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RICHARD JOHNSON, Goaler. September 18, 1769
-The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2126, September 21, 1769.
The ship Hope, Capt. Robinson from London, who is ashore at the Capes, was not got off when the last accounts came away, but was full of water.
The brig ashore at our Capes, mentioned unknown in our last, proves to be the brig Content, Capt. Featherstone, from this port for Barbados, who after having cut away both her masts, were obliged to cut her cables for fear of foundering, the swell was so great, and let her drive ashore, where she is entirely lost, but the people and great part of the cargo are saved.
Capt. Gill from New-Castle, sailed the 24th of July.
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On his passage . . the 12th instant, 30 leagues from our Cape, he spoke the sloop Sally, Capt. Whitmore, from Jamaica for New-London, out 5 weeks. -The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1398, September 21, 1769.
A very unfortunate Accident happened last Friday, at Princeton; a little Boy about eleven Years of Age went into a Taylor's Shop, to inquire for sonie Cloaths that were making up for him. when an Apprentice Lad told him he should have them in about an Hour, and insisted upon his then giving him a Treat; this the Boy refusing, the other began to tease him; upon which, more in Play than Passion, having a Pair of Scissors in his Hand, he threw them at the Apprentice; and the Scissors unluckily turning in their Passage, the sharp Point entered just above the Breast Bone; in a Minute or two the Lad faint- ed, and almost instantly expired.
To be sold a plantation, supposed to be 240 acres in the township of Hopewell, Hunterdon county, New-Jersey, situate on the river Delaware. The soil is certain for winter and summer grain, 180 cleared, and about 10 of meadow, the rest thrifty timbered land, an old orchard of natural fruit, and a young one ditto of grafted fruit, in full prime, a large frame house with five rooms on a floor, with a cellar underneath, and a large stone kitchen, which is now occupied and has been for some years past as a tavern and ferry, and a spring of excellent water near the door, never known to fail, barn and stables, and a stone shop all in good repair. Any person inclining to purchase may enter on it the first day of May, and have it on easy terms, by applying to the subscriber on the premises.
RUT JOHNSON.
-The Pennsylvania Chronicle, No. 142, September 25-October 2, 1769.
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New-York, September 25. We hear from Freehold, in New-Jersey, that about ten Days ago, one Aaron Buck was committed to Jail there, charged with committing Incest with his own Daughter, and also Uriah Carroll, for the Death of his Servant Maid, a Coroner's Inquest hav- ing brought it in Wilful Murder.
The General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey, are summoned to meet at Burlington, on Tuesday the 10th of October.
WHEREAS Johanna Morgan, the Wife of me Abraham Morgan, of Woodbridge, in New-Jersey, on Thursday the 14th of this Instant September, 1769, hath eloped from me the Subscriber : These are therefore to forewarn all manner of Person or Persons, not to entertain or trust her on my Account, for I will not pay any Debts of her con- tracting since her Elopement : per me
ABRAHAM MORGAN
WHEREAS Rebecca Woodruff, the Wife of Nathaniel Woodruff, jun. hath some Time since eloped from her said Husband's Bed and Board; and having Reason to suspect that she may run him in Debt, these are therefore to fore- warn all Persons from trusting her on my Accompt, as I will pay no Debts of her contracting.
NATHANIEL WOODRUFF, jun. Elizabeth-Town, Sept. 19, 1769.
-The New York Gazette or Weekly Post Boy, No. 1395, September 25, 1769.
CHOICE IRISH BEEF, and BURLINGTON PORK, to be SOLD by GARRETT and GEORGE MEADE.
Salem, West Jersey, September 19, 1769.
BROKE loose from the shallop of the Subscribers, on the
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8th of this instant, about 3 miles below New-Castle, a small new Moses built BOAT, payed with turpentine, no paint, but branded on the outside of her stem, and on her sternpost, with the letters W. T. with about 6 fathom of new 3 and a half inch rope to her. If any one should find said boat and rope, and will bring her to the Subscribers in Salem, or to James Wood, boat-builder, in Philadelphia, shall have Two Dollars reward, from
THOMAS NORRIS WILLIAM TUFT.
Was found by said Norris and Tuft, on the 14th instant, a small keel boat, supposed to belong to some vessel, her boards cedar, payed with pitch. Whoever has lost said boat, by applying to them, may have her again.
From Great Egg-Harbour we learn, that on the IIth Instant the Wreck of a small Sloop came ashore there, with her Mast and Rigging hanging to her; her Quarter stove in, 7 Barrels of Hogs Lard, and one of Pork, were found in her, and she appeared to have been loaded with Wheat, no Person on board, nor Papers to be found; it is thought the People had been put to great Straits, having cut up their Blankets to caulk the Decks. It is also said some Tobacco in Barrels were found on the Shore.
STOLEN from the Subscriber, living in Trenton, in New- Jersey, on the 5th Day of August last, a ROAN HORSE, about 14 Hands and a Half high, short bodied, about 12 Years old, trots and paces, most natural to his Trot, being much used to go in a Chair, he has no Brand or white Marks, except one small white Spot on the hind Part of each hind Leg, a little above his Footlocks. Whoever se- cures said HORSE and THIEF, so as the Owner may have the Horse again, and the Thief brought to Justice, shall
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have Three Pounds Reward, or Forty Shillings for the Horse only, and all reasonable Charges, paid by
ROBERT SCARFF.
-The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2127, September 28, 1769.
NEW-YORK, September 25.
Three white men, and a Negro, were drove ashore at Barnagate Beech, on the 8th inst. supposed to belong to some vessel lately cast away near that place. One of the men had on a cotton Velvet Jacket, Silver Buckles in his Shoes, a Wig in his pocket, and a Watch in his Fob, with a small piece of Linen in the Case marked I. B. or R. B.
Friday last, arrived here the Brig Harmony, Capt. Rog- ers, from Antigua. - - - On the 18th inst. in lat. 36, 34, long. 74, Capt. Rodgers spoke the Schooner Barbados, Captain Barrey, from this port for Barbados, out of the Capes two days, and was well .- The Pennsylvania Jour- nal, No. 1399, September 28, 1769.
Forty Shillings Reward.
RUN-away the 24th of last August, a Servant Girl, named MARGARET JOYCE, about 19 Years of Age, about five Feet six Inches high, fresh Complexion, black Hair, down Look, and black Eyes, and thick Lips: Had on when she went away, a brown quilted Petticoat, black Hat, Leather Shoes, a short India Callicoe Gown, a good Shift, and Cotton Stockings, and no other Cloaths with her. Whoever takes up and secures said Servant, so that her Master may have her again shall receive the above Re- ward, paid by JOSEPH HAIGHT, in Burlington, New-Jer- sey, or CHARLES BASSONET in Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania .- The Pennsylvania Chronicle, No. 143, October 2-9, 1769.
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To-MORROW,
At twelve o'clock, at the Merchant's coffee-house, will be sold, by publick auction,
A very convenient dwelling house, bakehouse, and store, &c. and a lot of land, situate at Rariton landing, belonging to the estate of PETER Low, deceased, as advertis'd for some time past.
RUN-away on the 24th ult. from the subscriber, a ser- vant man named John Walker, an Englishman, lately ar- rived in the Dutchess of Gordon : He is about 23 years of age; 5 feet 5 inches high, slender made, fair complexion, much pitted with the small-pox, is a great talker, and is by Trade a Bricklayer. He had on when he went away, or took with him, one white and one check'd shirt, buckskin breeches, blue ribb'd stockings, new shoes, a blue broad cloth coat and waistcoat, about half worn, and a felt hat which he generally wore flopped. He went off in company with one William Pitcher, who had formerly been a sol- dier : Had on a blue coat lined with red, and brass but- tons, also a blue watchcoat and a sailor's jacket with lace over the seams; he is a well set man, about 38 years of age, and has a wife in Shrewsbury. Whoever shall take up said runaway, so that I may get him again, shall have 40s. reward and all reasonable charges paid by
JOHN BESSONET.
All masters of vessels and others are warned not to har- bour, conceal or carry off said servant, as they will answer it in the law.
RUN-AWAY, on Sunday night, the 17th inst. from the subscriber, living in Newark, New-Jersey, a Negro man, named BEN; he is considerably upon the tawney colour, (it is likely he may change his name, as he is a crafty Fel-
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low,) he is about 30 years of age, 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, well made, has a hair-mole on his cheek, and lost two of his foreteeth, walks very quick, something stoop- ing forward : Had on, and took with him, one blue broad- cloth short coat with white buttons, a nankeen jacket laced behind, two check and two tow shirts, two pair of tow trowsers, one pair of wollen, and one pair of worsted stockings, two pair of pumps, and a short gun, brass mounted, and a piece of brass along the upper part of the barrel, almost as far as the sight. Whoever shall secure the said negro, so that his master may have him again, shall receive Five Dollars reward, and all reasonable charges paid, by
NATHANIEL RICHARDS.
-The New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, No. 936, October 2, 1769.
THREE POUNDS Reward.
RUN-AWAY from the Subscriber, living in Burlington County, Northampton Township, West New-Jersey, a Negro Man who calls himself JAMES MORE; had on when he went away, a grey Homespun Vest, check Trowsers, and old cock'd Hat, about 40 years of age, 6 Foot, walks straight, and swings his Hands partly behind him, pre- tends to be a Free Man and Fortune-Teller; and its not unlike he will get some ill-minded Person to write him a Pass. Whoever takes up said Negro, and confines him, so that his Master may have him again, shall have THREE POUNDS Reward, and all reasonable Charges paid by
JOHN HILLIARD.
[VIEW OF STAGE DRAWN BY FOUR HORSES. ] To the PUBLIC.
A NEW Stage is now erected to go from New-York to
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Philadelphia, by Way of Powles-Hook, from thence through Newark and Elizabeth-Toren to Bound-Brook, and the North Branch of Rariton, to Coryell's Ferry, the only Ferry between Newark and Philadelphia, noted for its Shortness and Conveniency over the River Delaware. This Road is known by the Name of the Old York Road, through the finest, most pleasant and best inhabited Part of New-Jersey. It is proposed to set off from Powlcs- Hook every Tuesday Morning by Sun-rise; for which Reason Passengers should cross the Ferry at Powles- Hook the Evening before, and on Tuesday Evening to meet the Philadelphia Waggon at the South Branch of Rariton, where there is good Accommodations for Trav- ellers. The Waggon from Philadelphia, sets out also on every Tuesday Morning, from Josiah F. Davenport's, at the Sign of the Bunch of Grapes, in Third Street, and proceeds over Coryell's Ferry to the South Branch of Rar- iton, where they meet the Newark Waggon, and exchang- ing their Fare there, each Waggon returns to the Place they set out from by Wednesday Evening. In this Stage there are but three Ferries in the Whole to be passed, and the Roads in general good. The Price for each Pas- senger from Powles-Hook to Philadelphia, will be TWENTY SHILLINGS Proc. or TEN SHILLINGS to each Waggon, Ferriage to the Passengers free. Any Goods will be carried in Proportion to their Weight and Bulk; and as there will be but two Drivers, there will be less Danger of Mistake, and all possible Care shall be taken that Justice be done the Public, that shall please to employ
Their very humble Servants
JOSEPH CRANE,
September 25, 1769. JOSIAH F. DAVENPORT.
-The New York Gazette or Weekly Post Boy, No. 1396, October 2, 1769.
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To the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the Province of
New-Jersey
Gentlemen,
I Congratulate you on the Prospect we have of the Legislature of this Province, meeting on the 10th of this Month; as I am in Hopes you will lay before that Body, all those Grievances which you apprehend this Province has groaned under some Years past, thro' the Oppression of some Lawyers; who, though rioting in Luxury, have acquired Estates, from the Toil and Labour of the Neces- sitous, whose Cries, I trust, have reach'd the Ruler of Heaven and Earth.
Now is the Time, Gentlemen to petition; now, before the whole Province is sunk in the insatiable Gulph of their Oppression and Avarice. Now, while some little Prop- erty remains as yet out of their Reach, and when there is some Reason to think, that many Members of the Legis- lature are convinced of the Necessity, to restrain them in their Bills of Cost. Now, before all the Counties run into Madness and Confusion, on Account of the Injustice and Oppression thus exerted over them. A populous Country hath been driven to Despair, and in that Despair, have attempted to interrupt the Courts of Justice, and stop the Process of the Law: I tremble at the Consequence that may attend such Proceedings.
It has been said, that in the Opinion of some of you, Gentlemen, it will be in vain to petition for these Purposes, · or for extending the Jurisdiction of the Magistrate; be- cause, such a Bill wou'd stick with the Council. But, all agree, that from the known good Disposition of his Excel- lency the Governor; he would do all in his Power for the Benefit of his Government.
Let me beseech you, Gentlemen, not to be discouraged, altho' several of the honourable Council are Lawyers by Profession, who, no doubt, have great Weight there; they
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are Gentlemen of known Honour and Integrity, and emi- nent in their Profession, scorning low Arts of common Practitioners. They are more, They are sworn Councel- lors : And without doubt, will cheerfully stretch out their arms to receive your just and humble Petition; and lend a willing Hand to form salutary Laws for the general Advantage of the Province. For my own Part, I cannot entertain a Thought, that they will suffer any selfish Con- sideration to take Place in their own Favour, as Gentlemen of the Law.
Have they not Families and Children, who cannot all be Lawyers? Surely they will look forward to the Inter- est of their own, as well as our Descendants.
At all Events, let us not fore judge their Dispositions, let us try the Result of their Deliberations on our Petition.
Let, I say, a Native and Lover of the Jersies, beseech you, to be speedy and explicit in your Petitions; point out your Grievances with a Freedom and Pungency that be- comes the Descendants of Britain. Be not awed or cajoled by any Set of Men whatever. Shew our Legislature the deep Distress of the Province, and beg for some Relief against the Extortions in their Bills of Cost, against which, the oppressed have not at this Time any Redress. Many Instances might be given, wherein the Descendants Prop- erty, and considerable too, has been sold; and not strange to hear! the Plaintif is answered by his Lawyer, that the whole Proceeds, fall short of the Costs and Expences.
It is judged, that for several Years past, a Sum not less than £26,000, has been extorted yearly, in this Province, under Colour of Proceedings on Actions in Debt alone; So that, if a stop is not put to such Practices, by some sal- utary Law, the whole Province must fall a Sacrifice to the Avarice and Rapine of a few.
Therefore, for God's Sake Gentlemen, for your own
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Sakes, for the Sake of your Posterity, and the Good of this Province, petition ! petition ! your united Voices will be heard; for as a great Man and Poet, observes on a sim- ilar Occasion,
"The Voice of the People is, and it is not, the Voice of God."
I am Gentlemen, with great Esteem,
Your most humble Servant, at command,
A PLANTATION MAN New-Jersey, October 1, 1769.
-The New York Journal or General Advertiser, No. 1396, October 5, 1769.
The Brig mentioned to be seen off our Cape dismasted, after the storm of the 8th ult. proves to be the brig Capt. Kent, from Lisbon for this port, who has since got into Norfolk, Virginia.
RUN AWAY, from the subscriber, living in Waterford township, Gloucester county, west new Jersey; an Irish servant man, named WILLIAM WILSON, about 26 years of age: Had on when he went away, an old blue broad cloth coat, lightish coloured bear skin jacket, both jacket and coat pretty much patched, and ticking trowsers, with patches on the knees, and a pair of fustian breeches, with holes on the knees, a striped Holland shirt, a very good hat, neats leather shoes, and plain brass buckles: Has sandy hair, and fair complexion, about 5 feet 6 inches high, wears his hair tied behind, has a pretty round face, his under lip uncommonly large. Whoever takes up the said servant, or secures him in any goal, so that his said master may get him again, shall have FIVE POUNDS reward, and reasonable charges, paid by me
BENJAMIN INSKEEP.
N. B. He may very likely change his name, but his
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real name is M'COLLIN. All masters of vessels are forbid to carry him off at their peril .-. The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1400, October 5, 1769.
To be sold, by private sale, by the Subscriber, living near the head of Alloway's Creek, in the county of Salem, and western division of the province of New-Jersey,
A TRACT of land, adjoining that whereon the Subscriber now lives, containing about 370 acres, on which is an im- provement of thirty acres or more of cleared land, fenced into several fields, and a house of hewed logs, with one chimney in it; also a small orchard of good fruit; On another part of the said land is a field cleared and fenced, with a small orchard on the same. There are about 30 acres of swamp on said land, suitable for meadow. The land is well timbered with oak and hickory, suitable for splitting staves, rails, cordwood, &c. and is convenient to several landings on said Alloway's creek, where shallops can come and load, being about three miles distant to cart from said land; there is also 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 purchase the whole, or part there- of, may apply to the subscriber, view the premises, and be informed of the title and terms of sale by
HUGH BLACKWOOD.
-The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2128, October 5, 1769.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, Inward.
Schooner Sally, B. Knight, Salein.
Outwards.
Schooner Sally, B. Knight, Salem .- The Pennsylvania Chronicle, No. 144, October 9-16, 1769.
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New-York, October 9. On Saturday last his Majesty's Commissioners appointed under the Great Seal of Great- Britain, for settling the Boundary Line between this Col- ony and New-Jersey, pronounced their Decree. The Com- mission was opened on the 18th Day of July last, by the following Gentlemen, to wit.
CHARLES STEWART, Esq; President.
Andrew Oliver, Esq;
Charles Morris, Esq;
Samuel Holland, Esq; Peyton Randolph, Esq; &c.
Andrew Elliot, Esq; Jared Ingersoll, Esq.
Some Time before the Decree was given, Mr. Randolph was called away by necessary Avocations of a public Nature. The Decree was pronounced by four of the re- maining Commissioners, to wit, Mr. President, Mr. Elliot, Mr. Oliver, and Mr. Ingersoll, who determined "The Boundary Partition Line between the two Colonies to be, a direct and straight Line from the Fork at the Mouth of Mahacamack River, formed by its Junction with the River called Delaware, (as they term it) or the Fish-Kill, in the Latitude of 41º, 21', and 37", to the Latitude of 41º on Hudson's River, found by their Surveyors to be at a marked Rock on the West Side of Hudson's River, 79 Chains and 27 Links to the Southward, on a Meridian from Sneydon's House, formerly Corbet's."
Tho' by this Decree the Court House and Church in Orange Town, is left a few Rods to the Northward of the Line decreed; yet upwards of 150 Families, settled in that antient County Town, will, if the Decree be confirmed, be dismembered from this Colony, and exposed to utter Ruin.
Influenced by this Consideration, and a Regard to the Royal Commission, which authorized the Commissioners to settle the Boundary Line, upon Principles of Justice and Equity, Samuel Holland, and Charles Morris, Esqrs,
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dissented from the Decree of the Court; and by their Dis- sent, which was entered in the Records of the Court, im- mediately following the Decree, they, in Substance, declare it, among other Things, as their Opinion, That a Line from the Station on Hudson's River, which in the Year 1686, was solemnly fixed by the several Governments, as the Partition Point on Hudson's River, to the Mouth of Mahacomack, would be now conformable to the antient Grants, Jurisdiction and Possessions of both Colonies; and therefore more agreeable to his Majesty's benign In- tentions, in directing the Boundary Line to be settled upon Principles of Justice and Equity.
As by the above mentioned Decree, his Majesty's Inter- est, to the Amount of many Hundred Thousand Acres of Land, and a vast Number of antient Possessions held by Patents under this Colony, are totally ceded to New-Jer- sey, and the ancient Jurisdiction of this Colony greatly encroached on, the Agents on the Part of New-York, con- ceiving it to be their Duty to appeal from the Decree, im- mediately after the same was pronounced, tendered to the Court their Appeal to his Majesty in Privy Council; and prayed that it might be entered, and the Proceedings forthwith transmitted: But, tho' the Court permitted it to be entered, they refused to receive it as an Appeal, con- ceiving that by the Term of the Royal Commission, they were not at Liberty to receive an Appeal, till after the Expiration of two Months, from the Time of pronouncing the Decree: And for this Purpose they adjourned, to meet at Hartford, in Connecticut, on the 8th Day of De- cember next.
Trenton, October Ist, 1769.
THE members of the New-Jersey medical society, are desired to attend their next stated general meeting, on the first Tuesday of November next, at Mr. Duff's, in New-
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Brunswick; and as matters of some consequence are to be considered, for the promoting of the said society, it is to be hoped that every member will be as particular in at- tending as possible.
Such persons in the province as have a desire of becom- ing members, are hereby invited to attend at the time and place above mentioned for that purpose.
ISAAC SMITH, Secretary.
BROKE loose on Saturday night the 30th September, from the snow Two-Sisters, John Cockburn, Master, then lying at Sandy-Hook, a clincher built YAWL, about 16 feet keel. Whoever has taken up said yawl, and will bring her to the subscriber, on Hunter's-Quay, shall receive Two DOLLARS reward, and all reasonable charges.
ALEXANDER M'DONALD
THE Publick is hereby notified, that the Subscriber who has for some Years past, taught the learned Languages at Hackinsack, to general Satisfaction, has declined teaching there any longer; but intends opening a Grammar School in New-York about the first of November next, and there- fore hopes that his former Care and Diligence will be a Sufficient Recommendation to engage the Attention of his former Employers and other Gentlemen, to encourage so necessary and useful a Business. The Terms of Admis- sion for Scholars, and for Tuition, as usual in this City, by the Publick's most humble Servant,
STEPHEN VOORHEES. -The New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, No. 937, October 9, 1769.
New-York, October 9. On Wednesday the 27th of September, the Anniversary Commencement of the Col-
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lege of New-Jersey, was held at Princeton, when the fol- lowing young Gentlemen were admitted to the Degree of Bachelor of Arts, viz.1
JOHN BEATTY,
JAMES LINN,
WILLIAM BLAIR,
JOHN A. M'DOUGAL,
JOEL BREVARD,
THOMAS MELVIL,
MATTHIAS BURNET,
SAMUEL NILES,
WILLIAM CHANNING,
JESSE REED,
JOHN DAVENPORT,
SAMUEL SMITH,
JOHN R. DAVIES,
ELIHU THAYER,
PETER DENNITT,
WILLIAM WILCOX,
JOHN HENRY,
DAVID ZUBLY.
1 The following sketches are condensed from Alexander's "Princeton in the Eighteenth Century:"
John Beatty, a son of the Rev. Charles Beatty, the noted missionary, after studying medicine with Dr. Benjamin Rush, entered the American army as a private soldier, reaching, by degrees, the rank of Lieutenant- Colonel. In 1776 he was captured at Fort Washington, and suffered a long and rigorous imprisonment. In 1779 he succeeded Elias Boudinot as Commissary-General of prisoners. After the war he settled at Princeton, where he practiced medicine. He was at one time a member of the Legislature of New Jersey, and the Speaker of the Assembly. From 1795 to 1805 he was Secretary of State of New Jersey. In 1783 and 1784 he was a member of the Continental Congress. From May, 1815, until his death, April 30, 1826, he was President of the Trenton Banking Company. He was also an elder in the Trenton Presbyterian church.
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