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in a summary way, without a jury of the vicinage, is unconstitu- tional, and subversive of the rights and liberties of the free sub- jects of this Colony.
4. That it is our indispensible duty, which we owe to our King, our country, ourselves and our posterity, by all lawful ways and means in our power, to maintain, defend and preserve our loyalty, rights and liberties, and to transmit them inviolate to the latest generations ; and that it is our fixed, determined and unalterable resolution faithfully to discharge this our bounden duty.
5. That it is our unanimous opinion, that it would conduce to the restoration of the liberties of America, should the Colonies enter into a joint agreement not to purchase or use any articles of British manufactory, nor any commodities imported from the East- Indies, under such restrictions, as may be agreed on by a general congress of delegates from all the Colonies, hereafter to be ap- pointed.
6. That as the town of Boston is now suffering in the com- mon cause of American freedom, it is the opinion of this meeting that subscriptions be hereafter opened in every town in this county, and the money subscribed to be applied towards the relief of the suffering poor in said town of Boston, until they may be relieved, by being restored to their just rights and privileges.
7. That this county will appoint a committee to meet the com- nyittees of the several counties of this Colony, at such time and place as may be agreed on, in order to elect and appoint delegates to represent this Colony at the General Congress, whose resolu- tions and determinations we will most strictly adhere to, and abide by. And we do hereby unanimously request the following gentle- men to accept of that trust, and do accordingly appoint them our Committee for the purpose aforesaid, viz. Samuel Tucker, John Mehelm, John Hart, Isaac Smith, Charles Coxe, Joachim Griggs, Benjamin Brearly, Abraham Hunt, and John Emley.
As we apprehend New-Brunswick is not so convenient to the members of the lower counties, and that all the counties will hardly have sufficient time to appoint their Committees by the 21st of July, with submission, we would propose Princeton, as most central, to be the place, and Thursday, the IIth of August, the time of meet- ing of the several Committees.
THOMAS SHELTON, Com. Clk.
July 6, 1774.
To the Freeholders of the County of Burlington.
The several acts of Parliament, made relating to the British Colonies in North-America, and their operations upon the property,
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liberty and lives of the good people of this country, are too well known to require an explanation. It is impossible that any people, impressed with the least sense of constitutional liberty, should ever patiently submit to such enormous grievances. You are therefore earnestly requested to meet together at the Court-House in Burling- ton, on Wednesday, the 20th instant, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, to consider of the most proper mode of procuring relief at this alarming crisis. A FREEHOLDER.
GLOUCESTER, New-Jersey, July II, 1774.
The inhabitants of the county of Gloucester are earnestly called upon to attend a general meeting of the county, at the Court-house in the town of Gloucester, on Monday, the 18th instant, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, to consider of some proper measures to be taken in support of American freedom, at this alarming crisis.
TO BE SOLD,
A tan-yard, at Gloucester, in New-Jersey; has 34 vats, two water-pools, two pumps, a bark-house, currying-shop and beaming- house; contains about half an acre of ground, and will be sold cheap.
Are in excellent order the following horses, and will be ex- posed to public sale, on the first day of August next, at the house of John Dickinson, inn-keeper, in the town and county of Salem, in the province of West New-Jersey, viz. The noted Horse Bo- hemia, brother to True Briton. The famous Horse Vitriol, a jet black, his hind feet white and a star in his forehead, full 15 hands high, and equal in proportion, seven-eighths of the best turf blood, and much approved of as a covering horse, as well for saddle as carriage. Two stout young blooded mares, one of which is covered this season by a full blooded horse, and has a very likely colt by her side, got by a horse of said full blood. Also a number of other sightly horses. Attendance will be given, at the time and place above-mentioned, and six months credit to the purchasers, with their giving good security, if required. DAVID HENRY.
From The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1649, July 13, 1774.
List of the Numbers that came up Prizes in the Delaware Lot- tery, for the Use of New-Jersey College, the Presbyterian Church at Princetown, and the united Congregation of Newcastle and Chris- tiana Bridge, whichi began Drawing at Newcastle on Monday, May 23, and ended on Thursday, June 9, 1774.
[There are three pages of 17 to 19 columns each, of the num- bers and prizes.]
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From Rivington's New-York Gazetteer, No. 65, July 14, 1774.
NEW-YORK, July 14.
On the 4th instant, the county of Somerset, in New-Jersey, came to resolutions, suitable to the present disastrous crisis of public affairs ; and recommending a non-importation and a non-consump- tion agreement in such a manner as may be approved of at the grand Congress. The gentlemen composing the committee of all the New-Jersey counties, are to meet on Thursday, the 21st instant, at New-Brunswick.
From Dunlap's Pennsylvania Packet, No. 143, July 18, 1774.
This is to give notice to Samuel May, son of Ralph May, who lived in the county of Armagh, in Ireland, that his brother William May is now in the township of Piles Grove, in Salem county, West- Jersey, and is very desirous of seeing him. He may direct a letter to the care of George Johnson, at the Old Ferry-house in Phila- delphia .- If the said Samuel May should be dead, and any person will send a few lines directed as above, to inform the subscriber concerning him, it will be thankfully acknowledged.
WILLIAM MAY.
Several of the counties in East-Jersey have entered into spirited resolves, by which it appears, they have appointed committees to meet at Brunswick the 21st of July, to choose delegates for the Congress.
From The New-York Gazette: and the Weekly Mercury, No. 1186. July 18, 1774.
To all persons interested in that tract of land commonly called Long Meadow, and the swamp lands adjoining, in the county of Morris, on the east branch of Rockaway River, between Moses Tuttles and the forge formerly built by Jonathan Osborn, called and known by the name of Middle Forge. Please to take notice, that I intend to petition the Legislature, at their next sessions, for a law to oblige the owners and possessors of said meadows as well to pay their proportionable parts of what hath been done towards blowing up the falls thereof, and cutting a canal, as what yet re- mains to be done to sufficiently take off the said branch of Rockaway River, to erect a small dam across said branch, for the conveniency of watering the meadow in a dry season, and to carry up a ditch to take off Camps brook. JACOB FORD, Jun.
New-Jersey, Morris Co., July 18, 1774.
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Run-away from the subscriber, living in the county of Middle- sex, East New-Jersey, on the Ioth inst. an indented Irish servant man named Edward Griffy, about 5 feet 4 or 5 inches high, short black hair, has a scar on his cheek, is about 24 years of age, came into Philadelphia last spring in the ship Narrow, Capt. Hill: Had on and took with him a light-coloured old broad cloth coat with- out lining, old patched linen trowsers, old sheepskin breeches, a white jacket of linen, white worsted stockings, good strong double soal'd shoes, with brass buckles. Whoever takes up and secures said servant so that his master may have him again, shall have two dollars reward, and reasonable charges paid by me.
SIMON ADDES.
RINGWOOD IRON WORKS, New-Jersey, July 10, 1774. TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
Lost, supposed to be stolen from these Works about eight days ago, a ten year old black stalion, with his mane cut at the left side, short tail, and stands crooked on the near hind foot. Whoever se- cures the thief for conviction, or returns the horse shall be paid the above reward, and all reasonable Charges by
ROBERT ERSKINE.
From The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1650, July 20, 1774.
At a general meeting of the magistrates, lawyers, freeholders, and other respectable inhabitants of the county of Gloucester, in New- Jersey, held at the Court-house in the said county, July 18, 1774, the following resolutions were read, maturely considered, and unani- mously agreed to.
ROBERT FRIEND PRICE, Esq; Chairman.
I. Resolved, nem. con, That Boston is now suffering in the com- mon cause of all British America, and therefore merits the most speedy and effectual aid in the power of the whole to give.
2. Resolved, nem. con. That if the other colonies withhold their assistance, until Massachusetts is crushed and deprived of her lib- erty by the high and dangerous arm of Parliamentary power, now stretched forth over her for that purpose, they may, with good reason, expect soon to share the same fate.
3. Resolved, That we are of opinion, the most proper and effec- tual aid Massachusetts can receive from the other colonies would · naturally and even necessarily, result from their coming into a total cessation of trade with Great-Britain and the British West-Indies, until the oppressive and arbitrary acts, under which she so heavily
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groans, are totally and effectually repealed, and the town of Boston restored to her ancient rights and privileges .- (The question being called, the resolution read, and upon a division a very large ma- jority appeared in support of the same. It was passed).
4. Resolved, nem. con. That if we suffer the Parliament of Great-Britain to tax us without our consent, they may then estab- lish over us, at our expence (which they would never be able to do at their own) a military force, sufficient completely to subject us to the arbitrary will of the Minister, or, in his own words, to lay us at his feet.
5. Resolved, nem. con. That we are of opinion, the measures are already begun, that will, step by step, at length fix us in this deplorable situation, unless we are virtuous enough to unite, and, at all events, keep the hand of the British Parliament out of our pockets.
6. Resolved, nem. con. That if there are any amongst us, so destitute of the generous extensive feelings of the human heart, so void of every true idea of the real advantages of liberty, or so sordidly attached to, what they may think, their present particular interest, or even so deluded with hopes of future promotion from those arbitrary invaders of our rights, in case they succeed against us, as to refuse to unite with their brethren in such lawful ways and means, as shall be generally deemed necessary effectually to guard our pockets against them, they will, to their eternal disgrace, demonstrate to the world, that they are really endowed with but a very small portion of the most lovely and noble qualities of the human mind. In short, such conduct will even disgrace the very form they bear, and cause their fellow men to blush, on beholding such meanness in creatures of their own shape.
7. Resolved, nem. con. That if we do not acquit ourselves like men on this important occasion, our truly generous and patriotic friends on the other side the water, will have just cause to be ashamed that they ever stood forth in our behalf. We shall demon- strate to them and the world, that we did not deserve their aid or friendship, that they did wrong in endeavouring to preserve us free, because we are only worthy to be slaves.
8. Resolved, nem. con. That as the fate of Boston must, under Providence, greatly depend upon the part the other Colonies shall take in this most important of all temporal causes, every day she is kept in suspense respecting [their resolutions], must be to her a day of great anxiety and keen distress; therefore, and as she is suffering bitterly from another quarter, and in the general cause, they seem to be in duty and honour bound to form their resolutions
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as speedy as possible. Unnecessary delays, in this case, would in- deed be cruelty.
9. Resolved, nem. con. That if a general non-importation does not take place, we are of opinion that a general non-consumption ought ; and in this public manner declare, that we are heartily dis- posed inflexibly to engage therein.
IO. Resolved, nem. con. That we the inhabitants of Gloucester county aforesaid do, with pleasure and sincerity, profess and acknowledge ourselves to be truly loyal and dutiful subjects of George the Third, King of Great-Britain, &c. and that we will, to the utmost of our power, assist in carrying into execution any gen- eral, legal, well concerted measure, for the support and preservation of British liberty, in its genuine and primitive purity. throughout all these his extensive, and (till very lately) happy dominions in America.
II. Resolved, nem. con. That as a general Congress of Dele- gates» from each respective Colony is proposed to be held at Phila- delphia, in order to deliberate upon some general legal plan of op- position to the arbitrary measures of the British Parliament, lately devised, and now, with unexampled rigour, carrying into execution, manifestly with a design to overturn, and (if not prevented) totally lay waste all the ancient chartered forms of civil government throughout British America, and even, if possible, extirpate the very idea of liberty from these, our once free and happy regions ; and as some of the counties in this province have, and others are preparing to appoint committees, to meet at some suitable place, to be agreed on for that purpose, in order to choose delegates to represent this Colony at the said general Congress, so we also, approving the said measure, do appoint Robert Friend Price, John Hinchman, Samuel Harrison, John Cooper, John Sparks, James Hinchman, Joseph Ellis, Samuel Clement, Joseph Hugg, Isaac Mickle, Joseph Morgan, Thomas Clark, and Isaac Tomlinson, to act as a Committee of Correspondence with the other Colonies, and who shall also have power to appoint a committee of three of their own Members to meet the committees of the other counties of this Province, to choose delegates to represent them, and that seven of the committee appointed shall be a sufficient number to transact business at all times.
12. Resolved, nem. con. That it will be proper, and it is the desire of this Meeting, that our said Committee do immediately set on foot a subscription for the relief of our suffering brethren in Boston; and that they also receive and appropriate the same, in such sort, as to them shall seem most likely to answer the benevo- lent purpose intended. Signed, by Order of the Meeting,
ROBERT FRIEND PRICE, Chairman.
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At a meeting of the Freeholders and other respectable inhabi- tants of the county of Salem, in New-Jersey, at the town of Salem, on Friday, the 15th of July instant, on account of the late alarni- ing measures of the British Parliament, after due deliberation had thereon, the following resolves were unanimously agreed on.
GEORGE TRENCHARD, Esq; Chairman.
I. That fully sensible of the important advantages derived to us from a continuance of that harmony, confidence and connection, which, till of late has subsisted between the parent country and these Colonies, we, from inclination as well as duty, under the free enjoyment of our constitutional rights, liberties and privileges, will ever render all due obedience to the Crown of Great-Britain, as well as full faith and allegiance to our most gracious Sovereign King George the Third, and his Protestant successors.
2. That it gives us inexpressible grief, when we consider that the machinations of those, who would wish to destroy the liberties of this country, have so far prevailed against us, as to induce our most gracious Sovereign to believe, that we are wanting in affection for his person and government, and to give a sanction to laws re- specting us, so contrary to the known humanity and goodness of his heart, so destructive of our rights and privileges as British subjects, and so manifestly tending to destroy that affection and dependance, which we sincerely wish to maintain.
3. That we conceive the Boston Port Bill, and the Bill for the impartial administration of justice, &c. in the Massachusetts-Bay, to be a most arbitrary exertion of tyranny over a free and loyal people, and of the most dangerous and alarming tendency, not only to that province in particular, but to all the British colonies in general ; and therefore we think every well-wisher to the liberties of his country is now loudly called upon to promote, without delay, a firm union of all America, without which it will probably soon cease to be a country of freedom.
4. That this meeting think it their duty to declare, that they consider the acts of the British Parliament, for restraining the erect- ing slitting-mills, plating-mills, &c in America, an absolute infringe- ment of the natural rights of the subject, and of an equal tendency to enslave America.
5. That we think a Congress of deputies, consisting of men of the first character in every province, in point of fortune, integrity and abilities, having full powers delegated to them to act for the good of the whole, will be the most probable and proper means of obtaining redress of our grievances, re-establishing, on a constitu- tional foundation, our rights and liberties, and of restoring that con-
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fidence and harmony so much wished for: And we now declare, that we will cheerfully co-operate in any general plan of union, that may be thought most conducive to the public good.
6. That a subscription be immediately set on foot for the re- lief of the poor of the town of Boston, now suffering under the operation of the Boston Port Bill; and the monies raised to be appropriated by the committee hereafter named, in such manner, as to them shall appear best calculated to answer the good purposes in- tended.
7. That this meeting do return their unfeigned thanks to those truly patriotic members of both Houses of Parliament, who have so warmly espoused the cause of American liberty.
8. That the following gentlemen, viz. Grant Gibbon, Benjamin Holme, George Trenchard, Andrew Sinnickson, Samuel Lynch, Elisha Bassett, John Mayhew, William Hancock, John Holme, Robert Johnson, Edward Keasbey, and John Carey, Esquires, and Messieurs William Goodwin, Bartholomew Wyatt, Nathaniel Han- cock, Thomas Sinniekson, Dr. Samuel Dick, Robert Willson, Joseph Champneys, Thomas Carney, sen., Dr. Isaac Harris, and Benjamin Thompson, be a committee, to correspond with the other counties of this province, and with the Committees of the other provinces, and to transaet all kinds of business in our behalf, which the urgent necessity of the times may require; and also to delegate a certain number of their body, to represent this county at the provincial meeting, at New-Brunswick, the 21st inst. in order to chuse depu- ties to represent this province at the General Congress. And that any nine of the above gentlemen met together be a committee to proceed on business.
Lastly, That the thanks of this meeting be given to the Chair- man, for his attention to the public interest on the present occa- sion. ISAAC MUKINS, Com. Clk.
We are assured, that the committees of the lower counties of New-Jersey, have agreed to meet the other committees, at Bruns- wiek, on the 21st instant
At a meeting of a respectable body of the freeholders and in- habitants of the county of Morris, in the Province of East New- Jersey, at the Court-House in Morris Town, in the said county, on Monday, the twenty-seventh day of June, anno domini, 1774.
JACOB FORD, Esq; Chairman.
RESOLVED,
Ist. That George the Third is lawful and rightful King of Great Britain, and all other his dominions and countries; and that
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as part of his dominions it is our duty not only to render unto him true faith and obedience, but also with our lives and fortunes to support and maintain the just dependance of these his Colonies upon the Crown of Great-Britain.
2nd. That it is our wish and desire, and we esteem it our great- est happiness and security to be governed by the laws of Great Britain ; and that we will always chearfully submit to them as far as can be done consistently with the constitutional liberties and privileges of free-born Englishmen.
3d. That the late acts of Parliament for imposing taxes for the purposes of raising a revenue, in America, are oppressive and ar- bitrary ; calculated to disturb the minds and alienate the affections of the colonists from their mother Country; are replete with ruin to both, and consequently that the authors and promoters of said acts or of such doctrines of the rights of taxing America, being in the Parliament of Great Britain, are, and should be deemed ene- mies to our King and happy constitution.
4th. That it is the opinion of this meeting, that the act of Parlia- ment for shutting up the port of Boston is unconstitutional, injurious in its principles to the general cause of American freedom-particu- larly oppressive to the inhabitants of that town; and that therefore the people of Boston are considered by us as suffering in the general cause of America.
5th. That unanimity and firmness in the Colonies are the most effectual means to relieve our suffering brethren at Boston-to avert the dangers justly to be apprehended from that alarming act commonly stiled the Boston Port Bill, and to secure the invaded rights and privileges of America.
6th. That it is our opinion, that an agreement between the Colonies, not to purchase or use any articles imported from Great- Britain, or from the East-Indies, under such restrictions as may be agreed upon by the General Congress hereafter to be appointed by the Colonies, would be of service in procuring a repeal of those acts.
7th. That we will most chearfully join our brethren of the other counties in this province, in promoting an union of the colonies, by forming a General Congress of Deputies to be sent from each of the colonies: And do now declare ourselves ready to send a committee to meet with those from the other counties, at such time and place, as by them may be agreed upon, in order to elect proper persons to represent this province in the said Congress.
8th. That it is the request of this meeting, that the county com- mittees, when met for the purposes aforesaid, do take into their serious consideration the propriety of setting on foot a subscription
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for the benefit of the sufferers at Boston, under the Boston Port Bill above-mentioned; the money arising from such subscription to be laid out as the committees so met shall think will best answer the ends proposed.
9th. That we will faithfully adhere to such regulations and re- strictions as shall by the Members of said Congress be agreed upon, and judged most expedient for avoiding the calamities and procur- ing the benefits mentioned in the foregoing resolves.
Ioth. It is our request that the committee hereafter named do correspond and consult with such other committees as shall be ap- pointed by the other counties in this province, and particularly that they meet with the said county committees in order to elect and ap- point deputies to represent this province in General Congress.
IIth. We do hereby desire the following Gentlemen to accept of that important trust ; and accordingly do appoint them, our Com- mittee for the purposes aforesaid. Jacob Ford, William Winds, Abraham Ogden, William D. Hart, Samuel Tuthill, Jonathan Stiles, John Carle, Philip V. Cortland, and Samuel Ogden, Esquires.
At a meeting of the freeholders and inhabitants of the County of Somerset, in New-Jersey, on Monday, the 4th of July, 1774, in their Court-House, after reasoning and deliberating upon the pres- ent alarming state of public affairs; the following resolutions were unanimously agreed to, viz.
I. Although all the members of this meeting, and they are per- suaded the inhabitants of America in general, are firm and unshaken in their allegiance to his Majesty King George; and are entirely averse from breaking their connexion with the Island of Great Britain ; yet they think it necessary to declare, that they agree fully in opinion with the many respectable bodies who have already pub- lished their sentiments, in declaring, that the unlimited right claimed by the British Parliament, in which we neither are nor can be represented, of making laws of every kind, to be binding upon the Colonies, particularly that of imposing taxes, whatever may be the name or form under which they are attempted to be introduced, is contrary to the spirit of the British constitution, and so inconsistent with Liberty, that we look upon it as our duty to oppose it by every lawful mean, and suffer the last extremity rather than submit to it.
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