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NATHANIEL LOOFBOURROW. -The New-York Journal; or The General Ad- vertiser, No. 1632. April 14, 1774.
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NEW-YORK, APRIL 14. Richard Stockden, Esq; is appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature in New Jersey.
AMERICUS,
A Beautiful brown full blooded horse, fifteen hands and a half high, will cover this season at Elizabeth- Town in New-Jersey, at five dollars a mare, and half a dollar the groom. Enquire for Mr. Thomas Woodruff, at Dr. Barnet's.
Americus was got by Falstaff out of a beautiful chest- nut mare, got by Wilson's Arabian, her Dam by Slip By, own brother to the dame of Snap, her grandam by Old Partner, her great grandam by Grey Hound, her great great grandam by Curwen's Bay Barb, her great great great grandam by Lord Darcy's Chestnut Arabian, her great great great great grandam by White Shirt, out of the famous old Montagu Mare.
Falstaff the sire of Americus, was got by Old Cade, esteemed the best of the sons of Godolphin's Arabian; his dam by the Duke of Bolton's Fearnought; his grandam by Basto; his great grandam by the Duke of Newcastle's Turk; his great great grandam by the Byerly Turk; his great great great grandam by the Taffolet Barb; his great great great great grandam by Place's White Arabian, out of a Burton Barb mare.
Americus was bred by the Earl of Stirling, at Basken- ridge, in New Jersey .- Rivington's New-York Gazetteer, No. 52, April 14, 1774.
WILLIAM WHITEHEAD,
BEGS leave to inform the Public, that he has taken the tavern in Princeton, lately kept by WILLIAM HICK, at the sign of the New-Jersey College. All travellers and
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others may depend on the utmost care, and the most punctual attendance; and he flatters himself that such persons as have formerly used the house will con- tinue to call, as well as all others to whom it may be convenient as he is determined that nothing shall be wanting to furnish the best entertainment .- Dunlap's Pennsylvania Packet, No. 130, April 18, 1774. Post- script.
PETER STUYVESANT,
WHO for some years past drove a stage from Powles Hook to Brown's Ferry, proposes to revive the same again this season, and will set out the first Monday in May next, at half after 7 o'clock in the morning, from Mr. Elsworth's, and deliver his passengers at Brown's Ferry, to Mr. Josiah Crane, who carries them to the house in Newark lately occupied by Mr. Banks. Mr. Stuyvesant returns to Mr. Elsworth's the same day, and sets out from thence again at half after four o'clock in the afternoon, and continues to do the same every Monday and Saturday for the summer season, at Is. 6d. each passenger through, and Mr. Crane will set out from Newark for Brown's Ferry the same Days, and at the same Hours Mr. Stuyvesant sets out from Mr. Els- worth's. Good waggons are kept, and the best of treat- · ment to all passengers, by
PETER STUYVESANT, and JOSIAH CRANE.
RUN away from Jacob Hallett, a young man about 5 feet 9 inches high, a stout hard favour'd man, black or dark brown hair. Had on when he went away a new light coloured knapped coat, a snuff coloured vest, bound round the edges, and buttons near the same colour, a
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pair of olive coloured Manchester velvet breeches with gilt buttons, a small hat very much worn: He took away with him a black jacket with sleeves, a pair of pale red duffels trowsers, broke on one knee, two check shirts, one of them flannel, and one white shirt very much worn: Also stole one brown sheet, one new Ken- ton lawn handkerchief, one piece of dry'd beef, and sundry other things. Any person that takes him up and confines him in gaol, or brings him to me, shall have three Dollars reward, and all reasonable charges paid by me.
Raway, April 5, 1774. JACOB HALLET. -The New York Gazette: and the Weekly Mercury, No. 1173, April 18, 1774.
RUN away, on Monday, the 28th of March last, from the subscriber, living in Bethlehem township, Hunterdon county, and province of New-Jersey, a servant man, named WILLIAM NICKLE, of Germany, is about 24 years of age, about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, slim built, very much marked with the small-pox, long nose, thick lips, fresh coloured, fair hair, and stoop shouldered, can speak but little English, and says he was formerly a Soldier in the German service; had on, when he went away, a blue broadcloth jacket, with mohair buttons, has been turned, an under flowered ditto, with horn but- tons, striped holland trowsers, with linen breeches under them, one pair of blue and white cotton stockings, one pair of grey coloured coarse yarn ditto, strong slices, with odd buckles, a small-worn felt hat, with the brim cut in the fashion, one fine shirt with the waistbands stitched in the Dutch form, and generally wears the col- lar buttoned behind. Whoever takes up said servant, and secures him in any of his Majesty's goals, so that
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his master may get him again, shall have FIVE POUNDS reward, and reasonable charges, paid by
JOHN BEEMER.
-The Pennsylvania Gasette, No. 2365, April 20, 1774.
To Mr. NATHANIEL LEWIS.
SIR,
I SHALL not enter into a full discussion of your last good-natured performance; but be as brief as I can by coming to the point at once.
You are pleased to say that "I could not possibly in- "fer from your late advertisement, that I was the villain "you aimed at - - - and that I have endeavored to "exculpate myself from a charge never brought against me." - After insinuations so evidently levelled at me, and so plainly intended to wound my character, it is unmanly to shrink back, and screen yourself behind modes of expression. I would hope you have some little tincture of the gentleman in your disposition, and can- not be the sole author of so low a device. Such a con- duct can only be the suggestion of some petty-fogging scavenger of the bar, who is directing you how to throw as much dirt as you can, and shows his skill in the law, by securing you from action of slander. - -
But do not be afraid, I shall bring no such action against you. If you really think I broke open your letters, to answer wicked and malevolent purposes, assert it openly like a man; and prove it too if you can. If I must be in- volved in a dispute, let me have something like a gen- tleman for my antagonist, and not a sneaking, bush- fighting fellow, armed with the quirks of the law, and sculking behind subterfuges and evasions.
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I beg you would be speedy in your operations, for, should the spring vessels arrive, which are daily ex- pected, the town will not spare time even to laugh at you. The public attention will then be engaged in mat- ters of more importance.
JOSEPH BORDEN.
Bordentown, April 13.
To Mr. NATHANIEL LEWIS.
DEAR NATTY
YOU cannot imagine how much my family and neighbours are obliged to you for the entertaining dis- pute in which you have been engaged. In this dearth of news and amusement, your satirical essays are indeed a public comfort. I say your essays, for altho' we know you do not write one word of them yourself, yet, as you pay another for doing it, the property becomes your OWI1. - - Not he that carries the hod is said to build the house, but he who employs and pays the labourers. You have, indeed, shown your great judgment in the choice of your head work-man. A man of such approved honesty and integrity; whose character is so fair and spotless; whose talents for wit and satire have been formerly exercised so greatly to his own advantage, and so much to the improvement of others; but, above all, a man so learned in the law was certainly the only person fit for your purpose. When I see him in a morning strutting his pavement in red slippers, plaid gown and starched cap, I am struck with a certain awe and fear of him. I always do as the poor man did when he saw the Devil - - - take off my hat and say How do you do, Sir? You might have Hunted the whole city and not found his equal. But do you know that this interesting controversy of your's is like to engage the whole town
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in parties. Party rage hath already began in my family, I assure you. My son and self are both Nattites; my wife and daughter Frankonians; and many and long are the debates we hold on the subject. Mrs. Switch is, to be sure, a very foolish, obstinate woman: She insists that you have yet said nothing to the purpose; that you have proved nothing you have asserted, and have only shown your teeth without being able to bite. My answer is - - - "How can you be so blind? Hath he not fully proved that Joseph Borden, that naughty man, is really and truly a stage-master? Hath he not brought him to acknowledge this in the public papers? - You see how wickedness will come out at last- - - I dare say he has been a stage-master these many years, and was never discovered till Natty found him out. The charge about the letters, I must confess, is not at all ad- vanced : But what signifies that; the main point is fixed, and Joseph Borden is proved to be a stage-master - - and what is worse, he even makes an honest livelihood in that capacity. As to poor little Frank he has knocked him up entirely: He can never answer the last para- graph in Natty's last advertisement. It is there openly asserted that he is a smart writer, that he is poetical, musical and a witling - Dear, bless us! How can he sleep in peace after such terrible usage? And then, says I, how snug Natty is all the while! for he dare never retort upon him; it can never be said of him that he has any taste or knowledge in music or poetry, that he can spell well, write smartly, and is a wit - - - No, no, Mrs. Switch, this can never be said of my Natty." 'Tis false, replies she, very angry, I can prove him to be a wit - - - did he not write his name backwards to his first advertisement, so that none but a witch could read it? And did he not make a beautiful pun upon the
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word Frank, in his last performance: If this is not wit the Deuce is in it. Well, but, says I, how can you Frankonians get over the charge of your little hero's emigrating to Jersey in quest of the long robe and full- bottomed wig? How do you answer that? Why Jerry says she, that he did emigrate, as you call it, is certain; but what he went in quest of, nobody can tell but him- self. This I know, that he left us in love and charity with all his neighbours; he did not run off in a pet, stung with envy, because people chose rather to deal with his neighbours than with him; he did not fly into a rage, and bounce, and swear, because he had not interest enough to get bridges demolished, and roads altered, to serve his own private purposes. As to the long robe, he could never want it; for, being a little man, a short one would fit him much better; and he could have no use for a wig, as he has plenty of hair of his own. She likewise avers, that the first sentence in your last para- graph is nothing more than ungrammatical nonsense. But, dear Natty, don't mind what people say of you; don't mind their laughing at you; but go on with spirit and demolish your adversaries - - - thresh 'em well, dust their jackets, sift them to the bottom, and grind them to powder. I am,
Your great admirer,
JERRY SWITCH.
From my shop in Walnut- street, April 13, 1774
-The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2364, April 20, 1774. Postscript.
To the great BOAR, at his Sty in Borden-Town.
JOSEPH JOSEPH, why hast thou so furiously pricked up the bristles of thy wit ?- Although the maw of thy
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understanding is plentiful gorged, with the wash of slander, yet be it known unto thee, oh Joseph! thou wilt not be permitted so to wallow in the mire of vanity, and cram thyself with the husks of conceit, as to squeak out puns in triumph against the miller of Chesterfield with impunity! stagger, therefore, back again into the pen of obscurity, lest the miller, to prevent thy rooting up the ground of thy neighbour's reputation, should cut off the snout of thy sagacity, yoke thee with the collar of in- famy, wring from thee a confession of thy guilt, steep thee in the lye of thy own manufacture, put thee in such a pickle as will make thee grunt out an acknowledgment that thou are sufficiently smoaked, and thoroughly gam- moned,-then barrel thee up, and brand thee with the letters J. B. to prevent counterfeits .-
These few hints I hope will cure thee of the mange of witticism, and be a warning to thee not to crawl out again from the sphere in which Providence hatlı wisely appointed thee to move, this being the surest way to save thy bacon.
From thy Friend,
RASHER HAM.
-The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1637. April 20, 1774.
NEW YORK, April 21. | Richard Stockton, Esq; is appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature in New-Jersey.
NEW YORK, April 21. | Last Monday Night arrived at Sandy-Hook, the long expected Tea Ship Nancy, Captain Lockyer, from Antiqua, where she had been driven from this coast. In her passage back she met with bad weather, lost an anchor from her bows, had
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her mizen mast carried away, sprung her topmast, and was thrown on her beam ends. Ever since her departure from England she has met with a continued succession of misfortunes, having on Board somewhat worse than a Jonah, which, after being long tossed on the tempest- uous Ocean, it is hoped, like him, will be thrown back upon the place from whence it came :- May it teach a les- son, there, as useful as the preaching of Jonah was to the Ninevites.
On Capt. Lockyer's arrival, after anchoring his ship at the Hook, the pilot thought it best not to bring him up till the sense of the city should be known. As soon as the pilot gave notice, the Committee were immediately informed of the ship's arrival, and that the Captain solicited for liberty to come up to provide necessaries for his return, the ship to remain at the Hook. It ap- pearing to be the sense of the city that the Captain should have the liberty he asked, advice of it was im- mediately sent him, care being taken that he should not enter at the custom house, and that no time should be lost in dispatching him back. Notice of all this was distributed by hand bills all over the city, and a select Committee of 14 or 15 citizens, in a sloop, were dis- patched to lie near the ship till her departure. The Cap- tain arrived on Tuesday, and tho' very respectfully treated, was followed from his landing by a great con- course of people. The Gentlemen to whom the tea was consigned having refused to receive it, the Captain is preparing, with all possible expedition, for his de- parture; and it is fixed that he is to depart from this city on Saturday morning, and that the ship is to sail for London the first fair wind .- The New-York Journal; or the General Advertiser, No. 1633, April 21, 1774.
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Salem County, April 18, 1774.
FOUR DOLLARS REWARD,
RAN AWAY yesterday morning, from the subscriber, living in Alloway's Creek Neck, an English servant man named WILLIAM RICHARDSON, about 5 feet 4 or 5 inches high, red hair, a little knock-knee'd, has lost one of his upper fore teeth, and has a sore on one of his legs, just above the ankle joint: Had on when he went off, an old felt hat, a striped lincey jacket, old shirt, a new pair of home-spun trowsers made apron fashion, a pair of old deep blue yarn stockings, and a pair of plated buckles in his shoes: He is about 22 years of age, by trade a sweep-chimney, and very musical. Whoever apprehends and secures the said servant, so that his master may have him again, shall have the above Re- ward, and if brought home, reasonable charges, paid by
ISAAC RAIN.
FIVE POUNDS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber, living in Manheim township, York county, on Easter Tuesday last, a Ger- man servant man, named Gottlieb Fuhrman; he is a miner, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, well set, and one of his little fingers is rendered useless by a shot, wherefore he hides it as much as he can: He is a native of Eisle- ben, in the county of Mansfield, in Saxony, is a great lover of strong liquor, and a great smoker of tobacco and snufftaker: It is supposed he is gone towards the Jerseys or New-York and probably makes use of a forged pass. Whoever takes up the said servant, and brings him to the subscriber, or secures him in any
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gaol, so that his master may have him again, shall re- ceive the above reward, and reasonable charges, paid by
LEONARD JENAWEIN.
-Dunlap's Pennsylvania Packet. No. 31. April 25, 1774.
NEW-YORK, April 21.
Last Monday evening arrived at Sandy-Hook, from Antiqua, the long expected ship Nancy, laden with the East India Company's TEA, intended for the supply of this Province. On Tuesday afternoon the commander, Capt. Lockyer, came up to town in a pilot boat, was re- ceived on his landing in a friendly manner, by a com- mittee of the Sons of Liberty, and by them attended to the consignees : His behaviour and declarations were such as afforded the most perfect satisfaction; and on Saturday, without waiting for any repairs to the ship, which had lately lost a top-mast, &c. &c. in bad weather, he will take his departure for England, and, after receiving the freight and primage due on this en- terprise, render back the Tea into the hands of the shippers.
April 19. A sloop with a Committee of the Citizens, attends on the ship Nancy, Capt. Lockyer, at Sandy- Hook, until her final departure for London .- Riving- ton's Gazetteer, No. 53, April 21, 1774.
. PHILADELPHIA, April 25. | We hear from Trenton in New-Jersey, that the daughter of Mr. David Pinkerton (a girl about six years of age) being at play in the street, as a man was driving a pair of horses with a large roller, for the purpose of rolling meadows, &c. she fell down, when the roller went over her body. and instantly crushed
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her to death .- Dunlap's Pennsylvania Packet. No. 131. April 25, 1774.
PURSUANT to an order of the inferior court of com- mon pleas, held at Hillsborough, in and for the county of Somerset, notice is hereby given to the respective creditors, of Samuel H. Sullivan, William Thomas, and John Van Horne, insolvent debtors, now confined in goal in the county aforesaid, that the said creditors be and appear before the honourable Peter Schenk and Alexander Linn, Esq; or any two of the judges of said court, on Monday the 30th of May next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at the court-house of said county, to shew cause (if any they have) why an assignment of the said insolvents estates should not be made, and they dis- charged from their confinement, agreeable to the di- rections of an act of the Governor, Council, and the Gen- eral Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey, passed the 12th year of his present Majesty's reign, entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors."
The PUBLIC are hereby informed,
THAT the drawing of the PRINCETON COLLEGE LOTTERY, will begin at Newcastle, on the 23d day of next month. Any number of lots of 100 tickets each, will be insured at Six SHILLINGS per ticket. Enquire of SAMUEL BROOME.
To be sold at public vendue,
On Friday the thirteenth day of May, on the premises, or at private sale any time before;
TWENTY-four acres of good meadow and upland, as pleasant and well situated as any at Hackinsack for business : It has on it a good stone house with three
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fire places, a cellar and a good milk room, barn and cyder mill, a good orchard, garden, and a convenient saddler's shop. This lot joins the river, very convenient to keep a boat, adjoining Mr. William Provost's land, not three-quarters of a mile from a church. Also 22} acres of wood land, and II acres good cleared land, a small distance from the above lot. Any person that will purchase before the day of sale, may apply to Jacob Roome, on the premises, who will give a good title for the same.
N. B. Also two new riding chairs with the harness compleat, to be sold at the same time.
GAINE'S MARINE LIST. CUSTOM-HOUSE, NEW-YORK, PORT of RHODE ISLAND, April 18. Arrived Van Emburgh, Amboy.
WILLIAM NEILSON,
HATH just received from London and Bristol, a fresh supply of dry goods, which he will sell cheap for ready money or the usual credit, with a large assortment of CHINA, very low, consisting of enamel'd blue and white long dishes, baking dishes; flat, soup and butter plates of all sorts, patty pans, basons and bowls from half a pint to a gallon; blue and white, blue and gold, purple and gold, and enameled sets of jars and bakers; tea pots. milk ewers, sugar dishes, coffee cups and saucers, coffee canns, blue and white and enameled cups and saucers, ditto large breakfast ditto, tea setts compleat, &c.
ALSO Nails, Crawley's No. 3, steel; 6 by 8. 7 by 9, and 8
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by 10 window glass; frying pans, Hancok's grass and creadling scythes, sickles, wool cards, felt hats, F and F F unglazed powder; pigeon, duck, goose and sevan shot, writing paper, 4 and 4 1-2. 1b. pins, needles, oil flints, Bristol beer, the best rose butter in whole and half flirkins full bound, Burlington hams in tierces fit for exportation refined and bloomery iron, HIBERNIA and MOUNT HOPE PIG METAL as usual, &c. &c.
WANTED immediately,
A Person well qualified, who will engage to execute and finish, agreeable to the Draught now in the Hands of the Inspectors, a Spire for Christ's Church, in New- Brunswick, New-Jersey. Any Person inclining to un- dertake the Workmanship of said Spire, is desired to apply to
BARNARDUS LEGRANGE. PHILIP FRENCH, jun.
By the AMERICA, Capt. HERVEY, and the EARL OF DUNMORE, Capt LAWRENCE, JOHN and JOSEPH SHOTWELL, HAVE IMPORTED, AND HAVE FOR SALE AT THEIR STORE In RAHWAY, New-Jersey, A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF GOODS SUITABLE TO THE SEASON, WHICH THEY WILL DISPOSE OF ON THE LOWEST TERMS.
TAKEN up some time ago, a LONG BOAT of a middling size. Any person proving their property, may have her
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on paying charges, by applying to the subscriber, living at Shrewsbury, East New-Jersey.
WILLIAM CHADWICK. -The New-York Gazette: and the Weekly Mer- cury,, No. 1174, Apr. 25, 1774.
THE PROPRIETORS of West Jersey are desired to meet at the house of Joseph Haight, in Burlington, on the 5th day of May next, being the 5th day of the week, at 10 o'clock in the morning, then to proceed in the consideration of what is necessary to be done, to ascertain the partition line between East and West Jer- sey, pursuant to the conclusions of their last meeting.
TEN POUNDS Reward.
Run away, on the 25th instant, from the subscriber, in Lower Penn's Neck, Salem county, New-Jersey, two Irish servant men, one named James Gerald, about 30 years old, about 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, with a flesh- mark in his right arm from his knuckles to his shoulder, and of a claret colour; took with him a fine beaver hat, about half worn, a white coat, without lining, thick shoes, with hob-nails. The other named Thomas Har- vey, 20 years of age, a short thick full faced fellow; took with him a raccoon hat about half worn, leather breeches, a homespun shirt, and brown homespun jacket, a linsey-woolsey ditto. Whoever takes up said servants, and secures them in any goal, so that their master may have them again, shall have the above reward, or Five Pounds for either, paid by
ALEXANDER HILL. Mount Holly, April 21. 1774.
FIVE POUNDS Reward.
RUN away, last night, from the subscriber, a servant man, named JOHN OLFORD, this country born, supposed
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to be about 5 feet 6 inches high, well set, has black curled hair, and is marked with the small-pox; had on, when he went away, a striped lincey upper jacket, with the stripes cross-ways, an old white swanskin under ditto, a pair of velveret breeches, mended in the crotch with other stuff, blue yarn stockings, a beaver hat, about two thirds worn, old calf-skin shoes, with brass buckles, and a dowlas shirt, almost new. He has a mother living in Sussex, and it is supposed he is making that way. Whoever takes up the said Olford, and secures him in any of his Majesty's goals, shall have the above reward, paid by
AARON BRIAN
-The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2366, April 27, 1774.
NEW-YORK, April 25.
On Monday last Advice was received from Philadel- phia, that Capt. Chambers, of the Ship London, of this Port, had taken on board at the Port of London, 18 Boxes of fine Tea, which were regularly cleared, and the Mark and Numbers were taken from the Cocket, by Capt. All, of Philadelphia. As Capt. Chambers was one of the first who refused to take the India Company's Tea on freight the last Summer, for which he received the Thanks of the Citizens, they could not believe that he knew of the Teas being on board, and therefore supposed it to have been shipt by some ministerial Tool, under another Denomination, in order to injure the Owners, or the Reputation of the Master, or to make an Experiment of this Mode of introducing the Teas to America. The Committee, and the Inhabitants, were therefore de- termined to examine into the Matter, with great Vigilance. In the Night the long expected Tea Ship Nancy, Capt. Lockyer, arrived at Sandy Hook, without
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