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SAMUEL JAQUES. -The New York Gazette or Weekly Post Boy, No. 1345, October 10, 1768.
TEN DOLLARS Reward.
LosT on Sunday the 10th ult, on the road betwixt Phil- adelphia and Bristol, a TRIANGULAR SEAL, set in gold, and ingraved on each side. Whoever has found it, and will deliver it to the Printer, bring it to Lieutenant Mac- lellan,1 in Philadelphia Barracks, or to Lieutenant Gordon,2
1 Probably Lieut. Alexander McLellan, of the 34th Regiment.
2 Probably Lieut. Andrew Gordon, of the 26th Regiment, or Lieut. Francis Gordon, of the 60th Regiment.
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at the Barracks, in Perth-Amboy, shall receive the above Reward .- The Pennsylvania Chronicle, No. 92, October 12-17, 1768.
New-Jersey PURSUANT to an order of the hon. Monmouth-county, Oct. 3, 1768 John Anderson, and John Taylor, esqrs. two of the judges of the court of common pleas of the province of New-Jersey : Notice is hereby given to the respective creditors of Oba- diah Worthley, an insolvent debtor in the gaol of said county; that they be and appear on Monday the 14th day of November next, at the Court-house in the said county, at Freehold, at twelve o'clock of the same day, to shew cause, (if any they have) why the estate of the said debtor, should not be assigned for the benefit of his creditors, and his person discharged, agreeable to a late act of the legis- lature of the said province, for the relief of insolvent debtors.
To be sold the noted plantation known by the name of Chesequakes, lying in the south ward of Perth-Am- boy, in the province of East New-Jersey.
Now in the tenure of the subscriber, VIEW OF fronting the bay which is between the south-side of Staten-island and Sandy- hook, and joins the creek of Chese- AND quakes, on the north-side thereof con- venient to lands : On the premises, is FARM. 7 salt meadow sufficient to mow a large quantity of salt hay, and the land as good as any in that neighbourhood; a large quantity of timber thereon. It may conveniently be divided into three or four farms, with a sufficient quantity of salt meadow to each; there is on it two convenient dwelling houses : The whole well watered and timbered, convenient for oys- 1 1 HOUSES
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tering, fishing, and fowling as any along that coast. It will be sold the whole or in part; a good title will be given by the subscriber, where further intelligence may be had.
NICHOLAS EVERSON
-The New York Journal or General Advertiser, No. 1345, October 13, 1768.
The ANATOMIST. Number VI
In my last, I had given some account of the attack made on the Church by Mr. Smith, the impartial Presbyterian Historian of New-York; and endeavoured to shew, that nothing but the most determined resolution to traduce the Church, and the Society for the propagation of the gospel, could have induced the gentleman to assert, that the late Dr. Barclay was obliged to break up his Mohawk mission, because no suitable provision had been made for an inter- preter by the Society.
In the note under the forty-second page, he gives an account of the "extreme mortification, inextinguishable zeal, and great success of Mr. David Brainerd, a late mis- sionary from the Scotch Society among some Indians in New-Jersey, not one of them, he tells us, has been con- cerned in those barbarous irruptions which have lately deluged the south-western provinces with the blood of several hundred innocents of every age and sex." .
"As to Mr. Brainerd's mortification and zeal, every good man must approve and commend these virtues wherever they are found, and I hope he is now reaping the glorious rewards of them. As to his success, tho' Paul plant, and Apollos water, it is GOD alone that gives the increase. I heartily wish I could say that I had heard those Indians continue the same regular society of Chris- tians since his death. His brother and successor in that
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mission, I am told, has left them, and taken the charge *of an English congregation at Newark.
As to Mr. Smith's remark on that happy effect of Mr. Brainerd's mission, vis. "That not one of those Indians have been concerned in those barbarous irruptions, &c I am persuaded some prejudice must have prevented his making the same observations with regard to the Mo- hareks, as it is most notorious that they have not only been inoffensive, but are the only tribe of the Confederates that have openly joined us, and attended our armies in the present war."
"The Episcopal missionaries" (says he, page 42) "for "enlarging the sphere of their secular business, not many "years ago, attempted, by a petition to the late Governor "Clinton, to engross the privilege of solemnizing all mar- "riages. A great clamour ensued, and the attempt was "abortive."
Dr. Barclay shows this whole paragraph to be an abso- lute falsehood.
The prayer of the clergy therefore was, that an addition might be made to the future direction of licenses thus, vis. "To any Protestant minister of the gospel (Mr. Smith says, not very accurately - - - "To all Protestant minis- ters of the gospel") - The Governor complied with this request, and far from raising any clamour, the meas- ure was greatly approved by + the clergy of all other de- nominations, who reaped proportionately far more benefit from it than the Episcopal clergy.
*This was the case at the time of Dr. Barclays writing. But Mr. Brainerd, the brother,1 since had, and now has, I believe some Jersey Indians under his pastoral care, and his labors among them are well reported of.
1 The Rev. John Brainerd. See N. J. Archives. IX., 355; and "The Indians of New Jersey," etc., by William Nelson. Paterson, N. J., 1894, pp. 118, 143-6. The Presbyterian church at Newark is referred to.
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# The like alteration was made by Governor Franklin, some years ago, in the direction of his licenses, on an ap- plication of the Episcopal clergy of New-Jersey, and the Presbyterians were well pleased with it.
PHILADELPHIA, October 13. Captain Simmonds, from Quebec, last from Cape Breton on the 8th, about 25 Leagues from our Capes-spoke a Schooner, Captain Stillwell, bound to St. Christophers, from this Harbour.
The FALL FAIR for PRINCETON, in New Jersey, will be held there, on Wednesday and Thursday, the Nine- teenth and Twentieth of this instant October.
Burlington, Tenth Month 8, 1768.
WHEREAS by virtue of an act of Assembly of New-Jer- sey, in such case made and provided, a writ of attachment issued out of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Burlington, against the lands, goods, and effects, of a certain Jonathan Smith, late of said county, yeoman; and we, the subscribers, were appointed by the said Court au- ditors, to adjust the demands of his creditors: NOTICE is hereby given, that a judgment was obtained against the said Jonathan Smith by default, and that, by virtue of an order and rule of Court for that purpose made, we shall on the first day of the Eleventh Month, ( November ) next, at the house of John Shaw, in the city of Burlington, ex- pose to sale at public vendue, a certain dwelling-house and lot of land, situate in said city on the south-side of Pearl- street, a little above York-street, now in the tenure of John Noarth; being the estate of the said Jonathan Smith, and to enable us to satisfy the demands of his creditors, whose accounts we have adjusted. JOHN HOSKINS, WILL- IAM HEWLINGS, DANIEL SMITH, junior.
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Burlington, October, 1768.
WHEREAS the subscribers, assignees in trust for the use of the creditors of Lambert Barnes, late of the city of Bur- lington, inn-holder, have heretofore, at two several times advertised all those who are in any wise indebted to the said Barnes, that they should pay off their respective bal- lances; but little regard having been had thereto, they are once more requested to pay the same to the subscribers, on or before Saturday, the 22d of October instant, or they will be proceeded against according to law, without re- spect to persons. At which day the assignees will meet at the house of David Clayton, inn-keeper, in Burlington, when the creditors of said Barnes are desired to exhibit their accounts, properly proved, or they will be precluded from the dividend of said Barnes's estate, which will be made soon after.
JOHN LAWRENCE, THOMAS RODMAN, JOSEPH IMLAY.
Woodbridge, October 8, 1768.
NOTICE is hereby given to Charles Beatty, of Frederic Town and County, Maryland, that Dennis Combes, of Woodbridge, hath taken up and committed, Francis Blackburn, to Jail, in Perth-Amboy, East New-Jersey, who on examination owned that he, the said Francis Blackburn, was an indented servant to Charles Beatty; and unless said Beatty come and take his said servant, and pay the Charges, within five weeks from this date, he will be sold for the same.
DENNIS COMBES.
To be SOLD, and may be entered upon the first day of Sixth
Month (June) next,
A LARGE LOT of LAND, situate between Sixth and Sev- enth Streets, in the city of Philadelphia, near the State-
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house, having two fronts of 237 feet each, one on Chest- nut-street, and the other on a street running east and west thro' the square. The breadth of the lot, north and south, is 151 feet. There is on it a very convenient brick dwell- ing-house, kitchen, stables, coach-house, and other im- provements, now in the tenure of Dr. Thomas Graham. As the whole together is an airy pleasant situation for a family, the owner would choose to sell it in that manner, but if not sold so, before the above date, he proposes to divide it into a number of lots, either for sale, or to be leased on groundrent. For further information apply to
JOHN SMITH, in Burlington.
To BE SOLD,
On Wednesday, the 23d day of November next, at pub- lic vendue, on the premises, or at any time before at private sale,
A HOUSE and lot of land, in Princetown; the house is one story, almost new, and has four rooms, with a kitchen, and a cellar under part of it; the lot consists of about half an acre, and has a well sunk in it; the situation is very convenient for a tradesman; and an indisputable title can be given.
WILLIAM TENNENT.1
-The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2077, October 13, 1768.
RUN AWAY the 2d inst. from the ship Newry Assist- ance, William Chevers, Master : A SERVANT MAN, named THOMAS ADLEY, a brazier or brass founder by trade but has worked a little at the business of a barber, aged 23 years, of a dark complexion, born in Ireland, about 5 feet 6 inches high, brown hair, slow in speech if not in liquor :
1 For a sketch of the Rev. William Tennent, a famous clergyman, see N. J. Archives, XX., 275.
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Had on when he went away, a brown cloth coat with mohair buttons, leather breeches, and a narrow trim'd hat well worn: It is supposed he has changed his cloathing. Whoever takes up the said servant and secures him in any of his Majesty's goals of Pennsylvania, or New-Jersey, shall be paid THREE POUNDS Reward, and reasonable char- ges by JOHN PRINGLE, Merchant in Philadelphia .- The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1349, October 13, 1768.
New-York, October 17. The Public are hereby informed that from good Intelligence, received from the back Country, a large Number of fat and store Horn Cat- tle, Horses and Swine, will be offer'd for Sale at Newark, on Wednesday the 19th of October Inst. being the Day appointed by a late Advertisement, for the opening of the annual CATTLE-MARKET, in that Town; and to be con- tinued on the Thursday and Friday following, when, and where, all Persons may be supplied with the above men- tioned Cattle and Swine.
To be sold at public Vendue; on Wednesday the 23d of November next, between the Hours of Twelve and Three o'Clock in the Afternoon, at the House of Thomas Kinney, in Morris-Town, in the County of Morris, and Province of New-Jersey; a certain Iron Forge known by the Name of Squire's Point Forge (remarkably healthy) consisting of three Fires and one Hammer; with a Grist- Mill and Saw-Mill, situate Part in the County of Hunter- don, and Part in the County of Sussex, on Musconetcung River, (noted for a fine constant Stream of Water) with about 1800 Acres of Land, great Part of it well timbered, handy, and convenient to the Works, which is conveniently situated to several Furnaces, has about 37 Miles Land Carriage to either New-Brunswick, or Trentown. On the Premises are several Improvements, with a good
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Frame Dwelling-House, two good Frame Coal-Houses, with all necessary Buildings for Workmen, &c. The Works are well and substantially built, in good Order and Repair. It is expected Half the Purchase Money will be paid upon the Purchaser taking Possession of the Prem- ises, and the remaining Half, in a Year's Time, after pay- ing Interest, and giving Security, if required. A good Title will be given by the Subscribers.
MARTIN RYERSON, GEORGE READING DANIEL READING, and THOMAS READING.
THIS is to give Notice, That by Virtue of a Writ of Fieri Facias, issued out of the Supreme Court of Judica- ture for the Province of New-Jersey, against the Goods and Chattels, Houses, Lands, Hereditaments, and real Estate of John Stearndall, deceased, in the Hands of Rich- ard Curson, Administrator of said John Stearndall, in my Bailiwick; There will be sold at public Vendue, on the first Day of November next, all the real and personal Es- tate of the said John Stearndall, which I could find in my Bailiwick, consisting of a Right the said John Stearndall had in, and to, a certain Lease (yet unexpired) of and for the Copper Mines, (called Schuyler's Mines,) together with all the Appurtenances, Utensils, and Instruments thereto belonging; also the Right which said Stearndall had of, in, and to the Copper Ore, Stamp Ore, &c. at New Barbados Neck. The Terms of the said Vendue will be made known at the Time of Sale, which will be held at or near the said Mines, by me
JOHN VAN BUSKIRK, Sheriff. -The New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, No. 885, October 17, 1768.
For the Information of the PUBLIC.
By Order of the Trustees of the College of New-Jersey.
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WHEREAS Complaints have been frequently made, of the too great Expences of Education in this College; the Trustees have now fallen upon a new Plan, in order to bring the necessary Charges of living in the said College, within as moderate a Compass, as possible. These Com- plaints have been principally owing to the remissness of many of the Parents and Guardians of the Youth, in mak- ing punctual Payments of the College dues, which hath obliged the Steward, for want of ready Cash, to purchase the Provisions frequently upon long Credit, and the Seller thence to demand a considerable advance upon the Market Price. This Inconvenience, is presumed, hath induced many to keep their Children at the Grammar School, for the first, and sometimes the second Year, which ought to have been spent at the College; to the manifold injury of their Education. For the effectual Remedy of this, for the future, and also, to give the utmost Satisfaction to those who propose to educate their Children at this Seminary; NOTICE is hereby given to the Public, that the Trustees, have now contracted for the boarding of the Students, at a certain fixed Rate per Week, vis. Six Shillings and Six- pence Proclamation Money of New-Jersey. And, in order to enable the Contractor, to pay ready Cash for all the Ar- ticles to be provided; It is now Ordered, that every Stu- dent, on his first admission into the College, and so at the beginning of every Fall and Spring Term, do deposit in the Hands of the Steward, the Sum of Seven Pounds Proc. in advance, which Sum is pitched upon, as nearly one half of the Article of Board. And that, at every an- nual Commencement, or at least at the Beginning of the following Terms, before Admission, he be obliged, beside the Deposit of Board per Advance as now ordered, to pay up the whole Arrears of Tuition Money, and Chamber Rent for the preceeding Year. To shew that there is 110
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Purpose of making, in any case, an eventual Gain by the Deposit, a proportional Part thereof will be repaid, in Case of the Death or necessary Removal of any Scholar, during the current half Year. By this Means, the Inconveniences both to the Managers and Students, from large Arrear- ages unpaid, will be effectually avoided; and the latter be as well provided for as at any Time heretofore; which, it is presumed, as to the Plenty or Goodness of the Commons, has been on a Footing, not inferior to that of any College in these Colonies. Upon the Plan above adopted, the Ex- pence of living here, will be within a few Shillings, more or less, as follows;
To I Year's Board (deducting the Vaca- tion Weeks at Spring and Fall (at 6s. 6d. per Week. £. 13. 13. O
Fire Wood and Candles, about,
2. IO. O
Washing, about,
2. IO. O
Tuition and Chamber Rent,
5. 00. 0
£. 23. 13. O
Every Student to pay one Shilling per Week, for every Week's Absence, after the Vacations are ended, to indem- nify the Steward, who pays Wages to Servants for their Benefit.
It is presumed, the above Plan will remove every Ground of Complaint, and give the most general Satisfac- tion. The Parents and Guardians of the Youth, are there- fore desired to take Notice, that these Regulations will be invariably adhered to; and it is expected, they will conse- .quently take the most particular Care, that, for the future, the Students come prepared, after every Fall and Spring Vacation, to make the required Deposit of £. 7, in advance for Board, without which, he must be put to the Trouble and Expence of returning home for the same; as the Col-
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lege, for the general Benefit, is determined strictly to exe- cute the above Plan.
The Trustees further give Notice, that they have made Provisions for the Encouragement of young Gentlemen, who have finished the ordinary Course of Philosophy, to return and pursue their Studies at College, and fit them- selves for any of the higher Branches, to which they shall think proper, chiefly to devote their future Application, whether those called learned Professions, Divinity, Law and Physic, or such liberal Accomplishments in general, as fit young Gentlemen for serving their Country in pub- lic Stations. For this Purpose, the Professor of Divinity, besides what Attention he may give to the Instruction of the Senior Class, will give regular Lectures upon the Sys- tem. The President also has engaged to give Lectures twice in the Week, on the following Subjeces (I) On Chronology and History, civil as well as sacred; a Branch of Study, of itself extremely useful and delightful, and at present in the highest Reputation in every Part of Europe, (2) Critical Lectures on the Scripture, with the Addition of Discourses on Criticism in general; the several Species of Writing, and the fine Arts (3) Lectures on Composi- tion, and the Eloquence of the Pulpit and the Bar. The President will also endeavour to assist every Student by Conversation, according to the main Object, which he shall chuse for his own Studies; and will give Lists and Char- acters of the principal Writers on any Branch, that Stu- dents may accomplish themselves, at the least Expence of Time and Labour. For the Attainment of their Ends, a very valuable Addition to the Public Library was brought over with the President; another large Collection of the most standard Books, is newly arrived; and a Third is very soon expected from London. So that this College, which had before all the Advantages for Study, that a re-
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tired healthful Place could possess, is now well furnished with a valuable Public Library, which will be improved by continual Additions. It is to be observed, that from those, who after their ordinary Courses, shall return to College, in order to pursue their Studies with those Ad- vantages, no Tuition Money will be required, except that the French Language will be taught, if desired, for a very reasonable Gratuity.
List of Letters, remaining in the General Post-Office, New-York, October 10, 1768.
Mary House, Somerset County. .- The New York Gazette or Weekly Post Boy, No. 1346, Octo- ber 17, 1768.
PURSUANT to an Act of Assembly of the province of West New Jersey, this may notify all whom it may con- cern, that sundry of the inhabitants of the townships of Chester, Evesham, Northampton and Willingburrough, in the county of Burlington, hath petitioned the Assembly of the said province for an act to be passed to make Ran- cokas creek a lawful fence, from the mouth thereof to the Forks, and from thence up the south branch to Belly- bridge, and from the said forks up the north branch, to Mount holley-bridge, near the market-house. Any per- son or persons, who have any objections to the said act, are desired to shew cause at the next meeting of the Gen- eral Assembly at Burlington, or elsewhere, as the said petitioners expect to have leave to bring in a bill for the same.
October II, 1768.
Gloucester county, October 11, 1768 FIVE POUNDS Reward
MADE their escape out of Gloucester goal, last night, the three following prisoners, viz. PATRICK NEWLIN, an
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Irishman, about 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, sandy complex- ion, strait sandy hair, flat broad face, a peeked nose, and marked with the small pox, is a thick well set fellow, a blacksmith by trade, says he has been a soldier, and been on board a man of war; had on a short red under jacket, without sleeves, old check shirt, old leather breeches, light blue grey stockings, old shoes, with one brass buckle, but had no hat, is about 34 years old, and very apt to get drunk. DAVID COCHRAN, about 27 years old, 5 feet 8 inches high, long visaged, has red curled hair, sandy beard and eyebrows, has had the bridge of his nose half cut through, is a fuller by trade, and very apt to get drunk; had on a half worn castor hat, black silk handkerchief. light coloured homespun coat, which has had several places cut across the body, and sewed up, linsey striped jacket, coarse tow trowsers, old check shirt, and old shoes. WILEY WOOD, 21 years old, round faced, black strait hair, dark complexion, has a hardy countenance, about 5 feet, 8 inches high, well set, lisps in his talk, and drinks no rum; had on a blue sailor jacket, a sheeps black homespun under ditto, without sleeves, old striped linen trowsers, new pair of shoes, plain steel buckles and old felt hat. Whoever takes up the above prisoners, and secures them in any goal, and gives notice to the subscriber, shall receive for NEWLIN and COCKRAN, or either of them, Forty Shillings each, and Twenty Shillings for WooD, paid by
JOSIAH CHATTIN, Goaler.
A LIST of LETTERS remaining in the Post-Office, Phil- adelphia.
C. James Crommey, Joseph Champneys, Pilesgrove
H. William Hannah, Bordentown; John E. Hopkins, Haddonfield
K. Thomas Kennedy (2) Monmouth County, New- Jersey.
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L. Samuel Leveston, Mountholly.
M. David Maxwell, Monmouth, N. Jersey.
R. Dr. Alexander Ross, Mountholly.
T. Jacob Taggart, Salem.
Y. David Young, Jersey.
-The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2078, October 20, 1768.
PHILADELPHIA.
By the last Vessel from London, we have Advice of the Death of Mr. AHIMAAZ HARKER,1 of the Small-Pox. He was a Native of New-Jersey, and a young Man of a good natural Genius, and great Urbanity
A Correspondent from New-Jersey informs us, that a few Weeks ago a pretty extraordinary Affair happened in his Neighbourhood, a Ram broke into a Pasture amongst some Oxen, one of which he attacked, and after several Parries between them, the Ram drew a few Steps back, and ran with such Violence at the Ox, that the latter dropped down and died instantly.
(In the Account of the Commencement at Princeton, inserted in the Pennsylvania Chronicle extraordinary, Page 316, the first Latin Thesis should run thus, Quicunque vere pii sunt, ideirco, præ omnibus, aliis, in honore habere debent, instead of-in honore habero debemus.)-The Pennsylvania Chronicle, &c., Extraordinary, October 24- 26, 1768.
ALL Persons indebted to the estate of Samuel Wood- ruff, Esq; late of Elizabeth-Town, deceased, either by
1 Son of the Rev. Samuel Harker, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Black River, Roxbury, Morris county. It is understood that Ahimaaz went to England to receive ordination at the hands of some Bishop of the Church of England. It was reported that he and his father were lost at sea by the foundering of the vessel in which they were passen- gers for England. See N. J. Archives, XX., 160.
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bond, note, or book, are desired to make immediate pay- ment; and all persons that have any demands against the said estate, are desired to send in their accounts, that they may be adjusted by us.
E. Woodruff, Administratrix; Benjamin Woodruff, Joseph Woodruff, and Isaac Woodruff, Adminis- trators.
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