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of said Common Lands of which all concerned may take Notice, and if they have any Objections, they may then make them appear to the General Assembly, according to the usage in such Cases.
Piscataway, June 1, 1768. To be SOLD, or leased, for a Term of Years, by the Subscriber,
A Grist-Mill, in good order, with about 50 or 60 Acres of Land. There is on the Premises a Dwelling-House, near the Mill, which stands within 100 Yards of said Mill; the Constructions of the Mill are as well calculated, per- haps, as any in the Country; it is double-geer'd with a Water Wheeel of 20 Feet diameter, and a sufficient Fall of Water. The Head and Fall of the Mill is from the Surface of the Pond to the Bottom of the Wheel 37 Feet; the grinding Water that stands in the Forbay is 13 Feet: the Pond long and deep, and holds so much Water, the Mill has not wanted in the dryest Seasons; the dam being rais'd to the Height it now is. The Mill stands within 150 Yards of the River Rariton, and within 250 Yards of as public a Landing as, perhaps, any one in the Country. The Whole is most beautifully situated, and in a delight- ful Place; with a large Country back of it; and is, at this Time, a well calculated Place for a Shopkeeper. The Vendue will be held, and Conditions of Sale made known, the 20th Day of this Instant; and a good and sufficient Title will be given by JOHN MARTIN, who lives near the Premises.
N. B. The same Day will be sold, a Lot of Salt Mead- ow, of about six Acres. and a Lot of about ten Acres of Fresh Meadow; with sundry other Things, by said John Martin .- The New York Gazette or Weekly Post Boy, No. 1327, June 6, 1768.
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Morris County 1 IN pursuance of an order made by New-Jersey,
Jacob Foord, and Robert Goble, esqrs. two of the judges of the inferior court of common pleas, in and for the said county of Morris and province of East New-Jersey; upon the petition of Daniel Tuttle, Henry Dow Tripp, Silas Hinds, and Jeremiah Cramer, insolvent debtors, now in Actual goal, in said county : Notice is hereby given by the said petitioners, to all the creditors of the said petitioners, to shew cause (if any they have) before the said judges, at the court-house in Morris- town, in the county of Morris aforesaid, on Friday the first day of July next, at two of the clock of said day, being the time and place appointed by the said judges, why an assignment of the said petitioner's estates should not be made to persons then and there to be appointed by the creditors or said judges; and the said petitioners be thereupon discharged, according to an act of the gover- nor, council, and general assembly of the province afore- said, made and passed at Perth-Amboy, in the eighth year of the reign of his present majesty George the third, en- titled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors."
Morris-Town, June 8, 1768.
Monmouth. BY Order of the Honourable John An- New-Jersey, derson, and James Lawrence, Esqrs. two of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for said County : Whereas John Emley, Jonathan Hunt, Abiel Akin, Andrew Wilson, David Stout, Peter Van Kerk, Thomas Jacobs, John Williams, Nicolas Philips, Samuel Romine, John Hampton, William Voorhees, Rob- ert Morris, John Morris, Samuel Morril, William Sears, John Crowshorn, John Guibeson, Richard Morris, James Ker, John Foster, John Rouce, William Van Kerk, jun. and Robert Stout; Prisoners for Debt in the Gaol of said County, did on the third Day of June, 1768, make Appli-
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cation to said Judges, for the Benefit of the late Insolvent Act, entitled an Act for the Benefit of insolvent Debtors, made in the Eighth Year of his present Majesty's Reign for said Purpose, having qualified and filed their Sched- ules.
Now these are to give Notice to the Creditors of the said Debtors, that they be together at said Goal aforesaid, on Monday the 27th Day of this Instant June, at 10 o'Clock, (to shew Cause if any they have) why the said Prisoners Estates should not be assigned and their Bodies discharged from their Confinement, pursuant to said Act. -The New York Journal or General Advertiser, No. 1327, June 9, 1768.
PHILADELPHIA, June 9
The Ship Sally, Captain Rankin, in 7 Weeks from Newry, for this Port, is ashore off Little Egg Harbour.
On Sunday Night, the 22d of last Month, a Fire broke out in the House of Mr. Richard Dickinson, Watchmaker, in Mount-holly, which entirely consumed the same, to- gether with all the Furniture, and every Thing therein, to a considerable Amount. The Fire had got to such a Head before it was discovered, that Mr. Dickinson, the only Person in the House, narrowly escaped with his Life.
Gloucester County, June 6, 1768. FOUR DOLLARS Reward.
RUN away from the subscriber, on the 4th instant, a Negroe man, named JACOB, about 24 years of age, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, has sharp filed teeth, is apt to stutter if he talks fast; had on, and took away with him, a brown bearskin jacket, a short brown kersey under ditto, with sleeves, one check shirt and trowsers, and one tow shirt and trowsers, half worn shoes, a spotted red silk handker-
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chief, and half worn felt hat. Whoever takes up and se- cures said Negroe, so that his master may have him again. shall have the above reward, and reasonable charges, paid by
WILLIAM COOPER.
N. B. All persons are forbid to harbour or conceal said Negroe, as they may depend on being prosecuted as the law directs.
The Body of Lieutenant Perkins, who was drowned, as mentioned in our last, has since been taken up, and was decently buried on Sunday last, in New-Jersey, about six miles up the river.
On Thursday the 26th of May, the reverend Mr. Beach1 of New-Brunswick was married to the amiable and ac- complished Miss Nancy Van Winkle, a lady whose shin- ing virtues and sweet disposition must render the marriage state truly happy.
RUN away from the Subscriber, living in Cumberland county, West New-Jersey, the 3d of May last, a Negro man, named Peter, but has since changed his name to that of JACK SHARP, he is about 5 feet 10 inches, 30 years of age, has a large scar on one of his arms cut with a sickle : had on and took with him, two felt hatts, one woolen, one fine and two coarse linen shirts, a thick-set coat with a cape, a black cut velvet jacket, a pair of blue plush and a pair of leather breeches, and five or six caps. He has since
1 The Rev. Abraham Beach was b. in Cheshire. Conn .. in 1740, and graduated at Yale in 1757. He went to England in 1767 for ordination. and was appointed missionary at New Brunswick and Piscataqua, N. J., arriving there the latter part of September in that year. In July. 1776. declining to omit the prayers for the King and the royal family, he was obliged to close the churches, but continued during the war to "dispense spiritual consolation alike to Whigs and Tories." In 1783 he was appointed temporary missionary at Perth Amboy. In 1784 he re- moved to New York. having been appointed assistant minister of Trin- ity church in that city. In 1813 he resigned, on a pension of $1,500 for life, voted him by the church. He retired to a farm on the Raritan, where he d. in 1828. His wife, Ann, was the daughter and sole heiress of Evart Van Winkle, one of the early Dutch settlers on the Raritan; she d. in 1808.
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changed his apparel and forged a pass, signed Ephraim Seeley.
Whoever takes up said Negro, and secures him in any of his Majesty's Goals, so that his master may have him again, or brings him home, shall have THREE POUNDS reward, and all reasonable charges, paid by
EPHRAIM SEELY.
-The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1331, June 9, 1768.
New-York, June 13. The Ship mentioned in our last to be ashore at Little-Egg-Harbour, proves to be the Sally, Capt. Rankin, from Newry, bound for Philadelphia.
WHEREAS by virtue of several
Middlesex County ? New-Jersey, SS. writs of fieri facias, to me di- rected, issued out of the supreme court of this province, and county court of Middlesex aforesaid, against the goods and chattels, lands and tenements of Whitehead Leonard, at the suit of Stephen Jones, and others, I have seized and taken about ten acres of land, with a fulling mill thereon, of and belonging to the said Leonard, situ- ate in South Brunswick, in the county aforesaid, near Kingstown; the said mill hath the advantage of a good stream of water, and a well settled neighbourhood. Now these are to give notice, that the lands and mill, taken as aforesaid, will be exposed to sale, at public vendue, on Friday the 29th of July next, at the house of Willliam Van Tilbury, innholder, in Kingstown aforesaid; the sale to begin at 12 o'clock of said day, at which time and place the conditions will be made known by
JOHN MOORES, Sheriff. Perth-Amboy, May 28, 1768.
-- The New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, No 867, June 13, 1768.
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Woodbridge, June 9, 1768.
RUN away from the Subscriber, the 29th ult. a Negroe Man, named Cuff, about 5 Feet 10 Inches high, full faced, and thick set; has a large Scar on his right great Toe, cit within; had on when he went away, a Woolen Shirt, a Pair of Leather Breeches, a Grey Kersey Jacket, and Felt Hat, but may probably change his Dress. Whoever takes 11p said Negroe Man, and secures him, so that his Master may have him again, shall have THREE DOLLARS Reward, paid by the Subscriber.
JONATHAN CLAWSON.
Maidenhead, Hunterdon County, June 4, 1768. TEN POUNDS Reward.
RUN away from the Subscriber, on Tuesday the 31st of May, an Irish Servant Man, named John Burns, but it's likely will change his Name, about 25 Years old, 5 Feet 8 Inches high, of a fresh Complexion, a little freckled, black Hair, but will probably cut it off, brown Eyes; had on, and took with him, a grey napt Coat, Metal Buttons, green napt Vest, new Felt Hat, Half-worn Buckskin Breeches, blue Yarn Stockings, Brass Buckles, a fine Linen and an Oznabrigs Shirt, with sundry other Articles. He is a Cooper by Trade; and it's thought will make for the Mo- hawk River. Whoever takes up said Servant, and deliv- ers him to his Master, or secures him in any Goal, so that he may be had again, shall have the above Reward, and reasonable Charges.
WILSON HUNT.
A new and accurate MAP of the Province of PENNSYL- VANIA, VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, NEW-JERSEY, and part of NEW-YORK, &c. humbly dedicated to their Honours the Governors of the several Provinces.
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THIS map begins in the Atlantic ocean, in latitude 36 degrees north, and at a meridian of 74 degrees west from London, thence continues by the same parallel of 36 de- grees north latitude, to the longitude of 89 degrees west of London, which makes the west longitude in the map 1 5 degrees, equal to about 700 miles, allowing a little bet- ter than 46 miles to each degree of longitude in this lati- tude, which will determine about 36 miles west of the river Mississippi, and the line of 36 degrees north lati- tude, will pass about 60 miles south of the confluence of the rivers Mississippi and the Ohio, thence from the 89th degree of west longitude, northward to the 46th degree of north latitude, which will be about 160 miles west of the westermost point of the Noquet Bay, joining the westermost point of the great lake Michigan, thence east by the parallel of 46 degrees of north latitude, which will pass about 50 miles north of the most northern part of the great lake Michigan, and about 25 miles of the lake Huron, 100 miles of Missillimackmac.1 1 12 of the lake On- tario, and so on to the first meridian of 74 degrees west of London, thence southward to the place of beginning, being in length as said before, about 700 miles, and in width 600, allowing 60 miles in a degree of latitude, and contains 420 thousand square English miles. - The eastern boundaries will pass through Long Island, about 44 miles eastward of New-York, and allowing the variation of the compass, from the place of beginning northward, brings the line 74 degrees west longitude, through the city of New-York, or very near it.
This map is already drawn, but being conceived to be from too small a scale, it is proposed to be drawn a second time, and to make a scale of 10 inches to every 100 miles, which will make 5 feet 10 inches one way, and 5 feet the
1 Michillimackinack.
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other, from margin to margin: in which will be laid down the true situation of all the cities and towns, the courses, width, and distances of all the rivers, creeks, lakes, roads, and all other matters of the least note. The boundaries of provinces, counties and townships, bays, inlets, &c. &c. This map well done, would, of con- sequence, be in great demand on the continent of Amer- ica, the West-India islands, and in short, in all his Maj- esty's dominions, and most parts of Europe. - - - - The author has been at a great deal of pains, cost and trouble, for many years, in bringing this work to an ac- curacy, from the best observations, accounts and intelli- gence he could gather, and flatters himself they are genu- ine and good; but finding the work will be heavy in his own hands, would be glad to join one or two Gentlemen upon reasonable terms, to help him to support the present charge, the one whereof would be well to be the engraver. A line to the Printer hereof, for the subscriber, on the sub- ject, will be gratefully received and acknowledged. It is submitted to the candour of gentlemen, their aid and encouragement. in so useful and great a work, by their very humble servant.
T. THOMAS.1
TO BE SOLD by Private Sale,
By the subscriber, living near the Head of Alloway's Creek, in this county of Salem, and western division of the province of New-Jersey ;
A Tract of LAND, adjoining that whereon the sub- scriber now lives, containing about three hundred and seventy acres, on which is an improvement of thirty acres or more of cleared land fenced into several fields, and a house of hewed logs with a stone chimney in it. also a small orchard of good fruit. On another part of the said
1 No account of the publication of this map has been found. Was it printed ?
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land is a field cleared and fenced, with a small orchard on the same. There are about thirty acres of swamp on said land, suitable for meadow. The land is well timbered with oak and hickory, suitable for staves, rails, cord wood, &c. and is convenient to several landings on said Alloways creek, where shallops can come and load, being not more than three miles distance to cart from said land. There also is an advantageous outlet for cattle and hogs, as there is a large quantity of unsettled land adjoining, being good feed for cattle in summer. Any person inclining to pur- chase the whole, or part thereof, may apply to the sub- scriber, view the premises, and be informed of the terms of sale.
June 11, 1768 HUGH BLACKWOOD.
Five Pounds Reward.
RAN away from the Subscriber, the first instant, a ser- vant lad, named Thomas Collagen, by trade a bricklayer; he is about five feet five inches high, square shouldered, has strait black hair, black eyes, and a downcast counte- nance; he had on, when he went away, a sharp cocked felt hat, a brown coarse cloth coat, with a hole in the left sleeve, a brown Irish camblet jacket, a new check shirt, blue cloth breeches, a blue stamped flannel patch upon one of the knees, blue yarn stockings, and a pair of half worn shoes, with one plain and square brass buckle, the other a round and flowered metal buckle. He boasts greatly of being born in London, and is very fond of dancing and company. Whoever secures said apprentice, so that his master may have him again, shall receive the above reward, and all reasonable charges.
HARMAN KNICKERBACKER.
Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, East-Jersey, June 17, 1768.
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Three Pounds Reward.
RAN away from Pitts-Town Mills, in Hunterdon county, New Jersey, on the night of the 7th of May last, a Servant Man, named John Ryan, born in Ireland, a house carpenter by trade, about 5 feet nine inches high : wears his own hair, which is short, brown, and curls well; has a remarkable strut in his gait, is neat in his dress; and talks thick and fast, especially when he is in liquor. He took with him a lead-coloured cloth coat and breeches, a white swanskin jacket without sleeves, ribb'd yarn stock- ings, and worsted ditto, a pair of pumps, a good felt hat, a pair of sash plains, and a large, young, mouse-coloured dog, with a short tail. Whoever takes up said servant, and secures him in any gaol, or delivers him to Jacob Gooding, at Pitts-Town ( formerly called Hoffs Town) or to Moore Furman in Philadelphia, shall receive Three Pounds Reward, besides reasonable charges; and Ten Shillings reward for delivering the mouse coloured dog to Jacob Gooding, at Pitts-Town aforesaid.
Philadelphia, June 17, 1768.
-The Pennsylvania Chronicle, No. 75, June 13-20, 1768.
New-York, June 16. Tuesday Morning as a Boat was coming from Elizabeth-Town, to this City, with Timber across her Deck, a Negro Boy belonging to Mr. Chitwood of Elizabeth-Town, sitting upon the End of the Timber. when a sudden Flaw of Wind took the Boat, which over- set the Timber, and unfortunately drowned the Boy .- Supplement to the New York Gazette or Weekly Post Boy, No. 1328 June 16, 1768.
Burlington, June 13. On Friday last came on the Elec- tion of two Members to represent this City in the General
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Assembly of New-Jersey, when ABRAHAM HEWLINGS, and JOSEPH SMITH, Esquires, were unanimously elected.
And this Day came on the Election of two Representa- tives for the County of Burlington, when HENRY PAX- SON, and JOSEPH BULLOCK, Esquires, were also unani- mously chosen.
PURSUANT to an Act of General Assembly of the Prov- ince of New-Jersey, lately passed, intituled, An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors; we, the Subscribers, be- ing now confined in the Goal of the County of Hunter- don, and having petitioned the Judges of the Supreme Court for the Benefit of the said Act, do give Notice to all our Creditors, to appear and shew Cause, if any they have, on the 12th Day of July next, at 2 o'Clock in the Afternoon of the same Day, before the Judges of the said Court, at the Dwelling-house of Rensalier Williams, in Trenton, why we should not be discharged, agreeable to the Directions of the said Act.
JOHN HICKS, JOS. STOUT, WILLIAM HEWLINGS. -The Pennsylvania Gasette, No. 2060, June 16, 1768.
The CENTINEL. No. XIII.
THERE seems to be something perverse in human Na- ture, that prompts Men to give partial and unfair Repre- sentations, when it suits their Purpose. They conceal Truths, extenuate Faults,
Dr. Chandler seems in his Appeal, to labour under this Infirmity : he complains that the Episcopal Church in America suffers unparalleled Hardships: he insinuates that the Complaints which he makes are the Complaints of a Million of British Subjects in America, suffering un- der unprecedented Hardships; and that all the Episcopal Clergy and Laity are joint Petitioners with him and his
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Friends for an American Episcopate, on the Plan he has mentioned. Whereas, in Fact, the People were never con- sulted on the Measure, nor were they ever heard to com- plain. The whole was concerted and carried on by a few Missionaries (whom the Doctor stiles the Clergy) of New-York and New-Jersey met together in a voluntary Convention. By what Right they assume such Power it may be well to enquire.
I would therefore be glad to know by what Authority the Missionaries of New-York and New-Jersey, in Vio- lation of the Constitution of the British Governments, and of the Rights of their fellow Subjects usurp a Power of acting for all the Episcopalians in America; Let the World then judge whether the Petitions sent Home by the Missionaries of New-York and the Jerseys, and the Appeal published by Doct. C. as far as they respect the Islands, are not an insolent Invasion of the Rights of oth- ers, and a busy intermeddling with their Laws and Con- stitutions without their Consent and Approbation.
The same may be said of Virginia and Maryland.
These Governments have provided for the Mainte- nance of the Clergy, in a Way most agreeable to them- selves, and when they think it necessary to have a Bishop. they will, doubtless, fall upon Measures to have one. But what Right the Missionaries of New-York and New-Jer- sey have to publish Complaints in the Name of these Peo- ple, while they themselves are silent, or to represent their Sufferings as intollerable and their Grievances as unpar- alleled, while they themselves express no Uneasiness, I cannot well comprehend.
RUN AWAY on Sunday last. the 29th of May, from the subscriber, living at Hardiston, Sussex County, East New- Jersey, a straight spare Irish indented servant man, named James Quin; about 19 or 20 years of age, 5 feet nine
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inches high, black straight hair, remarkable large broad black eye brows, which are joined together; light eyes, clear complexion, somewhat pale, down look, having lived in a Dutch family has but little of the Irish accent in his speech, and can read and write very well; he had on when he went away an oznabrug shirt with a white linen collar, a pair of old leather breeches, with check'd trowsers over them; a new homespun waistcoat of mixt blue and black, with a white stripe, without buttons; a redish brown lin- sey wolsey homespun upper jacket somewhat worn, with pewter buttons; a pair of grey worsted stockings, a pair of good double soaled shoes, with large round copper buckles; and a large wool hat, two months worn; has been employed in America, only in farming business, is a civil well behaved young man. Whoever takes up and returns said runaway, or secures him in any goal, shall receive FIVE POUNDS proclamation money reward, besides all reasonable charges. BENJAMIN NORTHUP.
N. B. All masters of vessels and others are hereby warned not to harbour, conceal or carry him off, as they will answer it at their peril .- The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1332, June 16, 1768.
A Correspondent at Princeton informs us, that, on Wednesday the 22d ult. The Poll for Representatives in the County of Somerset, East-New-Jersey, was closed. HENDRICK FISHER, and John Berien, Esquires, with Jus- tice RoY, were the only Candidates; and the two former were elected .-- Though the last is a Gentleman greatly respected, and who was strongly supported, he declined the Assistance of his Friends, and genteely favoured Judge BERIEN's superior Merit; otherwise it is difficult to determine whether Mr. Roy would not have been chosen.
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The College of New-Jersey, upon which we all have had our eyes fixed, for furnishing our Churches with a gracious, holy, humble and learned Ministry, have wisely judged that gentlemens sons are the only likely persons to answer our expectations; and have accordingly passed an Act. that none shall be admitted to the College, but those who are able to continue four years; and they have provided a Professor of Divinity, who, if well attended for a year or two more, will fit these gracious, holy, hum- ble (and I may add rich) youths for the Ministry; and the expence at a moderate computation will not exceed £. 300, which is but a trifling sum for a gentleman, in that important business. You will imagine, perhaps, that the pious Poor are to be shut out. No; a gentleman of that faculty told me that, "if a young man of exemplary piety, "promising abilities, and sufficiently forward in learning "to enter the junior class, would, upon a certificate that "he and his parents were so poor, that they were not able "to support him more than two years, make application "for admittance, he might be taken in as a poor scholar."
B. O.
-The Pennsylvania Chronicle, No. 76, June 20-27, 1768.
New-York, June 16. On Tuesday last, a Boat coming here from Elizabeth-Town, belonging to Mr. Bunnel of that Place, having on board a Quantity of Timber, lying a Cross the Vessel, on which was a Negro Boy belonging to Mr. Chetwood of the same Town, a sudden Flaw of Wind heel'd the Boat so much that the Timber with the Boy upon it fell overboard, and the Boy was seen no more, and as the Water where he fell appear'd bloody, it is sup- posed he was crush'd by the Timber .- The New York Journal or General Advertiser, No. 1328, June 16, 1768.
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New-York, June 20. The Sally, Rankin, from Newry, for Philadelphia, mentioned in our last, to be on shore at Little Egg-Harbour, is gone all to Pieces.
RUN-away, from the Subscriber, living at Pumpton, in New-Jersey, on Saturday the 4th Instant, a Negro Man named Harry, 40 Years old, much pitted with the Small- Pox, and can speak both Dutch and English, plays on the Violin, and loves GROG: Had on when he went away a blue Broad cloth Coat, a blue and white Holland Jacket, red Cloth Breeches, and new Shoes with brown Yarn Stockings. Whoever takes up and secures the said Negro Fellow, so that he may be had again, shall receive Five Dollars Reward, and all reasonable Charges, from
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