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JOHN WITTMOR.
ALL. persons indebted to the subscriber, are desired to pay the amounts of their bonds and accounts to Mr. Nathaniel Hunt, of Cran- berry, with whom the bonds and accounts are left.
WILLIAM VANDRILL.
TO BE SOLD,
A VERY good stand in a good part of the country for a merchant, two rooms of the house, or more if wanted, and a shop and cellar and store house and a kitchen, in Amwell near Ringo's Tavern, on Trenton road. For further particulars enquire of the subscriber living on the premises.
AARON VAN-DOREN.
March 26, 1782.
THIE great advantages arising from a healthy and convenient situ- ation for a town at the head of a very navigable river, has made such places the particular objects of many great and powerful nations : The town of Lamberton on the river Delaware in Nottingham town- ship, Burlington county, has every advantage of health and beauty, from its healthy and pleasant situation, at the head of the tide water, and convenience for wharfs for the easy accommodation of vessels to and from the city of Philadelphia : Many having applied for con- venient lots to build on in this place, has induced the proprietor of a fine level piece of ground at the said town, to lay out a number of lots from 50 to 60 feet front by 300 feet deep, on a street of 60 feet wide, running from the present road to Lamberton to the river Dela- ware, and along the bank of said river to the several landings, with a back street from the centre of this to the present main street. A plan of which may be seen at John Watson's, or at Randle Mitchell's in said township, Capt. John Clunn's in Lamberton, and at Rensse- lear Williams, Esq. in Trenton, who will inform any person inclined to purchase, the terms either on ground rent or fee-simple, to whom good titles will be given.
March 26, 1782.
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TO BE SOLD,
By the subscriber at private sale, or to be let,
A VALUABLE gristmill with two pair of stones and three boults, all going by water upon an everlasting stream, with 80 acres of good land well watered and timbered, situate in the township of Alex- andria, Hunterdon county, and state of New-Jersey. On the premises there are 14 acres of good meadow, and more may be made, all well watered ; the place is very suitable for a merchant or any gentle- man to live at, where all sorts of produce which the country can produce can be handily taken in and very convenient to three land- ing places for Philadelphia market, the landing places within three miles of the premises on Delaware river. There is on the premises a good frame house, new barn, stables, barracks and sheds, a good young bearing orchard, of about two hundred apple-trees, &c. For further particulars apply to the subscriber on the premises, where the terms of the sale will be made known. The land joins Mr. Joseph Chamberlain's on one side, and Mr. Daniel Pursley's on the other.
FREDERICK JORDON.
House of Assembly, October 30, 1781.
THIE petition from the legatees of Cornelius Johnson, late of the township of Kingwood, in the county of Hunterdon, was read, setting forth, that they had petitioned a former Assembly for leave to bring in a bill to amend certain deficiencies in the last will and and testa- ment of the aforesaid Cornelius Johnson, occasioned by the inaccuracy of the Clerk who wrote the said will, and praying that they may have leave to present a bill to amend the said deficiencies ;
Ordered, That the petitioners have leave to present the draught of a bill, agreeably to the prayer of their petition, on advertising their intention in the New-Jersey Gazette at least six weeks previous thereto. Extract from the minutes.
M. EWING. JUN. Clerk.
Notice is hereby given, that the subscriber intends to present a bill at the next sitting of the Legislature, for the purposes mentioned in the foregoing extract.
CORNELIUS JOHNSON, son of Cornelius. March 29, 1782.
STOLEN last night out of the stable of the subscriber, in Bucking- ham, Bucks county, a yellow sorrel horse, six years old, a white mane and tail, trots and canters well, 14 hands and an inch high, a star and some saddle marks .- Also a black mare 5 years old, 14 hands 3 inches high, a star and a little white on one hind foot, paces a little, and trots and canters. Whoever secures the thief and horses, so as the thief may be convicted, and the owner get the horses, shall have 21 Dollars reward, or 16 Dollars for the horses only and reasonable charges, paid by
March 24, 1782.
ISRAEL ANDERSON.
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Raritan Landing, 25th March, 1782.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN :
State of New-Jersey.
NOTICE is hereby given, that a court will be held on Thursday, the 11th of April next, at the house of Ishmael Shippey, at Raritan Landing, then and there to try the truth of the facts, alledged in the bill of Capt. Adam Hyler, against the sloop Susannah and sloop Catherine and Jane, burthen about thirty tons, together with their tackle and apparel, taken near Prince's-Bay: To the true intent, that if any person or persons claiming the same, may shew cause, if any they have, why the said vessels, their tackle, apparel and cargoes, should not be condemned to the captors according to the prayer of the said bill.
By order of the Court, ROBT. HUDE JNO. BRAY 1 Agents.
From the New Jersey Gazette, Vol. V., No. 224, April 10, 1782.
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 United States in Congress assembled, did, on the nineteenth day of March last, issue a proclamation in the words fol- lowing, to mil ;
"THE goodness of the Supreme Being to all his rational creatures, demands their acknowledgment of gratitude and love: his absolute government of this world dictates, that it is the interest of every nation and people ardently to supplicate his favour and implore his protection.
When the lust of dominion or lawless ambition excites arbitrary power to invade their rights, or endeavour to wrest from a people their sacred and invaluable privileges, and compels them, in defence of the same, to encounter all the horrors and calamities of a bloody and vindictive war; then is that people loudly called upon to fly unto that God for protection, who hears the ories of the distressed, and will not turn a deaf ear to the supplication of the oppressed.
Great-Britain, hitherto, left to infatuated counsels, and to pursue measures repugnant to her own interest and distressing to this coun- try, still persists in the design of subjugating these United States; which will compel us into another active and perhaps bloody campaign.
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The United States in Congress assembled, therefore, taking into consideration our present situation, our multiplied transgressions of the holy laws of our God, and his past acts of kindness and goodness towards us, which we ought to record with the liveliest gratitude, think it their indispensable duty to call upon the several States to set apart the last THURSDAY in April next, as a day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer, that our joint supplications may then ascend to the Throne of the Ruler of the universe, beseeching him to diffuse a spirit of universal reformation among all ranks and degrees of our citizens; and make us an holy, that so we may be, an happy people; that it would please him to impart wisdom, in- tegrity and uninimity to our counsellors; to bless and prosper the reign of our illustrious ally, and give success to his arms employed in the defence of the rights of human nature: that he would smile upon our military arrangements by land and sea; administer com- fort and consolation to our prisoners in a cruel captivity ; protect the health and life of our Commander in Chief; grant us victory over our enemies ; establish peace in all our borders, and give happiness to all our inhabitants ; that he would prosper the labour of the hus- bandmen, making the earth yeild her increase in abundance, and give a proper season for the ingathering of the fruits thereof; that he would grant success to all engaged in lawful trade and commerce, and take under his guardianship all schools and seminaries of learning, and make them nurseries of virtue and piety ; that he would incline the hearts of all men to peace, and fill them with universal charity and benevolence, and that the religion of our Divine Redeemer, with all its benign influences, may cover the earth as the waters cover the sea."
I have therefore thought fit, by and with the advice of the hon- ourable, the Privy Council, (as well in conformity to the said procla- mation, as from a deep sense of our indisputable duty to humble our- selves before Almighty God for our multiplied transgressions of his holy laws, and to offer up our joint supplications for the blessings in the said proclamation specified ) to appoint the said last THURSDAY in this present month of April to be set apart and observed in this state as a day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer, hereby recom- mending it to the Ministers of the Gospel, of every denomination therein, to perform Divine service and to the people committed to their charge to attend on publiek worship on that day, and to abstain from servile labour, and all recreations inconsistent with the solemnity of the occasion.
Given under my hand and seal at arms, in Trenton, the fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, and in the sixth year of our independence.
WIL. LIVINGSTON.
By his Excellency's command,
Bowes Reed, Sec'ry.
GOD SAVE THE PEOPLE.
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THE trustees of the College of New-Jersey, are requested to re. member that their stated time of meeting is on Wednesday the 17th insant, and, as there is business of very considerable consequence to be laid before them, it is hoped they will be punctual in their attendance.
SAM. S. SMITH, Clk.
Princeton, April 8th, 1782.
ALL persons indebted to the estate of John Opdyke, Esq. late of Amwell, deceased, are hereby required to make. payment by the first day of May next, otherwise the executors will be put to the disagree. . able necessity of putting them to cost ; and all those who have any demands against the said estate are desired to produce their accounts, properly attested, to
SAMUEL OPDYKE, JOHN BOHANNAN, S Executors.
April 2, 1782.
TO BE SOLD,
At publick vendue, on Monday the 15th instant, (April.)
TIIE plantation whereon the subscriber now lives, situated in the township of Maidenhead, in the county of Hunterdon, and state of New-Jersey ; it consists of one hundred and seventy-five acres and an half, near one hundred of which is good plough land, the re- mainder good meadow and excellent woodland, there is on the premises a frame house almost new, likewise a new frame barn with good stables ; the place is well watered with never failing springs ; likewise an excellent well by the door. It is very convenient to divide into two lots, having a good orchard on each lot, it is bounded on stony-brook, distant nine miles from Trenton and four from Princeton ; any person inclinable to purchase the land by private sale, may apply before the day of vendue. There will be sold the same day horses, cattle, one good yoke of oxen, hogs and sundry other things, the sale will begin at 12 o'clock, when the conditions will be made known by me,
April 5, 1782.
PIIILIP HENDRICKSON.
THREE POUNDS REWARD,
STOLEN out of the stable of Derrick Barraclow, a dark roan horse, about fourteen hands and an half high, rising ten years old, very high spirited, trots and canters, much worn with the gears, and his mouth worn with the bridle: Whoever takes up and secures said horse shall have the above reward and all reasonable charges paid.
N. B. The horse was shod all round, and his shoes were tip'd with steel.
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THIE HORSE BAY RICHMOND,
THAT was sent to Major John Corryel's, in Bucks county, in the state of Pennsylvania, to cover the season, is now removed to the house of Mr. Joseph Holdren, in Hunterdon county, on the Delaware, near Rush Island, where he will cover the ensuing season at the rate of one half Johannes each mare.
Good pasture for mares may be had at a reasonable rate. Bay Richmond is a full bred horse imported from England; for the satis- faction of those who may wish to know his pedigree, it is left with Mr. Holdren, certified under the hand of the gentleman that im- ported him.
[Horses Liberty and Fleetwood --- Maidenhead-Edw. Bainbridge. ]
From the New Jersey Gazette, Vol. V., No. 225, April 17, 1782.
TO THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA.
On the expences, arrangements and disbursements for carrying on the war, and finishing it with honour and advantage.
When any necissity or occasion has pointed out the convenience of addressing the publick, I have never made it a consideration whether the subject was popular or unpopular, but whether it was right or wrong; for that which is right will become popular, and that which is wrong, though by mistake it may obtain the cry or fashion of the day, will soon lose the power of delusion, and sink into disesteem.
A remarkable instance of this happened in the case of Silas Deane ; and I mention the circumstance with the greater case, because the poisoa of his hypocrisy spread over the whole country, and every man. almost without exception, thought me wrong in opposing him. The best friends I had, except Mr. Laurens, stood at a distance, and this tribute which is due to his constancy, I pay to him with respect, and that the readier, because he is not here to hear it. If it reaches him in his imprisonment, it will afford an agreeable reflection.
"As he rose like a rocket, he would fall like the flick," is a metaphor which I applied to Mr. Deane in the first piece which I published respecting him, and he has exactly fulfilled the description. The credit he so unjustly obtained from the publiek, he lost in almost as short a time. The delusion perished as it fell, and he soon saw himself stripped of popular support. His more intimate acquaintance began to doubt and to desert him long before he left America, and at his departure he saw himself the object of general suspicion. When arrived in France, he endeavoured to effect by treason what he had failed to accomplish by fraud. His plans, schemes, and projects, together with his expectation of being sent to Holland to negotiate a loan of money, had all miscarried. He then began traduc- ing and accusing America of every crime, which could injure her rep-
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utation. "That she was a ruined country; that she only meant to "make a tool of France, to get what money she could out of her, and "then leave her, and accommodate with Britain." Of all which, and much more. Colonel Laurens and myself, when in France, informed Dr. Franklin, who had not before heard of it. And to complete the character of a traitor, he has, by letters to this country since, some of which, in his own hand writing, are now in possession of Congress, used every expression and argument in his power to injure the repu- tation of France, and to advise America to renounce her alliance, and surrender up her independence* Thus, in France he abuses America, and in his letters to America he abuses France ; and is endeavouring to create disunion between the two countries, by the same arts of double dealing by which he caused dissensions among the Commis- sioners in Paris, and distractions in America.
But his life has been fraud, and his character is that of a plodding. plotting, cringing mercenary, capable of any disguise that suited his purpose. His final detection has very happily cleared up those mis- takes, and removed those uneasinesses, which his unprincipled conduct occasioned. Every one now sees him in the same light; and towards friends or enemies he acted with the same deception and injustice, and his name, like that of Arnold ought now to be forgotten among us. As this is the first time I have mentioned him since my return from France, it is my intention it shall be the last -From this digression, which for several reasons I thought necessary to give, I now proceed to the purport of my address.
I consider the war of America against Britain as the country's war, the publick's war, or the war of the people in their own behalf, for the security of their natural rights, and the protection of their own property. It is not the war of Congress, the war of the Assemblies, or the war of government, in any line whatever. The country first, by a mutual compact, resolved to defend their rights and maintain their independence, at the hazard of their lives and fortunes. They elected their Representatives, by whom they appointed their members to Congress, and said, act you for us, and irc will support you. This is the true ground and principle of the war on the part of America, and, consequently, there remains nothing to do, but for every one -to fulfil his obligation.
It was next to impossible that a new country, engaged in a new undertaking, could set off systematically right at first. She saw not the extent of the struggle she was involved in, neither could she avoid the beginning. She supposed every step she took, and every resolution she formed, would bring her enemy to reason, and close the contest. Those failing, she was forced into new measures; and these, like the
*Mr. William Marshal, of this city, formerly a pilot, who had been taken at sea and carried to England, and got from thence to France, brought orer letters from Mr. Deane to America, one of which was directed to "Robert Morris, Esq." Mr. Morris sent it unopened to Congress, and ad- rised Mr. Marshal to deliver the others there, which he did. The letters were of the same purport with those which have been already published. under the signature of S. Deane, to which they had frequent reference.
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former, being fitted to her expectations, and failing in their turn, left her continuelly unprovided and without system. The enemy likewise was induced to prosecute the war, from the temporary expedients we adopted for carrying it on. We were continuelly expecting to see their credit exhausted and they were looking to see our currency fail; and thus between their watching us and we them, the hopes of both have been deceived, and the childishness of the expectation has served to increase the expence.
Yet who, through this wilderness of error, has been to blame? Where is the man who can say, the fault has not in part been his? They were the natural unavoidable errors of the day. They were the errors of the whole country, which nothing but experience could detect, and time remove. Neither could the circumstances of America admit of system, till either the paper currency was fixed or laid asside. No calculation of finance could be made on a medium falling without reason, and fluctuating without rule.
But there is one error which might have been prevented, and was not ; and as it is not my custom to flatter, but to serve mankind, I will speak it frecly. It certainly was the duty of every Assembly on the continent to have known, at all times, what was the condition of its treasury, and to have ascertained at every period of depreciation, how much the real worth of the taxes fell short of their nominal value. This knowledge, which might have been easily gained, would have enabled them to have their constituents well informed, which is one of the greatest duties of representation. They ought to have studied and calculated the expenses of the war, the quota of each state, and the consequent proportion that would fall on each man's property for his defence; and this must easily have shewn to them, that a tax of an hundred pounds could not be paid by a bushel of apples or an hundred of flour, which was often the case two or three years ago. But instead of this, which would have been plain and upright dealing, the little line of temporary popularity, the feather of an hour's dura- tion, was too much pursued ; and in this involved condition of things, every state, for the want of a little thinking, or a little information, supposed that it supported the whole expences of the war, when in fact it fell. by the time the tax was levied and collected. above three- fourths short of its own quota.
Impressed with a sence of the danger to which the country was exposed by this tax method of doing business, and the prevailing errors of the day. I published, last October was a twelvemonth, The Crisis Extraordinary, on the revenues of America, and the yearly ex- pence of carrying on the war.
My estimation of the latter, together with the civil list of Congress, and the civil-list of the several states, was Two Million Pounds sterling, which is very nearly Nine Millions of Dollars.
Since that time Congress have' gone into a calculation, and have estimated the expences of the war department and the civil-list of Congress (exclusive of the civil-list of the several governments) at Eight Millions of Dollars; and as the remaining Millions will be fully sufficient for the civil-list of the several states, the two calculations are exceedingly near each other.
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This sum of Eight Millions of Dollars they have called upon the states to furnish, and their quotas are as follows, which I shall preface with the resolution itsself.
By the United States in Congress assembled, October 30th, 1781. Resolved,
THIAT the respective states be called upon to furnish the treasury of the United States with their quotas of Eight Million Dollars, for the war department and civil-list for the ensuing year, to be paid quarterly, in equal proportions, the first payment to be made on the first day of April next.
Resolved.
That a committee, consisting of a member from each state, be appointed to apportion to the several states the quota of the above sum. November 2d.
The committee, appointed to ascertain the proportions of the several states of the monies to be raised for the expences of the en- suing year, report the following resolutions :
That the sum of Eight Millions of Dollars, as required to be raised by the resolution's of the 30th of October last, be paid by the states in the following proportion :
New-Hampshire,
373,598. 1307,596.
Massachusetts,
Rhode-Island,
216,684. 747,196.
Connecticut,
New-York,
New-Jersey,
Pennsylvania,
373,598. 485,679. 1120,794.
Delaware,
112,085.
Maryland,
933,996.
Virginia.
1307,594.
North-Carolina,
622,677.
South-Carolina,
373,598.
Georgia,
24,905.
S,000,000 Dollars.
Resolved,
That it be recommended to the several states, to lay taxes for raising their quotas of money for the United States, separate from those lands laid for their own particular use.
On these resolutions I shall offer several remarks,
First. On the sum itsself, and the ability of the country.
Secondly. On the several quotas, and the nature of a Union. And Thirdly. On the manner of collection and expenditure.
First. On the sum itsself, and the ability of the country. As I know my own calculation is as low as possible, and as the sum called for by Congresss, according to their calculations, agrees very nearly therewith, I am sensible it cannot possibly be lower. Neither can it be done for that, unless there is ready money to go to market with ; and even in that case, it is only by the utmost management and economy that it can be made to do.
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By the accounts which were laid before the British parliament last spring, it appears that the charge of only subsisting, that is feeding, their army in America, cost annually Four Million Pounds sterling, which is very nearly Eight Million Dollars. Now, if for Eight Million, we can feed, clothe, arm, provide for and pay an army suf- ficient for our defence, the very comparison shows that the money must be well laid out.
It may be of some use, either in debate, or conversation to attend to the progress of the expences of an army, because it will enable us to see on what part any deficiency will fall.
The first thing is to feed them, and provide for the sick.
Secondly, to clothe them.
Thirdly, to arm and furnish them.
Fourthly, to provide means for removing them from place to place. And,
Fifthly, to pay them.
The first and second are aboslutely necessary to them as men. The third and fourth are equally as necessary to them as an army. And the fifth is their just due. Now if the sum which shall be raised should fall short, either by the several acts of states for raising it, or by the manner of collecting it, the deficiency will fall on the fifth head, the soldiers pay, which would be defrauding them, and eternally disgracing ourselves. It would be a blot on the counci.s, the country, and the revolution of America, and a man would here- after be ashamed to own he had any hand in it.
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