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ARCHIBALD STEWART.
WHEREAS the General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey, have passed an Act for the Relief of Debtors, at their last Sessions : We the Debtors in the Goal of the Borough of Elizabeth, in the County of Essex, intending to take the Benefit of said Act, do hereby desire all our
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NEW JERSEY COLONIAL DOCUMENTS. [1769
Creditors to take Notice accordingly. Dated Elizabeth Town Goal, December 16, 1769.
Henry Clark, Sen. Daniel Ogden, Jun.
John Little, John Bishop,
David Little, Thomas Penoyer.
Barnaby Shute,1
-The New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, No. 948, December 25, 1769.
Gloucester County, December 16, 1769
BY virtue of a writ, to me directed, will be exposed to public sale, on Tuesday, the 20th of February next, on the premises, a certain messuage, plantation and tract of land, containing 200 acres, more or less, situate on the south branch of Timber Creek, adjoining lands of Rich- ard Cheesman, and lands late John Blackwood's; and also a tract of excellent cedar swamp, situate on the four mile branch, on Great Egg-harbour river, containing 80 acres, more or less, and 127 acres and 37 perches of pine land, well timbered, situate at a certain place, called the Four Mile Neck, and is bounded by lands of Richard Arrel; the above plantation is very convenient for a tanyard, or al- most any public business; it is within a mile of a Meeting- house; late the property of Benjamin Collins; seized in execution by
JOSEPH HUGG, Sheriff. -The Pennsylvania Gasette, No. 2140, December 28, 1769.
1 A tavern keeper at Elizabethtown for many years.
2 Joseph Hugg, 1st, a descendant of John Hugg, the founder of the family in Old Gloucester, settled at Gloucester Point in 1722, where he kept the ferry and inn for several years. He d. in 1757. leaving two children-Samuel and Joseph, 2d. The latter was probably the Joseph "Hogg," joiner, in Philadelphia, who advertised land for sale on Little Timber creek, Gloucester. in 1752 and 1753 .- N. J. Archires, XIX., 183, 268. He was Sheriff of Gloucester county in 1769. The will of Joseph Hugg, Esqr., of Gloucester Town and County, dated March 10, 1795, was proved December 12, 1796, at Woodbury. The testator gives his wife Elizabeth his furniture. carriage. two horses, and £60 half yearly dur- ing life; divides "my plantation where I live" between his two sons-
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1769]
Extract of a letter from New York, Dec. 25
"The brig Jupiter, Captain Byers, from this port for Dublin, in going out ran ashore on the S. W. spit of the East Bank, where she filled; then beat off, and they ran her into the Horse-shoe, Sandy-Hook, where she lays in a fathom water;1 and a sloop belonging to New England, bound from the West Indies for this port, with rum, is also said to be ashore about seven miles to the southward of Sandy-Hook."-The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1412, December 28, 1769.
Joseph and George Washington; devises to son Isaac "my plantation at Great Egg Harbour. in Galloway township, late Richard Westcoat's;" gives his daughter, Elizabeth Kennard, wife of Samuel Kennard, £400, some silver, etc .; to grandson, John Hampton (apparently son of a deceased daughter), £300, "and I commit him to the care of his uncle Joseph;" also mentions his brother, Samuel Hugg. Executors-sons Joseph and Isaac. and son-in-law, Saml. Kennard. junior. Witnesses- Charles West, Jas. B. Cooper, Saml. Flaningam. In a codicil, dated the same day, he says he has "heard of my son Isaac S. Hugg's death." and divides that son's share between his dau. Elizabeth and his grand-
son, John Hampton. Witnesses-Edward Lucas, Henry Shevileer, Amos Pearce. In a second codicil, dated Nov. 19, 1796, he says: "Hav- ing lately sold my land in Gloucester township near Long Coming to several persons in the Neighborhood, I hereby empower and direct my Executors to make good Conveyances;" and he appoints his son, George Washington Hugg, one of his executors. The inventory of his estate, taken Dec. 6, 1796. by James Hurley and Jno. Brick, footed up £2973, 3, 1034 .- Lib. No. 36 of Wills, f. 206.
1 See N. J. Archives, XXVII., 6.
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INDEX.
A
Abbit, John, drowned, 552. Abeel. James, merchant at New- ark, 122; hollow ware for sale by, 199, 553. Abington, 227, 522.
Absconded, 66, 200, 356, 403, 423, 424, 449.
Abzicher, Paulus, alias Peter An- zicher, runaway servant, 168. Accidents-at horse race, 524.
boy killed, 137. burned to death, 364, 400. cattle destroyed, 126. drowned, 31, 52, 176, 178, 185, 191, 195, 404, 437, 443, 494, 547, 549, 552.
fatal blow, 52. fatal fall from horse, 376. fires, 2, 34, 52, 144, 145, 146, 148, 149, 155, 169, 172, 184, 220, 230, 231, 233, 340, 341, 343, 364, 384, 385, 398, 399, 400, 503.
frozen to death, 355. run over by wagon, 376.
man killed, 2. man killed by panther, 51.
man shot, 312, 313.
negro child smothered, 2.
seal lost, 295.
shallop blown over, 368. struck by lightning, 487. suffocated, 487.
Acquackanonk (now Passaic), 122. Acquackonock, horses sold at, 33. Act for granting £60,000 for the King's use, and for striking £55,000 thereof in bills of credit, 442.
Acton, John, negro run away from, 196.
Adams. John, runaway servant, committed to Gloucester county goal, 506. Adley, Thomas, brazier, runaway servant, 301.
Admiralty Courts, 420; adminis- tration of, 362. Akers, George, tinman, 281.
Akin, Abiel, insolvent debtor, 183. Alamatunk River, land for sale on, 275.
Albany, 278, 396; Gov. Franklin sets out for, 266, 269. Albany Pier, 199. Albertson, Nathan, 466. Alexander, Capt., 293. C., 456. Rev. Joseph, 291. S. D., "Princeton in the Eigh- teenth Century," by, 521. William C., 291.
Alexandria, horse stolen in, 554. Alison. Rev. Dr. Francis, "The Centinel," by, 81.
Allamatunk River, land for sale on, 314.
Allen, Captain, 124, 505.
Isaac, land, house and mills for sale by, 154. Mrs., 570, 571.
Thomas, 145.
William, 335, 574, 575; Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, 494; appointment of, 463.
Allen Town, Allen's Town, 2, 42, 173, 215, 260, 551, 570, 571; fulling mill for sale in, 131; house, land and dyeing stuffs for sale at, 131; land for sale in, 18; land for sale near, 18, 66, 132, 337, 563; mills for sale near, 154; Presbyterian meeting house at, 338.
Allibone, Captain, 145.
Alliney, Ebenezer, 230.
biographical Allinson, Elizabeth, sketch of, 262.
Elizabeth, jun., obituary no- tice of, 262, 263.
Joseph, 262. Samuel, lawyer, 2; land for sale by, 19; obituary notice of wife of, 262.
Allison, Captain, 383. Alloway's Creek, 44, 173, 220, 407, 452; land for sale at the head of, 189; land for sale near, 517; land for sale at, 527; wife eloped in, 527. precinct, 65.
township, 402; land for sale in, 35, 156, 486.
Alrichs, Peter, 272.
Alwood, Justice, 170.
Ambler, Peter, servant absconded from, 424, 458.
Amboy, 59, 430, 469, 503; fire at, 140, 144, 149, 385; land for sale at or near, 58, 87, 133, 431; letter from, 233. America, Church of England in, 78. 556; denominations in, 100.
American Admiralty, 178. American Bishops, plea for, 78-82; arguments for and against, 94-120, 125-152, 167, 193, 201, 213, 239, 251, 326, 335. 496, 556-560; sermon in favor of, 310.
"American Canaan," 434.
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INDEX.
American commerce, restrictions on, 546.
American Judges of Admiralty, commissions for new, 362.
"American Latin Grammar" for sale, 567.
"American Magazine, The," pro- posed be published" by
Lewis Nicola, 347.
American Philosophical Society, committee to observe the Transit of Venus, appointed by the, 450.
"American Whig," a Collection of Tracts containing the, 81, 252; authors of, 108, 110, 111, 112; referred to, 82-86; "A Whip for the," by "Timothy Tickle," 107; No. XIII., let- ter to the author of, 213; published in New York, 252. Amsterdam, 281.
Amwell, 22, 41. 167, 260, 312, 323, 373, 400, 551; death of John Reading at, 36; land and tavern house for sale in, 276; land for sale in, 390; St. An- drew's church at, 213; tav- ern for sale in. 24.
township, 35; fuller wanted in. 451; land for sale in, 374; wife eloped from, 270.
"Anatomist, The," 297, 335.
Anderson, Capt., 256, 260.
Ezekial, insolvent debtor, 168. James, 35, 550.
Judge John, 183, 211, 296, 311, 481.
John, 230; land for sale by, 145, 351.
Thomas, acknowledgment by, 44, 45; land to let by, 393. Andover Furnace. 260; land for sale near, 15, 59, 591.
Andover Iron Works, land for sale near, 268, 390.
Andrews, Isaac, land for sale by, 274.
Lewis, Jersey soldier, captured by the Indians, brought ,to New York, 328. Robert, apprentice lad run away from, 267.
Annapolis, Maryland, clergy of Maryland to meet in, to form a relief society, 556. Convention, New Jersey dele- gates to, 290. Anney's Joe, runaway negro, 440. "Answer to Pilate's Question- What is Truth ?- The main Point, Faith distinguished
from Counterfeits," for sale, 444.
Antigua. 29, 510, 554, 565.
Antrin, Isaac, negroes run away from, 172.
"Appeal in behalf of the Church of England," by Dr. Chandler, 79, 80, 81, 94. 125. 148, 166, 192, 193, 239, 335, 558.
Appleton, Capt., 29. Josiah, 417.
Apprentice boy absconded, 174. Apthorp, Mr., 558.
Archer, Benjamin, land for sale in tenure of, 369. John, 205.
Archibold, Christopher, runaway servant, 354.
Armitage, Benjamin, land for sale by, 27.
Armstrong, Andrew, watch stolen from, 447. Martin, 260.
Arnet, James, 339, 340, 343.
Arrel, Richard, land for sale near lands of, 592.
Arrent. John, insolvent debtor, 254.
Asanpunk, grist mill for sale on, 38.
Ash timber, 317.
Ashfield, Lewis Morris, 230.
Ashmead, Captain, arrival of, 36, 548. Ashton, Esther, 550. Mary, 461.
Assembly, meeting of, 71.
Assessors, act to oblige to deliver duplicates of their assess- ments, 164.
Assunpink creek, iron foundry on, 38.
Atherton. Thomas, conveyance from, missing, 171. Atkinson, James, conveyance from, missing. 171.
Atterbury estate. residence for sale belonging to the, 72. "Atticus," extract from a letter of. 2.
Attwood, Joshua, vessel for sale by. 134.
Augusta county, Virginia, 256, 260. Auhquechnock, 498. Ausborn. Joseph, 263.
Auten. Thomas, insolvent debtor, 366. Axford. Charles, junior, 168, Avis, George, 471.
Ayres, Captain, from Lisbon, ar- rival of, 388.
B
B- -t. Lord, prayers offered up for, 450.
Bacon. John, degree conferred up- on, 288. Badcock's creek, land for sale ly- ing on. 433.
Badger's mills, Benjamin, 469. Radston (Batsto), the new furnace at. 4.
Baily, Thomas, land for sale by, 72.
Baines, Robert, horse kept by, 418. John, 589.
Baker. Charles, 550. Baker, 144, 178.
Baldwin, Charles, lawyer. 578. Elizabeth Davidson, 578.
Jonathan. Princeton, 348; ser- vant lad run away from, 550, 578; biographical sketch of, 578. Nathaniel, 578.
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INDEX.
Stephen, house to let by, 60. Susan, 578. William, 578.
Baley. James, insolvent debtor, 176.
Ball. Caleb, deceased, land for sale near, 67.
Daniel, land for sale formerly of, 72.
David, insolvent debtor. 170. 247; land for sale lately be- longing to, 566.
Ezekiel, land for sale by, 411, 566; inventor of machine for leveling roads, 429, 430.
Jonas, insolvent debtor, 170, 247.
Nathaniel, land for sale by, 72, 411, 566.
Thomas, land for sale by, 72. William, land for sale by, 27. Baltimore, Maryland, 41, 263, 440, 456, 469; town gaol, 206.
Bancroft, George, 290.
Bandeler, Peter. 260.
Baner, Isaac, 500.
Banks. James, tavern kept by, 237; stage waggon to start from and to, 214, 484.
Baptist Church in America, 97.
Baptist meeting house, 352.
Baptists, 148.
Barbadoes, Barbados, W. I., 205, 364, 484, 506, 510, 527; ar- rivals at and from, 36, 157. Barbadoes Neck, 348.
Barber, Francis, schoolmaster, bi- ographical sketch of, 10; Grammar School at New- Bridge carried on by, 528. Barberie, John, land for sale by, 57, 215.
Bard, Mary Martha, 215.
Peter, jun., obituary notice of, 453.
Bard family, note on, 453.
Bardan, John, stage waggon kept by. 290.
Bardin, Captain, 485. Mr., fire at house of, 146.
Bar iron taken in payment for hammers and anvils, 553.
Barn, burning of, 343.
Barnagat, brig run ashore at, 580. Barnagate Beach, men drove ashore at, 510.
Barnegat, 256; vessels lost at, on account of rain and wind storm, 503.
Barnegat Beach. shallop drove ashore at, 502; vessel drove ashore near, 503.
Barnes, John, Sheriff. man es- caped from, 483. Lambert, notice to creditors of, 300.
Thomas, land and houses for sale by, 377.
Barnett. William, Sheriff. 548.
Barnhill. John, stage waggon kept by. 158, 159. Barracks. act for supplying, 587. Barret, Edward, 452.
Barrett. Absalom, runaway ser- vant, 478. Barrey, Captain, 510.
Bartlett, W .. 457, 492.
Barton, Gilbert, innholder, 570.
Bartow, Thomas, land for sale by, 275.
Bartram, G .. European, East and West India goods for sale at the store of, 436.
Bartram and Lithgow, partnership of, 412. Baskenridge, 170.
Baskinridge meeting-house, land for sale near, 498.
Bassonet, Charles, servant run away from, 510.
Bate, William. 471.
Batsto furnace, owners of, 577. See Badston.
Battin, Taulbert. 506.
Bayard. William, land to be let by, 16. Beach, Rev. Abraham. 30. 75; marriage of, 185; biograph- ical sketch of, 185. Ann, 185.
Bealie. Thomas, runaway, 128.
Beal, Thomas, escaped from Sus- sex county gaol, 147.
"Bear Swamp" for sale, 487; land . for sale lying near, 436. Beatty, Charles, 300. Charles. Rev., 521.
John, graduated from Prince- ton College, 521; debater, 523.
Beaty. George, land for sale near mill of. 390.
Beaver-Pond, horse racing at. 179. Beckman. James, English oration by. 526.
William, English oration by, 526.
Bedminster, 17; inhabitants im- powered to repair their high- ways in, by hire, 164.
township, land for sale in, 56, 71. 394, 492.
Beebe. Zaccheus, 260.
Belfast, 29.
Bellamy. Dr., 522.
Belleville (formerly Second River), copper mines at, 162.
Bellus, Philip, 161. Belly-bridge, 307.
Ben, runaway negro, 454, 461. 511. Benedict, Joel, degree of master of arts conferred upon, 288. Benezet. Daniel. 563.
James, land for sale by, 276; notice by, 468.
Philip, meadow to be let, late in the tenure of. 92. Benjamin. runaway negro. 444. Bennet. Aaron, servant run away from, 452. Abraham. land for sale in pos- session of. 135. Cornelius, escaped goal. 482.
Bennett, alias Bennin, Joseph, supposed runaway, commit- ted to Burlington county goal, 35S. Bense, Adam. 552. Bergen. Jacob. 162, 236. Bergen. land for sale adjoining, 257. Bergen Common Lands. 181.
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Bergen Commons, partition of, 470. Bergen county, 231, 447; land for sale in, 90. 132, 245; Assem- blymen from, 204, 231. Bergen-Point, 351; land for sale at, 91; land, etc., for sale on, 380; land for sale near, 448.
Bergen township, 16.
Bergen Woods, stage waggon to stop in, 290.
Berien, John, representative for Somerset county, 194.
Berkly, Lord, land granted to, 243. Berks county, 201.
Berkshire goal, negro committed to. 469.
Bermuda, W. I., 276.
Bernard's Town, land for sale in, 498.
Berrian, John, land for sale by, 90.
Berrien, Cornelius Jansen, 208. Elizabeth, 208.
Jannetie. 208.
John, 208, 576; Assemblyman from Somerset county, 194, 204. 208, 231.
John, Justice of the Supreme Court, 198, 236, 246, 281, 290, 291, 380, 387, 426.
Margaret, 208.
Peter, 208.
family, sketch of the, 208.
homestead, Washington's fare- well to the army written at the, 209.
Berry, Peter. fatal fall from his horse, 376.
Berry's Creek, land for sale on, 245. 397.
Bessonet. John, servant run away from, 5111.
Bethlehem, servant run away in, 536.
Biddle, Clement, assignee, land for sale by, 350; notice by, 471. Henry, escaped from Glouces- ter county goal, 283.
Biggs, Mrs., 356.
Biles, Benjamin, land for sale by, 73.
Samuel, land for sale by, 337; notice given by, 477.
Bills of credit, acts for issuing, 13, 442; an act for striking £100,000 in, 587: disallowed by the King. 587; the action of the King resented in New Jersey, 587.
Biographical and Genealogical Notes:
Allinson, Elizabeth, 262.
Baldwin. Jonathan, 578.
Barber, Francis, 10.
Beach, Rev. Abraham, 185. Beatty, John, 521.
Berrien family, 208, 209. Blackwell, Robert, 287.
Blair, William Lawrence, 521.
Brevard, Ephraim, 288. Burnet, Mathias, 521. Channing, William, 521.
Cooper, Daniel. jun., 354. Davenport, John, 521.
Davies, John Rodgers, 521.
Dewitt, Peter, 521.
Edwards, Pierpont, 288. Frazer. Rev. William, 213-
215.
Graham, Peter, 340.
Gray, Capt. James, 141.
Harker, Ahimaaz, 128, 309.
Henry, John, 521.
Henry, Samuel, 38.
Houdin, Rev. Michael, 173.
Houston, William Churchill,
288-291.
Hugg, Joseph, 592.
Kearny, Michael, 124.
Keen, Mounce, 568.
Kingsland, Isaac, 132.
Laurie, Thomas, 18.
Livingston. Philip French, 177.
Melville, Thomas, 522.
Niles, Samuel, 522.
Osborne, Adlai, 291.
Perkins, Lieut. William, 178.
Pettit, Charles, 577.
Pidgeon, William. 40, 135.
Price. Robert Friend. 588-589.
Reading, George, 373.
Reese, Thomas, 291.
Shute, Barnaby, 38.
Skinner, John, 266.
Smith, Samuel Stanhope, 522.
Smith, Sarah Logan, 161.
Smith, Thomas. 291.
Story, Isaac, 291.
Streydt, Christian, 330.
Thayer, Elihu, 522. Tonkin, Edward, 136.
Van Bunschooten, Elias, 287- 288. Watson, John, 257. Zubley, David, 522.
Bingham, William, 330, 331.
Birch Creek, land for sale lying near the mouth of, 476; ferry kept at, 477.
Bishop, John, insolvent debtor,
592.
Joseph, servant, committed to Gloucester county goal, 506. Bissett, John, land for sale late the property of, 215.
Black. William, 3.
Blackburn, Francis, servant, com- mitted to Perth Amboy jail, 300.
Blackburne, Rev. Francis, "Com- mentary on Archbishop Seck- er's Letter," by, 80.
Black Creek Forge, land for sale formerly called, 55. Black Horse tavern, 268.
Black-Point, 350.
Black River, Presbyterian minis- ter at, 128; Presbyterian
church at, 310. road, land for sale near, 314.
Blacksmith, 250, 256, 395, 410.
Blacksmith's shop, burned, 146; for sale, 58, 566.
Blackwell, Jacob Francis, 287.
Robert, biographical sketch of, 287; oration by, at com- mencement of the College of New Jersey, 287; gradu- ates at Princeton, 287.
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INDEX.
Blackwood, Hugh, land for sale by, 190, 517.
John, land for sale near, 592. Samuel, 221; Sheriff, prisoners broke goal from. 42; land, etc., for sale by, 337, 433; notice given by, 477; late Sheriff, land for sale by, 477. 486.
Blair, Rev. John, oration by, at the commencement of the College of New Jersey, 287; nearly drowned, 437; Pro- fessor of Divinity in the Col- lege of New Jersey, resigna- tion of, 437.
Mr., Latin syllogistic debate by. 523.
Rev. Samuel, 399.
William Lawrence, graduates at Princeton College, 521; biographical sketch of. 521. Blewer, Captain, from Quebec. 172. Bloomer, 324.
Bloomfield. Moses, Secretary of the New Jersey Medical So- ciety, 77.
'Blue Anchor" tavern, servant run away from, 450.
Blue Mountains, 13; land for sale at foot of the, 389. Boardley, John Beale, servant to, in goal, 41.
Boat broke loose from shallop, 508, 509.
Boat-builder, 509.
Boats for sale, 215, 282. 379, 416, 553, 554.
Boatman. 451.
Bollins, John, land for sale at the house of, 221.
Bolting mills for sale, 254.
"Bombasticus, Ironicus," commu- nication from, 272.
Bond, Elijah, sturgeon manufac . tory carried on by. 169, 242; land for sale near, 244. Mr .. fire at house of. 140, 144. 148. Bonnell. Francis, land for sale near, 369. Isaac, 129.
Samuel, deceased, land of, for sale, 368. 369. Sarah. executrix, land for sale by. 369. Thomas, executor, land for sale by. 369.
Bookseller, 399. 401.
Books for sale, 127, 280, 443, 444, 488. 489. 493, 567.
Books, prospectus of. 466.
Bordan. John. goods stolen from, 11.
Borden, Nancy, marriage of, 265. Bordentown. 28, 173. 261, 264, 308. 349, 462, 497, 550, 551; land for sale near, 55; land for sale in, 229, 230, 349, 563; mills for sale near, 154; sale in, 368. Boston, 22. 85, 124, 167, 207, 278, 325, 339, 362, 440, 462, 522; arrival of Rev. Dr. Wither- spoon, president of the Col-
lege of New Jersey, at, 314; troops for, 322; Episcopali- ans of. 335; subscriptions taken in at, 399.
Boston Crown Soap, manufacture of. 349.
Bottle Hill (now Madison), N. J., 521.
Boudinot, Elias, Elizabeth-Town. 348; executor of Joseph Woodruff, jun., deceased, 379; notice given by, 475; Commissary-General of pris- oners, 521; demands against William Kelly to be paid by, 488; house to let by, 393.
Boulby John, 550.
Boulsby, Thomas, land for sale near, 74.
Boundary line between the Brit- ish Northern Colonies and the Indians, settling of. 538. 543.
Bound-Brook, stage via, 501; stage to, 513; William Had- don. teacher of mathe- maticks at, 141; town, land for sale near, 367.
Bourbon county, Ky., 373.
Bourn, Merica, run away, 435.
Bowditch, Captain. 582, 586.
Bowen, Jonathan, 35.
Bower, Lemuel, land for sale by, 39. Bowers, Lemuel, land for sale in the possession of, 393.
Nicholas, insolvent debtor, 168.
Boy drowned, 191.
Boy killed, 137.
Boyd. Samuel, 550.
William. 260.
Bradbury. Thomas, insolvent debt - or, 170.
Bradford, Thomas, 166; printer, 225.
William, 166; printer, 225.
William and Thomas, printers, 21. 347. 399.
Brady, Michael. shoemaker, run- away servant, 402, 480. Brainerd, Rev. David, mission of, 297. Rev. John, sketch of, 298.
Braintree, Mass, 522.
Brattle, Thomas, receives degree of master of arts, 522.
Bray, Doctor, Bishop of London's Commissary in Maryland,
125, 126.
Brazier, 301. Brearly, David. 290.
Brenner, Simeon. 260.
Brevard, Ephraim, graduates at Princeton, 287; biographical sketch of. 288.
Joel, graduates at Princeton College, 521; Latin syllogis- tic debate by, 523.
Brewer, Garret, insolvent debtor. 581.
Peter, executor, fulling mill for sale by. 132; land for sale by. 132.
Brewhouse afire, 146, 149. Brewhouse for sale, 319.
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INDEX.
Brian, Mary, 589; runaway ser- vant, 41.
Brick, Jno., inventory taken by, 593.
Bricklayers, 65, 190, 511.
Bridgetown, 271, 457, 527; stage waggon to set out near, 285. Bridgetown (Mount Holly) Court House, land for sale at, 468. Bridgewater, inhabitants impow- ered to repair their high- ways in, by hire, 164; land for sale situate at, 275, 367.
Bridle taken by mistake, 536. Brig John and Richard ashore, 51. Brig ashore, 51, 580.
Brig wrecked, 124.
Bright, Jeremiah, land for sale lately the property of, 56.
Brinckerhoff, Dirck, merchant, servant run away from, 412.
Bristol, 5, 137, 204, 295, 311.
Bristol, Pa., servant run away in, 510; township, land for sale in, 382. Britain, Elizabeth, 124.
debtor, Benjamin, insolvent 198.
British merchandise, importation of, 546.
Britt, runaway negro, 548.
Brittain, Richard, servant away from, 580.
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Britz, Elizabeth, 124.
Broadfield, Margaret, sturgeon
manufactory carried on under the care of, 169, 242.
Broadkill Hundred, Del., land for sale situate in, 337.
Brockholls (Brockholst), Anthony, 499. Henry. 499.
Brockhurst, Mr., 499.
Broke goal, 123, 261, 278, 294. 341, 342, 354, 355, 407 561, 562.
Bromley, 17.
Brooks, James, late Sheriff, land for sale by, 64.
Brooks Mills, 550.
Brown, George, goaler, 255; pris- oner escanec . from. 261. James, 485. Jos., 547.
Moses, insolvent debtor, 236.
Patrick, 550.
Richard. 547.
Richard, petition by, 56.
Thomas, house to let by, 60.
William, deceased, sale of the estate of. 337.
William, insolvent debtor, 418, 419.
Brown's Ferry. stage waggons meet at, 214.
Browne, William, notice to cred- itors of, 477.
Brunce, runaway negro, 180, 467.
Brunswick, 505; fire at, 149; land for sale near, 38, 221; thief found near. 564.
landing, land for sale near, 304. ferry, 448. Buck, Aaron, committed to jail, 508.
Capt., 266. John, 207.
Bucks county, Pa., 33, 205, 229, 404, 407; ferry to be rented in, 20; land for sale in, 135. Budd, John, 14.
John, Doctor, notice to credi- tors of, 138, 438, 549.
Joseph, insolvent debtor, 170. Stacy, absconded from, 449. William house and land to let by. 153.
William, jun., house and land to let by, 278.
Bulkeley, Captain, 243.
Bullman, Gersham, insolvent debt- or, 212. Bullock, Joseph, elected a repre- sentative for Burlington county, 192, 231.
Bunbury, Monsieur, 281.
Bunker, J., 477.
Bunnel, Mr., boat belonging to, 195.
Burgie, Thomas, counterfeiting note against, 170, 171.
Burgis, Moses, land for sale in the possession of, 147.
Burlington, 2, 19, 35. 40, 53, 54, 56, 154, 161, 162, 171, 175, 177, 231, 262, 283. 299, 300, 301, 310, 311, 315, 316, 323, 328, 335, 348, 370, 386, 404, 426, 439. 443; 455, 469, 477, 500.
524, 526, 537, 538. 539, 540, 545, 565, 568, 569, 570, 571, 574. 581. 586, 587. 590; elec- tion, 191; General Assembly to meet at, 508, 532; goal, negro man committed to, 484; goal, insolvent debtor in, 590; horse stolen in, 490; land for sale in. 20, 156. 299, 391, 398, 473, 501; marriage at. 161; marriage at St. Mary's church, 213; meeting of the General Assembly at, 307, 497; Recorder of, 136; road from Philadelphia to, 228; road, land for sale on the, 431; St. Mary's church in, legacy to, 137; servants run away from, 354, 460, 510, servant run away from the county of, 361; stage boat, 178; Supreme Court held at, 576; uncalled for probates, etc .. at, 361; land for sale in. 75; negro run away from, 152; assemblymen from, 231. county, 19, 25, 70. 93, 157, 243, 260, 299, 307. 413, 468, 548. 550. 589.
590; absconded from, 449; assemblymen from, 231; Etna furnace in, 67; fire near, 143; goal, 358; goal, prisoners for debt con- fined in, 174, 580. 581. 590; land for sale in, 46. 47, 55; land and mill for sale in, 154; posts erected in, 197; repre- sentatives elected for. 192; servants run away from, 53, 311.
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