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is about six feet high, has on blue trowsers and spotted buckskin jacket. The other named Jack Williams, is about five feet nine inches high, has on a claret coloured jacket and breeches. The mulatto named Enos Patterson, is about five feet ten inches high, has on grey trowsers and a white jacket. They all say they were out in the privateer ship Congress the last cruize. Their masters, if any they have, are desired to come and prove their property, pay charges, and take them away by the 17th of November, or they will be sold to pay charges. PETER HIULICK, Gaoler.
Trenton, October 15, 1781.
TO BE SOLD BY MARY AND SARAH BARNES.
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PARCHMENT, TO BE SOLD, By the Printer Hereof.
From the New Jersey Gazette, Vol. IV., No. 203, November 14, 1781. TRENTON, NOV. 14.
The Honourable the Congress, by a Proclamation dated the 26th day of October last, has recommended to the several states to set apart the Thirteenth day of December next, to be religeously observed as a day of Thanksgiving and Prayer.
Remainder of the returns, omitted the two last weeks for want of room. Bergen Council, Theunis Dey, Esq. Assembly, Peter Wilson, Isaac Blanch and Garret Leydecker, Esquires.
Cape-May. Council, Elijah Hughes, Esq. Assembly, Richard Town- send, Daniel Hand and Hugh Hathorne, Esquires.
Saturday night last, Capt. Hyler, of New-Brunswick, with a gun- boat, and a small party of men, went to the Narrows, where he cap- tured a ship with 14 or 15 hands, and brought her off, with an intent to run her up Raritan River, but near the mouth she unluckily got aground, where, as the enemy approached in force, he was obliged to set her on fire. She was loaded with rum and pork, several hogheads of the former he got out and brought off, with the prisoners.
The British fleet returned to the Ilook about a week ago.
The piece signed Emelia is received, and is omitted this week for want of room.
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Og the night of the 18th of October last, the house of the sub- writer was robbed, amongst other things, of the following certificates, w. No. 56, in the name of Major William Montgomery, for Twenty- Ase Pounds, dated September 25, 1780. No. 173, in the name of Cara Black, for Five Ilundred Twenty-eight Pounds Fifteen Shillings metinental money, dated January 26, 1780. No. 238, in the name af Joshua Forsyth, for Thirty-seven Pounds Ten Shillings, dated June 2. 1750. One in the name of Isaac Field, for One Thousand Two Hundred and Sixty Pounds continental money, dated January, 1780, No. 210, in the name of Jesse Bunting, for Two Pounds Five Shillings, dated August 17, 1780. The above signed by Edward Thomas, Con- tractor for Burlington county. No. 20, in the name of Nathan Williams, for Thirteen Pounds Eight Shillings, dated September 26, 171. No. 17, in the name of Marmaduke Curtis, for One Pound Viftren Shillings and Two-pence, dated January 23, 1781. No. 13, In the name of John Thorn, for Nine Pounds, dated June 11, 1781. No. 9, in the name of Joseph Kirkbride, for Ten Pounds Ten Shillings, dated May 18, 1781. The four last signed by John Butler, Contractor for Burlington county. One certificate in the name of Thomas Walton, for Two Pounds Three Shillings and Ten-pence, dated Feb. 10, 1781, signed by Joseph Brown, Collector for Chesterfield, county of Burlington. One in the name of Ezra Black, for Three Pounds Seventeen Shillings and Eleven-pence, dated February 10, 1781, signed by ditto. One in the name of George Bullock, for Thirteen Pounds Sixteen Shillings and Six pence, dated February 10, 1781, signed by Jitto.
The publick are hereby cautioned against taking an assignment on any of them, should any person be hardy enough to offer them for that purpose. ABRAHAM CHAPMAN. Chesterfield, Nov. 6, 1781.
TO BE SOLD,
By the subscriber, in the lane opposite the College.
BOHEA TEA, gun powder, coarse linens, silk modes and satins, black sewing silk, ribands, pocket-handkerchiefs, salt; one large yoke of oxen in good order. Also black pepper, and almanacks for the year 1782, by large or small quantities-The almanacks at the printer's price ;- and several other articles.
JOIIN DENTON.
N. B. Cash given for clean linen rags and old brass and copper. Princeton, Nov. 12, 1781.
PUBLICK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN.
That the subscriber, pursuant to an order of the last session of the Assembly of New-Jersey hath leave to bring in a bill to invest the title of two certain lots of land in Trenton, purchased by Abraham Cottnam, Esq. deceased, in his life time, of Daniel Coxe, Esq. now
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a fugitive with the enemy, in the executors of the last will of the said Abraham Cottnam, for the uses in the said will mentioned. GEO. COTTNAM.
Was taken up in the township of Maidenhead, about two weeks ago, a large bright bay horse, between fourteen and fifteen hands high, with three white feet, branded on the near buttock with the letters W. T. The owner is desired to prove his property, pay charges, and take him away. The horse is now in the possession of William Updike, jun. at Mr. Samuel Henry's mill.
November 12, 1781.
GREAT COATS were exchanged at the house of John Bul- lin, in Pennington, by a person unknown. The person is desired to return the one he has in possession to the subscriber immediately, and get his own. My coat is grey, with pale red buttons.
November 5, 1781.
ASHIER HOWELL.
WANTED, At the store of Neil and Pool, in Trenton,
A Quantity of good PORK, for which the highest price and ready cash will be given.
From the New Jersey Garette, Vol. IV., No. 204, Norember 21, 1751.
BY HIS EXCELLENCY WILLIAM LIVINGSTON, ESQUIRE,
Governor, Captain-General, and Commander in Chief in and over the State of New-Jersey, and the territories thereunto belonging. Chancellor and Ordinary in the same.
PROCLAMATION.
Whereas the Honourable the Congress on the twenty-sixth day of October last, issued a Proclamation in the words following, to mit;
"Whereas it hath pleased Almighty God, the Father of Mercies, "remarkably to assist and support the United States of America, in "their most important struggle for liberty against the long continued "efforts of a powerful nation; it is the duty of all ranks to observe "and thankfully acknowledge the interpositions of his providence in "their behalf. Through the whole of the contest, from its first rise "to this time, the influence of Divine Providence may be clearly per- "ceived in many signal instances, of which we mention but a few :
"In revealing the councils of our enemies, when the discoveries were "sensonable and important, and the means seemingly inadequate and "fortuitous; in preserving and even improving the union of the sey- "eral states on the breach of which our enemies placed their greatest "dependence ; - in increasing the number and adding to the zeal and "attachment of the friends of liberty ; in granting remarkable deliv-
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"seaures, and blessing us with the most signal success, when affairs Bvurd to have the most discouraging appearance; in raising up for Pus a most powerful and generous ally, in one of the first of European "powers; - in confounding the councils of our enemies, and suffering "them to pursue such measures as have most directly contributed to "frustrate their own desires and expectations ;- above all, in making "their extreme cruelty to the inhabitants of these states, when in "their power, and their savage devastation of property, the very ^means of cementing our union, and adding vigour to every effort in "opposition to them.
"And as we cannot help leading the good people of these states to "a retrospect on the events which have taken place since the beginning "of the war, so we recommend, in a particular manner, to their obser- "vation, the goodness of God in the year now drawing to a conclu- "sion; in which the confederation of the United States has been com- "pleted ;- in which there have been so many instances of prowess "and success in our armies, particularly in the southern states, where, "notwithstanding the difficulties with which they had to struggle, they "have recovered the whole country which the enemy had over-run, "braving them only a post or two on or near the sea ;- in which we "have been so powerfully and effectually assisted by our allies, while "in all the conjunct operations the most perfect harmony has sub- "sisted in the allied army ;--- in which there has been so plentiful a "harvest, and so great abundance of the fruits of the earth of every "kind, as not only enables us easily to supply the wants of our army, "but gives comfort and happiness to the whole people ;- and, in "which, after the success of our allies by sea, a General of the first "rank, with his whole army, has been captured by the allied forces, "under the direction of our Commander in Chief.
"It is therefore recommended to the several states to set apart the "Thirteenth day of December next, to be religeously observed as a "day of Thanksgiving and Prayer; that all the people may assemble "on that day, with grateful hearts to celebrate the praises of our "gracious benefactor ; to confess our manifold sins; to offer up our "most fervent supplications to the God of all Grace, that it may please "him to pardon our offences, and incline our hearts for the future to "keep all his laws; to comfort and releive all our brethren who are "in distress or captivity ; to prosper our husbandmen, and give suc- "cess to all engaged in lawful commerce; to impart wisdom and in- "tegrity to our councellors, judgment and fortitude to our officers and "soldiers ; to protect and prosper our illustrious ally, and favour our "united exertions for the speedy establishment of a safe, honourable, "and lasting peace; to bless all seminaries of learning; and cause "the knowledge of God to cover the earth, as the waters cover the "seas."
I have therefore thought fit, by and with the advice of the Honour- able, the Privy Council (as well in conformity to the said recommen- dation, as from a deep sense of our indispensable duty to celebrate with united hearts, in social worship, throughout the whole con- tinent, the praises of that Great Disposer of all events, who hath so
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often and so conspicuously during the present war displayed kis omnipotent arm for our deliverance) to appoint the said Thirterst day of December next, to be observed in this State as a day @ Thanksgiving and Praise, hereby recommending it to the Ministere of the Gospel of every denomination therein, to perform devine st. vice, and to the people committed to their charge to attend on public- worship on that day, and to abstain from servile labour and al recreations inconsistent with the solemnity of the festival.
(firen under my hand and scal at arms at Trenton, the ticelfis day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand serce hundred and eighty-one, and in the sixth 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.
TO BE SOLD,
At publiek vendue, at New-Brunswick, on Saturday the 24th instant, at ten o'clock in the forenoon,
Twenty hogsheads of good Jamaica rum, and about thirty barrels of pork, being part of the cargo of the ship Father's Desire, lately cap. tured by Captain Adam Hyler. By. order of the Court, JOIIN BURROWES, Marshal.
THIRTY POUNDS HARD MONEY REWARD.
Run away from the subscribers, living near Racoon Ford, Orange county, Virginia, on Sunday the second of September, three Negro slaves, viz. George, a dark mulatto fellow, about seventeen years of age, near or quite six feet high, has a sour down look ; had on and carried with him a white yarn coat, turned up with blue, one pale blue cloth coat, one striped Virginia cloth coat, one pair of green cloth breeches, one pair cotton breeches filled in with thred ;- Harry, a black Negro, about the same age of George, a low well set fellow, sprightly and quick spoken; had on an old white coat and a new hunting shirt, and an old maccaroni hat :- Charles, a black negro fellow, about sixteen years of age, sparer than Harry, has a very pleasant countenance, and speaks slow ; had on a black hunting shirt and an old felt hat .- He spins well on the foot wheel. We have rea. son to beleive there was a white man with them, who had on a white cloth coat with buttons on each side the breast, and a maccaroni hat ; the other parts of his dress we cannot learn. We will give Five Pounds reward for each or either of them if taken up and secured so that we get them again, or Ten Pounds for each or either of them if brought home and delivered to us,
JOHN BLEDSOE, BENJAMIN CRAIG, JEREMIAHI CRAIG.
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House of Assembly, May 21, 1781.
A Petition from Jacob C. Zabriskie, of the county of Bergen, was gemeented and read, setting forth that he had in the year 1773, pur- mated a small tract of land of William Bayard, of the city of New- Tark, and paid for the same, but that thr'o. the neglect of the said Dugard, he had never obtained a deed, and praying that a law may de passed to vest in him a title to the said land ;
Offered, That the said petitioner have leave to bring in a bill at De next sitting, for the purpose of vesting in him a title to the said Mad. on giving three weeks previous notice of his intention to the mamissioners of the said county, and also advertising the same for the like space of time in the New-Jersey Gazette or New-Jersey Journal.
Extract from the minutes, MASKELL EWING, jun. Clerk.
Agreeably to the above order, the subscriber hereby notifies all whom it may concern, his intention of presenting a bill to the Legislature at their present sitting, conformable to the prayer of his petition.
JACOB C. ZABRISKIE. New-Barbadoes, county of Bergen, Nov. 13, 1781.
Strayed or stolen from the subscriber in Lower Freehold, on the wend of this instant, November, a black horse, four or five years old last spring, low in flesh, and lame in one fore foot, trots and canters, and carries gay, has been galled on the back very bad with the saddle, . but has just got well, his hind legs not very good. Whoever takes up the said horse and brings him to the subscriber, shall have Three Pounds in gold, or Ten Pounds for the horse and thief, and reasonable charges paid by ELISHA WALTON.
TO TIIE PUBLICK.
Whereas the subscriber purchased of Andrew Ferguson a certain tract of land, marsh and beach, situate in the county of Cumberland, in New-Jersey, and received an imperfect assignment on the back of his deed for the same, together with a receipt in full for the purchase money, and before a sufficient deed could be executed for the said land, marsh and beach, the said Andrew Ferguson died; and as I have applied to the Legislature of this state for a law to confirm to me the title of the said premises, if any person or persons have any objections why the same should not be done, they are hereby notified to attend before the Legislature within four weeks from the date hereof, and make their objections. THOMAS MASKELL.
Greenwich, New-Jersey, Nov. 5, 1781.
The Militia belonging to Capt. Hunt's, Capt. Phillip's, Capt. Guild's and Capt. Titus's companies, of Colonel Phillip's battalion, and who were out on duty with Capt. Mott, at Morris-Town, in 1780, are de- sired to meet at the house of John Bullin, in Pennington, on Friday next, where they will receive pay for the said service.
Trenton, Nov. 20, 1781.
JOHN MOTT, Capt.
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TO BE SOLD,
A Likely, healthy NEGRO MAN, about twenty-seven years of age, was brought up in New-Jersey, and is fit for any farming busi- ness, and capable of tending a grist-mill. Any person inclining to purchase, may know the terms by applying to the subscriber, in Mon- mouth county, near the Court house.
WILLIAM FORMAN. To Be Sold, by PETER CROLIUS AND ANTHONY MARAQUIER, At their Store in Trenton ; A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF BLANKETS, and ROCK SALT,
With many other articles too tedious to mention.
Mr. Collins,
I observe you frequently publish in your paper, remarks on publick affairs, and altercations on particular subjects which require no great degree of genius to execute. Permit me to recommend to you a genuine effusion of genius, which is the more valuable because it comes from a lady who is really in the situation of Emella. Having lost a beloved husband, the feelings of her heart have assisted her imagination. There are several examples among writers of pastorals of the elegiac kind. and I make no doubt that there are many of your ingenious readers who will not be much less entertained with the Lucius of Emelia, than the Daphnis of Mr. Pope. I am, Sir, your humble servant, A. B.
Princeton, October 29, 1781. LAURA. Why wanders my friend in this grove? Why seeks she the deepening gloom ? Why pensive from me does she rove, To weep o'er the mouldering tomb?
EMELIA.
Can Laura forget that this day* Brings fresh to my woe-pierced mind,
The hour that tore me away ; From Lucius the constant and kind? Oh ! he was the pride of the plain, And Sol in his annual round,
1 N'er shone on a worthier swain, Nor can such a shepherd be found. The Genii of Nature and Art, To finish the plan they design'd, Set virtue to furnish his heart, And science to polish his mind. The traces of love and of truth, Appeared in his aspect serene, The wisdom of age, the graces of youth, Enliven'd and soften'd bis mien.
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Ilis judgment was piercing and strong, Ilis manners were easy and gay, The Dryads would flock in a throng, Whene'er he began a soft lay. Whenever the shepherds would jar, They left it to him to decide, His word to their strife was a bar ; By what he would say they'd abide,
llis taste so sublime and so pure,
And always with nature combin'd,
That Ceres his fields would manure,
And execute what he design'd. Ilis sheep could in beauty compare To any on Areadian plains ;
The birds to his groves would repair,
And warble the sweetest of strains. Ilis garden, so trim and so neat, The flowers spontaneously grew, The vilet would spring at his feet, Array'd in her beautiful blue.
His Hamlet, ah ! there was the scene,
Which breaks my fond heart but to name,
And there I was bles'd with this swain ;
But now it is past like a dream.
My face from the sun he would screen,
No air but the zephyr must blow ;
At ove when I walked on the green,
With his hand he would brush off the dow, Alas, what can talents avail, ?
Can virtue or piety save?
If love o'er grim death could prevail,
Ile had not sunk down in the grave, O! how could you tell me that time Would certainly bring me relief ; When each heavy moment that flies,
But adds to the weight of my grief ! To find the soft med'eine for pain I traverse the garden around : I search thro' the woods and the plain, .
But no such a plant's to be found. How every gay prospect is chang'd ! How gloomy all nature appears ! The grove where together we rang'd, Beholds me a prey to my tears.
LAURA.
Can fears d'er recall the dear saint, For whom thus unceasing you mourn, The seraph may hear your complaint, But ah, he would never return ! By rivers celestial and pure, Ile drinks at the spring of delight ; And joys that are endless and sure, Flow still from the fountain of light.
ECMEMIA.
I know, that his spirit releas'd From these lower regions of pain, Of pleasures Immortal must faste, Not here would I wish him again. But still I must drop the soft tear, And visit thus daily his tomb, Ye muses attend to my prayer, And bring of your sweetest perfume ;
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To strew o'er this hallowed ground, I've planted the myrtle and yew. The willows stand weeping around, "Tis all that my fond love can do. This tribute of love and of verse, Ilis mem'ry shall constantly have, Till carried along on a hearse, I'm laid by his side in the grave.
Then pity herself shall be there, And lay the green turf on my breast,
Shall shed a few drops on the pair, And leave them to peacefully rest. EMELIA,
Just Published,
And to be sold wholesale and retail, At the Printing-Office in Trenton, The New-Jersey ALMANACK For the Year 1782.
From the New Jersey Gazette, Vol. IV., No. 205, November 28, 1781.
For the New-Jersey Gazette.
On hearing of the news of the capture of Lord Cornwallis and the British army, by Gen. Washington.
By a Lady of New-Jersey.
Bring now ye Muses from th' Aonian grove, The wreath of victory which the sisters wove, Wove and laid up in Mar's most awful fane, To crown our Hero on Virginia's plain. See ! from Castalia's sacred fount they haste. And now, already, on his brow 'tis plac'd ; The trump of fame proclaims aloud with joy,
And Washington is crowned, re-echo's to the sky.
Illustrious name ! thy valour now has broke Oppression's galling chain, and took the yoke From off thy bleeding country, set her free, And every heart with transport beats for thee. For thee ! Rochambeau, Gallia's vet'ran cheif, Sent by fair Freedom's friend to her releif ; An arch triumphal shall the Muse decree, And heroes yet unborn shall copy thee : Our lisping infants shall pronounce thy name, In songs our virgins shall repeat thy fame, And taught by Thee the art of war, our swains Shall dye with British blood Columbia's plains. Viominills, (heroic brothers) too ! Unfading laurels now await for you, And all the noble youth, who in your train, In search of glory cross'd the Atlantic main. Blest with sweet peace in Sylvan shades retir'd, Our future bards (by your great deeds inspired) In tuneful verse shall hand this aera down, And your lov'd names with greatful honours crown.
EMELIA.
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At a Joint-Meeting of the Legislative-Council and Assembly, the llon. Abraham Clark, William Ch. Houston, Jonathan Elmer and Elias Boudinot, Esqrs. and Silas Condict, Esq. were elected Delegates to represent this state in Congress the ensuing year.
Thomas Seabrook, Esq. was elected last week one of the Repre- wentatives to serve in General Assembly, for the county of Monmouth, in the room of Nathaniel Scudder, Esq. deceased.
By authentick intelligence from General Greene, dated from Santee, on the 25th. of October, the enemy keep pretty close in Charlestown since the battle of Eutaw-Springs .- Skirmishes often happen between small parties, in which the Americans have been so successful as to bring in a considerable number of prisoners.
The publication of the following extract of an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Pennsylvania passed the 5th of April, 1781, und now in force, we apprehend will be useful to the citizens of New- Jersey. Sect. 5. Be it therefore further enacted by the authority aforesuid,
That from and after the said first day of October next, all flour casks shall be made of good seasoned materials, well made and tight- ened with ten hoops sufficiently nailed with four nails in each chine hoop, and three nails in each upper bilge hoop, and of the following dimensions, viz. the staves to be of the length of twenty-seven inches, but of different diameters at the heads, according to their numbers, that is to say, casks number one shall be of the diameter of eighteen inches at the head, casks number two sixteen inches and an half, and casks number three fifteen inches and an half; that every miller or bolter of flour and baker of bread, for transportation out of the state, shall provide and have a distinguishable brand-mark, which he shall cause to be entered with the clerk of the Quarter-Sessions for the county where he doth reside, together with his name and place of abode, under the penalty of the sum of five shillings, for every day during which he shall have exercised his said business of a miller, bolter or baker, without such entry; for the making of which entries the said clerk shall be intitled to the sum of one shilling each.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN :
Notice is hereby given, that a Court of Admiralty New-Jersey, ss.
State of 1 will be held at the house of Gilbert Barton, in Allentown, on Thursday the 27th day of December next, then and there to try the truths of the facts alledged in the bill of Robert Magee, (who as well, &c.) against a certain sloop or vessel called the Sally, lately commanded by John Harman, taken on her intended voy- age, as is said, from Maurice-River to New-York, loaded with lum- ber, together with her tackle, apparel, furniture and cargo: To the end and in nt that the owner or owners of the said vessel, or any
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person interested therein, may appear and shew cause, if any they have, why the said vessel, with her tackle, apparel, furniture and cargo should not be condemned to the captors thereof, and a deerce thereon pass, according to the prayer of the said bill.
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