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By order of the Judge, JOS. BLOOMFIELD, Register.
FOUR HARD DOLLARS REWARD.
Stolen out of the pasture of the subscriber, in the night of the 12th of July, a light sorrel horse, 16 years old this grass, about 15 hands high, trots and canters, has a bald face, white mane and tail. Any person delivering the said horse to me in Hillsborough, Somerset county, shall have the above reward.
GARRET TERHUNE.
From the New Jersey Gazette, Vol. IV., No. 187, July 25, 1781.
STATE OF NEW-JERSEY.
An act to declare the value of the continental currency, through the several periods of its depreciation, and to provide for the more equitable payment of debts.
[For this law, passed 22 June 1781, see Statutes, Chap. XXXVI.]
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NORWICH, JULY 12.
Yesterday morning several French frigates, and a few smaller ves- wis, passed the harbour of New-London, from Newport ;- they in- formed some of our people who were out in boats, that the whole fleet were passing the south side of Long-Island, bound to Sandy-Hook.
This Day's Gazette, No. 187, begins the year. The price is fixed at Three Shillings and Nine-pence by the quarter, to be paid in gold or silver .- Produce will be taken in payment at the current market price.
The Publisher assures his customers, that whenever the expenses of paper, wages, &c. are reduced to the standard they were at before the war, the price of this Gazette shall be lowered to Ten Shillings per Annum. ISAAC COLLINS.
Trenton, July 25, 1781.
TO BE SOLD.
At publick vendue, at ten o'clock on Friday next, BY JACOB BENJAMIN, Opposite the Printing-Office in Trenton,
Sundry sorts of wearing apparel, such as hats, shirts, stocks, coats, waistcoats, breeches .- Also sheets and towels. Likewise a dough- trough, spinning wheel, ladles, and sundry other articles too tedious to mention.
The owner of the ferry known by the name of the Trenton Old Ferry, on the post road leading to Philadelphia, and where the pub- lick all crosses, has provided the said ferry with the best boats that ever have been constructed for the safety of transporting passengers, horses and carriages, in time of freshes, wind and ice, and a number of careful hands that have nothing else to do but work the boats, and are always ready on the spot. The ferriages are as follows, viz.
Waggon and four horses 5s.
Waggon and two horses 3s. 9d.
A chair 1s. 6d.
Man and horse 6d.
A foot person 3d.
And all other ferriages in Proportion.
TIIIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE,
That the subscriber has for sale, at his seat at Dansborough, within two miles and a half of Princeton, and two of Rocky-Hill, an excel- lent eighty gallon still, which he will sell low for hard money only, as he has declined the business, and proposes to set up a brewery. July 6, 1781. DANNIEL MANNING.
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TO BE SOLD,
A negro wench about twenty-three years of age, with a female child 12 months old .- She is this country born, healthy, a good cook, and acquainted with all kinds of house work; can be recommended for her honesty and sobriety, and is not sold for any fault. Enquire of Mrs. Carey, in the city of Burlington.
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN :
New-Jersey Notice is hereby given, that a Court of Admiralty SS. will be held in the Courthouse at Burlington, on Fri- day the seventeenth day of August next, at ten o'clock in the fore- noon of the same day, then and there to try the truth of the facts alledged in the bill of John Badcock, (who as well, &c.) against the schooner Polly, her tackle, apparel, furniture and cargo, lately com- manded by Captain Mullet, captured by the enemy, and recaptured by the said John Badcock : 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, July 21, 1781.
TO BE SOLD, On Wednesday, the first day of August next,
The prize schooner Polly, (now lying at Tuckahoe, in Great-Egg-Har- bour river) with her tackle, apparel, furniture and cargo .- Her cargo consisting of seven hundred bushels of Anguilla salt.
Nothing but specie will be taken in payment, and the cash to be paid on delivery of the goods.
By order of the Judge, J. BURROWS, Marshal of the Court of Admiralty.
July 21, 1781.
STATE OF NEW-JERSEY.
An act to enable the Congress of the United States to levy duties of five per centum, ad valorem, on certain goods and merchandize imported into this state, and on prizes and prize goods, and for appro- priating the same.
[ For this act, passed June 2, 1781, see Acts of Session, Chap. XXIII.I
From the New Jersey Gazette, Vol IV., No. 188, August 1, 1781.
The following is a copy of a letter, found in the packet from Eng- land bound to New-York, but taken on her passage and carried into France.
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Whitehall, 7th. March, 1781.
Since my letters to you of the 7th February, I have received your despatches, numbered from 113 to 117, inclusive and laid them before the King.
The revolt of the Pennsylvania line, and Jersey brigade, tho' not attended with all the good consequences that might have been expected, are certainly events of very great importance, and must have very ex- tensive effects, both in reducing Washington's present force, and pre- venting its being recruited by new levies ; and as I doubt not you will avail yourself of his weakness and your own great superiority, to send a considerable force to the head of the Chesapeak, as soon as the season will permit operation to be carried on in that quarter. I flatter myself the southern provinces will be recovered to his Magesty's obedience before the long promised succours, none of which are yet sailed, can arrive from France, and Mr. Washington, unable to draw subsistence for his troops from the west side of the Hudson's river, be compelled to cross it, and take refuge in the castern provinces. I am very anxious to hear of Lord Cornwallis's progress since General Leslie joined him; I have no doubt his movements will be rapid and decisive for his Lordship appears to be fully impressed with the absolute necessity of vigorous exertions in the service of this country, in its present circumstances ; the success of General Arnold's enterprize up James river which the rebel news- papers confirm, must greatly facilitate his Lordship's operations, by cut- ting off Greene's supplies, and obliging the militia to return to take care of their own property. Indeed, so very contemptible is the rebel force now in all parts, and so vast is our superiority every where, that no resistance on their part is to be apprehended, that can materially obstruct the progress of the King's arms in the speedy suppression of the ro- bellion, and it is a pleasing, tho' at the same time a mortifying reflection, when the duration of the rebellion is considered, which arises from the view of the return of the provincial forces you have transmitted, that the American levies in the King's service are more in number than the whole of the enlisted troops in the service of the Congress.
I am very glad to find you have commissioned a board of directors of the refugees, and I hope the Admiral will have been able to spare them shipping to carry on their operations on the sea coasts of the New- England provinces. Many of those within the lines, who are unfit for military service, are desirous of being settled in the country about Penobscot, and require only to be supplied with provisions for the first year, some tools for husbandry, and iron work for their buildings; and as it is proposed to settle that country, and this appears a cheap method of disposing of these loyalists, it is wished you would encourage them to go there, under the protection of the associated refugees, and assure them that a civil government will follow them in due time; for I hope in the course of the summer the Admiral and you will be able to spare a force sufficient to effect an establishment at Casco-bay, and reduce that country to the King's obedience.
I am very glad to find by the list of the officers released, that the exchanges have been carried so far ; but as it appears from Mr. Wash- ington's last letter to you, that they will not be carried on further, the measure of enlisting their prisoners for service in the West-Indies should be adopted immediately, and indeed, such has been the mortality from sickness among the troops there, that I do not see any other means of recruiting them.
I am sorry to acquaint you, that the general prevalence of westerly winds for these last two months has prevented the Warwick and Solebay, with their convoy, from getting further than Plymouth, where they are still detained.
I am. Sir your most obedient humble servant, (Signed) GEO. GERMAIN.
SIR HENRY CLINTON, K. B.
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[The revolt of the Pennsylvania line and Jersey brigade, although Sir Henry Clinton was too cautious to be led into the snare, and expose himself to the consequences of an attack in the State of New- Jersey, has terminated beneficially for the United States. This event has involved the court of London in the most fatal errors, and directed their operations to objects, absurd, rediculous and impossible. Lord Cornwallis can inform this Minister how far his conjectures were right, respecting the Pennsylvania line; a detachment of which, under the command of Gen. Wayne, lately attacked his Lordship's whole force in the State of Virginia, and almost convinced him of the in- utility of superior numbers, when contending against men inspired with a virtuous zeal for their country's safety. Ilow vain and de- lusory are the fairest prospects when founded only in a bewildered imagination. It is true the number of the regular forces of the United States was greatly reduced at the close of the last campaign, owing to the expiration of the terms for which many of the soldiers had entered into the service. How could his Lordship conclude from hence that General Washington would be confined to the eastward of the Hudson river? This would have been the event undoubtedly for a time had the British forces completely subjugated all the states westward and southward of that river; but what appears to tyrants an inexplicable paradox, is perfectly understood by the citizens of a Republiek, that in times of greatest apparent weakness, the most vigorous exertions are made. America knows, and Europe will know, that the forces of the United States in this period, which appear so contemptible to his Lordship, have reduced nearly all the posts estab- lished by the British in the Carolinas and Georgia, and made prison- ers of their garrisons, with a rapidity equal to the uninterrupted march of most armies through an equal extent of country. What do the British now possess in those states ?- mere defensive positions, and totally incompatible with the idea of civil jurisdiction? If the destruction of a few hogsheads of tobacco, the seduction of a number of negroes, the stealing of horses and household furniture, which made up Arnold's expedition, are objects of triumph to the British Ministry, we are far from envying them the glory of a success, which all civilized nations will ascribe to the predatory excursions of parties- blue. The army under Lord Cornwallis in the state of Virginia, in- stead of gaining laurels from victory or conquest, has taken the pre- caution of acting upon the defensive, being covered by the shipping in James River. The army of the United States, which has compelled them to adopt this humiliating measure, is composed of a part of the Pennsylvania line, a small detachment from the army under the im- mediate command of his Excellency General Washington, and the virtuous yeomanry of that country. It is acknowledged that Gen- eral Washington is on the east side of the Hudson river, but he there commands an army of veterans in the regular service of the United States, in conjunction with the troops of our magnanimous ally ; and, at this moment, confines Sir Henry Clinton and the troops un- der his command to the duties of a garrison only. The objects of his operations are such as will soon convince the British Ministry
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themselves to the futility of their elaims to the United States, or any of them, as they must be silent upon all the arguments deduced from the "ultima lex regum ;" and will expose the absurdity of his Lord- ship's visionary scheme of forming establishments for the tories at Penobscot, whose situation ought to claim the greatest attention from the court of London, as their treasons have long since merited the halter from the United States.
The "enlisting," or rather compelling the American prisoners into the service of the. West-Indies, need not have been urged from the principles of necessity, as the experience of the whole war, of the inhuman and barbarous treatment of our citizens in British gaols and prison ships has convinced us that deliberate murder is consonant to the idea of British policy.
In short, the delusion of the British Ministry is an incontestible proof of the interposition of Heaven in our favour. A continuation of vigorous exertions, and a few more virtuous and successful strug- gles, will amply reward us for all our toils, and confirm to us the unconquerable possession of those blessings, of which only the vir- tuous and the brave are worthy. ]
TRENTON, August 1.
Thursday last Captain Maffet who commands a whale-boat belong- ing to Philadelphia, fell in with and captured a sloop off Long-Beach, from New-York laden with fish. He also made prize of three refugee boats off Shrewsbury Point, on board of which were 30 sheep which they had plundered, and 23 sheep stealers.
TO BE SOLD, BY MARY AND SARAH BARNES,
At the house of Thomas Barnes, nearly opposite the Printing-Office, in Trenton, The following Drugs and Medicines, Which they will sell at Philadelphia prices, for ready money, viz.
Best quill bark, Powder ditto, Tincture ditto, Rhubarb, Salts, Mag- nesia, Cream of tartar, Flower sulphur, Manna, Senna, Compound purging powder, Castor oil, Oil Almonds, Olive oil, Oil Turpentine, Tartar emetic, Ipecacuanha, Camphor, Opium, Salts wormwood, Spanish flies, Gum arabac, Carolina pink rook, Salt-petre, AHum, Blue vitriol, Elixir vitriol, Hiera piera, Sal volatile, Sweet Spanish nitre, Wine bitters, Asthmatick elixir, Elixir proprie- tatis, Cochineal, Gum Assafetida, Castile soap, Eye waters, Barbados alloes, Succotrine ditto, Burgundy pitch, Gentian, Spanish hartshorn, Lavender compound, Yellow basilican, Excellent ointment for the scald head, Turner's cerat, Anderson's Pills, Hooper's Ditto, Bate- man's drops, Daffy's elixir, Godfrey's cordial, Turlington's balsam, Bol armoniac, Mouth water, for the canker, Sago, mace, Cloves, Nutmegs and cinnamon.
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Also, painted silks and gauze, China, sewing silks, thread, needles, orris of different kinds, brass furniture for carriages, and sundry other articles.
TO BE SOLD,
At publick vendue, on Saturday the 4th of August, next, at two o'clock in the afternoon, at the gaol in Trenton,
Twenty-one Negro Men, lately taken at sea, out of the British pri- vateer called the Malton.
By order of the Judge,
JOHN BURROWES, Marshal.
N. B. Nothing but hard money will be taken, and the cash to be paid on delivery of the Negroes.
TO BE SOLD,
A Valuable, likely young Negro. Wench, about twenty years of age, can speak the high and low Dutch and English well: Any person inclining to purchase, may know the terms by applying to the sub- seriber, living in Spotswood, near Brunswick. She is not sold for any fault, only the want of employ.
July 20, 1781.
WILLIAM REMSEN.
THIRTY HARD DOLLARS REWARD.
Stolen out of the pasture of the subscriber in Evesham, Burlington county, state of New-Jersey; on the night of the 22d instant, a bright bay Horse, four years old, with a long switch tail, his hind feet white, a star in his forehead, round bodied and lengthy, about 14 hands 3 inches high. Also a bright bay Mare, 6 or 7 years old, heavy with foal, short switch tail, her off hind foot white, a small star in her forehead, about 14 hands and a half high, and both natural trotters. Whoever secures said creatures, so that the owner may get them again, and the thief brought to justice, shall receive the above reward, or TWENTY DOLLARS for the creatures only, and all reasonable charges paid by
July 24, 1781.
JONATHAN CHISPEN.
All persons indebted to the Estate of William Pidgeon, Esq. late of the Township of Statford, in the county of Monmouth, and state of New-Jersey, deceased, by bonds, bills, or on account, are requested to settle the same, and make immediate payment of the interest due, or such part of the principal sums as may be convenient to them, the subscribers being in want of cash to discharge the debts and large legacies left by the testator's will; and all persons having any just demands against said estate, are desired to bring them in, that they may be settled and adjusted.
WILLIAM COXE, CLEAYTON NEWBOLD 1 tors.
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FOUR GUINEAS REWARD.
Stolen on the evening of the 21st. instant, from the plantation of the subscriber, in Waterford township, county of Gloucester, in the state of New-Jersey, three horses, viz. one black horse 7 years old, 14 hands high, sundry saddle marks, paces mostly under the saddle, trots well in a chair, but sometimes paces at first setting off, has a small sore on his near hip bone. One sorrel horse with some white on the face, about 15 hands high. One bay horse with a star and small snip, two white hind feet, 14 hands and a half high; all in good order, the black in particular. Any person who will secure the thief, and return the horses to the subscriber, shall have the above reward and reasonable charges, or in proportion for as many as may be returned.
2Ith July, 1781.
WILLIAM TOD.
STOLEN,
Out of the pasture of the subscriber, in Lower Makefield, near New- town, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, on the night of the 25th ult.
Two Horses, one a brown, 4 years old, 4 white feet, near fifteen hands high, a few grey hairs in the forehead, trots and canters well ; the other a black horse, 5 years old, fourteen hands one inch high, one hind foot white, stout and well made, trots and canters remark- ably well, has a star in the shape of a new moon-both half blooded. Whoever takes up said horses, and secures them so that the owner may have them again, shall have them again, shall have Three Pounds reward for each horse, if brought home, and the like sum for the thief, on conviction, and reasonable charges paid by,
CORNELIUS VANSANT.
August 1, 1781.
From the New Jersey Gazette, Vol. IV., No. 189, August 8, 1781.
NEW-LONDON, July 27.
Monday last, the sloop Randolph, Captain Peck, returned into with the prize ship Polly, John Webb, late master, from Bristol, bound to New-York, 12 weeks out, which the Randolph captured near Sandy- Hook. Her cargo consists of about 1400 barrels flour, 100 boxes win- .dow glass, a quantity of dry goods, &c. the prize had on board the crew of the letter of marque ship Loyal Britain, who having met with a violent gale of wind in lat. 33. about the 1st inst. had foundered .- A quantity of goods were taken out of said ship.
PHILADELPHIA, August 1. August 4.
A small open boat was brought into our port the beginning of this week by two American seamen. She was employed by a number of the piratical villians, called Refugees, to plunder in the bay and coast. These two men, lately prisoners with the enemy, entered on board the above boat; but watching their opportunity, while the rest of the crew were on shore near Sandy-Hook, brought her off safe.
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CHIATIIAM, August 1.
Last Wednesday morning Solomon Brandt terminated his life by cutting his throat. Ile got up very early in the morning and walked out, but not coming to breakfast as usual, his wife sent his daughter to look in the cornfield if he was not their, when, to her astonish. ment, she found him a corpse.
TRENTON, August 8.
Three or four British frigates have been cruizing in the Delaware- Bay for several days past.
On Sunday last James Armstrong was committed to the goal in this town for attempting to pass counterfeit Eight Dollar bills of credit of this state. He was taken up in Somerset, but says he resides at Squan, in Monmouth county.
Died on Sunday last at Raritan, Mr. Richard Paterson, father of the Attorney-General of this state, after a short illness.
Died at Trenton Landing, at 4 o'clock on Monday morning last, Mrs. Margaret Clunn, relect of John Clunn, in the 83d. year of her age, and on the evening of the same day, the weather being very warm, her remains were interred in the church burying place, attended by a number of respectable friends and citizens.
At a special court lately held in Burlington, a certain Joseph Mul- liner, off Egg-Harbour, was convicted of high treason, and is sen- tenced to be hanged this day. This fellow had become the terror of that part of the country. He had made a practice of burning houses, robbing and plundering all who fell in his way, so that when he came to trial it appeared that the whole country, both whigs and tories, were his enemies.
PRICE CURRENT of the following articles at Trenton.
Wheat 5s. by the bushel
Rye 3s. 9d.
ditto
County ditto
Oats
1s. 6d.
Lisbon wine 10s. retail.
Country salt 18s. 9d.
Molasses 5s. ditto.
Allum ditto £1 17 6
Best loaf sugar 1s. 10d. per
Indigo by the quantity, 7s. 6d.
per pound.
West-India rum by the
Indian corn 3s.
Buckwheat 2s.
hogshead, Ss. per gal. 6s.
pound Muscovado ditto 50s. to £3 7 6 per Cwt.
Havanna ditto by the box, 9d. per pound.
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BY HIS EXCELLENCY WILLIAM LIVINGSTON, ESQUIRE,
Governor, Captain-General and Commander in Chief in and over the State of New-Jersey, and Territories thereunto belonging, Chancellor and Ordinary in the same,
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas it has been represented to me that the persons herein after mentioned have been guilty of attrocious offences, and have committed divers robberies, thefts and other felonies in this state :- I have therefore thought fit, by and with the advice of the Honourable Privy Council of this state, to issue this proclamation, hereby prom- laing the rewards herein mentioned to any person or persons who shall apprehend and secure in any gaol of this state, any or either of the following persons or offenders, to wit, Caleb Sweesy, James O'Harra, John Moody, and Gilbert Gyberson, the sum of Two Hundred Dollars of the bills of credit issued on the faith of this state.
Given under my hand and seal at arms, at Trenton, the third day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, and in the fifth year of the independ- ence of America. WIL. LIVINGSTON.
By His Excellency's Command, BOWES REED, See'ry.
tffThe Printer of the New-Jersey Gazette has long experienced the perplexities and losses attending the outstanding accounts, and the want of punctual payments. Although the price is now as low as the expenses of the paper, wages, &c. will admit, yet for the sake of avoiding these inconveniences, he would be willing to make an extra- ordinary abatement, were the price of a year paid by advance within a reasonable time. He therefore proposes to set the paper for a year at Ten Shillings, gold or silver, provided the same be advanced at any time within three months from the 25th of last month, when the year commenced, and the whole of a packet be on that footing. He will also in this case take produce at the current market rates. If by any means whatever the paper should be discontinued, the money money or produce will be returned in due proportion. Those subscribers for the present year, who do not prefer these terms will be considered under those mentioned in this Gazette the 25th ult. No. 187.
The Printer earnestly requests the packet-masters and others who are in arrear, to pay off their respective balances immediately.
ISAAC COLLINS.
Trenton, August 8, 1781.
Persons who wish to pay the tax that is to be collected on or before the first day of September next, in state money, may hear where a small sum may be had by applying to the printer hereof.
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Strayed from the subscriber, living at Rocky-Hill, about the first of May last, a black mare, with a star and one white foot, nine or ten years old, about fifteen hands high, a natural pacer: Also a dark bay colt, two years old, neither docked or cut, a natural trotter. Who- ever will deliver them to me, or give information so that I may get them again, shall receive EIGIIT HARD DOLLARS, and all rea. sonable charges paid by me, if brought home.
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