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Capt. Huddy was one of the bravest of men, a fit subject therefore of cowardly inhumanity .- Ile has distinguished himself on a variety of occasions, one instance of which I cannot avoid mentioning: The sum- mer before last alone and unassisted, except by a woman, he defended his house against a party of near seventy refugees for several hours, and when it was in a manner riddled with musket balls, and in flames about him. he refused to submit until he obtained from the assailants safe and honourable terms : among the number who were killed in that en. counter was the famous negro Tye, justly much more to be feared and respected as an enemy, than any of his brethren of the fairer complexion. -- C'apt. Iluddy also commanded the troops at the Block-House on Tom's river, when it was lately reduced ; he defended it most gallantly against a vast superiority of numbers, until his ammunition was expended, and no alternative was left. -- The refugees, like their task-masters, the Brit- ish, who employ them in every kind of infamous business, are always cruel in success and pitifully mean in adversity. After the little brave garrison was in their power, they deliberately murdered five of the sol- diers asking for quarters. From Tom's River Capt. Huddy, Justice Ran- dolph, and the remaining prisoners were taken to New-York, where suffer- ing the various progressions of barbarity usually exercised upon those who are destined to a violent or a lingering death, those two gentlemen, with a Mr. Fleming were put into the hold of a vessel. Capt, Huddy was Ironed hand and foot. On Monday last a certain John Tilton, a refugee, came to him, and told him, "That he was ordered (by the board of ref- ugees, as we supposed to be banged." Capt. Huddy asked "What charge was alledged against him?" Tilton replied, "That he had taken a cor- tain Philip White, a refugee, six miles up in the country, cut off both his arms, broke both his legs, pulled out one of his eyes, and then damned him and bid 'him run." To this Huddy answered, "It is im- possible that I could have taken Philip White, I being a prisoner closely confined in New-York at the time and for many days before he was made a prisoner. Justice Randolph confirmed what Huddy had said, and as- sured Tilton that he could not possible be charged with White's death ; upon which Tilton told Mr. Randolph that "He should be hanged next." This slimsy story, which must have been created by the murderous hearts of the refugees, to cloak their villany, was the only crime charged against Capt. Huddy, and was the common subject of their conversation. From the sloop, Capt. Huddy, with his fellow prisoners, were put on board the guard ship at the Hook, and confined between decks till Friday morn- ing the 12th inst. when some men, strangers to the prisoners, came below and told Capt. Huddy to "Prepare to be hanged immediately." He again said, "He was not guilty of having killed White." and that "He should die an innocent man, and in a good cause ;" and with the most uncommon fortitude and composure of mind, prepared for his end. and with the spirit of a true son of liberty, he waited the moment of his fate, which he met with a degree of firmness and serenity, which struck the coward hearts of his executioners with admiration. . He even
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executed his will under the gallows, upon the head of that barrel from which he was immediately to make his exit, and in a hand-writing fairer than usual.
The circumstances attending the death of the above mentioned Philip White, were as follows :
On Saturday the 30th of March last, he was surprised by a party of our people, and after he had laid down his arms in token of surrender- Ing himself a prisoner, he again took up his musket and killed a son of Col. Hendrickson ; he was however taken by our light horse, and, on his way from Colts-Neck to Freehold, where they were conducting him, he again attempted to make his escape from the guard, who called on him wveral times to surrender, but he continued running, although often crossed and recrossed by the light horse, and desired to stop and finally, when leaping into a bog, impassable by the horse, he received a stroke In the head with a sword, which killed him instantly. The above facts have not only been proved by the affidavits of our friends who were pres- ent, but by the voluntary and candid testimony of one Aaron White, who was taken prisoner with the said Philip.
Capt. Huddy was taken prisoner on Sunday the 24th of March, and kept in close custody, with Justice Randolph, out of whose presence he never was for half an hour from the time he was taken. until the hour of his execution, which shows how impossible it was for him to have been concerned in White's death, and that they must have known it was so.
To shew their insolence yet further, they left the following label af- fixed to the breast of the unfortunate Capt. Huddy.
"We the refugees having with grief long beheld the cruel murders of our brethren and finding nothing but such measures daily carrying into execution,
"We therefore determine not to suffer without taking vengence for the numerous cruelties, and thus began (and I say may those lose their liberty who do not follow on) and have made use of Capt. Huddy as the first object to present to your views, and further determine to hang man for man as long as a refugee is left existing, "Up goes Huddy for Philip White."
This paper needs no comment. Is it not high time seriously to en- quire whether these refugees are owned by, and under the direction of, the British commander at New-York? If so, and he should refuse to deliver up the wicked perpetrators of the above murder, ought we not to treat his officers in the same manner until satisfaction be obtained ? If, as some say, they are not under his authority, what are they but pirates and robbers? and, why ought they not to be treated as such when they fall into our hands?"
The Hon. the Justices of the Supreme court, have appointed the courts of Nisi Prius, Oyer and Terminer, &c. on the western circuit, to be held at the following times and places, viz. At Middle-Precinct, in and for the county of Cape-May, on Tuesday the 28th day of May next ; at Bridgeton, in and for the county of Cumberland, on Tuesday the 4th day of June next, at Salem, in and for the county of Salem, on Tuesday the 11th day of June next, at Gloucester, in and for the county of Gloucester, on Tuesday the 18th day of June next ; and at Burlington, in and for the county of Burlington, on Tuesday the 25th day of June next.
We are informed that on Friday night last, Capt. IIyler with a one gun boat and a barge went on an expedition to the Narrows. where he surprised and captured a British cutter, mounting six 18 and ten 9 pounders; but the wind being unfavorable for bringing her off, and having landed her crew, about 50 in number, and taking
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out such articles as he thought proper, set her on fire. He also took a sloop at the same time, which he ransomed for 400 Dollars, - The prisoners are properly secured.
A letter from Baltimore, of the 16th inst. mentioned the arrival of Count Guichen at Martinico, with 10 sail of the line, from France-
By a New-York paper of the twelfth instant, we learn, that a fleet of 45 transports arrived there the 11 from Charlestown, under convoy, in which the titular Governor of Virginia, Lord Dunmore. was a passenger,-and that the General Greene and Charming Sally. belonging to Philadelphia, are carried into New-York.
for To-morrow is to be observed as a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer, throughout the United-States.
[ Horse Marquis-Amwell-John Reading.] PUBLIC VENDUE.
ON Monday the sixth of May next, will be sold, at publick vendue, sundry household furniture, at the house now in the tenure of Mrs. Catherine Low, at Raritan landing; and a number of male and female servants hired for one or more years as most agreeable to those who choose to hire them.
Also to be sold, and may be entered upon immediately, a large commodious stone house, two stories high, four rooms on a floor, the front rooms twenty feet square, cellars under the whole, and a large kitchen, adjoining the house; the situation is healthy and pleasant, commanding an extensive view of the river Raritan, and is two miles above Brunswick.
A convenient frame house, now in the tenure of Mr. Samuel Sears, with upland and meadow lots, and large barns and stables appertaining to each of the above dwellings. Also a very large convenient store-house.
For terms enquire of the subscriber, at his store in water-street. five doors below chestnut-street' in Philadelphia, who will also at- tend on the premises on the day above appointed.
April 22, 1782.
NICHOLAS LOW.
BY HIS EXCELLENCY:
William Livingston, Esquire, Governor, Captain-General and Com- mander in Chief in and over the state of New-Jersey, and the ter- ritories thereunto belonging, Chancellor and Ordinary in the same.
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS it has been duly represented to me in council, that between the hours of eleven and twelve o'clock, in the evening of the twelfth day of April, instant, the dwelling-house of the honour-
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able Isaac Smith, Esquire, one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of Judicature of this state, situate in the county of Hunterdon, was robbed by a number of persons unknown, armed and associated in a party, four of whom entered the said house with muskets and pistols, and besides putting the family in fear, robbed the said house of money and effects, to the amount of one hundred and sixty pounds, and upwards.
I have therefore thought fit, by and with the advice and consent of the honourable the privy council, by virtue and in pursuance of a certain act of the legislature of this state in such case lately made and provided, to issue this proclamation, hereby promising a reward of One Hundred Pounds, lawful money, to any person who shall apprehend and secure any of the persons concerned in com- mitting the said robbery, so as that such offender, who shall be ap- prehended, be legally convicted of the said robbery.
Given under my hand and seal at arms, at Trenton, the nine- teenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-two. WIL. LIVINGSTON.
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ALL persons indebted to the subscriber, by bond, note or book-ac- count, are desired to make immediate payment unto Joseph Baker (at the mills now occupied by Daniel Hunt, Esq.) who is authorized to receive the same. Those who do not attend to this request need not expect further indulgence-as I intend leaving this state.
N. B. Those who have any demands against him, are desired to take in their accounts in order for payment.
April 10, 1782.
MAHLON TAYLOR. .
ALL, persons indebted to the estate of the Rev. Jeremiah Halsey, late of Hunterdon county, deceased, are requested to make payment by the first day of May next to the subscriber, otherwise they will be sued without any further notice.
DAVID HENRY, Administrator.
Bedminster, Somerset, April 12, 1782.
[ Horse Bold Hunter-Maidenhead-Henry Mershon. ]
ALL persons indebted to the estate of James Hill, late of Trenton, deceased, are requested to make immediate payment, and those who have any just demands against the said estate, are desired to bring in their accounts properly authenticated, that they may be settled by SARAH HILL, MARGARET HILL Execut.
Trenton, April 23, 1782.
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New-Jersey, . BY virtue of an order from the Honour-
Burlington county, ss. able, the Chief Justice of this state, I am directed to certify the publick that a court of Nisi Prius, Oyer and Terminer, and General Gaol Delivery, will be held at the court- house in Burlington, in and for the county of Burlington, on Tuesday the twenty-fifth day of June next. All Justices of the Peace, Coroners, Constables, and other ministers of justice, of the said county are hereby desired, that they be then and there in their own persons, with their rolls, records, indictments and other remem- brances ; and all persons who will prosecute or can bear testimony in behalf of the state, against any offender in the said county, are desired likewise to give their attention on the day and at the place aforesaid.
JACOB PHILLIPS. Sheriff.
Burlington, April 12, 1782.
ALL perosns indebted to the estate of John Ringo, late of Am- well, in the county of Hunterdon, deceased, by bond, bill, note, book, or otherwise, are once more desired to make immediate payment to the subscriber, that she may be enabled to discharge the debts of the said deceased. If this request is not attended to, the accounts and demands must be put in suit.
Amwell, April 18, 1782.
Martha Ringo, Adm.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY, A NUMBER of good WAGGONERS. To serve with the Main Army the ensuing campaign.
THEIR wages will be Ten hard Dollars per month, One month's pay will be given in advance the day they enlist ; another month's pay before the army takes the field; and the remainder of their wages at the close of the campaign, on the day they are discharged. These are generous wages, and will be punctually paid at the times above-mentioned.
Any persons inclined to engage in the above service, are desired to apply to John Neilson, Deputy Quarter-Master, Morristown, be- tween this and the middle of May next. Such persons as are not known to said John Neilson, or Aaron Forman, must bring from a Magistrate, or some other gentleman of note where they live, cer- tificates of their places of abode, and qualifications.
March 6th, 1782.
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Mr. Collins,
The following elegant little ode, written by a lady on the anniversary of her husband's death, tho' it deserves a more lasting remembrance than a Gazette can gire it ; yet in the mean-time, may serve to enter- tain your ingenious readers. Sent to me as a friend, I have to beg her excuse for thus exposing her grief to the eye of the publick, while I wish to show it, her wit.
A. B.
An elegiack Ode on the 28th day of February. The anniversary of Mr. death.
I'VE heard the tempest howl along the plain, And screaming winds pour forth a dreadful blast, While leaks of snow, and sheets of driving rain Presented nature as a weary waste.
Howl now ye tempests, blow ye winds around- Your gloomy sounds are musick to my car ; Such as I never yet in zephyrs found,
Tho' fan'd by purple wings of vernal air. The gloomy sound, according with my wo, Spreads a soft melancholy o'er my mind, That sooths my pangs, and gives the tender flow Of lenient drops, to sorrow, ever kind.
Ah! what avails my sorrows' sad complaint, While in the grave my Lucius breathless lies ? The turf enshrines the dust ; the skies the saint; But left behind the hapless mourner dies.
Each day I feel the anguish more severe ; In crowds, in solitude, at home, abroad- Bereav'd of all my inmost soul held dear, I find her sinking fast beneath the load.
No change of circumstance, no varying scene, Can draw the deep, envenom'd, barbed dart : Tho' care maternal, prompts the look serene ; The anxious sigh, still wrings the mother's heart, Oh! on this day, may each revolving year, Be mark'd by nature's sympathetic groan ! Nor sighing gales, deny the pitying tear, While at his tomb, I make my silent moan !
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The weeping winds, report my tender grief- And see ! a group celestial hastening down, To share my wo, and bring my pain releif, By holding up a bright immortal crown! Religion first, with Heaven's resplendent beam, Presents a glass to meet my tearful eye- Behold ! behind this life's impervious screen, My fav'rite son, and wipe your sorrows dry. Then friendship, science, liberty, and truth, Write on his tomb, in characters sublime, Approve the efforts, of his age and youth, To hand their influence down to future time. The graces too, by cloquence led on, With cypress garlands strew his hallowed grave : For they had fondly mark'd him as their own- But vain their power, and influence to save ! In times when civil discord holds her court ; And vice triumphant, keeps her ancient post : When most is needed, such a firm support, They mourn with me, their friend and patron lost.
EMELIA.
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Mr. Collins,
In a late Gazette you published a computation of the number of inhabi- tants in this state; I will beg leave to give you a single instance which may throw some light upon the surprising rapidity and numerousness of population in a free and fertile country. Oppression drove my grand- father and family from England to Pennsylvania, when the place where Philadelphia now stands shewed one house, and that a small frame one. My father was about five years old ; before twenty be married my mother ; they had issue thirteen children. After my mothers death about twenty- one years ago I undertook to number the living from my parents. There were sons and daughters nine; grandchildren 71; great-grand children 112 ; and one of the fifth. generation downwards. My mother could say to her eldest son then living, son, your daughter's daughter has a daughter. While virtue and simplicity of manners remain, such will be their effects ; luxury, execrable luxury, this is what destroys mankind, and robs the earth of inhabitants. I am now 65 years old, and I bless God that those infamous oppressors, the tories of Great Britain, involuntarily sent me to this goodly land. A place too good for them, and they may as well go about their business, for they will never get it.
HI. F.
RAGS.
The highest price is given for clean linen and cotton rags, by the printer hereof-by whom printing, as usual, is correctly done, .with neatness and expedition.
From the New Jersey Gazette, Vol. V., No. 227, May 1, 1782.
BY HIS EXCELLENCY The GOVERNOR. Head-Quarters, Trenton, April 22, 1782.
AT a Court-Martial whereof Major Richard Dey was president, held at the bridge in the county of Bergen, by order of his Excellency the Governor, and continued by several adjournments : Capt. Elias Romine was tried upon the following charges.
1st For taking bribes to remit the fines of persons disaffected to the present government.
2d For robbing the inhabitants of their property.
3d. For threatening and abusing several of the inhabitants of the county of Bergen, for applying to the Colonel of the said county, to have him arrested and tried for the aforesaid crimes, and declaring that the whigs should suffer for the said complaint, and that he would make them sweat for it.
The court having mutually considered the evidence offered on the several charges against Capt. Romine, do find him guilty of the first and second charges, and not guilty of the third, and adjudged him to be cashiered, and dismissed from the service as an officer of the militia.
The Governor having duly considered the evidence produced to the said Court-Martial, and the sentence and acquittal of the same, approves of and confirms the adjudication of the said court against the said Captain Romine, and orders the same to take place accordingly.
WIL. LIVINGSTON.
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Extract of a letter from Minisink, dated April 7.
"This moment we received the disagreeable intelligence that the avages killed a family of the Smiths yesterday, about 12 o'clock, on the Pennsylvania side of the river, about twelve miles below this place --- It is said the whole family, both parents, children and work- men were all scalped together.
TRENTON, May 1. From Rivington's Gazette, April 25.
Last Sunday evening arrived the Brigantine Pearl, Captain Car- son, in eight weeks from Lisbon; on her passage she fell in with the private ship of war Virginia, belonging to this port, to whom the European papers were delivered, which prevented us from re- reiving the intelligence contained in them .- By this vessel we are informed, that the garrison of Minorca capitulated on the 17th of February, and that a considerable fleet of men of war and transports with troops, had sailed from Cadiz for the West-Indies, previous to Captain Carson's departure from Lisbon.
The account of the taking of Minorca was brought by an express to the Spanish Embassador at Lisbon ; it is said there were no more than 11000 men fit for service, and those so exhausted, by incessant exertions, that there was no alternative but in submission to the vast force of the besiegers.
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FIFTEEN HALF JOHANNESSES REWARD.
ON the night of the 22d inst. between the hours of eleven and one o'clock, the house of the subscriber, at Baskingridge, in the county of Somerset, was broke open by a number of armed villains, three of whom entered the house and robbed it of the following .
effects, viz. A green damask gown which had been turned; a black taffety do. do. a black paduasoy do; a number of silk, cotton, and thread stockings marked I. M. ; 15 new ruffled shirts, among which were four fine holland, two of them with edging, all marked I. M. ; two pair white corded breeches; a new silk damascus waistcoat, with red and yellow stripes, laced in the back ; a superfine garnet- coloured cloth jacket and breeches, with gold spangled buttons; to- gether with a variety of other articles of clothing, the most re- markable being only here mentioned: a new beaver hat; a gold watch, the works cased, maker's name John Green, London, number unknown, a steele chain to it, with a seal, a garnet. set in gold, the letters I. M. engraved on it in a cypher; 1 pair round paste shoe buckles, 1 pair round silver ditto, 1 pair square do. do. 2 pair square plated ditto, I stock buckle, a large silver tankard marked A. G.
The third letter unknown, a man's head on the end of the handle; a large silver soup spoon, 5 table do. marked I S M with a lion
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rampant engraved on the handles, 9 silver tea spoons marked I S M. a silver tea tongs, silver milk pot, a pair large silver plated candle. sticks, 3 gold rings, one set with garnets, a golden locket for & necklace, a number of locket buttons, besides other trinkets; & china snuff-box in the shape of a pine-apple; a pair of French steel-mounted pistols, a steel band over the gripe of one of them; one steele screw barrel do. silver mounted, the lock on the top. marked S. Unwin on the side; about 30 1. in gold and silver; a red Morocco pocket-book in which were the following Connecticut state certificates, viz. Three of 100 Pounds each, No. 508, 509, 510. -- Five of Fifty Pounds each, No. 298, 299, 300, 301, 177 .- Four of Thirty Pounds each, No. 950, 951, 952, 953 .- Two of Ten Pounds each, No. 1834, 1835, all in the name of Mr. Stephen Steele, dated 12th day of February, 1778, signed 10th July 1778, John Lawrence, treasurer, a note of hand for 110 1. signed John Boylan, together with many other valuable papers which cannot at present bo de- scribed. It is requested that every person to whom the above described papers or any others made payable to the subscriber may come, will be kind enough to secure them for him. The most active of the villains was a middling sized person, about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, had on a dark coloured great coat, and spotted jecket ; brown hair; the second something taller, had a blue coat with red facings; the third a tall man, with black eyes, black hair and a pale complexion, had on a dark brown great coat. Whoever secures the above villains, or any of them, so that they may be brought to justice, and the goods recovered by the owner, shall be entitled to the above reward, or one half for the villains, or goods only, and in proportion for any part of the goods.
Baskingridge, April 23, 1782.
JOHN MORTON.
THE subscriber hereby acquaints his friends and the publick in general, that he has lately moved to the old stand, 'in Pennington, opposite the church, which he formerly 'kept, where he purposes keeping good entertainment for travellers, &c. Those gentlemen who choose to favour him with their custom, may depend on the best of usage. THO. BULLMAN.
N. B. To be let, and may be entered on immediately, a convenient house for a store-keeper, with good garden, stable, &c .- Enquire of the subscriber. Pennington, April 29, 1782.
ALL persons indebted to the estate of John Savidge, late of Somerset county, deceased, by bond, note, or otherwise, are desired to discharge the same, by the ninth day of May next, to the sub- seribers, or they will be dealt with according to law ; and those who have any demands, are desired to bring their accounts attested for settlement.
WILLIAM SAVIDGE, jun. - Adms. JOHN VOORHEES,
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