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Besides making due Provision for the Support of Gov- ernment, I have to request that you would grant a Supply for the King's Troops now stationed in this Colony. As I apprehended it would have been very inconvenient to your private Affairs, had I called you together at the Season when the Troops arrived, I desired Major- General Haldimand to let the Barrack-Master-General furnish the Troops with the usual Necessaries supplied by the Province, and gave him Reason to expect that you would, at your first Meeting, provide for any reasonable Expence which might be incurred on that Account. This the General was so obliging as to do, and I trust you will not be deficient in evincing that you have a proper Sense of the Kindness. The Barrack-Masters' Account shall be laid before you as soon as they can be prepared.
I must likewise recommend it to you to enable me, as soon as possible, to offer such Rewards and Encourage- ments for apprehending and bringing to Justice the Per- sons accused of counterfeiting our Paper Currency, and robbing the Treasury, as will become the Honour of the Province and the Importance of the Occasion. For Want of a Fund appropriated to answer contingent Ex- pences, this Province often labours under considerable Disadvantages. In all Probability if Government had been impowered to hire a Number of active Men to have gone off immediately in different Parties, in pursuit of
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those Delinquents, they would ere now have received the Punishment due to their Crimes.
Gentlemen of the Council, and Gentlemen of the General Assembly,
I am never so happy as when I have an Opportunity of promoting the public Welfare, and as I know of nothing which has a Chance to contribute more to that desirable End than Harmony between the several Branches of the Legislature, I shall not fail to cultivate it as much as may be in my Power, and I flatter myself that I shall, during the Course of the ensuing Session, meet with the same Disposition on your Parts.
WM. FRANKLIN.
Council Chamber,
Nov. 12, 1773.
Governor FRANKLIN'S Proclamation for apprehending Ford. King, and Richardson, came too late for this Week's Paper.
The PATENT
MACHINES
(For dressing wheat and flour) Of JOHN MILNE, and Sons, Of MANCHESTER,
A RE to be sold by Daniel Neil,1 near Acquakanack, New-Jersey; and by Templeton and Stewart, in New-York. To prevent trouble, the price of the flour machine is thirty three pounds, and the wheat machine twelve pounds, New-York currency.
1A somewhat detailed account of Daniel Neil will be found in "His- tory of Paterson," by William Nelson, Vol. I., p. -. Neil was killed at the Battle of Princeton.
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The house that Daniel Neil lately lived in, near the Coffee-House, is to be LET. Enquire of
Templeton and Stewart,
Who have for sale, a few firkins choice Irish butter, Connecticut pork, and Philadelphia hard soap; West- India rum, Jamaica spirits, brandy, cordage, &c.
-The New-York Gazette; and The Weekly Mer- cury, No. 1153, November 29, 1773.
Philadelphia, December 1, 1773.
To BE SOLD,
EIGHT Hundred and sixty-four ACRES of LAND, situate on the river Delaware, at Monongochunck, in Oxford township, Sussex county, in the province of West New-Jersey. This tract consists of as good land as any in that part of the country, and has on the part of it which lies on the river a quantity of rich bottom land. There are three settlements in proper parts of the tract, accommodated with log-houses, barns, orchards, and other conveniences. It is well-watered, Pequest-creek, Beaver-brook, and several other constant streams run- ning through it. Part of the tract is lime-stone land. The situation is very convenient on account of water- carriage, as wheat may be transported to Philadelphia at little more than Sevenpence per bushel. The subscriber attends at Easton, in the province of Pennsylvania, every court, where, or in Philadelphia, he may be treated with as to the terms of sale. The whole will be sold together. For terms, apply to RICHARD PETERS. junior .- The Pennsylvania Gasette, No. 2345, December I, 1773.
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RUN away from the Subscriber, living in Haddonfield, Gloucester county, yesterday morning, an apprentice lad, named ALBERT WILSON, by trade a wheel-wright, about 20 years of age, about 5 feet 10 inches high. Had on and took with him, a homespun grogram coat, of an orange colour, a striped linsey jacket, a homespun silk and worsted jacket, brown and white, leather breeches, two pair of trowsers, one of which homespun tow, the other blue and white striped cotton, two shirts, three pair of stockings, one of which is mixed worsted and silk, a half-worn beaver hat, calf-skin shoes, and silver buckles. Whoever apprehends the said Apprentice, and secures him in any goal. so that his Master may get him again, shall receive THREE POUNDS reward, paid by GEORGE HENOLD. Nov. 29, 1773.
N. B. All Masters of vessels are forbid to carry him off .- The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2345, December I, I773.
BY HIS EXCELLENCY
WILLIAM FRANLIN, Esq;
Captain General, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the Province of New-Jersey, and Territories thercon depending in America, Chancellor and Vice- Admiral in the same, &c.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS Samuel Ford, late of the County of Morris, stands charged upon Oath, with having been concerned in the Robbery of the Treasury of the Eastern Division of this Province in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-eight : AND WHEREAS the said Samuel Ford stands indicted by a Grand Jury of the said County of Morris, for having feloniously coun-
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terfeited the Bills of Credit both of this Province and of Pennsylvania, and uttering and passing the same, to the great Injury of His Majesty's liege Subjects: AND WHEREAS a certain Joseph Richardson, late of the Prov- ince of Pennsylvania, and a certain John King, late of the said County of Morris, stand charged on Oath, with having aided abetted and assisted the said Samuel Ford, in uttering and passing the said counterfeited Bills of Credit : AND WHEREAS it is highly expedient that the Perpetrators of such attrocious and destructive Crimes should be brought to condign and exemplary Punish- ment, as well for the Sake of Public Justice as for the Discouragement of the like pernicious Practices in future; and the Endeavours hitherto used for apprehending and securing the said Offenders have proved ineffectual; I HAVE THEREFORE thought fit, by and with the Advice and Consent of His Majesty's Council, to issue this Proclamation, hereby offering and promising a Reward of THREE HUNDRED POUNDS, to be paid out of the Pub- lic Treasury of this Province to such Person or Persons who shall apprehend and safely lodge in His Majesty's Goal in the City of Burlington or in His Majesty's Goal in the City of Philadelphia, the Body of the said Samuel Ford; and the like Public Reward of THREE HUNDRED POUNDS to such Person or Persons who shall, in like Manner, apprehend and secure the Body of the said Joseph Richardson; and also the Public Reward of FIFTY POUNDS to be paid as aforesaid, to such Person or Persons, who shall, in like Manner, apprehend and secure the Body of the said John King. And I do hereby strict- ly charge and command all Officers civil and military, and all other His Majesty's liege Subjects, within this Province, to make diligent Search and Pursuit after the said Samuel Ford, Joseph Richardson and John King,
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and to use their utmost Endeavours to apprehend and secure them, so that they may be brought to Justice.
GIVEN under my Hand and Scal at Arms, in the City of Burlington, the seventeenth Day of Novem- ber, in the fourteenth Ycar of the Reign of our Sov- creign Lord GEORGE the Third, of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. Annoque Domini 1773.
WILLIAM FRANKLIN. .
By His Excellency's Command,
CHARLES PETTIT, Deputy Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE KING.
N. B. A Description of the Persons of the above- mentioned Samuel Ford, and John King, as given by the Sheriff of Morris-and of Joseph Richardson, as given by the Sheriff of Philadelphia: FORD is a well built Fel- low, about 30 Years of Age, 5 Feet 10 Inches high, has short brown curled Hair, very red Cheeks, and a remark- able Dimple in his Chin; is an artful Fellow-with the serious and grave, can put on the Face of Seriousness, Religion and Gravity; and with the Gay, can behave with as much Levity as any one. It is supposed he has taken with him a Suit of pale sky coloured blue Clothes, with a large Silver Twist gay Button. It is suspected he will pass by the Name of Samuel Samson.
RICHARDSON is a middle aged Man, six feet one or two Inches high, fair Complexion, light brown Hair, a well made stout active Man, and well dressed.
KING is a square well-set Fellow, about 5 feet 8 or 9 Inches high, with short brown coloured straight Hair, full Face, and rather dark Complexion. It is suspected he will pass by the Name of John Horton.
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The several Rewards offered for apprehending and securing the said FORD, RICHARDSON, and KING, are as follows, viz.
For FORD,-By the above Proclamation, £.300
By the Governor of Pennsylvania by Proclamation, - - - - 300
By the Treasurer of the Eastern Di-
vision of New-Jersey, in Case Ford proves to be the Robber of the Treasury, - - -
100
By the Sheriff of Morris County, -
50
- £.750
For RICHARDSON,-By the above Proc- lamation, - - - - -
£.300
1
By the Governor of Pennsylvania, by Proclamation, - - - -
300
£.600
For KING,-By the above Proclamation, £. 50
By the Sheriff of Morris County, -
25
£. 75
£.1425 * All the Printers of News-Papers in America, are re- quested to publish this Proclamation.
TEN POUNDS REWARD.
ON Thursday Evening was broke open the house of the subscriber, living in Trenton, and was stolen two sil- ver tankards, one marked with S. H. in a cypher, a silver tea-pot and stand. marked I. P. in a cypher, a pair of silver salt-sellers, a large silver soop-spoon, marked R. R. one silver can, marked S. H. in a cypher, one silver punch strainer, and a silver punch ladle. Whoever takes up the
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thief, and secures the plate, shall have the above reward, paid by me
December I.
SAMUEL HENRY. 1
Trenton, November 29.
PUBLICK NOTICE is hereby given to the creditors of the subscriber, that by an Order of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas held at Trenton, in and for the county of Hunterdon, the twenty-second day of December next, is appointed for the said creditors to appear before Wil- liam Clayton, and Micajah How, Esqrs; two of his Majesty's Judges of the said county, at the Court-House in the said county, to shew cause why an assignment of the subscribers estate should not be made, and the sub- scriber discharged, pursuant to a late Act of Assembly of the province of New-Jersey. HUGH M'CLAIN.
-The Pennsylvania Journal; and The Weekly Ad- vertiser, No. 1617, December 1, 1773.
NEW-YORK, December 13. | His Excellency Governor Franklin, of New-Jersey, has been pleased, with the ad- vice of his Privy Council to grant a pardon for Joseph Haines, Dr. Barn Budd, and Benjamin Cooper, confined in Goal in the county of Morris, as associates with Ford and Reynolds, &c. in counterfeiting and passing several sorts of bad money, as has been already mentioned in the papers.
The weather has been so favourable of late, that from good authority we are informed, a gentleman at Rocka- way, in Morris County, New Jersey, lately plucked sev- eral quarts of ripe strawberries at that place. As has a Gentleman at Fairfield .- The New-York Journal; or, The General Advertiser, No. 1615, December 16, 1773.
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Hackensack, Nov. 29, 1773.
THE Lottery made in Favour of a Protestant Minis- ter, will be drawn on the fourth Day of January next, at the House of Mr. Andrew Van Boskirk, at New- Barbados.
Mr. RIVINGTON,
IN your news-paper of the 18th of November last, ap- peared an advertisement, forewarning all persons not to credit ANNA VANDERVOORT, wife of PAUL VANDER- VOORT, of Matewan .- We her neighbours being highly incensed at his conduct, both as to that act, and many others, think it our duty to inform the public of his pro- ceedings since he became our neighbour, and after in- forming you that Matewan is a valuable farm, and be- longing to the heirs of Anna's former husband, (viz. seven children) to whose will, Anna was left an execu- trix; for the time of her widowhood.
Know then, that in the time of Anna's widowhood, the father of said Paul, bought a farm adjoining said Ma- tewan, from the executrix, and the then acting executor, which he declared was for his son Paul; shortly after Paul paid his addresses to said Anna, and with every fascinating pretence, & tender promises that her children should receive the most paternal treatment from him: Paul obtained Anna's consent, and married her about five years since.
From his behaviour after marriage, to his wife, who was genteely brought up, and has ever supported a most amiable character in the opinion of all that knew her; we are confident his ingratitude is not to be parallelled, for instance, on his marriage, Paul received six hundred pounds and upwards in money and stock; about six months after, Paul got a lease of Matewan farm, with
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liberty to cut wood, at which he has been very diligent; and this is all the property we are sure, that he is possessed of; we allow that Paul's father bought the aforesaid farm adjoining Matewan, but he lives on it, and as he has not given it to Paul, 'tis likely he never will, so that the whole seems to be a piece of chicanery, to illus- trate themselves, wherein 'tis generally believed, that Paul's father is Paul's evil dæmon. Anna in her former husband's time had all the comfort a wife could wish for, but since Paul's marriage with her she has been deprived of every consequence as to acting, nor did Paul put it into her power to extend her maternal care to her chil- dren, in matters of the smallest consequence, which prop- erly come under the government of a woman, she has been deprived of. Nor has Anna had it in her power to lay out for her own or her children's necessities to the amount of five pounds for this five years, and it was com- mon for him to say, that now he had got the loaf under his own arm, that he would cut it as he pleased, and it is shocking to know how he has cut it: The conditions, of the lease, were, that Paul should have the sole use of the farm and timber, to bring up the children in a decent manner, till they were of age to go to business; but their cloaths were so few, and so mean, that it was scarcely better than being naked, one of them he turned out of doors, three of them have scarcely been at the place for this three years. The eldest son being of age, about three months ago qualified himself as executrix to his father's will, and then demanded possession of Matewan farm, from Paul, who behaved himself very unbecoming, so that the heir had no means of avoiding a law suit to possess himself of the farm, without making a division of the land, or paying a legacy of 16ol. in case his mother should prefer it to her dower, which she did, and the heir
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having paid the legacy into the hands of his mother, took her, and her husband's receipt for it: She having experi- enced the deportment of Paul to herself and children, was not willing to trust to any future generosity of his, (a sentiment he is utterly void of.) therefore reserved it in her own possession. Then Paul removed off to his father's house and farm, all the negroes, horses, cattle. hogs, farming utensils, household furniture, beds and bedding, nor did he leave one mouthful of victuals for his wife or her children to eat, (though some of them were very unwell) save one tea cup and saucer, he gave his wife when he was going away, (the utmost bounty of his nature.) And as he became possessed of those things by the mother and father of those children, how despicable he will appear we leave to the public, and his advertisement for the finishing stroke to his own charac- ter, given of himself: Having pledged ourselves to the public for the truth of these assertions, we join in our requests that you print this in your next paper, and are
Sir, Your humble servants,
THOMAS KEARNEY, JOHN PROVOST, COONRADT HENDRICKS.
Middletown Point, Nov. 25, 1773.
-Rivington's New-York Gazetteer, No. 33, Decem- ber 2, 1773.
NEW-YORK, December 9.
On the first Instant, his Excellency the Governor, issued two Proclamations, declaring his Majesty's Assent to two, and his Disallowance of two other Acts of the Legislature of this Province, viz.
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CONFIRMED.
An Act for establishing the Boundary, or Partition Line, between the Colonies of New-York, and New-Jer- sey, and for confirming Titles and Possessions. Passed in Feb. 1771 .- The New-York Journal; or, The General Advertiser, No. 1613, December 2, 1773.
TEN DOLLARS Reward.
MADE his escape last night, a man named Bowly Arnold, of a pale visage, very much pock broken, long nose, straight light hair, is of a middle size, about five feet eight inches high; he wore a linsey-wolsey coat and jacket, leather breeches, blue and white woollen stock- ings, and a half worn castor hat. He was taken up for horse-stealing, and confessed he was guilty of the crime with which he was charged; and said he sold one horse at Greenwich, in Sussex county, and another at Bound- Brook. Whoever takes 11p and secures him so that he may be brought to justice, shall be intituled to the above reward, per me
PHINEAS FAIRCHILD, Constable.
Morris-County, Nov. 26, 1773.
W HEREAS the Hanover lottery (B) has been some time delayed on account of some particular events, we the managers, met this day in order to specify the time of drawing said lottery, which we expect will com- mence on the 29th day of this inst. at the house of Joseph Morris, in Hanover: at which time and place we hope to give public satisfaction.
Tickets are to be had of Messrs. Jonathan Williams. Silas Hand, Joseph Morris, Lewis Mulford, Doctors Stephen Ball, and William Dixon. To be conducted
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under the inspection of reputable managers and clerks, agreeable to the strictest rules of lotteries.
Nov. 25, 1773.
The VENDUE
F OR the sale of the MILLS and FARM late the property of Dr. WILLIAM MERCER, deceased, situate opposite New-Brunswick, were, agreeable to advertisement, put up to public sale on the premises, and the said mills were adjourned on the bid of Abraham Van Doren, jun. and the farm on the bid of William Burton, Esq; near New-Brunswick, until the 15th day of Decem- ber inst. at the White-Hall tavern in New-Brunswick. The vendue to begin at 12 o'clock of said day. The money is to be paid in four equal payments, yearly, with- out interest; and immediate possession may be taken of the premises.
Attendance will be given by
ANTHONY WHITE, Executor. AND LUCY MERCER, Executrix.
To be Let on LEASE, For a term of years,
T HREE lots of ground near the New Crane, each lot containing 21 feet in front, and 38 feet in depth, be- ing very convenient for store-houses. Enquire of Robert Crommeline.
The Powles-Hook LOTTERY will certainly be drawn by the 20th inst. There are yet a few tickets remaining unsold, which are left with said Crommeline to dispose of at 3 dollars per ticket.
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NEW-YORK, December 6.
A Correspondent from Elizabeth-Town, says, in less than a Week there have been three Deaths in this Town, which are a Specimen of the Longivity of its Inhabitants: Mrs. Crane aged 74; Mr. Price, 97; and Mrs. Garthwait 73.
Friday last his Majesty's Ship Swan, Capt. James Ayscough, fell down to Sandy-Hook.
By HIS EXCELLENCY WILLIAM TRYON, Esq;
Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over the Province of New-York, and the Territories depending thereon in America, Chancellor and Vice Admiral of the same.
A PROCLAMATION.
W HEREAS his Majesty by his Order in Council at the Court at St. James's, bearing Date on the first day of September now last past, hath been pleased, with the Advice of his Privy Council, to declare his Approba- tion of an Act of the Legislature of this Province, passed February, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy- one, the Title whereof is as follows; That is to say,
An Act for establishing the Boundary or Partition Line between the Colonies of New-York and Nova Caesarea, or New-Jersey, and for confirming Titles and Possessions.
AND WHEREAS his Majesty, by his Order in Council at the Court at St. James's, bearing Date on the Twenty- eighth Day of July last, hath also been pleased, with the Advice of his Privy Council, to declare his Approbation
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of a certain other Act of the Legislature of this Province, passed in March, one Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-two, the Title whereof is as follows, That is to say,
An Act to settle and establish the Line or Lines of Division between the City of New-York and the Township of Harlem, so far as concerns the Right of Soil in Controversy.
And in Pursuance of his Majesty's Royal Pleasure there- upon expressed, the said Acts are thereby respectively confirmed, finally enacted, and ratified accordingly : I have therefore thought fit, with the Advice of his Majesty's Council of this Province, to issue this Procla- mation, hereby notifying his Majesty's Royal Approba- tion of the said Acts, to the End all his Majesty's Sub- jects whom it may concern may take Notice thereof and govern themselves accordingly.
GIVEN under my Hand and Scal at Arms, at Fort- George in the City of New-York, the first Day of December, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-three, in the fourteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of GOD, of Great-Britain, France. and Ireland, KING, Defender of the Faith, and so forth.
WM. TRYON.
By His Excellency's Command, )
Gw. BANYAR, D. Secry. ١ GOD SAVE THE KING
-- The New-York Gazette; and The Weekly Mer- cury, No. 1154, December 6, 1773.
November 30, 1773.
THE PUBLIC are hereby informed, that the Man- agers of the MAN OF WAR ISLAND LOTTERY, for the
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benefit of St. Thomas's Church, in Alexandria township, New-Jersey, having a number of tickets out at New- York and Philadelphia, that were not disposed of in time for drawing said lottery at the time first appointed in the scheme, and having some tickets still to dispose of, have thought proper to postpone the drawing of said lottery to Tuesday the first day of February next, when the public may depend on their beginning to draw on that day. The scheme of this lottery is reckoned an advantageous one for the adventurers as there are some valuable prizes- one of Three Hundred Dollars, and the lowest prize is Two Dollars; the tickets One Dollar each, and not near two blanks to a prize .- The Pennsylvania Packet; or, The General Advertiser, No. III, December 6, 1773.
TWENTY ACRES OF MARSH,
SITUATE near the Mouth of Pensocken Creek, on the Jersey Side of Delaware, and about five Miles from this City. TO BE SOLD. Enquire of
LAMBERT CADWALADER, in Philadelphia. December 8, 1773.
TRENTON FISHING-ISLAND LOTTERY, | SECOND CLASS.
THE great Encouragement given in the First Class of this Lottery, by the Public, enables the Managers to pro- pose beginning the Drawing the Second Class (as most of the Tickets are already disposed of) on the First Day of January next; in this Class is a Prize of 600 Dollars, one of 300, one of 150, &c. but little more than two Blanks to a Prize. Persons desirous of becoming Ad- venturers, by a Speedy Application may be supplied with Tickets, enquiring of Robert Pearson, Abraham Hunt, Isaac Allen, Alexander Chambers, Joseph Warrell, Wil- liam Tucker, Charles Harrison, and Daniel Clark, of Trenton.
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West Whiteland Township, Chester County, December 3, 1773. 1 SUPPOSED to be STOLEN, by a certain WILLIAM COLWEL, about the middle of October last, a bay MARE, about 1412 hands high, with a black mane and tail, one side of the mane standing up; she hath no natural marks, save two white feet, neither branded nor ear-marked, she paces, trots and gallops well, and is sup- posed to be ten years old next spring. The said Cokvel says he bought her from a certain Joseph Eastil, in Mon- mouth county in the Jerseys. Whoever owns the said mare is desired to come, prove his property, pay charges, and take her away, from PETER LATCHFORD.
N. B. On the 25th of October last, I bought the said mare from one Joseph Malin, and on that day gave him two notes, one for Six Pounds, payable one month and two weeks after date, to himself; the other for Four Pounds Ten Shillings, payable to him, or his order, the first of April next: Both which notes I hereby advise all people not to take an assignment of, as I do not intend to pay either of them, until I am further satisfied, whether the said mare be honestly come by or not.
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