Tenth volume of extracts from American newspapers relating to New Jersey, Part 11

Author: New Jersey Historical Society; Nelson, William, 1847-1914; Honeyman, A. Van Doren (Abraham Van Doren), 1849-1936
Publication date: 1917
Publisher: Paterson, N.J. : Call Printing and Publishing
Number of Pages: 606


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-The Pennsylvania Journal; and The Weekly .Ad-


vertiser, No. 1620, December 22, 1773.


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TO BE SOLD,


SEVERAL valuable tracts of land, in the Great Nine Partners, in Dutchess county, viz. 767 acres, about five miles from the North-River, and near Poughkeepsie landing: Also 300 acres, about 20 miles on the main road, that leads from Poughkeepsie to Shearon, at a place called the City, with good improvements, about 60 or 70 acres of swamp, part cleared: Also, 800 acres over Plymouth hills adjoining the Oblong, with several im- provements, and a Meeting-House near the premises, and joins to lands formerly belonging to Michael Hopkins, being part of the lands formerly belonging to John Ever- son, deceased; these lands will be sold altogether, or in any quantity as may best suit the purchasers: For further particulars enquire of Joshua Owen, merchant, at Pleasant-Valley, or Jacob Everson, merchant, at or near the City, in the Nine Partners, or the' subscriber in Elizabeth-Town, who will give an indisputable title for the same.


GEORGE EVERSON.


This day is published, and sold by JAMES RIVINGTON, Price THREE SHILLINGS A LETTER TO


The Rev. Mr. JACOB GREEN, OF NEW-JERSEY,


POINTING out some difficulties in the Calvinistic scheme of divinity, respecting Free Will, Divine Decrees, Particular Redemption, &c. and requesting a Solution of


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them. By HUGH KNOX, minister of the gospel in the island of Saba, in the West-Indies.


TO BE SOLD,


A LARGE well built brick-house in Dock-Street, in which Mr. Samuel Farmer now lives, three stories and a half high, with a large brick building adjoining, and a lot of ground to the same belonging. Also, to be sold. two smaller houses with the lots of ground to the same belonging, adjoining the above lot in Dock-Street in the rear. The house in Dock-Street is as good a stand for either a private gentleman, or a man of business as most in the city, being nearly opposite to the Coenties-Market (but at the same time so far removed from it as not to be incommoded by it) in the neighbourhood of a principal trading part of the city. The lot upon which the above houses are built, is an excellent lot, extending from Dock- Street, throughout to Bayard-Street, and contains in breadth in front to Dock-Street, about twenty-four feet, and containing that breadth the length of the house, it then widens, and contains in breadth to Bayard-Street. thirty-seven feet, including a gang-way leading into Bayard-Street. They will be sold either separately or to- gether. The title is as good as any in the city, and the terms of payment will be made very easy to the pur- chasers, as no cash will be required, provided such bonds can be given as will be approved of. For further par- ticulars apply to Messrs. Philip and John Van Horne, at Raritan in New-Jersey, or to the subscriber in New - York.


JOSEPH READE.


-Rivington's New-York Gazetteer, No. 36, De. cember 23, 1773.


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TO BE SOLD,


T WO stocking frames or looms, both in good order for working; one almost new, of twenty-three gage, the other of twenty-one; also, another frame of twenty- three gage, somewhat older than the above, may be had, if wanted; enquire of Aaron Clark, living at the Fulling- Mills, in Elizabeth-Town Raway, where fulling, dying and dressing of cloth, is now carried on by approved workmen, who will endeavour to serve such as favour them with their custom, in such a manner, as they with reason hope will give satisfaction; they having every requisite for carrying on said works, they think at least equal to any in America .- Rivington's New-York Ga- zetteer, or The Connecticut, Hudson's River, Nere- Jersey, and Quebec Weekly Advertiser, No. 36, Decem- ber 23, 1773.


Just received from Philadelphia, A choice Parcel of MEDICINES, Prepared by Doct. GEORGE WEED,


Late Apothecary to the Pennsylvania Hospital, And to be sold by JOHN HOLT, In Dock Street, New-York,


THESE medicines, which he hath prepared, from above thirty-five years experience, collected from the best of authors, and the most eminent practitioners of physics and surgery, both in town and country, are now pub- lished, not merely from a lucrative disposition, but a sin- cere desire to do good to his fellow creatures, and to re-


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lieve them from those painful disorders their natures are subject to, in this state of mortality: What greater blessings can we enjoy, as to the comforts of this life, than our health? As he hath prepared the very best of medicines, which he sells upon the most reasonable terms, that the poor may be able to purchase them, and those who live at a distance from a Doctor may find relief; those who are not able to purchase, and are in distress, shall have them gratis. The author can with great satis- faction acquaint the public, that these medicines have had great success in Philadelphia, New-Jersey, and Pennsyl- vania provinces, which will appear by the certificates of cures given with the directions; those who make use of these medicines may depend upon their being safe, and by the blessing of God, will answer the end for which they are prescribed.


I. A Syrup and Powder, which cures the bloody- flux, and all sorts of purgings; the syrup gives immedi- ate ease in the most racking pains; and is a most excellent medicine to quiet froward children, and make them healthy and gives immediate ease in the hysteric cholic.


II. Royal Balsam: this cures all kinds of wounds and bruises, either inward or outward, and helps pains in the back from cold, weakness, or being over-strained; it cures corns on the feet, and eases thein when painful; and helps pains in the breast or side from pleuratic disorders.


III. Syrup of Balsam; this helps consumptive coughs, if not too far gone, and coughs coming from cold; it re- lieves the whooping cough in children, and takes away those pains in the breast and side which are caused by the cough, and helps shortness of breath.


IV. Tinctura Amara, or Bitter Tincture; this strengthens the stomach, helps the digestion, expels wind from the stomach and bowels, helps sickness at the


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stomach, stops vomiting, cures dizziness of the head, kills worms in children, helps the scurvy, cures a stinking breath, is good against costiveness, flatulencies, and the bilious cholic.


V. Essence of Tar; cures cachexies and scurvies, the chlorosis or green sickness in virgins, hysteric and hypo- chondriac disorders, pleurisies and peripneumonies, weakness and lowness of spirits, all slow and lingering fevers and nervous disorders; it helps strains and bruises, fever and ague, &c.


Hand bills of their particular virtues, and directions how to use them, with certificates of cures will be given with them gratis.


NEW-YORK, December 23. | Last Week, the greatest Part of the House of Colonel M'Donald, at Bedminster, in New-Jersey, was burnt, by which, we hear the Colonel has lost near 5001. in Cash and Effects .- The New-York Journal; or, The General Advertiser, No. 1616, Decem- bcr 23, 1773.


NEW-YORK, December 27.


About three Years ago, Mr. Joseph Tomkins, of New- ark Mountains, in foddering his Cattle, lost a Knife he had in his Hand among the Hay, which he searched for, but in vain, and this Fall having Occasion to kill one of his Cows, found the same knife in her Body: It had got thro' her Paunch, and stuck fast in her Brisket, and the Flesh had grown over Part of it. However strange this Account may appear to the Publick, the Authenticity of it need not be in the least doubted.


-The New-York Gazette, and The Weekly Mer- cury, No. 1157, December 27, 1773.


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Burlington, 25th of 12th Mo. 1773.


NOTICE is hereby given, to all whom it may concern, that we the subscribers intend to prefer a petition to the House of Assembly, at their next meeting, which is by their adjournment to be held the 3d of the 2d month next, at Burlington, in order to obtain an act of Assem- bly to build a grist mill at or near the fulling mill of Josiah White, in Mount-Holly, and to draw water for that purpose, in a legal manner, from the dam, &c.


JOHN WHITE, THOMAS PRYOR, Jun.


Lately Published, and to be Sold by JOSEPH CRUKSHANK


At his Printing-Office, the sign of the Bible, in Market- street, between Second and Third-streets, and nearly opposite the White-Horse,


POOR WILL'S POCKET ALMANACK, FOR THE YEAR 1774;


CONTAINING, besides the Astronomical Calcula- tions, the times of holding courts in Pennsylvania, New- Jersey, New-York, Maryland, and Virginia, Quakers general meetings, fairs, &c. list of Governors, Councils, and Houses of Representatives, for Pennsylvania and New-Jersey, the Mayor, Recorder, and Aldermen of Philadelphia, tables of interest at 6 and 7 per cent. table of the value and weight of coins, tide table, roads, &c.


Of whom also may be had,


-The Pennsylvania Packet, or the General Adver- tiser, No. 114, December 27, 1773.


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PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 27. | This Morning, at 10 o'Clock, agreeable to printed Notifications and the ring- ing of Bells, the Inhabitants of this City assembled at the State-House, to consult on suitable Steps to be pur- sued respecting the chartered Ship, Captain Ayres, ar- rived at Gloucester Point Yesterday, with the East-India Company's Tea, and we learn that the Result of the Meeting was, that no Report should be made at the Cus- tom-House, that the Ship should this Day proceed to Reedy-Island, about 60 Miles from hence, and that the Captain should depart To-Morrow to go on board, and proceed instantly to London; which Requisition he, with great Politeness and Cheerfulness, readily consented to.


The glorious Opposition to the Measures formed by the British Ministry to enslave this happy Country, is now universal throughout the Continent; and it is with a singular Pleasure we perceive that the Inhabitants of Charlestown, South Carolina, have determined immedi- ately to send back the ship London, Capt. Curling, with Two Hundred and Fifty-seven Chests of the East-India Company's Tea, imported there the beginning of this Month, the Consignees having refused to accept the Com- mission. Thus will those Vultures on the other Side the Atlantic find their last artful Scheme totally defeated : and from the noble Spirit and inextinguishable Ardor that glows through all the Colonies, 'tis presumed the Ministry will drop any further Attempts to extort Money from us without our Consent, as such infamous and de- testable Artifices, Chicanery and Collusion, will never obtain among the genuine Sons of Liberty in America. -The Pennsylvania Chronicle, and Universal Adver- tiser, No. 363, December 27, 1773.


THERE is wanted in the township of Pilesgrove, in the county of Salem, and province of West New-Jersey,


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a MAN, who understands mining or digging, and fol- lowing the veins. Any person who will undertake the same, and come to said place above mentioned, well recommended, may meet with good encouragement, by making application to


JAMES ATKINSON.


LATELY PUBLISHED, and to be SOLD by JOSEPH CRUKSHANK,


At his Printing-Office, in Market-street, between Second and Third-streets, and nearly opposite the White Horse,


POOR WILL'S POCKET ALMANACK, for the year 1774.


CONTAINING. besides the astronomical calculations. the time of holding courts in Pennsylvania, New-Jersey, New-York. Maryland and Virginia, Quakers general meetings. fairs, &c. Names of the governors, councils. and houses of representatives for Pennsylvania and New- Jersey; the mayor, recorder, and aldermen of Phila- delphia; tables of interest, at 6 and 7 per cent; tide table; value and weight of coins, roads, &c. Of whom also may be had,


POOR WILL'S ALMANACK, for 1774.


Containing, among a variety of useful matter, a remedy for decayed teeth; a way to sow clover to great advantage; and a method of preserving dung, so as to render it twenty times as useful as common manure.


To His EXCELLENCY


WILLIAM FRANKLIN, Esq:


Captain-General, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the Province of New-Jersey, and Territories


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thereon depending in America, Chancellor and Vice Admiral in the same, &c.


The humble ADDRESS of his MAJESTY'S COUN- CIL for the said Province.


May it please your Excellency,


WE his Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Council of the Province of New-Jersey, beg Leave to re- turn our Thanks for your Excellency's Speech at the Opening of this Session, in which we discern such Senti- ments of Zeal for the Honour and real Welfare of the Province, as justly call for our warmest Acknowledge- ments and Approbation.


The mischievous Consequences resulting to the Public, from the Frequency of the Crime of counterfeiting the current Money of this and the neighbouring Colonies, became of late so truly alarming, that we must consider it a very fortunate Event that some of the Perpetrators · of that Crime have been apprehended, and brought te Justice in this Province. The Advantages to the Public from the Prosecution of those Offenders will, we hope, be greatly augmented by the Discovery of the Robbery of the Eastern Treasury, which the Confession of some of those Criminals, confirmed by so many corroborating Circumstances since brought to View, seem fully to evince; and we earnestly hope that the Measures taken by Government to attain the Justice due to the Public, for the Perpetration of such daring Crimes, may at length be crowned with that Success, which may reasoanbly be expected from Endeavours so laudably exerted for that Purpose.


We heartily concur with your Excellency, that the Thanks and grateful Acknowledgements of the Public are due to those Majestrates, and others, whose Zeal. in the Cause of public Justice, exerted in the several Prose-


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cutions alluded to in your Speech, reflect the highest Honour upon themselves, and must be productive of very beneficial Consequences to the Public. We have so high a Sense of the Merit and Services of those Gentlemen, that we think them entitled to more substantial Marks of the Favour of Government than mere Thanks and Com- mendations; as it must ever be consistent with sound Policy, and with the Principles of good Government, to encourage, by every persuasive Incitement, Zeal to main- tain, and Resolution to enforce those Laws, upon the due Execution of which, secret Villanies, and open Violences, may be detected and brought to Justice.


We trust, Sir, that a Disposition for Harmony and Moderation, so essential to the regular Dispatch of public Business, and which this House would ever wish to con- vince your Excellency they are actuated by, will be evi- dent in their Transactions of this Session; and be per- fectly consistent with the Duty we owe to our Sovereign, to the public, and to our own Station.


Council-Chamber,


By Order of the House,


PETER KEMBLE, Speaker. Dec. 10, 1773.


To which his EXCELLENCY was pleased to make the fol- lowing REPLY :


GENTLEMEN,


I RETURN you my hearty Thanks for this obliging Address. The Experience I have had of your Atten- tion to the public Good, convinces me, that I may always rely on your Assistance in promoting the Reputation and Prosperity of the Province; and it ever affords me Pleasure, to find my Opinion in public Matters concur- ring with your Sentiments, and my public Conduct meet- ing with your Approbation.


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JUST PUBLISHED, and to be SOLD, by JOSEPH CRUKSHANK,


At his Printing-Office, the Sign of the Bible, in Market- street, between Second and Third-streets,


BRIEF CONSIDERATIONS on SLAVERY, and the Expediency of its ABOLITION; with some Hints on the Means whereby it may be gradually effected. Recommended to the serious Attention of all, and es- pecially of those entrusted with the Powers of Legisla- tion.


Likewise to be had of ISAAC COLLINS at his Printing- Office, in BURLINGTON .- The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2349, December 29, 1773.


This day is PUBLISHED and SOLD, by ROBERT AITKIN,


Bookseller, opposite the London Coffee House, in Front- street,


AITKIN'S general American REGISTER and Calen- dar, for the year 1774; containing, the annual Calendar, interleaved with writing paper for gentlemen's memoran- dums, containing 12 pages, the days of the year, week and month, remarkable days, aspects, &c. with the Sun's rising and setting, the Moon's age, place, and rising : The gardener's calendar for Pennsylvania, containing many curious and useful directions for gardening : A genealogical list of the Royal Family of Great-Britain : His Majesty's consuls abroad for the protection of trade : Births, marriages and issue of the sovereign princes of Europe: His Majesty's principal secretaries of state : Lords commissioners of the treasury, of trade and plan- tations, and of the admiralty: List of the House of Peers in alphabetical order, with their town residence:


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Alphabetical list of the House of Commons: List of his Majesty's most honourable Privy Council: A new and correct list of the royal navy of Great-Britain: A com- pendious geographical description of the world: North- American lists: General and civil establishment in North-America: The staff of the army: General post- office, and list of the post-offices in the Northern district of North-America: Time of the post's leaving Phila- delphia, and his arrival at each post-office and stage, till he comes to Annapolis, and his return back: Time of the New-York post, Lancaster post, and Eastern shore (Maryland) posts setting out from, and return to Phila- delphia : Rank of the navy and army: His Majesty's order concerning the power of the civil governors over his forces in America: Rules for determining the rank and precedence to be observed between the officers of the army, and the civil governors, &c. Correct lists of the officers and offices, &c. in Pennsylvania, New-Castle, Kent and Sussex, Maryland, New-Jersey, New-York. Rhode-Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts-Bay, Nova . Scotia, Newfoundland, St. John's, gulf of St. Lawrence.


Canada, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina.


Georgia, East-Florida, West-Florida : Corporation for the relief of the widows and children of clergymen in the communion of the church of England in America: The united churches of Christ's Church and St. Peter's, in the city of Philadelphia : St. Paul's Church in Philadelphia ; A list of the ministers and congregations, whether settled or vacant belonging to the Rev. Synod of New- York and Philadelphia: The baptist Philadelphia assc- ciation : A list of the ministers and congregations be- longing to the associate Presbytery of Pennsylvania, which is subordinated to the associate Synod of Edin- burgh in Scotland : Several curious and useful tables, &c.


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BURLINGTON, (New-Jersey) Dec. 27.


By His Excellency


WILLIAM FRANKLIN, Esquire, Captain-General - Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the Pro- | vince of New-Jersey and Territories thereon de- pending in | America, Chancellor and Vice Admiral in the same, &c.


A PROCLAMATION.


WHEREAS, His Majesty, by his order in council at St. James's, bearing date the first day of September last, hath been graciously pleased, with the advice of his Privy Council, to declare his royal approbation and allowance of an Act of the Legislature of this province, passed in September 1772, intituled


"An Act to enable all persons who are His Majesty's "liege subjects, either by birth or naturalization to in- "herit and hold real estates notwithstanding any defect "of purchases made before naturalization within this "colony."


AND WHEREAS His Majesty, by one other order in council at St. James's, bearing date the said first day of September last, hath been pleased, with the advice of his Privy Council, to declare his royal disallowance of three other Acts of the Legislature of this province, passed in August and September 1772, intituled as follows,-viz.


I. "An Act for the relief of Benjamin Ayars now "a prisoner in the goal of the county of Cumberland."


2. "An Act to naturalize John George Felthausen."


3. "An Act to dissolve the marriage of David Bax- "ter with Margaret his wife, late Margaret M'Mur- "try."


I HAVE THEREFORE thought fit, by and with the advice


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and consent of His Majesty's Council for this province, to publish His Majesty's gracious allowance and affirm- ance of the Act first abovementioned, and His Majesty's royal disallowance and repeal of the said three last men -- tioned Acts by Proclamation, to the end that all His Majesty's subjects, whom it may concern, may take notice thereof, and govern themselves accordingly.


GIVEN under my Hand and Seal at Arms, in the city of Burlington, the third day of December, in the four- teenth year of the reign of our sovereign Lord GEORGE the third, of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c. Anno Domini 1773.


WILLIAM FRANKLIN.


By His Excellency's Command CHA. PETTIT, D. Secretary.


GOD SAVE THE KING.


PHILADELPHIA, DECEMBER 28. | At a Court of Oyer and Terminer held at Easton, before the honour- able John Lawrence, and Thomas Willing Esqr's. for the county of Northampton, the 17th inst. Alexander Buchanan was convicted of burglary, and received sen- tence of death: And the next day Thomas Wilson was convicted of murder, for shooting William Hewit through the body with a bullet and three swan shot, the 29th of October, 1768. After he had committed this horrid murder he robbed the deceased of his hat and 41. 17s. 6d. in money, which Wilson saw him receive the night before; he then made his escape, and remained tin- discovered until about three months ago, having com- mitted a felony in Sussex county, New-Jersey; he was discovered while at the barr there, by a person who had seen him at Hewit's a few days before the murder, and who had heard that Wilson was the person suspected.


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On his trial this murder was clearly proved upon him, and he received the sentence of death .- The Pennsyl- vania Journal, and The Weekly Advertiser, No. 1621, December 29, 1773.


PHILADELPHIA. | MONDAY, December 27, 1773. |


THE unanimity, spirit and zeal, which have hereto- fore animated all the colonies, from Boston to South- Carolina have been so eminently displayed in the oppo- sition to the pernicious project of the East India Com- pany, in sending Tea to America, while it remains sub- ject to a Duty, and the Americans at the same time con- fined by the strongest prohibitory laws to import it only from Great Britain, that a particular account of the transactions of this city, cannot but be acceptable to all our readers, and every other friend of American liberty.


Upon the first advice of this measure, a general dis- satisfaction was expressed, that, at a time when we were struggling with this oppressive Act, and an agreement subsisting not to import Tea while subject to the Duty, our fellow subjects in England should form a measure so directly tending to enforce the Act and again embroil us with our parent state. When it was also considered, that the proposed mode of disposing of the Tea tended to a monopoly, ever odious in a free country, a universal disapprobation shewed itself throughout the city. A pub- lick Meeting of the inhabitants was held at the State House on the 18th of October, at which great numbers attended and the sense of the city was expressed in the following resolves .--


I. That the disposal of their own property is the in- herent right of freemen; that there can be no property in that which another can, of right, take from us without our consent; that the claim of Parliament to tax America


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is, in other words a claim of right to levy contributions on us at pleasure.


2. That the duty imposed by Parliament upon tea landed in America, is a tax on the Americans, or levying contributions on them without their consent.


3. That - the - express purpose for which the tax is levyed on the Americans, namely for the support of gov- ernment, administration of justice, and defence of his Majesty's dominions in America, has a direct tendency io render Assemblies useless, and to introduce arbitrary government and slavery.


4. That a virtuous and steady opposition to this min- isterial plan of governing America, is absolutely neces- sary to preserve even the shadow of liberty, and is a duty which every freeman in America owes to his country, to himself and to his posterity.


5. That the resolution lately entered into by the East India Company to send out their Tea to America, sub- ject to the payment of duties on its being landed here, is an open attempt to inforce this ministerial plan, and a violent attack upon the liberties of America.


6. That it is the duty of every American to oppose this attempt.




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