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by which the Fish might be obstructed from going up the said Rivers, or that should take, destroy, or spoil any Spawn, Fry or Brood of Fish, or any Kind of Fish what- soever, every such Person or Persons, so offend-
ing should forfeit and pay the Sum of Twenty
Pounds, with this Proviso, that so much of the said Act, as relates to the Wears, Racks, Baskets, Fishing Dams, Pounds, and other Devices aforesaid, already erect- ed or thereafter to be erected, in the River Delaware, should be and should be deemed, held, construed, and taken to be of no Force, Validity or Virtue, until a Bill for remedying the same Mischiefs and Inconveniences, thereby intended to be remedied in the said River, should be passed and enacted into a Law by the Legislature of the Province of New-Jersey, and be in full Force and Vir- tue. .
AND WHEREAS, since the passing of the said Act the Legislatures of the Provinces of Maryland and New-Jer- sey, have respectively enacted Laws for the Preservation of the Fish in the Rivers Sasquchanna and Delaware, and for remedying the same Mischiefs and Inconveniences in those Rivers, which were intended to be remedied by the aforementioned Law of this Province.
AND WHEREAS . I HAVE therefore thought fit, by and with the Advice of the Council, to issue this my Proclamation, hereby strictly charging and commanding all Persons whatsoever, to yield the most exact Obedience
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to the said Laws, under the Penalties therein imposed :
GIVEN under my Hand,
JOHN PENN
By his Honour's Command JOSEPH SHIPPEN, jun, Secretary GOD save the KING.
RACOON SKINS.
A few packs, ( 100 or 50 in a pack) to be sold cheap, for cash, by THOMAS TREDWELL, in Burling Slip, in New- York, and by MATTHIAS HALSTED, in Elizabeth-Town. -The New York Journal or General Advertiser, No. 1398, October 19, 1769.
BY virtue of a writ to me directed, will be exposed to public sale, on Wednesday, the 29th of November next, between the hours of 12 and 5 o'clock, on the premises, one undivided third part of a plantation, situate in the township of Greenwich, and county of Gloucester, lying on the main road from Gloucester to Salem; said place is well situated for a store or tavern, it being within a quarter of a mile of a navigable creek, which is known by the name of Raccoon Creek; late the property of John Stelle, seized in execution by
JOSEPH HUGG, Sheriff.
September 29, 1769.
-The Pennsylvania Gasette, No. 2130, October 19, 1769.
RUN-AWAY from the underscriber hereof, a certain WILLIAM FOY, an Irish servant man, born in Dublin, a weaver by trade, about 18 or 19 years of age, 5 feet, 6 or 7 inches high, wears black hair, a down look, a light col- oured jacket, a new broren shirt without buttons on the
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collar, a pair of half worn shoes with square steel buckles, dark coloured stockings, a pair of long ragged trousers, an old felt hat with white loops and bound with ferreting; the forefinger of his left hand crooked, being formerly cut. Whoever takes up said servant, and brings him to the sub- scriber hereof, shall have THREE DOLLARS reward, and rea- sonable charges, paid by CORNELIUS CARHEART, in Beth- lehem, Hunterdon county, West Jersey.
N. B. All persons are forbid to harbour said servant.
Trenton, October 4, 1769.
THE MEMBERS of the MEDICAL SOCIETY of New-Jer- sey, are desired to take notice that their next general meet- ing is held at New Brunswick the first TUESDAY in No- vember next.
ISAAC SMITH, Sec.
-The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1402, October 19, 1769.
ALL the Creditors of Daniel Tuttle, insolvent Debtor, are desired to meet at the house of Thomas Kenney, in Morris-Town, on the 23d Day of December next, at 2 o'Clock in the Afternoon, in order to fix and ascertain their Demands on the said Estate. And on the 23d Day of January following, to call on the Assignees for their Dividends thereof.
JONATHAN STITES FREDERICK KING Assignees.
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TAKEN-away, supposed through Mistake, from Mr. Verdine Elsworth's, at Powlas-Hook, a neat Saddle, with plated Stirups, and a double Curb Bridle, with plated Bits. The Person that took them away, left a very bad saddle in the Room thereof. Whoever gives Information to the said Elsworth of the above mentioned Saddle and Bridle, shall be handsomely rewarded for their Trouble.
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RUN-away from the Subscribers, living at Canoe-brook, Essex County, New-Jersey, two Negro Men Slaves; the one named Cato, but sometimes calls himself John. He is a likely slender Fellow, about 5 Feet 7 Inches high, 30 Years of Age, with a Scar on the hind Part of his Head, about the Bigness of a Two Shilling Piece : He had on a Snuff coloured thickset Coat, a Beaver Hat about half worn, with Jacket and homespun Trowsers, but it is prob- able he may change his Dress. The other named Scipio, a short thick, well-set Fellow, about 5 Feet high, and about 25 Years of Age, has a Rupture plainly to be dis- covered : Had on a blue and white striped homespun double breasted under Jacket without Sleeves, and a black and white striped Jacket with Sleeves, over it; a blue Duffils Watch Coat, and a Pair of long white homespun Trowsers. Whoever takes up and secures the said Runa- ways, so that they may be had again, shall receive FOUR DOLLARS Reward for each, and all reasonable Charges, paid by
JONATHAN SQUIRE, JOHN WILLIAMS.
-The New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, No. 939, October 23, 1769.
The SPEECH of his Excellency WILLIAM FRANKLIN, Esq; Captain General, and Commander in Chief, in and over the Province of New-Jersey, and Terri- tories thereon depending in America, Chancellor and Vice-Admiral in the same, &c. to the General Assem- bly of the said Province, convened at Burlington. Gentlemen of the Council, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives.
As no immediate Business of a public Nature, made it necessary to give an earlier Commencement to the present
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Session, I postponed the Pleasure of meeting you in Gen- eral Assembly, till a Season that was likely to be most agreeable as well as most convenient to your private Af- fairs.
At the last Session a Bill passed both the Council and Assembly, "for making current One Hundred Thousand Pounds in Bills of Credit," which was so fram'd, that I was under a Necessity of refusing it my Assent. Being however, of Opinion, that the emitting such a Sum of Paper Money upon Loan, might be of great public Utility, and unwilling that there should be any unnecessary Delay in a Matter of such Importance, I strongly represented the Expediency of passing an Act for the Purpose, and trans- mitted a Draught of the Bill to the Secretary of State for the American Department, in order to obtain the King's Pleasure thereupon. The Directions I have since received from His Majesty shall be communicated to you, by which you will find, that in Case the actual Necessity of emitting Bills of Credit upon Loan to the Amount of One Hundred Thousand Pounds can be made to appear, and provided effectual Care be taken, that such bills shall not be deemed a Legal Tender in Payment for Money, there is the great- est probability that an Act of this Nature, under proper Limitations, will meet with His Majesty's most gracious Approval.
Having received Advice from the Honourable Sir WILLIAM JOHNSON, Baronet, His Majesty's Superinten- dent for Indian Affairs, that a Treaty was to be held with the Six Nations, by His Majesty's Order, for settling a Boundary Line between them and the British Northern Colonies; and it being the Opinion of the Council (for the Reasons set forth in their Minutes ) that my Presence at the Treaty would be likely to answer very good Pur- poses to the Province; I accordingly attended the Confer-
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ence at Fort Stanwix, accompanied by Mr. Chief Justice, who, at my Request, willingly undertook the Service. An Account of the Transactions there, so far as they particu- larly relate to New-Jersey, will be laid before you, and I hope will prove satisfactory. The Six Nations at that grand Meeting, besides having finally agreed on a general Boundary between them and the Northern Colonies, have publickly acknowledged the respected Instances of our Justice in bringing the Murders of Indians to condign Punishment, declared, that they have no Claim or Demand on this Province whatever, and in the most solemn Man- ner, conferred on the Government of New-Jersey, the dis- tinguishing Name of Sagorighwiyogstha, or the great Arbiter or Doer of Justice. A Name, which at the same Time that it reflects high Honour on the Province, may prove of singular Advantage to the Inhabitants on our . Frontiers, should a Misunderstanding arise between the Indians and any of the neighbouring Colonies.
It gives me great Concern to mention to you the Rob- bery of the Treasury of the Eastern Division, and the more so, as it is not in my Power, though so long a Time has since elapsed, to inform you who were the Perpetrators of that atrocious Villainy, or what is become of the Money. Every Step, however, has been taken on the Part of Gov- ernment, which had any Chance of producing a Discov- ery, as I believe you will do the Justice to acknowledge, when you have perused the Papers relative to that Trans- action. If any Expedient can be suggested which may have a Tendency to secure the Province from the like Dis- aster in future, it will not fail of meeting with my most hearty Concurrence.
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives
The Act for the Support of Government being expired, and the Money granted for the furnishing the King's
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Troops here with Necessaries, being expended, I must earnestly recommend it to you to grant a farther Supply for these Purposes.
As there are strong Reasons for expecting that the late Duty Act,1 which has given such general Dissatisfaction to His Majesty's Subjects in the Colonies, will be repealed in the ensuing Session of Parliament, I cannot but flatter myself that the Representatives of the good People of this Province, will conduct themselves with such Wisdom and Prudence at this critical Time, as to avoid every Matter which may, in the smallest Degree, tend to widen or con- tinue the unhappy Differences subsisting between the two Countries, and that they will, by every Means in their Power, manifest a sincere Disposition to promote the Re- establishment of that mutual Confidence and Affection so essential to the Glory and Safety of the whole British Empire.
Gentlemen of the Council, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives.
The many Advantages derived to the Province from the Harmony which has for some Time past, prevailed among the several Branches of the Legislature, give me the great- est Reason to expect a Continuance of it during the pres- ent Session. You may always rest assured, that I shall chearfully co-operate with you in whatever may be for His Majesty's Service, or the public Welfare
WILLIAM FRANKLIN
Council-Chamber,
October 11, 1769.
To His Excellency WILLIAM FRANKLIN, Esq; Captain General, Governor and Commander in Chief, in and over the Province of New-Jersey, and Territories
1 The tax on tea, etc.
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thereon depending in America, Chancellor and Vice Admiral in the same, &c.
The Humble ADDRESS of His Majesty's COUNCIL of the said Province.
May it Please your Excellency,
THE Attention which your Excellency has shewn to the true Interest of this Province, in the several important Instances mentioned in your Speech at the Opening of this Session, claims our warmest Acknowledgments.
Your Knowledge of the many Inconveniencies which the People under your Government are subjected to, by the Want of an Emission of Paper Currency, both as a Medium of Commerce, and to assist them to pay for and improve their Lands, having enabled you to become an Advocate for their obtaining such Relief as may be in some Measure adequate to their Necessities; we hope the Continuance of your kind and just Representations to our most gracious Sovereign, will speedily be crowned with such Success as we are convinced must be extremely agree- able to the Province.
We are well pleased that your Attendance at the Treaty at Fort Stanwix has been so evidently productive of the desired Effects; and that the Indians are perfectly satis- fied of the Justice and Honour of this Government in all public Transactions with them; and that all those who have had any Connections with this Province, as well as many other Nations, are thoroughly convinced, that no Indians whatsoever can have any future Claim upon us; which must, evidently, contribute greatly to the Peace of the Province in general, and to the particular Security of our Frontier Inhabitants, in all future Times.
The Ardour with which your Excellency hath pursued every Step which seemed likely to produce a Discovery of the Perpetrators of the villainous Robbery committed on
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the Eastern Treasury, hath given us great Pleasure; and we assure you, we shall most heartily continue to assist your Excellency with our utmost Endeavours, to affect this important Purpose; and join in every reasonable Proposal for the further Security of the public Money.
Your Excellency's Recommendation of Harmony to the several Branches of the Legislature, and to avoid every Thing which might tend to widen the unhappy Dif- ferences subsisting between Great Britain and her Col- onies, shall, on our Part, be carefully attended to, and we return you our hearty Thanks for your Assurances of chearfully co-operating in every Measure proposed for His Majesty's Service, or the public Welfare.
Signed by Order of the House, PETER KEMBLE, Speaker.
Council Chamber, October 18, 1769.
To which his EXCELLENCY was pleased to return the fol- lowing Answer.
Gentlemen,
BE pleased to accept my best Thanks for this Address. I receive with great Satisfaction your Approbation of my Conduct, and have the firmest Reliance upon the Assur- ances you give me.
To His Excellency WILLIAM FRANKLIN, Esq; Captain General, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the Colony of New-Jersey, and Territories thereon depending in America, Chancellor and Vice Admiral in the same, &c.
The humble ADDRESS of the REPRESENTATIVES of the said Colony, in General Assembly convened.
May it please your Excellency.
WE His Majesty's dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Rep-
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resentatives of the Colony of New-Jersey, in General As- sembly met, beg Leave to return your Excellency our hearty Thanks for your favourable Speech.
As no material Inconvenience to the Colony seems to have attended the Delay, we thank your Excellency for postponing calling the Assembly to a Time convenient to our private Affairs.
The Pains your Excellency has taken, in so strongly representing to His Majesty's Ministers, the great public Utility you apprehended would attend the immediately issuing a Sum of Money, in Bills of Credit, on Loan, merits our warmest Acknowledgments; and convinces us of your good Intentions, respecting a Measure so gener- ally desired by the good People of this Colony. The Terms proposed by His Majesty's Ministers, appear to be particularly hard : We shall, however, give the Matter our most serious Consideration; and if any Expedient can be devised, by which a Loan Office Bill may be ob- tained, so as to answer the desired Purposes of a Cur- rency, without Inconveniencies that will over-ballance the Good that can be expected, we shall most heartily embrace it.
The Settling a Boundary Line, between the Indians and the British Northern Colonies, was, undoubtedly, an Ob- ject worthy of His Majesty's Attention; and it is very satisfactory to this House that your Excellency, with Mr. Chief Justice, attended the Conference at Fort Stanwix, which has given the Indians an Opportunity of testifying their Sense of the Justice of this Colony towards them, by complimenting your Excellency with the Name of SAGORIGHWIYOGSTHA, or the great Arbiter or Doer of Justice.
The Robbery of the public Treasury at Amboy, is a Matter of Importance to this Province; and it gives us
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great Concern, that, tho' so long a Time hath elapsed, no Discovery is yet made of the atrocious Perpetrators of that Villainy. Satisfied however, of the early Care of Govern- ment, and of your Excellency's particular Endeavours in that Respect, we shall proceed to examine the Papers re- lating thereto, laid before us by your Excellency, together with every other particular that may come to our Knowl- edge; and, with all possible Attention, and in faithful Discharge of the Trust reposed in us, do what shall appear to us consistent with the strictest Impartiality and public Justice; not doubting your Excellency's Readiness to comply with any Expedient that may be suggested, which may have a Tendency to secure the Colony from the like Disaster in future.
As the Representatives of the People of this Colony, have always chearfully supported this His Majesty's Gov- ernment, we shall not be wanting, on our Parts, to make suitable Provision for that Purpose, and shall pay all due Regard to the other Parts of your Excellency's Speech.
Your Excellency's Declaration, that there are the strongest Reasons to expect the late Duty Acts will be repealed in the ensuing Session of Parliament, affords great Pleasure to us. We hope no Transaction of this House, will, in the least, tend to widen or continue the unhappy Differences subsisting between Great Britain and the Colonies, and sincerely wish a Re-establishment of that mutual Confidence and Affection, so essential to the Glory and Safety of the whole British Empire, and shall not fail to promote such a Disposition with Respect to this Colony, by all Means consistent with our Duty to our Constituents, and a due Regard to our just Rights and Privileges.
Seeing the happy Effects, we are convinced of the many Advantages derived from a perfect Harmony subsisting between the different Branches of the Legislature, in trans-
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acting the public Business. Nothing, on our Parts, shall be wanting, to promote so good a Purpose, and we hope our Conduct, on all Occasions, will demonstrate a Dispo- sition most chearfully to co-operate with your Excellency in whatever may conduce to the general Welfare.
Signed by Order of the House, CORTLAND SKINNER, Speaker.
October 17, 1769.
His Excellency's ANSWER.
GENTLEMEN,
I HEARTILY thank you for this Address. The Ac- knowledgments and Satisfaction you have expressed, and the Assurance you have given, respecting the several Mat- ters mentioned in my Speech, afford me particular Pleas- ure, as they indicate a Disposition the most likely to be productive of Advantage to your Country.
[FIGURE OF STAGE COACH DRAWN BY FOUR HORSES.] To the PUBLIC.
A new Stage is now erected by Joseph Crane, and Josiah F. Davenport, to go from New-York to Philadel- phia, by Way of Powles-Hook, which sets out every Tues- day Morning, by Way of Coryell's Ferry .- The New York Gazette or Weekly Post Boy, No. 1399, October 23, 1769.
To the Gentlemen of the Committee of Merchants of New-York. Burlington, 20th Oct. 1769.
GENTLEMEN,
By Order of the House of Assembly, now sitting at this
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Place, I enclose you a Resolve made on the 18th Instant, as a Testimony of their Approbation of your Conduct.
I am, Gentlemen, Your very humble Servant, CORTLAND SKINNER, Speaker of the House of Assembly of New-Jersey.
House of Assembly of New-Jersey, Wednesday, Oct. 18th, 1769.
Upon Motion made, Resolved Nemine Contradicente,
THAT the Thanks of this House be given to the Mer- chants and Traders of this Colony, and of the Colonies of New-York and Pennsylvania, for their disinterested and public spirited Conduct in witholding their Importations of British Merchandize, until certain Acts of Parlament, lay- ing Restrictions on American Commerce, for the express Purpose of raising a Revenue in America, be repealed, And that Mr. Speaker be directed to write to the respec- tive Committees of Merchants in said Colonies, trans- mitting them a Copy of this Resolve.
A true Copy,
RICHARD SMITH, Clerk of the Assembly.
New-York, October 26. On Sunday last, a Messenger from Shrewsbury came to Town with the following mel- ancholy Account, viz. That on Friday Evening last, the Wind being Southerly and moderate, and the Weather having been some Time very thick and foggy, The Live Oak, a fine large Sloop, belonging to Mr. Jacobus Van Zant, of this City Merchant, Capt. Foy, Master, from Spanish St. Domingo, bound in to this Port, being nearer the Land than they imagined, had the Misfortune to run a ground on Squan Beach, a little to the Westward of
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Shrewsbury Inlet, where the Vessel, being deeply laden. and a large Swell from the Sea, setting righ on upon the Beach, in a few Thumps the Vessel went all to Pieces, and was intirely lost, with all her Cargo, which was very val- uable, consisting of Sugars, Mahogany, &c. and upwards of 20000 Dollars in Specie; and of the People-4 only escaped with Life, viz. the Mate, two Seamen and a Span- ish Merchant, who were cast ashore on the Beach, where they found themselves next Morning, but could give no Account how they got there: They were terribly bruised and mangled, especially the Merchant, who was stark naked, had his Flesh miserably torne, and by lying so long in the Water, turn'd pale, resembling that of a dead Corps, and scarce any Skin left on his Back : The rest of the Peo- ple, 14 in number were all unfortunately drown'd, among whom was Mr. Campbel, Super Cargo of the Vessel, Nephew to Mr. Van Zant, a young Gentleman of whom his Friends had great Expectations, of an amiable Char- acter, highly esteem'd, and much lamented by all that knew him, also the Family of the unhappy Spanish Mer- chant, (consisting of his Wife, his Son, about 8 Years of Age, and his Daughter a young Lady of about 16 or 17) who is by this distressing Stroke of Providence at once deprived of all his Fortune and Family. We expect a more particular Account of this melancholy Event, on the return of Mr. Van Zant, who Yesterday set out for Shrewsbury .- The New York Journal or General Adver- tiser, No. 1399, October 26, 1769.
A LIST of LETTERS remaining in the Post-Office, Phil- adelphia.
B. Jos. Brown, Huntingdon County, West-Jersey; Richard Brown, Salem, N. Jersey.
C. Hugh Creighton, Haddonfield.
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H. Jane Hartley, Salem; Ebenezer Hopkins, Had- donfield.
L. James Lackey, Salem.
M. John Morrow, Arthur Molholland (2) Jersey; John Murphy, Haddonfield.
O. Isaac Oakford, Glass-house.
T. Benjamin Tanner, Hopewell, N. Jersey; John Throp, Burlington County.
PHILADELPHIA, October 26.
Captain Ashmead from Lisbon, about 40 Leagues from our Capes, spoke with Captain Gilpin, in a Brig from this Port for St. Christophers, two Days out, all well.
September 30, 1769.
TWENTY DOLLARS Reward, for taking 11p and deliver- ing to his master, at Elizabeth-Town, a Negroe man slave, named BRITT, this country born, about 30 years of age, near 6 feet high, a well set fellow; or Ten Dollars will be given, if taken up and secured in Northampton goal, so that his master, the Subscriber, may have him again; he was formerly the property of Nathaniel Salmon of Spring- field, in the borough of Elizabeth, Essex county, and prov- ince of New Jersey, who was taken in execution by Will- iam Barnett, Sheriff of said borough and county, and was sold at public vendue, for the benefit of said Salmon's creditors, unto the Subscriber, and is supposed to be taken off by his former master, and gone to Lahnawanack or Wyoming, as he was seen, with said Salmon, travelling on that road. These are therefore to warn all persons from harbouring, entertaining, or buying said Negroe, on their peril, as they may depend, on being prosecuted, as the law directs (in such cases) for detaining, or keeping said slave from his master's service .- The Pennsylvania Gasette, No. 2131, October 26, 1769.
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By Capt. Alexander from North-Carolina, we learn that in the gale of the 7th and 8th of September last-five vessels were lost at Ocracock Bar, one a Sloop Capt. La- vigne belonging to this Port, which sunk at her anchor and every person drowned, the Capt. was found 25 miles from the place with his arm broke, one a Schooner belonging to New York, or Egg-Harbour, loaded with shingles, was overset and the people drowned; one a sloop belonging to New-York.
Last week a man that lived about 30 miles from hence, in New-Jersey, in a fit of jealousy killed his wife, by shoot- ing her in the shoulder, and afterwards beating her head with the butt of the gun; then chusing to save the sheriff the trouble, hanged himself.
To the CREDITORS of JOHN BUDD,
Gentlemen,
I AM sorry to inform you that there is no likelihood of your receiving any part of your money, unless you permit me to come and reside in New-Jersey, and take my affairs into my own hands; I therefore propose to petition the legislative body of that province, for an act to authorize me so to do, at the present sitting of the Assembly, and make no doubt but it will be agreeable to you. Believe me, Gentlemen, in this proposal I consult your interest more than my own, as I am now agreeably situated in a prov- ince where my person and property is safe: The only motive that induces me to act in this manner is the pleas- ure of taking the money out of the hands of those that have so long unjustly detained it, and paying my just debts; I am so far from fearing any opposition, that I make bold to request the favour of you to use your inter- ests to procure the said act
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