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CASE.
The heirs of Thomas Davis sent a letter of attorney to James
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Derkinderen, of Philadelphia, empowering him to sell some Jersey rights, by way of public cant, to the highest and best bidder, &c. part of those rights were set up to sale, but through some improper discouragements no person would purchase. One Daniel Ellis made a private offer of fioo currency, for the whole, and, in order to give the purchaser the semblance of a public cant, some persons interested in the offer, or by their direction, made several sham bids, there being no public notice given.
"Upon the facts as above stated, and on consideration of the letter of attorney, I am of opinion, that the sale, under the above circumstances, is void, the words and meaning of the power not being pursued. NICHOLAS WALN, 17th of 7th month, 1772."
"As the estate belongs to the wife, and that the power of attor- ney is not acknowledged by her, in private examination, apart from her husband, it is not good, and the sale void.
JAMES KINSEY's opinion. May 2, 1772."
N. B. Ann Knight's private examination (which was wanting at the time the abovementioned sham cant was made has been since obtained, and is ready to be produced, properly attested by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, agreeable to the law of the province of New- Jersey, and a good and sufficient title given to any purchaser of the above rights, by James Derkinderen.
From The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1655, August 24, 1774. TO BE SOLD,
A lot of ground containing one acre, with a house and joiner's shop thereon, situate in Allentown, Monmouth county, New-Jersey. For terms of sale apply to
WILLIAM CLAYTON, Esq; Trenton.
WEST-JERSEY, WATERFORD, GLOCESTER COUNTY, August 24, 1774.
FIVE POUNDS REWARD.
Absconded from his place of abode, on the 15th ult. one Michael Tolen, alias Samuel Smith, 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, light brown hair, fresh faced, and very talkative. Had on, [Etc.]. - - Also, a likely three year old chestnut sorrel mare, about 14 hands high, her mane hangs on the near side, has a small star in her face, and a remarkable white spot on her off shoulder. Whoever takes up and secures said thief, so as he may be brought to justice, shall have the above reward, and if the mare only three pounds and reasonable charges, paid by
KENDAL COLES and BENJAMIN MATLACK. N. B. Said thief has been lately whipped at Glocester.
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TEN POUNDS REWARD.
Run away, from the subscriber living in Greenwich township, Glocester county, a Servant Man named James Land, about 30 years of age, 5 feet 4 or 5 inches high, of a dark complexion and straight black hair: Had on [Etc.].
SAMUEL ELLIS.
From The New-York Journal; or, The General Advertiser, No. 1651, August 25, 1774.
NEW-JERSEY.
On Tuesday July 19th, 1774, a majority of the Committees from the several townships in the county of Monmouth, of the colony of New-Jersey, met according to appointment, at the Court-house at Freehold in said county; and appearing to have been regularly chosen and constituted by their respective townships, they unani- mously agreed upon the propriety and expediency of electing a Committee, to represent the whole county at the approaching pro- vincial Convention, to be held at the city of New-Brunswick, for the necessary purpose of constituting a delegation from this province, to the general Congress of the Colonies, and for all such other important purposes, as shall hereafter be found necessary.
They at the same time also recorded the following resolutions, determinations and opinions, which they wish to be transmitted to posterity, as an ample testimony of their loyalty to his British Majesty, of their firm attachment to the principles of the glorious Revolution, and their fixed and unalterable purpose, by every lawful means in their power, to maintain and defend themselves in the possession and enjoyment of those inestimable civil and religious privileges, which their forefathers, at the expense of so much blood and treasure, have established and handed down to them.
I. In the names and behalf of their constituents, the good and loyal inhabitants of the county of Monmouth, in the colony of New- Jersey, they do cheerfully and publicly proclaim their unshaken allegiance to the person and government of his most gracious Majesty King George the third, now on the British throne, and do acknowledge themselves bound at all times, and to the utmost ex- ertion of their power to maintain his dignity and lawful Sovereignty in and over all his colonies in America; and that it is their most fervent desire and constant prayer, that, in a Protestant succession, the defendants of the illustrious House of Hanover, may continue to sway the British scepter to the latest posterity.
2. They do highly esteem and prize the happiness of being govern'd, and having their liberty and property secured to them by
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so excellent a system of laws as that of Great Britain, the best doubtless in the universe; and they will at all times cheerfully obey, and render every degree of assistance in their power, to the full and just execution of them: But at the same time will, with the greatest alacrity and resolution oppose any unwarrantable innova- tion in them, or any additions to, or alterations in the grand system, which may appear unconstitutional, and consequently inconsistent with the liberties and privileges of the descendants of free born American Britions.
3. As there has been for ages past a most happy union and uninterrupted connection between Great Britain and her colonies in America, they conceive their interests are now become so intimately blended together, and their mutual dependance upon each other to be at this time so delicately great, that they esteem every thing, which has a tendency to alienate affection, or disunite them in any degree, highly injurious to their common happiness, and directly calculated to produce a revolution, likely to prove in the end destructive to both; they do therefore heartily disclaim every idea of that spirit of independence which has of late, by some of our mistaken brethren on each side of the Atlantic, been so groundlessly and injuriously held up to the attention of the nation, as having through ambition possessed the breasts of the Americans: And moreover, they de- voutly beseech the Supreme Disposer of all events graciously to in- cline the heart of our Sovereign, and all his Ministers to a kind and impartial investigation of the real sentiments and disposition of his truly loyal American subjects.
4. Notwithstanding many great men and able writers have em- ployed their talents and pens in favour of the newly adopted mode of taxation in America, they are yet sensible of no convictive light being thrown upon the subject ;- and therefore, although so august a body as that of the British Parliament is now actually endeavour- ing to enforce in a military way, the execution of some distressing edicts upon the capital of the Massachusetts colony, they do freely and solemnly declare, that in conscience they deem them, and all others that are, or ever may be framed upon the same principles, altogether unprecedented and unconstitutional, utterly inconsistent with the true original intention of Magna Charta, subversive of the just rights of freeborn Englishmen, agreeable and satisfactory only to the domestic and foreign enemies of our nation, and consequently pregnant with complicated ruin, and tending directly to the dissolu- tion and destruction of the British empire.
5. As they on the one hand firmly believe, that the inhabitants of the Massachusetts colony in general, and those of the town of Boston in particular, are, to all intents and purposes as loyal sub-
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jects as any in all his Majesty's widely extended dominions; and on the other, that (altho' the present coercive and oppressive measures against them may have taken their rise in some part from the grossest and most cruel misrepresentation, both of their disposition and conduct) the blockade of that town is principally designed to lead the way in an attempt to execute a dreadful deep laid plan for enslaving all America. They are therefore clearly of opinion, that the Bostonians are now eminently suffering in the common cause of American freedom, and that their fate may probably prove de- cisive to this very extensive continent, and even to the whole British nation, and they do verily expect that, unless some general spirited measures for the public safety be speedily entered into, and steadily prosecuted, every other colony will soon in turn, feel the pernicious effects of the same detestable restrictions-Whence they earnestly en- treat every rank, denomination, society and profession of their breth- ren, that laying aside all bigotry, and every party disposition, they do now universally concur in one generous and vigorous effort for the encouragement and support of their suffering friends, and in a resolute assertion of their birthright, liberties and privileges. In consequence of which they may reasonably expect a speedy repeal of all the arbitrary edicts respecting the Massachusetts government, and at the same time an effectual preclusion of any future attempts of the kind from the enemies of our happy constitution, either upon them, or any of their American brethren.
6. In case it shall hereafter appear to be consistent with the result of the deliberations of the general Congress, that an interrup- tion, or entire cessation of commercial intercourse with Great Britain, and even (painful as it may be) with the West Indies, until said oppressive acts be repealed, and the liberties of America fully restored, stated and asserted, will on this deplorable emergency, be really necessary and conducive to the public good; they promise a ready acquiescence in the measure, and will recommend the same as far as their influence shall extend.
7. As a general Congress of Deputies from the several Ameri- can Colonies is proposed to be held at Philadelphia some time in September next, they declare their entire approbation of the de- sign, and think it the only rational method of evading those aggra- vated evils, which threaten to involve the whole continent in one general calamitous catastrophe. They are therefore met this day, vested with due authority from their respective constituents, to elect a Committee to represent this county of Monmouth, in any future necessary transactions respecting the cause of liberty, and especially to join the provincial Convention soon to be held at New Brunswick, for the purpose of nominating and constituting a num-
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ber of Delegates, who in behalf of this Colony may steadily attend said general Congress, and faithfully serve the labouring cause of freedom ;- and they have consequently chosen and deputed the fol- lowing gentlemen to that important trust, viz. Edward Taylor, John Anderson, John Taylor, James Grover, and John Lawrence, Esqrs. Dr. Nathaniel Scudder, and Messrs. John Burrowes, John Coven- hoven, Joseph Holmes, Josiah Holmes, and Edward Williams; Edward Taylor, Esq; being constituted Chairman, and any five of them a sufficient number to transact business ;- and they do be- seech and intreat, instruct and enjoin them to give their voice at said provincial Convention, for no persons but such, as they in good conscience from the best information shall verily believe to be amply qualified for so interesting a department; particularly that they be men highly approved for integrity, honesty and uprightness, faith- fully attached to his Majesty's person and lawful government, well skilled in the principles of our excellent constitution, and steady assertors of all our civil and religious liberties.
8. As under the present operation of the Boston Port Bill, thousands of our respected brethren, in that town, must neces- sarily be reduced to great distress, they feel themselves affected with the sincerest sympathy and most cordial commiseration; and as they expect, under God, that the final deliverance of America will be owing in a great degree, to a continuance of their virtuous struggle, they esteem themselves bound in duty and interest, to afford them every assistance and alleviation in their power ;- and they do now, in behalf of their constituents, declare their readiness to contribute to the relief of the suffering poor in that town ;-- therefore they request the several Committees of the counties when met, to take into their serious consideration the necessity and ex- pediency of forwarding, under a sanction from them, subscriptions through every part of this colony for that truly humane and laud- able purpose; and that a proper plan be concerted for laying out the product of such subscriptions to the best advantage, and after- wards transmitting it to Boston, in the safest and least expensive way.
[The conclusion of this we were compelled to take out, to make room for some other articles which could not be deferred.]
From Rivington's New-York Gazetteer, No. 71, August 25, 1774. AT LAIGHT AND OGDEN'S VESUVIUS AIR FURNACE, NEWARK.
Are cast in the neatest manner, out of the best bog-ore pigs, pot-ash kettles and coolers, cauldrons, pots and kettles, sugar-boil-
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ers, pye-pans, tea-kettles, griddles, iron-dogs, calcining plates for bottoms of pearl-ash ovens, back, jamb and hearth-plates, mill- rounds, sash-weights scale-weights from 1-2 C. to 7 1b. &c. &c. Orders for any of the above articles will be executed with the great- est dispatch, if left at the store of Edward and William Laight, near Burling's-slip, New-York, who have for sale, as usual, on the lowest terms, a universal assortment of IRONMONGERY AND CUTLERY, Also indigo, lamp and liver oil, blubber, &c. &c.
They hereby request all those who have been long indebted to them to make speedy payment, otherwise their accounts without dis- tinction, will be given into the hands of an attorney.
N. B. An apprentice is wanted.
New-Jersey, Sussex County, ss.
By order of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Sussex, aforesaid, notice is hereby given to the several and respective creditors of Edward Lewis, and Hugh Black insol- vent debtors confined in the goal the said county, that they be, and appear before two of the judges of the said court of common pleas, at the court-house, in Newtown, in the said county of Sussex, on Saturday the 24th day of September next, to show cause, (if any they have) why the respective estates of the said debtors shall not be assigned, &c. and the said debtors discharged from their con- finement, agreeable to a law of the province of New-Jersey, passed in the twelfth year of his present Majesty's reign, entitled "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors."
Aug. 19, 1774.
From The New-York Gazette; and the Weekly Mercury, No. 1194, August 29, 1774.
The Schooner Mercy, belonging to Capt. Amero Andre, of this Port, and of which he was Master, sailed from Tocomo, in Mary- land, about a month since, with two seamen and boy on board, and had a sum of money in his chest: On the passage it seems the Captain had a dispute with his people, and the night following he was missing, whether drowned by accident, or murdered and thrown overboard is not known; however the schooner soon after fell in with Capt. Thomas Fanning, belonging to Connecticut, who gave them a navigator, but meeting with a heavy gale of wind, in which they lost one man, they put into Little-Egg Harbour, where William Wood, one of the crew, was apprehended, and committed to Gloucester Goal.
The Trustees of Queen's College in New-Jersey, are desired to
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take notice, that the last Board of said Trustees have ordered a meeting of said Trustees to be held at New Brunswick, on Tues- day the IIth of October next, at 10 o'Clock in the forenoon, and the said Trustees are desired to attend accordingly.
ยท Signed by order of the Board,
JACOB R. HARDENBERGH, Clerk. New-Brunswick, August 24, 1774.
From The Pennsylvania Gasette, No. 2384, August 31, 1774.
FOUR DOLLARS REWARD.
Run away from the subscriber, living in the township of Wood- bridge, East New-Jersey, an Irish servant, named John Morgan, about 5 feet 4 inches high, and about 20 or 21 years of age; had on, when he went away [Etc.]. Whoever takes up said servant, and secures him, so as his master may have him again, shall have the above reward, and reasonable charges paid by
JEREMIAH MANNING.
N. B. If brought to Philadelphia, the reward will be paid by John Legg, at William Baker's, in Chestnut-street, between Third and Fourth-streets.
August 10, 1774.
SHIP TIMBER.
About 170 trees, knees and other crooked pieces, of different sizes and lengths, properly marked, and cut by the direction of a person acquainted with ship-building. The timber is cut in the rough, and lies ready for hauling, within less than half a mile of the river Delaware, from whence it may be rafted with ease. Any person inclining to purchase the whole together, as it lies on the spot, may have it on very reasonable terms, by applying to Mr. Coxe, at Trenton, and may view the timber at his Bellmont Farm, lying about 12 miles above Trenton Ferry, and opposite to Mr. John Beaumont's, in Bucks county, where his tenant, George Eken- swallow will attend to shew the timber upon being applied to.
He has also a young healthy negroe girl, to dispose of, about 16 or 17 years of age, has had the small pox, and capable of much drudgery service in town or country. Enquire as above or of the Printers.
WOOLWICH TOWNSHIP, Gloucester County, August 23, 1774. All persons indebted to Benjamin Moses Clava, either on bonds, bills, book-debts or otherwise, are desired to come and pay or settle
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the same within a month after date, and those that have any de- mands against him, are requested to bring in their accounts, that they may be adjusted, as he intends to remove this fall to live in Philadelphia.
N. B. The subscriber has to let for a term of years, a new two story house, which he now lives in, and has kept shop in that or near it for several years past; it is well situated for trade, as it lays on the great road leading from Gloucester to Salem, about one mile from navigable water, there is ten acres of good land belonging to it, all in good fence and cleared, a young orchard of apples, pairs, peaches and plumbs, a good stone cellar under the house, a pump of good water by the door, and several other buildings, such as stables, hay-house, barrack, cart shed, and sundry other conveni- ences, too tedious to mention. It will suit either a tradesman or shopkeeper, on account of its convenient situation.
BENJAMIN MOSES CLAVA.
Garden seeds, wholesale and retail, of an extensive variety and goodness in kind, to suit this or any other climate, to be had of the subscriber, at his house in Newtown township, Gloucester county, also at his covered stall the upper end of the Jersey market, in Philadelphia, on every market day; where captains of vessels, or others, may be supplied on the shortest notice, and on as reasonable terms as can be afforded, whose favours past are thankfully acknowledged; amongst which collection are the following, colli- flower, colliflower brocolow; artichokes ; blue brocolow, early York- shire cabbage, sugar loaf ditto; sugar loaf savoy, green ditto; best head cabbage ; long orange carrots, lemon carrots ; salmon radishes, short top ditto; cale seed, Dutch ditto; flat turnips, Hanover ditto; winter ditto; Jerusalem cabbage turnip; early Dutch ditto; Silesia lettuce, cabbage ditto, green coat ditto; parsnips; red onions, Portu- gal ditto; asparagus; sage; marjoram; summer savory; cucumbers, Turkey ditto; cantelope melon, Turkey ditto; endive; selery ; saffron ; parsley ; pepper-grass; red pepper; pot marigolds; scurvy grass ; fennel ; caraway ; coleander ; rare parsley ; balm; flower seeds, of many kinds; marrowfat pease, Spanish morats ditto, green hastons ditto, Charlotte dwarf ditto, dwarf marrowfat ditto; dwarf pease, sugar ditto; snap short beans, quail ditto, hotspur ditto; French beans, white ditto, white blossom ditto, valentine ditto; early white beans, early black-eyed ditto, windsor ditto, Massagan ditto; hemp seed; Canary seed; boiling beans, and pease of all sorts, &c. &c. RICHARD COLLINS, Gardiner.
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From The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1656, August 31, 1774.
BRISTOL, August 28, 1774.
The Delaware Lottery, for the sale of lands belonging to the Earl of Stirling, began drawing on Burlington Island, on Thursday last, and by yesterday afternoon they had drawn 5,400 tickets, and expect to finish on Thursday next; the great prize is still in the wheel. The inspectors of the drawing of this lottery are the Hon. John Lawrence and Daniel Coxe, Esquires, of the Council of New Jersey; Charles Petit, Esq; Secretary of said province; Thomas Hewlings and Daniel Ellis, Esquires, of Burlington; William Coxe and John Kidd, Esquires, Judges for the county of Bucks, and Wi' liam Pidgeon, Esq; of Trentown.
To the Author of the lines,, in Mr. Rivington's Paper, on the Snake depicted in some of the American News-Papers.
That New-England's abus'd, and by sons of sedition, Is granted without either prayer or petition. And that " 'tis a scandalous, saucy reflection,
That merits the soundest, severest correction," Is as readily granted. "How comes it to pass?" Because she is pester'd with snakes in the grass ; Who by lying and cringing, and such like pretensions, Get places once honoured, disgraced with pensions. And you, Mr. Pensioner, instead of repentance, (If I don't mistake you) have wrote your own sentence ;
For by such Snakes as this, New-England's abused,
And the head of these serpents, "you know, should be bruised." NEW-JERSEY.
From The New-York Journal; or, The General Advertiser, No. 1652, September 1, 1774.
[The remainder of the proceedings of the Committees of the County of Monmouth, in the Colony of New-Jersey, omitted last week for want of room].
9. As we are now, by our Committee in this, in conjunction with those of the other Colonies, about to delegate to a number of our countrymen, a power equal to any wherewith human nature alone was ever invested; and as we firmly resolve to acquiesce in the issue of their deliberations, we do therefore earnestly intreat them, seriously and conscientiously to weigh the inexpressible im- portance of their arduous deportment, and fervently to solicit that direction and assistance in the discharge of their trust, which all the powers of humanity cannot afford them ;- and we do humbly
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and devoutly beseech that God, in whose hand are the hearts of all flesh, and who ruleth them at his pleasure, graciously do infuse into the whole Congress a spirit of true wisdom, prudence and just moderation ; and to direct them to such unanimous and happy con- clusions, as shall terminate in his own honour and glory, the estab- lishment of the Protestant succession of the illustrious House of Hanover, the mutual weal and advantage of Great Britain and all her dominions, and a just and permanent confirmation of the civil and religious liberties of America .- And now lastly, under the consideration of a bare possibility that the enemies of our consti- tution may yet succeed in a despotic triumph over us in this age, we do earnestly (should that prove the case) call upon all future generations, to renew the glorious struggle for liberty, as oft as Heaven shall afford them any probable means of success.
May this notification by some faithful record be handed down to the yet unborn descendents of Americans, that nothing but the most fatal necessity could have wrested the present inestimable en- joyments from their ancestors .- Let them universally inculcate upon their beloved offspring an investigation of those truths, respecting both civil and religious liberty, which have been so clearly and fully stated in this generation :- May they be carefully taught in all their schools, and may they never rest, until, through a Divine blessing upon their efforts; true freedom and liberty shall reign triumphant over the whole globe.
Signed by Order of the Committees.
EDWARD TAYLOR, County Chairman.
From Rivington's New-York Gasetteer, No. 72, Sept. 2, 1774.
Whereas Catharine, the daughter of Hugh Haggerty, of New- town, Sussex-county, East New-Jersey, left her parents in the month of November last, was then placed at Hackensack, where she learned the taylor's business; but being afflicted with the rheuma- tism went from thence the middle of March, giving out that she was going to consult a Doctor on Staten Island, but not having been heard of since that time, this advertisement is published in hopes of obtaining some information of her .- Therefore as her parents, inexpressibly unhappy, on account of her absence, are exceedingly anxious for her return, they give her this public assurance of their readiness to receive her with the utmost tenderness; and they also intreat those who may know where she now is, to communicate some tidings of her to the said Hugh Haggerty, or to the Printer.
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