Extracts from American newspapers relating to New Jersey, Part 6

Author: New Jersey Historical Society; Nelson, William, 1847-1914
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: Paterson, N.J. : Call Printing and Publishing
Number of Pages: 678

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Freehold, Monmouth County, East New-Jersey,

Jan 25, 1768.

WHEREAS ELEANOR, Wife of the Subscriber, hath eloped from him, and run him considerably in Debt, besides pil- fering from him a valuable Sum of Money, and sundry Effects of Value, and continues to strole about the Coun- try, with a certain red haired Highland Tinker, who calls himself John M'Donall (who it is probable was an accom- plice in the aforesaid base Conduct) and passes for his Wife; and as he has Reason to fear she will run him yet farther in Debt, takes this Method of requesting all Per- sons, not to trust her on his Account, for he will pay no Debts of her contracting, after the Date hereof.

WILLIAM ORCHARD.

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To be SOLD, by public VENDUE, on the Premises on the 26th Day of this Instant March.

A PLANTATION, or tract of land, containing TIO acres, more or less, situate and lying in the township of Piles- grove, and county of Salem, West New-Jersey; the land is very good, with a parcel of exceeding good meadow, there is a dwelling house on the same with a small orch- ard of apples and peaches, about 30 or 40 acres of cleared land; the whole well watered and timbered, within half a mile of a grist-mill. The title indisputable. The condi- tions will be made known on the day of sale, and due at- tendance will be given, by

JOHN HOLTON. -The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2045, March 10, 1768.

THREE POUNDS Reward.

RUN away from the subscriber, living in Chesterfield, Burlington county, New-Jersey, last night, an Irish ser- vant man, named Francis Nevil, about twenty years of age, five feet eight inches high, fair complexion, straight hair, a mole on his left cheek : Had on and took with him, a new beaver hat, a homespun light coloured great-coat, the under part of the sleeves lighter coloured, an old tight- bodied brown broadcloth coat, lined with green, blue ever- lasting breeches, flowered flannel vest, double-breasted, tied with strings, pale blue stockings, half worn shoes : He took with him a sorrel horse, near fifteen hands high, about ten years old, light main and tail, blaze down his face, shod, a natural pacer, carries his head low. Whoever takes up the said servant, and secures him, so that his master may have him again, shall have the above reward, and reasonable charges paid by me

SAMUEL SYKES.

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N. B. He was advertised in the Pennsylvania news- papers the 24th of January last.1

March 16, 1768

-The Pennsylvania Chronicle, No. 62, March 14-21, 1768.

To be sold by the Subscriber, a Tract of Land, contain- ing several Hundred Acres, situate in the Township of Bedminster, and County of Somerset, in New-Jersey; adjoining the Mill and Lands late Andrew Leak's: Sev- eral very excellent Farms may be made on the Tract, as the Soil and Situation are inferior to none in the Prov- ince; Wood, Water, and Meadow, abounds in great Per- fection, and the Lands capable of any Degree of Improve- ment. One third of the Principal to be paid down, Bonds, with Security, will be taken for the Residue, and very reasonable Time allowed. Enquire on the Premises, of

JOHN CAREY.

To BE SOLD,

ONE or Two Hundred Acres of choice Timber and Wood-Land, lying but 5 Miles from the City of New- Brunswick, between the Post Road leading to Philadel- phia and George's Road. Whoever inclines to purchase, may apply to Peter Farmer, living on the Premises, who will give a good Title for the same .- Supplement to the New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, No. 853, March 7, 1768.

New York, March 7. We are assured the General As- sembly of the Province of New-Jersey, are to meet at Perth-Amboy the 12th of April next, to proceed on Busi- ness; circular Letters having already been sent to the Members for that Purpose.

1 See page 31, ante.

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Springfield, March 5, 1768. To BE SOLD,

By Way of Publick Vendue, on Monday the 21st Day of March, on the Premises.

A Plantation, or Tract of Land, situated at Springfield, in the Borough of Elizabeth, and Province of New-Jersey, within half a Mile of Isaac Woodruff's, Esq, containing about 140 Acres, late the Property of Daniel Ball: On the Premises there are a Dwelling-House, Barn, Saw- Mill, and about 25 Acres of Meadow, fit for the Scythe, with a young Orchard. The Terms of Sale, and the Title to be given, will be made known at the Day and Place abovesaid, by

JONATHAN J. DAYTON, NATHANIEL BALL, THOMAS BALL, NATHANIEL SALMON, THOMAS BAILY. -The New York Gasette or Weekly Post Boy, No. 1315, March 14, 1768.

HERMITAGE,1

Pleasantly situated on the river Delaware, one mile from Trenton, in New-Jersey, to be sold by the subscriber. The farm contains 220 acres of land, 170 whereof is cleared, between 30 and 40 of excellent meadow, the re- mainder finely timbered, an orchard of 250 apple trees of different kinds, the greatest part grafted, a choice collec- tion of other fruits, as pears, plumbs, peaches, cherries, quinces, &c. The dwelling-house of four handsome rooms on the lower floor, and cellars underneath, well fin- ished, a large kitchen, two stories high, with rooms and

1 During the Revolution and many years afterward the residence of Gen. Philemon Dickinson; now a part of the Atterbury estate. This property was advertised a few months previously. See N. J. Archives, XXV., 536.

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fire places sufficient for a number of servants, a new barn and stables, and good garden. The plantation is extreme- ly well watered, and the soil very fertile, fishing and fowl- ing in abundance. The situation commands a most agree- able prospect of several miles, both up and down the river, and a full view of all vessels coming from Philadelphia, or boats crossing the ferry at Trenton landing, calculated in every respect for a gentleman's seat. Any person in- clining to purchase, may know the terms, by applying to me on the premises,

BENJAMIN BILES.

By virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias, to me directed, will be exposed to sale, by way of public vendue, to the high- est bidder, at the house of Daniel Lanning, in Trenton township, on Saturday, the 30th day of April next, to be- gin at I o'clock in the afternoon, horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, beds and bedding, tables, chairs, a cupboard and sundries. Also to be sold the same day, on the premises, between the hours of 12 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon, a certain piece or tract of land and plantation, in Trenton aforesaid ; bounded cast by Joseph and William Green, west by Jacob Carle, and Abial Davis, north by Stephen Lanning, and south by David Howell, and David Holden, containing 200 acres, more or less; late the property of Daniel Lanning, seised and taken in execution at the suit of Ebeneser Cowe- ell, executor of David Cowell deceased, and to be sold by MICAJAH How, Sheriff.

On Monday, the Fourth Day of April next, will be sold at public Vendue, at Sussex Court-house, in New Jersey, sundry Tracts of Land, being Part of the Estate of Rich- ard Reading, viz.

ONE undivided sixth Part of 616 Acres of Land, sit-

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uate on Scott's Mountain, in the Township of Oxford, and County of Sussex, to the Southeast of the Vanetta's Farms, adjoining the southerly Side of Lands surveyed to Thomas Boulsby.

Also one equal undivided sixth Part of 100 Acres, in the said Township of Oxford, including a very valuable Stream, suitable for any Kind of Water-works, adjoining Lands of Governor Penn.

One undivided sixth Part of 20 Acres, in the aforesaid Township, on the Southwesterly Side of the last men- tioned Tract, and bounded on all other Sides by Lands belonging to the Vanetta's, containing an inexhaustible Quantity of the richest Iron Ore in New-Jersey, lying within a few Hundred Yards of the River Delaware.

Also one equal undivided Moiety, or half Part of 160 Acres of extraordinary Land, in Newtown, in the County of Sussex, and Province aforesaid, lying at the foot of the Slate Mountain, bounded by Joseph Hull to the North- west, and by the Division Line between East and West- Jersey, to the Northeast.

One equal undivided Moiety, or half Part of 422 Acres of very valuable Land, mostly rich Meadow Ground, sit- uate in the Township and County aforesaid, on a Branch of the River Paquass; adjoining Lands now or late Thomas Pettit's.

One equal undivided Moiety, or half Part of 303 Acres, as valuable Land as any in the Neighbourhood, situate in the Township of Greenwich, in the County of Sussex; bounded by Lands of Clark Rodman, and Joseph Kirk- bride, Part of the said Land being cleared, and in Fence.

Also all the said Richard Reading's Share of a certain well known valuable Copper Mine, at Walpack, with a sufficient Quantity of Land thereunto belonging. The Vendue to begin at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon; where

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Attendance will be given by JAMES JAUNCEY, JOHN COX, junior. and THOMAS PRYOR, junior, Assignees.

To be SOLD by the subscriber, living in Springfield, in the county of Burlington, and province of New-Jersey, a large brick house, kitchen, and other improvements, with a lot of ground, containing about 3 acres, situate in the city of Burlington, on the west side of High-street, a little above the Court-House; it is in a good place for a shop- keeper, or other public business. For terms of sale, apply to DANIEL SMITH, jun. living in the said city, or to the subscriber, at his house in Springfield aforesaid.

DANIEL DOUGHTY. -The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2047, March 17, 1768.

To the Public.

NOTICE is hereby given, that a School is erected at Newe- Brunswick, in New-Jersey, in which the learned languages and mathamaticks are carefully and accurately taught by Caleb Cooper, recommended from Nassau-Hall, an able and well accomplished tutor in these and other branches of literature, under the inspection of the Rev. John Light, the Rev. Jacob R. Hardenburg, the Rev. J. H. Van Har- lingen, the Rev. Abraham Beach, Dr. John Cochran and William Oakee, Esq.

The conditions are twenty shillings entrance, and four pounds per annum, for tuition, proclamation money.

Boarding may be had in this town, to satisfaction, as cheap as can be expected, and sufficient to accommodate a large school, which, including tuition, will not exceed twenty pounds a year.

This town, besides its agreeable rural situation, has the great advantage of a wholesome pleasant air, and hence

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its being very healthy to recommend it-Properties evinced from long experience by the inhabitants, and the suffrage of gentlemen, strangers, acquainted with it. It is also surrounded by an extensive plentiful country, from which it has constant supplies of all necessaries of life in great variety and plenty, and from the sea, in the season, has also plenty of fish, oysters, &c.

The ready and easy conveyance of letters and goods by water or by land to Philadelphia, New-York, and other parts, is another peculiar advantage it enjoys : And in a religious view, exceeds any other place in the province, having divine worship performed in the English episco- pal, Dutch reformed, and Presbyterian churches; and as to the inhabitants, with regard to their manners and other social virtues, compared with other places, without preju- dice may be said to be irreproachable.

The inspectors propose to visit the school at least once a quarter, to inquire into the deportment of all concerned, and assist the master and scholars in all necessary regula- tions with regard to decency and good order, as well as the advancement of learning.

N. B. This school from the skill and diligence of the tutor, as well as the uncommon progress which the pupils have made in learning, in less than six months, gives a pleasing prospect of its increase.

THE Members of the New-Jersey Medical Society are desired to remember, that their next stated General Meet- ing will be on the first Tuesday in May next, at the House of Mr. William Hick, in Princeton; and as some very important Affairs respecting the future Establishment, &c. of said Society will be then taken into Consideration, whereby its benevolent Intentions may be more fully an- swered; it is expected every Member will make a Point

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of attending, and not absent himself unless something very extraordinary should interfere.

Those Gentlemen of the Profession who have not joined, are again invited, and for the above Reasons, it would be extremely agreeable to the Society that as many as possible would attend the ensuing General Meeting.

MOSES BLOOMFIELD, Secretary. Woodbridge, N. Jersey. March 23, 1768.

-The Pennsylvania Chronicle, No. 63, March 21-28, 1768.

London December 29. By a gentleman arrived in town from Perth-Amboy, in America, we are informed, that a manufactory of shaloons and serges, very good in quality, has lately been set on foot there. [I don't remember that there is one weaver in the capital part of Perth-Amboy, neither have the whole corporation sheep for a manufac- tory.]

An Advertisement to the PUBLIC.

THE principal design of the appeal to the public1 was, to

1 This publication was one of a considerable series issued, on the subject of an American Episcopate. Some idea of the character and extent of the controversy may be obtained from the following titles of works in the library of the editor of this volume:

Sermon, pp. 26; Abstract of Charter of the Society, Proceedings. Names of the Society's Missionaries in America. Reports from the Missions, etc., pp. 27-77; blank. 1 page; List of Members of the Soci- ety, pp. 79-93; Ladies Annual Subscribers, p. 94; Preachers before the Society, 1701-1767, pp. 95-98; Form of Legacy, p. [99].

In this Sermon the Bishop deplored the heathenism and infidelity prevalent in America, the lack of efforts to convert the Indians. the want of seminaries to train young men for the ministry, and (pp. 20-24) urges the appointment of American Bishops to remedy these evils.

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assign the reasons for which the members of the church of England in America, are desirous of having Bishops to reside in this country, to state and explain the plan on which alone American Bishops have been proposed and requested, and to obviate and confute the objections, that might be supposed to arise in the minds of many against such an episcopate. Whether the reasons assigned are not sufficient to justify the late application of the clergy

Dr. Chauncy claims that the American Colonists, especially in New England, are exceptionally pious and zealous in good works; that they successfully prosecuted missions among the Indians more than sixty years before the Society was formed; that there were six seminaries in America, three of them Episcopalian; that of the sixty or seventy Episcopalian churches (thirty in New England), not more than eight were self-supporting, while in New England alone there were 550 Con- gregational and Presbyterian churches.

First printed at New York. Mr. Livingston objects to the aspersions on the Colonists as having "abandoned their native manners and re- ligion," and points out the laws in New England requiring lands to be set apart in every new township for the erection of churches; he claims a more general observance of the Sabbath in America than in London, and shrinks from any further manifestation of England's power, polit- ical or ecclesiastical, in the Colonies.

Hildeburn mentions (No. 2373) a Philadelphia edition, but the title is taken evidently from a newspaper advertisement, and not from a copy of the book itself.

By the Rev. Charles Inglis, Rector of Trinity Church, New York.

printed MDCCLXVIII. 1 With a supplement, | Containing an Answer to

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for Bishops, whether the nature of the proposed epis- copate is not honestly and fairly represented and ex- plained, and whether the most considerable objections against it are not obviated and confuted in the appeal, is submitted to the judgment of the reader, but N. B. not of those who are not readers of the pamphlet. The author was, and is, fully persuaded of the goodness of the cause which he undertook to plead; and, although sensible of

A Letter, etc., pp. 42; A Supplement, etc., pp. 43-79; Address of the clergy of the Church of England in New-Jersey and New-York, to the Chancellor, etc., of the University of Cambridge, p. [80].

Hildeburn mentions (No. 2286) a Philadelphia edition, printed by William Goddard, 1767, but as he gives neither lined-off title, number of pages, nor location of a copy, it is evident that he never saw the book, and doubtless took the title from a newspaper advertisement. It is not probable that there was such an edition.

The Dedication to the Archibishop of Canterbury is dated Elizabeth- Town, in New-Jersey, June 24, 1767. In the Advertisement to the Reader, Dr. Chandler says this Appeal was written primarily at the request of the Rev. Dr. Samuel Johnson, of Stratford, Conn., subse- quently supported by the request of a Convention of the Clergy of New York and New Jersey.

Hildeburn mentions (No. 2349) a Philadelphia edition. but the title is evidently taken from a newspaper advertisement, and not from a copy of the book. It is not probable that there was such an edition.

An argument against the validity of the ordination of the English Bishops, and against the dangers of an encroachment on American liberties by American Bishops.

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his inability to do it justice, he had the vanity to think himself able to satisfy the public, as to the main points on which it depended. With this opinion he entered upon the work, and in the execution of it he was particularly careful to avoid giving offence, and to treat every denom- ination of christians, every set of men whom he had occa- sion to mention, with great tenderness and all proper re- spect.

According to Hildeburn, printed at Philadelphia by W. and T. Brad- ford. See "Issues of the Press in Pennsylvania," No. 2370.

"Printed in obedience to an order left with it under his Grace's own hand (dated May 25, 1759)," directing it to be printed after his death. Earnestly advocates the sending of two or three Bishops to America, to ordain young men to the ministry, etc., whereby the Church would be strengthened, the Colonies more closely bound to the mother coun- try, and the churches provided with young men of the best families, instead of depending on strangers and vagabonds. Parliament, at its last session, without opposition from anybody, had expressly estab- lished Moravian Bishops in America. "Why then should there be such Fear of establishing Bishops of the Church of England?"

The | Appeal Defended: | or, the | Proposed American Episcopate } Vindicated, | In Answer to | the | Objections and Misrepresentations | of Dr. Chauncy and Others. | By Thomas Bradbury Chandler, D. D .; 1 There are some Spirits in the World, who, unless they are in actual ] Possession of Despotism themselves, are daily haunted with the Appre- hension of being subject to it in others; and who seem to speak and act under the strange Persuasion, that every Thing short of Persecu- tion against what they dislike, must terminate in the Persecution of | themselves. | Lett. to the Author of the Confessional. | New-York: | Printed by Hugh Gaine, at the Bible and Crown, | in Hanover-Square, 1769. | Svo. Title 1 1 .; Advertisement, pp. 2; Contents, pp. v; Errata, (1); Pp. 268.

Hildeburn mentions (No. 2429) a Philadelphia edition, but the title is evidently taken from a newspaper advertisement, and not from a copy of the book itself. It is not probable that there was such an edition.

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Extracts from American newspapers relating to New Jersey, Part 6

Author: New Jersey Historical Society; Nelson, William, 1847-1914 Publication date: 1904 Publisher: Paterson, N.J. : Call Printing and Publishing Number of Pages: 678

Author: New Jersey Historical Society; Nelson, William, 1847-1914
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: Paterson, N.J. : Call Printing and Publishing
Number of Pages: 678