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Somerset, April 27, 1782.
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April 26, 1782.
WE once more desire all those who are indebted to the estate of Samuel Titus, deceased, to come and settle their accounts, or they may depend upon it they will find trouble from JOHNSON TITUS, JOSEPH TITUS, Administrators. JOHN JJOHNSON,
April 23, 1782.
ALL, persons who bought at the vendue held March the 15 and 16, in 1780, in the township of Hillsborough, county of Somerset, state of New-Jersey, of the goods and chattels of Aaron Camp, deceased, and have not paid, are desired to come and discharge their accounts, or otherwise they must expect to pay interest from the seventeenth day of March 1782; and those who bought at said vendue, and cannot pay the money, and have not given security, are requested to come and give good security immediately.
SAMUEL WOLDRON, DIRCK LOW, Execut.
Will be sold the 4th of May next at the dwelling-house of Asher West, in Princeton,
A NUMBER of muskets, one swivel gun, one blunderbuss, several barrels of gunpowder, a valuable chest of medicine that cost 120 1. in New-York, two cases Surgeons instruments, one cask raisins, some bohea tea, a quantity of wearing apparel, among which are a great number of men's shoes; being lately captured by Capt. Adam Hyler, and sold by order of the Judge. Sale will begin precisely at ten o'clock.
JOIIN M'COMB, Marshal.
Princeton, April 29, 1782.
THE subscribers earnestly request all persons who are indebted to the estate of the late Nathaniel Moore, deceased, for goods bought at the vendue, or otherwise, to make immediate payment, otherwise they will be under the disagreeable necessity of recovering the outstanding debts by law.
MARY MOORE, JOSEPH MOORE, Execut.
Hopewell, April 26, 1782.
A VALUABLE plantation most agreeably situated at the falls of Shrewsbury, in Monmouth county, state of New-Jersey, where the Reverend Charles M'Knight lately lived, containing seventy-six acres or thereabout, with two tenements, a barn, orchard, and a well of good water thereon. For terms and further particulars apply to Dr. Elisha Newell, near the premises.
April 15, 1782.
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THE Latin school at Freehold, Monmouth county, is again revived in a peaceable and agreeable 'neighbourhood, where board may be had on reasonable terms; a number of gentlemen of the first char- acters in the county are chosen trustees, whos zeal for the interest of the institution may afford the most pleasing hopes to the em- ployers .- Mr. Clark, a very worthy and capable gentleman, late of New-Jersey college, is instructor, who gives the fullest satisfaction, so that the school is already in a flourishing state. It is requested that such young gentlemen as are designed for the school this session, would be there as near the first of May as possible, when the session commences, as they will then have an oppertunity of being classed to advantage : and parents may rest assured, that due attention will be paid both to their instruction and morals.
Freehold, April 18, 1782.
JOHN WOODHULL.
TWELVE DOLLARS REWARD.
STRAYED or STOLEN on the night of the 25th instant, a black horse, seven or eight years old, with a small star, about fourteen hands and a half high, marked J. R. on the near buttock, almost blind in the near eye, a natural trotter, and is marked on the shoulders with a fistula, and on the back with the saddle.
Whoever takes up the said horse and thief, and delivers the horse to the subscriber. in Trenton, shall have. Six Dollars reward for the horse, and six for the thief on conviction, and all reasonable charges paid by HENRY SYBERT.
Trenton, April 29, 1782.
TO BE SOLD.
A SET of black smith's tools, at Peter Lupp's, near Ringo's old tavern, in Amwell, Hunterdon county.
April 23. 1782.
I DO hereby forewarn any person or persons whatever from trust- ing my wife. Hannah Spenser, on my account as I am determined not to pay any debts of her contracting from this day.
JOHN SPENSER. Middlesex, April 26, 1782.
THE subscriber, intending in a short time to remove to Phila- delphia, purposes to sell, by publick vendue, on Saturday the 4th day of May next, at the house where he now dwells in Maidenhead, a number of horses, cows, hogs, &c .- Farming utensils, such as ploughs, harrows, a good almost new waggon and gears, felling axes. hoes, &c. grain in the stack, and on the ground, empty hogheads and barrels, and a variety of other articles too tedious to enumerate. The vendue will begin precisely at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of said day, when the conditions of sale will be made known, and attendance given by
PETER COWENHOVEN.
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All persons indebted to the said Peter Cowenhoven, are desired to , come immediately, settle their accounts, and make speedy payments ; -- And those that have any demands are requested to make them, in order that they may be finally adjusted. P. C. April 26, 1782.
State of New-Jersey, to wit,
To all whom it may concern,
NOTICE is hereby given that a Court of Admiralty will be held at the Court-house in Burlington, on Wednesday the 22d day of May next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to try the truth of the facts alledged in the bill of Adam Hyler, commander of the privateer armed boat Revenge, (who as well &c.) against certain negro men to wit, John Holland, Charles Jackson, Harry Jackson, John Brown, Plato Williams, Samuel Creighton, Francis Chambers, John Richards, John White, Peter Peters and Frank Oatman, and sundry goods, wares and merchandize, taken at sea from on board the British cutter Alert, commanded by Robert White, on her voyage from New-York to Bermuda, brought into this state, and libelled by the said Adam Hyler; to the end that the owner or owners of the said negroes and merchandize, or any other person or persons interested therein, may appear and shew cause, if any they have, why the same should not be condemned to the captors, and a decree of the said court thereon pass, agreeably to the prayer of the bill aforesaid.
By order of the Judge, JOS. BLOOMFIELD, Reg.
Burlington, 27 April, 1782.
STOLEN out of the stable of the subscriber, at Baskingridge, on Wednesday night the 24th of this instant. April, a black horse, about 14 and an half hands high, branded with the letter R. on the near shoulder, about his neck and other parts the hair worn off, a small star in his face, a small place on the rump rubbed with the breech- collar, the right eye hurt by a blow of a whip, a natural trotter, canters short and easy : Whoever takes up said horse, and thief or thieves, and secures him or them, so as he or they be brought to justice, and the owner receive his horse, shall have Six Dollars, or for the horse Three Dollars, and reasonable charges paid by
THO. BURGIES.
FRYING PANS AND TAR,
To be sold at the Printing-Office.
A Quantity of Low-Priced, Writing-Paper, to be sold at the Printing-Office.
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New-Jersey, Mid- NOTICE is hereby given that the sales of dlesex county. - sundry lots of land, situate in Perth-Amboy. of and belonging unto the estate of Elias Bland, deceased, adjourned for want of buyer's, to this day, is further adjourned to Monday the 27th day of May next, to be sold at publick auction at the house of John De Grew, inn-holder, at the Ferry house, in New-Brunswick, between the hours of 12 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon, when a draft of the lots will be shewn to the purchaser.
John Piatt, late Sheriff. N. B. the administrator of Elias Bland, deceased, requests all per- sons indebted to the said estate, also those who have any demand, to attend on the said 27th day of May, at the time and place aforesaid. William Calvert.
TO BE SOLD, at publick vendue,
AT Raritan, on the farm now occupied by Mr. John Bennet, and next place adjoining to Messrs. William Crook and Joshua Wallace. on Thursday the 16th of May, a number of horses and colts, all the horned cattle on the place, consisting of cows, calves and steers, and sundry farming utensils: a short credit will be given, and the other conditions of sale, which will be made known at the above- mentioned time and place.
Raritan, May 1, 1782.
May 6th, 1782.
WILL be sold. at vendue, at the house of John Cape, inn-holder in Trenton, on Saturday the 11th instant, the following goods, re- maining unsold of those advertized for sale the 14th instant, at Princeton, viz, a quantity of gun powder, a number of muskets, one blunderbuss, a quantity of clothing, some shoes, beds, mattresses and bedding : - Also a chest of medicines, consisting of a variety of the most capital articles -- and a set of amputating and trepanning in- struments.
From the New Jersey Gazette, Vol. V., No. 229, May 15, 1782. For the New-Jersey Gazette.
Whoever will carefully peruse the latest New-York and English papers respecting the American war, with the debates of parliament on that subject, cannot avoid concluding that the proposed alteration of measures, as to its future prosecution, instead of affording us any rational prospect of peace, is intended as a mere delusion to quiet the minds of the people of England, and to lull America into a state of inactivity and indolence. The eagerness with which the tories amongst us are propagating the news of a peace, is another argument with every man of reflection, that we cannot be too cautious in beleiving reports so apparently calculated for the same insidious purpose. Depend upon it, my countrymen, that the real
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plan of the British ministry is to draw us off from our connections with France; that having with this deception hushed us into security, they may be the better enabled to prosecute the war in other parts of the world with the greater rigour, and if successful, return upon us with redoubled fury.
With these impressions it is earnestly wished, that every real friend to his country will peruse all the European intelligence con- tained in this paper, and not agree to the least relaxation of our operations against the enemy in the ensuing campaign, well knowing that if the parliament are really in earnest in obtaining peace with us, it cannot be to our disadvantage to keep our arms in our hands until our wishes of an honourable peace are fully accomplished.
An old Politician.
PHILADELPHIA, May S.
The following is said to be a genuine copy of the letter from his Excellency General Washington to Sir Harry Clinton, on the subject of the murder of Captain Huddy.
Head-Quarters, April 21, 1782.
Sir.
The inclosed representation from the inhabitants of the county of Monmouth, with testimonials to the fact, (which can be corroborated by other unquestionable evidence) will bring before your Excellency the most wanton, cruel, and unprecedented murder that ever disgraced the arms of a civilized people. I shall not, because I conceive it altogether unnecessary, trouble your Excellency with any animadversions on this transaction. . Condour obliges me to be explicit ;- to save the innocent, I demand the guilty.
Captain Lippencut, therefore, or the officer who commanded at the execution of Captain IInddy, must be given up; or if that officer was of inferior rank to him, so many of the perpetrators as will, according to the tariff of exchange, be an equivalent. To do this, will mark the justice of your Excellency's character. In failure of it, I shall hold myself justified, in the eyes of God and man, for the measure to which I shall resort.
I beg your Excellency to be persuaded, that It cannot be more disagree- able to you to be addressed in the language, than it is to me to offer it : but the subject requires frankness and decision.
I have to request your speedy determination, as my resolution is sus- pended but for your answer.
I have the honour to be, &c.
TRENTON, May 15.
On Friday last came to town from New-York, Lieutenant-Colonel Livingston, son to his Excellency Governor Livingston. This gentle- man was taken, the 25th of April last, on his return from Spain, by the Quebee frigate, and carried to New-York-Immediately on his landing there, he was committed, by General Robertson's orders, to the provost, and continued in confinement until the arrival of Sir Guy Carleton, who has liberated him on parole,
On Monday the sixth inst. the house of Andrew Larison, in Amwell, caught fire by accident, and was entirely consumed, with most of the household goods.
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AT The Legislature meets here this day, pursuant to adjournment.
Head-Quarters, Trenton, May 13, 1782. BY IHIS EXCELLENCY the GOVERNOR.
WHEREAS His Excellency the Commander in Chief of the armies of these United States has given the most peremptory orders to the officers under his command, that no flag from the enemy shall be received at any other place or port than Dobb's-Ferry, on any business or pretext whatever; and that no flag from us to them shall (for any reason however pressing) be permitted to pass to the enemy's lines, except from the same place; and hath solicited my concurrence and assistance in the execution of this measure-I do therefore hereby notify the same to all the officers of the militia of this state, and all others whom it may concern : and all such officers are hereby directed not to receive any flag from the enemy at any other place or port than Dobb's-Ferry, on any business or pretext whatever, nor to permit any flag from us to them (for any reason however pressing) to pass to the enemy's lines, except from the same place. And for the more effectually carrying into execution the said regulation, which from the present juncture of affairs is become peculiarly necessary ; every officer of the said militia who is now, or hereafter may be, on command at any post in this state, is hereby directed to put under immediate arrest any other officer who shall presume to contravene the intention of this order on our side ; and to detain, as prisoners, all persons that shall come from the enemy with flags, at any other place or port than the one as aforesaid for that purpose established.
WIL. LIVINGSTON.
FOUND,
SEVERAL dozen watch springs, on the banks of Sanpink. The owner, by applying to the subscriber, at Trenton landing, proving his property, and paying the expence of this advertisement, may have them again. NATHANIEL MOORE.
WANTED,
A Middle aged woman, to tend children and sew in a small family --- Enquire of the printer. None need apply except they can be well recommended.
ALL, persons indebted to the estate of William Compton, deceased. are desired to pay by the middle of June next, and those who have any demands against said estate, are requested to bring in their accounts for settlement.
ICHAOBUD COMPTON, - Executors. JOIIN COMPTON,
Upper-Freehold, Mon. County, May 8, 1782.
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TO BE SOLD,
A STRONG healthy negro man, about five and twenty years old, bred to farming, has had the small-pox and measles, is very honest and sober: the purchaser will have a satisfactory assurance of his character, and that he is sold for no fault. Enquire of Thomas Nor- ris, of Windsor township, Middlesex county.
TAKEN up for horse-stealing, one Jesse Meridith; there was found with him a brown horse, thirteen hands high, above twelve years old, paces under the saddle, without brand or ear mark; also an old hunting saddle, snaffle bridle, a pair of old holsters, and a pair of brass barrelled holster pistols, marked Barker on the lock ; one pair of leather saddle bags, at the end of the strap that laces them is a pewter hasp, and in them were sundry articles, &c. which are in the hands of the subscriber. Any person or persons owning any of the above-mentioned goods, may have them again, by proving their property, and paying charges. JOHN CORYELL.
Bucks county, May 7, 1782.
Wanted immediately.
A PERSON qualified for teaching an English school; such a one may meet with encouragement by applying to the subscriber in Amwell. Thomas Reading.
April 17, 1782.
From the New Jersey Gasette, Vol. V., No. 230, May 22. 1782. House of Assembly, May 21, 1782.
On Motion,
Resolved,
THAT the doors of this house be kept open, and that the in- habitants of the state be permitted to be present at the transacting the business of the house, except on such particular occasions as in the opinion of the house shall require secrecy.
Extract from the minutes. MASKELL EWING, jun. Clk.
THIE trustees of Queen's-College in New-Jersey, are requested to meet at New-Brunswick on Wednesday the twelfth day of June next, precisely at 11 o'clock in the morning on business of im- portance.
By order J. R. Hardenbergh, Clk. May 13, 1782.
FOR SALE,
THE grist mills and saw-mill of the subscriber, situate on the south branch of the Raritan, near the forks of Raritan, a never failing stream, consisting of a large mill-house, with two run of stones, merchant and country bolts, a convenient saw-mill, two dwelling-
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houses, with a large merchant's store, Dutch barn, and out houses -- a large orchard, mostly grafted, with 80 acres of good land adjoining the mill. 15 acres of which is excellent meadow, lying on the river, 20 acres woodland, and the rest tillable, well watered, and shad and other fish caught by the door-a very healthy place, and is a good mill seat, lying in the midst of a thick settled country, and a good stand for trade, being 16 miles from New-Brunswick, 30 miles from Trenton, and 50 miles from Philadelphia ; the purchaser can enter on the premises immediately. For terms apply to Peter Dumont, on the premises.
May 2, 1782.
NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to the directions of the council of general proprietors of West-Jersey, a petition will be presented to the honourable the Legislature at their next session, for a law. to appoint commissioners from some of the neighbouring states to ascertain the line of partition between the eastern and western divisions of New-Jersey,
Joseph Reed, Jona. D. Sergeant, Clement Biddle, Ebenezer Cowell, Daniel Ellis,
Committee.
May 4, 1782.
TO BE SOLD, at Vendue,
FOR ready money, on Saturday the 25th day of May, 1782, at the house of Hugh Smith, in Trenton, in the county of Burlington, one new milch cow, one heifer, and sundry household furniture consisting of beds and bedding, chairs, tables, and several other articles too tedious to mention, the sale to begin precisely at 11 o'clock.
N. B. The said Smith requests all persons whosoever, having any demand against him or his deceased wife Elizabeth Smith, should immediately send in their accounts; and he also requests all those who are in any respect indebted to him, may without further trouble pay off their accounts to himself, or in his absence to Mr. Jacob Benjamin, in Trenton, opposite the Printer's.
TO BE SOLD, at Publick Vendue,
At the tavern commonly called Ringo's, in Amwell, Hunterdon county, on Friday 31st May, instant.
A Considerable number of horses, mares, and colts, most part half and 3-4ths blooded, got by noted full blooded horse; these colts are from one year to four years old, most of them in good order: There is a very likely full blooded bay mare, rising six years old, of the Juniper and Pacolet breed, now heavy with foal to the noted horse Traveller; those are the stock of a person who has been. careful and curious to get good blood, and are sold as he intends to quit
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farming as soon as convenient; there will be a short credit given, and the owner will attend the sale, which will begin at 12 o'clock on the said day.
May 20, 1782.
TO BE SOLD BY WILLIAM RICHARDS,
AT Lamberton, near Trenton, a fine negro boy, about thirteen years old ; the owner of said negro wants money is the reason he is sold.
May 14, 1782.
New-Jersey 2 BY virtue of sundry writs of Fieri Facias to Middlesex county
me directed, issued out of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said county of Middlesex, against the goods and chattels, lands and tenements of and belonging to John Vankirk, I have seized and taken horses, cattle, hogs, sundry sorts of house- hold goods and farming utensils, together with about 180 acres of land situate in Cranbury, all which I shall expose at auction; the goods and chattels on Monday the 3d day of June next ensuing, at twelve o'clock, and that valuable and noted house and tavern called Gordon's tavern, at Cranberry, opposite the mill, together with the aforesaid 180 acres of land &c. on Monday 24th day of June next, between the hours of 12 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon, at the said Vankirk's house, at Cranberry aforesaid.
JOHN PIATT, LATE SHERIFF.
May 22, 1782.
New-Jersey, Middlesex County, ss. S 1 BY virtue of an order from the Honour- able the Justices of the Supreme Court of Judicature of this state, I am directed to give notice to the publick, that courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery will be held at Princeton, in and for the county of Middlesex, on Tuesday the 11th day of June next: All Judges, Justices, Coroners, Con- stables, and other officers and ministers of justice of said county, are hereby required to be then there in their proper persons, with their rolls, records, indictments and other remembrances; and all persons who will prosecute or can bear testimony in behalf of the state against any offender in said county, are desired likewise to give their attendance at the time and place aforesaid.
JOIIN CONWAY, Sheriff.
New-Brunswick, May 17, 1782.
From the New Jersey Gazette, Vol. V., No. 231, May 29, 1782. TRENTON, May 29.
The Honourable the Minister Plenipotentiary of His Most Chris- tian Majesty having, by order of the King his master, announced to the United-States in Congress assembled, on the 13th inst. the birth of a Dauphin and Heir to the Crown of France; and the same having been communicated to His Excellency the Governor, and to the Legislature of this state, by order of Congress the happy
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event was celebrated here on the 24th inst. with every mark of respect, joy and congratulation. At noon the American flag was displayed, and the town artillery paraded at the market-place. At three the company assembled to an elegant entertainment at the French Arms, where were present His Excellency the Governor, and the IIon. the Council, the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the General Assembly, several gentlemen of the army, and others occasionally present and the gentlemen of the town and vicinity. After dinner the following toasts were drank, and severally accom- panied with a discharge of artillery :
1. Congress.
2. The King of France.
3. The Dauphin.
4. The Queen of France.
5. The King of Spain, and all Powers friendly to America.
6. General Washington and the Army.
7. Count Rochambeau and the French Army.
S. General Greene and the Southern Army.
9. Count de Grasse and the combined fleet.
10. May the Alliance between France and America subsist as long as the Delaware shall continue to flow.
11. Unanimity in Council and Vigour in the Field.
12. Peace on the Terms of the alliance, or war forever.
13. May the honour and faith of America ever be held as inviolate as her Freedom.
14. The State of New-Jersey.
At 5 the company retired. It could not but afford the highest pleasure to every friend of the liberties of his country and the rights of mankind, to observe the joy and satisfaction manifested on this occasion. The liberal principles of the alliance, the generous aids afforded to these states in consequence of it, and the great end it has been instrumental in securing, must ever interest us in the happiness of a nation whose character and conduct is the laudable reverse of that of our enemies.
STATE OF NEW-JERSEY.
House of Assembly, May 25, 1782.
WHEREAS the British court and ministry, after having in vain attempted to reduce the United States of America by force of arms to absolute and unconditional submission, have at last been obliged to acknowledge the utter impracticability of the enterprise; but not being willing to relinquish their purpose of subjugating these free and independent states to their dominion and tyranny, are now endeavouring to effect by craft and artifice what dear bought ex- perience has convinced them they cannot achieve by military prowess.
And whereas in prosecution of their said system of art and sub- tilly, they are endeavouring to persuade the different courts in Europe that the citizens of these states are neither united nor de- termined in the support of their national independence, to represent them as a divided people, the greatest part of whom wish to return
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to their ancient connections with England, to cast an odium upon the conduct of the court of France, by representing them rather as the support of a discontended faction than the generous ally of a brave and oppressed people, and to sow the seeds of dissention be- tween his Most Christian Majesty and the United States of America, by endeavouriag to render them mutually jealous of each other; and whereas by the arrival of Sir Guy Carleton in New-York as a commissioner for making peace or continuing the war in North- America, the dissolution of the British ministry, the appointment of a new administration, and the draught of a bill brought into the British parliament to enable their King to concluide a peace or truce with the United States (by the description of the revolted colonies) there is great reason to beleive that in the further prosecu- tion of their said insidious system of dividing in order to destroy us, they will soon attempt to make overtures of pacification to each of the United States, and propose terms of peace inconsistent with our alliance with His Most Christian Majesty, and in derogation of our own sovereignty and independence.
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