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In the second Place, he insinuates, That Conventions have lately been held much more frequently than they used to be: The Contrary to which, especially in this Govern- ment, he must have been convinced of, had he been an In- habitant of New Brunswick: Indeed it is difficult to con- ceive how the most flaming Independent of them all would have the Face to mention the frequent and numerous Meetings of the Episcopal Clergy, when the Presbyterian Synods, &c. (convened by nobody knows what Author- ity) recur almost as frequently as the new Moons, at which their Teachers are almost as numerous as the Lo- custs of Egypt.
In the third Place, I dare venture to affirm, That there is not a single Resident in this City-Blush, if it be pos -. sible, ye Whigs of New-York, ye Centinels of Philadel- phia, ye Founts of Connecticut, and ye Ram-Chickens of Boston-who has the Hardiness even to insinuate, That "the Church in two neighbouring Colonies," and many Colonies beside, has not repeatedly met with, does not every Day meet with, more than "supposed Abuses, with Abuses which are intolerable; and, if intolerable, then they are Abuses which amount not only "almost to Persecu- tion," but which have the very Life, Spirit, Soul and Es- sence of Persecution.
In the fourth Place, seeing that Mode of Religion which the Members of the Convention profess, labours under such Abuses, with what Shadow of Justice can they be blamed for making "a spirited Application to the Powers at home," to have those Abuses removed? Whether this was their principal Design," it is highly probable the Let-
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ter Writer knows no more than myself: But I can tell both him and them, that if they neglected to do it, they were highly culpable. And if such "spirited Application," when made to the "powers at home," does not meet with a suitable Return (as who knows what Attention may be paid to any Application for Redress of Grievances, by a pusillanimous spiritless Administration ?) as his M-y declares in their Favour, my Advice should be, to make Application to Powers which are not at home, to any Prot- estant Powers, where the Church is truly Episcopal; to solicit their Protection; and to use all honest Endeavours to procure a Bishop from some other Government than the British, if the British Government will not afford them Means for their Existence and Preservation. Self- Defence is the strongest Principle in our Nature; and, in the Opinion of a Layman, Reason, Law, and Equity, all concur, in the present Instance, to push them forward to the attaining of an American Episcopate; which it is pre- sumed may even thus be effected, without any Disadvan- tage to the State; without any Impeachment of their Loy- alty to the best, the most humane, the most religious of Kings; without any Diminution of their Fidelity to the Church of England; and with the greatest Emolument to the Members of that Church in America. As for the Cru- elty and Meanness which the Letter-Writer speaks of, it is not easy for me to conceive what he intends by them. They may perhaps be understood by Independents who live in the perpetual Exercise of them, but can convey no distinct Idea to a Churchman. But it is much more easy to appre- hend his Meaning when he talks about attacking Us-for who knows not from what WE sprang, what WE always have been, what WE are at this Day, and what WE are likely to continue to be to the End of the Chapter? Nor is it difficult to find out his Meaning when he tells us,
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That the united Efforts of all SECTS are necessary at this Time, in the common Cause of Liberty: i. e. (as I under- stand his Words) it is necessary for all other Denomina- tions to confederate against the Church of England, the only Church consisting originally of British Subjects, ( for She alone in this Country is of no sect) lest the Church of England should be indulged with Privileges equal to those which all Sectaries enjoy in the most ample Man- ner, and which all Churchmen are so far from wishing to see abridged, that they heartily desire they may always be continued to them in their utmost Latitude and Extent. I make no Reflections on the different Behaviour of Churchmen and Dissenters in this Matter; tho' I can hardly expect that the Reader will have equal Forbear- ance.
And lastly, as for the Trumpet of Disaffection, which he blows at the Poop of his Performance, I dare aver that no true Churchman will ever dance to his Music, let him even distend his Buccinators till they burst, or break his Wind in the fruitless Effort. Peccet ad extremum riden- dus, et illia ducat .- Supplement to the New York Journal or General Advertiser, No. 1351, November 24, 1768.
The SUBSCRIBER, living in Hanover township, Burling- ton county, has to dispose of, a likely NEGROE BOY, about 14 years old, has had the small pox, and has been brought up to farming business.
THOMAS EMLAY
-The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2083, November 24, 1768.
New-York, November 28. Thursday last Col. Crog- han, Commissioner for Indian Affairs under Sir William Johnson, arrived in this City, from the late Congress, in his way to Virginia: He has brought with him, one
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Lewis Andrews, who was a Soldier in the Jersey Force, and taken in the Year 1763, by the Indians, near Lake Eric, in his Way to Detroit, and had been kept Prisoner among the Senecas ever since. He says, they used him tolerably well, and at the late Congress happily got re- leas'd, and is now returning to his Friends near Burling- ton.
Now on Sale at the New-Printing Office in Beaver Street, POOR ROGER'S American Country ALMANACK For the Year 1769 :
Also to be sold at the same Place, The New-Jersey ALMANACK, By COPERNICUS WEATHER-GUESSER, And Dutch ALMANACKS for 1769. -The New York Gazette or Weekly Post Boy, No. 1352, November 28, 1768.
To BE SOLD, BY EZEKIEL FORMAN,
Living in Princetown, in the Province of New-Jersey, (at private Sale only, ) the following Tracts of LAND, MILLS, &c.
THE noted, valuable, and pleasant farm whereon he now lives, containing 310 acres of land, about 150 of which is well timbered, and a sufficient quantity of good meadow ground. The buildings and improvements are nearly as follows, viz. A stone dwelling house two stories high, ninety feet in length, by twenty-five; five rooms on the lower floor, and as many fire-places; six rooms on the second floor (exclusive of the servants lodging rooms) three of which have fire-places; with one of the best and most convenient cellars and dairy room; the whole, plain,
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but neatly finished; to which there is as good a kitchen garden as a purchaser could wish to have, two hundred and thirty two feet in length, by one hundred and twenty, boarded round in the best manner with white cedar boards, and red cedar posts; the front neatly paled. A well fin- ished Dutch barn, forty four by forty feet; with a build- ing adjoining it, principally calculated for stabling horn cattle, forty four by twenty two feet, which will conve- niently hold twelve or fourteen ton of hay over head. A good waggon house, a frame cider house, thirty two by twenty four feet, a wheel mill and screw press; all the works covered, and granaries over head fitted for differ- ent sorts of grain, also for housing of apples, &c. One of the best framed corn cribs, large enough to hold a thou- sand bushels of corn; a poultry house conveniently fin- ished, twenty by fourteen feet; large fine pole barracks, covered with cedar; all the buildings new, covered with cedar, and in the best repair. A good apple orchard of the best grafted fruit, viz. Pippin, spitzenbergh, green apple, red streak, house apple, vandevere, &c. also the com- mon fruit of ungrafted trees; a young peach orchard of six hundred trees, a fine collection of cherries in perfec- tion, (meaning in the season of them) and a nursery com- ing on of the best grafted fruit, plumbs, pears, cherries, &c. With as good water as in the world, both from a well and a spring, near the house; pleasantly situated on the main road between Philadelphia, and New-York, and nearly in the center.
ALSO, a set of mills, near Kingston, in said province, fifteen miles from Trenton, and same distance from Brunswick; two pair of stones, in good repair, conve- niently situated for merchant and country work. Also, a house and lot in Princeton, very convenient for a mer- chant's shop, or tradesman; said house will be rented if
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not sold before next spring. It is the house wherein the said Forman formerly kept store, and supposed to be the best stand for business in the town; the shelves are all standing, and is perhaps one of the best store rooms to be found; there is also upon said lot a good ware-house, and smoke house. Also a house and lot in Kingston, very convenient for a tavern; the best house in that town, and will be sold for less than half its value, if such a purchaser offers. Also a tract of wood land of 150 acres, lying near South River bridge, and within half a mile of the river. Good bonds, upon interest, will be taken for the whole, or any part of the purchase money, as may best suit the purchaser .- The New York Journal or General Adver- tiser, No. 1352, December 1, 1768.
PHILADELPHIA, December I.
On Tuesday last at the Anniversary COMMENCEMENT in the College of this City, the following Gentlemen were admitted to their Degree of Bachelor of Arts, viz 1
WILLIAM BINGHAM BENJAMIN DUFFIELD THOMAS HALL GEORGE NOARTH JONATHAN EASTON, of Rhode Island, DANIEL KUHN, of Lancaster. CHRISTIAN STREIGHT, of New Jersey.1 BENJAMIN VINING, of Dover.
of Philadelphia
And at the same time Mr. THOMAS COOMBE, junior, of Philadelphia (now in England) was admitted to the De- gree of Master of Arts.
The Exercises were as follows, viz.
I. A Latin Salutatory Oration, by Mr. Easton
1 Christian Streydt and Ursula, his wife, came to America from Ger- many before 1720. Christian Streight, who graduated from the Phila- delphia College in 1768, was pastor of the Lutheran churches at Easton, Pa., 1769-1779, and Greenwich, N. J., 1773-1777.
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2. An English Oration, on public spirit, by Mr. Streight.
3. A Latin Syllogistic Dispute-Utram mens humano fit immortalis? (Mr. Bingham Respond. Messieurs Vin- ing, Streight and Noarth Oppon.)
ON the 23d of November, at night, the house of the subscriber, in Deptford township, Gloucester county, was broke open, and robbed of 19 dollars, and a pocket book, with the subscriber's name worked on it, in which was some small money, the sum not certain; there was also taken away, a beaver hat, a fine shirt, a blue broadcloth coat, lined with white, half trimmed, the button-holes worked of a lighter colour, with sundry other things. The robbery is supposed to have been committed by one CAMP- BELL, a Scotchman, who was lately brought out of Phila- delphia goal, and ran away from his master at Marcus- Hook, and is thought to be gone towards New York. Whoever secures the thief, with the goods and money, so as he be brought to justice, shall have Three Pounds re- ward, paid by
JOHN PATTERSON -The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2084, December I, 1768.
Greenwich in Connecticut, Nov. 17, 1768. FIVE DOLLARS Reward.
MADE his escape from the subscriber, on Monday night, the 14th instant, from Mr. Butler's, at South-Amboy ferry stage house, a prisoner for theft, who had some time before been taken up, the stolen goods found upon him, and confined in Philadelphia goal on an advertisement, wherein the person of the thief is thus described, viz .- He calls himself William Green, and gave the following account, That he is an Englishman, a fuller by trade, sailed
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from England in April last, arrived at Philadelphia, came from thence, inquiring for employment, through New- Jersey and New-York, from whence he went to Green- wich in Connecticut, where he was hired by the subscriber for a month. He is a slender, middle-sized man. And whereas the subscriber, on notice of the confinement of the said thief, applied, received him from the goal, (together with the goods he had stolen) and was conduct- ing him to Connecticut, to receive his trial; at the ferry house aforesaid, at his earnest request the irons, which hurt and galled his wrists were taken off; when after- wards (the subscriber being at supper ) a man at the table was taken ill, and died within three or four minutes after, which occasioned some hurry, and engaged the attention of the company-during which the prisoner made his es- cape. He has the additional mark, to the above descrip- tion-that his wrists are galled. He had no cash with him. Whoever takes up and secures the said prisoner, or delivers him to either of us the subscribers, shall receive the above reward, and all reasonable charges.
JOSEPH GALPIN. JOHN GREEN.
N. B. All masters of vessels and others are forewarned not to harbour, conceal, or carry off said Green at their peril .- The Pennsylvania Chronicle, No. 99, December 5, 1767.
Now in the Press, and will shortly be published, THE HERMIT OF NEW-JERSEY, a COLLECTION OF POETI- CAL ESSAYS, consisting of several FUGITIVE PIECES, an ODE to LIBERTY, and a DIALOGUE, between Lorenso and the Hermit, on HUMAN HAPPINESS.1
1 Hildeburn gives (2454) the lined-off title as follows: Liberty, | a | l'oem, | lately found in a bundle of papers, | said to be written by A Hermit in New-Jersey. | . . . . Philadelphia: | Printed by William Goddard, in Market-Street. | MDCCLXIX. | Sm. 4to, pp. 12.
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To BE SOLD,
A PLANTATION, containing one hundred acres, in the Township of H. pewell, Hunterdon County, New-Jersey, eight miles from Trenton, situate with a large and beau- tiful prospect on the river Delaware, near good spring and summer fisheries, and varieties of water-fowl in their sea- son; it was anciently known by the name of Parmer's Ferry, good crafts to go with the place. The soil is cer- tain for winter or summer grain, and a considerable part of it is new, only in the first crop; a new meadow, and more can easily be made; a bearing orchard; a commo- dious garden, and the fencing mostly new; a frame house, lately repaired, with a cellar, a linto, with two rooms on a floor, a kitchen and draw-well near; a large and conve- nient black-smith's shop, with two hearths, coal-house and waggon-house, all of stone, and newly built, with a log barn and stable. Also 100 acres, chiefly wood-land, well- timbered, part of that valuable tract of Garret Johnson, deceased, contiguous to the aforesaid land. Any person inclining to purchase one or both, or part of either, may enter on the premises this winter or next spring, and have them on easy purchase, by applying to
HENRY MARGERUM. -The Pennsylvania Chronicle, No. 100, December 5-12, 1768.
RUN-away last July from Hanover, in Morris County, a Negro Man named FRANK, a stout able Fellow; he talks the English, Dutch, Spanish, and Danish Languages; has lost one of his Eyes, and wears a Rag over it. Has been seen at Elizabeth-Town, and Pompton, and lately has crossed Passaick River, at Newark, by the Assistance of two of Capt. Kennedy's Negroes. This Fellow is very artful and cunning, and has escaped twice from Persons
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who took him up. Whoever secures him so that his Mas- ter may have him again shall receive Forty Shillings Re- ward, and all reasonable Charges, from Mr. Kelly, in New- York, or the Subscriber, in Morris County.
P. DARCEY.
Essex, in East-New-Jersey.
WHEREAS the Proprietors of Newark Mountain Pur- chase, have agreed to divide their Lands, lying between the first Mountain and Passaick River: Notice is hereby given, to all Persons that have any Right in said Purchase, to apply to John Dod, at Newark Mountains, on or before the 6th of January, 1769; there, and then, to comply with the Constitution of said Purchase, or else expect they ex- clude themselves by refusing .- The New York Gazette or Weekly Mercury, No. 892, December 5, 1768.
MRS. E STOGDON, Widow, Takes this method of ac- quainting the public, that she has taken a convenient house, near Nassau-College, in Prince-Town, and proposes boarding young gentlemen scholars at twenty pounds per annum, including their washing and mending. She also proposes to lodge gentlemen and ladies, travellers, that choose private lodgings, very reasonably .- The New York Journal or General Advertiser, No. 1353, December 8, 1768.
Oxford Township, New-Jersey, December 8, 1768
THESE are to certify, that Elizabeth Shoots, my Wife, has extravagantly run me in debt, so that from the day of the date hereof, I do discharge any person or persons to credit her any thing upon my account, for I will not dis- charge any debt of her contracting, as witness my hand,
CHRISTOPHER SHOOTS.
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FIVE POUNDS Reward
STOLEN out of the subscriber's stable in the night of the 22d November last, in York town by a certain Richard Parker, born in England, a mouse coloured HORSE, very dark, the said Parker took with him a brown coat and jacket, is about 24 years of age, about 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, and is remarkably knock kneed; he has a half brother in this country named John Collins, who drove coach for William Allen, Esq; in Philadelphia, these few years past, but was discharged last summer, and I understand drives now for some gentleman in New- York, where it is most likely the said Parker will go, being a little acquainted in the Jersey, as he lived with one Hew- ling, near Burlington; he has a large scar in his forehead, very near his hair. Whoever apprehends the said Parker, and secures him, with the above articles, shall have the above reward, and THREE POUNDS for himself alone, and reasonable charges, paid by
THOMAS CULLEN
SIR,
To the CENTINEL
1 CONGRATULATE you, on your escape from the bloody knife of the Anatomist, who, after paying his visit to the patriotic Episcopalians of Boston, and dissecting a Watch- Tower in New-York, intended to have seized you in your sleep, cut you up alive as you were, and exposed you as a scarecrow, to frighten his opposers into a tame submission to his darling Episcopate. Most unfavourable are the times for such controversies. It is to be hoped, however, as the Anatomist "scorns to fall to slash- ing, without calling one to stand on one's guard," that he will desist from his purpose, and endeavour to heal the wound he may have made, provided it can be made appear, that Dr. Chandler "was the aggressor" in this dispute
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about Bishops .... that "Dr. Chandler had a general com- mission from his own brethren," the Clergy of New-York and New-Jersey.
I am next to shew that Dr. Chandler had a general com- mission from his brethren, the Clergy of New York and New-Jersey. First then, that Dr. Chandler had a general commission from his brethren, appears from his own words in his advertisement to the reader, where he tells us, as an apology for the Appeal "that he was request- ed by many of his "brethren to undertake it . . . that the "task was first imposed upon him by the very worthy and "reverend Dr. Johnson of Stratford in Connecticut;" and adds, that "at the time when this treaty," as "he pompously calls it," was nearly concluded, the Clergy of New-York and New-Jersey, "assisted by some of their brethren from "the neighbouring provinces took into consideration," &c. "And after a thorough discussion of the point, they were "unanimously of opinion, that fairly to explain the plan, "&c. was a matter of necessity and duty. It was accord- "ingly voted (says he) that something to this purpose "should be published, and the Author was appointed to this service." Here we have an express appointment from the convention; and it appears they were urgent, and al- most laid their commands on him; "excuses (says the Doctor) were not admitted, and a refusal could not be justified." So far was the Doctor from acting in discon- nection with the Convention, that he tells us "he was care- "ful to follow the directions he had received and to con- "sult the most judicious of his friends, in regard to the "method and management of the work." Hence it ap- pears, that the Doctor had not only a commission for, but direction in his publication, and that the Appeal is the product of the united efforts of the Right Reverendly- inclined Clergy of the provinces of York and Jersey, in
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full Convention met .- The Pennsylvania Gasette, No. 2085, December 8, 1768.
The SUBSCRIBERS, assignees of the estate of William Brown, late of Woolwich, in the county of Gloucester, in New-Jersey ( for the use of his creditors) give this public notice, that, in order to compleat a settlement of his af- fairs, they will expose to sale by public vendue, on the 2d day of January next, at the house of William Cooper, at the Ferry, opposite Philadelphia, at 2 o'clock in the after- noon,
A VALUABLE TRACT of LAND and SWAMP, containing 1000 acres, or thereabouts, situate in Broadkill Hundred, in the county of Sussex, on Delaware, adjoining the land of Benjamin Mifflin, where he now lives, and within four miles of a good landing on Broadkill river, which empties into Delaware-Bay. The upland is esteemed good strong land; near one half of the tract is swamp, on which is a great quantity of timber, and may be easily drained, so as to make excellent meadow or hemp-ground, and so di- vided with the upland as to be capable of making four plantations, of equal value. The whole will be sold to- gether, or in lots of 250 acres each, as may best suit the purchaser. Any person inclining to purchase, may view the premises, by applying to said Benjamin Mifflin. The conditions of the sale will be made known at the place aforesaid, by SAMUEL BILES, JOHN HINCHMAN, and SAMUEL BLACKWOOD.
To BE SOLD,
A PLANTATION lying on Shrewsbury road, 4 miles from Allentown, in the township of Upper Freehold, in the county of Monmouth, and province of East-Jersey, con- taining 286 acres of LAND, 40 acres of good English meadow, and as much more may be made, with little im-
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provement, the upland very good for wheat or other grain, the whole well watered and timbered. There are on the premises, a two story house, barn, waggon-house, smoak- house and two good bearing orchards, that never miss bearing plenty of fruit every year: The house stands exceeding pleasant, and has a prospect of the meadows from the door; there is a good mill within one mile of the premises, and three others the farthest not exceeding four miles; also nine miles to a landing: There is a Quaker Meeting-House about two miles distance, a Bap- tist Meeting-House about two miles distance, and a Church and Presbyterian Meeting-House not exceeding four miles;1 the property of John Clarke, late of Stony-Brook, deceased. Any person inclining to purchase, may apply to the subscriber, living on the premises, where the condi- tions of sale may be known, from
WILLIAM CLARKE
Penn's Neck, Salem County, Dec. 6, 1768.
WHEREAS Modlin, the wife of Joseph Jiddery, of Lower Penn's Neck, hath behaved herself very disorderly against him, which makes him apprehensive that she will run him in debt to his hurt; this is therefore to give notice to all persons not to trust her on my account, as I am fully de- termined not to pay any debt of her contracting after this date.
JOSEPH JIDDERY.
-The Pennsylvania Gasette, No. 2086, December 15, 1768.
WHEREAS my Wife Mary Elizabeth, has without any just Cause, eloped from my Bed and Board: These are therefore to forewarn all Persons, that I will pay no Debt
1 The Quaker Meeting House was probably at Freehold; the Baptist Meeting House at Middletown; the Church (of England) and the Pres- byterian Meeting House at Allentown.
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of her contracting since her Elopement, therefore, that no Person harbour, entertain or trust her on my Account.
ANDRIES KUNTER. Hackinsack, 9th December, 1768.
-The New York Journal or General Advertiser, No. 1354, December 15, 1768.
WAS taken up adrift, last week, opposite Marcus Hook, a cedar SKIFF, with mulberry timbers, not painted, with a turpentine bottom. Whoever has lost the same, may have her again, by applying to Samuel Hewes in New-Jersey, opposite Marcus Hook, proving their property and pay- ing charges .- The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1358, De- cember 15, 1768.
New-York, December 19. The 9th Instant, the Sloop Bowler, Captain Hylton arrived here from Virginia; on the 25th of November, passing Great Egg Harbour, he saw a Ship ashore, but was unable to give her any As- sistance, she fired half Minute Guns, and 'tis supposed was bound from Boston for Philadelphia.
THE PUBLICK are desired to take Notice, That the Stage from the NEW-BRIDGE, for Powles-Hook, will ride but once a Week, after the Holy Days, till the Severity of the Season is over. Attendance will be given every Tuesday, at the usual Hours, by the Publick's much obliged, and
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