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On the same day, between the hours of twelve and five o'clock in the afternoon, at the same place, will be sold, the said Works. with the lands thereto appertaining, containing between 700 and 800 acres, of very valuable land: The Works consist of one fur- nace and one forge, situate on a branch of the Wallkiln (a never failing stream) within 50 yards of each other: The forge contains four fires and two hammers: Near the works is a good frame dwelling-house. large coal-house, blacksmith's shop, large barn and stables, and sundry other out-houses ; the land abounds in the great- est plenty with the best of iron ore, very convenient to the works.
Also at the same time and place will be sold, the undivided half part of several very valuable tracts of land; some of them contiguous to the above, others about 7 or 8 miles distance, on Pepo-Cotton River; on one of the said individual tracts, about a mile from the above Works, and on the same stream, is a large stone forge, compleatly finished, containing four fires and two ham- mers; near the forge is a neat stone dwelling-house, store-house, blacksmiths shop, and several out-houses. The terms will be made known at the time and place of sale by
THOMAS POTTS, Sheriff.
From The Pennsylvania Gascette. No. 2394, Nov. 9. 1774.
The creditors of Charles Read, are desired to meet at the house of Joseph Haight, in Burlington, the first day of next Month, in order to consider of some proposals then to be laid before them: such who have not brought in their accounts, are desired to de-
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liver them to the subscribers, previous to that time, in order to enable them then to make a dividend of the money in their hands.
DANIEL ELLIS, CHARLES READ. THOMAS FISHER.
Eleventh-Month (November) 7. 1774.
Stolen, in the night of the first instant (November) out of the house of the subscriber, living in Woolwich township, Gloucester county, the following things, viz. a London brown broadcloth coat and jacket, lined with tammy, with basket buttons, a homespun claret coloured cloth coat, about half-worn, a pair of buck-skin breeches, a pair of home made blue ribbed yarn stockings, a red and white silk handkerchief, a pair of sleeve buttons, marked A B. a leather pocket-book and some other things. They were taken away by a certain Henry Jones, as he called himself, but goes by several names, who was hired to work; he is about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, about 40 years of age, of a swarthy complexion, and has thick lips: had on an old flannel under jacket, a pair of cloth coloured velvet breeches, old thread stockings, shoes tied with strings, and a half-worn wool hat, but it is likely he may change his apparel. Whoever secures said thief, with the above goods, so that the owner may have them again, shall have ten dollars reward. or five dollars for the thief only, paid by JOHN HULINGS.
From The New-York Journal; or The General Advertiser. No. 1662, Nov. 10, 1774.
NEW-YORK. Nov. 10. | We hear from New-Jersey. that Mr. Samuel Bradhurst, of this City, was admitted to the Practice of Physic and Surgery by the Judges of the Supreme Court, held at Newark last week.
New-Jersey, Monmouth, ss.
By Order of the Honourable Court of Common Pleas for said County, that Samuel Thompson, Joseph Chambers, Benjamin Yates. and Henry Chiles, prisoners for debt in the gaol of said county, having petitioned to said Court, and having been duly sworn, and filed their schedules, pursuant to the late Act of the Governor, Counsel, and Assembly of said Province, an Act intitled, "An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors," made in the twelfth Year of his present Majesty's Reign, 1772: Now these are to give notice. to the creditors of said debtors, that they be together at the court house of said county on the 26th Day of November, Anno Domini, 1774, to shew cause before the Judges of said Court, or any two
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of them, why their estates should not be assigned for the use of their creditors: and the said prisoners discharged from their con- finement, pursuant to the said Act, &c.
FIVE POUNDS REWARD.
Run away from the house of Mark Prevost, in Bergen County. on the 29th of September last, a negro man and his wife: The fellow is serious, civil, slow of speech, rather low in stature, reads well, is a preacher among the negroes, about 40 years of age, and is called Mark. The wench is smart, active and handy, rather lusty, has bad teeth, and a small cast in one eye; she is likely to look upon, reads and writes, and is about 36 years of age. She was brought up in the house of the late Mr. Shockmaple of New-London: and as she had a Note to look for a master, it is probable she may make a pass of it to travel through New-England. They took with them much baggage. Whoever takes up the said negroes, and brings them to the subscribers, or gives such information that they may be had again, shall be entitled to the above reward, or fifty shillings for either of them, to be paid by Mark Prevost, Archibald Camp- bell, in Hackinsack ; or Thomas Clarke, near New-York.
October 12, 1772.
STRAYED, OR STOLEN,
From the pasture of the said Thomas Clarke, a dark hay horse. about 14 hands high, with a star in his forehead, a small white mark on his nose, black mane and tail, his mane rather inclined to lie on the near side; his tail .has a long dock, he trots all, and canters very slow and easy. Whoever takes up the said horse, or gives such information that the owner may have him again, shall receive eight dollars reward.
ELIZABETH-TOWN, November 8, 1774.
Notice is hereby given, to all the creditors of Abraham Clarke, the 3d, late of Elizabeth Town, East New-Jersey. That he intends to petition the General Assembly of New-Jersey, at their next Ses- sions, for a full discharge of all his debts, or at least that any arrest of his body may be prevented. All persons that have any objections, are desired then to attend.
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From Dunlap's Pennsylvania Packet, or, The General Advertiser. No. 160, Nov. 14, 1774.
FIVE POUNDS REWARD.
Ran away from his bail, on Tuesday the 18th of October last. a certain William Delany, an Irishman, about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches
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high, of a dark complexion, with black hair tied behind, is fond of strong liquor, and when drunk (which will be as often as he can get rum) is fond of speaking much in his own praise, particu- larly his great abilities in school-keeping, which he has done for some time in Precipany, near Elizabeth Town, Morris county, New- Jersey, and near Little Gosham, in Orange county, New-York gov- ernment, and near Duck Creek, Kent county on Delaware: He had on when he went away, a half worn castor hat, a light coloured fustian coat and waistcoat, black stocking pattern breeches, thread stockings, and new shoes with yellow carved buckles. He stole a sorrel stallion, very low in flesh, nine years old, about fourteen and a half hands high, trots and hand gallops when rode, and wheeses much ; also a new saddle and striped saddle cloth. Said Delany, served two years with Isaac Decou, Esq; attorney at law. in Trenton, New-Jersey, but was obliged to fly from that province for counterfeiting Charles Ogden's hand. Whoever takes up said Delany and the horse, and secures them so that the subscriber may have his horse again, and the thief be brought to justice, shall re- ceive the above reward, or for the horse alone fifty shillings, with reasonable charges if brought home to Middletown, Newcastle County, on Delaware. THOMAS SCULLEY.
N. B. It is probable he may change his name and forge a pass, as he writes a good hand.
TO BE SOLD,
The house and lot lately occupied by Governor Franklin, in Burlington, being pleasantly situated on the bank of Delaware, and accommodated with every, convenience for a genteel retirement. The lot on which the house stands is large, and the purchaser may have with the house about four acres of good meadow. Also a new brick house in the tenure of Hannah Hartshorne, having three rooms on a floor, and a large kitchen, situated in Burlington, a small distance from the river: This house has contiguous to it about twelve acres of orchard. For terms apply to Hannah Harts- horne, in Burlington, or Richard Wells, in Philadelphia.
N. B. Half of the money may remain several years on interest on proper security being given.
FORTY SHILLINGS REWARD.
Broke out of the gaol yard, in the county of Gloucester, on the fourth inst. ( November) a certain Christopher Myers that was com- mitted for felony; he is a short chunky fellow, about twenty-three years of age; had on when he broke out [Etc.]. Any person ap-
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prehending the said thief and brings him to Gloucester gaol, shall have the above reward, paid by
RICHARD JOHNSON, Gaoler.
From The New-York Journal; or, the General Advertiser, No. 1663, Nov. 14, 1774.
TO BE SOLD AT PUBLIC VENDUE.
On Thursday the twelfth day of January next, at Monmouth Court-House: The saw mills and about 1400 acres of land, at Tom's-River, lately the property of Abraham Schenk. The vendue to begin at one of the clock, and to be struck off to the highest bidder. The conditions to be made known on the day of sale, by
FULKERT FULKERSON, HENRY REMSEN, ABRAHAM P. LOTT, JOHN LEFFERTS, PETER SCHENK.
PRINCETON, November 8th. 1774.
FOUR DOLLARS REWARD.
Ran away from the subscriber, on Monday the 19th of September last, a negro man named Peet, about 27 years of age, 5 feet 6 inches high, yellow complexion ; he has a large scar on one side of his neck, and another on his head, occasioned by a cut with a knife; had on and took with him [ Etc.].
AARON LONGSTREET, jun.
TWO DOLLARS REWARD.
Forgot at the stage house kept by Mr. Whitehead, in Princeton, about six or seven weeks ago, a silver hilted small sword, boot guard marked S. K. which has been taken away, probably through mistake. The above reward of two dollars will be given to any person that will deliver the said sword to the printer hereof, and no questions asked.
From The New-York Journal; or the General Advertiser, No. 1664, Nov. 24, 1774.
NEW-YORK, November 10. | An estimate of the number of souls in the following Provinces, made in Congress, Sept. 1774.
In Massachusetts, 400,000. New-Hampshire, 150,000. Rhode- Island, 59,678. Connecticut, 192,000. New-York, 250,000. New-Jer-
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sey, 130,000. Pennsylvania, including the Lower Counties, 350,000. Maryland, 320,000. Virginia, 650,000. North-Carolina, 300,000. South Carolina, 225,000. Total, 3,026,678.
From The Pennsylvania Gasette, No. 2395. Nov. 16. 1774.
PHILADELPHIA, November 16. | We are informed, that a few days ago Jesse Hand, Esq; of Cape-May, came to this city with a genteel sum of money, generously subscribed by the people of that place, to be laid out for the use of the suffering poor of Boston.
Was found in a Pile of Wood, at Greenwich-point Ferry, op- posite Gloucester, the 8th instant, a black leather pocket book; in it was £4 : 6 : 1 in cash, also an Inventory of the goods and cash found with the body of Michael Tracy, who died in the Township of Pikeland, Chester County, July 25, 1773. The owner of the above pocket-book, proving property and paying charges, may have it again. RICHARD RENSHAW. .
Nov. 16, 1774.
TO BE SOLD,
On Fifthday, the 24th of Eleventh-Month ( November ) instant, at six o'clock in the evening, at the London Coffee-house, in the city of Philadelphia (if not sold before at private sale). - - [Here are described three Philadelphia properties, followed by those in New-Jersey, as given in ads. of Nov. 9. 1774].
Any person inclining to purchase, may view the premises, and if they choose to treat for a private sale, their offers will be attended to, and a good title given by Samuel Noble and Samuel Allinson, Trustees of Thomas Pryor, juu. and his creditors.
N. B. Six months credit, without interest, will be given to the purchasers. William Heulings and Samuel Pryor, the other owners in common of the two last tracts consent to a sale of their shares, with the part now advertised.
From The Pennsylvania Journal; and The Weekly Advertiser. No. 1667, Nov. 16, 1774.
TO BE RENTED FOR A TERM OF YEARS.
A grist-mill and saw-mill, late belonging to Ephraim Seeley. Esq; deceased, situate on the head of Cohansey Creek, in the county of Cumberland, and province of New-Jersey: The Grist- Mill is entirely new, with two pair of stones, one pair of which are very good French burrs, the other pair country stones, with
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boulting-chests, and all things necessary for carrying on both mer- chants and country work. The mills stand on a never failing stream of water, and in the heart of a very good country, both for wheat and timber. There is likewise a dwelling-house, garden and orchard adjoining, which will be rented with the mills. For terms apply to
ABIJAH HOOLMES, or JONATHAN ELMER, Executors.
From The New-York Journal; or The General Advertiser, No. 1663, Nov. 17, 1774.
NEW-YORK, NOV. 17. | His excellency William Franklin, esq; Governor of New-Jersey, on the 8th of August last published a Proclamation, declaring his Majesty's approbation and allowance of an Act of the Legislature of that Province, passed in September 1772, entitled, An Act for establishing the Boundary or partition Line between the Colonies of New York and New Jersey and con- firming Titles and Possessions. Also another Act, entitled, An Act to enable certain Persons to erect and draw a Lottery, for rais- ing the Sum of one thousand fifty Pounds, to be applied for the Purposes therein mentioned.
PARCHMENT.
Sold by Joseph Crukshank, Printer, in Market Street, between Second & Third Streets, and by Isaac Collins, Printer, in Burling- ton, Hugh Gaine and John Holt, Printers, in New-York, and by Joseph Dunkley, Painter and Glazier, opposite the Methodist Meet- ing House.
The demand for this Parchment being much increased of late, has encouraged said Wood to extend his works, so that he now expects to be able to supply his customers in a manner more satis- factory than heretofore, without fear of a disappointment.
TO BE SOLD,
By Abner Hetfield, in Elizabeth-Town, Good West India, and New Haven Rum, by the hogshead, or barrel, as cheap as it can be bought for cash, in New-York; and an assortment of dry goods. Nov. 14, 1774.
From Rivington's New-York Gazetteer, No. 83, Nov. 17, 1774. TEN DOLLARS REWARD-LOST, .
On Friday the IIth instant, betwixt Elizabeth-Town Point, and Springfield, a black leather-case, with a brass clasp, containing
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sundry bills of New-York and Jersey currency, and other papers of no use but to the owner. Whoever will bring it (with the con- tents) to Captain Bott, of Springfield; Dr. Dayton of Elizabeth- Town-Point ; or to Mrs. Haight, in Smith-Street, New-York, shall receive a reward of Three Dollars.
TO BE SOLD, ON REASONABLE TERMS, BY SAMUEL LONDON,
The works of Josephus, 4 volumes, the lives of the Twelve Apostles; also an elegant poem, by Mr. Brackenridge, on Divine Revelation, being an exercise delivered at the commence- ment at Nassau-Hall, 28th Sept. 1774.
New-Jersey, Somerset County. s.s.
Pursuant to an order of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas. in and for the county of Somerset; Notice is hereby given to all the creditors of Thomas M'Curdy, an insolvent debtor, confined in the gaol of the county of Somerset aforesaid, that they be and ap- pear before any two of the Judges of the said court, at Hilsborough. in the county aforesaid, on Monday the 12th day of December next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, of said day, to shew cause (if any they have) why an assignment of the said debtor's estate should not be made to such persons as shall that day be appointed, and he be released from his confinement agreeable to the directions of an act of the Governor, Council, and General Assembly of the province of New-Jersey, lately made and passed at Burlington. entitled an Act for the relief of insolvent debtors.
Somerset-County, Nov. 12, 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-boilers, 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 I-2 C. to 71b. &c. &c. Orders for any of the above articles will be executed with the greatest 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, an universal assortment of iron- mongry and cutlery, also indigo, lamp and liver oil, blubber, &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.
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From The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2396, Nov. 23, 1774.
TO BE SOLD,
A Tract of woodland in Gloucester County, New-Jersey. of 120 acres, within 3 or 4 Miles of a landing on Raccoon Creek. For terms, apply to John Lardner, in Second-street.
SIX DOLLARS REWARD.
Run away from the subscriber, living in the borough of Lan- caster, on Sunday, the 20th instant, an apprentice lad, named John Wort, about 5 feet 3 or 4 inches high, of a thin pale complexion, and wears his own black hair tied; he is a taylor by trade; had on, when he went away [Etc.]. As his mother lives in New-Ger- mantown, it is probable he may push that way. Whoever appre- hends said apprentice, and secures him in any goal, so that his master may get him again, shall have the above reward, and if brought home, and delivered to his master in Lancaster aforesaid, the same, with reasonable charges, paid by
Nov. 22, 1774.
ARNOLD BOMBARGER.
WEST NEW-JERSEY, November 8, 1774.
Was left at Batsto Furnace, on the 7th instant, a bay horse colt, about 4 years old, with a saddle and bridle, supposed to be stolen. The owner is desired to come, prove his property, pay charges, and take him away. WILLIAM RICHARDS.
We hear that Mr. Joseph Ellis, of Gloucester county, lately paid into the hands of Thomas Cushing, Esq; five hundred and thirty- four dollars, being generously subscribed by the inhabitants of that county, for the relief of the poor of Boston.
THREE POUNDS REWARD.
Run away from the subscriber, an Irish servant man, but came from England in December last, named John M'Gork, about 5 feet 6 inches high, well set, speaks good English, and talks very fast, is given to liquor, and lately passed for a freeman in Trenton and New-York; he has been used to work at an iron furnace, and is supposed to be in some part of the Jerseys, as he crossed at Gloucester ferry. Whoever takes up and secures said servant in any goal, so that his master may have him again, shall have the above reward, paid by James Molesworth, at the widow Yarnall's. in Chestnut-street, between Second and Third streets, Philadelphia.
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From The Pennsylvania Journal; and The Weekly Advertiser.
No. 1668, Nov. 23, 1774.
FIVE POUNDS REWARD.
Stolen or strayed out of my pasture near Brunswick, in East- Jersey, between the first and fourth of last October, a bay gelding, fourteen hands and an half high, a black tail and mane, five years old last grass, has a broad buttock, is open ribbed, trots and paces, but has a hitch in his pace. Whoever brings or sends him to Mr. William M'Adam, merchant in New-York; to Mr. John Ross, Merchant in Philadelphia ; or to me at my house near Brunswick, in East Jersey, shall have the above reward, and all reasonable charges.
ALEXANDER ROSS.
From The New-York Journal; or The General Advertiser. No. 1663. Nov. 17, 1774.
NEW-YORK, November 2.
[We are obliged to a correspondent for the following copy, and are sorry it is not in our power to gratify the curiosity it will doubtless excite in our readers, to see the charge that occasioned, and was the subject of the address. To which we hear the Chief Justice made a very complaisant and conciliating reply.]
To the Hon. Frederick Smyth, Esq; Chief Justice, of the province of New Jersey.
The address of the grand-jury, for the body of the county of Essex, at a Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Goal Delivery, held at Newark, in the said county, the first Tuesday of November, 1774.
May it please your Honour, As your Honour's charge from the bench was not so properly directory to us, with respect to our duty, as the grand inquest of this county, as matter of instruction for the regulation of our own personal conduct amidst the present commotions of the continent ; we think ourselves obliged, from the singularity of the charge, and its paternal tenderness for our wel- fare. to express our gratitude for your honour's friendly admoni- tions, (which doubtless derived great solemnity from the place in which they were delivered) and at the same time to inform you, how far we have the misfortune to differ from you in sentiment. both as to the origin and tendency of the present uneasiness, so generally diffused through all the colonies. If we rightly under- stood a particular part of your Honour's charge, you were pleased to tell us. that while we were employed in guarding against "imag- inary tyranny, three thousand miles distant;" we ought not to
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expose ourselves to a "real tyranny at our own doors." As we neither know, Sir, nor are under the least apprehension of any tyranny at our own doors, unless it should make its way hither from the distance you mention, and then we hope, that all those whom the constitution has entrusted with the guardianship of our liberties, will rather strive to obstruct than accelerate its progress ; we are utterly at a loss for the idea thereby intended to be com- municated. But respecting the tyranny at the distance of three thousand miles, which your Honour is pleased to represent as imaginary, we have the unhappiness widely to differ from you in opinion. The effect, Sir, of that tyranny is too severely felt to have it thought altogether visionary. We cannot think, Sir, that taxes imposed upon us by our fellow subjects, in a legislature in which we are not represented, is an imaginary, but that it is a real and actual tyranny ; and of which no nation whatsoever can furnish a single instance. We cannot think, Sir, that depriving us of the inestimable right of trial by jury-seizing our persons, and carrying us for trial to Great-Britain, is a tyranny merely imag- inary. Nor can we think with your Honour, that destroying char- ters, and changing our forms of government, is a tyranny alto- gether ideal. That an act passed to protect, indemnify and screen from punishment such as may be guilty even of murder is a bare idea. That the establishment of French laws and popish religion in Canada, the better to facilitate the arbitrary schemes of the British ministry, by making the Canadians instruments in the hands of power, to reduce us to slavery, has no other than a mental exist- ence.
In a word, Sir, we cannot persuade ourselves that the fleet now blocking up the Port of Boston, consisting of ships, built of real English oak and solid iron, and armed with cannon and ponder- ous metal, with actual powder and ball; nor the army lodged in the town of Boston, and the fortifications thrown about it (substantial and formidable realities) are all creatures of the imagination. These, Sir, are but a few of the numerous grievances, under which America now groans. These are some of the effects of that deliberate plan of tyranny, concerted at "three thousand miles distance," and which, to your Honour, appears only like the baseless fabrick of a vision. To procure redress of those grievances, which to others assume the form of odious and horrid realities ; the continent, as we learn, has very naturally been thrown into great commotions, and as far as this county in particular has taken part in the alarm- we have the happiness to represent to your Honour, that in the prosecution of measures for preserving American Liberties, and obtaining the removal of oppressions, the people have acted in all
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their popular assemblies, (which it is the right of Englishmen to convene whenever they please) with the spirit, temper, and pru- dence becoming freemen and loyal subjects.
To trespass no longer on your Honour's patience, we conclude with our hearty wishes, that while the great cause of liberty is warmly, and at the same time so peaceably vindicated, by all honest Americans, as essentially necessary to public happiness, no bias of self interest, no fawning servility towards those in power, no hopes of future preferment, will induce any man to damp their laudable and patriotic ardour; nor lend his helping hand to the unnatural and diabolical work, of rivetting those chains which are forging for us, by the same actual tyranny, at the distance of three thousand miles.
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