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7. That whoever shall, directly or indirectly, coun- tenance this attempt, or in any wise aid or abet in un- loading, receiving or vending the Tea sent, or to be sent out by the East India Company, while it remains subject to the payment of a duty here, is an enemy to his country.
8. That a Committee be immediately chosen to wait on those gentlemen, who, it is reported, are appointed by the East-India Company to receive and sell said Tea, and request them, from a regard to their oron character, and the peace and good order of the city and province, im- mediately to resign their appointment.
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In consequence of this appointment the Committee waited upon the Gentlemen in this city, who had been appointed Consignees of the expected cargo. They rep- resented to them the detestation and abhorrence, in which this measure was held by their fellow Citizens, the dan- ger and difficulties. which must attend the execution of so odious a trust, and expressed the united desire of the City, that they would renounce the commission, and en- gage not to intermeddle with the ship or cargo in any shape whatever .- Some of the Commissioners resigned, in a manner that gave general satisfaction, others in such equivocal terms as required farther explanation : How- ever in a few days the resignation was complete .- In this situation things remained for a few days. In the mean- time, the general spirit and indignation rose to such a height, that it was thought proper to call another general Meeting of the principal Citizens, to consider and resolve upon such farther steps as might give weight, and ensure success to the unanimous opposition now formed. Ac- cordingly a Meeting was held, for the above purpose, at which a great number of respectable Inhabitants attend- ed; and it appeared to be the unanimous opinion, that the entry of the Ship at the Custom-House, or the landing any part of her cargo, would be attended with great dan- ger and difficulty, and would directly tend to destroy that peace and good order, which ought to be preserved. -An addition of twelve other Gentlemen was then made to the former Committee, and the general Meeting ad- journed till the arrival of the Tea Ship .- Information being given of that, the Price of Tea was suddenly ad- vanced, though this was owing to a General Scarcity of that Article; yet all the Possessors of Tea, in order to give strength to the opposition, readily agreed to reduce the price, and sell what remained in their hands at a rea-
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sonable rate. Nothing now remained, but to keep up a proper correspondence and connection with the other Colonies, and to take all prudent and proper precautions on the arrival of the Tea Ship.
It is not easy to describe the anxiety and suspence of the City in this interval. Sundry reports of her arrival were received, which proved premature. But on Satur- day evening last, an express came up from Chester, to inform the Town, that the Tea Ship, commanded by Capt. Ayres, with her detested Cargo, was arrived there, having followed another ship up the river so far.
The Committee met early the next morning, and being apprized of the arrival of Mr. Gilbert Barclay, the other Consignee, who came passenger in the ship, they imme- diately went in a body to request his renunciation of the commission. Mr. Barclay politely attended the Commit- tee, at the first request; and being made acquainted with the sentiments of the city, and the danger to which the public liberties of America were exposed by this measure, he, after expressing the particular hardship of his situa- tion, also resigned his commission, in a manner which affected every one present.
The Committee then appointed three of their members to go to Chester, and two others to Gloucester Point, in order to have the earliest opportunity of meeting Capt. Ayres, and representing to him the sense of the Public, respecting his voyage and cargo. The Gentlemen, who had set out for Chester, receiving intelligence that the ves- sel had weighed anchor about 12 o'clock, and proceeded to town, returned. About two o'clock she appeared in sight at Gloucester Point, where a number of Inhabitants from the town had assembled with the Gentlemen from the Committee. As she passed along, she was hailed, and the Captain requested not to proceed farther, but to come on
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shore. This the Captain complied with, and was handed thro' a lane made by the People, to the Gentlemen ap- pointed to confer with him. They represented to him the general sentiments, together with the danger and diffi- culties that would attend his refusal to comply with the wishes of the Inhabitants; and finally desired him to pro- ceed with them to town, where he would be more fully informed of the temper and resolution of the People. He was accordingly accompanied to town, by a number of persons, where he was soon convinced of the truth and propriety of the representations, which had been made to him-and agreed that upon the desire of the Inhabitants being publicly expressed, he would conduct himself ac- cordingly .- Some small rudeness being offered to the Captain afterwards in the street, by some boys, several Gentlemen interposed, and suppressed it before he re- ceived the least injury. Upon an hour's notice this morning, a public meeting was called, and the State- House not being sufficient to hold the numbers as- sembled, they adjourned into the Square. This meeting is allowed by all to be the most respectable, both in the numbers and rank of those who attended it, that has been known in this city. After a short introduction, the fol- lowing resolutions were not only agreed to, but the pub- lic approbation testified in the warmest manner.
I. RESOLVED. That the TEA, on board the ship Polly, Capt. Ayres, shall not be landed.
2. That Capt. Ayres shall neither enter nor report his vessel at the Custom-House.
3. That Capt. Ayres shall carry back the Tea imme- diately.
4. That Capt. Ayres shall immediately send a Pilot on board his vessel, with orders to take charge of her, and proceed to Reedy-Island next high water.
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5. That the Captain shall be allowed to stay in town till to-morrow, to provide necessaries for his voyage.
6. That he shall then be obliged to leave the town and proceed to his vessel, and make the best of his way out of our river and bay.
7. That a Committee of four Gentlemen be appointed to see these Resolves carried into execution.
The assembly were then informed of the spirit and resolution of New-York, Charles-Town, South-Carolina, and the conduct of the people of Boston, whereupon it was unanimously resolved,
That this assembly highly approve of the conduct and spirit of the people of New-York, Charles-Town, and Boston, and return their hearty thanks to the people of Boston for their resolution in destroying the Tea rather than suffering it to be landed.
The whole business was conducted with decorum and order worthy the importance of the cause. Capt. Ayres being present at this meeting, solemnly and publicly en- gaged, that he would literally comply with the sense of the city, as expressed in the above resolutions.
A proper supply of necessaries and fresh provisions being then procured, in about two hours the Tea-Ship weighed anchor from Gloucester Point, where she lay within sight of the town, and has proceeded, with her whole cargo, on her return to the East-India Company.
The Public think the conduct of those Gentlemen, whose goods are returned on board the Tea-Ship, ought not to pass unnoticed, as they have, upon this occasion, generously sacrificed their private interest to the public good.
Thus this important affair in which there has been so - glorious an exertion of Public Virtue and Spirit, has been brought to a happy issue; by which the force of a law so
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obstinately persisted in to the prejudice of the national Commerce. for the sake of the principle on which it is founded (a right of taxing the Americans without their consent,) has been effectually broken-and the founda- tions of American I.iberty more deeply laid than ever .- The Pennsylvania Gasette, No. 2349, December 29, 1773.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28.
The ground, which was covered by the people, on Monday last, in the State-House Square, being measured, it was calculated, by two different persons, unknown to each other, that there was near 8000 people collected there; and many hundreds, who were on the way, were disappointed reaching the place of meeting, before the business was over, owing to the short notice that was given.
Yesterday at three quarters of an hour after two o'clock, Capt. Ayres, of the TEA-SHIP Polly, with Mr. Barclay, late one of the Consignees, left Arch-street wharf, on board a pilot boat, (having been 46 hours in town,) to follow the ship to Reedy-Island, and from thence transport the Fast-India Company's Adventure to its OLD ROTTING PLACE, in Leading-Hall-street, London. He was attended to the wharf by a concourse of people. who wished him a good voyage.
The PUBLIC return their acknowledgements to the PILOTS, and EVERY CLASS of MEN, who have shewn such Virtue and Resolution on the present Occasion .- The Pennsylvania Journal, and The Weekly Advertiser, No. 1621, December 29, 1773.
B Y virtue of an act of assembly of the province of New-Jersey, for the better enabling creditors to re- cover their just debts from persons who abscond them-
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selves : Two fifths parts of a certain tract or parcel of land, situate near Perth-Amboy, between the roads lead- ing to Woodbridge and New-Brunswick; containing in the whole about ninety acres, on which is a good dwell- ing-house, two barns, an orchard, and other out houses; very pleasant for a gentleman, and convenient for any tradesman : Likewise, two fifths parts of two lots of very good salt meadow, lying upon the house lot creek in Rariton meadow, and distinguished by the inside and outside lots; the inside lot containing about five, and the outside eight acres. And also two fifths parts of another six acre lot of salt meadow, lying below Nathaniel Luff- borough's, adjoining the Sound from Perth-Amboy to Woodbridge. The premises were late in the possession of Thomas Carryl, and attached in an action brought in the court of Common Pleas, for the county of Middlesex, in the province aforesaid, at the suit of Walter Living- ston, Esq; against the aforesaid Thomas Carryl. In pursuance of the act of assembly aforesaid, and by virtue of an order and rule of the said court of Common Pleas: we the Auditors, appointed by a rule of the said court, do give notice, that on Tuesday the 18th day of January next, at the house of Elijah Dunham, Inn-Holder in Perth-Amboy, the two fifths of said house, tracts of land, and lots of salt meadow aforesaid, will be sold at public vendue. The terms of sale will be made known at the time and place aforesaid. Dated November 2, 1773.
JOHN JOHNSON, SAM. SERJANT, Auditors. WM. BURNET.
-Rivington's New-York Gazetteer; or, The Con- necticut, Hudson's River, New-Jersey, and Quebec Weekly Advertiser, No. 37, December 30, 1773.
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NEW-YORK, December 30.
We hear from Raway, in New-Jersey, that on Christ- mas Night the 25th Instant, two sons of Mr. Smith, of that Place, one about 20, the other 13 Years of Age, who went to bed in good Health, in a little Room where they usually lay, were the next Morning both found dead in their Bed, without the least Appearance of any Hurt re- ceived. It is reported, that they took with them, some live Coals of Fire, by which it is supposed, they were suffocated .- The New-York Journal; or, The General Advertiser, No. 1617, December 30, 1773.
BURLINGTON, (New-Jersey), Dec. 27. BY HIS EXCELLENCY
WILLIAM FRANKLIN, Esquire,
Captain-General, Governor and Commander in Chief | in and over the Province of New-Jersey and Ter | ritories thereon depending 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 Sept- ember 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 or other order in
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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 gaol of the county of Cumberland."
2. "An act to naturalize John George Felthausen."
3. "An act to dissolve the marriage of David Baxter "with Margaret his wife, late Margaret M'Murtry."
I HAVE THEREFORE thought fit, by and with the advice and consent of his Majesty's Council for this province, to publish his Majesty's gracious allowance and affirmance of the act first above-mentioned, and his Majesty's royal disallowance and repeal of the said three mentioned 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 Scal at Arms, in | the city of Burlington, the third day of Decem- | ber, in the fourteenth 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, Jan. 3. | At the court of Oyer and Terminer held at Easton, before the Honourable John Lawrence, and Thomas Willing, Esqrs. for the county of Northampton, the 17th inst. Alexander Buchanan was
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convicted of burglary, and received sentence of death : And the next day Thomas Wilson was convicted of mur- der, 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 undiscovered until about three months ago, having committed a felony in Sussex county, New-Jersey; he was discovered while at the bar 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. On his trial this murder was clearly proved upon him, and he received sentence of death.
Gloucester, West New-Jersey, Dec. 15, 1773.
NOTICE is hereby given, pursuant to an act made for the relief of insolvent debtors, passed in the 12th year of George the 3d, to the creditors of JOSEPH ELLIOTT and ANDREW HICKY, now confined in the county gaol at Gloucester, to shew cause, if any they have, why an assignment of their estates should not respectively be made, and the debtors respectively discharged, on the 18th day of January next ensuing the date hereof; which day we the subscribers, two of the Judges of the inferior court of Common Pleas in and for said county, do appoint to be attended, pursuant to the said act, at the house of WILLIAM HUGG, innholder, in the town of Gloucester.
MICHAEL FISHER, Esquires. SAMUEL HARRISON,
-Dunlap's Pennsylvania Packet, or, The General Advertiser, No. 115, January 3, 1774.
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PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 3. The Unanimity, Spirit and Zeal, which have heretofore animated all the Colonies from Boston to South-Carolina, have been so eminently displayed, in the Opposition to the pernicious Project of the East-India Company, in sending Tea to America, while it remains subject to Duty, and the Americans at the same Time confined, by the strongest prohibitory Laws, to import it only from Great-Britain, that a par- ticular 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 public 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.
It is not easy to describe the Anxiety and Suspence of the City in this Interval. Sundry Reports of her Arrival were received, which proved premature. But on Satur- day Evening last, an Express came up from Chester, to inform the Town, that the Tea-Ship, commanded by Cap- tain Ayres, with her detested Cargo, was arrived there, having followed another Ship up the River so far.
The Committee then appointed three of their Members
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to go to Chester, and three others to Gloucester Point, in order to have the earliest Opportunity of meeting Captain Ayres, and representing to him the Sense of the Public, respecting his Voyage and Cargo. The Gentlemen who had set out for Chester, receiving Intelligence that the Vessel had weighed Anchor about 12 o'Clock, and pro- ceeded to Town, returned. About two o'Clock she appeared in Sight of Gloucester Point, where a Number of Inhabitants from the Town had assembled with the Gentlemen from the Committee. As she passed along, she was hailed, and the Captain requested not to proceed any farther, but to come on Shore. This the Captain com- plied with, and was handed through a Lane, made by the People, to the Gentlemen appointed to confer with him. They represented to him the general Sentiments, together with the Dangers and Difficulties, that would attend his Refusal to comply with the Wishes of the Inhabitants; and finally, desired him to proceed with them to Town, where he would be more fully informed of the Temper and Resolution of the People. He was accordingly ac- companied to Town by a Number of Persons, where he was soon convinced of the Truth and Propriety of the Representations, which had been made to him and agreed that, upon the Desire of the Inhabitants being publicly expressed, he would conduct himself accordingly. Some small Rudeness being offered to the Cap- tain afterwards in the Street by some Boys, several Gentlemen interposed, and suppressed it before he re- ceived the least Injury. Upon an Hour's Notice this Morning, a Public Meeting was called, and the State- House not being sufficient to hold the Numbers assembled they adjourned into the Square.
Captain Ayres being present at this Meeting,
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solemnly and publicly engaged, that he would literally comply with the Sense of the City, as expressed in the above Resolution.
Proper Supply of Necessaries and fresh Provisions be- ing then procured, in about two Hours the Tea-Ship weighed Anchor from Gloucester Point, where she lay, within Sight of the Town, and has proceeded with her whole Cargo on her Return to the East-India Company.
THANKSGIVING, JOHN GUILJAM KALS, MINISTER of the GOSPEL,
GIVES his humble and hearty Thanks to all GENTLE- MEN and LADIES in Maryland, Virginia and Pennsyl- vania, who have assisted him in propagating the G. spel among the English and Germans, among whom he found a great Number who were worse than INDIANS and NEGROES; for they show more Devotion when they see and hear that one goes to Prayer, than the former, for Prayers are almost every where mocked and laughed at, by a great Number of false named Christians. He prom- ised to all his Friends that he shall continue in his Prayers for them, that they may be rewarded after the Promises done by our LORD JESUS CHRIST, Matt. x. 41, 42.
He gives also Notice at their Desire, that he
"Per varios casus, per tot discrimina rerum,
"Tend erib in lotium, et sic Philadelphia spectat, Vestibus exutum, cum variisque Libris.
Thro' many Cases, and many Misfortunes, Falls in the Dirt, and suffers many ruins; Lost almost his Garments, and precious Books;
Sits now at Philadelphia and looks.
By what way he came to Philadelphia is too tedious to
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mention. He hopes to have an Opportunity to make that appear, as he comes where the Press is more free for faithful Ministers; for tho' he has learned of PERIANDER, to conceal his Misfortunes that his enemies may not make them Pleasure, and rejoice at his Ruin, yet he rejoices thereby, as he knows that he suffereth as a Christian, I Pet. iv. 16, &c. Matt. v. II. Being now here, he offered his Service for teaching Boys and Gentlemen, as in former Time, and on former Terms, all Sorts of Lan- guages, Arts and Sciences, quick and sure : Would to GOD that Gentlemen who have given him witness, that he was accounted to be the only Man they knew, fit to teach HEBREW and DIVINITY, saying thereby, that PHILADELPHIA and NEW JERSEY, they should be ac- countable to have not made application of him, would consider to have written their own Sentence, when they applied short thereon at NEWARK, one who was at that very Time a Scholar of Mr. KALS. And when Gentlemen may apply a Country-born young Man to a Latin School of twelve Boys, paying for each Boy fio per annum, he pretended to ask them £25; for he can produce Instances that he is able, a Boy of ten and above Years, when he hath good Parts and Humours, to make able in Three Years Time to speak good Latin, and to explain any CLASSIC AUTHOR. A Gentleman of Age Two and Twenty or more Years can, with one Hour daily applying to a dilligent Attendance, arrive sooner to that Capacity, in a private Institution, either in his or in the Lodging of Mr. KALS,1 which is at the Golden Swan, on Third street .- The Pennsylvania Chronicle, and Uni- versal Advertiser, No. 364, January 3, 1774.
BY order of a rule of the inferior court of common pleas
1For sketch of Mr. Kals, see N. J. Archives, Vol. XX., p. 359.
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for the county of Morris, notice is hereby given to the re- spective creditors of Ephraim Watkins, an insolvent debtor, that they be and appear before Samuel Tuthill and Jacob Ford, Esqrs, two of the judges of said court, at the Court-house in Morris Town, on Wednesday the 26th day of January inst. at two of the clock in the afternoon, to shew cause, (if any they have) why the said Ephraim Watkins should not be discharged from his imprisonment, and have the benefit of a late act of assembly. entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors."
TO HIS EXCELLENCY WILLIAM FRANKLIN, Esq;
Captain General, Governor and Commander in Chief | in and over the Province of New-Jersey, and Ter- ritories thereon depending in America, Chancellor | and Vice-Admiral in the same, &c.
The humble ADDRESS of his MAJESTY'S | COUNCIL, 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 return our thanks for your Excellency's speech at the opening of this session, in which we discern such sentiments of zeal for the honour and real welfare of the province as justly call for our warmest acknowledgements and approbation.
The mischievous consequences, resulting to the pub- lick from the frequency of the crime of counterfeiting the current money of this and the neighboring colonies, be- came 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 to justice in this province. The advantages to the publick from the prosecution of those offenders will, we hope, be great-
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ly augmented by the discovery of the robbery of the Eastern Treasury, which the confession of some of those criminals, confirmed by so many corroborating circum- stances 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 publick for the perpetration of such daring crimes, may at length, be crowned with that success which may reasonably be expected from en- deavors so laudably exerted for that purpose.
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