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Your very humble servant, JOHN TAYLOR, Lieut. Colonel. Commandant 2d. Batt. Middlesex Militia.
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ALEXANDER COLHIOUN,
llas for sale at his store about one quarter of a mile from Trenton, on the Pennington road, at the store John Chambers formerly occupied, the following articles :
Rum and brandy, Green and bohea tea, Muscovado and Spanish sugar, Coffee and Chocolate, Pepper and Alspice, Ginger and Indigo, Coarse and fine salt, An assortment of stone and earthen ware, Chintzes and calicoes, Silk and gauze handkerchiefs, Flowered and plain gauzes, Satin and pelong, Taffety and persian, Mode and sar- cenet, sewing silk of different colours, Coarse and fine linens, Caster and wool hats, Linen and woolling stockings, Some hard ware, And several other articles too tedious to mention.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY, AT HIGHBERNIA FURNACE,
A number of wood-cutters, who will meet with great encouragement by
MARK BIRD, GEORGE ROSS.
Whereas the plantation of Robert Priest, late of Windsor, deceased, was advertised to be sold on the 24th day of December Jast, but through the inclemency of the weather, and other causes, the sale was post- poned : Now this is to give notice, that on the first day of February next the said premises will be exposed to sale, between the hours of . two and five o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, and will be per- emptorily struck off to the highest bidder. The plantation contains one hundred and fifty-six acres of excellent land, being well accommo- dated with water, timber and meadow. There is on the premises a frame house, kitchen, barn, and sundry out-house's; likewise an ex- cellent orchard in its prime: The whole being pleasantly situated within the vacinity of that healthful village of Princeton.
Likewise will be sold at the same time and place, the whole crop of wheat and rye in the ground. The vendue to be held on the prem- ises, where attendance will be given, and conditions made known by EZEKIEL SMITH, Executor.
January 15, 1782.
Whereas we the subscribers having some time past advertized in this paper for all the debtors of William Pidgeon, Esq. deceased, to come and pay the interest and such part of the principal as was convenient for them ; and as little or no notice has been taken of it, we give this further notice to all persons indebted to the said estate, to meet us the subscribers at Mr. Cape's tavern, in Trenton, on Monday the 11th of February next, where the subscribers will attend three days. Also any person having any just demands against the said estate are desired to bring them in at the time aforesaid. If the above is not attended to, the executors will be obliged to procced agreeably to law.
CLEAYTON NEWBOLD, } Execu- WILLIAM COXE, S tors.
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TO BE SOLD, For Cash, at the New-Brewery in York Street, Burlington,
AMERICAN PORTER,
Equal in quality and fine flavour to London Porter, at Sixty Shill- ings per barrel, and small ditto at Fifteen ditto; yeast at Two Shillings per gallon ; eyder at ditto.
The brewer, desirous to oblige the publick, sells as small a quantity as five gallons. All tavern-keepers or families may depend upon being served on the shortest notice.
N. B. Muscovado and Port-au-Prince sugars to be sold cheap at the same place.
TO BE SOLD,
A Tract of Land on the great road between Crosswicks and Allen- town, and within three-quarters of a mile of the latter, containing 64 and an half acres, well watered, four of which are meadow, and more may be made, 15 acres, beside the meadow, are cleared, the rest well timbered; thereon is a good apple orchard. The title is indisputable .--- For terms apply to the subscriber at Bordentown. GABRIEL ALLEN.
Whereas Mary Snyder, my wife, has eloped from my bed and board, and has robbed my house of sundry articles, and has been guilty of lodging with other men: This is therefore to caution the publick not to harbour her nor any of her effects at their peril, in this state, or they may expect to be prosecuted agreeably to the laws of the state. I likewise caution the publick not to trust her on my account, as I am determined not to pay any debts of her con- tracting from the date hereof. December 26, 1781.
PETER SNYDER.
Sussex county, township of Wantage, State of New-Jersey.
TO THE PROPRIETORS OF THE WESTERN DIVISION OF NEW-JERSEY.
Upon application to me the subscriber, by several of the proprietors of said division to call a meeting of the said proprieters: These are therefore to request the proprietors of West-Jersey to meet at the house of James Esdall, in the city of Burlington, on Wednesday the sixth day of February next, at two o'clock in the afternoon, in order to chuse a committee in the room of such of a former committee as are dead or absent, and to transact all such other business for the benefit of the general proprietors, as may appear necessary.
DANIEL ELLIS, Register.
January 10, 1782.
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Run Away from the subscribers, the 6th instant a Negro man manird Joe, about twenty-two years of age, near six feet high ; had on when he left a brown broad cloth coat, white broad cloth waistcoat and black woolling trowsers. Whoever takes up the said Negro man, and delivers him to the subscribers, living near Ringo's tavern, Hunterdon county, shall have Ten Dollars reward and all reasonable charges paid by us.
JOHN RUNYAN JACOB WILLIAMSON.
January 6, 1782.
TO BE SOLD,
A Lot of meadow land, generally known by the name of Wood's- Island, containing about six acres mowable, of the best kind of grass ; the soil is equal to the best bank meadow, with this material advantage, that there is no necessity for banks or drains. Also between twenty and thirty acres of out-land, flats &c. adjoining, and will be sold with the above or separate, as may best suit the purchaser. And likewise about forty acres of woodland, three miles distant from Trenton, and two miles and an half from a good landing on Watson's Creek. For terms apply to JOIIN WATSON.
Nottingham, Burlington county, Jan. 10, 1782.
TO BE SOLD, At the Yard of the Subscriber, On Wednesday the 22d instant, for Cash only, A NUMBER OF CAST HORSES, The property of the army of France. JAMES THOMPSON.
Trenton, January 15, 1782.
All persons indebted for articles purchased at the vendue of the estate of James Jackson, late of Upper-Freehold, deceased, are hereby requested to make payment to Joseph Lawrence, Esq. who will settle and receive the same, and that within one month from the date from the date hereof, otherwise they may expect to be prosecuted as the law directs ; and all persons having any demands against said estate. are hereby requested to bring in their accounts, properly attested, to the subscriber, at his house near Princeton, that the same may be settled and discharged.
January 15, 1782.
EZEKIEL SMITH.
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From the New Jersey Gazette, Vol. V., No. 213, Jan. 23, 1782.
STATE OF NEW-JERSEY. An Act for the more speedy settlement of the publick accounts.
[For this Act, passed Dec. 30, 1781, see -. ]
Head-Quarters, Philadelphia, Thursday Jan. 10, 1782. ORDERS.
.As it is expected, that in the course of the present winter many of the officers and men, belonging to the army of the United States, will be indulged with leave of absence from their corps for a limited time: And as it is absolutely necessary the strictest punctuality should be observed, in returning at the expiration of the time for which their furloughs are granted ; the Commander in Chief has thought proper. thus early in the season, to signify his fixed determination to all con- cerned, that every officer or soldier, who shall absent himself beyond the limitation of his furlough ( unless he shall be prevented from re- turning by some inevitable misfortune, or other casualty, which shall be deemed a sufficient reason for his detention) shall for such con- duct be brought to trial before a Court-Martial.
Upon the return of any officer, who may have violated this order, by absenting himself beyond the time of his furlough, report is im- mediately to be made thereof to the Adjutant-General or Deputy Adjutant-General, who is to represent the same to the General or commanding officer, that the necessary steps may be taken without delay. The mode of proceeding against absent officers, as pointed out by a resolution of Congress, is to be invariably pursued. Soldiers are also to be tried and punished in the most summary manner, if they will be guilty of a crime so injurious to the publick service, as well as to the interests and feelings of their brother soldiers, who may, in consequence of the long absence of such delinquents, be un- avoidably debarred the gratification of visiting their friends before the opening of the campaign.
The General, however, cannot but hope, by taking the precaution of causing this publick notice of his intention to be given to the army, the disagreeable consequences will be prevented, which might other- wise have taken place ; for he is persuaded, whoever will give himself the trouble to reflect, will find, that as great indulgences as are con- sistent with the publick good, and justice to individuals, are granted in the first instance; that, as a certain number of officers and men must be constantly kept in camp, every trespass upon those indul- gencies is an act of injustice to the individual who is detained in con- sequence of it, and probably in the issue to the publick ; that the most pointed exactness is indespensably requisite in all military affairs, events unknown, and frequently of the greatest magnitude, depending ; and that those men who have attached themselves to the service of
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their country should consider, that the publick has a constant claim upon their services, which can only be dispensed with under certain circumstances, and for definite periods, of which those intrusted with the regulation of the army must be supposed to be the most competent judges.
No officer or soldier is to be permitted to be absent on furlough after the 10th day of April next, on any occasion whatever.
The musters of the army are, with all possible expedition, to be completed to the 31st day of December last inclusive; after which period they are to be taken regularly at the end of every month, and the rolls transmitted to the pay office without delay, agreeable to a resolution of Congress, of September 25, 1780.
EDWARD HAND, Brigadier and Adjutant General.
N. B. The printers in the several States are requested to publish the above.
TRENTON, Jan. 23.
Died the 15th ult. Mary, the wife of the Rev. John Hanna, of Alexandria, in West-Jersey .- On the 17th her remains were interred in the burying ground of his church, when a sermon, from Psalms xvi. 11, was delivered to a very numerous audience .- She was highly favoured of God with a living and exemplary piety, and much indebted to his divine goodness for that sweetness and steadiness of temper, that pleasantness and gravity in religion, united to a good' understand- ing and the benevolence and liberality of her heart, which made her death a real loss in every relation she sustained, as an indulgent. gentle mistress, a kind and constant friend, a tender parent, a loving wife, and a sincere christian. She viewed approaching death with great composure and met it. with fortitude, supporting to the last moment the plainest marks of one whom "God the Saviour shall present faultless before his glory with exceeding joy." Jude xxiv. 25.
TO BE SOLD, At Publick Sale, on Monday the fourth day of March next,
A very valuable Farm in Greenwich township, Sussex county, state of New-Jersey, adjoining the Musconetcong Creek, near Robert John- son's forge and mill : The land is very good for raising all sorts of grain, and exceeding fine for pasture. There is on the premises a good bearing orchard, besides a young one planted last spring; also some good meadow and more may be made. The whole in good fence, and wood in proportion to the land. Any one inclining to view the land before the day of sale may see it by applying to William M'Cullough or. Jacob Fiatt, and an indisputable title will be given by
BENJAMIN M'CULLOUGHI.
N. B. The farm contains 243 acres.
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The plantation whereon Thomas Silverthorn now lives, in Sussex County. containing 213 acres, 150 whereof are meadow land-for which good merchantable bar-iron will be taken in payment. For terms apply to the printer.
WITT AND LOTT, HAIR-DRESSERS,
Beg leave to acquaint the publick, and their friends in particular. that they have entered into partnership .- All ladies and gentlemen that will please to favour them with their custom may depend on their utmost endeavour to give satisfaction. They have for sale hair pins. powder and pomatum.
The subscriber likewise begs leave to inform the publick in general that he keeps a house of entertainment for man and horse, at the sign of Alexander the Great, in the house formerly occupied by Captain Clunn, in Trenton, where all persons favouring him with their custom may depend on his utmost exertions to give entire satisfaction, by the publick's most obedient humble servant,
FRANCIS WITT. N. B. A small house and lot to be let, enquire as above. Trenton, January 21, 1782.
This is to notify the publick, that I the subscriber do intend having the following loan-office certificates renewed by Mr. Borden, which were in my posession and distroyed by the enemy at New-London, on the 6th of September last, viz. No. 7140 and 7141, for 200 cach, and No. 665, for 600 dollars, issued from Mr. Borden's office, in favour of Mr. Isaac Cox, of Philadelphia, and dated 24th January 1775. Any person having objections to the renewal of the above certificates agreeably to an act of the Honourable the Continental Congress, are desired to exhibit the same within six weeks from the date hereof RICHARD THROCKMORTON.
Trenton, January 22, 1782.
WANTED.
For the use of the troops, &c. stationed at Burlington, and the post at Trenton,
Beef, pork, mutton and whisky, for which a generous price and cash will be given, by the publick's most obedient servant, JAMES THOMPSON.
Trenton, January 22, 1782.
TO BE SOLD.
One thousand acres of excellent limestone land, lying in Frederick County, in Virginia, about ten miles from that flourishing town of Winchester. For terms apply to the subscriber, near Pitts-Town. MAHLON TAYLOR.
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TO BE SOLD,
A LOT of land with three houses thereon, fronting the street, in Newtown, Buck's county, in the state of Pennsylvania, suitable for merchandizing or any tradesman. For terms apply to the subscriber, living on the road leading from Jones's ferry to said Newtown &c. LAMB. TORBET.
From the New Jersey Gazette, Vol. V., No. 214, Jan. 30. 1782.
STATE OF NEW JERSEY. An ACT for regulating and establishing Admiralty Jurisdiction.
[ For this Act, passed Dec. 18, 1781. see Stat., Chap. VII.]
TRENTON, Jan. 30.
The several Collectors within this State are requested to observe, that by the 17th. Section of the Act, intitled. 'An act to raise the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand pounds in Money and Certificates in the State of New-Jersey,' the treasurer is directed to prosecute the delinquent Collectors within twenty days after the tax becomes due to the treasury, under the penalty of Fifty Pounds for every neg- lect.
Just imported from . France, and to be sold at the Printing-Office in Trenton :
A Parcel of excellent low-priced linens. As they were laid in on the best terms, so they will be sold, at a very moderate profit, and good allowance made to those who buy to sell again.
At the same place may be had :
Tea, Coffee, Chocolate, Muscovado and Spanish Sugars, Pepper, Ginger, Soap, Indigo, Pins, Taylor's Thimbles. Darning, White Chapel and Common Needles, Chintzes, Calicoes, Holland, Cambrick, Lawn, Striped and plain Muslins, Barcelona and Pocket Handkerchief's, Mode, Sarsenet, Sewing Silk, Tafte, Crooked Combs.
Also, An Assortment of Queen's Ware, consisting of
Dishes, Common and Desert Plates, Quart, Pint, and Half-Pint Bowles, Chocolate Bowls, Tea-pots, Cups and Saucers, Quart, Pint, and Half Pint Mugs. Sauce Boats, Sugar Bowls, Beer Glasses, Half- Pint and Gill Tumblers.
The Associators of Monmouth county are requested to meet at the court-house on Saturday the 16th day of February next. at twelve o'clock, for the purpose of choosing a new Committee. Every Asso- ciator is requested to attend without fail, for reasons that will be offered there by the Committee, as the Committee wishes to know the Associators; should any of the inhabitants who are not yet Asso-
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ciators chuse to join, we wish their attendance to sign the Association, and their names will be accepted.
By order of the Committee, KENNETH HANKINSON, Chairman. Jan. 19, 1782.
Morristown, Jan. 22, 1782.
WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of the 29th Decemb. last, I am authorized to agree with proper persons to supply the troops to be embodied for the defence of this state, and such of the militia as shall be called out, with provisions and forage. Notice is hereby given, that the proposals will be received at my office until the 20th day of February next, for supplying such of the said troops as may be stationed in the counties of Bergen, Essex, Middlesex, Monmouth, Burlington, Gloucester and Sussex, with the same rations as are allowed the continental army; the proposals to contain the lowest price in specie of each ration of provision and forage; and also the price of the component parts: A ration of provision to con- sist of one pound of bread, one pound of beef, or three quarters of a pound of pork, one gill of rum or whiskey, one quart of salt, and two quarts of vinegar for one hundred rations, eight pounds soap, and three pounds candles per seven hundred rations. A ration of forage to consist of eight quarts. of oats or other grain equivalent, and four- teen pounds of hay.
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This is to notify all such persons as have mortgages against the house and land wherein Elias Bland, deceased, lately lived, in Wood- bridge, to make them known to the subscriber, on or before the first day of May next, as said house and land was bought at Sheriff's vendue by me, living on the aforesaid farm. :
JAMES KINSEY.
Woodbridge, Jan. 18, 1782.
TO BE SOLD,
A Plantation containing 180 Acres, about 120 acres in tillage and meadow ground, the rest well timbered, situated in Maidenhead about 21% miles from Trenton, on which is a new large brick house two stories high, four rooms on a floor, with convenient cellars, a good barn, stables and cow-houses, young bearing orchard, very convenient to mill and Market. Also, a tract of 126 acres on the opposite side of the Maidenhead road, principally woodland, the whole enclosed with a new post and rail fence, very advantageous for pasture, having a constant stream of water 2 miles from Trenton: These two tracts will be sold together, or separate, as will best suit the purchaser. Any person inclining to view the farm, may apply to Philip Palmer, the tenant in possession ; any reasonable time will be given for the greatest part of the purchase money, and possession will be given the 1st day of April next.
For terms apply to
Trenton, Jan. 29, 1782.
GEORGE DAVIS.
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A Likely young Negro Wench. Enquire of the Rev. Solomon Freligh, at Hillsborough, in the county of Somerset.
From the New Jersey Gazette, Vol. V., No. 215, Feb. 6, 1782.
Mr. Collins,
As there is a scarcity of foreign news at present, I send you an extract of a letter taken out of a late English publication .- It was written by a Mr. John Moore, a Scotchman, from Vienna, about four years ago, to his friend in London ; and, as the book is but in few hands, it cannot be un- aceptable at this time to the generality of your readers.
VIENNA.
Our disputes with the colonies have been a prevailing topick of conver- ation wherever we have been, since we left England .- The warmth with which this subject is handled, increases every day .-- At present the in- habitants of the continent seem as impatient as those of Great-Britain, for news from the other side of the Atlantic, but with this difference, that here they are all of one mind :-- All praying for success to the Americans, and rejoicing in every piece of bad fortune, which happens.to our army.
That the French should be pleased with Commotions, which must dis- tress and weaken Great-Britain, and may transfer to them an equal right to every advantage we gained by the last war, is not surprising, but why the Inhabitants of every other country should take part against Eng- land, and become partizans of America, is not so apparent.
I should forgive them, and even join in sentiment with them, as far as my regard for the honour and happiness of my country would per- mit, if this proceeded from an attachment to liberty, and a generous par- tality for men who repel oppression and struggle for independency .- But this is not the case. - Those who can reap no possible advantage from the revolt of America, those who have notan idea of civil liberty, and would even be sorry to see it established in their own country : those who have no other knowledge of the dispute, than that it is ruining Eng- land : all join as allles to the Americans, not from love to them, but evidently from dislike to us.
When I first observed this hostile disposition, I thought it might pro- ceed from their being offended at the preference, which the English gave to their own country and countrymen above all others; but this conceit we have in common with every other nation on the globe, all of whom cherish the same favourable opinion of themselves .- It assuredly pre- vails in France in an eminent degree .- There is hardly one sceptic or unbeleiver in the whole nation-it is the universal creed that France is the finest country in the world : the French, the most ingenious and the most able people, excelling in all the arts of peace and war; and that Paris is the capital of politeness and the centre of learning, genius and taste .- This satisfaction at the misfortunes of Great-Britain can- not therefore arise from a cause which is applicable to every other other country .- It may indeed in some. measure proceed from envy of the riches and jealousy of the power of the English nation, but I beleive still more from our taking no trouble to conciliate the affection of for- elgners, and to deminish that envy and ill-will, which great prosperity often creates .- The French, though perhaps the vainest people on earth of their own advantages, have some degree of consideration for the feel- Ings and self love of their neighbours .- A Frenchman endeavours to draw from them an acknowledgment of the superiority of his country, by making an eulogium on whatever is excellent in theirs.
But we are apt to build our panegyrick of Old England on the ruin and wretchedness of all other countries .- Italy is too hot, the inns miser-
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able, and the whole country swarmed with monks and other vermin .--- In France the people are slaves and coxcombs, the music execrable ; they boil their meat to rags, and there is no porter and very little strong ale, in the country .- In Germany, some of their Princes have little more to spend than an English gentleman-they use stoves instead of grates; they eat sour crout, and speak High Dutch .- The Danes and Swedes are reminded that they are rather at too great a distance from the equator _; and many sly hints are given, concerning the inconveniences of a cold climate .- Of all things 'I should think it most prudent to be silent on this last topick, as so many paltry states will take precedency of Old England, whenever it is the established etiquette, that rank shall be de. termined by climate.
But this consideration has no effect on my honest friend John Bull- when he is in a cholerick humour, he will not spare his best friends and nearest neighbours, even when he has most need of their assistance, and when those at a distance seem to have plotted his ruin .- If his own sister Pog* should show a disposition to forget old squabbles, to live in friendship with her brother, and should declare that all who renounced his friendship were her enemies, and resolve to conquer by his side, or if that should fail, to die hard along with him -- No, d. n you, says John Bull, none of your coaxing-You be d -- d, you are farther north than I: keep your distance -- and so he falls a pelting Peg, with her own show balls ; and then turning from her, he attacks Lewis Baboon-lord Strut -lord Peter-and dashes their soup maugre,-oleo's and maccaroni, full in their teeth.
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