person that can come well recommended, to keep the gaol in Bur- lington. For further particulars enquire of Jacob Phillips, Sheriff.
[ Horse Bay Richmond -- Rocky Hill- owner not named. ]
TO BE SOLD,
By the subscriber, in Bordentown, A LIKELY YOUNG NEGRO WENCH,
About 16 years of age, has had the small-pox and measles; and is sold for want of employ only. JOSEPH BORDEN.
Bordentown, April 22, 1781.
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( Horse Jolly Chester-Maidenhead-Ralph Phillips.]
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TO BE SOLD
At public Vendue, on Friday the 11th of May next, The undivided two-sixth parts of one hundred and fifty acres of land, late belonging to William and Andrew Scholey, whereon John Scholey now lives, situated within about two miles of Easton ferry, in a pleasant and wholesome part of the country. The above land will be sold for ready cash only. Attendance will be given by WILLIAM BOND, and GEORGE WARNE, Commissioners for Sussex County, New-Jersey. N. B. The above vendue to begin at two o'clock on said day. April 11, 1781.
[ Horse Golden Farmer-near Trenton-John Reeder.]
TO BE SOLD, On reasonable terms, by WILLIAM RICHARDS, At Trenton Landing,
Most of the medicines that are in use, also corks for beer and cyder, the best salt for fish and pork, mustard by the bottle, French barley, oatmeal, wooden ware, sweet oil, brimstone and antimony for horses, stone lime from one to one hundred bushels, snuff, vinegar, by the gallon, and sundry other things.
TO BE LET,
For one year or more, and may be entered on immediately,
Two houses in Arneytown, six miles from Crosswicks, ten from Bor- dentown, five from Allentown, and fifteen from Trenton .- One has been a tavern for many years, and would suit a blacksmith ; the other a large and commodious house, and would suit a storekeeper or trades- man. For terms apply to Thomas Forman, near the premises.
April 20, 1781.
| Horse Fleetwood - Maidenhead -Daniel Hunt. ]
From the New Jersey Gazette, Vol. IV., No. 175, May 2, 1781. TRENTON, May 2.
Colonel Israel Shreve was lately elected a Representative in Assem- bly, for the county of Burlington, in the room of William Hough, Esq., deceased.
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BY IHIS EXCELLENCY WILLIAM LIVINGSTON, ESQUIRE,
Governor, Captain-General and Commander in Chief in and over the state of New-Jersey, and territories thereunto belonging, Chan- cellor and Ordinary in the same.
PROCLAMATION.
Whereas by a certain act of the Legislature of this state, intitled, An Act to amend an Act, intitled An Act for establishing a fund for sinking and redeeming the bills of credit of the United States, assigned as the quota of this state, passed at Trenton the seventeenth day of November last, is is enacted, that it shall and may be lawful for the Governor and Privy Council, immediately after the passing of said act, and thereafter, from time to time, as often as the same may be thought necessary, to ascertain and declare the general current rate of exchange between continental currency and specie, as by the said act may more fully appear.
I have therefore thought fit, by and with the advice of the Honour- able the Privy Council of this state, to issue this proclamation, to declare and make known to the citizens of this state, that the said Governor and Privy Council have, on the date hereof, ascertained and declared, and do hereby ascertain and declare the present exchange between continental currency and specie to be One Hundred and Fifty for One.
Given under my hand and seal at arms, at Trenton, the twenty- eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, and in the fifth year of the Independ. ence of the United States of America.
WIL. LIVINGSTON.
By His Excellency's command,
BOWES REED, See'ry. God Save the People.
MICHAEL TRAPPAL, Stocking-Maker, Opposite Mr. Abraham Hunt's,
Takes this method to acquaint his former customers and the publick in general, that he continues to make all kinds of worsted, thread and cotton stockings and breeches patterns as usual; and will engage to be punctual to the time promised, at as low a rate as the times will admit.
TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS REWARD.
Ran-Away from Hackett's-Town, Sussex county, on Saturday even- ing the 21st of April, two negroe men and one woman, the wife of the eldest. One of the men named Frank, is about forty years old, the other about 25. The woman named Phoebe, is near forty, and
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das a child with her. They stole two horses, one a very large sorrel & rse, right or nine years old, and fifteen hands high. It is supposed they are gone towards New-York. The above reward will be paid to have them apprehended and secured, by the owner, Mrs. Wilson, .: Hackett's-Town, Col. Thompson, at Trenton, Mr. Bray, at Raritan Landing, or Colonel Stewart, at Head-Quarters, New-Windsor.
New Jersey, - By virtue of an order from the Honourable Middlesex county, ss. f the Justices of the Supreme Court of this mate, I am directed to certify the publick, that a Court of Oyer and Terminer and general gaol delivery, will be held at Princeton, in and for the county of Middlesex, on Tuesday, the twenty-ninth day of May 'next : All Justices of the Peace, Coroners, Constables, and other Officers and Ministers of Justice of the said county, are hereby desired that they be then and there in their own persons, with their rolls, records, indictments and other remembrances; and all persons who will prosecute or can bear testimony in behalf of the state, against any offender in the said county, are desired likewise to give their attendance on the day, and at the place aforesaid.
JOIIN PLATT, Sheriff.
April 28, 1781.
[ Horse Young Whirlegigg -- Six Mile Run-Cornelius Dehart. ]
[ Horse Figure-Scotch-Plains-Amos Swan. ]
New Jersey, By virtue of an order from the Honourable
Somerset county, ss. f the Justices of the Supreme Court of this state, I am directed to certify the publick, that a Court of Oyer and Terminer and general gaol delivery will be held at Hillsborough, in and for the county of Somerset, on Monday the twenty-first of May next : All Justices of the Peace, Coroners, Counstables, and other Ministers of Justice, of the said county, are hereby desired that they be then and there in their own persons, with their rolls, records, in- dietments and other remembrances; and all persons who will prose- cute or can bear testimony in behalf of the state, against any offender in the said county, are desired likewise to give their attendance on the day and at the place aforesaid.
PETER T. SCHENK, Sheriff.
April 28, 1781.
TO BE SOLD BY PUBLICK VENDUE,
On the 29th of May, at ten o'clock, upon the premises,
A Valuable tract of Land, lying in the county of Somerset, and town- ship of Bridgewater, being the place of Cornelius Middagh, deceased, supposed to contain 170 or 180 acres of good land, some excellent meadow now under improvement, and more may be made, good plough and pasture land, a sufficiency of wood land, a good garden, and an excellent spring of water near the door. For further particulars
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inquire on the premises, where the articles of the vendue may be seen, and due attendance given by the subscribers,
WILLIAM VAN NORTWICK, Executor, MARGARET RIDDER, Executrix.
Raritan, April 24, 1781.
TO BE LET,
An extraordinary House and Garden .-
Several working horses for sale. Inquire of the subscriber, within two miles of Cranberry mills. JOIIN DUNCAN.
[Horse Godolphin-Phila .- J. Wilkinson. ]
[ Horse Young Granby-Slab-Town-Abner Page. ]
[ Ilorse Juvenal-Troy-owner not named. ]
From the New Jersey Garette, Vol. IV., No. 176, May 9, 1781.
LIST OF LETTERS REMAINING IN THE POST-OFFICE AT TRENTON.
(B) Ball, Spencer, Trenton. Barnett, I. B., Germantown.
Dorsett James, Spotswood.
Hart, Noah, near Pennington.
Lesley James, Germantown. Lloyd Richard, Allentown.
Pigley John, Moore's-Town.
Rodgers B. R. John, Surgeon to Pennsylvania line, 3.
Smith, Captain, 7th Pennsylvania regiment.
Voorhees Minne, Commissary Flying Hospital, Issuing Commissary of Supplies Pennsylvania line.
BENJ. SMITH, Postmaster.
TRENTON, May 9.
On the 21st. ult. a party of about 70 of the enemy came over to Elizabeth-Town, from Staten-Island. They landed at Halstead's Point, and were discovered between that place and the town by O .- Hendricks, who was patroling with about 10 of his men, and though so much inferior in number, he kept up a smart fire on them, which prevented them from penetrating farther into town than Doctor Winans's .- After collecting a few horses, &c. firing through the win- dows in the room where Mrs. Winans was sitting, by which a boy was wounded in the arm, and burning the house of Mr. Ephraim Marsh, they went off to their boats. In this excursion these free- booters had one of the banditti, viz. Elias Mann, late an inhabitant of Elizabeth Town, killed, and the noted Smith Hetfield, wounded in two places.
And on Friday night last an other party of plunderers were over at Elizabeth-Town, and carried off about 40 head of cattle.
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By persons from New York we are informed, that a number of troops have embarked on board of transports, their destination said to be to the Eastward :-
That last week a very hot press took place there, by which several hundred men from the city were carried on board the fleet,-and 309 American prisoners were also carried from the prison ship, and forced on board their ships of war, among whom were Captains, Mates, and other officers .- Such is the unexampled barbarity of the piratical nation against which we have to contend! They revere Rather the laws of GOD nor of nations.
We are told that in a New-York paper of the 30th ult. is an order for a Feu-de-Joye, in consequence of Cornwallis's success on the 15th of March, at Guilford Court-House. As that success undoubtedly reflected a retreat, it were to be wished, upon the purest principles of whiggism, that the enemy might meet with the like success every day. Were this to be the case, we should oblige them, ere long, to retreat from the continent, not only because of fatigue, and for the want of provisions, reasons they assign for retreating, but lest there should not be one man left to tell the tale of these successes to their Royal Master the Tyrant of Britain. Never could the firing of a Feu-de-joye be more necessary to put a good face upon a bad bargain.
We hear that on Saturday last a packet from France arrived at Philadelphia.
The General Assembly of this State meet the 15th, and that of Penn- sylvania on the 24th instant.
WOOL OR FLAX.
The Printer will thank any of his customers, to whom it may be convenient, and who may be in arrear for this Gazette, if they will pay him in either of those articles.
TO BE SOLD, An excellent Breeding-Mare, With a Foal at her Side. Enquire of the Printer.
ONE THOUSAND CONTINENTAL DOLLARS REWARD.
Ran away on the 24th ult. from the subscriber in Hopewell, a negro man named Toney, about 35 years of age, five feet six or seven inches high .- Whoever takes up said negro, and secures him so that his master may have him again, shall have the above reward, and all reasonable charges paid by
ANDREW BLACKWELL.
N. B. All persons are forbid to harbour him at their peril.
May 8, 1781.
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ELIZABETII-TOWN STAGE WAGGON.
The subscribers inform the Publick, that they have provided a con. venient Flying Stage Waggon, with four horses at the end of every twenty miles, suitable for carrying passengers and their baggage; and do engage to go two trips in every week, from Philadelphia to Elizabeth-Town, with this flying stage, after the 20th of May, 1781, and so continue till timely notice is given to the publick .- Will set out from the Bunch of Grapes, in Third-street, between Market and Arch-street, on every Monday and Thursday morning, precisely at the rising of the sun, breakfast at the Four-Lanes-End; shift horses, cross the New-Ferry just above Trenton Falls, dine at Jacob Bergen's at Princeton, shift horses, lodge at Brunswick, the next day at Eliza- beth-Town at ten o'clock in the forenoon. The same, every Tuesday and Friday, will set out from Doctor Winan's tavern, in Elizabeth- Town, precisely at three o'clock in the afternoon, for Brunswick; the next days, every Wednesday and Saturday,' will breakfast at Prince- ton, dine at the Four-Lanes-End, from thence to Philadelphia.
The price for each passenger, from Philadelphia to Elizabeth-Town, to be Forty Shillings in GOLD, or SILVER, or the value thereof in other money ; and the like sum for 150 weight of baggage; and the same sum from Elizabeth-Town to Philadelphia, and so in proportion according to the length of way and weight.
The subscribers beg leave to return their thanks to all Gentlemen and Ladies who have been pleased to favour them with their custom, and hope for a continuance of the same, and they may depend on the punctual attendance of their humble servants,
GERSHOM JOHNSON, and JAMES DRAKE.
April 30, 1781.
[ Horse Wilkes-Burlington Co .- Apollo Woodward.]
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN :
New-Jersey, to-wit, Notice is hereby given, that a Court of Admiralty will be held at Gloucester Court-House, in the county of Gloucester, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, on Thursday the thirty-first day of May next, then and there to try the truth of the facts alledged in the bill of Richard Townsend, (who as well, &c.) against the schooner Peggy, her tackle, apparel, furniture and cargo, of the port of Boston, lately captured by the enemy, and re-captured by the said Richard Town- send and others: To the end and intent that any person or persons concerned therein, may appear and shew cause, if any he or they have, why the said schooner, with her tackle, apparel, furniture and cargo, should not be condemned, and a decree thereon pass, according to the prayer of the said bill.
By order of the Judge, JOS. BLOOMFIELD, Register.
Haddonfield, April 28, 1781.
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TO BE SOLD AT PUBLICK VENDUE,
On Monday the 14th instant, May, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at the house of Richard Townsend, Esq. in the upper precinct of the esunty of Cape-May,
The Schooner Peggy, burthen about 70 tons, with her sails, rigging, table and apparel: also her cargo, consisting of sugar, rum, mo- lasses, coffee and cotton. The cash to be paid on delivery of the articles.
By order of the Judge, J. BURROWES, Marshall. May 4, 1781.
FULLING-MILL.
The subscriber takes this method to acquaint his customers and the publick in general, that he has taken Abraham Van Dyke's fulling- mill, at Elomantunk, near New-Germantown: The mill is now in goal order, and he will endeavour to give satisfaction to all who shall favour him with their custom. ISAAC VEGHITE.
Elomantunk, May 3, 1781.
From the New Jersey Gazette, Vol. IV., No. 177, May 12, 1781.
TRENTON, May 16.
The Legislature of the state of New-York are to meet on the first Wednesday in June next.
MINERS.
Wanted, at Durham, five Miners, who understand working on a regular vein of iron ore, to whom good encouragement will be given by RICHARD BACKHOUSE.
May 16, 1781.
THE GOVERNOR,
Head-Quarters, Trenton, 14th May 1781.
At a General Court-Martial, whereof Col. Joseph Phillips was President, held at Trenton the 22d day of March last, by order of His Excellency the Governor, and continued by several adjournments, Lieutenant-Colonel William Chamberlin was tried upon the following charges.
1st. With ungentlemanly and unofficerlike behaviour towards the officers of his regiment.
2d. With having wilfully and maliciously impeded, or endeavoured to impede the militia, when about to march on a general alarm.
3d. With having embezzled the publick stores at Princeton.
4th. With having wilfully and maliciously, and wickedly issued orders contrary to those of a superior officer.
5th. With having issued orders for detaching a number of men to march on duty, the twenty-ninth of March, one thousand seven hun-
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dred and eighty, and on the twenty-eighth of the same month, arrest- ing the officers and preventing them from doing duty till tried by a Court-Martial.
6th. With having returned a number of the Captains to be fined for not making a return of their companies, and not returning others, guilty of the same offence.
The Court having maturely considered the several charges, are unanimously of opinion that he is guilty of the first, second, and sixth charges, and not guilty of the third, fourth and fifth charges, and do unanimously adjudge him to be cashiered.
By the same Court-Martial was tried Col. Thomas Reynolds, of the second Battalion of the Militia of the county of Burlington, on a charge of "having refused to put in execution the sentence of a Court- Martial held in said county, by his appointment, to turn out on their tour of duty, agreeably to an Act, intitled, An Act to provide for the more effectual defence of the state, in case of inrasion or incursions of the enemy, passed the sixteenth of June, one thousand seven hun- dred and eighty."
The Court having maturely considered the charge against Col. Thomas Reynolds, and his defence, are unanimously of opinion, that in refusing to put in execution the sentence of the Court-Martial aforesaid, he was guilty of a breach of the above-mentioned law, and do adjudge that he be fined the sum of Fifteen Pounds lawful money of this state.
And by the same Court-Martial was tried Major Cornelius Stout, of the third battalion of the militia of the county of Hunterdon, upon the following charges, viz.
1st. That at the time of the Springfield alarm, in June, one thou- sand seven hundred and eighty, the said Major Stout sent written orders to Capt. Snook, who was then on his march, under the com- mand of Col. Chamberlin, to join him, the said Major Stout on an- other ront.
2d. That in June, one thousand seven hundred and eighty, he made an unjust and fraudulent return to General Heard, of the number of his men.
3d. With having uttered ungentlemanly and opprobious words of Ilis Excellency the Governor and Commander in Chief of this state.
4th. That about the time the enemy left Princeton, the said Major Stout left his regiment and went to Princeton, and suffered the pub- lick stores to be wasted and embezzled.
The Court taking into consideration the several charges against Major Cornelius Stout, are unanimously of opinion, that he is guilty of the first and third charges, and not guilty of the second and fourth charges ; and do adjudge that the said Major Cornelius Stout of the third battalion of the militia of Hunterdon county, be cashiered.
All which sentences and adjudications I do approve of and con- firm, and order the same to take place.
WILL. LIVINGSTON
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At a meeting of the Whig Society of Monmouth county, the 10th of May, 1781,
Resolved unanimously,
That we will use our utmost endeavours to support the credit of the paper currency of this state, and to execute the law strictly against rvery person who shall, to our knowledge, attempt to depreciate.
Resolved, That the concurrence of the other societies in this state be requested in the same measures and that the President do direct the foregoing resolutions to be published in Mr. Collins's next week's Gazette.
By order of the Society, JOHN COVENHOVEN, President.
TO BE SOLD AT PUBLICK VENDUE,
On Saturday the 19th. instant, May, at ten o'clock, the forenoon, at Tom's-River Bridge, in the county of Monmouth ;
The Sloop General Greene, with her tackle, apparel, furniture and cargo, consisting of about seven hundred bushels of Indian corn; and three young negro men, viz. Gilbert Black, Frank and Jacob ;- to be sold for ready money only.
By order of the Judge, J. BURROWES, Marshal. May 12, 1781.
From the Pennsylvania Packet, April 28, 1781.
TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Si nolis sanns, curres hydropicus.
Friends and Countrymen,
We are now entered into the sixth year of the war, and yet experience has not furnished us with wisdom. Our officers and soldiers have in- deed acquired a considerable degree of military knowledge; but every department of government, in every state in the union, seems rather to have lost a part of what they possessed at the beginning of the contest, than to have added to the original stock. When . Sir William Howe landed on this continent with above thirty thousand veteran soldiers in 1776, though you had nothing but inexperienced and undisciplined troops to oppose to them, no despondency was to be seen. At the be- ginning you were beaten, which was expected by every body who had any knowledge of the history of the world. The perseverance however. and exertions of Congress, and of the different states, prevented the enemy from reaping the advantages which they expected from their success. Their objects were conquest and subjugation, and they were disappointed. The capture of the Hessians at Trenton, and the engage- ment at Princeton, which immediately followed that event, reflected the highest honour on your General and the troops under his command, and gave the first favourable turn to your affairs. And the courage and conduet of your army at Saratoga, impressed all Europe with a high opinion of your military character. The virtuous cause in which Amer- lea was engaged, the wisdom of her counsels, and the bravery! of her troops, were every where the subjects of conversation. Your friends were delighted ; and the various publications which appeared In Eng- land, together with the debates of the English parliament, proved, that your enemies could not with hold their admiration, at the same time that they were confounded and astonished.
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