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ARCH I VES 


STATE  OF  NEW  JERSEY. 


SECOND    SERIES. 
Vol.    III. 


This  volume  was  prepared  and  edited  by  authority  of 
the  State  of  New  Jersey,  at  the  request  of  the  New  Jersey 
Historical  Society,  and  under, the  direction  of  the  follow- 
ing Committee  of  the  Society : 

WILLIAM  NELSON, 

GAEEET  D.  W.  VEOOM, 
AUSTIN  SCOTT, 
FEANCIS  B.  LEE, 
EENEST  C.  RICHAEDSON. 


DOCUMENTS 


RELATING   TO    THE 


REVOLUTIONARY  HISTORY 


STATE  OF  NEW  JERSEY. 


VOLUME    III. 


EXTRACTS   FROM   AMERICAN   NEWSPAPERS   RELATING 
TO  NEW  JERSEY. 

VOL.     III.    1779. 


EDITED    BY 


WILLIAM    NELSON. 


TRENTON,  N.  J. 

The  John  L.  Murphy  Publishing  Company,  Printers. 
1906. 


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PEEFACE. 


As  might  be  expected,  the  contents  of  this  volume  relate 
principally  to  the  progress  of  the  war  of  the  Revolution. 
We  have  extracts  from  various  newspapers,  American  and 
Royalist,  giving  their  accounts1  of  current  events  of  the 
war,  naturally  biased  by  their  respective  view-points  and 
sympathies,  but  from  which  the  intelligent  reader  can  draw 
an  average  balance  as  to  the  facts. 

The  Jersey  brigade  was  winning  a  name  and  fame  for 
itself  in  General  John  Sullivan's  expedition  against  the 
Western  Indians. 

William  Alexander,  who  loved  to  call  himself  the  "Earl 
of  Stirling,"  was  fighting  in  the  American  armies,  with 
the  rank  of  Major-General,  while  his  property  was  adver- 
tised to  be  sold  to  pay  his  debts. 

We  have  several  vastly  differing  accounts  of  the  spirited 
attack  by  "Light  Horse  Harry"  Lee  and  his  gallant  legion 
of  troopers  upon  the  block-house  at  Powles  Hook,  in  the 
month  of  August,  1779.  From  the  official  reports,  which 
were  accepted  by  General  Washington,  with  commenda- 
tions in  general  orders,  it  is  shown  to  have  been  a  notable 
triumph  for*  the  American  arms.  From  the  British  ac- 
counts, on  the  contrary,  it  might  be  inferred  that  the  vic- 
tory all  lay  on  that  side. 

Very  little  attention  is  paid  in  the  histories  to  the  suc- 
cess of  the  Americans  at  sea,  but  these  newspaper  extracts 
show  that  a  great  many  British  vessels  were  captured  and 
brought  into  New  Jersey  ports  to  be  condemned  and  sold 
as  prizes  of  war.  Most  of  the  captures  were  made  by  Jer- 
seymen  along  the  coast. 


VI  PEEFACE. 

We  have  here,  also,  an  account  of  the  reckless  blunder- 
ing which  brought  on  the  massacre  called  the  battle  of 
Minisink,  July  22d,  1779. 

Colonel  John  G.  Simcoe,  with  his  Queen's  Light  Dra- 
goons, made  a  desperate  and  gallant  dash  on  New  Bruns- 
wick on  October  26th,  1779,  resulting  in  his  being 
wounded  and  captured  by  the  Americans,  and  with  the  loss 
of  a  large  party  of  his  dragoons,  the  expedition  being  very 
much  of  a  failure. 

The  military  announcements,  advertisements,  orders, 
&c.,  bring  home  to  us  the  fact  that  New  Jersey  was  essen- 
tially the  war  ground  of  the  Revolution. 

The  number  of  farms,  mills,  plantations  and  houses  ad- 
vertised for  sale  shows  the  stress  of  the  times.  Neverthe- 
less, Peter  Hulick,  staymaker,  from  New  York,  thinks  the 
conditions  sufficiently  propitious  to  appeal  to  the  ladies  of 
Trenton  for  their  patronage.  He  soon  meets  competition 
in  Richard  Norris,  staymaker,  from  London,  who  enters 
into  minute  anatomical  details  regarding  his  product. 
Rival  and  enterprising  shopkeepers  at  Trenton,  Elizabeth- 
town,  Chatham  and  Morristown  (Newark  merchants  do  not 
enter  into  the  competition,  perhaps  having  a  prudent  fear  of 
attracting  the  enemy)  advertise  abundant  and  varied  stocks 
of  goods  calculated  to  attract  the  fair  sex,  including  pistol 
lawns,  pelongs,  green  and  black  ducape,  callimancoes  of 
all  colors,  shalloons,  moreens,  broadcloths  of  all  shades, 
blue  and  brown  naps,  plain  and  spotted  swanskin,  duffel 
baiges,  red  and  white  plains,  camblets,  marquisates,  bar- 
celona  handkerchiefs,  black,  blue  and  green  drawboys, 
sarcinett  ribbands,  Persians,  Drumcondriff  linen,  faggot, 
and  other  fabrics  of  long-forgotten  nomenclature. 

A  curious  inconsistency  of  the  times  is  shown  by  the 
patriots  struggling  for  freedom,  who,  at  the  same  time, 
advertised  negro  men,  women  and  children  for  sale  into 
perpetual  slavery. 

An  aftermath  of  General  Charles  Lee's  unfortunate  con- 
duct at  the  Battle  of  Monmouth  is  a  duel  between  him  and 


PREFACE.  Vll 

young  Colonel  John  Laurens,  occasioned  by  Lee's  ill-tem- 
pered allusions  to  General  Washington. 

A  very  important  topic  connected  with  the  prosecution 
of  the  war  is  the  depreciation  of  the  currency,  which  is  dis- 
cussed at  great  length  by  "Gains"  (Governor  Livingston), 
who  says  the  colonies  had  issued  millions  of  paper  money 
before  the  Revolution,  but  by  1775  had  paid  it  nearly  all 
off,  so  that  they  were  all  the  more  ready  to  enter  upon  the 
contest  of  1775-83.  The  enormous  resources  of  the  col- 
onies were  thus  displayed.  "A  True  Patriot"  shows  how 
the  evils  of  paper  money  might  be  remedied.  "Hard 
Money"  takes  up  the  cudgels  in  his  own  behalf,  and  a 
"Jersey  Farmer"  descants  on  the  follies  of  paper  money 
and  the  ill  consequences  of  its  depreciation,  while  "Con- 
tinental Currency"  defends  himself  from  numerous  at- 
tacks. Few  of  these  correspondents  can  present  their  ideas 
in  less  than  two  or  three  columns.  Some  of  the  commu- 
nications, although  of  unconscionable  length,  often  contain 
excellent  ideas  and  sound  reasoning.  The  writers  take 
themselves  very  seriously,  treating  their  themes  most  pon- 
derously. There  is  an  utter  absence  of  that  insouciance 
and  lightness  with  which  modern  writers  discuss  grave 
questions,  and  humor  is  almost  never  indulged  in,  although 
one  writer  does  poke  fun  at  another  for  considering 
"whether  plants  or  animals  will  prosper  in  one  country  if 
transplanted  to  another." 

Meetings  were  held  throughout  the  State  to  regulate  the 
prices  of  labor,  produce  and  manufactures,  and  it  was  gen- 
erally agreed  that  prices  in  the  summer  of  1779  should 
not  be  more  than  fifteen  times  as  great  as  they  had  been  in 
1774.  Thus,  the  price  of  hay  was  fixed  at  £50  per  ton; 
flour,  £15  to  £19  per  hundred;  tea,  £4  15s. ;  butter,  15s. 
per  pound;  bar  iron,  at  the  works,  £450  per  ton;  horse- 
shoes, £1  15s.  per  pair,  &c, 

The  spirited  correspondence  between  Governor  Living- 
ston and  Sir  Henry  Clinton,  regarding  the  alleged  offer  by 
Clinton  of  a  reward  for  the  capture,  dead  or  alive,  of  the 


Vlll  PREFACE. 

doughty  Governor,  is  here  printed  in  full,  together  with 
the  angry  comments  of  other  correspondents. 

We  have,  also,  accounts  of  various  raids  by  British  and 
Tories  on  different  parts  of  the  State,  as  on  Elizabeth,  in 
February,  1779 ;  the  disgraceful  affair  at  Little  Egg  Har- 
bour in  October,  1778 ;  the  raids  by  Lieutenant  Colonel 
Abraham  Van  Buskirk  and  his  Fourth  Battalion  of  New 
Jersey  Volunteers  on  Bergen  county,  in  April,  1779 ;  a 
considerable  party  of  British,  about  eight  hundred  strong, 
on  the  vicinity  of  Ked  Bank  and  Shrewsbury,  in  April, 
1779,  and  another  attack,  on  May  10th,  1779,  on  Closter, 
Bergen  county.  On  June  9th  a  party  of  refugees  from 
Sandy  Hook  penetrated  as  far  as  T'inton  Falls  and 
Shrewsbury.  Another  party  from  Staten  Island  made  a 
raid  on  Rahway  and  Woodbridge  in  July,  and  in  the  same 
month  Closter,  Bergen  county,  was  again  visited  by  the 
enemy,  who  drove  off  cattle  and  horses. 

Most  of  these  raids  were  made  by  the  Loyalists,  or  "New 
Jersey  Volunteers,"  as  they  were  called,  who  had  enlisted 
in  the  British  sendee.  Many  of  them  were  by  private 
parties  of  refugees.  They  were  usually  noted  for  the  great 
ferocity  of  the  attacking  party  and  the  equal  ferocity  with 
which  they  were  followed  up  by  the  patriots.  We  gather 
from  these  accounts,  as  from  no  other  source,  some  idea  of 
the  intense  bitterness  between  the  men  who  adhered  to  the 
American  cause  and  their  neighbors  who  took  the  side  of 
the  King.  We  have  here,  too,  another  evidence,  and  per- 
haps one  of  the  causes,  of  this  intense  feeling  in  the  numer- 
ous advertisements  of  the  proceedings  taken  against  the 
Loyalists  to  confiscate  their  property  and  the  announce- 
ments of  the  sales  thereof  in  all  parts  of  the  State.  In  this 
and  the  volume  to  succeed  it  will  be  found  the  names  of 
something  like  twelve  hundred  Loyalists,  who  were  thus 
adjudged  by  the  courts  to  be  giving  aid  and  comfort  to  the 
enemy,  and  of  treasonable  practices,  and  whose  property 
was  declared  forfeited  to  the  State.  Two  of  the  refugees 
captured  in  Bergen  county  were  tried  for  felony,  and, 


PREFACE.  IX 

being  convicted,  were  promptly  hanged.  They  had  been 
ravaging  the  county — robbing,  housebreaking,  pocket-pick- 
ing and  horse  stealing. 

Lieutenant  Colonel  Joseph  Barton,  of  Sussex  county, 
offers  twenty  dollars  bounty  to  " Gentlemen  Volunteers" 
enlisting  in  his  "Loyal  Battalion  of  New  Jersey  Volun- 
teers/' for  "two  years  or  during  this  wanton  Rebellion." 
Fifteen  years  later  he  was  living  unmolested  in  Sussex, 
and  drawing  half-pay  from  the  British  government, 

A  remarkable  record  was  that  presented  by  the  surgeons 
in  charge  of  the  military  hospital  at  New  Brunswick.  Out 
of  upwards  of  fifteen  hundred  sick,  only  twenty-two  died 
between  November,  1778,  and  June,  1779. 

Notwithstanding  the  movements  of  the  armies  and  of 
various  hostile  expeditions  through  New  Jersey,  the  arts 
cf  peace  and  learning  were  not  utterly  forgotten.  We  have 
a  long  official  notice  of  the  vicissitudes  of  Princeton  Col- 
lege and  Grammar  School  from  January,  1777,  when  the 
Battle  of  Princeton  was  fought,  to  April,  1779.  Later  in 
the  year  we  have  a  detailed  account  of  the  commencement 
exercises  at  Princeton. 

The  trustees  of  Queen's  College  announce  that  it  is 
fairly  established  on  the  banks  of  the  Raritan,  sufficiently 
remote  from  the  headquarters  of  both  armies  to  be  reason- 
ably safe  from  war's  alarums.  By  act  of  the  Legislature 
the  faculty  and  pupils  were  exempted  from  military  ser- 
vice. 

Advertisements  for  school  teachers  are  not  infrequent. 
The  emphasis  laid  upon  sobriety  as  a  qualification  indi- 
cates that  it  was  too  often  lacking  in  the.  wielders  of  the 
rod. 

A  perennial  subject  of  interest  was  the  clearing  out  of 
obstructions  in  the  Passaic  river,  above  Little  Falls,  in 
order  to  drain  the  Great  Meadows. 

The  production  of  salt  as  a  home  industry  was  stimu- 
lated by  the  war,  not  always  with  success.  Salt-works  on 
the  Jersey  coast  are  advertised  for  sale,  with  interesting 
particulars  of  their  extent  and  apparatus. 


X  PEEFACE. 

The  printer  of  the  New  Jersey  Gazette  frequently  takes 
his  readers  into  his  confidence  and  relates  his  struggles  to 
maintain  his  paper  and  to  justify  his  increase  of  the  price 
thereof. 

The  anniversary  of  the  alliance  between  the  United 
States  and  France  is  celebrated  at  Pluckemin,  February 
18th,  1779,  Washington  and  Lady  Washington  and  other 
notables  being  present  on  the  occasion. 

Was  it  the  hardships  of  war,  or  the  depreciation  of  the 
currency,  making  the  troubles  of  the  housekeeper  so  much 
greater,  that  induced  so  many  wives  to  leave  their  hus- 
bands ?  John  Scott  advertises  his  spouse,  and  after  giving 
the  usual  form  of  notice  about  not  paying  her  debts,  he 
drops  into  pathetic  poetry  on  "The  Injured  Husband." 
The  wife  retorts  a  few  weeks  later  by  giving  notice  that 
she  will  not  pay  any  more  debts  of  his  contracting,  and  she 
sarcastically  adds :  "His  forbidding  people  to  trust  me  on 
his  account  is  quite  needless,  for  they  never  would,  except 
a  trifle."  Levi  Gardner  advertises  his  wife,  but  she  in 
turn  offers  "thirty  dollars  to  anyone  that  will  take  up  said 
Gardner  and  secure  him  in  any  gaol,  so  that  his  wife  may 
have  restitution  made  her,"  and  also  agrees  that  all  reason- 
able charges  wrill  be  paid.  Stimulated  by  the  bereaved 
Scott's  example,  William  Willis,  of  Westfield,  finds  vent 
for  his  feelings  in  some  more  or  less  touching  verses. 

When  John  Hart  died,  at  Hopewell,  a  local  writer  speaks 
of  him  as  "one  of  the  representatives  in  the  General  As- 
sembly for  the  county  of  Hunterdon  county,  and  late 
Speaker  of  the  House,"  Not  a  word  about  his  having 
signed  the  Declaration  of  Independence — the  one  act  on 
which  his  fame  rests  to-day.  The  epoch-making  impor- 
tance of  that  event  was  not  realized  in  1779. 

The  exchange  of  prisoners  was  the  subject  of  much  fric- 
tion between  the  armies,  of  anxiety  on  the  part  of  the  pris- 
oners and  their  friends.  The  discussions  on  this  matter 
remind  us  of  the  similar  experiences  eighty-four  years 
later. 


PREFACE.  XI 

Doings  at  Washington's  headquarters  at  Middlebrook 
are  frequently  mentioned.  The  ambassador  from  the  court 
of  France  was  received  there  with  joyful  acclaim  in  April, 
1779.  The  minister,  elders  and  deacons  of  the  Dutch 
church  at  Baritan  presented  a  handsome  address  to  Wash- 
ington, to  which  he  graciously  responded,  in  the  month  of 
June. 

FEBRUARY  10,  1908. 


NEWSPAPER  EXTRACTS. 


To  be  SOLD  by  PUBLIC  VENDUE. 

On  Monday  the  third  of  January  inst.  at  Col.  Westcott's 
at  the  Forks  of  Little  Egg-Harbour, 

The  Schooner  FOKTUNE,  with  her  tackle,  apparel  and 
furniture,  per  inventory.  Also  her  CARGO,  consisting 
of  about  three  hundred  barrels  of  flour,  a  quantity  of 
Indian  corn,  and  a  valuable  young  Negro  fellow. 

By  order  of  the  Court  of  Admiralty  of  New- Jersey,1 
JOSEPH  POTTS,  Marshal. 

TO  BE  SOLD. 

At  the  Forks  of  Little  Egg-harbour  Eiver,  in  Gloucester 
County,  State  of  New-Jersey, 

The  premises  whereon  the  subscriber  now  lives,  with  all 
the  buildings  and  improvements  thereon,  to  wit :  A  saw- 
mill and  grist-mill,  both  remarkable  for  going  fast  and 
supplied  writh  a  never-failing  stream  of  water,  the  mills 
within  one  mile  and  a  quarter  of  a  landing,  to  which 
vessels  of  seventy  or  eighty  tons  burthen  can  come,  skows 
carrying  seven  or  eight  thousand  feet  of  boards  go  loaded 
from  the  mill;  there  is  a  sufficient  quantity  of  pine  and 
cedar  timber  to  supply  the  saw-mill  for  a  great  number  of 
years,  and  also  a  great  quantity  of  cedar  timber  fit  for 
rails  near  the  river  side,  which  may  be  easily  exported  to 
those  parts  of  the  country  where  they  will  sell  to  great 
advantage ;  there  is  also  on  the  premises,  a  dwelling  house 
that  will  accommodate  a  large  family,  a  barn,  stables,  and 

1  For  an  account  of  the  establishment  of  the  Court  of  Admiralty  by  the 
State  government,  see  New  J.ersey  Archives,  2d  Series,  1  :  300.  They  were 
established  in  the  several  colonies,  by  royal  orders,  in  1761. — N.  <7. 
Archives,  1st  Series,  9 :  620-621.  The  judges  held  office  merely  during 
the  pleasure  of  the  king,  and  were  dependent  on  fees  for  their  compen- 
sation. See  ibid.,  323-326,  note. 


2  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

out-houses,  also  a  number  of  houses  for  workmen  and 
tradesmen,  a  smiths  shop,  wet  ajid  dry  goods  stores  and 
indeed  every  building  necessary  and  convenient  for  carry- 
ing on  business  and  trade  extensively,  for  which  the  situa- 
tion of  the  place  is  exceedingly  well  calculated  both  by 
nature  and  improvement.  Any  person  inclining  to  pur- 
chase, may  be  more  particularly  informed  by  applying  to 
the  subscriber  on  the  premises. 

ELIJAH  CLAEK.1 
— The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  January  2,  1779. 

TREXTOX,  JANUARY  6 

By  intelligence  from  Xew  York  we  learn,  that  20  sail 
of  British  vessels,  bound  to  the  West  Indies,  fell  down 
to  the  Hook,  and  put  to  sea  about  the  time  the  late  heavy 
snow  storm  came  on,  during  which  14  of  them  were  either 
drove  on  shore  or  foundered  at  sea. 

f  §  f  The  piece  signed  Tlie  impartial  American,  will 
be  in  our  next. 

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in  times  of  publick  commotion  like  the  present,  have  in- 
duced the  Publisher  of  the  NEW  JERSEY  GAZETTE,  upon 
consideration,  to  alter  the  plan  upon  which  he  proposed 
to  proceed  the  ensuing  year  when  the  advertisement  in 
number  51  and  52  was  given  to  the  publick2.  To  avoid  the 

1  Elijah  Clark  was  a  member  of  the  Provincial  Congress  of  New  Jersey, 
held   in   May,   June  and   August,   1775,   being  one  of  the   Representatives 
from  the  county  of  Gloucester.     He  was  also  a  member  of  the  convention 
sitting  in  Burlington,  Trenton  and  New  Brunswick,  June  to  August,  1776. 
Previous   to   November   6,    1777,    he  was   Lieutenant-Colonel   of   the   Glou- 
cester militia,  resigning  his  military  position  to  become  a  member  of  the 
Assembly.      He    married    Jane    Lardner,    a    member    of    the    Philadelphia 
family  of  that  name,   and  died  December   9,    1795.      Elijah   Clark   was  a 
son  of  Thomas  Clark,  a  settler  at  Clark's  Landing,  where  the  family  were 
among  the  most  conspicuous  of  the  plantation  owners  of  South  Jersey. 

F.  B.  L. 

2  See  New  Jersey  Archives,  2d  Series.  2  :  553,  589. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  3 

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Publick  as  being  more  advantageous  in  every  respect  than 
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The  Publisher  returns  his  acknowledgments  to  the  Pub- 
lick  for  their  great  encouragement  hitherto  given,  in  this 
arduous  undertaking;  and  he  flatters  himself  that,  with 
their  further  assistance,  the  Plan  which  he  now  wishes  to 
prosecute  can  be  readily  carried  into  execution,  which,  as 
it  will  take  less  time,  will  enable  him  to  bestow  more 
pains  in  collecting  the  most  interesting  and  entertaining 
Matter  for  the  benefit  and  amusement  of  his  Readers. 

ISAAC    COLLINS. 

GENTLEMEN  who  are  desirous  of  compleating  the  first 
Volume  of  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  may  be  supplied  at 
the  Printing  Office,  in  Trenton,  with  most  of  the  numbers 
at  one  Shilling  and  Three-pence  each.1 

Timothy  Brush,  Junior. 

Has  for  SALE  at  his  STORE  near  the  Baptist  Meeting- 
house in  Hopewell,  the  following  articles, 

GOOD  bohea  tea,  sugar,  alspice,  nutmegs,  pepper,  ginger, 
indigo,  copperas,  rosin,  brimstone,  redwood,  allum,  chalk, 
paper,  ink-powder,  ivory  combs,  crooked  and  coarse  ditto, 
pins  and  needles,  scissors,  snuffers,  razors,  Dutch  and 
English  almanacks,  primers,  hob  nails,  6d  ditto,  iron 
pots,  Philadelphia  earthen  ware,  leaf  tobacco,  plug,  pigtail 
and  paper  ditto,  snuff  by  the  ounce,  bottle,  pound,  dozen 
or  hundred  weight,  and  several  other  articles. 

~N.  B.  He  intends  to  keep  a  constant  supply  of  the 
above  mentioned  articles,  as  reasonable  as  the  times  will 
admit,  for  cash  or  country  produce. 

Twenty  Dollars  Reward. 

RAN  AWAY  on  the  25th  of  December  last,  from  the  sub- 
scriber in  Bordentown,  a  Dutch  servant  LAP,  named  Henry 

1  These  were  war  prices. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  5 

Heinhaugen:  Had  on  a  scarlet  coat  and  crimson  waist- 
coat, leather  breeches,  yarn  stockings,  and  very  indifferent 
pair  of  shoes.  Whoever  secures  him  in  any  gaol  of  this 
State,  shall  receive  the  above  reward,  and  reasonable 
charges  if  brought  home. 

.    wm  GAMBLE 
Bordentown,  Jan.  5,  1779. 


TO  BE  SOLD,  By 

G.   DUYCKINCK, 

at  Morristown,  New  Jersey,  DRUGS  and  MEDICINES,  a 
compleat  assortment,  viz. 

RHUBARB  Oils 

Jesuit  bark  Powders 

Jalap  Roots 

Opium  Refines 

Aloes  Tartars 

Borax  Ointments 

Salts  Pills 

Manna  Carraway  and  Anniseed 

Antimonial  preparations  Pink  root 

Mercurial  ditto  Mercurial  or  itch  ointment. 

Quicksilver 

Tartar  emetic  PATENT  MEDICINES 

Aquas  Anderson's  pills 

Camphor  Bateman's  drops 

Spanish  flies  Liquid  shell 

Calomel  Balsam  of  health 

Cochineal  Daffy's  elixir 

Saffron  Francis'  female  elixir 

Castor  Essence  of  Burgamont 

Senna  Ambergrease 

Ising  glass  Lavender 

Sago  Lemons 

Magnesia  alba  Verlerin 

Balsams  Waterdock 

Causticks  Elixir  Bordana 

Conserves  Godfrey's  Cordial 

Essences  Hooper's  pills 

Extracts  James's  fever  powder 

Electuaries  Jesuits  drops 

Elixirs  King's  honey  water 

Tinctures  Locker's  pills 

Spirits  Keyfer's  pills 

Emplastrums  Fryer's  balsam 

Gums  Tincture  of  Golden  Rod 


6  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

$  Painters,  Limners  and  Dyers  Colours. 

White  lead  Umber 

Red  lead  White  vitriol 

Yellow  oker  Lintseed  oil  and  varnish 

Spanish  brown  Madder  and  fustic 

Indian  red  and  litharge  Annetto 

Dutch  pink  Logwood 

Vermilion  and  Drop  lake  Nutgalls  of  Aleppo 

Prussian  blue  Tartar 

Smelter  and  Verdegrease  Press  papers  and  allums 

t  Window  glass  of  different  sizes,  viz.,  Best  London  and  Bristol  crown, 
13  by  11,  14  by  12,  15  by  11,  15  by  13,  16  by  10,  20  by  14,  18  by  13, 
15  by  18,  21  by  18,  21%  by  18%,  25%  by  19%,  20  by  16,  and  17  by  13. 

Flint  glass  ware,  viz.,  Decanters  sorted,  gallons,  half-gallons,  quarts, 
pints  and  half-pints,  wine,  cyder  and  beer  glasses,  case  bottles,  doctors 
specia  bottles,  &c.  &c.  China  dishes  sorted  of  different  patterns  and 
sizes ;  japanned  wares,  servers,  waiters,  trays  and  bread-baskets ;  ma- 
hogany wares,  servers,  waiters,  trays,  tea-boxes,  and  cruet  stands  ;  a  few 
large  looking  glasses  ;  a  variety  of  pictures,  maps  and  paper  hangings  ; 
watch  trinkets,  chains,  seals,  &c.,  gilt,  silvered  and  common  ;  jewellers 
brilliants,  stones,  ear  ring  drops  and  tops,  button,  buckle  and  ring  stones, 
garnets,  cyphers,  &c.  &c. 

$  Hat  linings  ;  variety  of  brass  double  and  single  branches  ;  painted 
table  cloths,  hair  or  matt  cloths. 

Agroll,  Turkey  oil  stones,  grain  tin,  bismuth,  spelter,  pummice  stone, 
sandives,  crocus  martis,  aqua  fortis,  aqua  regis,  allum ;  steel  snuffers, 
snuff-boxes,  pewter  ink  chest,  steel  pencil  cases,  thimbles,  brass  flour  and 
pepper  boxes ;  burning,  reading  and  sighted  glasses ;  barbers  pinching 
tongs,  shaving  powder ;  brass  mortars  and  pestels ;  variety  of  sleeve 
buttons  ;  gold  scales,  &c.  &c.  Teeth  instruments,  crooked  scissors,  probes, 
forceps,  lancets  and  lancet  cases,  glister  pipes,  spring  lancets,  steel  trusses 
single  and  double  with  foxed  pad  and  bandages. 

X.  B.  Those  marked  thus  :j:  are  only  sold  by  way  of  barter,  for  any  kind 
of  produce  for  family  use.1 

Sixty  Dollars  Reward. 

ON  the  night  of  the  30th  of  December  last,  the  house 
of  the  subscriber,  living  at  Trenton  ferry,  was  broke  open 
and  robbed  of  ten  pounds  in  hard  cash,  viz.  two  guineas, 
twenty  shillings  in  coppers,  and  the  remainder  in  small 
silver,  and  a  sum  of  continental  money  unknown ;  a  new 
beaver  hat,  men  and  women's  wearing  apparel,  a  quantity 
of  bedding  and  many  other  valuable  articles.  Whoever 
apprehends  the  thief,  with  the  money  and  other  articles, 

1  Also  in  The  New  York  Journal  and  the  General  Advertiser,  Number 
1811,  February  8,  1779. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  7 

shall  have  the  above  reward,  and  all  reasonable  charges 
paid  by  me. 

James   Harkness. 
January  5,  1779. 

All  persons  who  have  any  certificates  for  transporting 
baggage,  forage  or  wood  belonging  to  the  militia,  for  the 
state  of  New  Jersey,  since  the  2d  of  March,  1778,  and 
under  the  command  of  Major  General  Dickinson,1  or  any 
other  commanding  officer  belonging  to  the  militia,  they  are 
hereby  desired  to  bring  them  to  the  subscriber,  properly 
authenticated  by  the  commanding  officer  whom  they  were 
under  for  payment ;  as  it  is  the  Quarter  Master  General's 
orders  that  the  subscriber  should  pay  them  off. — There- 
fore the  subscriber  will  attend  at  Mr.  Jonathan  Rich- 
mond's, in  Trenton,  the  llth,  12th,  and  13th  of  January; 
the  15th  and  16th  at  Mr.  John  Dunham's  in  Piscataway; 
the  19th,  20th  and  21st  at  Morristown;  the  26th  and  27th 
at  Batsto ;  the  4th,  5th  and  6th  of  February  next  at  Free- 
hold Courthouse. 

Hugh  Eunyan,2  D.  Q.  M.  G. 

Bristol,  January  1,  1779. 

1  For  sketches  of  General  Dickinson,  see  New  Jersey  Archives,  2d  Series, 
1  :  35,  70. 

2  Hugh  Runyan  was  doubtless  a  son  or  a  grandson  of  either  John  Rtinynn 
or  Thomas  Runyan,  who  were  among  the  grantees  named  in  a  deed  from 
the  West  Jersey  Society,  March  18,  1698-99,  to  the  people  of  Maidenhead, 
for  a  tract  of  one  hundred  acres  at  the  falls  of  the  Delaware,  to  be  used  for 
a  meeting-house,  burying  ground  and  schoolhouse. — N.  J.  Archives,, XXI., 
517-518.     Hugh  Runyan   lived  at  Lamberton.   now  a  part   of  the  city   of 
Trenton.     He  was  one  of  the  subscribers,  in  1769,  toward  the  support  of  the 
Presbyterian  church  in  Trenton.    "He  built  one  of  the  few  good  houses  now 
(1859)  standing  in  Lamberton,  lately  of  the  estate  of  John  E.  Smith,  prob- 
ably included  in  fifty  acres  in  Nottingham  township,  which  Runyan  con- 
veyed to  Elijah  Bond  in  1777.     I  have  seen  a  deed  of  1799,  in  which  he 
conveyed  land  to  his  son,  Daniel  C.  Runyan.  of  Nottingham." — Hist.  Pres. 
Church    in    Trenton,    by    John    Hall,    D.D.,    New    York.    1859,    230,    258. 
Daniel  Coxe,  of  Trenton,   the  last  of  the  line,  having  joined  the  British 
at  the  beginning  of  the  Revolution,  his  property  was  confiscated,  and  on 
May  4,  1779,  John  Butler  and  Joseph  Borden,  Jr.,  the  Commissioners  of 
Forfeited  Estates  for  Burlington  county,  sold  to  Hugh  Hunyan  a  planta- 
tion  called  the  Ferry   tract  and  Dugless   tract,   containing  496  acres,   by 
John   Watson's  survey.      Three  days   later  Hugh   Runyan,   of  Nottingham 


8  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

WHEREAS  many  of  the  horses  belonging  to  the  United 
States,  in  forwarding  on  from  camp  to  the  Westward,  have 
by  weakness  and  other  unavoidable  accidents,  been  left  be- 
hind and  strayed  away.  It  is  therefore  earnestly  requested 
of  all  those  who  may  have  taken  any  of  them  up,  that  they 
do  forthwith  deliver  them  to  me  or  my  deputies  at  Sussex, 
in  the  state  of  New  Jersey;  Northampton  and  Bucks 
county,  in  the  state  of  Pennsylvania. — all  persons  conceal- 
ing them  after  this  notice,  may  depend  on  being  prosecuted. 
Information  where  any  of  them  may  be  concealed,  will  be 
thankfully  received  and  rewarded  by 

Eobert  L.  Hooper,  Jun.  D.  Q.  M.  G. 

Easton,  December  23,  1778. 


To  be  sold  for  current  Money, 

THE  plantation  William  Walker  lives  on  in  Maiden- 
head, also  about  200  acres  of  woodland  adjoining  John 

township,  Burlington  county,  and  Sarah,  his  wife,  conveyed  to  George 
Campbell,  Esq.,  of  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  188%  acres  of  the  said  tract, 
beginning  at  the  River  Delaware,  at  the  old  reputed  John  Dugless'  corner, 
etc.,  in  Nottingham  township,  reserving  the  privilege  of  having  two  rods 
wide  all  along  the  river  shore  to  pass  to  and  repass  from,  for  loading  and 
unloading  the  ferry  boats  belonging  to  Hugh  Runyan.  The  consideration 
was  £12,767  10  s.,  quite  a  startling  price,  until  it  is  borne  in  mind  that 
it  was  in  the  inflated  currency  of  the  day. — Liber  A  K  of  Deeds,  in  the 
Secretary  of  State's  office  at  Trenton,  p.  577.  He  probably  carried  on  a 
general  merchandising  business,  including  the  sale  of  drugs  and  the  man- 
agement of  the  ferry  at  Trenton  Landing,  in  Lamberton. — Striker's  "Tren- 
ton One  Hundred  Years  Ago."  He  was  appointed  a  justice  of  the  peace  for 
Hunterdon  county,  November  26,  1794,  and  again  October  30,  1799.  He 
died  in  Kingwood  township,  Hunterdon  county,  whither  he  had  removed, 
probably  before  1794.  His  will,  dated  June  23,  1821,  was  proved  July  22, 
1823.  In  this  instrument  he  names  his  wife,  Sarah,  and  children — John 
Runyan,  Henry  L.  Runyan,  Evan  Runyan.  Elizabeth  Marseilis.  Sarah  Ten 
Eycke,  and  Maria  Smith,  wife  of  Israel  Smith  ;  also  grandchildren — Hugh 
Runyan,  son  of  Mill  (?)  Runyan,  Sarah  Runyan,  daughter  of  John  Runyan, 
Hugh  Runyan  Marseilis,  and  Hugh  Capner ;  also  great-grandson — Hugh 
Betron,  son  of  Samuel  Betron  ;  also  legatee,  Friend  Charles  Ewing.  Exec- 
utors— Charles  Ewing,  attorney-at-law ;  son-in-law,  Peter  Ten  Eycke ; 
friend,  Thomas  Capner,  Sr.,  Esq.  Witnesses— Daniel  Snyder,  John  W.  Scott 
and  Philip  Case.  The  inventory  of  his  personal  estate,  dated  July  19,  1823, 
made  by  Benjamin  C.  Pursell  and  John  W.  Scott,  appraisers,  foots 
up  $428.891/2- — Hunterdon  Wills,  1822-1825. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  9 

Rosewell,  Job  Rosewell,  Timothy  Baker  and  Stephen 
Jones,  called  Little  Bear  Swamp,  heavily  timbered,  and 
most  of  it  the  same  rich  soil  with  the  Maidenhead  meadows. 
For  terms  apply  to  William  Cope  near  Bristol,  in  Penn- 
sylvania. 

January  1,  1779. 

To  Be  Sold, 

A  Valuable  plantation  or  tract  of  land,  situate  in  the 
township  of  Dover,  county  of  Monmouth,  and  state  of  New 
Jersey,  adjoining  Barnegat  Bay,  and  bounded  by  land  of 
James  Mott,  Esq,  and  the  Pennsylvania  salt  works,  con- 
taining three  hundred  acres;  about  seventy  acres  thereof 
excellent  salt  meadows,  ten  acres  of  good  fresh  meadow 
may  be  made  with  little  expence;  the  remainder  chiefly 
good  timber  land,  the  soil  very  good  for  corn  and  rye,  and 
with  a  small  expence  (by  bringing  on  the  sea-weed)  will 
be  very  good  for  raising  wheat — There  are  on  the  premises 
a  log  house,  also  a  cellar  dug  and  walled  twenty  feet  by 
twenty-six,  together  with  a  good  frame,  two  stones,  ready 
for  raising,  with  boards,  shingles  and  bricks  sufficient  for 
said  building.  The  situation  is  peculiarly  advantageous 
for  erecting  salt  works.  For  terms  apply  to  the  subscriber 
living  at  the  Blackhorse,  in  Burlington  county. 

Edward  Thomas. 

Dec.  21,  1778. 

Came  to  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber,  living  at  West- 
field,  the  latter  part  of  last  November,  a  BLACK  HORSE,  13 
hands  and  a  half  high,  about  five  years  old,  his  hind  feet 
white,  has  a  strip  in  his  forehead,  a  natural  trotter,  and 
shod  before.  The  owner  is  desired  to  come,  prove  property, 
pay  charges,  and  take  him  away. 

Ephraim  Scudder. 
Westfield,  near  Elizabeth-    ) 
Town,  Dec.  29,  1778.  j 


10  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

THE  Legislature  having  appointed  me  Commissary  of 
Prisoners  for  this  state,  of  New  Jersey,  I  do  hereby  request 
the  frien,ds  of  all  such  persons  who  have  had  the  misfortune 
to  fall  into  the  power  of  the  enemy,  to  furnish  me  with 
their  respective  names,  together  with  the  time  and  place 
of  their  capture,  that  I  may  be  enabled  to  negotiate  their 
exchange  as  soon  as  possible. 

Elisha  Boudinot,1 

Com.  Pris.  for  the  State  of  Xew  Jersey. 
Elizabeth  Town     1 
Jan.  1,  1779.         j 

A  few  TIERCES  of  the  best  WEST-INDIA  COTTOX, 
To  be  Sold  very  Cheap,  by 

JOHN  REYNOLDS, 
In  TRENTON. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

A  VERY  valuable  tract  of  LAND,  situate  on  the  Raritan 
River,  two  miles  from  the  town  of  Xew  Brunswick,  in  the 
state  of  Xew  Jersey,  commonly  known  by  the  name  of  the 
Island  Farm,  containing  about  two  hundred  acres.  There 
is  a  very  large  proportion  of  woodland  to  it,  which  renders 
it  particularly  valuable,  as  from  its  vicinity  to  the  river, 
the  conveyance  of  the  same  to  the  Xew  York  market  will 
be  attended  with  very  little  expence.  The  laud  is  in  gen- 
eral good,  and  seldom  fails  of  producing  good  crops;  its 
situation  is  remarkably  high  and  healthy,  commanding  a 
most  beautiful  and  extensive  prospect  from  the  place  where 
the  house  stood,  so  much  so,  that  the  city  of  Amboy  lies 
open  to  view.  There  is  a  large  quantity  of  fresh  and  salt 
meadows,  and  much  more  may  be  made;  a  fine  thriving 

1  For  a  notice  of  Elisha  Boudinot,  sec  New  Jersey  Archives.  2d  Series, 
2  :  525. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  11 

orchard,  and  sundry  other  improvements  and  advantages, 
which  are  unnecessary  to  enumerate,  as  the  character  of 
the  farm  is  so  well  known  and  established.  The  tract  -was 
divided  in  the  survey  into  three  separate  farms,  on  one 
of  which  are  a  house  and  barn,  and  some  improvements, 
and  will  be  sold  together  or  separate,  as  may  best  suit  the 
purchaser. 

The  dwelling  houses,  barn  and  outhouses  having  been  de- 
stroyed by  the  enemy,  and  the  Proprietors  being  obliged 
to  reside  at  a  distance  from  the  farm,  induce  them  to  dis- 
pose of  it.  Those  who  are  inclinable  to  view  the  premises 
are  requested  to  call  on  Mr.  John  Dennis,  in  New  Bruns- 
wick, and  for  the  terms  are  desired  to  apply  to  Thomas 
Lawrenoe,  or  John  Lawrence,  jun.  in  Philadelphia,  or  to 
Anthony  White,1  Esq.  now  residing  at  the  Union  Iron 
Works,  in  Sussex,  in  the  state  of  New  Jersey. 

1  Anthony  White,  said  to  have  been  a  son  of  Leonard  White,  of  the 
Bermudas,  is  believed  to  "have  come  to  New  York  about  1715.  There  (in 
the  Dutch  Church)  he  m.  Joanna  Staats  (b.  Jan.  31,  1694,  dau.  of  Dr. 
Samuel  Staats),  Jan.  ,26,  1717,  perhaps  her  second  husband.  They  had  a 
son,  Anthony,  bap.  in  the  N.  Y.  Dutch  Church,  Nov.  6,  1717.  The  father 
is  reported  to  have  died  soon  after,  on  a  voyage  to  the  Bermudas.  His 
wid.  m.  Admiral  Norton  Kelsall,  Sept.  29,  1726. 

Anthony  White,  2d,  gave  a  receipt,  July  29,  1737.  to  Frederick  Morris, 
for  the  (judgment?)  roll  in  the  case  of  Patrick  Campbell  vs.  James  Wal- 
lace.— Calendar  N.  Y.  Hist.  MSS.,  II.,  529.  He  was  admitted  as  a  freeman 
of  the  City  of  New  York  the  day  after  he  became  of  age,  or  on  Nov. 
7,  1738,  being  styled  "gentleman"  in  the  record. — ^T.  Y.  Hist.  8oc.  Uoll., 
1885,  p.  137.  It  was  probably  very  soon  after  this  date  that  he  married 
Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Gov.  Lewis  Morris,  of  New  Jersey,  and  became  identified 
with  and  a  resident  of  this  province,  for  on  June  19,  1741,  he  was  com- 
missioned by  his  father-in-law,  the  Governor,  as  Clerk  of  the  Peace  and 
Clerk  of  Monmouth  County. — East  Jersey  Deeds,  E  2,  p.  509.  Gov.  Morris 
appointed  him  Surrogate  of  the  Prerogative  Court,  Feb.  15,'  1744-5,  an 
office  to  which  he  was  reappointed  Oct.  13,  1746,  by  President  John  Hamil- 
ton, after  the  death  of  the  Governor.  On  removing  to  New  Jersey  he  took 
up  his  residence  at  New  Brunswick,  or  on  the  Raritan  river  opposite  that 
city.  His  house  was  afterwards  the  Pool  home,  and  in  late  years  was 
occupied  by  Mr.  George  Metlar.  It  is  said  to  have  been  built  about  1740 
by  Anthony  White. — Local  Tradition.  When  Samuel  Myers  Cohen,  a  New 
York  merchant,  was  about  to  sail  for  England,  in  view  of  the  great  perils 
of  such  a  voyage  he  made  his  will  Aug.  11,  1741,  and  Anthony  White  was 
one  of  the  witnesses. — N.  Y.  Hist.  Soc.  Coll.,  1894,  p.  406.  He  was  the 
mediary  through  whom  William  Chetwood,  of  Elizabethtown,  transmitted  a 
letter  written  April  7,  1747,  by  Edmund  Bainbridge,  of  Maidenhead,  to 


12  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

As  the  Proprietors  will  not  have  occasion  for  the  money, 
the  purchaser  may  have  any  time  for  the  payment  of  the 
same,  on  giving  security  and  paying  interest. 

Dec.  8,  1778. 

Nathaniel  Camp,  of  Newark,  in  relation  to  a  plan  on  foot  to  contest  the 
claims  of  the  East  Jersey  proprietors,  White  sending  the  letter  to  his 
brother-in-law,  Robert  Hunter  Morris. — N.  Y.  Col.  Docs.,  6  :  346.  He  was 
in  a  group  of  distinguished  citizens  at  Burlington,  May  15,  1750,  when 
Counsellor  John  Coxe  declared  that  it  was  no  use  for  him  to  practice  in 
the  Court  of  Chancery  before  Governor  Belcher. — N.  J.  Archives,  7  :  543. 
Anthony  White,  Esqr.,  of  Somerset  county,  and  Elizabeth  his  wife,  con- 
veyed to  Robert  Tilton,  of  Middletown,  Monmouth  county,  yeoman,  by 
deed  dated  May  8,  1751,  consideration  £930,  a  tract  of  309  acres  and  a 
fraction,  in  the  city  of  Shrewsbury,  Monmouth  county. — E.  J.  Deeds,  Lib. 
H  2,  p.  263.  The  lands  of  Dirck  Schuyler,  and  his  wife  Anne  Mary,  were 
advertised  to  be  sold  on  Oct.  28,  1754,  and  information  in  relation  thereto 
was  to  be  had  of  Anthony  White,  at  New  Brunswick,  among  others. — 
N.  J.  Archives,  19:  411.  The  dwelling-house,  storehouse,  stabling,  wharf 
and  lot  of  land  on  which  Dirck  Schuyler  lately  lived,  in  the  City  of  New 
Brunswick,  and  other  property,  were  advertised  to  be  sold  on  March  25, 
1755,  by  William  Walton,  of  New  York,  Anthony  White  of  New  Brunswick, 
and  others.— Ib.,  454.  White  also  about  the  same  time  advertised  the 
grist-mill  and  land  late  of  Mathew  Clarkson,  deceased,  and  Gerardus 
Depeyster,  on  the  Raritan  river,  opposite  to  Rariian  Landing,  and  within 
a  quarter  of  a  mile  of  his  own  residence. — Ib.,  453.  The  debtors  of 
William  Symonds,  late  of  New  Brunswick,  were  desired  by  public  advertise- 
ment, July  31,  1758,  to  pay  their  debts  to  Anthony 'White,  Esq.,  at  New 
Brunswick. — 76.,  20  :  256.  On  Jan.  11,  1759,  White  advertised  the  farm 
and  plantation  known  as  Lawrence's  Island,  on  the  Raritan  river,  about 
two  miles  from  Mew  Brunswick.  At  the  same  time  he  offered  for  sale 
"sundry  of  the  best  and  most  valuable  farms  and  plantations  on  the  West- 
New-Jersey  Society's  100,000  acre  tract  in  Hunterdon  county." — Ib.,  20  : 
316,  317.  Governor  Josiah  Hardy  commissioned  him,  Jan.  26,  1762,  Clerk 
of  Hunterdon  county,  and  on  March  22,  1762,  one  of  the  Surrogates  of  the 
Prerogative  Court  in  the  Eastern  Division  of  New  Jersey. — N.  J.  Archives, 
9  :  360.  He  was  one  of  the  managers  of  the  Bound  Brook  bridge  lottery, 
to  raise  £  400  for  the  erection  of  a  bridge  across  the  Raritan  river  at  that 
point,  the  scheme  being  advertised  in  The  New  York  Mercury,  May  10, 
1762. — N.  J.  Archives,  24  :  36.  On  the  death,  July  3,  1762,  of  Lewis 
Morris,  Jun.,  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Admiralty  of  New  Jersey,  Gov.  Hardy 
commissioned  Anthony  White  to  succeed  his  deceased  brother-in-law. — Ib., 
378.  On  Jan.  26,  1763,  he  was  appointed  one  of  the  Justices  of  the  Peace, 
in  the  counties  of  Morris  and  Somerset. — N.  J.  Archives,  17  :  342.  He 
presented  a  petition,  dated  July  19,  1764,  to  Lieutenant-Governor  Colden, 
of  New  York,  for  a  ferry  from  Staten  Island  to  Bergen  Point — probably 
desiring  the  franchise. — Calendar  N.  Y.  Hist.  MSS.,  II.,  748.  This  was 
probably  in  anticipation  of  the  transaction  next  recorded,  to  wit :  The 
commissioners  appointed  by  the  Legislature  to  partition  the  Bergen  com- 
mon lands  sold  a  tract  of  land  at  Bergen  Point,  at  public  auction  Sept. 
7,  1764,  to  Hendricus  Kuyper,  the  highest  bidder,  for  £  7300,  "proclama- 
tion or  lawful  money  of  New  Jersey,"  and  gave  him  a  deed,  Sept.  10,  1764. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  13 

ALL  Persons  indebted  to  the  estate  of  James  Jackson, 
jun.  of  Upper  Freehold,  in  the  county  of  Monmouth,  de- 
ceased, on  bond,  bill  or  book  debt,  are  requested  to  make 
immediate  payment.  All  those  that  have  any  demands 
against  said  estate,  are  once  more  earnestly  requested  to 
bring  their  accounts  properly  attested,  within  three  weeks 

— E.  J.  Deeds,  Lib.  A  3,  p.  413.  He  endorsed  on  it  a  declaration  that  he 
held  the  same  in  trust  for  Anthony  White,  of  the  city  of  New  Brunswick 
(2-18ths),  and  others,  who  had  furnished  the  money  for  the  purchase. 
Mr.  White  died  seized  of  three  lots  of  the  tract  on  the  Kill  van  Kol, 
and  three  lots  on  Newark  Bay,  and  they  were  partitioned  among  his  three 
surviving  children,  Aug.  27,  1798. — Winfleld's  Land  Titles  of  Hudson 
County,  135,  141,  144.  Gov.  Franklin  commissioned  him  one  of  the  Jus- 
tices of  the  Peace  of  Somerset  Bounty,  Sept.  21,  1767,  and  one  of  the  Jus- 
tices of  the  quorum  of  the  same  county,  April  21,  1768. — Lib  C  2  of  Com- 
missions, p.  322;  ^v.  J.  Archives,  17:  504.  He  was  commissioned  a  Judge 
of  the  Court  of  Oyer  and  Terminer  of  Somerset  county,  Aug.  26,  1768  ; 
Aug.  30,  1769  ;  May  14,  1770  ;  Oct.  30,  1770  ;  Aug.  28,  1771 ;  Oct.  1,  1774. 
— Lib.  A  B  of  Commissions,  passim.  Under  date  of  Dec.  8,  1778,  he  again 
advertised  tne  Lawrence  Island  Farm,  which  he  had  offered  for  sale  in 
1759,  as  already  mentioned.  He  was  now  living  at  the  Union  Iron  Works, 
in  Sussex  county. — 2  N.  J.  Archives,  3  :  10.  The  will  of  Anthony  White, 
of  Middlesex  county,  dated  Feb.  14,  1780,  was  proved  at  New  Brunswick, 
Nov.  12,  1787,  indicating  that  his  last  days  were  spent  in  the  city  which 
had  so  long  been  his  home.  He  devises  to  his  son,  Anthony  Walton  White, 
two-fifths  of  his  estate,  and  to  his  daughters,  Isabella,  Joanna  and 
Euphemia,  each  one-fifth.  He  does  not  refer  to  his  wife ;  she  had  doubt- 
less died  before  the  date  of  his  will.  All  four  of  the  children  were  made 
executors.  The  witnesses  to  the  instrument  were  Anne  ivearny,  Ravaud 
Kearny  (his  wife's  kin),  and  Edward  McShane. — Liber  No.  29  of  Wills,  in 
Secretary  of  State's  Office,  p.  360.  Anthony  White  and  Elizabeth  Morris, 
his  wife,  had  issue^: 

i.  Joanna,  b.  Nov.  14,  1744  ;  m.  about  1787,  Col.  John  Bayard  (his  3d 
wife)  ;  d.  June  26,  1834,  without  issue;  he  was  b.  Aug.  11,  1738; 
d.  Jan.  7,  1807,  at  New  Brunswick. — N.  Y.  Gen.  &  Biog.  Record, 
15:  63. 

ii.  Euphemia,  b.  Dec.  10,  1746;  m.,  about  1785,  William  Paterson  (his 
second  wife),  Governor  of  N.  J.,  1790-1793  ;  Justice  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  the  United  States,  1793-1806  ;  she  d.  Jan.  29,  1822,  in  the 
86th  ( ?)  year  of  her  age. — Penn.  Mag.  of  Hist.  &  Biog.,  3  :  431, 
434  ;  N.  Y.  Gen.  &  Biog.  Record,  23  :  91. 

iii.  Isabella;  mentioned  in  her  father's  will,  in  1780.  No  further  ac- 
count. She  probably  died  before  him. 

iv.  Anthony  Walton,  b.  July  7,  1750,  at  New  Brunswick;  he  took  his 
middle  name  after  his  godfather,  William  Walton,  a  distinguished 
merchant  of  New  York  ;  m.  1783,  Margaret  Ellis,  then  in  her  15th 
year.  For  a  full  and  interesting  sketch  of  Gen.  Anthony  Walton 
White,  see  N.  J.  Hist.  Soc.  proceedings,  2d  Series,  7 :  105-115 
(January,  1882),  reprinted  in  The  Magazine  of  History,  with  Notes 
and  Queries,  1  :  40-44  (January,  1905). 


14  NEW    JERSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

after  the  date  hereof,  in  order  to  receive  their  just  dues, 
and  enable  the  subscriber  to  make  up  his  accounts  with 
the  legatees. 

Edmund  Beakes,1  Admin. 
December  30,  1778. 


One  Hundred  Dollars  Reward. 

RAXAWAY  from  the  subscriber,  living  in  ]^"ew  Britain, 
Bucks  county,  the  20th  instant,  (Dec)  a  ]N"egro  Man  called 
TOM,  well  made,  about  6  feet  high — Had  on  when  he  went 
away,  lightish  surtout  coat,  a  brown  close  bodied  coat,  a 
fine  hat  half  worn,  a  pair  of  leather  breeches  with  boot- 
straps behind,  and  a  pair  of  boots  with  him;  he  also  took 
a  fiddle  with  him  and  plays  with  his  left  hand.  Said  negro 
was  bought  from  one  William  Brown  at  or  near  Ten  Mile 
Run,  in  Xew  Jersey,  where  he,  the  negro  says  he  is  well 
acquainted,  and  imagine  he  is  gone  that  way.  Whoever 
secures  said  negro,  so  that  his  master  may  have  him  again, 
shall  have  the  above  reward,  paid  by  me. 

TOBIAS     SHULL. 

December  22<1,  1778. 


30  DOLLARS  Reward. 

RAX  A  WAY  from  Benjamin  Vancleave's  Esq.  in  Maiden- 
head, the  26th  instant,  (Dec)  a  negro  WENCH  named 
Dinah,  28  or  30  years  of  age,  five  feet  six  or  seven  inches 
high,  black  and  very  lusty.  She  was  lately  bought  of 
Parson  Van  Arsdall2  at  Springfield,  and  lived  formerly 
at  Rocky-Hill,  and  hath  a  brother  living  with  Colonel 

1  For  some  notices  of  the  Beakes  family,  see  New  Jersey  Archives.  20  : 
557. 

-  For  a  sketch  of  the  Rev.  Jacob  Van  Arsdale,  see  New  Jersey  Archives, 
24  :  638. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  15 

Scudder,  in  Freehold,  and  its  likely  is  gone  there.  Any 
person  apprehending  said  wench  and  applying  to  Mr. 
Phillips,  innkeeper,  in  Maidenhead,  shall  be  entitled  to 
the  above  reward  and  reasonable  charges,  paid  by 

William  Crab. 

On  the  20th  of  November  last  a  certain  person  who 
called  himself  Daniel  Nucom,  and  said  he  was  -a  drover, 
and  lived  in  Pennsylvania,  sold  a  bull  to  the  subscriber 
as  his  property ;  and  about  two  weeks  after  Samuel  Rusk 
came  for  the  said  bull,  which  he  proved  to  be  his  own : 
This  is  therefore  to  warn  the  publick  of  the  impostor.  He 
is  a  short  well  set  fellow,  about  35  years  old,  and  speaks 
a  little  broad :  He  had  on  a  light  coloured  coat,  swanskin 
jacket,  leather  breeches,  half-leg  boots,  and  scalloped  hat; 
he  rode  a  sorrel  horse,  with  a  white  mane  and  tail,  and 
one  wall-eye.  Any  person  taking  up  said  Nucom,  and  se- 
curing him  so  that  he  may  be  brought  to  justice,  shall  have 
FORTY  DOLLARS  reward,  paid  by 

JOSHUA    STOUT. 

Hopewell,  Dec  20. 

TO  BE  SOLD  by 

FRANCIS  WITT, 

opposite  Captain  CLUNN'S  in  Trenton, 

LINENS,  checks,  cambricks,  muslin,  tea,  coffee,  pepper, 
alspice,  hard  soap,  indigo,  snuff,  shoes,  shoe  and  knee 
buckles,  ribbands,  coat  and  vest  buttons,  decanters,  pint 
tumblers,  China  dishes ;  also  a  bark  to  make  excellent  bit- 
ters or  cordials. 

WANTED  immediately  TWO  JOURNEYMEN  FULLERS,  who 
will  have  good  encouragement,  and  be  exempted  from  mili- 


16  JVEW    JEKSEY    I1V     THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

tary   duty,   by   applying   to   WILLIAM   DiSKNiSTON,1    near 
Morristown,  East  Jersey. 
Dec.  12,  1778. 

To  all  whom  it  may  concern : 

State  of  New  Jersey,  ss. 

NOTICE  is  hereby  given  that  a  Court  of  Admiralty  will 
be  held  at  the  house  of  Gilbert  Barton,  Innholder,  in  Allen- 
town,  in  the  county  of  Monmouth,  on  Tuesday  the  12th 
day  of  January  next,  at  10  of  the  clock  in  the  forenoon, 
then  and  there  to  try  the  truth  of  the  facts  alledged  in  the 
bills  of  Yelverton  Taylor,  (who  as  well,  &c.)  against  the 
schooner  or  vessel  called  the  Good  Intent,  lately  com- 
manded by  John  Rosely; — against  the  schooner  or  vessel 
called  the  Fame,  lately  commanded  by  Francisi  Coflin2— 
of  John  Leake,  (who  as  well,  &c.)  against  the.  schooner  or 
vessel  called  Fortune,  lately  commanded  by  Garret  Beek- 
man — of  Moses  Griffin,  (who  as  well,  &c.)  against  the 
schooner  or  vessel  called  the  Rambler,  lately  commanded 
by  Baync  Small  wood — of  Seth  Johnson,  (who  as  well, 
&c. )  against  the  sloop  or  vessel  called  the  Charming  Polly, 
lately  commanded  by  Ebenezer  Ward — of  David  Stevens, 
(who  as  well,  &c.)  against  the  schooner  or  vessel  called  the 
Friends,  lately  commanded  by  James  Conn — of  Nathaniel 
Fitz  Randolph,  (who  as  well,  &c.)  against  the  sloop  or 
vessel  called  the  Polly,  lately  commanded  by  Richard  Read- 
ing— of  John  Voorhees,3  (who  as  well,  &c.)  against  the 
sloop  or  vessel  called  the  Sally,  lately  commanded  by 
Thomas  Crowell,  jun.  with  their  respective  tackle,  apparel, 
furniture  and  cargoes :  To  the  >end  and  intent  that  the 
owner  or  owners  of  the  said  vessels  respectively,  or  any 

1  Mr.  Denniston  died  October  29,  1807,  aged  TJ.  years. 

2  In   the   same   advertisement   in   the   Pennsylvania   Packet,   January   7. 
1779,  this  name  is  given  as  "Coffin." 

3  In  this  advertisement  in  the  Pennsylvania  Packet,  this  name  is  given 
as  "John  Neilson." 


1770]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  17 

person  or  persons  concerned  therein,  may  appear  and  shew 
cause,  if  any  they  have,  why  the  said  vessels  and  their  re- 
spective tackle,  apparel,  furniture  and  cargoes  should  not 
be  condemned  according  to  the  prayer  of  the  said  bills, 
By  order  of  the  Judge,1 

JOSEPH  BLOOMFIELD/  Register 


TO  BE   SOLD, 

BY  THE  SUBSCRIBER. 

Two  very  good  brick  dwelling-houses  and  lots  of  ground, 
situated  in  the  town  of  Salem,  between  the  church  and 
court-house.  The  lots  contained  75  feet  front  and  about 
300  feet  depth.  The  dwelling-houses  were  both  put  in 
very  good  repair  lately.  On  the  premises  is  an  excellent 
garden  well  planted  with  fruit  and  fenced  in  with  cedar,, 
and  other  conveniences.  The  situation  is  as  good  as  any  in 
the  town,  and  will  either  suit  a  gentleman  of  fortune  or 
may  be  divided  into  two  convenient  lots  so  as  to  suit  a 
couple  of  families.  Also  about  eight  acres  of  excellent 
meadow  within  a  quarter  of  a  mile  of  the  town,  very 
capable  of  improvement,  will  be  sold  together  with  the 
above  premises.  The  reason  of  sale  is  that  the  subscriber 
is  going  soon  to  remove  his  family  to  Burlington.  For 
particulars  enquire  of 

John  Carey. 

Piles-grove,  Salem  County,  Dec.  2cl,  1778. 

1  This  advertisement  in  the  Pennsylvania  Packet  is  dated  "Allen  Town, 
Dec.  21,  1778." 

2  For  a  sketch  of  Joseph  Bloomfleld,  see  New  Jersey  Archives,  2d  "Series, 
1:  341. 

2 


18 


NEW    JEKSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION. 


[1779 


Ogden  and  Curtis, 


Have  for  SALE  at  their  STORE  near  the  Court  House  in 
Morristown, 


RUM    and    whisky 
Sugar 

Hyson  and  bohea  tea 
flndigo 
tBrimstone 
iSnuff 

fPlug   and    pigtail   tobacco 
tCastile   soap 
fBlacking  ball 
tGinger 

Pepper,  alspice,  &  rosin 
flmported  &   shore  salt 

Gun  Powder 
tChalk 
tCloths 

Buckram 

Linen  and  cambrick 

Pistol  lawn 
tBombazene 

Black  taffety 

Black   ell   Persian 

Velvet 

Shallon 

Threads   and   ribbands 
tSewing  silk 

Pins 


fNeedles 

Cap  wire 

tFine  ivory  &  horn   combs 
tSpectacles 

Scissors  and  razors 
tlnk  powder 
tWriting  paper 

Brass   ink   stands 

Sealing  wax 
fPaste   boards 
tPocket  books 

Bed  cords 

Leading  lines 

-rFarnily  and  pocket  almanacks 
tTestaments 
tSpelling  books 
tPrimers 

tBaxter  s  saints  rest 
tBlank  books  of  all  sizes 

Carpenter's  hammers 

Gimblets 

Tap  borers 

Brass  cocks 
t  Corks 

Pmiadel.   earthenware 
flron  potts  &  kettles,   &c. 


N.  B.  The  articles  thus  marked  t  they  have  by  tue  quantity. 


JOSEPH    MILXKR, 


Has  for  SALE  at  his  STORE  in  TRENTON,  Wholesale  or 
Retail,  the  folloAving  articles : 

MADERIA  wine,  French  brandy,  old  spirits,  West-India 
rum,  tea,  coffee,  sugar,  alspice,  sweet  oil  in  flasks,  snuff, 
tobacco,  rosin,  allum,  20d,  lOd  and  6d  nails,  shingles,  pine 
and  cedar  boards,  bar  iron:  a  large  quantity  of  linens, 
handkerchiefs,  of  different  kinds,  Russia  and  ravens  duck ; 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  19 

hand,  pannel,  and  crosscut  saw  files,  hair  combs,  small 
shot,  loaf  sugar,  earthenware,  imported  salt,  and  sundry 
other  articles. 


TO  BE  SOLD  Wholesale  and  Retail,  by  the  Printer  hereof, 

THE 

New  Jersey  ALMANACK, 
For  the  year  of  our  Lord  1779, 

CONTAINING, 

Besides  the  usual  astronomical  Observations,  A  Variety 
of  useful,  instructive,  and  entertaining  MATTERS,  in  Prose 
and  Verse. 

PETEE  HULICK, 
STAY-MAKER,  in  TRENTON,  from  New  York, 

BEGS  leave  to  acquaint  the  Ladies  of  this  town  and  the 
country  in  general,  that  he  makes  on  the  shortest  notice, 
stays  of  all  kinds,  turned,  plain,  pack  thread,  and  straw 
cut,  after  the  newest,  neatest  and  most  fashionable  man- 
ner, either  French  or  English ;  like  wise  growing  Misses 
to  give  and  preserve  a  shape  truly  perfect.  Those  Ladies 
who  please  to  favour  him  with  their  employment  shall  find 
him  ever  ready  to  serve  them  to  the  utmost  of  his  ability, 
witji  integrity,  gratitude  and  dispatch.  He  returns  his 
grateful  acknowledgments  to  those  Ladies  who  have  already 
favoured  him  with  their  custom,  and  assures  them  that 
it  shall  be  his  chief  study  to  merit  theirs  and  the  public's 
esteem. 

P.  S.  Ladies  may  be  served  at  the  greatest  distance,  by 
sending  their  length  before  and  the  width  of  the  top  and 
bottom  of  their  waist. 


20  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

To  be  sold  by  the  subscriber, 
In  the  Lane  opposite  the  College  in  PRINCETON, 

SNUFF  in  bladders  or  smaller  quantity,  needles  by  the 
thousand,  imported  salt  at  seven  pounds  a  bushel,  alman- 
acks for  the  year  1779,  by  the  gross  or  dozen,  as  low  as 
may  be  purchased  at  the  printers,  and  the  high  Dutch 
almanacks  by  the  dozen  or  single,  writing  paper,  sewing 
silks  of  various  colours,  and  sundry  other  articles. 

JOHN    DENTON. 

Princeton,  Dec.  17.  1778. 

Stephenson  and  Canfield, 

At  their  STOKE  opposite  Capt.  Peter  Dickenson's1  in 
Morris  Town,  have  for  sale  a  suitable  assortment  for  the 
season,  such  as 

COARSE  broad  cloths,  coatings,  scarlet  cloth  for  cloaks, 
shoes,  stockings,  beaver,  castor  and  wool  hats,  callicoes. 
Irish  linen,  check,  muslins,  lawns,  cambrick,  pelong,  buck- 
ram, camblets,  everlastings,  sagathy,  sewing  silk  of  all 
colours,  fine  thread,  pack  and  pound  pins,  needles,  playing 
cards,  pipes,  pen  knives,  knives  and  forks  of  the  best  kind, 
ink  powder,  gun  powder,  snuff,  tobacco,  basket  buttons, 
regimental  buttons,  silk  twist,  coloured  thread,  ribbands, 
ferreting,  tape,  ivory  and  horn  combs,  crooked  and  coarse 
ditto,  coffee,  al spice,  indigo,  scissors,  silver  shoe  and  knee 
buckles,  and  stock  ditto,  brass  shoe  ditto,  thimbles,  hatters 
bow  strings  of  the  best  kind,  some  mathematical  and  navi- 
gation books,  one  large  brass  kettle,  salt  of  a  good  quality, 
which  they  will  sell  as  reasonable  as  the  times  will  admit, 
for  cash  or  country  produce. 

1  For  a  sketch  of  Peter  Dickerson,  see  New  Jersey  Archives,  2d  Series, 
1  :  123. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  ,.  21 

To  be  SOLD  by  the  Subscriber, 

A  Small  FARM,  containing  between  40  and  50  acres, 
situate  half  way  between  Morristown  and  Chatham,  on  a 
very  public  road,  nearly  opposite  Mr.  Stephen  Rose's 
cyder  mill;  it  has  on  it  a  good  house  with  three  rooms 
cieled,  and  an  entry  on  the  lower  floor,  a  small  building 
adjoining  with  a  cellar  under  it,  and  one  under  the  house ; 
a  barn  and  new  bark  house,  a  pond  that  is  never  dry,  in 
the  same  lot;  a  spring  of  good  water  near  the  house,  an 
orchard  that  affords  70  or  80  barrels  of  cyder,  a  garden 
paled  in,  English  and  red  cherries,  peaches  and  plumbs; 
some  wood  land  and  meadow.  The  purchaser  by  paying 
one  half  the  money,  and  good  security  for  the  rest  shall 
have  an  indisputable  title  from 

JAMES    TOMPSON. 

Strayed  or  stolen  off  the  commons  at  Trenton,  sometime 
in  October  or  November,  a  sorrel  mare,  with  a  blaze  in 
her  face,  between  three  and  four  years  old,  scant  fourteen 
hands  high,  trots  and  paces,  long  mane  and  tail.  Whoever 
takes  said  mare  and  secures  her,  so  that  the  owner  may 
have  her  again,  shall  have  Ten  Dollars  reward,  and  reason- 
able charges  paid  by  the  subscriber  in  Trenton. 

JOS.    CLUNN.1 

A  VERY  handsome  CHARIOT  to  be  sold. — Enquire  of 
JOHN  LANE,  at  the  North  Branch  of  Raritan,  New  Jersey. 
The  price  Four  Hundred  Pounds. 

—The  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  II.,  No.  57,  Wednes- 
day, January  6,  1779. 

1  Joseph  Clunn  was  commissioned  Ensign,  Captain  Fisher's  Company, 
First  Regiment,  Hunterdon,  June  19,  1776  ;  Second  Lieutenant,  ditto,  May 
10,  1777  ;  Captain,  ditto. — Striker's  Officers  and  Men  of  New  Jersey  in  the 
Revolution,  Trenton,  1872,  385.  In  St.  Michael's  P.  E.  churchyard,  Tren- 
ton, are  the  graves  of  Joseph  Clunn,  senior,  who  d.  in  1798,  aged  59,  and 
of  John  H.  Clunn,  who  d.  1798,  aged  28.  In  the  Presbyterian  ground  is  the 
grave  of  Amey  Clunn,  who  d.  Dec.  12,  1834,  aged  76. — Hall's  Hist.  Pres. 
Ch.  in  Trenton,  249,  250. 


22  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

By  a  gentleman  arrived  last  Wednesday  from  New 
Jersey,  we  are  informed  Major  General  Lee  was  but 
slightly  wounded  in  a  duel  he  lately  fought  with  one  of 
Mr.  Washington's  Aids  de  Camp,  a  Mr.  Laurens,  said  to 
be  a  son  of  the  late  President  of  Congress,  and  that  there 
had  been  no  rencountre  between  that  General  and  Col. 
Hamilton,  as  was  last  week  asserted. — The  Royal  Gazette, 
No.  238,  January  9,  1779. 


TKENTOK,  December  9. 

The  Honorable  the  Legislature  on  the  15th  instant, 
passed  an  Act,  "to  raise  the  sum  of  £100,000  by  Taxation, 
for  discharging  the  debts,  and  defraying  the  necessary  ex- 
pences  of  the  State  of  N"ew  Jersey."  —  The  Neiv-York  Jour- 
nal, and  the  General  Advertiser.,  Numb.  1807,  January 
11,  1779. 

NEW-YOKK,  January  11. 


By  a  Gentleman  from  Xew-  Jersey,  we  are  informed, 
that  a  Duel  was  lately  fought  at  Philadelphia  between, 
Major  General  Lee,  and  Mr.  Laurens,  Son  of  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  Congress,  and  Aid  de  Camp  to  General  Wash- 
ington, in  which  General  Lee  was  wounded  in  the  Side  ; 
but  the  Wound  being  slight,  he  was  recovered,  and  was  at 
Elizabeth-Town  last  Friday,  on  his  Way  to  Head  Quarters 
at  Middle-Brook.1 


1  Some  time  after  the  Battle  of  Monmouth,  on  June  28,  1778.  General 
Charles  Lee,  having  been  placed  under  arrest  by  General  Washington  and 
ordered  to  be  court-martialed,  indulged  in  language  which  was  reported  to 
have  been  quite  as  intemperate  as  that  addressed  to  him  by  Washington 
himself  on  the  battlefield.  These  and  similar  remarks  were  repeated  from 
time  to  time,  until  at  last  Lieutenant  Colonel  John  Laurens,  one  of  Wash- 
ington's military  aides,  challenged  Lee.  The  challenge  was  accepted  and 
the  parties  fought  a  duel  in  the  latter  part  of  December,  1778,  a  short 
distance  from  Philadelphia.  At  the  first  fire  Lee  was  slightly  wounded, 
but  insisted  there  should  be  a  second  fire.  The  seconds — Colonel  Alexander 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  23 

The  Wife  of  Mr.  John  Byvanck,  of  this  City,  lately  died 
in  New  Jersey. — The  New-York  Gazette;  and  the  Weekly 
Mercury,  No.  1421,  January  11,  1779. 


TRENTON,  JANUARY  13. 

Sunday  last  Brigadier  General  Thompson,  Colonels 
Magaw  and  Reynolds,  having  been  sometime  past  out  of 
New  York  on  parole,  passed  through  this  town  on  their 
return  to  captivity,  in  conformity  to  Requisition  of  our 
Commissary  General  of  Prisoners. 

Last  week  five  Hessians  deserters  arrived  here  from  Fort 
Washington. 

A  correspondent  at  Pitts-Town,  who  conversed  with 
many  of  the  principal  officers  of  the  Convention  troops  1 
as  they  passed  through  that  place  on  their  way  to  Virginia, 
informs  us,  that  they  appeared  to  be  much  cast  down,  and 

Hamilton  and  Major  Edwards — opposed  this,  and  the  matter  was  dropped. 
There  was  isome  conversation  between  the  principals,  in  the  course  of  which 
"General  Lee  acknowledged  that  he  had  given  his  opinion  against  General 
Washington's  military  character  to  his  particular  friends,  and  might  per- 
haps do  it  again.  He  said  every  man  had  a  right  to  give  his  sentiments 
freely  of  military  characters,  and  that  he  did  not  think  himself  personally 
accountable  to  Colonel  Laurens  for  what  he  had  done  in  that  respect.  But 
he  said  he  had  never  spoken  of  General  Washington  in  the  terms  men- 
tioned— that  is,  'in  the  grossest  and  most  opproprious  terms  of  personal 
abuse' — which  he  could  not  have  done,  as  well  because  he  had  always 
esteemed  General  Washington  as  a  man,  as  because  said  abuse  would  be 
incompatible  with  the  character  he  would  very  much  wish  to  sustain  as  a 
gentleman."  With  this  equivocal  explanation,  Laurens  was  content.  In 
other  words,  the  duel  settled  nothing.  As  Alexander  Graydon  says  :  "And 
so  the  affair  ended,  without  the  simplest  bearing,  however,  on  the  point  in 
controversy,  to  wit,  whether  General  Lee  was  right  or  wrong  in  speaking 
reproachfully  of  the  Commander-in-Chief,  and  only  established  the  fact 
that  the  combatants  could  risk  their  lives  with  the  gallantry  and  posses- 
sion of  soldiers  and  men  of  honor."  An  account  of  the  affair,  dated  Decem- 
ber 24,  1778,  and  signed  by  the  seconds,  is  given  in  Hamilton's  Works, 
edition  1850,  1  :  73.  See,  also,  Memoirs  of  the  Life  of  the  Late  Charles 
Lee,  London,  1792,  p.  47  ;  Notes  on  Duels  and  Dueling,  by  Lorenzo  Sabine, 
Boston,  1856,  pp.  228,  230 ;  Memoirs  of  a  Life,  chiefly  passed  in  Penn- 
sylvania, within  the  last  sixty  years  (by  Alexander  Graydon),  Harrisbnrg, 
1811,  p.  299. 

1  The  British  soldiers  surrendered  by  General  Burgoyne  at  Saratoga. 


24  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

seemed  very  desirous  that  an  exchange  might  take  place, 
to  facilitate  their  return  to  Europe — many  of  whom  de- 
clared, that,  were  they  once  there,  they  would  never  return 
to  engage  in  so  fruitless  a  business  as  that  as  attempting 
to  conqueror  America.  The  Hessian  officers,  in  particular, 
expressed  great  dissatisfaction — complained  that  many  of 
them  had  been  deceived,  not  expecting  to  have  come  further 
than  England — and  that  in  every  respect,  since  their 
arrival  in  America,  they  conceived  themselves  to  have  been 
very  basely  treated. 

We  hear  it  is  reported  in  New  York,  that  General 
Campbell,  with  about  2000  of  the  enemy,  have  landed  in 
Georgia. 

*s{s*  Wanted  by  the  Printer  hereof,  Two  Journeymen. 
They  will  be  exempted  from  actual  service  in  the  militia., 
and  receive  handsome  wages. 


BOSTON,  November  30. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  ships  lost  by  his  Britannic 
Majesty,  since  the  war  with  America, — 

No.  of  Guns. 

24.   The  Mercury  on  the  Chevaux-de  frise  in  the  North 
River. 

64.  Augusta,       )  ,  — 

4  -5  .  >  In  Delaware  Eiver. 

32.  A  Frigate.     ) 

28.  Liverpool,  on  Long  Island 

32  Juno, 

28  Cerberus, 

32  Orpheus, 

32  Lark, 

20.  Rose  [•  Burnt  and  sunk  in  Rhode-Island. 

32.  Grand  Duke 

14  King  Fisher 

16  Swan, 

And  a  Gallev     J 


1779J  INEWS^APEK    EXTRACTS.  25 

20    Drake,  taken  by  Capt.  Jones,  in  the  Eanger. 
32.   Syren,  cast  away  on  Point  Judith. 

44    Actaeon,        ) 

AT*.  >  at  Carolina. 

28,    A  Frigate,    J 

20    Merlin,  drove  ashore  by  Count  d'  Estaing. 

32    Minerva     )     And  Their  Tenders  carried  into 

32    Active        j     Cape  Francois. 

18.  Thunder  Bomb,    |     ^  ,       ,      ~  ,,  ^  ,   . 

V     Taken  by  Count  d  Estaing 
16    Senegal,  j 

28    For,        1 

22    Lively     V    Taken  and  carried  into  Brest. 

14    Alert      j 

64    Somerset,  cast  away  at  Cape-Cod,  Captain  and  crew 

taken. 

A  Galley  cast  away  near  Egg-Harbour. 
Hotham  tender  cast  away  at  Cape  Henlopen. 
A  guard  ship,  mounting  eight  12  pounders,  and  one 
32  pounder,  taken  in  seconet  passage,  and  carried 
into  Groten,  by  Major  Talbot,  in  a  small  sloop  of 
two  guns. 

THE  subscriber  has  for  sale  a  quantity  of  LANDS  on  the 
Ohio  Kiver,  about  fifteen  miles  below  Pittsburgh.  The 
fertility  of  the  soil,  the  healthfulness  of  the  climate  in  that 
quarter,  and  the  variety  of  fine  fish  the  Ohio  River  abounds 
with,  are  well  known  to  those  who  have  heard  of  that 
country.  The  title  will  be  warranted  to  the  purchaser. 
Any  person  inclinable  to  purchase,  may  know  the  terms 
by  applying  to  the  subscriber,  in  Trenton, 

Charles  Simms 

Trenton,  Jan  10,  1772. 


26  NEW    JEKSEY    IN    THE    [REVOLUTION.  [1779 


TO   BE   SOLD, 

A  Valuable  plantation,  pleasantly  situated  near  Allen- 
Town,  State  of  New  Jersey,  containing  two  hundred  and 
forty  acres,  on  which  is  a  good  house,  kitchen,  barn, 
waggon-house,  a  good  orchard,  about  100  acres  of  cleared 
land,  the  rest  good  timber  land.  An  indisputable  title 
will  be  given  for  the  same.  For  further  particulars  in- 
quire of  the  subscriber,  on  the  premises, 

Joseph  Brown,  jun 

Jan  5th,  1779. 

Was  dropped  on  the  road  between  the  Landing  and 
Trenton,  on  the  5th  instant,  a  large  blanket  rolled  up,  con- 
taining seven  yards  of  linen  and  two  papers  of  tea. — Any 
person  giving  intelligence  of,  or  delivering  the  same  to 
Capt.  Joseph  Climn,  at  the  Landing,  will  receive  Ten 
Dollars  for  their  trouble. 

Broke  into  the  subscriber's  meadow  about  the  20th  of 
September,  a  pale  red  cow.  The  owner  is  desired  to  come. 
prove  his  property,  pay  charges,  and  take  her  away. 

William  Lewis, 

October  26th,  1778. 


1779] 


NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS. 


27 


ROBERT    SINGER, 

Has  for  SALE  at  his  STORE  in  Trenton,  the  following 
GOODS,  viz. 


SUPERFINE  brown  broad  cloth, 

Pine  scarlet  ditto 

Fine  yellow  ditto 

Fine  brown  ditto 

Fine  and  coarse  Irish  linens,  7-8 
and  yard  wide, 

Cambricks,  lawn,  plain  &  flow- 
ered muslin 

Black  taffety  and  Persian 

White  pelong 

Green  and  black  ducape 

Black,  brown,  red  and  light 
colonial  callimancoes  and  a 
variety  of  double  folded 
stuffs 

A  variety  of  broad  and  narrow 
ribbons 

Silver  plated  shoe,  knee  and 
stock  buckles 

Pinchbeck  ditto 

Fine  and  coarse  handkerchiefs 

Chintzes  and  callicoes 

Plain  and  striped  white  gauze 

Plain  black  ditto 

Pepper 

Alspice 

Indigo 

Rosin 


Copperas 

Brimstone 

Allum 

Shoemaker's  tools 

Tobacco 

Snuff 

Pins  by  the  packet 

Window  glass  7  by  9 

Needles  by  the  thousand 

Best  bohea  tea 

Best  hyson   ditto,   by  the  quantity 

Best  muscovado  sugar 

Common  ditto 

Hard  soap 

Scotch  thread 

Sewing  silks 

Mohair    and    a    large    assortment    of 

metal  buttons 

Black,  brown  and  white  serge 
Knives  and  forks 
Oznabrugs 

Men's   and   women's   white  gloves 
Cinnamon 
Mace 
Nutmegs 
Wool  cards 
Cotton 
Earthen  ware  of  all  kinds 


Also  wanted  to  BUY  a  NEGRO  BOY,  about  ten  or  twelve  years  old. 


List  of  LETTERS  remaining  in  the  Post-Office  at  Tren- 
ton, January  5,  1779. 

COL.  Beatty,  Commissary  General;  Major  Kelsey; 
Jonathan  Deare,  Esq.  Capt  John  Henery;  Charles  Me 
Knight,  Surgeon  General ;  Mr.  William  Mounteer ;  and 
Mr.  John  Robinson,  Princeton — General  Lewis  Morris, 
at  West-Chester  county  or  Princeton — Miss  Nancy  Bal- 
lard,  Mr.  Benjamin  Martin,  Brunswick — Mr.  William 
Neilson,  Pluck'emin — Mr.  Joseph  Mullins,  Captain 
Charles  Lyon,  Mount  Holly — David  Thompson,  Forks  of 


28  NEW    JEKSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

Little  Egg-Harbour — Doctor  Samuel  Treat,  Burlington — 
Thomas  Thorn,  Bordentown — Major  William  Trent,  2, 
and  Doctor  Thomas  Marshal,  Trenton — Miss  Polly  Barnes 
and  Miss  Patty  Brown,  Bucks  County — Miss  Sally  Mott, 
near  Trenton — Mr.  Benjamin  Moore,  Hopewell. 


Camp  'near  Bound-Brook,  January  3,  1779. 

Commissary  of  Hides  Office. 

THE  subscriber  has  on  hand  a  quantity  of  Continental 
beat's  hides,  which  he  will  exchange  for  MEN'S  shoes  or 
Leather,  —  the  preference  will  be  given  to  the  former.  All 
persons  in  this  State  having  in  their  possession  any  hides, 
the  property  of  the  Continent,  are  requested  to  give  in- 
formation as  above,  for  which  they  shall  be  rewarded,  and 
the  favour  gratefully  acknowledged,  by  the 
Public's  devoted  servant, 

WM  SHANNON,  D.  C.  of  Hides, 
State  of  ^N"ew  Jersey, 


Having  finished  the  tour,  as  advertised  in  this  Paper 
some  time  ago,  and  understanding  that  some  accounts  are 
yet  unsettled,  all  those  who  have  demands  upon  the  Quar- 
termaster General  Department  from  the  5th  of  October 
1776.  to  the  2d  of  March  1778,  are  informed,  that  Col. 
Samuel  H.  Sullivan  will  attend  at  Capt.  Clunn's,  in  Tren- 
ton, from  the  19th  to  the  21st  instant  —  That  I  will  attend 
at  Brunswick  the  first  Tuesday,  and  at  Quibble-Town  the 
first  Wednesday  in  February,  and  at  my  own  house,  in 
Springfield,  every  Friday  until  the  first  of  March,  at  which 
time  I  expect  to  close  the  accounts  of  General  Mifflin  for 
the  counties  of  Hunterdon,  Monmouth,  Somerset,  Middle- 
sex, Essex,  Morris  and  Bergen.  Such  as  live  too  remote  to 
attend  in  person,  may  commit  their  vouchers  to  some  suit- 
able person  who  can  settle  for  a  whole  neighbourhood.  — 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  29 

Those  who  have  delivered  money  to  me  for  the  Loan-Office, 
are  desired  to  call  as  soon  as  possible  for  their  certificates. 

JAMES    CALDWELL.1 

January  12,  1779. 

RICHARD    NORRIS, 
STAY-MAKER,  from  LONDON, 

BEGS  leave  to  inform  the  Public,  that  he  makes  all 
sorts  of  stays  and  jumps,  turned  and  plain,  French  and 
Mecklenburgh,  after  the  newest  and  neatest  fashion.  He 
prevents  by  a  new  and  approved  method,  the  appearance 
of  any  cast  or  rise  in  the  hips  or  shoulders,  or  other  defect 
in  the  shape  of  the  body,  which  method  has  been  established 
by  the  society  of  stay-makers  of  the  city  of  London. 
Ladies  that  reside  at  any  distance,  by  sending  their  meas- 
ure, may  be  supplied  on  the  shortest  notice  and  at  as 
reasonable  prices  as  the  times  will  afford. — He  returns  his 
sincere  thanks  to  those  Ladies  who  have  already  favoured 
him  with  their  custom,  and  entreats  a  continuance  of  it, 
and  their  kind  recommendation,  which  he  will  make  it  his 
study  to  merit. 

N".  B.  He  now  resides  opposite  Mr.  STACY  Potts's,  in 
Trenton,  and  will  also  give  good  encouragement  to  TWO 

JOURNEYMEN. 

ALL  persons  possessed  of  receipts  or  vouchers  for  horses 
taken  by  General  Wayne,  and  the  officers  under  his  com- 
mand, in  and  about  the  month  of  March  last,  are  desired 
to  present  the  same  at  my  Office  in  Chestnut-street,  for 
payment. 

John  Mitchell,  D.  Q.  M.  G. 

Philadelphia,  Dec.  28,  1778. 

—The  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  II.,  No.  58,  January  13, 
1779. 


*For  a  sketch  of  the  Rev.  James  Caldwell,  of  Elizabethtown,  see  New 
Jersey  Archives,  2d  Series,  1  :  147. 


30  NEW    JEKSEY    IN    THE    EEVOLUTION.  [1779 

New-York,  15th  Nov.  1778. 
Mr.  Rivington, 

CAPTAIN  Duncan,  late  of  the  Rose  Letter  of  Marque, 
with  his  crew,  who  so  bravely  distinguished  them- 
selves  in   a  severe   action  with  a  French  frigate, 
arriving  here  last  night  in  a  Flag  of  Truce  from  Elizabeth- 
Town,  several  of  those  gallant  seamen  were  by  mistake 
detained  at  their  landing,   in  order  to  be  put  on  board 
the  ships  of  war ;    but  Admiral  Gambier  being  informed 
thereof,  he  was  pleased  to  direct,  that  they  should  imme- 
diately be  set  at  liberty,  and  to  give  express  orders,  that  no 
prisoners   returning   from   captivity   in    future,    shall   be 
obliged  to  serve  on  board  the  King's  ships.     I  therefore 
think  it  my  duty  to  request,  that  his  Majesty's  faithful 
subjects  may  be  made  acquainted  therewith,  through  the 
channel  of  the  Public  News-Papers. 
I  am,  Sir, 

Your  most  obedient  Servant, 

James  Dick,  Commissary 

for  Naval  Prisoners. 

NEW   YORK,  January  13. 

Sir  Henry  Clinton's  march  from  Philadelphia  through 
Jersey  is  much  spoken  of  here  as  an  exceeding  good  piece 
of  Generalship ;  and  I  am  sorry  the  orders  from  govern- 
ment made  it  necessary  for  him  to  get  to  New- York  before 
the  French  squadron  arrived ;  had  it  been  otherwise  we 
doubt  not  he  would  have  come  to  an  engagement  with  the 
rebel  army,  which  I  have  reason  to  believe  would  have 
been  a  fatal  stroke  to  Washington,  and  Co." — The  Royal 
Gazette,  No.  240,  January  16,  1779. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER,    EXTRACTS.  3l 

Correspondence  relating  to  appointment  of  Perth  Amboy 
Commissioners. 

[Letter  of  Sir  Henry  Clinton  to  Gen.  Washington  dated 
iNov.  10th,  1778. — Letter  of  Geo.  Washington  to  Sir  Henry 
Clinton,  'Nov.  14th,  1778 ;  also  Nov.  27,  1778.— A  resolve 
dated  Nov.  19,  1778  signed  by  Chas.  Thomson,  Secre- 
tary.— Letter  of  H.  Clinton,  dated  Dec.  2,  1778,  to  Gen. 
Washington. — Letter  of  Gen.  Washington  to  Col.  Robert 
Hanson  Harrison  and  Lieut.  Col.  Alex.  Hamilton,  dated 
Nov.  30,  1778.— Letter  by  Cols.  O'Hara  and  Hyde,  to 
Lient.  Cols.  Harrison  and  Hamilton,  Dec.  12,  1778.— 
Letter  of  Harrison  and  Llamilton  to  O'LIara  and  Hyde,  in 
answer  to  the  foregoing,  dated  Dec.  12,  1778. — Report  of 
Cols.  O'Hara  and  Hyde  to  Sir  H.  Clinton,  Dec.  15,  1778. 
-In  The  Royal  Gazette,  Jan.  16,  1779.]1 

Mr.  COLLINS, 

THOUGH  I  am  a  poor  writer,  and  not  quite  perfect  in  spelling,  yet 
I  call  myself  a  tolerable  good  reader;  and  being  warmly  attached  to 
the  American  cause,  I  have  perused  your  Gazette  for  near  a  year  past, 
to  find  out  the  several  proceedings  of  the  Army  of  the  United  States, 
the  Representatives  of  the  United  States  in  Congress,  and  those  of 
this  state  in  Council  and  Assembly.  I  have  also  taken  much  pleasure 
in  reading  the  several  pieces  offered  to  the  publick  by  those  who  have 
thought  proper  to  serve  their  country  that  way ;  and  have  long  de- 
sired to  imitate  their  worthy  examples,  by  publishing  a  piece  on  some 
interesting  subject,  but  have  been  prevented  partly  because  I  had  not 
the  command  of  a  style  for  composing  any  thing  that  would  perfectly 
represent  my  thoughts  and  feeling,  but  principally  because  I  had  not 
the  use  of  the  pen  so  as  to  perform  it  decently.  But  a  circumstance  at 
present  offers  itself  in  which,  I  presume,  a  few  words  may  be  of  service. 

There  has  been  a  report  circulated  in  this  neighbourhood,  that  a 
motion  was  made  at  the  last  sitting  of  the  Legislature  in  the  honourable 
Council  of  this  state,  to  confiscate  the  estates  of  those  who  took  pro- 
tection under  and  subscribed  allegiance  to  the  King  of  Great-Britain, 
which  has  created  an  uneasiness  in  the  minds  of  some  people :  The  in- 
tent of  these  lines  is  to  quiet  their  apprehensions,  by  assuring  them 
that  such  an  act  will  certainly  (in  all  probability)  never  take  place. 
'Tis  my  opinion  that  if  the  people  of  this  state  were  to  give  in  their 
votes  (excluding  all  who  have,  or  who  are  related  to  or  connected  with 
any  who  had  taken  protection)  that  more  than  three-fourths  would 
appear  against  the  measure.  I  was  just  going  to  state  the  matter,  by 
supposing  it  should  pass,  and  then  marking  the  consequences;  But 

1  See  Sparks'  Writings  of  Washington,  0  :  508. 


32  NEW    JERSEY    IN     THE    REVOLUTION".  [1779 

the  nature  of  the  thing  is  so  absurd  and  ridiculous,  and  therefore. so 
impossible,  that  it  will  hardly  admit  of  such  a  supposition.  Never- 
theless, we  may  reflect  on  the  report  and  converse  on  the  subject. 

When  the  enemy  penetrated  New  Jersey,  the  people  were  caught  in 
a  lamentable  surprize.  Many  made  shift  to  pass  the  Delaware  and 
join  the  army,  while  others  could  by  no  means  in  their  power  make 
their  escape.  Hard  usage,  and  a  knowledge  of  the  enemy's  inhuman 
conduct  which  they  had  exhibited  since  they  landed  on  our  shores, 
caused  them  to  apply  the  remedy  in  their  power.  What  with  age  and 
what  with  infirmity,  many  were  not  able  to  undergo  the  hardships 
of  a  winter's  flight.  Many  families  were  visited  by  sickness — perhaps 
an  affectionate  child  or  a  tender  wife  lay  in  a  low  and  languishing 
condition,  exposed  to  the  lawless  outrages  of  inhuman  foes ;  liable 
every  hour  not  only  to  see  the  dear  father  or  the  loving  husband 
dragged  into  a  miserable  captivity,  but  to  feel  the  violence  of  personal 
abuse  to  a  degree  which  might  put  a  speedy  period  to  their  lives. 
What  man  then  in  this  situation  would  not  have  applied  for  relief 
where  it  might  be  found?  The  sons  and  heirs  of  such  persons  as  these 
were,  at  the  same  time,  risking  their  lives,  and  suffering  almost  insur- 
mountable hardships  and  difficulties  in  the  support  of  our  cause  :  For 
all  which  patriotic  exertions,  must  their  fathers  estates  (which  may 
be  considered  as  theirs)  be  confiscated,  and  they  reduced  to  poverty 
and  want?  God  forbid !  The  enemy  violating  their  promises,  the 
people  thought  themselves  no  longer  bound ;  and  have  since  been 
restored,  both  officers  and  soldiers,  to  their  former  places ;  many  of 
whom  have  fought  gallantly  in  the  battles  of  America,  and  earned 
laurels  for  the  United  States.  And  now  are  their  property  and  liberty 
to  be  taken  from  them!  What  manner  of  proceeding  is  this?  Can 
we  think  it  has  ever  been  moved  for  by  the  guardians  of  an  infant 
state,  appointed  by  the  people  to  support  and  maintain  righteous  gov- 
ernment? Let  us  conclude  rather  that  it  is  only  a  false  report,  circu- 
lated by  some  who  wish  not  well  to  our  cause,  and  are  desirous  to 
reflect  disgrace  upon  that  Honourable  Body  :  For  who  but  such  as 
seek  to  destroy,  would  be  the  authors  of  a  thing  which  can  be  consid- 
ered (I  think)  only  as  the  foundation  of  destruction.  But  if  we  are 
forced  to  believe  that  it  has  originated  in  the  Honourable  Council, 
then,  my  countrymen,  let  us  act  in  our  astonishment  as  well  as  we  can  ; 
let  us  act,  I  say,  with  care  and  prudence,  with  true  allegiance  and 
manly  resolution.  And  ye  who  are  able  penmen  and  well  wishers  to 
your  country,  I  expect  will  take  the  matter  in  hand,  and  represent  it 
in  a  clearer  light  then  I  can. 

A  YOUTH,  and  a  Friend  to  our  YOUTHFUL  State. 

P.   S.  Electors  watch  with  careful  eye, 
Nor  ever  let  New  Jersey  die, 
Peruse  the  minutes,  there  you'l  see. 
By  pei-sons'  conduct,  what  they  be. 
At  next  election  then  appear, 
And  do  your  country  service  there. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.'  33 

BY  HIS  EXCELLENCY 

WILLIAM  LIVINGSTON,  Esquire, 

Governor,  Captain-General  and  Commander  in  Chief 
in  and  over  the  State  of  New  Jersey,  and  the  Territories 
thereunto  belonging,  Chancellor  and  Ordinary  in  the  same: 

PROCLAMATION. 

WHEREAS  application  has  been  made  to  me  in  Council  for  the  aid 
and  advice  of  the  Board,  for  drawing  forth  all  the  forage  that  can  be 
spared  in  this  state,  for  the  use  of  the  army  now  quartered  therein. — 
I  have  therefore  thought  fit,  by  and  with  the  advice  of  the'  Honourable 
the  Privy  Council  of  this  state,  to  issue  this  Proclamation,  hereby  re- 
quiring all  the  Justices  of  the  Peace  of  this  state  to  be  attentive  to  the 
application  of  the  several  persons  employed  in  collecting  forage  for  the 
troops,  and  vigorously  to  exert  themselves  in  executing  the  law  for  that 
purpose  made  and  provided.  And  I  do  hereby  recommend  it  to  the 
said  Magistrates  to  pay  due  regard,  in  the  execution  of  this  duty  in  the 
premises,  to  the  wants  of  the  inhabitants,  and  not  to  exact  more  grain 
or  other  forage  in  any  district  than  the  neighbourhood  can  safely  spare, 
due  consideration  being  had  to  all  inhabitants  of  such  district. 

GIVEN  under  my  hand  and  seal  at  arms  at  Princeton,  the  fourteenth 
day  of  January,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  seven  hundred 
and  seventy-nine. 

WIL    LIVINGSTON. 

By  His  Excellency's  command, 
WILL  LIVINGSTON,  jun.  D.  Sec. 

GOD    SAVE    THE    PEOPLE. 


TRENTON,     JANUARY    20. 

A  correspondent  from  Mansfield  informs  us,  that  on 
the  2d  instant  a  'certain  Joseph  Castle  of  Philadelphia, 
was  apprehended  at  that  place  on  his  way  to  the  enemy 
in  New- York  via  Shrewsbury,  without  any  passport;  and 
was  committed  to  the  gaol  in  Burlington.  He  had  a  num- 
ber of  letters  with  him  from  tories  in  Philadelphia  to 
their  friends  in  New- York;  by  some  of  which  it  appears 
that  a  constant  correspondence  is  kept  up,  and  traffic  car- 
ried on,  between  the  refugees  in  New- York,  and  dis- 
affected persons  in  this  state  and  Pennsylvania,  chiefly 

3 


34  NEW    JERSEV    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1770 

by  the  way  of  Shrewsbury.  Magistrates  and  other  officers 
would  do  well  to  examine  suspicious  people  travelling 
to  and  from  that  place. 

THE  Subscribers  having  heretofore  addressed  the  good 
women  -of  this  State,  intreating  them  to  save  all  the  rags 
that  they  possibly  could  in  their  families,  the  smallest 
pairing  being  useful  in  the  manufacturing  of  paper, 
which,  as  friends  to  their  native  country,  the  subscribers 
hope  they  have  paid  attention  to.  Therefore  as  a  farther 
inducement  to  them  they  now  promise  one  shilling  per 
pound  for  all  clean  linen  RAGS  they  deliver  at  any  of  the 
places  mentioned  in  the  former  advertisement. 

They  would  o>ffer  to  the  consideration  of  those  mothers 
who*  have  children  going  to  school,  the  present  great 
•scarcity  of  that  useful  article,  without  which  their  going 
to  school  would  avail  them  but  little;  which  the  sub- 
scribers hope  to  have  it  in  their  power  to  remedy  shortly, 
if  aided  by  their  exertions  in  procuring  that  fundamental 
article,  rags ;  the  utility  of  which  is  evident  to  every 
thinking  mind,  and  needs  but  few  words  to  convince 
them  of  it. 

STACY  POTTS.1 
JOHN  REYNOLDS. 

N.  B.  As  it  is  in  the  power  of  the  Storekeepers  in  the 
upper  part  of  this  State  to  collect  a  great  quantity  of 
rags,  by  receiving  them  of  the  country  people  as  they- 
bring  them  in,  the  subscribers  would  be  glad  to  supply 
them  with  any  kind  of  paper  or  pasteboard  in  exchange 
for  the  rags. 

To  BE  SOLD,  a  stout  Negro  WOMAN,  mostly  used  to  coun- 
try work,  and  her  son  about  eight  years  old. 


MOORE    FURMAN,2 


Pitts-Town,  January  10,  1778. 


For  a  notice  of  Stacy  Potts,  see  New  Jersey  Archives,  2d  Series,  1  :  238 
For  a  sketch  of  Moore  Furman,  see  New  Jersey  Archives.  20  :  148. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  35 

FURMAN  &  HUNT. 

HAVE    FOR    SALE, 

WEST-India  and  French  rum,   French  brandy,   Holland 
gin,  Maderia  wine,  sugar,  tea,  coffee,  pepper.  &c  &c. 
Trenton,  January  19,  1779. 

FRANCIS  WITT, 

opposite  Captain  Clunn's,  in  Trenton,  has  for  SALE, 

BROADCLOTH,  linens,  checks,  cambrick,  lawn,  muslin, 
sarsnet,  handkerchiefs,  white  thread,  mohair,  sewing  silk, 
knee  garters,  crewells,  silk  laces,  packet  pins,  ivory  combs, 
black  ribbon,  razors,  scissars,  shoe  and  knee  buckles, 
cards,  door  and  desk  locks,  brass  cocks,  large  garters, 
gravy  ladles,  3-4  inch  augers,  a  beaver  hat,  flannel  vests 
and  drawers.  Also  coffee,  tea,  pepper,  alspice,  indigo, 
hard  soap,  tobacco,  snuff,  candles,  wafers,  stone  and 
earthenware;  likewise  sugar  by  the  barrel*  or  smaller 
quantity,  &c  &c. 

"N.  B.  Said  Witt  will  take  in  payment  the  two  emis- 
sions now  called  in,  dated  May  20,  1777,  and  April  11, 
1778,  or  country  produce. 

TO    BE    SOLD, 

at  public  VEISTDTJE,  on  Wednesday,  the  17th  of  February 
next. 

A  VALUABLE  Plantation,  containing  near  130  acres  of 
good  land,  whereon  is  a  good  frame  dwellinghouse,  a  good 
frame  barn  covered  with*  cedar  shingles,  a  good  waggon 
and  smoke  house,  an  excellent  orchard,  containing  about 
400  trees,  a  large  quantity  of  which  is  grafted  fruit  of  the 
best  kind,  with  a  great  number  of  peach  trees,  and  like- 


36  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

wise  cherry  trees,  a  great  many  of  which  are  the  best 
English  sort;  also  a  number  of  pear  trees.  The  land  is 
good  for  grain  and  grass,  haying  a  large  proportion  of 
excellent  woodland  and  meadow.  The  whole  pleasantly 
situated,  joining  the  Old  York  road,  about  eight  miles 
from  Cory  ell's  ferry,  in  the  township  of  Amwell  and 
county  of  Hunterdon,  nearly  joining  the  old  Presbyterian 
meeting-house.  Any  person  inclining  to  purchase,  may 
see  the  plan  by  applying  to  William  Schanck,  or  George 
Pra.ll,  who  lives  on  the  place.  The  vendue  to  begin  at 
twelve  o'clock  of  said  day,  when  attendance  will  be  given, 
and  conditions  of  sale  made  known  by 
Amwell,  Ja-  JOHN  PR  ALL  1 

nuary  12,  WILLIAM  SCHANCK    >  Exrs. 

1779.  JACOB    SUTPHIN  ) 

THIS  is  to  request  all  persons  indebted  to  John  Dixon 
of  Bottle-Hill,1  Morris  county,  on  book,  bond,  or  note,  to 
come  and  settle  with  him  by  the  tenth  of  February,  or 
depend  on  being  dealt  with  as  the  law  directs. 

January  6. 

Forty  Dollars  Reward. 

WAS  stolen  out  of  the  Fulling-mill,  in  Amwell,  Hunter- 
don  county,  on  the  4th  or  5th  of  this  instant,  a  piece  of 
broadcloth  consisting  of  8  yards  in  length,  and  near  3-4 
wide,  a  brown  colour,  shear'd  and  press'd,  being  finished; 
the  number  cut  in  the  corners  at  one  end,  and  at  one  corner 
,of  the  other  end  marked  B,  worked  in  the  cloth,  belonging 
to  ]\lr.  Ten  Brook.  Whoever  secures  said  cloth  and  thief, 
so  that  the  subscriber  may  have  the  cloth,  and  bring  the 
thief  to  justice,  shall  be  entitled  to  the  above  reward,  or 
for  the  cloth  only  Twenty  Dollars  and  if  required  no 
questions  asked,  and  all  reasonable  charges  paid  by  me 

JOSHUA  MOTT,  Fuller. 

1  Now  Madison. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  37 

N.  B.  All  taylors  are  requested  to  take  particular  notice 
of  brown  cloth,  and  whether  the  marks  are  cut  out  of  the 
ends,  or  new  ones  put  in,  which  may  easily  be  discovered 
by  the  marks  not  being  fulled  in. 

January  16,  1779. 

To  be  sold,  on  Saturday,  the  23d  instant,  at  the  Vendue- 

House  opposite  the  Church,1  in  Trenton, 
HORSES,  a  bed,  men's  apparel,  ready  made  shifts,  rum 
by  the  hogshead  or  smaller  quantity,  and  sundry  sorts  of 
merchandize,  by 

JACOB    BENJAMIN". 

X.  B.  Wanted,  a  quantity  of  flaxseed,  for  which  cash 
will  be  given  by  said  Benjamin  or  John  Flasket. 

STOLEN  on  Sunday  night,  the  17th  inst,  out  of  the 
stable  of  the  subscriber,  a  brown  HORSE,  15  hands  high, 
has  a  blaze  in  his  forehead,  his  hind  feet  white,  branded 
I  B  on  the  near  thigh,  worn  a  good  deal  with  the  gears, 
shod  all  round,  paces  and  trots.  Whoever  takes  up  said 
horse,  so  that  the  owner  may  have  him  again,  shall  receive 
THIRTY  DOLLARS,  and  for  the  thief,  if  prosecuted  to  con- 
viction, FIFTY  DOLLARS,  to  be  paid  by  me 

JASPER     SMITH. 

Maidenhead,  Jan.  19.  1779. 

LOST  or  stolen,  on  the  seventh  instant,  a  small  English 
Spaniel  DOG,  the  grounds  of  his  colour  is  a  very  shining 
white,  his  ears  mark'd  with  yellow;  as  likewise  two  or 
three  yellow  broad  spots  on  his  side  and  rump,  his  tail 
extremely  bushy ;  had  on  a  brass  collar  with  General  Lee's 
name.  Whoever  will  bring  him  to  Capt  Clunn's,  at  Tren- 
ton ;  to  Mr.  Clarkson's,  at  Brunswick ;  Mr.  Stockton's, 
at  Princeton ;  to  Mr.  De  Hart's,  at  Elizabethtown ;  to 
General  Knox,  at  Pluck' emin,  shall  receive  TWENTY  Dol- 
lars reward. 

Jan.  12,  1779. 

1  St.  Michael's  Church,  in  King  (now  Warren)   street. 


38 


NEW    JEESEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION. 


[1779 


OF  EDWARD  BROOKS,  Junior, 

In  Bordentown,  may  be  had  the  following  articles  of 

MERCHANDIZE,  viz. 


LONDON  brown  and  light  coloured 
second  broad  cloths  at  30  dol- 
lars per  yard 

Grey  and  drab  colour'd  coarser 
ditto 

Black  and  cloth  colour'd  knit 
worsted  breeches  pattern 

Blue  serge  denim 

Red  and  white  -flannel  serge 

Blue,  green,  striped  and  flowered, 
red  and  blue  mixed,  brown  and 
dove  colour'd  camlets 

Black  taffety,  pelong  and  ell-wide 
French  mode 

Black,  green  and  cloth  colour'd 
ell-wide  Persian 

Sewing  silk  and  bonnet  whale- 
bone 

Book  muslin 

Cambrick  and  lawn 

ijong  lawn  and  gauze 

Red,  pink,  green,  deep  and  pale 
blue,  brown,  black  and  flowered 
ribbons 

Womens  white  gloves 

Snuff  boxes 

Ivory  and  horn  combs 

Crooked  ditto 

Mens  and  womens  leather  shoes 

Ticklenburg  and  common  Ozna- 
brugs 

Fine  and  coarse  dowlas 

Dutch  and  Irish  sheeting 

Striped  Holland  and  checks 

Irish  and  Dutch  white  linens 

Check  handkerchiefs 

Sewing  and  knitting  needles 

Black  and  white  small  beads  for 
necklaces 


Spectacles 

West  India  rum 

Molasses 

Sugar,   tea  and  coffee. 

Pepper,   alspice,   nutmegs 

Ginger   and   lump   brimstone   in   kegs 

or  less  quantity 
Genuine  Castile  soap 
Imported  G  B  woolcards 
Ditto  cotton  ditto 
Wheat  and  flax-seed  riddles 
Indian  meal  sieves 
Sand  ditto 
Ink  powder 
Writing  pa  pel- 
Leading  lines,   halters  and   bed  cords 
Chest  and  cubbard  locks 
House  ditto 

Door  bolts  and  thumb  latches 
Iron    candlesticks   and   snuffers,    cork 

screws 

Polished    steel    sliding   tobacco    boxes 
Iron  ditto  with  springs 
Table  and  box  hinges 
Nail  gimblets,  tap-borers     • 
Fire  shovel  and  tongs 
Half   inch,    inch,    and    inch   and   half 

flat  head  woodscrews 
Rat  and  mouse  traps 
Hobnails   by   any   quantity   less   than 

thirty  thousand 
Four  sizes  of  awl  blades 
Horse — and   razors 
Watch  keys  and  gun  worms 
Shoe  and  knee  buckles 
Packet  nnd  pound  pins 
Marking  irons 
Small   iron  pots 
Country  made  earthen  ware 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  39 


Continental  SALT. 

Fifteen  shillings  per  bushel  will  be  given  for  good  mer- 
chantable flax  seed.  Six  dollars  for  good  grey  fox  skins. 
Four  dollars  for  raccoon,  and  five  shillings  for  good  musk- 
rat  skins. 

WILL  be  exposed  to  sale  at  publick  vendue  on  Wednes- 
day the  third  of  February,  the  following  tracts  of  land, 
lying  as  follows :  One  piece  containing  28  acres,  within 
four  miles  of  Elizabeth  town  on  the  main  road  that  leads 
to  Morris  and  Sussex,  very  convenient  for  a  merchant  or 
tavern,  the  latter  has  been  kept  20  years;  there  is  a  good 
dwelling-house,  large  barn,  smith's  shop,  two  coal  houses, 
chair  and  corn-house,  with  other  necessary  buildings,  120 
young  apple  trees  mostly  grafted  with  the  best  fruit,  which 
bears  plentiful;  one  other  orchard  with  fifty  trees  of 
natural  fruit.  Thirty-six  and  one  third  acres  joining  the 
above,  with  about  300  young  apple  trees  mostly  grafted 
with  the  best  collection  of  fruit.  One  other  tract  of  land 
lying  within  one  mile  of  the  above  land,  with  an  orchard 
that  will  produce  30  barrels  of  cyder  in  a  year,  well 
watered  and  good  mowing  land,  contains  about  50  acres. 
One  other  farm  lying  in  the  township  of  Newark,  at  a 
place  called  Canoe-brook,  ten  miles  from  the  town,  con- 
taining 133  acres  on  which  is  a  dwellinghouse  and  barn, 
a  large  orchard  where  60  barrels  of  cyder  may  be  made 
in  a  year,  there  is  plenty  of  timber  and  water,  some  very 
good  swamp  fit  for  hemp.  Any  person  having  a  mind  to 
view  the  premises  before  the  day  of  sale,  may  call  on. the 
subscriber. 

!N".  B.   The  sale  to  begin  at  ten  o'clock. 

A  few  axes  may  be  had  of  the  subscriber  made  of  the 
best  Crawley's  steel,  for  country  produce. 
Connecticut  Farms, 
January  16,  1779. 

Jacamiah  Smith. 


40  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 


To  all  whom  it  may  concern : 

State  of  Xew-  NOTICE  is  hereby  given  that  a  Court  of 
Jersey,  ss.  Admiralty  will  be  held  at  the  house  of 

Gilbert  Barton,  Inn  holder,  in  Allentown,  in  the  county 
of  Monmouth,  on  Tuesday  the  23d  day  of  February  next, 
at  10  of  the  clock  in  the  forenoon,  then  and  there  to  try 
the  truth  of  the  facts  alledged  in  the  bill  of  James  Green, 
(who  as  well,  &c.)  against  the  sloop  or  vessel  called  the 
Betsey,  lately  commanded  by  James  Parks — Of  Samuel 
Reed  (who  as  well,  &c.)  against  the  sloop  or  vessel  called 
the  Franklin,  lately  commanded  by  George  Clerk,  with 
their  respective  tackle,  apparel,  furniture  and  cargoes: 
To  the  end  and  intent  that  the  owner  or  owners  of  the  said 
vessels  respectively,  or  any  person  or  persons  concerned 
therein,  may  appear  and  shew  cause,  if  any  they  have, 
why  the  said  vessels  and  their  respective  tackle,  apparel, 
furniture  and  cargoes  should  not  be  condemned  according 
to  the  prayer  of  the  said  bills. 

By  order  of  the  Judge, 

JOSEPH  BLOOMFIELD,  Register. 

—The  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  II.,  No.  59,  January  20, 
1779, 

New- York,  January  20. 

Last  Wednesday  a  Mr.  Allen,  ensign  in  the  rebel  army, 
with  three  Jersey  militia  men,  were  apprehended  on 
Bergen  Point,  by  a  party  from  Captain  Anstruther's 
company,  of  the  twenty-sixth  regiment. — The  Royal  Ga- 
zette, No.  241,  January  20,  1779. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  41 


TO  BE  SOLD. 

For,  good  emissions  of  May  20th  1777,  and  April  llth, 
1778,  within  the  Western  division  of  the  State  of  New 
Jersey. 

Ten  thousand  acres  of  unappropriated  rights  to  lands, 
the  title  warranted  good  and  indisputable. 

Application  may  be  made  to>  Mr.  JOHN  LEE,  at 
Mount  Pleasant,  near  Mount  Holly,  New  Jersey. 

N.  B.  Any  quantity  from  fifty  acres  upwards  may  be 
had. — The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  January 21,  1779. 


PHILADELPHIA  January  21. 

A  gentleman  from  Jersey  informs,  that  some  row  boats, 
about  a  fortnight  ago',  went  from  Jersey  to  Sandy  hook, 
where,  in  the  night,  they  boarded  and  took  four  sloops, 
one  of  which  was  armed.  In  carrying  them  to  a  place 
of  safety,  three  of  them,  by  the  unskilfulness  of  the  pilots, 
ran  .  a  shore,  and  were  burnt  ?  The  other,  with  nine- 
teen prisoners,  got  safe  to  New  Jersey.  It  is  farther 
said,  the  persons  concerned  will  share  about  four  hundred 
pounds,  each  man. — The  Pennsylvania  Evening  Post, 
January  21,  1779. 

A  Philadelphia  paper  of  the  7th  inst.  announces  the 
arrival  of  the  French  squadron,  under  Mons.  d'  Estaing, 
at  Martinico;  Admiral  Byron  sailed  sometime  after  the 
Marquis  from  Ed.  Island  in  quest  of  that  fleet;  Com- 
modore Hotham.  proceeded,  early  in  November,  with  a  very 
respectable  naval  force  for  the  West  Indies;  these  powers, 
when  united,  will  enable  Admiral  Byron  to  act  with 
every  advantage  against  the  French  fleet  and  any  of  their 
possessions  in  that  part  of  the  world.  The  rebels,  greatly 


42          NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779 

alarmed  at  the  successful  operations  of  the  Loyalists  and 
Indians,  under  young  Mr.  Butler  and  Mr.  Joseph  JBrant, 
upon  the  back  settlements,  have  occasioned,  we  are1  in- 
formed, three  brigades  to  be  detached  from  Jersey  to 
Cherry  Valley  to  defend,  if  possible,  the  townships  in  that 
district. — The  Royal  Gazette,  No.  242,  January  23,  1779. 

NEW-YOKE,  January  25. 

Two  or  three  Whale-Boats  put  out  of  Egg-Harbour  in 
the  late  hard  Weather,  after  some  Vessels  that  were  seen 
in  the  Offing,  but  most  of  their  Crews  perished  before 
they  could  reach  the  Shore,  the  Creeks  being  inaccessible 
on  Account  of  the  Ice. — The  New-York  Gazette:  and  the 
Weekly  Mercury,  No.  1423,  January  25,  1779. 


To  be  SOLD  at  Private  Sale. 

A  VALUABLE  PLANTATION  on  Little  Egg-harbour  River, 
Chestnut  Neck,  having  three  or  four  valuable  fishing 
places,  with  a  large  dwelling-house,  barn,  stables,  and 
cow-houses.  Any  person  wanting  said  place  may  pur- 
chase houshold  goods,  waggons,  plows,  and  several  other 
things  for  carrying  on  Farming,  by  applying  to 

MICAJAH  SMITH. 
—The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  January  26,  1779. 

PHILADELPHIA,  January  14- 

The  sloop  Franklin,  Capt  Clark,  from  Surinam,  with 
a  cargo  of  molasses,  bound  to  and  belonging  to  Kan- 
tucket,  was  taken  by  the  letter  of  marque  brig  Sir  William 
Erskine,  Capt.  M'Callister,  of  New  York,  who  put  a 
prize  master  and  four  hands  on  board  her,  and  ordered 
them  to  New-York,  but  off  Egg-Harbour  some  of  the 
sailors  secured  the  prize  master  below,  and  ran  for  Egg 
Harbour,  where  they  arrived  safe  about  ten  days  ago. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  43 

TRENTON,    JANUARY    27. 

Extract  of  a  letter  from  Monmouth,  Jan.  23,  1778. 

"On  the  10th  day  of  December  last  at  six  o'clock  in  the 
morning,  the  armed  sloop  Two  Friends,  commanded  by 
Captain  Alexander  Bonnet,  was  cast  away  on  the  Long 
Beach  near  Barnagat.  A  number  of  people  from  the 
shore  went  to  their  assistance',  and  saved  all  the  men,  but 
one  that  was  drowned.  She  was  from  Cape  IN'ichola 
Mole,  bound  to  Philadelphia,,  laden  with  1600  bushels  of 
salt,  40  hogsheads  of  molasses,  some  rum  and  sugar.  She 
went  to  pieces  in  a,  few  hours,  and  all  was  lost  except 
about  160  gallons  of  rum.  The  hands  went  to  Phila- 
delphia and  Captain  Bonnet  went  on  board  the  sloop 
Endeavor  at  Toms  Kiver,  to  take  his  passage  home  to 
Hispaniola,  but  unfortunately,  o<n  the  25th  of  last  month 
in  the  night  she  parted  her  cable  and  was  cast  away  in 
the  bay,  and  Capt.  Bonnet,  with  every  soul  on  board, 
perished." 

**  The  LAWS  passed  at  the  two  last  sittings  of  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly  of  this  State,  are  now  ready  to  be  delivered, 
agreeably  to  the  orders  of  the  Members  of  the  Legislature. 

Mr.  COLLINS, 

IN  your  Gazette  of  the  30th  of  December,  there  appeared  an  attempt 
against  General  Lee's  character,  as  wicked  in  its  intentions  as  false 
in  its  assertions ;  whether  the  sterility  of  the  brain  obliged,  or  the 
villainy  of  the  heart  induced  the  author  to  adopt  the  rascally  produc- 
tion of  a  mercenary  retainer  of  Lord  Dunmore's,  so  fam'd  for  his 
enmity  to  this  country,  the  publick  must  judge. 

But  the  original  composer  of  this  calumny  is  comparatively  a  man 
of  sense  and  candor,  because  it  is  obvious  his  motives  were  to  answer 
a  political  purpose,  whereas  the  motives  of  your  correspondent  could 
at  best  be  but  a  pitiful  attempt  to  blast  the  character  of  a  man  who 
has  sacrificed  his  friends  and  voluntarily  staked  a  solid  independent 
fortune  on  the  fate  of  the  liberties  of  a  people,  from  whom,  if  he  was 
as  avaricious  as  he  is  in  defiance  of  notorious  facts  represented  to  be, 
and  his  most  sanguine  expectations  answered,  he  could  not  possibly 
expect  a  recompence  equivalent  to  what  he  depriv'd  himself  of. 

The  hero  of  this  performance,  in  order  to  give  credit  to  his  scandal- 
ous libel,  has  artfully  taken  it  up  upon  the  wild  supposition  that 
General  Lee  aims  at  shaking  the  confidence  of  the  people  in  General 


44  NEW    JEESEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

Washington.  This,  from  the  long  personal  acquaintance  I  have  had 
the  honour  of  having  with  General  Lee,  is  equally  as  false  as  the 
sequel ;  but  even  admitting  it  to  be  true,  does  it  prove  him  to  be  a 
scoundrel,  a  villain,  a  Cataline,  a  Samnite,  a  penurious  wretch  that 
would  change  sides  for  a  farthing  more  to  his  pay? 

I  am  conscious  every  man  who  is  a  friend  to  this  'Community,  a 
friend  to  virtue  or  justice,  and  every  man  who  would  reprobate  Gen- 
eral Lee  in  any  attempts  to  depreciate  so  valuable  a  character  as  Gen- 
eral Washington's,  must  despise  the  rancorous  villain,  who  from  the 
baseness  of  his  soul,  could  be  capable  of  composing,  or  instrumental  in 
publishing1  such  false,  such  dastardly,  and  such  malignant  calumny. 

Yours 

EVAN    EDWARDS. 

January  18th,  1779. 

To  be  sold  at  publick  Venclue  on  Tuesday  the  16th  of 
February  next,  at  New-Brunswick,  the 

SLOOP   SALLY. 


On  the  17th,  at  Woodbridge,  the 

SLOOP  POLLY. 


On  the  18th,  at  Elizabeth-Town,  the 

SLOOP    CHARMING    POLLY,, 

With  their  respective  tackle,  furniture,  and  apparel,  per 
inventory  to  be  seen  the  times  and  places  of  sale. 

By  order  of  the  Court  of  Admiralty  of  !New  Jersey. 

jos.  POTTS,,  Marshal- 
Jan.  23,  1779. 

Pocket  Almanacks 

For  the  current  year,  are  to  be  Sold  by  the  dozen  or  single 
at  the  Printing-Office  in  Trenton. 

THE  CITIZENS  of  Philadelphia  who  wish  to  become  Sub- 
scribers for  this  GAZETTE,  may  enter  their  Carries  with 
MOSES  BARTRAM,  Apothecary,  in  Second  street,  a  few 
Doors  above  Arch  street,  or  with  ROBERT  AITKEN,  Printer 


1779]  -NEWSPAPER  EXTRACTS.  45 

and  Bookseller,  in  Front  street,  nearly  opposite  the  Coffee 
house — at  One  Dollar  and  an  Half  per  Quarter,  the 
Money  to  be  paid  at  the  Time  of  Entrance. 

THIRTY   DOLLARS   REWARD. 

TAKEN  through  mistake  from  the  stable  of  Mr.  Samuel 
Smith,  innkeeper,  at  Elizabeth-Town,  on  Friday  evening 
the  13th  of  November  last,  and  carried  to  the  public 
stables  at  Head-Quarters  in  town,  from  whence  was  either 
stolen  or  strayed  away,  a  dark  brown  MARE,  rising  six 
years  old,  has  a  star  in  her  forehead,  about  fifteen  hands 
high,  large  thick  mane  which  lays  on  the  near  side,  is  a 
natural  trotter,  and  carried  a  tail  as  if  somewhat  nicked. 
Whoever  takes  up  the  said  mare  and  returns  her  to  Mr. 
Smith,  or  the  subscriber  at  Booneton,  in  Morris  county, 
shall  receive  the  above  reward,  and  all  reasonable  charges. 

ANTHONY  JOLINE. 

Jan.  15, 1779. 

To  be  sold  by  THOMAS  HANKENSON,  near  Robertson's 
Ferry,  on  Delaware,  Hunterdon  county,  New  Jersey,  a 

QUANTITY  of 

SHORE  SALT, 

For  good  emissions  of  continental  currency  of  May  20, 
1777,  and  April  11,  1778,  at  Thirteen  Dollars  per  bushel, 
or  Ten  Pounds  of  Flax  for  one  bushel  of  salt. 


On  Wednesday  the  3d  of  February  next,  WILL  BE  SOLD 
at  the  Forks  of  Little  Egg  Harbour, 

THE  Sloop  Franklin,  per  inventory,  to  be  seen  at  the 
day  of  sale. — Also  her  cargo,  consisting  of  about  60  hogs- 
heads molasses.  Vendue  to  begin  at  10  o'clock. 

By  order  of  the  Court  of  Admiralty  of  New  Jersey, 

Jos.  POTTS,  Marshall. 


46          J^EW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION".       [1779 

Notice  is  hereby  given  to  all  persons  who  have  any 
claim,  interest,  or  demand  to,  in  or  against  the  estates  of 
James  Stuart,  Christopher  Insley,  Joseph  Bear,  George 
Myre,  William  Carnel,  John  Kitchen,  Andrew  Kitchen, 
Ozias  Park,  Henry  Mills,  Jacob  Insley,  Philip  Kline,  Wil- 
liam Schooley,  Andrew  Schooley,  William  Millack,  Jacob 
Kline,  Philip  Kighline,  Robert  Goodman,  Peter  Apple- 
man,  Conrad  Reightmyre,  John  Waddington,  Ludowick 
Wessigh,  David  Young,  Joseph  Lawery,  senior,  Joseph 
Lawery,  junior,  John  Rice,  William  Rice,  Isaac  Ammer- 
man,  Reuben  Green,  Philip  Farce,  William  Ekler,  John 
Smith,  senior,  John  Smith,  junior,  Michael  Lemon,  John 
M'Cowin,  James  Moody,1  Richard  Mountain,  John  Dun- 
field,  Peter  Anderson,  Ozias  Insley,  Thomas  Richardson, 
James  Morden,  John  Insley,  William  Hutchenson,  John 
Cummins,  Christopher  Young,  James  Briton,  James  Blain, 
Benjamin  Harued,  William  Briton,  John  White  Smock, 
Obadiah  Hoagland,  Matthias  Zimerman,  John  Clendenon, 
Christopher  Iloofman,  John  Hutchesoii,  Cornelius  Dugan, 
Richard  Boulsbery,  Abraham  Boulsbery,  William  Dedman, 
John  Gorman,  William  Park,  Robert  Thompson  and 
Thomas  Turpin,  to  appear  with  their  accounts,  vouchers 
and  evidence  before  the  subscribers,  in  Greenwich,  on  or 
before  the  first  day  of  March  next  ensuing,  then  and  there 
to  have  the  same  adjudged  and  settled. — And  all  persons 
indebted  to  the  above  persons,  are  desired  to  make  speedy 
payment  to  the  subscribers ;  and  any  person  possessed  of 
any  monies,  bonds,  bills,  notes,  mortgages,  books  of  ac- 
counts, or  any  instruments  of  writing  whatsoever,  belong- 
ing to  either  of  the  above  persons,  and  do  not  make 
discovery  thereof  to  the  subscribers  within  one  mo"nth  after 
this  publick  notice  is  given,  shall,  if  convicted  thereof, 
forfeit  treble  the  value  of  such  property  as  shall  be  by 
them  so  detained. — And  all  persons  indebted  to  the  sub- 

1  The  noted  Lieutenant  in  the  New  Jersey  Volunteers  (Loyalists),  whose 
daring  marauding  expeditions  struck  terror  into  the  her.rts  of  many  a 
patriotic  fireside,  and  whose  exploits  are  still  a  household  word  in  Sussex 
county. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  47 

scribers  for  goods  bought  at  the  several  vendues,  are  desired 
to  make  speedy  .payment  to  prevent  trouble. 

WILLIAM    BOND.     ) 

-,  vrT  >    Commissioners. 

George  Warne,    ) 

Sussex  County,  December  10,  1778. 


PETER     CROLIUS. 

Has  for  SALE,  opposite  the  Printing-Office,  in  Trenton, 

BLUE,  buff,  green,  red,  brown  and  grey  broadcloths ;  blue 
and  brown  naps ;  shalloons,  callimancoes ;  striped  and 
plain  camblets;  moreens;  fine  and  coarse  linens;  lawn; 
cambricks;  muslins;  taffety;  ell-wide  Persian;,  callicoes; 
striped  Hollands ;  checks  and  check  handkerchiefs ;  sewing 
silk;  mohair;  threads;  buttons;  tea;  sugar;  chocolate; 
alspice ;  pepper ;  indigo ;  snuff ;  and  many  others  articles 
too  tedious  to  mention. 

X.  B.  Said  Crolius  will  take  in  payment  the  two 
emissions  now  called  in,  dated  May  20,  1777,  and  April 
11,  1778,  or  country  produce. 

SUCH  persons  as  have  demands  on  the  Forage  Depart- 
ment before  the  2d  of  March  last,  for  forage  delivered  at 
this  post,  and  proper  certificates  signed  by  the  subscriber, 
or  persons  acting  by  his  appointment,  are  desired  to  bring 
in  their  accounts  any  time  between  the  8th  and  llth  of 
February  next  for  payment;  for  which  purpose  I  shall 
attend  at  the  house  of  Capt  Joseph  Clunn,  in  Trenton. 

SAM.     H.     SULLIVAN. 

Jan.  25,  1779. 

INQUISITIONS  having  been  found  and  final  judgment 
entered  against  Nathaniel  Richards,  William  Stiles, 
Thomas  Bruen,  Uzal  Ward,  David  Ogden,  jun.  Griffin 
Jinkens,  Stephen  Skinner,  David  Ogden,  Esq.,  Benjamin 
Booth,  Joseph  Kingsland,  Stephen  Farrand,  Lewis  Green- 
field, John  Wheeler,  Isaac  Ogden,  Esq;,  Nathaniel 


48  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

Williams,  Jonathan  Sayers,  Isaac  Longworth,  Thomas 
LongwoTth,  Peter  Browne,  Peter  Mowrison,  George  Walls, 
Abraham  Van  Geson,  jun,  Isaac  Kingsland,  and  Henry 
Stager,  of  Newark,  Robert  Drummond,  Garret  Jacobus, 
Richard  Yates,  and  Eichard  Stanton,  of  Aquackanonck  ;* 
NOTICE  is  HEREBY  GIVEN,  That  the  houses  and  lands  and 
all  the  real  estate  lately  belonging  to  them,  in  the  county 
of  Essex,  will  be  exposed  to  sale  at  public  vendue,  on  the 
first  day  of  March  next,  at  the  house  of  Capt,  Josiah 
Peirson,  in  Newark.  The  vendue  will  begin  at  10  o'clock 
in  the  morning,  and  continue  by  adjournments  from  day  to 
day,  until  the  whole  is  sold.  A  map  of  the  several  pieces 
of  land  to  be  seen  at  the  time  and  place'  of  sale.  There 
are  some  elegant  house's  and  many  agreeable  situations. 
The  land  is  excellent  and  the  place  healthy. 

JOSEPH    HEDDEN,    jlin.     |  .      . 

V  Commissioners. 

SAMUEL    HAYES,  J 

1  For  a  sketch  of  David  Ogden,  Sr.,  one  of  the  most  eminent  lawyers 
of  his  day  in  New  Jersey,  see  New  Jersey  Archives,  10  :  372.  The  Supreme 
Court  allowed  a  writ  of  ccrtiorari  to  the  Essex  Oyer  and  Terminer,  direct- 
ing the  indictment  to  be  sent  up  for  review,  but  the  inferior  court  disre- 
garded the  writ,  and  ordered  the  trial  to  proceed,  with  the  result  that 
Ogden  was  convicted  of  treason.  See  N.  J.  Hist.  Soc.  Proc.,  2d  Series, 
13  :  88,  and  27  N.  J.  Law  Journal,  4. 

Isaac  Ogden  was  a  son  of  David  Ogden,  Sr.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  May  12,  1763,  and  resided  in  Newark.  He  accompanied  his  father  to 
New  York,  and  with  him  joined  the  British.  An  extract  from  a  letter  writ- 
ten by  him  to  Joseph  Galloway.  February  6,  1779,  telling  what  he  had 
heard  and  what  he  thought  of  the  above  proceeding,  is  given  in  New  Jersey 
Archives,  10  :  372.  Other  letters  from  him  are  published  (not  entire, 
however),  in  the  Historical  Magazine,  1st  Series,  5:  335;  6:  178-181. 
(The  originals  of  these  and  other  letters  from  Ogden  to  Galloway  were 
destroyed  in  the  fire  at  Paterson.  N.  J.,  February  9  and  10,  1902). 

Sketches  of  Isaac  Longworth  and  Thomas  Longworth,  of  Newark,  are 
given  in  New  Jersey  Archives,  2d  Series,  1  :  419. 

Robert  Drummond — see  New  Jersey  Archives,  2d  Series,  1  :  251. 

Griffin  Jinkens  was  a  school  teacher  in  Newark,  who  owned  a  small  farm 
between  the  present  Belleville  avenue  and  the  Passaic  river,  near  the  pres- 
ent Clark  street.  He  was  the  author  of  a  pamphlet  of  forty-eight  pages, 
"A  Brief  Vindication  of  the  Purchasers  Against  the  Proprietors  in  a  Chris- 
tian Manner,"  New  York,  1746.  It  is  a  curious  medley  of  argument  and 
appeal,  legal  and  religious,  in  prose  and  verse. 

Richard  Stanton  was  a  tailor  who  married  a  Ryerson  and  lived  for  some 
time  on  the  northern  shore  of  the  Passaic  river,  at  the  foot  of  the  present 
Clinton  street,  in  the  city  of  Paterson,  then  Saddle  River  township,  Bergen 
county.  It  would  seem  that  in  1779  he  resided,  or  at  least  owned  property 
in  Acquackanonk  township. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  49 

State  of  New  Jersey,  county  of  Essex,  January  19th,  1779. 
New  Jersey,  )  AT  an  Inferior  Court  of  Common 
Essex  county,  j  Pleas  held  for  said  county  of  Essex  on 
the  12th  day  of  January  inst.,  were  returned  inquisitions 
for  joining  the  army  of  the  King  of  Great-Britain,  and 
other  treasonable  practices,  found  against  Peter  Duboise, 
Aaron  Peirson,  Hugh  Gaine,  Isaac  Stiles,  Samuel  Hudi- 
not,  Nicholas  Hoffman,  Dr.  Uzal  Johnson,  John  C'ourter, 
jun,  and  Capt.  James  Gray,  of  which  proclamation  was 
made  at  said  court,  that  if  they  or  any  on  their  behalf,  or 
any  persons  interested,  would  appear  and  traverse,  a  trial 
should  be  awarded ;  but  no  traverses  were  offered :  Thereh 
fore  notice  is  hereby  given,  that  if  neither  they  nor  any 
in  their  behalf,  nor  any  interested,  shall  appear  and 
traverse  at  the  next  court  to  be  held  for  the  said  county, 
the  inquisitions  will  be  taken  to  be  true,  and  final  judg- 
ment entered  thereon  in  favour  of  the  State. 

JOSEPH    HEDDEN.    ~jun.      )     ,  .      . 

V  Commissioners. 

SAMUEL    HAYES,  j 

Newark,  January  18,  1779. 

EISTAL  judgment  having  been  entered  in  favour  of  the 
State  on  the  inquisitions  found  and  taken  against  Ber- 
nardus  Legrange,  George  Howard,  George  Rodney,  Joseph 
Arrowsmith,  Richard  Compton,  jun.  John  Smith  and 
David  White  late  of  Somerset  county,  New  Jersey :  ALT, 
persons  having  any  demands  against  the  estates  of  the  said 
fugitives  and  offenders,  are  desired  to  exhibit  their  ac- 
counts to  the  subscriber  at  Whor ley's  tavern,  at  the  Forks 
of  Raritan,  on  Monday  the  22d  day  of  March  next,  in 
order  that  they  may  be  discharged  or  adjusted,  according 
to  the  direction  of  a  law  of  this  State. 

FRED.    FRELINGHTJYSEN, 

Jan.  23,  1779. 


50  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 


TO   BE  SOLD,, 

For  good  emissions  of  May  20,  1777,  and  April  11,  1778. 

TEN  thousand  acres  of  unappropriated  rights  to  LANDS, 
within  the  Western  Division  of  New- Jersey.  The  title 
warranted  good  and  indisputable.  Application  may  be 
made  to  Mr.  John  Lee  at  Mount  Pleasant,  near  Mount- 
holly,  state  of  New-Jersey. 

X.  B.  Any  quantity,  from  fifty  acres  or  upwards.,  may 
be  purchased  as  above, 

Jan.  15,' 1779. 

WANTED  to  purchase,  a  NEGRO  WENCH,  who  has  some 
knowledge  in  cooking,  and  can  be  well  recommended  for 
sobriety,  honesty,  and  housewifery.  Apply  to  the  Printer. 

Sixty  Dollars  Reward. 

MADE  their  escape  from  the  subscriber,  on  the  22d  in- 
stant, (Jan.)  a  certain  Michael  White  and  Israel  Philips, 
both  taken  up  on  suspicion  of  robbing  Mr.  John  White's 
store  in  Philadelphia.  Said  Michael  White  is  about  five 
feet  five  inches  high,  has  lightish  hair,  a  grey  great  coat, 
his  other  clothes  unknown,  but  had  remarkable  large  silver 
buckles  in  his  shoes ;  he  also  wore  a  large  scollop' d  hat 
almost  new.  The  other  had  much  the  same  dress,  and  was 
nearly  the  same  size. — They  being  both  hand-cuffed  to- 
gether when  they  made  their  escape,  it  is  probable  they 
will  secrete  themselves  as  much  as  possible,  until  they  can 
disengage  themselves  from  their  irons.,  and  then  retire 
into  the  country.  Whoever  takes  up  said  prisoners  and 
confines  them  in  any  gaol,  so  that  they  may  be  brought  to 
justice,  shall  receive  the  above  reward  and  all  reasonable 
charges,  paid  by 

JOHN  FLEET,  Constable, 

Hunterdon  County. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  51 

THE  Faculty  of  Queen's  College  l  takes  this  method  to 
inform  the  Publick  that  the  business  of  said  College  is 
still  carried  on  at  the  North  Branch  of  Raritan,  in  the 
county  of  Somerset,  where  good  accommodations  for  young 
Gentlemen  may  be  had  in  reputable  families,  at  as  moderate 
prices  as  in  any  part  of  the  state.  This  neighborhood  is 
so  far  distant  from  Head-Quarters  that  not  any  of  the 
troops  are  stationed  here,  neither  does  the  army  in  -the 
least  interfere  with  the  business  of  the  College. 

The  Faculty  also  take  the  liberty  to  remind  the  Publick, 
that  the  Representatives  of  this  state  have  enacted  a  law 
by  which  Students  of  Colleges  are  exempted  from  military 
duty. 

Raritan,  January  24,  1779. 

— The  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  II.,  No.  60,  January  27, 
1779. 

Bridge-Town,  Cumberland  County,  January  8,  1779. 

Will  be  sold  by  private  sale,  to  any  person  applying 
before  the  first  day  of  March  next,  That  very  valuable 
plantation  whereon  Ephraim  Mills,  Esq ;  lately  lived, 
situate  on  Cohansey  Creek,  in  the  county  of  Cumberland, 
and  State,  of  New- Jersey,  with  the  crop  of  wheat  in  the 
ground,  and  the  stock  of  horses,  cattle,  sheep  and  swine, 
or  any  part  of  said  stock.  The  said  farm  is  situate  in  a 
very  healthy,  agreeable  part  of  the  county,  is  handy  to 
meeting,  market,  mill,  &c.  containing  about  180  acres, 
eighty  of  which  are  exceeding  good  meadow,  the  whole  or 
greatest  part  in  English  grass,  whereon  may  be  grazed 
forty  head  of  cattle  yearly,  besides  keeping  a  large  dairy ; 
the  upland  is  likewise  exceeding  fertile  and  good.  For 
further  particulars,  enquire  of  EPHRAIM  MILLS,  or 
URIAH  MILLS,  on  the  premises. — The  Pennsylvania 
Gazette,  January  27,  1779. 

1  Now  Rutgevs  College. 


52          NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [  1779 


TO  BE  LET, 

A  PLANTATION  in  Gloucester  county,  New-Jersey, 
with  a  large  quantity  of  banked  meadow ;  situated  on  the 
river,  opposite  to  Chester.  Apply  to  JOHN  LARDNER, 

in  Second  street. 


To  be  LET  for  a  term  of  years, 

And  entered  on  the  beginning  of  March  next, 

A  PLANTATION  situate  in  Manington  precinct  and 
county  of  Salem,  West  Jersey,  two  and  a  half  miles  from 
the  town  of  Salem,  containing  six  hundred  acres  of  Land, 
three  hundred  of  which  is  improved  meadow  and  upwards 
of  one  hundred  acres  cleared  upland,  the  rest  well  wooded. 
There  are  on  the  premises  a  good  dwelling-house,  kitchen 
and  dairy-house,  and  an  excellent  well  of  water  near  the 
door,  a  large  barn  in  which  are  stalls  for  feeding  sixteen 
oxen,  also  sundry  out-houses,  a  fine  thriving  young  bearing 
orchard  of  about  three  hundred  trees  of  the  best  kind  of 
grafted  fruit  (allowed  to  be  equal  if  not  superior  to  any 
orchard  of  the  same  number  of  trees  and  age  in  the  county.) 
The  place  is  very  suitable  for  feeding  cattle  or  for  a  large 
dairy,  and  raising  hogs.  For  terms  apply  to  the  subscriber 
in  Philadelphia. 

Jan.  24.      '  KICHAKD   WISTAE 

—The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  January  30,  1779. 


A   WET   NURSE. 

A  healthy,  sober  woman,  living  in  the  Jerseys,  about 
20  miles  from  Philadelphia,  having  a  fine  breast  of  milk 
two  weeks  old,  would  be  glad  to  take  a  child  from  a 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  53 

reputable  family.  She  can  be  well  recommended.  Apply 
to  the  printer. — The  Pennsylvania  Evening  Post,  February 
2,  1779. 

TKEXTON,   FEBRUARY   3. 

Extract  of  a  letter  from  Monmouth  Court-house,  January 

29,  1779. 

"The  Tory-Free-Booters,  who  have  their  haunts  and 
caves  in  the  pines,  and  have  been  for  some  time  past  a  k 
terror  to  the  inhabitants  of  this  county,  have,  during  the 
course  of  the  present  week,  met  with  a  very  eminent  dis- 
aster. On  Tuesday  evening  last  Capt.  Benjamin  Dennis, 
who  lately  killed  the  infamous  robber  Fagan  with  a  party 
of  his  militia,  went  in  pursuit  of  three  of  the  most  noted  of 
the  Pine-Banditti,  and  was  so  fortunate  as  to  fall  in  with 
them,  and  kill  them  on  the  spot. — Their  names  are  Stephen 
Bourse,  alias  Emmans,  Stephen  West  and  Ezekiel  Wil- 
liams. Yesterday  they  were  brought  up  to  this  place,  and 
two  of  them,  it  is  said  will  be  hanged  in  chains.  This 
signal  piece  of  service  was  effected  through  the  instru- 
mentality of  one  John  Van  Kirk,  who  was  prevailed  upon 
to  associate  with  them  on  purpose  to  discover  their  prac- 
tices, and  to  lead  them  into  our  hands.  He  conducted 
himself  with  so  much  address  that  the  robbers,  and  espe- 
cially the  three  above-named,  who  were  the  leading  villains, 
looked  upon  him  as  one  of  their  body,  kept  him  constantly 
with  them,  and  entrusted  him  with  all  their  designs. 

"Van  Kirk,  at  propeT  seasons,  gave  intelligence  of  their 
movements  to  Capt..  Dennis,  who  conducted  himself  ac- 
cordingly.— They  were  on  the  eve  of  setting  off  for  New 
York,  to  make  sale  of  their  plunder,  when  Van  Kirk  in- 
formed Capt  Dennis  of  the  time  of  their  intended  de^ 
parture,  (which  was  to  have  been  on  Tuesday  night  last) 
and  of  the  course  they  would  take  to  their  boats:  In 
consequence  of  which,  and  agreeable  to  the  directions  of 


54          NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779 

Van  Kirk,  the  Capt.  and  a  small  party  of  his  militia 
planted  themselves  at  Rock-Pond,  near  the  sea  shore,  and 
shot  Bourke,  West  and  Williams  in  the  manner  above  re- 
lated. We  were  in  hopes  at  first  of  keeping  Van  Kirk 
under  the  rose,  but  the  secret  is  out,  and  of  course  he  must 
fly  the  country,  for  the  tories  are  so  highly  exasperated 
against  him,  that  death  will  certainly  be  his  fate,  if  he 
does  not  speedily  leave  Monmouth.  The  Whigs  are 
soliciting  contributions  in  his  favour,  and  from  what  I 
have  already  seen,  have  no  doubt  that  they  will  present  him 
with  a  very  handsome  sum. — I  question  whether  the  de- 
struction of  the  British  fleet  could  diffuse  more  universal 
joy  through  the  inhabitants  of  Monmouth,  than  has  the 
death  of  the  above  three  most  egregious  villains. — A  cer- 
tain John  Gilbertson,  of  the  same  groupe  of  villains,  was 
killed  about  three  weeks  ago,  by  a  party  of  the  Militia 
near  Tom's-River. 

To  all  whom  it  may  concern : 

State  of  New  Jersey,  ss. 

NOTICE  is  hereby  given,  that  a  Court  of  Admiralty  will 
be  held  at  the  house  of  Gilbert  Barton,  Innholder,  in  Allen- 
town,  in  the  county  of  Monmouth,  on  Wednesday  the  2-ith 
day  of  February  next,  at  ten  of  the  clock  in  the  forenoon, 
then  and  there  to  try  the  truth  of  the  facts  alledged  in  the 
bill  of  John  Cook,  (who  as  well,  &c.)  against  the  sloop  or 
vessel  called  the  Fanny,  lately  commanded  by  Samuel  Bell, 
with  her  tackle,  apparel,  furniture  and  cargo:  To  the 
•end  and  intent  that  the  owner  or  owners  of  the  said  vessel, 
or  any  person  or  persons  concerned  therein,  may  appear 
and  shew  cause,  if  any  they  have,  why  the  said  vessel 
with  her  tackle,  apparel,  furniture  and  cargo  should  not 
be  condemned  according  to  the  prayer  of  the  said  bill. 
By  order  of  the  Judge, 

JOSEPH  BI.OOMFIELD,  Register. 

Allentown,  Jan.  28,  1779. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  55 


WILLIAM    IN  NESS, 

KETURNS  his  most  grateful  thanks  to  his  friends  for  past 
favours,  and  solicits  the  continuance  of  their  custom. 
Acquaints  them  he  has  a  quantity  of  BEER  to  deliver  at 
the  current  prices.  He  begs  the  favour  of  those  who  have 
casks  of  his  to  return  them,  others  who  gave  money  as  a 
pledge  for  casks,  are  requested  to  let  him  have  them  again, 
and  the  money  shall  be  returned. 

N".  B.  Those  who  have  sold  said  Innes  their  grain,  are 
desired  to  forward  it  as  soon  as  possible.  He  gives  the 
current  prices  for  barley. 

Burlington,  Jan.  21,  1778. 

All  persons  indebted  to  the  estates  of  Joseph  and  Rebecca 
Ong,  of  Waterford  township,  Gloucester  county,  deceased, 
or  either  of  them,  are  requested  to  make  immediate  pay- 
ment; and  those  that  have  any  demands  against  said 
estates,  do  bring  in  their  accounts  fairly  proved,  that  the 
same  may  be  adjusted  and  paid  by 

JOHN  WEBB,  Administrator 


TO   BE   SOLD, 

THE  FARM  whereon  the  subscriber  now  lives,  situate 
within  5  miles  of  Cranberry  town,  7  of  English  town  and 
6  of  Spotswood,  containing  near  150  acres,  has  a  large 
proportion  of  woodland,  about  50  acres,  and  a  sufficiency 
of  meadow  can  be  made,  there  being  several  acres  of  swamp 
clear'd  and  ditch' d  for  that  purpose.  On  the  land  is  a 
convenient  dwelling-house,  kitchen  and  cellar,  a  brook  and 
well  of  good  water,  large  Dutch  barn  covered  with  cedar, 
about  which  have  been  cut  several  tons  of  the  best  of  hay, 
an  excellent  orchard,  cyder  mill  and  press.  The  stock  and 


5G  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

farming  utensils  are  also  for  sale.  The  purchaser  will  be 
put  in  possession  of  the  premises  by  the  first  of  May,  or 
sooner  if  required. 

JOSEPH   VICKERS, 

Cranberry,  State  of  ^ew-Jersey,  Jan.  27,  1779. 


TO  BE  SOLD  BY 

THOMAS  SCOTT, 

111   TRENTON, 

WEST-INDIA  rum  by  the  hogshead  or  barrel ;    bohea  tea ; 
broadcloths  ;   linens,  and  several  other  articles. 


TO  BE  SOLD, 

For  good  continental  money  of  any  emission. 

A  LOT  of  land,  with  a  dwelling-house  thereon  which  has 
four  rooms  on  the  first  floor,  and  is  two  stories  high, 
fronting  the  main  street  in  Trenton,  with  a  well  of  good 
water  near  the  back  door;  also  a  large  building  for  hay 
and  stabling  near  tho  house,  very  convenient  for  a.  person 
who  keeps  a  team,  one  having  been  kept  there  for  many 
years  past;  and  the  lot,  which  extends  back  to  the  other 
street,  has  some  very  good  fruit  trees  thereon,  and  is  ex- 
cellent for  a  garden.  Any  persons  inclining  to  purchase, 
may  be  further  informed  by  applying  to, 


Who  has  for  sale  a  parcel  of  large  buck  and  some  neat  doe 
skins  well  dressed. 

ALL  persons  indebted  to  the  estate  of  John  Chambers,2 
of    Trenton,    in   the   county   of   Hunterdon,    deceased,    on 

1  For  a  sketch  of  Stacy  Potts,  see  New  Jersey  Archives,  2d  Series,  1  :  238. 

2  For  some  notices  of  the  Chambers  family  of  Trenton,   see  New  Jersey 
Archives,  20  :   177. 


1770]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  57 

bond,  bill  or  book  debt,  are  requested  to  make  immediate 
payment;  and  all  those  that  have  any  demands  against 
said  estate,  are  requested  to  bring  their  accounts  properly 
attested,  in  order  to  receive  their  just  dues. 

SUSANNA   CHAMBERS,    ExCCUtriX 
OBADIAH   HOWELL,   Executor. 

Trenton,  Jan  30,  1779. 


CAME  to  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber,  living  in 
Piscataway,  about  the  8th  of  December  last,  two  small 
black  horses,  with  small  stars  in  their  foreheads.  The 
owner  or  owners  of  said  horses  are  desired  to  apply,  prove 
property,  pay  charges,  and  take  them  away. 

JOHN    HAMPTON. 


THORN  AND  CURTIS, 

AT    CROSSWICKS, 

WILL  give  the  highest  price  in  current  money,  for  any 
quantity  of  Fox,  Raccoon,  Mink,  or  Muskrat  SKINS. 

FOR  SALE,  a  tract  of  land,  situate  in  Cumberland  county, 
containing  about  400  acres,  within  two  miles  of  naviga- 
tion, The  whole  woodland.  For  terms  apply  to 

ROBERT    MONTGOMERY. 

Jan  29. 

— The  New  Jersey  Gazette,   Vol.  II.,  No.  61,  February 
3,  1779. 

TRENTON,   FEBRUARY   10, 

Wednesday  last  His  Excellency  General  WASHINGTON 
and  LADY,  with  their  retinue,  passed  through  this  town,  on 
their  way  to  Camp. 


58    •  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

We  hear  that  on  Monday  se'nnight  three  prizes,  taken 
near  Sandy-Hook,  were  brought  into  Raritan  river,  one 
of  which  had  a  valuable  cargo  on  board. 


TO   BE   SOLD,, 

By  the  subscriber  at  Trenton, 

RUM  by  the  hogshead,  bohea  tea  by  the  chest,  sugar  by 
the  barrel,  best  green  tea,  by  the  quarter  chest,  tanners  oil 
by  the  barrel. 

N.  33.  The  subscriber  has  also  for  sale,  an  excellent 
breeding  mare,  for  which  any  good  emission  of  Continental 
money  will  be  taken.. 

NATHAN    BE  AXES. 
WAN  TED    IM  MEDIATELY 

Journeymen  TAYLORS, 

To  whom  the  greatest  encouragement  will  be  given  by 
JOHN  CUNNINGHAM,  taylor,  Trenton, —  — Also  wanted  to 
purchase,  a  likely  active  Negro  boy,  between  10  and  14 
years  old. 

THOMAS    MOODY, 

Opposite  the  Rev.  Dr.  Witherspoon's,  in  Princeton, 

HAS  FOR  SALE, 

EXCELLENT  bladder  snuff  warranted  as  good  as  in  Phila- 
delphia, by  taking  a  quantity  the  purchaser  shall  have  it 
as  low  as  it  can  be  purchased  there. — Said  Moody  will  take 
in  payment  the  two  emissions  now  called  in,  dated  May 
20,  1777,  and  April  11,  177$,  until  the  middle  of  March 
next,  and  no  longer,  Likewise  bohea  ten,  warranted  good — 
payment  to  be  made  in  wheat  or  Indian  corn. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  59 

WAS  in  the  possession  of  Hendrick  Probasco,  at  or  near 
Somerset  Court-house,  the  28th  of  April,  1778,  a  dark 
brown  horse,  about  15  hands  high,  by  Captain  Henry 
Oharo,  to  be  well  fed  for  three  weeks,  and  then  the  said 
Oharo  was  to  take  him  away,  but  I  did  hear  of  the  said 
Oharo  till  November,  when  he  informed  me  by  letter  that 
he  would  come  that  month,  I  waited  till  the  first  of  Feb- 
ruary, and  then  thought  proper  to  advertise  the  said  horse 
that  Captain  Oharo,  or  one  of  his  attornies,  may  come  and 
pay  for  the  keeping  of  said  horse,  otherwise  he  will  be  sold 
at  publick  vendue,  on  the  15th  inst,  at  the  house  of  John 
Bennet,  at  Somerset  Court-house. 

Feb.  6,  1779. 

Arnold,  Kenney,  and  Co.  . 

Have  opened  a  STORE  next  door  to  Col.  Henry  Remson's, 
in  Morristown,  and  have  for  sale  for  cash  or  country 
produce,  by  wholesale  and  retail, 

BLUE  broadcloths  Muslins 

Black  and  brown  do  Cambricks 

Plain  and  spotted  swanskin  Lawns 

Red  and  white  plains  Barcelona  handkerchiefs 

Blue  cassimer  Check  lined  ditto 

Red,  white,  blue  and  black  serges  Mode 

Red,  white,  buff  and  yellow  flannels  Taffety 

Duffel  baiges  Metal  buttons 

Black,  blue  and  green  drawboys  Mohair  ditto 

Black,  blue  and  striped  callimancoes  Sewing  silk 

Camblets  Ditto  thread 

Marquisates  Pack  and  pound  pins 

Mecklenburgh  Spelling  books 

Corded  dimities  Testaments 

Jeanes  Blank  books 

Silk  and  worsted  stockings  Sugar,  coffee  and  tea 

Lace,  ribbons  Indigo 

Pelongs  Rum  and  cyder  spirits  by  the  gallon, 

Persian  &c.  &c.  &c. 

Also  a  few  hogsheads  of  good  old  spirits  by  the  hogshead. 

— New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  II.,  No.  62,  February  10, 
1779. 


60          NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779 


To  all  whom  it  may  concern : 

NOTICE  is  hereby  given,  that  a  Court  of  Admiralty 
will  be  held  at  the  house  of  Gilbert  Barton,  Inn- 
holder,  in  Allentown,  in  the  county  of  Monmouth, 
on  Wednesday  the  24th  day  of  February  inst.  at  three 
o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  then  and  there  to  try  the  truth  of 
the  facts  alledged  in  the  bill  of  John  Ohedwick,  (who  as 
well,  &c.)  against  the  schooner  or  vessel  called  the  Hope, 
lately  commanded  by  Henry  Stanfield,  with  her  tackle,  ap- 
parel, furniture  and  cargo :  To  the  end  and  intent  that  the 
owner  or  owners  of  the  said  vessel,  or  any  person  or  persons 
concerned  therein,  may  appear  and  shew  cause,  if  any 
they  have,  why  the  said  vessel,  with  her  tackle,  apparel, 
furniture  and  cargo  should  not  be  condemned  according  to 
the  prayer  of  the  said  bill. 

By  order  of  the  Judge. 
JOSEPH  BLOOMFIELD,  Register. 


WHEREAS  on  October  4th  and  7th,  a  number  of  prisoners 
broke  Trenton  gaol,  who  I  advertised  by  order  of  Joseph 
Inslee,  High-Sheriff  of  the  county  of  Hunterdon.  One 
of  the  prisoners  has  since  been  taken,  which  said  Joseph 
Inslee  refused  paying  the  reward,  but  imposed  it  upon  me, 
who  I  think  had  no  right  to  pay  it:  This  is  therefore  to 
inform  the  Publick,  that  I  am  determined  to  pay  no  re- 
ward, if  taken  up  after  the  first  of  February. 

HUGH  RUSSELL,  late  gaoler 

Trenton,   Feb.    9th,   1779. 


To  be  sold  at  publick  vendue  on  Tuesday  the  2d  day  of 
March  next  on  the  Premises,  the  dwelling  house  and  lot 
of  land,  whereon  Mr.  Jacob  Kemper  now  lives,  situate 
in  Elizabeth  Town,  in  the  county  of  Essex.  In  the  house 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  61 

are  seven  rooms  with  six  fire  places  on  the  lower  floor,  and 
three  rooms  on  the  upper.  The  lot  consists  of  about  three 
quarters  of  an  acre  of  land,  and  has  on  it  a,  good  stable 
and  chairhouse,  with  a  garden  containing  a  variety  of 
the  best  fruit  trees  and  a  good  asparagus  bed.  As  the 
money  will  not  be  immediately  wanted,  good  bonds  on 
interest  with  security,  or  loan-office  certificates  will  be 
taken  in  payment. 

ELIAS    BOTJDINOT, 

Feb.  6,  1779. 

To  BE  SOLD  by  ALEXANDER  CALHOUN,  at  Mr.  David 
Pinkerten's  store  in  Trenton,  a  few  hogsheads  of  excellent 
Jamaica  spirits  and  West  India  rum,  French  rum  in 
tierces ;  also  a  quantity  of  bohea  tea. 


Feb.   10,  1779. 
A  Farm  to  be  sold, 

Containing  375  acres  of  very  good  land,  part  of  it 
cleared,  a  sufficient  quantity  of  wood  on  it,  some  good 
meadow  and  more  may  be  easily  made.  It  lays  in  the 
pleasant  and  plentiful  neighbourhood  of  Raritan,  in  the 
county  of  Somerset,  about  one  mile  and  a  half  distant  from 
that  beautiful  river  on  the  North  side;  there  is  a  good 
farm-house  on  it  almost  new.  Any  person  inclining  to 
purchase,  may  be  informed  of  the  terms  by  Samuel  S. 
Coejemans  at  Raritan,  or  John  Neil  son  at  Brunswick. 

February  2,  1779. 

NOTICE  is  hereby  given  to  all  persons  who  have  any 
claims,  interest,  or  demands  to,  in,  o>r  against  the  estates 
of  George  Stainsforth,  William  Steel  and  Thomas 
Hooper,  to  appear  with  their  accounts,  vouchers  and  evi- 
dences before  the  subscribers,  at  Princeton,  the  eighth 


62          NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779 

day  of  March  next,  in  order  to  have  the  same  adjusted  and 
settled,  and  all  persons  indebted  to  the  above  named  or  to 
Bernardns  Legrange,  Frederick  Wiser,  jun.  Janies  Collins, 
John  Tack,  Nathaniel  Munrow,  Richard  Davise,  John 
Brown,  Duncan  M'Oarty,  John  Ritehman,  Peter  Bar- 
berrie, Alexander  Watson,  Robert  Grimes,- Oliver  Delancy, 
Andrew  Mercereau,  John  Perrine,  jun.  Samuel  Smith, 
John  Cook,  Robert  Martin,  Stephen  Skinner,  Oliver 
Barberrie,  Robert  R,  Crow,  Andrew  Barberrie,  Samuel 
Warne,  David  Goslin,  Robert  Campbell,  and  Cortlandt 
Skinner,  are  desired  to  make  speedy  payments  to  the  sub- 
scribers ;  and  any  persons  possessed  of  any  effects,  monies, 
bonds,  bills,  notes,  mortgages,  books  of  accounts,  or  any 
other  instrument  of  writing  what  so  ever,  belonging  to 
either  of  the  above  persons,  and  do  not  make  immediate 
discovery  thereof  to  the  subscribers,  will  be  proceeded 
against  as  the  law  directs. — And  all  those  indebted  to  the 
subscribers  for  goods  bought  at  their  several  vendues,  are 
requested  to  make  speedy  payment  to  avoid  trouble. 

JOHN  LLOYD,  )     Commis- 

WILLIAM  sc UDDER    j      sioners. 
Middlesex  County,  Feb.  1,  1779. 


Somerset,  ss.  WHEREAS  inquisition  has  been  found,  and 
final  judgment  entered  thereon  in  favour 
of  the  state,  against  Richard  Cochran,  late  of  the  western 
precinct  in  the  county  of  Somerset — NOTICE  is  hereby 
given  that  the  plantation,  tract  of  land  and  premises 
whereon  the  said  Richard  Cochran  lately  lived,  pleasantly 
situated  in  the  precinct  and  county  aforesaid,  within  one 
mile  and  a  half  from  Princeton,  together  with  the  build- 
ings thereon,  will  be  exposed  to  sale  at  publick  vendue  on 
Monday,  the  15th  day  of  March  next.  The  vendue  to  be 
held  on  the  premises,  and  to  begin  at  eleven  o'clock  in  the 
forenoon.  The  premises  will  be  shewn  at  the  day  of  sale, 


3  770  I  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  63 

and  a  title  made  for  the  same  pursuant  to  an  act  of  Assem- 
bly of  this  state,  by 

JACOB  BERGEN  )     Commis- 

HENDRICK  WILSON    )     sioners. 
February  S,  1779. 

Middlesex,  ss.  WHEREAS  inquisitions  have  been  found, 
and  final  judgment  entered  thereon  in 
favour  of  the  state  of  New  Jersey,  against  the  persons 
herein-after  mentioned — NOTICE  is  hereby  given  that  the 
houses  and  lands,  and  all  the  real  estate  lately  belonging 
to  them,  that  is  to  say,  all  the  lands,  tenements  and  real 
estate  belonging,  or  lately  belonging  to  Andrew  Mercereau, 
David  Goslin,  Alexander  Watson,  John  Ferine,  jun. 
Samuel  Smith,  John  Cook  and  Eobert  Martin,  situate, 
lying,  and  being  in  the  southward  of  Amboy,  in  the  county 
of  Middlesex,  will  be  exposed  to  sale  at  publick  vendue 
on  Wednesday  and  Thursday  the  10th  and  llth  days  of 
March  next :  at  ten  o'clock  in  the  forenoon,  and  continue 
to  be  held  at  the  premises  respectively,  till  all  the  above 
estates  are  sold — The  lands,  tenements,  and  real  estates 
of  Cortland  Skinner,  Stephen  Skinner,  Robert  Richard 
Crowe  and  Samuel  Warne,  lying  in  the  southward  of 
Amboy  aforesaid,  will  be  exposed  to  sale  at  publick  vendue 
at  the  house  of  Capt.  James  Morgan,  in  Cheesquakes,  on 
Monday  the  15th  day  of  March  next,  at  ten  o'clock  in  the 
forenoon — The  lands,  tenements,  and  real  estates  of  Bar- 
nardus  Legrange,  Frederick  Wiser,  James  Collins,  and 
John  Brown,  situate  in  New  Brunswick,  will  be  exposed 
to  sale  at  the  house  of  William  Marriner,  innkeeper,  in 
New  Brunswick,  on  Thursday  the  18th  day  of  March 
next ;  the  sale  to  begin  at  eleven  o'clock  in  the  forenoon — 
The  lands,  tenements,  and  real  estates  of  William  Steel  on 
George's  road,  and  Robert  Campbell,  near  David  William- 
son's tavern,  will  be  sold  on  Friday  the  19th  day  of  March 
next  on  the  premises;  and  the  lands,  tenements,  and  real 


64  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

estate  of  George  Stainsforth,  situate  near  Princeton,  will 
be  sold  at  vendue  on  Saturday  the  20th  day  of  March  next, 
on  the  premises,  the  sale  to  begin  at  ten  o'clock  in  the 
forenoon.  Attendance  will  be  given  at  the  times  and 

places  abovementioned,  arid  a  more  particular  description 
of  the  lands  given.  Also  deeds  made  to  the  purchasers, 
agreeable  to  act  of  Assembly,  by 

JOHN  LLOYD,      )      Commis- 
WM  sc  UDDER,     J      sioners. 

N.  B.  There  will  also  be  exposed  to  sale,  on  the  20th 
of  March  next,  three  small  houses  and  lots  in  Princeton, 
in  the  county  of  Middlesex,  lately  belonging  to  Richard 
Cochran,  against  whom  inquisition  has  been  found,  and 
final  judgment  entered  in  Somerset  county. 

Middlesex  county,  Feb.  8,  1779. 

—The  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  II.,  No.  62,  February 
10,  1779. 

TRENTON,  FEBRUARY   17 

Camp,  Middle-Brook,  February  Oth,  1779. 

THE  Commander  in  Chief  approved  of  the  orders  issued 
by  Major-General  Lord  Stirling,  during  his  command  at 
this  Camp,  and  thanks  him  for  his  endeavours  to  preserve 
order  and  discipline,  and  the  property  of  the  farmers  in 
the  vicinity  of  the  Camp.  He  doubts  not  but  the  officers 
of  every  rank,  from  a  just  sence  of  the  importance  of 
securing  to  others  the  blessings  they  themselves  are  con- 
tending for,  will  use  their  utmost  vigilance  to  maintain 
those  privileges  and  prevent  abuses,  as  nothing  can  redound 
more  to  their  personal  honour  and  the  reputation  of  their 
respective  corps. 

Extract  from  General  Orders, 

ALEX.    SCAMMELL,    Adjt    Gen 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  65 

Extract  of  a  letter  from  a  Correspondent  at  Woodbridge, 
dated  February  10,  1779. 

"Last  Tuesday  about  3  o'clock  in  the  morning,  a 
party  of  New-Levies  from  Sta  ten-Island,  came  over  into 
Woodbridge,  and  marched  up  into  the  town  undiscovered, 
to  the  house  of  Charles  Jackson,  in  which  there  happened 
to  lay  that  night  a  scout  of  Continental  troops  from 
Bonem-Town,  consisting  of  twelve  men.—  The  centinel 
did  not  discover  them  till  they  had  well  nigh  surrounded 
the  house,  it  being  very  dark,  when  he  fired  and  ran  off, 
making  his  escape;  the  rest  being  unfortunately  asleep, 
were  taken  by  surprize  without  making  any  resistance. 
Their  principal  object  was  Captain  Nathaniel  .Fitz  Ran- 
dolph, who  lived  at  this  house. —  He  had  just  returned 
from  Staten-Island,  having  been  over  there  with  a  small 
party  chief  of,  the  night,  and  was  but  a  few  minutes  in 
the  house  before  he  was  alarmed  by  the  firing  of  the 
centinel,  when  they  instantly  rushed  into  the  house  and 
seized  him  and  Mr.  Jackson,  with  the  scout  as  above. 
The  party  were  gone  before  the  inhabitants  had  time  to- 
collect,  without  doing  any  other  damage  except  plundering 
the  house  of  a  few  trifling  articles,  taking  the  shoe-buckles 
out  of  the  womens  shoes,  which  was  as  little  or  more  than 
could  be  expected,  considering  the  usual  practice  of  the 
British  troops,  as  the  men  were  restrained  from  plundering 
by  their  officer,  said  to  be  a  Ca,ptain  Ryerson,  of  Buskirk's 
regiment,  who  seemed  actuated  by  principles  of  honour 
and  humanity;  and  upon  this  occasion,  imitated  the 
laudable  example  of  Captain  Randolph,  who  has  not  only 
distinguished  himself  by  his  activity  and  bravery,  but 
by  his  politeness  and  generosity  towards  such  as  he  hath 
taken  prisoners,  never  allowing  his  men  to  plunder — -a 
practice  most  ignominous  and  base,  by  which  Britons  have,, 
in  the  present  contest  with  America,,  greatly  disgraced 
themselves,  and  deserve  to  be  forever  despised,  in  which 

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66          I^EW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1770 

their  principal  officers  have  joined,  and  so  sunk  themselves 
to  a  level  with  the  meanest  pilfering  soldier." 

By  a  Gentleman  who  left  New-York  on  Saturday  last, 
we  learn,  that  the  enemy  there,  are  very  busy  in  preparing 
for  another  embarkation,  but  the  place  of  their  destination 
remains  a  profound  secret. 

Yesterday  a  Gentleman  came  to  town,  who  informs, 
that  the  enemy  are  collecting  a  number  of  boats  at  Billop's- 
Point,  on  Staten-Island,  which  has  occasioned  the  militia 
in  the  vicinity  of  Woodbridge  and  Brunswick  to  assemble, 
which,  it  is  hoped,  will  frustrate  any  designs  the  enemy 
may  have  against  those  parts  of  this  state. 

*£*  The  Piece,  signed  a  JERSEY  FARMER,  is  come  to 
hand,  and  shall  have  a  place  in  our  next. 


A  List  in  the  Post  Office  at  Trenton. 

Miss  Nancy  Ballard,  Brunswick, 

C.   John   Cain,   mariner;     Christopher   Cobright,   Ben- 
jamin Crump,  in  the  army;   Charles  Cox,  Esq.,  Jersey, 

E.   Robert  Eastburn,  Brunswick, 

II.   Capt.  John  Henry,  Obediah  Holmes,  Eobert  Hoops, 
Esq,  Jersey, 

K.   Charles  M'Knight,  Surgeon  General,  Jersey. 

L.   John  Lyle,  Jersey. 

M.   The  Hon.  R,  Morris,  Esq.  Benjamin  Martin,  Archi- 
bald Mercer,  2,  Jersey. 

X.  William    Neilson,    Plucke'min;    Hannah    Nichols, 
Jersey. 

R.   John  Robertson,  Jersey. 

S.   John  J.  Schenck,  2,  Jersey. 

T.   Major  Trent,  D.  Thompson,  Jersey, 

B.  SMITH,  Postmaster. 

Eeb.  16,  1779. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  67 

Just  published,  and  to  be  sold  at  the  Printing-Office  in 
Trenton  (Price  Five  Shillings). 

POEMS 

on  several  occurrences  in  the 

PRESENT  GRAND  STRUGGLE 

For  AMEKICAN  LIBEKTY: 

CONTAINING, 

1.  A  contest  between  the  Eagle  and  the  Crane.  2.  A 
dialogue  between  Col.  Paine  and  Miss  Clorinda  Fairchild. 
3  St.  Claire's  retreat  and  Burgoyne' s  defeat.  4.  The  first 
chapter  of  the  lamentations  of  General  Burgoyne.  5.  The 
fall  of  Burgoyne.  6.  The  vanity  of  trusting  in  an  arm  of 
flesh.  7.  The  tragical  death  of  Miss  Jane  M'Crea.  8.  An 
answer  for  the  messengers  of  the  nation.1 

They  may  also  be  had  of  Joseph  Inslee,  Esq.,  at  Pen- 
nington,  Timothy  Brush,  jun.  in  Hopewell,  John  Abbott, 
John  Ringo  and  Nathan  Hickson,  in  Amwell.  • 

Wanted  immediately, 

A  SCHOOL-MASTER,  who  can.  be  well  recommended  for 
his  abilities  and  moral  character.  For  particulars  en- 
quire of  Timothy  Brush,  jun.  in  Hopewell. 

1  This  volume,  by  the  Rev.  Wheeler  Case,  of  Dutchess  county,  N.  Y., 
was  first  printed  at  New  Haven,  1778,  under  a  title  slightly  different 
from  that  above.  For  notices  of  the  author,  see  Gillett's  History  Pres- 
byterian Church,  1  :  146-147,  151,  378.  A  new  edition,  edited  by  the 
Rev.  Stephen  Dodd,  of  East  Haven,  Conn.,  was  published  in  New  York, 
1852. 


68          NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  DEVOLUTION.       [1779 

PUBLICK  notice  is  hereby  given  to  all  Persons  having 
any  claims,  interest,  or  demands  in,  or  upon  the  estates 
of  the  following  fugitives  and  offenders,  (against  whom 
inquisitions  hath  been  found  and  final  judgment  entered 
thereon  in  favour  of  the  state)  viz.  John  Allen,  Christo- 
pher and  John  Voght,  George  Castner,  Peter  Young, 
James  Smith,  Christian  Rope,  Conrad  Eagler,  Michael 
Dennis,  Joseph  Lee,  Barnardus  Legrange,  Joseph  Merril, 
Edward  Taylor,  Bartholmew  Thatcher,  Andrew  Pickins, 
Nicholas  Pickle1,  Jesse  Wall,  Samuel  Sharp,  Roeloff 
Roelofsen,  Daniel  Coxe,  Absalom  Bainbridge,  George 
Cyphers,  Isaac  Allen,  and  Thomas  Skelton,  to  exhibit  their 
respective  accounts,  fairly  stated  in  writing,  to  the  Court 
of  Common  Pleas  in  the  county  of  Hunterdon,  or  in  the 
vacation  thereof  to  any  two  or  more  of  the  Judges  of 
said  Court,  who  are  empowered  and  directed  by  a  late 
law  of  the  state  of  New  Jersey  to  receive  and  adjust 
the  same,  within  twelve  months  from  the  date  hereof: 
And  also  all  persons  who  have  in  their  power  and  custody 
any  goods  or  chattels,  bonds,  bills,  deeds  of  convey- 
ances, or  any  writing  or  effects  whatsoever;  or  are  any 
wise  indebted  to  the  said  offenders,  and  neglect  to  make 
discovery  thereof  immediately  to  the  subscribers,  or  any 
or  either  of  them,  may  depend  upon  being  dealt  with 
according  to  law. 

Jared  Sexion,       1     ^ 

TVT  21       •  i   JT     j.     (     Commis- 

Nathaniel  Hunt,    > 

sioners. 
Peter  J^runner,     J 

ITunterdon  County. 
Feb.  11,  1779. 

N".  B.  Two  of  the  Judges  of  said  court  will  attend  at 
the  house  of  John  Ringo,  in  Amwell,  on  Thursday  the  first 
day  of  April  next,  for  the  purpose  of  receiving  and  ad- 
justing the  demands  of  the  respective  claimants. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  GO 


TO   BE   SOLD, 
BY  WILLIAM  RICHARDS, 

At  Lamberton,  half  a  mile  below  Trenton: 
A  Quantity  of  FLAX  in  the  sheaf,  already  well  rotted. 

THIS  is  to  give  notice  to  Samuel  Morrison,  to  come  for 
his  salt  by  the  25th  instant,  or  the  subscriber  will  be 
obliged  to  make  sale  of  it. 

ENOCH    ANDERSON.1 

Trenton,  Feb.  17,  1779. 

TO   BE  SOLD, 

Or  rented  for  a  term  of  years, 

SPEEDWELL  saw-mill  and  lands,  formerly  known  by  the 
name  of  Handle's  Mill,  lying  on  the  east  branch  of  Wad- 
ing-River,  in  Burlington  County,  West  New-Jersey,  with 
a  good  log  waggon  and  four  horses,  about  thirty  head  of 
horned  cattle,  chiefly  milch  cows  and  heiffers,  a  plough, 
harrow,  hoes,  axes,  and  other  farming  utensils,  &c.  &c. 
There  is  on  the  premises  a  good  new  two  story  house, 
framed  and  covered  with  cedar,  good  cellars  walled  up  with 
stone,  good  brick  hearths  and  oven,  a  good  log  house  for  the 
sawyer,  a  large  commodious  barn  and  stabling  for  sixteen 
or  eighteen  horses,  a  good 'bearing  peach  orchard,  and  a 
young  apple  orchard.  The  mill  goes  with  two  saws,  newly 
repaired,  and  the  dam  raised  the  last  fall.  The  mill,  pine 
lands  and  cedar  swamps,  will  be  sold  with  or  without  near 
two  hundred  acres  of  iron  ore,  as  good  as  the  State  affords, 
with  about  seven  hundred  acres  of  West-Jersey  rights 
not  laid  out.  The  horn  cattle,  and  team  as  best  suits  the 


1  For    a    note    on    the    Anderson    family    of    Trenton,    see    New    Jersey 
Archives,  20:  213. 


70  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

purchaser. — If  rented,  security  if  required — There  like- 
wise may  be  made  with  very  little  cost  a  great  quantity  of 
good  meadow. 

The  above  may  be  entered  on  as  soon  as  suits  the  pur- 
chaser. Any  person  may  view  the  above  described  lands, 
&c.  by  applying  to  John  Jacobs,  overseer  on  the  premises, 
and  for  further  particulars  to  the  owner  in  Philadelphia. 

BENJAMIN  RANDOLPH:. 

iST.  B.  The  above  is  sold  because  the  local  situation  of 
the  owner  renders  it  impossible  for  him  to  attend  it 
properly. 

New  Jersey,  February  8,  1779. 

TO   BE   SOLD, 

At   public  vendue',   at   Tom's-River,   on  Monday   the   1st 
March  next : 

THE  sloop  FANCY,  and  the  schooner  HOPE,  with  their 
tackle,  apparel  and  furniture,  per  inventory. — Also  their 
cargoes,  consisting  of  a  quantity  of  pitch,  tar  and  salt. 
By  order  of  the  Court  of  Admiralty, 

jos.  POTTS,  Marshall. 

TO    BE    SOLD, 

For  Continental  Bills  of  credit,  or  Loan  Office  Certificates, 

A  Valuable  tract  of  land,  adjoining  Barnegat-Bay,  near 
Tom's-River,  in  the  town  of  Dover,  Monmouth  county, 
containing  about  one  thousand  acres,  about  two  hundred 
and  eighty  acres  of  salt  meadows,  thirty  acres  of  cedar 
swamp  (part  of  which  is  very  good)  about  fifty  acres  of 
up-land  cleared,  and  fenced  with  cedar;  a  new  framed 
dwelling-house  thereon,  twenty  feet  by  twenty  six,  with 
two  fire  places  on  the  first  floor,  and  a  stone  cellar  under 
the  same,  also  a  kitchen  adjoining,  of  sixteen  feet  square, 


1779]  XKWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  71 

with  a  brick  oven  and  a  well  at  the  door :  The  remainder 
wood-land.  The  land  is  good  for  rye,  Indian  corn,  and 
for  raising  stock,  and  as  well  situate  for  manufacturing 
salt  as  almost  any  in  New  Jersey.  It  will  be  sold  together 
or  be  divided  as  shall  suit  the  purchaser.  For  terms 
apply  to  Joseph  Sal  tar,  at  Tom's-River,  or  the  subscriber 
on  the  premises. 

JAMES    MOTT,    Jim.1 

The  emissions  of  May  20,  1777,  and  April  11,  1778, 
if  good  will  be  taken  in  payment. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

For  the  emissions  of  the  20th  of  May,  1777,  and  llth 
April,  1778,  OOP  any  other:  Six  Thousand  Two  Hundred 
and  Fifty  Acres  of  Land,  that  is  to  say,  FIVE  thousand 
acres  laying  between  K&ts  and  Katers-kill,  on  the  west 
side  of  Hudson  s-River, ,  in  the  county  of  Albany,  and 
State  of  New  York,  between  40  and  50  miles  below  the 
city  of  Albany,  six  to  ten  miles  from  the  landing  on  the 
said  river,  and  in  the  midst  of  a  full  settled  country. — 
This  tract,  besides  the  great  advantage  of  out  drift  for 
cattle  forever  in  the  mountains  adjacent.,  is  exceedingly 
well  watered  by  Katers-kUl,  which  affords  several  falls 
of  wrater,  on  which  grist  and  saw  mills  may  be  erected  at 
a  small  expence ;  and  as  the  land  is  well  timbered  with  oak 
and  pine,  great  advantages  may  be  made  in  times  of 
peace,  by  transporting  the  sawed  timbers  and  boards  to 
the  city  of  New- York,  upon  much  easier  terms  than  from 
any  other  landing  place  up  the  said  river. — The  other 
Twelve  Hundred  and  Fifty  acres  are  also  in  the  county 
of  Albany,  in  the  patent  of  8heniondeh<owaJi,  alias  Clifton 
Park;  from  12  to  16  miles  above  the  city  of  Albany,  4  to  8 
miles  above  the  Cohoes  or  Greut-Falls,  6  to  10  from  the 
township  of  Sclienectady,  and  in  the  midst  of  a  delightful, 

•    J  For  a  notice  of  the  Mott  family,  see  New  Jersey  Archives,   20  :   194. 


72  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

plentiful  and  settled  country. — For  terms  apply  to  the 
subscriber  at  Beverwyck,  near  Morris-Town  New  Jer- 
sey, or  Thomas  Hun<,  Esq  at  Albany. 

ABRAHAM    LOTT. 

Beverwyck,  Feb.  15,  1779. 


TO    BE    SOLD,, 

A  Corner  house  in  Queen-Street,  adjoining  Capt. 
Tucker,  in  Trenton,  one  story  and  a  half  high,  three  rooms 
on  the  lower  floor,  and  two  above,  a  cellar  under  the  whole, 
a  good  kitchen  adjoining  it,  There  is  one  other  room 
the  same  height  adjoining  it,  which  will  make  a  con- 
venient shop  for  any  kind  of  business.  For  terms  of 
sale  enquire  of  the  subscriber  in  Trenton. 

JOS.     HIGBEE. 
TO     BE     SOLD, 

A  Good  cow,  with  her  calf  about  a  week  old,  by 

John  Watson,  juri. 
Nottingham,  Feb.  15th,  1779. 


TO     BE     SOLD, 

At  publick  vendue,  on  Wednesday  the  twenty-fourth  day 
of  this  instant,  February, 

A  LOT  of  wood-land,  well  timbered,  containing  fifteen 
acres,  lying  on  the  Scotch  road,  opposite  Timothy 
Ho  well's,  three  miles  from  Trenton,  late  the  property  of 
Hezekiah  Howell,  deceased.  The  vendue  to  be  held  at 
the  late  dwelling-house  of  Daniel  Howell,  deceased,  and 
to  begin  at  one  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  when  attendance 
-will  be  given  by  us,  and  an  indisputable  title  given. 

JOHN  no  WELL,    ) 

>   Executors. 

DAXIEL    CLARK, 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  73 

BY  virtue  of  an  act  of  General  Assembly  of  the  State 
of  New- Jersey,  passed  the  18th  day  of  April,  one  thousand 
seven  hundred  and  seventy-eight,  entitled  An  Act  for 
taking  charge  of  and  leasing  the  real  estates,,  and  for  for- 
feiting the  personal  estates  of  certain  fugitives  and  offend- 
ers, and  for  enlarging  and  continuing  the  powers  of  Com- 
missioners appointed  to  seize  and  dispose  of  such  personal 
estates,  and  for  ascertaining  and  discharging  the  lawful 
debts  and  claims  thereon. — NOTICE  is  HEREBY  GIVEN,  to 
all  persons  who  have  any  claim,  interest  or  demand  to,  in 
or  against  the  estates  of  Robert  Whitacar,  Richard  Meed, 
Hugh  Coperthwait,  Thomas  Sutton,  John  Button,  James 
Button,  Reuben  Langley,  Abdon  Abbit,  jun.  Thomas  Lamb, 
Israel  Elwell,  Jacob  Vanmeter,  Moses  Atkinson,  William 
Perce,  Philip  Adams,  James  Dean,. and  Christopher  Rain- 
doleer,  to  appear  with  [their]  respective  accounts,  vouchers 
and  evidences  to  make  good  the  same,  on  the  first  day  of 
April  next,  at  the  house  of  John  Ramboe,  Inn-keeper,  in 
the  township  of  Pitts-Grove,  in  the  county  of  Salem,  at 
nine  o'clock  in  the  morning  of  said  day,  when  attendance 
will  be  given  by 

THOMAS  SAYRE,  )    Commis- 

WTLT.TAM    GARRISON      \ 


One  Hundred  Dollars  Reward. 

RAN  AWAY  last  Monday  night,  from  the  house  of  Jesse 
Williams,  in  Philadelphia,  two  negro  men  belonging  to  the 
subscriber,  in  Middlesex  county,  New  Jersey ;  one  named 
Chels,  about  5  feet  8  inches  high,  22  years  of  age,  very 
black  and  well-set,  and  had  on  a  sailor's  blue  jacket  and 
breeches.  The  other  named  Mark,  about  5  feet  5  inches 
high,  2-1  years  old  yellow  and  chuncky;  he  has  hair  like 
an  Indian,  except  that  it  curls:  Had  on  a  brown  old 
coat,  striped  west  coat,  old  leather  breeches,  with  striped 


74  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

drawers  under  them,  and  blue  stockings.  They  were 
lately  purchased  in  Upper-Freehold,  in  Monmouth  county, 
and  it  is  feared  they  will  attempt  to  go  O'ff  to  the  enemy. 
Whoever  takes  up  and  secures  said  Negroes,  so  that  their 
master  may  have  them  again,  shall  have  the  above  re- 
ward of  Fifty  Dollars  for  either,  and  reasonable  charges, 
paid  by 

RICHARD    BRITTON. 

Feb.   12,  1779. 

TO    BE    SOLD,, 

THE  FARM  whereon  the  subscriber  now  lives,  situate  in 
the  township  of  Barnard's,  county  of  Somerset,  and  State 
of  New  Jersey,  lying  about  one;  and  a  half  miles  from 
Baskenridge  Meeting-house,  about  40  rods  from  a  grist- 
mill, and  half  a,  mile  from  a  saw-mill,  containing  between 
95  and  100  acres  of  land,  whereon  is  a  large  dwelling- 
house  with  four  rooms  and  fire  places  in  each,  on  a  floor, 
and  an  entry  through  the  middle;  a  never  failing  well  of 
good  water,  two  good  gardens  well  fenced,  a  good  barn 
and  stables,  with  two  framed  barracks,  an  excellent 
orchard  containing  about  300  apple  trees,  out  of  which 
may  be  made  100  barrels  of  cyder  in  a  year;  a  new  cyder- 
mill  and  press  j  with  a  sufficiency  of  meadows  for  the 
place;  a  good  conveniency  for  a  still,  where  one  has  been 
carried  on  for  three  years  past,  supplied  by  a  constant 
stream  running  into  the  tubs.  Also  another  farm  lying 
about  half  a  mile  distant,  containing  about  150  acres  of 
land,  about  35  acres  of  which  is  good  English  meadows, 
50  apple  trees  on  the  place,  well  watered  and  timbered ; 
the  whole  in  good  fence,  and  will  be  sold,  together  or 
separate,  as  may  suit  the  purchaser.  For  terms  apply  to 
,101  IN  i) uii HAM,  living  on  the  premises. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  75 


TO    BE    SOLD, 

At  public  vendue,  at  the  house  of  the  widow  V.  Voor- 
hees,  commonly  called  the  White-Hall,  on  the  24th  in- 
stant, 

SUNDRY  articles  of  household  furniture,  among  which 
are  a  small  quantity  of  plate,  a  considerable  number  of 
books,  (the  catalogue  thereof  is  too  long  for  a  newspaper) 
consisting  of  divinity,  law,  history,  &c.  They  are  the 
effects  of  the  late  William  Oake,1  Esq, — Attendance  will 
be  given  at  o'clock  by  his  executors, 

Henry   Guest,    and 
John  Lyel,  junior. 

N.  B.  There  is  also  a  number  of  Dutch  and  French 
books. 

New-Brunswick,  Feb.  13,  1779. 
Twenty  Dollars  Reward. 

WAS  stolen  last  night  from  the  subscriber  near  Bruns- 
wick, Middlesex  county,  a  bay  horse,  8  years  old,  14  hands 
high,  a  natural  pacer,  thin  in  flesh,  and  marked  P.  H.  011 
the  near  side.  Whoever  takes  up  said  horse  and  secures 
the  thief  shall  have  the  above  reward,  and  reasonable 
charges  paid  by 

JOHN    BENNETT. 

February  10,  1779. 

— The  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  II.,  No.  64,  February 
17,  1779. 

Pursuant  to  the  last  Will  and  Testament  of  WILLIAM 
MORGAN,  late  of  Gloucester  county,  and  state  of  New- 
Jersey,  deceased,  will  be  sold  by  public  vendue,  on  Tuesday 

1  For  a  sketch,  of  William  Ouke,  see  New  Jersey  Archives,  20  :  151. 


76  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

the  16th  day  of  March  next,  on  the  premises,  A  valuable 
Saw-Mill  and  Tract  of  Land  thereunto  belonging,  con- 
taining about  345  acres,  an  exact  survey  thereof  will  be 
shown  the  clay  of  sale,  situate  on  Oldman's  Creek,  in  the 
counties  of  Gloucester  and  Salem,  about  seven  miles  from 
Raccoon  Creek  Landing,  and  twenty-five  from  Philadel- 
phia. The  mill  is  about  six  years  old,  in  good  order,  and 
built  for  sawing  ship  plank ;  the  land  is  well  timbered 
with  white  oak  and  other  timber,  fit  for  sawing  or  any 
other  use;  the  soil  is  good  and  would  produce  plentiful 
crops  if  cultivated :  There  might  be  made  on  the  premises 
two  good  plantations :  There  is  on  the  premises  above 
the  said  mill  pond  a  good  convenience  for  erecting  a 
fulling  mill,  or  any  other  water  works;  the  stream  being 
good  and  seldom  fails  (plenty  of  timber  would  be  brought 
to  the  said  mill  to  be  sawed  for  toll,  and  there  is  good 
timbered  land  adjoining  the  above  land  now  upon  sale) 
the  title  is  indisputable,  and  the  purchaser  on  paying  one 
half  of  the  purchase  money  down  may  have  a  reasonable 
time  to  pay  the  remainder,  on  giving  good  security  if 
required.  Attendance  will  be  given  on  the  day  of  sale  by 
WILLIAM  GARRISON,  Executor,  and 
SARAH  MORGAN,  Executrix 
—The  Pennsylvania  Gazette,  February  10,  1779. 


New- York,  February  10. 

It  is  reported  that  a  party  a  day  or  two  ago,  went  over 
into  Jersey,  and  succeeded  in  securing  the  persons  of  Capt. 
Nathaniel  Fitz  Randolph,  and  Charles  Jackson,  a  Tavern 
Keeper  of  Woodbridge,  who  it  is  said  are  brought  within 
the  lines.  Mr.  Randolph  is  a  very  enterprising  person, 
and  had  distinguished  himself  in  various  Coups  de  Main 
upon  the  Loyalists. — The  Royal  Gazette,  No.  247,  Feb- 
ruary 10,  1779. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  77 


All  Gentlemen  VOLUNTEERS, 

WHO  wish  to  serve  his  Majesty,  in  the  noted  Loyal 
Battalion  of  New-Jersey  Volunteers,  com- 
manded by  Lieutenant  Colonel  Commandant 
JOSEPH  BARTON,1  for  two  years,  or  during  the  present 
wanton  rebellion,  shall  on  their  being  mustered,  and  ap- 
proved of  by  the  Inspector  General,  receive  TWENTY 
DOLLARS  bounty,  and  everything  necessary  to  compleat 
a  gentleman  Soldier.  The  above  bounty  will  be  given  to 
those  who  enter  before  the  first  day  of  May  next :  All 
who  are  desirous  of  entering  in  the  above  corps,  are  re- 
quested to  repair  to  the  quarters  of  the  regiment  on 
Staten  Island,  or  to  Col.  Barton's  quarters  in  Dock-street, 
No.  330,  New- York,  where  an  officer  will  attend  to  receive 
them. 

NEW- YORK,  February  15. 

On  Monday  evening  Capt.  Ryerson,  of  Buskirk's  Regi- 
ment went  over  into  the  Jersies,  and  at  Woodbridge,  in 
the  House  of  Charles  Jackson,  surprised  the  famous  Capt. 
Fitz-Randolph  and  his  Party,  two  of  whom  they  killed, 
and  took  the  Captain  and  thirteen  Prisoners,  who  arrived 
Wednesday  Morning,  and  were  safely  delivered  at  the 
King's  White-Hall  Ferry-Stairs. 

Capt.  Ryerson,  Lieut  Ryerson,  and  Ensign  Monsoii,  on 
this  Occasion  acted  with  great  Humanity  and  Forbearance, 
the  Prisoners  begging  for  Mercy  with  the  most  abject  Sub- 
mission. 

We  hear  the  Continental  Troops  that  were  for  some 
Time  past  stationed  at  Freehold,  in  New-Jersey,  are 
ordered  away  by  Congress,  and  are  to  be  replaced  by 
some  Light  Horse. 

1  For  a  note  on  Lieutenant  Colonel  Joseph  Barton,  see  New  Jersey 
Archives,  2d  Series,  2  :  22. 


78  XEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

The  Cause  of  the  Report  of  a  Rejoicing  at  Elizabeth 
Town  last  week  was  to  perpetuate  the  Anniversary  of  the 
Treaty  entered  into  between  France  and  America;  but  it 
was  put  off,  General  Washington  having  Advice  that  a 
Party  of  the  British  Army  was  landed,  or  on  the  Point  of 
landing  in  some  Part  of  Jersey. 

—The  New-York  Gazette:  and  the  Weekly  Mercury,  No. 
1426,  February  15,  1779. 

Philadelphia,  February  9. 
TO  BE  SOLD 

A  Valuable  Plantation  and  Tract  of  Land,  situate 
in  the  township  of  Great  Egg  Harbour,  in  the  county 
of  Gloucester  and  state  of  New  Jersey,  containing 
eight  hundred  acres  of  land,  one  hundred  acres  of 
which  arc  cleared ;  two  hundred  acres  of  good  fresh 
water  marsh  meadow  can  be  made-,  part  of  which  is 
already  banked  and  has  been  mowed,  and  is  equal 
in  quality  to  any  on  Delaware;  the  remainder  is 
woodland.  There  are  several  valuable  landings  on  said 
tract,  to  which  all  the  lumber  must  come  to  market  for 
twenty  miles  round:  The  principal  landing  is  known  by 
the  name  of  May's  Landing,1  pleasantly  situate  on  the 
head  of  Great  Egg  Harbour  River,  in  a  good  neighbor- 
hood, forty-eight  miles  from  this  city.  There  are  on  said 
tract  six  dwelling-houses,  one  of  which  was  built  for  an 
inn ;  it  is  a  large  frame  house  fifty  feet  front,  two  stories 
high,  with  a  large  kitchen ;  a  large  well-built  wharf,  a  new 
store  50  by  25,  a  carpenter's  stage,  blocks,  falls  and  crab, 
all  compleat  for  heaving  down  vessels ;  a  grist  mill  and 

1  Reference  is  here  made  to  the  community  now  the  capital  of  Atlantic 
county.  The  first  settler  was  George  May,  who  was  a  pioneer  in  the  wilder- 
ness, settling  in  the  region  about  the  middle  of  the  eighteenth  century. 
Mays  Landing  was  early  a  center  of  the  cordwood  and  charcoal  indus- 
tries of  southeastern  New  Jersey,  and  a  shipbuilding  town  of  prominence. 
See  "Absegami  :  Annals  of  Eyren  Haven  and  Atlantic  City,  1609  to  1904," 
by  Alfred  M.  Ileston.  Atlantic  City.  1904,  1  :  255  et  secj. 


1771.)]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  79 

saw-mill  on  a  large  never-failing  stream  of  water,  they 
rented  for  75  £  per  annum  seven  years  ago ;  there  is  no' 
other  grist-mill  within  ten  or  twelve  miles.  Two  acres  of 
this  tract,  on  which  the  Church1  stands,  and  around  the 
burying-ground  is  reserved  for  the  use  aforesaid. 

Also  one  other  tract  about  one  hundred  perches  from  the 
above,  lying  on  the  said  river,  containing  three  hundred 
and  twelve  acres  of  good  land,  fifty  acres  of  which  are 
cleared,  two  hundred  acres  of  excellent  meadow  ground, 
the  remainder  woodland.  There  are  on  said  tract  a  good 
two-story  frame  house,  stables,  &c.  a  young  orchard  of 
good  fruit.  For  further  particulars  enquire  of 

RICHARD  MASON. 

N.  B.  I  reserve  to  myself  one  fourth  part  of  all  that 
vein  of  ore  lying  near  the  fall  race  of  the  above  mills, 
trials  of  which  have  been  made  some  years  ago  both  in 
this  city  and  in  New  York,  and  "found  to  be  rich  in  silver.2 
Samples  of  the  ore  may  be  seen,  and  a  sufficient  quantity 
given  to  any  gentleman  for  trial.  R.  M. 

— The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  February  13,  1779. 

WAS  FOUND  near  Trenton,  about  three  weeks  ago,  a 
GOLD  WATCH.  The  owner  by  applying  to  the  Printer 
may  know  where  it  is. — The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  Feb- 
ruary 16,  1779. 


Whereas  Joseph  Hedden,  jun.  and  Samuel  Hayes, 
Esquires,    two    of    the    Commissioners    for    the 
county  of  Essex,  have  advertised  the  sale  of  the 
lands  of  George  Walls,   against  whom  inquisition  hath 
been  found  and  final  judgment  entered,  pursuant  to  a  late 
law  of  this  state;  AND  WHEREAS  the  subscribers  are 
the  only  true  and  lawful  owners  of  the  farm  whereon  the 
said  George  Walls  lately  lived,  in  said  county,  excepting 

1  This  was  a  Presbyterian  church. 

2  Probably  a  formation  of  mica,  often  mistaken  by  the  inexpert  for  de- 
posits of  silver. 


80 


NEW    JEKSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION. 


[1779 


an  undivided  part  thereof  containing  about  forty  one 
acres,  formerly  belonging  to  Jacob  Vreeland,  and  by  him 
sold  to  Capt.  Abraham  Spier.  These  are  therefore  to  fore- 
warn all  persons  whatsoever  not  to  purchase  the  said 
premises  from  the  said  Commissioners,  if  they  should 
offer  the  same  for  sale. 

Robert  Huston 
Isaac  Cadmus 

OGDEX  AND  CUETIS 


Have  for  SALE,  at  their  STOKE  near  the  Court-House 

in  Morris  Town. 
LOTHS, 

I  Black  sattins  and  modes  plain 


and  figured, 

Black  Barcelona  handkerchiefs, 
Chintz  and  callicocs, 
India  persians, 
Black  sarcinctt  ribbands 
Irish  linens, 
Checks  and  stripes, 
Cambrick 

Worsted  and  hemp  stockin 
Black  edging, 
J)ntch  lace, 
Gauze, 

Red  gimp  and  fringe, 
Buckram, 
A   parcel   of   sailers   coats,   ivaist- 

coats,  breeches,  and  draws, 
Sewing  silks  and  mohair  assorted, 
Stay  laces, 
Pound  pins, 

Pictures  and  guilt  frames, 
Assorted    London    and    French 

sharp     and     square     pointed 

needles, 
Spectacles, 
Penknives 
Scissars 
Aid  blades, 
Writing  paper, 

.1    ([itantitij    of    allum,    Brimstone, 
bladders. 


Pocket   books, 

t'amily  and  pocket  almanacks, 

Testaments, 

Primers, 

Art  of  Speaking, 

Baxter's  Works, 

Blank  books  of  different  sixes, 

Hyson  tea, 

Indigo, 

Plugg  tobacco, 

(Castile  soap, 

(ringer, 

Imported  salt, 

Gunpowder, 

Corks. 

Rcdirood  and  logwood. 

Carpenters  hammers, 

Halters,    • 

Horn  combs, 

Pomatum,     blackingball,    and    slioe 

brushes, 

Chimney   branches, 
Waiters, 
Tenter  hooks, 
Plane  irons, 
Curtain  rings, 
Watch  keys, 

shore   salt,   and   choice   snuff   in 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  81 

WHEEEAS  Joseph  Hedden,  jim.  and  Samuel 
Hayes,  Esquires,  two  of  the  Commissioners  for 
the  county  of  Essex,  have  advertised  the  sale 
of  the  lands  lately  belonging  to  George  Walls,  of  said 
county,  against  whom  inquisition  hath  been  found  and 
final  judgment  entered,  pursuant  to  a  late  law  of  this 
State ;  AND  WHEREAS  the  said  George  Walls  claimed  right 
to  a  certain  tract  of  land  lying  and  being  in  the  township 
of  Newark  on  the  west  side  of  the  third  river,  in  length 
along  said  river  thirty  chains,  and  in  breadth  twenty 
chains,  bounded  north  by  the  land  late  of  Hendrick  Van 
Gees,1  east  by  the  Third-River,  south  by  the  land  formerly 
possessed  by  John  Bradberry ;2  AND  WHEREAS  the  lawful 
right  and  title  to  the  said  tract  is  in  the  subscriber,  these 
are  therefore  to  forewarn  all  persons  whatsoever  not  to 
purchase  the  said  tract  of  land  from  the  said  Commis- 
sioners, in  case  they  should  offer  the  same  for  sale. 

JOHN  M.  VRELAND. 
Newark,  February  13,  1779. 


Chatham,  Feb.   16. 

Last  week  were  surprized  and  taken  prisoners,  at 
Woodbridge,  by  a  party  of  the  enemy  from  Staten  Island, 
Captain  Nathaniel  Randolph,  Mr.  Charles  Jackson,  and 
a  Seirjeant  and  ten  privates.  The  last  mentioned  eleven 
were  exchanged  on  Sunday  last. 

On  Saturday  night,  the  6th  instant,  were  taken  at  the 
house  of  Nathan  Miller,  in  Smith's  Clove,  James  Smith 
(son  of  Claudius  Smith,  a  notorious  offender,  who  was 
executed  at  Goshen  the  22d  ult)  and  one  Benson  of  Long- 
Island.  These  villains,  in  conjunction  with  Claudius,  had 
committed  many  daring  robberies.  They  are  now  safely 
lodged  in  jail. 

1  Giesen. 

2  Bradbury  had  a  mill  on  the  Third  river,  at  the  present  Avondale,   in 
1696. 

6 


82  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    BEVOLUTION.  [1779 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

At  public  v endue,  on  the  %5th  day  of  March  next, 

A  PLANTATION  containing  one  hundred  and  twenty 

1\      acres,  in  the  county  of  Sussex,  and  township  of 

Oxford,    on    Beaver-Brook,    eighteen    miles    from 

Easton,  on  the  main  road  leading  from  Easton  to  Sussex 

Court-House,  whereon  a  tavern-  hath  been  kept  for  many 

years  past,  and  one  of  the  best  stands  on  that  road;- the 

land  is  good,  and  plenty  of  timber,  with  a  good  quantity 

of  meadow  land.     The  title  indisputable.     Terms  of  sale 

Avill  be  made  known  on  that  day  by 

ARCHIBALD  STINSON. 
February  13,  1779. 

TO  THE  PUBLIC- 

THE  Subscriber  having,  at  great  expence,  put  Spots- 
mood  PAPER-MILL  in  New  Jersey,  in  the  best 
order,  so  that  now  he  is  able  to  make  as  good 
paper  of  all  sorts  and  sizes  as  any  that  is  made  in  this 
country,  and  at  as  reasonable  rates,  if  he  could  but  pro- 
cure a  sufficiency  of  linen  rags :  therefore  he  desires'  all 
families  and  individuals  in  New  Jersey,  and  the  neigh- 
boring States,  to  save  their  rags  for  him,  as  he  intends  to 
send  out  people  to  gather  them,  paying  ready  money  and 
the  highest  price  for  the  same,  or  an  equivalent  in  other 
good  and  necessary  commodities. 

Any  traders  or  other  persons,  who  are  willing  to  buy 

up  rags  for  him,  are  requested  to  acquaint  him  with  it  by 

a  line,   and   as   soon   as   they   have   a   sufficient   quantity 

together  he  will  send  to  their  houses  and  fetch  them  away. 

PETER  MUSICK,  Papennaker.  * 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  83 


TO  BE  SOLD,- 

HHHE  PLACE  where  John  Ramsay  npw  lives,  near 

A      Bottle  Hill,  containing  about  forty  acres,     There 

is  on  it  a  tolerable  house,  a  good  well  before  the 

kitchen   door,    a  barn   and  other  out-houses,   a  tolerable 

garden,  and  a  large  orchard  with  the  best  grafted  fruit  of 

all  sorts.     The  purchaser  may  improve  or  farm  the  land 

as  early  as  he  pleases,  but  the  dwelling  house  not  to  be 

delivered  until  some  time  in  the  month  of  April. 

ALL  persons   having   demands   against  the   estate   of 
MARTIN"  DAY,   deceased,   are  desired  to  bring 
in  their  accounts  that  they  may  be  settled ;  and  all 
persons  indebted  to  said  estate  are  requested  to  make  im- 
mediate payment  to 

CHRISTOPHER  Seely,  Executor. 

IF  there  is  any  person  within  the  circle  of  this  paper 
that  has   a  RIDING   CHAIR   to   dispose  of,   may 
hear  of  a  purchaser  by  applying  to  the  printer  of 
this  paper. 

FEBRUARY  10,   1779. 

THIS  is  to  give  notice,  that  I  DANIEL  HALSEY, 
jun.  of  the  borough  of  Elizabeth,  county  of  Essex 
and  State  of  New  Jersey,  do  hereby  forbid  any 
person  from  harbouring  or  trusting  my  wife,   as  I  will 
pay  no  debts  of  her  contracting. 

— New  Jersey  Journal,  Tuesday,  February  16,  1779, 

Vol.  I.,  No.  I. 

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84  NEW    JEESEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

Mr.  COLLINS, 

Please  to  give  ther  enclosed  a  place  in  your  next  Gazette, 
and  oblige  a  Customer 


TO   TILE   TRADESMAN    OF  NEW   JERSEY. 

SIR, 

YOUR  request  in  your  publication  of  the  23d  of  October,  came  to 
my  hands  some  time  past.  I  am  happy  to  find  that  my  observations 
are  agreeable  to  the  Tradesmen,  being  willing  to  give  every  assistance 
in  my  power  to  save  our  happy  Constitution  from  innovations,  and  my 
country  from  distress  by  further  depreciation  of  the  Continental  bills  of 
credit.  In  the  first  place,  lest  you  should  expect  more  from  me  than  I 
am  able  to  perform,  I  will  give  you  a  short  account  of  myself.  Know 
then,  that  I  am  a  common  farmer,  neither  living  in  affluence  or  want, 
but  in  the  middle  rank,  having,  by  industry,  acquired  a  competency.  I 
possess  no  post  of  honour  or  profit,  my  leisure  hours  having  been  em- 
ployed in  reading  the  scriptures,  and  a  few  books  besides,  particularly 
the  histories  of  government  founded  on  the  authority  of  the  people,  the 
best  in  the  world  ; — and,  when  our  present  Constitution  was  printed  I 
purchased  it,  read  it  with  great  satisfaction,  and  am  well  assured,  if  we 
adhere  to  it.  that  we  should  have  as  happy  a  government  as  any  in  the 
world  ;  but  a  departure  from  it  induced  me  to  publish  my  sentiments  in 
a  short  piece,  expecting  some  abler  hand  would  take  the  matter  up,  and 
urge  it  ui)on  the  good  people  of  this  State,  in  a  better  and  more  con- 
rise  manner  than  I  was  able  to  do  :  but  I  find  I  was  mistaken,  and 
that  too  many  find  it  their  interest  to  be  silent,  waiting,  perhaps,  for 
their  turn  in  the  appointment  to  some  lucrative  office:  I  would  there- 
fore advise  the  tradesmen  and  .farmers  to  unite  at  the  next  election,, 
and  leave  out  every  one  who  has  accepted  of  any  office  of  profit ;  this 
is  the  sure  way  of  securing  our  Constitution  from  crcry  suspicion  of 
corruption,  and  this  is  in  our  own  power,  and  this  we  must  do  to  save- 
our  legislative  department  and  keep  our  members  free  from  every  bias 
on  their  minds.  I  must  take  the  liberty  to  say.  that  there  appears  at 
present  as  great  a  depreciation  in  the  morals  of  the  people  of  all  ranks, 
as  there  is  in  the  bills  of  credit ;  and  that  luxury  and  foppery  are 
more  prevalent  (notwithstanding  the  clearness  of  superfluities)  than 
I  ever  have  known  them  in  times  of  peace  and  plenty — instead  of 
walking  humbly  in  this  day  of  general  calamity,  when  we  are  not  only 
in  a  war,  but  threatened  with  a  great  scarcity  of  the  staff  of  life. 
which  ought  to  excite  all  ranks  of  people  to  repentance  and  amend- 
ment of  life. 

I  also  mentioned  the  depreciation  of  our  bills  of  credit,  and  as  you 
have  desired  that  I  would  give  the  publick  my  sentiments  on  this 
most  important  of  all  sublunary  subjects,  so  far  as  it  respects  our 
existence  as  Independent  States,  here  let  me  call  up  the  attention  of 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  85 

my  brother  farmers,  and  the  tradesmen,  to  a  short  but  solemn  pause. — 
Know  then  that  the  depreciation  of  our  paper  money  (for  the  security 
and  redemption  of  which,  at  a  rate  equal  to  gold  and  silver,  all  our 
estates  real  and  personal  are  mortgaged)  proceeds  in  the  first  place 
from  a  icant  of  virtue  or  patriotism  ;  for,  were  we  really  possessed  of 
either  virtue  or  patriotism,  we  should  unite  as  one  man  to  support 
that  on  which  our  freedom  so  much  depends.  In  the  next  place  unite 
in  petitions  to  the  Legislature,  both  Continental  and  Provincial,  pray- 
ing that  they  immediately  pass  such  salutary  laws  as  shall  put  a  stop 
to  the  monstrous  extortion  now  prevailing,  and  that  too  under  their 
authority,  at  least  their  Commissaries  and  Quarter  masters  are  now 
giving  the  most  extravagant  prices  for  many  of  the  necessaries  of 
life,  which,  if  continued,  the  poor  must  starve,  and  the  middling 
people  must  suffer  exceedingly.  That  government  and  laws  are  abso- 
lutely necessary  to  our  well-being,  will  readily  be  admitted  by  all. 
Legislatures  pass  laws  commanding  our  personal  service  in  the  high 
places  of  the  field,  with  which  we  most  cheerfully  acquiesce,  and  will 
they  not  pass  a  law  to  regulate  our  internal  produce  and  manufac- 
tures, leaving  importation  free  only  to  prevent  engrossing,  forestalling, 
&c.  or  is  property  of  more  value  than  life? — /  am  fully  convinced 
you  will  agree  with  me  that  life  is  of  the  most  value.  At  the  'same 
time  let  us  entreat  our  Legislature  to  call  in,  either  yearly  or  every 
half  year,  by  tax,  a  moderate  quantity  of  our  bills  of  credit,  and  by 
every  other  means,  as  they  in  their  wisdom  shall  judge  most  proper, 
.secure  our  paper  money  from  further  depreciation,  and  give  it  that 
value  that  every  person  reads  in  the  face  of  the  bill ;  for  what  will 
foreigners  say  when  they  come  to  trade  with  us?  Our  bills  of  credit; 
say  they,  are  equal  to  silver  and  gold ;  but  the  honest  foreigner  will 
by  sad  experience  find  the  contrary,  that  one  silver  dollar  will  pur- 
chase 8  or  10  Continental  dollars,  and  yet  our  estates  are  mortgaged 
to  redeem  every  dollar  equal  to  silver.  What  character,  think  you, 
shall  we  have  among  other  nations?  None  of  the  best  you  will  readily 
agree.  In  short,  if  the  war  continues  another  year,  which  at  present 
is  very  probable,  and  no  check  put  to  the  present  extortion!  which  has 
doubled  the  price  of  many  articles  necessary  for  our  daily  support, 
within  these  three  months  past,  and  is  still  increasing,  what  will  our 
national  debt  amount  to  in  another  year?  A  Continental  dollar  will 
purchase  no  more  than  nine  pence  hard  money ;  this  is  the  experience 
of  the  present  day !  Was  ever  the  folly  of  any  nation  or  people  on 
earth  equal  to  ours?  Not  to  call  it  by  a  worse  name,  which  it  most 
justly  deserves.  I  am  as  fully  convinced,  as  I  can  be  of  any  thing, 
that  we  have  done  ourselves  more  real  damage,  by  depreciating  our 
money,  than  the  enemy  with  all  their  force  have  been  able  to  do. 
L-et  us  therefore  endeavor  to  initiate  the  noble  Delicarlians  of  Sweden. 
We  have  a  Gustavus  Vasa  at  the  head  of  our  army,  on  whose  wisdom, 
integrity  and  valour,  we  may  safely  rely.  But  I  fear  too  many  are 
following  for  the  loaves  and  fishes.  Take  them  away  and  few  will 


86  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

follow  the  empty  dishes.  I  wish  I  may  be  mistaken,  and  that  all  may 
really  be  in  love  with  the  liberty  and  Independence  of  the  United 
States  of  North-America. 

A  JERSEY  FARMER. 

Feb.  10,  1779. 

On  the  10th  instant,  the  schooner  Hunter,  Captain 
Douglass,  of  ten  guns,  from  Egg-Harbour,  fell  in  with 
brig  Bellona,  C'apt.  Buchanan,  of  sixteen  guns,  belonging 
to  New- York,  when  after  a  smart  engagement  of  an  hour 
and  a  half,  in  which  Captain  Douglass  and  his  men 
behaved  with  the  greatest  bravery  and  spirit  till  finding 
the  brig  rather  too  heavy  for  him,  was  obliged  to  quit  her, 
leaving  the  Bellona  a  wreck,  unable  to  follow  the  Hunter. 

On  the  4th  instant,  Susannah  Sands,  wife  of  Christo- 
pher Sands,  of  Evesham,  Burlington  county,  New- Jersey, 
was  delivered  of  three  male  children.  The  mother  is 
likely  to  do  well,  but  the  children  are  since  dead. 

The  Continental  Troops  taken  [with]  C'apt.  Randolph 
and  Mr.  Jackson,  as  mentioned  in  our  last,  have  since 
been  exchanged  and  returned;  but  the  above-mentioned 
Gentlemen  are  still  detained  by  the  enemy  in  New- York. 

The  weather  having  been  remarkably  warm  and  pleasant 
for  about  a  month  past,  has  occasioned  the  buds  of  some 
early  fruit  trees  to  vegetate  to  a  greater  degree  than  has 
been  remembered  at  this  season  by  the  oldest  men  in  the 
neighbourhood. 

An  ingenious  young  Lady  having  had  a  print  of  a  cer- 
tain General  given  her,  in  order  to  take  off  a  likeness,  and 
she  delaying  to  do  it,  occasioned  the  following  lines. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  87 

WHAT  perverse  things  most  girls  prove 

Either  in  FRIENDSHIP  or  in  LOVE  ! 

Tho'  oft  they  please  they  oft'ner  vex, 

As  all  must  know  who  knows  the  sex. 

When  Lovers  plead,  you'll  oft  be  sure 

To  disobey,  to  show  your  pow'r, 

And  think  if  you  prove  kind  at  last 

It  will  atone  for  foibles  past ; 

But  should  a  friend  a  favour  ask 

To  grant  it  seems  a  mighty  task ; 

Thus  I,  about  a  month  ago, 

Gave  you  a  print  of  Gen'ral  H — e,1 

That  your  fine  hand  with  care  might  trace 

Each  feature  of  his  martial  face, 

Preserve  a  likeness,  yet  impart 

Beauties  above  th'  engraver's  art ; 

(And  manly  charms  he  has  it's  plain 

For  which  ev'n  beauty's  sigh'd  in  vain*) 

Well  knowing  what  you  do  is  neat, 

Or  rather,  like  yourself — compleat ; 

That  you,  I  say,  might  draw  with  care 

His  graceful  military  air, 

Such  as  is  lov'd  by  all  the  fair ; 

Who  ogle  more  a  hat  that's  lac'd 

Than  parson  in  a  pulpit  plac'd. 

But  hold — methinks  I  hear  you  say, 
"The  Gen'ral  may  be  bold  and  gay, 
"But  yet,  good  Sir,  I'd  have  you  know 
"He  still  is  but  my  Country's  Foe  ; 
"While  such,  he'll  be  to  me,  indeed, 
"An  object,  not  of  love,  but  dread; 
"And  therefore,  tho'  it  may  seem  rough, 
"JACK  KETCH,  for.  me,  may  take  him  off.'9 

Trenton,'  February  18,  1779. 

*See  the  history  of  his  amours  prefixed  to  the  Town  and  Country 
Magazine. 

TO  be  SOLD  at  publick  Vendue,  on  Saturday  the  27th 
inst.  (Feb.)  at  the  house  of  Jacob  Benjamin,  in  Trenton, 

SUNDRY  household  furniture,  pewter  dishes  and  plates, 
one  walnut  desk,  a  feather  bed,  &c,  a  quantity  of  good 
tobacco,  some  copper  stew-pans,  an  assortment  of  glass 
tumblers,  chairs  and  tables;  Jamaica  spirits  by  the  hogs- 
head or  smaller  quantity;  shirts  ready  made;  a  good  rifle 

1  General  Sir  William  Howe. 


88  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

gun.      The  vendue  to  begin  at  eleven  o'clock  in  the  fore- 
noon, where  attendance  will  be  given  by 

JACOB    BENJAMIN. 

2sT.  B.  All  sorts  of  goods  will  be  taken  in  at  said 
vendue-store,  and  sold  on  commission  at  a,  low  rate.  The 
vendue  to  be  continued  weekly. 


TO    BE    SOLD,, 

At  Vendue,  on  Saturday  the  6th  of  March. next, 

A  dooi)  Waggon  has  a  good  cover,  suitable  for  a  stage. 
The  vendue  to  begin  at  2  o'clock,  when  attendance  will  be 
given  by  the  subscriber,  in  Bordentown. 

THOMAS    TOWN,, 

February  23,  IT 71). 

WANTED, 

A  Quantity  of  Flaxseed,  for  which  TWO  DOLLARS  per 
bushel  will  be  given  by  John  Flasket  in  Trenton,  or  Job 
Phillips  in  llopewell,  till  the  first  of  April. 

TO  BE  SOLD,  by  the  Subscriber, 

A  Plantation  containing  120  acres  of  land,  in  the 
county  of  Sussex,  in  the  township  of  Oxford,  on  the  main 
road  leading  from  Faston  to  Sussex  Courthouse,  four 
miles  from  the  Moravian  mills,  very  suitable  for  any 
publick  business  tavern,  kept  there  several  years  past  in 
as  good  a,  stand  as  any  on  that  road,  with  a  convenient 
house  and  barn;  the  laud  good  and  plenty  of  timber,  with 
a  good  quantity  of  meadow  ground.  The  title  indis- 
putable. The  vendue  to  be  held  on  the  25th  day  of  March 
next,  where  due  attendance  will  be  given  by  me 

ARCHIBALD    STINSOX. 

February  13th,  1779. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  89 


TO    BE    SOLD, 

A  Small  FARM,  situate  in  Upper  Freehold,  lying  within 
three  miles  of  the  main  road  that  leads  from  Allentown 
and  three  from  Lawrence  Taylor's  tavern;  containing  118 
acres,  about  forty  cleared,  and  ten  acres  of  very  good 
swamp,  the  remainder  well  timbered.  On  the  premises 
is  a  good  new  house  and  kitchen  well  finished,  a  young 
orchard  of  130  bearing  trees  of  excellent  fruit;  the  land 
will  produce  very  good  wheat,  rye,  or  Indian  corn ;  a 
stream  of  excellent  water  running  through  the  place.  The 
situation  is  very  pleasant  and  advantageous,  being  about 
three  miles  from  a  good  grist  and  fulling  mill,  called 
Gaston's  mills,  and  a  neighborhood  of  very  reputable 
farmers.  For  terms  apply  to  Mr.  David  Baird,  near  the 
premises,  or  Capt.  John  Dey  of  Macheponix. 

Feb.  18,  1779.    '. 

State  of  Xew  Jersey,  AT  an  Inferior  Court  of  Common 
Monmouth  county.  Pleas  for  said  county,  held  on  the 
29th  day  of  January  last,  were  returned  inquisitions  for 
joining  the  army  of  the  King  of  Great  Britain,  and  other 
treasonable  practices,  found  against  William  Ferine,  of 
Upper  Freehold,  John  Williams,  son  of  John,  of  Freehold, 
Silas  Cook,  jun.  James  King,  Alis  Lippincot,  Joseph 
Price,  son  of  William,  of  Shrewsbury,  Henry  Reter, 
Samuel  Stevenson,  William  Stevenson,  George  R-apaljie 
of  Middletown,  late  of  Monmouth,  and  Israel  Bedel,  of 
Staten-Island,  state  of  New- York,  having  property  in  said 
county ;  of  which  proclamation  was  made  in  said  court, 
that  if  they  or  any  on  their  behalf,  or  any  person  in- 
terested, would  appear  and  traverse,  a  trial  should  be 
awarded ;  but  no  traverses  were  offered — Therefore  notice 
is  hereby  given,  that  if  neither  they  nor  any  in  their 
behalf,  nor  any  interested,  shall  appear  and  traverse  at 
the  next  court  to  be  held  for  the  said  county,  on  the  4th 
Tuesday  in  April  next,  the  inquisitions  will  then  be  taken 


90  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION  [1779 

to  be  true,  and  final  judgment  entered  thereon  in  favour 
of  the  state. 

Samuel 


Feb.  9,  1779. 


TZ         ^    TT     7  •  Commis- 

Kennetn,  tiankvnson, 

j      T,   M(7-i    MC  sioners. 

Jacob  Wikoff, 


New  Jersey,  AT    an    inferior    Court    of    Common 

Middlesex  county.  Pleas  held  for  the  County  of  Middle- 
sex, on  the  19th  day  of  "January  last,  were  returned  in- 
quisitions against  Frederick  Smyth,1  Heathcot  Johnson, 
John  Thompson,  Henry  Dugon,  William  Kent,  Stacy 
Lisk,  James  Shotwell,  and  Cecil  Sergeant,  for  joining 
the  army  of  the  king  of  Great  Britain,  and  other  treason- 
able practices  ;  of  which  proclamation  was  made  in  open 
court,  that  if  they  or  any  person  interested,  would  appear 
and  traverse,  a  trial  should  be  awarded  ;  but  no  traverses 
were  offered  —  Therefore  notice  is  hereby  given,  that  if 
neither  they,  nor  any  person  on  their  behalf,  nor  any  in- 
terested, shall  appear  and  traverse  their  inquisitions  at 
the  next  court  to*  be  held  in  and  for  the  said  county,  that 
final  judgment  will  then  be  entered  thereon  in  favor  of 
the  state. 

EBEXEZER  FORD,  Commissioner. 


TO    BE    SOLD    BY 

Publiek  vendue,  on  Monday  the  15th  day  of  March  next, 
on  the-  premises, 

THE  noted  ferry  on  Delaware,  on  the  Jersey  shore, 
called  Cornell's  Ferry,  about  15  miles  above  Trenton,  with 
seventy  five  acres  of  land,  ten  of  which  is  good  meadow, 
the  rest  good  plow-land. — On  said  place  is  an  orchard, 
two  large  stone  houses  two  stories  high  each,  a  cellar  under 
the  whole,  and  a  draw-well  at  the  door,  a  frame  barn, 

1  The  last  Chief  Justice  of  New  Jersey  under  the  royal  government. 


1779]  NEWSPAPEK    EXTRACTS.  91 

stable  and  shed.  The  vendue  to  begin  at  12  o'clock  on 
said  day,  when  attendance  will  be  given  and  the  condi- 
tions made  known  by 

Abraham  Coryell, 
February  18,  1779. 

NOTICE  is  hereby  given,  that  on  Thursday  the  25th  of 
March  next  will  be  sold  by  way  of  publick  vendue,  sundry 
commodious  houses  and  lots,  situate  in  Trenton  in  the 
county  of  Hunterdon:  also  some  valuable  lots  lying  con- 
tiguous thereto;  likewise  a  small  plantation  lying  within 
three  quarters  of  a  mile  of  said  town,  containing  about  90 
acres,  on  which  is  a  good  dwellinghouse  and  barn ;  being 
the  lands  and  tenements  late  the  property  of  Isaac  Allen, 
Daniel  Coxe,  John  Barnes,  Brereton  Pointing,  and  Mary 
his  wife.  Vendue  to  begin  at  the  house  of  the  widow 
Britton,  at  ten  o'clock  in  the  forenoon,  and  to  be  con- 
tinued on  the  respective  premises  till  the  whole  are  sold. 
And  on  Friday  the  26th  of  March,  will  be  sold  on  the 
premises,  vendue  to  begin  at  two  o'clock  in  the  afternoon, 
an  exceeding  fine  plantation,  situate,  in  Maidenhead  in 
the  county  aforesaid,  in  a  healthy  part  of  the  country,  con- 
taining about  400  acres,  on  which  are  two  large  stone 
dwellinghouses,  barns,  &c.  about  60  acres  of  meadow,  the 
upland  is  fertile,  producing  large  quantities  of  winter  and 
summer  grain,  well  water' d  and  timber 'd;  the  whole  to 
be  sold  together  or  separate,  as  will  best  suit  the  purchasers 
—late  the  property  of  Doctor  Absalom  Bainbridge.  At- 
tendance will  be  given  at  the  above  time  and  places,  and 
deeds  of  conveyance  made  to  the  purchaser,  agreeable  to  a 
law  of  the  state  of  New  Jersey,  passed  the  llth  of  De- 
cember, 1778. — The  quantity  will  be  ascertained  and 
draughts  of  the  premises  may  be  seen  at  the  day  of  sale. 

Jared  Sexton 


._   ._       .  j   rr          i    Commis- 
Nathamel  Hunt, 
n  ,       T>  I    sioners. 

Peter  Brunner 


Feb.  20,  1779. 


92  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

WHEREAS  inquisitions  having  been  found  and  final 
judgment  entered  against  Cavilear  Jewit,  Ichabod  Best 
Barnet,  William  Luce,  John  Smith  Hetfield,  Broughton 
Reynolds,  Richard  Miller,  John  Willis,  James  Hetfield, 
James  Frazee,  James  Moore,  Jonathan  Oliver,  David 
Oliver,  Samuel  Smith,  Daniel  Moore,  John  Morse,  Isaac 
Stanbury,  Thomas  Burrows,  and  John  Falker,  all  late  of 
the  county  of  Essex,  and  Robert  Fitz  Randolph,  late  of 
the  county  of  Middlesex,  in  the  State  of  New  Jersey — 
NOTICE  is  hereby  given,  that  the  houses  and  lands,  and  all 
the  real  estate  lately  belonging  to  them  in  the  county  of 
Essex  aforesaid,  will  be  exposed  to  sale  at  publick  vendue, 
beginning  on  Thursday  the  25th  of  March  next  at  10 
o'clock  in  the  forenoon  of  said  day,  at  the  house  of  Capt 
John  Craig,  tavern-keeper  in  Raway,  and  continued  by 
adjournments  till  the  whole  are  sold.  Particular  descrip- 
tions and  attendance  will  be  given  at  the  time  and  place 
of  sale,  by 

John   Clawson,   )    Commis- 
Dan.iel  Marsh,   \    sioners. 

X.   B.      The   two   emissions   of   money   of   May    20th, 
1777,  and  April  llth,  1778,  will  be  taken  payment. 

Feb.  17th,  1779. 

Morris  WHEREAS  inquisition  has  been  found,  and  final 
County,  judgment  entered  in  favour  of  the  State,  against 
Thomas  Millidge,  Stephen  Skinner,  John  Troop,  John 
Steward,  Ezekiel  Beach,  Joseph  Conliff,  John  Thornton, 
Asher  Dunham,  Richard  Bowlsby,  John  Bowlsby,  Edward 
Bowlsby,  Philip  Van  Oortland,  Samuel  Ryerson,  Jacob 
Demarest,  Isaac  Horubeck,  William  Howard  and  Law- 
rence Buskerk — Xotice  is  hereby  given,  that  the  houses 
and  lands,  and  leases  for  life,  and  all  the  real  estate  that 
did  belong  to  any  or  all  of  them,  will  bo  sold  at  public 
vendue  on  Tuesday  the  80th  day  of  March  next,  at  the 
house  of  Oapt.  Jacob  Arnold,  in  Morris-Town,  to  begin 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  93 

at  10  of  the  clock,  A.  M.,  on  said  day,  and  to  continue 
from  day  to  day  by  adjournments,  till  the  whole  are  sold : 
and  as  some  of  the  lands  are  not  yet  surveyed,  they  cannot 
be  so  particularly  described,  but  there  will  be  the  draughts 
shewn  on  the  day  of  sale,  and  if  there  should  be  any  per- 
sons from  a  distance  inclining  to  purchase,  and  are  un- 
acquainted with  the  premises,  by  applying  to  one  of  the 
Commissioners  they  will  be  shewn  or  informed,  and  deeds 
will  be  made  out  as  soon  as  possible  after  the  sales  are 
over,  as  the  act  of  the  Assembly  directs,  and  the  pur- 
chasers must  pay  the  money  at  the  signing  of  the  deeds, 
for  the  use  of  this  State. 


ALEXANDER    CARMICHAEL      I 

AARON    KITCHEL  f    sioiierS. 


Four  Dollars  Reward. 

STRAYED  o*r  stolen  on  the  7th  instant,  from  the  sub- 
scriber living  in  Trenton,  a  brown  horse,  ten  years  old, 
has  a  large  bushy  bob  tail,  and  his'foretop  cut  close  off  to 
his  head.  Said  horse  is  supposed  to  have  been  taken  up 
and  sold  by -some  loose  fellow  not  far  from  this  town. 
Whoever  takes  up  said  horse  and  secures  him  so  that  the 
owner  may  have  him,  shall  have  the  above  reward  and 
reasonable  charges,  by 

John  James,  Keeper  of  the  common  gaol  in  Trenton. 

Monmouth  WHEREAS  inquisitions  have  been  found,  and 
County,  ss.  final  judgment  entered  thereon,  in  favour,  of 
the  state  of  New  Jersey,  against  the  persons  herein  men- 
tioned— NOTICE  is  hereby  given  that  the  real  and  personal 
estates  belonging  the  Samuel  Osburn,  Thomas  Leonard, 
Hendrick  .Vanmater,  John  Throckmorton,  Daniel  Van- 
mater,  John  Longstreet,  jun.  Alexander  Clark,  Joseph 
Clayton,  Israel  Britton,  John  Okeson,  John  Thomson, 


94  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

Lewis  Thomson,  Cornelius  Thomson,  Thomas  Bills,  and 
Benzeor  Hinkson,  all  of  the  township  of  Freehold,  will  be 
sold  at  Freehold  court-house,  beginning  on  Wednesday 
the  17th  day  of  March  next  and  continue  from  day  to 
day  until  all  are  sold — Thomas  Crowel,  George  Taylor, 
jun.  Jonathan  Stout,  Peter  Stout,  Oliver  Hicks,  James 
Stilwell,  John  Mount,  boatman,  Conrad  Hendricks,  Joseph 
Bailey,  John  dotterel,  Richard  Cole,  Samuel  Smith,  John 
Bowne,  James  Pew,  Thomas  Thome,  Ezekiel  Tilton, 
Joseph  Taylor,  John  Tilton,  of  Middletown,  and  William 
Smith,  of  Middlesex,  having  lands  in  said  town,  will  be 
sold  at  publick  vendue,  beginning  on  Monday  the  22d  day 
of  March  next,  at  the  house  of  Cornelius  Swart,  and  con- 
tinue from  day  to  day  until  all  are  sold — John  Taylor 
and  William  Walton,  of  New-York,  but  having  property 
in  Shrewsbury,  John  Williams,  Christopher  Talman,  John 
Warde,  Michael  Price,  James  Mount,  John  Williams,  jun. 
John  Pintard,  Clayton  Tilton,  Samuel  Cook,  James 
Boggs,  James  Curlis,  Asael  Chandler,  John  Morris, 
William  Price,  Robert  Morris,  Peter  Vannote,  James 
Price,  John  and  Morford  Taylor,  John  Hankinson, 
Timothy  Scoby,  William  Lawrence,  Peter  War  del,  Oliver 
Talman,  Richard  Lippincot,  Josiah  White,  Benjamin 
Wooley,  Ebenezer  Wardel,  Robert  Stout,  Nathaniel 
Parker,  John  Hampton,  Samuel  Layton,  Jacob  Harber, 
Samuel  Layton,.  Jacob  Emmons,  Britten  White,  Tobias 
Kiker,  and  Daniel  Lefetter,  late  of  the  township  of 
Shrewsbury,  and  Gamadus1  Beekman  of  New  York, 
having  property  in  said  township,  will  be  sold  at  publick 
vendue,  beginning  on  Monday  the  29th  of  March  next,  at 
Teuton  Falls,  and  continue  from  day  to  day  until  all  are 
sold — John  Leonard,  Gilbert  Giberson,  Samuel  Stilwell, 
Brazilla,  Joseph,  Thomas,  William  and  Samuel  Grover, 
John  Horner,  Fuller  Homer,  John  Perine,  >  William 
Giberson,  jun.  Mallakiah  Giberson,  John  Polemas,  jun. 

1  Gerardus. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  95 

Benjamin  Giberson,  Samuel  Oakersen,  Elisha  Lawrence 
and  John  Lawrence,  sons  of  John,  late  of  Upper  Freehold, 
and  Isaac  Allen  late  of  Trenton,  will  be  sold  at  publick 
vendue,  beginning  on  Monday  the  5th  day  of  April  next, 
at  Wall's  mills,  and  continue  from  day  to  day  until  all 
are  sold — John  Iron's  and  David  Smith's,,  of  the  town- 
ship of  Dover,  will  be  sold  at  Freehold  court-house  at  the 

time  of  sales  there. The  two  emissions  called  in,  and 

bank  notes  will  be  taken  in  pay.  No  credit  will  be  given. 
The  sale  will  begin  by  9  o'clock  each  day.  Also  deeds 
made  to  the  purchasers,  agreeable  to  act  of  Assembly,  by 

SAMUEL    FORMAN,    JOSEPH    LAWRENCE,    KENNETH    HANKIN- 

SON,  JACOB  WICKOFF,  Commissioners. 
February  17,  1779. 

Middlesex  WHEREAS  inquisitions  have  been  found,  and 
County,  ss.  final  judgment  entered  thereon  in  favour  of 
the  state  of  New  Jersey,  against  the  fugitives  and  of- 
fenders herein  after-named,  to  wit,  Ebenezer  Foster, 
David  Kent,  Jonathan  Clawson,  Edward  V.  Dungan, 
Philip  Gach,  Alexander  Watson,  Thomas  Stevens,  Wil- 
liam Blane,  Robert  Fitz  Randolph,  Nathaniel  Harned, 
Benjamin  Allwood,  John  Ford,  John  Harned,  William 
Smith,  Dennis  Combs,  jun.  Joseph  Mundy,  John  Done, 
Hopewell  Mundy,  Ellis  Barren,  John  Heard,  Samuel 
Moorse,  David  Allston,  David  Jaquish,  William  God- 
hers,  Isaac  Dunham,  Oswald  Ford,  John  Mundy,  jun. 
Jonathan  Mundy,  William  Lurton,  John  Pray,  Lewis 
Allston,  Jonathan  Allston,  Moses  Dunham,  Isaiah  Cod- 
dington,  Benjamin  Marsh,  Matthias  Man,  Isaac  Bunnel, 
Stephen  Skinner,  Cortland  Skinner,  David  Fitz  Ran- 
dolph, Jacob  Boice,  Randolph  Drake,  Peter  Vroom, 
Thomas  Walker,  John  Wilson,  William  Terrill,  Ben- 
jamin Drake,  Peter  Holton,  Nicholas  Mundy,  jun,  John 
Yroom,  John  Auten,  Richard  Lennix,  David  Lennix, 
Joseph  Thorn,  and  Jeremiah  Hemsted — NOTICE  is  hereby 


96          NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779 

given  that  the  lands,  tenements,  hereditaments,  and  all  the 
estates  real,  lately  belonging  to  the  above-named  fugitives 
and  offenders,  situate,  lying,  and  being  in  Woodbridge, 
Amboy  and  Piscataway,  in  the  county  of  Middlesex,  will 
be  exposed  to>  sale  at  publick  vendue,  to  begin  on  Monday 
the  22d  day  of  March  next,  at  the  house  of  John  Conger, 
innkeeper,  at  Bonemtown,  at  ten  of  the  clock  of  said  day, 
and  continue  by  adjournments  from  day  to  day  until  the 
whole  be  sold.  There  are  some  elegant  buildings,  and 
many  agreeable  situations.  The  land  in  general  is  ex- 
cellent good.  Attendance  will  be  given,  and  deeds  made 
to  the  purchasers,  agreeable  to  act  of  Assembly. 

WILLIAM    MANNING        1     CommiS- 

EBKXEZER  FORD  J   sioners. 

February  12,  1779. 


TAKEN  up  as  a  stray,  on  the  28th  of  January,  1779,  a 
bright  bay  JIORSK  about  1^3  years  old,  near  14  hands  high, 
no  brand  but  much  marked  with  a  collar  and  traces ;  and 
I  do  suppose  has  belonged  to  some  of  the  teams,  im- 
pressed for  the  use  of  the-  army.  The  owner  may  have 
him,  by  proving  his  property  and  paying  charges. 

MARK    BENTON 

1st  Lieut.  5th  V.  Rest. 


Somerset  WHEREAS  inquisition  has  found,  and  final 
County.  judgment  entered  thereon  in  favour  of  the 
state,  against  Richard  Cochran,  Joseph  Stockton  and 
John  \7a,n  Dike,  of  the  western  precinct  of  said  county; 
Daniel  Coxe,  of  the  county  of  Hunterdon ;  John  Honey- 
man,  Charles  Roberts  and  William  Burton,  of  the  eastern 
precinct;  William  Drake,  Benjamin  Worth,  of  Barnard's- 
township,  and  John  Harris,  of  Bridgewater,  all  in  said 
county.  NOTICE  is  hereby  given  that  the  plantations, 
tracts  of  land  and  premises,  with  the  appurtenances  be- 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  97 

longing  to  each  of  them,  .will  be  exposed  to  sale  at  publick 
vendue  to  the  highest-  bidder,  at  the  times  and  manner 
following,  that  is  to  say, — On  Monday  the  15th  day  of 
March  next,  will  be  sold  the  plantation  late  the  property 
of  Richard  Cbchran,  near  Princeton:  On  Wednesday 
following,  the  17th,  will  be  sold  the  plantation  late  the 
property  of  Joseph  Stockton,  lying  on  the  Princeton  road, 
about  three  miles  distant  from  Princeton:  On  Friday 
the  19th  will  be  sold  in  like  manner,  the  plantation  late 
the  property  of  Daniel  C'oxe,  lying  at  Rocky-hill,  formerly 
in  the  occupation  of  C'apt.  Hendrick  Emmons :  On  Mon- 
day the  22d,  will  be  sold  in  like  manner,  the  lots  and 
houses  late  the  property  of  John  Honeyman,  lying  at 
Griggs-town,  about  one .  mile  distant  from  Van  Dome's 
mills  on  the  main  road  leading  to  Brunswick:  On 
Wednesday  the  24th,  will  be  sold  in  like  manner,  the 
plantation  late  the  property  of  John  Van  Dike,  lying 
joining  Sourland  meeting-house,  in  Sourland:  On  the 
26th  will  be  sold,  the  plantation  late  the  property  of 
Charles  Roberts,  lying  ne&r  Raritan  river,  now  in  the 
occupation  of  Thomas  Arrowsmith :  On  Monday  the 
29th,  will  be  sold  in  like  manner,  the  famous  house  and 
land  late  property  of  William  Burtan,  formerly  in  the 
occupation  of  Anthony  White,  Esq.  opposite'  Brunswick 
landing:  Wednesday  the  31st,  will  be  sold  in  like  man- 
ner, a  plantation  in  Barnard's-town,  late  the  property  of 
William  Drake:  On  Friday  the  2d  day  of  April  next,  will 
be  sold  in  like  manner,  one  other  plantation,  lying  in 
Barnard's  town,  the  property  of  Benjamin  Worth:  And 
on  Saturday  the  3d  day  of  April,  will  be  sold  the  plan- 
tation late  the  property  of  John  Harris,  in  Bridgewater 
township. — The  vendues  to  be  held  on  the  premises ;  to 
begin  at  11  o'clock  in  the  forenoon  from  place  to  place. 
The  premises  will  be  shown  them  at  the  day  of  sale,  and  a 
title  made  for  the  same,  pursuant  to  an  act  of  the  General 
Assembly  of  this  State,  in  that  case  made  and  provided.— 

7 


98  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

Attendance    will    be    given,    and    the    conditions    made 
known  by 

JACOB  BERGEN      ) 

>   Commissioners. 

HENDRICK    WILSON    j 

February   15,   1779. 

New- Jersey,  AT  an  Inferior  Court  of  Common  Pleas, 
Bergen  county,  held  for  the  county  on  the  26th  of  Janu- 
ary, 1779,  were  returned  inquisitions  for  joining  the 
King  of  Great-Britain,  and  other  treasonable  practices, 
against  John  Merselis,  Lewis  Millenburg,  Lawrence  A. 
Ackerman,  John  Deryea,  Peter  T.  Herring,  Derick 
Ackerman,  John  Deinot,  Philip  Peaker,  John  II.  Van- 
houten,  Thomas  ])ungan,  .Martin  Rush,  Hendrick  Van- 
blaricum, Ilarrimann  Yanblaricum,  Jacobus  Fox,  Ed- 
ward Joans,  David  D.  Ackerman,  Henry  J.  Hannison, 
Orey  Demorest,  jun,  Hendrick  Doreamus,  David  Master- 
len,  Abel  Ridner,  Abraham  A.  Quaekenbush,  Daniel  S. 
Demorest,  Peter  Tise,  flolin  Robertson,  John  Tise,  Jacob 
Vanwincle,  Matthias  Kenact,  Peter  T).  Wietm,  Michael 
Stor,  Alexander  M'Koy,  Conrad  Fredericks,  John  Ridner, 
Hendrick  Ridner,  Hendrick  Fox,  William  Peaker,  Hen- 
drick Fredericks,  Thomas  Lyo-n,  Isaac  Xo1)le,  Jacolms 
Peck,  John  F.  Ryerson,  Peter  J.  Vanblaricum,  John  L. 
\Tard)uskerk,  John  J.  Yanblaricum,  Andrew  Vanbuskerk, 
flames  Yanburen,  Gabriel  VanoTden,  David  Vanbuskerk, 
John  Ja.  Vanbuskerk,  Barant  Euerse,  Jacob  Himion, 
Hendrick  Himion,  Rinehart  Puckman,  Timothy  Lewis, 
Adam  Himion,  Christian  Pulissalt,1  Peter  Nix,  John  J. 
Ackerman,  Peter  Leant,  Martin  RoelofFee,2  John  C. 
Herrin,  Abraham  Lent,  Charles  Bekeman,  and  Thomas 
Oldwater,  of  which  proclamation  was  made  at  said  court, 
that  if  they  or  any  person  on  their  behalf,  or  person  in- 
terested, would  appear  and  traverse,  a  trial  should  be 

1  Pulisfelt,  now  Pulis. 
-  Roelofse. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  99 

awarded,  but  no  traverses  were  offered — therefore  notice 
is  hereby  given  that  if  neither  they  nor  any  in  their 
behalf,  nor  any  interested,  shall  not  appear  and  enter  a 
traverse  at  the  next  court  to  be  held  for  the  said  county, 
the  inquisitions  will  be  taken  to  be  true,  and  final  judg- 
ment entered  thereon  in  favour  of  the  state. 

JAMES  BOARD,  )    Commis- 

HENDERICUS  KUYPEK  j    sioners. 
Feb.  16,  1779. 

TO    BE    SOLD, 

At  publick  vendue  on  Monday  the  8th  day  of  March 
next,  at  the  house  of  Lawrence  Taylor,  innholder,  in 
Monmouth  county. 

A  Plantation,  containing  about  220  acres  of  land. 
About  100  is  cleared,  25  whereof  is  meadow  and  meadow- 
ground  ;  a  stone  house,  a  frame  barn,  and  a  young  bearing 
orchard  chiefly  of  the  sweet  apple.  The  said  Plantation 
lays  bounding  on  Rocky  Brook,  and  joins  Gaston's  grist 
and  fulling  mills — Any  person  inclining  to  purchase  may 
be  informed  by  applying  to  Guisebert  Gibertson,  jun. 
living  on  the  premise's — The  bills  of  credit,  of  the  emis- 
sions of  May  20,  1777,  and  April  11,  1778,  or  loan- 
office  certificates  will  be  taken  in  payment.  The  vendue 
to  begin  at  one  o'clock  on  said  day,  where  attendance  will 
be  given  by 

JOHN    BUTLER. 

February  18,  1779. 

— The  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  II.,  No.  64,  February  24, 
1779. 


100         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779 


PHILADELPHIA,  February  17. 

Extract  of  a  letter  from  Captain  Douglass,  of  the  schooner 
Hunter,  to  his  owners,  dated  Egg-Harbour,  February  9. 

"Being  at  sea,  about  ten  leagues  from  Egg-Harbour,  we 
saw  a  sail  to  the  south-east,  and  gave  chace,  wind  at  south- 
west; finding  her  to  be  a  brig  of  force,  we  immediately 
got  clear  for  action ;  she  then  took  in  her  top^gallantsails, 
hauled  down  her  flying-jibb,  and  hoisted  an  English  en- 
sign instead  of  a  Continental  one  that  was  flying  before. 
We  gave  her  three  cheers  and  poured  in  a  broadside, 
being  on  her  lee  quarters.  The  Captain  of  the  brig  called 
out  to  board  us ;  I  immediately  ordered  the  pikes  to  be 
got  ready,  and  luffed  to  for  boarding;  he  luffed  to,  like^ 
wise,  but  I  found  he  was  not  for  boarding.  We  lay  along- 
side of  him  for  two  glasses,  and  heard  the  men  schreeeh 
and  cry  several  times,  and  the  Captain  stamp  and  swear 
at  the  men  for  leaving  the  rammers  in  their  guns.  At 
length  they  found  we  warmed  them  so  that  they  lacked 
their  maintopsail,  and  we  shot  ahead,  the  sea  running 
so  high  we  could  not  sight  our  lee  guns,  and  springing 
our  mainmast,  prevented  our  making  sail,  when  they  de- 
parted. She  was  called  the  Bellona,,  Captain  Buchanan, 
of  16  six  and  four  pounders,  and  12  swivels.  We  lost  our 
second  Lieutenant  and  one  private  killed,  two  men  mor- 
tally wounded,  and  the  second  mate  and  three  men 
wounded,  but  like  to  do  well. — The  schooner  Hunter  has 
only  8  four  and  2  three  pounders,  12  howitz  and  60 
men. — We  cannot,  give  too  much  applause  to  the  officers 
and  men  in  general  and  in  particular  to  Rufus  Gardner, 
our  second  Lieutenant." 


1779]  NEWSPAPER  EXTRACTS.  101 

Burlington,  February  15,  1779. 
TO  THE  PUBLIC. 

This  is  to  give  notice  That  John  Wills,  of  Burlington, 
in  the  house  where  Colonel  Joseph  Haight  formerly  lived, 
hath  erected  a  STAGE  for  the  accommodation  of  travellers 
from  Burlington  to  Brunswick. 

The  Stage  boat  sets  off  from  the  Crooked  Billet  wharff 
at  Philadelphia  every  Wednesday,  and  the  stage  waggon 
sets  off  from  Burlington  the  Thursday  morning  following, 
and  returns  the  next  day  to  Burlington,  where  the  boat  is 
ready  to  take  goods  or  passengers  to  Philadelphia, 

This  stage  is  very  well  calculated  for  those  who  dislike 
travelling  far  by  water,  the  distance  being  so  short,  that  if 
it  should  be  calm,  or  let  the  wind  be  on  what  point  of  the 
•compass  it  may,  they  are  sure  of  getting  from  Phila- 
delphia to  Burlington  in  one  tide. 

There  is  a  commodious  house  of  entertainment  kept  by 
the  said  Wills  for  travellers,  &c.  where  those  who  please 
to  favour  him  with  their  custom  will  be  treated  with  every 
mark  of  respect. 

JOHN  WILLS 
— The  Pennsylvania  Gazette,  February   17,   1779. 


Evesliam  Township,  Burlington  County,  W.  New-Jersey. 

February  1. 
FORTY  DOLLARS  REWARD. 

RAN  AWAY  yesterday  morning  from  the  subscriber 
a  Dutch  servant  man  named  JOHN  GEORGE  WAN- 
NER, about  twenty-one  years  of  age,  five  feet  eight  or 
nine  inches  high,  well  built  but  somewhat  clumsy,  and 


102  NEW    JE1ISEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

speaks  broken  English :  Had  on  and  took  with  him,  a 
felt  hat  half  worn,  a  light  brown  bearskin  upper  jacket 
almost  new,  with  wooden  buttons,  and  button  holes  bound 
with  leather;  a  striped  upper  and  under  ditto,  one  coarse 
shirt  and  one  check  ditto,  buckskin  breeches  almost  new 
with  pewter  buttons,  two  pairs  of  yarn  stockings,  one 
pair  light  blue  and  the  other  blue  gray,  and  a  pair  of 
hob-nailed  shoes  with  strings.  As  his  father,  Jacob  Wan- 
ner, lives  near  Aliens-Town,  in  Northampton  County, 
Pennsylvania,  it  is  supposed  he  is  gone  that  way. 

Whoever  apprehends  said  servant  and  secures  him  in 
Philadelphia  gaol,  shall  receive  the  above  reward,  or 
SIXTY  DOLLARS  if  brought  home  to  the  subscriber 

JOSHUA  DUDLEY. 
—TJie  Pennsylvania  Packet,  February  20,  1770. 


MooreVTown,  Burlington  County,  Feb.  13. 

OXK    IIUXDKKI)    AND    FIFTY    DOLLARS    1JKWAKI). 

TxAX  AWAY  last  evening,  from  the  subscriber,  a  Dutch 
servant  man  named  JUSTUS  (TiAMM  All,  about  twenty- 
one  years  of  age,  five  feet  six  or  seven  inches  high,  a  well 
built,  likely  fellow,  with  black  curled  hair,  dark  eyes,  Las 
a  scar  cross-ways  betwixt  his  under  lip  and  chin,  speaks, 
tolerable  good  English,  and  'tis  thought  speaks  Dutch  but 
imperfectly:  Had  on  and  took  with  him,  a  lead  coloured 
homespun,  broad  cloth  coattee  Avith  a.  small  falling  collar, 
almost  new,  an  old  patched  upper  broad  cloth  jacket  nearly 
of  the  same  colour,  a  striped  worsted  and  wool  under 
jacket,  patched  on  the  fore  part  Avith  cloth  of  the  same; 
had  two  pairs  of  breeches,  one  of  the  same  cloth  of  his 
coattee,  almost  new,  the  other  of  leather,  old  and  patched  ; 
he  had  wooden  buttons  to  all  his  cloaths  except  his  leather 
breeches,  part  of  which  were  brass:  He  had  on  an  old 


1779  I  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  103 

shirt  made  of  tow  and  linen,  a  pair  of  double-sealed  neats 
leather  shoes  with  plated  buckles  in  them ;  he  had  also  a 
P'air  of  plated  knee-buckles,  a  pair  of  old  yarn  stockings 
mixed  red  and  black,  and  a  castor  hat  about,  half  worn. 
Whoever  takes  up  said  servant  and  secures  him  in  any 
goal,  and  gives  notice  to  his  master  so  that  he  may  be 
had  again,  shall  have  the  above  reward,  and  if  brought 
home  all  reasonable  charges  defrayed,  by 

EPHRAIM  HAItfES. 
—The  Pennsylvania  Packet.,  February  23,  1779. 


TRENTON",    MARC  El    3, 


The  anniversary  of  our  alliance  with  FRANCE  was  cele- 
brated on  the  18th  ultimo  at  Pluck'emin,  at  a  very  elegant 
entertainment  and  display  of  fire-works  given  by  General 
Knox,  and  the  officers  of  the  corps  of  artillery.  It  was 
postponed  to  this  late  day  on  account  of  His  Excellency 
General  Washington's  absence  from  camp. 

General  Washington — the  principal  officers  of  the 
army:  Mrs.  Washington,  Mrs.  Greene — Mrs.  Knox;  the 
gentlemen  and  ladies  for  a  large  circuit  around  the  camp, 
were  of  the  company.  Besides  these,  there  was  a  vast 
concourse  of  spectators  from  every  part  of  the  Jersies. 

The  barracks  of  the  artillery  are  at  a,  small  distance 
from  Pluck' emin,  on  a  piece  of  rising  ground  which  shews 
them  to  great  advantage.  The  entertainment  and  ball 
were  held  in  the  academy  of  the  Park. 

About  four  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  the  celebration  of 
the  ALLIANCE  was  announced  by  the  discharge  of  THIRTEEN 
cannon,  when  the  company  assembled  in  the  a,cademy,  to  a 
very  elegant  dinner.  The  room  was  spacious,  and  the 
tables  very  prettily  disposed  both  as  to  prospect  and  con- 
venience.— The  festivity  was  universal,  and  the  toasts 
descriptive  of  the  happy  event,  which  had  given  certainty 
to  our  liberties,  empire1 — and  independence. 


104  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

In  the  evening  was  exhibited  a  very  fine  set  of  fire- 
works, conducted  by  Col.  Stevens — arranged  on  the  point 
of  a  Temple  of  one  hundred  feet  in  length,  and  propor- 
tionally high.  The  Temple  shewed  THIRTEEN  arches, 
each  displaying  an  illuminated  painting. —  The  centre 
arch  was  ornamental  with  a  pediment,  larger  than  any 
of  the  others ; — and  the  whole  edifice  supported  by  a 
colonnade,  of  the  Corinthian  order. 

The  illuminated  paintings  were  disposed  in  the  fol- 
lowing order : 

The  1st  arch  on  the  right  represented  the  commence- 
ment of  hostilities  at  Lexington,  with  this  inscription. 
The  scene  opened. 

2.  British  clemency.  Represented  in  the  burning  of 
Charlestown,  Falmouth,  Norfolk  and  Kingston. 

3d.  The  separation  of  America  from  Britain.  A 
magnificent  arch  broken  in  the  centre,  with  this  motto. 
By  your  tyranny  to  the  people  of  America  you  have 
separated  the  wide  arcli  of  an  extended  empire. 

4th.  Britain  represented  as  a  decaying  empire  -  -  by 
a  barren  country  -  -  broken  arches  -  -  fallen  spires  — 
ships  deserting  its  shores  -  -  bi>ds  of  prey  hovering  over 
its  mouldering  cities  -  -  and  a  gloomy  setting  sun.— 

Motto. 

The  Babylonian  spires  are  sunk — 

Acnaia  -•  -  Rome  —  and  Egypt  mouldering  down. 

Time  shakes  the  stable  tyranny  of  thrones, 

And  tottering  empires  rush  by  their' oivn  weight. 

r>th.  AMERICA  represented  as  a  rising  Empire.  Pros- 
pect of  a  fertile  country  -  -  harbours  -  -  and  rivers 
covered  with  ships  -  -  new  canals  opening  -  -  cities  rising 

amidst  woods a  splendid  sun  emerging  from  a  bright 

horizon. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  105 

Motto, 

Neiv  worlds  are  still  emerging  from  the  deep. 

The  old  descending  in  their  turns  to  rise. 

6th.  A  grand  illuminated  representation  of  LOUIS  the 
sixteenth.  The  encourager  of  letters  —  the  supporter  of 
the  rights  of  humanity  -  -  the  ALLY  and  FRIEND  of  the 

AMERICAN  PEOPLE. 

7th  The  centre  arch.  THE  FATHERS  IN  CONGRESS. 
Motto  Nil  desperandiim  reipublicae. 

8th  The  American  Philosopher  and  Ambassador  ex- 
tracting lightning  from  the  clouds. 

9th  The  battle  near  Saratoga,,  7th  October,  1777. 

10th,  The  Convention  of  Saratoga. 

llth,  A  representation  of  the  Sea,  fight  off  Ushant,  be- 
tween Count  D'  Orvilliers  and  Admiral  Kepple. 

12th.  Warren,-  -Montgomery Mercer  -  Woos- 

ter  —  ^sTash  —  and  a  crowd  of  heroes  who  have  fallen 
in  the  American  contest,  in  Elisium,  receiving  the 
thanks  and  praises  of  Brutus,  —  Cato  —  and  those 
spirits  who  in  all  ages  have  gloriously  struggled  against 
tyrants  and  tyranny.  Motto.  Those  mho  shed  their  blood 
in  such  a*  cause  shall  live  and  reign,  for-ewer. 

13th.  Represented  peace  with  all  her  train  of  blessings. 
Her  right  hand  displayed  an  olive  branch — at  her  feet 
lay  the  honors  of  harvest — the  back  ground  was  filled  with 
flourishing  cities  —  ports  crowded  with  ships  —  and 
other  emblems  of  an  extensive,  empire,  and  unrestrained 
commerce. 

When  the  fire  works  were  finished  the  company  re- 
turned to  the  academy,  and  concluded  the  celebration  by 
a  veiry  splendid  ball, — 

The  whole  was  conducted  in  a  style  and  manner  that 
reflects  great  honor  on  the  taste  of  the  managers. 

The  news,  announced  to  Congress,  from  the  Spanish 
branch  of  the  house  of  BOURBON,  arrived  at  the  moment  of 
celebration,  nothing  could  have,  so  opportunely,  increased 
the  good  humour  of  the  company,  or  added  to  those  ani- 
mated expressions  of  pleasure  which  arose  on  the  occasion. 


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106         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION. 


Extract  of  a,  letter  from,  an   officer  at   Elizabeth-Town, 
dated  March  1,  1779. 

"A  body  of  the  enemy  consisting  of  the  42 d  and  33d 
regiments,  and  the  light  infantry  of  the  guards  in  number 
about  a  thousand,  commanded  by  Lieut.  Colonel  Stirling, 
attempted  to  surprize  the  troops  and  inhabitants  of 
Elizabeth-Town,  on  the  morning  of  Thursday  last.  They 
embarked  at  Long-Island  the  evening  before,  about  seven 
o'clock,  and  landed  on  the  salt-meadows  better  than  a.  mile 
to  the  left  of  Crane' s-Ferry,  between  two  and  three  in 
the  morning.  From  thence  they  were  conducted  through 
a  very  difficult  marsh  to  Woodruffs-farms,  which  lies 
directly  to  the  left  of  the  town. 

""The  guard  at  CraneVFerry  having  discovered  their 
landing,  immediately  dispatched  the  intelligence  to  town, 
where  the  alarm  being  sounded,  the  troops  were  afforded 
an  opportunity  to  collect.  The  number  and  movements 
of  the  enemy  remaining  doubtful  by  reason  of  the  dark- 
ness, our  troops  were  marched  to  the  roar  of  the  town, 
where  the  whig-inhabitants  likewise  retired. 

"'A  detachment  of  the  enemy  was  dispatched  to  the 
Governor's  house,  while  the1  main  body  advanced  to  the 
skirts  of  the  town,  and  from  thence  proceeded  along  the 
rear  until  they  fell  into  the  Brunswick  road  on  the 
right.  The  Governor  happened  to  be  absent  from  home 
that  night;  but  if  he  had  not,  they  would  have  been  un- 
successful in  this  instance  likewise,  as  the  family  received 
timely  notice  of  their  approach. 

"Finding  themselves  compleatly  disappointed  in  every 
expectation,  they  made  their  visit  to  the  town  very  short ; 
however,  during  their  small  halt,  they  set  fire  to  the  bar- 
racks, the  school-house  (in  which  were  stored  some  few 
articles  of  provision)  and  a,  blacksmith's  shop.  So  soon 
as  they  began  their  retreat  to  their  boats  General  Maxwell 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  107 

marched  such  of  his  troops  as  were  yet  in  reserve  against 
their  rear;  the  number  of  these,  however,  were  small, 
several  parties  having  been  detached  at  different  times  to 
hang  upon  them. 

"About  half  way  between  the  town  and  ferry,  the  enemy 
perceiving  their  rear  in  danger,  from  the  sudden  advance 
of  our  troops  and  the  assembling  of  the  militia,  faced 
about  and  paraded,  as  if  for  action.  A  few  well  directed 
shot  from  our  artillery  induced  them  to  renew  their  re>- 
treat,  leaving  two  dead  on  the  field.  Perceiving  an  em- 
barkation at  the  ferry  would  be  attended  with  considerable 
hazard,  their  boats  were  moved  then  a  mile  up  Newark 
bay,  while  the  troops  marched  along  the  meadow's  edge, 
in  many  places  up  to  their  middles  in  mud  and  mire.  t  A 
galley  and  two  or  three  gun  boats  covered  their  retreat  at 
this  place. 

"Our  loss,  exclusive  of  a  few  aged  inhabitants  whom 
they  took  with  them,  but  have  since  sent  back,  are,  one 
private  killed,  two  officers,  to  wit  Brigade  Major  Ogden  1 
and  Lieut.  Kewcastle,2  with  four  privates  wounded,  and 
seven  privates  missing. 

"Major  Ogden,  who  was  reconnoitering  the  enemy 
shortly  after  their  landing,  very  narrowly  escaped  being 
made  prisoner;  he  was  wounded  in  his  right  side  by  a 
bayonet,  but  we  hope  not  dangerously. 

1  Aaron  Ogden  was  commissioned  Brigade  Major  and  Aide-de-Camp  to 
Brigadier  General  William  Maxwell,  April  1,  1778,  and  served  until  the 
close  of  the  war. — Striker's  Officers  and  Men  of  Neiv  Jersey  in  the  Revo- 
lution, 69. 

-  John  Ruecastle  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  Third  Battalion,  First  Estab- 
lishment, Continental  Troops,  "Jersey  Line ;"  he  was  a  private  in  Captain 
Patterson's  Company,  Third  Battalion.  Second  Establishment ;  Second 
Lieutenant,  same  company,  November  1,  1777  ;  Ensign,  Third  Regiment ; 
Lieutenant,  ditto,  to  date  from  April  7,  1779;  Lieutenant;  First  Regi- 
ment ;  discharged  at  the  close  of  the  war  ;  Captain  by  brevet. — Stryker, 
op.  cit.,  92. 


108  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [-1779 

"The  Rev.  Mr.  Hunter,1  Chaplain  to  the  brigade,  on  re- 
turning from  the  Governor's  house,  where  he  had  been  to 
give  the  alarm,  was  made  prisoner  by  them  in  the  night, 
but  he  had  the  address  very  soon  after  to  make  his  escape. 

1  Andrew  Hunter,  1st,  was  a  native  of  Ireland.  He  was  licensed  to 
preach  by  the  Presbytery  of  New  Brunswick,  May  28,  1745,  and  was 
pastor  of  the  churches  at  Greenwich  and  Fairfield,  Cumberland  county, 
1746-60,  and  of  Fairfield  alone  from  1760  until  his  death,  July  28,  1775. 
•Princeton  college  conferred  on  him  the  honorary  degree  of  A.M.  in  1760. 
He  m.  Ann,  a  cousin  of  Richard  Stockton,  the  signer  of  the  Declaration 
of  Independence  :  she  was  buried  in  the  Presbyterian  churchyard,  in  Tren- 
ton, in  October,  1800. — Webster's  Hist.  Presbyterian  Church,  505  ;  Elmer's 
Cumberland  Count  i/,  103  ;  Hall's  Hist.  Pres.  Church  in  Trenton,  341.  His 
son  (?),  Andrew  S.  Hunter,  received  from  Princeton  college  the  honorary 
degree  of  A.M.  in  1802  ;  at  the  September  term  of  the  New  Jersey  Supreme 
Court,  in  the  same  year,  he  was  licensed  as  an  attorney,  and  three  years 
later  as  a  counsellor-at-law.  He  practiced  in  Trenton. — Princeton  General 
Catalogues;  N.  J.  Supreme  Court  Rules.  He  probably  had  practiced  law 
in  some  other  State  before  settling  in  New  Jersey. 

Andrew  Hunter,  2d,  was  a  son  of  David  Hunter,  a  British  officer,  and 
was  a  nephew  of  the  Rev.  Andrew  Hunter,  of  Fairfield.  He  was  born  in 
Virginia,  in  1752.  He  was  graduated  from  Princeton  college  in  1772,  and 
entered  upon  the  study  of  divinity  with  his  uncle,  being  licensed  by  the 
Presbytery  of  Philadelphia  about  the  middle  of  June,  1774.  He  seems  to 
have  been  master  of  an  academy  at  Wilmington  about  this  time.  Imme- 
diately after  being  licensed  he  went  on  a  missionary  tour  in  Pennsylvania 
and  Virginia.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Greenwich  "tea  party,"  Nov. 
22.  1774.  On  the  breaking  out  of  active  hostilities,  at  the  beginning  of 
the  Revolution,  he  entered  the  army,  being  commissioned  chaplain  of  Col. 
Stephen  Van  Cortlandt's  battalion,  Heard' s  brigade,  of  the  New  Jersey 
militia,  June  28.  1776 ;  chaplain  Third  battalion,  second  establishment, 
Continental  army,  Jersey  Line,  June  1,  1777  ;  chaplain  to  General  Max- 
well's brigade,  June  15,  1777  ;  chaplain  Third  regiment  and  brigade,  Sept. 
26.  1780  ;  discharged  at  the  close  of  the  war.  He  received  the  personal 
thanks  of  Gen.  Washington  for  his  conduct  at  the  Battle  of  Monmouth. 
He  was  taken  prisoner  in  the  raid  by  the  British  to  Elizabethtown,  de- 
scribed in  the  text  above,  but  escaped.  It  is  probable  that  he,  was  some- 
what feeble  in  health,  and  that  his  strength  was  still  further  impaired  by 
his  military  experiences.  We  have  no  further  account  of  his  labors  until 
1789,  when  he  was  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  at  Woodbury,  and 
represented  his  Presbytery  in  the  General  Assembly  of  his  denomination  at 
Philadelphia.  He  was  again  a  member  of  that  body  in  1794,  when  he 
served  on  an  important  committee  having  charge  of  the  revision  and  print- 
ing of  a  report  relating  to  the  Confession  of  Faith  and  Form  of  Govern- 
ment of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United  States.  He  appears  to 
have  occupied  the  pulpit  of  the  Woodbury  church  for  several  years  prior  to 
1800,  being  succeeded  by  the  Rev.  Thomas  Picton.  In  1791  he  and  others 
received  from  Joseph  Bloomfield,  afterwards  Governor  of  New  Jersey,  a 
deed  for  a  plot  of  land,  for  the  erection  of  an  academy  thereon.  He  be- 
came principal  of  this  academy  and  conducted  a  classical  school  there  for 
some  years,  iintil  he  was  obliged  to  give  it  up  on  account  of  ill  health  ; 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  109 

"The  enemy's  loss  we  cannot  ascertain,  besides  two 
killed  whom  they  left  behind,  two  made  prisoners,  and  one 
boat  taken.  Mr.  Remington  allows  them  seven  wounded 
in  one  company.  Cornelius  Hetfield,  Smith  Hetfield  and 
Capt.  Luce,  late  of  this  town,  were  their  principal  guides. 
They  had  collected  a  considerable  number  of  horned  cattle 
and  horses,  but  their  retreat  was  so  precipitate  that  they 
were  obliged  to  leave  them  behind."1 

On  Sunday  evening  the  21st  of  February  last,  was  mar- 
ried  at  Reckless-Town,    Col.   WILLIAM   SHREVE,  to  Mrs. 
RECKLESS,  of  that  place. 


for  the  same  reason  we  find  him,  in  1803,  cultivating  a  farm  near  Trenton. 
He  was  a  trustee  of  Princeton  college,  1788-1804,  when  he  resigned  to 
accept  the  professorship  of  mathematics  and  astronomy.  This  position 
he  retained  until  1808,  when  he  relinquished  it  for  the  purpose  of  assum- 
ing charge  of  an  academy  at  Bordentown.  Here  he  remained  until  1810, 
when  he  was  appointed  a  chaplain  in  the  United  States  navy,  being  sta- 
tioned at  the  Washington  navy  yard.  On  giving  up  his  professorship  at 
Princeton,  in  1808,  he  was  again  elected  a  trustee  of  the  college,  until  1811. 
He  owned  considerable  property  in  and  near  Princeton,  his  residence  being 
afterwards  occupied  by  Prof.  Arnold  Guyot.  His  wid.  d.  there,  after  1807. 
He  maintained  close  relations  with  the  Rev.  James  F.  Armstrong,  pastor 
of  the  Presbyterian  church  in  Trenton,  frequently  preaching  for  him.  Mr. 
Hunter  died  at  Burlington,  Feb.  24,  1823.  He  m.,  1st,  Ann  Riddell  ;  2d, 
Mary  Stockton,  a  dau.  of  Richard  Stockton,  signer  of  the  Declaration. 
Issue  : 

i.  David,  b.  in  Washington,  D.  C.,  July  21,  1802;  graduated  at  West 
Point  in  1822,  and  served  with  great  distinction  in  the  Civil  War 
as  a  Major  General  ;  d.  at  Washington,  Feb.  2,  1886. 

ii.  Lewis  Boudinot,  b.  in  Princeton,  Oct.  9,  1804  ;  graduated  there  in 
1824,  and  at  the  medical  department  of  the  University  of  Penn- 
sylvania in  1828  ;  Surgeon  U.  S.  army  in  the  Mexican  War,  and 
during  the  Civil  War  as  fleet  surgeon  under  Admiral  David  Porter. 
iii.  Mary,  m.,  1st,  Lieut.  Samuel  Witham  Stockton,  U.  S.  A.  ;  2d,  July 
8,  1852,  the  Rev.  Charles  Hodge,  D.D.,  of  Princeton  Theological 
Seminary  ;  she  d.  Feb.  28,  1880. 

•  —  See  Alexander's  "Princeton  College  in  the  Eighteenth  Century,"  153  ; 
Gillett's  Hist.  Pres.  Ch.  in  the  U.  S.  A.,  1  :  287,  311  ;  2  :  16  ;  Hall's 
"Hist.  Pres.  Ch.  in  Trenton,"  341  ;  Stryker's  "Officers  and  Men  of  N.  J.  in 
the  Revolution,"  76,  379  ;  "Journal  of  Philip  Vickers  Fithian,"  7,  157,  162, 
164,  216,  &c.  ;  Hageman's  "Hist,  of  Princeton  and  its  Institutions,"  1  :  88  ; 
2  :  105,  271,  408  ;  Carter's  "Woodbury  and  Vicinity,"  cited  in  "Hist,  of 
Gloucester,  Salem  and  Cape  May  Counties,"  176  ;  Life  of  Charles  Hodge, 
D.D.,  LL.D.,  391,  392. 

1  An  excellent  account  of  this  affair  is  given  by  Isaac  Ogden,  a  Tory,  then 
in  New  York,  under  date  of  February  26.  1779.  See  Hist.  Mag.,  6  :  180. 
See,  also,  Barber  and  Howe's  Hist.  Coll.  of  N.  J.,  165. 


110  NEW    JERSEY    IN     THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 


Just  came  to  liand,  and  to  be  sold  by  the  Printer  of  this 

Gazette. 

CONSIDERATIONS 

On  the  MODE  and  TERMS  of  a  TREATY  of  PEACE  with 

AMERICA. 

THIS  Pamphlet  was  printed  in  London  about  the  time 
Governor  Johnstone  arrived  there.'  It  was  much  read, 
and  a  second  impression  called  for. 

SPELLING-BOOKS  may  also  bei  had  at  the  Printing-Office. 


To  BE  SOLD  by  the  subscriber,  four  miles  below  Ringo's 
tavern,  in  Amwell,  a  beautiful  STONE  Horse,  got  by  the 
famous  LOFTY,  three  years  old  next  grass,  full  fifteen  and 
an  half  hands  high,  and  exceedingly  well  limb'd. 

JOHN    ALLEN. 

Twenty  Dollars  Reward. 

STRAYED  or  stolen  from  the  subscriber  living  at  Wood- 
bridge  Raway,  on  Sunday  evening  the  21st  of  February, 
a  brown  HORSE  ;  rising  six  years  old,  about  fourteen  hands 
high,  with  a  small  blaze  in  his  forehead,  extending  three 
or  four  inches  down,  long  bodied  for  his  height,  and  rather 
low  before,  and  heavy  made,  three  fetlocks  white  below 
the  joint,  trots,  paces  and  canters.  Likewise  was  taken 
with  him  a  bridle  double  reined,  with  a  curb  and  snaffle 
bit,  Whoever  takes  up  the  said  horse  and  delivers  him 
to  the  subscriber,  shall  receive  the  above  reward,  and 
reasonable  charges. 

Joseph  Lester. 


3779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  Ill 

Burlington  WHEREAS  inquisitions  have  been  found, 
County,  ss.  and  final  judgment  entered  thereon  in 
favour  of  the  state  of  New  Jersey,  against  the  following 
persons,  and  their  real  and  personal  -estates  are  to  be  sold, 
to  wit,  John  Carty,  a  house  and  lot  of  ground  in  the  city 
of  Burlington,  which  will  be  sold  at  the  house  of  James 
Esdall  on  Monday  the  5th  day  of  April  next.  Thomas 
Hunlock,  a  good  house  and  lot  with  stables,  &c.  in  Mount- 
holly.  Joseph  Hewlings,  a  house  and  lot  in  Vincen- 
town,  which  will  be  sold  at  Zachariah  Rossell's,  in  Mount- 
holly,  on  Tuesday  the  6th  day  of  April.  John  Leonard, 
of  Upper  Freehold,  a  plantation  whereon  the  widow 
Schooley  lately  lived,  in  Hanover  township,  containing 
about  200  acres  of  land,  ten  acres  of  good  meadow,  a  frame 
house  and  barn,  a  cyder-house,  and  a  large  bearing  or- 
chard, which  will  be  sold  on  Thursday  the  8th  day  of 
April  on  the  premises ;  also  at  the  same  time  and  place 
will  be  sold,  a  small  plantation  belonging  to  John  Hornor, 
of  upper  Freehold;  the  said  plantation  lays  joining  the 
lands  of  Samuel  Potter  and  the  province  line,  one  mile 
and  a  half  from  Cooke's  mill,  containing  82  acres  of  land, 
with  a  house  and  other  buildings  thereon.  George  Plato, 
a  small  plantation  with  a  small  house  thereon,  joining 
Crosswicks  creek  near  the  draw-bridge,  in  Nottingham 
township,  and  will  be  sold  a,t  the  house  of  Abraham 
Wcglam,  near  the  premises,  on  the  9th  day  of  April. 
Robert  Cooke,  a  house  and  lot  near  Crosswicks  meeting- 
house; this  house  is  fitted  for  a  shop-keeper,  having  out- 
buildings for  that  purpose,  which  will  be  sold  at  the  same 
time  and  place.  Daniel  Coxe,  a  plantation  and  ferry, 
known  by  the  name  of  Trenton  ferry,  containing  upwards 
of  300  acres  of  land,  a  good  house  and  barn,  &c  thereon, 
with  two  orchards  on  it;  the  whole  will  be  sold  (together 
or  divided,  as  may  best  suit  the  purchaser)  at  the  house 
of  Jonathan  Richmond,  on  Saturday  the  tenth  day  of 
April.  The  vendue  to  begin  at  ten  o'clock  ea,ch  day.  A 


112  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

further  description  of  the  above  pkces  will  be  made 
known  on  the  day  of  sale.  No  credit  will  be  given.  The 
bills  of  credit  now  called  in  will  be  taken  in  payment, 
and  deeds  made  to  the  purchasers  agreeable  to  an  act  of 
the  General  Assembly,  and  attendance  will  be  given  on 
the  above  days  of  sale  by 

JOHN    BUTLER,  ) 

T        -i   T>     i        •       i   i"   Commissioners. 
Joseph  Borden,  jun.    j 

ON  Monday  the  fifth  of  April  next  will  be  sold  by  way 
of  publick  vendue,  on  the  premises,  a  plantation  in  Hope- 
well  township  on  the  river  Delaware,  containing  upwards 
of  500  acres  of  good  land,  well  water'd  and  timbered,  and 
a  publick  ferry  is  now  kept  on  the  premises ;  at  the  same 
time  and  place  will  be  sold,  a  lot  of  land  of  about  67  acres,, 
situate  in  the  said  township,  whereon  are  some  log  build- 
ings, and  now  in  the  possession  of  David  Stout,  late  the 
property  of  Daniel  Coxe;  And  on  Wednesday  the  seventh 
of  April  will  he  sold,  on  the  premises,  a  plantation  of 
about  160  acres,  with  good  improvements  thereon,  situate 
in  Amwell  near  Flemingtown,  late  the  property  of 
Thomas  Skelton ;  also  at  the  same  time  will  be  sold  a 
plantation  situate  in  Lebanon,  containing  about  360  acres, 
with  good  improvements  thereon,  late  the  property  of 
Stephen  Skinner,  and  now  in  possession  of  Andrias  Stine ; 
and  also  at  the  same  time  and  place  will  be  sold,  an  im- 
proved lot  of  land  of  50  acres,  situate  in  Kingwoocl,  and 
an  undivided  part  of  a  tract  of  woodland,  situate  in  the 
township  of  Reading,  late  the  property  of  Daniel  Coxe: 
Likewise  011  Thursday  the  eighth  day  of  April  will  be  sold 
at  the  house  of  Capt.  Thomas  Jones  in  Lebanon,  the 
valuable  plantation  late  Christopher  Yoght's,  containing 
about  280  acres,  whereon  are  very  good  improvements; 
also  at  the  same  time  and  place  will  be  sold,  a  plantation 
adjoining  the  above,  of  about  200  acres,  late  the  property 

1  For  notices  of  Colonel  Joseph  Borden,   Jr.,  see  New  Jersey  Archives,. 
24  :  651  ;    2d  Series,  1  :  149. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  113 

of  John  Voght;  also  at  the  same  time  and  place  will  be 
sold,  a  tract  of  land  of  about  950  acres,  situate  on 
Schooly's  mountain,  which  is  divided  in  four  plantations, 
late  the  property  of  Bernardus  Legrange ;  also  at  the  same 
time  and  place  will  be  sold,  a  plantation  of  about  195 
acres,  situate  in  Tucksbury,  late  the  property  of  Samuel 
Sharp;  also  at  the  same  time  and  place  will  be  sold,  a 
plantation  of  about  122  acres,  situate  at  Spruce  run  in 
Lebanon  township;  and  likewise  at  the  same  time  and 
place  will  be  sold,  a  house  and  lot  of  land  in  Kingwood, 
late  the  property  of  Joseph  Merril ;  also  at  the  same  time 
and  place  will  be  sold  two  plantations,  situate  in  Lebanon 
near  Square  point,  late  the  property  of  Daniel  Cpxe. 
Vendue  to  begin  at  10  o'clock  Bach  day.  Deeds  will  be 
made  agreeable  to  act  of  Assembly,  and  attendance  will 
be  given  by 

Jared  Sexton,      )  _ 

,T   .-,       •  T   7T      ,  (  Commis- 

Nathamel  Hunt  >•  . 

D  .  '     D  sioners. 

Peter  Brunner,    j 

N.  B.  Particular  draughts  of  the  above  premises  may 
be  seen  at  the  days  of  sale. 

Hunterdon  County,  March  1,  1779 

SOME  of  the  sales  of  the  plantations  mentioned  in  our 
advertisement  inserted  in  the  supplement  are  postponed, 
viz,  Joseph  Stockton's  to  be  on  the  26th  of  April,  Daniel 
Coxe's  on  the  27th,  John  Honeyman's  on  the  28th,  and 
John  Vandike's  on  the  29th  of  said  month.  The  vendues 
to  be  held  on  the  premises,  and  begin  at  eleven  o'clock. 

IIENDRICK    WILSON, 
JACOB    BERGEN, 

Feb.  24,  1779. 

THE  subscriber  will  dispose  of  the  farm  whereon  he 
now  lives,  containing  about  300  acres,  lying  in  the  county 
of  Monmouth  and  township  of  Upper  Freehold;  about 
170  or  80  of  it  are  cleared,  and  about  60  acres  of  that  is 

8 


114         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779 

excellent  English  meadow;  the  tillable  land  is  equal  to 
any  in  this  part  of  the  country  for  every  kind  of  grain, — 
and  superior  for  grass,  the  chief  of  it  will  produce  a  great 
burden  for  the  scythe  in  a  good  grass  season;  the  timber- 
land  is  well  timbered;  the  orchard  excellent  fruit,  also 
peaches,  pears  and  plumbs.  For  conveniency  very  few 
places  are  equal  to  it,  the  buildings  are  very  convenient 
and  reasonably  good ;  it  lays  12  miles  from  South  river 
landing,  16  miles  from  Crosswicks,  and  20  miles  from 
Trenton.  Continental  bills  and  bank  notes  will  be  taken 
in  pay. 

SAMUEL    FORMAN, 

Kildaire,  Feb.  20,  1779. 

Salem  county  By  virtue  of  writs  to  us  directed, 

State  of  New  Jersey,  issued  out  of  the  Supreme  Court 
and  Court  of  Common  Pleas  for  the  State  aforesaid,  will 
be  sold  the  following  confiscated  estates  in  the  county  of 
Salem,  by  the  subscribers,  Commissioners  of  the  county 
aforesaid.  On  Monday  the  5th  day  of  April  next  will 
be  sold  by  public  vendue,  at  the  court-house  in  the  town 
of  Salem,  the  following  plantations  or  tracts  of  land,  one 
containing  about  200  acres  of  land,  situate  in  lower  Allo- 
way's  Croek,  iu  the  county  aforesaid,  whereon  James 
"Daniels,  deceased,  lived:  There  is  on  the  premises  good 
convenient  buildings  of  all  sorts,  with  a  good  apple  or- 
chard and  a  largo  quantity  of  fresh  meadow,  adjoining 
land  of  Bawdway  l  Keasby  and  David  Smith,  subject  to  an 
mcumbrance  of  the  widow  Daniels. — One  other  planta- 
tion containing  about  100  acres,  situate  in  the  township 
above-said,  whereon  is  a  dwelling-house  and  other  build- 
ings, late  the  property  of  Samuel  Davis.  One  house  and 
lot  of  laud  in  the  town  of  Salem ;  there  is  on  said  lot  a 
large  quantity  of  fruit  trees,  now  in  the  tenure  of  William 
Harvey,  late  the  property  of  Jacob  Ya.nme.ter;  and  one 
other  containing  about  112  acres,  be  the  same  more  or 


Bradway. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  115 

less,  situate  in  Upper  Perm's  Neck,  and  county  aforesaid, 
adjoining  John  Sparks,  widow  Dalbo  and  others.  There 
is  on  the  premises  two  log  tenements,  an  apple  orchard, 
and  about  twenty  acres  of  cleared  land,  now  in  the  tenure 
of  William  Lawrence,  late  the  property  of  William 
Rawson.  Likewise  on  the  6th  day  of  April  next,  will  be 
sold  by  piublic  vendue,  at  the  Court-house  aforesaid,  a 
valuable  plantation,  containing  about  200  acres,  be  the 
same  more  or  less,  situate  in  Mannington,  in  the  county 
aforesaid,  about  one  hundred  whereof  is  cleared,  a  con- 
siderable part  whereof  is  meadow,  the  rest  good  plow 
land;  There  is  on  the  premises  a  good  messuage  and  a 
large  frame  barn,  and  other  necessary  buildings,  and  a 
large  apple  orchard,  adjoining  William  Harvey  and 
others,  late  the  property  of  Joseph  Hewlings.  Likewise 
one  equal  half  part  of  a  tract  of  land  situate  in  the  last 
mentioned  township,  containing  500  acres,  with  a  good 
house  and  barn  thereon,  and  other  necessary  buildings: 
There  is  a  considerable  part  thereof  cleared,  and  a  great 
quantity  of  meadow  might  be  made  thereon.  The  one 
moiety  o<r  half  part  thereof  late  the  property  of  Joseph 
Hewlings.  Likewise  a  lot  of  land  in  the  abovesaid  town, 
whereon  is  a  good  dwelling-house  and  other  convenient 
buildings,  late  the  property  of  John  Morrow.  Likewise 
will  be  sold  on  the  premises  the  following  plantations, 
situate  in  Piles-Grove,  and  county  aforesaid:  two  good 
plantations  adjoining  lands  of  Benjamin  Vanmeter, 
Benjamin  Burroughs  and  others,  containing  in  both  about 
314  acres,  be  the  same  more  or  less.  ^There  is  on  one  a 
good  frame  dwelling-house  and  other  necessary  buildings, 
a  good  apple  orchard,  and  about  eighty  acres  of  cleared 
land,  which  is  excellent  good,  being  supported  by  a  clay 
bottom.  The  other  has  a  house  and  barn  thereon,  about 
fifty  acres  cleared,  and  lies  adjoining  the  a,bove,  late  the 
property  of  Jacob  Vanmeter,  and  to  be  sold  the  7th  day 
of  April  next.  On  the  8th  of  April  will  be  sold  a  planta- 


116  NEW    JEESEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

tion  or  tract  of  land  containing  223  acres,  be  the  same 
more  or  less,  100  acres  whereof  is  cleared;  There  is  on 
the  premises  a  good  dwelling-house  and  barn,  an  apple 
orchard  and  some  meadow,  and  more  may  be  made,  late 
Hugh  Cowperthwait' s.  On  the  9th  of  said  month  will  be 
sold  a  plantation  or  tract  of  land  containing  157  acres, 
be  the  same  more  or  less,  about  70  acres  thereof  cleared, 
the  remaining  part  well  timbered:  There  is  on  the 
premises  a  dwelling  house  and  other  necessary  buildings, 
late  the  property  of  Moses  Atkinson.  And  one  other  will 
be  sold  on  the  10th,  containing  about  300  acres,  be  the 
same  more  or  less,  about  50  acres  thereof  are  cleared,  the 
remaining  part  well  timbered  :  there  is  on  the  premises 
a  good  dwelling-house  and  barn,  adjoining  lauds  of 
Eacrit,  S  tret  tie  and  others,  late  the  property  of  Eobert 
Whittecar.  Attendance  will  be  given  on  the  days  of 
sale,  by 

WILLIAM    GARRISON,    )       CoillUli?- 

TIIOMAS  SAYR,  \     sioners. 

Feb.  24,  1779. 

Mr.     CALDWELL, 

INFORMS  the  publiek  that  he  is  now  settling  the  accounts 
in  the  late  Quarter  Master  General's  department,  while 
under  the  Honorable  General  Mifflin,  from  the  5th  of 
October  1776,  to  the  2d  of  March  1778:  that  he  attends 
every  Friday  for  this  purpose  at  his  office  in  Springfield, 
and  is  determined  to  close  the  accounts  the  last  of  March. 
An  unwillingness  that  any  should  be  disappointed,  who 
have  just  demands,  hath  induced  him  to  lengthen  the  time 
a  month  beyond  his  last  advertisement;  but  those  who  do 
not  improve  this  opportunity,  need  not  afterwards  apply 
to  him.  Any  accounts  properly  attested  and  left  with 
Col.  Hyer  at  Princeton,  or  Benjamin  Smith,  Esq.  Post- 
Master  at  Trenton,  he  will  call  for  and  settle. 

Springfield,  Feb.  20,  1779. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  117 

WANTED  at  the  Union  Salt-Works,  at  Manasquan,  a 
number  of  Woodcutters.  For  whose  labour  a  generous 
price  will  be  given  by  the  Manager  of  said  works. 

—The  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  II.,  No.  65,  March  3, 
1779. 

t 

TRENTON",  February  17 

Yesterday  a  gentleman  came  in  town  and  informs  that 
the  enemy  are  collecting  a.  number  of  boats  at  Billop's 
Point,  on  Staten  Island,  which  has  occasioned  the  militia 
in  the  vicinity  of  Wood  bridge  and  Brunswick  to  assemble, 
which  it  is  hoped,  will  frustrate  any  designs  the  enemy 
may  have  against  those  parts  of  this  State. 

To  be  Sold  at  the  Coffee-House,  in  the  city  of  Phila- 
delphia, on  the  17th  day  of  March  next,  in  the  afternoon, 
by  public  vendue,  a  Saw  Mill  and  Tract  of  Land,  23  miles 
from  Philadelphia,  situate  in  Greenwich  township,  Glou- 
cester county,  in  New-Jersey.  The  tract  consists  of  about 
3000  acres  of  land,  well  timbered  with  pine  and  white 
'oak,  there  is  also  about  40  acres  of  excellent  cedar  swamp 
on  the  premises,  the  stream  of  water  is  constant  and 
plentiful,  and  the  present  clear  profit  to  the  owner  is  at 
the  rate  of  2000  £  a  year.  On  the  premises  are  every 
necessary  improvement  for  carrying  on  the  business,  the 
soil  of  land  very  good  of  the  kind.  Any  one  inclining  to 
view  the  premises  may  enquire  of  John  Spa,rks,  Esq;  at 
Woodberry,  or  of  Mr.  'Burroughs,  on  the  premises,  and 
for  further  particulars  of  the  subscriber,  on  the  two  days 
preceding  the  sale,  at  Mr.  Milnor's  at  the  Old  Ferry, 
Philadelphia,  or  at  Salem,  at  any  time  before  the  sale. 
The  title  indisputable,  and  to  be  entered  on  the  first  day 
of  April  after  the  sale. 

HENRY  SPARKS. 
—The  Pennsylvania  Gazette,  February  24,  1779. 


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New- York,  February  24. 

Last  week  a  party  of  40  men,  commanded  by  Captain 
Willett,  of  General  De  Lancey's  brigade,  made  a  descent  on 
the  Connecticut  coast,  destroyed  the  mills  named  Kebbles 
Mills,  near  Campo,  where  a  great  quantity  of  flour,  corn, 
other  grain  and  provisions  were  collected  to  be  removed  to 
New-London,  and  there  shipped  to  relieve  the  starvation 
plight  of  Monsieur  d'Estaing,  cooped  up  by  the  victorious 
navy  of  Great  Britain  in  the  harbour  of  Martinique ;  these 
dismal  circumstances  of  Congo's  great  &  good  ally's  fleet 
are  recommended  to>  the  fruitful  invention  of  their  de- 
voted friend  the  titular  Governor  of  New  Jersey,  who 
capable  of  starving  tlie  capital  of  Ms  province ,  will 
readily  find  resources  to  extricate  the  French  Admiral  and 
the  inhabitants  of  that  island  from  calamities  of  a  similar 
kind,  which  they  are  now  actually  experiencing  in  the 
torrid  zone. — The  Royal  Gazette,  A7o.  251,  February  24, 
1779. 

TKENTON,  Feb.  24.  By  three  seafaring  men,  who 
on  Wednesday  last  made  their  escape  from  New  York, 
and  arrived  here  yesterday  morning,  the  account  of  an 
embarkation  from  that  place  is  confirmed,  which  they 
say  is  to  consist  chiefly  of  Hessians ;  who,  it  is  given  out, 
are  ordered  to  the  West  Indies,  but  it  is  generally  sup- 
posed they  are  to  be  sent  to  Georgia. 

We  hear  that  on  Thursday  last,  the  anniversary  of 
forming  the  alliance  between  France  and  the  United 
States  of  America  was  celebrated  at  camp  at  Pluckeminr 
with  great  propriety  and  elegance.1 

1  A  detailed  description  of  this  brilliant  social  affair  is  given  on  pp.  103- 
105  ante. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  1.19 

POSTSCRIPT.  PHILADELPHIA,  Saturday,  Feb- 
ruary 27.  It  is  said  the  enemy  landed  a  party  the  night 
before  last  in  the  East  Jersies;  that  they  have  destroyed 
the  barracks  at  Elizabeth  town,  and  also  gov.  Livingston's 
house,  which  was  about  two  miles  from  it.  If  there  be 
any  truth  in  the  report,  we  shall  soon  have  the  particulars 
by  express. — The  Pennsylvania  Evening  Post,  February 
26,  1779. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

A  PLANTATION  in  Piles-grove,  Salem  county,  about 
four  mile®  from  Allaway's  Creek,  three  from  the  Glass- 
house, and  four  from  Woodstown,  containing  one  hun- 
dred and  seventy  acres  of  land,  with  a  frame  house  and 
kitchen  adjoining,  a  large  peiach  and  apple  orchard,  plenty 
of  good  water,  eight  or  ten  acres  of  meadow,  and  about 
thirty  more  may  be  made  at  a  small  expence,  there  are 
about  seventy  acres  of  cleared  land,  the  rest  woods  and 
swamp.  Also  another  small  tenement  with  a  small  peach 
orchard,  &c.  in  which  a  family  has  lived  for  several  years ; 
likewise  a  good  outlet  for  cattle.  For  terms  apply  to  Mr. 
WILLIAM  EICHMAN,  two  miles  from  the  Pine  tavern 
in  Pitts-grove,  Salem  county;  Messrs.  BONSALL  and 
SHOEMAKER  in  Philadelphia;  or  Mr.  SAMUEL 
SHINN,1  near  the  New  Mills2  in  Jersey. 

N.  B.  The  above  place  will  be  sold  the  fifteenth  day 
of  March  next,  at  public  vendue,  on  the  premises,  if  not 
sold  before  at  private  sale.  The  purchaser  may  have 
twelve  months  credit  for  half  the  purchase  money,  if  re- 
quired, paying  interest  on  proper  security. — The  Pennsyl- 
vania Packet,  February  27,  1779. 

1  For  genealogy  of  Shinn  family,  see  New  Jersey  Archives,  20  :  554  et  seq. 

2  Pemberton. 


120  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

NEW-YORK,  February  27. 

On  Wednesday  night  last  Henry  Woodruff  came  run- 
ning into  Elizabeth-town  with  advice,  that  our  blood- 
thirsty enemies  were  treacherously  attempting,  under 
favour  of  darkness  and  silence,  to  steal  on  the  brave  Gen. 
Maxwell  and  his  command,  and  for  that  purpose  had 
landed  several  thousand  men  about  four  miles  from  the 
town,  but  the  gallant  General  thus  warned  of  his  danger, 
retreated  with  so  much  presence  of  mind,  and  was  so  well 
seconded  in  the  manoeuvre  by  the  meanest  soldier,  that 
almost  the  whole  had  quitted  the  post  before  the  enemy 
arrived.  These  taking  an  unfair  advantage  of  the  absence 
of  our  folks,  with  their  usual  unrelenting  spirit,  set  fire 
to  our  barracks,  plundered  our  baggage,  spilt  our  rum, 
and  committed  other  outrages  too  disagreeable  to  mention. 
As  soon  as  they  quitted  the  place,  our  troops,  conducted 
by  their  magnanimous  General,  entered  it,  and  as  they 
retired  we  advanced,  driving  them  thus  victoriously  before 
us  out  of  the  country  and  repelling  their  presumptous 
invasion.  Had  we  fortunately  driven  them  a  different 
way,  they  must  all  have  surrendered  or  been  killed,  but 
as  the  chance  of  war  would  have  it,  we  compelled  them  to 
retreat  exactly  to  the  place  of  their  destination,  where 
their  boats,  luckily  for  them,  had  orders  to  wait  them  at 
the  very  hour  by  which  we  had  pursued  them  thus  far. 
One  flat  boat  and  two  men  were  taken,  being  the  last  em- 
barkation, probably  their  rear  guard.* 

Ft  is  imagined  about  500  of  the  enemy  were  slain,  but 
were  buried  in  the  retreat.  It  is  said  some  general  offi- 
cers were  seen  carrying  off  on  the  backs  of  the  light-in- 
fantry, supposed  to  be  wounded,  and  that  the  enemy  not 
being  able  to  carry  off  their  cannon  had  burned  to  the 
umnber  of  20  brass  pieces  in  the  barracks;  the  valour  and 
activity  of  our  troops  cannot  be  too  much  applauded ;  the 

*  Two  stragglers  at  the  Bridge. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  121 

artillery,  down  to  the  very  drivers  merit  our  particular 
praise,   having   fired   many   well   directed   shot,   tho'   un- 
fortunately at  too  great  a  distance. 
-The  Royal  Gazette,  No.  252,  February  27,  1779. 

Last  week,  at  Sussex,  a  Mr.  Gardiner  and  one  Mr. 
Tharp,  brothers-in-law,  having  a  dispute  about  two  dogs 
that  were  fighting,  blows  ensued,  when  the  latter  stabbed 
the  former  in  his  braast  with  a>  penknife,  of  ivhich  wound 
he  expired  in  a  short  time.  Tharp  is  confined  in  Sussex 
gaol,  and  'tis  expected  will  receive  the  punishment  due  to 
his  demerit. 

^fCsf^  One  or  two  good  Journeymen  will  receive  the 
greatest  encouragement  by  applying  to  the  printer  hereof. 

WHEREAS  a  most  malicious,  infamous,  and,  very 
probably,  envious  report,  hath  lately  been  propa- 
gated  that  a  barrel  of  counterfeit  money  has 
been    detected    coming    from    New^-YorJc,    with    a    letter 
therein  directed  to  the  subscriber,  and  that  in  consequence 
of  the  same,  he  was  in  gaol. — He  hereby  offers  a  reward 
of  TWO  HUNDRED  DOLLARS  to  any  person  who  shall  dis- 
cover the  author  or  authors  of  said  report,  on  his  or  their 
conviction. 

JOSEPH  CURTIS 
Morris  Town,  Feb.  27,  1779. 


East  Jersey,   24-th  Feb.   1779. 

FOR  SALE,  the  noted  MERCHANT  MILLS  at  Hides- 
town,  with  very  valuable  improvements.  For  terms 
apply  to  dr.  Patrick  Cams,  in  Burlington;  or  Benjamin 
Ward  near  the  premises. — The  Pennsylvania-  Evening 
Post,  March  1,  1779. 


122         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779 

NEW-YORK,  Feb.  27. 

On  Thursday  morning  a  detachment  of  the  Light  Com- 
panies of  the  Guards,  33d. and  42d  regts.  under  the  Com- 
mand of  Lieut.  Col.  Stirling,  landed  on  the  Jersey  shore 
to  surprise  Gen.  Maxwell  with  his  Brigade  at  Elizabeth- 
Town;  unfortunately  they  were  discovered  by  an  In- 
habitant who  gave  immediate  Notice  to  Mr.  Maxwell, 
about  an  hour  before  the  Troops  got  up.  Maxwell  de- 
camped in  the  greatest  hurry  with  two1  Field  pieces,  and 
took  the  road  to  Amboy,  fearing  his  retreat  might  be  cut 
off ;  the  Rebel  Governor  Livingston  having  been  informed 
of  this  descent,  made  a  speedy  retreat  from  his  house ;  the 
Troops  having  missed  their  Principal  aim,  proceeded  to 
destroy  the  Rebel  stores,  in  which  were  above  100  barrels 
of  Flour,  salt  beef,  pork,  soap,  candles,  &c.  and  30 
puncheons  of  rum,  which  were  burnt;  in  another  store 
between  20  and  30  barrels  of  flour,  with  some  tierces  of 
beef,  and  near  1000  loaves  were  destroyed,  after  sup- 
plying the  troops ;  nothing  more  being  to  be  done,  they 
were  marched  to  Crane's  Ferry,  but  the  wharf  being  in- 
tirely  destroyed,  the  boats  were  ordered  up  to  the  meadows, 
when  they  re>-embarked ;  The  Rebels  made  no  stand  at 
any  time,  even  after  they  had  brought  up  their  two  pieces 
of  cannon, 'and  shewed  two  columns  on  the  rising  ground 
to  the  ferry,  they  dared  not  to  advance,  but  kept  up  a  loose 
fire  from  behind  houses,  fences  and  trees,  at  a  great  dis- 
tance, by  a  few  straggling  rascals,  who  were  repeatedly 
drove  back  by  the  light  company  of  Guards,  and  a  few  of 
tlie  other  troops,  two  men  of  the  33d  were  unfortunately 
killed  by  a  cannon  shot,  a  few  wounded,  most  of  them 
slightly,  several  of  the  Rebels  were  seen  to  fall,  and  many 
carried  off  wounded,  a  Rebel  officer  and  twenty  two 
prisoners  were  taken,  the  barracks  were  burnt,  in  which 
they  had  left  some  arms,  and  ammunition,  pouches,  &c.— 
The  New-York  Gazette:  and  the  Weekly  Mercury,  No. 
1428,  March  1,  1779. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTEACTS.  123 

Mr.  COLLINS, 

OUR  paper  money  and  funds  having  been  for  some  time  past  the 
general  and  feeling  topic  of  conversation,  I  have  anxiously  waited  in 
expectation  of  seeing  something  on  this  important  and  interesting 
subject  worthy  of  the  public  attention.  But  as  there  seems  to  ,be 
almost  a  total  silence  with  respect  to  these  great  points,  I  have  com- 
mitted a  few  thoughts  to  paper,  which  I  request  the  favour  of  yod 
to  publish  in  your  next  Gazette. — I  offer  them  with  candour,  and  I 
trust  with  due  deference  to  the  opinions  of  others. — I  am  conscious 
of  my  inability  to  treat  the  subject  in  the  manner  I  would  wish ;  a 
subject  full  of  intricacy,  and  which  to  do  it  ample  justice,  requires 
more  attention,  knowledge  and  compass  of  thought,  than  I  am  capable 
of. — What  my  views  are,  I  shall  leave  the  publick  to  judge  from  the 
facts  and  observations  I  am  about  to  mention — these,  if  true,  may 
have  some  weight  and  be  of  use ;  if  erroneous  in  any  part,  I  shall  be 
glad  to  see  it  pointed  out. 

At  the  commencement  of  the  present  war  America  had  no  finances, 
there  was  scarce  the  value  of  a  pepper-corn  in  the  public  treasuries. 
The  operation  of  taxes  was  too  slow  to  create  funds,  the  occasion  was 
pressing  and  could  not  admit  of  delay. — The  only  expedient  in  our 
power  was  the  striking  of  paper  money. — It  was  a  risk,  because  it  was 
an  experiment  upon  the  people — it  was  calculated  to  try  the  temper 
of  the  body  at  large,  as  well  as  to  answer  the  most  valuable  ends — it 
became  a  sort  of  touchstone  and  test  of  the  spirit  of  the  times,  and  the 
success  with  which  it  was  attained  formed  an  happy  presage  of  the 
unanimity  and  vigour  which  afterwards  appeared. 

What  Great-Britain  had  looked  upon  as  impracticable,  and  beyond 
the  reach  of  policy  and  patriotism  in  this  country,  was  easily  at- 
tained ;  and  the  new  money  was  everywhere  received  on  the  foot  of 
gold  and  silver. — It  multiplied,  and  not  a  murmur  was  heard.  Public 
credit  stood  on  the  firmest  foundation,  and  this  prosperous  state  of 
it  was  doubly  useful ;  it  serving  us  at  home,  and  procuring  us  funds 
abroad. 

The  first  campaign,  tho'  an  expensive  one,  gave  no  shock  to  our 
paper  credit— that  of  1776  was  truly  alarming — A  vast  naval  and 
military  force  came  to  America,  and  threatened  the  total  and  imme- 
diate subversion  of  our  liberties ;  and  yet  the  terror  of  so  great  an 
armament  did  not  destroy  nor  even  much  impair  the  value  of  it. — it 
kept  its  ground  with  little  abatement,  and  this  more  owing  to  a  real 
scarcity  of  goods  than  any  distrust  of  the  public  credit.  In  support 
of  this  opinion  I  would  only  refer  to  the  price  of  provisions  at  that 
time. 

Great  additional  sums  were  emitted  to  prepare  an  army  for  the 
campaign  of  1777 ;  Philadelphia  was  known  to  be  the  object  of  the 
enemy,  and  it  was  intended  we  should  be  strong  enough  to  fight  them 
in  their  progress. — The  bounty-money,  cloathing,  equipping,  magazines 
of  provisions  and  forage,  all  these  called  for  large  supplies,  and  as  no 
taxes  were  levied,  the  necessity  of  farther  emissions  was  obvious. 


124  NEW    JEKSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

The  taking  of  Philadelphia  certainly  had  an  effect  in  precipitating 
the  value  of  the  money,  the  state  of  men's  minds  in  such  cases  being 
the  political  thermometer  by  which  all  things  relating  to  public  credit 
are  tried. 

Our  alliance  with  France  and  the  military  operations  of  last  year 
were  attended  with  real  and  almost  decisive  advantages  in  favour  of 
these  States,  and  tho'  it  must  be  acknowledged  the  expences  of  the 
campaign  were  great,  yet  this  was  not  so  much  owing  to  the  quantity 
of  the  necessaries  consumed,  or  the  scarcity  of  them,  as  to  the  sudden 
depreciation  of  the  currency. 

It  is  a  melancholy  truth,  which  every  man  in  this  country  feels 
the  force  of  very  sensibly,  that  in  the  course  of  the  last  five  months, 
altho'  the  campaign  was  over,  the  enemy's  army  divided,  and  reduced 
to  a  state  of  impotence,  and  notwithstanding  our  prospects  have 
brightened  exceedingly,  yet  the  currency  all  on  a  sudden  has  fallen  in 
the  most  unexpected  manner. 

There  is,  I  am  afraid,  something  radically  wrong  in  the  arrange- 
ments of  some  of  the  army  departments;  for,  as  I  am  informed,  the 
Quarter-Masters,  Commissaries  General,  &c.  draw  commissions  on  all 
the  sums  that  pass  through  their  hands,  instead  of  having  fixed  or 
stated  pay.  In  proportion  therefore  as  the  expences  increase  or  the 
depreciation  of  the  money  proceeds,  the  greater  will  be  the  profits 
arising  to  them.  I  do  not  mean  to  be  personal,  or  to  reflect  on  the 
Gentlemen  at  the  head  of  these  departments,  but  I  know  enough  of 
human  nature  to  be  assured  in  my  own  mind,  that  those  regulations 
are  formed  upon  wrong  principles,  that  they  ought  in  prudence,  justice 
and  policy  to  be  altered,  and  if  possible  placed  on  the  same  footing 
as  in  the  year  1776,  only  with  this  difference,  that  very  ample  salaries 
should  be  allowed. 

But  there  is  a  sort  of  creature  with  which  this  country  has  of  late 
been  infested  called,  by  some,  jobbers  or  speculators,  but  whom  I  call 
by  the  name  of  monopolizers.  They  are  a  set  of  men  who  go  about 
to  ruin  their  country  very  industriously  ;  and  will  do  it  very  effectu- 
ally, if  the  Legislatures  of  the  several  States  do  not  timely  interpose 
their  influence  to  prevent  it. — I  have  known  these  people  play  into  each 
others  hands  with  such  dexterity,  that  the  price  of  a  commodity  has 
been  doubled,  trebled,  nay  in  some  instances  quadrupled,  before  it  has 
reached  the  proper  place  of  sale.  In  this  manner  has  the  honest  and 
truly  industrious  part  of  the  community  been  made  the  victims  of  the 
avarice  and  unpunished  villainy  of  these  wretches. — But  to  proceed — 

In  proportion  as  mankind  deviated  from  the  simple  habits  of  life 
to  which  they  were  accustomed  in  the  first  ages  of  the  world,  and  as 
luxury  increased  with  the  exercise  and  display  of  the  passions,  it 
became  necessary  that  some  medium  should  be  fixed  on  as  the  standard 
of  the  relative  value  of  things. — Gold  and  silver,  as  the  rarest  metals, 
by  common  consent  were  chosen  to  form  this  standard. — These  became 
of  course  the  representatives  of  every  thing,  but  nevertheless  were 
subject  to  an  alteration  in  the  value  according  to  the  plenty  or  scarcity 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  125 

of  it  in  any  country,   and  the  rarity,   scarcity  or  superfluity  of  the 
different  sorts  of  property. 

But  the  ingenuity  of  some  financiers  hath,  in  several  instances,  de- 
vised mediums  of  a  different  kind,  which  have  answered  all  the  pur- 
poses of  gold  and  silver. 

Iron  was  the  only  current  money  in  Sparta  for  700  years — Copper 
and  leather,  marked  or  stamped  with  certain  devices,  figures  or  char- 
acters, have  been  substituted  in  the  room  of  gold  and  silver  in 
Sweden ;  paper  was  used  with  great  success  in  our  own  country 
during  the  two  last  wars  between  France  and  Great  Britain,  and  in 
the  latter  country  the  experiment  has  been  carried  very  far  indeed. 

Of  the  sum  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  millions  sterling,*  which  is 
pretty  nearly  the  amount  of  the  national  debt  in  Britain  at  this  time, 
I  should  imagine  from  the  facts  stated  by  the  ingenious  and  accurate 
Dr. "Price,1  that  not  much  more  than  a  tenth  part  is  in  specie  or  hard 
money ;  and  tho'  the  paper  has  been  rapidly  increasing  upon  the 
nation  since  the  reign  of  William  3d,  she  has  been  enabled  to  carry 
on  several  expensive  wars,  and  till  of  late  f  has  maintained  her  credit 
beyond  all  expectation. 

In  the  province  of  Massachusetts-Bay,  in  New  England,  about  the 
year  1748,  there  were  several  millions  of  paper  money  in  circulation, 
and,  if  my  memory  serves  me,  the  exchange  was  so  high  as  £1100 
for  £100  sterling ;  and  yet  in  the  year  1768,  as  I  am  informed,  the  whole 
of  this  great  mass  was  nearly  if  not  entirely  sunk,  and  a  hard  dollar 
passed  only  for  six  shillings.  It  is  now  about  seventeen  years  since 
the  last  war,  in  the  course  of  which  immense  sums  of  paper  money 
were  emitted  in  the  different  provinces.  The  quantity  so  far  exceeded 
the  expectation  of  Great-Britain,  that  the  parliament  granted  a  con- 
siderable sum  in  case  of  the  great  burthens  with  which  it  was  fore- 
seen the  colonies  must  be  charged. — The  same  idea  was  entertained 
on  this  side  the  Atlantic. — But  what  has  been  the  event? 

The  people  of  America  were  ignorant  of  their  own  riches — for  she 
had  nearly  paid  off  all  her  public  debts  at  the  time  hostilities  were 
commenced  in  1775 ;  so  that  our  resources  are  free  and  disencum- 
bered and  will  be  employed  in  discharging  the  expence  incurred  in 
this  just  and  necessary  war. 

*  This  sum  at  175  per  cent,  exchange,  amounts  to  280  millions  of 
pounds  old  money,  but  at  the  present  rate  of  exchange,  comes  to  foe 
enormous  sum  of  sixteen  hundred  millions. 

1  "Observations  on  the  Reversionary  Payments,"  &c.,  by  Richard  Price, 
D.D.,  London,  1769.  "A  much  esteemed  work,"  says  Lowndes,  "to  which  it 
is  said  Pitt  was  greatly  indebted  in  his  financial  arrangements."  It  had1 
reached  a  seventh  edition  by  1812. 

t  The  loss  of  these  colonies  having  greatly  diminished  the  property, 
commerce,  power,  and  by  regular  inference,  the  credit  of  the  empire — 
stocks  have  fallen  considerably  in  London,  which  circumstance  ren- 
ders it  very  difficult  for  the  Ministry  to  raise  the  annual  supplies. 


126  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

If  we  consider  that  such  was  the  ability  of  America,  under  all  the 
disadvantages  of  a  limited  trade,  the  fact  is  truly  astonishing. — Great- 
Britain  had  a  monopoly  of  many  of  the  most  valuable  articles  of  the 
produce  of  these  States. — We  could  not  send  our  indigo,  tobacco, 
wool,  hemp,  flax,  iron,  pot-ash,  pitch,  tar,  turpentine,  masts  or  furs, 
to  any  part  of  Europe  except  Great-Britain — her  merchants  received 
them,  and  exported  what  could  be  spared  from  their  own  consump- 
tion to  other  countries,  and  reaped  the  profit — so  that  we  were  not 
only  under  the  necessity  of  sending  many  of  those  articles  to  an 
overstocked  market,  but  obliged  to  give  away  all  the  profits  at  foreign 
markets,  which  in  justice  ought  to  have  been  the  property  of  America. 

From  a  partiality  also  very  injurious  to  our  trade,  owing  in  great 
measure  to  the  interest  of  the  West-India  Members  in  Parliament,  a 
beneficial  commerce  with  the  foreign  islands  was  sacrificed  to  the 
West-India  planters. 

Our  trade  with  Portugal  and  Spain  was  considerable— they  took 
from  us  a  great  quantity  of  corn,  which  is  a  staple  commodity  of 
several  flourishing  colonies,  and  we  received  in  return  chiefly  wines 
and  fruit,  which  by  act  of  parliament  we  were  prohbited  bringing 
hither  without  first  landing  in  some  British  port ;  the  expenses  at- 
tending, exclusive  of  the  lost  time,  the  wages  and  maintenance  of  the 
seamen,  and  tear  and  wear  of  the  ships,  were  immense — Add  to  this, 
that  we  were  confined  to  the  importation  of  British  manufactures  and 
East-India  goods,  altho'  we  could  have  had  many  of  the  same  sorts 
of  goods  from  other  countries  much  cheaper :  namely,  linens  of 
various  kinds  from  Russia,  the  finer  woollen  manufactures  from 
France,*  and  East-India  goods  from  Holland. 

These  are  some  of  the  many  disadvantages  under  which  our  trade 
laboured  before  the  happy  aera  of  our  emancipation  from  the  tyranny 
of  British  acts  of  parliament,  which  they  have  coloured  over  with  the 
tender  and  specous  appellations  of  regulation  of  trade. 

I  have  thus  given  a  general  view  of  the  effects  of  the  wealth  and 
resources  of  these  States,  from  incontestable  facts,  whilst  subject  to 
all  the  unfavourable  circumstances  of  a  restricted  commerce. — But 
a  new  and  boundless  prospect  is  now  opened  to  us ;  we  have  the 
choice  of  every  market  both  for  selling  and  purchasing,  and  our  ports 
are  open  wide  to  all  the  world  (except  our  declared  enemies)  ad- 
vantages we  never  before  experienced,  and  which,  on  the  return  of 
peace,  must  cause  riches  to  flow  in  upon  us  in  abundant  streams. — 
America  is  said,  from  very  accurate  observation  and  calculation,  to 
double  the  number  of  her  inhabitants  every  25  years :  agriculture, 
the  foundation  of  trade,  will  in  course  have  a  proportional  progress, 
and  our  ability  to  pay  taxes  will  increase  in  the  compound  ratio  of 


*  A  comparative  experiment  in  respect  to  the  prices  of  these  articles 
in  France  and  England,  has  been  made,  and  it  is  proved  that  in  France 
whenever  the  price  of  labour  bestowed  on  any  manufacture  i-s  more 
than  one  half  the  value  of  it,  the  loicness  of  wages  throws  the  ad- 
vantages into  the  French  scale. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  127 

the  increase  of  our  agriculture  and  commerce,  So  that,  independent  of 
any  other  expedient,  than  that  of  the  ordinary  mode  of  taxing,  her 
debts  will  be  decreasing  and  her  circumstances  growing  better ;  and 
the  tax  of  each  year,  supposing  it  the  same  sum  from  first  to  last,  will 
be  made  more  light  in  proportion  as  the  time  is  more  distant  from 
the  present. 

If  a  loan  could  be  procured  in  Europe  for  such  a  sum  as  would,  in 
consequence  of  the  present  high  exchange,  sink  a  great  part  of  the 
paper  in  circulation  ;  the  remainder  would  instantly  become  of  value, 
and  the  bills  drawn  for  such  loan  would  enable  the  purchasers  to 
import  great  quantities  of  all  kinds  of  goods  from  Europe. — Should 
this  take  place,  which  seems  most  probable,  the  business  will  be  per- 
formed at  once.  But  should  it  not  be  thought  on  it  will  be  highly 
necessary  to  impose  very  heavy  taxes  immediately,  because  it  will  be 
an  easy  matter  to  raise  large  sums  whilst  there  is  so  great  a  quantity 
of  paper  in  circulation. 

But  I  would  propose  something  more  in  aid  of  taxes,  towards  sink- 
ing the  quantity — it  is  this — 

Suppose  subscriptions,  under  the  sanction  of  an  act  the  Legislature, 
were  to  be  opened  for  this  State,  for  the  sum  of  £300,000  or  more, 
each  subscription  to  be  £300,  for  which  an  annual  interest  of  8,  9,  or 
10  per  cent,  (as  may  be  thought  most  proper)  is  to  be  allowed  each 
subscriber  during  his  life,  or  the  life  of  any  other  person  (on  which 
he  would  chuse  rather  to  risk  his  money  than  his  own)  with  the 
benefit  of  survivorship  with  respect  to  the  interest — That  is  to  say, 
as  the  number  of  subscribers  for  £300,000,  at  £300  a-piece,  will  be 
1000  persons,  if  one,  two  or  more  of  the  thousand  dies,  the  interest 
due,  to  such  person  or  persons  is  to  be  divided  among  the  surviving 
subscribers,  and  so  on  to  the  last  surviving  subscriber,  who  will  be 
entitled  to  the  annual  interest  of  the  whole  principal  sum  during  his 
life,  which  is  the  sum  of  £27,000  per  annum;  and  at  his  death  the 
interest  ceases,  and  the  principal  sum  sinks  in  the  hands  of  the  State. 
— The  benefit  of  this  scheme  is,  that  supposing  it  to  be  adopted  by  all 
the  States,  it  instantly  takes  a  large  sum  out  of  circulation  (which 
may  be  destroyed)  upon  the  easy  condition  of  paying  £27,000  per 
annum,  for  £300,000,  supposing  the  interest  so  high  as  9  per  cent, 
during  the  lives  of  the  subscribers,  which  in  fact  is  no  longer  than  for 
the  time  of  the  duration  of  one  life. 

In  times  as  the  present  there  are  many  aged  persons  incapable  of 
business  of  any  kind,  widows,  and  fathers  of  large  families,  beside 
the  great  monied  men,  who  would  willingly  embark  their  money  in 
.a  plan  of  this  sort. 

This  method  has  been  practiced  with  success  in  England,  and  I 
make  no  doubt  would  answer  very  well  here,  if  I  may  form  a  judg- 
ment from  the  concurrent  opinions  of  many  intelligent,  sensible  men 
in  favor  of  it,  to  whom  I  have  communicated  the  scheme. 

CAIUS.1 
1  William   Livingston,   Governor  of  New  Jersey. 


128  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

TRENTON,    MARCH    10. 

We  have  certain  advices  that  on  the  20th  ult,  a  fleet  of 
23  British  vessels  put  to  sea  from  Sandy-Hook,  bound  to 
the  southward — and  supposed  to  have  troops  on  board. 

*£*  The  confiscated  estates  of  John  Smith,  David 
White,  Bamardus  Legrange,  Richard  Cumpton,  George 
Howard,  and  Joseph  Arroiv&mith,  of  the  county  of  Somer- 
set, are  to  be  sold  at  public  vendue,  pursuant  to  laws,  in 
the  beginning  of  next  month.  The  advertisement  came  to 
hand  too  late  for  ////.<?  welcs  Gazette,  but  shall  be  in  our 
next. 

Gloucester,   March  2,   1770. 

IN  pursuance  of  an  act  of  the  General  Assembly  of  the 
State  of  Xew  Jersey  for  that  purpose,  and  by  virtue  of 
sundry  writs  issued  out  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas 
of  the  county  of  Gloucester,  to  us  directed,  will  be  exposed 
to  sale  by  publick  vendue,  at  the  times  and  places  herein 
after  mentioned,  the  following  tracts  and  parcels  of  lands,, 
with  the  improvements,  &c  viz. 

1st.  On  the  10th  day  of  April  next  on  the  premises,  a 
certain  tract  of  land  situate  in  the  town  of  Gloucester  in 
said  county,  containing  about  20  acres,  whereon  is  a  new 
[  ]  story  brick  house,  a  good  orchard  and  other  improve- 
ments, being  the  late  dwelling-house  of  John  Hinchman, 
late  of  said  county.  And  at  the  same  time  and  place 
will  be  sold  all  the  right  and  property  of  said  Hinchman 
(being  for  the  natural  life  of  said  Hinchman)  in  and  to 
the  adjoining  valuable  plantation,  now  in  the  tenure  of 
the  widow  Branson.  The  sale  to  begin  at  two  o'clock 
said  day. 

2d.  On  Monday  the  12th  on  the  premises,  the  noted 
tavern  in  Woodbury,  in  the  township  of  Deptford,  in  said 
county  (now  in  the  tenure  of  Robert  Sparks)  with  the- 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  129 

land  thereunto  belonging,  containing  about  45  acres, 
being  late  the  property  of  Alexander  Bartram:  And  at 
the  same  time  and  place  all  the  right  and  property  of 
John  Grieff,  (being  for  his  natural  life)  in  and  to  a 
valuable  plantation  containing  about  100  acres,  part 
whereof  is  good  meadow,  lying  about  one  mile  from 
Woodbury  aforesaid.  The  sale  to  begin  at  one  o'clock 
said  day. 

3d.  On  Tuesday  the  13th,  at  the  late  dwelling-house  of 
Jonathan  Chew,  in  the  township  of  Deptford,  all  the  real 
estate  of  said  Chew,  consisting  of  four  plantations  or 
tracts  of  land,  lying  on  both  sides  of  Mantua  Creek,  in 
the  township  of  Deptford  and  Greenwich,  whereon  are 
valuable  improvements,  and  to  be  sold  separate.  At  same 
time  and  place  about  100  acres  of  land  lying  on  Mantua 
Creek,  near  the  land  of  said  Chew,  being  late  the  property 
of  James  Hanisey.  The  sale  to  begin  at  10  o'clock  said 
day. 

4th.  On  Wednesday  the  14th,  at  the  house  of  William 
Eldridge,  Innkeeper  in  Greenwich  township,  all  the  real 
estate  late  Daniel'  Co'zens's,  consisting  of  one  valuable 
place  whereon  said  Cozens  lately  lived,  containing  about 
100  acres ;  there  is  on  the  premises  a  good  dwelling-house, 
barn,  orchard,  &c  and  a  well  accustomed  grist-mill :  Also 
a  tract  of  landing  containing  about  500  acres,  whereon 
is  a  dwelling-house,  saw-mill,  and  other  improvements. 
Also  about  5  acres  of  good  meadow  lying  011  Mantua 
Creek,  below  the  bridge,  all  in  said  township  of  Green- 
wich. Likewise  a  piece  of  meadow  on  Shibers's  Island, 
containing  about  10  acres.  The  sale  to  begin  at  10 
o'clock  said  day.  Also  one  small  lot  of  ground  with  the 
buildings  and  improvements  situated  on  the  Cohoeking 
road,  about  one  mile  from  the  place  of  sale,  late  the 
property  of  John  Robertson.  Also  one  other  house  and 
lot  containing  about  ten  acres,  late  the  property  of  James 
Duffield.  Also  one  other  lot  or  tract  of  land  within  about 
half  a  mile  of  said  Eldridge's  supposed  about  100  acres, 

9 


130  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

with  a  dwelling-house  and  other  improvements  thereon, 
being  late  the  property  of  Edward  Eglenton  and  Asa 
Lord. 

5th.  On  Thursday  the  15th,  at  said  Eldridge's,  the  real 
estate  of  Gabriel  D'Vebber,  consisting  of  one  lot  or  piece 
of  land  adjoining  the  said  Eldridge's  containing  about 
20  acres,  whereon  is  a  good  frame  house,  a  good  con- 
venient store-house  and  other  improvements.  One  other 
tract  of  about  one  hundred  acres  of  woodland,  adjoining 
Jands  of  John  Richards  and  John  Roome.  One  other 
tract  of  land  containing  about  20  acres,  with  the  buildings 
and  improvements  thereon,  and  seven  acres  of  meadow, 
situate  on  Mantua  Creek,  next  adjoining  below  the  bridge. 
Also  at  same  time  and  place,  one  plantation  or  tract  of 
land  situate  near  the  fort  at  Billingsport,  containing 
about  90  acres,  with  the  house  and  improvements,  late 
the  property  of  William  Bocock.  Likewise  one  other  lot 
situate  at  Billingsport  aforesaid,  late  the  property  of 
Daniel  Cozens.  The  sale  to  begin  at  10  o'clock  said  day. 

6th.  On  Friday  the  16th,  at  said  Eldridge's,  100  acres 
of  land,  whereon  is  a  good  stone  dwelling-house',  a  good 
grist-mill  and  other  improvements,  late  the  property  of 
Harrison  Wells.  At  same  time  and  place  100  acres  of 
valuable  land  adjacent  to  said  mill,  late  the  property  of 
William  Wells,  both  being  part  of  a  tract  that  formerly 
belonged  to  William  Harrison,  Esq.  Also  at  same  time 
and  place  one  other  tract  of  land,  with  the  buildings  and 
improvements,  situate  at  Repaupa,  containing  about  150 
acres,  late  the  property  of  Joseph  Long.  Likewise  5 
acres  of  meadow  on  Mauncis's  Island,  late  the  property 
of  said  Joseph  Long.  And  at  said  time  and  place  a 
good  stone  house  and  lot  of  ground  at  the  lower  bridge  on 
Raccoon  Creek,  with  about  40  acres  of  meadow  near  said 
house;  late  the  property  of  Joseph  Clark:  all  situate  in 
the  township  of  Greenwich.  The  sale  to  begin  at  10 
o'clock  said  day. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  131 

7th.  On  Saturday  the  17th,  at  the  house  of  John  Cozens, 
Inn-keeper,  near  Mullioa  Hill,  in  the  township  of  Green- 
wich, the  real  estate  of  William  Fusman,  situate  in  said 
township,  containing  about  15  or  20  acres,  whereon  is  a 
house,  barn  and  other  improvements.  One  other  place 
lying  on  the  great  road  leading  towards  Cumberland,  con- 
taining about  90  acres,  whereon  is  a  wooden  house,  barn, 
orchard  &c.  late  the  property  of  John  Rudrow.  Like- 
wise 105  acres,  chiefly  woodland,  whereon  is  a  new  frame 
dwelling-house,  w|th  some  small  improvements  and  about 
30  acres  of  woodland  lying  on  the  Cohocking  road,  being 
late  the  property  of  Jacob  Hewitt.  The  three  last  men- 
tioned all  lying  in  the  township  of  Woolwich.  The  sale 
to  begin  at  10  o'clock  said  day. 

8th.  On  Monday  the  19th,  at  the  house  of  Mounce 
Keen,  in  Sweedsborough,  a  house  and  lot  in  said  town  of 
SweedsboroUgh,  a  piece  of  wood-land  and  five  acres  of 
meadow,  lying  on  Raccoon  Creek,  late  the  property  of 
John  Hatton.  About  150  acres  of  land  with  the  im- 
provements, late  the  property  of  John  Cox.  All  the  real 
estate  of  George  Avis,  supposed  about  100  acres  of  land, 
whereon  is  a  good  brick  house,  barn,  orchard,  &c.  Also 
the  real  estate  of  Isaac  Justice,  supposed  about  100  acres 
of  land,  with  a  house,  barn,  orchard,  &c.  all  situate  in  the 
township  of  Woolwich.  All  the  above-mentioned  premises 
being  confiscated  and  to  be  sold  by  the  Commissioners  for 
the  use  of  the  State,  which  said  Commissioners  are  im- 
powered  by  act  of  Assembly  to  make  good  and  sufficient 
conveyances  for  the  same.  Attendance  will  be  given  at 
the  times  and  places  aboveumentioned. 

JOHN  SPARKS,         ^    Commis- 
SAMUEL  KAIGHN,,   j    sioners. 

State  of  New  Jerseiy,       WHEREAS    inquisition    has    been 
Bergen  county.  found    and    final    judgment    en- 

tered  thereon   in   favour   of   the   State   of   New    Jersey, 


132  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

against  the  following  persons,  viz.  David  Peck,  David 
Blauvelt,  Theunis  Blauvelt,  John  Ryekman  and  Samuel 
Peak,  of  Herrington  township,  Abraham  Van  Buskirk, 
Albert  Zabriskie,  Joost  Earle,  Edward  Earle,  William 
Van  Allen,  John  Peiarsall,  Cornelius  Van  Horn,  John 
Spear,  John  Pell,  Peter  Goelet  and  Henry  Marsh,  of 
Hackinsack  township,  Daniel  Isaac  Brown,  Henry  Roome, 
Peter  Earle,  Stephen  Rider,  Thomas  Gardner,  William 
Sorrell,  Daniel  Jissop,  James  McCollaugh,  Hendrick 
Lutkins,  John  Lutkins,  John  Myers,  William  Kingsland, 
jun.  Charles  Kingsland,  Abraham  Van  Emburgh  and 
James  Van  Emburgh,  of  Xew-Barbadoes  precinct— 
NOTICE  is  hereby  given,  that  the  houses  and  lands,  and  all 
the  real  estates  belonging  to  the  afore-mentioned  persons, 
will  be  exposed  to  sale  at  public  vendue,  and  that  the 
sales  will  begin  at  the  place  of  David  Blauvelt,  in  Her- 
rington l  township,  Tuesday  the  20th  of  April  next,  and  to 
continue  from  day  to  day,  and  from  place  to  place,  until 
they  are  all  sold.  Attendance  will  be  given  in  or  near 
the  premises  of  each  person,  and  a  more  particular  de- 
scription of  the  places  given ;  also  the  deeds  to  the  pur- 
chasers, agreeable  to  act  of  Assembly,  by 

James  Board,  )     ~ 

TT     j     .         -rr  I    Commis- 

Hendericus  Ivuvper,     ; 

{     sioners. 
Garret  Lydecker,          ) 


WILT,    BE    SOU), 

By  way  of  public  vendue,  on  the  premises 

THE  plantation  late  the  property  of  Richard  Bouls- 
berry,  in  Mansneld-woodhouse  township,  in  Sussex  county, 
on  Monday  22d  day  of  March  inst.  at  10  o'clock. 
Also  the  lot  belonging  to  William  Dedman,  in  the  town- 
ship and  county  aforesaid",  will  be  sold  the  same  day  at 

1  Harrington. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  133 

10  o'clock: — And  on  Tuesday  23d  instant,  will  be  sold 
on  the  premises,  the  plantation  late  the  property  of 
Christopher  Instey,  at  1  o'clock  of  said  day,  both  in  the 
township  of  Greenwich,  and  county  aforesaid.  On 
Wednesday  24th,  will  be  sold  the  plantation  late  the 
property  of  Peter  Appleman,  in  Oxford,  at  10  o'clock  of 
said  day.  And  on  Thursday  25th,  will  be  sold  the  plan- 
tation late  belonging  to  James  Clendennon,  in  Knowlton 
township,  and  county  aforesaid,  at  10  o'clock  of  said  day. 

WILLIAM  BOND,    1    Comniis- 

GEORGE    WARNED     j      si 

Sussex  county,  Feb.  28th,  1779. 


TO    BE    LET 

At  vendue,  on  Monday  the  15th  instant,   at  one  o'clock 
afternoon  of  said  day, 

THAT  valuable  Farm  whereon  the  subscriber  lately 
lived,  lying  on  the  road  between  Mendom  and  Morris- 
Town,  three  miles  from  said  town,  for  the  term  of  one 
year.  There  is  on  said  farm  two  dwelling-houses  and 
barn,  two  orchards,  and  very  convenient  to  be  let  in  two 
lots,  each  a  good  farm.  Conditions  will  be  made  known 
and  attendance  given  by  me 

JACOB    ARNOLD. 

Morris-Town,  March  5,  1779. 

CAME  to  the  yard  of  Jonathan  Richmond,  Jnnkeeper  in 
Nottingham  township,  in  the  county  of  Burlington,  about 
the  eighth  of  January,  a  stray  black  MARE,  about  four- 
teen hands  high,  very  thin  in  flesh,  neither  brand  or  ear 
mark.  Any  person  proving  their  property  and  paying 
charges,  are  desired  to  come  and  take  her  away. 

Philip  Bowne. 

Trenton,  March  2,  1779.     • 


134  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

Was  taken  up  this  morning  near  Somerset  court-house,, 
a  bay  HORSE,  about  fourteen  hands  three  inches  high,  six 
years  old,  trots  and  canters.  Said  horse  has  two  white 
spots  on  his  right  side,  and  one  on  the  left;  also  a  small 
star  on  his  forehead. — Any  person  proving  property  and 
paying  charges  can  take  him  away. 

CORNELIUS    LOTT. 

Millstone,  Feb  24,  1779. 


Imported  in  the  prize  ship  Love  and  Unity,  from 
Bristol,  and  now  for  sale  by 

JOHN    DENNIS, 

At  his  STORE  in  New  Brunswick, 

A  SMALL  quantity  of  the  very  best  BLOWN  SALT,  either 
by  the  cask  or  single  bushel,  and  for  the  convenience  of  the 
purchaser,  he  will  take  the  emissions  of  May  20th,  1777? 
and  April  llth,  1778,  in  payment. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

A  LEASE  on  one  saw  of  Success  Saw-Mill,  with  all  the 
privileges  thereto  belonging.  Said  mill  is  very  advan- 
tageously situated  for  business  in  the  county  of  Mon- 
mouth.  For  terms  apply  to  the  subscriber,  near  the 
Black-Horse,  in  Mansfield. 

EDWARD    THOMAS. 
TO    BE    SOLD, 

At  public  vendue,  on  Monday  the  29th  day  of  this 
instant: 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  135 

No.  1.  THE  noted  plantation  belonging  to  the  estate  of 
Joseph  Skelton,  Esq.  deceased,  on  PennV^eek,  near 
Princeton,  at  the  forks  of  two  roads,  one  leading 
from  Princeton  to  Shrewsbury,  the  other  to  Allen- 
town,  containing  one  hundred  and  fifty  acres  of  good 
land,  thirty  of  which  is  in  good  meadow,  with  a  good 
stream  of  water  running  through  the  place,  a  good 
two-story  dwelling-house  with  a  brick  front,  consisting 
of  a  large  parlour  with  five  convenient  bed-rooms  on  the 
lower  floor,  the  second  story  one  large  parlour,  six  good 
bed-rooms,  a  good  kitchen  adjoining  the  house>  with  three 
rooms  on  the  floor,  a  good  large  barn,  storehouse,  smith- 
shop  and  other  out-houses  with  two  good  cellars  under 
the  house  convenient  for  two  families;  two  good  bearing, 
orchards  the  best  grafted  fruit,  a,  good  well  of  water  at 
the  door:  This  plantation  is  in  good  situation  for  either 
a  merchant  or  tavern. 

No.  2.  A  small  plantation  lying  one  chain  distant 
from  the  above  mentioned  tract,  containing  sixty  acres  of 
good  land,  fifteen  of  which  is  in  good  meadow  and  more 
may  be  made  with  little  trouble,  two  small  dwelling 
houses,  one  barn  with  two  stables,  two  good  bearing,  or- 
chards of  good  fruit,  two  of  the  finest  springs  of  wrater 
that  is  in  Middlesex  county  either  for  distilling  or  tan- 
ning business,  one  of  the  springs  is  on  the  highest-  and 
most  convenient  part  of  the  plantation  for  building  a 
dwelling-house. 

No.  3.  A  plantation  containing  one  hundred  acres  of 
good  land,  with  a  small  house  and  orchard,  grist-mill  and 
saw  mill,  one  pair  of  stones  now  in  good  order  for  mer- 
chant or  country  work;  the  mill  is  situate  on  Cranberry 
Brook,  four  miles  from  Princeton,  five1  to  Cranberry  town 
and  fourteen  to  Crosswicks  landing. 

No.  4.  Two  hundred  acres  of  woodland,  to  be  sold  in 
lots  if  requested ;  all  which  is  in  the  county  of  Middlesex. 

The  vendue  to  begin  at  nine  o'clock  on  said  day,  when 


136  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

attendance  will  be  given,  and  the  conditions  made  known 
by  me 

JOSIAH  SKELTON,  Executor. 

—The  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  II.,  No.  6,  March  10, 
1779. 

NOTICE  IS  HEREBY  GIVEX  TO  ALL  CON- 
CERNED, by  the  Subscribers,  Auditors  appointed  by  a 
Rule  of  Court  for  the  County  of  Gloucester,  in  a  Cause 
wherein  Joseph  Ellis.,1  Esq ;  is  Plaintiff,  against  John 
Ilinchman^2  Defendant,  upon  an  Attachment  against  the 
said  Hinchman,  that  the  'Creditors  of  said  Hinchman  do 
meet,  at  the  House  of  Hugh  Creightonf  in  Haddonfield, 
on  Friday,  the  12th  Day  of  March  next,  in  order  to  adjust 
the  Accounts  of  said  Hinchman,  and  make  Distribution 
agreeable  to  Act  of  Assembly. 

"JOSEPH  COOPER,4  JOHN  GRUFFYTH,  Auditors. 

Gloucester,  February  24,  1779. 
—The  Pennsylvania  Gazette,  March  3,  1779. 

1  For  note  upon  Joseph  Ellis,  see  New  Jersey  Archives,  2d  Series,  1  :   557. 

-  This  was  probably  the  grandson  of  John  Hinchman.  one  of  the  settlers 
of  Newton,  old  Gloucester  (now  Camden)  county. 

•"•  Hugh  Creighton.  until  1790,  owned  the  tavern  in  Trenton  now  known 
as  the  American  House,  the  meeting  place  of  the  Legislature  and  the 
Council  of  Safety  of  New  Jersey.  It  was  at  this  inn  that  Dorothea  Payne 
Todd  was  a  frequent  visitor,  and  was  courted,  as  a  widow,  by  James 
Madison.  later  President  of  the  United  States.  Subsequently  known  as 
Dolly  Madison,  this  beautiful  and  accomplished  Quakeress  led  the  social 
life  of  the  new  federal  capital,  which  in  1800  was  removed  from  Phila- 
delphia to  Washington. 

4  This  Josenh  Cooper,  there  being  several  of  the  name,  was  probably  the 
son  of  Benjamin  Cooper,  who  died  in  1772.  and  Elizabeth  Cole,  his  third 
wife.  Joseph  Cooper  inherited  from  his  father  much  of  the  land  upon 
which  the  northern  part  of  the  city  of  Camden  now  stands.  Joseph 
Cooper's  residence  was  built  at  the  "Point."  near  the  head  of  Third  street, 
and  was  long  known  as  the  "I  C  E-house,"  owing  to  the  fact  that  upon  the 

C 
north  end  of  the  mansion  were  the  initials  and  date  I     +     E,  which   indi- 

1788 
cated  that  the  home  was  built  by  Joseph  and  Elizabeth  (Haines)  Cooper. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  137 

New- York,  March  3. 

Capt.  JAMES  DUNCAN",  in  the  beautiful  brigantine 
HOSE  BUD,  a  few  days  ago  proceeded  on  a  cruize  to 
the  southward,  and  on  the  4th  day  after  his  departure 
from  the  Hook,  took  the  brigantine  Young  Achilles, 
Capt.  Augustine  Picon,  laden  with  tobacco  from  Phila- 
delphia to  Bourdeaux ;  Capt.  Duncan  brought  the  prize 
to  the  Hook,  and  is  gone  to  complete  the  cruize.  The 
Rose  Bud  is  admirably  well  fitted  and  manned,  carrying 
18  do^lble  fortified  four  pounders,  sixty  good  seamen,  and 
thirty  five  Marines. 

Some  gentlemen  last  night  from  the  Narrows  declared, 
they  saw  two  ships  at,  and  three  more  approaching  to  the 
Hook,  the  latter  looming  very  large,  peradventure  the 
British  Fleet  which  left  England  last  January. — The 
Royal  Gazette,  No.  253,  March  3,  1779. 

To  be  SOLD  by  public  veindue,  at  the  coffee  house  in 
the  city  of  Philadelphia,  on  Thursday  the  first  day  of 
April  next,  a  Lot  of  Ground  situated  in  the  city  of  Bur- 
lington, about  400  yards  below  the  town  wharf,  com- 
monly known  and  called  by  the  name  of  the  Green  Bank, 
bounded  as  follows,  viz.  Beginning  at  the  cornea*  of  the 
fence  as  it  now  standeth,  being  the  corner  of  Fourth  and 
Pearl  streets,  and  runs  thence  in  the  line  of  Pearl-street 
westward  73  feet  to  a  lot  now  in  the  tenure  of  James  Vence, 
then  northerly  by  the  line  dividing  the  before  mentioned 
lot  366  feet,  thence  running  an  eastward  course  23  feet 
along  the  garden  fence,  then  northwardly  a  straight  course 
down  to  low  water  mark  on  Delaware  river,  thence 
easterly  fifty  feet  along  the  said  river,  and  then  up  Pearl- 
street  to  the  place  of  beginning,  be.  the  same  more  or  less. 
There  are  upon  the  premises  a  genteel  brick  house  well 
finished,  two  stories  high,  fifty  feet  front,  two  handsome 
parlours  below,  and  three  chambers,  besides  garrets  for 


• 


138         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779" 

servants,  each  room  hath  a  handsome  tiled  chimney 
place  and  marble  hearths,  a  good  kitchen,  two  ovens,  a 
pump  of  good  water  in  the  yard,  a  milk  house  and  smoke 
house,  a  large  well  built  stable  and  coach-house,  the  loft 
of  which  is  capable  of  holding  eight  tons  of  ha}r,  with  a 
great  many  other  useful  out  buildings.  The  garden  is- 
stocked  with  a  variety  of  plumb,  pear,  cherry,  English 
walnut,  and  other  fruit  trees,  besides  currants,  rasberries, 
gooseberries,  strawberries,  &c.  The  ground  is  as  rich  as- 
any  in  Burlington,  and  is  now  in  good  order,  as  it  has- 
been  turned  up  with  a  spade  this  winter. 

To  conclude,  the  healthy  and  elegant  situation,  the 
beauty  of  the  prospect,  the  convenience  of  the  buildings, 
and  the  garden  stored  with  such  a  variety  of  fruit,  must 
make  it  a  suitable  summer  retreat  for  a  genteel  family,, 
or  the  constant  residence  of  a  gentleman  retiring  from 
business. 

Any  person  may  view  the  premises,  by  applying  to  col.. 
Jones  who  now  lives  in  the  house.  A  good  title  and  im- 
mediate possession  will  be  given  to  the  purchaser,  but  the 
cash  will  be  expected  at  the  delivery  of  the  deed.  The 
emissions  that  are  called  out  of  circulation,  will  be  taken 
in  payment. 

Any  person  inclining  to  purchase  before  the  day  of 
sale  may  know  the  terms  by  applying  to  the  subscriber., 
at  the  ~New  Mills,  Burlington  county,  Xew  Jersey. 

March  1.  PETER  STRETCH.1 

• — The  Pennsylvania  Evening  Post,  March  6,  1779. 


]\TEW-YORK,  March  8. 

'Tis  reported  in  Jersey,  and  indeed  published  in  the 
Rebel  Papers,  That  the  Congress  has  received  most  agree- 
able !N"ews  from  Europe  in  their  Favour,  which  on  a 


1  For  a  sketch   of  Peter   Stretch,   see   New   Jersey  Archives,   2d   Series, 
1  :  516. 


1779]  NEWSPAPEE    EXTRACTS.  139 

certain  Day  would  be:  made  known  throughout  the  Con- 
tinent. The  Secret  is  said  to  be  a  Loan  of  Money,  or  the 
Introduction  of  a  French  Army  into  the  Continent— 
From  the  New-Jersey  Journal,  of  March  2,  printed  at 
Chatham,  on  Passaick  River,  11  Miles  from  Elizabeth- 
Town,  in  tlie  County  of  Morris. 

Mr.  COLLINS, 

IN  my  last  address  to  my  fellow-citizens  I  observed,  That  while 
Heaven  had  thus  far  smiled  on  our  just  exertions  in  self-defence,  the 
most  obligations  were  laid  on  us  for  improving  the  advantages  there- 
from accruing,  to  the  good  of  society,  and  the  glory  of  the  alhvise 
Disposer  of  human  events.  The  substance  of  this  position  I  have 
seen  warmly  held  forth  by  resolves  of  Congress,  proclamations  and 
messages  of  His  Excellency  our  Governor  to  our  Representatives,  and 
their  answers,  and  also  echoed  to  by  many  pieces  in  the  public  prints. — 
This  produced  the  most  agreeable  feeling  and  encouraging  prospects, 
in  the  minds  of  the  virtuous  part  of  our  community. — I,  for  my  part, 
flattered  myself  that  this  important  truth  would  have  had  such  influ- 
ence on  the  minds  of  our  citizens,  that  in  proportions  as  the  clamours 
and  confusions  of  war  should  decrease  and  leave  opportunities  for 
cool  reflections,  we  should  have  vied  with  each  other  to  be  foremost 
in  promoting  that  happiness  of  society  we  had  pretended  to  contend 
for,  and  the  glory  of  that  Being  which  has  given  such  remarkable 
success  to  our  public  efforts.  But  alas !  alas !  how  disagreeably  am 
I  disappointed.  After  serious  reflection  on  the  prevailing  disposition 
and  conduct  of  this  people,  we  would  be  almost  persuaded  it  is  not 
the  same  it  was  two  years  ago. — This  change  truly  affects  my  heart. 
I  see  the  danger  my  dear  country  is  exposing  itself  to,  and  sincerely 
lament  it,  wishing,  with  the  tenderest  emotions  of  my  heart,  to  see  it 
preserved.  Providence,  however,  has  been  pleased  to  place  me  in 
such  a  sphere  of  action,  as  leaves  me  no  other  opportunity  for  serving 
my  country?  save  only  by  offering  -such  warnings  and  advice  as  I 
truly  esteem  subservient  to  its  happiness  and  welfare,  and  my  warm- 
est addresses  to  the  gracious  Sovereign  of  the  universe,  to  preserve 
it  in  its  bleeding  struggles.  From  a  consciousness  of  honest  inten- 
tions, I  humbly  hope  for  the  serious  attention  and  candid  judgment 
of  those  I  presume  to  address. 

Nations,  like  persons,  have  their  birth,  growth,  manhood,  declining 
age  and  death,  health  and  vigor,  weakness  and  decay,  and  the  pro- 
curing causes  of  both. — Our  political  birth  and  existence,  among  the 
empires  of  this  world,  we  have  received  by  the  bold  and  noble  decla- 
ration of  the  thirteen  United  States,  pronouncing  them  free  and 
independent. — -In  our  growth  and  advance  to  manhood  constitutions 
for  civil  government  have  been  formed  and  approved,  legislators 
appointed  who  have  and  daily  do  enact  laws  for  the  wholesome  gov- 
ernment of  the  community,  officers  appointed  and  commissioned  for. 


I 

140         ,  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

the  execution  of  those  laws,  and  courts  of  justice  and  equity  opened. 
Thus  is  the  policy  for  the  preservation  of  order  and  the  distribution 
of  justice  established.  As  to  our  growth  for  common  defence,  we 
have  the  satisfaction  to  see  formidable  armies  raised,  well  armed  and 
disciplined,  a  numerous  and  determined  militia  ready  for  their  support, 
plenty  of  military  stores  provided,  equitable  alliances  formed  and 
forming  with  powerful  nations,  guaranteeing  our  independence.  And 
what  adds  to  all  this  is  the  valour,  intrepidity  and  bravery  of  our 
troops,  manifested  to  the  world  by  their  chearful  enduring  uncommon 
hardships ;  in  one  campaign  forcing  the  flower  of  the  British  army 
to  lay  down  their  arms  j1  and  in  the  last,  driving  their  main  body 
out  of  the  field  into  their  lurking  holes.2  All  which  is  no  small  addi- 
tion to  our  national  strength. — The  rapidity  of  our  political  growth 
is  real  matter  of  astonishment  to  the  world,  and  affords  us  cause  to 
declare  this  to  be  the  Lord's  doings,  and  to  be  marvellous  in  our  eyes. 

However  amazing  great  this  our  growth  has  been  in  the  space  of 
three  or  four  years,  yet  it  is  undeniably  evident  from  the  present  cir- 
cumstances of  our  national  affairs,  that  some  malignant  disorder  has 
seized  upon  our  body  politic,  and  threatens  at  least  an  interruption  of 

our  advances  to  manhood,  if  not  political  dissolution. As  a  true 

friend  to  my  bleeding  country,  I  behold  with  real  grief  and  concern 
its  convulsive  struggles  under  the  severe  attacks  of  the  malignant  dis- 
temper, and  sincerely  wish  to  see  some  able  physicians  step  forth  and 

tender  the  effective  remedies  for  its  recovery. A  consciousness  of 

inability  prevents  my  ranking  myself  with  able  state  physicians. 
However,  as  some  dangerous,  and  violent  disorders  are  frequently  cured 
by  common  practitioners,  the  causes  of  them  being  easily  investigated, 
and  the  prescription  of  their  remedies  simple,  I  am  thereby  em- 
boldened, and  from  an  impatient  desire  for  the  recovery  of  my  country, 
strongly  urged  to  offer  her  my  best  endeavours  for  that  purpose. 

In  order  to  proceed  in  this  business,  with  some  degree  of  regularity, 
I  shall  give  my  fellow-citizens  a  few  incontestable  proofs  that  our 
new  empire  labours  under  some  sore  and  dangerous  disorder,  and 
thus  point  out  the  several  causes,  with  prescriptions  for  remedying 
them  and  avoiding  their  dangerous  effects. 

To  be  convinced  that  this  infant  empire  labours  under  some  fatal 
and  dangerous  disorder,  let  the  following  particulars  be  considered, 
and  it  is  manifest. 

1.  From  that  remarkable  loss  and  decay  of  public  spirit  and  pa- 
triotism. When  these  carry  sway  in  a  State,  we  behold  the  bulk  of 
the  community  ready  to  sacrifice  their  personal  ease  and  private 
interest  to  promote  the  public  weal,  and  to  exert  their  all  in  its 
common  defence,  in  which  the  political  body  is  enabled  to  exercise 
its  whole  force  and  vigour.  As  long  as  the  noble  Spartans  despised 
riches  and  inured  themselves  to  all  the  hardships  and  fatigues  of 
war,  with  a  view  to  serve  and  defend  their  country,  Sparta  was 
invincible.  While  the  citizens  of  Rome  preferred  the  enriching  of 

1  Referring  to  the  surrender  of  Burgoyne.  at  Saratoga. 

2  Referring  to  the  Battle  of  Monmouth. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS. 

their  state  to  that  of  themselves  as  individuals,  Rome  was  not 
only  unconquerable,  but  also  spread  the  arms  of  conquest  and  dominion 
over  distant  nations.  Both  these  nations  have  seen  the  day  that 
their  disinterested  patriotism  and  public  spirit  were  vanished,  and  a 
selfish  principle  of  love  of  riches,  ease,  luxury  and  dissipation 
succeeded  them.  The  effects  of  which  were  defeats,  disappointments 
and  finally  ruin.  Glorious  and  blessed  patriotism  and  public  spirit  was, 
but  two  or  three  years  ago,  the  governing  principle  and  distinguishing- 
characteristic  of  the  brav^  Americans.  But  what  is  it  now?  Directly 
the  reverse.  We  daily  see  the  busy  multitude  engaged  in  accumulating 
what  they  fondly  call  riches,  by  forestalling,  extortioning  and  im- 
posing upon  each  other.  Can  it  be  denied  but  the  community  at  large 
act  as  tho'  they  had  agreed  to  plunder  the  State  between  them,  each 
exerting  himself  to  get  the  greatest  share  of  the  booty.  Here  gov- 
ernment sits  as  indifferent  spectators,  while  Quarter-Masters  and 
Commissaries,  the  unjust  trader,  the  farmer  and  the  mechanick,  are 
contending  for  the  prey ;  and  they  who  get  the  greatest  booty,  are 
daily  wallowing  in  dissipation,  venality  and  luxury,  at  a  time  wherein 
thousands  are  groaning  under  the  weight  of  intolerable  distress. — 
For  evidence  t6  the  truths  I  have  here  asserted,  I  appeal  to  the 
community  at  large.  To  them  I  leave  it  to  judge  whether  such  a 
situation  of  our  affairs  can  hold  long ! 

2.  That  this  empire  labours  under  some  fatal  and  dangerous  dis- 
order may  also  appear  from  the  unequal  division  of  property  in  the 
space  of  so   short   a  time.     Experience   of  all   ages   has  proved   that 
a  just  and  equitable  increase  of  property  has  been  the  constant  reward 
of  continued  industry,  sobriety  and  oeconomy.     But  is  this  the  case 
with  us?     Far  from  it.     Thousands  of  the  most  honest  and  respect- 
able citizens  of  America,  who  obtained  their  possessions  by  the  hard 
industry,    continued    sobriety    and    oeconomy    of    themselves    or    their 
virtuous   ancestors,   must  now   behold   many   men   whom   they   looked 
upon  in  the  commencement  of  these  troubles   (if  I  may  be  permitted 
to  use  the  language  of  the  most  patient  of  men)  as  such  whose  fathers 
they  icould  have  disdained  to  have  set  with  the  dogs  of  their  flock, 
raised  to  immense  wealth,  or  at  least  to  carry  the  appearance  of  a 
haughty,    supercilious    and    luxurious    spendthrift ;     while    they    must 
look    upon    their    estates    as    devoted    to    enrich    such,    or    mortgaged 
to  support  their  extravagance.     The  feelings  of  thousands  will  attest 
the  truth  of  this  assertion.     Can  it  be  possible  that  such  a  state  is 
found,  who  affords  or  permits  such  abuse? 

3.  A  third  sympton  is  a  general  decay  and  loss  of  social  virtues, 
even  to  the  undermining  of  that  confidence  which  the  community  ought 
to  place  in  the  august  Assembly  of  their  Representatives.     Charity, 
harmony  and  mutual  confidence  are  the  sinews  of  society ;    individuals 
are  the  members  hereby  united  and  enabled  to  exert  their  force  for 
the  benefit  of  the  whole.     In  proportion  as  these  relax,  the  state  shakes 
and    trembles    under    paralytic    attacks,    until    it    exceeds    a    certain 
degree,  and  then  an  incui-able  national  palsy  ensues.     This  dangerous 
decay  will  evidently  appear  from  a  few  examples.     When  Boston  was 


' 

142  XEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTIOIST.  [1779 

blockaded,  what  generous  exertions  were  made  throughout  all  the 
rest  of  the  continent,  in  order  to  alleviate  their  distresses  and  en- 
courage them  to  perseverance?  The  last  year  Congress  having  become 
sensible  of  the  many  opportunities  for  monopoly,  forestalling  and 
extortion,  and  their  pernicious  and  dangerous  effects  upon  our  public 
affairs,  warmly  recommended  to  the  Legislatures  of  the  different 
states,  the  passing  of  laws  for  the  regulation  of  prices ;  Pennsyl- 
vania published  a  bill,  New  Jersey  immediately  enacted  a  law  for  that 
purpose.  Commissioners  were  sent  from  different  States,  who  agreed 
upon  a  general  plan  of  .regulation.  What  was  the  consequence? 
The  middle  States,  then  the  only  seat  of  war,  who  had  the  supplying 
of  our  army  with  provisions,  immediately  complied  with  the  general 
plan.  Massachusetts-Bay,  though  their  Commissioners  had  agreed, 
refused,  with  some  of  the  southern  States.  The  only  prevailing 
reason  to  oppose  so  necessary  and  salutary  a  measure  in  that  critical 
conjuncture  could  be,  having  their  ports  more  open,  to  be  at  liberty  to 
improve  their  opportunities  of  extortioning  upon  their  suffering 
brethren,  in  articles  of  foreign  trade.  And  if  long  and  general  report 
may  be  allowed  any  degree  of  evidence,  even  that  Boston  before- 
mentioned,  was  the  chief  agent  in  this  opposition.  Monstrous  in- 
gratitude! Base  uncharitableness !  Pernicious  policy!  Under  the 
effects  of  which  America  totters  and  threatens  to  give  her  last  gasp, 
if  not  speedily  relieved.— Need  I  repeat  the  anecdote  and  remarks  on 
monopoly  and  general  extortions?  I  only  observe  that  these  mon- 
strous vices  have  in  a  great  measure  destroyed  mutual  confidence  and 
charity  among  us.  What  advances  the  vices  of  malice  and  discord 
have  made,  is  evident  from  the  accursed  and  murderous  practice  of 
duelling,  of  late  become  so  much  in  vogue  among  the  Gentlemen  of  our 
Army ;  and  also  the  many  publications  filled  with  personal  reflections 
and  virulent  invectives.  While  the  impartial  publick  views  and 
treats  their  virulence  with  disdain,  they  cannot  but  feel  anxiously 
engaged  in  the  matter  of  their  debates,  because  they  are  deeply 
interested  in  it.  When  we  read  Mr.  Deane's  address,1  we  would 


1  Silas  Deane,  while  representing  the  United  States  at  the  court  of 
France,  and  agent  under  the  Congress  committee  of  secret  correspondence, 
entered  into  conventions  with  a  number  of  foreign  officers  whereby  they 
were  to  receive  commissions  in  the  American  army  which  would  cause  them 
to  outrank  meritorious  American  officers  who  had  been  fighting  for  a  year 
or  more  in  behalf  of  their  country.  Congress  repudiated  this  agreement, 
declaring  that  Deane  had  no  authority  to  make  such  conventions,  and  on 
November  21,  1777,  ordered  his  recall  from  Paris.  On  his  return  to  this 
country  Congress,  in  August,  1778,  desired  him  to  give  an  account  of  his 
transactions  in  France,  as  well  as  a  particular  state  of  the  funds  entrusted 
to  his  care.  They  were  not  satisfied  with  his  reports,  and  on  December  1 
resolved  to  hold  night  sessions  to  consider  the  subject,  and  so  notified 
Mr.  Deane.  But  he,  instead  of  attempting  to  satisfy  their  curiosity  as  to 
his  financial  transactions  abroad,  published  in  the  Philadelphia  news- 
papers of  December  4,  1778,  "An  address  to  the  free  and  virtuous  citizens 
of  America,"  in  which  he  bitterly  assailed  the  Congress,  reflected  upon  the 
integrity  of  some  leading  members,  and  insinuated  that  there  was  a  design 
to  break  faith  with  France,  &c.  The  matter  was  threshed  out  in  Congress 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  143 

readily  conclude  that  there  was  some  formidable  scheme  of  treason 
"hatching  against  us,  which  is  ready  to  burst  upon  us,  with  all  the 
attendant  train  of  misery  and  ruin.  That  Mr.  Deane  had  discovered 
the  plot,  and  as  a  true  friend  to  America,  had  endeavored  to  reveal  it 
to  Congress,  but  that  Congress  had  been  so  much  engaged  in  more 
important  matters,  that  he  had  not  been  able  to  obtain  an  audience  for 
that  purpose,  during  all  the  time  from  his  arrival  until  the  publica- 
tion of  his  address.  Mr.  Paine,  on  the  other  side  of  the  question, 
charges  Mr.  Deane  of  endeavoring,  by  many  unjust  means,  to  make 
a  present  of  Two  Hundred  Thousand  Pounds  an  American  debt.  He 
also  insinuates,  that  Congress  received  the  evidence  of  this  intended 
fraud,  together  with  the  treaty  entered  into  with  France,  but  that 
their  attention  was  so  entirely  taken  up  with  the  treaty,  that  they 
became  wholly  inattentive  to  this  atrocious  fraud. — Can  it  be  possible 
that  such  publications  should  fail  of  filling  the  minds  of  a  free  people 
with  jealous  suspicions  and  perplexing  concerns ?  There  certainly  is 
a  possibility  of  both  charges  being  true.  Are  there  not  many  in- 
stances of  accomplices  in  villainy  getting  to  loggerheads,  and  then  dis- 
covering each  other?  It  is  highly  probable  that  there  is  villainy  lurk- 
ing somewhere.  What  appears  to  me  more  alarming  than  either  or 
both  of  the  charges  (supposing  them  to  be  true)  is,  that  they  must 
retort  upon  Congresis. — They  are  appointed  as  the  guardian  of  the 
liberties,  lives  and  properties  of  the  people.  In  committing  the  care 
of  such  invaluable  treasures  to  them,  they  confide  in  their  vigilance 
and  integrity.  It  must  needs  appear  unaccountable  to  the  judicious 
among  them,  that  Congress  should  be  engaged  from  the  time  of  Mr. 
Deane's  arrival  to  the  publication  of  his  address,  in  matters  more 
important  than  those  he  published.  Are  treasonable  practices  against 
the  State  to  be  ranked  amongst  trivial  affairs?  How  could  Congress 
"know  what  was  of  it  without  an  inquiry?  How  long  a  time  would 
it  have  required  to  have  found  out  the  purport  of  what  Mr.  Deane 
had  to  communicate  in  the  audience  he  had  frequently  requested? 
How  could  they  know  that  the  matters  he  had  to  communicate  were 
trivial  or  of  the  last  importance,  without  such  inquiry?  As  to  the 
other  charge,  what  intricate  importance  was  there  in  this  noble  and 
equitable  treaty,  that  could  so  entirely  engross  their  attention,  as  to 
make  an  intended  fraud  in  the  sum  of  £200,000  foreign  debt,  to  escape 
it,  even  when  they  had  just  received  the  evidences  of  it,  and  this  in- 
attention to  have  continued  till  the  publication  of  Deane's  address? 
Add  to  these,  the  immense  debt  we  are  involved  in,  in  the  space  of 
four  years.  When  the  community  beholds  the  conduct  of  Quarter- 
Masters,  Commissaries,  and  the  whole  host  of  their  Deputies,  the 

and  in  the  public  prints,  Tom  Paine,  in  particular,  in  his  incisive  and 
trenchant  style,  under  the  signature  of  "Common  Sense,"  showing  the 
insincerity  and  essential  falsity  of  Deane's  charges,  and  the  urgent  need  he 
-was  in  of  clearing  his  own  skirts  from  the  taint  of  incapacity,  dishonesty 
and  corruption.  A  very  good  summary  of  the  controversy  is  given  in 
Gordon's  History  of  the  American  War,  3  :  38,  216.  The  fullest  account 
is  in  the  Deane  Papers,  Vol.  III.,  N.  Y.  Hist.  Soc.  Coll.,  1888. 


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immense  sums  it  is  generally  reported  and  believed  they  engross, 
induces  them  to  ask,  Are  these  not  the  servants  of  Congress?  Is 
Congress  only  ignorant  of  these  abuses,  which  the  whole  publick  be- 
holds with  grief  and  concern?  Does  Congress  know  what  becomes, 
of  the  public  money. — Can  it  be  possible  that  even  the  greatest  part  of 
our  national  debt  has  been  accounted  for?  The  investigation  of 
answers  to  such  queries  would  add  too  much  fuel  to  the  suspicions, 
already  kindled  in  the  breasts  of  my  fellow-citizens,  than  that  I  shall 
attempt  it. — The  strict  secrecy  which  Congress  seems  to  enjoin  on  its 
Members,  with  respect  to  almost  all  its  business,  is  by  no  means 
calculated  to  remove  the  conceived  suspicions.  A  jealous  community 
is  fearful,  and  diffident,  and  if  this  takes  place  witli  respect  to  the 
persons  on  whom  the  greatest  tranquil  confidence  is  required,  it  un- 
hinges in  a  great  measure  society,  and  places  it  as  It  were  on  a 
dangerous  precipice. 

These,  my  dear  countrymen, .  are  a  few  of  the  many  eviis  our 
nation  struggles  under.  My  heart  trembles  at  the  view  of  the  fatal 
consequences.  May  (iod  in  his  kind  Providence  direct  to  the  cure 
before  it  be  too  late  ! — I  fear  I  have  already  been  too  tedious  in  this 
essay,  and  therefore  shall  defer  pointing  out  the  things  I  apprehend  to- 
be  the  causes  of  these  evils,  and  the  remedies  for  their  cure,  to  a  future 
opportunity. 

I  am,  Sir,  your  friend,  and  the  Publick's 

Humble   servant   and   real   wellwisher, 

A    TRUE    PATRIOT. 
TRENTON,    MARCH    17. 

Saturday  last  a  fleet  of  twenty  British  vessels,  chiefly 
ships,  put  to  sea  from  Sandy-Hook. 


PKOCLAMATIOK 

BY  HIS  EXCELLENCY 
GEORGE  WASHINGTON,  Esq 

General  and  Commander  in  Chief  of  the  Forces  of  the 

UNITED    STATES    of    AMERICA. 

WHEREAS  it  hath  been  represented,  that  many  of  those 
soldiers  who  have  been  induced  from  divers  motives  to 
desert  their  corps,  and  are  now  dispersed  in  different; 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  145 

parts  of  these  States,  having  seen  their  error,  would  be 
glad  to  return  to  their  duty,  but  are  restrained  by  the 
fear  of  punishment —  In  order  to  quiet  such  appre- 
hensions, and  give  them  an  opportunity  to  put  in  practice 
these  good  dispositions,  I  do  hereby  proclaim  full  pardon 
to  all  those  who  shall  rejoin  their  respective  corps  by  the 
first  of  May  next.  At  the  same  time  declaring  to  all 
such  who  shall  neglect  to  avail  themselves  of  the  present 
offer  of  mercy,  and  who  shall  persist  in  their  delinquency 
beyond  the  period  herein  appointed  for  their  return,  that 
the  most  effectual  measures,  shall  be  persued  to  detect  them 
wheresoever  concealed,  and  to  bring  them  to  the  most 
rigorous  and  exemplary  punishment. 

Given  at  Head-Quarters.,  Middlebrook,  March  10th, 
1779. 

GKEO.    WASHINGTON. 

Head-Quarters,  Middle-brook,  March  9,   1779. 

ALL  officers  and  soldiers  absent  on  furlough  from  any 
part  of  the  army,  either  immediately  under  the  Com- 
mander in  Chief  or  elsewhere,  are  requested  without  fail, 
to  join  their  corps  before  the  first  of  May  next, 

This  order  is  not  to  effect  those  whose  leave  of  absence 
will  expire  before  that  period,  who  will  be  expected  to 
return  punctually  at  the  expiration  of  their  furloughs. 

Such  officers  of  the  Virginia  Line  who  having  been 
on  furlough,  have  since  been  appointed  to  a  particular 
duty  under  Brigadier  General  Scott,  are  not  compre- 
hended. 

Extract  from  General  Orders, 
ALEX.  SCAMMELL,  Adjt  Gen 

All  printers  are  desired  to  publish  the  above  procljama- 
tion  and  extract  in  their  respective  papers. 

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•    ' 

WRITING-PAPER  by  the  ream  or  quire,  wafers  in  boxes, 
spelling-books,  primers,  schoolmasters  assistants,  oeconomy 
of  human  life — l  Also  rhubarb,  Jesuits  bark,  in  the  gross 
or  pulverized;  brimstone,  manna,  senna,  salts,  gum 
asafoetida,  &c,  to  be  sold  for  ready  cash  by  the  printer 
hereof. 

TO    BE    SOLD,, 

By  way  of  public  vendue  by  the  subscriber,  on  Tues- 
day the  23d  of  this  instant,  March,  at  Princeton; 

HORSES,,  fit  either  for  the  saddle  or  gears,  good  breeding 
mares  and  colts,  part  blooded;  also  good  milch  cows  with 
calves,  and  some  forward  with  calf,  young  cattle,  hay, 
furniture,  &c  &c. 

JONATHAN  BALDWIN. 
TO  COVER, 

The  ensuing  season,  at  Longbridge  Farm,  in  this  State, 
four  miles  from  Kingston,  the  beautiful  imported  HORSE 

BAY  RICHMOND, 

Rising  eight  years  old, 

At  FORTY  DOLLARS  the  season,  and  a  Dollar  to  the  Groom ; 
the  money  to  be  paid  at  the  stable  door. 

BAY  RICHMOND  was  imported  by  Lewis  Morris  from 
England,  and  as  appears  by  the  under-mentioned  certifi- 
cates, is  a  high  bred  horse  as  any  in  Europe.  He  is  a 
beautiful  bay,  fifteen  hands  high,  very  active,  and  has 
got  some  remarkably  handsome  colts,  many  of  which 
-may  be  seen  in  the  possession  of  several  gentlemen  in  the 
neighbourhood  of  Philadelphia.  It  is  needless  to  mention 
any  thing  more  of  the  size,  figure  or  activity  of  the  horse, 

1  The  Oeconomy  of  Human  Life,  by  Hezekiak  Watkins,  Woodbridge,  1766. 


1779]  NEWSPAPEK    EXTRACTS.  147 

as  his  character  for  each  and  all  of  them  is  so  well  es- 
tablished through  the  States;  and  will  only  add  the  cer- 
tificates of  his  pedigree  for  the  satisfaction  of  the  public. 

Richmond,  Yorkshire,  Sept  10,  1774 

I  CERTIFY  that  the  bay  colt  which  Mr.  John  Hutchinson  purchased 
of  Sir  Lawrence  Dundass,  Baronet,  was  bred  by  me,  and  was  got  by 
Babram1  Blank,  out  of  my  mare  Dido,  that  won  ten  fifty  pounds  prizes, 
or  upwards,  and  which  colt  was  a  three  years  old  at  May-day  last. 

(Signed)    THOMAS  COMFROTH.2 

AsTcrigg,  in  Yorkshire,  Sept  14,  1774- 

I  DO  hereby  certify  that  the  mare  Dido,  the  property  of  Thomas 
Comforth,2  Esq.  was  bred  by  me,  and  was  own  sister  to  my  mare  called 
Virgin  and  my  colt  Miracle,  being  got  by  Changeling,  (own  brother 
to  Fenwick's  Matchem)  the  dam  of  Virgin,  Miracle  and  Dido,  was 
also  the  dam  of  Lord  Boliugbroke's  Conundrum,  (afterwards  Mr. 
Pigot's)  and  Canthas. — Mr.  Comforth's  Enigma,  my  mares  Riddle 
and  Miss  Tims,  Mr.  Foly's  Pumkin,  and  my  filly  called  Maiden,  all 
of  which  were  got  by  Matchem;  their  dam  was  got  by  Squirt,  (sire 
of  Mask  and  Syphan),  grandam  by  Mogul  (own  brother  to  Barbam1) 
great-grandam  by  bay  Bolton,  great-great-grandam  by  Mr.  Pullen's 
chestnut  Arabian  (which  mare  was  the  grandam  of  the  Bolton  Ster- 
ling) great-great-great-grandam  by  Rockwood,  great-great-great-great- 
grandam  by  Bustler. 

(Signed)    JOHN  PRATT. 

I  CERTIFY  that  the  foregoing  are  true  copies  from  the  original 
certificates. 

LEJVIS    MORRIS. 

February  8,   1179. 

P.  S.  A  number  of  Mares  are  already  engaged,  and  the  owners 
have  left  their  names  with  Mr.  Thomas  Wetherill,  at  Longbridge 
Farm.  Those  who  are  inclinable  to  send  their  Mares  to  RICHMOND, 
had  better  apply  by  letter  to  Mr.  Wetherill,  and  as  such,  will  claim 
preference. 

To  all  whom  it  may  concern: 

N'&w  Jersey  ss      Notice  is  hereby  given,  that  a  Court  of 

Admiralty  will  be  held  at  the  house  of 

Gilbert  Barton,  in  Allen-town,  on  Tuesday  the  thirteenth 

day  of  April  next,  at  ten  o'clock  in  the  forenoon  of  the 

1  So  in  the  text. 

2  So  in  the  text. 


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same  day,  then  and  the>re  to  try  the  truth  of  the  facts 
alledged  in  the  bill  of  James  Richmond,  (who  as  well 
&c)  against  the  sloop  or  vessel  called  the  Speedwell, 
lately  commanded  by  John  Le  Count,  with  her  ta,ckle, 
apparel,  furniture  and  cargo;  To  the  end  and  intent 
that  the  owner  or  owners  of  the  said  vessel,  or  any  person 
or  persons  concerned  therein,  may  appear  and  shew  cause, 
if  any  they  have,  why  the  said  vessel  and  cargo  should  not 
be  condemned  according  to  the  prayer  of  the  said  bill. 

By  order  of  tlie  Judge. 
JOSEPH  BLOOMFIELD,  Register. 

TAKEN  up  by  the  subscriber  on  Crosswicks  creek,  at  the 
Draw-bridge,  a  Long-Boat,  about  22  feet  long,  in  good 
order,  marked  C.  !N~.  on  the  out  side  of  the  stern.  The 
owner  is  desired  to  come,  prove  property,  pay  charges 
and  take  her  away. 

WILLIAM    NUTT. 


Hanover,  Morris  County,  March  8,  1779. 
STOLEN, 

ON  Tuesday  night  the  5th  instant,  a  roan  mare,  14 
hands  high,  7  years  old,  has  a  slit  in  one  ear,  a  large  star 
in  her  face,  long  hinder  fet-locks,  a  little  white  round 
the  hoofs. 

A  bright  bay  mare,  above  14  hands,  9  years  old,  with  a 
snip  and  thick  bushy  mane.  Both  mares  are  with  foal, 
trots  and  paces,  and  each  twice  branded  with  the  Con- 
tinental mark  C.  A. 

A  dark  bay  filley,  20  months  old,  with  a  long  tail  and 
very  bushy  mane.  Whoever  takes  up  said  creatures  shall 
have  One  Hundred  and  Twenty  Dollars  reward,  and  for 
the  thief  or  thieves  as  much,  on  delivering  them  to 

Walter  Buchanan. 


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TO    BE    SOLD, 

And  may  be  entered  on  the  first  of  April  next. 

ALL  that  tenement  whereon  Abraham  Cottnam,  Esq.1 
lately  lived,  situate  on  the  east  side  of  Queen-street,  in 
Trenton :  There  are  on  the  premises  a  large  commodious 
brick  dwelling-house,  two  stories  and  a  half  high,  four 
rooms  on  a  floor,  with  convenient  upper  lodging  rooms, 
a  convenient  brick  kitchen  adjoining,  an  elegant  brick 
out-house  fronting  the  street,  at  a  small  distance,  a  large 
convenient  barn,  stables,  carriage  house  and  other  out- 
buildings; a  garden  containing  about  three  quarters  of 
an  acre,  and  about  five  acres  of  excellent  meadow,  subject 
to  a  yearly  ground  rent  of  £.3.  It  has  been  a  tavern  for 
upwards  of  two  years  past,  and  is  very  convenient  and 
an  excellent  stand  for  that  business  or  any  other,  being 
situate  on  the  street  leading  directly  through  the  town, 
and  is  a  very  agreeable  situation  for  a  private  Gentle^- 
man.  For  further  particulars  enquire  of  the  subscribers, 
or  in  their  absence  to  Ebenezer  Cowell,  Jr. 

ELIZABETH  ANN  COTTNAM, 
ROBERT  HOOPS, 
GEO.  COTTNAM 

March  2,  1779. 

TO    BE    SOLD, 

A  Lot  of  one  acre  of  land  in  Readington,  Hunterdon 
county,  New  Jersey,  on  the  south  branch  of  Raritan,  (a 
never  failing  stream)  on  the  great  road  leading  from 
Corvettes-Ferry  to  Morristown.  There  is  on  said  lot  a 
two  story  stone  house,  36  by  20  feet,  two  rooms  on  the 
first  floor  and  three  on  the  second:  There  is  likewise  a 


1  For  a  sketch  of  Abraham  Cottnam,  see  New  Jersey  Archives,  2d  Series, 
1  :  382. 


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privilege  for  a  mill  seat,  and  would  suit  well  for  a  fulling- 
mill. — There  is  a  good  quarry  on  said  lot.  It  would  suit 
a  tradesman  or  storekeeper ;  the  situation  is  pleasant  and 
title  indisputable.  For  terms  of  sale  apply  to  Moses 
Estey,  jun.  near  Flemington,  or  Benjamin  Brannan,  in 
Darby,  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania. 


Wanted  to  purchase, 

A  NEGRO  GIRL  ii ot  less  than  nine  years  of  age,  nor  more 
than  thirteen.  She  must  be1  of  an  affable  disposition,  and 
free  from  any  particular  fault.  If  bred  in  the  country 
the  more,  agreeable.  Any  person  having  such  a  girl  to 
dispose  of  may  hear  of  a  purchaser  by  applying  to  the 
printer  hereof. 

YOUXG  BULLEROCK 

A  Beautiful  bay  horse  in  excellent  order,  six  years  old 
this  grass,  fifteen  hands  high,  will  cover  mares  the  en- 
suing season  at  the  stable  of  Matthias  Yaiidike,  in  Mid- 
dlesex county,  State  of  Xew  Jersey,  within  one  mile  of 
Kingston,  at  the  moderate  price  of  Six  Pounds  the  season, 
the  money  to  be  paid  at  the  stable  door,  Young  Bul- 
lerock  is  a  full  blooded  horse,  was  got  by  the  famous 
horse  Old  Bullerock,  and  his  dam  Britannia,  whose  stock 
and  blood  being  so  well  known  in  this  and  the  adjacent 
States  wants  no  further  pedigree.  Good  care  will  be  taken 
of  mares  and  pasture  provided  at  a  moderate  price. 


The  ensuing  season,  at  Major  Richard  M'Donald's  near 
Pluck'min,  the  elegant  and  high  bred  hunter  called, 

AJAX. 


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FULL  sixteen  hands  high,  moves  well,  for  he  walks, 
trots  or  canters  as  light  as  a  pony.  It  is  expected  from 
the  justness  of  his  make  and  action,  that  he  will,  with 
suitable  mares,  get  fine  horses  for  the  road  or  harness. 
Much  more  may  be  said  in  favour  of  this  horse;,  but  those 
who  take  mares  to  him  will  have  the  satisfaction  of 
judging  fo<r  themselves.  He  is  set  at  Twenty  Dollars 
the  season,  and  One  Dollar  to  the  groom.  At  his  stand 
will  be  provided  pasture  for  mares  at  a  reasonable  rate. 

New  Jersey,  PURSUANT  to  the  directions  of  an  act  of  the 
ss.  General  Assembly  of  this  State',  intitled, 

An  Act  for  forfeiting  to  and  testing  in  the  State  of  New 
Jersey,  the  real  estate  of  certain  fugitives  and  offenders, 
passed  December  llth,  1778,  will  be  sold  by  way  of  public 
vendue  for  ready  money,  at  the  Court  house  in  the  county 
of  Cumberland,  on  Monday  the  12th  day  of  April  next, 
to  begin  at  ten  of  the  clock  on  said  day,  and  continue 
until  the  whole  are  sold,  the  following  plantations  and 
tracts  of  laud,  situate  in  said  county,  viz. 

No.  1.  The  plantation  whereon  Daniel  Stretch  lately 
lived,  containing  about  50  acres,  situate  in  Hopewell 
township,  on  the  great  road  leading  from  Greenwich  and 
Roadstown  to  Philadelphia,  and  is  a  good  stand  for  a 
tavern.  On  the  premises  are  a  good  dwelling-house,  barn, 
orchard,  &c  &c. 

No.  2.  A  plantation  situate  in  the  township  of  Stow- 
Creek,  nearly  opposite  the  above,  containing  about  100 
acres,  bounded  by  lands  of  Michael  Hofhell  and  others, 
on  which  is  a  good  frame  dwelling-house.  This  place 
formerly  belonged  to  Adam  Hofhell,  deceased,  and  will 
be  sold  subject  to  his  widow's  right  of  dowery. 

No.  3.  The  plantation  whereon  William  Stom  now 
lives,  situate  in  Hopewell  aforesaid,  containing,  about  90 
acres,  bounded  by  lands  of  Peter  Souder,  Peter  Johnson 
and  others,  on  which  is  a  small  log  dwelling-house. 

No.  4.  About  3  acres  of  drained  meadow,  within  what 


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is  commonly  called   HolmeVBank,   on  Cohansie   Creek. 
The  above  were  all  late  the  property  of  Daniel  Stretch. 

No.  5.  A  lot  in  Bridgeton,  nearly  opposite  the  Court- 
house, containing  near  an  acre,  on  which  is  a  new  frame 
dwelling-house  and  large  stable, 

No.  6.  A  tract  of  unimproved  land,  situate  in  the  town- 
ship of  Fairfield,  containing  about  300  acres,  bounding 
on  lands  late  of  Samuel  Barnes,  deceased,  being  a  part 
of  Helby's  Survey,  about  16  acres  of  which  are  cedar 
swamp. 

No.  7.  A  tract  of  salt  marsh  called  50  acres,  lying 
upon  Back  Creek,  in  Sayre's  Neck,  adjoining  marsh  late 
the  property  of  Ebenezer  Westcott,  deceased.  No.  5,  6, 
and  7,  late  the  property  of  Richard  Cayford. 

No.  8.  A  tract  of  land  and  cripple,  situate  in  Maurice's 
River  township,  bounding  on  said  river,  now  in  the  poses- 
sion  of  Nicholas  Brum,  containing  about  60  acres,  late  the 
property  of  Nicholas  Baugh. 

No.  9.  A  lot  in  Roadtown,  with  a  two-story  brick 
house  and  frame  kitchen  adjoining,  in  which  Dr.  Peck 
now  lives,  late  the  property  of  Daniel  Bowen. 

No.  10.  A  small  plantation  in  Hopewell  township,  ad- 
joining lands  of  Jonathan  Smalley  and  Adam  Mintz,  con- 
taining about  30  acres,  on  which  is  a  log  dwelling-house 
and  frame  barn,  late  the  property  of  Jacob  Hall. 

No.  11.  100  acres  of  unimproved  land,  situate  in  the 
township  of  Downs,  adjoining  the  Cranberry  Ponds,  late 
the  property  of  Ananias  Tubman. 

No.  12.  100  acres  of  unimproved  land  adjoining  the 
last,  late  the  property  of  Sylvanus  Tubman. 

All  which  lands  being  seized  as  forfeited  to  the  State, 
are  to  be  sold  by 

Enos  Seeley    )    Commis- 
Wm  Kelsay    j   sioners. 

INQUISITIONS  having  been  found,  and  final  judgment 
entered  thereon,  in  favour  of  the  State,  against  John 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  153 

Smith,  late  of  the  Eastern  Precinct,  against  David  White, 
Bernardus  Legrange,  Richard  Ciimpton  and  George 
Howard,  late  of  Bridgewater,  and  against  Joseph  Arrow- 
smith,  of  Hillsborough,  all  of  the  county  of  Somerset. — 
NOTICE  is  hereby  given,  that  the  real  estates  of  those  of- 
fenders will  be  sold  at  public  vendue,  agreeable  to  a  law 
of  the*  Assembly  passed  at  their  last  sessions. — The  plan- 
tation of  John  Smith  will  be  sold  on  Saturday  the  10th 
of  April  next;  That  of  David  White  on  Monday  the 
12th ;  That  of  Bernardus  Legrange  on  Tuesday  the  13th ; 
That  of  Richard  Cumpton  on  Wednesday  the  14th ;  That 
of  George  Howard  on  Thursday  the  15th;  and  that  of 
Joseph  Arrowsmith  on  Friday  the  16th  of  April,  by 

Jacob  Bergen  1    ^ 

-^     »    .-n''  -P     T  Commis- 

Fred.   Frelmghuysen 

TT  TTT'l 

Henry   W  ilson 


TO    BE    SOLD    BY 

WILLIAM  RICHARDS, 

At  his  house  at  Trenton  Landing, 

A  FRESH  and  good  assortment  of  DRUGS  and  MEDICINES, 
where  practitioners  may  be  supplied  as  cheap  as  they  can 
purchase  in  Philadelphia^  and  in  his  absence  at  the  same 
rate  by  Doctor  David  Cowell,1  in  Trenton. 

The  best  velvet  corks  and  mustard  to  be  sold  at  the 
above  Trenton  landing. 

N".  B.  The  original  store  with  a  large  and  compleat 
assortment  of  the  latest  imported  drugs  and  medicines 
is  still  continued  by  William  Richards  and  Co.  at  the 
sign  of  the  spread  Eagle,  in  Market  Street,  near  the  Court- 
house in  Philadelphia. 

1  For  a  notice  of  Dr.  David  Cowell,  see  New  Jersey  Archives,  24  :  254. 


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TO    BE    SOLD, 

By  public  vendue  to  the  highest  bidder,  on  Friday  the 
19th  instant,  at  the  house  of  the  widow  Chamless,  near 
the  premises. 

A  BOUT  12  or  1300  acres  of  land  in  Piles-Grove,  in  the 
county  of  Salem,  laid  out  in  plantations,  together  with 
300  acres  wood-land  that  joins  the  glass-house  lands. 
The  emissions  of  May  and  April,  or  Loan-Office  certifi- 
cates will  be  taken  in  payment,  The  vendue  will  begin 
at  10  o'clock.  Due  attendance  will  be  given  at  the  above 
place. 

WM.     GAMBLE. 

— The  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  II.,  No.  67,  March  17, 
1779. 

TWO  HUNDRED  DOLLARS  REWARD. 

Stolen  out  of  the  house  of  the  subscribers,  living  in 
Somerset  county,  State  of  ]STew  Jersey,  the  21st.  of  Feb- 
ruary last,  by  a  certain  IIEXRY  RUSH,  a  woman's 
GOLD  WATCH,  gold  face,  chased  case,  representing 
Pompcy's  head  shewn  to  Caesar,  maker's  name  supposed 
to  be  Wilsman,  London,  a  blue  regimental  coat,  turned 
up  with  red,  white  buttons  flowered,  lined  in  the  back 
with  white  duraut,  the  skirts  and  fore-  parts  with  red 
shalloon ;  a  white  serge  vest  and  breeches,  the  vest  lined 
with  white  fustian,  the  breeches  not  lined ;  a  full  welted 
hunting  saddle  not  half  worn,  the  tree  has  been  broken, 
and  is  mended  by  a  piece  of  iron  clenched  on  the  inside, 
blue  long  elk  saddle  cloth,  lined  with  tow  linen,  with  a 
strip  of  white  cloth  sewed  round  near  the  edge,  and  a 
bridle,  the  reins  tied  to  the  bit.  The  said  fellow  deserted 
from  Captain  Van  Hair's  troops  of  light  horse,  has  strait 
dark  brown  hair,  a  scar  on  one  side  of  his  face,  and  speaks 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  155 

the  English  and  German  language  very  well.  Whoever 
secures  said  fellow  in  any  of  the  States  goals,  shall  receive 
One  Hundred  Dollars  Reward,  and  for  the  watch  the 
other  Hundred 

March  3.  JOHN  I.  SCHEKK. 

— The  Pennsylvania  Gazette,  March  10,  1779. 


From  the  London  Gazette. 

Whitehall,  Dec.  1,  1778. 

Extract  of  a  letter  from  General  Sir  Henry  Clinton, 
Knight  of  the  Bath,  to  Lord  George  Germain,  dated 
October  25th— 

In  my  Letter  of  the  8th  inst.  I  mentioned  that  my  Move 
into  Jersey  was  partly  to  favour  an  Expedition  sent  to 
Egg  Harbour.  I  have  now  the  Honour  to  enclose  Copies 
of  two  Reports  made  to  me  by  Captain  Ferguson,  of  the 
70th  Regiment,  who  commanded  the  Troops  employed  upon 
that  Service,  to  which  I  beig  leave  to  refer  your  Lordship  for 
an  Account  of  its  Success,  under  the  Direction  of  that  very 
active  and  zealous  Officer. 

Report  of  Captain  Ferguson,  of  the  Seventieth  Regi- 
ment, to  his  Excellency,  Sir  Henry  Clinton,  dated 

Little  Egg  Harbour,  October  10th. 

Sir — I  have  the  Honour  to  inform  you  that  the  Ships, 
with  the  Detachment  ordered  to  this  Place,  arrived  off  the 
Bar  on  the  Evening  of  the  5th  Instant,  when  Captain  Col- 
lins sent  in  the  Galleys,  but  the  Ships  could  not  enter  be: 
fore  the  7th. 

Three  Privateers  of  six  or  eight  Guns,  with  an  armed 
Pilot-boat,  had  escaped  out  of  the  Harbour  before  our 
Arrival,  in  Consequence  of  Advice  received  on  the  second 
from  Mr.  Livingston,  warning  them  of  our  Destination. 


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156  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

•E 

As  it  was  from  this  Evident  that  Preparations  had  been 
made  against  us  for  several  Days,  it  was  determined  to 
allow  no  further  Time,  but  to  push  up  with  our  Galleys 
and  small  Craft,  with  what  Soldiers  could  be  crowded  into 
them,  without  waiting  for  the  coming  in  of  the  Ships; 
accordingly,  after  a  very  difficult  Navigation  of  twenty 
Miles  inland,  we  came  opposite  to  Chestnut-neck,  where 
there  were  several  Vessels  and  about  a  dozen  of  Houses, 
with  Stores  for  the  Reception  of  prize  Goods  and  Accom- 
modation for  their  Privateers'  Men. 

The  Rebels  had  there  erected  a  Work  with  Embrasures 
for  six  Guns,  on  a  Level  with  the  Water,  to  rake  the  Chan- 
nel, and  another  upon  a  commanding  Eminence,  with  a 
Platform  for  Guns  en  barbette,  in  which,  however,  it  after- 
wards appeared  that  they  had  not  as  yet  placed  Artillery. 

The  Banks  of  the  River  below  the  Works  being  swampy, 
rendered  it  necessary  for  the  Boats  with  the  Troops  to  pass 
within  Musquet  Shot,  in  order  to  land  beyond  them,  pre- 
vious to  which  Captain  Collins  advanced  with  the  Galleys 
to  cover  our  Landing,  and  as  he  came  to  very  close  to  the 
Works,  and  the  Guns  of  the  Galleys  were  remarkably  well 
pointed,  the  Fire  from  the  Rebels  was  effectually  stifled, 
and  the  Detachment,  landing  with  Ease,  soon  drove  into 
the  Woods  the  skulking  Banditti  that  endeavoured  to  op- 
pose it. 

The  Seamen  were  employed  all  that  Evening  and  the 
next  Day  till  E"oon  in  destroying  ten  capital  Vessels,  and 
the  Soldiers  in  demolishing  the  Village,  which  was  the 
principal  Resort  of  this  nest  of  Pirates.  Had  we  arrived 
by  Surprize,  we  meant  to  have  pushed  forwards  with  Celer- 
ity to  the  Forks,  within  thirty-five  Miles  of  Philadelphia. 
But  as  the  alarm  had  been  spread  through  the  Country, 
and  the  Militia  there  had  been  reinforced  from  Philadel- 
phia by  a  Detachment  of  foot,  five  field  pieces  and  a  body 
of  light  horse,  our  small  Detachment  could  not  pretend  to 
enter  twenty  miles  further  into  the  Country  to  reach  the 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  157 

Stores  and  small  Craft  there;  and  the  shallowness  of  the 
Navigation  rendered  it  impracticable  for  the  Galleys  to 
co-operate  with  us ;  it  was,  therefore,  determined  to  return 
without  loss  of  Time  and  endeavour  to  employ  our  Force 
with  Effect  elsewhere :  but  some  of  our  Vessels  having  run 
aground,  notwithstanding  the  very  great  Diligence  and 
Activity  of  Captain  Collins,  and  the  Gentlemen  of  the 
Navy,  an  opportunity  offered,  without  interrupting  our 
Progress,  to  make  two  Descents  on  the  north  side  of  the 
River,  to  penetrate  some  Miles  into  the  Country,  destroy 
three  Salt  Works,  and  raze  to  the  ground  the  Stores  and 
Settlements  of  a  Chairman  1  of  their  Committees,  a  Cap- 
tain of  Militia,  and  one  or  two  other  virulent  Rebels,  who 
had  Shares  in  the  Prizes  brought  in  here,  and  who  had  all 
been  remarkably  active  in  fomenting  the  Rebellion,  op- 
pressing the  People  and  forcing  them,  against  their  Incli- 
nation and  better  Judgment,  to  assist  in  their  Crimes. 

At  the  same  time,  be  assured,  Sir,  no  manner  of  Insult 
or  Injury  has  been  offered  to  the  peaceable  Inhabitants, 
nor  even  to  such,  as  without  taking  a  Lead,  have  been  made, 
from  the  Tyranny  or  Influence  of  their  Rulers,  to  forget 
their  Allegiance. 

It  is  my  Duty  to  inform  you  that  the  Officers  and  Men 
have  cheerfully  undergone  much  Fatigue,  and  everywhere 
shown  a  Disposition  to  encounter  any  Difficulties  that 
might  offer. 

I  have  the  honour  to  be,  with  the  greatest  respect,  etc. 

PAT.  FERGUSON, 
Captain  Seventieth  Reg. 

P.  S. — One  Soldier  of  the  Fifth  was  wounded  through 
the  leg  at  Chestnut-neck,  but  wo  have  neither  lost  a  Man 
by  the  Enemy  nor  deserting  since  we  set  out. 

1  Probably  Eli  Mathis  is  meant. 


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Little  Egg  Harbour,  October  15,  1778. 
Sir — Since  the  Letter  which  I  did  myself  the  Honour 
of  writing  to  you  on  the  10th  instant,  Captain  Collins  has 
received  a  Letter  from  Admiral  Gambier,  signifying  that 
the  Admiral  and  you  are  both  of  Opinion,  that  it  is  not 
safe  for  us  to  remain  here,  as  the  Army  is  withdrawn  from 
the  Jerseys  and  ordering  our  immediate  Return;  but  as 
the  Wind  still  detained  us,  and  we  had  Information  by  a 
Captain  and  six  Men  of  Pulaski's  Legion,  who  had  de- 
serted to  us,1  that  Mr.  Pulaski  had  cantoned  his  Corps, 
consisting  of  three  Companies  of  Foot,  three  Troops  of 
Horse,  a  Detachment  of  Artillery,  and  one  brass  Field 
Piece,  within  a  Mile  of  a  Bridge,  which  appeared  to  me 
easy  to  seize,  and  from  thence  to  cover  our  retreat;  I  pre- 
vailed upon  Captain  Collins  to  enter  into  my  Design,  and 
employ  an  idle  Day  in  an  Attempt  which  was  to  be  maSe 
with  Safety,  and  with  a  Probability  of  Success.  Accord- 
ingly, at  eleven  last  night,  two  hundred  and  fifty  Men  were 
embarked,  and  after  rowing  ten  miles  landed  at  four  this 
Morning,  within  a  Mile  of  the  Defile,  which  we  happily 
secured,  and  leaving  fifty  men  for  its  Defence,  pushed  for- 
ward upon  the  infantry,  cantoned  in  three  different  Houses, 
who  are  almost  entirely  cut  to  pieces.  We  numbered  among 
their  Dead  about  fifty,  and  several  Officers,  among  whom, 
we  learn,  are  a  Lieutenant-Colonel,  a  Captain  and  an  Ad- 
jutant. It  being  a  night  Attack,  little  Quarter  could,  of 
course,  be  given,  so  that  there  are  only  five  Prisoners;  as 
a  Rebel,  Colonel  Proctor,  was  within  two  Miles,  with  a 
Corps  of  Artillery,  two  brass  Twelve  Pounders,  one  Three- 
Pounder,  and  the  Militia  of  the  Country,  I  thought  it 
hazardous,  with  two  hundred  Men,  without  Artillery  or 
Support,  to  attempt  anything  farther,  particularly  after 
Admiral  Gambler's  Letter. 


1  Lieutenant  Gustav  Juliet,  who  had  deserted  in  1777  from  a  Hessian 
regiment,  and  who  now  again  deserted,  this  time  from  the  Americans,  on 
October  13. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  150 

The  Bebels  attempted  to  harass  us  in  our  Retreat,  but 
with  great  Modesty,  so  that  we  returned  at  our  Leisure, 
and  re-embarked  in  security. 

The  Captain  who  has  come  over  to  us  is  a  Frenchman, 
named  Bromville.1  He  and  the  Deserters  inform  us  that 
Mr.  Pulaski  has,  in  public  Orders,  lately  directed  no 
Quarter  to  be  given ;  and  it  was,  therefore,  with  particular 
Satisfaction,  that  the  Detachment  marched  against  a  Man 
capable  of  issuing  an  Order  so  unworthy  of  a  Gentleman 
and  a  Soldier. 

PAT.  FERGUSON, 

Capt.  70th  Eegt. 

P.  S. — The  Dispatch  Vessel  not  having  got  to  Sea  last 
Night,  I  am  enabled  to  inform  you,  that  our  Yesterday's 
Loss  consists  of  two  Men  of  the  Fifth,  and  one  of  the  Pro- 
vincials missing,  and  two  of  the  Fifth  slightly  wounded. 
Ensign  Camp,  of  the  Third  Jersey  \7olunteers,  has  re- 
ceived a  Stab  through  his  Thigh. 

We  had  an  Opportunity  of  destroying  part  of  the  Bag- 
gage and  Equipage  of  Pulaski's  Legion,  by  burning  their 
Quarters,  but  as  the  Houses  belonged  to  some  inoffensive 
Quakers,  who,  I  am  afraid,  may  have  sufficiently  suffered 
already  in  the  Confusion  of  a  night's  Scramble,  I  know, 
sir,  that  you  will  think  with  us,  that  the  Injury  to  be 
thereby  done  to  the  Enemy  would  not  have  compensated 
for  the  Sufferings  of  those  innocent  People. 
-The  Royal  Gazette,  March  10,  1779.2 

1  Juliet,  as  already  mentioned.     Of  course,  there  was  not  the  slightest 
foundation  for  his  story  of  the  Count  Pulaski's  alleged  orders. 

2  See,   also,  New  Jersey   Archives,   2d  Series,   2 :   472,   487,   500.     A  de- 
tailed narrative  of  this  massacre  is  given  in  "The  Affair. at  Egg  Harbor, 
New    Jersey,    October    15,    1778,"    by    General    William    S.    Stryker,    read 
July  3,  1894,  at  the  dedication  of  a  memorial  tablet  erected  on  the  field 
of  the  massacre  by   the   Society   of   the   Cincinnati   in   the   State  of   New 
Jersey,  and  at  the  annual   meeting  of  the  society   on  the  following  day. 
Trenton,  1894.     8vo.      Pp.  34. 


160  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION. 

1  -^" 

From  the   (Rebel)   New-Jersey  Journal, 

dated,  March  2. 
CHATHAM,  March  2. 

Extract  of  a  letter  from  a  correspondent  relative  to  the 
enemy's  late  attempt  on  Elizabeth  Town,  dated  Febru- 
ary 25,  1779. 

''Last  night  the  enemy,  supposed  to  consist  of  about 
one  thousand  men,  landed  on  the  meadows,  about  two- 
miles  above  Elizabeth  Town  Point,  and  marched  with  the 
most  profound  silence  towards  that  village,  but  intended, 
to  surround  Governor  Livingston's  house  (which  is 
situate  about  one  mile  to  the  west  of  it)  before  they 
alarmed  our  troops  in  the  town.  They  accordingly  took 
possession  of  the  Governor's  house  at  five  o'clock  in  the 
morning,  his  Excellency  himself  having  been  providen- 
tially prevented  from  lodging  there  that  night  by  the 
importunity  of  a  friend  who  pressed  him,  on  his  way 
thither,  to  stay  the  night  with  him.  The  only  part  of 
his  family  in  the  house  were  two  young  ladies,  his  daugh- 
ters, who  had  been  alarmed,  before  the  enemy  made  their 
appearance,  just  long  enough  to  dress  themselves.  On 
demanding  his  papers,  after  having  made  a  fruitless 
search  for  his  person,  his  eldest  daughter,  with  great  com- 
posure, carried  the  officer  to  a  drawer,  filled  with  inter- 
cepted letters  from  London,  taken  in  a  British  vessel,  which 
they  pocketed  with  the  greatest  avidity,  and  after  having 
loaded  themselves  with  part  of  the  precious  intelligence, 
carried  off  the  remainder  in  the  drawer  itself.  The 
officers  in  general  behaved  with,  great  politeness,  and  ex- 
erted themselves  in  preventing  the  soldiers  from  plunder- 
ing. 

"Colonel    Sterling,    who    commanded    the   detachment,, 


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shewed  himself  throughout  the  whole  expedition,  not  only 
the  able  officer,  but  the  well-bred  gentleman ;  and  we 
scorn  to  imitate  our  enemies  in  suppressing  the  praise 
due  to  real  merit.  We  only  lament  it,  that  officers  of 
such  amiable  characters  are  embarked  in  so  unjust  a 
cause;  and  obliged  to  keep  company  with  so  many  of  a 
very 'contrary  turn. 

"The  buildings  to  which  the  enemy  set  fire  were  either 
of  a  public  nature,  or  containing  public  stores,  which 
we  therefore  consider  in  a  very  different  light  from  the 
infamous  and  savage  practice  of  general  and  indis- 
criminate conflagrations. 

"Of  General  Maxwell's  manoeuvres,  he  will  be  able 
to  give  a  more  particular  account  than  I  can  pretend  to. 
His  retreat  to  a  small  distance  from  the  town,  to  form  his 
troops,  and  be  ascertained  of  the  enemy's  number,  is  ap- 
plauded by  all  judicious  men.  He  soon  precipitated 
their  departures  and  took,  on  their  debarkation,  two  of 
their  flat-bottomed  boats,  with  some  prisoners,  they  being 
obliged  to  decamp  in  such  hurry,  as  to  leave  them  behind, 
as  well  as  their  dead  and  wounded ;  in  which,  tho'  in- 
considerable in  number,  we  had  greatly  the  advantage. 

"To  the  honour  of  the  sex,  it  is  to  be  remembered,  that 
while  the  school-house  which  had  been  made  a  repository 
for  provisions,  was  on  fire,  the  women,  abandoning  their 
own  houses  and  effects,  rescued  the  public  stores  from  the 
flames  with  indefatigable  alacrity. 

"Our  militia,  on  the  first  intelligence  of  the  enemy's 
visit,  was  collecting  in  great  numbers;  and  eagerly  wish- 
ing them  either  to  advance  into  the  country,  or  to  remain 
at  Elizabeth  Town,  till  they  could  have  an  opportunity 
to  display  their  wonted  valor  in  their  country's  cause; 
but  the  British  troops  were  too  precipitate  in  evacuating 
the  state  to  admit  of  our  reaping  any  laurels  in  joining 
the  continental  forces  to  accelerate  their  flight." — The 
Royal  Gazette,  No.  255,  March  10,  1779. 

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By  a  gentleman  arrived  last  night  from  Jersey  we  are 
informed  that,  the  real  estates  of  more  than  two  hundred 
loyalists,  natives  of  that  province,  are  advertised  for  sale; 
that  the  Pennsylvania  Assembly  have  rescind  [ed]  their 
former  resolve  for  calling  a  convention  to  take  the  sense 
of  the  constituents  for  altering  the  old  constitution.  At 
that  city  the  price  of  flour  is  twenty  pounds  an  hundred; 
the  continental  bills  continue  to  sink  daily  in  their  value. 
-The  Royal  Gazette,  No.  256,  March  13,  1770. 

Springfield,  Burlington  County,  March  10. 
SIXTEEN  DOLLARS  REWARD. 

RAX  AWAY  on  First  day  evening,  the  seventh  in- 
stant, a  servant  lad  named  RICHARD  HOGG,  about 
sixteen  or  seventeen  years  of  age,  an  Englishman  born, 
and  is  wanting  to  get  to  the  English  army:  He  had  on 
and  took  with  him  a  light  coloured  upper  jacket,  and 
breeches  of  the  same,  a  striped  lincey  under  waist-coat  and 
a  woollen  shirt ;  ho  took  with  him  neither  hat  nor  shoes, 
but  may  have  got  thorn  since.  Whoever  takes  up  said  lad 
and  brings  him  to  his  master,  or  confines  him  in  any  goal 
and  give  notice  thereof,  shall  receive  the  above  reward, 
and  reasonable  charges,  paid  by 

ARXEY  LIPPIXCOTI. 
—The  Pennsylvania  Pacl-cl ,  March  10,  1770. 


Sal  am-  County  j  New-Jersey,  March  8,  1770. 
Xotice  is  hereby  given  to  all  whom  it  may  concern,  that 
the  Subscribers  are  determined  to  petition  the  Legislature 
of  Xew-Jersey,  at  their  next  Sitting,  for  Redress  in  the 
Grievance  complained  of,  by  the  Loss  of  Henry  Janes's 
Will. 

AXDREW  STAXLY,  ALLEX  COXGLETOX. 
—The  Pennsylvania  Gazette,  March  17,  1770. 


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CHATHAM,  March  9. 

In  the  late  excursion  of  the  enemy  to  Elizabeth-Town 
we  had  the  misfortune  to  have  captured  by  them  Capt. 
Rapaljie  of  the  Sussex  militia,  who  on  account  of  his  at- 
tachment to  his  injured  country,  we  are  informed  is  used 
very  ill.  Its  prudent  for  them  to  remember  that  such  a 
thing  as  retaliation  may  take  place.  We  hope  a  general 
exchange  will  soon  take  place  and  return  him  from  cap- 
tivity to  his  friends  again. 

TRENTON,  March  17.  Saturday  last  a  fleet  of  twenty 
British  vessels,  chiefly  ships,  put  to  sea  from  Sandy-Hook. 
— The  Pennsylvania  Evening  Post,  March  19.  1779. 

NEW-YORK,  March  22. 

Last  Thursday  Morning  a  Party  of  Rebels  from  Jersey, 
commanded  by  one  Richmond,  came  to  Prince's  Bay,  on 
the  South  Side  of  Long  Island,  in  order  to  carry  o-ff  ti  Boat 
that  lay  there  loaded  with  Wood;  but  before  they  could 
accomplish  their  Design  a  few  of  the  Inhabitants  as- 
sembled on  the  Beach  and  kept  up  such  a  brisk  Fire  upon 
them  that  they  were  obliged  to  relinquish  their  Prize, 
which  happened  to  be  aground,  and  make  the  best  of  their 
way  home.  Mr.  Sleight  am  inhabitant  of  Staten  Island 
received  a  Wound  in  his  Breast  on  this  Occasion,  but  it 
is  hoped  lie  will  do  well — The  New-York  Gazette:  and  the 
Weekly  Mercury,  No.  14-31,  March  22,  1779. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

At  public  VENDUE,  the  29th  inst.  by  the  subscriber,  at 
the  place  where  he  now  lives,  near  Bottle  Hill, 

A    Quantity  of  mahogany   furniture,   such   as   clothes 
presses,   dining   tables,   breakfast   and   tea   ditto, 
chairs,  a  small  looking  glass,  and  a  new  riding 
chair.     Also  a  mare  heavy  wTith  fole  by  a  genteel  horse. 
Vendue  to  begin  at  10  o'clock  in  the  forenoon. 

LEWIS  NICHOLS. 
March  22,  1779. 


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TO  BE  SOLD 

At  public  vendue,  at  the  house  of  widow  SARAH  GRAHAM, 
in  Elizabeth-Town, 

A  variety   of   household   furniture,   consisting   of  beds, 
bedding,    and    curtains,    corner   cupboards,    tables, 
desk,  decanters  and  glasses  of  the  best  kind ;    like- 
wise some  kitchen  furniture,  and  several  other  things  too 
tedious  to  mention.     The  vendue  to  begin  on  Wednesday 
the  7th  of  April. 

To  be  SOLI)  at  public  VEXDUE,  oti  Monday,  the  5//t  of 
April  next., 

FOUR   dwelling  houses  and  Jots  of  land  belonging  to 
flie  estate  of  Joseph  Jelf,  deceased,  situate  in  Eliza- 
b'cth-Toirn.     Tlic  sale  to  begin  on  tlie  premises  at  10 
o'clock  in  the  forenoon  at  whicli  time  the  conditions  win- 
be  made  Icrioim  by 

JOIIX  CHETWOOD,  Surviving  Executor. 


Twenty  Dollars  Reward. 

Was  stolen  out  of  the  barn  of  the  subscriber  on  the  even- 
ing of  the  2d  instant,  a  chair  saddle  almost  new,  the 
brass  screws  through  which  the  bridle  reins  lead 
were  taken  of  and  left  with  the  harness. — Whoever  dis- 
covers said   saddle,   and  secures  the  thief,   shall  have  the 
above   reward,   or  ten    dollars   for  the  saddle  alone,    and 
reasonable  charges  paid  by  JOHX  RUSSELL, 

X.  B.  Was  stolen,  at  the  same  time,  a  horse  which  was 
found  the  next  day  not  far  from  the  subscriber's  house, 
therefore  it  is  expected  the  saddle  was  sold  for  a  trifle  or 
thrown  away. 

Morris-Town,  March  20,  1779. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  165 

TO  BE  SOLD, 


c 


By  Samuel  Van  Home, 
AT  CHATHAM. 

opper  rivets  of  all  sizes,  and  tea  kettle  bottoms,  iron 
J      wire  for  traces,  men's  shoes  by  the  quantity. 


Sussex  County,  State  of  New  Jersey,  March  10,  1779. 

WHEREAS  a  court  of  inquiry  was  holden  at  Sussex 
on  the  9th  day  of  February,  1779,  to  make  in- 
quisition whether  Oliver  De  Lancey,  late  of  New- 
York,  Cavilear  Jouet,  late  of  Elizabeth  Town,  Thomas 
Millage,  and  Nicholas  Hoffman,  late  of  Morris  county, 
Joseph  Barton,  Joseph  Crowell,  John  .Butcott,  James 
Shaw,  Arthur  Shaw,  Solomon  Cotrack,  Daniel  Ck>le,  John 
Abel,  Elijah  Finten,  Patrick  Hagerthy,  Levi  Ellis, 
Ebeneizer  Ellis,  William  Cristy,  Benjamin  Tuttel,  John 
Rattan,  Jonathan  Chose!,  Samuel  Rattan,  Thomas  Wool- 
verton,  Ezekiel  Younglove,  Samuel  Curtis,  Thomas  Ellis, 
George  Chever,  Joseph  Woller,  Allen  Wager,  late  of  the 
county  of  Sussex,  and  Peter  Wintermutei,  and  Philip 
Wintermute,  late  of  Wyoming,  have  o>ffended  against  the 
form  of  their  allegiance  to  this  state;  when  the  said 
inquisitions  were  found  true,  and  being  properly  certified, 
were  returned  to  the  inferior  court  of  common  pleas  holden 
in  th'e  county  aforesaid,  on  Tuesday  the  16th  of  February, 
and  proclamation  made  therefrom,  in  open  court,  as  the 
law  in  that  case  provided  directs,  that  they,  or  any  person 
on  their  behalf,  might  appear  and  traverse  the  inquisitions : 
Now  notice  is  hereby  given,  that  unless  the  persons  against 
whom  the  inquisitions  were  found,  or  some  person  on  their 
behalf,  shall  appear  at  the  next  court  of  quarter  sessions 
for  the  said  county,  and  offer  to  traverse  the  inquisitions, 
they  will  be  taken  to  be  true',  and  final  judgment  entered 
thereupon  in  favour  of  the  state. 

ISAAC  MARTIN        )  n 

o  A  ,/rrr  >  Commissioners. 

SAMUEL  MEEKER  J 


166  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

% 

To  be  sold  at  public  vendue,  by  the  subscriber  on  the 
premises,  at  Pa.equana.ck  Neck,  in  Morris  county, 
near  John  Stile's,  on  Monday  the  29th  inst.  at  2 
o'clock  in  the  afternoon ; 

AN  excellent  lot  of  land,  containing  about  67  acres,  the 
one  half  good  meadow,   the  upland  very  pleasant 
and  easy  to  till,  well  timbered  and  watered,  and 
a  good  young  orchard.    An  indisputable  title  will  be  made, 
and  due  attendance  given  by    MOSES  HALSEY  STILES. 


o 


Shilling  per  pound,  or  two  sheets  of  paper,  will 
be  given  by  the  printer  hereof,  for  all  sorts  of  clean 

LIKEN  BAGS. 


WHEREAS  Elizabeth  Deniston,  my  wife,  has  eloped 
from  my  bed  and  board,  and  taken  with  her  money 
and  household  furniture  to  the  amount  of  2000  1. 
and  upwards.     This  is  therefore  to  -caution  the  public  not 
to  trust  her  on  my  account,   as  I  am  determined  not  to 
pay  any  debts  of  her  contracting  from  the  date  hereof. 

WILLIAM  DE3TISTOX. 

X.  B.     It  is  supposed  she  is  gone  to  Philadelphia,  as 
her  parents  live  there. 

Hanover,  Morris  county,  March  15,  1779. 


THE  XOTED  IMPORTED  HORSE. 
PASTIME, 

Six  years  old  this  grass,  is  now  in  excellent  order,  and 
will  cover  this  season  at  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber, 
at  the  Scotch  Plains,  at  Eorty  Dollars  the  season,  and 
Twenty  Dollars  a  single  le>ap,  the  money  to  be  paid  at  the 
stable  door. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  167 

PASTIME  is  a  beautiful  bay,  with  black  legs,  main,  and 
i.  tail,  two  white  feet,  a  star  and  a  snip.  He  is  of  a  full 
size,  fifteen  hands  high,  and  well  set  for  his  height, 
and  is  allowed  by  the  best  judges  to  be  the  best  moving, 
gayest  and  handsomest  horse  in  the  state.  His  blood  and 
pedigree  equal  to  any  horse  in  America,  which  will  be  set 
forth. — The  said  horse  was,  in  1776,  taken  from  Mr.  Truft- 
ram  Manning,  who  then  had  him  in  keeping  in  Piscataque, 
and  was  sent  from.  New  York  i>y  Mrs.  Yard,  and  con- 
demned by  Isaac  Woodruff,  Esq^  and  sold  according  to  a 
law  of  this  state.  All  persons  who  choose  to  have  their 
mares  covered  by  Pastime,  shall  have  good  pasture  at  a 
reasonable  rate,  and  proper  attendance  given  him  by  a 
good  groom. 

AMOS  SWAN. 

TAKEN,  through  mistake,  from  off  the  horse  of  the  sub- 
scriber, on  the  night  of  the  18th  instant,  an  elegant 
double  rained  bridle,  with   silver  plated  bitts  and 
a  cypher  E.  S.     Any  person  that  will  give  information  so 
that  he  may  get  it  again,  or  will  return  said  bridle,  will 
much  oblige  their  humble  servant 

EBENEZER  STEVENS, 

Lieut.  Col.  Artillery 
Artillery  Park,  March  8,  1779. 

NOTICE  is  hereby  given,  to  all  whom  it  may  concern, 
that  the  commissioners  apointed  by  a  law  of  the 
state  of  New- Jersey,  for  the  clearing  and  removing  of 
the  several  obstructions  of  the  free  course  of  the  waters  in 
Passaick  river,  that  they  propose  to  make  application  to  the 
legislator  of  this  state  at  their  next  meeting,  for  a  revival 
and  amendment  to  the  former  law,  as  they  stand  obligated 
for  considerable  sums  of  money  that  have  already  been 
expended,  and  hath  not  yet  been  collected  by  reason  of  the 
present  dispute  subsisting  between  Great  Britain  and 
America. 


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Fifty  Dollars  Reward. 

WAS    taken    from   the    stable   of   the   subscriber,    on 
the  27th  of  February  last,  a  dark  brown  MAKE, 
about  fourteen  hands  and  a  half  high,  slim  built, 
long  slim  neck,  carries  her  head  low,  and  her  nose  much 
out  when  she  paces,  which  is  her  natural  gate ;    she  is  long 
haired,  and  it  much  worn  off  of  her  sides  an.d  thighs  with 
traces. — Whoever  will  take  up  said  mare,  and  bring  her 
to  Springfield,  shall  hav^the  above  reward,  and  all  reason- 
able charges  paid  by 

JAMES  CAMPBELL. 
March  12,  1779. 

TO   BE  SOLD. 

At  public  vendue,  on  the  25///,  day  of  March  next, 

A  PLANTATION  containing  one  hundred  and  twenty 
J\.  acres,  in  the  county  of  Sussex,  and  township  of 
Oxford,  on  Beaver-Brook,  eighteen  miles  from 
Easton,  on  the  main  road  leading  from  Easton  to  Sussex 
Court-House,  whereon  a  tavern  hath  been  kept  for  many 
years  past,  and  one  of  the  best  stands  on  that  road ;  the 
land  is  good,  and  plenty  of  timber,  with  a  good  quantity 
of  meadow  land.  The  title  indisputable.  Terms  of  sale 
will  be  made  known  on  that  day  by 

ARCHIBALD  STINSON. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

By  the  subscriber,  at  public  VENDUE,  the  Oth  of  April, 
on  the  premises, 

A  Good  FARM  lying  in  Sussex  county,  six  miles  North 
West  from  Hackett's  Town,  and  three  miles  South 
East    from    the    Moravian    Mills,    containing    210 
acres,    160    of   which    are   meadow,    lying   in   the    Great 
Meadows,  about  70  of  which  are  ditched  and  improved; 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  169 

the  remainder  is  upland,  joining  the  meadow,  well  tim- 
bered, except  about  12  acres,  which  are  cleared,  fenced, 
and  improved;  there  is  on  said  place,  a  large  log  house, 
well  finished,  a  good  framed  barn,  and  about  40  young 
bearing  apple  trees.  The  meadow  is  good  for  hemp,  rie, 
indian  corn,  &c.  Any  person  may  view  the  premises 
before  the  day  of  sale,  by  applying  to  Mr.  Boils,  living 
thereon.  The  vendue  to  begin  at  one  o'clock,  when  the 
articles  will  be  made  known,  and  attendance  given  by 

BENJAMIN  HAIT. 
Connecticut  Farms,  March  15,  1779. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

At  private  sale,   any  time  between  this  and  the  first  of 
April,  by  the  subscriber, 

A  Valuable  PLANTATION,  containing  about  one  hun- 
dred acres  of  good  land,  pleasantly  situated  in  Essex 
county,   within   four   miles   of   the    Scotch   Plains, 
with  a  large  dwelling-house  with  four  rooms  on  a  floor, 
a  good  barn,  out  houses  for  storing  of  grain,  a  large  bearing 
orchard  of  upwards  of  three  hundred  trees  of  good  fruit; 
well  watered  and  timbered,  and  in  good  repair. 

JOSEPH  MANNING. 


TO  BE  SOLD, 

At  VENDUE,  on  THURSDAY  the  25th  instant,  at  the 
house  of  the  subscriber,  at  Bottle  Hill, 

ONE  good  cow,  one  good  bed  and  bedding,  sundry  large 
milk    pans,    chests    and    tables,  cyder    barrels    and 
open  headed  casks,  iron  pot,  salt  meat,  carpenters, 
joiners,  and  coopers  tools,  with  a  great  variety  of  house- 
hold goods  too  tedious  to  mention.     The  sale  to  begin  at 
one  o'clock  in  the  afternoon. 

STEPHEN  HAND. 


170  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 


Rk~N  away  from  the  subscriber  living  at  Roxbury,  in 
the  county  of  Morris,  and  state  of  New-  Jersey,  an  ap- 
prentice lad  named  BRYANT  ROBINSON,  a  well 
looking  young  lad,  about  nineteen  years  of  age,  his  death- 
ing  unknown,  as  he  went  away  without  coat,  jacket  or  hat: 
He  is  supposed  to  have  taken  out  of  his  master's  hatter's 
shop  one  white  felt  hat,  two  more  partly  made,  one  fine 
bowstring,  one  bell-mettle  stamper,  two  brushes,  one  fine 
card,  about  half  a  pound  of  raccoon  furr  cut  off  the  skins, 
and  several  other  articles.  —  Whoever  will  take  up  and 
secure  the  said  apprentice  in  any  gaol  or  otheirways,  so 
that  his  master  may  have  him  again  shall  have  a  reward 
of  TWENTY  DOLLARS,  and  all  reasonable  charges  paid  by 

CONSTANT  KING. 
Roxbury,  March  12,  1770. 


STOLEN,   on   Friday  night,   the   5th   instant,   a*  roan 
mare,  about  fourteen  hands  high,  seven  years  old, 
has  a  slit  in  one  ear,  a  large  star  on  her  face,  her  hind 
foot-looks  long,  with  a  little  white  round  the  hoofs. 

A  bright  bay  mare,  about  fourteen  hands  high,  nine 
years  old,  has  a  snip  and  bushy  mane;  both  mares  are 
with  fole,  trots  and  paces,  and  each  twice  branded  with  the 
Continental  mark  C  A. 

A  dark  bay  filly  twenty  months  old,  ha,s  a  long  tail  and 
very  bushy  main. — Whoever  takes  up  said  creatures,  shall 
have  ONE  HUNDRED  and  TWENTY  DOLLARS 
reward  ;  and  for  the  thief  or  thieves  as  much,  on  their 
being  delivered  to 

WALTER  BUCHANAN. 
Hanover,  Morris  County,  March  10,  1779 
—New  Jersey  Journal,  Vol.  I.,  No.  6,  March  23,  1779. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  l7l 

Mr.  COLLINS, 

IN  the  first  number  of  the  United  States  Magazine, 
lately  published  at  Philadelphia,  appears  a  representation 
and  remonstrance.,  addressed  to  the  people  of  America  by 
one  Hard-money,  and  filled  with  low  angry  railing 
[against]  me  by  name.  Respect  for  the  dread  tribunal 
before  which  the  charges  are  brought,  and  not  the  fear 
of  consequences  from  the  disappointed  spite  of  this  accuser, 
induces  me  to  request  that  through  your  means  I  may  be 
produced  in  court  to  answer  for  my  self. 

CONTINENTAL    CURRENCY. 

To  the  PUBLIC. 

The  currency  of  the  UNITED  STATES  in  answer  to  The  representa- 
tion and  remonstrance  of  Hard-money,  in  all  humble-wise  vindicating, 
saith : 

THAT  for  any  apprehensions  of  his  character  suffering  from  the 
envious  and  interested  attacks  of  his  accuser  he  should  not  have 
diverted  the  attention  of  his  countrymen  from  objects  of  higher 
moment  by  placing  himself  before  them.  Veneration  for  established 
custom  and  the  course  of  the  court  where  every  application  ought  to 
be  heard,  and  one  should  think  himself  excused  from  answering, 
induces  him  to  make  his  appearance.  He  is  moreover  excited  by 
observing  that  the  tories,  as  they  are  called,  plume  themselves  not  a 
little  upon  the  boldness  and  daring  of  the  accuser,  who  is  one  of 
their  fraternity ;  and  knowing  they  will  practice  their  wonted  acts 
to  turn  this  incident  to  the  advantage  of  their  party,  he  prays  to  be 
indulged  in  the  mention  of  a  few  facts  and  remarks. 

In  the  beginning  of  the  contest  with  Great-Britain,  this  Hard-money 
was  apparently  a  warm  and  decided  Whig.  When'  I  first  entered 
into  public  life  I  found  him  flourishing  away  in  the  patriotic  style, 
cherishing  and  guiding  the  spirit  of  resistance,  and  uttering  higli 
terms  of  defiance  against  the  British  Ministry.  He  had  peremptorily 
declared  his  disinclination  from  being  sent  any  longer  to  Great- 
Britain  for  goods,  an  occupation  he  used  to  follow ;  he  had  made  a 
journey  to  Boston,  shortly  after  the  port-act  took  place,  where  he 
spirited  up  the  people  against  the  British  government  and  the  East- 
India  company;  and  when  the  army  was  embodied  at  Cambridge, 
entered  forwardly  into  the  service.  From  a  natural  attachment  to 
such  as  espoused  the  cause  of  my  country,  it  was  not  surprising  he 
afterwards  became  of  my  acquaintance,  and  he  said  to  me,  somewhat 
pertly  I  thought,  "let  us  pledge  ourselves  to  stand  or  fall  with  the 
fate  of  America."  From  the  first  I  had  shrewd  misgivings  that  this 


172  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

blazing  patriotism  would  consume  itself;  that  the  thing  had  not 
bottom  ;  and  that  it  would  soon  flash  itself  out.  So  it  happened.  As 
soon  as  the  aspect  of  affairs  became  doubtful,  and  the  conflict  began  to 
involve  decisive  extremities,  this  man  of  parade  made  his  company 
scarce  among  us,  and  in  a  little  time  wholly  disappeared.  Whether 
he  skulked  among  the  disaffected,  or  passed  over  to  tlie  enemy,  is  not 
worth  enquiry.  In  the  estimation  of  honest  thinking  men,  the  one 
case  is  as  culpable  as  the  other.  Even  indifference  and  neutrality 
in  such  a  conjuncture  is,  if  possible,  more  unjustifiable  than  dis- 
affection. It  has  indeed  been  confidently  asserted  that  from  the  be- 
ginning he  kept  up  a  correspondence  and  intercourse  with  the  enemy, 
and  like  the  bat  in  the  battle  of  the  birds  and  beasts,  hovered  to  find 
the  stronger  side.  A  line  of  conduct  in  which,  to  the  shame  of  some 
I  must  say  it,  if  he  did  move  he  did  not  move  solitary.  That  he  has 
been  with  the  enemy  since,  is  unknown  to  me.  But  now  our  pre- 
tensions begin  to  prevail,  and.  his  fears  are  up  that  he  will  be  ranked 
with  the  failing  party,  like  a  frozen  snake  scaringly  peeping  forth 
in  the  spring  to  get  a  little  sunshine,  he  comes  sneaking  out  with  a 
half  knavish  and  half  foolish  look,  and  having  no  other  means  of 
tiding  himself  unto  the  acceptance  of  the  publick  but  by  diminishing 
the  merit  of  those  who  stand  in  his  way,  he  attempts  to  throw  down 
my  character  in  order  to  help  up  his  own.  A  dolorous  tale  is  also  told 
of  hard  restraints  and  dreary  durance  in  desks  and  dungeons,  the 
current  language  of  every  tory  on  his  return  from  the  enemy.  Who 
can  doubt  this  is  mere  craft  and  pretence,  and  that  the  reality  is  far 
otherwise. 

How  this  fugitive  has  dared  to  come  again  among  us  after  having 
acted  a  part  so  obnoxious,  I  am  at  a  loss  ;  for  I  give  no  credit  to  that 
idle  surmise  of  his  having  a  pass  from  some  of  our  officers,  or  his  being 
covered  from  operation  of  the  law  by  an  order  of  C — ,  as  it  was 
maliciously  said  Mrs.  Y — 's  goods  were.  I  rather  believe  that  being 
at  his  desperate  risque  he  is  endeavouring  to  make  the  best  of  a  bad 
predicament,  and,  if  no  better  can  be,  to  run  the  venture  of  the  mercy 
of  his  country,  but  too  lenient  to  such  offenders.  For  this  un- 
principled renegade  after  having  traitorously  deserted  his  country 
in  the  hour  of  danger,  after  having  served  the  enemy  as  far  as  his 
cowardice  would  permit  him,  to  wind  himself  into  this  venerable  court 
and  talk  of  feelings  and  emotions  and  of  his  being  the  nerves  of 
government,  is  not  only  an  unequalled  stretch  of  impudence,  but  a 
downright  burlesque  upon  the  use  of  words.  Delicate  truly  must  those 
feelings  and  emotions  be.  and  hopeful  would  have  been  the  condition 
of  our  government  had  it  depended  for  strength  and  bracing  upon 
these  nerves. 

I  cannot  deny  myself  observing  that  in  the  aboundings  of  his 
ridiculous  rage,  he  is  guilty  of  a  barefaced  contempt  of  the  court 
before  which  he  comes  with  his  plaints  and  grievances.  He  derogates 
from  the  judgment  of  the  common  people,  and  he  is  pleased  to  style 
them,  on  whom  he  insinuates  I  have  been  able  without  much  difficulty 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  173 

to  impose.  This  is  a  new  mode  of  appeal  to  the  people,  an  effect 
probably  of  the  polishment  of  travelling.  Before  the  court  as 
originally  constituted,  my  country  in  the  comprehensive  body  of  the 
people,  I  wish  to  stand,  though  I  may  thereby  incur  the  censure  of 
unpolished  homespun  breeding.  I  cannot  in  a  free  government  hear 
with  forbearance  of  disqualifying  the  commonalty  for  the  judgment- 
seat  on  many  accounts,  one  of  which  is,  I  know  not  what  uncommon 
thing  would  be  left  behind.,  or  in  what  hands  the  security  of  in- 
nocence, truth  and  justice  would  rest.  Such  a  stroke  of  eloquence 
shows  the  company  he  has  kept.  The  form  of  address  is  retained  in 
Great-Britain  from  ancient  and  virtuous  times,  but  the  meaning 
is  deplorably  altered.  The  people  are  addressed,  but  the  common 
people  are  not  to  be  comprehended  in  this  idea.  They  will  do,  means 
the  oratour,  for  service  and  burdens,  but  are  they  fit  to  decide  on  the 
conduct  of  gentlemen  !  Unluckily  for  him  he  is  ignorant  of  something 
which  I  hope  he  will  soon  be  experimentally  taught  and  widely  mis- 
takes the  ground  on  which  he  stands. 

The  apostate  talks  of  my  credit  being  slender  and  unequal ;  another 
mark  of  the  society  he  is  connected  with. — Among  the  disaffected  I  am 
so  happy  as  not  to  be  in  credit ;  I  never  wish  to  be.  As  much  as  I 
value  the  good-will  of  every  one,  generally  speaking,  I  desire  to  be 
excused  from  theirs.  Their  friendship  in  my  estimation  is  hostility, 
their  praise,  disgrace.  Such  I  know,  as  far  as  their  interest  coincides 
with  their  inclinations,  are  delighted  with  any  seeming  misfortune 
which  may  happen  to  me,  nor  is  the  reason  far  to  seek.  Whether 
the  mention  of  this  particular  ought  to  operate  in  the  favour  of  him 
who  makes  it  I  cheerfully  submit,  and  leave  it  without  further 
stricture,  except  totally  denying  that  the  assertion  will  hold  with 
respect  to  any  sound  or  principled  whig.  To  a  few  shopkeepers,  en- 
grossers and  sharpers,  a  kind  of  cattle  he  is  fond  of  herding  with,  it 
may  indeed  apply  ;  a  greater  matter  to  him,  scarce  as  he  is  of  par- 
tisans, a  trifle  to  one  rich  in  the  public  confidence. 

This  awkward  braggadocio  has  the  effrontery  to  talk  big  of  his  birth, 
education,  figure  and  breeding,  partly  in  direct  terms  and  partly  under 
the  colour  of  discussing  mine.  I  shall  say  nothing  of  myself  in  these 
respects,  both  because  I  am  averse  from  explaining  what  I  might  call 
my  own  good  qualities  whether  natural  or  acquired,  and  because  no 
one  is  ignorant  of  any  particular  whatsoever  concerning  me.  Among 
my  fellow-citizens  have  I  openly  led  my  life  ;  I  have  never  concealed 
myself  from  public  view,  I  have  never  owl-like  shunned  the  face  of  da-y- 
light,  or  left  my  country  to  seek  safer  and  better  times  in  the  interest 
and  service  of  its  enemies.  What  I  wish  to  remark  here  is  an  instance- 
of  that  unaccountable  though  common  foible,  which  induces  the 
shallow  and  weak-minded  to  value  themesdves  most  upon  that  in 
which  they  have  the  least  semblance  of  excellence.  This  Hard-money, 
amidst  all  his  straining  at  high  figure  to  cover  real  fact,  and  pretend- 
ing to  derive  his  genealogy  from  the  sun-beams  is  well  known  to  be 
descended  of  as  low,  obscure,  mongrel  and  motley  a  mixture  as  any 


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174  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

^ 

to  be  met  with.  The  old^man  of  the  family  is  a  mulatto,  the  mother 
an  Indian  ;  only  one  of  the  race  has  any  tolerable  pretensions  to  white- 
ness of  complexion,  and  this  must  be  the  effect  of  bastardism  or  of 
some  wild  anomalous  lusus  naturae,  or  whim  of  nature,  as  the  phi- 
losophers call  it,  which  however  has  no  influence  upon  his  low  manners 
and  native  stupidity.  As  to  estate  and  occupation,  it  can  be  ascer- 
tained that  he  came  from  the  eastern  continent  to  South-America 
many  years  ago  in  straitened  circumstances ;  there  drudged  at  mining 
and  fishing,  and  might  have  acquired  a  handsome  competency  had  he 
not  sent  all  he  could  scrape  up  to  Europe  for  fineries,  to  which  the 
family  have  an  unconquerable  propensity,  and  which  as  well  become 
them  as  superb  trappings  would  a  mill-horse.  As  to  education  I  know 
he  has  had  the  best  opportunities  and  has  travelled  much,  but  what  do 
these  avail  where  they  have  nothing  to  work  upon  but  solid  dullness. 
The  utmost  scope  of  his  learning  is  to  repeat  a  few  historical  dates  and 
Latin  names  without  design,  sentiment  or  coherence.  Let  any  judge 
whether  I  did  not  make  greater  progress  in  knowledge,  classical -as  well 
as  moral  and  political,  in  the  course  of' one  year,  than  he  has  made 
in  all  the  centuries  of  his  life.  As  to  travelling  it  is  well  known  I 
am  not  yet  come  to  the  proper  time  of  life  for  improving  that  ad- 
vantage, nor  were  I,  could  I  think  of  leaving  my  struggling  coun- 
try till  the  contest  is  over.  I  am  not  Hard-money,  who  sculks 
away  traitorously,  cowardly  and  selfishly  -when  his  service  is  most 
wanted.  When  the  season  arrives,  and  I  hope  it  is  not  far  off,  I  flatter 
myself,  I  shall  travel  to  much  more  advantage,  both  to  my  country 
and  to  myself  than  he  has  done. — His  figure  forsooth  is  an  object  of 
much  self-complacence.  In  this  and  similar  cases  the  publick  will 
determine  how  far  such  an  extrinsick  and  accidental  quality,  were 
it  even  possessed  in  a  high  degree,  ought  to  weigh  in  the  estimating  of 
worth.  I  shall  only  say  that  having  lately  happened  within  ken 
of  him  on  one  of  his  by-road  excursions  I  had  an  opportunity  of  ob- 
serving, but  such  a  rusty,  old-fashioned,  squallid,  bizare,  lousy  object 
never  did  I  meet  with  in  the  traverse  of  a  Bedlam.  An  old  worn-out 
weatherbeaten,  long-bearded  miser  who  had  not  seen  the  sun  in  a 
twelvemonth,  but  had  been  bending,  peering  and  brooding  over  his 
rusty  bags,  could  not  have  exhibited  a  more  out  landish  caricatura. — • 
As  to  his  breeding  I  mean  to  be  silent.  There  is  no  need  of  speech. 
A  self-evident  proposition  can  be  rendered  doubtful  but  in  one  way, 
and  that  is  by  setting  about  to  prove  it.  The  unifrrm  tenour  of  his 
conduct  is  at  open  war  with  all  kind  of  breeding  and  politeness. 
Distrusting  himself  upon  the  ground  of  reasoning,  or  what  he  would 
call  so,  though  I  believe  he  never  found  the  way  to  logick,  he  resorts 
to  scripture,  in  which  he  appears  to  be  but  late-read,  otherwise  he 
would  have  'known  that  this  book,  out  of  which  he  quotes  the  land  of 
Havilah,  and  Micah  and  the  Danites,  calls  him  a  calf,  and  applies 
to  him  every  epithet  of  a  senseless  blockhead  ;  and  so  he  must  be,  or 
he  would  have  been  silent  on  this  subject,  for  it  is  evident  enough 
from  what  he  hints  he  has  a  sneaking  inclination  to  bring  up  again 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  175 

the  exploded  fashion  of  graven  images,  and  would  be  highly  tickled 
with  homage  and  adoration.  But  thanks  to  the  good  sense  of  modern 
days  which  has  brought  him  down  to  the  office  of  a  shoe-boy  instead 
of  splicing  him  up  into  a  god. 

This  supplanter  has  impudently  invented  a  story  of  my  setting  for 
my  picture  in  order  to  hide  his  own  baseness,  and  destroy  the  force 
and  effect  of  truth  by  cloaking  it.  I  will  lay  the  facts  before  the 
publick,  the  consistency  of  which  will  prove  the  train  of  the  whole 
transaction.  -The  British  Ministry  in  conjunction  with  their  General 
in  America,  were  mean  enough  to  make  use  of  the  instrumentality  of 
this  miscreant  and  some  of  his  associates  clandestinely  to  take  my 
likeness.  They  had  frequent  opportunities  of  doing  this  when  I  was 
upon  duty  on  the  lines.  By  this  means  they  endeavoured  to  deceive 
the  people  into  a  belief  that  I  had  attached  myself  to  their  party, 
and  engaged  in  their  service.  Unfortunately  at  the  time  th,ey  under- 
took this  piece  of  rudeness  and  villainy  my  clothes  being  worn  out  in 
the  labours  of  campaigning,  I  had  a  suit  made  at  York-Town  in  Penn- 
sylvania, which  being  not  so  well  executed,  they  found  it  level  to 
their  abilities.1  This  I  have  laid  by  and  expect  shortly  to  appear 
in  one  which  will  be  a  touch  above  their  ingenuity. 

How  often  has  this  sulker  secretly  traversed  our  country  in  order 
to  sow  the  seeds  of  bribery,  corruption  and  venality  among  us,  a  trade 
which  he  learned  to  high,  perfection  during  his  residence  in  Great- 
Britain  !  Who  does  not  remember  that  the  British  Commissioners 
brought  him  with  them  as  an  instrument  fitting  for  their  use,  when 
they  came  to  Philadelphia?  Here  he  was  a  busy  servant.  And  who 
can  have  forgot  that  he  was  apprehended,  formally  tried  in  Congress, 
condemned  on  the  clearest  evidence  not  only  for  his  own  personal 
treachery,  but  for  endeavouring  to  circumvent  and  corrupt  others,  and 
would  no  doubt  have  been  hanged  had  he  not  broke  gaol  and  fled? 

One  thing  further  I  wish  to  take  notice  of,  that  throughout  his  whole 
remonstrance  he  has  carefully  avoided  making  pretensions  to  whig- 
gism.  Two  reasons  decided  him  in  this  case.  Weak  and  unprincipled 
as  he  is,  he  does  know  it  would  operate  against  him  to  say  in  direct 
terms  that  black  is  white,  and  white  is  black.  That  one  who  is  known 
to  be  a  pestilent  spiteful  tory,  and  to  keep  company  with  none  but 
irfeii  of  that  class,  should  pretend  to  be  a  whig,  would  be  daring  be- 
yond the  prudential  line.  And  further  he  is  not  yet  fully  convinced 
which  way  the  beam  will  turn,  and  should  we  fail  through  reverse  of 
fortune,  he  thinks  it  not  amiss  to  have  friends  of  the  mammon  of 
unrighteousness. 

I  have  only  once  more  to  declare  that  I  have  not  appeared  here 
under  a  consciousness  of  any  blame  whatever.  I  have  fully  declared 
my  motive.  I  am  well  convinced  the  gratitude  and  justice  of  the 
United  States,  in  consideration  of  the  essential  benefits  I  have  ren- 
dered them,  will  not  suffer  this  despicable  changeling  to  tarnish  my 


1  Referring  to  a  poorly  printed  issue  of  paper  money  which  was  easily 
counterfeited. 


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176  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION. 


reputation  and  blot  out  the  memory  of  my  services.  These  are  not 
unknown.  They  are  notorious  as  they  are  numerous.  I  appeal  to 
every  person  who  has  had  an  opportunity  of  knowing  whether  I 
have  spent  one  day  in  idleness  since  the  contest  began ;  whether  I 
have  ever  withdrawn  myself  from  any  toils  or  dangers  when  the 
interest  of  my  country  called  me ;  whether  I  have  not  uniformly 
manifested  as  mucti  alacrity  and  attention  to  duty,  in  council,  in 
camp  and  in  the  fields  of  fight,  under  the  severest  adversity  as  in  the 
brightest  hours  of  success.  Whether  I  have  not  even'  more.  The 
Congress  have  seen  me  tried.  The  brave  and  patient  soldiery  and 
their  worthy  General  have  seen  me  tried.  They  have  seen  my  conduct 
in  the  day  of  peril,  and  in  the  day  of  triumph.  Let  them  be  my  wit- 
nesses. The  character  of  my  accuser,  I  have  submitted.  So  far  as 
it  affects  me  it  is  below  contempt.  It  is  not  mine  to  prescribe.  The 
publick  will  do  justice.  Let  that  take  place  and  I  am  satisfied. 

CONTINENTAL    CURRENCY. 


Mr.    COLLINS. 

HAVING  made  mi/  defence  1<>  Hie  I'nblick.  f  hare  a  word  or  two  to 
say  to  yon.  /  do  not  think  yon  hare  done  altogether  handsomely  by 
UK'.  )  on  hare  sometimes  published  to  the  world  that  thing*  of  low 
and  )>itifnl  estimation  were  to  be  bartered  for  me,  and,  irhat  is  worse* 
in  an  unicorthy  proportion.  This  i>nts  life  into  tlte  hopes  of  my 
enemies,  who  daily  \rish  and  pray  for  my  downfall.  And  lately  when 
(1  —  L  —  sent  me  round  the  country  to  look  for  one  of  his  dogs,  a 
sen-ice  irhich  I  undertook  reluctantly,  as  you  might  irell  suppose,  and 
out  of  mere  respect  to  tJie  high  station  of  him  who  imposed  the 
command,  yon  ircre  pi'  axed  to  (/ire  a  relation  of  the  affair  in  your 
paper,  wliich  opened  all  tlte  trays  far  and  near  upon  me.  The  dis- 
affected too  improved  the  occasion  to  sneer  and  jibe  my  awkward 
situation;  for  as  you  are  a  ichig  'they  kncir  the  truth  of  the  publi- 
cation would  not  lie  (inestioned.  \on~  though  my  character  is,  I 
fatter  myself,  sufficiently  establish'  d  to  set  at  nought  all  their  efforts 
to  shake  it,  yet  that  is  no  justification  of  you.  Mr.  Collins,  I  am  far 
indeed  from  b'liering  that  thexe  thinf/s  hare  been  done  with  design; 
I  attribute  them  solely  to  \in  \adrertence.  Hut  as  reputation  is  a  tender 
thin  a,  and  an  inadrertent  wound  is  not  much  less  painful  than  an 
intended  one,  yon  will  not  take  it  amiss  that  I  suggest  the  propriety 
of  a  little  more  caution. 

CONTINENTAL    CURRENCY. 


TRKXTOX,  MARCH   24. 

We  learn  that  a  few  days  ac;o  a  large  body  of  the  enemy 
from  Xew  York  arrived  on  Stateii  Isftmd,  where  they 
have  collected  a  nnniber  of  waggons,  £c.7  as  tho'  they  had 
a  plundering  expedition  in  contemplation.  In  conse- 
quence of  which  a  strong  detachment  from  our  army,  under 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  177 

the  command  of  General  Muhlenberg,  marched  from 
Middle-Brook,  in  order  to  counteract  any  designs  the 
enemy  may  have  in  making  another  descent  into  this  State. 

We  hear  Major-General  Arnold  hath  obtained  leave  to 
retire  for  a-while  from  the  duties  of  his  station,  to  take 
charge  of  his  domestic  affairs,  During  his  absence  the 
command,  it  is  said,  devolves  on  General  Hogan. 

Sunday  evening  last  a  heavy  northwest  storm  of  wind, 
snow  and  rain  came  on,  and  continued  till  next  morning, 
when  it  abated ;  which  has  probably  done  great  damage 
to  the  enemy's  vessels  on  our  coast. 


TO    COVER, 

The  ensuing  season,  at  the  subscribers,  at  Maidenhead, 
in  Hunterdon  county,  the  beautiful  and  high  bred 
HORSE 

ARABIAN 

Rising  nine  years  old,  at  Twenty  Pounds  the  season,  for 
ready  cash  only. 

ARABIAN  is  full  blooded,  fifteen  hands  and  two  inches 
high,  very  active,  and  is  a  remarkable  fine  bay,  his  colts 
are  in  general  very  fine,  a  few  of  them  may  be  seen  at 
his  stand.  Arabian  was  got  by  that  famous  stallion  Will- 
dair,  his  dam  by  Babrahaiii,  his  grandam  by  Old  Sterling, 
his  great  grandam  by  Merry  Andrew,  out  of  Laughing 
Polly.  She  Avon  the  King's  Hundred  Guineas  at  Ham- 
bleton,  and  was  got  by  Childen,  her  dam  by  Canceller, 
and  own  sister  to  Thunderbolt ;  her  grandam  by  Lugge, 
and  her  great  grandam  Davill's  Old  Woodcock. 

Willdair  was  got  by  Old  Cade,  the  best  stallion  that- 
ever  was  got  by  the  famous  Godolphin  Arabian,  out  of  a 
daughter  of  Steady,  a  very  fleet  son  of  the  Duke  of  Devon- 
shire's flying  Childen.  This  horse,  'the  sire  of  Arabian, 
was  a  few  years  past  purchased  of  James  Delancey,  Esq., 
at  a  very  high  price,  and  shipped  back  to  England  at  the 

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178  K"EW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

particular  desire  of  the  greatest  breeder  in  that  country, 
and  covered  at  Forty  Guineas  the  season,  his1  blood  being 
in  the  highest  degree  of  reputation  among  the  nobility  and 
sportsmen. 

Good  pasture  will  be  procured  for  mares  that  are 
brought  any  distance. 

MERCER    &    SCHENK. 
WILL    COVER, 

This  season,  at  George  Woodward's  and  at  Mansfield 
Meetmg:house,  from  the  fifth  of  April,  two  weeks 
at  a  time  at  each  place,  the  famous  HORSE 

LEOPARD, 

WANTS  one  sixteenth  only  of  a  full  blood ;  was  got  by 
Grauby,  his  dam  was  got  by  old  Bullerock  out  of  a  Briton 
mare;  ho  is  fifteen  hands  and  an  inch  high,  and  equal  for 
strength  and  beauty  to  any  imported  horse.  lie  will  cover 
at  Sixty  Dollars  the  season,  and  Xinety  Dollars  to  ensure 
a  Foal,  arid  One  Dollar  to  the  Groom,  the  money  to  be  paid 
when  the  mares  are  taken  away.  Good  pasture  will  be 
provided  for  mares  at  a  reasonable  rate.  The  said  horse 
is  equal  to  a  Leopard  for  colour. 

GEORGE    WOODWARD. 

ALL  persons  indebted  to  tho  estate  of  William  Crolius, 
jun.,  potter,  of  Xew  York,  deceased,  by  bond,  note  or 
book  debts,  are  desired  to  come  and  pay  them  off  before  the 
first  day  of  July  next,  to  George  Janeway,  or  John 
Crolius,  at-  Bound-Brook,  or  to  Peter  Crolius  at  Trenton, 
or  they  will  be  put  in  suit  against  them ;  and  those  having 
any  demands  against  said  estate,  are  desired  to  bring 
their  accounts  properly  attested. 

George  J  aneway,     1 

John  Crolius,  >  Executors. 

Peter  Crolius,  ) 


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WHEREAS  one  Michael  Montgomery  did  on  the  18th 
day  of  June  last,  purchase  of  the  subscriber  a  horse,  and 
was  to  take  the  said  horse  away  within  one  month  after 
the  purchase,  And  as  I  have  not  heard  from  him  since,  this 
is  to  give  notice,  if  said  Montgomery  is  living,  or  any 
person  in  his  behalf  will  come  and  pay  the  demands  on 
said  horse,  and  take  him  away  within  one  month  from  the 
date  hereof,  otherwise  I  shall  expose,  the  said  horse  to 
sale  in  order  to  pay  the  demands. 

Princeton,  March  18. 

DANIEL    MANNING. 

Middlesex     Whereas  inquisition  has  been  found,  and  final 
County.  judgment  entered  in  favour  of  this  State, 

against  the  following  persons,  and  their 
real  and  personal  estates  are  to  be  sold,  to  wit :  Thomas 
Leonard,  a  tract  of  land  containing  about  200  acres,  part 
of  which  is  cleared,  situate  near  Deep  Run,  four  and  one- 
half  mileis  from  Spotswood,  where  it  will  be  sold  the  23rd 
of  April  next.  Thomas  Hooper,  two  houses  and  lots  of 
land  near  Assanpink  Bridge,  on  the  road  leading  from 
Princeton  to  Allentown,  to  be  sold  the  24th  of  April,  at 
HightVtown.  To  be  sold  at  the  same  time  and  place,  a 
tract  of  woodland,  Oliver  Delance's,  neiar  Col.  Samuel  For- 
mairs ;  likewise  his  part  of  the  valuable  plantation  (if 
ascertained  before  the  day  of  sale)  called  Delance  and 
Kylers  tract,  near  Hight's-town,  now  in  possession  of 
Benjamin  Ward.  Likewise  a  small  place  improved,  late 
the  property  of  Daniel  Coxe,  near  Kingston,  where  it  will 
be  sold  the  25th  of  April. — The  vendue  to  begin  each  day 
at  ten  o'clock,  when  a  more  particular  description  of  the 
places  will  be  given,  and  as  soon  as  may  be,  deeds  made  by 

JOHN    LLOYD,         1 
*,      j 


Commissioners. 

WM.     SCUDDER. 


WHEREAS  inquisition  having  been  found,  and  final  judg- 
ment entered  thereon  in  favour  of  the  State,  against  Ed- 
ward Y.  Dungan,  late  of  Middlesex  county: — Notice  is 


180  NEW  JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [17791- 

hereby  given,  that  the  houses,  lands  and  all  the  real  estate 
late  the  property  of  the  siaid  Edward  V.  Dungan,  in  the1 
county  of  Essex,  in  the  State  of  New  Jersey,  will  be  ex- 
posed to  sale  at  public  vendue,  on  Saturday  the  first  day 
of  May  next,  at  one  o'clock  of  said  day,  at  the  house  of 
Samuel  Smith,  inn-keeper  in  Elizabeth-Town.  Par- 
ticular descriptions  and  attendance  will  be  given  at  the 
time  and  place  of  sale  by 

JOHN    CLAWSON.        )      ~ 

>   Commissioners. 

DANIEL,    MARSH,         ] 

WAS  found  the  day  of  the  battle  at  Monniouth,  the  28th. 
of  July,  1778,  by  one  of  the  company  of  militia  under 
Capt.  Parker,  of  (V>1.  Frelingliuysen's  battalion,  and  put 
into  ('apt.  Parker's  baggage  waggon,  a  good  shirt  marked 
I.  L.  and  a  pair  of  trousers  or  drawers,  inclosed  in  a 
knapsack. — Whoever  gives  the  further  particulars  and 
proves  property,  shall  have  them  by  applying  to  me  at 
Baskinridge. 

ENSLEY    DALGLIS. 
TO    BE    SOLD, 

THE  saw  and  grist-mill,  both  in  good  repair,  where  the 
subscriber  now  lives,  standing  on  the  south  branch  of 
Meticunk  river,  in  the  township  of  Shrewsbury,  which  is 
a  never  failing  streiain,  and  where  boards  can  be  rafted 
from  the  mill  to  where  sloops  can  take  them  in ;  with  about 
440  acres,  of  land,  some  good  for  rye  and  Indian  corn; 
about.  100  acres  of  which  is  cedar  swamp;  Also  60  acres 
of  salt-meadow  lying  about  six  miles  from  said  mills. 
There  are  on  the  premises  a  good  convenient  frame  dwell- 
ing-house, kitchen,  barn  and  smoke-house,  all  inclosed 
with  cellar.  For  tern  is  apply  to  Tunis  Dcnise,  in  Free- 
hold, or  to  the  subscriber,  living  on  the  premises. 

DEXISE    DENISE. 

X.  B.  The  two  emissions  called  in  will  be  taken  in. 
payment. 

March  8,  1779. 


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TO    BE    SOLD,, 

For  good  Continental  Money  of  any  emission: 
A  LOT  of  land  situate  on  Maidenhead  road,  about  one 
mile  from  Trenton,  containing  near  28  acres,  all  fenced  in. 
On  the  premises  are  a  small  log  house,  a  good  spring  of 
water,  and  about  200  trees  of  excellent  fruit,  viz.  apples, 
pears,  peaches,  plumbs  and  cherries,  and  about  7  acres  of 
meadow  cleared,  and  as  much  more  may  be  made  by  clear- 
ing a  good  piece  of  swamp.  Also  a  house  and  lot  in 
Trenton,  fronting  the  Main-Street  and  Church-Alley, 
which  is  a  very  convenient  house  with  four  rooms  on  a 
floor,  two  stories  high,  and  a  good  cellar  under  the  whole, 
with  a  kitchen  on  the  back-side  of  the  house  and  joined  to 
it  by  a  shed.  On  the  lot  is  some  excellent  fruit  trees,  viz. 
pears  of  six  or  seven  sorts,  and  plumbs  of  as  many,  and 
several  sorts  of  the  best  cherries  and  peaches.  Any  per- 
son inclining  to  purchase  may  be  better  informed  by 
applying  to  William  Flasket,  on  the  premises. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

BY  JAMES  EMERSON, 

In  TRENTON; 

A  QUANTITY  of  imported  SALT,  for  which  the  emissions 
of  May  20th,  1777,  and  April  llth,  1778,  will  be  taken 
in  pay. 

TO    BE    SOLD, 

At  the  subscriber's  house  in  Mansfield,  Burlington 
county ; 

A  FEW  barrels  of  best  TANNERS  OIL,  extracted  from 
blubber. 

CLEAYTON    NEWBOLD. 


182         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779 


WANTED, 

J3y  the  subscriber  in  Trenton: 

A     GOOD     JOURNEYMAN     WHEELWRIGHT,     to    whom     COn- 

stant  employ  and  good  wages  will  be  given,  by 

WILLIAM    CANNON. 
TO    BE    SOLD, 

By  public  ve.ndne  on  Monday  the  29th  of  March,  at  the 
house  of  JACOB  BENJAMIN,  in  Trenton: 

SUNDRY  sorts  of  household  furniture,  mens  wearing 
apparel,  tea  by  the  chest  or  smaller  quantity,  and  sundry 
other  articles  too  tedious  to  mention.  By  whom  GOODS 
are  taken  in  for  sale. 

JACOB  BENJAMIN. 


SALT  WORKS,  &c.  for  SALE: 

To  be  sold  by  public  vendue,  on  the  30th  day  of  March 
inst.  on  the  premises,  those  valuable  works  known  by  the 
name  of  the  Union  Salt- Works,  on  Manasquan  river,  in  the 
township  of  Shrewsbury,  county  of  Monmouth,  and  State 
of  Xew  Jersey,  together  with  all  the  utensils  thereunto 
belonging. 

THE  works  consist  of  a  boiling-house,  about  90  feet 
long  and  33  feet  wide,  in  which  are  five  copper  and  four 
iron  pans,  the  copper  weighing  upwards  of  3000  Ib.  four 
of  which  pans  are  round,  about  6  feet  diameter  and  about 
12  inches  deep,  the  other  about  13  and  a  half  feet  long, 
6  feet  wide,  and  14  inches  deep.  The  iron  pans  are  made 
of  wrought  iron  plate  near  a  quarter  of  an  inch  thick,  two 
of  them  are  about  12  feet  long,  6  feet  wide<,  and  14  inches 
deep ;  and  the  other  two  are  each  about  16  feet  long,  6  feet 
wide,  and  17  inches  deep;  all  of  which  are  fixed  in  the 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  183 

host  manner  for  the  business  of  salt-boiling.  Adjoining 
to  the  boiling-house  is  a  convenient  stores-house,  capable 
of  containing  800  bushels  of  salt,  and  contiguous,  thereto 
is  a  pump-house;  in  which  are  two  pumps  almost  new,  by 
which  the  water  from  the  bay  is  conveyed  either  imme- 
diately into  the  pans,  or  into  a  covered  cistern  holding 
about  150  hogsheads,  at  times  when  the  water  is  saltest,  and 
from  thence  let  into  the  pans. 

The  lot  of  ground  whereon  these  works  stand  contains 
about  five  acres  of  good  land  well  fenced,  on  which  are  also 
erected  a  dwelling-house,  stables,  smoke-house  and  other 
buildings,  which  are  very  convenient.  The  dwelling- 
house  was  lately  erected,  being  about  35  by  24  feet,  two 
stories  high,  with  a  cellar  under  the  whole,  and-  an  ex- 
cellent pump  of  fresh  water  at  the  door.  The  stables  are 
likewise  new,  capable  of  holding  about  ten  tons  of  hay,  a 
considerable  quantity  of  grain,  and  sufficient  room  for 
sixteen  horses. 

Will  be  disposed  of  with  the  above  premises  about  1.60 
acres  of  land,  wooded  mostly  with  oak,  about  two  miles 
and  a  half  from  the  works. 

At  the  same  time  and  place  will  be  sold  about  20,000 
good  bricks,  two  horses.,  a  cow  and  calf,  a  good  waggon  well 
ironed,  a  large  well  built  scow,  two  batteaux  in  good  re- 
pair, a  quantity  of  old  iron,  and  several  small  bars  of 
blistered  steel;  also  household  goods  and  kitchen  fur- 
niture, consisting  of  four  feather  beds  with  suitable  bed- 
ding, bedsteads,  writh  many  other  articles. 

The  works  and  buildings  are  pleasantly  situated  on  the 
river  aforesaid,  (which  abounds  in  plenty  of  fish)  about 
one  mile  from  the  main  ocean,  commanding  a  fine  prospect, 
and  in  sho>rt  these  works  are  allowed  by  competent  judges,, 
who  have  viewed  the  different  salt  works  on  the  shore,  to  be 
equal  if  not  superior  to  any  in  the  state. 

And  on  the  3d  day  of  April  next,  will  also  be  disposed 
of  at  public  vendue,  a  grist-mill  and  Siaw-mill  situate 
in  Horner's  Town,  in  the  township  of  Upper-Freehold,  and 


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184  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1Y79 

.% 

county  aforesaid^  on  a  fine  stream  of  water;  together  with 
about  14  acres  of  land,  part  whereof  good  meadow,  on 
which  are  erected  a  very  commodious  dwelling-house,  two 
stories  high,  a  good  kitchen,  and  a  convenient  store  for  dry 
goods  adjoining  the  same;  Also  a  large  store-house  con- 
tiguous thereto,  suitable  for  many  purposes,  a  barn,  shed 
and  several  other  buildings,  all  very  handy  and  COIT- 
venient  for  carrying  on  business  extensively. — The  grist- 
mill consists  of  one  pair  of  stones  and  t-AVO  boulting-mills, 
in  tolerable  good  repair,  capable  of  doing  a  great  deal  of 
business,  having  seven  feet  head  and  fall,  and  a  constant 
stream  in  the  dryest  seasons,  being  in  a  good  wheat  country 
amidst  a  number  of  Avealthy  farmers,  and  a  healthy  sit- 
uation. -  The  saw-mill  is  in  good  order,  Avell  fitted  for 
sawing  a  large  quantity  of  timber,  haAnng  the  same  ad- 
vantage of  the  water  as  the  grist-mill.  A  tumbler  dam 
was  erected  in  the  best  manner,  and  Avell  secured  with 
piling  at  this  place  last  summer,  which  is  sufficient  to 
vent  the  water  in  the  time  of.  great  freshes.  These  mills 
are  distant  from  Bordentown  about  14-  miles,  and  from  the 
above  salt-works  about  JJO  miles,  from  Avhich  a  supply  of 
grain  may  be  furnished. 

At  the  same  time  and  place  will  likewise  be  disposed 
of  at  public  sale,  seven  A~ery  good  team  horses,  with  suit- 
able irc.irs,  two  four-horse  waggons  Avell  ironed,  and  sundry 
other  articles.  The  conditions  Avill  be  made  knoAvn,  and 
attendance  given  in  behalf  of  the  proprietors  on  the  days 
of  sule,  by 

NATHANIEL.  LEWIS, 
JOSEPH  NEAVBOLD, 
JOHN  KAIGIIN., 

X.  E.  All  persons  Avho  have  any  demands  on  the  Union 
Salt-Works  Company,  are  desired  forthwith  to  bring  them 
in  to  the  subscribers,  that  they  may  be  discharged ;  and 
those  indebted  are  requested  to  pay,  that  all  the  accounts 
mav  be  settled. 


1779] 


NEWSPAPER    p;XTRACTS. 


185 


Twenty  Dollars  Reward. 

RAX  A  WAY  from  the  subscriber,  on  Monday  the  8th  inst. 
a  negro  man  named  TOM  ;  a  well  s"et  fellow,  about  5  feet  8 
or  0  inches  high.  Had  on  when  he  went  away,  a  short 
bearskin  coat,  white  vest,  buckskin  breeches,  a  round  hat ; 
he  likewise  took  with  him  a  brown  coat  lined  with  brown 
shalloon,  one  striped  Damascus  vest,  and  sundry  other 
clothes. 

Whoever  takes  up  the  said  negro  man,  and  brings  him 
to  his  master,  in  Trenton,  or  secures  him  in  any  gaol  so 
that  his  master  may  have  him  again,  shall  be  entitled  to 
the  above  reward. 

Samuel  Henry. 

1^.  B.  He  is  supposed  to  have  gone  the  York  road,  and 
endeavoring  to  get  to  the  enemy. 

TO    BE    SOLD, 

Or  rented  for  a  term  of  years. 

SPEEDWELL  saw-mill  and  lands,  formerly  known  by  the 
name  of  Handle's  mill,  lying  on  the  east  branch  of  Wading 
River  in  Burlington  County,  West  New-Jersey,  with  a 
good  log  waggon  and  four  horses,  about  thirty  head  of 
horned  cattle,  chiefly  milch  cows  and  heiffers,  a  plough, 
harrow,  hoes,  axes,  and  other  farming  utensils,  &c.,  &c. 
There  is  on  the  premises  a  good  new  two  story  house, 
framed  and  covered  with  cedar,  good  cellars  walled  up  with 
stone,  good  brick  hearths  and  oven,  a  good  log  house  for  the 
sawyer,  a  large  commodious  barn  and  stabling  for  sixteen 
or  eighteen  horses,  a  good  bearing  peach  orchard,  and  a 
young  apple  orchard.  The  mill  goes  with  two  saws,  newly 
repaired,  and  the  dam  raised  the  last  fall.  The  mill, 
pine  lands  and  cedar  swamps,  will  be  sold  with  or  without 
near  two  hundred  acres  of  iron  ore,  as  good  as  the  State 
affords,  with  about  seven  hundred  acres  of  West-Jersey 
rights  not  laid  out.  The  horned  cattle  and  team  as  best 


t 

"186  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

suits  the  purchaser. — If  rented,  security  is  required. — 
There  likewise  may  be  made  with  very  little  cost  a  great 
quantity  of  good  meadow. 

The  above  may  be  entered  on  as  soon  as  suits  the  pur- 
chaser. Any  person  may  view  the  above  described  lands, 
&c.,  by  applying  to  John  Jacobs.,  overseer  on  the  premises, 
and  for  further  particulars  to  the  owner  in  Philadelphia. 

BENJAMIN    RANDOLPH. 

N.  B.  The  above  is  sold  because  the  local  situation  of 
the  owner  renders  it  impossible  for  him  to  attend  it 
properly. 

-The  Neiv-Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  II.,  No.  68,  March  24, 
1779. 

Egg-Harbour  March  20. 

Xotice  is  hereby  given  to1  all  the  Seamen  and  Landsmen 
that  were  on  board  the  armed  sloop  Chance  when  she 
captured  the  ship  Venus  and  made  a  prize  of  her,  that 
they  meet  the  subscriber  at  Colonel  Richard  Wescott's  at 
the  Forks  of  Little  Egg-harbour,  then  and  there  to  receive 
their  respective  dividends  of  the  prize  money;  And  like- 
wise all  those  that  purchased  shares  from  said  sailors  are 
requested  to  meet  at  the  same  place,  on  Thursday  the 
seccnd  day  of  April  next. 

DAVID  STEVEXS,  Capt. 
—The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  Marcli  27,  1779. 

From  a  Rebel  Paper. 

CHATHAM,  March  25. 

Last  week,  at  Sussex,  a  Mr.  Gardiner,  and  one  Mr. 
Tharp,  brothers-in-law,  having  a  dispute  about  two.  dogs 
that  were  fighting,  blows  ensued,  when  the  latter  stabbed 
the  former  in  his  breast  with  a  penknife,  of  which  wound 
he  expired  in  a  short  time.  Tharp  is  confined  in  Sussex 
gaol,  and,  'tis  expected,  will  receive  the  punishment  due 
to  his  demerit. 

— The    New-York    Gazette:    and    the    Weekly    Mercury, 
March  29,  1779.    No.  1432, 


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For  the  NEW-JERSEY  JOURNAL. 
A  FABLE. 

IN  the  days  of  ^Esop,  brutes,  by  their  supposed  conversation, 
instructed  the  world;  but  if  ever  the  follies  of  mankind  could 
produce  such  effects  on  inarticulating  animals,  the  vices  of  this 
age  will  make  brutes  eloquent. — The  Lion,  with  the  repacious  beasts 
of  the  desert,  when  pinched  with  poverty  by  the  barrenness  of  their 
own  dominions,  waged  war  against  the  horse  and  other  domestic 
animals.  The  generous  horse,  with  crouded  ranks,  under  the  intrepid 
bull,  to  sustain  him,  advanced  a  full  front  to  the  enemy ;  while  the 
asses,  long  renowned  for  penetration,  were  chosen  as  a  council  to 
direct  the  monkey  tribe,  well  accustomed  to  attract  the  admiration  of 
every  gaping  fool,  by  their  tricks  of  agility,  were  esteemed  by  the 
council  proper  persons  to  take  charge  of  the  public  magazines ;  for- 
getting their  alertness  at  every  kind  of  villainy ;  but  their  grand 
accomplishment  was,  that  with  their  fingers,  heretofore  emplpyed  in 
numerous  petty  thefts,  they  could  astonishingly  count  ten. — After  many 
hard  encounters,  with  various  success,  the  horse  saw,  with  honest 
indignation,  that  the  cringing  monkies,  by  their  bickering  adulation, 
entirely  gained  the  ear  of  the  council,  and  could  wrest  their  easy 
integrity  to  their  own  purposes ;  while  the  gallant  services  of  the  line 
were  either  forgotten  or  thought  a  common  tribute  due  to  the  public, 
for  which  they  were  bound  to  make  no  return. — At  length,  by  the 
parsimonious  and  partial  distribution  of  the  stores,  the  army  were 
reduced  to  skeletons ;  while  the  self-sufficient  group  of  monkies  lived 
in  splendid  luxury  by  their  pilfering  villainies ;  and,  under  cover  of 
the  council,  grinned  secretly,  a  monkey-like  content.  Roused,  with 
generous  resentment,  the  horse,  in  behalf  of  his  companions  of  the 
war,  thus  addressed  the  dull,  the  stupid  council ;  "To  you,  who  ought 
to  be  the  guardians  of  our  rights,  and  chearfully  extend  to  us  a  reward 
for  our  services,  we  are  forced  to  apply  for  a  redress  of  injuries.  We 
ask  you  to  remember,  that  before  the  approach  of  this  common 
calamity,  you  were  but  merely  known  in  our  society ;  but  by  the 
fortuitous  concurrence  of  events,  were  chosen  the  civil  representatives 
of  the  community. — When  misfortune  pressed  close  upon  you,  we 
covered  you  from  destruction ;  and,  in  despight  of  your  sluggish  in- 
activity, you  even  hastened  from  before  the  lion. — WThere  then  were 
your  monkey  friends?  Far,  very  far,  in  our  rear;  screaming  cowardly 
dismay;  almost  wishing  to  be  encircled  in  their  chains  again,  and 
obscenely  prancing  before  a  gigling  crowd  to  gain  an  apple. — Sweep 
then  those  miscreated  drones  from  posts  of  trust ;  supply  us  as  we 
have  deserved,  and  bid  the  castigated  crew  view,  at  humble  distance, 
that  worth  they  never  dare  aspire  to." — The  council,  to  this  address, 
with  bestial  elocution,  made  this  legislative  great  reply :  "We,  Sir, 
asses  as  we  are,  will  do  as  we  pleases.  The  monkies  is  very  clever 
people,  and  knows  a  great  deal,  so  they  do ;  and  when  such  smart 
folks  spends  their  time  in  our  work,  they  shall  have  what  they  wants, 


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188  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

• 

for  they  are  right  saving.  As  for  you,  see,  don't  we  feed  you?  that's 
enough,  and  you  shall  fight,  for  you  can't  live  any  other  ways."  One 
of  the  council  then  rose,  the  first  of  asses,  and  the  last  of  brutes,  and 
pricking  his  long  ears,  observed,  "That  he  did  not  know  why  the  officers 
should  have  more  pay  than  the  privates,  for  they  did  less;  and,  look 
you  brother  asses,  the  privates  are  contented."  At  which  collective 
Folly  brayed  applause.  The  martial  horse,  with  scorn  and  mingled 
pity,  left  the  brutish  throng,  and  the  monkies,  elate  with  his  defeat, 
followed  to  indulge  their  spleen  with  a  view  of,  the  miseries  of  the 
army  ;  but  were  soon  spurned  into  awful  distance,  notwithstanding 
the  harsh  clamors  of  the  council  in  their  favour;  and  'twas  said  the 
indignant  horse  and  his  associates  would  soon  reduce  that  house  of 
complicated  ignorance  to  their  original,  though  now  forgotten,  panniers, 
and  elect  a  new  council  in  their  place. 


BROWSE, 

A   Beautiful  bay  HORSE,  four  years  old,  and  fifteen 
hands  high,   the  property  of  the  subscriber,   will 
cover    at    TWENTY-FIVE    DOLLARS    the    season,    or 
TWELVE   DOLLARS   the  single   leap,   at   Horseneek,   in  the 
county  of  Essex,  and  state  of  Xew-Jersey.     He  was  bred 
by  the  proprietor,  out  of  a  handsome  Britain  mare,  and  got 
by  General  HearcFs  young  figure.      He  is  allowed  by  good 
judges  to  be  equal  to  any  horse  of  equal  blood  in  the  state 
for  size,  shapes,  and  activity,  if  not  superior.      Good  at- 
tendance will  be  given,  and  good  pasture  for  mares  by 

CALEB  HETFIELD. 

To  be  LET,  for  the  term  of  one  year,  by  way  of  public 
vendiie,  on  the  6th  of  April  next, 

THE  place  where  George  Armstrong  lately  lived ;    it 
contains    sixty-five    acres   and    a    half,    pleasantly 
situated  on  the  road  from  New-Brunswick  to  Black- 
River,  within  three  miles  and  a  half  of  Pluck'emin,  about 
half  a  mile  from  Mr.  Joseph  Crane's  mill.      There  is  on 
said  place  a  good  dwelling  house,  with  four  rooms  on  a 
flooir,  and  two  fire  places,  a  good  kitchen,  a  barn,  and  a 
large  horse  shed,  with  convenient  stabling  for  six  or  seven 
horses,  a  proportionable  quantity  of  meadow,  a  good  bear- 


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ing  orchard  sufficient  to  make  one  hundred  barrels  of  cyder, 
with  other  fruit  trees,  a  good  garden,  all  in  good  repair,, 
and   well   watered.     The   premises  may  be   seen   at   any 
time  by  applying  to  John  Armstrong,  near  the  place,  who 
will  give  attendance  at  the  day  of  sale. 
Somerset  county,  Bedminster     ) 
township,  March  28,  1779.        [ 

STRAYED  or  stolen  from  New-Ark  the  llth  instant, 
a  black  MAKE,  with  a  star  in  her  forehead,  trots, 
four  years  old  this  spring,  branded  A  on  the  near 
shoulder,  and  H  K  on  the  off  thigh.     FIVE  DOLLARS 
reward,  and  all  reasonable  expence  will  be  paid  for  taking 
up  the  said  mare  per  HENRY  JACOBUSE. 

Peckeman  River,  Essex   ) 
county,  March  23,  1779.     j 

Thirty  Dollars  Reward. 

STOLEN  out  of  the  stable  of  the  subscriber,  living 
near  Springfield,  on  the  night  of  the  18th  instant, 
a  large  black  HORSE,  stout  made,  in  good  order, 
eight  years  old,  about  fifteen  hands  high,  with  one  white 
hind  foot,  and  a  natural  pacer. — Whoever  takes  up  said 
horse,  and  brings  him  to  the  owner,  shall  have  the  above 
reward,  and  all  reasonable  charges  paid  by 

JAMES  CLARK. 

THE    NOTED    IMPORTED    HORSE 

PASTIME, 

Six  years  old  this  grass,  is  nowr  in  excellent  order,  and  will 
cover  this  season  at  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber, 
at  the  Scotch  Plains,  at  Eorty  Dollars  the  season,  and 
Twenty  Dollars  a  single  leap,  the  money  to  be  paid 
at  the  stable  door. 


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% 

PASTIME  is  a  beautiful  bay,  with  black  legs,  main, 
and  tail,  two  white  feet,  a  star  and  a  snip.     He  is 
of  full  size,  fifteen  hands  high,  and  well  set  for  his 
height,  and  is  allowed  by  the  best  judges  to  be  the  best 
moving,  gayest),  and  handsomest  horse  in  the  state.1 

This  colt  was  bred  by  Col.  Horatio  Sharpe,  was  got  by 
Othello,  who  was  got  by  Crab,  and  is  brother  in  blood  to 
the  following  eminent  racers,  viz.  Bastard,  Oronoeko, 
Black-and-all-Black,  Shepard's  Crab  and  many  other  horses 
of  high  fame.  Othello's  dam  was  got  by  Hampton  Court 
Childers,  his  granddam  by  Hobgoblin,  his  great  grandam 
by  Old  Snake. — The  dam  of  this  colt  was  Mariamne,  got  by 
Old  Figure,  allowed  to  be  the  best  blooded  horse  ever  in 
America.  Pastime's  grandam  was  Col.  Tasker's  Selima ; 
she  was  got  by  Godolphin  Arabian,  her  dam  by  Flying 
Childers;  her  great  grandam  by  the  Bolton  Sloven;  her 
great,  great  grandam  by  the  Duke  of  Bolton's  Bay  Bolton; 
her  great,  great,  great  grandam  by  Brimmer;  her  great, 
great,  great,  great  grandam  by  Dodsworth,  out  of  the 
Leater  Barb  mare.  J.  RIDOUBT. 

All  persons  who  choose  to  have  their  mares  covered  by 
Pastime,  shall  have  good  pasture  at  a  reasonable  rate,  and 
proper  attendance  given  by  a  good  groom. 

AMOS  SWA-X. 

A  FEW   pair   of  men's   SHOES   may  be   had   of   the 
Printer  hereof  for  country  produce. 


CHATHAM,  MARCH  30. 

Came  ashore  in  the  snow  storm,  on  the  22d  instant,  at 
Egg-Harbour,  a  sloop  from  the  West  Indies,  belonging  to 
Boston,  but  lately  captured  by  the  enemy. 

The  same  day  a  ship  belonging  to  the  enemy  drove  ashore 
at  the  above  place,  and  out  of  one  hundred  and  seventy 
people  that  were  on  board,  only  twenty  were  saved. 

1  See  page  167,  ante. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  101 

THE  Trustees  of  New-Jersey  College  are  required  to 
attend  a  meeting  of  the  board  at  their  hall  in  Prince- 
ton the  21st  of  April  next,  at  9  o'clock.     The  busi- 
ness is  of  s^uch  importance  to  the  institution,  that  it  is 
hoped  no  member  will  be  absent. 

JAMES  CALDWELL,  Clerk. 

Mr.  Collins  and  Mr.  London  are  requested  to  insert  the 
above. 

MATTHIAS  HALSTED, 
In  Elizabeth  Town,  has  for  SALE, 

T7  XCEEDING  fine  flavoured  West  India  rum  by  the 

I  1     hogshead  or  barrel,  Scotch  snuff  by  the  hogshead  or 

bladder,  plugg  and  pigtail  tobacco  by  the  barrel, 

and  a  few  dozen  of  black  Barcelona  handkerchiefs — Like^ 

wise  one  fire  in  a  forge  on  an  excellent  stream,  about  three 

miles  from  Morris  Town;    amd  a  good  horse  for  the  chair 

or  draught, 

N.  B.  The  dead  emissions  of  Continental  bills  of  credit 
will  be  taken  in  payment  until  the  middle  of  April,  and 
perhaps  longer.1 

TO   COVEE, 

The  ensuing  season,  at  Morris  Town,  the  horse 

HERMIT. 

HE  is  of  full  size,  a  good  bay,  rising  five  years  old,  is 
a  colt  of  Old  Liberty  from  a  half  blooded  mare. 
He  is  allowed,  by  the  best  judges,  to  be  as  neat  a 
moving  horse  as  any  in  the  state.     Will  cover  at  twenty 
dollars  the  season,  and  eight  dollars  the  single  leap. 

JOHN  DUNHAM. 


1  Matthias  Halsted  was  Ensign  and  Quartermaster  of  the  First  Battalion, 
First  Establishment,  Continental  Line.  Also  Brigade  Major  on  the  staff 
of  General  William  Winds,  and  Aid-de-camp  on  the  staff  of  Major-General 
Philemon  Dickinson,  of  the  New  Jersey  Militia. — W.  S.  S. 


192  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 


TO  BE  SOLD, 

At  public  vendue,  at  the  house  of  Jacob  Hallett,  in 
Chatham, 

A  WAGGON  and  horses,  one  milch  cow,  cyder,  cyder 
royal,  a  large  quantity  of  cyder  hogsheads,  a  quan- 
tity of  carpenters  and  joyners  tools,  a  good  plough^ 
a  corn  harrow  with  iron  teeth,  onions,  a  large  spinning 
weel,  crosscut  saw,  beetle  and  wedges,  a  sulky,  a  quantity 
of  empty  bottles,  and  sundry  other  articles  too  tedious  to 
mention.      The  vendue  to  begin   on   Tuesday  the   6th  of 
April,  at  10  o'clock  in  the  morning. 


Thirty  Dollars  Reward. 

STOLEN  from  the  subscriber,  living  on  the  First  Moun- 
tain, near  the   Falls  mill,  in   Essex  county,  a  pale 
red  cow,  with  a  crop  out  of  her  left  ear,  short  legs,, 
whitish  belly,  and  part  of  her  tail  white — Whoever  will 
give  information  of  said  cow,  so  that  the  owner  may  get 
her  again,  shall  receive  the.  above  reward. 

WILLIAM  TAXER. 

NOTICE  is  hereby  given  to  all  whom  it  may  concern, 
that  application  will  l>e  made  unto  the  legislature., 
at  their  ne.rt  sitting,  for  a  law  to  enable  the  owners 
of  meadows  at  Maple-Island,  in  New- Ark,  to  erect  and 
maintain  a  dam  over  Maple-Island  creek,  to  prevent  the 
meadow  from  being  overflowed. 


E 


UXICE  the  wife  of  JOITX  SCOTT,  having  eloped 
from  his  bed  and  board,  and  three  different  times- 
since  broke  open  his  house  and  robbed  and  carried 
off  to  her  sister's,  the  widow  Morris's  and  elsewhere,  house- 
hold goods  to  the  amount  of  six  hundred  pounds,  although 


1779]  NEWSPAPER,    EXTRACTS.  193 

there  was  an  article,  under  our  hands  and  seals,  before 
married,  that  neither  party  should  have  no  right  to  each 
other's  estate,  which  article  was  acknowledged  before  Ben- 
jamin Halsey,  Esq;  nevertheless  the  said  Eunice,  by  the 
assistance  of  her  brethren  and  sister,  has  endeavoured  to 
run  me  in  debt:  This  is  therefore  to  give  notice  to  all 
persons,  that  I  will  not  pay  any  debts  of  her  contracting, 
being  wholly  clear  by  said  agreement,  and  she  the  said 
Eunice  being  administratrix^  to  her  former  husband's 
estate,  is  liable  in  law  for  all  her  contracts ;  therefore,  in 
justice  to  myself  and  the  public,  I  give  notice,  that  I  will 
not  only  prosecute  the  said  Eunice  for  the  burglary  and 
robbery  committed,  but  also  all  those  who  purchase  any  of 
the  said  goods,  or  harbours  her  or  them,  to  the  extent  of 
the  law. 

JOHN  SCOTT. 

N.  B.  Said  Eunice,  by  having  a  key,  which  she  prom- 
ised, before  Benjamin  Halsey,  Esq;  to  deliver  up,  with 
all  the  goods  stolen,  and  that  on  oath,  if  I  would  leave 
matters  to  said  Halsey,  Joseph  Young,  and  Richard  John- 
ston, to  settle,  between  the  estate  of  Moore  and  me;  the 
same  being  done,  and  by  them  settled,  yet,  contrary  to  all 
faith  and  truth,  she,  by  said  key,  has  opened  my  escrutore, 
and  carried  of  leases  of  yearly  rent  to  the  amount  of  at 
least  two  hundred  pounds,  and  other  bonds  and  papers  to 
the  amount  of  two  thousand  pounds. 

THE  INJURED  HUSBAND. 

What  friendly  ray,  in  pity  drest, 

O  say,  can  hope  bestow, 
To  give  distraction  sight  or  rest, 

Or  sooth  eternal  woe? 
Life's  little  lamp,  one  tender  beam 

To  grief  no  more  can  spare, 
But  faintly  turns  a  dying  gleam 

On  anguish  and  despair. 
Look  down  unending  source  of  fate, 
I        ;  From  your  obedient  skies, 

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%  • 

And,  Oh !  instruct  a  wretch  to  hate 

The  fair  he  must  despise. 
Whatever  tortures  rend  his  breast, 

Whatever  conflicts  roll, 
Teach  him  to  tear  her  from  his  breast, 

And  root  her  from  his  soul. 
Once,  pure  as  winter's  whitest  snow, 

She  gave  her  sacred  vow ! 
Once,  pure  as  innocence,  but  Oh, 

Just  heaven  what  is  she  now? 
Then  grant  a  wife,  indulgent  fate, 

On  which  my  heart  is  set, 
Or  if  I  must  not  think  to  hate, 

O  let  me  but  forget. 


TO  COVEK 

TlFE    NOTED    HORSES 

BOHEMIA  and  IKDEPEKDEXCE, 

At  the  stable  of  the  subscriber.,  living  in  Mendein  town- 
ship, about  live  miles  west  of  Morris  Town,  at  the 
rate  of  twenty-five  dollars  for  Bohemia,  and  twelve 
for  Independence. 

BOHEMIA  is  full  sixteen  hands  high,  and  is  as  hand- 
some a  horse  as  any  in  the  state,  as  allowed  by  the 
best  judges  :   and  his  pedigree  of  the  first  rate,  being 
got  by  Old  Authella,  who  was  the  sire  of  True  Briton,  and 
out  of  an  imported  Barbara  mare;    his  stock  like  himself 
are  Inriro  and  handsome,,  much  resembling  those  got  by  said 
Briton,  except  being  more  fine  and  delicate. 

I  isr  D  E  r  E  N  i)  E  N  c  E  is  full  fifteen  hands  high,  and  is 
elegant  and  fine,  was,  got  by  Young  Sterling,  and  like  his 
sire,  is  famous  for  running,  having  received  forfeiture 
from  the  most  noted  horse  in  the  state,  on  account  of  failure 
on  a  late  race.  Good  pasture  for  mares  at  the  rate  of  one 
dollar  per  week,  and  due  attendance  will  be  given  by  a 
proper  groom. 

WILLIAM  LEDDEL. 


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~N.  B.  If  any  person's  mare  should  have  a  white  colt, 
or  miss  having  a  fole,  shall  be  entitled  to  the  benefit  of 
another  season  for  half  price. 

— The  New-Jersey  Journal,  Vol.  I.,  Numb.  VII.,  March 
30,  1779. 

[No.  II.] 
Mr.  COLLINS, 

I  Concluded  my  last  essay  with  declaring  my  intention  to  point 
cut  on  a  future  opportunity,  the  causes  of  our  national  evils,  and  the 
•remedies  for  their  cure. — I  confess  it  is  much  easier  to  discover  the 
symptoms  of  a  disorder  than  their  causes.  However  an  attempt  to 
cure  diseases  by  only  attempting  to  check  or  remove  symptoms,  with- 
out knowing  or  endeavoring  to  remove  the  causes,  is  the  business  of 
empiricks  and  quacks,  not  physicians. — If  I  should  be  so  happy  as  to 
discover  the  true  ones  of  our  national  evils,  I  expect  to  meet  with 
opposition  and  enemies ;  for  such  diseases  are  seldom  or  never  cured, 
without  causing  pain  and  distress  in  the  affected  members,  which  will 
always  exert  themselves  to  avoid  it,  and  render  such  attempts  abortiw. 
However,  as  my  sincere  intention  is  to  serve  my  country,  I  shall  at 
all  times  gratefully  receive  instruction,  and  the  discovery  of  any  of 
errors  tendered  to  me  with  candor,  and  totally  disregard  and  despise  the 
rancour  and  abuse  of  any  who  may  appear  to  be  actuated  from 
principles  of  irreligion  and  love  to  private  and  self  interest. — I  thus 
beg  the  impartial  attention  of  my  fellow-citizens  to  what  I  shall 
endeavour  to  offer  with  candor  on  this  subject. 

1.  It  appears  to  me  highly  probable  that  the  ungrateful  conduct  of 
ihis  nation  towards  God,  our  kind  benefactor  and  just  arbiter  of  the 
universe,  is  to  ?;e  ranked  among  the  causes  of  our  present  distress. 

That  God,  in  the  course  of  his  providence,  is  wont  to  chastise  and 
punish  nations  he  has  particularly  favoured,  for  their  profane  and 
abominable  ingratitude,  is  evident  from  the  whole  of  divine  revelation. 
After  the  leader  of  Israel  had  prophetically  denounced  a  mixture  of 
national  calamities  on  that  people,  he  declares,  All  these  curses  shall 
come  upon  thee,  and  shall  pursue  thce,  and  overtake  thce,  till  thou  be 
destroyed,  because  thou  hearkenedst  not  to  the  voice  of  the  Lord  thy 
God,  to  keep  his  commandments  and  his  statutes,  which  he  commanded 
<thee.*  Compare  with  this  what  happened  to  this  nation  not  long 
ago  after  their  possession  of  that  land  of  liberty  and  liberty.f  If 
government  by  misrule  from  ignorance,  imprudence  or  villainy,  become 
the  immediate  causes  of  a  nation's  distress,  yet  a  holy  God  permits, 
it,  and  in  justice 'directs  it,  for  a  punishment  to  the  guilty  nation. 
Thus  the  Sovereign  of  the  world  threatens,  and  I  will  give  children 
to  their  princes,  and  babes  shall  rule  over  them,  and  the  people  shall 
be  oppressed,  every  one  by  another,  and  every  one  by  his  neighbour."^ 
Ancient  and  modern  history,  both  profane  and  divine,  bear  testimony 
to  this  truth. — It  has  been  frequently  asserted  in  our  public  prints, 
that  it  was  evident  God  gave  the  government  of  Great  Britain  up 


196  NEW 'JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.  [1779 

to  foolish  counsels,  in  order  to  punish  the  nation  for  their  sins.  The 
events  have  hitherto  proved  it.  Before  I  proceed  to  show  that  our 
sins  are  such  as  require  national  chastisement  and  punishment,  I  beg 
leave  to  observe,  that  in  the  best  of  nations  there  are  always  some 
abandonedly  wicked ;  and  in  the  worst  of  nations  some  moral  good. — 
That  in  the  most  abandonedly  wicked  nations,  all  the  individuals  are 
not  guilty  of  the  same  vices,  nor  in  the  same  degree  ;  but  some  of  one 
sort  and  some  of  another,  and  so  in  conjunction  make  out  and  ag- 
gravate the  whole. — That  a  nation  is  denominated  vicious  or  virtuous, 
according  as  the  one  or  the  other  of  those  opposite  characters  be- 
come public  and  honourable  in  the  opinion  of  the  prevailing  party. 
I  fear  the  vicious  will  overbalance  the  morally  virtuous  in  our  com- 
munity, and  that  our  sins  are  of  such  an  aggravated  nature,  being 
committed  against  light  and  mercies,  as  require  severer  calamities  than 
we  have  as  yet  experienced.  My  reasons  for  this  fearful  apprehen- 
sion I  shall  attempt  to  give  with  candor  and  without  exaggeration  and 
agreeable  to  truth,  as  far  as  my  knowledge  of  men  and  manners  in. 
our  community  extends. 

1.  The  Icudiiif/  principle  of  vice  is  libertinism,  i.  c.  a  maintaining 
1>H  irords  or  actions,  that  the  laws  of  religion  ouyht  to  hare  no  re- 
straint upon  men.  Principles  as  destructive  to  civil  society  as  dis- 
honourable to  the  Supreme  Being.  These  are  the  principles  so  much 
in  vogue  and  practice  among  those  who  assume  the  character,  air  and 
deportment  of  gentlemen  among  us. — To  our  shame  it  must  lie  con- 
fessed that  there  are  men  among  the  honourable  members  of  the 
august  council  of  this  empire,  which  are  too  well  known  to  make 
ridicule  of  all  religion  and  everything  sacred,  and  yet  are  entrusted 
with  the  management  of  the  important  affairs  of  the  contest,  which  is- 
committed  to  God  for  a  decision.  It  however  affords  satisfaction  to 
the  virtuous  among  us,  to  see  by  several  resolves  of  Congress,  that 
men  of  such  an  abondoned  character  have  as  yet,  not  the  majority 
in  that  house.  In  one  of  these  resolves  it  was  warmly  recommended 
to  the  different  Legislatures  to  pass  laws  for  the  effectual  curbing  of 
vice.  The  good  people  of  this  State  have  long  complained  that  the 
laws  under  the  former  government  were  insufficient  for  that  purpose, 
and  I  hoped  that  our  new  Legislators  would  have  amended  them, 
especially  when  I  saw  it  so  warmly  recommended  by  Congress  :  but 
when  I  reviewed  the  titles  of  the  laws  they  passed,  I  found,  to  my 
surprise  this  was  neglected.  If  this  neglect  has  proceeded  from  a 
disregard  and  indifference  respecting  these  matters,  it  is  too  evident 
a  proof  that  some  of  the  leading  members  are  too  much  tainted  with 
these  principles. — I  have  a  true  regard  for  the  gentlemen  of  our  army. 
as  far  as  their  bravery  in  the  defence  of  our  country  demands  it. 
But  I  am  sorry  to  have  so  much  reason  to  believe  that  a  great  part 
of  them  are  intirely  swayed  by  such  Epicurean  principles.  I  am 
induced  to  believe  this  from  their  public  conduct.  The  last  thanks- 
giving day,  proclaimed  by  Congress  (under  whose  immediate  authority 
they  act)  was  almost  wholly  disregarded  by  that  part  which  is 
quartered  in  Somerset.  His  Excellency  the  Commander  in  Chief 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  197 

was  then  at  Philadelphia.  Add  to  this  their  frequent  balls,  at  a  time 
when  so  many  of  our  fellow-citizens  groan  under  the  frowns  of  heaven. 
Their  drinking  to  excess,  their  heaven  provoking  custom  of  profane 
cursing  and  swearing,  their  shocking  profanation  of  God's  holy  day, 
and  an  intire  disregard  of  all  public  worship  due  to  our  Creator ;  their 
neglect  of  the  laws  of  Congress  for  restraining  vice  in  the  army.  All 
which  affords  too  much  ground  for  such  suspicion.  Chaplains  in  our 
army,  who  eat  their  country's  bread  and  draw  their  pay  for  doing  no 
other  duty  than  reading  service  to  their  brigades  less  than  a  dozen  of 
thru  s  in  a  twelve  month,  are  probably  actuated  by  no  better  principle. 
If  we  view  the  gentlemen  and  ladies  engaged  in  the  affairs  of  private 
life,  they  will  exhibit  to  us  a  still  more  deplorable  sense  of  vanity  and 
debauchery,  shown  in  their  balls,  assemblies,  extravagant  dress  and 
unaccountable  fashions,  their  unrestrained  profanation  of  the  sab- 
bath, by  pursuing  their  vanities  or  secular  affairs.  The  whole  of  their 
luxury  and  dissipation,  joined  with  that  intire  disregard  of  the  in- 
stituted worship  of  God  and  all  sacred  things,  strongly  evinces  that 
the  maxim  of  Epicurus,  eat,  drink  and  divert  yourselves,  for  after  death 
there  is  no  pleasure,  has  much  greater  influence  on  such  dissipated 
minds  than  those  of  the  holy  religion  of  Jesus  Christ. — What  adds  to 
,the  awful  guilt  of  those  of  superior  rank  in  a  nation,  is  the  powerful 
influence  the  conduct  of  such  have  upon  the  morals  of  the  rest  of  the 
community. 

2.  Though  it  must  be  supposed  that  the  generality  of  inferior  rank 
in  our  different  States,  of  whatever  Christian  denomination  they  be, 
still  believe  that  the  iaws  of  religion  ought  to  influence  our  actions, 
yet  the  destructive  examples  before  recited,  the  many  temptations  of 
the  present  day,  and  the  prevailing  corruptions  of  human  nature,  have 
carried  like  a  mighty  torrent,  the  multitude  down  the  stream  of  vice, 
even  against  the  dictates  and  checks  of  their  own  consciences.     This 
is  at  least  evident,  that  the  general  neglect  of  divine  truths  and  the 
public  ordinances  of  God,   the  profanation   of  the  Lord's  Day,   even 
by  members  who  profess  to  believe  the  divine  command  for  the  sanc- 
tification  of  it ;    the  horrible  practice  of  profane  cursing  and  swear- 
ing, drunkenness,  and  all  excess  of  riot,  have  made  such  advances  of 
late,    as   threaten   the  destruction   of   the   rising   generation,   by   thus 
bursting  asunder  the  laws  of  religion  and  society. 

3.  The  culpable  neglect  of  civil  Magistrates  in  the  execution  of  our 
laws  against  open  profanity  and  vice,   though  I  mention  in  the  last 
place,  is  by  no  means  one  of  the  least  of  our  national  sins.     The  civil 
sword  is  entrusted  to  them  to  check  vice  and  punish  wickedness.     For 
he  is  the  minister  of  God  to  thee  for  good,  but  if  thou  do  that  which  is 
evil,  be  afraid;   for  he  beareth  not  the  sword  in  vain.    This  is  the  lan- 
guage of  a  writer  whose  authority  and  veracity  our  magistrates  will  not 
presume   to   dispute. — Though   I   confess   with   pleasure   that   the  At- 
torney General  and   Grand   Juries  of  our  courts  have  in  a  late  in- 
stance  exerted    themselves   for   punishing   gamesters    at    horse-racing, 
I   must,   however,   acknowledge   I  know  of  no  other  instance  of  any 


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civil  magistrates  fining  or  any  ways  punishing  for  profane  swearing,, 
cursing,  sabbath-breaking,  gaming,  or  any  public  vice  punishable  by 
the  laws  of  the  land,  ever  since  our  glorious  revolution  has  happened. 
Though  these  vices  have  never  been  more  public  and  daring  among  us 
than  since  that  time.  What  many  of  such  officers  do  with  their 
consciences  I  know  not.  I  svippose  they  generally  excuse  themselves, 
because  no  complaints  are  lodged  with  them.  But  who  in  the  whole 
community  are  under  such  obligations  to  inform  as  these  gentlemen 
are?  Why  do  they  want  to  be  informed  of  what  their  eyes  behold 
and  their  ears  hear?  If  they  want  information  why  do  they  not  send 
for  evidence  and  examine  them  respecting  credible  reports  of  vices 
punishable  by  law.  having  been  perpetrated  in  their  respective  dis- 
tricts? Such  conduct  would  soon  put  a  stop  to  public  vice.  Why 
then  is  it  not  done?  Because  many  Magistrates  dread  more  the 
frowns  of  men,  of  abandoned  men.  than  of  a  holy  and  a  just  God.  to 
whom  they  are  held  responsible  for  the  neglect  of  duty,  and  the  in- 
jury therefrom  accruing  to  society.  It  is  descriptive  of  the  distracted 
state  of  Israel,  where  a  sacred  historian  says — In  those  days  there 
•?/:«.$  no  I'inc/  in  Israel,  but  every  man  did  that  which  n:as  right  in  his 
oicn  eyes.  There  is  no  sin  more  provoking  to  God  and  destructive 
to  society  than  that  those  to  whom  Providence  has  committed  the 
civil  sword,  refuse  to  use  it  for  the  end  it  was  given,  and  by  their 
sinful  neglect  rather  encourage  the  vices  intended  to  be  thereby  pre- 
vented than  check  them. 

The  foregoing  hints  exhibit  to  us.  my  fellow-citizens,  an  awful  but 
a  true  portrait  of  the  moral  character  of  this  distressed  country. 
Can  tho  honest  person,  when  he  seriously  reflects  upon  it,  wonder 
that  our  empire  labours  under  a  complication  of  disorders?  How 
can  those  who  really  believe  the  existence  of  a  God  and  the  government 
of  the  world  by  his  providence,  expect  that  he  will  pass  by  those 
destructive  and  God-provoking  vices,  in  a  people  which  make  pro- 
fessions of  Christianity,  which  he  has  constantly  punished,  even  in 
Pagan  nations?  We  are  certainly  a  people  laid  under  many  obliga- 
tions of  gratitude  to  God.  to  them  I  may  say  in  the  language  of 
Moses.  Do  yc  tJtus  requite  the  Lord.  O!  foolish  people  and  unwise! 
What  will  be  the  issue  of  a  perseverance  in  such  conduct?  If  God 
l)C  against  nx  irho  shall  be  for  iis?  Shall  there  be  an  evil  in  the  eity, 
and  the  Lord  hath  not  done  it?  Ought  not  every  true  friend  to  his- 
country,  to  exert  himself  in  order  to  remove  this  chief  cause  of  our 
national  calamity?  I  know  addresses  of  a  serious  nature  generally 
afford  matter  for  ridicule  to  libertines  and  atheists.  My  proper 
business  here  is  not  to  attempt  a  confutation  of  their  principles  :  I 
only  call  their  attention  to  what  they  must  acknowledge  to  be  a  truth 
attested  by  the  history  of  all  ages,  namely,  that  luxury  and  all 
manner  of  public  vice  have  at  all  times  proved  the  procuring  causes, 
or  at  least  the  forerunners  of  national  calamities:  and  therefore  I 
would  conjure  them,  for  the  welfare  of  themselves  and  fellow-citiz°ns, 
to  reform,  at  least  in  their  moral  conduct,  in  order  to  remedy  our 


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present  calamities  and  avoid  greater.  Those  who  are  as  yet  not  proof 
against  the  precepts  of  the  gospel,  I  would  address  in  the  words  of 
a  prophet,  to  his  wicked  and  luxurious  sovereign.  Wherefore,  O! 
king,  let  my  counsel  be  acceptable  unto  thee,  and  break  off  thy  sins 
by  righteousness,  and  thine  iniquities  by  showing  mercy  to  the  poor, 
if  it  mat/  be  a  lengthening  of  thy  tranquiUty.  Let  such  as  are  led 
captive  by  their  corruptions  and  the  power  of  their  vices,  seriously 
reflect  upon  their  past  conduct,  compare  it  with  the  precepts  of  the 
holy  gospel,  and  maturely  judge  for  themselves.  Does  your  pro- 
fanity and  vice  afford  you  any  real  profit,  advantage  or  true  and 
lasting  pleasure?  Is  there  a  God?  Is  there  a  final  judgment  and  a 
future  state  of  punishments  and  rewards  to  be  expected?  Are  you 
responsible  to  the  supreme  Judge  for  all  your  moral  actions?  I 
appeal  to  your  consciences  for  answers  to  such  important  queries. 
Consider  yourselves  as  members  of  civil  society,  and  I  venture  to 
assert,  if  you  are  tories  you  have  Balaam's  disposition,  you  would; 
readily  have  cursed  our  Israel,  you  have  done  your  endeavour  to  in- 
jure it,  is  it  wonder  that  such  should  do  their  utmost  to  lay  offences 
in  our  way,  and  bring  the  indignation  of  God  upon  us?  knowing 
that  would  be  worse  than  all  the  power  and  force  of  our  enemies. 
Such  will  sooner  or  later  get  a  Balaam's  reward.  But  you  who 
esteem  yourselves  friends  to  your  country,  can  you  persevere  in  a 
conduct  so  evidently  calculated  for  its  destruction?  You  have  reasons. 
to  be  convinced  that  our  sins  have  done  us  more  hurt  than  our  in- 
veterate enemies.  And  will  you  go  on  to  ruin  your  country,  and  bring- 
yourselves  and  fellow-citizens  in  still  greater  distress?  Have  you 
a  spark  of  love  left  for  your  bleeding  country,  forsake  the. evil  of  your 
ways,  and  turn  to  that  God  who  has  justly  smitten  us,  and  in  wrath 
has  often  remembered  mercy,  and  still  shows,  by  his  providence,  that 
he  waits  not  for  our  destruction,  but  for  our  repentance,  in  order  that 
he  might  save  and  deliver  us  in  a  way  honourable  to  himself.  Let  me 
beseech  our  civil  Magistrates  to  reflect  upon  the  trust  committed  to 
them,  fear  not  men,  but  him  icho  is  able  to  destroy  soul  and  body  in 
hell.  Exert  your  power  to  save  your  bleeding  country.  I  am  confi- 
dent you  can  do  more  for  the  preservation  and  advantage  of  it,  by 
exercising  the  powers  in  your  hands  for  the  curbing  of  vice,  than 
numerous  armies  in  the  field.  I  hope  the  Legislature  will  give  you 
all  the  assistance  in  their  power,  by  enacting  or  amending  laws  suf- 
ficient for  the  purpose. — Were  we  once  a  reformed  people,  I  am  con- 
fident we  would  soon  be  a  happy  people,  enjoying  peace,  liberty  and 
plenty. 

In  my  next,  Mr.  Collins,  I  purpose,  if  life  and  health  permits,  to 
show  the  more  immediate  causes  of  our  calamities  to  be  discovered1 
in  the  civil  misconduct  of  our  citizens  and  rulers. 

I  subscribe  myself,  Sir,  your  friend,  and  the  Publick's  well-wisher, 

A    TRUE    PATRIOT. 


200  XEAV    JERSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 


For  the  NEW  JERSEY  GAZETTE. 

Mr.  COLLINS, 

WHEN  the  measure  with  which  we  mete  is  measured  to  us  again, 
we  cannot  call  the  treatment  either  unkind  or  unfair.  In  several 
instances  the  Monthly  Reviewers  make  themselves  merry  with  con- 
victing people  who  come  within  their  jurisdiction,  of  Hibernianism, 
as  they  call  them,  but  which  are  more  currently  called  butts. — These 
Gentlemen-criticks  will  permit  me  to  mention  a  case  in  which  they 
themselves  seem  to  have  fallen  into  the  same  infirmity  they  so  pleas- 
antly expose  in  others,  and  I  leave  them  to  determine  how  far  it  may 
be  considered  a  deserved  punishment  for  bearing  hard  on  persons 
whose  meaning  is  good,  though  they  may  not  always  be  the  most 
happy  at  expressing  it.  In  their  review  for  January,  1778,  article 
10,  remarking  upon,  Mr.  Anderson's  "Essay  relating  to  agriculture 
and  rural  affairs,"  they  tell  us  that  "in  his  20th  disquisition  he  enu- 
merates several  criteria  by  which  a  man  may  judge  with  some  degree 
of  certainty,  whether  plants,  or  animals,  icill  prosper  in  one  country 
if  transplanted  to  another?"  This  they  have  not  given  as  a  quo- 
tation from  the  book  which  is  the  subject  of  animadversion,  and  there- 
fore have  the  credit  or  burden  of  it  as  it  may  happen  to  stand  or  fall 
on  examination.  I  candidly  endeavoured  by  analysing  the  sentence 
several  ways,  to  reduce  it  from  the  imputation  of  Hibcrnianism,  but 
if  I  am  not  greatly  mistaken  the  quality  is  inseperable  from  it.  I 
disclaim  the  least  intention  of  derogating  from  the  merit  and  utility 
of  that  laudable  institution,  and  more  especially  as  the  members  are 
Whigs,  but  take  liberty  of  interesting  myself  as  far  as  [to]  suggest  the 
propriety  of  tenderness  and  forbearance,  as  we  have  had  occasion, 
more  than  once,  to  observe  that  they  themselves  are  fallible  men,  and 
liable  to  the  lapses  of  others  their  fellow-laborers  in  the  harvest  of 
literature. 

SILENTIO. 


TREXTOX,    MARCH    31. 

JOHX  MAYHEW,  Esq.  was  lately  elected  a  Representa- 
tive in  General  Assembly  for  the  county  of  Salem; 
Colonel  BODO  OTTO  and  Mr.  SAMUEL  HUGG,,  Representa- 
tives for  the  county  of  Gloucester,  in  the  room  of  Col. 
Joseph  Ellis  3  and  Mr.  Joseph  Cooper  declined. 

Monday  se'nnight  the  scow  Molly,  belonging  to  Boston, 
came  ashore  near  Barnegat,  in  this  state1.  She  was  bound 

1  For  a  note  on  Col.  Joseph  Ellis,  see  X.  J.  Archives.  2d  Series.   1  :  557. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  201 

from  Baltimore  to  Amsterdam — but  was  taken  about  25 
leagues  to  the  northward  of  Cape  Charles  by  the  Delaware, 
a  British  frigate,  when  Mr.  Douglass,  the  midshipman, 
was  sent  prize  master,  with  six  seamen,  who,  when  the 
vessel  struck  took  to  their  boats  a»d  saved  themselves. 
They  were  sent  to  Philadelphia,  The  mate  of  the  scow 
who  was  the  only  person  on  board  belonging  to  the  former 
crew,  remains  with  her  in  order-  to  take  care  of  heir  and 
save  the  cargo ;  his  name  is  said  to  be  Coop. 

Wednesday  following  the  sloop  Success,  bound  from 
Martinico  to  Boston,  came  ashore  in  the  snow  storm  at 
Barnegat,  She  had  been  taken  by  the  Diligence,  a  British 
armed  brig,  and  was  on  her  way  to  New  York.  She  had 
a  very  valuable  cargo  of  rum,  molasses,  coffee  and  cocoa 
on  beard.  The  prize  master  and  three  hands  are  made 
prisoners,  who  arrived  at  Princeton  on  Saturday  last. 

In  the  late  snow  storm  the  transport  ship  Mermaid, 
belonging  to  Whitehaven,  in  England,  with  troops,  bound 
from  Halifax  to  New  York,  was  driven  on  shore  at  Egg- 
Harbour.  Upwards  of  100  of  the  people  on  board  per- 
ished, the  remainder  by  the  exertions  of  the  inhabitants  on 
shore,  were  saved.  We  expect  further  particulars. 

It  is  reported  that  one  or  two  other  vessels  were  driven 
on  shore  at  the  same  time. 

Yesterday  evening  arrived  here  from  Philadelphia, 
Generals  De  Kalb  and  Wood  ford,  and  this  morning  they 
set  out  for  Head-Quarters  at  Middle-Brook. 

*  ...  *  We  are  desired  by  the  Commissioners  of  Somer- 
set county,  to  inform  the  Publick  that  the  plantation  of 
Joseph  Stockton,  near  Princeton,  will  be  sold  on  the  6th 
of  April  ensuing;  that  of  Daniel  Coxe  at  Kocky-Hill,  on 
the  7th ;  the  estate  of  John  Honeman  at  Grigg's-Town,  on 
the  8th,  and  the  plantation  of  John  Yandike  in  Sourland, 
near  the  Meeting-house,  on  the  9th  following. 


202  NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.  [1779 


Just  published,  and  to  be  sold  by  the  Printer  hereof, 
The  Mighty  Destroyer  displayed. 

In  some  account  of  the  dreadful  havock  made  by  the 
mistaken  use  as  well  as  abuse  of  DISTILLED  SPIRITUOUS 
LIQUORS.  By  a  lover  of  mankind.1 

Ecclesiastics  vii  29.  Lo  this  only  have  I  found,  that 
God  liath  made  man  upright;  but  they  have  souglii  out 
many  inventions. 

To  be  sold  at  vendue,  on  Friday  the  9th  April  next,  at 
Tom's-River : 

THE  sloop  SUCCESS,  as  she  lays  on  Island  Beach ;  Also 
her  cargo  consisting  of  rum,  molasses,  coffee  and  cocoa. 

By  order  of  the  Court  of  Admiralty, 

Jos.   POTTS,  Marshal. 


TO    BE    SOLD. 

At  FUBLICK  VENDUE,  on  Thursday  the  8th  day  of  April 
next,  at  the  house  of  the  subscriber  in  Princeton. 

A  cow  and  heifer;  a  neat  bonk  case;  large  and  small 
tables;  looking-glasses;  knives  and  forks;  chairs;  a  variety 
of  men's  wearing  apparel;  bedding;  queen's  and  deli 
ware;  kitchen  furniture,  and  sundry  other  articles.  The 
vendue  to  begin  at  ten  o'clock  on  said  day. 

ENOS    KELSKY. 

To  all  whom  it  may  concern : 

XCAV  Jersey,      XOTICE  is  hereby  given,  that  a  Court  of 
ss.  Admiralty   will   be   held   at   the  house   of 

Gilbert  Barton,  in  Allen-Town,  on  Tuesday  the  thirteenth 
day  of  April  next,  at  ten  o'clock  in  the  forenoon,  then  and 
there  to  try  the  truth  of  the  facts  alledged  in  the  bill  of 

1  Anthony   Benezet. 


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John  Burrows  (who  as  well,  &c.)  against  the  schooner  or 
vessel  called  the  Betsy,  with  her  tackle,  apparel,  furniture 
and  cargo;  To  the  end  and  intent  that  the  owner  or 
owners,  or  any  person  or  persons  concerned  therein,  may 
appear  and  shew  cause,  (if  any  they  have)  why  the  said 
vessel,  with  her  tackle,  apparel,  furniture  and  cargo',  should 
not  be  condemned  according  to  the  prayer  of  the  said  bill. 
By  order  of  the  Judge, 

JOSEPH  BLOOMFIELD,  Register. 


is  hereby  given  to  all  persons  who  have  any  or 
shall  buy  any  land  of  Mr.  John  Scott,  of  Morris  county, 
that  I  Elunice  Scott,  his  wife,  shall  come  in  for  my  part  of 
said  lands,  as  soon  as  the  law  shall  allow  of,  as  I  expect  he 
is  going  to  the  enemy. 

EUNICE    SCOTT. 

Morris  County,  March  14,  1779. 

I  DO  hereby  forewarn  all  persons  not  to  purchase  the 
house  and  lot  in  the  city  of  Burlington,  advertised  as  the 
property  of  John  Carty,  as  the  said  house;  and  lot  never 
did  belong  to  him,  but  to  the  subscriber,  as  heir  at  law  to 
her  late  uncle,  Ralph  Peart. 

JANE    PEART. 

Philadelphia,  March  19,  1779. 

Came  to  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber  in  Hopewell, 
near  Pennington,  a  dark  brown  HORSE,  both  his  hind  feet 
white,  and  his  near  fore  foot  also  white,  about  14  hands 
high,  9  or  10  years  old.  The  owner  is  desired  to  come, 
prove  property,  pay  charges  and  take  him  away. 

BENJAMIN    MOORE. 

THREE  DOLLARS  per  bushel  will  be  given  for  good  clean 
FLAXSEED,  delivered  at  Richard  Well's  oil-mill  in  Bur- 
lington, by  JAMES  SMITH,  jun.  who  hath  for  sale  linseed- 


204  NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.  [1779 

oil  of  the  first  quality,  for  burning  in  lamps  or  other  uses. 
—Also  flaxseed  meal,  which  is  an  excellent  feed  for  horses, 
cows  or  hogs,  and  will  be  sold  in  cakes  or  by  the  bushel, 
at  the  mill,  or  exchanged  for  flaxseed. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 
By  the  subscriber, 

A  PLANTATION  containing  194  acres  of  land,  in  the 
county  of  Morris,  in  Hanover  township,  three  miles  from 
Whatnon  to  Chatham,  a  house  two  stories  high,  with  four 
rooms  and  an  entry  on  the  lower  floor,  and  three  rooms 
may  be  made  above,  two  good  orchards  and  a  cyder-mill,  a 
good  barn,  fruit  trees  of  all  sorts,  forty  acres  of  good 
English  meadow,  and  more  may  be  made;  woodland, 
pliaigli-land  and  pasture-land.  The  whole  well  watered, 
the  situation  very  pleasant  and  advantageous,  but  one  mile 
from  a  grist-mill,  and  a  mile  and  a  half  from  a  saw-mill. 
Whoever  inclines  to  purchase  the  said  farm  may  apply 
to  John  or  William  Wick,  who  lives  on  the  premises. 

March  22,  1779. 

Dr.  RYAN'S 

INCOMPARABLE    WORM-DESTROYING 

SUGAR  PLUMBS, 

Necessary  to  be  kept  in  all  FAMILIES  ; 

So  exceedingly  valued  by  all  people  who  have  had  of  them  in  Great 
Britain  and  Ireland,  for  their  transcendent  excellency  in  the  destroying 
worms  of  all  kinds,  both  in  the  bodies  of  men,  women  and  children,  by  not 
only  breaking  the  knots  in  the  duodenum,  or  gut  next  the  stomach,  but 
they  pass  through  the  smallest  passages  of  the  body,  and  purge  away 
those  ropy  and  slimy  humours,  which  are  the  cause  of  those  pernicious 
vermin,  and  the  source  of  many  other  disorders ;  they  are  one  of  the 
best  purges  in  the  world  for  gross-bodied  children  that  are  apt  to  breed 
worms,  and  have  large  bellies  ;  their  operation  is  mild,  safe  and  pleasant ; 
they  wonderfully  cleance  the  bowels  of  all  stiff  and  clammy  humours  which 
stop  up  the  parts,  and  prevent  the  juce  of  food  from  being  conveyed  to 
the  liver  and  made  blood,  which  is  often  the  case  with  children,  and  is 
attended  with  a  hard  belly,  stinking  breath,  frequent  fevers,  rickets,  and 
a  decay  of  strength  in  the  lower  parts:  Likewise  settled  aches  and 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  205 

pains  in  the  head,  swellings,  old  sores,  scabs,  tetters,  or  breakingsout,  will 
be  perfectly  cured,  and  the  blood  and  skin  restored  to  its  original  purity 
and  smoothness  ;  they  purge  by  urine,  and  bring  away  the  gravel,  and 
effectually  cure  all  obstructions  of  the  urine,  or  ulcers  in  the  kidneys. 
They  at  once  strike  at  the  true  cause  of  the  scurvy,  and  entirely  destroy 
it,  and  all  scorbutic  humours  and  effects,  root  and  branch,  so  as  never  to 
return  again  ;  and  what  makes  them  more  commendable  is,  they  are  full 
as  agreeable  to  both  taste  and  sight,  as  loaf  sugar  ;  and  in  their  operation 
as  innocent  as  new  milk. 

I  have  by  these  plumbs  cured  a  great  many  children  of  whooping  or 
chin-coughs,  and  agues,  which  distempers  are  very  common  and  trouble- 
some to  families,  and  the  want  of  these  plumbs  are  the  ruin  of  many 
childrens  constitutions. 

These  plumbs  enrich  and  sweeten  the  whole  mass  of  blood,  carry  off  all 
gross,  corrupt  and  putrid  humours,  and'  create  a  fresh,  and  healthy  com- 
plexion in  such  as  are  affected  by  any  putrid  matter. 

The  plumb  is  a  great  diuretic,  cleansing  the  reins  of  slime  :  It  expels 
wind,  and  is  a  sovereign  medicine  in  the  cholic  and  griping  of  the  guts. 
It  allays  and  carries  off  sour  vapours,  which  occasion  many  disorders  in 
the  head.  It  opens  all  obstructions  in  the  stomach,  lungs,  liver,  reins 
and  bladder,  causes  a  good  appetite,  and  helps  digestion.  It  hath  been 
found  wonderfully  successful  to  such  persons  as  are  going  into  chronical 
distempers,  as  asthmas,  phthisics,  or  shortness  of  breath,  dropsies  and 
yellow  jaundice.  Now  I  hope  all  impartial  persons  are  satisfied,  that  the 
medicine  which,  works  upon  such  humours,  will  almost  reach  any  dis- 
temper, if  not  too  far  gone,  since  corruption  and  putrefaction  are  the 
fore-runner®  of  a-11  diseases  :  therefore  no  better  physic  can  be  taken  for 
all  ages,  sexes  and  constitutions,  from  infancy  to  an  old  age.  These 
plumbs  are  highly  serviceable  to  the  female  sex  from  the  age  of  14  to  20 
years,  and  from  40  to  50.  Each  box  contains  one  dozen  of  these  plumbs, 
price  Eight  Dollars  with  directions.  Sold  by  JAMES  EMERSON,  at  his  store 
in  Trenton. 

SIGNS    Of    WORMS. 

PALENESS  in  the  face,  itching  of  the  nose,  hollowness  of  the  eyes,  grating 
of  the  teeth  when  asleep,  dulness,  pains  and  heaviness  in  the  head,  a  dry 
cough,  and  itching  in  the  fundament,  white  and  thick  urine,  unquiet  sleep, 
often  starting,  lost  appetite,  swelled  belly,  gnawing  and  biting  about  the 
stomach,  frightful  dreams,  extreme  thirsts,  the  body  decay'd  and  lean,  fits, 
often  vomiting,  stinking  breath,  &c.  Also  imported  SALT. 

To  all  whom  it  may  concern : 

New  Jersey,     NOTICE  is  hereby  given,  that  a  Court  of 
ss.  Admiralty  will  be  held  at  the  house  of  Gil- 

bert Barton,  in  Allen-Town,  on  Wednesday  the  fourteenth 
day  of  April  next,  at  ten  o'clock  in  the  forenoon  of  the 
same  day,  then  and  there  to  try  the  truth  of  the  facts 
alledged  in  the  bill  of  John  Price,  (who  as  well,  &c.) 
against  the  sloop  or  vessel  called  the  Success,  lately  com- 


206  NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.  [1779 

manded  by  Edward  Finlay,  with  her  tackle,  apparel, 
furniture  and  cargo ;  To  the  end  and  intent  that  the  owner 
or  owners  of  the  said  vessel,  or  any  person  or  persons 
concerned  therein,  may  appear  and  shew  cause  (if  any 
they  have)  why  the  said  vessel  and  cargo  should  not  be  con- 
demned according  to  the  prayer  of  the  said  bill. 
By  order  of  the  Judge, 

JOSEPH    BLOOMFIELD. 

Register. 

—The  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  II. }  No.  68,  March  31, 
1779. 

Two  Hundred  Dollars  Reward. 

OTOLEX    from    the    subscriber,    living    in    Somerset 
O      County,  State  of  Xew-Jersey,  about  the  21st  of  Feb- 
ruary last,  by  a  certain  Henry  Rush,  the  following 
articles.— 

A  woman's  gold  watch  and  key,  the  watch  has  a  gold 
face,  chased  case,  representing  Pompey's  head  shewn  to 
Caesar,  maker's  name  supposed  to  be  Wilsman,  London; 
on  the  key  is  represented  a  hautboy,  fiddle,  flute,  trumpet, 
£c.  lying  across  each  other ;  also  a  blue  regimental  co>at, 
turned  up  with  red,  silver  epaulet,  (made  out  of  knee 
garters)  the  coat  is  lined  throughout  with  white  durant, 
except  the  skirts  which  turn  up,  and  about  four  inches  the 
fore  part,  which  is  red  shaloon,  the  buttons  are  white- 
flowered,  (two  or  three  lost)  hooks  and  eyes,  in  the  fore 
part,  are  some  of  black  wire,  twisted,  some  single  white 
wire;  also  a  white  twilled  vest  and  breeches,  the  vest  lined 
with  white  fustian,  the  breeches  not  lined,  buttons  white 
flowered  ;  all  which  clothes  he  went  off  in ;— likewise  a  full 
welted  hunting  saddle,  not  half  worn,  the  tree  has  been 
broke,  and  is  mended  by  a  piece  of  iron  clinched  on  the 
inside;  the  saddle  cloth,  blue  long  ells,  with  a  stripe  of 
white  cloth,  three  quarters  of  an  inch  wide1,  sewed  round 
near  the  edge,  and  lined  with  tow  linen;  a  bridle,  the 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  207 

reins  tied  to  the  bit.— The  said  fellow  was  born  in  Phila- 
delphia, has  straight  hair,  a  scar  on  one  side  of  his  face, 
is  very  talkative,  and  speaks  both  the  English  and  German 
very  well ;  it  is  expected  he  will  endeavour  to  pass  for  an 
officer,  as  he  has  procured  himself  a  sword,  and  an  old 
commission.  He  is  now  deserted  from  C'apt  Van  Heer's 
troop  of  light  horse,  and  it  is  supposed  he  is  gone  to 
Goshen,  in  the  State  of  New-York,  as  he  has  said  his 
mother  lived  there)  or  to  Albany,  where  he  is  well 
acquainted. — Whoever  will  secure  the  said  thief,  in  any  of 
the  State's  gaols,  shall  receive  one  hundred  dollars  reward, 
and  all  reasonable  charges,  and  for  the  watch,  one  hundred 
dollars  more,  paid  by 

JOHN  J.  SCHENK. 
Somerset  County,,  State  of  New-   ) 
Jersey,  March  1,  1779.  ) 


CHATHAM,  'March  30. 

Came  ashore  in  the  snow-storm,  on  the  22d  instant,  at 
Egg-Harbour,  a  sloop  from  the  West-Indies,  belonging 
to  Boston,  but  lately  captured  by  the  enemy. 

The  same  day  the  Mermaid  of  Whitehaven  belonging 
to  the  enemy  drove  ashore  at  the  above  place,  and  out  of 
one  hundred  and  seventy  people  that  were  on  board,  only 
twenty  were  saved.  —  The  Royal  Gazette,  No.  262,  April  3, 


NEW-YORK,  April  5. 

A  Party  of  12  Continental  Troops  with  an  Officer,  were 
taken  last  Friday  Night  on  Bergen  Neck,  by  a  Detach- 
ment from  the  64th  Regiment  that  lay  at  Powlis  Hook: 
They  were  brought  to  Town  Saturday  Morning  last.  —  The 
New-York  Gazette:  and  the  Weekly  Mercury,  No.  1433, 
1779.  , 


208  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION".  [1779 

[No.    III.] 
Mr.  COLLINS, 

IN  my  last  essay  I  endeavoured  to  show  the  chief  meritorious  cause 
of  our  present  calamities,  I  now  purpose  an  attempt  to  investigate 
the  immediate  efficient  causes  of  them.  Here  I  beg  to  be  indulged 
with  that  liberty  and  freedom  of  disquisition  which  every  free  born 
American  has  a  right  to  enjoy. 

2.  The  second  or  efficient  cause  then  of  our  present  distresses,  I  do- 
not  believe  so  much  to  be  the  war  carried  on  against  us  by  a  relentless 
and  savage  enemy,  which  we  have  fought  with  unparalleled  success,  and 
broke  their  main  force  ;  but  humbly  conceive  it  to  be  bad  principles 
and  practice  in  many  of  our  citizens,  and  misrule  in  our  civil  su- 
periors. In  order  to  make  this  assertion  evident,  I  must  premise 
one  or  two  observations.  I  observe  then, 

1.  That  a  circulating  medium  for  commerce  and  trade,  is  necessary 
for   the   case   and   convenience  of   our  civil   society.     This   medium   is 
called    money.     Mankind    almost   generally    has   fixed    upon    gold    and 
silver    as    such,    because    it    is    scarce    and    rare,    and    has    something" 
brilliant    in    its    appearance.     Because    there    is    not    a    sufficiency    of 
this   to   answer   every   purpose   in   commerce  and   trade    (and  if  there 
was   it  would   lose  its  value,  and  the  end   intended  thereby)    to  make 
up    this    inconvenience,    bonds,    bills,    notes,    &c.    have    been    invented 
and    used.     Now    all    these    are    not    real    property,    nor    absolutely 
necessary   to   our   subsistence,    individually,   nor   in   society :     for  none 
of   that    can    either    feed    or    clothe   us.     And    as    every    individual    in 
society  can  not  raise  what  is  necessary,  the  bartering  of  the  produce 
of    one's    labour    for    that    of    another,    is   become    expedient;     but    as- 
society    and    this   kind    of   commerce   encreased,    bartering   became    in- 
convenient, and  so  was  the  medium  of  money  introduced,  in  order  to 
remedy  that  inconvenience.     Hence  is  evident  that  money  is  by  com- 
mon consent,  a  kind  of  bill  or  note.     For  example,  one  person  has  more 
of  one  commodity  than  he  needs,  he  gets  money  for  it,  which  intitles 
him  to  get  other  property  which  suits  him.  to  an  equal  amount  of  what 
he  sold.     Hence  also  is  evident,  that  it  makes  no  material  difference 
whether    money    is    of    gold,    silver,    iron    or    paper,    provided    it    will 
answer   the  purpose  of   trade   and   commerce.     That   of  the    Spartans 
was  iron.     Among  us  it  has  mostly  been  paper  for  a  long  time  past, 
and   has   answered   all    the   necessary  purposes  which  gold   and    silver 
does   in   other   nations. 

2.  I   observe  al-:o.   that   it   is  absolutely   necessary   for   the   security 
of   the   community,   that   this   circulating   medium  should   have   a   cer- 
tain determinate  value  stamped  upon  it,  and  that  secured  to  the  pos- 
sessor by  some  sanction,  in  order  to  answer  the  purposes  thereby  in- 
tended.    For   if   the   nominal   value  of  money   is   the  half  less   to-day 
than  it  was  a  few  weeks  or  months  ago,  and  probably  will  sink  one- 
half  more   in   a  few   to   come,   it   is   as  evidently  destructive  to   trade 
and    commerce,    and    so    to    civil    society,    as    the    other    is    beneficial. 
This  nominal  value  must  be  estimated,  not  by  its  bulk,  for  the  same 
bulk  or  weight  of  gold  will  purchase  much  more  real  property  than 


1779]  NEWSPAPER,    EXTRACTS.  209 

that  of  silver ;  nor  by  what  is  inscribed  on  the  bill,  for  if  the  bill 
asserts  that  the  bearer  shall  be  intitled  to  receive  Eight  Dollars,  and  he 
cannot  get  one  for  it,  nor  the  amount  of  one  in  real  property,  then  the 
true  value  of  that  bill  is.  not  one  Spanish  milled  dollar.  I  confess 
it  is  difficult  exactly  to  make  out  the  value  of  this  nominal  prop- 
erty. A  more  particular  discussion  of  this  subject  would  lead  me 
farther  than  I  am  at  present  disposed  to  go.  I  must  however  here 
observe,  that  I  cannot  agree  with  such  as  make  land  or  houses  the 
only  true  barometer  by  which  we  should  measure  the  value  of  our 
money.  Let  such  only  consider  that  these  are  mortgaged  for  the 
sinking  of  the  whole  sum,  and  are  unmoveable  property,  and  not 
such  matter  of  trade.  Are  these  sold,  it  must  be  under  these  in- 
cumbrances,  and  the  apprehension  of  the  future  appreciation  of  the 
money  or  depreciation  of  the  lands,  which  is  the  same;  and  that  is 
the  reason  land  sells  at  present  so  much  under  its  true  value,  com- 
pared with  other  things.  As  the  money  is  only  nominal  property, 
I  apprehend  its  real  value  is  best  measured  by  its  own  specific 
difference,  comparing  it  with  what  it  would  purchase  before  de- 
preciated, and  in  all  probability  will,  when  reduced  to  its  former 
standard.  It  is  certainly  worth  less  than  the  present  difference,  from 
whatever  causes  this  may  arise. 

3.  I  observe  that  all  money  depreciates  or  appreciates  in  propor- 
tion to  the  quantities  to  be  exchanged,  so  if  gold  and  silver  exceeds 
the  bounds  of  a  necessary  medium.  This  was  the  case  in  Solomon's 
time.  Or  if  real  property  becomes  scarce,  and  there  is  not  a  suffi- 
ciency to  answer  the  circulating  medium.  There  are  instances  of 
scarcity  that  has  depreciated  gold  and  silver  as  much  as  our  cur- 
rency is  at  this  time. — It  is  universally  acknowledged  that  our 
paper  currency  is  much  depreciated,  at  a  medium  to  twenty  for  one  at 
the  least.  The  causes  are  reduced  by  a  Gentleman  in  the  Penn- 
sylvania Packet  of  February  16,  to  these  heads :  1.  A  scarcity  of 
many  articles ;  2.  A  monopoly  of  many  articles;  3.  A  ivant  of  con- 
fidence in  the  credit  of  the  money . — He  supposes  the  depreciation 
which  naturally  flows  from  the  superabundant  quantity  of  our  money 
to  be  four  to  one.  Add  the  scarcity  of  articles,  which  operates  in 
the  same  way  as  a  surplus  of  money  to  the  former,  and  then  it  is 
probably  five  or  six  for  one. — Now  it  appears  evident  that  all  what 
our  money  has  depreciated  below  that,  has  arisen  from  the  bad 
principles  and  practice  of  many  of  our  citizens. 

It  appears  to  me  undeniable,  that  the  depreciation  of  our  paper 
currency  (our  only  medium  for  trade)  is  the  sole  efficient  cause  of 
our  present  calamities.  And,  according  to  the  canon  or  maxim  causa 
causa?  cst  causa  causatio,  the  authors  of  this  depreciation  are  the 
authors  of  our  calamities. — Before  I  proceed  to  offer  my  thoughts 
on  the  remedies  for  this  evil,  I  will  endeavour  to  discover  the  authors 
of  this  depreciation  in  their  respective  advances,  in  order  that  their 
country  may  the  better  know  how  to  trust  and  treat  them  in  future; 
and  then  briefly  hint  the  natural  tendency  of  this  cause  to  produce 
all  the  evils  we  groan  under. 

14 


210  NEW    .fERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

Among-  these  depreciative  are  to  be  ranked  such  as  form  a  suspicion 
of  the  credit  of  the  money  they  were  obliged  to  take,  offered  much 
move  of  it  for  real  value  than  it  was  worth,  that  they  might  have  this 
property  secured,  let  the  scale  turn  either  way.  Such  plainly  shewed 
that  their  principle  was  to  secure  their  interest  at  the  risk  of  the 
community.  Others  knew  that  this  money  was  the  sinews  of  our 
war,  and  therefore  stopped  at  no  prices,  but  made  such  monstrous 
offers  for  articles  of  sale,  as  has  often  shocked  even  the  venders.  This 
they  did  with  a  view  entirely  to  destroy  both  the  value  and  credit  of 
it.  We  need  not  ask  from  what  principle  such  suicides  and  aban- 
doned traitors  to  their  country  acted.  Next  were  many  of  the 
gentlemen  merchants,  who  begun  under  the  non-importation  agreement, 
according  to  which  they  were  bound  not  to  take  advantage  of  the 
scarcity  of  foreign  produce,  by  raising  their  profits  of  sale  on  them. 
These,  in  order  to  elude  the  vigilance  of  the  several  committees,  have 
been  known  to  make  the  same  property  pass  through  a  circle  of  sales, 
each  receiving  the  usual  profit  without  ever  moving  it ;  others 
moving  it  at  considerable  expense,  on  pretended  sale,  to  a  distant 
merchant,  and  directly  back  to  the  owner.  All  this  with  express 
view  to  raise  the  price.  To  this  has  succeeded  the  general  monopoly 
and  extortion  to  an  unheard  of  degree.  Let  such  men  their  actions 
interpert  their  principles.  King  Solomon  pronounced  their  doom — 
lie  that  withholdeth  corn,  the  people  shall  curse  him.  The  prices  of 
foreign  produce  having  by  these  means  risen  to  monstrous  height,  the 
farmer  and  mechanick  were  of  course  led  to  raise  the  price  of  their 
labours  in  self  defence.  Tories  among  them  were  loath  to  part  with 
their  real  property  for  Continental  money,  and  a  few  others  acted  from 
a  principle  of  extortion.  But  for  the  most  part  thoses  prices  have  thus 
risen  from  forestallers  and  commissaries  offering  higher  prices  than  ev^r 
the  farmer  would  have  thought  to  ask.  Thus  I  venture  to  assert  that 
the  farmers  and  mechanicks  have  acted  the  most  upright,  sincere  and 
persevering  part  in  this  contest,  of  any  class  of  our  citizens  ;  and  I 
aver  that  the  safety  of  our  liberty  and  political  happiness,  under  God, 
chiefly  depends  upon  them. — Among  all  the  harpies  which  have  preyed 
upon  our  vitals,  none  have  been  worse  than  Quarter-masters,  Com- 
missaries, and  the  whole  host  of  their  deputies.  They  having  their 
certain  per  cent,  for  all  the  public  money  passing  through  their  hands, 
it  became  their  private  interest  to  enhance  the  prices  of  their  respective 
purchases.  And  their  card  they  seem  to  have  played  to  their  advantage 
and  the  Publick's  ruin,  without  controul.  I  hope  the  time  is  not  far 
distant  that  their  injured  country  will  make  the  guilty  among  them 
meet  with  their  just  deserts. — By  these  several  steps  the  prices  of 
things  have  risen,  or  our  money  is  got  so  unnaturally  depreciated  ;  and 
from  thence  appears  which  sort  of  men  our  citizens  have  to  consider  as 
the  principal  authors  of  it. 

Before  I  dismiss  this  subject  I  cannot  avoid  hinting  the  influence  that 
misrule  in  our  civil  superiors  has  had  upon  this  prenicious  evil. — 
Before  I  proceed  I  beg  leave  to  declare,  that  what  I  am  about  to  offer 
does  not  proceed  from  any  personal  malice,  envy  or  grudge  against  any 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  211 

of  my  superiors,  for  which  I  have  not  the  least  cause;  nor  from  a 
disrespect  to  them.  I  conscientiously  believe  lawful  civil  power  to  be 
the  Minister  of  God  unto  us  for  good,  and  such  I  truly  esteem  those 
entrusted  with  the  government  of  this  new  empire,  since  the  glorious 
rvolution.  I  however  esteem  them  fallible  men,  and  a  discovery  of 
their  errors,  lessons  to  them,  and  a  spur  to  the  community  to  guard 
against  the  abuse  of  their  poiver,  and  urge  them  to  a  proper  discharge 
of  their  duty. — The  misrule  I  chiefly  have  in  view,  I  humbly  conceive 
to  consist  in  the  following  particulars. 

1.  As  the  origin  of  the  depreciation  is  the  surplus  of  our  money,  it 
is  evident  government  should  have  emitted  no  more  than  what  was 
necessary  for  a  circulating  medium.     The  prodigious  surplus  gave  an 
advantageous  opportunity  to  monopolizers  and  forestallers  to  get  quan- 
tities of  it  in  their  hands,  and  use  it  to  the  vilest  of  purposes. 

2.  The  neglect  of  due  attention  to  the  civil  or  staff  department  of 
the  army.     Their  pay  to  be  so  much  per  cent,  was  a  manifest  induce- 
ment to  the  raising  of  prices,  and  wanton  destruction  of  whatever  they 
purchased,  and  a  dilatory  idleness  in  all  that  fell  within  that  depart- 
ment.   For  whatever  had  a  tendency  to  increase  the  demands  upon  the 
public  treasury  in  this  way,  turned  to  their  private  emolument.     Add 
to  this  the  opportunities  they  have  for  embezzling  the  public  money,  in 
receiving  immense  quantities  of  it,  without  being  called  to  a  settlement 
of  their  accounts  at  certain  proper  periods.     Suppose  there  should  be 
now  seventy  or  eighty  millions  of  our  public  money  disbursed,  which 
had  as  yet  never  been  properly  accounted  for,  how  difficult  will  it  be  to 
make  a  true  settlement  of  such  large,  various  and  intricate  accounts? 
beside  the  danger  of  losing  millions  in  the  hands  of  villains. 

3.  A  third  error  is  the  method  fallen  upon  to  prevent  the  necessity 
of  emitting  more  money  for  the  exigencies  of  the  war,  by  funding  or 
taking  money  on  loan.     Here  the  remedy  was  worse  than  the  disease  : 
because  it  is  calculated  to   take  in   a  great   quantity  of  depreciated 
money,  and  make  the  community  liable  to  render  it  good  to  the  par- 
ticular proprietors,  besides  a  heavy  load  of  yearly  interest  to  be  paid. 
The  consequence  of  which  will  be  a  prenicious  national  debt,  and  it  has 
not  after  all  answered  the  intended  purpose.     For  there  was  at  that 
time  a  surplus  of  money,  its  depreciation  has  kept  much  more  than 
pace  with  it,  and  therefore  there  was  no  more  than  a  necessary  medium 
for  a  kind  of  trade  then  and  as  yet  carried  on.     It  is  not  the  quantity 
but  the  value  which  settles  the  sufficiency  for  a  medium.     For  if  30,- 
000,000  of  dollars  at  their  former  value  was  but  sufficient,  then  at  the 
present  depreciation  we  must  have  twenty  times  that  sum  to  make  it 
equal  to  what  is  necessary.     It  is  true  that  putting  it  in  bank  was  not 
taking  it  out  of  circulation,  but  it  was  true  that  most  of  those  who  got 
it  in  their  hands,  thought  they  could  employ  it  more  to  their  emolument, 
in  the  kind  of  trade  carried  on,  than  receiving  six  per  cent,  on  loan. 
If  my  views  of  these  matters  are  right,  then  our  government  has  erred 
by  doing  what  was  wrong.     I  also  humbly  conceive  they  have  erred 
and  greatly  promoted  the  depreciation  of  our  currency,  by  not  doing 
what  they  ought  to  have  done. 


212  3TEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

4.  As  soon  as  they  had  emitted  money  sufficient  for  circulation,  they 
ought  immediately  to  have  raised  the  sum  necessary  for  carrying  on 
the  war  by  tax.     The  public  zeal  and  patriotism  which 'at  that  time  so 
remarkably  distinguished  Americans,  would  have  induced  them  to  pay 
those  taxes  more  cheerfully  than  they  will  now  ;    and  the  ardor  that 
forced  heavy  and  jupt  fines  from  tories  for  their  refusal  of  personal 
service  in  the  militia,  would  have  forced  this  from  them.     Thus  would 
new  emissions  have  been  effectually  prevented,  and  the  money  have  a 
proper  circulation,  if  frugally  and  prudently  applied. 

5.  Government   foresaw,  as   they   easily   could,    that  our   particular 
circumstances  would  give  singular  advantages  to  monopolizers,   fore- 
stallers  and  extortioners,  and  the  train  of  evils  they  might  bring  upon 
the    community,    as    they    have    done.      To    prevent    which    Congress 
recommended  the  passing  regulation  acts,  the  only  effectual  means  of 
preventing  it.     Some  states  complied,  others  refused.     If  Congress  has 
exerted  all  the  powers  they  were  possessed  of  to  carry  those  salutary 
resolves  into  execution,  the  refusing  states  must  take  all  the  national 
calamities  which  have  thence  ensued  to  their  charge.     Congress  ought 
to  have  been  convinced  by  that,  that  it  was  a  most  dangerous  tendency 
to  lodge  the  power  of  making  war  in  the  representative  body  of  the 
United  States,  and  still  leave  it  in  the  lawful  power  of  the  minority,  to 
ruin  the  whole  while  engaged  in  it,  and  to  have  induced  them  to  remedy 
that  evil  in  the  confederation. 

G.  The  last  error  I  shall  mention  is  the  mode  Congress  has  adopted 
and  published,  for  sinking  our  money  and  paying  our  national  debt ; 
an  error  which  I  conceive  to  be  unjust  in  its  nature,  and  highly  injuri- 
ous to  the  most  numerous  and  virtuous  part  of  our  community.  But 
as  this  is  intended  as  a  remedy  for  the  evils  I  have  been  endeavouring 
to  investigate  the  causes  of,  I  shall  defer  it  to  a  future  essay,  in  which 
I  intend  a  thorough  examination  of  this  matter,  and  to  apprize  my 
fellow-citizens  of  its  most  dangerous  consequences. 

From  what  I  have  offered,  it  becomes  evident  from  what  causes  the 
depreciation  and  uncertainty  of  the  value  of  our  currency  has  chiefly 
arisen  :  it  requires  no  great  penetration  of  thought  to  see  that  this  is 
the  sole  efficient  cause  of  our  present  calamities  and  disorders.  These 
are  the  plain  and  natural  effects  of  this  cause.  View  its  effect  upon 
public  spirit  and  patriotism.  The  fluctuation  of  the  value  of  money 
makes  every  kind  of  commerce  and  trade  precarious,  and  as  every 
individual  is  more  or  less  interested  in  it,  the  innate  principle  of  self- 
preservation  prompts  them  to  be  continually  on  their  guard.  Thus  the 
whole  of  that  care  and  attention  which  was  given  to  the  public  weal, 
is  turned  to  private  gain  or  self-preservation.  View  it  with  respect  to 
the  division  of  property,  we  will  find  this  the  sole  cause,  that  hundreds 
of  our  most  respectable  citizens,  widows  and  orphans,  who  have  large 
or  comfortable  estates  in  money  at  the  commencement  of  our  troubles, 
are  now  not  worth  the  twentieth  part,  whereas  many  of  the  vilest 
among  us  have  by  the  same  means  amassed  immense  estates. — With 
respect  to  social  virtues,  it  is  evident  what  tendency  it  has  had  on  the 
one  hand  to  put  charity,  honesty,  veracity  and  truth  on  the  rack  ;  and 


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on  the  other  to  banish  sobriety  and  oeconomy,  and  open  the  sluices  to 
luxury  and  dissipation. 

The  cause  of  so  many  evils,  fatal  to  society,  demands  our  serious 
attention   and   vigorous  exertions   to   discover   and   apply   the   proper 
remedy,  which  may  afford  me  the  subject  for  another  essay.     I  am,  sir, 
Tour's  and  the  Publick's  sincere  friend. 

A    TRUE    PATRIOT. 

For  the  NEW  JERSEY  GAZETTE. 
Mr.  COLLINS. 

IN  the  English,  as  well  as  American  papers,  we  are  told,  Mr.  Com- 
missioner Johnstone  declared  in  the  British  House  of  Commons,  No- 
vember last,  "that  two-thirds  of  the  people  of  the  provinces,"  so  he  is 
pleased  to  call  them,  meaning  the  American  States,  "wish  to  return  to 
their  allegiance  to  Britain."  Lord  North  vouches  for  the  truth  of 
what  the  Commissioner  says,  and  fixes  also  the  precise  proportion  for 
the  whole  union,  "that  two-thirds  of  the  people  were  inclined  to  return 
to  the  allegiance  of  Great-Britain."  It  is  a  good  rule  of  prudence, 
not  forwardly  to  pronounce  a  thing  impossible  because  it  is  strange 
and  unaccountable,  or  because,  from  aught  that  appears,  there  is  an 
arrant  absurdity  and  contradiction  in  it :  but  to  disencumber  this  rule 
from  absolute  scepticism.  I  cannot  therefore  help  asking,  might  not 
these  orators  every  whit  as  well  have  said  "all  the  people  of  American 
to  a  man"  were  of  the  disposition  mentioned?  Or  that  the  pretence  of 
their  being  an  opposition  in  that  country  to  the  counsels  and  measures 
of  Great  Britain  was  a  malicious  falsehood,  without  the  least  colour  of 
foundation  in  fact?  The  one  to  me  appears  equally  probable  with  the 
other  ;  nor  can  the  transcendent  abitilies,  the  profound  judgment  or 
enlarged  information  either  of  the  studious  Premier,  so  famous  for 
knocking  his  head  against  paradoxies,  and  splicing  up  prophecies  not 
yet  fulfilled;  or  of  the  laborious  Commissioner  who  has  lately  travelled 
so  extensively  in  America,  as  from  Philadelphia  to  New  Tork  by  water, 
formed  so  Avide  an  acquaintance  by  letters  not  yet  answered,  and  picked 
up  so  many  "things  to  tell  his  children  about"  give  it  sufficient  weight 
to  attract  my  belief.  It  is  a  natural  question,  How  do  these  knowing 
ones  become  possessed  of  their  knowledge?  From  the  Whigs  of 
America  they  can  scarcely  derive  it,  neither  their  interest,  their  prin- 
ciples or  their  inclinations  leading  them  to  have  any  connection  or 
correspondence  either  with  the  Minister  or  Commissioner,  or  any  of 
their  missionaries,  nor  would  they  be  so  imprudent  or  self-denied  as 
to  discover  the  weakness  of  their  party.  Do  the  disaffected,  do  the 
tories  of  America  furnish  it?  Are  these  the  days  of  Bernard  and 
Hutchinson?  Can  a  thousand  men,  can  a  single  regiment  now  march 
from  one  end  of  America  to  the  other?  Is  the  cry  about  a  little  con- 
temptible faction  yet  in  fashion?  If  so  I  know  the  oracle  which  has 
been  consulted,  and  can  readily  distinguish  the  genuineness  of  the 
response.  But  if  dire  experience  has  for  years  taught  a  different 
doctrine,  if  facts  have  long  since  contradicted  the  vain  boasts  of 
courtiers  and  their  little  officious  retainers,  what  are  we  to  think  of 


214  "STEW    JERSEY    IJNT    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

that  callous   effrontery   which   dares  to   persist,   or  of   that    unmixed 
stupidity  which  seems  to  be  as  credulous  as  ever. 

There  is  something  which  would  induce  us  to  believe  this  mysterious 
position,  as  far  as  his  Lordship  is  concerned,  originates  from  reflection 
instead  of  information,  as  we  meet  with  a  similar  stroke  of  the  marvel- 
lous in  the  prosecution  of  his  speech,  where,  in  consideration  of  the 
critical  state  of  affairs,  he  warmly  exhorts  to  vigour  and  perseverance, 
and  intimates  that  the  nation  has  not  yet,  to  use  the  words  of  a  small 
poet  in  a  like  case,  "'icliistles  its  favourite  tune."  "Formerly,  Mr. 
Speaker,  when  one  third  only  of  the  Americans  were  in  our  interest 
twenty-five  thousand  men  were  amply  sufficient  to  curb  the  republican 
spirit  of  that  country  ;  two  thirds  are  nowT  for  us,  and  we  find  our 
account  in  it ;  for  fifty  thousand  are  now  compleately  a  match  for  the 
crumbling  transatlantick  minority  ;  we  need  but  exert  ourselves  like 
men,  and  when  three  thirds  come  over  to  our  purposes,  let  us  convince 
the  rest,  the  unavailing  remnants  of  the  expiring  rebellion,  that  we 
are  in  serious  earnest,  and  send  out  an  hundred  thousand.  There  is 
nothing  like  a  firm  well-timed  boldness  of  enterprize."  A  refined 
stroke  of  court-rhetorick,  far  above  the  reach  of  vulgar  comprehension. 
Leaving  Great-Britain  out  of  the  question,  when,  two-thirds  of  the 
American  are  against  one.  and  that  one,  to  use  the  current  language 
of  his  Lordship  and  his  comforters,  composed  of  a  few  demagogues  of 
much  violence  but  no  judgment,  at  the  head  of  the  dregs  of  the  people 
without  interest,  system  or  consequence,  we  must  be  contented  to  be 
surprised  at  hearing  exhortations  to  extraordinary  exertions,  till  we 
become  better  acquainted  with  the  principles  of  his  reasoning.  Far 
be  it  from  me  to  insinuate.  I  have  not  done  it  nor  will  I,  that  these 
assertions  are  palmed  at  a  risque  upon  the  gentle  unthinking  ignorance 
of  those  to  whom  they  are  uttered  ;  or  that  the  Minister  trusts  himself 
to  such  a  length  of  daring  and  conscious  falsehood,  steadied  by  the 
countenance  of  the  converted  Commissioner  and  depending  upon  the 
fidelity  of  those  he  has  purchased  for  value  received,  or  secured  by 
expectancy,  and  the  credit  of  such  with  their  subordinates  and  depend- 
ents. And  yet  to  hear  it  gravely  said,  that,  in  a  government  such 
as  that  of  the  United  States,  considered  either  collectively  or  individu- 
ally, a  minority,  and,  to  beg  the  expression,  less  than  a  minority,  made 
up  as  before  observed  of  the  insignificant  inferior  mobile,  without 
wisdom  or  wealth,  without  head  or  hands,  should  either  impel  or  draw 
after  them  the  majority,  or  more  than  a  majority,  opposite  to  them  in 
every  respect,  is  a  strong  temptation  to  hard  thoughts.  If  two-thirds 
of  the  Americans  are  disposed  to  return  to  the  allegiance  of  Great- 
Britain,  why  have  they  not  returned?  Who  appointed  our  publick 
bodies  to  whom  the  conduct  of  national  affairs  is  committed?  Do  not 
the  people  mediately  or  immediately  give  them  their  life,  motion  and 
object?  The  people  in  the  strictest  sense;  the  whole,  almost  without 
exception,  having  a  right  of  voice.  Moreover  this1,  creation  of  rulers 
being  repeated  at  short  periods,  if  the  disposition  of  the  people  were  as 
declared,  is  it  possible  they  would  continue  to  countenance  men  who 
daily  run  counter  to  their  planest  ideas  and  purposes.  If  I  employ  an 


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agent  to  transact  a  matter  of  business  for  me,  and  he  abuses  my 
confidence,  sacrifices  my  interest,  and  wilfully  acts  in  direct  contradic- 
tions to  my  declared  intentions,  will  I  repeatedly  employed  him? 

One  thing  'may  be  suggested  in  palliation  of  this  extravagant  asser- 
tion. Who  has  not  remarked  how  wildly  and  uncertainly  the  people 
of  one  country  commonly  reason  concerning  those  of  another  differing 
in  situation  of  territory,  progress  of  cultivation,  in  manners,  interests 
and  the  modes  of  life.  It  may  perhaps  be  beyond  the  power  of  lan- 
guage and  description  to  give  a  domestick  Briton  an  adequate  idea  of 
the  state  of  America.  He  judges  of  things  similar  by  analogy,  and 
fondly  thinks  they  cannot  be  otherwise  in  America  than  they  are  in 
Great-Britain.  If,  as  we  are  told,  the  wheels  of  government  in  Great- 
Britain  move  upon  the  principles  of  bargain  and  sale  ;  if  a  system  of 
venality  is  established  throughout  the  whole  train  ;  if  the  opinion  of 
the  Prince  is  that  of  the  Ministry  ;  if  the  opinion  of  the  Ministry  is 
that  of  their  dependents  ;  if  the  influence  of  these  is  extended  through 
the  mass  of  the  people,  such  I  mean  as  are  of  any  account,  in  numerous 
and  diversified  degrees  of  subordination,  all  referring  to  the  same 
object  and  promoting  the  same  purpose  ;  in  such  a  government,  with 
a  standing  army  the  duration  of  which  is  unlimited,  and  where  but  a 
handful  of  the  people,  comparatively  with  whole  number,  have  any 
voice  or  agency,  the  idea  of  two-thirds  being  ruled  by  the  remaining 
one  is  not  so  absurd  or  contradictory.  In  America  it  is,  and  I  hope 
always  will  be,  inconsistent  and  ridiculous.  I  am  not  far  from  being- 
incensed  at  the  prevalence  of  this  prejudice  on  the  other  side  of  the 
water.  They  are  welcome  to  all  the  consolation  they  can  derive  from 
it.  They  never  will  derive  more  than  we  do  when  we  reflect  that  to 
their  credulity,  ignorance  and  stupidity  we  owe,  under  Providence,  our 
escape  from  the  grasp  of  tyranny  and  oppression.  The  infatuation  of 
our  enemies,  their  campaigns  of  blunders  in  the  beginning  of  the 
struggle  gave  us  time  and  opportunity  to  look  into  our  unknown 
resources,  to  marshal  our  scattered,  untried  strength,  and  to  form 
ourselves  into  a  well-combined  regular  opposition. 

Sileutio. 


APRIL   . 

We  hear  the  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  of  this  state  are 
notified  by  the  Hon.  the  Speaker  to  meet  at  this  place  on 
Tuesday  the  20th  instant. 

We  are  informed  that  on  Wedneisday  night  last  the 
house  of  the  Hon.  Robert  Ogden,1  Esquire,  in  Sussex 
county,  was  broke  o>pe>n  by  a  number  of  armed  tories,  who 
robbed  him  of  a  considerable  sum  in  cash  :  being  pursued 
by  a  party  of  our  militia,  they  betook  themselves  to  the 

1  For  a  sketch  of  Robert  Ogden,  see  New  Jersey  Archives.  9  :  451. 


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mountains.  Whether  any  of  this  banditti  have  yet  been 
taken  we  have  not  learned. 

The  account  inserted  in  this  Gazette  of  the  24th  ult. 
mentioning  the  arrival  of  a  large  body  of  the  enemy  011 
Staten  Island,  altho'  roundly  asserted  by  many  people  at 
that  time,  proves  to  be  premature. 

Since  our  last  Major-General  Green  passed  through  this 
town  on  his  way  to  camp. 

Extract  of  a  tetter  from  Elizabeth-town,  March  26. 

"The  enemy  have  an  expedition  on  foot  to>  the  eastward, 
and  have  taken  with  them  every  privateer  in  the  harbour 
at  New  York.  Their  troops  were  embarked  from  Long- 
Tsland.  General  Clinton,  it  is  said,  is  gone  with  them.— 
Admiral  Gambier,  who  sailed  four  days  ago  from  the 
I  look,  is  arrived  at  Rhode  Island. 

Our  accounts  corroborate  those  under  the  Philadelphia 
head,  of  the  loss  of  14  of  the  enemy's  transports  in  the 
cast  river,  the  failure  of  the  above-mentioned  expedition, 
and  the  return  of  Sir  Henry  Clinton  to  Xew  York. 

A  correspondent,  who  has  just  arrived  in  this  state  from 
Virginia,  informs  us,  that  there  have  been  lately  raised  in 
that  state  upwards  of  2000  men  for  the  continental  service, 
who  are  to  inarch  early  in  this  month  for  camp.  He 
further  says,  "I  have  just  seen  Capt.  Armitage,  who  made 
his  escape  from  !N"eiw  York  on  Sunday  evening  the  28th 
ultimo,  he  says  that  a  reinforcement  is  not  expected  there 
this  summer,  and  that  the  few  troops  who  lately  arrived 
there  from  Halifax,  have  re-embarked  for  Georgia. 

By  two  men  who  came  on  Saturday  last  from  the 
Miuisiuks  we  learn,  that  a  number  of  Indians  have  lately 
committed  some  depredations  on  a  small  settlement  at 
Culiiclitiin  on  the  Delaware;  and  that  another  party  of 
savages  had,  about  a  fortnight,  since,  carried  off  one  pris- 
oner, and  a  number  of  horses  and  other  cattle  from  the 
neighborhood  of  Wyoming*. 


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TO    COVER. 

The  ensuing  season,  at  Colts  ISTeck,  Monmoiith  county, 
at  the  Farm  of  (/apt.  John  Van  Mater,  in  this  state,  the 
beautiful  full-blooded  HORSE 

Liberty, 

At  forty-one  dollars  the  season,  the  money  to  be  paid 
at  the  stable  door. 

LIBERTY  is  a  fine  blooded  bay,  fifteen  hands  and  an  inch 
high,  very  lengthy  and  strong,  and  allowed  by  all  good 
judges  to  be  as  handsome  a  hoarse  as  any  in  America. 
Liberty  was  got  by  Dove,  [who]  was  bred  by  Mr.  Thomas 
Jackson  in  the  north  of  England,  was  got  by  Young  Cade, 
his  dam  by  Teazer,  his  grandam  Scauing's  Arabian,  and  out 
of  the  Gardner  mare  that  won  six  royal  plates  of  one  hun- 
dred guineas1  each ;  he  run  at  Newcastle  upon  Tyne  at  four 
years  old,  on  the  21st  of  Get  1760,  and  distanced  the  Duke 
of  Cleaveland's  roan  filly  Coxana,  beat  the  bay  colt  Swift 
belonging  to  William  Swiriburn,,  Esq,  Charles  AVillson's 
bay  colt  Windless,  William  Comforth's  bay  colt  Montreal, 
and  Seteinton's  bay  filly  Xameless.  Liberty  came  of 
Milley,  got  by  old  Spark,  and  full  sisteT  to  Col.  Hopper's 
Pacalet,  her  dam  was  Queen  Mab,  got  by  Musgrove's  grey 
Arabian,  a  most  beautiful  horse  for  which  lie  refused  500 
guineas,  he  was  set  at  ten  guineas  a  leap ;  her  dam  by  the 
Hampton-Court  Childeirs,  her  grandam  by  the  Chestnut 
Arabian,  her  great  great  grandam  by  Leeds,  her  great 
great  great  grandam  was  a  Barb  brought  over  by  Mr. 
Marshall,  and  was  the  dam  of  Mr.  Croft's  Grey  Hound. 
It  would  be  needless  to  say  anything  of  his  performance, 
as  it  hath  been  so  often  ascertained  heretofore:,  and  estab- 
lished through  this  state. 


218  2fEW    JERSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  I"  1770 


FEAEXOT 

WILL  cover  at  the  above  said  place  at  thirty-one  dollars 
the  season,  and  the  money  to  be  paid  at  the  stable  door. 
Fearnot  is  a  fine  bay,  nigh  sixteen  hands  high,  three- 
quarters  blooded ;  was  got  by  the  famous  horse  Dove,  his 
dam  a  fine  Briton,  mare,  grandam  a  very  fine  J^ew  England 
mare,  lie  is  allowed  by  good  judges  to  be;  the  handsomest 
horse  of  his  blood  in  this  state,  and  equal  to*  any  in  moving, 
gaiety,  spirits,  and  ease  to  the  rider.  Good  care  wall  be 
taken  of  mares,  and  pasture  provided  at  a  moderate  rate. 

STRAYED  or  stolen  from  the  plantation  of  Benjamin 
Mitchell,  near  Kingston,  in  Somerset  county,  on  the  16th 
of  .March  last. — A  brindle  cow,  about  9  years  old,  with  a 
white1  face  and  belly,  heavy  with  calf,  has  a  red  ring  round 
each  eye,  marked  with  two  halfpennies,  one  on  the  end  and 
the  other  on  the  under  edge  of  her  off  ear.  Whoever  takes 
up  said  cow  and  delivers  her  at  the  plantation  above,  if 
strayed,  shall  receive  Five  Pounds,  and  if  stolen,  and  the 
thief  secured,  Ten  Pounds. 

THE  Trustees  of  Queen's  College,  in  New- Jersey,  are 
hereby  informed  that  a,  Meeting  of  said  Trustees  is  ordered 
to  lie  held  at  2sew  Brunswick  on  Tuesday  the  27th  of  April 
next,  at  10  o'clock  in  the  forenoon,  hoping  their  attendance 
will  bo  punctually  given. 

Jacob  R.  Hardenbergh,  Clk. 

Raritau,  March  31,  1779. 

FLEET  WOOD. 

A  Beautiful  full-blooded  dark  chestnut  horse,  three 
years  old  this  grass,  fifteen  hands  high,  will  cover  mares 
the  ensuing  season  at  the  stable  of  Daniel  Hunt  in  Maiden- 


1779]  XEWS  PAPER  EXTRACTS.  219 

head,  at  Twenty-five  Pounds,  and  a  Dollar  to  the  groom ; 
The  money  to  be  paid  at  the  stable  door.  And  as  appears 
by  the  undermentioned  pedigree  and  certificates  is  as  high 
a  bred  horse  as  any  in  America. 

Fleetwood  was  got  by  Janus,  his  dam  by  Janus,  his 
grandam  the  noted  running  mare  Pol  Flaxon,  she  was  got 
by  Jolly  Rodger  out  of  the  high  blooded  imported  mare 
Mary  Gray.  Mary  Gray  was  own  sister  to  Young  Sterling 
in  England,  and  was  bred  by  Mr.  Croft  in  Yorkshire,  and 
got  by  Old  Sterling,  his  dam  by  Mr.  Croft's  Partner  out 
of  the  grandani  of  Lampton's  grey  mare  Miss  Doe,  which 
was  got  by  Mr.  Croft's  bay  Barb,  her  dam  by  Makeless, 
her  grandam,  by  Brummeir,  her  great  grandam  by  a  son  of 
Old  DodswoTth  out  of  a  Barton  Barb  mare, 

Thomas  Turpin. 

Virginia,  Oct.  1,  1778. 

I  do  hereby  certify  the  above  pedigree  to  be  genuine. 

John  Harris. 

N".  B.  He  is  to  COVCT  but  twenty-five  mares,  and  a 
number  of  them  are  already  engaged.  Those  who'  are 
inclinable  to  send  their  mare®  to  Fleetwood,  by  a,  letter  to 
Daniel  Hunt,  and  as  such  will  claim  a  preference  until  the 
number  is  made  out. 

Taken  up  and  left  with  the  subscriber,  at  the  sign  of 
the  Blue  Anchor  in  Burlington,  a  stray  Mare  and  Colt. 
The  mare  was  formerly  the  property  of  Thomas  Hopkins 
of  Philadelphia.  They  are  both  bay  coloured,  13  hands 
high,  and  trotters.  The  owner  is  desired  to  come,  prove 
property,  pay  charges,  and  take  them  away. 

James  Esdell. 

To  Be  Sold. 

By  publick  Vendue,  on  Thursday  the  loth  day  of  this 
inst.  (April)  on  the  premises, 


220  XEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

A  LOT  of  land,  containing  one  acre  and  a  half,  whereon 
is  a  very  convenient  house  50  feet  front  and  30  deep,  two 
stories  high, ^vith  5  fire  places  in  the  same;  being  a.  very 
suitable  stand  for  a  tavern,  where  theire  has  been  one  kept 
for  many  years.  It  is  veory  pleasantly  situated  on  the  post 
road  leading  from  !New  Brunswick  to  Princeton,  about  two 
miles  from  Xew-Brunswick,  at  the  Three  Mile  Run,  in 
the  county  of  Somerset,  known  by  the  name  of  .the  Yellow 
House.  Also  to  be  sold  at  the  same  time  and  place,  a 
good  lot  of  meadow  ground  containing  ten  acres,  joining 
the  same,  only  separated  by  the  road.  The  vendue  to 
begin  at  12  o'clock  said  day,  when  the  conditions  of  sale 
will  bo  made  known  and  attendance  given  by  the 
subscriber. 

Thomas  Manley. 

X.   E.     .V  free  and  indisputable  title  will  be  given. 


To  Be  Sold, 

YOUXG  FIGURE.  He  is  very  handsome,  and  a  fine  bay, 
rising  five  years  old.  He  was  got  by  Old  Figure,  his  dam 
by  True  Briton,  his  grandam  a  three-quarter  blooded 
Dorsen  mare.  Inquire  of  the  Printer. 

April  6,  1.770. 

To  Be   Sold. 

At  private  SALE,  by  the  SUBSCRIBER, 

A  Plantation  situate  in  the  county  of  Hunterdon, 
township  of  Reading,  containing  315  acres  of  land,  a  good 
dwelling-house  with  two  fire  places  and  kitchen,  a,  very 
good  frame  barn,  a  good  bearing  orchard,  with  a  sufficient 
quantity  of  meadow,  well  timbered  and  watered.  For 
particulars  enquire  of  the  subscriber  on  the  premises. 

JOITX     BERGEX. 

Reading-Town,  "March  30th,  1770. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS. 


WXLKES;, 

A  Beautiful  bay  horse,  full  blood,  nine  years  old  this 
grass,  fifteen  hands  two  inches  high,  will  cover  the  ensuing 
"season  at  William  Chamberlain's  in  Amwell,  at  Thirty 
Dollars  the  season,  and  a  Dollar  to  the  groom.  WILKES 
is  the  property  of  General  Nathaniel  Heard,  bred  by  Col. 
Grant,  and  got  by  Samuel  Galloway's  well  known  running 
horse  Selim,  that  took  the  large  sum  of  £1000  from  True 
Briton,  on  the  Philadelphia  course  in  the  year  1762.  His 
gransire  Col.  Tasker's  Othello,  came  out  of  Col.  Grant's 
Milley,  who  was  the  dam  of  True  Briton,  Britannia,, 
Liberty,  and  the  Earl  of  Dunmore's  fine  horse  Regular, 
full  brother  to  Wilkes,  got  by  Old  Spark,  and  full  sister  to 
Col.  Hopper's  Pacolet;  her  dam  was  Queen  Mab,  got  by 
Musgrove's  Grey  Arabian,  his  dam  by  the  Hampton-Court 
Childers,  her  grandam  by  his  Chestnut  Arabian,  her  great 
grandam  by  Leeds,  her  great  great  grandam  was  a  Barb, 
brought  over  by  Mr.  Marshal,  and  was  the  dam  of  Mr. 
Croft's  Greyhound. 

Mares  will  be  properly  attended,  and  pasture  procured 
at  as  low  a  rate  as  possible, 


YOUNG    GRANDBAY^ 

A  Beautiful  bay  horse,  handsomely  marked,  with  a  star 
and  snip,  in  excellent  order,  five  years  old  this  grass, 
fifteen  and  a  half  hands  high,  will  cover  this  season  at  the' 
stable  of  Nathaniel  Lowrey,  at  Koughstown,  near  New- 
Shanick,  State  of  West  New-Jersey,  at  Thirty  Dollars  the 
season,  and  one  Dollar  to  the  groom  ;  the  money  to  be  paid 
at  the  stable  door.  Young  Grandbay  is  full  brother  to  that 
noted  and  celebrated  horse  called  Major-General,  wants 
an  eighth  of  being  blooded,  was  got  by  the  famous  horse 


222  :XEW    JHRSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

Old  Graiidbay,  out  of  a  Bullecrock  mare,  whose  stock  and 
blood  being  so  well  known  in  this  and  the  adjacent  States, 
and  allowed  by  competent  judge®  to  be  some  of  the  fore- 
most breed  on  the  continent,  therefore  renders  it  needless 
to  say  any  more  of  his  pedigree. 


WILL  COVER,, 

The  ensuing  season  at  the  stables  of  the  widow  Ten 
Eyck,  near  YanveighterVBridge,  on  Raritan,  the  noted 

HOUSE. 

PACOLATE, 

AT  the  moderate  rate  of  Ten  Pounds  per  mare  the 
season.- — It  is  needless  to  fill  a  paper  with  a  pedigree,  as 
the  number  of  his  colts  in  this  country,  added  to  his  own 
beauty,  will  recommend  him  as  one  of  the  first  covering 
horses  in  this  country.  Great  care  will  be  taken  to<  provide 
pasture  at  at  moderate  rate. 

X.   B.      The  money  to  be  paid  at  the-  stable  door. 


To  Be  Sold, 

By  public  v endue  by  the  subscriber,  near  Princeton,  on 
Thursday  15th  of  April, 

HORSES,  cows,  and  calves,  young  cattle,  a  waggon  and 
cart  with  gears,  some  farming  utensils,  house  hold  and 
kitchen  furniture,  some  hay,  and  a  few  bushels  of  the  best 
imported  salt.  The  venduei  to  begin  at  one  o'clock. 

Attendance  will  be  given  by 

JOHN    LITTLE. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTEACTS.  223 


THIRTY    DOLLARS    REWARD. 

RAX  away  last  night  from  the  subscriber,  an  apprentice 
lad  named  Enoch  Jones,  by  trade  a  fuller,  about  17  years 
age,  of  middle  size.  Had  on  when  he  went  away,  a  good 
drab  or  light  brown  broad-cloth  coat,  leather  breeches  much 
worn,  coaroe  linen  shirt,  good  shoes  with  buckles,  'a  felt 
hat;  but  as  it  is  probable  he  has  taken,  other  clothes  with 
him  he  may  change  his  cloathing.  Any  person  taking  up 
the  said  apprentice)  and  securing  him  so  that  his  master 
may  ha,ve  him,  shall  be  entitled  to  the  above  reward,  with 
reasonable  charges  if  brought  home. 

Abraham  Skirm, 

Burlington  county,  Nottingham, 

6th  of  4th  month,  1779 


Twenty  Dollars  Reward. 

RAX-AWAY  from  the  subscriber,  on  Monday  the  8th 
ult,  a  negro  man  named  TOM  ;  a  well  set  fellow,  about  5 
feet  8  or  9  inches  high.  Had  on  when  he  went  away,  a 
short  bearskin  coat,  white  vest,  buckskin  breeches,  a  round 
h'at;  he  likewise  took  with  him  a  brown  coat  lined  with 
brown  shalloon,  one  striped  Damascus  vest,  and  sundry 
other  clothes. 

Whoever  takes  up  the  said  negro  man,  and  brings  him 
to  his  master,  in  Trenton,  or  secures  him  in  any  gaol  so 
that  his  master  may  have  him  again,  shall  be  entitled  to 
the  above  reward. 

Samuel  Henry. 

N".  B.  He  is  supposed  to  have  gone  the  York  road  and 
endeavouring  to  get  to  the  enemy. 

—New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  II.,  No.  70,  Wednesday,  April 
7,  1779. 


224  NEW    JHESEY    IN    THE    KEVOLUTIOX.  [1779 

Waterford  Township,  West-New-Jersey,  April  2,  1779. 

All  persons  indebted  to  the  estate  of  JOSEPH. MAT- 
LOCK,,  deceased,  are  requested  to  make  payment;  and 
those  who  have  any  demands,,  are  desired  to  bring  in  their 
accounts,  properly  proved,  for  payment,  to  HANNAH 
MATLOOK,  Administratrix,  or  to 

RICHARD  COLLIXGS,  Administrator. 
—The  Pennsylvania  Gazette,  April  7,  1779. 


A  party  of  12  Continental  troops  Avith  an  officer,  were 
taken  last  Friday  night  on  Bergen  Xeck,  by  a.  detachment 
from  the  64th  regiment  that  lay  at  Powles  Hook:  They 
were  brought  to  town  Saturday  morning  last. — The  Royal 
Gazette,  No.  263,  April  7,  1779. 

XEW-YORK,  April  12. 

By  Persons  of  Credit  lately  arrived  from  the  Enemy's 
( Vmntry,  we  learn  that  Colonel  Joseph  Brant,  had  sent 
a  Flag  into  Sussex  County,  in  .New*- Jersey,  to  inform  the 
Inhabitants  of  his  having  been  apprized  that  many  of  them 
who  last  year  pretended  Friendship  and  Attachment  to 
the  Cause  for  which  he  was  carrying  on  Hostilities,  had 
since  taken  up  Arms ;  lie  now  gave  them  Xotice,  that  no 
longer  any  Regard  for  Professions  of  that  Kind  would  be 
attended  to,  for  that  every  Man  who  did  not  join  him  upon 
his  Approach  to  their  Country,  should  be  deemed  and 
treated  by  him  as  an  Enemy,  and  that  lie  should  soon  lay 
the  Country  waste  as  low  as  the  Muskankunk.  His  Troops 
had  been  again  at  Wyoming,  drove  off  all  the  Cattle  and 
every  Thing  else  without  the  Fort  that  was  moveable, 
where  several  of  the  Rebels  had  been  killed  and  taken 
Prisoners. — The  New-York  Gazette:  and  the  Weekly  Mer- 
cury, No.  1434,  April  12,  1779. 


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FIFTY  DOLLARS  REWARD, 

RAN  AWAY  from  the  subscriber,  living  in  Fairfield 
township,  Cumberland  county,  New-Jersey,  a  Negro  man 
named  PRINCE,  but  has  since  he  went  away  changed  it 
to  ADAM  DICK,  and  has  had  it  inserted  in  a  pass  given 
by  some  evil  disposed  person:  He  is  about  five  feet  eight 
or  nine  inches  high ;  had  on  and  took  with  him  a  pair  of 
leather  breeches,  a  felt  hat  half  worn,  a,  new  brown  home- 
made shirt,  a  light  coloured  jacket  without  sleeves,  and  a 
dark  brown  great  coat  very  short,  being  torn  or  cut  off ; 
he  walks  somewhat  crippled,  his  feet  having  been  frozen, 
and  he  has  lost  some  of  his  toe  nails ;  he  is  about  twenty- 
two  years  old,  and  is  a  lusty  strong  fellow.  Whoever  takes 
up  said  Negro  and  brings  him  to  the  subscriber,  or  secures 
him  in  any  gaol  so  that  he  may  be  had  again,  shall  be 
entitled  to  the  above  reward,  and  all  reasonable  charges 
paid  by 

JOHN  DANIELS. 

X.  B.  All  masters  of  vessels  and  others  are  forbid  to 
harbour  or  carry  him  off  at  their  peril. 


New- Jersey,  April  13. 
TO  BE  SOLD  at  V  endue 

At  Abseeom  Bridge,  on  Wednesday  the  21st  instant, 
The  Snow  POLLY,  per  inventory.  Also  her  CARGO, 
consisting  of  about  one  hundred  and  twenty  hogsheads  of 
TOBACCO. 

By  order  of  the  Court  of  Admiralty. 

JOSEPH  POTTS,  Marshal. 


The  Trustees  of  the  New-Jersey  College  are  required 
to  attend  a  Meeting  of  the  Board  at  their  hall,  in  Prince- 

15 


226  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

ton,  the  21st  of  April  next,  at  nine  o'clock. — The  business 
is  of  such  importance1  to  the  institution,  that  it  is  hoped 
no  Member  will  be  absent. 

James  Caldwell,  Clerk. 
—The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  April  13,  1779. 


CHATHAM,  APRIL  13. 

On  the  11. th  nit.  four  men  armed  were  discovered  pass- 
ing privately  through  the  mountains  in  the  Eastern  part 
of  Sussex  county:  The  inhabitants,  on  receiving  intelli- 
gence of  it,  immediately  proceeded  in  pursuit  of  them,  and 
having  ;i  number  of  excellent  dogs  for  tracking,  they 
pursued  them  different  routs  upwards  of  thirty  miles, 
when,  by  the  assistance  of  the  dogs,  they  were  discovered. 
Two  of  them  made  their  escape,  and  the  other  two  are 
safely  lodged  in  the  provo  of  the  continental  troops  sta- 
tioned at  Minisink.  They  proved  to  be  spies  sent,  by  the 
British  commander  in  ^ew-York,  with  dispatches  to  those 
infamous  butchers  Butler  and  Brant.  One  of  the  above 
prisoners  is  named  Robert  Land,  was  formerly  a  magistrate 
under  the  tyrant  George  Whelps,  Esq;  and  lived  at 
Coshect'On. — Xo  doubt  but  the  court-martial,  which  is  now 
trying  them,  will  honour  them  with  a  share  of  continental 
hem]). 

On  Friday  night  the  2d  instant,  were  taken  on  Bergen 
Neck,  by  a  party  of  the  64th  regiment,  Lieut.  Paul  and 
twelve  privates  belonging  to  Col.  Shreve's  regiment. 

On  Wednesday  night  last  was  married,  at  Elizabeth 
Town,  Mr.  Thomas  Eaton  to  Miss  Sarah  Woodruff,  a 
young  Lady  of  merit. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  227 

TO  BE  SOLD, 
At  vendne  on  Monday  the  19th  inst,  on  the  premises, 

A  PLANTATION  pleasantly  situated  on  the  north 
side  of  the  creek  opposite  Quibble  Town,  Middles- 
sex  county;  containing  90  acres  of  excellent  land 
as  any  in  the  township,  and  may  be  easily  kept  so  by  supply- 
ing it  with  rich  dirt  or  dung  from  the  creek,  to  which  it 
adjoins,  of  which  there  is  a  great  quantity  which  miay  be 
easily  come  at ;  there  are  12  acres  of  good  meadow,  which 
will  produce  plenty  of  timothy,  an  excellent  orchard  of 
grafted  fruit,  containing  near  two  hundred  trees,  about  14 
acres  of  wood  land,  the  remainder  tilling  land,  and  will 
produce  good  summer  or  winter  grain.  There  are  on  the 
premises,  a  good  dwelling-house,  with  a  store  house  at  one 
end,  which,  and  other  circumstances,  make  it  convenient 
for  that  business;  a  good  well  of  water  near  the  kitchen 
door,  a  barrack,  a  garden  well  boarded  in,  and  many  other 
conveniences.  The  vendue  to  begin  at  10  o'clock,  when 
conditions  will  be  made  known,  and  due  attendance  given 
by  me 

MELANTHON  FREEMAN, 
Practitioner  of  Physics. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

At  public  veiidue,  on  Monday  the  19th  inst.  at  the  house 
of  the  late  John  Mascho,  deceased,  of  the  county  and. 
Township  of  Morris,  at  Longhill ; 

rp  EN  or  twelve  waggon  horses,  some  young  ditto,  oxen, 

1       cows,  young  cattle,  swine,  sheep,  four  waggons  with 

their  apparatus,  farming  utensils,  bees,  cyder,  cyder 

spirits,  and  a  number  of  household  goods  too  tedious  to 


228  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

mention.  The  vendue  to  begin  at  9  o'clock  in  the  morn- 
ing of  said  day;  when  the  conditions  will  be  made  known 
and  due  attendance  given  by 

SAMUEL  POTTER.       )  -^ 

-r-.  oi    TTT  r  .Executors. 

DANIEL  S.  WOOD,     ) 

CATHERINE  MASCHO,  Executrix. 


TO    BE    SOLD, 

At  public  vendue,  opposite  the  Liberty-Pole,  Chatham,  the 
19th  inst.  at  2  o'clock  in  the  afternoon, 

PART  of  the  effects  of  Eunice  Horton,  deceased,  viz. 
two  cows  and  one  calf,  one  hog,  slay  and  harness, 
wheelbarrow,  rakes,  pitchforks,  broad  ho'es,  po>st 
s[  ]de;  kitchen  furniture,  such  as  washmgtubs,  waste 
casks,  andirons,  shovel  and  tongs,  trammels,  iron  pots,  iron 
and  brass  kettles,  pewter  basons,  porringers  and  spoons, 
knives  and  forks,  bakepan,  frying  pan,  griddle,  gridiron, 
smoothing-irons,  teakettles,  copper  coffeepot,  pewter  teapot, 
stone  jugs  and  pots,  earthen  platters,  plates  and  cups  of 
different  sizes ;  tin  kettle,  bleaching  pot,  pans,  half  gallon 
and  quart  measures,  several  tables  and  stands,  chest  of 
drawers,  spinning  wheels,  wool  cards,  cotton  cards,  wheat 
griddle,  baskets  of  different  sizes,  one  barrel  of  racked 
cyder,  one  bushel  of  indian  corn,  &e. 

Those  who  stand  indebted  to  the.  estate  of  the:  deceased, 
are  desired  to  make  payment  as  soon  as  may  be;  and  such 
as  the  estate  is  indebted  to,  are  requested  to  bring  in  their 
accounts,  with  the  proper  vouchers^  that  they  may  receive 
the  balance  due  to  them  from  the  subscribers. 

AZARIAH  HORTON,  \    -^ 

>  Executors. 
EOSTER  MORTON,     j 


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TO  BE  SOLD, 

At  public  vendue,  on  THURSDAY  the  15th  inst.  at  the 
house  of  Valentine  Silcock,  innholder  in  Flanders,  in 
Morris  county ; 

A  Valuable   and  very  pleasant  PLANTATION,   con- 
taining 62%  acres  of  land,  of  which  5  are  good 
meadow;    the  upland  is  fertile  and  good  for  all 
kind  of  grain  and  pasture.     There  are  on  said  farm,  a 
tollerable  good  English  barn,  and  a  young  thriving  orchard 
of  about  70  or  SO  bearing  trees.    Also  70  acres  of  land,  and 
6  acres  of  good  meadow,  adjoining  said  farm,  on  lease  to 
the  1st  day  of  December  1780.     The  vendue  to  begin  at 
1  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  on  said  day,  when  attendance 
will  be  given  by 

MARY  MILLS. 


TEN  DOLLARS  REWARD. 

STOLEN  or  strayed  from  the  subscriber,  a  black  cow, 
about  four  years  old,  with  small  h[ead],  her  feet, 
her  hind  legs,  and  under  her  belly,  white.     Whoever 
takes  up  the  said  cow,  and  brings  her  to  her  owner,  living 
opposite  to  Mr.  Winan's  tavern,  in  Elizabeth  Town,  or 
gives  information  so  that  she  may  be  recovered,  shall  re- 
ceive the  above  reward,  and  all  reasonable  charges  paid  by 

BENJAMIN  SWAN. 


WHEREAS  Mary  Arnold,  the  wife  of  John  Miller,  of 
Elizabeth   Town,   has  eloped  from  his  bed   and 
board,    taken    away   his   goods    and   property   at 
sundry  times,  disposed  of  them,  and  has  continued  drunk 
six  weeks,  and  is  likely  to  continue  so.     These  are  there- 
fore to  forewarn  all  persons  not  to  trust  her  on  my  account, 


230  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

as  I  am  determined  to  pay  no  debts  of  her  contracting; 
and  all  persons  are  forbid  paying  any  debts  due  me  to  her. 

JOH:NT  MILLAR, 

Elizabeth  Town,  April  10,  1779. 


WHEREAS  the  subscriber  has  great  reason  to  believe 
that  his  wife  Hannah  is  determined  to  run  him 
in  debt,  as  she  has  been  guilty  of  many  lewd  prac- 
tises, arid  has  bedded  with  another  woman's  husband  for 
a  considerable  time:     This  is  to  forewarn  all  persons  from 
Trusting1  her  on  my  account,  as  I  am  determined  to  pay 
no  debts  of  her  contracting  from  this  date. 

LEVY  GARDNER. 
April  5,  1779. 


Whereafs]  a  most  malicious  and  infamous  advertise- 
ment, signed  Levy  Gardner,  hath  been  published, 
greatly  to  the  prejudice  of  his  wife  Hannah  Gard- 
ner: This  is  therefore  to  inform  the  public,  that  said 
Gardner  eloped  from  his  bed  and  board,  left  his  wife  with 
five  small  children,  and  cohabited  with  other  women ;  and 
as  he  is  a  man  addicted  to  all  kinds  of  vice,  she  forewarns 
all  persons  bedding  or  boarding  with  him. — Any  person 
that  will  take  up  said  Gardner,  and  secure  him  in  any 
gaol,  so  that  his  wife  may  have  restitution  made  her,  shall 
have  thirty  dollars  reward,  and  all  reasonable  charges 
paid  by 

HAK5TAH  GARDNER. 


To  be  disposed  of  at  private  sale, 

A^X  old  fashioned  CUPBOARD,  little  or  none  the  worse 
for  use.    Apply  to  Phebe  Hambleton  or  Isaac  Wood- 
ruff, jun. 
Elizabeth  Town,  April  10,  1779. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  231 

CAME  to  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber,  living  in 
Cheapside,  about  the  21st  of  September  last,  a  red 
heifer,  coming  two  years  old,  with  a  half  crop  in 
the  left  ear,  half  penny  upperside,  and  a  saw-tooth  on  the 
same. 

ENOS  BALDWIN". 


TO    COVER, 

The  ensuing  season,  at  Chatham,  the  beautiful  bay  HORSE 
DABSTER. 

HE  is  full  fifteen  hands  and  an  inch  high,  a  blood  bay, 
three  years  old  this  grass,  got  by  Old  Traveller, 
and  his  dam  by  Briton.     He  is  allowed,  by  the  best 
judges,  to  be  as  active  and  handsome  as  any  horse  in  the 
state,  and  will  cover  at  three  dollars  the  season,  payable 
in  grain,  at  the  old  rate,  to  be  delivered  by  the  first  of 
November  next  ensuing. 

JOHX  LEARY,  Junior. 

THE   FAMOUS  AND  WELL   KXOWN  HORSE 

TRAVELLOR, 

NOW  rising  nine  years  old,  will  cover  the  ensuing  sea- 
son at  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber  in  Pisca- 
taque,  on  the  road  leading  from  Bound-Brook  to 
Quibble-Town. 

TRAVELLOR  is  of  full  size,  fifteen  hands  and  a  half  high, 
well  set  for  his  height.  His  colour  is  a  dark  claret,  very 
beautiful,  and  sprung  from  the  best  blood  in  Great-Britain. 
His  pedigree  is  the  same  as  True  Briton,  they  being 
brothers.  His  carriage,  beauty,  behaviour,  and  spirit, 


232  NEW    JERSEY    IjST    THE    REVOLUTIOIST.  [1779 

make  him  equal,  if  not  superior,  to  any  horse  in  the  state. 
— lie  is  to  cover  at  twenty-six  dollars  the  season  for  each 
mare,  and  one  dollar  to  the  groom,  the  money  to  be  paid 
at  the  time  of  covering,  or  before  taken  away,  if  required. 
Good  pasture  will  be  provided  for  mares  at  one  dollar  per 
week. 

ABRAHAM  FREEMAN. 


TO    COVER, 

THE     F  A  M  O  U  S     HORSE 

L  I B  E  U  T  Y  , 

AT  the  stable  of  the  subscriber  at  New- Ark  Mountains, 
in  Essex  county,  about  five  miles  from  New-Ark, 
on  the  road  to  Morris  Town,  at  twenty  five  Dollars 
:hc  season,  arid  thirteen  dollars  the  single  leap,  the  money 
to  lie  paid  when  the  mare  is  taken  away,  if  required. 

LJBKKTY.  is  a  beautiful  bay,  upwards  of  fifteen  hands 
high,  and  well  sot  in  proportion  to  his  height,  five  years  old 
this  grass,  arid  in  excellent  order;  he  is  allowed,  by  good 
judges,  to  be  as  well  made,  handsome,  and  good  moving  a 
horse  as  any  in  the  state;  his  pedigree  is  of  the  first  rate, 
being  got  by  old  Salem,  and  out  of  the  Dove  mare.  Pas- 
ture will  he  provided,  and  attendance  given  by  a  proper 
person. 

JOHN  CONDUIT,  Jmir. 

N.  B.  Liberty  will  cover  three  first  days  in  every  week 
at  the  stable  of  Matthias  Denman,  in  Sprinfield,  where 
pasture  will  be  provided  and  attendance  given  likewise. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  233 

TO    COVER, 

The  ensuing  season,  at  the  house  of  the  subscriber, 

THE    GOOD    HORSE 

HECTOR. 

HECTOR  is  an  imported,  full  blooded  horse,  a  dark 
brown,  and  is  equal  in  shape,  blood,  and  goodness, 
to  any  horse  in  this  state.     He  will  cover  at  six 
pounds  the  season  and  one  bushel  of  indian  corn,  to  be  paid 
next  fall,  the  money  to  be  paid  down.     Pasture  will  be 
provided  for  mares  at  one  dollar  and  a  half  per  week. 

NATHANIEL  SEABURY. 

THE    NOTED    HORSE 
GOLDEN    FARMER 

WILL  cover  this  season  at  Mr.  John  Hutchinson's,  in 
Troy,  at  fifteen  hard  dollars  the  season,  or  pro- 
duce to  the  value.  Also,  YOUNG  FORRESTER, 
at  ten  hard  dollars,  or  produce  to  that  amount.    He  is  rising 
three  years  old,  upwards  of  fifteen  hands  high,  and  was 
got  by  the  famous  horse  Bold  Forrester. — Good  grass  for 
mares,  and  proper  attendance,  on  moderate  terms. 


234  XEW    JERSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

THE    NOTED    HORSE 

Y 0 U N G   W  I L KE S  , 

WILL  cover  this  season   at  the  plantation  of  Moses 
Tuttle,    Esq ;     in    Morris    county,    twelve    miles 
from  Morris  Town,  and  three  miles  from  Mount 
Hope  ironworks,  at  thirty  dollars  the  season,  and  fifteen 
dollars  a   single  leap,  or  forty  shillings  in   grain  of  any 
kind,  to  equivalent  value  at  the  old  price;    the  money  or 
grain  to  bo  given  at  the  stable  door. 

WILKKS  is  of  a  beautiful  dark  brown  colour,  with  three 
white  feet,  a  star,  and  small  snip,  of  a  full  size,  sixteen 
hands1  high,  and  well  set  for  his  height,  and  is  allowed, 
by  the  best  judges,  to  be  the  best  moving,  gayest,  and 
handsomest  made,  horse  in  this  state;  his  blood  and 
pedigree  is  equal  to1  any  country  bred  horse  on  the  con- 
tinent, viz.  His  sire,  Old  Wilkes,  and  dam  out  of  True 
Briton,  and  grandam  Bullyroek.  He  was  bred  at  Van- 
wicklar's  in  Monmouth  county,  and  has  been  kept  for  three 
years  at  the  drowned  land.  He  took  the  purse  at  Gosheii 
last  fall,  and  is  thought  to  be  as  swift  a  running  horse  as 
any  in  America.  He  is  noted  for  getting  as  fine  colts  as 
any  horse  that  was  ever  imported. — Any  persons  who 
choose  to  have  their  mares  covered  by  Young  Wilkes,  shall 
be  provided  with  good  pasture  at  a  reasonable  rate,  and 
proper  attendance  given  by  a  good  groom. 

CORNELIUS  HOAGLAND. 


WHEREAS  the  subscriber  purchased  a  plantation  in 
the  autumn  of  1776,  situated  in  Westfield  in  the 
borough   of  Elizabeth   Town,   of   Samuel   Smith, 
and  paid  the  greater  part  of  the  consideration  Money ;   but 
as  said  Smith  soon  after  fled  to  the  enemv  without  siv- 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  235 

ing  a  title  for  said  plantation :  NOTICE  is  hereby  given, 
that  application  will  be  made  to  the  General  Assembly 
of  this  state,  at  their  next  session,  in  order  to  get  an  act 
passed  that  the  property  of  the  above  premises  may  be 
secured  to  MOSES  TUCKER 


FOUND,  a  few  days  ago,  in  Springfield,  a  pocket  book, 
containing  money  and  some  papers.     Any  person 
describing  it  properly,  and  proving  his  property, 
by  paying  charges,  may  have  it  by  applying  to  Mrs.  Dayton 
in  Springfield,  or  the  subscriber  in  Elizabeth  Town. 

JONATHAN  J.  DAYTON.* 


RAN  away,  from  the  subscriber,  a  Negro  fellow  named 
JOE,  about  28  years  of  age,  5  feet  6  inches  high, 
well  made,  and  had  on  when  he  went  away,  a 
brown  jacket,  leather  breeches,  and  blue  stockings.  Also 
took  with  him  a  white  coat  with  blue  facings  and  regi- 
mental buttons,  with  the  letters  U  S  A  on  them,  and  several 
other  clothes.  It  is  supposed  he  will  endeavour  to  get  to 
the  enemy,  as  his  former  master  is  with  them. — Whoever 
takes  up  and  secures  him  so  that  his  master  may  get  him 
again,  shall  have  FORTY  DOLLARS  reward,  and  reason- 
able charges  paid  by 

EBENEZER  BLACHLY,  jun. 

N.  B.      Said  fellow  is  something  lame  in  one  of  his  legs. 
Mendham,  Morris  county,  April  7,  1779. 

1  For  a  sketch  of  Dr.  Jonathan  J.  Dayton,  see  New  Jersey  Archives,  2d 
Series,  2  :  526. 


236  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

TO    BE    SOLD, 

At  public  vendue,  on  T[h]ursday  the  15th  of  April. 

THE   PLANTATION   of   John    Spinning,   jun.    de- 
ceased, containing  about  45  acres  of  excellent  wood 
and  meadow.     The  vendue  to  begin  at  10  o'clock, 
when  the  conditions  will  be  made  known,  and  attendance 
given  by 

JOHN  CLAWSON,      Executor, 
HANNAH  MARTIN,  Executrix. 

TO  BE   SOLD, 

%    JASPER     SMITH, 

At  Hanover,  Morris  county. 


A  Quantity  of 
i>'ood  steel. 


good  new  HEMP  SEED,  a  few  bars  of 
and  saw-mill  saws. 


TO  BE   SOLD, 


At  public  vendue,  by  the  subscriber,  the  15th  instant,  on 
the  premises, 

A  LOT  of  land  containing  about  five  acres  of  good  mow- 
ing ground,  with  a' good  orchard  of  the  best  fruit, 
lying  in  Elizabeth  Town,  near  the  barracks,  on  two 
roads,  one  of  which  leads  to  Morris  Town,  and  adjoining 
the  land  of  Cyrus  De  Hart   and   William   Stiles.      The 
vendue  to  begin  at  1  o'clock  said  day. 

\TACOB  CLARK. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  23 


TO  BE  SOLD, 

valuable  FARM  belonging  to  John  and  Wil- 
1  iiam  Wick  situated  in  Hanover  township,  and 
county  of  Morris,  about  three  miles  from  Morris 
Town  court-house,  lying  on  the  road  which  leads  from 
Whatnon  to  Chatham,  containing  194  acres,  30  acres 
thereof  being  excellent  good  meadow,  and  30  acres  more 
may  be  made  with  little  expence;  there  are  on  the  prem- 
ises two  good  orchards  of  about  300  bearing  tree's  of  the 
best  fruit,  the  remainder  is  woodland,  pasture,  and  plough 
land ;  there  is  also,  on  said  premises,  a  large  double  dwell- 
ing-house, two  story  high,  with  four  rooms  on  a  floor.  The 
land  is  generally  well  watered,  &c. — Any  person  inclining 
to  purchase  may  apply  to  the  said  John  and  William  WTick, 
living  on  the  premises,  who  will  agree  on  reasonable  terms, 
and  give  an  indisputable  title  for  the  same. 

April  5;  1779. 

THE  public  is  again  notified  that  on  the  14th  of  Sep- 
tember last,  the  subscriber  took  from  a  suspected 
person,  at  his  house  in  Morris  Town,  a  likely  bay 
mare,  in  good  order,  which  he  confessed  was  not  his  own, 
but  that  he  took  her  up  at  Hackensack.     She  is  about  14% 
hands  high,  supposed  to  be  four  years  old,  a  bow  neck,  and 
blaze  from  her  eyes  to  her  nose,  hind  feet  white,  and  a 
natural  trotter.     The  OAvner,  by  proving  his  property  and 
paying  charges,  may  have  her  again  by  applying  to 

FREDERICK  KING.1 
Morris  Town,  April  5,  1779. 

— The  New-Jersey  Journal,  Vol.  I.,  Numb.  IX.,  April  13, 
1779. 


1  For  a   sketch  of  the  King  family,   of  Morris   county,   see  New  Jersey 
Archives,  20  :  562. 


288  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE  -  KEVOILUTION.  [1779 

[No.    IV.] 
Mr.  COLLINS, 

4  IN  my  last  number  I  have  laboured  to  make  evident  to  my  fellow- 
citizens,  that  the  present  depreciation  of  our  currency  was  the  only 
(jficicnt  course  of  our  national  calamities  and  disorders,  According  to 
my  declared  intention,  I  am  now  to  offer  my  thoughts  on  the  remedy 
proper  to  be  prescribed  for  its  cure. 

The  cure  is  self-evident — Its  credit  must  be  supported,  and  its  value 
raised. — An  author  in  the  Pennsylvania  Packet  of  the  16th  Feb.  last, 
lias  justly  observed,  that  the  credit  and  the  value  of  money  arc  distinct 
firings.  I  have  before  shewed  how  the  value  of  money  is  to  be  as- 
certained— Its  crtdit  rests  on  different  foundations.  That  of  gold  and 
silver  is  its  being  without  more  alloy  than  than  the  laws  and  customs 
of  nations  allow,  and  having  full  weight  :  That  on  bank-notes  in 
England,  which  pass  as  their  paper  currency,  depends  upon  the  suffi- 
ciency of  the  bank  from  whence  they  are  emitted,  to  repay  them  in  gold 
or  silver  when  demanded.  The  credit  of  our  paper  currency,  as  it  is 
emitted  on  a  national  debt,  depends  upon  that  debt  being  duly  paid,  and 
so  the  emitted  money  sunk  or  destroyed  :  The  credit  of  our  loan- 
certificates  depends  upon  that  of  our  paper  currency. — The  reason  for 
suspecting  the  credit  of  our  currency  can  only  arise  from  the  proba- 
bility that  our  nation  tcill  not  be  able  to  sink  it,  or  not  be  faithful  to 
its  engagements.  Had  England  succeeded  in  their  attempt  to  subdue 
us.  in  human  probability  the  money  would  have  been  lost,  together 
with  whatever  is  valuable  and  dear  to  us  in  this  world.  In  the  com- 
mencement of  the  war,  while  victory,  to  appearances,  hung  in  suspence, 
lories  and  timid  whigs  had  some  pretext  for  their  suspicion  of  this 
debt.  But  according  to  present  circumstances.  England  seems  to  be 
in  more  danger  of  being  subdued  than  America.  As  to  the  ability  and 
the  pledged  faith  of  this  nation,  none  will  pretend  to  suspect  but  such 
as  are  influenced  by  principles  of  enmity,  and  with  a  view  to  embarrass, 
as  much  as  possibly  they  can,  our  national  affairs.  I  suppose  such 
persons  would  not  suspect  the  credit  of  an  English  bank-note,  tho'  it 
really  is  a  thousand  times  more  precarious  than  our  money.  The 
bank,  on  which  its  credit  depends,  can  never  answer  all  its  demands. 
in  case  the  nation  fails :  and  that  owes  an  hundred  and  forty-five 
millions  of  pounds  sterling  more  than  the  whole  of  their  gold  and 
silver  currency.  Some  of  their  own  friends  affirm,  they  owe  twice  as 
much  to  the  United  Provinces  as  the  whole  amount  of  their  circulating- 
cash.  And  what  kind  of  security  or  credit  can  such  notes  have?  I 
take  it  then  for  granted,  that  the  credit  of  our  money  is  at  present  as 
well  established  as  that  of  any  nation  :  and  its  depreciation  cannot 
proceed  from  that  cause.  And  thus  no  remedy  is  necessary  for  the 
better  establishment  of  its  credit. 

It  is  then  only  the  sunk  value  of  the  money  requires  a  remedy.  The 
Pennsylvania  author,  before  recited,  asserts,  that  our  money  is  de- 
preciated on  some  articles  ten,  on  others  twenty,  others  thirty.  Sup- 
posing then  we  should  take  it  at  the  medium,  twenty  for  one,  and  I  am 
apprehensive  this  will  be  near  the  matter  at  the  present  day.  How 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  239 

long  it  will  remain  there,  no  one  can  tell.  I  shall  proceed,  in  my 
further  animadversions,  on  the  supposition,  that  twenty  for  one  is  the 
medium  of  its  present  value.  From  what  I  have  before  observed,  it  is 
manifest,  that  the  present  true  value  of  money  evidences,  what  real 
property  its  possessor  is  entitled  to  receive  for  it.  In  the  commence- 
ment of  the  war  a  continental  dollar  was  worth  a  Spanish  milled  dollar, 
or  its  value ;  and  it  was  the  intention  of-  Congress  it  should  remain  so. 
But  through  errors  in  government ;  fraud,  villainy,  and  necessary  self- 
defence  in  our  citizens,  the  value  has,  by  degrees,  been  reduced  to 
twenty  for  one.  Whatever  individuals  may  have  suffered  by  this  reduc- 
tion, here  they  are.  Their  money  is  worth  no  more.  They  can  get  no 
more  for  it.  This  undoubtedly  is  a  great,  injurious,  and  destructive 
national  evil ;  which  requires  a  speedy  and  efficacious  remedy.  And 
the  only  one  is,  that  which  will  bring  its  value  to  its  old  standard  with 
the  most  justice  and  equity  to  individuals,  and  the  least  oppression  and 
ruin  to  the  community  at  large.  But,  hie  labor,  hie  opus  est ;  here  is 
the  difficulty.  I  have  before  observed,  that  our  national  debt  is  the 
fund  on  which  our  money  and  bank-notes  are  emitted.  Now  this  debt 
is  a  real  thing,  it  is  real  property  and  real  services  for  which  it  has 
been  incurred.  The  money,  as  first  emitted,  was  a  true  evidence  of  the 
value  of  these  properties  and  services  received ;  but  the  money  being 
now,  by  the  common  consent  of  the  nation,  (for  so  it  passes)  reduced 
to  twenty  for  one,  is  no  longer  a  true  evidence  of  the  national  debt. 
Suppose  the  nation  was  now  to  pay  what  they  owe  by  barter ;  give 
property  for  property,  and  service  for  service ;  it  is  evident  that  they, 
in  such  case,  must  give  twenty  dollars  for  the  same  property  and 
service  they  had  for  one  at  the  original  value.  Consequently,  if  we 
suppose  the  nominal  national  debt  to  be  an  hundred  and  sixty  millions 
of  dollars,  at  their  present  value,  then  eight  millions  of  dollars,  at  their 
original  value,  would  purchase  a  sufficiency  of  property  and  service  to 
answer  the  whole.  So  that  the  true  conclusion  from  the  premises  is, 
that  the  depredators  of  our  currency  have,  by  an  exact  inverse  propor- 
tion, reduced  our  national  debt  as  the  depreciation  has  increased.  I  am 
confident  if  this  nation  was  to  borrow  <eight  millions  of  Spanish  milled 
dollars,  and  distribute  them  in  just  proportion  to  individuals  for  all  the 
monies  and  bank-notes  which  have  been  emitted,  that  those  eight 
millions  would  purchase  as  much  real  property  or  service  as  the  whole 
of  the  other.  And  if  my  confidence  is  well  founded,  then  another  con- 
sequence would  be  incontestible  ;  namely,  that  the  individuals,  by  giving 
twenty  for  one,  would  not  have  lost  one  farthing  by  such  exchange. 
Permit  me  to  elucidate  this  by  a  familiar  similitude  :  Suppose  a  man 
exchanges  twenty  shillings  in  coppers  for  one  pound  in  gold  or  silver, 
does  that  man  lose  one  farthing  by  such  exchange,  tho'  he  gives  twenty 
for  one?  Will  not  that  one  pound  purchase  as  much  as  the  twenty 
shillings?  I  confess,  if  money  had  retained  its  original  value  our 
national  debt  would  have  been  much  greater  than  eight  millions ;  Or 
if  Congress  was  to  purchase  property  and  services  sufficient  to  answer 
that  which  they  have  had  for  the  national  debt,  at  the  present  value 
of  money,  that  the  total  amount  would  be  vastly  more  than  an  hundred 


240  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    R EVOLUTION.  [1779 

and  sixty  millions.  I  therefore  say,  that  the  depredators  have  reduced 
our  national  debt  by  exact  inverse  proportions.  In  fact,  it  has  been  a 
voluntary  paying  of  our  national  debt,  though  unknown  to  them  who 
did  it.  To  make  this  evident,  let  us  suppose  A.  sold  to-day  real  property 
for  a  dollar  original  value  ;  a  little  while  after  he  applies  to  B.  for  the 
same,  or  property  of  equal  value  :  If  A.  then  gives  B.  one-sixth  more 
than  the  dollar  he  received  for  it,  (from  whatever  motive  this  may 
arise)  he  consents  to  lose  or  sink  one-sixth  ;  And  if  from  such  example 
a  general  rule  and  practice  is  deduced,  then  the  nation,  by  common 
consent,  has  sunk  that  one-sixth  in  paying  their  national  debt. — Thus 
have  depredators  proceeded  ;  and,  by  an  unaccountable  infatuation, 
have  voluntarily  paid  the  national  debt,  till  in  fact  and  reality  it  is 
brought  down  to  a  mere  trifle.  My  readers  will  be  pleased  to  observe, 
that  I  speak  of  our  national  debt  as  exclusive  of  our  foreign  debt ; 
which  has  been  contracted  for  hard  money,  and  therefore  must  be  paid 
for  in  that,  or  the  amount  of  it  in  produce.  In  this  critical  situation  of 
affairs  our  civil  government  have  an  opportunity  either  of  effectually 
ruining  this  country,  for  which  the  depredators  have  calculated  their 
conduct,  or  seizing  the  opportunity  which  their  misconduct  has  af- 
forded, to  render  their  country  infinite  service. — At  any  rate,  the 
present  fluctuation  of  our  currency  must  be  remedied,  and  reduced  to 
a  fixed  standard,  or  the  nation  cannot  exist.  This  is  a  self-evident 
proposition.  I  take  for  granted  that  the  community  will  cordially  agree 
that  it  ought  to  be  reduced  to  its  former  value.  What  I  have  thus  far 
argued,  opens  to  us  the  way  which  is  to  be  pursued  for  bringing  the 
value  of  our  currency  to  that  standard. 

In  order  to  prosecute  my  design  in  this  important  matter,  I  lay 
down,  as  a  fundamental  rule  in  good  policy.  That  the  national  debt 
ought  not  to  be  increased  more  than  absolute  necessity  requires.  I 
suppose  more1  will  dare  presume  openly  to  undertake  the  defence  of  the 
contrary. — I  also  observe,  that  as  our  currency  and  loan-certificates 
serve  as  the  only  medium  for  trade,  the  community  hare  it  among  them, 
estimated  at  its  present  value  ;  The  farmer,  mechanick.  and  tradesman, 
as  well  as  the  merchant,  quarter-master,  commissary,  and  their 
deputies,  each  his  share;  pursuant  to  their  respective  principles,  oppor- 
tunities, and  agency  of  acquiring  it.  Also  that  monies  entrusted  to 
bodies  politick  or  others,  for  the  use  and  benefit  of  churches  and  semi- 
naries of  learning  :  and  that  was  laid  out  before  the  depreciation  had 
taken  place  to  any  considerable  degree,  for  the  maintenance  of  super- 
annuated persons,  widows  and  orphans,  from  its  interest  and  income, 
can  have  had  no  other  agency  in  the  depreciation  than  what  hard 
necessity  forced  to  be  taken  from  the  principal,  for  indispensably  neces- 
sary support.  I  humbly  conceive,  that  in  point  of  good  policy,  equity 
and  justice,  these  three  important  particulars  ought  to  take  the  lead 
in  investigating  the  necessary  remedy  for  the  disorder.  I  shall,  at  least, 
endeavour  to  square  my  thoughts  on  this  subject  by  these  rules,  and 
leave  my  candid  fellow-citizens  to  judge  of  their  policy,  equity  and 
justice. 


1  None. 


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It  appears  evident  to  me,  that  there  are  only  three  different  ways 
to  recover  the  lost  value  of  our  money  to  its  original :  That  is,  by  a 
tax  in  the  usual  manner;  or,  on  the  money  itself,  in  order  to  reduce 
the  surplus  quantity ;  or,  by  borrowing  a  sufficient  sum  of  foreign 
powers  to  substitute  in  its  room.  Each  require  a  candid  and  thorough 
examination. 

•  The  Congress  seems  to  have  adopted  the  first ;  as  is  evident  from 
their  resolves  of  the  second  of  January  last.  Though  the  wisdom, 
judgment  and  integrity  of  that  august  body,  the  representatives  of  the 
United  States,  demand  our  reverence  and  due  respect ;  yet  they  leave 
the  liberty  to  the  free  subjects  of  this  empire  to  examine  their  proceed- 
ings with  candor,  and  scrutinise  their  determinations  by  the  strictest 
rules  of  good  policy,  equity  and  justice.  On  these  principles  I  proceed 
to  examine  the  mean  for  the  recovery  of  the  lost  value  of  our  money, 
recommended  by  Congress  to  the  different  states,  as  contained  in  their 
resolves  for  that  purpose. — A  late  author,  in  a  piece  published  in  Mr. 
Holt's  Journal,  No.  1811,  under  the  signature,  A  Real  Farmer,  has  held 
forth  the  second,  namely,  a  tax  on  the  money  itself,  in  whosever's  hands 
it  may  be  found,  and  thereby  reduce  the  money  and  loan-certificates  to 
their  original  value.  I  shall  compare  them  in  their  respective  natures 
and  effects,  in  order  that  the  preference  may  more  clearly  appear  from 
such  contrasts,  and  so  take  both  methods  under  consideration  at  once. — 
Let  us  then  consider  them. 

1.  With  respect  to  sound  and  good  policy.  They  will  carry  in  this 
relation  these  unavoidable  consequences  and  tendencies  with  them. 

1.  If  the  tax  is  laid  on  real  property,  it  will  increase  the  national 
debt  by  an  exact  inverse  proportion.     The  true  national  debt  is  now 
about    eight    millions    of    dollars.      If,    pursuant    to    the    resolves    of 
Congress,  taxes  on  real  property  should  pay  an  hundred  millions  in 
thirteen  years,  then   the  remainder  is  supposed  to  have  retrieved  its 
former  value.     Consequently  the  farmers  shall  have  sweated  and  la- 
boured thirteen  years  to  increase  the  national  debt  from  eight  to  thirty, 
by  paying   an  hundred   millions. — The   other   scheme   takes   the   com- 
munity   at   their   own   bargain.      They   themselves    have    brought,    by 
mutual  consent,  the  value  down  to  twenty  for  one ;    And  if  every  indi- 
vidual gets  for  his  money  the  value  he  holds  it  at,  what  reason  has  he 
to  complain?     He  exchanges  only  shillings  for  pounds.     Now  let  every 
friend  to  his  country ;    particularly  let  every  farmer,  mechanick  and 
tradesman  judge,  whether  they  would  choose  to  pay  an  hundred  mil- 
lions of  dollars  in  thirteen  years,  and  then  have  thirty  millions  more 
to  pay   (after  money  shall  be  as  scarce  as  it  used  to  be)  in  five  years 
more?   or  give  up  all  the  money  they  have,  and  receive  one  for  twenty 
when  they  will  be  left  able  to  buy  as  much  for  the  one  as  for  the 
twenty ;   and  then  the  whole  debt  of  the  nation  to  be  but  eight  millions? 

2.  If  the  tax  for  the  recovery  of  the  value  is  laid  on  real  property, 
it  will  incourage  the  vilest  of  men  in  their  pernicious  attempts  to  injure 
the  state;   The  other  will  have  the  directly  contrary  effect.     If  this  be 
true,  there  is  no  doubt  which  is  to  be  preferred  in  point  of  good  policy. 
That  is  true,  may  appear  evident,  if  we  consider  that  the  very  men 

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242       •  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

who  have  acquired  most  of  the  money,  have,  by  their  manner  of  ac- 
quiring, depreciated  it.  Their  view  was  either  immoderate  gain  at  the 
expense  of  others,  and  in  hopes  that  real  property,  or  in  other  words, 
chiefly  the  farmers  should  be  obliged  to  make  good  their  money ;  or 
they  did  it  with  a  view  to  ruin  our  cause  in  this  contest;  which  is 
now  the  last  hopeful  resort  of  the  tories.  Now  the  plan  Congress  has 
resolved  to  pursue  seems  perfectly  to  coincide  with  the  former ;  be- 
cause it  is  evidently  calculated  to  oblige  the  farmer  to  make  the 
money  good  in  the  hands  of  those  miscreants  who  have  amassed 
great  sums  of  it.  This  would  give  a  sanction  to  their  nefarious  prac- 
tice, and  lay  open  the  way  for  them  again  to  pursue,  on  every  similar 
occasion ;  to  the  still  greater  embarrassment  than  we  are  in  at  present. 
— And  the  plan  requires  so  long  a  time  to  produce  the  desired  effect, 
that  the  tories  are  still  sanguine  in  their  hopes  that  our  ruin  will  be 
cornpleated  before  this  remedy  can  effect  the  cure.  The  plan  to  lay 
this  tax  on  the  money  itself,  would  evidently  be  the  reverse.  For  if 
these  blood-suckers  were  to  bear  their  proper  proportion  in  reducing 
the  money  to  its  original  value,  a  greater  number  of  them  would  suffer 
more  than  gain  :  And  as  such  are  only  actuated  by  prospects  of  lucre, 
they  would  hereby  be  effectually  deterred  from  similar  attempts  in 
future.  And  it  is  evident  that  it  would,  at  one  blow,  overturn  all  the 
remains  of  the  tottering  hopes  of  the  tories. 

3.  The  first  plan  would  be  exceeding  dangerous  to  the  civil  liberties 
of  the  people,  a-s  note  established  on  and  by  their  authority.  The  other 
would  effectually  secure  them.  To  prove  this,  let  it  be  observed,  that 
our  present  governments  were  intended  to  be  democratic  republicks; 
that  is,  a  government  in  the  hands  of  the  people.  We  have  been  happily 
situated  for  such  a  government :  A  very  great  majority  of  the  com- 
munity being  either  independent  freeholders  or  mechanicks  and  trades- 
men of  comfortable  circumstances  in  life.  But  if  real  property  must 
pay  both  the  tax  to  retrieve  the  value  of  the  money,  and  that  to  pay 
the  true  national  debt,  then  I  am  positive  the  necessary  equilibrium  or 
balance  between  our  commonalty  and  gentry  will  be  broke,  and  the  gov- 
ernment fall  into  the  hands  of  the  great ;  and  so  change  from  a 
democracy  to  an  aristocracy.  To  make  this  plain  to  our  common 
people,  let  us  recollect  the  case  in  New  Jersey  for  instance ;  If  the 
three  hundred  thousand  pounds,  our  continental  quota  for  the  current 
year,  be  added  to  the  hundred  thousand  now  levying,  then  this  state 
will  raise  four  hundred  thousand  ;  and  this  whole  sum  will  not  pay 
one  half  of  its  quota  towards  this  year's  national  expense,  still  then 
our  debt  increases.  Those  who  have  amassed  thousands  and  tens  of 
thousands  and  thrown  it  into  the  loan,  must  have  their  six  per  cent, 
out  of  the  money  thus  raised,  and  pay  not  one  farthing  of  it  towards 
the  tax.  If  this  method  is  pursued  till  our  national  debt  is  paid,  I 
plainly  foresee  that  our  case  is  unavoidably  similar  to  that  of  the 
Egyptians  in  Joseph's  day.  We  have  our  seven  years  of  plenty  of 
money,  and  a  number  of  Pharaohs  hoard  it  up.  The  seven  years  of 
scarcity  will  force  the  generality  of  farmers  and  mechanicks  to  pur- 
chase it  from  them,  to  pay  the  tax  for  sinking  it.  First  all  their  money 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  243 

will  go ;  then  their  cattle  and  herds ;  next  their  lands ;  and  then 
their  persons.  And  do  you  farmers  and  mechanics  expect  to  have  any 
share  in  the  government  of  this  empire,  after  an  amazing  over-balance 
of  wealth  shall  have  been  thrown  into  the  hands  of  comparatively  a 
few  gentlemen?  If  you  do  you  will  be  fatally  mistaken. — If  the 
money  be  taxed,  the  nation  will  remain  as  it  was.  A  few  individuals 
may  suffer ;  but  as  each  will  pay  only  a  proper  share  of  what  he  has 
-of  it,  none  will  be  ruined  more  than  are  already:  And  so  the  necessary 
balance  of  wealth  between  the  commonalty  and  gentry  be  perserved, 
and  our  democratick  governments  secured. 

4.  This  measure  threatens  greater  imminent  danger,  instead  of  a 
remedy,  to  the  national  evil;  and  therefore  must  be  exceeding  vm- 
politick.  Beside  the  dangerous  situation  of  all  commerce  and  trade, 
on  account  of  the  fluctuation  of  our  currency,  (which  if  it  holds  much 
longer,  I  cannot  see  what  will  become  of  all  our  trade  and  commerce)  — 
I  say,  beside  this,  the  military  department  of  our  army  are  undoubtedly 
the  greatest  sufferers  of  any  active  set  of  men  in  the  whole  com- 
munity. The  case  is  so  clear,  that  I  need  not  point  out  particulars. 
These  are  the  very  men  who  fight  our  battles,  defend  our  properties 
and  liberties ;  and  to  deserve  the  most  at  our  hands.  And  these  very 
men,  who  have  been  so  active  in  amassing  and  depreciating  the  money, 
are  the  chief  causes  of  their  distress.  What  must  this  part  of  the 
army  say  or  think  if  such  men  meet  with  the  tender  care  of  their 
country  to  enhance  their  unjust  acquired  riches,  while  their  ruin  is 
permitted  to  go  on?  And  what  effect  can  the  Congress-plan  have  to 
remedy  their  grievances?  Several  years  must  elapse  before  the  effect 
can  be  felt.  This  is  an  evil  which  requires  immediate  redress.  Should 
it  be  by  raising  all  their  pay  proportionable  to  the  present  depreciation, 
no  one  knows  how  long  the  money  would  stand  at  the  present  value. 
And  if  this  additional  expence  was  to  be  paid  within  the  eighteen  years 
limited  by  Congress,  by  a  tax  on  real  property,  what  would  the  conse- 
quence be?  I  need  not  answer  it. — If  this  tax  was  laid  on  the 
depreciated  money,  which  has  caused  the  evil,  it  might  be  effectually 
redressed  in  less  than  six  months ;  money  be  brought  to  its  original 
value;  regulating  laws  passed  to  keep  it  there;  justice  be  done  to 
that  part  of  our  army;  commerce  and  trade  be  carried  on  with  regu- 
larity and  safety. 

On  a  review  of  the  foregoing  particulars,  I  cannot  pretend  to  judge 
how  it  may  appear  to  others ;  but  to  me  it  is  evident,  that  the  Congress- 
plan  is  exceeding  impolitick,  and  pregnant  with  insurmountable  diffi- 
culties and  prenicious  evils  to  the  publick  weal.  The  other  manifestly 
founded  on  good  policy,  and  of  immediate  tendency  to  promote  the 
publick  interest. 

I  intend  also  to  consider  these  different  plans  in  their  relation  to 
equity  and  justice!  But  as  my  chain  of  reasonings  has  already  led  me 
almost  beyond  the  limits  of  a  newspaper,  I  beg  leave  to  defer  this  to 
a  future  opportunity. 

I  take  the  pleasure,  Sir,  to  subscribe  myself, 

Your's  and  the  Publick's  true  friend  and  real  well-wisher, 

A   TRUE   PATRIOT. 


244  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

TRENTON,  APRIL  14. 

Officers  commanding  battalions  in  the  militia  of  this 
state,  are  desired  to  pay  the  strictest  attention  to  their 
men's  arms  and  accoutrements,  that  they  may  be  in  the 
most  perfect  order.  Those  in  want  of  ammunition  will 
make  an  immediate  return  to  the  commissary  of  military 
stores  at  this  pla,ce.  It  is  particularly  recommended  to 
both  officers  and  privates  to  pay  the  greatest  attention  to 
SIGNALS,  and  the  strictest  compliance  with  the  orders  they 
will  receive. 

We  hear  that  Commissioners,  appointed  by  their  Excel- 
lencies General  Washington  and  Sir  Henry  Clinton,  met 
on  Monday  last  at  Perth- Amboy,  in  in  order  once  more 
to  endeavour  to  settle  a  cartel  for  a  general  exchange  of 
prisoners. 

THE  Subscribers  who  are  indebted  for  this  Gazette  for 
1778,  will  oblige  the  Printer  by  discharging  their  respec- 
tive Arrears.  To  facilitate  this  Duty,  Accounts  have  been 
made  out  and  transmitted  to  the  Gentlemen  to  whom  the 
Packets  were  directed,  and  with  whom  the  Individual 
Subscribers  of  each  Packet  are  requested  to  settle  their 
accounts. 

It  may  not  be  amiss,  perhaps,  heire  to  remark,  that  the 
Price  of  this  Gazette  hath  not  exceeded  one  Half  its  Value 
ever  since  the  regulating  Act  was  suspended,  compared 
with  that  of  the  Necessaries  of  Life. 

To  BE  SOLD,  the  30th  day  of  this  instant,  at  Princeton, 
the  house  and  about  twelve  acres  of  good  land,  and  a 
framed  house  with  a  cellar  under  it  of  stone,  with  three 
rooms  on  the  floor  and  two  rooms  in  the  second  story,  and 
a  good  stoned  well  by  the  door,  and  about  twenty  bearing 
apple  trees  on  said  lot.  The  house  and  land  the  property 
of  the  Rev.  William  Tennent,  deceased,  sold  by  us, 

JOHN    COVENHOVEN, 
AARON    MATTISON. 

April  5,  1779. 


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TO    COVER 

For  Thirty  Dollars  the  season,  at  the  subscriber's  in 
Mansfield,  near  Bordentown,  the  beautiful  STALLION, 
called 

CLEAR  ALL, 
and  known  by  many  by  the  name  of  Grover's  Black. 

THIS  horse  was  got  by  Old  Bullyrock,  and  his  dam  a 
remarkable  fine  three-quarters  blooded  DoTsen  mare.  His 
performances  are  so  well  known  in  running,  and  getting 
good  colts,  that  more  need  not  be  said  of  him.  Attendance 
given  by 

JOSHUA    FOSTER. 

State  of  New  Jersey,  April  9,  1779. 


YOUNG    FIGURE, 

A  Beautiful  brown,  in  excellent  order,  five  years  old 
this  grass,  will  cover  mares  the  ensuing  season  at  the  stable 
of  John  Reading,  in  Amwell  township,  county  of  Hunter- 
don,  West  New-Jersey,  at  the  moderate  price  of  Forty 
Dollars  the  season,  for  cash  only.  Yooing  Figure  is  nearly 
a  full  blooded  hoarse;  was  got  by  the  famous  horse — Old 
Figure,  his  dam  got  by  the  noted  horse  Old  Valiant,  his 
grandam  by  the  Old  Bullyrock,  whose  stock  and  blood 
being  so  well  known  in  this  and  the  adjacent  states,  need 
no  further  recommendation.  Good  care  will  be  taken  of 
mares,  and  pasture  provided  at  a  moderate  price.  The 
said  Reading  lives  within  two  miles  and  three-quarters  of 
Flemington,  adjoining  the  South  Branch  of  Raritan. 

The  Old  Valiant,  formerly  belonged  to  George  Cory  ell, 
and  lately  to  the  aforesaid  John  Reading,  covers  this 
season  at  William  Betts,  in  the  state  of  Pennsylvania, 
within  five  miles  and  a  half  [from]  Coryell's  ferry,  and 


246  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

one  mile  and  a  half  from  Buckingham  meeting-house,  at 
Sixty  Dollars  the  season,  ready  cash.  Pasture  provided  at 
a  moderate  pa-ice  by  said  Petts,  and  good  care  will  be  taken 
of  mares. 

TWO    HUNDRED    DOLLARS    REWARD. 
A    ROBBERY. 

THE  shop  of  Robert  Eastburn,  in  New-Brunswick,  was 
broke  open  on  Monday  night,  the  15th  of  March,  and 
robbed  of  the  following  goods:  1  piece  of  blue  taffeta,  1 
piece  of  black  russel,  1  piece  of  cambrick,  a  remnant  of 
scarlet  broadcloth,  2  pieces  of  striped  holland,  the  one 
broad  the  other  narrow-striped,  about  a  pound  and  a  half 
of  sewing  silk,  one  pound  or  upwards  of  fine  thread,  2 
large  blue  sailor's  jackets,  2  remnants  containing  about  ten 
yards  of  black  gauze,  1  blue  cloth  cloak  the  hood  cut  off ; 
also  sundry  buttons,  brass  buckles,  ribbons,  broad  silk 
ferret,  white,  yellow  and  black,  cap  tape,  stay  laces,  brass 
oval  sleeve  buttons,  fine,  coarse  and  crooked  horn  combs, 
and  some  coffee.  Whoever  can  discover  the  robber  or 
robbers,  so  that  he,  she-,  or  they  may  bei  brought  to  justice 
and  convicted,  and  the  goods  recovered,  shall  receive  the 
above  reward,  or  150  dollars  for  the  goods,  or  a  proportion- 
able reward  for  any  part  of  them  that  can  be  recovered. 
All  merchants,  traders,  and  others,  are  desired  to>  stop  any 
part  of  the  said  goods  that  may  be  offered  for  sale  by 
suspected  persons. 

"N.  B.  The  said  Eastburn  has  for  sale,  tea,  sugar, 
coffee,  chocolatei,  tamarinds,  currants,  sweet  oil,  nutmegs, 
cinnamon,  mace.,  cloves,  citron,  pasteboards,  West-Indian 
rum  and  molasses  by  the  gallon,  imported  fine  salt  by  the 
barrel,  bushel,  or  less  quantity,  writing  paper,  ink  powder, 
pen  knives,  wafers,  pipes,  tobacco,  watch-chains  and  seals, 
pins  by  the  pound  or  ounce,  check,  striped  and  white  linen, 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  247 

buttons,  buckles,  knives,  razors,  pocket  bottles,  needles  by 
the  thousand  or  less  quantity,  coarse  and  fine  threads, 
Castile  and  common  soap,  snuff  in  bladders,  allum,  brim- 
stone, copperas,  earthen  ware,  choice  indigo,  redwood, 
logwood,  straight  and  crooked  combs,  and  sundry  other 
articles.  April  5,  1779. 

TO  BE  SOLD. 

At  publick  Vendue,  on  Saturday,  the  17th  day  of  April, 
at  the  house  of  the  subscriber  near  Baptist  meeting-house, 
in  Hopewell; 

SEveral  draught  horses,  mares  with  foal,  English  colts; 
Milch  cows>,  a  yoke  of  oxen,  young  cattle,  and  sheep; 
imported  salt,  and  some  shop  goods,  with  sundry  other 
things  too  tedious  to  mention. 

The  vendue  to  begin  at  ten  o'clock  on  said  day,  when  the 
conditions  of  sale  will  be  made  known,  and  attendance 
given  by 

TIMOTHY    BRUSH,    JUU 

April  12. 

To  BE  SOLD,  a  plantation,  containing  200  acres  of  good 
land,  well  watered  and  timbered,  and  good  meadow  ground, 
with  a  small  frame  house  with  two  rooms,  a  Dutch  barn 
not  thatched,  with  a  young  bearing  orchard;  situate  in 
Bedministerr,  Somerset  county,  state  of  New  Jersey,  ad- 
joining Peter  Demond,  about  two '  miles  from  New- 
Germantown  on  a  road  leading  to  Pluck'emin,  and  may  be 
entered  upon  immediately.  For  terms  apply  to  the 
subscriber  near  the  premises. 

DANIEL    HENRY. 

April  2d,  1779. 

ALL  persons  indebted  to,  or  that  have  any  demands 
against  Daniel  Smith,  saddler,  of  Morristown,  are  re- 


248  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

quested  to  call  on  him  with  their  respective  accounts,  in 
order  for  a  settlement. 

Morristown,  April  5,  1779. 

WANTED,  a  Journeyman  Saddler.  Any  person  who  will 
come  well  recommended,  shall  receive  the  current  price 
given  at  this  time,  by  applying  to  Daniel  Smith,  at 
Morristowii. 

Morristown,  April  5,  1779. 

Middlesex,   Xew-     By  virtue  of  a  writ  of  Fieri  Facias 
Jersey  issued  out  of  the  Supreme  Court,  at  the 

suit  of  Annie  Okill,  against  the  administrators  of  Peter 
Sonmons,1  deceased,  I  ha,ve  taken  and  seized  a  tract  of  land 
situate  at  the  Roundabout,  on  Raritan  river,  containing  by 
estimation  600  acres.  All  which  I  shall  expose  at  publick 
sale  on  Monday  26th  day  of  April  next,  at  the  house  of 
Joseph  Dennis,  iiinholder  at  Spottswood,  between  the 
hours  of  12  and  5  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  pursuant  to  the 
act  of  assembly  in  that  case  made  and  provided. 

.jonx  PI  ATT,  Sheriff. 
Feb.  26,  1779. 

TEX    DOLLARS    RKWAHI). 

TJROTCE  out  of  Trenton  gaol,  in  flic  county  of  Hunter- 
don,  the  13th  of  March  last,  a  Robber,  who  called  himself 
Adam  Ruff,  but  has  changed  his  name  three  times.  Said 
robber  is  a  down-looking  fellow,  with  straight  black  hair, 
has  the  appearance  of  an  Indian,  is  about  five  feet  nine 
inches  high;  had  on  when  he  went  away,  an  old  brown 
coat  and  plush  breeches,  Avhite  cotton  stockings,  old  shoes 
tied  with  strings,  and  old  wool  hat.  Whoever  takes  up 
said  robber,  and  secures  him  in  any  gaol,  or  brings  him 
to  Trenton  gaol,  shall  be  entitled  to  the  above  reward. 

jos.   IXSLEE,  Sheriff. 


1  For  notices  of  Peter  Sonmans.  see  N.  .7.  Archives,-  2  :  467  ;    11  :  18  ;    19, 
425. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  249 

N.  B.  Said  robber  is  supposed  to  have  gone  towards  Vir- 
ginia, from  whence  he;  came. 

—The  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Wednesday,  Vol.  II.,  No.  71, 
April  14,  1779. 

DESERTED, 

Erom  the  Fourth  Regiment  of  Light  Dragoons.,  now  lying 
at  Lancaster, 

JAMES  WATSOJj",  twenty-five  years  of  age,  born  in  New- 
Jersey,  five  feet  six  inches  high,  well  set,  light  hair,  fair 
complexion,  took  with  him  a  handsome  bay  horse,  black 
mane  and  tail,  six  years  old  this  grass,  branded  on  the  rear 
buttock  4  L  1).  The  said  Watson  formerly  lived  at  Bor- 
dentown,  and  it  is  supposed  is  now  in  or  about  that 
neighborhood. 

The  above  deserter  took  with  him  the  uniform  of  the 
said  regiment,  consisting  of  a  green  cloak  with  a  red  cape, 
green  coat  turned  up  with  red,  red  waistcoat,  buckskin 
breeches,  boots  and  a  leather  cap  mounted  with  bearskin. 
Whoever  takes  up  the  aforesaid  deserter  and  secures  him 
in  any  gaol  on  the  Continent,  or  brings  him  to  the  regi- 
ment, shall  receive  Twenty  Dollars  reward. 

ANTHONY  W.  WHITE,1 
Lieut.  Col.  Com.  4th  Eeg.  L.  D. 
—The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  April  15,  1779. 


Newtown  Township,  Gloucester  County,  4th  Mo.  9th. 

ONE     HUNDRED    AND    FIFTY    DOLLARS    REWARD. 

WHEREAS  three  men  came  to  the  house  of  the  sub- 
scriber about  One  o'clock  last  night,  pretending  to  be 
Continental  soldiers,  and  demanded  entrance  to  search 

1  For  a  sketch  of  Col.   Anthony  Walton  White,   see  N.  J.   Archives,   2d 
Series,  1  :  363. 


250  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

for  some  of  their  men,  and  being  let  in,  asked  for  a  candle 
and  searched  the  house,  when  finding  no  men  about  house 
but  myself,  they  presented  their  bayonets  to  my  breast, 
and  threatened  to  take  my  life  unless  I  delivered,  my 
money,  and  also  threatened  to  break  open  the  drawers, 
whereupon  myself  and  wife  through  terror  unlocked  the 
drawers  from  whence  they  took  about  One  Hundred  and 
Fifty  Pounds  in  old  paper  money,  Four  Hundred  and 
Forty  Dollars  in  Continental  money  of  those  two  emis- 
sions called  in,  a  bag  containing  Ten  or  Twelve  Pounds 
in  Spanish  pieces  of  Eight  and  small  pieces  of  silver,  and 
a  bag  containing  about  Ten  Shillings  in  pennies.  One 
of  the  said  men  was  of  a  low  stature,  wore  a  blue  coat 
turned  up  with  red,  and  the  others  were  of  a  middling  size ; 
one  of  them  had  on  a  red  jacket  and  pair  of  trousers,  the 
other  wore  brown  or  blue  turned  up  with  red.  Whoever 
apprehends  the  said  men  so  that  they  may  be  brought  to 
justice,  shall  receive  the  above  reward,  paid  by 

AQUILLA  JOKES. 


Philadelphia,  April  16. 

One  Thousand  Dollars  Reward.1 

On  Friday  the  ninth  instant,  as  Captain  TRAPP  was 
on  his  way  from  Boston  to  this  city,  between  six  and  seven 
in  the  evening  he  was  met  by  two  men  in  the  road  from 
Xew  Windsor  to  Morristown,  in  the  Clove,  when  one  of 
them  with  a  musket  stopped  him,  and  swore  if  he  did  not 
immediately  dismount  he  would  blow  his  brains  out. 
Capt.  Trapp  asked  by  what  authority  ?  He  replied  if  he 
did  not  get  off  he  would  show  him.  By  this  time  the  other 
one  came  and  took  the  horse  by  the  bridle,  and  took  a 
pistol  out  of  his  pocket.  Capt.  Trapp  then  alighted,  and 
they  took  him  and  his  horse  out  of  the  main  road,  where 
they  tied  the  horse  and  took  off  the  saddle-bags,  in  which 

1  Continental  money,  of  course. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  251 

were  upwards  of  Eight  Thousand  Eight  Hundred  Pounds, 
lawful  money,  and  all  his  cloaths,  and  ordered  him  up 
the  mountain,  where  they  stopped  and  demanded  the  key ; 
he  told  them  he  had  lost  it;  when  they  with  a  knife  cut 
them  open.  One  of  them  then  guarded  him  almost  to  the 
top  of  the  mountain,  when  seeing  an  opportunity  he  ran 
and  made  his  escape  from  them,  and  came  to  the  first  house 
from  the  place,  where  he  found  some  riflemen,  who  went 
in  pursuit  of  them,  found  his  horse  where  they  left  him 
the  next  morning,  and  found  his  whip,  but  could  find  noth- 
ing of  the  robbers.  The  night  before  they  broke  open 
and  robbed  a  house  near  the  same  place.  One  Cole  and  one 
Straw,  who  belonged  to  the  same  party,  were  executed  the 
same  day  at  Hackensack. — There  have  thirteen  of  them 
been  seen,  and  it  is  supposed  there  are  between  forty  and 
fifty  now  on  the  mountains  near  the  same  place. 

Whoever  takes  up  the  robbers  and  secures  them  in  any 
gaol  on  the  Continent,   so  that  they  may  be  brought  to 
justice,  and  the  money  be  recovered,  shall  be  entitled  to 
the  above  reward. 
— The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  April  17,  1779. 


NEW-YORK,  April  19. 

Last  Monday  night  a  detachment  of  the  4th  battalion  of 
New  Jersey  Volunteers,  (Lieut.  Colonel  Buskirk's)  Com- 
manded by  Capt.  Van  Allen,  Lieut.  Haslop,  and  Ensign 
Earle,  surprised  a  Rebel  guard  at  the  Little  Feirry,  con- 
sisting of  two  non-commissioned  Officers  and  12  Privates 
of  the  Carolina  Brigade  and  one  Militia  man.  Lieut. 
Haslop  and  Ensign  Earle  with  18  or  19  men  were  ordered 
by  Oapt,  Van  Allen  to  cross  the  river,  which  they  did  by 
lashing  two  Canoes  together,  and  after  marching  .thro' 
Swamps  and  Woods  about  3  miles1  (during  the  violence  of 
the  Storm)  to  get  in  the  Rear  of  the  guard,  they  came  up 
undiscovered  to  the  Gentry  at  the  Door,  and  upon  being 
challenged  rushed  in,  killed  two,  wounded  two  that  atr 


252        NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779 

tempted  to  escape  and  *made  Defence,  and  took  the  Re>- 
mainder  Prisoners,  with  all  their  Arms  and  Accoutre- 
ments, without  any  loss  to  the  Loyal  Party, -who  returned 
on  Wednesday  morning,  after  Sunrise,  with  their  pockets 
filled  with  paper  Dollars. 

Wednesday  Morning  died  in  her  27th  year,  Mrs.  Mary 
Lawrence,  the  amiable  Consort  of  Lieut.  Col.  Elisha  Law- 
rence, of  Brigadier-General  Skinner's  Brigade!,  and 
Daughter  to  the  Hon.  Lewis  A&hfield,  Esq.,  of  Monmouth 
County,  in  New-Jersey,  deceased ;  and  on  Thursday  her 
Kemains  were  deposited  in  the  Family  Burying  Ground 
in  Trinity  Church- Yard. 

KEW-YORK,  April  14. 

Genuine  copy  of  a  letter  from  Mr.  Livingston,  titular 
Governor  of  New-Jersey,  to  his  Excellency  Sir  Henry 
Clinton,  K.  B.  &c. 

Elizabeth-Town,  29th  March,  1779. 
SIR, 

''After  having  apologized  for  my  delaying  your  and 
Mr.  Franklin's  dinner  by  being  accidentally  abroad  when 
you  did  me  the  Honour  a  few  Days  ago  to  send  Col.  Stir- 
ling to  wait  upon  me  to  Xew-York,  I  beg  leave  to  acquaint 
you  that  I  am  possessed  of  the  most  authentic  proofs  of  a 
General  Officer  under  your  Command  having  offered  a 
large  sum  of  money  to  an  inhabitant  of  this  State  to 
assassinate  me,  in  case  he  could  not  take  me  alive;  this 
Sir  is  so  repugnant  to  the  Character  which  I  have  hitherto 
formed  of  Sir  Henry  Clinton,  that  I  think  it  highly  im- 
probable you  should  either  countenance,  connive  at,  or  be 
Privy  to  a  design  so  sanguinary  and  disgraceful.  Taking 
it  however  for  granted  that  you  are  a  Gentleman  of  too 
much  spirit  to  disown  any  thing  that  you  think  proper 
to  abet,  I  give  you  this  Opportunity  for  disavowing  such 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  253 

dark  Proceedings,  if  undertaken  without  your  Approba- 
tion, assuring  you  at  the  same  time  that  if  countenanced 
by  you,  your  person  is  more  in  my  Power  than  I  have 
reason  to  think  you  imagine. 

I  have  the  Honour  to  be  with  all  due  respect, 
Your  Excellency's1  most  humble  Servant, 
(Signed)  Wil.   Livingston. 

General  Sir  Henry  Clinton. 


His  Excellency's  Answer. 

New- York,  April  10,  1779. 
SIR, 

"As  you  address  me  on  a  grave  subject,  no  less  than 
life  and  death,  and  your  own  person  concerned,  I  con- 
descend to  answer  you,  but  must  not  be  troubled  with  any 
further  correspondence  with  Mr.  Livingston. 

Had  I  a  soul  capable  of  harbouring  so  infamous  an 
idea  as  assassination,  you  Sir,  at  least  would  have 
nothing  to  fear;  for  be  assured  I  should  not  blacken  my- 
self with  so  foul  a  crime  to  obtain  so  trifling  an  end. 

Sensible  of  the  power  you  boast  of  being  able  to  dispose 
of  my  life  by  means  of  intimates  of  yours,  reiady  to  murder 
at  your  command,  I  can  only  congratulate  you  on  your 
amiable  connection's,  and  acknowledge  myself, 

Your  most  humble  Servant, 

(Signed)  H.  CLINTON, 

William  Livingston,  Esq. ;    New-Jersey. 

We  hear  the  General  Assembly  of  the  Province  of  New- 
Jersey  is  now  sitting,  and  that  they  are  busy  framing  a 
Law  in  Order  to  impress  every  8th  Man  in  the  Province, 
to  serve  in  the  Militia  for  the  Campaign  of  the  year  1779. 
— The  'New-York  Gazette  and  the  Weekly  Mercury,, 
No:  1435,  April  19, 1799. 


254  NEW    JERSEY    IIsT    THE    REVOLUTION".  [1779 


TRENTON,  April  7. 

Extracts  of  a  letter  from  Elizabeth-Town,  March  26. 

"The  enemy  have  an  expedition  on  foot  to  the  eastward 
and  have  taken  with  them  every  privateer  in  the  harbour 
at  New  York.  Their  troops  were  embarked  from  Long- 
Island.  Gen.  Clinton,  it  is  said  is  gone  with  them.  Ad- 
miral Gambier,  who  sailed  4  days  ago  from  the  Hook,  is 
arrived  at  Rhode-Island." — Th&  N&u^York  Journal,  and 
the  General  Advertiser,  Numb.  1821,  April  19,  1779. 


Maidenhead,  Hunterdon  County,  New  Jersey,  April  16. 
ONE  HUNDRED  DOLLAES  REWARD. 

Stolen  last  night  out  of  the  yard  of  Capt.  Quigley  in 
Trenton,  a  large  likely  sorrel  HORSE,  near  sixteen  hands 
high,  has  a  white  mane  and  tail,  clumsy  trot,  four  years 
old,  and  shod  all  round.  Any  person  taking  up  and  secur- 
ing said  horse  and  the  thief,  so  that  the  owner  may  have 
his  horse -and  the  thief  be  brought  to  justice,  shall  receive 
the  above  reward ;  or  for  the  horse  alone  SIXTY  DOL- 
LARS, and  reasonable  charges  if  brought  home,  paid  by 

JOSEPH  BREARLEY. 

i 

On  Wednesday  the  twenty-eighth  instant,  at  the  house  of 
Col.  Richard  Wescott,  at  the  Eorks  of  Little  Egg  harbour, 
The  following  VESSELS,  viz. 

The  Sloop  Hornet,  burthen  about  seventy  tons,  mount- 
ing 8  four-pounders,  and  6  swivels,  a  fast  sailor,  being  com- 
pleatly  fitted  for  a  privateer,  and  now  ready  for  sea,  per 
inventory  to  be  seen  at  the  day  of  sale. 

The  schooner  Rattle  Snake,  burthen  about  forty  tons, 
mounting  6  two-pounders  and  6  swivels,  sails  remarkably 
fast,  and  now  ready  for  sea,  being  compleatly  fitted  for  a 
privateer. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  255 

The  Sloop  Chance,  burthen  about  thirty-five  tons,  her 
sails  all  new,  and  now  ready 'for  sea,  being  compleatly 
fitted. 

At  the  same  time  and  place  will  be  sold,  a  quantity  of 
GoodSj  three  good  Anchors,  a  quantity  of  Sails,  and  sundry 
other  articles  of  Merchandize, 

Forks,  April  16  JOSEPH   BALL. 


TO    ALL  whom  it  may  concern: 

Notice  is  hereby  given,  That  a  Court  of  Admiralty  will 
be  held  at  the  Court-house  in  Trenton,  on  Friday  the  sev- 
enth day  of  May  next,  at  Ten  o'clock  in  the  forenoon  of 
the  same  day,  then  and  there  to  try  the  truth  of  the  facts 
alledged  in  the  bill  of  John  Tilton  (who  as  well  &c.) 
against  the  snow  or  vessel  called  the  Polly,  lately  com- 
manded by  Michael  Barstow,  with  her  tackle,  apparel, 
furniture  -and  cargo:  To  the  end  and  intent  that  the  owner 
or  owners  of  the  said  vessel,  or  any  person  or  persons  con- 
cerned therein,  may  appear  and  shew  cause,  if  any  they 
have,  why  the  said  vessel,  her  apparel,  furniture  and  cargo 
should  not  be  condemned  according  to  the  prayer  of  the 
said  bill. 

By  order  of  the  Judge 

Salem,  April  12.  Joseph  Bloomfield,  Reg. 

— The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  April  20,  1779. 


For  the  NEW-JERSEY  JOURNAL. 
Vectigalia  nervos  esse  reipublicte  semper  duximus. 


Cic. 


IT  is  the  duty  of  every  citizen  to  contribute  to  the  services  of  his 
country,  by  counsel  and  Action.    The  public  papers  are  a  channel 
by  which  every  individual  may  convey  his  opinion  and  advice  for 
the  public  good.     I  think  the  States  in  general,  and  this  in  particular, 
labour  under  some  obvious  political  evils ;    the  remedies  of  which  are 


256  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  |  1779 

easy,  and  yet  too  much  neglected.  I  am  by  no  means  of  the  whining, 
hypocondriac  class  of  scriblers,  who  talk  wildly  of  our  country  being 
in  convulsive  struggles,  labouring  under  malignant  distempers,  in 
danger  of  ruin,  and  political  dissolution;  that  our  virtue,  our  patriotism, 
and  public  spirits  are  lost,  &c.  For  my  part,  I  abhor  such  stuff, 
which  are  either  guns  of  distress  from  political  quacks  unpensioned 
and  out  of  place,  or  the  mere  ebullitions  of  ignorance,  stupidly  false 
and  basely  ungrateful.  There  is  much  real  patriotism  and  public 
spirit  in  our  country.  There  is  not  the  same  call  for  the  exertions  of 
these  virtues  that  was  a  few  years  ago,  before  our  civil  governments 
were  formed  and  established,  and  therefore  they  do  not  glare  with 
such  splendor  ;  but  was  the  necessity  the  same  as  formerly,  the  living 
coals  would  instantly  be  fanned  into  a  blaze,  and  pour,  like  port-fire, 
flashes  of  confusion  upon  our  foes. 

It  is  readily  granted,  that  we  labour  under  some  partial  evils,  but 
I  firmly  believe  there  never  was  a  country,  in  the  recent  circumstances 
of  a  revolution,  laboured  under  so  few  ;  and  it  is  the  part  of  a  good 
citizen  and  true  patriot  not  to  exaggerate  these  evils,  but  to  state  them 
with  precission,  and  administer  practicable  and  effectual  remedies. 
The  unanimity,  firmness,  bravery,  humanity,  patience  and  perseverence 
of  these  states  will  be  the  admiration  of  the  world,  and  the  boast  of 
our  posterity. — The  principal  evil  which  this  country  labours  under, 
and  demands  the  attention  of  its  virtuous  citizens,  is  the  ABUNDANCE 
OF  MONEY.  If  our  virtue  and  patriotism  have  at  all  declined,  the 
declension  is  chiefly  to  be  attributed  to  this  cause.  That  vice  should 
make  a  considerable  appearance  where  money  abounds,  is  neither  new 
nor  extraordinary.  It  is  almost  an  invariable  effect  from  such  a  cause  ; 
take  away  the  cause,  and  the  effect,  so  far  as  produced  by  it,  will 
cease.  I  do  not  say  that  the  abundance  of  money  is  the  only  cause  of 
the  decay  of  virtue  or  increase  of  vice  ;  but  I  say  it  is  a  very  principal 
cause  ;  it  operates  more  Ijhis  way  than  any  other ;  yea,  than  all  other 
causes  (the  depravity  of  nature  excepted)  put  together.  An  abundance 
of  money  creates  idleness,  pride,  dissipation,  and  avarice,  and  these 
co-operate  with  the  money  in  the  quick  production  of  luxury, 
debauchery,  gambling,  and  every  species  of  prodigal  extravigance. 
Now  lay  the  axe  to  the  root  of  these  evils,  reduce  the  quantity  of 
our  money,  and  you  will  instantly  reduce  multitudes  to  industry  and 
frugality,  the  friends  of  virtue,  enemies  of  vice.  The  continent  is 
involved  in  much  debt,  by  reason  of  non-taxation  for  the  support  of 
the  war.  The  carrying  on  so  heavy  a  war,  for  four  years,  merely  by 
the  strength  of  self  credit,  by  the  public  spirit  and  patriotic  virtue  of 
the  country,  without  previous  funds,  foreign  loans,  or  internal  taxes, 
is  a  new  phenominon  in  the  political  world.  All  those  vast  sums  of 
money  (money  invented  by  political  imagination  and  supported  by  such 
credit  as  has  confounded  our  enemies  and  astonished  the  nations  of 
Europe}  exist  among  us  and  must  be  sunk.  Now  this  money  which 
must  be  annihilated  by  taxation,  to  be  wasting  it  in  dissipation,  gam- 
ing, sumptuous  and  riotous  living,  is  hurtful  to  our  morals,  and 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  257 

wears  an  unfriendly  aspect  on  our  national  faith  and  credit.  But  the 
disease  is  far  from  being  dangerous,  because  the  remedy  is  plain,  the 
application  is  easy,  and  the  cure  will  be  infallible.  Let  the  Honour- 
able representatives  of  our  country  (who  have  performed  wonders,  and 
who  will  receive  the  admiring  praises  of  millions  unborn)  only  recom- 
mend the  levying  of  very  large  taxes ;  hereby  we  shall  pay  our  just 
debts,  be  restrained  from  those  vices  and  extravagances  which  our  vast 
sums  of  money  naturally  produce ;  our  political  disorders  will  be  cured, 
and  our  civil  constitution  be  rendered  firm,  robust,  and  immortal.  We 
have  been  too  remiss  in  this  important  matter  heretofore.  The  Conti- 
nent should  have  begun  to  tax  in  the  year  1777,  and  raised  about  ten 
millions  of  dollars ;  last  year  we  should  have  paid  fifteen,  and  this 
year  twenty  millions.  This  measure  would  have  sunk  forty-five 
millions,  which  we  now  pay  interest  for  at  six  per  cent.  This  would 
have  been  a  saving  of  many  millions  to  the  Continent ;  it  would  have 
greatly  checked  the  depreciation  of  our  money,  restrained  the  exorbi- 
tant prices  of  home  produce  and  foreign  goods ;  and  it  would  have 
prevented  much  idleness,  extortion,  gambling,  and  other  such  evils  as 
have  arose  from  a  neglect  of  it.  But  though  our  delatoriness  must 
cost  us  a  great  deal  of  money  unnecessarily,  yet  I  know  we  have  an 
abundant  sufficiency  to  pay  all  our  debts,  and  the  Continent  be 
millions  richer  than  when  the  war  commenced.  And  for  a  people  who 
are  growing  richer  in  reality,  notwithstanding  they  are  deeply  in  debt, 
it  is  a  shame  to  see  them  dejected,  or  hear  them  complain,  as  if  they 
were  on  the  borders  of  bankruptcy  and  ruin.  The  only  thing  almost 
wanting  to  recover  us  from  every  danger,  is  to  pay  more  tax,  as  we 
have  paid  too  little  in  the  years  past. 

The  American  debt  is  about  one  hundred  and  twenty-three  millions 
of  dollars.  Suppose  thirty-two  millions  to  be  converted  to  loan  office 
certificates  by  the  first  of  June,  when  there  is  to  be  an  entire  end  to  the 
two  emissions  taken  out  of  circulation ;  and  suppose  thirty  millions  ' 
more  of  other  emissions  lent  to  the  continent ;  these  will  make  sixty- 
two  millions  at  interest  at  six  per  cent,  which  interest  amounts  an- 
nually to  three  millions  seven  hundred  and  twenty  thousand  dollars. 
.  This  shows  us  that  one  quarter  nearly  of  the  fifteen  millions  to  be 
raised  this  year  must  be  expended  for  interest,  which  (to  use  a  phrase 
well  understood)  is  paying  for  a  dead  horse,  and  this  many  wise  men 
have  done  as  well  as  we. 

But  though  the  Congress  have  been  slow  in  recommending  taxation, 
expecting  no  doubt  but  the  respective  states  would  be  wise  enough  to 
be  stimulated  hereto  by  their  own  emolument,  they  have  my  joyful 
thanks  for  what  they  have  done  this  year ;  and  had  they  recommended 
thirty  millions  instead  of  fifteen,  the  country  would  have  paid  it  with 
pleasure,  and  borne  it  with  great  advantage.  I  know  not  a  greater 
favour,  I  know  nothing  more  profitable  to  this  country,  or  would  add 
more  to  its  wealth  and  felicity,  than  to  tax  the  Continent  this  year 
thirty  millions  of  dollars,  next  year  twenty,  and  after  that  about  ten 
millions  per  annum,  till  we  shall  have  paid  all  the  debts  of  the  war. 

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258  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

Can  it  possibly  be  wise  «or  advantageous  in  a  person,  who  has 
money  sufficient  in  his  hands  to  take  up  his  bonds  which  are  running 
on  interest,  to  suffer  his  money  to  lie  dead  by  him,  and  pay  annually 
a  large  interest,  and  must  pay  the  principal  one  day  or  other?  A 
great  part  of  the  continental  money  is  now  bearing  interest,  we  must 
be  taxed  to  pay  this  interest  yearly,  and  sometime  or  other  must  pay 
the  original  debt.  Were  it  not  infinitely  wiser  policy,  and  better 
oeconomy  to  pay  a  very  large  tax  instantly,  in  some  proportion  to  the 
quantity  of  money  emitted,  and  the  call  for  it  to  support  our  army? 
And  thus  save  millions  of  interest,  and  hasten  the  return  of  the  valua- 
tion of  our  currency,  which  has  sunk  into  a  state  of  disreputable 
depreciation,  not  through  want  of  credit,  or  being  on  a  precarious 
foundation  (for  no  bills  of  credit  were  ever  on  a  surer  bottom  than  the 
American)  but  mainly  by  its  being  suffered  to  accumulate  to  such 
enormous  sums,  through  neglect,  the  unhappy,  unnecessary,  and  mis- 
chievous neglect  of  taxation.  The  Continent  ought,  before  this  time, 
to  be  taxed  forty-five  millions  of  dollars  for  defraying  the  expences  of 
the  war.  If  this  had  been  done,  our  money  would  not  have  been  half 
so  much  in  debt ;  and  we  should  scarcely  have  had  any  interest  to  pay, 
which  would  have  been  a  saving  of  four  millions  per  year.  Upon  this 
plan,  raising  fifteen  millions  this  year,  and  six  millions  per  year, 
might  have  answered  ;  but  suffering  matters  to  run  to  so  great  a  length, 
without  taxation,  and  now  recommending  it  in  such  small  proportions, 
its  operation  will  be  slow  in  effecting  a  cure  ;  and  instead  of  having 
only  six  millions  a  year  to  pay  for  eighteen  years  after  this,  we  shall 
have  ten,  in  case  the  war  ceases,  and  if  the  war  continues  another 
campaign,  I  will  not  mention  the  number  of  millions  we  ought  next 
year  to  pay,  upon  a  fair  calculation  of  the  expence  of  the  war,  the 
depreciation  of  our  money,  and  the  interest  we  must  pay,  added  to- 
gether. For  depend  upon  it,  if  the  war  proceeds,  the  fifteen  millions 
to  be  raised  this  year,  will  neither  prevent  the  encrease  of  our  money, 
nor  its  depreciation. 

AGRICOLA. 

WILL    COVER, 

This  season,   at  Elizabeth  Town,   the  noted  horse 
MAJOR    GENERAL, 

Late  the  property  of  Col.  Matthias  Ogden,  at  forty  dollars 
the  season,  or  twenty  dollars  the  single  leap,  the 
money  to  be  paid  at  the  stable  door,  at  the  first  cover- 
ing of  the  mare. 


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MAJOR  GENERAL  is  %  blooded,  sixteen  hands  high, 
and  as  well  made  as  any  horse  in  this  state.  At- 
tendance will  be  given  by 

EPHRAIM  MARSH. 
N".  B.  One  dollar  to  the  groom. 
Elizabeth  Town,  April  17,  1779. 


WHEREAS  mam/  people  make  a  practice  of  passing 
through   the  meadow    of   the   subscriber,    to    the 
great  detriment  of  the  same:    This  is  therefore 
to  foreivarn  all  persons  to  desist  from  the  like  practice 
for  the  future,  as  lie  is  determined  to  prosecute  the  first 
offender  after  this  public  notice. 

DAVID  VANDERPOOL. 


On  Tuesday  night  last,  a  most  unnatural  and  cruel 
murder  was  committed  on  the  body  of  Joseph  Morss,  of 
Morss  Town.  It  seems  that  this  horrid  act  was  con- 
certed by  his  wife's  father,  in  conjunction  with  an  Irish- 
man that  formerly  lived  with  Morss,  who,  a  few  days 
since,  he  severely  cained.  They  employed  his  own  negro 
to  be  his  murderer,  for  which  he  was  to  have  his  free- 
dom.1 and  a  handsome  premium,  which  he  effected  by  shoot- 
ing him  through  the  body  when  in  bed.  The  negro  has 
confessed  the  whole  matter,  and  they  are  all  three  safely 
confined. 


At  the  Supreme  Court  held  at  Somerset  Courthouse, 
on  Tuesday  the:  6th  instant,  William  Smith  Livingston, 
Esq;  was  admitted  after  taking  the  usual  oaths,  to 
practice  as  an  Attorney  at  law  in  all  the  courts  of  record 
within  this  state. 


260  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 


Ten  Dollars  Reward. 

STRAYED  or  stolen  from  the  subscriber  at  the  Hi- 
bernia  furnace,  on  the  night  of  the  12th  inst.  a 
sorrel  mare,  with  a  large  white  blaze  down  her 
face,  nine  or  ten  years  old  this  spring,  about  14%  hands 
high,  th'e  hair  worn  off  her  sides  by  working  in  the  gears, 
her  hind  legs  are  something  crooked,  her  gaits  a  pace  and 
rack-trot ;  she  has  neither  brand  nor  ear  mark  that  can  at 
this  time  be  recollected,  has  a  switch  tail. — Any  person 
taking  up  and  bringing  home  said  miare,  shall  be  entitled 
to  the  above  reward,  and  reasonable  charges,  if  strayed; 
if  stolen,  for  taking  the  thief,  ten  dollars  more. 

CHARLES  HOEF,  jun. 


TO    COVER. 

The  ensuing  season,  at  the  subscriber's  plantation  in 
Mendham,  about  five  mileis  west  of  Morris  Town,  the 
celebrated  HORSE 

BOHEMIA. 

THIS  horse,  in  the  estimation  of  good  judges,  yields 
to  none  on  the  continent  for  beauty  and  elegance 
of  figure.  He  is  full  sixteen  hands  high,  strong  and 
bonny,  and  has  an  uncommon  majestic  form.  He  is  half 
brother  to  True  Briton,  by  that  very  famous  and  noted 
stallion  Othello,  so  remarkable  for  the  beauty  and  speed 
of  his  stock;  his  dam  was  a  very  fine  natural  Barb. 
Bohemia  has  been  kept  as  a  covering  horse  in  Virginia, 
Maryland,  and  West-Jersey,  and,  by  certificates,  he  hath 
not  covered  less  than  one  hundred  mares  per  season  for 
three  past,  and  has  ever  supported  the  highest  reputation, 
for  the  strength,  speed,  value  and  size  of  his  stock. — A 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.          '  261 

number  of  gentlemen  having  engaged  their  mares  early  in 
the  season,  and  judging  that  money  will  be  as  valuable  as 
ever,  occasioned  the  low  rate  of  twenty-five  dollars  to  be 
fixed  per  season,  and  allowing  all  those  mares  to  be  brought 
the  next  season  that  shall  miss  being  with  foal,  or  shall 
have  a  colt  which  will  likely  become  white.  Mares  from 
a  distance  pastured  at  ten  shillings  per  week. 

WILLIAM  LEDDEL. 

TAKEN  from  the  subscriber,  by  force  of  arms,  on  the 
2d  of  December,  last,  a  black  mare,  bridle,  and  sad- 
dle, by  one  Cloven,  who  said  he  was  an  officer  in 
General  Scott's  brigade:     This  is  therefore  to  desire  said 
Cloven  to  bring  the  mare  by  the  1st  of  march  to  the  sub- 
scriber, living  near  Chatham,  or  else  he  will  be  dealt  with 
according  to  law. 

NOAH  CBANMER. 


TO  BE  SOLD, 

At  public  vendue,  on  Wednesday  the  28th  instant,  at  the 
house  of  Joseph  Morss,  jun.  late  of  the  county  of 
Somerset,  deceased; 

HORSES,  cattle,  sheep,  hogs,  houshold  goods,  farming 
utensils,   grist   mill,    saw   mill,    and   turning  mill 
irons,  a  set  of  blacksmith's  tools,  carts,  a  waggon,  a 
quantity  of  new  and  old  axes,  several  sets  of  ox  cart  irons, 
chains,  and  many  other  valuable  articles  too  tedious  to 
mention.    The  vendue  to  begin  at  9  o'clock  said  day,  where 
due  attendance  will  be  given,  and  conditions  made  known 

by 

AMOS  MORSS,  jun.  ^ 

MOSES  SUTTEN,       V  Executors. 

ISAAC  MORSS,  J 

BETTY  MORSS,  Executrix. 


262  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 


To  be  sold  the  30th  inst.  at  public  vendue,  on  the  premises 
at  Basking-Ridge, 

A  PLANTATION  containing  85   acres,  with  a  good 
J\.      house  and  barn,  and  two  good  orchards  with  up- 
wards of  200  bearing  trees,  situate  on  the  road  be- 
tween the  meeting  house  and  Bruster's  tavern.    The  vendue 
to  begin  at  1  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  when  the  conditions 
will  be  made  known  and  attendance  given  by 

SAMUEL  WHITAKER. 


TO  BE  SOLD, 

By  the  subscriber,  at  Tuscan-Hall,  five  miles  from  New- 
Ark,  on  the  road  to  Chatham, 

TWO  genteel  HORSES,  fit  for  a  carriage  or  saddle,  in 
excellent  order. — Two  horses  will  be  constantly  kept 
for  sale  at  said  place,  during  the  continuance  of 
this  advertisement. 

EZEKIEL  BALL. 

—The  New-Jersey  Journal,  Vol.  I.,  Numb.  X.,  April  20, 
1779. 

On  Friday  night,  the  2d,  instant,  were  taken  on  Bergen 
Neck,  by  a  party  of  the  64th  regiment,  Lieut.  Paul  ancl 
twelve  privates  belonging  to  Col.  Shreve's  regiment. 


April  9,  1779. 

Whereas  Solomon  Allman,  late  of  Lower  Penn's  Neck, 
Salem  County,  is  deceased,  and  has  left  an  estate,  which 
is  in  the  subscriber's  hands,  His  heirs,  if  there  be1  any 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTKACTS.  263 

living,    are   desired    to   come,   and   prove   their   property, 
in  two  months  from  this  date. 

JOSEPH  COPNER. 
—The  Pennsylvania  Gazette,  April  21,  1779. 


To  MB.  WILLIAM  LIVINGSTON,  titular  Governor  of  New 

Jersey. 
SIR, 

YOUR  extraordinary  conduct  has  once  more  excited 
my  attention ;  let  me  entreat  you,  my  dear  Livy,  to 
pay  no  attention  to  the  limited  criticisms  of  short 
sighted  mortals;  they  envy  you  because  they  dread  your 
importance.,  leave  them  then  to  themselves,  and  permit 
me  to  assure  you,  that  notwithstanding  the  respect  due 
to  my  infernal  rank,  I  mean  to  constitute  you  President 
of  the  Council  in  my  dominions;  though  possessed  of 
every  maligant  quality  that  pervades  and  corrodes  the 
heart,  and  esteemed  and  courted  as  a  Daemon  of  the  first 
magnitude,  I  am  ready  to  retract  certain  erroneous 
opinions  concerning  you,  advanced  in  my  former  letter, 
as  ghosts  of  every  denomination  now  admire  your  subtlety ; 
and  eagerly  anticipate  your  arrival.  I  am  sensible  it  will 
cost  you  many  a  pang  to  part  with  your  amiable  com- 
panions, but  where  my  precious  child  of  darkness  can 
you  compose  your  mind,  your  agility  in  New  Jersey  is 
become  proverbial,  they  call  you  the  invisible  Governor,, 
but  conscience,  the  awful  scourger  of  distinguished  guilt, 
in  spite  of  every  turn  and  doubling  will  find  you  out. 
The  British  General,  invariably  attached  to  the  dignity 
of  his  Prince  and  the  honour  of  his  country,  abhors 
perfidy,  and  with  one  smooth  dash  of  elegant  and  finished 
satire  has  pourtrayed  the  meanest  of  mankind.  Since 
then  you  bear  so  foul  a  character  on  earth,  you  merit  an 
honourable  reception  here.  It  shall  be  granted,  Sir,  I 
will  send  the  Usher  of  the  Black  Rod  to  require  your 


264  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

attendance  before  my  tlirone,  and  proclaim  your  entrance 
to  the   shades  in   the  following  terms:     "He  come®,   he 
comes,  the  mighty  Livingston  comes." 
I  am,  with  every  mark 
of   diabolical   respect, 

Your  cordial  and  sincere  friend, 

PLUTO 

Infernal  Regions,      ) 
April  17,   1779.    [ 
-The  Royal  Gazette,  No.  267,  April  21,  1779. 


TRENTOX,  April  21.  Yesterday  the  hon.  the  gen. 
assembly  of  this  state  met  here. — The  Pennsylvania  Even- 
ing Past,  April  23,  1779. 

To  be  SOLD  by  Public  V endue, 

On    Thursday    the    twelfth    day    of    May    next,    on    the 

premises. 

A  Valuable  Salt  Works,  situate  on  Faulkinburg's  Island, 
Little  Egg  harbour.  The  buildings  are  lately  rebuilt  of 
the  best  whole  price  pine  and  cedar  boards,  eighty  feet  in 
length,  and  twenty  in  breadth,  containing  one  wrought 
iron  pan  that  will  hold  three  thousand  gallons,  and  five 
thousand  weight  of  cast  iron  pans,  the  whole  set  on  stone 
walls,  built  of  lime  mortars ;  a  quantity  of  salt  baskets, 
casks,  £c.  Also  a  good  new  boat  and  fishing  seine,  and 
between  three  and  four  hundred  cords  of  wood  ready  cut, 
near  a  landing,  which  can  be  brought  by  water  to  the  door 
of  the  works.  The  situation  is  healthy  and  pleasant,  and 
alloAved  by  judges  the  best  adapted  for  profitable  works  of 
any  on  the  shore,  having  the  advantage  of  water  carriage 
for  wood,  and  a  large  and  excellent  salt  pond  within  ten 
yards  of  the  house.  The  place  abounds  with  fish  and 
fowl.  Terms  of  sale  will  be  made  known  at  the  time  and 
place,  where  attendance  will  be  given  by 

THOMAS  HESTON  and  Co. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  265 


FIFTY   DOLLARS   REWARD. 

Ran  Away  from  the  subscriber,  living  in  Fairfield  town- 
ship, Cumberland  county,  New-Jersey,  a  Negro  man  named 
PRINCE,  but  has  since  he  went  away  changed  it  to 
ADAM  DICK,  and  has  had  it  inserted  in  a  pass  given 
by  some  evil  disposed  person ;  He  is  about  five  feet  eight 
or  nine  inches  high;  had  on  and  took  with  him  a  pair 
of  leatheir  breeches,  a  felt  hat  half  worn,  a  new  brown 
homei-made  shirt,  a  light  coloured  jacket  without  sleeves, 
and  a  dark  brown  great  coat  very  short,  being  torn  or  cut 
off;  he  walks  somewhat  crippled  his  feet  having  been 
frozen,  and  he  has  lost  some  of  his  toe  nails ;  he  is  about 
'twenty- two  years  old,  and  is  a  lusty  strong  fellow.  Who- 
ever takes  up  said  Negro  and  brings  him  to  the  subscriber, 
or  secures  him  in  any  gaol  so  that  he  may  be  had  again, 
shall  be  entitled  to  the  above  reward,  and  all  reasonable 
charges  paid  by 

JOHN  DANIELS. 

N.  B.  All  masters  of  vessels  and  others  are  forbid  to 
harbour  or  carry  him  off  at  their  peril. 
— The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  April  24,  1779. 


NEW-YORK,  April  26. 

Last  Wednesday  Lieutenant-Colonel  Buskirk  sent  off 
Capt.  Ryerson,  Lieut.  Buskirk,  and  Ensign  Earle  with  a 
Detachment  of  42  Men  of  the  4th  Battalion  of  New-Jersey 
Volunteers,  who  fell  in  with  the  Rebels  about  Day-Break, 
immediately  charged  and  put  them  to  the  Rout,  killed  and 
wounded  a  considerable  Number,  whom  they  passed  on 
the  Field  begging  for  Mercy,  while  they  followed  the  rest 
until  reinforced  by  their  Main  Body,  consisting  of  about 
100  Carolina  Troops  and  sixty  militia ;  Captain  Ryerson 
perceiving  his  Men  much  fatigued,  drew  off  his  little 
Party  to  a  rising  Ground,  where  instead  of  being  attacked 


266  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

by  them  so  much  superior  in  Number,  he  saw  them  Re- 
treat His  less  on  the  Occasion-  was  one  Man  missing  and 
two  wounded. 

The  -following  letter  was  brought  to  Head  Quarters  from 
New-Jersey  a  few  days  ago,  but  it  appearing  by  the 
signature  to  be  the  production  of  Mr.  William 
Livingston,  titular  Governor  of  that  province,  his 
Excellency  the  Commander  in  Chief,  of  course,  paid 
no  manner  of  attention  to  it. 

Elizabeth-Town,  15th  April,  1779. 
SIR, 

I  Received  your  Excellency's  Letter  of  the  10th  instant, 
this  afternoon,  and  had  an  opportunity  about  an  hour 
after  to  see  a  copy  of  it  in  the  New- York  American 
Gazette,  together  with  mine  of  the  29th  of  March,  which 
occasioned  it.  Your  Excellency  by  these  publications, 
compared  with  a  certain  passage  in  your  letter  seems  de- 
termined to  close  our  correspondence,  by  precluding  me 
from  a  reply.  But  by  the  laws  of  England,  Sir  (the  best 
of  which  we  intend  to  adopt)  leaving  the  rest  to  our  old 
friends  of  the  realm,  he  who  opens  a  cause  hath  the  privi- 
lege of  concluding  it. 

It  is  the  observation  of  foreigners  that  America  has 
shown  her  superiority  to  Great-Britain  no  less  in  the 
decency  of  her  writing,  than  in  the  success  of  her  arms. 
I  have  too  great  a  respect  for  iny  native  country,  whatever 
I  ought  to  have  for  Sir  Henry  Clinton,  to  furnish  an 
instance  in  contradiction  of  so  honourable  a  remark. 

Perhaps,  Sir,  you  entertain  too  exalted  an  opinion  of 
your  own  importance  in  deeming  it  a  condesension  in  you 
to  answer  a  letter  informing  you  in  the  most  inoffensive 
terms,  of  an  overture  made  by  one  of  your  general  officers 
to  have  me  assassinated.  Alas  !  how  many  a  hopeful  gen- 
tleman has  been  made  giddy  by  a  Star  and  Garter!  It 
had  doubtless  redounded  more  to  your  honour,  and 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  267 

afforded  a  stronger  argument  of  your  abhorring  such  in- 
famous measures,  to  have  called  upon  me-  for  the  proofs, 
and  manifested  a  proper  resentment  against  the  criminal, 
than  to  flourish  about  the  capability  of  your  soul^  and  to 
betray  a  want  of  politeness  so  unusual  in  persons  of  your 
rank  and  breeding,  and  without  any  other  provocation 
than  my  complaining  to  you  of  the  conduct  of  one  under 
your  command,  so  repugnant  to  the  law  of  arms  and  the 
sentiments  of  humanity. 

That  you  have  a  soul  capable  of  harbouring  so  infamous 
an  idea  as  assassination,  I  was  so  far  from  intimating, 
that  I  told  you,  I  thought  it  highly  improbable  you  should 
either  countenance,,  connive  at,  or  be  privy  to  a  design  so 
sanguinary  and  disgraceful;  and  I  remember  that  when 
I  used,  the  word  improbable,  I  had  like  to  have  said 
impossible;  but  that  I  was  deterred,  on  recollecting  num- 
erous instances,  by  the  extreme  difficulty  of  precisely 
ascertaining  the  utmost  possibility  of  British  cruelty. 
Whatever  your  soul  may  be  capable  of,  I  should  have 
ventured,  before  the  receipt  of  your  letter,  to  have  pro- 
nounced it  impossible  for  you  to  be  capable  of  opprobrious 
language.  How  far,  Sir,  I  am  now  to  believe  this 
impossibility,  I  leave  you  in  your  cooler  moments  to 
determine. 

However  trifling  an  end  you  may  suppose  would  be 
obtained  by  my  assassination,  you  certainly  thought  my 
capture,  not  long  since,  important  enpugh  to  make  me  a 
principal  object,  of  what  was,  in  a  literal  sense,  a  very 
dirty  expedition. 

What  could  induce  you  to  say,  that  I  boast  of  the  power 
of  being  able  to  dispose  of  your  life  by  means  of  intimates 
of  mine  ready  to  murder  at  my  command,  I  am  at  a  loss 
to  guess :  Is  there  a  word  in  my  letter  either  about  your 
life  or  about  murder?  Or  is  your  Excellency  so  haunted 
with  the  thoughts  of  murder,  from  a  consciousness  of 
British  babarity,  that  you  cannot  write  three  paragraphs 
without  being  startled  by  the  shocking  spectre?  And  if 
there  are  any  intimates  in  the  case,  how  do  you  know  but 


268        NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779 

that  they  are  intimates  of  your  own  ?  I  told  you  that 
"your  person  was  more  in  my  power  than  I  had  reason 
to  think  you  imagined."  But  is  there  no  such  thing  as  that 
of  one  person's  being  in  the  power  of  another,  without 
murder  ?  Indeed  Sir,  from  the-  specimen  of  your  induc- 
tions you  ought  to  be  a  much  better  General  than  you 
appear  to  be  a  logician,  or  America  need  be  under  no 
apprehensions  about  her  independence  during  your 
a  dministra  tion. 

As  to  your  must  not  be  troubled  with  any  further 
correspondence  with  Mr.  Livingston,  believe  me  Sir,  that 
I  have  not  the  least  passion  for  interrupting  you  in  your 
more  useful  correspondence  with  the  Ministry,  by  which 
the  nation  will  doubtless  be  greatly  edified,  and  which  will 
probably  furnish  materials  for  the  most  authentic  history 
of  the  present  war,  and  that  you  cannot  be  less  ambitious 
of  my  correspondence  than  I  am  of  yours ;  because  what- 
ever improvement  I  might  hope  to  receive  from  you  in  the 
art  of  war,  and  especially  in  the  particular  branches  of 
conducting  (a)  moon  light  retreats  and  planning  (b) 
secret  expeditions;  I  should  not  expect  from  our  cor- 
respondence any  considerable  edification  or  refinement  in 
the  epistolary  way.  I  am  therefore  extremely  willing  to 
terminate  it  by  wishing  you  a  safe  voyage  across  the 
Atlantic  with  the  singular  glory  of  having  attempted  to 
reduce  to  bondage  a  people  determined  to  be  free  and 
independent. 

I  am,  Sir,  your  humble  Servant, 

Wil.  Livingston. 

His  Excellency  Gen.  Sir  Henry  Clinton. 

(a)  Sir   Henry    informed    the    Ministry    that    in    his 
retreat  at  Monmouth,  he  took  the  advantage  of  the  moon- 
light;   when  in  reality  he  did  not  begin  his  retreat  till 
some  hours  after  the  moon  was  set. 

(b)  It  is  remarkable  that  of  all  the  secret  expeditions 
planned  by  this  Gentleman^  since  he  has  had  the  chief 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  269 

command  of  the  British  army  (and  those  expedition^  have 
been  multifarious)  not  one  of  them  has  been  successful. 
It  is  therefore  to  be  presumed  that  Great  Britain  proposes 
to  obtain,  by  his  Generalship,  a  most  untrifling  end. 
—The  New-York  Gazette:  and  the  W&ekly  Mercury,  No. 
1436,  April  26,  1779. 

Cape-May  County,  New-Jersey,  March  27. 
The  Public  is  hereby  informed,  That  a  petition  will  be 
laid  before  the  Legislature  of  this  State,  at  their  next 
sitting,  praying  that  a  law  may  be  passed  to  authorize  the 
petitioners  to  build  a  Bridge  by  subscription  (and  to  be 
maintained  by  the  subscribers)  over  Turkehoe  River,1 
from  the  fast  land  or  wharf  of  James  Willet's,  Jun.  to  the 
land  of  Joseph  Ingolson;  of  which  all  concerned  are  de- 
sired  to  take  notice  and  govern  themselves  accordingly. 

JAMES  WILLETS. 

— : The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  April  27,  1779. 


TO    COVER, 

At  the  stable  of  the  subscriber,  at  New-Providence,  the 
famous  and  well  known  horse 

STERLING. 

HE  is  a  beautiful  blood  bay,  full  blooded,  fifteen  hands 
and  three  incheis  high,  rising  nine  years  old,  and 
allowed,  by  the  best  judges,  to  be  as  well-  made 
and  as  good  moving  a  horse  as  any  in  the  state.     He  will 
cover  at  thirty  one  dollars  the  season,  or  fifteen  the  single 
leap.     Sterling  is  remarkable  sure  of  getting  colts,  for 
out  of  seventy-seven  mares  he  covered  last  spring,  only 
seven  missed  being  with  foal. 

RICHARD  SCUDDER. 

1  Tuckahoe  River. 


270         NEW  JEESEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779 


One  Hundred  Dollars  Reward. 

STOLEN,  on  the  night  of  the  15th  instant,  out  of  the 
pasture  of  the  subscriber,  living  in  Hanover,  a  light 
bay  HORSE,  half  blooded,   about  fifteen  hands 
high,  four  years  old,  natural  trotter,  canters  large,  a  little 
white  on  one  foot,  several  gray  hairs  on  his  shoulder,  as 
tho'  it  had  been  marked  by  an  En'glish  collar,  and  old 
shoes  all  around. — Whoever  will  take  up  and  secure  said 
horse  and  thief  shall  have  the  above  reward;    and  for  the 
horse  alone,  eighty  dollars,  and  reasonable  charges  paid, 
if  brought  home,  by  me 

HEZEKIAH  BROADWEL. 


STOLEN  from  a  waggon  at  Trenton,  the  night  of  the 
15th  instant,  a  black  HORSE  about  ten  years  old, 
has  a  large  star  in  his  forehead,  is  remarkable 
thick  and  stocky,  about  14  hands  high,  has  a  large  scar 
in  his  right  side,  a  small  white  spot  just  forward  of  his 
withers,  trots  somewhat  heavy,  canters  very  well,  and 
paces  a  small  travel.  Whoever  takes  up  said  horse,  and 
secures  him  for  the  subscriber,  living  at  Westfield,  in  the 
borough  of  Elizabeth,  shall  have  a  reward  of  FIFTY 
DOLLARS,  and  the  same  for  apprehending  the  thief,  on 
his  being  convicted. 

JOHN  ROSS,  jun. 


TO    BE    SOLD, 

At  public  vendue,  by  the  subscriber,  at  his  house  near 
Bottle-Hill,  on  Monday  the  3d  day  of  May  next,  be- 
ginning at  12  o'clock; 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  271 

SUNDRY  horses,  cows,  and  five  pair  of  young  steers, 
one  feather  bed,  one  chest  with  drawers,  one  book 
case,   tables,   and   sundry  sorts  of  household  and 
kitchen  furniture;     also  one  set  of  jeweller   and  silver- 
smith's tools,  and  sundry  sorts  of  joiners  tools ;    two  bar- 
rels of  liver  oil  for  curryers,  a  quantity  of  dressed  flax, 
and  several  new  spinning  wheels. — Also  to  be  let,  at  same 
time,  a  number  of  sheep. 

SETH  GREGORY. 


TO  BE  SOLD, 

At  public  vendue,  on  Monday  the  10th  of  May  next,  on 
the  premises, 

A  LOT  of  excellent  good  land,  lying  in  Watercesson,  in 
Essex  county,  containing  20  acres,  four  miles  from 
New- Ark.    There  is  on  the  premises  an  elegant  new 
stone  house,  with  good  kitchen  adjoining  it,  and  an  excel- 
lent well  of  water  by  the  kitchen  door,  a  good  barn  and 
blacksmith's  shop,  and  a  young  orchard  of  140  trees  of 
the  best  fruit.     The  vendue  to  begin  at  2  o'clock  in  the 
afternoon,  when  conditions  will  be  made  known  by 

CALEB  DOD. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

At  public  vendue,  opposite  the  Liberty-pole,  Chatham,  the 
29th  inst.  at  2  o'clock  .in  the  afternoon, 

THE  remaining  effects  of  Eunice  Horton,  deceased ;— 
a  one  horse  chaise,  fcrte  piano,  Elavel's  works,  and 
a  few  other  books,  elegant  double  flint  decanters, 
candlesticks,  tumblers,  &c. — Kitchen  utensils,  water  pails, 
skillets,  ladles,  keelers,  pitchers,  pepper-boxes,  queen's  ware 
and  stone  plates,  stone  butter-pots,  warming-pan,  a  beau- 


272  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

tiful  set  of  china  teacup  and  saucers,  incompleat  sets  ditto, 
tea-pots,  cream-pots,  sugar-cups ; — also  salt,  soft-soap,  sand, 
malt,  hops,  copperas,  alum,  rosin; — mohair,  ninety  dozen 
of  buttons,  eight  or  ten  dozen  of  combs,  pins,  needles, 
spectacles,  fans,  gimp,  children's  gloves,  silk-gauze-hand- 
kerchiefs, sewing-silk,  &c.  &c. — Those  whose  accounts  are 
still  unsettled,  may  have  them  adjusted  and  closed  by  ap- 
plying to  the  subscribers. 

AZAEIAH  HORTOlSr,  1 
FOSTER  HOKTOK     ( 


TO  BE  SOLD, 

At  public  vendue,  on  the  30th  instant,  at  the  house  of  the 
subscriber  at  Westfield, 


T 


WO  ox  carts,  two  waggons,  horses,  young  cattle,  and 
several  other  articles.     The  vendue  to  begin  at  1 
o'clock,  when  the  conditions  will  be  made  known  by 
JOHN  HEXDEICKS. 


TO  BE   SOLD, 

At  public  vendue,  on  Tuesday  the  llth  of  May  next,  at 
2  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  at  the  house  of  the  sub- 
scriber, at  Mount-Pleasant,  12  miles  from  Morris 
Town,  and  3  from  Mount-Hope  ironworks,  on  a  very 
public  road,  within  a  quarter' of  a  mile  of  a  good  grist 
mill ; 

FIVE  hundred  acres  of  LAND,  with  a  small   frame 
house;    250  acres  of  which  are  excellent  meadow, 
a  great  part  has  been  a  black-ash  swamp,  200  acres 
ditched  and  in  good  fence;    150  acres  cleared  fit  for  the 
scythe   and  tilling;    the  whole   is   easily  watered   in   the 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  273 

dryest  seasons :  It  will  produce  as  good  hay,  hemp,  corn, 
or  rye  as  any  land  on  the  Continent;  the  remainder  is 
timber  land,  and  good  out-let  for  cattle,  in  the  summer 
season.  It  will  be  sold  altogether,  or  in  lots,  as  best  suits 
the  purchaser.  A  map  of  the  whole  will  be  shewn  on  the 
day  of  sale,  and  an  indisputable  title  given  by 

MOSES   TUTTLE. 

STOLEN,  out  of  the  subscriber's  stable,  in  Bedminster 
township,  Morris  county,  New^Jersey,  on  the  night 
of  the  16th  instant,  a  brown  MARE,  Y  years  old, 
141/2  hands  high,  a  star  in  heir  forehead,  but  one  shoe  on 
when  stolen,  a  natural  trotter,  branded  on'  the  near  shoulder 
with  the  letter  S,  but  at  this  time  it  is  not  plain  to  be  seen. 
— Whoever  apprehends  the  mare  and  thief,  shall  receive 
Forty  Dollars;    for  the  mare  only  Thirty,  to  be  paid  by 
the  subscriber,  living  in  Bedminster  township. 

WM.  OOLWELL. 


THIRTY  DOLLARS  REWARD. 

RAN  away  from  the  subscriber  on  Wednesday  the  21st 
•  instant,  a  NEGRO  BOY  named  PHILL,  about 
thirteen  years  of  age,  short  thick  set  fellow  for  his 
age;  had  on  when  he  went  away  a  sheep's  black  flannel 
jacket  and  breeches,  much  worn,  a  white  flannel  shirt, 
stockings  without  feet,  very  oldt  shoes;,  an  old  beaver  hat 
with  the  brim  all  off ;  it  is  likely  his  clothes  by  this  time 
are  all  very  ragged.  It  is  supposed  he  will  try  to  get 
towards  Newark,  as  he  has  lately  been  persuaded  by  a 
white  boy  in  the  neighbourhood  to  go  to  the  enemy. — Who- 
ever will  take  up  said  boy,  and  secure  him,  so  that  his 
master  may  have  him  again,  shall  have  above  reward  and 
all  reasonable  charges  paid  by 

'AARON  KITCHEL. 

18 


I 
274  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION. 

THIS   is  to  give* notice  to  all   persons  who  are  in- 
debted  to   the  estate  of  Adoniram   Prudden,    de- 
ceased,  by  bond,  note,  or  book-debt,  to  come  and 
settle  to  prevent  further  trouble;    and  all  those  who  have 
any  demands  on  said  estate,  are  desired  to  bring  them  in 
that  they  may  be  paid. 

NATHANIEL  WILLIS,  I  1 

KITCHEL.         }  Executors. 


WAITED  IMMEDIATELY. 

A   DUMBER  of  cutlers,  gun-smiths,  lock-smiths,  white- 
J\      smiths,  brass  founders,  persons  used  to  the  file,  and 
a  good  file  cutter,  who  will  meet  with  the  best  en- 
couragement  by    applying    to    the    subscriber   in    Morris 
Town. 

JOSEPH  MORGAN 

1ST.  B.   A  neat  joiner  or  cabinet  maker  will  meet  with 
the  best  encouragement  likewise. 

CAME  to  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber  living  at 
Cheapside,  a  dark  brown  MARE  about  13%  hands 
high,  a  small  star  in  her  forehead,  the  hair  worn  off 
the  sides  with  the  gears   and  girth,  low  in  flesh,   and  a 
white  spot  on  the  left  side  of  her  back. — Whoever  owns 
said  mare,  by  proving  their  property  and  paying  charges, 
may  have  her  again  by  applying  to 

REMIXGTOX  PARSEL. 

WAS   taken  out   of  the  house  of   Col.   M'Donald   at 
Pluck'emin,   sometime  in  February  last,   a  pair 
of  screw  barrel  PISTOLS,  silver  mounted.     Any 
person  who  have  them  in  their  possession,  and  will  return 
them  to  Col.   M'Donald,  or  the  Printer  hereof,  shall  re^ 
ceive  a  handsome  reward  and  no  questions  asked. 

1  Doubtless  employed  as  a  gunsmith,  etc.,  for  the  American  army. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  275 

JN".  B.  The  pistols  may  easily  be  known,  the  bores  being 
of  unequal  size. 

THIS  is  to  give  notice  to  all  persons  whom  it  may  con- 
cern, that  they  need  not  trust  John  Scott l  on  my 
account,  as  I  will  not  pay  any  more  debts  of  his 
contracting,  having  as  Executrix  to  Stephen  Moore's  estate, 
suffered  enough  by  him  that  way  already. — As  he  has  been 
at  the  trouble  of  reporting  what  is  not  true  about  me  and 
my  family,  I  ought  in  duty  to  myself  and  brother  and 
sister,  to  tell  the  truth,  which  will  be  a  plain  contradiction 
to  what  he  has  advanced.  Pie  says  I  eloped  from  his  bed 
and  board,  which  is  a  mistake,  as  his  doors  were  locked 
and  nailed  against  me,  and  when  I  drawed  the  nails  and 
got  in,  he  says  I  broke  open  his  house,  which,  if  I  did,  I 
had  a  right.  He  tells  of  my  taking  a  great  deal  more  than 
he  ever  had.  As  for  sister  Morris,2  she\  has  neither  added  or 
assisted  me,  no  other  way  than  to  take  me  in  in  time  of 
need,  and  endeavoring  to  help  my  children  to  get  their  just 
due,  for  which  lie  is  soarly  offended  with  her.  He  would 
like  her  and  me  very  well  I  believe,  if  we  had  given  all  that 
my  children  had  left  them  to  him,  but  I  had  rather  suffer 
abuse  myself  than  wrong  my  children.  He  speaks  of  an 
article  that  I  signed  to  cut  me  off  from  his  estate,  wliich  is  a 
mistake,  as  it  only  prohibits  him  from  destroying  my  chil- 
dren's estate,  and  their  hurting  of  his.  It  would  have  been 
much  to  their  advantage  if  he  had  fulfilled  his  bargain.  He 
says  I  endeavoured  to  run  him  in  debt;  I  did  try  his  credit 
once  while  I  lived  wilh  him,  when  he  was  in  his  full  glory, 
and  I  made  out  so  bad,  I  thought  never  to  try  it  again; 

1  John  Scott  died  1800,   aged  87  years.     His  wife,   Eunice,   b.    April   3, 
1743,  was  a  dau.  of  Samuel  Ford  and  Sarah  Baldwin,  his  wife,  and  was 
the  widow  of  Stephen  Moore,  whom  she  m.  April  21,  1761  ;    he  d.  January 
19,  1777,  aged  39  yrs.  ;    she  d.  March  8,  1802,  aged  60  yrs. 

2  Hannah  Ford,  b.  about  1740,   dau.  of  Samuel  Ford,  m.  Joseph  Morris., 
April  12,  1759.     He  was  active  in  the  French  and'  Indian  wars  ;    was  a 
major  in  Col.   Daniel   Morgan's   Rangers  ;    he  was  shot  at  White  Marsh., 
December  6,  1777,  and  d.  January  5,  1778  ;    she  d.  October  12,  1783,  aged 
43  yrs. 


276  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

but  seeing  him  selling  all  he  had,,  to  put  the  money  in  his 
pocket,  in  order  to  leave  me,  as  lie  said  he  would,  I  tried 
his  credit  again,  and  made  out  as  well  as  before;  but  this 
was  after  he  fastened  me  out  of  the  house,  and  was  afraid 
qf  my  life.  His  forbidding  people  to  trust  me  on  his  ac- 
count, was  quite  needless,  for  they  never  would,  except  a 
trifle.  The  damage  he  has  done  by  it  is  trifling,  for  I  have 
the  same  way  to  trade  now  as  ever  I  had,  and  that  is  with 
my  children's  estate,  which  if  I  had  not  had,  I  might  have 
suffered,  I  believe,  for  that  supported  the  family,  in  some 
measu,re  whilst  I  lived  with  him,  and  because  I  would  not 
give  it  all,  I  could  not  stay  at  home;  after  I  left  him  I 
made  him  offers  to  quit  him,  and  have  no  more  demands 
against  him  if  he  would  give  me  two  hundred  pounds,  but 
he  said  he  would  not  give  me  one  copper,  but  would  take 
all  my  clothes  from  me,  which  he  did  all  he  could  get,  and 
locked  them  up,  and  the  writings  belonging  to  my  children, 
by  having  a  key  that  would  unlock  the  drawer  where  I 
kept  tliem,  which  I  never  knew  till  since,  and  have  missed 
money  several  times.  I  never  had  one  of  his  bonds,  notes, 
or  deeds  in  my  life,  but  that  is  like  the  rest  of  what  he  says. 

EUNICE  SCOTT. 


Morris  county,  April  19,  1779. 

PERSONALLY  appeared  before  me  Eunice  Scott,  and 
made  oath  on  the  Holy  Evangelists  of  Almighty 
God,  that  what  she  has  wrote  concerning  John  Scott, 
her  husband,  is  the  truth. 

EUNICE  SCOTT. 
STEPHEN  DAY. 

—The  New^  Jersey  Journal,  Vol.  I.,  Numb.  XL,  April  27, 
1779. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER     EXTRACTS.  277 


Wanted  to  purchase. 

A  NEGRO  GIRL  not  less  than  nine  years  of  age,  nor 
more  than  thirteen.  She  must  be  of  an  affable  disposition, 
and  free  from  any  particular  fault.  If  bred  in  the  country 
the  more  agreeable.  Any  person  having  such  a  girl  to  dis^ 
pose  of  may  hear  of  a  purchaser  by  applying  to  the  printer 
hereof. 


Mr. 

Your  inserting  the  following  in  your  next  paper  will 
oblige  your  most  obedient  humble  servant,, 

AZ.  DUNHAM. 
SIR: 

YOUR  correspondent,  under  the  signature  of  A  true 
Patriot,  has  repeatedly  vilified  the  characters  of  Quarter- 
masters and  Commissaries,  and  roundly  asserted  that  the 
cause  of  our  present  calamities,  the  high  price  of  provi- 
sion®, and  depreciation  of  our  money  is  occasioned  by  their 
avaricious  disposition  to  enhance  their  commissions.  A 
thought  so  vile  would  scarcely  have  entered  the  breast  of 
any  person  but  one  capable  of  acting  such  a  part  himself, 
was  he  in  that  place  of  trust.  And  also  insinuates  that 
they  have  repeatedly  offered  more  than;  the  "upright, 
sincere"  and  virtuous  farmers  would  have  thought  of  ask- 
ing for  their  produce.  And  in  your  last  paper,  No.  70, 
says,  "Among  all  the  harpies  which  have  preyed  upon 
our  vitals,  none  have  been  worse  than  Quartermasters, 
Commissaries,  and  the  whole  host  of  their  deputies." 

And  your  paper  beinig  printed  in  the  state  of  New- 
Jersey,  suppose  your  correspondence  resides  in  it,  as  he 
has  made  choice  of  it  to  communicate  his  intelligence1  to 
the  publick  ;  and  as  he  has  made  no  exceptions,  and  I  am 
one  of  the  Assistant  Purchasing  Commissaries  for  the 
state,  and  superintend  [ent  in]  chief  of  the  purchases  made 


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278  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

for  the  army  in  the  eastern  division  of  it,  as  such  do  deny 
that  any  of  the  charge  is  true,  to  my  knowledge  and  belief ; 
and  do  know  that  the  reverse  is  true,  which  I  can  prove  in  a 
thousand  instances.  And  as  I  would  wish  to  deserve  and 
support  a  good  character,  publickly  call  on  your  corre- 
spondent to  come  forth  and  support  his  charge,  if  any  he 
has,  against  me,  or  publickly  acknowledge  his  fault,  other- 
wise I  shall  esteem  him  a  general  caluminator,  altho'  he 
may  assume  the  sanctity  of  a  Divine,  the  importance  of 
a  quondam  President  or  Judge,  or  one  dispossed  to  natter 
the  farmers  and  tradesmen. 
Morristown,  April  10,  1779. 

We  hear  that  his  Excellency  the  Ambassadour  from  the 
Court  of  France,  will  shortly  make  a  visit  at  Head- 
Quarters,  and  take  a  View  of  the  Grand  American  Army. 

By  a  gentleman  from  Philadelphia,  we  learn,  that  two 
prizes  were  a  few  days  ago  sent  into  Delaware  Bay  by 
Capt.  Douglass,  the  one  a  schooner  with  135  hogsheads 
of  rum,  the  other  a  sloop  loaded  with  salt. 

The  same  paper  informs  us  that  a  party  of  twelve 
continental  troops,  with  an  officer,  were  taken  on  Bergen 
Neck  and  carried  into  New- York,  on  the  2d  inst.  at  night 
by  a  detachment  of  the  enemy  that  lay  at  Paulus  Hook. 

t/  •/  €/ 

§  f  §   The  true  Patriot,  No.  5,  to  be  in  our  next, 


TO  BE  SOLD  at  Vendue,  on  Tuesday  the  27th  instant,  at 
New  Brunswick, 

THE  SJoop  SPEEDWELL  and  the  Schooner  Betsey,  with 
their  tackle,  apparel  and  furniture,  per  inventory. 

By  order  of  the  Court  of  Admiralty, 

JOSEPH  POTTS,  Marshall. 

New-Jersey,  April  13,  1779. 


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WAS  STOLEN  out  of  the  subscriber's  stable,  (being  near 
Vanpelt's  mill,  George  road,  near  New  Brunswick)  on  the 
13th  instant,  a  brown  horse  about,  fifteen  hands  high,  nine 
years  old,  low  in  flesh,  lame  in  one  of  his  fore  fetlock 
joints,  shod  all  round,  and  much  used  to  the  gears.  Who- 
ever takes  up  said  horse  and  thief  and  secures  them,  so 
that  the  owner  may  get  the  horse,  and  the  thief  brought 
to  justice,  shall  have  Eighty  Dollars  reward,  or  Thirty 
Dollars  for  the  horse,  paid  by  me, 

WILLIAM    CAYWOOD. 

April  15. 


THE  subscriber  informs  the  publick  in  general,  that 
he  has  moved  from  the  sign  of  the  college  in  Princeton, 
to  the  stone  house  almost  opposite,  where  Mrs.  Livingston 
formerly  lived,  where  he  now  keeps  a  Tavern:  He  takes 
the  liberty  to  return  his1  sincere  thanks  to  all  his  friends 
in  particular,  anid  to  all  those  gentlemen  who  have  been 
so  obliging  as  to  favour  him  with  their  company;  he  in- 
tends to  put  up  the  sign  of  thirteen  stars  at  said  house, 
and  is  furnished  with  every  necessary  for  entertainment, 
where  the  publick  in  general  may  be  assured  of  his  ut- 
most endeavours  to  merit  their  future  favours. 

From  the  publick' s  humble  servant, 

JACOB    G.    BERGEN. 

Princeton,  17th  April  1779. 


STRAYED  away  from  the  subscriber  living  in  Trenton, 
the  llth  day  of  this  inst.  a  grey  MARE  three  years  old, 
has  a  very  short  dock  with  the  hair  off  of  the  upper  side, 
and  is  a  natural  trotter.  Whoever  takes  up  and  secures 
said  mare,  so  that  the  owner  may  get  her  again,  shall  be 
entitled  to  Twenty  Dollars  reward,  paid  by 

BERNARD    JOHNSON. 


280  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 


A  LIST  OF  LETTERS  remaining  in  the  Post-Office  at 
Trenton,  the  5th  of  April,  1779. 

B.  CHARLES    Bessonet,    Esquire,    Bristol;     William 
Brown,  Esquire,  P.  G.  Brunswick. 

C.  Mr.  John  Cain,  mariner,  Jersey ;    Lieutenant  Pat- 
rick  Cain,    in   Major  Lee's   troop   light   dragoons;     Mr. 
Christopher  Cobright,  in  Amwell. 

D.  Mr.  Peter  Dix,  Trenton. 

E.  Mr.  Robert  Eastburn,  Brunswick. 

J.     Mr.  John  Johnson,  near  MountrHolly. 

L.  Major  Henry  Lee,  of  cavalry ;  Mr.  Richard  Lloyd, 
Allen-town. 

M.     The  Honourable  Robert  Morris,  Esquire. 

K".     Hannah  Nichols,  near  Princeton. 

P.  Mr.  William  Phillips,  Maidenhead;  Mr.  Simeon 
Phillips,  ditto ;  Captain  James  Perkins,  master  of  the 
sloop  Polly. 

S.     Richard  Stockton,   Esquire,  near  Princeton. 

Y.     Daniel  Van  Voorhees,  Burlington. 

B.     SMITH,    P.    M. 


ALL  persons  indebted  to  the  estate  of  Joseph  Taylor,  of 
Freehold,  in  the  county  of  Monmouth  and  state  of  New 
Jersey,  deceased,  by  bond,  note,  or  book-debts,  are  desired 
to  come  and  pay  them  off,  before  the  first  day  of  May 
next,  to  John  Van  Dear  Veer  in  Freehold,  or  they  will  be 
put  in  suit  against  them  without  further  notice;  and  all 
those  that  have  any  demands  against  said  estate  are  de- 
sired to  make  their  demands,  and  bring  their  accounts 
properly  attested,  by  the  abovesaid  first  day  of  May,  to 

JOHN  VAN  DER  VEER,  Admin. 

Freehold,  April  9,  1779. 


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PUTNAM. 

A  Beautiful,  dark  brown,  well  marked  and  of  full  size, 
15  hands  and  an  inch  high,  moves  well;  eight  years  old 
this  grass,  and  in  excellent  order,  will  cover  mares  the 
ensuing  season  at  the  stable  of  the  subscriber,  in  Penning- 
ton,  Hunterdon  county,  at  Sixteen  Dollars  the  season,  or 
one  bushel  of  wheat;  the  money  to  be  paid  at  the  stable 
door,  or  the  wheat  delivered.  Putnam  was  bred  in  New 
England,  got  by  a  full-blooded  horsei  out  of  a  very  fine 
New  England  mare.  It  is  needless  to  fill  a  newspaper 
with  a  long  pedigree1  of  this  horse,  as  those  who  put  mares 
to  him  will  have  the  satisfaction  of  judging  for  themselves. 
Good  care  will  be  taken  that  the  mare®  that  come  to  him 
are  properly  served. 

STEPHEN    BURROUGHS. 

April  17,  1779. 

WILL    COVER, 

The  ensuing  season,  at  the  stable  of  Major  William 
Baird,  at  the  moderate!  price  of  sixteen  dollars  the  season, 
the  famous  horse 

YOUNG    BELSIZE 

A  Beautiful  chestnut  brown,  three  white  feet  and  a  snip, 
full  sixteen  hands  and  a  half  high.  Young  Belsize  was 
got  by  that  famous  horse  Grandbay,  and  is  a  half  blooded 
horse  got  out  of  as  famous  a  mare  as  any  in  this  state; 
as  for  his  pedigree  it  is  needless  to  say  any  more,  as  he 
is  allowed  by  the  best  judges  to  be  equal  to  any  horse  of 
his  blood  in  this  state.  Said  Belsize  four  years  old  next 
grass. 

"N".  B.  In  case  any  of  the  mares  should  not  prove  with 
foal,  and  the  money  is  paid  in  the  season,  they  shall  be 
entitled  to  a  single  leap  the  next  season. 

Griggs-Town,   Somerset,  April   10,   1779. 


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WILL    COVER 

The  ensuing  season,  at  Henry  Mershon's  in  Maiden- 
head, near  Assanpink,  a  likely  three-quarters  blooded 
horse,  called 

BOLD    HUNTER,, 

at   Thirty   Dollars   the    season,    and    one   to    the   groom. 
Money  to  be  paid  at  or  before  the  end  of  the  season. 

His  son  is  the  noted  full  blooded  horse  Old  Grandbay, 
and  come  of  a  very  fine  Hector  mare;  he  rises  four  years 
old  next  June,  he  is  full  fifteen  and  a  half  hands  high, 
a  very  clever  brown,  lias  good  spirits,  lofty  carriage, 
moves  spry  and  very  pleasant  for  the  rider;  he  is  neat 
limb'd,  and  carries  a  very  proportionable  body  sufficient 
to  perform  any  service  whatever. 


WILL  COVER, 

At  Thirty-six  Dollars  the  ensuing  season,  at  the  stables 
of  John  Phillips,  of  Maidenhead, 

JOLLY    CHESTER, 

A  Fine  blooded  bay,  rising  seven  years  old  this  grass, 
has  a  beautiful  star  in  his  forehead,  has  black  legs,  mane 
and  tail,  is  upwards  of  15  hands  high,  very  lengthy,  gay, 
boney  J  and  of  fine  spirits,  and  remarkable  for  getting  ex- 
ceeding fine  foals.  Jolly  Chester's  sire  was  True  Briton, 
his  dam  by  Old  Hero,  his  great-grandam  by  Spark,  who 
was  also  sire  of  Old  Bullyrock.  This  excellent  breed  of 
horses  are  so  well  known  to  this  and  the  adjacent  states, 
that  their  fame  and  performances  need  no  enumeration. 

Good  pasture  provided  for  mares  that  come  at  a  distance. 

THOMAS    PHILLIPS. 

April  20,  1779. 

1  Bonnie. 


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PURSUANT  to  the  direction  of  a  law  of  the  state  of  New- 
Jersey,  entitled,  "An  act  for  the  regulating,  training,  and 
arraying  the  militia,"  passed  at  Princeton  the  14th  day 
of  April,  1778,  two  Justices  of  the  Pea,ce  and  one  Field- 
Officer  are  constituted  a  Court,  for  hearing  and  determin- 
ing upon  appeals  of  such  persons  as  may  think  themselves 
aggrieved  by  any  fines  imposed  for  remissness  in  publick 
duty;  this  is  therefore  to  inform  the  delinquents  of  the 
1st  regiment  of  militia  in  the  county  of  Hunterdon,  that 
Benamin  Van  Cleve  and  Jeremiah  Woolsey,  Esquire,  and 
Major  Joseph  Brearley  were,  at  our  last  review,  nominated 
members  for  said  Court;  which  will  set  to  audit  and 
finally  adjust  this  business  on  Friday,  the  30th  of  this 
instant,  (April)  at  ten  o'clock  in  the  forenoon,  at  the 
house  of  Mr.  Thomas  Bullman,  in  Pennington — of  which 
this  is  not  for  notice. 

Joseph  Phillips,  Col. 

Maidenhead,  April  10,  1779. 


CAME  to  the  forage-yard  of  the  first  Maryland  brigade 
about  the  first  day  of  October,  1778,  a  small  bay  horse,  six 
or  seven  years  old,  shod  all  round,  with  a  short  bushy 
tail,  trots  and  hand-gallops  well,  has  no  perceivable,  natural, 
marks.  The  owner  is  desired  to  come,  prove  his  property, 
pay  charges,  and  take  him  away. 

John  McCay,  A.  F.  M. 

MiddlehBrook,  April  14,  1779. 


THREE  DOLLARS  per  BUSHEL  will  be  given  by  the 
subscribers  at  their  store  in  Neiw  Brunswick,  for  merchant- 
able FLAXSEED  of  last  yea.r's  growth,  if  delivered  in  four 
weeks  from  the  date. 

P.    &    JOHN    VAN    EMBURGH. 

April  7th,  1779. 


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NEW    JERSEY 


THE    REVOLUTION. 


[1779 


THE  Encourageirs  erf  the  New-Jersey  Gazette,  who  are 
in  arrears  to  the  subscribers  for  carrying  the  packets  last 
year,  are  earnestly  requested  to  pay  off  the  same  to  the 
Gentlemen  to  whom  the  packets  were  directed — who  are 
requested  to  send  the  money  to  the  Post-Office  at  Morris- 
town,  or  to  such  other  place  on  the  post-road  as  may  be 
most  convenient  to  them.  Unless  the  subscribers  are  more 
punctually  paid,  it  will  be  impossible  for  them  to  continue 
to  ride. 


DANIEL  BURNET 
STEPHEN  BURNET 


April  18,  1779. 


FRANCIS  WITT, 


In  TRENTON,  has  for  SALE  an  assortment  of  Merchandize 
suitable  to  the  season,  viz. 


CAmbricks  and  lawns 

Serges 

Dimitties 

Drilling 

Stripes 

Callicoes 

Silks  for  gowns  &  bonnets 

Camblets 

Stocking  breeches  patterns 

Silk  &  worsted  stockings 

Sewing  silk  and  mohair 

White  &  colour'd  threads 

Sealing  wax 

Pewter,  china  &  queen's  ware 


Stone  and  earthen  ware 

Snuff  and  tobacco 

Hard  soap  and  brimstone 

Pepper  and  ginger 

Alspice 

Nutmegs 

Cinnamon 

Spirits,  allum  &  copperas 

Desk,  cupboards,  chest  &  pad  locks 

Razors,  knives  &  scissors 

Shoe  and  knee  buckles 

Silver  stock  buckles  and  broaches. 


And  a  variety  of  other  articles  which  he  will  sell  as  low  as  he  can 
afford,  for  cash  or  country  produce. 


ALL  persons  indebted  to  the  estate  of  C'apt.  John  Van 
Cleaf,  of  Freehold,  in  the  county  of  Monmouth  and  state 
of  New-Jersey,  deceased,  by  bond,  note,  or  book-debts,  are 
deisired  to  come  and  pay  them  off  before  the  fifteenth  day 


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of  May  next,  to  John  Van  Der  Veer,  Joshua  Anderson, 
William  A.  Cbvenhoven,  jun.  o<r  either  of  them,  in  Free- 
hold, or  they  will  be  put  in  suit  against  them  without 
further  notice:  And  all  those  that  have  any  demands 
against  said  estate,  are  desired  to  make  their  demands, 
and  bring  -their  accounts  properly  attested  to  the  executors, 
who  will  meet  at  the  house  where  William  Snyder,  inn- 
holder,  in  Freehold,  now  lives,  on  the  above  said  fifteenth 
day  of  May,  for  said  purpose. 

JOHN    VAN    DER   VEER,    JOSHUA    ANDERSON, 
WILLIAM    A.    COVENHOVEN,    jun.    ExeCUtOTS. 

Freehold,  April  9,  1779. 

STRAYED  or  stolen  from  the  plantation  of  Benjamin 
Mitchell,  near  Kingston,  in  Somerset  county,  on  the  16th 
of  March  last. — A  brindle  cow,  about  9  years  old,  with  a 
white  face  and  belly,  heavy  with  calf,  has  a  red  ring  round 
each  eye,  marked  with  two  halfpennies,  one  on  the  end  and 
the  other  on  the  edge  of  her  ocff  ear.  Whoever  takes  up 
said  cow  and  delivers  her  at  the  plantation  above,  if 
strayed,  shall  receive  Five  Pounds,  and  if  stolen,  and  the 
thief  secured,  Ten  Pounds. 

— The  New-Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  II.,  No.  72,  Wednesday, 
April  21,  1779. 

[No.  V.] 

Mr.  COLLINS, 

AFTER  I  had,  in  my  last,  pursued  the  consequences  and 
tendencies  of  the  two  different  plans  under  consideration, 
with  respect  to  sound  and  good  policy,  I  was  prevented 
to  proceed  by  the  bounds  prescribed  to  the  length  of  my 
pieces.  I  shall  therefore  now  resume  and  prosecute  the 

2.  Relation  of  these  different  plans  to  the  rules  of  equity  and  justice. 
I  confess  it  appears  to  me  impossible  to  redress  this  general  and  ad- 
vanced evil,  without  doing  injustice  to  some  individuals ;  But  it  is 
incontestible  that  the  injustice  is  greatly  aggravated  ly  the  greater 
number  it  affects,  the  ingratitude  it  might  "be  attended  with,  and  the 


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greater  detriment  it  may  render  to  the  community  in  general. — Hence 
the  common  saying  holds  true,  of  two  evils  the  least  ought  to  be  chosen. 
If  we  thus  compare  each  plan  with  the  strict  rules  of  equity  and  justice, 
we  shall  find  both  will  be  unavoidably  infringe  them ;  But  I  humbly 
conceive  the  one  in  a  much  more  aggravated  degree  than  the  other. 

1.  If  the  tax  for  recovering  the  value  of  our  currency  be  laid  on  the 
money  itself,  it  seems  to  threaten  shocking  injustice  to  persons  who 
had  their  estates  in  money  before  depreciated,  and  some  who  have  sold 
their  real  estates  before  the  money  was  quarter  so  low  as  it  is  now, 
and  others  of  similar  circumstances ;  these  would  be  obliged  to  pay  as 
much  tax  in  proportion  to  the  money  they  possess,  as  others  who  got 
it  fifteen  and  twenty  to  one  for  one.  However,  great  part  of  this 
injustice  might  easily  be  avoided.  Let  all  the  monies  laid  up  for  the 
maintenance  of  superannuated,  widows  and  orphans,  be  exempted. 
Also  all  the  monies  brought  into  our  loans  before  the  first  day  of 
March,  1778.  The  reasons  for  this  are  evident.  These  monies  stand 
the  respective  owners  at  their  original  value,  they  have  had  no  agency 
in  the  depreciation,  and  are  reduceable  to  certain  classes  in  the  com- 
munity, without  descending  to  individuals,  to  which  (if  it  was  done) 
there  would  be  no  end.  As  to  those  who  have  sold  real  property,  and 
come  not  within  the  depreciation  aforesaid,  the  advanced  price  has 
probably  been  their  inducement ;  and  therefore  I  cannot  see  great 
injustice  in  their  being  obliged,  like  traders,  to  balance  their  loss  and 
gain.  There  are  many  particular  cases  of  individuals  similar  to  this, 
the  injustice  which  this  plan  seems  to  expose  them  to  would  be  greatly 
alleviated  by  considering  them  in  the  same  point  of  view. — There  is 
no  objection  against  this  scheme,  which  in  the  opinion  of  some,  might 
make  it  appear  very  unjust,  namely,  that  the  farmers  who  possess  the 
soil  of  all  improved  America,  should  be  exempt  from  so  large  a  tax  in 
sinking  the  national  debt.  Whatever  colour  of  injustice  this  objection 
may  carry  on  the  face  of  it,  I  am  confident,  if  thoroughly  examined,  it 
will  be  found  void  of  foundation.  Let  it  only  be  considered — That 
this  charge  supposes  several  things  which  are  not  true,  as,  that  the 
farmers  will  be  free  of  this  tax.  Have  they  got  no  money?  If  not,  it 
is  a  sufficient  evidence  that  they  have  not  been  guilty  of  the  deprecia- 
tion. If  they  have,  they  will  pay  their  proportionable  share.  In  each 
case  it  will  be  just. — That  none  but  farmers  have  real  property.  Have 
not  merchants  houses  and  other  improvements,  furniture,  merchandise, 
shipping,  &c? — That  this  tax  is  to  be  paid  for  sinking  the  national 
debt.  This  I  deny ;  I  have  before  proved  the  contrary.  It  is  for 
raising  the  value  of  the  money.  And  as  much  'as  the  depreciation  has 
truly  sunk  of  the  national  debt,  they  have  bore  their  part.  If  this  tax 
is  laid  on  real  property,  it  will  not  sink,  but  vastly  increase  the  real 
national  debt,  as  I  have  before  demonstrated. — Let  us 

2.  Next  examine  how  it  will  square  with  the  rules  of  equity  and 
justice,  if  the  tax  for  recovering  the  value  of  our  currency  be  laid  on 
real  property.  I  frankly  own  it  appears  to  me. 

1.  In  its  very  nature  unjust  and  oppressive,  because  then  the  farmers 
would  be  compelled  to  give  thousands  and  millions  to  the  monied  part  of 


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the  community,  for  which  neither  thjey  nor  the  community  never  received 
the  equivalent,  and  that  to  the  farmers  destruction.  Before  I  proceed 
permit  me  to  explain  my  meaning,  in  the  use  of  two  terms.  If  I  use 
the  word  monied-man,  I  mean  a  person  who  gets  his  living  or  has  his 
estate  chiefly  in  money,  in  trade,  or  bonds,  bills  and  notes.  By  farmer 
I  don't  mean  a  person  who  has  no  money,  but  one  who  chiefly  has  his 
income  from  the  produce  of  his  land. — Now,  in  order  to  make  my 
above  assertion  evident,  let  the  monied  man  and  the  farmer  in  this 
case  be  placed  in  their  different  situations,  and  the  injustice  and 
oppression  will  evidently  appear  from  the  contrast.  Suppose  the 
monied  man  has  now  an  estate  of  fifty  thousand  pounds  present  value 
of  our  currency,  in  money,  bonds,  bills  or  notes.  A  farmer  has  -five 
hundred  acres  of  land,  which  would  have  readily  sold  four  years  ago 
at  five  pounds  per  acre.  The  land  is  now  worth,  according  to  the  sup- 
posed medium  at  twenty  for  one,  fifty  thousand  pounds.  Consequently 
these  two  are  so  far  on  a  par,  or  of  equal  estate.  The  yearly  interest 
for  the  money  is  £3000.  If  he  trades  with  it  he  gets  more.  According 
then  to  the  plan  of  Congress,  this  land  paying  its  proportion  of  tax, 
in  thirteen  years  one  hundred  millions  will  be  sunk.  Then  thirty 
millions  will  remain,  which  we  will  suppose  to  be  only  sufficient  for  a 
circulating  medium.  The  monied  man  had  three  thousand  per  year 
interest,  his  original  stock,  which  was  in  true  value  no  more  than 
two  thousand  five  hundred,  is  now  fifty  thousand.  But  the  farmer 
whose  estate  was  but  thirteen  years  before  equal  to  his,  is  now  worth 
two  thousand  five  hundred.  Now  only  consider  how  many  such  able 
farmers  will  have  to  labour  and  sweat  thirteen  years,  to  raise  this 
man's  estate  from  two  thousand  five  hundred  to  fifty  thousand?  And 
then  there  are  the  thirty  millions  of  dollars  yet  to  pay,  after  they  have 
been  reduced  to  their  original  value.  So  that  farmers  by  thirteen 
years  hard  labour,  and  many  by  having  their  estate  sold,  will  have 
made  the  monied  man  twenty  times  as  rich  as  they  are  now,  and  en- 
crcascd  the  true  national  debt  from  eight  to  thirty  millions  of  dollars. 
At  the  same  time  the  monied  man  may  live  sumptuous  and  luxuri- 
ously, and  daily  add  to  their  original  stock.  If  this  is  justice  and 
equity  in  a  nation,  I  confess  I  know  not  what  justice  is. 

2.  This  injustice  would-be  shockingly  aggravated  from  the  multi- 
tude it  would  affect.— Here  the  rnonied  men  are  to  be  compared  to  the 
yeomanry  throughout  this  vast  continent.  I  do  not  presume  to  deter- 
mine in  what  proportion  the  number  of  the  latter  exceeds  the  former. 
This  however  none  will  deny,  that  the  farmers  vastly  out-number  the 
others. — To  the  number  of  farmers  must  be  added  that  of  all  the  mer- 
chants and  tradesmen,  who  necessarily  must  stand,  rise  or  fall  with 
farmers,  as  well  as  day  labourers. — This  set  of  men  need  no  other  argu- 
ment to  convince  them  of  this,  than  only  to  recall  the  present  time. 
Though  to  appearance  they  made  money  by  raising  the  price  of  their 
labour,  but  in  fact  they  have  paid  dear  for  what  they  got  for  that 
money,  and  their  full  proportion  in  what  the  depreciation  has  sunk  of 
the  national  debt.  Ask  the  sober  and  industrious  among  them,  though 
they  have  laboured  as  hard  as  in  former  days,  whether  they  have  been 


288  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

well  fed  and  cloathed  as  before?  Had  foreign  and  home  produce  been 
distributed  without  monopoly,  forestalling  and  extortion,  not  an  indi- 
vidual would  have  needed  to  suffer  any  want.  Now  if  this  class  of 
men  have  already  felt  the  sad  effects  of  this  evil,  while  the  monied  few 
have  been  only  preparing  to  make  their  fortunes,  what  will  they  feel 
when  these  shall  actually  make  them  in  the  proportion  of  twenty  to 
one?  Add  to  these  the  thousands  of  brave  American  soldiers  who  vol- 
untarily confined  themselves  to  the  sword  and  musket,  and  waded 
through  seas  of  blood  and  difficulties,  and  thousands  sacrificing  their 
lives  for  the  defence  of  their  country's  liberties  and  properties ;  while 
the  monied  men  have  been  hoarding  up  and  depreciating  millions. 
And  shall  these  brave  men,  besides  what  they  have  already  suffered  by 
the  depreciation,  be  compelled  to  sacrifice  what  some  of  them  possess 
as  yet  in  real  property,  or  their  sweat  and  labour,  to  make  good  the 
depreciated  money  in  the  hands  of  those  who  have  hoarded  it  up  as 
dust?  What  would  the  manes  of  those  heroes  who  bravely  fell  in 
their  country's  cause  say,  could  they  behold  their  relicts  and  offsprings 
engaged  in  such  unworthy  drudgery?  Now  if  all  the  monied  men  in 
this  empire  be  compared  with  those,  as  to  their  collective  numbers, 
they  will  be  an  insignificant  dust  in  the  balance.  And  what  aggro- 
rated  injustice  would  that  be  to  make  so  many  thousands,  yea  millions 
miserable  to  enrich  a  few? 

3.  This  injustice  will  still  appear  more  aggravated  if  we  consider  its 
inseparable  ingratitude. — The  men  who  have  served  their  country  most, 
are  undoubtedly  most  entitled  to  their  country's  grateful  reward. 
Some  have  served  their  country  in  the  cabinet,  or  by  salutary  councils 
given  their  fellow-citizens  at  large ;  others  in  the  field. — While  our 
valiant  army  encountered  unparalleled  hardships,  and  braved  danger 
and  slaughter ;  while  our  farmers,  mechanicks  and  tradesmen  bravely 
stepped  forth  from  their  lawful  and  necessary  business,  to  the  great 
damage  of  their  private  interest,  to  defend  their  country  in  the  service 
of  the  militia,  at  the  risk  and  hazard  of  their  lives ;  where  then  were 
the  monied  men  of  the  community?  I  answer,  some  sculking  about  to 
hoard  up  and  depreciate  our  money,  and  to  avoid  their  duty  in  the  field ; 
and  when  they  could  no  longer  escape  the  penalty  for  neglect  of  duty, 
then  to  pay  their  fines  with  money  they  had  been  purchasing  at  a  low 
value.  Others  were  basking  in  the  sunshine  of  monopoly,  forestalling 
and  extortion,  and  withal  pampering  their  vile  natures  in  ease,  super- 
fluities and  luxury. — If  all  Americans  had  acted  such  a  part,  where 
would  our  enemies  have  been?  Where  would  we  have  been? — And 
are  these  the  men  whom  we  should  reward,  by  compelling  this  pa- 
triotic collective  body,  who  at  the  risk  of  their  lives  and  fortunes,  have 
rescued  this  country  from  slavery  and  depredation,  to  give  them 
millions  of  money  for  which  the  community  has  received  no  kind  of 
value?  O!  incomparable  and  fatal  ingratitude!  Pagans  would  put 
us  to  the  blush ;  whose  proverb  was  ingratum  dixcris,  et  omnia  dixeris. 

I  sincerely  declare,  that  it  appears  evident  to  me,  this  aggravated 
injustice  will  be  inseparable  from  the  plan  of  Congress,  if  carried  into 
effect.  Some  however  may  perhaps  urge  in  support  of  this  plan, 


NEWSPAPER    EXTKACTS.  289 


That  the  faith  of  the  nation  is  pledged  to  make  this  money  good  to 
its  possessors-  —  This  I  deny.  It  cannot  be  proved.  The  nation  has 
pledged  its  faith  that  the  money  shall  be  sunk  by  the  community,  but 
it  remains  still  with  them  to  devise  the  most  equitable,  just  and 
advantageous  means  for  effecting  it.  The  matter  in  question  is  here 
mistaken.  The  question  is  not  whether  real  property  shall  be  taxed  to 
pay  the  real  national  debt?  but  whether  real  property  shall  be  taxed  to 
make  depreciated  nominal  property  good  to  depredators  ?  The  evil  is 
unprecedented  and  singular,  and  so  ought  the  remedy  to  be. 

Also,  that  the  farmer  get  monstrous  prices  for  their  produce,  and 
therefore  may  and  can  well  pay  it.  This  hardly  deserves  an  answer, 
after  it  is  considered  what  I  have  before  advanced.  If  farmers  have 
got  such  monstrous  prices,  they  also  will  have  monstrous  quantities  of 
this  money,  and  pay  monstrous  taxes  ;  for  their  farms  will  pay  still 
as  great  in  this,  as  the  money  instances  in  the  former  example.  The 
five  hundred  acres  of  the  farmer  was  equal  in  the  present  value  to  the 
fifty  thousand  of  the  monied-man  ;  but  after  the  deduction  of  nineteen 
in  twenty  depreciation,  this  man  has  twenty-five  hundred  true  value, 
and  the  farmer's  land  is  now  worth  just  the  same,  and  no  more. 

After  I  have  endeavoured  to  place  the  plan  Congress  seems  to  have 
adopted,  in  this  true  point  of  view,  I  must  observe  by  way  of  caution, 
that  I  sincerely  beg  not  to  be  understood  as  if  I  intended  to  insinuate 
any  apprehensions  of  a  premeditated  design  in  that  august  body,  for 
subverting  the  democratick  government  as  now  established  by  and  on 
the  authority  of  the  people,  or  of  injuring  any  class  of  their  constituents 
in  favour  of  another.  It  is  highly  probable  that  there  are  among  them 
a  few  abandoned  libertines  and  atheists,  who,  as  they  have  no  God  to 
trust  to,  ought  to  be  trusted  by  none  in  the  community,  yet  that  body 
has  given  us  such  proofs  of  their  skill,  sound  judgment,  consumate 
prudence,  patriotic  and  disinterested  zeal  for  their  country  (one  or  two 
self-interested  instances  perhaps  excepted)  as  demands  from  their 
constituents  becoming  reverence  and  due  respect,  and  a  firm  confidence 
that  they  will  most  readily  adopt  any  measures  which  their  own 
penetration,  amidst  all  their  accumulating  business,  or  the  more  leisure 
thoughts  of  their  patriotic  constituents  may  suggest,  for  the  real  benefit 
of  this  empire. 

As  I  have  sincerely  and  candidly  stated  both  plans  in  their  proper 
position,  I  think  the  contrast  plainly  shows  that  the  plan  of  the  real 
farmers  to  lay  the  tax  for  retrieving  the  value  of  the  money,  on  the 
money  itself,  is  much  more  politic,  equitable  and  just,  and  so  more 
salutary  to  the  community  than  the  other. 

The  third  plan  is  that  of  borrowing  gold  and  silver  from  foreign 
powers,  in  order  therewith  to  redeem  our  continental  currency.  —  To 
borrow  a  sum  sufficient  to  exchange  all  the  emitted  paper  money, 
dollar  for  dollar,  would  be  one  of  the  wildest  schemes  imaginable  : 
because  the  procuring  so  large  a  sum  is  manifestly  impracticable  ;  and 
if  it  could  be  had,  it  would  compleat  all  the  national  mischiefs  before- 
mentioned.  Its  surplus  in  circulation  would  set  these  champions  to 
run  ever  a  more  fatal  race,  and  America  sold  to  the  power  so  large 

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290  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

a  sum  was  borrowed  from.  It  appears  however  that  the  borrowing  a 
competent  sum  would  answer  a  most  valuable  end,  for  a  remedy  of  the 
evil  and  damage  of  the  empire.  Let  us  suppose  that  the  depreciation 
is  only  fifteen  for  one  at  a  medium,  and  I  am  positive  it  is  that 
throughout  the  continent,  if  it  is  one  farthing.  Then  if  our  internal 
debt  is  at  this  value  an  hundred  and  sixty  millions  of  dollars,  the  true 
debt,  at  the  reduced  value,  would  be  ten  millions  of  dollars.  If  in  this 
case  fifteen  or  sixteen  millions  of  dollars  could  be  borrowed,  and  when 
obtained  all  the  bonds,  bills  and  notes  within  the  several  classes 
before-mentioned,  being  previously  exempted,  and  then  ten  millions  of 
the  gold  and  silver  distributed  in  just  proportion  for  all  the  paper 
money  and  loan  certificates  emitted  in  the  empire,  and  then  immediately 
burnt  and  destroyed  ;  in  such  case  each  would  receive  an  equivalent 
to  what  was  the  general  true  value  of  his  money.  The  danger  of 
counterfeit  not  to  be  so  great,  five  or  six  millions  be  in  hand  for  the 
immediate  exigencies  of  the  war,  whilst  the  empire  was  collecting 
necessary  taxes  in  the  usual  method  for  the  support  of  the  war.  The 
whole  of  the  sum,  with  what  is  laid  up  as  yet  among  the  community, 
might  be  sufficient  medium  for  trade,  in  the  present  scarcity  of  articles. 
If  in  such  case  regulating  laws  were  passed  and  vigorously  executed 
and  the  civil  or  staff  department  of  the  army  brought  within  proper 
limits ;  then  would  monopoly,  forestalling  and  extortion  be  prevented, 
and  we  thus  become  a  happy  people. — The  balance  of  trade  being 
against  us,  would  probably  diminish  this  circulating  medium ;  but 
necessary  annual  taxes  would  probably  help  a  sufficiency  of  it  till  the 
conclusion  of  the  war ;  and  then,  if  necessary,  the  different  states 
might  emit  bills  of  credit  safely  than  now,  as  heretofore. — If  hard 
money  cannot  be  obtained,  this  measure  might  be  carried  into  execu- 
tion by  new  continental  emissions,  as  the  Real  Farmer  proposes  it : 
That  is,  let  all  the  emissions  of  money  and  bank-notes  be  called  in  by 
a  given  period,  and  new  emissions  ready,  different  places  be  appointed 
convenient  for  the  citizens,  and  bring  all  the  money  and  bank-notes  in 
their  possession,  and  receive  for  them  the  new  emission,  except  their 
respective  proportions,  which  is  supposed  to  be  held  back  as  so  much 
per  cent,  to  be  sunk.  The  Real  Farmer  proposes  to  make  trial,  first 
by  thus  raising  a  tax  of  twenty-five  per  cent.  But  as  all  the  money 
and  bank-notes  are  emitted  on  our  national  debt,  and  their  present 
value  is  by  common  consent  brought  down,  at  the  lowest  medium  we 
can  compute,  fifteen  for  one,  the  real  and  true  national  debt  is  ten 
millions,  I  see  no  well-grounded  objections  (on  condition  of  exemp- 
tions as  before  observed)  to  paying  that  equivalent  in  full,  and  destroy 
the  whole  of  the  other :  and  what  is  more  necessary  for  circulation  to 
be  kept  of  the  new  emissions  for  the  immediate  necessary  exigencies  of 
the  war ;  and  then  yearly  taxes,  regulating  acts,  &c  as  in  the  case  of 
borrowed  hard  cash  before  observed,  and  as  soon  as  gold  and  silver 
could  be  obtained,  to  exchange  dollar  for  dollar. 

What  I  have  further  to  observe,  I  shall  reserve  to  my  next  concluding 
essay  on  this  subject.     I  am,  sir, 

Your's  and  my  country's  true  friend,  and  ready  to  serve, 

A    TRUE    PATRIOT. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  291 

TRENTON,  April  28. 

.  .  .  Last  evening  His  Excellency  Mons.  Gerard,1  the 
Ambassador  from  the  Court  of  France;,  with  his  suite, 
arrived  here,  accompanied  by  Don  Juan  De  Mirrallias, 
under  the  escort  of  a  corps  of  Philadelphia  Light  Dra- 
goons, being  on  his  way  to  Head-Quarters,  at  Middle- 
Brook. 

We  hear  the  Commissioners,  who  lately  met  at  Amboy  to 
agree  upon  a  cartel  for  a  general  exchange  of  prisoners, 
have  broke  up  without  settling  it. 

At  a  Court  of  Oyer  and  Terminer  held  in  Bergen  county 
on  the  12th  ult.,  William  Cole  and  Thomas  Welcher  alias 
Straw,  were  convicted  of  felony,  and  executed  on  Friday 
the  ninth  inst. 

These 'are  worthies  by  Mr.  Robertson,  of  New- York, 
in  his  Royal  American  Gazette  of  the  15th  instant,  called 
loyalists.  They  were  famous  all  over  the  country  for  rob- 
bery, house-breaking,  pocketrpicking  and  horse-stealing, 
few  so  eminent  in  that  vocation. — Americans  may  per- 
haps wonder,  but  they  will  be  pleased  to  know  these  are 
recommending  qualifications  in  a  loyalist. 

On  Saturday  the  17th  instant,  two  of  the  militia  of 
Bergen  county,  who  in  con  junction  with  several  others  had 
been  out  as  a  reconnoitring  party,  suspecting  from  the  con- 
duct of  a  boy  they  saw  running  in  great  haste  towards  a 

1  Conrad  Alexandre  G-erard  de  Rayneval,  the  Sieur  Gerard,  the  first 
French  minister  to  the  United  States,  arrived  with  the  French  fleet  and 
troops  off  the  Delaware  Capes,  July  8,  1778.  He  produced  an  excellent 
impression  in  America  (except  among  the  friends  of  Thomasi  Paine),  and 
seems  to  have  won  the  esteem  of  Washington.  He  set  sail  on  October  20, 
1779,  for  Europe,  in  the  American  frigate,  Confederacy,  being  accompanied 
by  John  Jay,  the  first  American  minister  to  Spain.  On  November  7-8, 
the  vessel  wasi  so  badly  crippled  in  a  violent  gale  off  the  banks  of  New- 
foundland, that  it  was  decided  to  make  for  Martinico,  which  was  only 
reached  on  December  18.  Thence  he  sailed  by  another  vessel  and  reached 
France  in  safety  early  in  1780.  He  d.  at  Strasbourg  in  1790. 


I 

292  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

house  on  the  bank  6*f  Hudson's  river,  about  a  mile  above 
Wiehawk,  that  some  of  the  infamous  gang  of  robbers  that 
have  for  some  time  infested  this  country  and  the  neighbor- 
ing parts  of  the  state  of  New- York,  were  concealed  there, 
advanced  as  fast  as  possible  to  the  house;  one  of  them 
entered  immediately  and  discovered  five  or  six  in  the 
house,  several  of  whom  had  arms,  and  with  admirable 
presence  of  mind  calling  aloud  to  his  companions,  as  if  a 
large  party  had  accompanied  him,  discharged  his  musket 
and  killed  the  chief  of  the  gang  on  the  spot.  Retiring  to 
load  his  piece,  the  rest  of  the  villains  took  to  their  heels, 
but  were  fired  upon  by  him  and  his  companion,  by  which 
one  of  them  was  supposed  to  be  wounded. 

Friday  last  two  soldiers  were  executed  at  Camp  for  de- 
sertion. Let  such  as  are  instrumental  in  debauching  and 
spiriting  away  the  soldiers  from  their  allegiance  reflect 
upon  their  infamous  conduct  and  let  others  be  warned 
and  on  their  guard  how  they  listen  to  their  solicitations. 

On  Sunday  night  the  28th  ult.  a  party  of  about  30  men, 
belonging  to  Lieut.  Col.  Van  Buskirk's1  corps  of  tories  and 
embodied  refugees  stationed  at  Hoebuck  in  the  county  of 
Bergen,  who  came  out  as  far  as  Closter,  for  the  purpose 
of  stealing  horses,  and  of  robbing  the  inhabitants,  were 
attacked  and  put  to  flight  by  nine  of  the  militia,  com- 
manded by  Lieut.  J.  Huyler,  leaving  their  plunder  behind 
them,  and  one  of  their  officers,  the  noted  Peter  Myer, 
Ensign  in  Capt.  David  Peak's  company,  dead  on  the  field. 
Another  of  their  officers  was  wounded  in  the  arm,  and  the 
infamous  Weart  Banta,  so  notoriously  known  for  his  com- 
plicated villainies,  thefts  and  robberies,  was  shot  through 
the  knee,  and  it  is  supposed  will,  by  the  amputation  of  a 
limb,  be  disabled  from  kidnapping  and  plundering  the 
loyal  subjects  of  this  state  in  future. 

1  For  notices  of  Lieut.  Col.  Abraham  Van  Buskirk  and  the  Van  Buskirk 
family,  of  Bergen  county,  see  N.  J.  Archives,  2d  Series,  1 :  55. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  293 

Tuesday  last  28  sail  of  square-rigged  British  vessels 
put  to  sea  from  Sandy-Hook. 

On  the  12th  instant  a  detachment  of  the  enemy,  con- 
sisting of  about  60  men,  belonging  to-  Buskirk's  corps, 
commanded  by  a  Capt.  Van  Allen,  by  taking  a  circuitous 
rout  surprised  one  of  our  guards  posted  at  Little  Ferry, 
near  ISTew-Barbadoes  in  Bergen  county.  It  consisted  of 
two  non-commissioned  officers  and  10  privates  of  the  Caro- 
lina brigade,  and  one  of  our  militia;  two  of  the  former 
escaped,  the  others  were  made  prisoners  and  carried  to 
New- York. 

We  are  told  that  the  price  of  wheat,  from  the  present 
prospect  of  very  fine  crops  the  ensuing  season,  has  fallen 
Six  Dollars  per  bushel;  and  we  have  no  doubt  this  cir- 
cumstance will  operate  forcibly  with  respect  to  importa- 
tions from  abroad,  as  the  French,  Dutch,  and  other 
nations,  will  be  the  more  readily  induced  to  come  to  our 
markets  when  they  find  the  produce  of  the  country  falling 
so  considerably.  • 

On  Saturday  last  Col.  Bodo  Otto,  a  Representative  in 
Assembly  for  the  county  of  Gloucester,  was  unfortunately 
thrown  from  his  horse  in  this  town,  by  which  he  was  hurt 
so  much  as  to  be  confined  to  his  bed  ever  since.  We  are 
told,  however,  that  he'  is  at  present  in  a  likely  way  to 
recover. 


***  We  ar&  sorry  we  cannot  oblige  Z ,  it  being  incon- 
sistent with  our  plan  to  admit  pieces  under  the  title  pre- 
fixed to  his  performance.  His  correspondence  in  another 
line  would  be  very  acceptable. 

The  piece  for  celebration  of  the  festival  of  St.  Tam- 
many, although  far  from  being  destitute  of  merit  in  it's 
way,  may  not  be  much  relished  by  our  moral  readers. 


I 

294  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 


To  whom  it  may  concern : 

THE  subscriber  being  informed  there  are  still  remain- 
ing some  of  the  nine  months  men  of  this  State,  who  have 
not  been  furnished  with  their  October  bounty  of  cloath- 
ing: — These  are  therefore  to  inform  such  persons,  that 
by  procuring  a  certificate,  signed  by  one  of  the  Colonels 
of  the  New-Jersey  brigade,  signifying  in  what  company 
they  have  served,  the  cloathing  will  be  delivered  to  any  one 
bearing  such  certificate,  by  applying  to  me  at  my  house 
in  Princeton. 

Aprinl  26,  1779.  ENOS  KELSEY. 


CAME  to  the  plantation  of  Benjamin  Skillman,  at 
Grigg's-town,  innholder,  a  red  roan  horse,  his  age  uncer- 
tain, neither  brand  nor  mark,  his  sides  much  rubbed  with 
traces.  The  owner  is  desired  to  come  and  prove  property, 
pay  charges  and  take  him  away. 


The  people  concerned  in  capturing  the  sloop  Success, 
are  desired  to  meet  me  at  Mr.  Daniel  Grigg's,  at  Tom's- 
River,  on  Thursday  the  13th  May  next,  to  receive  their 
proportion  of  the  monies  arising  from  the  sales  of  said 
sloop  and  cargo. 

All  persons  indebted  for  goods  bought  at  the  above 
sales,  are  requested  to  make  immediate  payment  to  Mr. 
Aheil  Akin,  at  Tom's-River,  or  the  subscriber  in  Cran- 
bury,  that  he  may  be  enabled  to  close  the  accounts  by  the 
time  above-mentioned. 

jos.  POTTS,  Marshal. 

New-Jersey,  April  26,  1779. 

1  For  some  acount  of  the  Skillman  family,  see  N.  J.  Archives,  25  :  223. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  295 


For  SALE. 

A  TRACT  of  land  containing  200  acres,  lying  near  Mount- 
Pleasant,  in  the  county  of  Monmouth,  State  of  East  New- 
Jersey,  mostly  woodland;  there  is  some  fresh  meadow 
cleared  and  in  fence.  Any  person  inclining  to  purchase 
may  view  the  land  at  any  time,  by  applying  to  the  sub- 
scriber. If  not  sold  before  the  8th  day  of  May  next,  it 
will  that  day  be  set  up  at  public  auction,  at  the  house  of 
the  widow  Amy,  at  Middletown-Point,  at  which  time  and 
place  the  conditions  of  sale  will  be  published  by 

April  19th,  1779. 


RUNAWAY  the  4th  day  of  April  last  from  the  subscriber, 
living  in  Hunterdon  county,  State  of  New  Jersey,  a  mu- 
latto negro  man  named  Jupiter,  a  likely,  tall,  slim  fellow, 
about  20  years  old :  Had  on  when  he  went  away  a  French 
wool  hat,  about  half  worn,  black  and  white  mixed  home- 
spun coattee,  brown  waistcoat,  buckskin  breeches,  flannel 
shirt,  mixed  black  and  white  homespun  stockings,  good 
shoes,  and  strokes  his  hair  back.  Whoever  takes  up  the 
said  negro  and  secures  him  in  Trenton  gaol,  or  delivers 
him  to  his  master  in  the  township  of  Amwell,  shall  receive 
Forty  Dollars  reward  if  taken  in  the  county,  if  out  of 
the  county,  Sixty  Dollars. 

DAVID  JONES,  Captain. 

April  26,  1779. 

State  of  New  Jersey,    WHEREAS,  by  virtue  of  an  act  of 
Hunterdon  county.  this  State,  the  justices  and  free- 

holders of  this  county  are  empowered  and  directed  to  take 
charge  of  certain  military  stores  belonging  to  said  county, 

1  For  a  sketch  of  the  Hartshorne  family,  of  Monmouth  county,  see  N.  J. 
Archives,  20  :  150. 


296  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

% 

purchased  by  certain  monies  raised  in  consequence  of  an 
order  of  the  Convention  of  this  State,  for  raising  Ten 
Thousand  Pounds— NOTICE  is  hereby  given  to  all  persons 
within  the  county,  with  whom  any  part  of  said  stores  are 
lodged  or  entrusted,  to  attend  their  Board  with  full  in- 
ventories thereof,  at  their  annual  meeting  in  May  next, 
at  which  time  also  (that  they  may  with  more  certainty 
learn  in  whose  hands  said  stores  are)  the  Chairman  and 
Clerks  of  the  county  and  township  Committees  who  have 
any  knowledge  of  the  same,  are  desired  to  attend.  And 
whereas  by  an  ordinance  passed  in  Trenton  the  twenty- 
eighth  of  October,  1775,  the  Captains  of  militia  of  this 
State  were  ordered  to  recover  fines  for  neglect  of  military 
duty,  and  lay  it  out  for  arms :  Those  Captains  who  may 
have  received  any  such  fine  or  fines  are  desired  to  attend 
said  Board  at  the  time  aforesaid,  with  a  full  and  true 
account  of  all  such  fines  and  forfeitures,  as  also  an  account 
of  all  such  sums  laid  out  by  them  for  arms. 

By  order  of  the  Board, 

JARED  SEXTON,  Clerk 

April  26,  1779. 

Burlington,  April  26th  1779. 

To  be  sold  by  veudue  on  Tuesday  the  18th  day  of  May 
next  (if  not  sold  by  private  sale  before)  on  the 

premises ; 

THAT  large  and  commodious  house  and  lot  in  this  city, 
known  for  a1  number  of  years  by  the  name  of  the  Stage- 
House,  pleasantly  situated  011  the  river  Delaware,  near  the 
town  or  market  wharf. — The  house  consists  of  6  rooms  on 
the  first  floor,  one  of  which  fronts  the  river,  and  is  large 
enough  to  dine  50  persons  at  once,  and  has  an  elegant 
gallery  outside :  The  second  story  has  8  bed  rooms.  There 
is  a  kitchen  with  a  pump  of  good  water  in  it,  a  bake-house, 
stables  and  granary,  and  a  wharf  running  back  of  the 
house,  which  with  little  expense  in  lengthening,  would 


1779]  NEWSPAPEB    EXTRACTS.  297 

afford  conveniences  for  shallops  and  flats  to  load  and 
unload.  The  lot  is  78  feet  on  Kiver-Street,  and  extends 
that  width  to  low  water  mark.  The  vendue  to  begin  at  12 
o'clock  on  said  da,y.  The  title  indisputable, 

JOHN  WILLS. 


One  Hundred  Dollars  Eeward. 

STOLEN  out  of  the  subscriber's  stable,  on  the  night  of 
the  2d  instant,  April,  a  brown  mare,  5  years  old,  trots  and 
canters  well,  has  neither  brand  nor  artificial  mark.  Who- 
ever apprehends  the  mare  with  the  thief,  shall  have  the 
above  reward,  and  for  the  mare  only  Fifty  Dollars,  and 
reasonable  charges  paid  by  me. 

CALEB    SWAYZE. 

Oxford  township,  Sussex  county,  April  3,  1779. 


STOLEN, 

OUT  of  the  stable  of  Hugh  Hunter,  a  dark  brown  horse, 
about  fifteen  hands  high,  a  blaze  in  his  forehead  and  snip, 
wall-eyed,  switch  tail,  and  docked  late  last  fall,  5  years 
old  this  grass.  Whoever  takes  up  said  horse  so  that  the 
owner  may  have  him  again,  shall  have  Forty  Dollars 
reward,  and  all  reasonable  charges  paid  by  me. 

Hugh  Hunter. 

Amwell,  Hunterdon  county,  April  13th,  1779. 

NOTICE  is  hereby  given  to  all  persons  concerned,  that 
the  inhabitants  of  the  township  of  Woodbridge  and  Pis- 
cataway,  intend  to  offer  a  bill  to  the  Legislature  of  this 
State  a,t  their  present  sitting,  pursuant  to  leave  [given] 
them  by  the  honourable  House  of  Assembly,  for  preventing 
persons  living  in  the  interior  parts  of  the  country  from 
turning  out  their  cattle  to  range  on  the  uninclosed  grounds 


298         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779 

• 

within  the  said  townships  and  the  north  ward  of  Amboy, 
and  also  for  preventing  the  owners  of  lands  in  said  town- 
ships from  turning  out  more  cattle  than  in  proportion  to 
the  quantity  and  quality  of  land  they  possess. 
Middlesex,  April  27,  1779. 

TO    COVER, 

At  the  subscribers,  living  in  Somerset  county,  about  two 
miles  from  Kough's-town,  and  adjoining  the  place 
where  John  Garrison,  Esq,  formerly  lived,  the  noted 
HORSE 

SCIPIO, 

FORMERLY  kept  by  Mr.  Gershom  Lee,  at  Fifty  Dollars 
the  season.  Good  pasture  will  be  provided  for  mares  at 
a  reasonable  price,  by 

ROBERT    LANNING, 

N.  B.  As  it  is  reported  by  designing  persons  that  the 
above  horse  is  not  the  noted  SCIPIO,  which  Mr.  Gershom 
Lee  and  T.  Stout  formerly  owned.  If  so,  those  Gentle- 
men who  put  mares  to  him  shall  have  the  season  gratis. 

TO  BE  SOLD  at  public  vendue,  on  Tuesday  the  llth  of 
May  next,  at  two  o'clock,  at  the  house  of  Moses  Tuttle, 
at  Mount-Pleasant,  twelve  miles  from  Morris-Town  and 
three  from  Mount  Hope  iron  works,  on  a  very  public  road, 
within  a  quarter  of  a  mile  of  a  good  grist-mill ; 

FIVE-HUNDRED  acres  of  land,  with  a  small  frame  house ; 
250  acres  of  which  is  excellent  meadow,  a  great  part  has 
been  a  black  ash  swamp,  200  acres  ditched  and  in  good 
fence;  150  acres  cleared  fit  for  the  scythe  and  tilling. 
The  whole  is  easily  watered  in  the  dryest  season :  It  will 
produce  as  good  hay,  hemp,  corn  or  rye  as  any  land  on  the 
continent.  The  remainder  is  timber  land,  and  a  good  out- 
let for  cattle  in  the  summer  season.  It  will  be  sold  alto- 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  299 

gether  or  in  lots,  as  best  suits  the  purchaser.  A  map  of 
the  whole  will  be  shown  on  the  day  of  sale,  and  an  indis- 
putable title  given  by 

MOSES    TUTTLE. 

April  19,  1779. 


To  be  sold  at  private  sale, 

A  VERY  good  four  horse  team:  The  horses  are  good, 
the  waggon  is  as  good  as  any  in  the  State,  and  the  gears 
are  extraordinary  good.  Any  person  having  a  mind  to 
purchase  may  know  the  price  by  applying  to  the  sub- 
scriber living  in  Cranbury. 

JOHN  VAN  KIRK. 


Maidenhead,  April  26,  1779. 

ALL  persons  indebteid  to  the  estate  of  John  Bainbridge,1 
deceased,  late  of  Heigh  t's-Town,  in  the  county  of  Middle- 
sex, are  requested  to  pay  off  their  respective  accounts, 
bonds,  bills,  &c.,  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  June  next 
ensuing,  as  after  that  day  means  will  be  taken  for  the 
recovery  thereof,  by 

William  Phillips,  Surviving  Executor. 

"N.  B.  Information  is  also  given  to  those  persons  who 
have  heretofore  had  their  mares  covered  by  LOFTY,  that  it 
is  expected  immediate  payment  will  be  made  for  the  same 
to  the  subscriber,  as  he  wants  to  close  the  partnership 
accounts. 

WILLIAM  PHILLIPS. 


1  John  Bainbridge,  perhaps  the  father  of  the  above,  was  one  of  the 
signers,  August  26,  1703,  of  an  agreement  of  the  settlers  of  Maiden  and 
Hopewell,  assenting  and  consenting  to  an  agreement  made  April  20,  1703, 
between  Dr.  Daniel  Coxe  and  Thomas  Revell  on  behalf  of  the  purchasers 
of  the  land  within  those  places. 


300  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

^ 

THE  subscribers  who  are  indebted  for  this  Gazette  for 
1778,  will  oblige  the  Printer  by  discharging  their  re- 
spective arrears.  To  facilitate  this  Duty,  accounts  have 
been  made  out  and  transmitted  to  the  Gentlemen  to  whom 
the  Packets  were  directed,  and  with  whom  the  Individual 
Subscribers  of  each  Packet  are  requested  to  settle  their 
accounts. 

It  may  not  be  amiss,  here  to  remark,  that  the  Price  of 
this  Gazette  hath  not  exceeded  one  Half  its  Value  ever 
since  the  regulating  act  was  suspended,  compared  with 
that  of  the  Necessaries  of  Life. 

—The  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Wednesday,  Vol.  II.,  N&.  73, 
April  28,  1779. 


IF  ROBEET  EOOTHE,  Butcher,  formerly  of  Tren- 
ton,  who   some  years   ago  lived  in  New- York,   and 
AGNES  his  wife  will  apply  to  William  Backhouse, 
in  New  York,  they  will  hear  of  something  greatly  to  their 
advantage  from  Thomas  Marsden,  of  Lancaster  in  Eng- 
land. 

William  Backhouse  will  be  much  obliged  to  any  person 
who  will  inform  him  where  Robert  Boothe  or  Agnes  his 
wife  now  live.— The  Royal  Gazette,  No.  269,  April  28, 
1779. 

TRENTON,  April  28.  We  hear  the  commissioners, 
who  lately  met  at  Amboy  to  agree  upon  a  cartel  for  a 
general  exchange  of  prisoners,  have  broke  up  without 
effecting  it. 

Philadelphia,  April  30.  On  Monday  last,  the  26th 
hist,  about  break  of  day,  a  detachment  of  British,  consist- 
ing of  seven  hundred  men,  were  discovered  by  a  scouting 
party  of  col.  Ford's  coming  up  the  North  river,  about 
half  a  mile  below  Red  bank,  who  immediately  gave  the 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  301 

alarm.  The  enemy  directly  landed  four  hundred  men  at 
Painter's  point,  and  about  forty  of  them  marched  up  to 
Shrewsbury ;  the  remainder  went  about  half  a  mile  to  the 
westward,  and  came  out  about  Wm.  War  dill's  place,  with 
a  view  to  cut  off  the  retreat  of  near  three  hundred  of  our 
people  posted  on  that  station.  Col.  Ford's  party  (un- 
certain of  the  enemy's  force)  retreated,  and  got  about  four 
hundred  yards  ahead  of  them;  the  enemy  pursued  them 
to  the  Falls,  firing  all  the  way,  but  could  not  overtake 
them.  They  then  set  fire  to  high  sheriff  Van  Breenck's 
house,  and  a  small  house  the  property  of  and  adjoining 
to  col.  Hendrickson's  dwelling  house,  which  were  burnt 
to  the  ground.  They  also  fired  the  houses  of  capt.  Richard 
M'Knight  and  John  Little,  esq;  but  they  were  extin- 
guished by  the  activity  of  the  inhabitants,  before  they  had 
suffered  much  damage.  The  enemy  then  returned  to 
Shrewsbury,  plundering  all  the  way  to  col.  Breeze's  whom 
they  robbed  of  all  his  money  and  most  of  his  plate,  and  at 
justice  Holme's  where  they  plundered  and  destroyed  every 
thing  they  could  lay  their  hands  upon ;  and  then  retreated 
to  their  boats,  a  few  militia  firing  on  them.  Then  then 
went  to  Middleton,  and  joined  three  hundred  who  had 
crossed  over  there,  when  the  four  hundred  marched  to 
Shrewsbury,  and  staid  till  evening,  burning  a  house 
and  barn,  and  plundering  some  of  the  inhabitants.  Col. 
Holmes  had  by  this  time  assembled  one  hundred  and  forty 
of  the  militia,  who  drove  them  to  their  boats  near  the  gut 
dividing  the  Highlands  from  Sandy  Hook.  One  of  the 
enemy  was  killed,  and  another  taken  prisoner.  The  enemy 
carried  off  with  them  justice  Covenhoven  and  son,  like- 
wise several  others.  They  got  off  by  sunset,  and  returned 
to  New  York,  taking  away  some  cattle  and  horses.1 
— The  Pennsylvania  Evening  Post,  April  30,  1779. 

1  The  fullest  account  of  this  affair  has  been  published  by  A.  M.  Heston, 
Atlantic  City. 


302  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 


CHATHAM,  (New-Jersey)  April  13. 

On  the  llth  ult.  four  men  armed  were  discovered  pass- 
ing privately  through  the  mountains  in  the  Eastern  part 
of  Sussex  county:  The  inhabitants,  on  receiving  intelli- 
gence of  it,  immediatly  proceeded  in  pursuit  of  them,  and 
having  a  number  of  excellent  dogs  for  tracking,  they  pur- 
sued them  different  routs  upwards  of  thirty  miles,  when 
by  the  assistance  of  the  dogs  they  were  discovered.  Two 
of  them  made  their  escape,  and  the  other  two  are  safely 
lodged  in  the  provo  of  the  Continental  troops  stationed  at 
Minisink.  They  proved  to  be  spies,  sent  by  the  British 
Commander  in  New- York,  with  dispatches  to  those  in- 
famous butchers  Butler  and  Brant.  No  doubt  but  the 
court-martial,  which  is  now  trying  them,  will  honour  them 
with  a  share  of  Continental  hemp. 


THE  faculty  of  Queen's  College,  in  New-Jersey,  in- 
forms the  public,  that  the  business  of  said  college, 
is  at  present  carried  on  at  the  north  branch  of 
Kariton,  in  the  county  of  Sommerset,  a  retired  and  pleasant 
part  of  the  county,  where  young  gentlemen  may  be  well 
accomodated,  and  board  had  as  cheap  as  the  present  high 
prices  of  provisions  will  possibly  allow.  For  the  encour- 
agement of  education,  the  Honorable  the  Legislature  of 
this  State,  has  passed  a  law  exempting  all  pupils  of  our 
colleges  from  militia  duty.  The  faculty  doubts  not  but 
such  gentlemen  as  choose  to  send  their  sons  to  this  semi- 
nary, shall  meet  with  due  encouragement  and  satisfaction. 

About  three  weeks  ago  a  gang  of  robbers  stole  twenty 
horses,  from  the  neighbourhood  of  Pompton,  in  New- 
Jersey.  Some  young  men  pursued  them  so  closely  that 
they  recovered  11  of  the  horses,  the  other  9  were  carried 
off  to  the  original  den  of  thieves,  at  New- York.  Four  of 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  303 

the  young  men  advanced  as  far  as  Hobuck,  two  of  them 
went  down  a  bank  on  the  river  side,  when  one  of  them 
proceeded  to  examine  a  block-house,  in  which  he  saw  one 
of  the  robbers  with  a  pistol  in  his  hand,  and  a  carbine 
lying  on  each  side  of  him  -  -  coming  up  speedily 

to  the  door,  he  shot  the  robber  dead,  and  brought  off  the 
carbines  and  pistol.  The  report  of  the  firelock,  immedi- 
ately brought  the  soldiers  into  view,  upon  this,  our  gallant 
pair  of  lads,  charging  their  pieces,  and  the  two  carbines, 
prepared  to  fight  them,  and  when  they  had  got  within 
about  60  yards,  they  saluted  them  with  a  discharge  of 
their  4  pieces,  which  instantly  put  them  to  flight,  and  the 
brave  youths  returned  safe  home.  It  is  now  publickly 
known,  that  in  New- York,  an  office  is  erected  for  licencing 
robbers,  and  conveyers  of  counterfeit  money  into  the 
country.  Was  ever  such  a  species  of  business  and  malevo- 
lence to  men,  reduced  to  a  system,  before  the  present  royal 
disturber  of  the  peace,  introduced  it  ? — The  New-York 
Journal,  and  the  General  Advertiser,  Numb.  1823,  May 
3,  1779. 

NEW- YORK,  May  3. 

A  detachment  of  650  of  the  Royal  'Army  under  the 
Command  of  Col.  Hyde,  on  the  25th  inst.  fell  down  to 
Sandy-Hook,  the  next  morning  at  2  o'clock  the  Col.  with 
one  division  landing  at  Shoal  Harbour  4  miles  east  of 
Middletown,  pushed  for  that  place,  in  which  a  rebel  de- 
tachment was  supposed  to  be  posted,  but  it  had  been  with- 
drawn the  evening  before.  The  other  division,  under 
Capt.  Ferguson,  landed  the  same  morning  6  miles  on  the 
opposite  side  of  Middletown,  and  advanced  to  Shrews- 
bury, where  a  battalion  of  continental  troops  were  quar- 
tered, but  as  this  detachment,  from  the  difficulty  of  the 
navigation,  could  not  land  before  day,  the  rebel  battalion 
escaped  with  the  loss  of  between  20  and  30  prisoners,  a 
part  of  its  arms,  stores  and  baggage. 


304  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

In  the  afternoon  tke  whole  assembled  under  Col.  Hyde, 
who  after  a  march  of  5  miles,  during  which  the  enemy, 
as  usual,  affecting  to  follow  and  harrass  the  rear,  reim- 
barked  in  the  evening  with  the  loss  of  one  man  killed, 
one  wounded,  and  not  one  missing.  The  enemy's  loss  is 
unknown,  but  from  the  distance  they  kept,  it  is  supp9sed 
to  be  trifling.  Several  deserters  availing  themselves  of  the 
opportunity  of  joining  the  King's  troops,  and  some  ob- 
noxious persecutors  of  loyal  subjects  were  brought  off. 
—The  New-York  Gazette:  and  the  Weekly  Mercury,  No. 
1437,  May  3,  1779.  . 


For  the  NEW-JERSEY  JOURNAL. 

Contracta  melius  purva  cupidine. 

Vectigalia  porrigam.     HOE. 

IT  is  the  privilege  and  happiness  of  every  citizen  of  this  state  that 
he  may  freely  give  his  sentiments  on  public  measures,  provided 
he  does  it  with  decency  and  propriety.  What  I  would  consider  and 
warmly  recommend  at  present  is,  that  the  Representatives  should 
especially  attend  to  the  finances  of  the  state ;  and  immediately  levy 
a  very  large  tax  as  what  is  most  conducive  to  its  interest  and  emolu- 
ment. I  readily  grant,  it  is  not  in  the  power  of  any  individual  state, 
however  ample  her  taxes,  either  to  restrain  the  exorbitant  prices  of 
things  or  the  depreciation  of  the  currency  ;  this  pertains  to  a  superior 
court,  in  whose  power  it  is,  by  recommending  a  timely  and  sufficient 
taxation,  such  as  the  Continent  can  bear,  and  would  pay  with  chear- 
fulness,  to  prescribe  hints  to  both  :  It  is  impossible  that  funding  the 
Continental  money,  while  the  quantity  is  not  diminished,  but  in- 
creased, and  a  great  share  of  the  tax  recommended  this  year  must  be 
expended  in  the  payment  of  interest,  can  be  of  any  essential  ad- 
vantage;  yea,  it  is  demonstrable,  that  it  has  a  very  different  tend- 
ency, it  accumulates  our  debt,  and  accelerates  the  depreciation  of  our 
currency.  Witness  the  velocity  of  the  depreciation  this  winter,  by 
converting  the  two  emissions  to  stock  on  interest.  No  people  have 
ever  exerted  greater  wisdom  in  difficulties,  fortitude  in  dangers,  pa- 
tience in  sufferings,  and  temper  and  humanity  under  injuries,  than 
the  Americans.  I  wish  their  skill  in  financering  was  equal  to  their 
dexterity  in  other  matters,  and  they  understood  the  nice  and  intricate 
science  of  money  as  well  as  the  greater  arts  of  Bellona;  but  perhaps 


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we  should  then  have  more  understanding  and  a  greater  portion  of 
happiness  than  is  alloted  to  nations  in  this  state  of  imperfection. — 
But  let  the  Continent  in  general  take  what  measures  may  seem  to 
them  expedient,  it  is  our  indispensable  duty  to  attend  to  the  circum- 
stances of  our  own  state,  and  apply  the  best  remedies  in  our  power 
against  the  great  evils  arising  from  the  want  of  a  general  and 
effectual  taxation,  and  from  the  plenty  and  depreciation  of  money. 
In  my  apprehension,  the  principal  method  by  which  we  can  preserve 
ourselves  from  suffering  great  damage,  is  to  deposit  large  quantities 
of  money  in  the  continental  loan-office,  the  interest  of  which  may,  in 
some  good  degree,  balance  the  quota  of  interest  due  from  this  state 
upon  continental  certificates.  This  may  be  done  by  throwing  in  all 
the  monies  arising  from  confiscations,  and  by  hastening  on  a  tax  of 
two  or  three  millions  of  dollars  this  year,  and  as  much  more  the  next. 

We  may  mention  it  freely,  as  it  is  too  notorious  to  be  concealed, 
that  we  have  been  too  inattentive  and  delatory  in  this  most  important 
affair  of  taxation.  In  the  year  of  1777,  we  ought  to  have  raised 
£100,000  by  tax,  and  at  the  same  time  called  in  all  the  old  money 
emitted  under  the  authority  of  the  King.  This  would  have  been  a 
saving  to  the  state  of  another  £100,000,  which  would  have  made  its 
exit  in  the  hands  of  the  enemy,  the  disaffected  and  unbelieving. — Last 
year  we  ought  to  have  raised  £300,000 ;  but  instead  of  this  there  was 
only  levied  a  trifle  of  a  tax,  and  it  was  assessed  in  a  worse  than 
trifling  manner,  with  gross  injustice,  and  shameful  inequality.  This 
year,  instead  of  ^idling  about  £100,000,  considering  the  depreciation 
and  abundance  of  money,  we  ought  to  have  raised  already  at  least 
£600,000. — In  this  way  we  should  act  like  men  of  enlarged  minds, 
like  honest  patriots,  who  understood  and  had  the  interest  of  our 
country  at  heart,  and  would  have  saved  thousands  and  tens  of  thou- 
sands to  our  state.  Hereby  we  should  prevent  much  idleness,  gamb- 
ling, extortou,  and  fraud,  and  encrease  agriculture,  manufacturing, 
and  all  kinds  of  industry,  by  extracting  the  cash  from  a  body  of 
people  who  will  idle  and  game  while  they  have  it. 

What  is  it  for  a  people  to  pay  great  founding  taxes,  when  by  mere 
reason  of  the  superabundance  of  money,  they  can  get  six  pounds  a 
bushel  for  wheat,  four  pounds  for  indian  corn,  ten  pounds  for  a 
barrel  of  cyder,  one  hundred  pounds  for  a  middling  ox,  &c.  To  say 
it  is  scarcity  makes  produce  so  high,  is  not  a  just  representation  of 
the  fact.  The  high  prices  do  not  bring  a  grain  more  into  the 
country;  yea,  scarcity  is  so  far  from  being  the  cause  of  dearness, 
that  were  people  called  upon  for  large  taxes,  so  as  to  be  made  to 
feel  the  want  of  money,  they  would  instantly  sell  more  produce, 
whereby  this  seeming  scarcity  would  in  a  great  measure  vanish,  and 
provisions  would  become  both  plentier  and  cheaper ;  but  now  people 
feel  no  necessity  of  money,  and  therefore  will  not  part  with  what 
otherwise  they  would.  Wheat,  I  believe,  is  scarcer  in  America  than 
when  the  contest  began,  which  will  not  be  the  case  another  year,  even 
if  the  war  continues.  Connecticut,  which  has  been  the  great  store- 

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306  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

house  of  flesh  for  the  army,  it  is  asserted,  has  more  cattle  in  it  now 
than  ever  it  had ;  wherefore  there  is  by  no  means  a  want  of  provi- 
sions in  the  country.  It  may  be  laid  down  as  a  maxim  in  our  case, 
"Make  money  important  or  scarce,  and  provisions  will  be  plenty." 
Therefore  to  be  procrastinating  taxation,  and  be  involving  ourselves 
in  an  heavy  corroding  interest,  and  wallowing  at  the  same  time  in 
more  money  than  heart  can  wish,  is  greater  folly  than  moon-struck 
madness. 

The  quota  which  New-Jersey  has  to  pay  of  the  continental  debt 
is,  at  least,  an  eighteenth  part  of  •  the  whole,  which  is  near  seven 
millions  of  dollars.  Full  half  of  this  we  have  to  pay  interest  for, 
which  ingulphs  above  a  quarter  of  our  800,000  dollars,  we  are  to 
raise  this  year,  and  neither  helps  country  nor  army,  but  sinks  dead 
in  the  awful,  the  insatiable,  and  never  disgorging  vortex  of  interest 
payment.  We  all  know  that  interest  is  generally  deemed  a  moth  to 
personal  estates,  but  is  a  devouring  monster  when  attending  a  na- 
tional debt.  Let  us  therefore  stent  its  voracious  maw,  by  paying  a 
generous  tax,  adequate  to  our  ability,  to  the  abundance  of  money 
among  us,  and  to  the  exigencies  of  our  circumstances.  Hereby  we 
will  diminish  the  principal,  and  lessen  the  accursed  appendage. — It 
is  in  every  view  the  best  policy  in  this  state  to  tax  high  at  present. 

1.  We  have  no  trading  city  in  this  state.     Our  money  floats  off  in 
large   cargoes   to   the   neighbouring   states,    whose   ports   are   open   for 
luxuries,  gewgaws,  and  useless  trinkets.     Wisdom  and  interest  there- 
fore dictate  that  we  should  make  a  legal  seizure  of  a  large  portion  of 
it  to  pay  our  share  of  the  national  debt.     The  river  which  run  into 
the    ocean    it    returns    again    in    a   finely    adjusted    dispersion    by    the 
friendly    clouds    in    refreshing   and    fructifying   showers ;     but    not    so 
with  the  money  which  flows  from  hence  to  the  other  states  ;    it  will 
require    stronger    powers    than    exhalation,    rarefaction,     and    gentle 
breezes,  to  bring  it  back  again. 

2.  Let  us  attentively  consider  human  nature.     A  great  part  of  man- 
kind will   neither  be  industrious   nor  frugal  while  they  have  cash   in 
their  pockets.      Now  it  is  good   policy  to   draw   this  money  from  the 
people  while  they  have  it,  and  it  is  justly  due.     We  hereby  preserve 
many  families  from  ruin  ;    we  make  multitudes  saving  and  laborious, 
and  render  them  useful  members  of  society.     There  are  in  this  state 
numbers  of  people  who  are  not  landholders,  and  can  now  pay  a  large 
tax.      There    are    swarms    of    forestallers,    engrossers,    monopolizers, 
sharpers,    gamblers,    traders,    and   pedlars,    who    are   rioting   upon   the 
bounty  of  our  country  :    all  these  ought  to  be  rated  high,  and  a  vast 
sum  of  money  might  be  raised  from  them,  whereby  the  burden  of  the 
honest  husbandman,  and  useful  mechanic,   may  be  greatly  lightened. 
After  the  war  is  over,  few  of  these  prowling  animals,  will  be  found, 
and  fewer  of  them  still  will  be  able  to  pay  any  tax.     Their  money  is 
drank  and  gamed  away,   and   they   are  become  drones  and  nusanccs, 
in  the  community.     By  taxing  properly,  some  of  those  people  may  be 
saved  from  ruin,  and  in  every  view  the  highest  possible  service  will  be 
performed  to  the  country. 


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3.  Remember,  if  the  floods  of  money  in  this  state  ebb  out,  before 
the  weight  of  our  debt  is  paid,  it  will  be  a  difficult  task,  more 
arduous  than  rowing  against  wind  and  tide,  to  restore  it,  or  cause  it 
to  return;  wherefore  let  us  pay  our  debts  while  the  money  is.  If 
we  fall  behind  other  states,  and  neglect  levying  sufficient  taxes  for  the 
discharge  of  our  quota,  the  consequence  will  be,  that  we  shall  have  to 
pay  interest  to  them ;  and  hereby  we  shall  certainly  weaken  and 
depopulate.  People  will  not  choose  to  settle  in,  but  rather  emigrate 
from  a  state  where  money  is  scarce  and  taxes  high,  and  pitch  their 
tents  where  the  burden  is  become  lighter. 

I  shall  now  take  the  liberty  to  conclude  this  paper  in  an  earnest, 
brief  and  respectful  address  to  the  fathers,  the  guardians,  the  repre- 
sentatives of  this  state.  I  entreat  you,  gentlemen,  to  have  mercy 
upon  your  constituents,  to  have  mercy  upon  the  farmers,  and  all  the 
worthy  part  of  the  community,  by  blessing  the  state  with  large  taxes. 
You  cannot  give  your  country  an  higher  pleasure,  or  do  it  a  more 
essential  service.  If  you  desire  (and)  I  know  you  desire  it  with  great 
ardor)  to  have  your  state  free  from  debt,  populous,  virtuous,  rich, 
flourishing,  contented,  and  happy,  tax  away  with  a  generous  hand. — 
If  you  choose  to  have  it  poor,  waste,  miserable,  and  uncultivated ;  to 
have  it  filled  with  lewd  debauchees,  idle  gamblers,  and  strolling 
vagrants,  tax  very  little  or  none  at  all. — But  you  love  your  country, 
and  account  it  your  highest  pleasure  to  promote  its  felicity,  wherefore, 
with  much  fervency,  I  beseech  you  by  every  motive  and  consideration, 
by  humanity,  by  justice,  by  honesty,  by  patriotic  affection,  by  the 
dictates  of  common  sense,  by  sound  policy,  and  by  every  virtue,  to 
levy  large  taxes  in  some  rational  proportion  to  the  prices  of  produce, 
to  the  superabundance  of  money  with  which  we  are  deluged,  and  to 
the  great  debts  in  which  we  are  involved. 

AGRICOLA. 

To  the  PRINTER 
SIR, 

THE  resolutions  of  the  General  Assembly  of  Pennsylvania,  for 
the  relief  of  their  officers  and  soldiers  (published  in  your 
Journal  some  time  last  month)  I  perused  with  attention  and 
satisfaction.  I  was  happy  also  to  observe  that  this  was  not  their  first 
attempt  to  alleviate  the  distresses  of  their  soldiery?  a  considerable 
supply  of  West-India  goods  and  other  necessary  articles  being  last 
winter  sent  to  camp,  previous  to  their  resolves,  to  be  retailed  to  their 
troops  at  a  moderate  price.  Notwithstanding  the  provision  made,  in 
both  instances,  falls  very  short  not  only  of  rewarding  the  services, 
but  even  removing  the  difficulties  of  a  soldier,  I  was  pleased  to 
observe  a  more  general  disposition  to  do  something  in  that  way,  and 
especially  its  making  so  near  an  approach  to'  this  state.  Measures 
of  this  nature  were  early  adopted  by  the  Eastern  states,  the  Southern 
quickly  followed  their  example ;  and  I  think,  I  may  with  truth 


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308  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1Y79 

assert,  altho'  with  a  blush  for  New-Jersey,  that  there  is  no  other 
state  on  the  Continent  which  hath  not,  in  some  degree,  attended  to 
the  wants  and  distress  of  their  troops. 

When  Continental  money  was  equal  in  value  to  gold  and  silver,  and 
the  price  of  every  article  at  the  lowest  rate,  the  pay  of  officers  and 
soldiers  afforded  themselves  and  their  families  a  very*  scanty  subsist- 
ance.  In  the  year  1777,  the  money  had  been  so  depreciated  and  the 
value  of  goods  so  enhanced,  that  their  pay  would  not  purchase  even 
for  themselves  their  own  necessaries.  Accordingly  Congress,  some 
time  in  that  year,  convinced  not  only  of  the  justice,  but  necessity  and 
policy  of  the  measure,  directed  the  several  legislatures  to  procure 
cloathing  and  otner  articles  requisite  for  the  use  and  convenience 
of  a  soldier,  and  deliver  them  to  their  respective  troops  at  a  price 
proportioned  to  their  pay.  Almost  two  years  have  since  elapsed  with- 
out any  provision  of  the  kind  being  made  by  the  State  of  New-Jersey, 
during  which  time  the  currency  hath  continued  to  be  depreciated 
rapidly,  and  the  sufferings  of  their  troops  to  increase  to  such  a 
degree,  as  nothing  but  a  kind  of  enthusiasm,  in  the  sacred  cause  of 
freedom,  could  have  secured  their  continuance  in  the  army  until  this 
time.  • 

The  difficulties  of  the  soldiery  is  a  subject  of  so  delicate  a  nature, 
as  not  to  permit  a  full  and  perfect  description  of  it  to  the  "public. 
We  had  long  realized  our  sufferings  before  they  were  even  mentioned 
amongst  ourselves :  the  load  had  grown  almost  intolerable,  when  we 
had  hardly  expressed  our  complaints  to  one  another ;  and  it  is  not 
without  pain  and  reluctance,  I  publish  these  few  suggestions  which, 
I  trust,  are  inoffensive,  and  will,  at  least,  be  productive  of  no  evil 
consequences. 

Notwithstanding  the  employment  of  the  soldiery,  from  the  com- 
mencement of  the  war,  have  been  of  a  nature  the  most  distressing  to 
themselves  and  important  to  the  public,  yet  they  remain  the  only  class 
of  their  servants,  who  are  not  rewarded  for  their  services ;  and  they 
are  likely  to  be  the  only  sufferers  too,  from  that  glorious  revolution 
which  they  are  the  principal  instruments  of  effecting.  Those  who 
were  possessed  of  any  considerable  property  in  the  beginning  of  the 
controversy  must,  inevitably,  exhaust  it ;  and  those  who  were  poor, 
are  not  only  loosing  the  time  and  opportunity  of  providing  a  future 
easy  subsistance,  but  are  involving  themselves  in  debt,  and  laying  the 
foundation  of  dependence  on  those  whose  liberty  and  affluence  they 
are  struggling  hard  to  establish.  Some  few,  indeed,  unwilling  to  re- 
main the  only  victims  devoted  to  public  liberty  and  happiness,  have, 
reluctantly,  retired  from  the  service,  in  order  to  provide  a  comfortable 
support  for  themselves  and  their  infant  families ;  and  what  would  be 
the  consequence  should  every  person,  equally  necessitated,  adopt  the 
same  resolution?  It  must  be  truly  mortifying  to  the  virtuous  soldier 
to  observe  many,  at  this  day,  displaying  their  cash,  and  sauntering  in 
idleness  and  luxury,  who,  at  the  commencement  of  the  war,  would 
not  have  been  honoured  with  the  rank  of  a  non-commissioned  officer 


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in  any  of  our  corps :  and,  what  is  still  more  aggravating,  the  gentry 
of  this  denomination  are  amongst  the  foremost  to  dispise  our  poverty 
and  laugh  at  our  distress.  I  cannot  help  at  the  same  time  complaining 
of  the  cruel  and  ungrateful  disposition  of  the  people  in  general,  in 
withholding  from  the  army  even  the  praise  or  glory  justly  due  to  their 
merit  and  services.  Altho'  our  conduct  has  been  generous  and  patriotic 
beyond  a  parallel  in  history,  in  serving  three  active  and  difficult  cam- 
paigns, without  the  compensation  of  pay,  and  destitute  of  those  enjoy- 
ments which  make  life  tolerable,  yet  so  unfortunate  is  our  situation, 
that  we  do  not  receive  the  thanks,  and  hardly  the  approbation,  of  our 
country. 

Since  the  publication  of  the  Pennsylvania  resolves  in  your  paper,  I 
have  had  an  opportunity  of  discovering  the  sentiments  of  men  of 
almost  every  class  or  denomination.  Some  few  have  pronounced  the 
plan  a  proper  and  generous  compensation,  while  others  as  seriously 
condemned  it,  from  this  principle,  that  the  officers  and  soldiers  were 
already  sufficiently  provided  for  and  rewarded.  It  requires  very 
little  pains  to  demonstrate  to  the  conviction  of  every  man  of  reflec- 
tion, the  former  opinion  to  be  erroneous,  and  the  latter  both  dangerous 
and  absurd. 

Every  one  must  acknowledge  the  services  of  the  soldiery  are  of  so 
respectable  and  important  a  nature,  that  thereby  both  they  and  their 
families  should  be  comfortably  supported  during  their  continuance 
in  the  army.  Pennsylvania  has  only  resolved  to  furnish  their  officers 
and  soldiers  with  clothes  and  other  articles  necessary  for  a  camp  life, 
at  a  reasonable  rate.  On  condition  they  are  perfectly  sparing  in  the 
purchase  .and  consumption  of  these  necessaries,  how  far  will  the  residue 
of  their  pay  extend  towards  supporting  even  .the  smallest  families  at 
home?  It  is  certain,  after  the  most  frugal  economy  in  his  own 
unavoidable  expences,  the  surplus  of  an  officer's  cash  will  not  purchase 
their  flour;  and  that  of  the  private  soldier's  (to  make  use  of  an  old 
expression)  will  not  procure  even  salt  for  their  porridge. 

It  is  not  owing  to  a  degeneracy  of  principle,  or  want  of  unanimity 
in  the  people  at  large,  that  our  regiments  remain  incompleat,  and  the 
enemy  have  a  -standing  on  the  Continent ;  but  to  the  distressing  situ- 
ation of  those  who  have  hitherto  fought  their  country's  battles.  Altho' 
it  is  a  fact,  the  people  in  general  are  far  more  unanimous  and  prin- 
cipled in  our  cause  than  ever,  yet  there  are  but  few  so  perfctly  benevo 
lent  and  disinterested,  as  to  relinquish  every  reward  and  enjoyment, 
and  become  voluntary  sacrifices  to  public  freedom  and  independence. 
Let  the  services  of  the  soldiery  be  made  profitable  and  respectable, 
and  I  will  engage  an  army  may  be  instantly  raised  sufficient  to  give  a 
decisive  stroke  to  the  present  important  controversy. 

A  JERSEY  SOLDIER. 


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CHATHAM,  MAY  4, 

The  banditti  who  lately  robbed  the  Honourable  Robert 
O'gden,  Esq;  a  few  nights  since  plundered  the  house  of 
Mr.  Charles  Hocff,  at  Hibemia  iron  works,  of  a  very 
considerable  amount. 

Saturday  last  being  the  anniversary  of  St.  Tamany,  the 
titular  St.  of  America,,  the  same  was  celebrated  at  New- 
Ark  by  a  number  of  Gentlemen  of  the  army. 

Last  Friday  was  hung  at  New-Ark,  pursuant  to  his 
sentence,  a  soldier  belonging  to  General  Maxwell's  brigade. 

On  Friday  last  arrived  at  Camp,  from  Philadelphia, 
his  Excellency  Mons.  Gerard,  Ambassador  from  the  Court 
of  France,  to  review  the  army,  where  he  was  received  with 
the  honours  due  to  his  high  station,'  and  on  Sunday  last  he 
set  out  to  return  again. 


FOSTER  HORTON 

Has  for  SALE:,  at  his  STORE  in  CHATHAM,  the  following 
articles,  viz. 

W.EST-India  rum  by  the  barrel  or  gallon,  excellent 
indigo  by  the  hundred  or  smaller  quantity,  bohea 
tea,  combs  of  different  sorts,  mohair  and  mohair 
button,  gimps  of  different  colours,  hearth-brushes,  &c.  &c. 
&c. 

April  1, 1779. 


STEPHENSO'N  &  CANFIELD 

Have1   for    SALE,    at    their   store   opposite   Mr.    Robert 
Norris's  tavern  in  MORRIS 


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NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS. 


311 


BLUE  and  brown 
broad  cloths, 
Coatings, 
Sagothy, 
Camblet, 
Callico, 
Fine  muslins, 
Wide  and  narrow  cambricks  and 

lawns, 
Irish  linen, 
Men's   thread   stockings,    royal 

ribbed, 

Drumcondriff  linen, 
Buckram, 

Stocks  ready  made, 
Men's  worsted  caps, 
Pocket  books, 
Pasteboards, 

Women's  flowered  paper  hats, 
White  wax  beads, 
Wool  cards, 
Men's  shoes, 
Ditto  boots, 
Shoe  brushes, 
Shoemaker's  tacks, 
Women's  shoe-heels, 
Writing-paper, 
Ink-powder, 
Mohair, 

Coat  and  vest  buttons, 
Sleeve  ditto, 
Shoe  buckles, 
Clasps  for  small  shoes, 
Shoe-knives, 


Pocket  ditto, 

Pen  ditto, 

Black   modes,   wide   and   narrow, 

Ditto  peelong  plain  and  spotted, 

Silk  handkerchiefs, 

Penciled  ditto,    .    . 

Sewing  silk, 

Ribbons  of  all  colours, 

Crooked  combs, 

Coarse  and  fine  ditto, 

Tapes, 

Silk  gloves, 

Leather  ditto, 

Sewing  thread, 

Ditto  needles  by  the  thousand, 

Garnets, 

Nutmegs, 

Silk  stay  laces, 

Blond  lace, 

Black  ditto, 

Watch  chains, 

Ditto  keys, 

Ditto  Seals, 

Spectacles, 

Snuff-boxes, 

Hatter's  bow-strings, 

Garters, 

Bohea  tea, 

Snuff  in  bottles, 

Tobacco, 

Alspice  and  ginger, 

Coperas  and  brimstone, 

Indigo  and  allum. 


The  above  articles  they  will  sell  as  cheap  as  the  times 
will  admit  for  cash  or  country  produce. 


TO  BE  SOLD, 


At    public   vendue,    at    the    house    of    Cornelius    Miller, 
deceased,  near  Elizabeth  Town,  on  Tuesday 
the  llth  instant, 


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fe 

A  CLOCK,  watch,  eompas-making  tools,  a  diamond  to 
cut  glass,  blacksmiths  tools,  wearing  apparel,  farm- 
ing  utensils,    one    cow,    and    household   goods    too 
tedious  to  mention.     The  vendue  to  begin  at  10  o'clock, 
when  the  conditions  will  be  made  known  by 

JONATHAN  MILLER,  Administrator, 
SARAH  MILLER,  Administratrix. 


TO  BE  SOLD, 

A  LARGE  COPPER  KETTLE  which  holds  two  hun- 
JLJL     dred   and   sixty   gallons.      For   further   particulars 
inquire   of   James    Losey,    near   Morris    Town,    or 
Samuel  Miller,  jun.  in  Springfield. 

DROPT  in  the  road  near  the  seventh-day  meeting-house!, 
in  Piscataque,  on  tlio  27th  instant,  a  SURTOUT 
COAT,   supposed   to  have  been  taken  up  by  two 
gentlemen  who  were  seen  to  pass   a  few  minutes   after, 
riding  towards  either  Piscataque  Town  or  Metuchen :     If 
they  will  please  to  inform  the  owner,  by  sending  to  the 
Half -Moon,  near  the  spot  where  it  was  dropt ;    or,  if  more 
convenient,  to  the  Printer  of  this  paper,  with  what  it  con- 
tained in  the  pockets,  shall  be  handsomely  rewarded,  Avith 
thanks,  by  their  humble  servant. 

DAVID  CAMPBELL. 
Piscataque,  April  28,  1779. 

WHEREAS  Sarah,  my  wife,  hath  eloped  from  my 
bed  and  board,  for  no  other  reason  than  my  ver- 
bally reproving  heir  for  whoreing  with  one  David 
Parker,  a  very  vicious  fellow:     This  is  therefore  to  fore- 
warn all  persons  from  trusting  her  on  my  account,  as  I  am 
determined  not  to  pay  any  debts  of  her  contracting  for  the 
future.  DAVID  STURGE. 

Morris  Town,  April  28,  1779. 


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MADE  his  escape  from  Joseph  Edwards,   a  certain 
Thomas  Wells,  after  being  taken  with  a  writ  at  the 
suit  of  Abraham  Shipmaii,  for  the  sum  of  £2000. 
Said  Wells  took  the  writ  from  Edwards,  by  force. — A 
reward  of  Fifty  Pounds,  and  reasonable  charges,  will  be 
paid  for  apprehending  and  delivering  him  to  either  of  the 
subscribers. 

ISRAEL  HEDDEN",  Sheriff, 
DAVID  ROSS,  D.  Sheriff. 

— The  New*- Jersey  Journal,  Vol.  I.,  Numb.  XII.,  May  4, 
1779. 

[No.  VI. ] 
Mr.  COLLINS. 

I  Concluded  my  last  with  recommending  the  plan  for  recovering 
the  value  of  our  money  to  its  former  standard,  by  immediately  call- 
ing in  all  emitted  money  and  loan-certificates,  and  giving  the  amount 
of  our  true  national  debt  for  them,  to  each  his  trw?  and  proper 
proportion. — As  this  would  be  only  for  fifteen  or  twenty,  I  doubt 
not  but  my  proposal  will  amaze  some,  vex  others,  and  enrage  a 
number. — I  only  claim  moderation  and  candor  in  judgment,  and  an 
impartial  attention  to  what  I  have  before  offered  on  the  subject,  and 
here  would  beg  leave  to  subjoin. 

With  the  plan  I  would  recommend,  for  the  preservation  of  equity 
and  justice,  1.  That  the  different  States  seasonably  pass  laws  that 
no  one  of  the  citizens  shall  be  obliged  to  receive  payment  for  debts 
contracted  before  the  year  1777,  in  this  depreciated  currency.  2. 
That  all  monies  received  into  our  loans  before  the  first  day  of 
March,  1778,  should  be  exempted;  because  Congress  has  engaged 
an  equivalent  of  hard  cash  for  the  interest;  all  that  money  has  stood 
the  owners  of  it  its  original  value,  and  could  not  be  got  out  again  in 
less  than  three  years,  to  be  doubled  seven  times  in  the  kind  of  trade 
which  has  been  carried  on.  3.  And  also  monies  belonging  to  churches 
or  entrusted  to  bodies  politic,  for  the  use  and  benefit  of  churches 
or  seminaries  of  learning.  And  4.  All  monies  belonging  to  super- 
annuated persons,  widows  and  orphans,  who  are  in  no  way  of 
business,  but  are  supported  by  the  income  of  their  stocks,  because 
all  these  (except,  perhaps,  a  few  who  have  fallen  into  this  class  in 
the  course  of  the  last  year  or  two)  have  their  money  at  its  original 
value,  can  have  had  no  influence  upon  the  depreciation,  and  had  no 
opportunity  to  act  in  self-defence ;  but  have  been  obliged,  by  the 
cruel  necessities  of  the  times,  to  supply  what  their  income  fell  short, 
from  the  original  stock. — Effectual  precautions  might  be  used  to  pre- 
vent any  of  these  exempts  from  enriching  themselves  by  fraud  in 


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314         NEW  JEESEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.      [1779 

such,  exemption. — I  confess  this  would  be  no  debt  properly  due  to 
them  from  government,  for  their  money  is  in  fact  worth  no  more 
than  that  of  others:  If  they  could  purchase  as  much  for  what  they 
got  as  for  what  they  gave,  and  then  be  secured  against  farther  de- 
preciation, they  would  even  then  gain  by  such  exchange.  But  it 
appears  to  me  that  civil  government  ought  by  such  exemption,  to 
redress  the  grievances  brought  upon  them  by  the  common  consent 
of  the  community,  remembering  that  God  declares  himself  to  be 
the  defender  of  the.  widow  and  the  fatherless. 

I  would  also  observe,  that  if  lands  and  houses  as  they  now  gen- 
erally sell,  may  also  be  considered  as  the  barometer  to  measure  the 
value  of  our  money,  then  probably  it  would  be  at  a  medium  ten  for  one, 
and  our  true  national  debt  be  between  fifteen  and  sixteen  millions, 
and  so  there  will  be  due  to  the  present  owners  of  the  money  one  for 
ten.* 

I  expect  even  many  farmers  and  mechanicks,  whose  cause  I  am 
pleading,  and  who,  as  well  as  the  monied  men,  have  lived  all  the 
time  of  the  superabundance  of  our  money,  without  paying  taxes, 
laying  up  money,  and  frequently  counting  over  their  numbers  of 
pounds,  will  be  thunder  struck  at  my  proposal,  because  they  may 
apprehend,  that  in  such  case,  they  would  hardly  hold  any  of  it. — 
I  beg  such  to  recollect  that  if  they  could  buy  as  -much,  after  such 
exchange,  for  twenty  shillings  as  they  can  now  for  twenty  pounds, 
what  their  loss  would  be?  Surely  not  one  farthing. — Such  may 
hope,  as  well  as  the  monied  men,  that  their  money  will  yet  be  made 
good  to  them.  But  pray  who  do  you  expect  will  make  it  good  to  you? 
It  must  either  be  the  money  itself,  or  your  farms,  or  both.  If  the 
money  is  exchanged,  as  I  have  before  advised,  then  your  money, 
cattle  and  lands,  will  all  bear  equal  proportion  with  the  monied  men, 
according  to  the  present  value  of  the  money;  but  if  a  tax  on  land 
must  make  it  good,  and  you  then  expect  to  keep  yours,  you  will  act 
in  such  case,  just  like  the  man  who  lets  fifty  pounds  to  different 
persons,  and  loses  all  but  one  or  two,  and  then  gives  two  thousand 
to  have  the  fifty  made  good  to  him.  Such  truly  would  be  your  case 
and  excess  of  folly. 

*  Let  it  here  be  observed,  that  formerly  there  was  a  proper  pro- 
portion bettrccn  the  price  of  lands  and  that  of  its  produce,  and  other 
articles  of  commerce ;  so  if  lands  u.-ere  purchased  at  £5  per  acre,  and 
twenty  acres  of  that  land,  well  prepared,  would  yield  a  crop,  at  a 
medium,  of  200  bushels,  and  that  would  sell  at  6s.  per  bushel,  then 
the  produce  was  £60,  and  land  an  hundred.  In  the  depreciated  money 
it  stands  thus;  200  bushels  at  15  dollars,  is  £1125.  The  land  at  four 
for  one,  will  be  £400.  tiee  the  unreasonable  odds.  'I  am  sure  if  the 
monied  men  were  persuaded  that  money  should  be  taxed,  or  pay  in 
proportion  for  recovering  its  value,  they  icould  soon  be  willing  to 
give  £80,  or  £90,  or  £100  per  acre.  Which  shoics  how  much  the 
farmers  arc  oppressed  by  this  partial  tax. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.'  315 

To  convince  of  this,  and  show  my  fellow-citizens  our  perilous 
situation,  and  absolute  necessity  of  some  such  plan  as  I  have  recom- 
mended, let  th-e  following  state  of  our  national  affairs,  in  the  present 
conjunction,  be  seriously  attended  to, 

As  I  am  not  privy  to  the  secrets  of  state,  I  must  proceed  on  what 
Congress  has  published,  and  the  nature  of  things.  I  trust  if  my  sup- 
positions shall  be  impartially  tried,  they  will  be  found  not  to  exceed 
real  matters  of  fact. — I  suppose  then,  with  the  Pennsylvania  author 
before  recited,  that  if  the  different  state  emissions  are  added  to  the 
continental,  the  total  sum  may  be  an  hundred  and  thirty  millions  of 
dollars.  I  have  before  at  random  guess,  supposed  our  loan-certificates 
to  the  amount  of  about  thirty  millions.  Let  us  here  only  suppose  them 
the  half.  Then  the  total  amount  of  our  national  debt  (exclusive  of 
foreign)  will  b^  an  hundred  and  forty-five  millions  of  dollars.  Then, 
according  to  the  nature  of  things,  we  may  suppose,  as  the  first  cam- 
paign, 1775,  was  not  extensive,  and  money  not  depreciated,  that  its 
expences  amounted  to  about  four  or  five  millions.  The  second,  1776, 
much  more  extensive,  but  money  not  depreciated,  its  expences  about 
fifteen  or  sixteen  millions.  The  third,  1777,  still  more  extensive  south 
and  north,  the  army  furnished  by  foreign  importations,  and  the  money 
depreciated,  perhaps  at  a  medium  of  two  for  one,  its  expences  forty- 
five  millions.  The  fourth  and  last,  1778,  as  extensive  as  the  former, 
but  no  extraordinary  importation  of  arms  and  ammunition,  money 
depreciated  at  a  medium  of  four  for  one,  its  expences  eighty  millions. 
The  total  then  an  hundred  and  forty-five  millions,  as  before  supposed.— 
To  proceed,  if  our  independence  should  be  acknowledged  before  the 
next  campaign  opens,  and  a  cessation  of  arms  ensue,  we  must  still  keep 
our  armies  south,  west  and  north,  at  least  for  .the  year  1779.  If  no 
truce  ensues,  the  campaign  ought  to  be  more  extensive  than  any  of 
the  former,  and  pushed  with  vigor.  Let  us  only  suppose  it  equal  to 
the  last  and  the  present  depreciation  in  all  the  necessaries  for  the 
army,  at  the  lowest  medium,  fifteen  for  one.  In  that  ratio  or  pro- 
portion the  next  campaign  will  cost  us  three  hundred  millions. — 
Whence  is  this  money  to  be  had?  Must  it  be  paid  from  new  emis- 
sions? What  then  will  the  whole  be  good  for?  Or  must  the  whole 
of  our  present  emissions  be  got  more  than  twice  over  into  our  loans? 
If  even  this  impossibility  could  be  done,  it  would  make  our  national 
debt  four  hundred  and  forty-five  millions,  and  the  yearly  interest  near 
twenty  millions,  exclusive  of  the  money  now  emitted. — Hence  our  only 
remedy  will  be  an  immediate  levying  of  taxes.  The  New  Jersey  quota, 
pursuant  to  the  resolves  of  Congress,  would  be  these  expences  for 
the  next  campaign,  six  millions,  not  of  dollars,  but  of  pounds.  And 
hence  every  farmer  who  pays  ten  pounds  as  his  share  of  the  hundred 
thousand,  which  is  this  spring  collecting,  will  have  to  pay  in  the  other 
six  hundred,  and  so  on  more  or  less,  in  proportion  to  what  his  share 
is  in  the  tax  now  collecting.  Now,  gentlemen  farmers  and  mechanicks, 
you  may  depend  upon  it  that  must  and  will  be  your  case,  if  things  go 
on  this  year  as  it  has  begun.  If  any  one  should  presume  to  feign  this 
representation  an  idle-gasconade  or  phantom,  let  him  examine  it  to 


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316  STEW    JEESEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

the  bottom,  and  he  will  find  it  to  be  true;  and  fatal  experience  will 
certainly  prove  it  so,  unless  prevented  by  a  timely  and  effectual 
remedy. 

Here  you  are  to  consider  two  things, 

1.  That  all  the  money  and  bank-notes  now  emitted,  or  hereafter  to 
be  emitted,  must  be  paid  in  again  and  destroyed.     It  is  not  to  be  sup- 
posed that  farmers  and  mechanicks,  though  so  far  superior  in  num- 
bers,    have     or     ever     shall     have     the     half     of     this     money     and 
the     notes     in     their     possession     at     the     original     division.       The 
most   of  it  is,   and   ever  will   be  on  such  emission,   with   the  monied 
part  of  the  community.     They  now  possess  it,  with  you,  at  the  true 
value,  fifteen  or  twenty  for  one.     Tne  whole  of  it  cannot  be  brought  to 
its  first  value.    What  it  is  depreciated  must  be  lost  somewhere.     Hence 
suppose  an  hundred  millions  must  be  sunk  to  bring  the  rest  to  its  value. 
Suppose  also  that  of  that  sum  forty  millions  are  in  the  possession  of 
the  farmers   and   mechanicks,   and   the  sixty  millions   in  that  of  the 
monied  men.     Then  if  the  whole  sum  must  be  sunk  by  taxes  on  real 
property,   it  is  as  clear  as  sun  at  noon  day,   that  farmers  and  me- 
chanicks  must   give   up   all    they   have   first,   and    then   purchase  the 
sixty  millions  from  the  monied  part,  for  their  produce,  or  stock  and 
herds,  or  their  lands,  and  then  the  remaining  thirty  millions    (worth 
as  much  as  the  whole  before)    will  still  be  in  the  possession  of  the 
monied  part  of  the  community.     As  the  national  debt  increases,  so  will 
this  fatal  evil  to  farmers  and  mechanicks  increase.     If  you  consider 
this  inevitable  consequence,  can  you  hesitate  a  moment  to  deliver  up 
all   the  money   you   have,   and   receive  your  just  proportion   of  what 
is   the  true   national   debt,   and   so   remain   upon   an  equitable   footing 
with   the  monied  men.     While  you  cordially  assist  in  defending  the 
rich    in    their    justly    acquired    riches,    can    you    avoid    detesting    the 
luxurious   spendthrift,   the   curse   to  civil   society,   preying  upon   your 
vitals,  and  supporting  his  extravagance  at  your  expence? — View  the 
ladies   of   such   gallants   of   this  our   age   and   country,   dressed   off   in 
their  top-gallant-sails  at  the  moderate  price  of  thirty,  forty  or  fifty 
pounds  for  each  such  suit,  while  they  are  driving  in  their  phaetons  or 
coaches  and   four,   cast   their   superscilious   sneers  of   disdain   at  you, 
while  honestly  and   industriously   employed   to   procure   a   comfortable 
subsistence.      I   say,   while  you   reflect   upon  this,   can  you  brook   the 
thought  of  your   labouring  and   toiling,   only  to   make   thousands   and 
millions  of  depreciated  money  good  in  such  hands,  and  throw  immense 
riches  into  their  coffers,  only  to  support  their  extravagance?     Surely 
no! 

2.  You  are   to  consider   the   sad   alternative  to  which   this  horrid 
depreciation  of  our  currency   has  brought  us. — It  is  in   vain  to   hide 
things   from   the   people   at   large,   for   fear   our   enemies   should   know 
them:      Things  which    (if  known)    may  be  presented  before  they  are 
past  recovery  :     Things  which  our  enemies  have  long  foreseen,  laboured 
hard  to  promote,  and  now  are  the  only  buoy  to  their  sinking  hope  of 
conquest. — I  have  before  shewn  that  our  next  campaign,  if  carried  on 
as  begun,  will  cost  us  three  hundred  millions  of  dollars,  at  the  present 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  317 

depreciation.  From  what  I  have  before  observed,  it  is  incontestibly 
evident,  either  that  Congress  must  have  negotiated  for  a  sufficient  sum 
from  foreign  powers,  or  that  the  method  I  have  advised,  or  a  similar 
one,  must  be  pursued. — If  the  first,  it  will  be  only  a  temporary  remedy, 
in  the  course  of  one  year  the  tories  and  monied  men  will  have  it 
hoarded  up  out  of  circulation,  and  the  next  year  we  will  have  this 
whole  sum  of  hard  cash  an  additional  debt  upon  our  backs,  our 
original  evil  still  remaining,  and  ourselves  next  year  in  a  worse 
dilemma.  If  Congress  should  not  have  engaged  this  money,  what 
then?  Can  we  expect  our  armies  will  fight  without  pay?  Can  we 
supply  them  without  money?  Or  will  we  permit  them  to  let  their 
weapons  drop,  with  victory,  glorious  victory  (under  the  farther 
smiles  of  Heaven  on  their  just  exertions)  at  their  command?  If  such 
an  awful  event  should  happen,  what  then  would  you,  friends  to  liberty 
and  your  country,  have  to  expect?  What  profit  would  your  money  be 
to  you  then?  Would  you  then  get  one  for  fifteen  or  twenty?  No 
not  one  farthing  for  thousands  and  millions ;  and  all  your  herds  and 
stocks,  lands  and  possessions,  were  gone  with  your  money,  and 
yourselves  and  children,  and  childrens  children,  were  slaves  of  slaves 
forever. — If  mine  or  a  similar  plan  was  carried  into  execution,  and 
the  abuses  in  the  staff  department  of  our  army  redressed,  a  most 
vigorous  campaign  might  be  carried  on,  at  the  expence  of  about  six 
or  seven  millions  of  dollars,  and  all  the  grievances  of  the  military 
department  of  our  army  at  once  redressed.  In  what  I  have  on  this 
supposition  asserted,  I  do  not  guide  myself  by  our  former  campaigns. 
It  has  long  been  observed  by  men  of  judgment,  that  our  military  oper- 
ations have  been  carried  on  with  most  wanton  destruction  and  un- 
necessary expences,  but  by  comparing  it  with  that  of  other  nations. 
Holland,  for  a  number  of  years  successively,  carried  on  a  war  against 
Spain,  then  the  most-  powerful  monarch  in  Europe,  both  offensive 
and  defensive,  at  the  annual  expence  of  nine  millions  of  guilders. 
Such  guilder  is  worth  three  shillings  York  currency.  Its  amount  is 
consequently  three  millions  three  hundred  and  seventy-five  thousand 
dollars,  with  the  addition  of  a  moderate  sum  on  any  extraordinary 
occasion.  With  this  sum  they  held  an  army  sufficient  to  garrison 
their  own  towns  and  fortresses,  which  were  numerous ;  and  to  lay 
siege  to  and  take  many  of  the  strongest  places  from  their  enemies ; 
and  withall,  a  fleet  sufficient  to  keep  the  command  of  their  coast  and 
protect  their  extensive  trade ;  and  almost  all  their  troops  were  levied 
in  foreign  countries. — It  may  be  said,  that  our  land  carriage  is  vastly 
more  expensive  than  theirs  by  water.  I  acknowledge  it.  I  find 
however,  by  their  calculating  an  intended  campaign,  provision  made 
for  a  great  number  of  horses  and  carriages  to  attend  the  army.  I 
have  for  this,  and  the  necessaries  of  the  army  imported  at  a  great 
risk,  allowed  about  double.  The  New  Jersey  quota  of  this  sum  would 
be  about  an  hundred  and  thirty  pounds,  and  the  farmer  who  pays 
ten  pounds  in  the  tax  this  spring  collecting,  would  have  to  pay  about 
thirteen  towards  a  whole  year's  expence  of  the  war.  There  would 
then  be  no  enlarging  of  our  national  debt,  no  interest  to  be  paid,  no 


318  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

• 

unnecessary  loan-officers  fco  be  maintained. — Who  then  in  good  con- 
science, can  oppose  so  salutary  and  necessary  a  measure?  It  appears 
to  me  that  none  can  nor  will,  but  such  as  are  bent  upon  making  their 
fortunes  at  the  expence  of  others ;  or  such  enemies  to  their  country 
as  have  eagerly  promoted  this  evil,  and  hoped  for  our  ruin  from  it, 
when  they  were  forced  to  doubt  the  success  of  the  British  arms. 

As  I  am  pleased  to  see  the  community  become  sensible  of  the  evil 
this  depreciation  has  brought  upon  us,  I  am  willing  that  every  method 
proposed  for  its  redress,  should  be  thoroughly  canvassed.  As  I  was 
writing  my  former  number,  the  piece,  Sir,  in  your  Gazette,  signed 
Caines,1  fell  into  my  hands.  My  eager  desire  for  the  welfare  of  my 
country,  urged  me  to  trace  his  plan  in  its  nature  and  tendency. — As 
to  his  idea  of  remedying  the  evil  by  taxes  in  the  ordinary  way,  I  have 
given  my  reasons  against  in  the  course  of  these  numbers.  His  plan 
for  doing  it  by  annuities  would  rather  increase  than  diminish  our 
distresses.  I  humbly  conceive  that  this  plan  supposes  we  are  about 
sinking  our  national  debt,  as  if  the  war  was  over,  whereas  our  daily 
expences  multiply  upon  us  in  the  same  proportion  as  our  money  has 
depreciated.  If  the  next  campaign  is  to  cost  New-Jersey  six  millions 
of  pounds,  will  my  friend  in  such  case,  think  of  taking  three  hundred 
thousand  pounds  out  of  circulation,  at  twenty-seven  thousand  pounds 
annual  interest? — Secondly,  he  does  not  seem  to  recollect  that  three 
hundred  thousand  pounds  now  is  actually  worth  no  more  than  twenty 
thousand  original  value ;  that  the  interest  for  one  year  after  the 
money  had  recovered  its  value,  should  be  seven  thousand  pounds  more 
than  the  whole  principal. 

Thus,  my  fellow-citizens,  I  have  laid  before  you  the  different  plans 
proposed  for  the  recovery  of  the  lost  value  of  our  money.  I  have 
freely  adopted  that  for  taxing  the  money  itself.  I  have  preferred 
doing  the  whole  of  it  at  once,  to  that  of  the  Real  Farmer  doing  it  by 
twenty-five  per  cent.  Because,  1.  The  absolute  necessity  of  our 
present  affairs  demands  such  a  step.  2.  It  will  be  eventually  the  same 
to  the  present  owner  of  the  money,  is  it  not  better  to  compleat  the 
exchange  in  one  day  than  four  or  five  years?  3.  It  will  not  give  those 
opportunities  to  subtle  and  designing  men  to  impose  upon  the  honest 
and  more  innocent,  that  so  long  a  time  would  do. 

I  have  given  my  reasons  in  support  of  my  opinions,  and  leave  you 
to  judge.  It  is  highly  probable  that  some,  without  hesitation,  will 
condemn  the  plan  I  have  advised  to  be  pursued,  and  perhaps,  take 
the  trouble  to  attempt  a  confutation  of  my  arguments. — Of  such  I 
beg  the  favor  to  take  up  the  true  matter  in  debate,  which  is  not  the 
raising  taxes  to  pay  the  national  debt,  but  the  recovery  of  depreciated 
value  of  our  money;  and  thereon  to  point  out  my  fundamental  errors; 
and  I  assure  such,  that  I  shall  gratefully  receive  conviction.  And 
if  any  one  shall  point  out  withall,  a  remedy  more  easy,  just  and 
efficacious,  it  will  ease  my  mind  of  much  perplexity  and  trouble, 
under  which  it  has  laboured  many  a  day,  on  account  of  the  state  of 

1  Caius. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  319 

our  national  affairs. — If  any  should  attack  me,  not  with  solid  argu- 
ments, but  with  scurrility,  buffoonery  and  abuse,  because  I  recom- 
mend a  plan,  which,  if  put  in  execution,  would  effectually  frustrate 
their  schemes  for  enriching  themselves,  at  the  expence  of  the 
labours  and  honestly  acquired  possessions  of  others;  I  say,  the  abuse 
of  such,  I  shall  endeavour  to  treat  in  a  manner  becoming  the  char- 
acter of  a  patriot. 

You,  my  friends  and  countrymen,  who  have  hitherto  proved,  and 
still  must  prove  the  bulwark  of  safety,  against  the  tyranny  of 
Britain;  you  have  bore  the  shock,  and  have  hitherto  proved  the 
happy  means  of  your  political  salvation;  your  valour  and  patriotism 
have  rescued  a  devoted  people  from  the  jaws  of  exterior  tyranny:  It 
appears  to  me  that  one  noble  effort  more,  against  an  internal  evil, 
not  less  dangerous  than  the  former,  and  you  will  thereby  bring  the 
vessel  of  our  State  within  a  safe  harbour. — Should  the  plan  I  have 
recommended,  or  any  similar  one  appear  to  our  Legislature,  or  our 
Representatives  in  Congress,  proper  to  be  pursued,  prudence  will 
dictate  to  them  not  to  undertake  so  uncommon  and  bold  a  step,  with- 
out being  previously  assured  that  you  will  cordially  support  them 
in  the  execution,  when  resolved  upon.  Therefore  let  me  intreat 
you  to  resume  your  former  public  spirit  and  patriotism,  and  boldly 
•step  forth  against  our  internal  enemies,  who,  by  the  depreciation  of  our 
currency,  have  laboured  to  cut  the  sinews  of  our  just  defensive  war; 
prepare  petitions,  and  present  them  to  our  honourable  Legislature 
at  their  next  meeting,  praying  them  to  endeavour  a  redress  in  the 
premises;  assuring  them  that  if  they  in  their  wisdom  shall  see  fit 
to  fall  upon  any  such  expedient,  as  therein  recommended,  to  recover 
the  value  of  the  depreciated  money,  that  you  will  faithfully  assist 
in  carrying  it  into  execution,  and  that  they  would  instruct  their  Rep- 
resentatives in  Congress  accordingly.  And  as  our  internal  policy  is 
to  us  a  matter  of  the  last  importance,  demand  of  your  Representatives 
that  the  minutes  of  their  proceedings  be  punctually  published,  imme- 
diately after  every  meeting  and  session,  in  order  that  you  may  have 
a  better  opportunity  to  judge  who  you  may  trust,  than  you  have 
hitherto  had.  Be  careful,  and  commit  your  most  important  concerns 
only  to  men  of  probity,  prudence  and  merit,  whose  interest  coincides 
with  yours,  if  such  possibly  may  be  had.  I  am  confident,  my  re- 
spected fellow-citizens,  if  you  were  sensible  of  the  dangerous  situation 
this  detestable  depreciation  has  brought  us  in,  you  would,  if  you  are 
real  friends  to  your  country,  drop  all  hopes  of  inriching  yourselves  by 
the  recovery  of  its  value,  you  would  make  a  cordial  sacrifice  of  all  the 
surplus  you  possess  of  it  and  earnestly  exert  yourselves  in  seasonably 
procuring  an  effectual  remedy. — May  indulgent  Heaven !  in  his  kind 
providence,  direct  to  it,  and  smile  further  on  our  honest  struggles 
for  liberty,  property  and  safety,  is  the  sincere  and  cordial  prayer 
of  him  who  takes  delight,  Sir,  in  subscribing  himself, 
Your's  and  his  country's  friend, 

A    TRUE    PATRIOT. 


320 


NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 


Mr.  Collins, — Please  to  «ubjoin  this  [to]  my  sixth  number.  I  appre- 
hend some  persons  may  be  induced,  from  the  descriptive  ac- 
count I  have  given  of  myself  in  your  Gazette,  No.  39,  to  suspect  that 
I  am  influenced  only  by  self-interest,  as  my  estate  only  lies  in  real 
property.  Again  to  blunt  the  edge  of  such  weapons  before  an  attack, 
I  beg  leave  to  inform  such,  that  Providence  has  placed  me  in  circum- 
stances of  life  so  as  to  descend  myself,  in  case  a  tax  on  real  property 
was  to  make  good  the  depreciated  money.  Suppose  I  could  spare  of 
real  property  to  the  amount  of  fifteen  hundred  pounds  original  value, 
and  reserve  sufficient  for  a  comfortable  subsistence,  then  it  is  evident, 
that  would  now  sell  for  fifteen  thousand.  In  case  I  put  that  sum  into 
our  loan-office,  it  would  draw  nine  hundred  pounds  annual  interest. 
Hence  it  is  manifest,  that  if  even  money  should  be  taxed  in  the 
ordinary  way,  in  proportion  to  lands,  that  I  could  pay  five  hundred 
pounds  annual  tax  for  this  money,  have  four  hundred  over,  and  pursu- 
ant to  the  resolves  of  Congress,  in  thirteen  or  fourteen  years,  raise  this 
part  of  my  estate  from  fifteen  hundred  to  fifteen  thousand :  And 
where  should  I  get  this  from?  I  am  sure  neither  the  income  of  the 
real  property,  nor  the  lawful  interest  of  the  true  value  could  never 
give  me  a  quarter  of  that  sum.  Then  the  answer  is  plain,  it  must 
come  from  oppressing  my  honest  industrious  neighbour.  If  unjust 
self-interest  swayed  me,  then  this  should  have  been  the  plan  I  would, 
have  endeavoured  to  pursue. 

TRENTON,  MAY  5. 

Sunday  last  His  Excellency  the  Sieur  Gerard,  and  his 
suite,  with  Don  Juan  de  Mirallis,1  a  Spanish  Gentleman 
of  distinction,  passed  through  this  place  on  their  return 
from  Head-Quarters,  where  they  were  received  suitably 
to  their  rank.  The  troops  that  were  paraded  made  a  very 
martial  appearance,  and  performed  their  evolutions  with 
great  exactness, 

"On  the  26th  ult."  says  a  correspondent,  "The  enemy 
in  two  divisions  landed  in  the  county  of  Momnoutb,  one 
party  at  Shoal  Harbour,  which  marched  to  Middletown 
and  got  into  the  village  at  day  break ;  the  other  went 
in  flat-bottomed  boats  into  Shrewsbury  river,  landed 

1  MIralles,  a  gentleman,  of  fortune  residing  at  Havana,  came  to  America 
early  in  1779,  as  an  unofficial  agent  of  the  Spanish  government,  and 
produced  an  agreeable  impression  on  Washington  and  others  whom  he  met. 
He  died  at  Morristown,  April  28,  1780. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  321 

at  Red-Bank,  and  then  proceeded  to  Trenton  J  Falls.  Col- 
onel Ford  with  the  continental  troops  retired  to  Colts 
neck.  Near  the  middle  of  the  day  the  party,  which  had 
landed  at  Shrewsbury,  crossed  the  river  and  went  to 
Middletown,  where  both  the  divisions  formed  a  junction. 
They  sent  their  boats  round  to  the  Bay  shore  near  one 
Harber's  plantation,  where  they  had  thirteen  sloops  ready 
to  take  them  off.  At  eight  o'clock,  Captain  Burrows,  who 
had  mustered  12  men,  gave  them  to  understand  that  they 
were  surrounded  by  the  militia;  they  continued  in  the 
village  till  three  o'clock,  when  they  began  their  retreat. 
Capt.  Burrows  was  then '  joined  by  three  more  men,  and 
kept  a  constant  fire  upon  them  for  two  miles,  when  Colonel 
Holmes  of  the  militia,  with  about  60  of  his  men,  reinforced 
Capt.  Burrows,  and  then  the  enemy's  retreat  was.  per- 
cipitate ;  they  were  drove  on  board  at  sun-set,  and  imme- 
diately set  sail  for  New  York.  Their  numbers  were  about 
800,  commanded  by  Col.  Hyde.  We  had  but  two  men 
slightly  wounded.  The  enemy  left  three  dead  behind  them, 
their  wounded  they  carried  off,  as  their  rear  .made  a  stand 
at  every  hill,  house  and  barn  in  their  rout.  One  of  our 
inhabitants  says  15  wounded  were  carried  on  board.  In 
their  progress,  or  rather  flight,  they  plundered  the  in- 
habitants, and  burnt  several  houses  and  barns.  Had  they 
landed  in  the  day,  or  stayed  till  our  militia  could  be  col- 
lected to  half  their  numbers,  (which  we  always  reckon 
sufficient  to  drub  them)  they  would  doubtless  have  re- 
pented their  invasion.  But  ever  choosing  like  their  brother 
thieves,  the  hours  of  darkness,  to  perpetrate  the  work  of 
darkness,  they  generally  land  in  the  night,  and  before  the 
militia  can  be  collected,  flee  to  their  vessels  with  percipita- 
tion,  snatching  up  in  their  flight  what  plunder  they  can; 
and  then  blazon  away  in  their  lying  Gazettes,  one  of  these 
sheep-stealing  nocturnal  robberies,  into  one  of  the  Duke 
of  Marlborough's  victories  in  Flanders, 

1  Tinton. 

2t 


' 


322  NEW    JEESEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

AT  a  meeting  of  the  Rev.  Samuel  Kennedy's  1  congre- 
gation at  Baskenridge,  on  the  14th  of  April  1779,  the 
question  being  put,  Whether  a  Committee  he  appointed 
to  assist  the  Civil  Magistrate  in  the  suppression  of  vice, 
immorality,  and  all  disorderly  proceedings  of  whatsoever 
kind,  within  this  congregation  ?  It  passed  in  the  affirma- 
tive. Whereupon  the  following  Gentlemen  were  appointed 
for  that  purpose:  Elisha  Ayres,  Ensley  Dalglish,  John 
Durham,  Jacob  Rickey,  Israel  Rickey,  Jonathan  Button, 
Major  William  Davidson,  Capt  Gauin  MacCay,  William 
Annin,  James  Kirkpatrick,  Thomas  Kirkpatrick,  Moses 
MacCallum,  Robert  Helm,  Jonathan  Whitaker,  William 
Ford,  David  Ayres,  Timothy  Bruster. 

Ordered,  That  the  above  be  published  in  Mr.  Collin's 
paper. 

rifty  Dollars  iieward 

WHEREAS  the  store  of  Joseph  Borden,  Esq.  in  Borden- 
town,  was  opened  on  Sunday  night  the  25th  of  April,  and 
a  quantity  of  fish  and  other  articles  stolen  out  of  the  same. 
—I  do  hereby  offer  the  above  reward  to  any  one  who  shall 
give  me  information  by  what  person  or  persons  the  same 
were  stolen  and  taken,  so  that  the  perpetrators  may  be 
brought  to  justice. 

ANDREW   BANKSON,  S6U 

Assist.  Com.  of  Issues 
May  1,  1779. 

Middlesex  WHEREAS  inquisitions  have  been  found  and 
county,  ss.  final  judgment  entered  thereon  in  favour 

of  the  State  of  "New  Jersey,  against  Rune  Runyon,  Stacy 
Lisk,  John  Thompson,  Heathcote  Johnson,  Philip  Kearney, 
Michael  Kearney,  Peter  Barberie,  John  Barberie,  Oliver 
Barberie,  John  Smyth,  David  Goslin,  Stephen  Skinner, 

1  For  notices  of  the  Rev.  Samuel  Kennedy,  see  N.  J.  Archives,  24  :  407, 
and  25  :  350. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  323 

Isaac  Bonnell,  Thomas  Skinner,  Benjamin  Marsh,  and 
John  Heard. — NOTICE  is  hereby  given,  that  the  lands,  tene- 
ments and  all  the  estates  real  lately  belonging  to  the  above 
offenders,  situate,  lying  and  being  in  Woodbridge,  Amboy 
and  Piscataway,  in  the  county  of  Middlesex,  will  be  ex- 
posed to  sale  at  public  vendue,  to  begin  on  Monday  the  28th 
of  June  next,  at  one  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  on  the  prem- 
ises of  the  said  Rune  Runyon  in  Piscataway,  and  continued 
by  adjournments  from  day  to  day  until  the  whole  are  sold. 
The  said  real  estates  consist  of  a  very  good  farm  containing 
about  200  acres  in  Piscataway,  and  some  elegant  houses 
and  lots  in  Amboy  and  Woodbridge.  Conditions  of  sale 
will  be  made  known  at  the  above  time  and  place,  by 

WILLIAM    MANNING   )     Commis- 

EBENEZER  FORD         j    sioners. 
Woodbridge,  May  4,  1779. 


Monmouth  WHEREAS  inquisitions  have  been  found  and 
county,  ss.  final  judgment  thereon  in  favour  of  the 

State  of  New  Jersey,  against  the  persons  herein  men- 
tioned.— Notice  is  hereby  given,  that  the  real  and  personal 
estates  belonging  to  Robert  James,  th©  plantation  and 
stock,  farming  utensils  and  household  goods,  and  all  the 
estate  of  John  Williams,  sen  of  John,  to  be  sold  on  the 
premises  of  the  said  James,  on  Monday  the  7th  day  of 
June,  beginning  at  ten  o'clock.  Joseph  Leonard,  Thomas 
Stike  Willet,  Chrionce  Van  mater,  Wair  Retter,  Samuel 
Stevenson,  William  Stevenson,  John  Smith,  George  Rap- 
aljia,  all  their  real  and  personal  estates  will  be  sold  at  the 
house  of  Cornelius  Swort,  in  Middletown.  Mares  and 
colts  belonging  to  Israel  Bidel,  of  Staten-Island,  and 
Broughton  Reynolds  of  Elizabeth-Town.  The  vendue  to 
begin  on  Tuesday  the  28th  day  of  June,  at  ten  o'clock. 

Anthony  Dennis,  William  Wardel,  Silas  Cook,  jun, 
James  King,  Elias  Leppencut,  Joseph  Price,  son  of  Wil- 
liam, all  their  real  and  personal  estates  will  be  sold  at 
Shrewsbury  town  on  Thursday  the  10th  day  of  June,  to 


324  NEW    JERSEY    IN"    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

begin  at  ten  o'clock.*  And  on  Monday  the  14th  day  of 
June  on  the  premises,  all  the  estate  of  Anthony  Wood- 
ward, jun,  two  good  plantations,  besides  out  lands,  with  all 
the  stock,  farming  utensils,  and  household  goods,  &c. 
And  on  the  15th  day  all  the  estate  of  William  Ferine 
will  be  sold  on  the  premises  in  Upper  Freehold.  The 
sales  will  begin  at  ten  o'clock  each  day.  Deeds  made  to 
the  purchasers  agreeable  to  act  of  Assembly,  by 

SAMUEL   FORMAN,  ^| 

jos.  LAURENCE  !     Commis- 

KENNETH    HANKINSON,         j       sionerS 
JACOB   WIKOFF  J 

N.  B.     The  two  emissions  called  in  will  not  be  taken  in 
payment  after  the  20th  of  May. 
May  3,  1779. 

NASSAU-HALL,    PRINCETON,    NEW     JERSEY, 

April  23,  1779. 

THE  many  inquiries  that  have  been  made  by  Gentlemen 
at  a  distance,  render  it  necessary  to  give  information  to  the 
public  of  the  past  and  present  state  of  the  College  here. 
Every  promise  in  former  advertisements  has  been  fulfilled. 
In  the  summer  of  1777,  as  soon  as  the  enemy  left  the 
State,  the  instruction  agreeably  to  notice  was  begun :  the 
Trustees  having  empowered  the  President  to  employ  such 
teachers  occasionally  as  should  be  necessary.  Accordingly 
such  of  the  scholars,  as  conveniently  could,  returned,  and 
were  carried  on  according  to  their  standing,  and  the 
Seniors  of  that  year  received  their  Degree  of  Bachelor  of 
Arts  at  Commencement,  as  usual.  The  same  was  the  case 
through  the  winter  following  and  the  summer  of  1778, 
when  there  was  a  private  Commencement ;  but  the  attend- 
ance was  difficult  and  inconvenient,  the  College  being 
occupied  by  the  Publick  as  a  barrack  or  hospital,  and  the 
recitations  from  necessity  in  a  room  of  the  President's 
house.  Last  summer  the  College  was  entirely  given  up 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  325 

to  us,  but  in  so  ruinous  a  state  as  to  be  very  unfit  for 
accommodating  the  scholars.  Several  however  lived  in 
it  all  the  winter  session,  and  the  recitations  were  in  Col- 
lege. Now  we  have  the  pleasure  of  acquainting  the  Pub- 
lick  that  tradesmen  have  been  at  work  for  some  time  re- 
pairing the  fabrick;  that  a  good  part  of  the  windows  are 
put  in;  that  we  expect  the  roof  will  be  made  entirely 
sound  in  a  few  days,  and  that  chambers  will  be  fitted  up 
sufficient,  it  is  supposed,  to  receive  those  who  may  come 
for  the  summer  session,  which  begins  on  the  10th  of  May. 
As  to  boarding,  it  is  not  yet  practicable  to  get  a  steward 
for  the  College,  but  boarding  for  those  who  lodge  in 
College  may  be  had  in  families  in  town  at  such  rate  as 
the  times  will  admit.  The  Publick  may  depend  upon 
the  instruction  being  carried  on,  and  that  always  one 
or  other  of  the  Subscribers,  if  not  both,  will  be  upon  the 
spot. 

The  Grammar  School  which  was  begun  in  April  last 
year,  has  continued  ever  since,  and  is  in  a  thriving  con- 
dition, there  being  near  thirty  boys  in  it.  The  school, 
after  a  vacation  of  two  weeks,  nearly  elapsed,  will  be 
opened  on  Monday  next  the  26th  instant.  Great  care  is 
taken  in  this  school  to  make  the  scholars  accurate  in  the 
grammar  and  syntax,  and  by  frequent  periodical  exercises 
to  perfect  them  in  reading,  spelling,  and  pronouncing  the 
English  language :  a  branch  -of  education  of  the  first  im- 
portance and  yet  often  shamefully  neglected. 

To  encourage  the  early  and  punctual  attendance  of  the 
Students,  the  same  rule  will  be  observed  as  in  former  times 
at  the  end  of  every  vacation,  viz.  That  after  the  first  day 
of  meeting  no  regard  will  be  paid  to  the  standing  of  the 
scholars  in  the  distribution  of  the  chambers,  but  those  who 
come  first  will  have  their  choice  of  such  as  are  vacant. 

JOHN  WITHERSPOON, 

WIKLIAM    CH.    HOUSTON 

]N".  B.  This  advertisement  came  too  late  to  be  inserted 
last  week. 


320  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

To  be  sold  at  publicfk  Vendue,  at  the  Union  Salt  Works 
at  Manasquan,  on  Friday  the  7th  of  May, 

THE  SLOOP 
EXPERIMENT, 

With  her  tackle,  apparel  and  furniture,  per  inventory. 
Also  her  cargo,  consisting  of  about  1500  bushels  of  salt. 
By  order  of  the  Court  of  Admiralty 

JOSEPH  POTTS,,  Marshal 
New  Jersey,  April  26,  1779. 


A  Grist-Mill  and  Saw-Mill. 

THE  subscriber  has  a  grist-mill  and  saw-mill  which  he 
is  desirous  to  have  removed  to  a  situation  more  advanta- 
geous, a  little  lower  down  Capalong-Brook  (on  which  they 
now  stand)  to  a  place  where  a  forge  lately  stood,  the  banks 
of  the  dam  nearly  compleat,  but  the  frame  work,  which  is 
not  very  considerable,  is  decayed.  The  tail  run  is  finished 
and  there  will  be  little  or  no  diging  necessary  for  the 
foundation  or  ground  work  of  the  mill.  Any  person  of 
experience  and  sufficient  abilities  who  will  undertake  the 
same,  may-  have  a  good  lease,  and  be  furnished  with  the 
mill-stones,  bolts,  iron  work  and  utensils.  The  merchant 
cluth  new,  another  not  much  the1  worse  for  wear,  and  a.  third 
a  little  damaged,  but  perhaps  may  be  repaired.  The  frame 
work  of  the  saw-mill  is  good,  not  more  than  seven  years 
old,  and  may  be  easily  moved  and  soon  set  to  work.  The 
saw  a  choice  steel  plate;;  the  stream  large  and  lively, 
water  seldom  fails,  but  may  be  a  little  pinched  in  great 
drought  in  summer,  and  this  may  be  easily  remedied  by 
bringing  another  creek  in.  at  a  very  small  expense,  as 
the  chief  of  the  race  is  already  dug,  and  will  require 
little  or  no  dam.  The  situation  is  very  pleasant,  and  in  a 
fine  wheat  country,  on  the  bank  of  the  south  branch  of 
Raritan-river ;  stone,  lime,  sand  and  timber  verv  con- 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  327 

venient,  and  a  good  mason  who  lives  within  half  a  mile1, 
will  undertake  the  mason  work.  Also  may  be  had  in  ex- 
change for  bar  iron,  a  pair  of  forge  bellows,  a  little  out 
of  repair,  and  a  pair  of  spare  bellows  pipes,  hammer  wheel 
gudgeons,  and  some  other  of  the  iron  work  belinging  to  a 
forge. — Enquire  of  the  subscriber  living  in  Kingwood, 
Hunterdon  county,  New- Jersey,  or  of  Mr.  James  Paxton 
in  Trenton. 

Charles  Coxe. 

N.  B.  Land  enough  for  a  small  farm,  with  some 
meadow  ground  will  be  let  with  the  mill,  if  required ;  and 
also  may  be  assisted  in  the  heavy  work  with  a  stout  four 
horse  team. 

Public  Notice  is  hereby  given, 

To  all  persons  that  have  any  demands,  either  on  bond, 
note,  book  or  otherwise,  against  the  persons  hereunto 
annexed,  to  bring  them  to  two  of  the  Judges  of  the  Court 
of  Common-Pleas  for  the  county  of  Essex,  within  six 
months  from  date  hereof,  in  order  to  have  them  settled. 
And  likewise  notice  is  given  to  all  persons  that  have  any 
goods,  wares,  or  merchandize  of  any  kind,  or  owe  on  bond, 
books,  or  mortgage,  any  sum  or  sums  of  money  to  any  of 
the  offenders  following,  and  shall  neglect  to  make  discovery 
thereof  to  some  one  of  us,  the  subscribers,  within  one 
month  from  date  hereon,  may  expect  to  be  dealt  with  as 
the  law  in  that  case  directs. 

The  names  of  the  offenders  are  as  follows,  viz.  David 
Ogden,  David  Ogden,  jun.  Uzal  Ward,  William  Stiles, 
Nathaniel  Williams,  Thomas  Bruen,  Griffin  Jenkins, 
Stephen  Skinner,  Benjamin  Booth,  Joseph  Kingsland, 
Robert  Drummond,  Stephen  Farrand,  Lewis  Greenfield, 
John  Wheeler,  Ebenezer  Ward,  jun.  Isaac  Longworth, 
jun.  Isaac  Ogden,  Nathaniel  Richards,  Jonathan  Sayres, 
Isaac  Longworth,  Thomas  Longworth,  John  Van  Wagmer, 
Garrabrant  Garrabrants,  jun.  Jacob  Brower,  Garret 


328  *  NEW    JEESEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

Wouters,  Caleb  Sayres,»Josiah  Banks,  Joseph  Hallit,  Peter 
Woods,  Peter  B  rower,  Benjamin  Pierson,  Richard  Yates, 
Richard  Stanton,  Peter  Mowrison,  George  Walls,  Thomas 
Galbreath,  Peter  Clopper,  Abraham  Van  Geson,  jun.  Isaac 
Browne,  Francis  Batey,  Derick  Schuyler,  John  White, 
Nicholas  Garrabrants,  William  Brooks,  James  Colvin, 
Cornelius  Brooks,  Thomas  Aston,  Garret  Jacobus,  Isaac 
Kingsland,  Henry  Stager,  Samuel  Harrison,  Peter  Dubois, 
Hugh  Gaine,  Isaac  Stiles,  Samuel  Hudinot,  Nicholas  Ho-ff- 
man,  James  Gray,  Doctor  Uzal  Johnson,  John  Courter, 
jun.  Aaron  Pierson,  George  Warner,  Duncan  Campbell, 
Cornelius  Stager,  Isaac  Ogden,  Thomas  Phillips,  John  J. 
Crane,  Henry  YanderhofF,  James  Blundle,  John  Colleny, 
William  Brounejolm,  Thomas  White,  John  Tabor  Kemp, 
Joseph  French,  Hugh  Wallace,  James  Jauncey,  Yincent 
Pearse  Ashfield,  Miles  Sheerbrook,  Luther  Baldwin,  Daniel 
Pierson,  Sheffield  Howard,  Nicholas  Ogden  and  James 
Wilson. 

JOSEPH   HEDDEN,   jun.    SAMUEL   HAYES   and   THOMAS 
CANFIELD.,  Commissioners. 
State  of  New  Jersey,  Essex    j 
county,  April  29,  1779.  j 

To  be  sold  by  the  subscriber,  living  near  Princeton,  a 
NEGRO  BOY,  about  fifteen  years  of  age.  For  further  par- 
ticulars enquire  of 

AARON    LONGSTREET. 

April  26,  1779. 


New  Jersey,  WHEREAS  Inquisitions,  respectively  taken 
Sussex  county.  and  found  against  John  Eddy,  John 
Cougle  and  William  Green,  all  late  of  said  county,  for 
going  over  to  and  joining  the  enemies  of  this  state,  were 
returned  to  the  Court  of  Common-Pleas  held  at  Newtown, 
in  and  for  the  said  county,  at  the  term  of  November  last 
and  proclamation  thereon  respectively  made  for  any  person 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  329 

or  persons  interested  or  concerned  in  the  premises,  to  ap- 
pear and  traverse,  &c.  agreeably  to  law;  and  no  traverse 
being  then  tendered,  notice  is  hereby  given,  that  final  judg- 
ment will  be  given  on  thei  said  inquisitions  respectively  at 
the  next  term,  which  will  be  on  the  fourth  Tuesday  in  May 
next,  unless  the  said  inquisitions  shall  be  then  respectively 
traversed. 

WILLIAM    HANKINSON, 


Comrs. 

THOMAS   ANDERSON 


April  19,  1779. 


New  Jersey,  AT  an  Inferior  Court  of  Common-Pleas 
Essex  county.  held  for  the  said  county  of  Essex  on 
the  13th  day  of  April  inst.  were  returned  inquisitions  for 
joining  the  army  of  the  King  pf  Great  Britain,  and  other 
treasonable  practices,  found  against  Duncan  Campbell, 
Cornelius  Stager,  Isaac  Ogden,  Thomas  Phillips,  John  J. 
Crane,  Henry  Vanderhoff,  James  Blundle,  John  Coleny, 
William  Brounejohn,  Thomas  White,  John  Tabor  Kemp, 
Joseph  French,  Hugh  Wallace,  James  Jauncy,  Vincint 
Pearce  Ashfield,  Miles  Sheerbrook,  Luther  Baldwin, 
Daniel  Pierson,  Sheffield  Howard,  James  Wilson  and 
George  Warner ;  of  which  proclamation  was  made  at  said 
Court,  that  if  they,  or  any  on  their  behalf,  or  any  persons 
interested,  would  appear  and  traverse,  a  trial  should  be 
awarded ;  but  no  traverses  were  offered — Therefore  notice 
is  hereby  given  that  if  neither  they  nor  any  on  their  behalf, 
nor  any  interested,  shall  appear  and  traverse  at  the  next 
Court  to  be  held  for  the  said  county,  the  inquisitions  will 
then  be  taken  to  be  true,  and  final  judgment  entered  thereon 
in  favour  of  the  state. 

JOSEPH  HEDDEN,  JIH1,  SAMUEL  HAYES   and  THOMAS   CAN- 
FIELD^  Commissioners. 

Newark,  18th  April,  1779. 


330         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779 

To  all  wh<3m  it  may  concern : 

New  Jer-     NOTICE  is  hereby  given,  that  a  Court  of  Ad- 
sey,  ss.  miralty  will  be  held  at  the  house  of  Gilbert 

Barton,  innholder,  in  Allentown,  on  Wednesday  the  26th 
day  of  May,  at  ten  of  the  clock  in  the  forenoon  of  the  same 
day,  then  and  there  to  try  the  truth  of  the  facts  alledged 
in  the  bill  of  John  Kaighn,  (who  as  well,  &c.)  against  the 
sloop  or  vessel  called  Experiment,  with  her  tackle,  apparel, 
furniture  and  cargo:  To  the  end  and  intent  that  the 
owner  or  owners  of  the  said  vessel,  or  any  person  or  per- 
sons concerned  therein  may  appear  and  shew  cause,  if  any 
they  have,  why  the  said  vessel  and  cargo  should  not  be  con- 
demned, according  to  the  prayer  of  the  said  bill. 
By  order  of  the  Judge, 

JOSEPH    BLOOMFIELD,    Keg. 

Allentown,  May  1,  1779. 

The  notable  HORSE 

RAGMUFFIN, 

THE  property  of  the  subscriber,  imported  from  Penn- 
sylvania, between  5  and  25  years  of  age  this  grass,  in 
bad  order,  will  cover  this  season  at  the  sign  of  the  grist- 
mill, within  two  miles  of  the  church  in  Railway,  at  39  1-6 
dollars  the  season,  and  19  1-6  dollars  the  single  leap,  the 
money  to  be  paid  at  the  sign  post. 

KAGMUFFIN  is  a  very  ugly  white  horse,  with  grey  legs, 
main  and  tail,  two  black  feet,  star  and  snip ;  he  is  of  full 
size,  thirteen  hands  high,  badly  made  for  his  height,  and  is 
allowed,  by  very  indifferent  judges,  to  be  one  of  the  worst 
moving,  indelicate,  and  ill-looking  horses  in  the  state. 
His  blood  and  pedigree  agreeable  to  his  shape  and 
movements.  He  Avas  got  by  Nimshi,  a  noted  horse,  Avho,  a 
few  years  since,  was  rode  by  a  gentleman,  then  an  adjutant 
in  a  regiment  of  Lazy  Greys,  with  universal  ridicule. 
Nimshi's  sire  was  Old  Deformity,  of  whom  he  had  a  very 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  331 

striking  likeness' ;  his  grandsire  by  Blunder  who,  when 
about  to  start  im  a  race,  had  the  good  fortune  to  fall, 
breaking  his  own  neck  and  that  of  his  rider.  His  brothers 
were  old  Slack,  Loggerhead,  Slumber,  Sloth.  Sluggard, 
Sloven  and  Inactivity,  all  famous  horses,  their  perform- 
ance's exactly  corresponding  with  their  names. — Ragmuffin, 
though  wanting  the  beauties  of  those  capital  horses,  is  fully 
possessed  of  all  their  deformities.  He.  was  taken  in  1776 
from  Thomas  Bugeye,  Esq.,  who  then  had  him  in  keeping 
in  Spank-Town,  and  was  sent  from  New  York  by  Mrs. 
Plantain,  seized  by  a  court  of  admiralty  constituted  for 
that  purpose,  illegally  condemned,  and  was  unlawfully  sold. 
Those  persons  who  choose  to  have  their  mares  covered  by 
Ragmuffin,  will  be  charged  no  more  than  10s.  per  week 
for  each  mare's  pasture,  as  they  will  feed  on  the  common. 
Hard  dollars  will  be  taken  in  payment,  if  manufactured  in 
New  Jersey,  composed  of  block  tin,  bell  metal,  with  a  small 
mixture  of  silver,  provided  they  ring  clear. 

j.  STANBURY. 

N.  B.  The  above  horse  being  thought  a  dangerous 
animal,  two  grooms  will  constantly  attend  him  during  the 
season  of  covering,  to  prevent  his  doing  the  least  mischief. 
The  grooms  will  expect  a  small  fee.  And  as  the  proprietor 
is  under  apprehensions  that  some  design  is  formed  against 
the  said  horse,  prays  that  none  offer  to  approach  him  in 
arms. 

PHILADELPHIA,  April  10,  1779. 

THE  Publick  are  hereby  advertised,  that  the  real  estates 
of  ....  Peter  Campbell,  gentleman,  and  Isaac 
Allen,  Esquire:,  attorney  at  law,  both  late  of  Trenton,  in 
the  state  of  New  Jersey ;  .  .  .  .  are  to  be  sold,  etc. 

Published  by  order  of  the  Council 

TIMOTHY  MATLACK,  Secretary, 
and  Keeper  of  the  Register  for  forfeited  estates. 
— The  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  II.,  No*.  74,  Wednesday, 
May  5,  1779. 


332  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 


TO  BE  SOLD  at  PRIVATE  SALE, 

A  Valuable  Plantation,  in  the  township  of  Greenwich, 
county  of  Sussex,  and  State  of  New-Jersey,  containing 
388  acres,  about  70  cleared,  the  remainder  well  timbered. 
There  are  on  the  premises  two  good  houses,  a  barn,  stable, 
&c.  Through  the  land  runs  as  good  a  stream  for  a  grist 
and  saw-mill  as  any  in  the  county,  and  good  seats  for 
both.  Any  person  inclining  to  purchase,  may  apply  to 
Mr.  THOMAS  LOUEEY,  or  the  subscriber  in  Flem- 
ington. 

May  1,  1779.  PHILIP  YAUGEE. 


To  be  SOLD,  or  EXCHANGED 

For  HOUSES  or  LANDS,  in  or  near  this  City,  the  fol- 
lowing LANDS  and  PEEMISES,  situated  in  the 
County  of  Cumberland,  New-Jersey. 

Two  Lots  of  Ground,  near  the  Market-house  in  Eoad's 
Town,  fronting  each  other  on  the  main-street,  containing 
about  a  quarter  of  an  acre  in  each  Lot,  on  which  are  erected 
a  well  finished  two  story  brick  House,  with  a  cellar  under 
the  whole,  and  well  paved  with  brick;  a  good  Frame 
House  well  finished  and  painted,  adjoining  the  brick  house, 
with  Frame  Kitchen  back  of  the  same,  and  part  of  a  Pump 
of  excellent  water  near  the  front  door;  a  good  strong 
Frame  store-house,  a  good  Frame-barn,  well  covered  with 
cedar,  and  stable  room  for  six  or  eight  horses,  a  Chair- 
house,  Smoke  house,  and  other  out  buildings,  and  garden 
well  paled  in  with  cedar.  The  whole  of  the  buildings  are 
good,  having  been  built  not  many  years  since.  It  is  an 
excellent  place  for  a  store  or  shop-keeper  as  the  subscriber 
has  found  by  several  years  experience,  and  would  serve 
for  any  tradesman,  inn-keeper  or  private  gentleman. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  333 

Twelve  other  Lots  of  excellent  Grass-Land  in  said  town 
fronting  the  main  street  aforesaid,  containing  half  an  acre 
in  each  lot,  all  under  good  fence,  with  a  number  of  good 
bearing  apple  and  peach  trees  on  several  of  said  Lots ;  the 
whole  is  pleasantly  situated  in  as  good  a  part  as  any  in 
said  town  for  building  thereon. 

Nine  Acres  of  Grass  Land,  adjoining  on  the  back  of 
the  last  mentioned  Lots,  and  under  good  fence. 

Five  Acres  of  good  Wood  Land,  about  half  a  mile  from 
said  town,  joining  a  main  road  leading  from  the  town  of 
Greenwich  to  Salem,  and  a  stream  of  water  on  one  end  of 
said  Land. 

A  Plantation,  containing  125  Acres  of  good  Land,  situ- 
ated about  half  a  mile  from  Road's  Town  aforesaid,  80 
Acres  or  upwards  of  which  is  cleared  and  under  good 
fence,  the  remainder  is  good  woodland:  The  whole  is 
well  watered,  having  springs  of  water  in  different  fields, 
and  a  stream  of  water  being  the  line  on  one  side  of  said 
Plantation,  which  is  thought  sufficient  for  an  oil  or  fulling 
mill,  and  is  in  a  fine  part  of  the  country  for  such  business. 
There  is  on  said  Plantation,  a  good  brick  house,  with  a 
large  cellar  under  the  same,  a  large  frame  kitchen,  a  good 
well  of  water  near  the  door,  a  large  frame  barn,  and  other 
out-buildings,  about  one  hundred  bearing  apple  trees,  of 
good  fruit,  a  young  peach  orchard,  of  about  the  same  num- 
ber of  trees,  as  also  cherry  and  other  fruit  trees  on  the 
premises. 

Five  Acres  of  Salt  Marsh,  lying  in  the  township  of 
Greenwich,  and  is  between  3  and  4  miles  from  the  said 
Plantation. 

Seventy-four  Acres  of  Cedar  Swamp,  lying  on  the  west 
side  of  Morris-River,  which  would  be  profitable  at  thi& 
time,  either  for  making  rails  or  boards,  it  being  within 
80  rods  of  a  landing  where  vessels  of  burden  pass  and 
repass  to  and  from  this  city,  and  is  joining  to  cedar 
swamp  of  Joshua  Brick,  Esq ;  and  others. 


334  NEW    JEESEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

All  the  above  mentioned  Premises  (except  the  Cedar 
Swainp  and  Marsh)  are  in  a  fine  healthy  part  of  the 
country,  that  abounds  in  wheat,  corn,  flax,  &c.  and  are 
about  five  miles  from  Bridge-town,  where  the  county  courts 
are  held,  and  about  four  miles  from  the  town  of  Greenwich, 
where  there  is  navigation  for  sloops,  and  is  very  near  to 
sundry  good  grist-mills,  and  very  handy  to  places  of  public 
worship,  such  as  the  Friends,  Presbyterians,  First  Day  and 
Seventh  Day  Baptists. 

They  will  be  sold  together  or  separate,  as  will  best  suit 
the  purchaser,  and  may  be  viewed  by  applying  to  Mr. 
ELIJAH  BOWEN  or  Mr.  ELIJAH  TOMBLESON,  on 
and  near  the  premises. 

For  terms  apply  to  the  subscriber,  in  Union-street  three 
doors  below  Second-street,  Philadelphia,  where  the  deeds 
and  draughts  of  each  and  all  the  premises  may  be  viewed, 
and  an  indisputable  title  given,  by 

DAVID  BOWEK 
—The  Pennsylvania  Gazette,  May  5,  1779. 

The  General  Pattison  Privateer,  presently  after  leaving 
Sandy-Hook,  met  a  brace  of  rebels  off  Egg-Harbour,  they 
immediately  altered  their  courses,  so  that  one  escaped, 
but  that  which  was  pursued  she  ran  ashore. 

Copy  of  a  Letter  from  Mr.  John  Maxwell  Nesbitt,  mer- 
chant of  Philadelphia,  to  Mr.  Conyngham,  com- 
mander of  the  famous  cutter  Revenge,  which  was 
brought  into  this  port  last  Friday,  a  prize  to  his 
Majesty's  ship  Galatea. 

Philadelphia,  April  20th,  1779. 
SIK, 

THE  Cutter  Revenge  being  now  compleatly  fitted  and 
almost  manned,  you  will  proceed  with  her  to  sea, 
as  expeditiously  as  in  your  power;    to  fully  com- 
pleat  your  manning,,  you  had  best  stop  a  day  off  Salem 


1Y79]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  335 

or  Cohanzy,  where  we  believe  you  may  meet  with  a  num- 
ber of  good  men  ready  to  enter,  at  Cape  May  it  is  likewise 
possible  some  may  enter  with  you,  and  it  is  not  improbable 
but  if  you  are  known  off  Egg-Harbour  some  may  go  off 
to  you  from  thence ;  indeed  you  must  endeavour  to  get  offx 
men  from  every  part  of  the  coast  to  keep  up  your  compli- 
ment, and  if  you  are  but  lucky  enough  to  take  a  prize  or 
two  soon  after  your  going  out  they  will  croud  to  you. 

As  the  hiring  of  the  cutter  to  the  state  is  now  done 
away,  and  your  cruize  is  to  be  at  the  risque  of  and  for  the 
account  of  your  owners,  your  business  will  be  to  look 
after  good  rich  merchantmen  rather  than  privateers,  not 
that  we  would  have  you  to  avoid  these  when  they  come  in 
your  way,  many  of  them  will  sell  for  a  good  deal  of  money 
here,  but  it  is  not  so  much  your  business  to  look  out  for 
them,  or  to  engage  those  of  such  force  as  to  risque  by  such 
engagement  a  damage  to  your  vessel  that  may  oblige  you 
to  return  into  port  and  break  up  your  cruize;  you  will 
therefore  for  the  present  take  your  station  in  such  situation 
as  you  may  judge  best  to  intercept  the  merchantmen  bound 
into  New-York,  many  of  whom  may  now  be  looked  for 
from  the  West-Indies  as  well  as  from  Europe ;  your  prizes 
you  are  to  send  in  here,  and  it  will  be  best  to  see  those 
that  are  valuable  safe  into  the  Capes,  if  you  [t]ake  any 
small  ones  of  little  value  off  or  about  Egg-Harbour,  it 
may  be  as  well  to  send  them  in  there,  as  you  can  have  your 
men  immediately  off  again,  and  your  prize  master  must 
take  care  of  her  until  an  express  can  come  over  to  us  which 
you  are  to  direct  him  to  hire  and  send  over  to  us. 

At  your  first  going  to  sea,  we  think  it  will  be  prudent 
to  stretch  pretty  well  off  until  your  landsmen  are  recovered 
of  their  sea-sickness  and  you  get  the  crew  in  good  order  and 
well  acquainted  with  working  the  vessel,  guns,  &c.  but  in 
doing  this  you  can  take  the  proper  station  for  vessels 
bound  into  ~New  York,  and  as  you  get  your  men  in  order 
approach  the  shore,  change  no\v  and  then  your  situation* 


• 


336  NEW    JEKSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

for  fear  the  enemy  should  get  intelligence  of  you,  but  this 
they  cannot  well  otherways  have  than  by  some  vessel  to 
whom  you  give  chace  escaping  you,  or  on  the  return  of 
prisoners  to  New- York  who  may  be  landed  from  your 
prizes. 

Men  of  war  you  must  take  care  to  avoid,  mostj  if  not 
all  of  these  are  too  powerful  for  you,  and  as  we  before 
remarked,  its  not  your  business,  nor  is  it  the  interest  of 
your  owners  to  engage  with  vessels  fitted  for  war  of 
superior  or  even  of  equal  force,  as  by  this  means  your 
cruize  may  be  knocked  up,  it  is  your  business  however 
to  see  and  attack  all  merchantmen  with  resolution  let 
their  force  appear  what  it  will,  for  many  of  those  though 
large  and  shew  a  great  number  of  guns  are  but  indiffer- 
ently manned,  and  their  seamen  not  having  the  same  view 
of  gain,  will  not  fight  so  obstinately  as  those  on  board 
cruizing  vessels ;  out  of  your  prizes  you  may  probably  get 
a  number  of  men  to  enter,  the  English  and  Scotch  seamen 
you  cannot  so  well  trust,  but  the  Irish  we  believe  in  gen- 
eral would  as  soon  fight  for  us  as  for  the  English,  if  in 
this  way  you  can  make  up  a  crew,  or  have  men  to  spare, 
and  you  pick  up  one  of  the  enemy's  little  fast  sailing 
privateers  we  have  no  objection  to  your  making  her  a 
tender,  and  such  tender  we  tlnnk  may  be  very  useful  to 
you :  Keep  up  a  supply  of  powder,  shot,  provisions,  rum, 
or  any  necessary  you  may  want  out  of  your  prizes;  and 
if  you  should  want  any  thing  from  us,  put  a  letter  on 
shore  at  Egg-Harbour  or  Cape  May,  and  we  can  lodge 
what  you  want  at  either  of  these  places. 

The  articles  first  filled  up  for  you  as  a  private  vessel 
of  war,  and  signed,  are  to  be  your  articles;  those  given 
you  by  the  State  are  of  no  use  and  ought  to  be  destroyed, 
as  you  neither  share  or  divide  by  them.  Direct  your  prize 
masters  to  deliver  no  letters  or  papers  until  they  see  us, 
nor  should  they  answer  any  questions  respecting  your 
'vessel,  nor  situation,  or  place  you  were  last  at. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  337 

You  may  deceive  very  generally  the  merchantmen  bound 
to  New  York,  few  of  them  expect  to  meet  an  American 
cruizer  on  fhis  coast,  by  pretending  to  be  a  New  York 
privateer  or  man  of  war's  tender,  you  may  amuse  them 
until  you  find  a  convenient  opportunity  to  board  or  attack 
them,  but  your  judgment  and  prudence  will  direct  you 
the  conduct  necessary  to  pursue  on  this  and  every  other 
occasion. 

If  our  Bay  should  at  any  time  be  so  guarded  as  to  pre- 
vent your  getting  your  prizes  in  here,  you  will  next  en- 
deavour to  get  them  into  Egg  Harbour,  if  too  large  for 
that  harbour  you  must  send  them  for  Chesepeak  Bay  or 
for  Boston  or  some  port  in  New  England,  if  valuable, 
accompanying  them;  many  things  may  occur  that  we 
cannot  particularly  direct  you  in,  and  in  such  cases  you 
must  act  as  you  judge  best  and  most  conducive  to  our 
interest;  harmony  with  your  officers,  strict  discipline  as 
possible  and  good  usage  of  your  crew  we  would  recom- 
mend, your  gaining  their  good  opinion  and  esteem  will 
be  of  singular  use,  a  general  benefit  to  the  cruize,  and  an 
ease  to  yourself,  and  wishing  you  an  agreeable  and  suc- 
cessful cruize,  we  are,  Sir, 

Your  obedient  Servants, 

J.  M.  NESBITT  and  Co. 
ANDREW  and  HUGH  HODGE. 
— The  .Royal  Gazette,  No.  271,  May  5,  1779. 


To  Mr.  LIVINGSTON,  titular  Governor  of 

New-Jersey. 
SIR, 

I  have  just  dissected  your  prolix  reply  to  Sir  Henry's 
laconic  letter.     Indeed  the  sentiments  it  contains  are 
so  ill  connected,  that  it  scarce  cost  me  a  moment's 
trouble.     Your  essay  seems  to  be  the  dernier  resort  of  a 
distracted  mind,  for  while  you  affect  the  greatest  fortitude, 


- 


338  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

the  infernal  spectres  you  speak  of,  will  not  allow  you  a 
single  moment's  repose.  It  is  impossible  that  the  Com- 
mander in  Chief  could  descend  to  altercation  with  you. 
Your  suspicions  of  assassination  are  plain  and  expressive, 
notwithstanding  the  smooth  and  inoffensive  terms  in  which 
you  have  so  decently  couched  them.  Enamoured  of  the 
aryumentum  cornutum,  most  of  your  periods  admit  two 
meanings,  yet  you  are  so  shallow  a  logician,  that  you  have 
not  yet  discovered  its  full  extent.  Charges  positive  and 
direct  in  the  first  instance,  cannot  be  palliated  by  novel 
insinuations  in  the  second,  nor  can  those  nice  distinctions, 
sometimes  allowable  at  the  bar,  be  admitted  in  attempts  to 
degrade  characters  of  eminence,,  which  can  only  be  fairly 
judged  by  the  dictates  of  truth  and  humanity. 

Besides  perfect  logic  according  to  the  received  opinion 
of  men  of  sense,  springs  from  the  true,  and  not  the  per- 
verted powers  of  reason.  This  you  must  be  sensible  of, 
as  you  are  about  selecting  the  best  laws  of  the  realm  for 
your  assumed  government,  otherwise  you  must  be  a  great 
stranger  to  the  equitable  principles  on  which  they  were 
founded.  America's  loyal  sons  I  shall  ever  admire,  and 
honour  their  rising  genius,  while  from  the  reciprocal 
affection  I  wish  to  see  preserved  between  them  and  Britons, 
I  will  not  draw  the  merits  of  composition  into  question: 
yet  I  can  scarcely  imagine  that  any  foreigner  of  distinc- 
tion, in  high  repute  for  wit  and  knowledge,  would  have 
hazarded  the  assertion  that  this  country  already  possesses 
superior  learning  and  military  proivess  to  Great  Britain. 
Were  the  curious  reader  to  refer  to  the  rise  of  this  mo- 
mentous contest,  however  artfully  the  final  intentions  of 
the  Congress  were  so  long  concealed,  however  mild  in  his 
disposition,  he  must  at  least  discover  much  duplicity  and 
design  in  the  whole  tenor  of  their  conduct,  and  in  no  part 
more,  than  in  the  reasons  they  assigned  for  declaring  in- 
dependence. 

You  have  rarely  preserved  your  own  temper,  tho'  bred 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  339 

to  the  law,  and  never  in  any  of  those  performances  sub- 
mitted to  the  inspection  of  the  world,  or  in  your  judicial 
advice  to  the  people  at  large  as  a  Governor.  You  will  not 
deny  your  opprobrious  expressions  concerning  the  banish- 
ment of  tories  to  desolate  islands,  or  punishing  such  as 
have  the  misfortune  to  be  in  your  power,  or  even  that 
virulent  hyperbole  before  me,  of  being  unable  to  ascer- 
tain the  precise  limits  of  British  cruelty.  If  what  I  ad- 
vance Sir,  is  matter  of  fact,  and  that  it  is  I  appeal  to  the 
whole  world,  where  pray  have  you  furnished  an  instance 
in  support  of  your  pretended  honourable  remark  of  for- 
eigners, that  America  had  shewn  her  superiority  to  Great- 
Britain,  no  less  in  the  decency  of  her  writings.,  than  in  the 
success  of  her  arms. 

I  am  much  surprised  that  a  man  so  intent  on  masterly 
productions,  should  be  so  little  acquainted  with  the  con- 
cise elegance  of  a  fine  writer.  Recollect  yourself  a  little 
Mr.  Livingston,  and  you  will  be  more  reconciled  to  the 
British  General's  determination  to  take  no  notice  of  you. 
His  titles  are  the  just  reward  of -faithful  and  distinguished 
services,  and  I  really  think  you  may  venture  to  retract 
your  former  unguarded  assertion  that  America  and  France 
would  sqon  chastize  British  insolence.  Without  disturbing 
your  amiable  connexions  with  those  unhappy  slaves  who 
flutter  about  your  person,  there  can  be  no  indelicacy  or 
impropriety  in  wishing  that  they  may  at  last  evince  a 
poignant  sensibility  of  the  true  character  of  their  oppressor. 
I  am  your  most  obedient  Servant, 

DETECTOR. 


To  WILLIAM  LIVINGSTON,  Esq;  &c.  &c.  &c. 

Renowned  Sir, 

IF  it  will  not  be  deemed  too  great  presumption  in  one 
of  my  humble  station  to  address  your  Excellency; 
and  if  a  person  who  boasts  of  no  considerable  refine- 
ment in  the  epistolary  way,  may  be  permitted  to  write  to 


340  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [17791 

him  who  (from  superfor  abilities)  is  above  receiving  any 
edification,  I  will  take  the  liberty  to  pay  my  compliments- 
to  you  in  this  public  and  must  respectful  manner. 

You  must  be  sensible  that  consistency  is  one  of  those 
qualities  which  you  possess  in  so  eminent  a  degree,  that 
you  might  with  propriety  adopt  "servetur  ad  imum"  for 
your  favourite  motto.  The  same  unquestionable,  modesty, 
and  (to  use  one  of  your  own  expressions)  the  same  decency 
of  writing  as  Avell  as  speaking,  the  same  rectitude  of  con- 
duct and  urbanity  of  manners  which  you  thought  proper  to 
display  in  the  earliest  period  of  your  memorable  life  have 
been  inflexibly  adhered  to  in  every  circumstance  of  it. 

I  call  to  witness  upon  this  occasion  your  numerous,, 
decent  and  impartial  lucubrations,  with  which  (almost 
at  the  beginning  of  its  existence  in  this  city)  the  press  is 
known  to  have  teemed,  resembling  the  earth  in  that  respect,, 
which,  if  we  credit  the  Poets,  brought  forth  at  its  first 
formation  all  manner  of  monsters. — I  call  to  witness  also, 
that  continuation  of  your  labours  and  your  life  by  which 
you  have  acquired  the  admiration  of  all — except  those 
whom  you  have  always  disregarded — tlie  virtuous  and  the 
irixe. — But  more  especially  I  call  to  witness  that  convinc- 
ing example  of  bright  perseverance  which  you  have  so 
recently  afforded. 

You  will  be  at  no  loss  to  conjecture  that  upon  this  occa- 
sion I  allude  to  your  letter  of  the  l~>th  instant,  addressed 
to  the  British  General.  It  was  indeed  mortifying  beyond 
expression,  that  when  a  gentleman  of  your  character  had 
began  a  correspondence  with  the  General  in  so  very  affable 
a  manner,  and  in  such  inoffensive  terms,  that  it  should  be 
so  abruptly  concluded  by  an  intimation  that  it  was  looked 
upon  as  a  trouble,  and  not  as  an  honour:  And  yet  mortify- 
ing as  this  circuihstance  undoubtedly  was,  perhaps  it  might 
have  been  more  prudent  to  have  said  le^s  upon  the  subject. 
Mankind  are  ready  to  suspect  that  we  are  not  indifferent 
to  matters  which  we  take  so  much  pains  to  mention;  this 


1Y79]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  341 

is  an  opinion  that  a  man  of  your  reading  cannot  be  ignorant 
has  prevailed  in  all  ages,  even  as  early  as  the  days  of 
^Esop,  who  has  introduced  the  disappointed  fox,  declaring 
that  he  had  not  the  least  passion  for  the  grapes  which  were 
placed  beyond  his  reach ;  you  will  pardon  me  for  mention- 
ing this  observation  to  you ;  I  am  convinced,  for  my  own 
part,  (since  you  say  it,  whose  veracity  is  unquestionable) 
that  you  was  not  ambitious  of  a  correspondence,  from 
which  however,  you  determined  not  to  be  precluded;  but 
the  world  perhaps  may  entertain  no  such  adequate  ideas 
of  your  truth,  dignity  and  importance,  and  therefore  I 
was  afraid  might  judge  otherwise. 

But  if  I  presume  with  diffidence  to  hint  a  censure  of 
your  failing  as  to  that  particular,  in  what  you  have  always 
laeen  so  remarkable  for  (I  mean  the  little  arts  of  craft  or 
cunning)  ;  I  shall  with  pleasure  acknowledge  that  you 
have  manifested  your  usual  modesty  in  charging  the  Gen- 
eral with  unprovoked  want  of  politeness,  and  your  usual 
abilities  in  asserting  that  your  former  letter  was  couched 
in  the  most  "inoffensive  terms.'7 

Undoubtedly  it  was  no  provocation  to  ask  Sir  Henry 
Clinton  whether  he  was  an  accomplice  with  assassins,  and 
to  call  upon  him  to  deny  it  if  he  could ;  this  is  the  very 
measure  which,  what  you  call  American  decency,  would 
dictate,  and  especially  to  a  man  who  thought'  it  highly  im- 
probable and  almost  impossible  that  the  General  should 
countenance,  connive  at,  or  be  privy  to  a  design  so  san- 
guinary and  disgraceful.  You  will  observe  that  I  make  use 
of  your  own  striking  and  emphatical  term[s]  upon  this 
occasion,  leaving  out  indeed  the  little  word  "either,"  which 
occurs  in  both  your  letters,  and  is  such  a  breach  of  gram- 
matical propriety,  that  I  wronder  it  could  escape  from  a 
gentleman  of  your  refinement  in  the  epistolary  way. 

I  am  sensible  that  the  vulgar,  and  perhaps  even  a  few 
persons  of  rank  and  breeding  may  differ  both  from'  you 
and  me  in  their  sentiments  of  this  matter.  There  are  some 


342  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

people  whom  no  rank  can  elevate,  no  breeding  can  polish ;. 
they  perhaps  will  declare  that  the  very  asking  such  a  ques- 
tion was  the  grossest  of  all  affronts,  an[d]  that  it  was  im- 
possible it  could  be  couched  in  terms  of  an  inoffensive 
nature:  2sTay,  so  far  might  the  wayward  disposition  of 
such  people  extend,  that  your  Excellency,  upon  making 
similar  enquiries  from  them;  might  only  receive  the  re- 
sponsum  bacculinum  in  return  for  your  trouble. — If  you 
should  alledge  to  them  that  you  did  not  think  it  probable 
they  would  countenance,  connive  at,  or  be  privy  to  a  design 
so  sanguinary  and  disgraceful,  they  would  be  ready  to 
tell  you,  that  yoii  had  then  the  less  reason  to  trouble  them 
upon  the  subject;  either  you  was  insincere  in  this  pro- 
fession, or  it  would  have  prevented  you  from  asking  so 
disgraceful  and  so  affrontive  a  question. 

But  let  us  leave  in  repose  these  extraordinary  men  and 
their  unaccountable  notions.  I  take  it  for  granted  that 
the  terms  of  your  letter  were  inoffensive,  and  the  question 
it  contained  such  as  might  be  asked  with  the  greatest 
delicacy. — I  must  therefore  lament  that  the  General  should 
have  treated  you  with  so  unmerited  a  want  of  politeness. 

It  will  no  doubt  appear  extraordinary  in  the  annals  of 
history,  (in  which  you,  Mr.  Livingston,  must  make  so 
conspicuous  and  amiable  a  figure)  that  Sir  Henry  Clinton 
should  so  far  regard  the  duties  of  his  station,  and  be  so 
attentive  to  the  interests  of  his  King  and  country,  as  not 
to  think  himself  at  leisure  to  correspond  with  a  Gentleman 
of  your  dignity  and  merit. — The  pleasure  he  must  have 
reaped  from  such  a  correspondence  would  have  been  in- 
finite, and  I  am  sure  that  he  will  be  very  much  blamed  if 
he  was  supposed  to  decline  it  from  resentment — I  will 
not  say,  from  contempt. 

Whilst  I  lament  the  ill  treatment  which  you  have  re- 
ceived, and  of  which  I  confess  that  you  seem  too  sensible, 
give  me  leave  to  admire  your  extraordinary  address  in 
availing  yourself  of  the  lucky  wording  of  a  former  letter- 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  343 

—It  is  indeed  true  that  you  did  not  in  express  terms  say 
any  thing  about  his  life,  or  about  the  murder  of  him; 
and  altho'  it  is  impossible  to  understand  in  any  other  sense 
that  delicate  threat  with  which  your  former  letter  con- 
cluded, yet  it  seems  you  had  artfully  prepared  such  an 
evasion  as  is  truly  honourable  and  worthy  of  yourself.  I 
can  hardly  think  that  any  man  who  reads  your  first  letter 
will  be  at  a  loss  to  comprehend  your  real  meaning;  and 
I  am  sure,  any  one  who  afterwards  peruses  your  second, 
must  admire  your  transcendent  abilities. — But  what  is 
most  admirable,  and  ought  by  no  means  to  be  omitted  in 
silence,  is  that  air  of  surprise  which  you  so  naturally  affect 
at  the  General's  understanding  you  in  the  same  sense 
which  would  strike  every  impartial  reader.  It  is  obvious 
enough  that  he  comprehended  thoroughly  the  idea  you 
intended  to  convey ;  tho'  it  cannot  be  denied  that  he  treated 
it  with  the  greatest  contempt;  and  not  with  that  attention 
which  so  friendly  a  caution  deserved. 

Your  former  letter  was  truly  in  the  tragic  style,  and 
meant  to  excite  the  passions  of  terror  and  pity  in  the  mind 
of  the  person  to  whom  it  was  addressed. — You  judiciously 
supposed  that  the  General  would  compassionate  so  worthy, 
so  meek,  and  so  inoffensive  a  man  as  your  Excellency, 
whose  valuable  life  was  exposed  to  such  apparent  danger ; 
and  you  thought  he  would  certainly  be  struck  with  terror 
at  finding  his  person  -so  entirely  in  your  power. — Tho' 
your  letter  failed  of  producing  the  latter  of  these  effects, 
for  which  it  was  so  evidently  calculated,  you  should  com- 
fort yourself  with  considering  that  the  attempt  was  glori- 
ous.— "Magnis  tamen  excidit  ausis,"  you  know,  has  before 
afforded  consolation  to  the  greatest  minds. 

If  the  General  however,  did  not  in  reality  "startle  at 
the  shocking  spectre"  which  you  had  taken  so  much  pains 
to  conjure  up ;  if,  on  the  contrary,  he  treated  the  phantom 
with  an  air  of  careless  indifference  and  disregard,  it  was 
nevertheless  easy  for  you,  Sir,  to  assert  the  reverse,  and 


344         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779 

• 

endeavour  with  matchless  eloquence  to  convince  the  world 
of  it. — Have  you  not  made  the  same  efforts  in  many  other 
instances,  and  tho'  often  detected,  have  you  ever  been 
known  to  recede  from  your  assertions  ? 

But  pardon  me  if  I  mention  that  there  is  some  reason  to 
suppose,  even  from  the  tenor  of  your  shortlived  corres- 
pondence, that  your  Excellency  has  been  not  only  startled, 
but  even  haunted,  by  the  horrid .  spectre  you  allude  to. — 
It  is  difficult  to  escape  from  the  terrors  of  conscience;  and 
tho'  I  am  inclined  to  believe  that  you  possess  as  much 
fortitude  as  any  man,  yet  I  cannot  wonder  if  you  should 
sometimes  behold  a  bloody  poniard  in  the  air,  or  fancy  an 
avenging1  knife  raised  against  your  bosom. 

It  is  time,  however,  to  dismiss  so  disagreeable  a  subject. 

—It  may  awaken  reflections  which  your  Excellency  would 

wish  should  sleep. — Such  reflections  as  might  even  stop 

a  man  of  less  resolution  in  that  full  career  which  you  have 

determined  so  gloriously  to  run. 

I  had  much  more  to  have  said  in  your  commendation 
for  many  other  passages  of  your  letter ;  but  I  fear  that  I 
have  already  trespassed  upon  your  patience.  However  I 
cannot  take  my  leave  of  your  Excellency  without  paying 
the  tribute  of  praise  for  the  polite  manner  in  which  your 
letter  is  concluded. — You  have  now  demonstrated  that 
your  enemies  have  charged  you  without  reason  with  an 
unforgiving  temper.  Notwithstanding  Sir  Henry  Clin- 
ton's unparalleled  want  of  politeness  to  you,  you  have  with 
the  utmost  good  manners  wished  him  a  safe  voyage  across 
the  Atlantic. — It  is  true  that  he  has  no  intentions  of  taking 
that  voyage  at  present,  which  some  people  maliciously  sup- 
pose that  you  really  wish  lie  would,  and  therefore  under- 
stand you  merely  in  that  sense. — But  for  iny  part,  I  so 
totally  differ  from  them,  that  I  can  attribute  your  Excel- 
lency's kind  and  sincere  wish  to  nothing  but  the  well  known 
refinement  of  your  breeding  and  benignity  of  your  heart  ;— 
being  persuaded  that  if  Sir  Henry,  with  all  his  followers 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  345 

were  to  abandon  this  country,  you  would  not  be  so  much  a 
gainer  as  to  sleep  in  peace. 
I  remain,  Sir, 

Your  humble  Servant, 

HUMPHREY  CLINKER. 
New- York,  April  24,  1779. 


I'll  budge  for  no  mans  pleasure  I? 

We  are  informed  from  Acquakenung,  in  Jersey,  that  the 
death  of  Mr.  Hopper,  who  had  bought  and  took  possession 
of  the  confiscated  house  of  a  friend  to  government  in  that 
vicinity  had  intimidated  the  purchaser  of  Major  Drum- 
mond's  *  house,  lately  confiscated,  and  publicly  sold,  from 
taking  possession  of  it,  declaring  that  in  the  night  he 
dreaded  his  throat  also  would  be  cut,  which  happened  to 
be  the  ghastly  fate  of  that  poor  Devil  Hopper. 

We  are  informed  that  yesterday  arrived  at  Sandy-Hook, 
a  privateer  of  six  carriage  guns,  taken  by  the  Diligent, 
brig,  Capt.  Walbeof ;  she  is  said  to  be  of  the  Egg-Harbour 
family.— The  Royal  Gazelle,  No.  272,  May  8,  1779. 


TRENTON,  May  5. 
HOUSE  OF  ASSEMBLY,  April  30,  1779. 

WHEREAS  several  of  the  collectors  and  other  officers 
of  the  government  have  in  their  hands  bills  of 
credit  of  the  emissions  of  the  20th  May,  1777,  and 
the  llth  April,  1778,  lately  called  out  of  circulation  by 
Congress,  which  they  have  received  for  debts  or  taxes  due 
to  this  state,  and  the  same  may  be  refused  at  the  treasury. 

1  For  a  sketch  of  Major  Robert  Drummond   (Loyalist),  see  New  Jersey 
Archives,  2d  Series,  1  :  251.      ' 


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346  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

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Resolved,  That  the  treasurer  be  authorized  and  directed 
to  receive  from  the  collectors  and  other  officers  of  govern- 
ment, all  bills  of  the  said  emissions  which  said  officers  may 
pay  into  the  treasury  on  or  before  the  20th  day  of  May 
next,  provided  each  person  paying  the  same  shall  upon  his 
oath  or  affirmation,  declare  that  such  bills  of  credit  were 
by  him  received  in  payment  for  the  debts  or  taxes  due  to 
the  state,  and  that  .no  part  thereof  was  by  him  received  in 
exchange  for  bills  of  credit  now  in  circulation,  which  oath 
or  affirmation  the  said  treasurer  is  authorized  to  admin- 
ister. And  that  all  bills  of  credit  of  the  said  two  emis- 
sions called  out  of  circulation,  which  may  remain  in  the 
hands  of  collectors  or  other  public  officers,  after  the  said 
20th  day  of  May  ensuing,  shall  be  either  exchanged,  or  the 
loss  occasioned  by  neglect  thereof,  sustained  by  the  said 
persons  who  received  the  same. 

Extract  from  the  Journals, 

Jos.  PHILLIPS,  Clk.  pro  tern. 

Council-Chamber,  April  30,  1779. 
Concurred  in  by  Council,  BOWES  REED,  Clk. 


HOUSE  OF  ASSEMBLY,  May  1,  1779. 

Resolved,  That  for  the  present,  till  a  law  be  enacted  to 
make  further  provision  for  the  militia,  each  officer,  non- 
commission  officer,  and  private,  when  the  whole  or  any 
part  of  the  militia  are  called  into  service,  receive  as  an 
equivalent  to  the  additional  allowance  lately  agreed  to  be 
made  to  the  continental  troops,  the  sum  of  five  shillings 
by  the  day,  over  and  above  their  pay,  bounty,  rations  and 
mileage,  during  the  time  they  shall  continue  in  actual 
service ;  and  that  the  paymasters  of  the  militia  be  in- 
structed to  make  payment  accordingly. 

Extract  from  the  Journals, 

Jos.  PHILLIPS,  Clk.  pro  tern. 


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CHATHAM,  MAY  11. 

A  particular  account  of  the  robbery  committed  at  Hi- 
bernia  iron-works,  mentioned  in  our  last. — On  Tuesday 
night,  the  27th  ult.  a  party  of  robbers  and  well-armed 
villains  surrounded  the  dwelling-house  at  Hibernia  fur- 
nace; three  of  whom  entered  while  the  family  were  at 
supper,  about  9  o'clock  in  the  evening,  and  stayed  near  two 
hours.  They  entered  before  the  family  discovered  them, 
clapped  a  pistol  to  each  of  their  breasts,  ordered  them  to 
give  up  their  arms,  and  surrender  themselves  prisoners  in 
the  King's  -name,  or  they  were  dead  men:  They  were 
obliged  to  submit,  having  only  three  workmen  about  the 
house,  and  they  in  bed.  The  villains  fixed  a  sentry  at  each 
door,  and  then  proceeded  to  plunder  the  house  of  every- 
thing valuable,  to  a  very  considerable  amount ;  with  which 
articles  they  loaded  five  horses,  which  they  took  off  also.— 
They  went  from  that  to  Doctor  Jonothan  Chuver's,  near 
Charlotburg  iron-works,  with  an  intent  to  murder  him, 
having  discovered  on  them  sometime  before,  having  met 
them  in  a  -wood  between  there  and  Long-Pond.  While  they 
were  surrounding  his  house  he  made  his  escape  out  of  a 
window;  they  fired  at  him,  but  missed  him;  he  ran  six 
or  seven  miles  with  no  other  clothes  on  than  his  shirt,  and 
alarmed  the  country  as  he  went.  They  plundered  his 
house,  threatened  to  murder  his  wife,  made  her  go  down 
on  her  knees  twice  and  beg  her  life. — There  are  parties  of 
the  militia  in  quest  of  them,  and  it  is  to  be  hoped  the 
spirited  true  sons  of  liberty,  will  turn  out  and  scour  the 
woods  'till  they  are  detected,  that  they  may  get  their  just 
deserts. 

The  Honourable  Congress  have  appointed  Col.  Azariah 
Horton 1    D.    Commissary  General  of  Musters,   and  the 

1  For  notices  of  the  Horton  family  of  Morris  County,   see  New  Jersey 
Archives,   27  :  267,   and   2d   Series,   1  :  195  ;  2  :  380. 


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348  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

Commander  in  Chief  has  ordered  accordingly  that  he  be 
obeyed  and  respected  as  such. 

Was  married  on  Sunday  morning  last,  before  Church, 
Mr.  Foster  Horton,  of  this  place,  brother  to  Col.  Horton, 
to  Miss  Sally  Low,  formerly  of  New- York. 

On  Thursday  last  near  forty  sail  of  transports,  with 
troops  on  board,  put  to  sea  from  Sandy-Hook. 


TO  BE  SOLD, 

At  vendue,  at  MorrelPs  store  in  Chatham,  on  Saturday  the 
15th  inst.  to  begin  precisely  at  1  o'clock, 

SIX  or  eight  barrels  of  racked  cyder,  gammons  and 
pork,  wood  axes,  stone  jugs  and  bottles  filled  with 
vinegar,  ground  ginger,  chalk,  hammers  and  gimb- 
lets,  books  and  pamphlets,  bayonets,  cartouch-boxes,  steel 
ramrods,  powder,  bullets,  lead,  and  gun-flints,  earthenware, 
knot  bowls,  pewter-platters  and  spoons,  tea  kettles,  seven 
or  eight  feet  of  a  new  tin  funnel,  seal  thimbles,  draw-locks 
and  thumb  latches,  boys  leather  breeches,  large  and  small 
looking-glasses,  one  case  of  bottles,  trace  chains,  chisels  and 
gouges,  black  bottles,  beaver,  castor,  and  felt  hats, '  indigo, 
teatable  ketches,  shoemakers  pincers,  one  saddle,  a  few 
pounds  of  black  beads,  hard  soap  five  or  six  years  old, 
watch  christals,  three  or  four  iron  shovels,  a  few  pounds 
of  caudles,  and  some  tallow,  with  a  variety  of  other 
articles,  by 

JACOB  MOEEELL. 

X.  B.     If  the  subscriber  meets  with  encouragement  he 
proposes  to  take  in  goods  of  all  sorts  to  sell  at  vendue. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  349 


TO  BE  SOLD, 

elegant  repeating  GOLD  WATCH,  London  made0 
For  further  particulars  enquire  of  the  printer. 


SHOES. 

THE  subscriber  is  authorized  to  contract  for  good  strong 
shoes  fit  for  the  army.     He  will  pay  part  in  hides, 
where  that  is  most  agreeable,  and  give  cash  for  the 
remainder.     Those  who  have  shoes  on  hand  will  serve  their 
country  by  bringing  them  immediately. 

JAMES  CALDWELL. 
Springfield,  May  8,  1779. 


WHEREAS  Mary  Decamp,  wife  of  the  subscriber, 
did,  on  the  16th  of  June,  1776  elope  from  her  bed 
and  board,  and  as  there  is  no  hopes  of  her  return- 
ing again,  this  is  therefore  to  give  notice  to  all  merchants^ 
mechanicks,  and  other  inhabitants,  not  to  harbour,  trade 
with,  nor  trust  her  on  my  account,  as  I  am  determined 
not  to  pay  any  debts  of  her  contracting. 

LAMBAED  DECAMP. 


WHEREAS  many  people  of  la,te  have  been  very  assidi- 
ous  in  propogating  reports  tq  the  prejudice  of  my 
character :     This  is  therefore  to  request  the  public 
to  suspend  judgments  until  next  week,  when  the  whole 
matter  will  be  laid  before  them. 

THOMAS  WELLS. 

— The  New-Jersey  Journal,  Vol.  I.,  Numb.  XIII.,  May 
11,  1779. 


350  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 


To  be  SOLD  by  public  Vendue, 

On  Wednesday  the  19th  inst.  at  the  Coffee-house,  in  the 
City  of  Philadelphia,  at  seven  o'clock  in  the  evening, 
A  Very  valuable  Tract  of  418  Acres  of  Land,  situate 
in  Roxborough  township,  in  the  county  of  Morris,  in  the 
State  of  New  Jersey;  it  is  very  well  timbered  with  large 
oak  and  hickory,  and  lies  within  one  mile  of  Andover  iron 
works,  and  but  about  five  miles  from  Hacket's  Town, 
being  very  convenient  to  either  of  those  places.  On  this 
tract  are  low  ground,  swamps  and  cripples,  which  produce 
plenty  of  grass  in  its  season,  and  there  has  been  good  hay 
made  on  the  same,  though  wild  and  uncultivated.  Any 
person  inclining  to  purchase  may  be  further  informed,  by 
applying  to  WILLIAM  SHAW  living  in  Water-street, 
near  the  Old  Ferry,  Philadelphia. — The  Pennsylvania 
Journal,  May  12,  1779. 

[No.  VII. ] 
Mr.  COLLINS, 

As  civil  government  is  like  a  great  machine,  composed  of  several 
mechanical  powers,  great  skill,  judgment  and  prudence  is  requisite, 
both  in  forming  and  putting  together  so  many  different  parts,  in 
order  to  make  it  move  regular,  and  in  regulating  and  guiding  the 
whole,  so  as  to  obtain  the  end  intended  by  it.  The  machine  of  state  is 
its  fundamental  constitution,  and  the  working  of  it  is  the  exercise 
of  civil  government. 

This  is  generally  distinguished  into  three  different  kinds ;  Mon- 
archy, in  which  the  supreme  power  is  lodged  in  one  person ; 
Aristocracy,  when  the  government  is  lodged  in  a  Council  or  Senate 
composed  of  persons  of  noble  birth,  riches  and  wealth  ;  Democracy, 
when  it  is  in  the  hands  of  the  people.  The  two  last  are  comprehended 
under  the  term  Repultllck  or  Commonwealth.  I  shall  not  enter  upon 
a  discussion  of  the  question,  which  of  these  three  is  to  be  preferred? 
Caprice,  interest  and  prejudices  have,  in  all  ages,  influenced  men  in 
their  determinations  on  this  subject.  The  monarchy  we  once  lived 
under  without  murmuring,  we  have,  for  sufficient  reasons,  discarded, 
and  adopted  a  republican  government.  I  only  observe,  that  this  is 
undoubtedly  the  best  calculated,  if  well  conducted,  to  promote  the 
happiness  of  our  civil  society.  I  apprehend,  however,  that  there  are 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  351 

two  extremes  in  republican  governments,  which  it  behoves  us  care- 
fully to  avoid.  The  one  is,  that  noble  birth,  or  wealth  and  riches, 
should  be  considered  as  an  hereditary  title  to  the  government  of  the 
republic.  Wisdom,  and  virtue,  the  two  necessary  qualifications  of  good 
civil  rulers,  are  no  hereditary  endowments  of  human  nature.  The 
very  titles  of  honour  and  wealth  expose  such  to  the  danger  of  oppress- 
ing others  for  their  support.  Was  it  necessary,  I  could  prove  these 
assertions  by  incontestable  arguments.  The  other  extreme  is,  that 
the  government  be  managed  by  the  promiscuous  multitude  of  the  com- 
munity, as  in  some  of  the  states  of  ancient  Greece.  The  many 
imperfections  incident  to  human  nature,  will  ever  prevent  the 
majority  of  every  nation  to  be  fitly  qualified  to  manage  civil  govern- 
ment. Comparatively  few  are  fit  to  direct  the  great  machine  of 
state.  The  multitude,  though  honest,  yet  from  many  natural  defects, 
are  generally  in  the  execution  of  government,  violent,  changeable  and 
liable  to  many  fatal  errors. — The  happy  medium  is,  where  the  people 
at  large  have  the  sole  power  of  annually  electing  such  officers  of  state 
as  are  to  be  entrusted  with  the  most  invaluable  rights,  liberties  and 
properties  of  the  people,  and  the  appointment  of  the  executive  author- 
ity under  their  proper  controul. — America  enjoys  an  opportunity, 
which  no  other  nation  ever  had,  and  that  is  that  of  coolly  and  delib- 
erately forming  constitutions  for  their  civil  government,  without  fear 
of  offending  a  powerful  nobility,  or  dreading  the  displeasure  of  a  mili- 
tary despot. — Thus  have  the  civil  constitutions  of  the  thirteen  United 
States  been  formed,  and  according  as  this  important  business  has  been 
committed  to  men  of  skill,  integrity  and  prudence,  they  have  suc- 
ceeded. 

I  have  carefully  perused  the  Constitution  of  New  Jersey,  and  com- 
pared it  with  some  of  the  other  states,  and  I  humbly  conceive  the 
compilers  have  happily  hit  upon  the  requisite  medium.  Give  me  leave, 
my  fellow-citizens,  to  show  this  in  a  few  particulars,  for  some  reasons 
I  have  in  view.  Our  Legislature  is  annually  to  be  appointed  on  a 
fixed  day,  only  by  the  free  voices  of  the  people.  And  in  order  to  give 
the  community  an  opportunity  of  improving  by  the  wisdom  and  learn- 
ing (which  are  generally  on  the  side  of  the  rich  and  wealthy)  without 
exposing  them  to  danger,  this  Legislature  is  divided  into  two 
branches ;  the  most  learned  and  rich  being  thus  generally  chosen  in 
the  Council,  will  not  have  that  opportunity  by  subtility  and  sophistry, 
to  mislead  the  more  unlearned,  though  honest,  in  the  Assembly,  to 
betray  the  common  interest  to  their  private  emolument,  they  would 
have,  were  they  mixed  with  them  in  one  body.  All  money  matters 
and  impeachments  for  mal-administration,  are  for  that  reason  com- 
mitted to  the  Assembly. — Because  the  duty  of  civil  officers  is  to 
execute  the  laws  upon  subjects,  and  mostly  upon  their  neighbors  and 
acquaintances,  it  is  evident  what  tendency  it  would  have  to  relax 
the  most  wholesome  and  necessary  laws,  in  case  those  magistrates 
were  to  be  elected  by  these  their  neighbours :  Therefore  their  appoint- 
ment is  committed  to  the  joint  body  of  the  people's  Representatives. 


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352  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

These  hold  their  commissions  on  good  behaviour,  during  certain 
fixed  periods,  at  the  expiration  of  which,  they  may  be  renewed  or 
not,  as  their  merit  shall  require.  The  different  periods  are  suited  to 
the  necessary  trials.  This  gives  a  continual  check  on  mal-administra- 
tion,  and  a  spur  to  a  proper  discharge  of  duty.  Though  prejudices, 
derived  from  our  former  very  different  constitution,  may  urge  reasons 
in  favour  of  judges  being  independent,  both  as  to  their  offices  and 
salaries,  yet  their  conclusions  will  by  no  means  hold  good  in  our 
present  constitutions.  1  acknowledge  they  ought  to  be  independent  of 
the  individuals  whose  cases  they  are  to  judge ;  but  hence  does  not 
follow  that  they  ought  to  be  independent  of  the  community  at  large, 
whose  interest  they  are  bound  to  promote,  by  an  impartial  distribu- 
tion of  justice.  As  a  further  precaution,  it  prohibits  all  persons 
from  holding  offices  of  profit  in  the  state  from  a  seat  in  the 
Assembly,  the  branch  to  which  care  of  the  public  money  is  committed. 
I  wish  it  had  been  more  explicitly  prohibited  that  judges  should  have 
any  seat  in  our  Legislative  Council ;  because — judges  of  the  laws 
ouf/ht  to  have  no  hand  in  f ranting  them. 

Such  constitutions,  formed  by  persons  appointed  and  empowered 
by  the  people  for  that  purpose,  being  published  and  generally 
approved  by  the  community,  become  sacred  and  inviolate.  No  Legis- 
lature ought  to  presume  to  alter  or  amend  one  single  article  in  them  : 
And  any  bill  enacted  contrary  to  the  constitution,  I  humbly  conceive 
to  be  no  law.1  For  the  constitution  is,  as  it  were,  the  chartered  right 
both  l>y  which  they  en  jot/  and  exercise  their  power,  and  the  people 
hold  their  rights,  privileges,  liberties  and  properties.  Thus,  if  our 
Legislature  should  permit  one  member  to  take  a  seat  in  the  House  of 
Assembly,  who  at  the  same  time  holds  an  office  of  profit  within  the 
state,  I  doubt  whether  any  law  enacted  while  such  member  holds  his 
seat,  is  binding  upon  the  subjects  ;  because  they  thereby  counteract 
the  very  authority  by  which  they  enjoy  their  Legislative  capacity, 
and  undermine  the  very  barrier  of  the  people's  safety.  And  if  they 
lawfully  may  do  it  in  one%instance.  they  may  in  a  thousand.  At  what 
a  precarious  tenure  then  should  we  hold  our  most  sacred  rights  and 
privileges?  Defects  in  constitutions  may  be  altered  and  amended, 
but  it  must  be  done  by  the  original  power  of  the'  people. 

Having  premised  these  remarks.  I  beg  leave  humbly  to  address 
myself  to  the  Honourable  our  Legislature.  Gentlemen,  this  machine 

1  This  principle  was  established  in  New  Jersey  in  the  famous  case  of 
Holmes  r.  Walton,  tried  before  a  justice  of  the  peace  on  May  iM.  1779, 
and  a  jury  of  six  men.  under  a  recent  statute,  although  the  constitution 
of  1776  expressly  provided  that  the  right  of  trial  by  jury  .  should  be 
forever  preserved.  On  ccrtiorari  to  the  Supreme  Court,  that  tribunal, 
after  long  delay,  reversed  the  judgment  below.  September  7.  1780.  holding 
that  The  statute  was  contrary  to  the  constitution,  and  was  therefore  null 
and  void,  as  the  right  of  "trial  by  jury"  meant  a  jury  of  twelve  men. 
See  a  very  full  account  of  the  case,  by  President  Austin  Scott,  of  Rutgers 
College,  in  American  Historical  l.'<rnir.  IV.,  436. 


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• 

of  state  is  given  unto  you  by  your  constituents,  not  to  amend  and 
new  form  it,  but  to  preserve  it  inviolate,  and  pursuant  to  it,  pro- 
mote as  much  as  possible  the  interest  and  happiness  of  this  people. 
Permit  me  to  remind  you  on  this  occasion  of  a  leading  principle  in 
good  policy,  that  is,  that  the  Legislature  of  a  state  be  particularly 
careful  to  support  and  encourage  those  principally  employed  in  the 
staple  commodities  for  trade,  on  which  the  well  being  and  pros- 
perity of  -the  whole  chiefly  depends.  Trade  is  as  it  were  the  life  and 
soul  of  civil  society ;  and  this  depends  upon  the  staple  commodities 
of  the  nation.  Hollanders  are  called  the  carriers  of  Europe ;  they 
chiefly  subsist  and  enrieh  themselves  by  their  shipping.  Therefore 
shipbuilding,  and  the  raising  of  sailors,  is  principally  promoted  among 
them.  The  English  trade  much  depends  upon  their  manufactures ; 
therefore  these  have  always  been  chief  in  the  view  of  their  Legisla- 
ture. America  is  so  particularly  situated,  that  her  only  staple  for 
trade  is  the  produce  of  the  husbandman.  I  feel  confident  that  in  pro- 
portion as  these  men  are  encouraged  and  supported,  so  will  the 
wealth  and  happiness  of  America  increase.  And  that  from  the 
moment  these  should  be  neglected  or  oppressed,  directly  the  reverse 
will  immediately  ensue.  From  a  full  persuasion  that  you  are  sensible 
of  this,  I  beg  your  attention  to  two  important  matters. 

1.  The  main  subject  of  some  of  my  former  numbers.     If  you  will 
take  the  trouble  to  peruse  them  with  attention,  and  properly  exercise 
your  own  judgment,  I  think  you  must  be  sensible  of  a  two-fold  evil, 
which  threatens  this  most  useful  class  of  men  among  us. 

The  first  is,  that  in  case  the  whole  of  the  basely  depreciated 
money  is  chiefly  to  be  made  good  by  taxes  on  husbandry,  that  this 
will  be  great  injustice  and  an  intolerable  oppression  upon  them ; 
which  will  inevitably  ruin  some  and  discourage  others. 

2.  What   influence   such   an   event   would   probably   have   upon   the 
fundamental    part   of   our    most   happy   constitution.      I    have   before 
observed,   that  if  so  great  an  over-balance  of  wealth  was   cast  into 
the  scale  of  the  rich,  it  would  in  all  probability  prove  the  means  of 
subverting   it.      I   would   here   humbly   offer   a   hint   of   an    additional 
danger  of  this  sort. — If  you  recollect  that  this  state  is  a  member  of 
an  extended  empire,  you  must  be  sensible  that  any  prevailing  party  in 
the  Supreme  Council  must  have  great  influence,  either  beneficial  or 
detrimental,  upon  the  particular  members.     The  spirit  of  the  different 
constitutions  on  this  continent  will  point  out  to  you  what  you  have 
particularly  to   guard   against.     That  of  ours,   with   some  others,    is 
truly  democratical ;    That  of  some  borders  upon  Aristocracy.     Hence 
you    will    find    the    latter    always    favour    plans    calculated    for    the 
advantage   of   the    rich   and   wealthy.      The   former    such    as    have    a 
tendency  to  benefit  the  commonalty.     In  perusing  the  New- York  con- 
stitution  it   appears   evident   to   me   that   the   powers   of   government 
are  thrown  into  the  hands  of  the  rich  and  wealthy  in  the  two  cities. 
The  manifest  conduct  of  the  merchants  and  traders  among  us,  have 

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fully  showed  throughout  the  course  of  this  contest,  what  kind  of 
patriots  and  governors  the  body  of  them  are,  worthy  individuals 
excepted.  From  thence,  I  apprehend,  has  proceeded  the  maugreing 
of  the  constitution,  such  as  it  is,  in  favour  of  those  citizens,  by 
appointing  members  for  the  city  and  counties  under  the  jurisdiction 
of  the  enemy,  without  any  election  of  proper  constituents,  both  in 
Assembly  and  Senate.  It  appears  highly  probable  to  me,  that  men 
who  have  thus  carried  their  point  against  the  commonalty  in  their 
own  state,  being  delegated  to  the  august  Council  of  the  empire,  will 
endeavour  to  favour  every  scheme  which  may  have  the  same  tendency 
in  the  other  states/ — He  that  is  in  any  degree  acquainted  with  the 
government  of  nations,  will  be  convinced  that  riches  and  wealth  ever 
lay  human  nature  under  the  strongest  temptations  to  grasp  at  the 
reins  of  government ;  and,  when  obtained,  to  lord  it  over  the  honest 
commonalty  in  society. — Hence  I  would  almost  venture  to  assert,  that 
if  you  enquire  of  your  delegates  you  will  become  sensible  that 
individuals  in  the  Supreme  Council  of  this  empire  have  already 
discovered  symptoms  of  such  ambitious  designs.  I  would  therefore 
most  humbly  and  earnestly  entreat  you  to  bend  your  minds  upon,  and 
earnestly  exert  yourselves  for,  the  preservation  and  promotion  of  that 
political  happiness  of  the  community  a-t  large,  for  which  they  have 
contended  at  the  expense  of  so  much  labour,  treasure  and  blood.  I 
would  hence  submit  a  few  particulars  to  your  most  serious  con- 
sideration. 

1.  Whether  the  delegates  of  the  different  states  in  Congress,  being 
men  of  like  passions  as  others,  and  under  such  powerful  temptations, 
ought  not   to   be   narrowly   and   strictly  watched  by   their   respective 
constituents,  in  all  the  transactions  of  their  station? 

2.  Whether    the    delegates    are   not,    or    at   least   ought   not   to   be, 
responsible  to  their  respective  constituents  for  the  application  of  the 
many  millions  of  public  money  the  expenses  of  the  empire  require? 

3.  Whether  you  are  sufficiently  sensible  that  proper  measures  have 
been    pursued,    throughout    the    course    of    this    war,    to    satisfy    the 
Legislature  of  the  different  states  in  the  union,  on  this  head? 

4.  Whether,  while  the  confederacy  of  the  several  states  is  forming, 
you  consider  it  safe  and  prudent  to  c/ivc  to  fifty  or  sixty  representa- 
tives   (if  even  we  suppose  them  all  the  most  virtuous)    an  unlimited 
poivcr  to  raise  or  grant  and  apply  any  sum  or  sums  of  money,  with 
which  the  different  Legislatures  are  to  have  no  further  concerns  than 
toxbe  informed  of,  and  furnish  their  respective  quotas? 

5.  Whether   your    constituents   have   not    some    reasons    to    suspect 
that   too   little   attention   has   been   paid,    during   the   confusions   and 
convulsions    of    this    unnatural    war,    to    these    important    matters    of 
state?     And.  in   case  of  former   neglect,  whether   that  does   not  now 
claim  a  double  degree  of  attention  to  matters  of  such  moment? 

6.  If   there   should   be   any   foundation    for   the   reports    that   some 
members    of    Congress    dare    presume    to    insinuate    their    atheistical 


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blasphemy,  even  in  the  august  Council ;  and  that  it  is  common  for 
such,  together  with  others,  to  be  engaged  in  gaming,  balls  and 
assemblies. — Whether  such  conduct  is  to  be  considered  as  consistent 
with  that  dignity  and  majesty,  which  is  necessarily  required  in  the 
representative  body  of  so  extensive  an  empire,  and  best  fits  such 
members  for  that  close  attention  and  deep  penetration  which  the 
many  intricate  and  important  concerns  of  a  nation,  involved  in  a 
calamitous  war,  demands ;  and  is  best  calculated  to  procure  the  con- 
tinuation of  the  kind  interposition  of  Providence  in  our  favour? 

7.  Whether    the   base   depreciation    of   our   currency,    so    evidently 
pregnant  with  ruin  to  thousands,  does  not  demand  the  most  disinter- 
ested care  and  concern  of  the  representatives   of  a  free  people,   in 
order   to  prevent  as  much  as  possible,   its  dangerous  effects   to   the 
prejudice  of  the  community? 

8.  In  case  a  loan  should  be  procured  from   Europe,   whether   the 
greatest  prudence  and  precaution  ought  not  to  be  used  to  make  such 
a  loan  answer  some  valuable  purpose  for  the  common  advantage  of 
the  nation,  and  not  for  the  private  emolument  of  individuals? 

Permit  me,  Gentlemen,  to  offer  you  a  few  hints  in  explanation 
of  the  last  case ;  I  take  it  for  granted  that  such  a  loan  is  intended 
to  be  procured  for  some  important  advantage  to  the  community,  and 
not  to  enable  merchants  and  traders  to  attempt  the  importation  of 
superfluities  and  luxuries  of  life  to  the  amount  of  many  millions. 
It  is  not  that  we  want  to  secure  to  us  liberty  and  peace,  but  poivder 
and  ball ! — I  find  among  men  of  judgment  and  candor  that  some  are 
of  opinion  the  loan,  when  procured,  should  be  drawn  for  in  bills  of 
exchange;  Others  that  it  should  be  transported  to  our  continent. 
Each  opinion  deserves  serious  consideration. 

As  to  the  former,  I  beg  leave  to  observe, 

1.  That    exchange    is    even    now   but    five    for    one,    while    all    the 
necessaries  for  the  army  are,  at  the  lowest  medium,  fifteen  for  one. 

2.  That  as  foreign  traders  would  have  the  monopoly  of  all   these 
bills,  they  would  immediately  lower  their  value. 

3.  On   the   improbable  supposition  that   they   would   not,   it  would 
undoubtedly  require  a  considerable  length  of  time  to  dispose  of  them. 
For  if  we  suppose  the  whole  of  our  emissions  an  hundred  and  thirty 
millions,   and  a  loan  of  fifteen   millions ;     then  that  at  five  for  one 
will  be  seventy-five  millions.     Is  it  to  be  supposed  that  these  traders 
possess  of  our  present  money  seventy-five  millions,   and  all  the  rest 
of  the  community,  but  fifty-five  millions?     Hence,   it   is  evident,   to 
every  person  of  judgment,   that  it  will  require  a  considerable  length 
of  time  to  sell  all  these  bills  for  ready  money. 

4.  And  then  all  what  five  is  below  fifteen  the  community  will  lose 
and  these  traders  gain1. 

5.  In  the  mean-time  the  expences  of  the  war  accumulate  upon  us 
in  proportion  of  fifteen  for  one,  and  that  will  be  for  the  present  year 
amount  to  three  hundred  millions ;    of  which  sum  it  is  impossible  to 


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356  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

raise  one  quarter  by  tax,  consequently  Congress  will  be  under  the 
unavoidable  necessity  of  re-issuing  all  the  money  they  get  for  the 
whole  loan,  and  to  strike  more  instead  of  sinking  any.  Thus  will  the 
end,  namely,  the  recovery  of  the  value  of  our  money,  be  entirely 
frustrated  :  our  national  debt  immensely  increased ;  and  only  a  few 
traders  enriched.  Therefore  this  scheme  must  needs  be  highly 
impolitick. 

It  remains  then  manifest,  that  if  such  a  loan  shall  prove  of  real 
advantage  to  the  community,  it  must  be  transported  to  our  continent. 
How  to  be  applied  when  arrived,  is  another  important  question. 

1.  To  exchange  it  dollar  for  dollar  would  be   evidently  calculated 
to  give  millions  of  public  money  to  enrich  a  few  favourite  individuals. 
The  persons  guilty  of  such  an  action  would  doubtless  as  much  deserve 
capital  punishment  as  any  public  robber  or  highway-man.' 

2.  To  pay  it  out  for  the  exigencies  of  the  army  would  be  a  squander- 
ing of  it ;    giving  a  few  an  opportunity  to  hoard  it  up,  and  leave  the 
original  evil  unredressed. 

3.  To  purchase  continental   money   with  it,   I   am   persuaded  would 
have  this  pernicious  tendency,  that  designing  men  would  immediately 
lower  its  value;    it  would  be  soon  laid  up  out  of  circulation;    and  the 
forementioned  grievances  remain  unredressed  and  rather  increase. 

Thus,  Gentlemen,  I  leave  you  and  others  whom  it  concerns,  to- 
judge  of  and  compare  the  different  schemes  suggested  (in  case  a  loan 
was  procured)  with  the  one  I  have  before  recommended.  And  I  hope 
you  and  those  to  whose  more  immediate  management  such  matters 
are  committed,  may  be  directed  to  that  which  may  prove  most  safe 
and  advantageous  to  the  community ! 

I  have  submitted  the  foregoing  cases  to  your  consideration  foras- 
much as  you  are  the  representatives  of  a  member  in  the  grand  union, 
who  have  the  appointment  and  instructing  of  your  delegates  in  Con- 
gress. And  -I  leave  it  with  you  to  recollect  how  much  the  safety  and 
happiness  of  your  constituents  depend  upon  your  judgment,  prudence, 
integrity,  vigilance  and  care  in  matters  of  such  moment. 

2.  The  other  important  subject  I  would  beg  your  attention  to,  is- 
the  internal  government  of  this  state,  which  is  particularly  com- 
mitted to  your  charge.  Permit  me.  Gentlemen,  to  remind  you 

1.  Of  what  singular  advantage  it  is  to  your  constituents,  to  be 
encouraged  in  the  purchase  of  freeholds.  I  am  daily  more  confirmed 
in  my  sentiments  respecting  the  pernicious  policy  of  taxing  money 
borrowed  for  such  purchase,  which  I  have  submitted  to  the  considera- 
tion of  my  respectable  fellow-oitizens  in  September  last.  Two  things 
in  the  last  laws  for  raising  money,  appear  alarming  to  me.  The  one 
is  the  flagrant  injustice  of  the  double  tax  on  money  borrowed  and  the 
real  property  purchased  with  it.1  The  other  is,  the  tax  on  this  money, 
while  bank  notes  are  exempted.  I  plainly  foresee  if  these  precedents 

1  This  "flagrant  injustice"  was  continued  in  New  Jersey  until  1S6o,  and! 
was  attempted  in  New  York  in  lOO.j. 


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are  drawn  into  practice  by  our  future  legislatures,  that  the  generality 
of  our  farmers  may  henceforth  bring  up  their  children  to  be  not  free- 
holders, but  tenants  at  will  to  others. 

2.  Also  of  your  privilege  and  duty  to  exercise  the  powers  com- 
mitted to  you  with  zeal  and  vigour,  in  order  to  stop  the  present 
torrent  of  profanity  and  vice ;  the  curse  and  bane  as  well  of  civil 
as  of  religious  society. — May  God  give  you  wisdom  and  zeal  in 
managing  the  great  machine  of  state  to  your  own  satisfaction,  and 
the  true  interest  of  those  you  represent !  is  the  cordial  prayer  of  him 
who  esteems  it  his  greatest  privilege  in  reality  to  be, 

A   TRUE   PATRIOT. 


To  AZARIAH  DUNHAM,   Esq 
SIR, 

I  AM  no  divine,  I  never  was  a  president,  I  never  was  a  judge.  I 
am,  sir,  a  friend  to  the  freedom  and  independence  of  America ;  have 
frequently  risqued  my  life,  and  nearly  spent  my  all  in  its  defence. 
This  being  my  character,  I  trust  it  will  not  be  thought  impertinent 
if  I  presume  to  address  a  gentleman  who  is  one  of  the  assistant 
purchasing  commissaries,  and  who  superintends  chief  of  the  purchases 
made  for  the  army  in  the  eastern  division  of  this  state. 

Whether,  Sir,  the  author  of  the  True  Patriot  will  take  any  notice 
of  your  publication,  I  know  not,  for  my  part  I  shall'  be  short  with 
you,  and  I  hope  decent. 

I  have,  Mr.  Dunham,  long  known  you :  I  believe  I  am  well 
acquainted  with  your  character  and  principles,  and  I  cannot  help 
smiling  when  I  see  you  step  forth  so  boldly  like  a  champion  ready  to 
fight  the  battles  of  the  immaculate  tribe  of  commissaries  and  quarter- 
masters. I  shall  reserve  for  another  opportunity  what  I  have  to  say 
respecting  the  conduct  of  those  your  illustrious  friends  whose  honesty 
and  fidelity  you  can  prove  in  a  thousand  instances  not  doubting  but 
I  shall  be  able  to  satisfy  my  countrymen  that  they  have  indeed  been 
''harpies'  who  have  preyed  upon  'our  vitals.' 

Did  you,  Mr.  Dunham,  or  did  you  not,  whilst  acting  as  purchasing 
commissary,  buy  necessaries  for  the  army  and  sell  them  again  at  an 
advanced  price  for  your  private  emolument?  Does  not  a  concious 
blush  cover  your  face  when  you  read  this  question,  and  compare  it 
with  that  seemingly  bold  honesty  which  appears  in  your  famous 
publication  in  the  Gazette  of  the  21st  of  April?  I  call  upon  you  to 
answer  me,  whether  as  an  officer  paid  by  the  publick,  you  had  any 
right  whatever  to  make  such  purchases  for  the  advancement  of  your 
own  fortune?  If  you  answer  in  the  affirmative,  I  shall  not  wonder 
that  you  so  warmly  deny  the  charges  exhibited  by  the  True  Patriot 
against  the  gentlemen  of  the  commissary  and  quartermaster  depart- 
ments. But,  Sir,  I  conceive  that  though  you  may  be  brought  to  a 


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358  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

disagreeable  dilemma  you  will  not  be  hardy  enough  to  declare,  that 
either  a  quartermaster,  or  a  commissary  of  purchases,  or  even  a 
DiRECTOR-general,  has  a  right  to  speculate  with  the  publick  money; 
or  to  engross  those  things,  which  by  his  office  he  is  bound  to  buy  for 
the  army,  in  order  to  sell  them  either  to  the  publick  or  to  individuals 
at  a  more  exorbitant  price. 

You  have,  Sir,  declared  to  the  world  that  the  True  Patriot  has 
vilified  the  character  of  quarter-masters  and  commissaries ;  I  trust 
you  will  on  this  occasion  behave  as  becomes  an  honest  man,  and  if 
possible  defend  every  individual  of  their  THOUSANDS  if  necessary  in 
'a  thousand  instances.'  In  the  first  place  I  hope  you  will  not  in 
your  zeal  for  your  brethren  forget  to  do  justice  to  your  own  character, 
so  that  the  world  may  not  be  convinced  that  after  all  your  seeming 
integrity  you  are  in  truth  but  a  speculating  commissary.  If,  Sir,  you 
will  declare  to  the  world  that  you  do  not  recollect  any  instance  of  your 
transgressing  in  the  above  particular,  you  may  hear  further  from, 
Your  obedient  servant, 

TIMOLEON. 

P.  S.  As  you  are  cavilierly  turned  out,  name  and  all,  you  may 
think  yourself  entitled  to  a  different  signature  from  the  above.  You 
will  please  to  be  informed  that  when  you  think  proper  to  bring  the 
matter  to  an  issue  as  above  hinted,  mine  shall  be  at  your  service,  for 
which  purpose  it  is  left  with  the  Printer.  T. 


TKENTON,    MAY    12. 

We  learn  that  on  the  5th  instant  a  fleet  of  about  70  sail 
of  British  vessels  put  to  sea  from  Sandy-Hook,,  with  troop's 
on  board,,  said  to  be  bound  to  the  southward. 


Extract  of  a  letter  from  New-Barbadoes,  Bergen  county  7 
April  22,  1779. 

"Yesterday  evening  Captain  JONATHAN  HOPPER,  a 
brave  and  spirited  officer  of  the  militia  of  this  county,  was 
basely  murdered  by  a  party  of  ruffians  from  New- York. 
He  discovered  them  breaking  O'pen  his  stable  door,  and 
hailed  them,  upon  which  they  fired  and  wounded  him; 
he  returned  to  the  house,  they  followed,  burst  open  the 
door  and  bayonetted  him  in  upwards  of  twenty  places. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  359 

One  of  them,  named  Stephen  Eider,  had  formerly  been 
one  of  his  neighbors.1 

"Early  this  morning  Captain  BOWMAN,  of  the  Xorth 
Carolina  brigade,  with  a  party  of  the  continental  troops 
and  a  few  of  the  militia  of  this  county  had  a  smart  skirm- 
ish with  the  enemy  near  De  Groot's,  about  seven  miles 
from  Hoebuck,  and  drove  them.  Two  of  the  continental 
soldiers  and  one  of  the  militia  were  wounded.  The  loss 
of  the  enemy  is  not  certainly  known;  one  of  them  was 
taken  prisoner  and  2  or  3  were  carried  off  dead  or 
wounded." 


Extract  of  a  letter  from  Closter,   Bergen  county,   dated 
May  10,  1779. 

"This  day  about  100  of  the  enemy  came  by  the  way  of 
New-Dock,  attacked  the  place,  and  carried  off  Cornelius 
Tallman,  Samuel  Demarest,  Jacob  Cole,  and  George  Bus- 
kirk;  killed  Cornelius  Demarest;  wounded  Hendrick 
Demarest,  Jeremiah  Vestervelt  and  Dow  Tallman,  &c. 
They  burnt  the  dwelling-house  [s]  of  Peter  Demarest, 
Matthias  Bogart,  Cornelius  Huyler,  Samuel  Demarest's 
house  and  barn,  John  Banta's  house  and  barn,  and  Cor- 
nelius Bogart  and  John  Vestervelt' s  barns.  They 
attempted  to  burn  every  building  they  entered,  but  the  fire 
was  in  some  places  extinguished.  They  destroyed  all  the 
furniture,  &c.,  in  many  houses,  and  abused  many  of  the 
women.  In  their  retreat  they  were  so  closely  pursued  by 
the  militia  and  a  few  continental  troops,  that  they  took  off 
no  cattle. 


1  Jonathan  Hopper,  son  of  Albert  and  Rachel  (Alje)  Hopper,  was 
bap.  Oct.  29,  1752.  He  was  b.  and  brought  up  at  Hoppertown  (Hohokus), 
Bergen  county,  but  at  the  time  of  his  murder  was  running  a  grist-  and 
saw-mill  at  Wagaraw,  or  near  the  Bergen  county  end  of  the  present  River 
street  bridge  crossing  the  Passaic  river  from  Paterson  to  Bergen  county. 
For  a  fuller  account  of  this  shocking  affair,  see  History  of  Paterson,  by 
William  Nelson,  I.,  345-6. 


360  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

"They  were  of  Buskii&'s  corps,  some  of  our  Closter  and 
Tappan  old  neighbours,  joined  by  a  party  of  negroes.  I 
should  have  mentioned  the  negroes  first  in  order  to  grace 
the  British  arms." 

STATE  OF  NEW  JEKSEY: 

HOUSE  OF  ASSEMBLY,  April  23,  1779. 

Two  petitions,  one  from  sundry  owners  of  a  certain 
tract  of  meadows  lying  in  the  township  of  Newark  and 
county  of  Essex,  and  the  other  from  sundry  other  free- 
holders and  inhabitants  of  the  said  township  of  Newark, 
were  presented  to  the  House  and  read,  praying  for  the 
reasons  therein  set  forth,  that  a  law  may  be  passed  enabling 
the  owners  of  said  meadows  to  erect  and  maintain  a  dam 
and  works  sufficient  to  prevent  the  tide  from  overflowing 
the  same. 

Ordered,  That  the  owners,  petitioners,  have  leave  to 
bring  in  a  bill  agreeable  to  the  prayer  of  the  petition, 
upon  advertising  such  their  intentions  two  weeks  suc- 
cessively in  each  of  the  publick  newspapers  of  this  state; 
and  provided  they  serve  such  proprietors  of  said  meadows 
not  signing  the  petition,  if  any  be,  who  may  be  interested 
in,  or  affected  by  the  works  proposed  to  be  erected,  with  a 
copy  of  this  order,  at  least  two  weeks  previous  to  offering 
the  said  .bill. 

A  true  copy  from  the  minutes. 

WILLIAM  o.  HOUSTON,  Clk.  P.  Tern. 

X.  B.  The  petitioners  pray  for  a  law  to  erect  and 
build  a  dam,  bank  and  sluice  over  Maple  Island  Creek  in 
any  place  the  most  convenient,  upon  the  meadows  of 
Doctor  William  Burnet,  James  Johnston  or  Nathaniel 
Camp,  sen.  upon  making  a  reasonable  compensation  for 
any  damage  done  by  such  dam  or  works. 

To  BE  SOLD  by  the  Printer  hereof,  A  LAW  LIBRARY; 
Containing  sixty-one  Volumes. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTKACTS. 

To  be  sold  at  publick  vendue,  on  the  22d  day  of  tliis 
inst.  May,  at  the  house  of  Mr.  John  Cook,  at  Tom's  river, 
the  Sloop  I^IVELY.,  together  with  her  Load  of  Lumber :  She 
is  a  good  strong  vessel,  almost  new.  An  inventory  of  her 
sails  and  rigging  will  be  shown,  and  attendance  given  at 
the  day  of  sale  by 

JOSEPH    SALTAR. 

Monmouth,  New-Jersey,  May  5,  1779. 


To  the  Proprietors  of  the  Western  Division  of  New  Jersey. 

WHEREAS  it  has  been  represented  to  the  Council  of 
Proprietors  chosen  to  transact  the  Proprietors  affairs,  that 
it  would  be  necessary  to  have  a  meeting  of  the  Proprie- 
tors in  general  of  said  division,  to  consult  and  agree  upon 
some  matters  relative  to  the  interest  of  the  General 
Proprietors : — These  are  therefore  to  request  the  Proprie^ 
tors  of  the  said  division  to  meet  at  the  house  of  James 
E&dall,  in  Burlington,  on  Tuesday  the  first  of  June  next, 
at  ten  o'clock  in  the  forenoon,  for  the  purposes  aforesaid. 

By  order  of  the  Council. 

DANIEL  ELLIS/   Clerk. 

Burlington,  May  5,  1779. 

1  Rowland  Ellis  was  a  schoolmaster  at  Burlington,  by  appointment  of 
the  Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel  in  'Foreign  Parts,  from 
September  29,  1711,  to  March  17,  1738.  His  tombstone  in  St.  Mary's 
churchyard,  Burlington,  so  states,  and  adds  this  scriptural  quotation : 
"They  that  be  teachers  shall  shine  as  the  brightness  of  the  firmament." 
It  fails  to  state  the  date  of  his  death.  He  married  Sarah  Allison  April 

17,  1715,  in  St.  Mary's  Church.     She  was  buried  in  that  churchyard  July 

18,  1769.     Issue: 

i.  Margaret,  b.  Sept.  17,  1716:  bap.  Nov.  1,  1716. 
ii.  Richard,  bap.  Aug.  26,  1718. 
iii.  Johaines,  b.  June  1,  1720;  bap.  June  19,  1720. 
iv.  William,  b.  Sept.  25,  1722  ;  bap.  October,  1722. 
v.  Joseph,  b.  Sept.  23.  1724  ;  bap.  Dec.  21,  1724. 
2.      vi.  Daniel,  b.  Feb.  5,  1727;  bap.  March,  1727. 

vii.  Rowland,  b.  Aug.  16,  1734  ;    bap.  May,  1735.  •;  j 

viii.  John,  b.  Sept.  18.  1736;  bap.  Dec.  26,  1736. 
ix.  Thomas,  b.  January  13,  1738-9  ;  bap.  March  4,  1738-9. 


362  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

CAME  to  the  plantation  of  Andrew  Mershon,  on  what  is 
called  the  River  Road,  nine  miles  from  Trenton,  on  Friday 

2.  Daniel2  Rowland1  Ellis,  b.  February  5,  1727  ;  m.  Bathsheba  ; 

d.  September  1,  1794 ;  she  d.  June  8,  1795 ;  he  was  appointed  Deputy 
Surveyor  of  the  Western  Division  of  New  Jersey  in  1753,  and  qualified  as 
follows  : 

"Daniel  Ellis — Being  duly  sworn  on  the  Holy  Evangelists  of  Almighty 
God,  Declared  that  he  would  well  and  truly  Execute  the  Office  of  Deputy 
Surveyor  of  the  Western  Division  of  New  Jersey  &  would  observe  and 
keep  such  Reasonable  Instructions  as  should  be  by  the  Survayor  Generall 
under  his  hand  Given  him  to  the  best  of  his  knowledge. 

Daniel  Ellis. 

"Sworn    before    me    this    Twenty 
sixth  day  of  february  1753. 

Nathl.    Thomas." 

This  oath  of  office  is  recorded  in  Book  S  of  Surveys,  page  97,  in  the 
Surveyor  General's  Office  at  Burlington.  In  1762  he  was  elected  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Council  of  Proprietors  of  West  Jersey,  according  to  the  fol- 
lowing entry  in  Book  A  of  Minutes  of  the  Council  of  Proprietors,  page  264, 
in  the  Surveyor  General's  Office,  at  Burlington  : 
"May  ye  5th.  1762. 

"The  Council  of  Proprietors  met  according  to  their  usual  custom  &  it 
appearing  by  the  return  from  the  County  of  Burlington  that  George 
Reading  Esqr,  Abraham  Heulings,  Jos.  Hollinshead,  Daniel  Ellis  and 
William  Heulings  was  chosen  for  said  County  &  that  John  Ladd,  John 
Hinchman,  Daniel  Cox  Esqr  &  Samuel  Clements  Junr.  for  the  County  of 
Gloucester 

"And  the  Persons  appearing  was 

John  Ladd  Esqr  George  Reading  Esqr. 

Abraham  Heulings  Daniel  Ellis 

John  Hinchman  Saml.  Clements  Junr  & 

Daniel  Coxe  Esqr.  William  Heulings 

"Who  proceeded  to  the  Choise  of  their  Officers  and  chose 
John   Ladd   President 
Abraham   Heulilngs   Vice   Prest 

and 
William   Heulings   Clk."- 

II e  began  to  buy  land  at  a  very  early  date.  John  Childs  and  the  rest 
of  the  West  Jersey  Society,  by  Lewis  Johnson,  their  attorney,  conveyed 
to  Charles  Read,  Esquire,  of  the  city  of  Burlington,  for  £48,  eight  hun- 
dred acres  of  unappropriated  land  to  be  taken  up  and  surveyed  in  West 
Jersey,  said  conveyance  being  dated  January  25,  1755.  On  February  3, 
1755,  Read,  for  the  consideration  of  £40,  assigned  this  deed  to  Joseph 
Hollingshead  and  Daniel  Ellis,  both  of  the  city  of  Burlington. —  Liber  M, 
pp.  440-442.  By  deed  dated  August  9,  1755.  Thomas  Gardiner,  chair- 
maker,  of  the  city  of  Burlington,  conveyed  to  Daniel  Ellis,  of  the  same 
place,  for  £30,  1,128  acres  of  land  in  Gloucester  county,  "beginning  at  a 
twin  cedar  standing  by  a  creek  called  Attsionk,  being  the  bounds  between 
Burlington  and  Gloucester  counties,  and  marked  T.  G.  ;  thence  south  41 
degrees,  W  85  chains  to  a  cedar  marked  T.  G.  E.  standing  by  a  branch  of 
the  Mullekeys  river  called  Mechescatuckzing  thence  down  sd  branch  to  a 
Creek  called  Sleepy  Creek,"  etc. — Liber  M,  p.  430.  On  September  10  fol- 


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NEWSPAPER    EXTEACTS.  363 


the  7th  instant,  a  certain  brown  HORSE,  about  14  hands 
high,  a  natural  pacer,  no  brand  or  ear  mark,  part  of  his 

lowing,  Thomas  Gardiner  and  Daniel  Ellis  reconveyed  said  premises  to 
Charles  Read,  for  the  nominal  consideration  of  5s.,  and  a  yearly  rent  of 
£4  10s. — Liber  Y,  p.  113.  By  deed  dated  September  6,  1755,  Daniel 
Ellis  bought  from  Filo  Leeds,  of  Burlington  county,  for  the  consideration 
of  £2  16s.,  56  acres  to  be  surveyed  in  any  part  of  West  Jersey,  below 
the  falls  of  the  Delaware. — Liber  P,  p.  336.  On  June  9,  1760,  William 
Coxe,  of  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  Gent.,  conveyed  to  Daniel  Ellis,  John 
Munroe  and  Joseph  Hollinshead,  all  of  Burlington  county,  1,700  acres  of 
unappropriated  land  to  be  taken  up  and  surveyed  in  West  Jersey  ;  con- 
sideration £95. — Liber  Q,  p.  318.  Thomas  Shaw  appointed  Daniel  Ellis, 
of  the  city  of  Burlington,  New  Jersey,  his  attorney,  the  instrument  being 
dated  May  16,  1757. — Liber  N,  p.  397.  By  deed  dated  May  18,  1767, 
Joseph  Hollinshead  and  Susannah,  his  wife  ;  Abraham  Heulings  and  Rachel, 
his  wife ;  John  Lawrence  and  Martha,  his  wife,  and  Thomas  Rodman,  all 
of  the  city  of  Burlington,  conveyed  to  Daniel  Ellis  and  others,  Esquires, 
Justices  of  the  Peace  of  Burlington  county,  and  Timothy  Abbott  and 
others,  chosen  freeholders  of  said  county,  for  the  consideration  of  £106 
12s.,  "all  that  lot  of  land  in  the  City  of  Burlington  situate  on  Broad  Street 
beginning  at  a  corner  to  a  street  25  ft  wide,  then  runs  along  Broad  Street 
N.  83  deg.  E.  186  ft  to  land  late  of  John  Craige's,  then  S.  15  deg.  E.  77 
ft  to  the  lot  of  land  where  the  Secretary's  Office  stands,"  etc.,  for  a  goal. 
— Liber  Z,  p.  178.  John  Hoskins  and  Daniel  Ellis  were,  on  July  13,  1767, 
appointed  trustees  for  the  insolvent  estate  of  Levi  Murrell,  saddler,  of 
the  city  of  Burlington. — Liber  X,  p.  395.  To  complete  this  transaction, 
Sarah  Murrell,  wife  of  Levi  Murrell,  resigned  her  claim,  for  5s.,  on  the 
same  day. — Liber  X,  p.  397.  Joseph  Perkins,  of  Willingborough,  Bur- 
lington county,  assigned  all  his  real  and  personal  estate,  by  deed  dated 
July  14,  1767,  to  Daniel  Ellis,  William  Smith  and  Joseph  Fennimore,  as 
trustees  for  his  creditors. — Liber  X,  p.  328.  John  Shaw,  an  insolvent 
debtor,  made  an  assignment  of  his  estate  on  June  8,  1767,  to  Abraham 
Hewlings  and  Daniel  Ellis,  both  of  the  city  of  Burlington,  for  the  benefit 
of  his  creditors,  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Shaw,  releasing  her  claim  to  her 
husband's  estate  the  same  day. — Liber  X,  p.  384-386.  Joseph  Hollins- 
head, of  the  city  of  Burlington,  being  about  to  "reside  out  of  the  Province 
for  some  time,"  appointed  Thomas  Rodman  and  Daniel  Ellis  his  attorneys 
to  sell  lands,  etc.,  said  instrument  being  dated  September  24,  1767. — 
Liber  W,  p.  496.  On  August  10,  1772,  Daniel  Ellis  and  his  wife,  Bath- 
sheba,  of  the  city  of  Burlington,  for  the  consideration  of  £110,  conveyed 
100  acres  of  land  in  Chester  township,  in  said  county,  to  Joseph  Worring- 
ton,  of  Chester  township,  Burlington  county,  and  Daniel  Walton  and 
Thomas:  Walton,  of  Philadelphia  county,  Pa.,  said  tract  bounding  on  lands 
of  Darling  Conaroe,  Hudson  Middleton,  William  Fennimore  and  William 
Ivins. — Liber  Y,  p.  535.  He  was  one  of  the  managers  of  St.  Mary's 
Church  lottery,  in  1762. — N.  J.  Archives,  XXIV.,  42.  Complaint  was 
made  against  him,  Sept.  22,  1762,  by  Anthony  Woodward,  to  the  Governor 
and  Council,  probably  for  some  act  as  justice  or  as  sheriff,  but  that  body, 
after  hearing  all  the  evidence  produced,  two  days  later  unanimously  de- 
cided that  the  charge,  whatever  it  was,  was  not  supported. — /&.,  XVII., 
319-320.  In  1764  he  was  sheriff  of  Burlington  county. — /&.,  379,  412. 
He  was  appointed  in  1765  to  be  one  of  the  managers  and  commissioners 
for  a  proposed  road  leading  from  Perth  Amboy  to  Burlington. — Ib.,  590. 


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364:  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

mane  cut  off,  his  tail  long,  a  star  on  his  forehead  and  a 
small  snip  on  his  nose,  with  a  white  speck  in  his  near  eye, 

In  1767  (August  21)  Gov.  Franklin  appointed  him  one  of  the  justices  of 
the  quorum,  of  Burlington  county. — /&.,  XVII.,  455.  At  the  beginning  of 
the  Revolution,  Mr.  Ellis'  sympathies  with  the  American  cause  were  a 
matter  of  question  by  his  neighbors,  and  accordingly,  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Council  of  Safety,  on  Tuesday,  April  8,  1777,  he  "was  summoned  to 
appear  before  the  Board  &  to  take  the  oaths  to  Government,  did  accord- 
ingly appear,  and  refusing  to  take  the  Oaths,  was  indulged  at  his  request, 
until  Friday  next,  in  order  to  provide  Sureties  for  his1  appearance  at  the 
next  Court  of  General  Quarter  Sessions  of  the  Peace  for  the  County  of 
Burlington."  On  Friday,  April  11,  he  "entered  into  recognizance  with 
Abraham  Hewlings  his  surety,  in  £300  each  &c.,  as  above." — Minutes,  pp. 
16.  20.  He  held  the  office  of  township  clerk  from  1763  to  1779,  and 
from  1782  to  1791. — Hist,  of  Burlincjton  and  Mercer  Counties,  p.  126. 
His  tombstone  in  St.  Mary's  churchyard,  Burlington,  has  this  elaborate 
tribute  to  his  memory  : 

Sacred 

To  the  Memory  of 

Daniel   Ellis   Esq. 

Who   departed  this   Life 

in  full  Assurance  of  Faith 

in  the  great  Atonement  of 

Jesus  Christ 

the   1st   Day   of   September    1794 

in   the  67th  year   of   his   Age 

Universally  esteemed  and   as 

Universally   lamented. 

Faithful  to  his  God  without  ostentation 
Upright  and  just  in  all  his  dealings 
Benevolent  and  Compassionate  his 
Liberality  and  Charity  was  Extended  to  all. 
We  therefore  piously  hope  he  is  now 
Enjoying  the  Happiness  reserved  for 
the  pure  in  Heart  with  his  Saviour 
In  the  Realms  of  unfading  Bliss. 

His  wife's  tombstone  is  more  simply  inscribed  : 

To  the   Memory   of 

Bathsheba  Ellis 

Widow  of  Dan'l  Ellis  dec'd 

Who  departed   this   life 

June  8th,  1795. 
in  the   64th  year  of  her  age. 

Beneath  this  stone  the  dust  is  plac'd 
of  her  who  living  was  possess'd 
of   Cheerful   sympathizing  mind 
of  love  to  God,  and  all  mankind 

The  will  of  Daniel  Ellis,  dated  January  8.  1793,  proved  September  10, 
1794.  gives  to  his  wife  Bathsheba,  £100  at  her  own  disposal,  and  the  use 
of  the  house  where  he  then  lived,  with  its  furniture,  and  a  meadow  by 
London  Bridge  (Burlington),  during  her  natural  life.  To  his  children, 


NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  365 


no  shoes  on,  and  about  12  or  13  years  old.  The  owner, 
proving  his  property  and  paying  charges,  shall  have  him 
again  by  applying  at  the  same  place  to 

DANIEL    SLACK. 

May  10,  1779. 

STOLEN  from  a  waggon  at  Trenton,  on  the  night  of  the 
15th  April,  a  black  HORSE  about  10  years  old,  has  a  large 
star  in  his  forehead,  is  remarkably  thick  and  stocky,  about 
14  hands  high,  has  large  scar  in  his  right  side,  a  small 
white  spot  just  forward  of  his  wethers,  trots  somewhat 
heavy,  canters  very  well,  and  paces  a  small  travel.  Who- 
ever takes  up  said  horse  and  secures  him  for  the  subscriber, 
living  at  Westfield,  in  the  borough  of  Elizabeth,  shall  have 
a  reward  of  Fifty  Dollars,  and  the  same  for  apprehending 
the  thief,  on  his  being  convicted. 

JOHN  ROSS,  jun. 

May  8,  1779. 

Samuel,  .  Micajah,  Charles  and  Rowland,  each  £1,200,  which  they  had 
respectively  already  received  ;  to  his  son  Daniel,  the  interest  of  £1,200  for 
his  lifetime,  and  then  to  the  testator's  surviving  children  ;  to  his  son 
Richard,  £1,200,  on  arriving  at  the  age  of  twenty-one.  He  provides  that 
his  negro  woman  called  Pender  shall  be  set  free  and  receive  £15  and 
articles  in  her  room  ;  also  that  his  negro  woman  called  Tenah  shall  be  set 
free  when  twenty-three  ;  he  gives  £15  to  St.  Mary's  Church  as  a  fund  to 
pay  an  Orthodox  minister.  He  provides  that  Maria  Howe,  wife  of  John 
Howe,  shall  have  a  deed  made  to  her  for  household  goods,  lands,  etc.,  to 
fulfil  a  trust.  His  executors  were  also  directed  to  make  deeds  for  lands 
surveyed  by  him  in  Gloucester  county  ;  they  were  also  authorized  to  sell 
and  convey  all  his  lands,  proprieties  and  unlocated  lands  to  any  persons. 
He  gave  to  the  Council  of  Proprietors,  for  their  own  use,  his  book  that 
had  the  account  of  the  General  Proprietors  stated.  Executors  —  Sons 
Micajah  Ellis  and  Charles  Ellis.  Witnesses  —  Edward  Collins,  Israel  Tom- 
kin  and  George  Sweetman.  —  N.  J.  Wills,  Liber  33,  p.  450.  Daniel  Ellis 
and  Bathsheba  his  wife  had  issue  : 
i.  Samuel. 

ii.  Micajah,  d.  March  20,  1813,  in  his  49th  year. 
iii.   Charles. 

iv.   Joseph,  bap.  May,  1755. 

v.  Martha,  b.  May  27,  1769  ;  bap.  July  2,  1769  ;  buried  Nov.  13,  1772. 
vi.   Rowland,  buried  Aug.  15,  1770. 
vii.  Rowland,  b.  July  8,  1771  ;  bap.   at  Burlington  Aug.  21.   1771  ;  d. 

Feb.  6,  1845. 
viii.  Richard,  bap.  Aug.  22,  1773. 

ix.   Sarah,  bap.  Aug.  22,  1773  ;  buried  Aug.  25,  1773 
,     x.  Joseph,  died  Oct.  7,  1785,  in  the  31st  year  of  his  age. 


366  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 


JAMES    THROCKMORTON. 

HAS  hired  the  Fulling-Mill  on  Laurence-Brook,  belong- 
ing to  the  Widow  Schuerman,  about  three  miles  from 
Brunswick,  where  he  intends  to  carry  on  the  business  of 
fulling  in  the  best  manner,  and  to  the  satisfaction  of  his 
employers,  at  as  reasonable  rates  as  the  times  will  admit  of, 
and  hopes  for  the  encouragement  of  the  publick. 

^ewJersey,  AT  an  Inferior  Court  of  Common-Pleas 
Middlesex  Co.  held  for  the  said  county  the  6th  of 

April  last,  were  returned  inquisitions  for  joining  the  army 
of  the  King  of  Great-Britain,  and  other  treasonable  prac- 
tices found  against  Miles  Sherbrook,  John  Demun,  Thomas 
Russel  and  Peter  Lemmon,  of  which  proclamation  was 
made  in  open  court,  that  if  they  or  any  on  their  behalf,  or 
any  person  interested,  would  appear  and  traverse,  a  trial 
should  be  awarded,  but  no  traverses  were  offered :  therefore 
notice  is  hereby  given  that  if  neither  they  nor  any  on  their 
behalf,  nor  any  one  interested  shall  appear  and  traverse 
at  the  next  court  to  be  held  for  the  said  county,  the  inquisi- 
tions will  be  taken  to  be  true,  and  final  judgment  entered 
thereon  in  favour  of  the  state. 


John  Lloyd      )  ^ 

TTT       o      -i  j       r  Comrs. 

Wm.  Scudder 


Princeton,  May  5,  1779. 


STRAYED  from  Middle-Brook  camp  about  the  15th  last 
month,  two  HORSES;  one  a  roan,  about  five  feet  high,  with 
some  white  spots  on  one  of  his  buttocks,  his  left  fore  hoof 
split  a  little;  the  other  a  dark  bay,  about  four  feet  four 
inches  high,  shod  behind.  Only  Twenty-five  Dollars  will 
be  given  to  any  person  who  will  deliver  the  said  horses  to 


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JOHN  GILLISON/  Captain  6th  Virginia  Regt,  Gen  Seat's2 
brigade. 

May  9,  1779. 

TWENTY    DOLLARS    REWARD. 

Assented  himself  the  2d  inst.  from  the  subscriber,  liv- 
ing in  Hanover  township,  Burlington,  county,  New-Jersey, 
an  English  indented  servant  lad,  named  John  Bird,  about 
five  feet  high,  aged  about  19  years,  marked  with  the  small 
pox,  very  much  knock  knee'd;  it  is  very  likely  he  may 
have  changed  his  name:,  as  he  has  done  under  the  same 
circumstances :  Had  on  when  he  went  away,  a  felt  hat, 
oznabrigs  shirt,  homespun  orange  colored  under  jacket 
without  sleeves,  an  outside  blue  and  white  striped  ditto, 
buckskin  breeches,  brown  stockings,  calf -skin  shoes.  Who^ 
soever  takes  up  said  servant  so  that  his  master  may  have 
him  again,  shall  receive  the  above  reward,  from  me. 

SAMUEL    JAMES. 

]NTewmills,  May  3,  1779. 

To  be  sold  at  Trenton  Landing  by  publick  vendue,  on 
Saturday  next,  some  condemned  FLOUR,  PORK  and  FISH. 

Monmouth  PUBLICK  notice  is  hereby  given  to  all  persons 
County,  ss.  having  any  claims,  interest  or  demand  in  or 
upon  the  estates  of  the  following  fugitives  and  offenders, 
(against  whom  inquisitions  have  been  found  and  final 
judgment  entered  in  favour  of  the  state)  viz.  Samuel 
Osburn,  Thomas  Leonard,  Hendrick  Vanmarter,  John 
Throckmorton,  Daniel  Vanmarter,  John  Longstreet,  jun, 
Alexander  Clark,  Joseph  Clayton,  Israel  Britain,  John 
Okeson,  Thomas  Bills,  Benzeor  Hinkson,  and  William 

1  John  Gillison,  Captain  10th  Va.  Nov.  18,  1776  ;  transferred  to  6th  Va. 
Sept.   14,  1778  ;  taken  prisoner  at  Charleston  May  12,  1780  ;  retired  Jan. 
1,  1783. — Heitmaris  Register,  191. 

2  Probably  Gen.  Charles  Scott  is  meant — Lieutenant  Colonel  2d  Va.  Feb. 
13,   1776;   Colonel   5th  Va.   May  7,   1776;   Brigadier  General  Continental 
Army  April  i;  1777  ;  taken  prisoner  at  Charleston  May  12,  1780,  and  was 
a    prisoner   on    parole   to    close   of    war ;    died   Oct.    22,    1813. — Heitman's 
Register,  358. 


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Taylor,  of  Freehold,  Thomas  Crowel,  George1  Taylor, 
Jonathan  Stout,  Peter  Stout,  Oliver  Hicks,  James  Stilwil, 
John  Mount,  boatman,  Samuel  Smith,  John  Bowne,  James 
Pew,  Thomas  Thorn,  Ezekiel  Tilton,  John  Tilton,  late  of 
Middletown,  John  Williams,  Christopher  Tallman,  John 
Wardel,  Michael  Prue,  James  Mount,  John  Williams,  jun, 
John  Pmtard,  Clayton  Tilton,  Samuel  Cook,  James 
Boggs,  Azail  Chanler,  John  Morris,  Robert  Morris,  Peter 
Vannote,  James  Price,  John  and  Morford  Taylor,  Oliver 
Tallman,  Benjamin  Woolley,  Ebenezer  Wardel,  Robert 
Stout,  John  Hampton,  Briton  White,  Tobias  Kiker, 
Daniel  Leffeter,  Gernardus  G.  Beekman,  late  of  Shrews- 
bury, John  Leonard,  Gilbert  Giberson,  Samuel  Stilwil, 
Barzilah  Grover,  John  Horner,  Fuller  Horner,  John 
Ferine,  jun.  William  Giberson,  jun.  Benjamin  Giberson, 
late  of  Upper  Freehold,  and  Isaac  Allen,  late  of  Trenton, 
William  Smith  of  Woodbridge,  John  Taylor  and  William 
Walton  of  Xew-York,  to  exhibit  their  respective  accounts 
fairly  stated  in  writing  to  the  Judges  of  the  Court  of 
Common  Pleas  in  the  county  of  Monmouth,  who  will  give 
their  attendance  at  the  Courthouse  in  Freehold  on  the 
20th  day  of  May,  who  are  empowered  and  directed  by  a 
late  law  of  the  state  of  New-Jersey,  to  receive  and  adjust 
the  same  within  twelve  months  from  the  date  hereof :  And 
also  all  persons  who  have  in  their  power  and  custody  any 
goods  or  chattels,  bonds,  bills,  deeds  of  conveyances,  or 
any  writings  or  effects  whatsoever,  or  are  in  anywise 
indebted  to  the  said  offenders,  and  neglect  to  make  dis- 
covery thereof  immediately  to  the  subscribers,  or  any  or 
either  of  them,  may  depend  upon  being  dealt  with  accord- 
ing to  law. 

SAMUEL   FORMAX,,   JOS.   LAURENCE,  KENNETH 

HANKINSON,  JACOB  wiCKOFF,  Commissioners. 
Monmouth  county,  May  3,  1779. 

PURSUANT  to  an  Act  of  General  Assembly  of  the  state 
of  Xew- Jersey,  entitled,   "An  Act  for  forfeiting  to,  and 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  369 

vesting  in,  the  state  of  New-Jersey,  the  real  estates  of 
certain  fugitives  and  offenders,  and  for  directing  the 
mode  of  determining  and  satisfying  the  lawful  debts  and 
demands  which  may  be  due  from  or  made  against  such 
fugitives  and  offenders,  and  for  other  purposes  therein 
mentioned," — NOTICE  is  hereby  given  to  all  persons  who 
have  any  claim,  interest,  or  demand  to,  in,  or  against  the 
estates  of  Jacob  Van  meter,  John  Daniels,  William  Raw- 
son,  John  Morrow,  Joseph  Hewlins,  Hugh  Cowperthwait, 
Moses  Atkinson,  Robert  Whittecar,  Richard  Mead,  Wil- 
liam Pierce,  Philip  Adams,  James  Buttons,  Israel  Elwell, 
Jaines  Dean,  Joseph  Kindle,  John  Sutton,  Thomas  Button, 
Reuben  Langley,  Abdon  Abbit,  Christopher  Randolear, 
Thomas  Lamb  and  George  Johnson,  that  they  exhibit  their 
demands  in  writing  fairly  stated,  within  one  year  after 
this  date,  to  the  Court  of  Common-Pleas  for  the  county 
of  Salem,  or  to  any  two  or  more  of  the  Judges  in  the 
vacation,  in  order  to  be  examined  and  settled  by  said  Court 
or  Judges ;  and  after  such  demands  are  examined  as  afore- 
said, to  transmit  the  same  to  the  Treasurer  of  this  state 
within  one  month  thereafter,  in  order  to  receive  their  re- 
spective demands,  agreeable  to  the  directions  of  the  above 
recited  act. 

THOMAS  SAYRE  and    )   ~          .    . 

,TT  ~  >  Commissioners. 

WILLIAM  GARRISON 

Salem  county,  May  1,  1779. 

STRAYED  or  stolen  from  Piseataway,  on  Tuesday  the 
fourth  instant,  two  sorrel  COLTS,  with  bald  faces,  lately 
nicked.  Whoever  takes  up  said  colts  and  delivers  them 
to  the  owner  at  Rocky^hill,  shall  receive  Fifty  Dollars. 

NATHANIEL  HEARD.1 

Rocky-hill,  May  18,  1779. 

— The  New-Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  II.,  No.  75,  Wednesday, 
May  12,  1779. 

1  For   sketch,   of   Gen.    Nathaniel    Heard,    see   New    Jersey   Archives,    2d 
Series,  1  :  9. 

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370  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

On  Sunday  morning *last,  a  party  of  refugees  went  from 
New-York,  in  boats  to  C'loster,  a  settlement  abounding 
with  many  violent  rebels.,  and  persecutors  of  loyal  subjects, 
and  who  are  almost  daily  affording  some  fresh  instance 
of  barbarity.  The  party,  on  their  approach  to  their  settle- 
ment, being-  fired  upon  by  the  militia  from  houses,,  were 
obliged  to  lay  them  in  ashies,  and  after  pursuing  the  run- 
aways, killing  five  or  six  wounding  many,  and  bringing  in 
four  prisoners,  returned  to  this  city,  having  one  man 
slightly  wounded  from  a,  random  shot  oni  reembarking. 
On  the  party's  first  arrival  at  Closter  they  found  affixed 
on  several  houses,  printed  papers,  with  the  following; 

"No  Quarters  shall  be  given  to  Refugees,  etc." 

Some  time  since  Mr.  Myers,  an  Ensign  in  a  company 
of  refugees,  was  killed  in  a  skirmish  with  a  party  of  rebels 
near  Closter,  the  inhabitants  of  that  place  after  his  death, 
stripped  his  corps  naked,  hung  him  up  by  the  neck,  where 
he  was  exhibited  as  a  public  spectacle  for  many  hours. 

The  inhabitants  of  Closter  have  been  remarkable  for 
their  persecution  of,  and  cruelty  to  all  the  friends  of  gov- 
ernment, and  had  fixed  up  in  many  of  their  houses  ad- 
vertisements, in  which  they  expressed  their  determination, 
of  giving  no  quarter  to  refugees,  and  requested  all  Con- 
tinental soldiers  and  militia  to  refuse  them  quarters. 

When  the  refugees  in  their  late  excursion  entered  the 
village  of  Closter  they  were  fired  at  out  of  the  houses  and 
barns,  £c. 

Last  Friday  night  departed  this  life  in  the  58th  year  of 
his  age,  Mr.  William  Ha[  Jden,1  a  native  of  the  town  of 
Holt,  in  the  county  of  Norfolk,  in  Old  England,  but  has 
resided  in  this  country  many  years,  and  for  a  consider- 
able time  before  the  rebellion  had  the  charge  of  the 
Academy  at  Newark,  in  New- Jersey,  but  about  two  years 
acjo  was  obliged  to  flv  from  thence  on  account  of  his  un- 


1  One  letter  is  missing.     The  name  was  Haddon. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  371 

shaken  loyalty  to  his  King,  and  left  behind  him  a  family 
with  a  considerable  property.  His  remains  were  interred 
on  Sunday  evening  in  St.  Paul's  Church  yard,  attended 
by  a  very  respectable  body  of  the  inhabitants1  of  this  place. 
-The  Royal  Gazette,  No.  273,  May  12,  1779. 

Married  at  Princeton,  Col.  WILLIAM  SCUDDER1 
to  Miss  SKELTON.— The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  May  13, 
1779. 

To  be  LET,  and  may  be  entered  upon  immediately,  TWO 
BRICK  HOUSES  adjoining  each  other,  few  doors  above 
the  courthouse,  in  the  High  street  at  Burlington;  they 
have  each  a  large  commodious  room  fit  for  a  store,  and  in 
very  good  situation,  each  a  good  garden,  and  one  of  them  a 
stable  and  hayhouse.  For  teirms  apply  to  John  Law- 
rence, esq.,  in  Burlington,  May  15,  1779. 

1  William  Scudder  was  a  descendant  of  Thomas  Scudder,  who  left 
London  or  its  vicinity,  and  was  at  Salem,  Mass.,  as  early  as  1635,  remain- 
ing there  until  his  death,  in  1658.  His  son  John  removed  to  Southold, 
L.  I.,  in  1651,  and  thence  to  Huntingdon,  L.  I.,  in  1657,  and  within  a  year 
or  two  thereafter  to  Newtown,  L.  I.  John's  son  Richard  Betts  removed 
to  the  vicinity  of  Trenton  about  or  before  1709.  Thomas,  another  son  of 
Thomas  1st,  removed,  with  his  brother  John,  to  Long  Island,  becoming 
the  proprietor  of  1,000  acres  of  land  at  Huntingdon.  His  son  Benjamin 
died  on  the  estate  in  1735,  leaving,  among  other  children,  Jacob,  b.  Nov. 
29,  1707,  in  Huntingdon,  where  he  remained  until  1749,  when  he  sold  his 
mills  and  other  real  estate  there  and  removed  to  New  Jersey,  buying,  on 
November  25,  that  year,  from  Josiah  Davinson,  for  £1,400,  a  tract  of  100 
acres  on  Millstone  river,  not  far  from  Princeton,  with  saw-,  grist-  and 
fulling-mills.  He  m.  Abia  Rowe  Aug.  5,  1731;  d.  May  31,  1772  ;  she  d. 
May  5,  1791.  Their  fourth  child  was  William  Scudder,  b.  at  Huntingdon 
April  6,  1739  ;  d.  Oct.  31,  1793,  of  apoplexy.  He  owned  a  large  landed 
estate  and  mills  near  Princeton.  During  the  Revolution  he  was  Lieu- 
tenant Colonel  of  the  Third  Regiment  of  Middlesex  County  Militia,  and 
fought  at  the  battle  of  Monmouth.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  and  prin- 
cipal supporters  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Princeton,  serving 
on  the  board  of  trustees,  1786-1793.  He  m.  1st,  in  1779,  Mary  Skelton, 
who  d.  a  year  later  ;  he  m.  2d,  Sarah,  dau.  of  Matthias  Van  •  Dyke,  of 
Mapleton,  who  survived  him.  William's  brother  Nathaniel,  b.  May  10, 
1733,  was  the  ancestor  of  the  very  numerous  Scudder  family  of  mission- 
aries. His  sister  Lucretia  was  the  grandmother  of  Thomas  J.  Stryker,  for 
forty  years  cashier  of  the  Trenton  Banking  Company,  and  who  was  the 
father  of 'Gen.  William  Scudder  Stryker,  Adjutant  General  of  New  Jersey 
from  1866  until  his  death  in  1900. — Cooley's  Genealogy  of  Early  Settlers 
in  Trenton  and  Ewing,  Trenton,  1883,  p.  217. 


372  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

It  is  truly  to  be  wisned,  ,that  travellers  and  house- 
keepers would  be  more  on  their  guard  than  they  generally 
have  been.  Several  robberies  have  been  lately  committed 
on  both  sides  of  Hudson's  river  and  New- Jersey,  by  the 
malignant  murdering  Tories. — Some  days  since,  in  the 
fore  part  of  the  evening,  a  number  of  villains  came  to  a 
house,  pretending  they  were  friends,  and  used  nattering 
speeches  to  get  in;  one  of  them  counterfeited  a  person 
who  lived  a  few  miles  distant,  saying  he  had  a  letter  for 
the  man  of  the  house,  upon  which  he  inadvertently  opened 
the  door.  They  abused  the  family,  and  robbed  the  house 
of  cash  to  a  considerable  amount. — Tlie  Pennsylvania 
Evening  Post,  May  15,  1779. 


NEW-YOKK,  May  17. 

We  hear,  that  Gen.  Maxwell,  at  Elizabeth  Town,  re- 
ceived Letters  last  Friday,  informing  him  that  a  Party 
of  British  Troops  was  landed  in  Virginia. 

A  Farm,  icilh  some  Improvements,  belonging  to  a 
Refugee  was  lately  sold  at  public  Sale  in  the  Province  of 
New-Jersey,  for  tlie  Sum  of  £3600,  to  be  paid  in  Con- 
gerora,  when  that  Amount  in  soft  Dollars  was  purchased 
for  £175  Currency  in  Gold  and.  Silver. — Tlie  New-York 
Gazette:  and  tlie  ~\Yeel-hj  Mercury.  Yo.  1439,  May  17, 
1779. 

^New-Jersey,          i   T    an    Inferior    Court    of    Common 

Essex  county.       J\      Pleas,  held  for  the  said  county  of 

Essex,   on   the   13th   day   of  April 

inst.  were  returned  inquisitions,  for  joining  the  army  of 
the  King  of  Great-Britain,  and  other  treasonable  practices, 
found  against  Duncan  Campbel,  Cornelius  Stager,  Isaac 
,  Thomas  Phillips,  John  J.  Crane,  Henry  Yancler- 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  373 

hoff,  James  Blundle,  John  Coleny,  William  Brownejohn, 
Thomas  White,  John  Tabor  Kemp,  Joseph  French,  Hugh 
Wallace,  James  Jauncey,  Vincent  Pearce  Ashfield,  Miles 
Sherbrook,  Luther  Baldwin,  Daniel  Pierson,  Sheffield 
Howard,  James  Wilson  and  George  Warner;  of •  which 
proclamation  was  made  at  said  Court,  that  if  they  or  any 
on  their  behalf,  or  any  persons  interested,  would  appear 
and  traverse,  a  trial  should.be  awarded;  but  no  traverses 
were  offered — 

Therefore  notice  is  hereby  given,  that  if  neither  they  nor 
any  on  their  behalf,  nor  any  interested  shall  appear  and 
traverse:  at  the  next  Court  to  be  held  for  the  said  county, 
the  inquisitions  will  then  be  taken  to  be  true,  and  final 
judgment  entered  thereon  in  favour  of  the  State. 

Joseph  Hedden,  jun.  Samuel 
Hayes  and  Thomas  Canfield, 
Commissioners. 
Newark,  18th  April,  177-9. 

— The  New-York  Journal,  and  the   General  Advertiser,, 
Numb.  1825,  May  17,  1779. 

TRENTON",  May  19. 

On  Friday  last  the  following  officers  arrived  at  Eliza- 
beth-Town from  New- York,  on  parole,  viz,  General  Thomp- 
son, General  Waterbury,  Colonels  Housecker,  Potter,  Al- 
lison and  Webb.1  Two'  Subal terns  in  the  land  service  and 
two  Captains  and  some  others  in  the  navy,  were  at  the  same 
time  exchanged. 

1  Brig.  Gen.  William  Thompson,  of  Pennsylvania,  was  taken  prisoner  at 
Three  Rivers  June  8.  1776  ;  exchanged  Oct.  25,  1780  ;  d.  Sept.  3,  1781. 

Brig.  Gen.  David  Waterbury,  of  Connecticut,  taken  prisoner  at  Valcour's 
Island  Oct.  11,  1776;  exchanged  Oct.  — ,  1780;  d.  June  29,  1801. 

Lieut.  Col.  William  Allison,  of  the  10th  Virginia  State  Regiment,  per- 
haps is  meant. 

Col.  James  Potter,  Pennsylvania  Militia,  perhaps. 

Col.  Samuel  Blatchey  Webb,  of  Connecticut,  taken  prisoner  on  the  expe- 
dition to  Long  Island  Dec.  10,  1777  ;  exchanged  December  — ,  1780  ;  d. 
Dec.  3,  1817. 


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By  a  gentleman  who  arrived  here  yesterday  evening 
from  Essex  county,  we'  are  informed  that  a  considerable 
body  of  the  enemy  landed  in  Bergen  county  on  Monday 
last ;  but  their  intentions  are  not  yet  known. 

We  hear  Mr.  Zedwitz,1  late  a  Lieut.  Col.  belonging  to 
the  State  of  New  York,,  in  the  service  of  the  United  States, 
was,  a  few  days  ago,  taken  up  near  Morris-Town,  dressed 
in  women's  cloaths.  About  the  time  the  British  army 
took  possession  of  New- York,  he  was  tried  by  a  Court 
Martial  and  found  guilty  of  attempting  to  give  informa- 
tion to  the  enemy,  for  which  lie  was  sentenced  to  imprison- 
ment during  the  war.  He  lately  made  his  escape  from 
Reading,  and  was  thus  disguised  endeavouring  to  get  to 
New- York.  He  will  now  probably  meet  the  punishment 
his  treachery  justly  merits.- — -The  Pennsylvania  Packet, 
May  20,  1779. 

BY   VEXDUE. 

Will  be  SOLD  at  twelve  o'clock,  on  Tuesday  the  first 
day  of  June  next  (upon  the  premises)  that  well  known 
valuable  stand  for  business  near  the  town  of  Crosswicks, 
on  the  creek  of  that  name,  where  a  large  store  has  been 
kept  for  many  years,  consisting  of  between  one  and  two 
acres  of  land  under  a  good  fence.  A  large  two  story  dwell- 
ing house  with  cellars  and  a  two  story  kitchen  adjoining; 
a  thirty  by  twenty-four  feet  two  story  storehouse,  large 
stables  and  hay  lofts  over  them ;  a  smoke  house  and  cedar 
boarded  garden,  in  which  is  a  well  of  good  water.  The 
buildings  are  new  and  in  good  repair,  situate  on  a  naviga- 
tion to  Philadelphia,  in  a  rich  and  populous  neighbour- 
hood, and  acknowledged  to  be  one  of  the  best  situations  for 

1  Major  Herman  Zedwitz,  1st  N.  Y.,  commissioned  July  15,  1775  ;  sent 
to  prison  Nov.  22.  1776.  under  sentence  to  be  confined  during  the  war  ; 
released  and  permitted  to  leave  the  United  States  July  14,  1779.  The 
newspaper  report  in  the  text  of  his  escape  in  May,  1779,  was  apparently 
incorrect.  But  see  page  404,  post. 


NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  375 


business  in  New-Jersey.     It  is  eight  miles  from  Trenton, 
four  from  Allans-town  and  Bordentown. 

Those  inclining  to  purchase  before  the  vendue,  may  apply 
to  Isaiah  Bobbins1  o>r  Jacob  Middleton  near  the  premises  ; 
or  Charles  Cooke  in  Philadelphia,  who  will  give  an  indis- 
putable title,  and  immediate  possession.      May  12,  1779. 
—  The  Pennsylvania  Evening  Post,  May  22,  1779. 

The1  clamour  among  the  officers  and  men  is  so  great  at 
Elizabeth-Towni,  owing  to  the  little  value  of  their  pay,  that 
a  deputation  went  off  lately  to  Head-Quarters,  demanding 
a  gratuity  of  two  hundred  pounds  for  each  officer,  and  forty 
dollars  fo>r  each  private,  without  which  they  determined 
not  to  serve  ;  in  consequence  of  which  it  was  granted. 

A  dollar  is  usually  paid  a  Tensor  to  smooth  the  chin 
of  a  poor  militia  man.  —  The  Royal  Gazette,  No.  276, 
May  22,  1779. 

Forks,  May  18,  1779. 
To  BE  SOLD  at  Public  Vendue, 

On  the  first  day  of  June  next,  at  the  Forks  of  Little 
Egg-Harbour. 

The  SLOOP  INDUSTRY,  burthen  about  forty  tons; 
a  new  Bermudian-bnilt  vessel,  sails  remarkably  well,  and 
her  sails  and  rigging  very  good. 

At  the  same  time  will  be  sold,  her  Cargo  of  Turks  Island 
SALT,  of  about  four  hundred  bushels. 

JOSEPH  BALL2 

!N".  B.  The  inventory  of  said  Sloop  to  be  seen  at  the 
Coffee-house. 


1  Isaiah.  Robbing  and  Jacob  Middleton  bo.th  resided  in  Nottingham  town- 
ship, Burlington  county,  a  few  miles  from  Trenton.     See  N.  J.  Archives, 
2d  Series,  1  :  534. 

2  For  a  sketch  of  Joseph  Ball,  see  N.  J.  Archives,  2d  Series,  1  :  559. 


376  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 


TO  BE  SOLD, 

For  Casli  or  Loan  Office  Certificates, 

The  Farm  and  Tract  of  Land  called  Mount  Penn,  in 
Monmouth  County,  East  Jersey,  containing  twelve  hun- 
dred acres,  about  fifty  miles  from  Philadelphia.     There  is 
a  neat  new  dwelling  house  on  the  premises,  a  well  of  water 
at    the    door,    about    four    hundred    apple    trees    in    two 
orchards,  about  forty-five  acres  of  SAvamp  lately  cleared, 
which  produces  good  fresh  grass,  and  a  quantity  of  upland 
cleared.     This  tract  will  support  a  remarkable  large  stock 
of  cattle,  as  there  is  a  beautiful  plain  of  salt  marsh  so  laid 
out  by  ditches  of  fresh  water  that  the  one  half  can  be 
pastured,  the  other  for  mowing,  which  may  be  change'd 
annually  to   advantage.      The  south   end  of  the  tract  is 
bounded  by  the  bay,  whose  shores  abound  with  fish,  wild 
fowl  and  oysters  :     On  the  north  end  is  a  valuable  body 
of  cedar  swamp,  and  convenient  to  a  landing.     There  is 
a   stone  quarry  on  the  premises.      The  great  road  from 
Shrewsbury  to  Cape  May  runs  through  the  land  within 
fifty  yards  of  the  dwelling-house,  where  there  is  a  pros- 
pect of  Little  Egg-harbour  and  the  shipping  at  anchor  in 
the  Inlet,  together  with  a  view  of  the  shipping  plying  to 
the  northward  and  southward.     And  a  lot  of  salt  marsh 
adjoining  the  above,  containing  by  estimation  one  hun- 
dred and  three  acres,  equalled  by  few  lots  of  marsh,   a 
brook  of  fresh  water  bounding  it  on  the  west,  and  is  situate 
on  the  head  of  the  tide  in  Burlington  county.     These  two 
tracts  are  situated  in  as  healthy  a  country  as  in  America, 
find  will  suit  a  grazier,  tavern-keeper,  store-keeper,  or  a 
company  of  Philadelphia  merchants  for  the  purpose   of 
expediting  their  sea-trade.     The  situation  renders  it  con- 
venient for  carrying  on  the  whale  fishing,  as  swarms  of 
those  valuble  fish  in  the  season  are  seen  on  the  coasts. 
The   East   Plains   are   contiguous,   so   remarkable   in   the 


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Autumn  for  grasing;  also  several  lots  of  marsh  and 
rough  upland.  The  whole  convenient  to  a  Baptist  and 
Friends  meeting  houses,  and  grist  and  saw-mills.  No 
better  titles  can  be  given  for  lands  in  'New  Jersey  than 
will  be  given  for  these.  Any  person  inclining  to  purchase 
may  know  the  price  and  particulars  by  applying  to 
JAMES  FKEELAND,  at  the  Friends  meeting  house  at 
Little  Egg-harbour,  or  JOHN"  DOKNTELL,  at  the  house 
of  Mr.  Lewis  Grant,  Coppersmith,  near  the  Coffee-house, 
in  Market  street,  Philadelphia. 

Said  DONNELL  has  to  dispose  of,  a  small  share  of 
property  in  East-Jersey,  having  some  oak  and  pine  land 
due  on  it;  a  house  to  rent  in  Water  street,  Southwark; 
and  to  sell,  a  few  hogsheads  of  West-India  Rum  and  sundry 
Dry  Goods. — The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  May  25,  1779. 

Mr.  COLLINS, 

By  publishing  the  'following  remarks  in  your  next  paper, 
you  will  oblige  some  of  your  readers. 

I  Believe  there  [never]  was  a  country  that  had  a  greater  plentitude 
of  politicians,  than  America.  The  political  writings,  which  are  al- 
most every  day  exhibited,  afford  no  contemptible  proof  of  this  obser- 
vation. In  the  publications,  that  have  already  appeared,  the  common 
misfortunes  of  this  period  have  been  so  repeatedly  delineated,  and  our 
errors  described  under  so  many  varying  colours,  that  I  am  not  willing 
to  exaggerate  those  discriptions.  There  are  however  some  points 
which  have  escaped  their  notice,  merely  as  I  suppose  because  they  are 
of  so  obvious  a  nature  as  not  to  merit  the  attention  of  such  refined 
Statesmen.  Many  of  the  descanters  on  the  evils  of  the  age,  have 
according  to  their  favourite  prejudices,  or  prevailing  interests,  fixed 
the  causes  of  our  calamities  on  particular  classes  of  men,  in  conspicu- 
ous stations.  Against  such  men,  have  they  levelled  charges  of  guilt 
without  mercy  or  distinction ;  and  dealt  out  censures,  in  so  indis- 
criminate a  manner  as  was  more  calculated  to  make  their  ill-nature, 
than  to  correct  the  evils  they  complain  .of.  I  am  persuaded,  it  will 
be  found,  upon  a  fair  enquiry,  that  our  difficulties  and  distresses,  have 
a  higher  origin  than  is  generally  imagined.  Many  of  our  difficulties 
arise  from  necessity,  and  are  inseperable  from  our  circumstances; 
and  though  they  produce  inconveniences  to  numbers,  they  argue  fault 
in  none.  Few  men  can  separate  the  idea  of  misfortune  from  error; 
and  when  we  feel  the  former,  we  are  not  apt  to  impute  it  to  the  latter. 


* 

378         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779 

Weak  and  wicked  minds  n*ad  much  rather  seek  for  objects,  to  arraign 
as  the  authors  of  their  miseries,  than  to  support  themselves  pa- 
tiently under  unavoidable  misfortunes.  This  observation  is  clearly 
verified  in  the  numerous  opinions  and  complaints  concerning  the 
reasons  of  the  depreciation  of  our  currency.  Writers  on  this  sub- 
ject, instead  of  reasoning  from  causes  to  effects,  have  argued  from 
effects  to  causes.  Indeed  the  causes  of  this  unhappy  evil  have  at  one 
time  or  other,  been  attributed  to  almost  every  profession  of  men, 
instead  of  being  imputed  to  its  true  cause,  the  great  influx  of  money. 

Those,  who  are  so  fond  of  insinuating  themselves  into  the  esteem 
of  their  countrymen,  by  whining  over  the  degeneracy  of  the  times, 
and  taxing  administration  with  a  want  of  oeconomy,  and  abuse  of 
power,  over-shot  their  mark,  and  in  their  zeal  prove  much  more  than 
they  and  their  admirers  either  expect  or  desire.  For  it  is  a  maxim 
in  politics,  that  the  complexion  and  conduct  of  the  Magistrates  of  a 
state,  furnish  a  very  just  portrait  of  the  people  whom  they  govern. 
This  is  peculiarly  true  in  free  governments ;  and  therefore,  if  there, 
is  a  general  error,  it  argues  a  general  corruption.  The  people  com- 
monly elect  those  for  their  rulers,  whose  principles  and  manners  are 
most  likely  to  coincide  with  their  own.  It  surprizes  me,  that  the 
present  administration  are  suffered  to  govern  ;  or  that  the  executive 
officers  acting  under  them  receive  their  countenance  and  support,  if 
either  are  wanting  in  abilities  or  integrity.  No  nation  ever  existed, 
that,  considered  as  a  people,  were  more  sensible  and  virtuous  than  the 
inhabitants  of  America  ;  but  their  jealousies  being  perpetually  on  the 
hinge,  they  are  easily  seduced  by  popular  declaimers. 

Our  principal  subject  of  complaint  seems  to  be  the  system  that 
regulates  the  great  staff  departments.  It  is  not  my  intention  to  defend 
or  to  combat  this  proposition  ;  but  I  sincerely  lament,  that  those  who 
have  already  warned  us  of  this  mischief,  have  not  also  prescribed  a 
remedy.  To  discover  and  expose  errors,  is  a  task  which  little  minds 
can  accomplish.  To  point  out  an  effectual  redress  for  disorders, 
and  by  the  foundation  of  a  delivery  from  these  difficulties,  shows  the 
man  of  wisdom  and  goodness  of  heart.  Without  repeating  former 
complaints,  or  adding  any  new  ones.  I  will  take  up  the  subject  where 
it  has  been  dropt,  and  propose  a  plan  to  regulate  those  departments, 
which  I  think  is  preferable  to  the  present  establishment,  and  sub- 
mit the  policy  and  usefulness  of  this  arrangement  to  the  consideration 
of  my  readers. 

I  propose,  that  the  supreme  Council  of  the  United  States,  should 
appoint  officers  to  preside  over  the  staff  departments,  who  should  be 
respectively  constrained  to  do  the  duties  of  those  offices,  on  such  terms 
as  may  be  deemed  proper.  That  those  principals  should  be  invested 
with  power  to  constitute  as  many  deputies  as  the  exigencies  of  the 
service  may  require,  who  also  should  be  compelled  to  serve  on  fixed 
salaries — that  the  deputies  should  be  severally  authorized  to  employ 
as  many  agents  as  are  sufficient  to  execute  the  various  branches  of 
their  employments,  who  likewise  should  be  obliged  to  act  for  certain 


NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  379 


wages  —  that  the  heads  of  the  departments  should  be  empowered  to 
appoint  three  commissioners  in  each  state,  on  continental  expence, 
who  should  fix  and  regulate  the  prices  of  all  articles  wanted  for  public 
purposes,  and  estimate  the  value  of  transportation,  labour,  and  the 
like  ;  and  that  each  respective  state  should  confirm  those  appoint- 
ments, and  give  the  sanction  of  law  to  all  their  determinations.  The 
price  and  value  of  things  being  thus  estimated,  and  established  by 
Legislative  authority,  the  people  should  be  bound  to  the  most  rigorous 
compliance  with  those  regulations. 

Should  this  plan  be  adopted,  I  could  hope  to  see  the  most  ex- 
tensive good  consequences  result  from  it.  The  present  enormous 
expences  of  the  staff  departments  would  be  contracted,  further  emis- 
sions of  money  rendered  unnecessary,  and  the  current  expences  re- 
duced to  the  power  and  abilities  of  the  States.  Such  happy  con- 
sequences showing  from  this  system,  we  may  have  an  opportunity  of 
knowing  by  its  being  approved  or  rejected,  whether  there  is  that 
virtue  in  the  people  in  general,  which  we  hope  and  expect  there  is  ; 
or  whether  the  present  evils  which  we  are  experiencing,  are  to  be 
charged  to  the  particular  classes  of  men  to  whom  they  have  been 
ascribed.  If  it  is  practicable  in  politics,  as  I  think  it  is,  to  compel 
men  to  afford  their  services  and  commodities  for  public  use,  at  certain 
rates  ascertained  by  authority,  the  people  may  then  have  the  benefit 
of  applying  this  principle  to  their  particular  circumstances  ;  and  by 
their  own  experience,  know  its  propriety  and  advantage. 

AN   AECONOMIST. 

yew-Jersey,  Hay  15th,  1779. 


MAY  19. 

Saturday  last  about  two  o'clock  in  the  morning,  a  party 
of  near  200  of  the  enemy  landed  at  Middletown,  in  Mon- 
mouth  county,  on  a  picarooning  expedition.  But  from 
the  alertness  of  our  militia  in  collecting,  and  braveiry  in  re- 
pelling those  invadeirs,  they  were  soon  driven  on  board  their 
boats,  by  which  they  were  prevented  from  doing  any  other 
mischief  than  plundering  two  or  three  families. 

Saturday  last  Ga.pt.  Collins  arrived  at  Philadelphia,  via 
Egg  Harbour,  fromi  the  West  Indies.  On  his  way  round 
he  retook  and  brought  in  a  brig  belonging  to  Boston,  which 
the  enemy  had  captured  on  her  way  from  the  Westrlndies 
to  Boston,  and  had  ordered  her  for  New-  York,  laden  with 
upwards  of  100  hogshead®  of  molasseis,  and  some  sugar  and 
coffee. 


380  NEW    JEESEY    IJST    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

We  hear,  that  last  week  three  vessels  belonging  to  the 
enemy,  were  captured  off  the  Jersey  coast.,  and  -ordered 
for  ports  to  the  eastward. 

On  Tuesday  the  llth  instant,  departed  this  life  at  his 
seat  in  Hopewell,  JOHN  HART/  Esq ;  one  of  the  Represen- 
tatives in  General  Assembly  for  the  county  of  Hunterdon, 
and  late  speaker  of  that  House.  He  had  served  in  As- 
sembly for  many  years  under  the  former  government, 
taken  an  early  and  active  part  in  the  present  revolution, 
and  continued  to  the  clay  he  was  seized  with  his  last  ill- 
ness to  discharge  the  duties  of  a  faithful  and  upright 
patriot  in  the  service  of  his  country  in  general,  and  the 
country  he  represented  in  particular.  The  universal  ap- 
probation of  his  character  and  conduct  among  all  ranks  of 
people,  is  the  best  testimony  of  his  worth,  and  as  it  must 
make  his  death  regretted  and  lamented,  will  ensure  lasting 
respect  to  his  memory. 

*  ...  *    The  TRUE  PATRIOT  to  Mr.  DUNHAM,  in  our  next. 


STEPHEN    LOWREY,2 

AT  the  Rev.  Mr.  Spencer's,  Trenton,  gives  the  highest 
price  for  Loan-Office  Bills  on  the  Commissioners  in  France. 

1  For   a   sketch,  of  John   Hart,    see   New   Jersey   Archives,    10  :  269.    and 
2d  Series,   1  :  213.     The  obituary  notice  above  fails  to  mention   the  most 
striking  fact  in  Mr.  Hart's  career — that  he  was  a  signer  of  the  Declaration 
of  Independence. 

2  Stephen  Lowrey  m.   Sarah,   dau.  of  the  Rev.  Elihu  Spencer,  pastor  of 
the  Presbyterian  church  in  Trenton  ;  she  d.  May,  1780,  in  her  25th  year. 
Mr.   Lowrey  had   been  a   merchant   in   Maryland,    but   was   in   Trenton   at 
least  as  early  as  1769.     After  his  marriage  he  resided  for  some  time  at 
the  parsonage.     See  also  Vol.  I.,  ante,  268,  note. 


1779] 


NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS. 


381 


•      TO   BE   SOLD, 

At  the  PRINTING  OFFICE  in  Trenton,  the  following  BOOKS, 
stationery,  MEDICINES,  &c. 

TESTAMENTS,  Apprentices'    indentures, 

Journals  of  Congress,  Powers  of  attorney, 

the  first  2  vols.  Quills,  dressed  and  undressed, 

A   law    library    consisting  of   61    Black   lead   pencils, 


vols. 

History   of  New-  Jersey, 
Vicar  of  Wakefield, 


Wafers  in  boxes, 
Black  sealing  wax, 
Ivory  folders, 


Allinson's  edition  of  the  body  of    Pocket  books, 


laws  of  New-Jersey, 
Clark's  Cordery, 
Schoolmaster's  assistants, 
Dilworth's  spelling  books, 
Oeconomy  of  human  life, 
New    England,    Hanson's,    and 

Woolman's  primer, 
Croxall's  Aesop's  fables, 
Kelly's  Christian  hymns, 
Daniel  Stanton's  Journal, 
Cler&B'  vade  mecum, 
Negotiators'  magazine, 
Clark's,  guetonius's  history  of  the     British-  oil, 

XII     psesars,     in     Latin    and    Godfrey's  dbrdial, 

English,  Turlington's  balsam, 

The   voyages   and    adventures   of    Anderson's  and  Hooper's  Pills, 


Inkstands  of   different  sorts, 

Ink    powder, 

Lampblack, 

Best  grey  hair  powder, 

Rhubarb  in  the  gross  or  powdered, 

Jesuits  bark,  ditto, 

Brimstone, 

Senna, 

Gum  assafoetida, 

Tartar  emetic, 

Epsom's  salts, 

Bateman's  drops, 


Mons  Viaud, 

Watt's,  divine  songs  for  children, 
The  mighty  destroyer  displayed, 
Horn  books, 
Writing  paper, 
Blank  bonds, 

To  BE  SOLD, 


Gum    myrrh, 

Camphor, 

Sweet  oil  in  flasks, 

Corks,  &c.,  &c., 

Also  a  quantity  of  men's  shoes. 


A  HEARTY  strong  WENCH,  with  a  young  child  at  her 
breast,  has  had  both  small-pox  and  measles;  is  a  good 
cook,  and  can  do  all  kinds  of  house  work.  For  terms  en- 
quire of  the  subscriber  in  Trenton. 

RENSSELAER 

May  18,  1779. 


1  For 
Series, 


a   note   on    Rensselaer    Williams,    see    New    Jersey    Archives,    2d 
:  8. 


382         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779 

WAS  left  at  the  house  of  the  subscriber,  by  one  Capt. 
Minson,  of  the  New  "England  Troops,  the  23d  of  Septem- 
ber, 1777,  a  bay  mare.  The  owner  is  desired  to  come  pay 
the  charges  and  take  her  away,  or  she  will  be  sold  in  three 
weeks  after  this  date,  by 

GEORGE  CORYELL. 

Amwell,  May  17,  1779. 


TO    BE    SOLD, 

A  Very  good  house  in  Albany  street,  in  New  Bruns- 
wick, two  stories  high,  a  brick  front,  two  rooms  on  the 
lower  floor,  with  an  entry,  and  three  rooms  above,  where 
also  is  an  entry ;  a  cellar  under  the  whole,  a  good  kitchen 
with  an  entry  adjoining  it,  with  a  linter  to  the  house  for  a 
shop  fit  for  any  business.  The  lot  is  fifty  feet  front,  and 
one  hundred  and  fifty  feet  back,  on  lease  for  about  52 
years  to  come,  with  a  ground  rent  of  Two  Pounds,  Ten 
Shillings  per  annum.  For  terms  of  sale  enquire  of  the 
subscriber  in  New  Brunswick. 

DIRK  VAN  VEGHT'EN. 


Bergen  county,  State  of  New  Jersey,  May  19,  1779. 

TAKEN  up  on  his  way  from  the  enemy's  lines  and  com- 
mitted to  the  gaol  of  said  county,  a  NEGRO  MAN,  who  says 
that  his  master's  name  is  John  Howlet,  that  he  resides  in 
Gloucester  county,  near  Popplespring  church,  Virginia ; 
that  lie  deserted  his  master's  service  and  joined  Lord 
Dunmore  upwards  of  three  years  ago.  Notice  is  hereby 
given  that  unless  the  master  of  the  said  negro,  or  some  per- 
son in  his  behalf,  come  within  eight  weeks  from  the  date 
hereof,  prove  his  property,  pay  the  charges  and  take  him 
away,  he  will  be  sold  to  pay  the  cost. 

ADAM  BOYD.,  Sheriff. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  383 


TO     BE     SOLD, 

By  the  SUBSCRIBER, 

MOLASSES,  coffee,  tea,  snuff,  tenpenny  and  twelvepenny 
nails,  and  indigo.  By  taking  a  quantity  of  either,  allow- 
ance will  be  made. 

THOMAS  MOODY. 

Princeton,  May  11,  1779. 


STRAYED  or  stolen  from  the  subscriber  in  Trenton,  on 
Monday  week,  a  small  bay  MARE,  with  a  star,  8  or  9  years 
old,  is  marked  by  a  halter  on  her  nose  with  white  hair,  and 
has  a  black  streak  all  along  her  back.  Whoever  delivers 
her  to  the  subscriber,  shall  be  handsomely  rewarded  for 
their  trouble. 

WILLIAM  KELLY. 

May  18,  1779. 


Public  notice  is  hereby  given  toi  all  persons  that  have  any 
demands  either  on  bond,  note,  mortgage.,,  book  or  other- 
wise, against  the  persons  whose;  names  are  hereunto  an- 
nexed, to  bring  them  to  two  of  the  Judges  of  the  Court  of 
Common  Pleas;  for  the  county  of  Essex,  within  six  months 
from  the  date  hereof,  in  order  to  have  them  settled.  And 
likewise  notice  is  hereby  given  to  all  persons  that  have 
any  goods,  wares,  merchandize  of  any  kind,  or  owe  on 
bond,  note,  mortgage  or  otherwise  any  sum  or  sums  of 
money  to  any  of  thei  offenders  whose  names  are  hereundeir 
written,  and  shall  neglect  to  make  discovery  thereof  to  one 
of  us  the  subscribers,  within  one  month  from  the  date 
hereof,  may  expect  to  be  dealt  with  as  the  law  in  that 
case  directs. — The  names  are  as  follows,  viz.  Cavilear 
Jewit,1  William  Luce,  John  Smith  Hetfield,  Broughton 

1  Jouet. 


384  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

\ 

Reynolds,  Richard  Miller,  John  Wills,  James  Hetfield,, 
James  Frazee,  James*  Moore,  Jonathan  Oliver,  David 
Oliver,  Job  Hetfield,  Daniel  Moore,  Samuel  Smith,  John 
Morse,  Isaac  Stanbury,  Thomas  Burrows  and  John  Falker. 

John  Olawson,  )  Oommis- 
Daniel  Marsh,   j  sioners. 
Essex  county,  New-Jersey,  May  10th,  1779. 

!New-Jersey,  AT  an  Inferior  Court  of  Common  Pleas 

Essex  county,  ss.  held  in  and  for  said  county,  on  the 
nineteenth  day  of  April  last,  were  returned  inquisitions 
for  joining  the  army  of  the  king  of  Great  Britain,  and  other 
treasonable  practices  found  against  John  Stites,  jun.  Isaac 
Mills,  George  Marshall,  John  Lee,  jun,  James  Frazee, 
jun.  Ichabod  Oliver,  John  Slone,  Robert  Gault,  Oliver 
Delancy,  Thomas  Bradbury  Chandler,  Cornelius  Hetfield, 
jun.  John  Acley  and  John  Marsh,  of  which  proclamation 
was  made  in  said  court,  that  if  they,  or  any  in  their  behalf, 
or  any  person  who  thought  himself  interested,  should  ap- 
pear and  traverse  the  same,  a  trial  should  be  awarded,  but 
no  traverses  were  offered  ;  Therefore  notice  is  hereby  given, 
that  if  neither  they,  or  any  in  their  behalf,  nor  any  inter- 
ested, shall  appear  at  the  next  court  to>  be  held  for  said 
county,  and  traverse  the  same,  the  said  inquisitions  will 
be  taken  to  be  true,  and  final  judgment  entered  thereon 
in  favour  of  the  State. 

John  Clawson,  )  Commis- 
Daniel  Marsh,    j  sioners. 
Elizabeth-Town,  Mar  lUth,  1779. 


BKOKE  GAOL 

BROKE  out  of  gaol  at  Hackensack,  in  the  night  of  the 
10th  inst.  for  apprehending  and  securing  of  whom  the 
following  respective  rewards  will  be  given:  Sixty  dollars 
for  apprehending  and  securing  Elias  Holmes,  a  mulatto, 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  385 

aged  about  35  years,  is  lame  in  his  left  foot,  about  5  feet  11 
inches  high.  He  was  indicted  for  high  treason  at  the 
court  of  this  county.  Fifty  dollars  for  apprehending  and 
securing  Henry  Wormel,.  has  red  hair,  aged  41  years,  about 
5  feet  11  inches.  He  was  lately  committed  for  high 
treason.  Eight  dollars  for  apprehending  and  seicuring 
Robert  Johnson  and  Charles  Chambers,  aged  between  30 
and  40  years;  the  former  about  5  feet  8  inches  high,  the 
latter  about  5  feet  9  inches;  committed  on  suspicion  of 
going  into  the  enemy's  line;  or  Four  Dollars  for  either 
of  them.  Any  person  apprehending  and  securing  any  of 
th«i  above  persons,  upon1  giving  notice  to  the  subscriber,  so 
that  they  may  be  remanded  back  to  the  said  gaol,  shall 
receive  the  reward  prefixed  to  them  respectively,  from  me. 

ADAM  BOYD,  Sheriff. 
Bergem  county,  May  11,  1779. 


To  all  whom  it- may  concern : 

New-Jersey,  ss.  NOTICE  is  hereby  given  that  a  Court  of 
admiralty  will  be  held  at  the  house  of 
Gilbert  Barton,  in  Allentown,  on  Tuesday  the  fifteenth  day 
of  June  next.,  at  ten!  o'clock  in  the  forenoon  of  the  same 
day,  then  and  there;  to  try  the  truth  of  the  facts  alledged-in 
the  bill  of  Oliver  Gleason  and  Samuel  Ball,  (who  as  well, 
&c.)  against  the  ship  or  vessel  called  the  Mermaid,  lately 
commanded  by  Captain  Snowball,  with  her  tackle,  apparel, 
furniture  and  cargo:  To  the  end  and  intent  that  the 
owners  of  the  said  vessel,  or  any  person  or  persons  con- 
cerned therein,  may  appear  and  shew  cause,  if  any  they 
have,  why  the  said  vessel  and  cargo  should  not  be  con- 
demned according  to  the  prayer  of  the  said  bill. 

By  order  of  the  Judge, 

JOSEPH  BLOOMFIELD,,  Register. 

Salem,  May  16,  1779. 

25 


$ 

386  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

Came  to  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber  in  Amwell, 
near  Ringo's  tavern,  about  the  middle  of  February  last,  a 
large  red  ox.  The  owner  is  desired  to  come,  prove  his 
property,  pay  charges,  and  take  him  away. 

JOHN  SNYDER, 

May  14,  1779. 

STOLEN  or  strayed  out  of  the  pasture  of  the  subscriber 
at  Rocky-Hill,  near  Princeton,  on  Tuesday  night  last,  the 
following  horses,  viz.  a  sorrel  horse,  14  and  a  half  hands 
high,  8  or  9  years  old,  a  snip  in  his  face.,  a  long  tail,  in  very 
good  order,  trot®,  paces,  and  canters,  upwards  of  half 
blooded.  Also  a  bay  horse,  13  and  a  half  hands  high,  a 
small  star  in  his  forehead,  hisi  hind  feet  white  up  to  his> 
fetlocks,  trots  and  canters.,  a  switch  tail,  upwards  of  3-9ths 
blooded,  both  lately  trimmed.  If  either  of  them  are 
branded,  their  brands  are  not  known.  Any  person  taking 
up  the  horses  and  thief  on*  thieves,  and  informing  the 
subscriber,  shall  receive  One  Hundred  Dollars,  and  reason- 
able charges  paid.  Sixty  Dollars  for  the  horses  alone. 

JOHN    BERRIEN.1 

—The  New- Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  II. ,  No.  76,  Wednesday, 
May  19,  1779. 

'Mr.  COLLINS, 

I  Find  in  your  T2d  No.  a  piece  of  Az.  Dunham,  a  Commissary  and 
Superintendent  Chief,  which  seems  to  verify  my  apprehensions  that 
an  attempt  to  investigate  the  causes  of  our  national  calamities,  would 
cause  pain  in  the  affected  members.  It  appears  to  me  that  the  spirit 
of  that  performance  discovers  the  symptoms  of  venal  and  corrupt 
servants  of  a  state.  Its  bold  and  arrogant  face  seems  intended  to 
stifle  the  most  distant  advances  to  a  discovery  of  corrupt  and  mal- 
administration in  the  servants  of  this  empire.  It,  however,  behooves 
that  gentleman  to  know,  that  we  esteem  ourselves  as  yet  a  free 
people,  and  as  such  challenge  it  as  our  right  and  duty,  in  case  the 
state  is  involved  in  calamities,  by  the  misconduct  of  any  of  its 
subjects,  to  offer  our  well  founded  suspicions  of  any  class  of  men, 
particularly  the  servants  of  the  state,  in  order  to  rouse  the  com- 


1  A  note  on  the  Berrien  family  will  be  found  in  New  Jersey  Archives, 
26  :  208. 


1779]  XEWSPAPEK    EXTRACTS.  387 

munity,  and  thereby  find  out  more  particularly  the  authors  of  their 
misery.  These  servants  of  the  public  have  an  extensive  field  of 
action,  and  thousands  of  opportunities  to  cloak  their  villainy,  of 
which  citizens  may  have  sufficient  evidence  of  its  linking  somewhere 
in  such  department,  without  being  able 'fully  to  fix  and  prove  it  upon 
individuals.  It  is  evident  from  the  whole  scope  and  tenor  of  my 
several  numbers  in  your  paper,  that  my  charges  against  the  Com- 
missary department  is  to  be  considered  in  that  point  of  view.  And 
in  order  to  support  my  charge  as  far  as  in  this  respect  bound,  I 
appeal 

1.  To  matters  of  fact,  which  by  long  and  common  report  have 
become  of  public  notoriety.  Let  Mr.  Dunham,  as  well  as  numbers 
of  my  fellow-citizens,  bear  evidence  to  the  truth  of  the  following 


1.  Whether  our  army,   when   at  the   Valley-Forge,   after   a  severe 
campaign,   have   not  been   in  an  alarming  want  of  supplies  of  pro- 
visions? 

2.  Whether  provisions  were  not  then  as  plenty  as  they  have  been 
since  ? 

3.  Whether   Congress    had   not   about   or   before   the   time  of   this 
catastrophe  happened  to  our  brave  suffering  army,  fixed  and  limitted 
the  pay  of  the  gentlemen  of  this  department? 

4.  Whether    the    reasons    for    Congress    taking    off    this    fixed    and 
limited  pay,  and  allowing  so  much  per  cent,  has  not  been  that  they 
could  not  otherwise  get  the  army  properly  supplied? 

If  these  matters  are  founded  in  fact,  I  ask  Mr.  Dunham  what 
probable  reason  can  be  assigned  for  them,  if  it  be  not  that  fixed 
salaries  give  these  gentlemen  not  such  favorable  opportunities  for 
embezzling  the  publick  money  as  the  other?  And  what  must  the 
community  judge  of  the  hearts  and  views  of  men  who  were  the 
causes  of  such  calamities  and  dangers  to  our  army,  while  it  was  in 
their  power  to  have  prevented  it? 

2.  Among  a  number  of  probable  particular  cases  I  beg  leave  to 
mention  two,  of  which  I  was  informed  in  a  manner  which  [had]  all 
the  appearance  of  truth.  ^ 

The  one  was,  a  gentleman  of  unquestioned  veracity,  informed  me 
that  a  purchaser  for  the  army  enquired  of  him,  whether  he  had  flour 
to  spare :  After  he  had  told  him  that  he  had  to  the  amount  of  a 
considerable  quantity,  without  asking  a  price,  offered  him  double  the 
current,  to  the  surprize  and  astonishment  of  the  owner,  who  declared 
to  me,  he  would  never  have  thought  of  asking  above  the  half.  I  ask 
Mr.  Dunham,  whether  such  a  step  had  not  a  natural  tendency  to  raise 
the  price  throughout  the  whole  of  that  wheat  country ;  to  double  its 
former  ? 

Another  declared  to  me  as  a  matter  of  fact,  that  a  certain  gentle- 
man of  that  department  made  it  his  business  to  purchase  flour  not 
only  as  Commissary,  but  also  as  a  trader.  When  he  was  called  upon 
for  a  supply,  and  the  current  price  probably  not  enhanced  sufficient 


NEW    JERSEY    IX    THE    KEVOLUTION.  [177& 


for  his  view,  kept  his  owi  in  store,  and  procured  from  the  citizens, 
even  under  pretext  of  pressing  it :  His  own  he  disposed  of  to  the 
continent,  when  advanced  prices  gave  him  an  opportunity  to  answer 
his  purposes.  I  ask  Mr.  Dunham,  what  he  thinks  our  citizens  have 
a  just  right  to  infer  from  such  conduct? 

The  truth  of  these  instances  I  have  no  reason  to  doubt ;  could  I 
have  hoped  that  a  regular  process  against  them,  would  have  effected! 
the  cure  of  the  general  evil,  without  removing  the  cause,  and  my 
circumstances  would  have  allowed  me  to  travel  hundreds  of  miles 
for  carrying  on  such  a  prosecution,  I  would  have  been  disposed  to 
have  done  it. 

If  I  have  no  other  reason  than  the  general  murmurs  and  clamours 
of  the  community,  I  humbly  conceive  myself  justifiable  in  what  I 
have  asserted  respecting  that  department,  for  they  seldom  or  never 
happen  withovit  some  foundation. 

3.  Permit  me  to  leave  to  Mr.  Dunham  himself,  the  determination 
of  two  questions.  First.  Whether  his  office  as  Commissary  and 
Superintendent  Chief,  has  not  brought  him  in  within  the  space  of  a 
year  or  two.  a  sum  amounting  to  double,  treble,  or  six  or  ten  fold,, 
to  what  he  had  made  all  the  foregoing  part  of  his  life?  If  so, 
whether  the  duties  of  his  station  require  so  much  more  fatigue,  hard- 
ship and  danger,  than  officers  of  superior  rank  in  the  army,  (who 
instead  of  making,  have  been  obliged  to  sink  large  sums  of  their 
private  property)  which  in  justice  and  equity  require  so  much  more? 
If  the  first  is  answered  in  the  affirmative  and  the  latter  in  the 
negative,  I  submit  to  the  judgment  of  my  fellow-citizens,  what 
influence  such  unjust  and  exorbitant  demands  upon  our  publick 
treasury,  must  have  on  our  national  calamities?  The  esteem  of  Mr. 
Dunham.  I  assure  him.  affects  me  very  little  :  and  I  cordially  submit 
it  to  the  judgment  of  my  candid  fellow-citizens,  whether  I  deserve  the 
character  of  a  general  cahimniater.  though  I  do  not  publickly  acknowl- 
edge to  have  been  guilty  of  a  fault,  in  what  I  have  asserted  respecting 
the  Commissary  department. 

I  apprehend  it  a  matter  of  indifference  to  Mr.  Dunham,  u- he-re 
the  True  Patriot  resides,  or  whether  he  is  a-  Divine,  or  a  quondam 
Judge  or  President.  It  is  of  more  concern  to  him  to  know  that  I  have 
not  limited  my  charges  against  Commissaries  in  the  state  of  New- 
Jersey  in  particular,  but  that  department  in  general.  And  if  that 
holds  true  with  respect  to  any  of  them  where-ever  they  may  be.  my 
charges  are  sufficiently  supported. 

I  find,  however,  that  Mr.  Dunham  endeavours  to  take  me  on  the 
ground  that  I  have  levelled  the  charge  against  him  in  particular, 
because,  as  he  asserts.  I  have  made  no  exceptions.  If  I  have  not 
excepted  him,  it  is  because  he  must  judge  himself  to  be  among  the 
guilty;  for  I  have  plainly  and  fully  excepted  the  honest  and  Innocent. 
What  else  can  be  the  import  of  the  phraise  I  made  use  of — to  punish 
the  guilt}/  among  them?  I  candidly  own  that  charity  constrains  ine 
to  believe  and  hope,  that  there  are  a  few  honest  and  innocent  in  that 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  389' 

department.     But  Mr.  Dunham  has  my  leave  to  rank  himself  among 
the  guilty. 

Any  thought  even  to  suspect  one  of  that  department  capable  of 
being  guilty  of  any  part  of  the  charge,  is  so  vile,  with  Mr.  Dunham, 
•as  seems  to  put  him  almost  to  a  nonplus  for  words  to  express  it. — Sir, 
your  passions  seems  to  have  thrown  your  ideas  into  confusion.  Only 
recollect  it  must  be  the  misconduct  of  some  in  our  community,  that 
have  brought  these  calamities  upon  us.  Among  twelve  Apostles  one 
was  capable  of  being  a  traitor :  But  you  seem  to  insinuate  that  the 
whole  of  your  fraternity  are  incapable  of  having  any  influence  on  our 
present  evils  complained  of.  So  you  attribute  a  greater  degree  of 
sanctity  to  them  than  the  twelve  Apostles. — No  wonder  that  such  a  man 
should  despise  the  sanctity  of  a  modern  Divine,  as  well  as  the 
importance  of  a  quondam  President  or  Judge. — Some  persons  must 
be  suspected.  I  therefore,  in  order  to  avoid  his  severe  censure,  beg 
Ms  directions  and  permission  who  to  suspect. 

To  Mr.  Dunham's  knowledge  and  belief,  no  part  of  my  charge  is 
true ;  Yea,  he  knows  the  reverse  to  be  true,  and  can  prove  it  by  a 
thousand  instances.  O  !  Stupidity  !  Effects  of  phrensy  ! — Go  on,  Sir, 
prove  yourself  and  all  the  gentlemen  of  that  department  innocent,  as 
to  any  part  of  my  charge,  or  else  you  will  be  in  danger  of  not  sup- 
porting that  good  character  you  insinuate  to  have  deserved.  As  you, 
Sir,  have  here  given  your  belief  to  the  publick,  permit  me  to  declare, 
that  /  believe  you  guilty  of  some  part  of  my  charge.  It  is  probable, 
Sir,  that  consciousness  of  guilt  has  prompted  you  to  this  perform- 
ance, in  order  thereby  (if  possible)  to  avoid  more  particular  suspi- 
cions. And  suppose  you  should  render  a  full,  and,  to  appearance,  just 
account,  I  shall  not  esteem  it  sufficient  proof  that  you  are  free  and 
clear  of  any  part  my  charge. 

As  to  the  spirit  and  composition  of  this  performance,  and  his  sneer 
at  the  farmers  and  tradesmen,  and  my  flattery  of  them,  I  leave  him 
to  reap  all  the  benefits  from,  he  has  a  right  to  expect. 

A  TEUE  PATRIOT. 

April  23,  1779. 

Mr.  COLLINS, 

Please  to  give  the  following  observations  a  place  in 
your  Gazette., 

To  THE  JERSEY  FARMER. 

•    Sir, 

I  AM  much  obliged  by  your  second  publication,  which  I  have  how 
before  me,  and  shall  endeavour  to  bring  all  my  brother  electors  into 
your  measures  for  securing  our  happy  constitution  from  any  further 
innovations,  by  leaving  out  at  the  next  election  every  member  who 
lias  accepted  any  office  of  profit  under  the  present  government,  let 
his  qualifications  in  other  respects  be  ever  so  great,  as  being  the  only 


390  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

sure  means  to  preserve  our  constitution  from  every  suspicion  of  cor- 
ruption. 

But  what  shall  be  done  to  prevent  the  further  depreciation  of  our 
bills  of  credit.  It  is  lamentably  true,  as  the  True  Patriot  justly 
observes,  that  publick  virtue  seems  to  have  left  almost  all  ranks  of 
people  among  us,  except  the  officers  and  soldiers  of  the  continental 
army,  whom  I  hold  in  the  highest  veneration.  They  endure  every 
hardship,  and  expose  themselves  to  every  danger,  and  even  to  death 
itself,  with  a  patience  and  suffering  (some  few  excepted)  that  is 
hardly  to  be  paralleled  in  any  history  now  to  be  met  with ;  whilst 
people  of  almost  all  ranks  in  the  United  States  are  become  engrossers, 
speculators  and  forestallers,  some  of  the  quartermasters  and  com- 
missaries of  purchase  not  excepted.  It  has  been  often  said  that  the 
quartermaster's  department  is  very  lucrative ;  that  they  will  return 
to  citizenship  with  the  fortunes  of  Nabobs  or  Sultans,  which  I  am 
induced  to  believe,  as  I  see  persons  of  all  ranks  and  characters  fond 
of  becoming  deputies  in  order  to  partake  of  the  emoluments  of  that 
very  beneficial  office.  I  was  always  of  opinion  that  every  servant  of 
the  publick  ought  to  have  an  adequate  or  rather  a  generous  salary 
annexed  to  their  several  offices ;  this  in  all  free  governments  is  rea- 
sonable, and  which  I  apprehend  is  right ;  but  is  the  present  apportion- 
ment right?  This  is  the  enquiry.  I  am  informed  the  Quartermaster 
General,  with  his  two  assistants  (whose  characters  are  unexception- 
able) draw  a  commission  of  one  per  cent,  on  the  amount  of  all  money 
paid  in  their  department.  They  appoint  a  Quartermaster-General  in 
each  state — he  draws  one  and  a  half  per  cent,  on  all  money  paid  by 
him.  He  then  appoints  deputies  at  each  post,  and  assistants  almost 
without  number,  either  on  commissions  or  monthly  pay,  on  -all  which 
the  commissions  are  taken.  Can  this  be  right?  I  must  submit  it  to 
that  honourable  body  under  whose  government  I  wish  to  live. 

In  the  next  place,  let  us  in  general,  if  I  may  use  the  expression, 
besiege  tlie  Congress  of  the  United  States  with  our  petitions,  praying 
that  they  will  (amidst  the  many  dissipating  scense,  jaunts  of  pleasure, 
luxury  and  fashions  of  our  enemies,  that  are  eagerly  gone  into  by 
almost  all  ranks  of  people  among  us)  adopt  the  salutary  measure, 
constantly  practiced  by  our  enemies,  to  prevent  monopolizing  and 
extortion.  No  sooner  do  they  get  possession  of  a  small  island,  but  an 
ordinance  is  immediately  published,  limiting  the  price  of  all  kinds  of 
produce,  manufactory  and  merchandise.  Surely  the  Supreme 
Power  that  governs  the  United  States,  can  with  one  resolution, 
draw  the  line  of  limitation  for  all  the  prices  of  internal  produce, 
manufactory  and  labor,  leaving  importation  free,  only  restraining 
engrossing,  &c.  This,  together  with  annual  taxes  equal  to  the 
expenditure  of  the  current  year,  is  a  measure  I  believe  will  (like  the 
Cortex  of  Peru  in  a  fever)  be  a  sovereign  remedy  for  restoring  our 
bills  of  credit  to  the  value  mentioned  on  the  face  of  them.  On  this 
criterion  depends  the  trial  of  whig  and  tory.  The  true  whig  will  most 
cheerfully  submit,  and  endeavour  to  carry  the  regulation  into  effect,  by 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  391 

every  means  in  his  power ;  whilst  the  tory,  altho'  chagrined  to  his 
very  so]il,  will  seemingly  grin  an  applause.  This  is  a  measure  that 
our  enemies  are  using  every  means  in  their  power  to  prevent  taking- 
effect,  well  knowing  it  would  destroy  their  pernicious  plan  for  enslav- 
ing us. 

I  am  well  aware,  and  expect  to  hear  the  old  trite  observation,  that 
trade  will  regulate  itself.  I  know  it  will  in  ordinary  cases,  but  we 
are  concerned  in  an  extraordinary  one ;  a  cause  of  the  first  magni- 
tude, in  which  the  lives,  liberties,  and  every  thing  dear  to  three 
millions  of  people,  are  at  stake.  The  means  are  in  our  power,  and 
surely  where  inevitable  necessity  is  contended  for,  the  dispute  must 
be  short,  long  arguments  are  unnecessary.  If  what  has  been  already 
published  will  not  alarm  and  convince,  I  shall  conclude  that  the 
delusion  will  continue,  altho'  one  should  be  sent  from  the  dead.  Here 
let  me  drop  the  language  of  a  Cato,  and  cry  out,  O  Liberty !  O  my 
Country !  O  my  Friends !  Or  that  of  a  Cato's  son — 

—  "Is  there  not  some  chosen  curse, 
Some  hidden  thunder  in  the  stores  of  Heaven, 
Red  with  uncommon  wrath,  to  blast  the  man 
Who  owes  his  greatness  to  his  country's  ruin." 

I  could  not  remain  any  longer  a  spectator,  and  have  just  mentioned 
what  I  sincerely  wish  may  be  improved  and  carried  into  effect. 
That  the  independence  of  the  United  States  may  be  finally  established, 
is  the  sincere  desire  and  prayer  of 

A  TRADESMAN  OF  NEW  JERSEY. 

May  18,  1779. 

TRENTON,  MAY  26. 

The  detachment  of  the  enemy  that.,  landed  in  Bergen 
county  on  Monday  the  17th  instant,  consisted  of  about. 
1000  mem,  composed  of  several  different  corps,  under  the 
command  of  Col.  Van  Buskirk.  Their  path  in  this  in- 
cursion was  marked  with  desolation  and  unprovoked  cruel 
murders.  Not  a  house  within  their  reach,  belonging  to 
a  whig  inhabitant,  escaped.  Mr.  Abraham  Allen  and 
George  Campbell  fell  a  prey  to  these  more  than  savage 
men.  Two  Negro  women,  who  were  endeavouring  to  drive 
off  some  cattle  belonging  to  their  masters,  were  also 
murdered.  Mr.  Joost  Za.br  iskie  was  stabbed  in  13  differ- 
ent places. — Col.  Van  Buskirk,  altho'  he  was  formally 
acquainted  with  those  barbarities,  yet  he  did  not  think 
proper  to  take  the  least  notice  of  the  perpetrators. — Hav- 


NEW    JEESEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

ing  in  some  measure  satiated  their  appetite  for  blood  and 
plunder,  and  dreading  the  vengeance  of  our  militia,  which 
by  this  time  was  collecting  in  considerable  numbers,  the 
enemy  precipitately  retreated  to  their  boats,  and  went  off 
to  New- York. 

§;}:§  Mr.  DUNHAM  to  Mr.  TIMOLEON  in  our  next. 

*  .:.  *    Severed  articles  of  intelligence  and  new  Adver- 
tisements arc  omitted  this  week  for  want  of  room. 

.COLONEL  Edward  Thomas,1  of  the  New- Jersey  militia, 
being  tried  by  a  Court-Martial  composed  of  continental 
and  militia  officers,  held  by  order  of  General  Maxwell,  at 
Elizabeth-Town,  the  9th  day  of  March  last,  on  the  charges 
of  cowardice  and  neglect  of  duty;  the  Court,  after  duly 
considering  the  evidence  produced,  was  unanimously  of 
opinion  that  he  was  not  guilty  of  cowardice,  and  acquitted 
him  with  honour. — And  were  also  of  opinion  that  the 
charge  of  neglect  of  duty  was  not  supported,  and  acquitted 
him  thereof. — And  I  having  maturely  considered  the  evi- 

1  Edward  Thomas.  Lieutenant  Colonel,  Colonel  Heard's  battalion,  "minute 
men,"  Feb.  12.  1770:  Colonel  First  Regiment,  Essex.  Feb.  23,  1776; 
Colonel,  battalion  "Detached  Militia."  July  18,  1776;  resigned  March  13, 
]  777. — X1r-i/kcr's  Officers  and  Men  of  New  Jersey  in  the  Revolution,  356. 
Thomas  was  descended  from  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Elizabethtown, 
and  took  an  active  part  in  public  affairs  from  the  beginning  of  the 
Revolution.  On  Dec.  6.  1774,  he  was  appointed  by  the  town  on  a  com- 
mittee to  prosecute  the  measures  recommended  by  Congress.  He  was 
Lieutenant  Colonel  (under  Col.  Elias  Dayton)  of  the  militia  of  the  town, 
who  captured  the  ship  "Blue  Mountain  Valley,"  Jan.  22,  1776.  He  was 
one  of  the  barrack  masters  of  the  town  at  this  time.  In  February,  1776. 
he  was  in  command  of  a  squad  of  militia  assigned  to  guard  the  coast 
against  attacks  of  the  enemy.  St.  John's  Church  chose  him  to  be  a 
member  of  its  vestry  for  several  years.  In  1784  he  advertised  the  famous 
"White  House."  Governor  Philip  Carteret's  former  residence,  for  sale. 
He  was  named  as  overseer  of  the  poor  in  the  new  town  charter  in  1789. 
When  a  subscription  was  started  for  a  Library  Association,  in  1792,  he 
was  among  the  first  to  sign  it.  The  ferry  to  New  York  came  into  his 
possession  in  1700.  and  was  long  known  as  "Thomas's  Ferry."  For 
several  years  prior  to  1795,  he  served  as  alderman.  He  died  February 
27.  1795.  in  his  59th  year.  His  wife  died  Feb.  27,  1824,  aged  86  years. 
— Hatfiehl's  Elizal)C>t]i,  passim  ;  DUCT'S  Life  of  Lord  Stirling,  etc. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  393 

dence  produced  on  the  several  charges,  do,  as  Commander 
in  Chief  of  the  militia  of  this  State.,  confirm  the  above 
judgment  and  acquittal. 

WIL  LIVINGSTON. 
Trenton,  20th  May,  1779. 

State  of  New  Jersey,  WHEREAS  Inquisitions  have  been 
Hunter  don  county.  found  against  John  Tabor 

Kemp,  Grace  his  wife,  and  Charles  McEvers,  of  the  city 
of  New  York,  and  returned  to  the  last  Inferior  Court  of 
Common  Pleas  for  the  said  county: — Notice  is  hereby 
given,  that  if  they  or  some  person  or  persons  in  their 
behalf,  does  not  appear  at  the  next  Court  of  Common 
Pleas  to  be  held  at  Trenton,  in  and  for  the  said  county 
of  Hunterdon,  and  put  in  a  plea  to  traverse  the  said  inqui- 
sitions, final  judgment  will  be  entered  thereon  in  favour 
of  the  State. 

JARED  SEXTON, 


May  24,  1779. 


NATHANIEL  HUNT,     I    C°mmi?- 
-r>  -D  (     sioners. 

.PETER  ±>RUNNER,       I 


A  FULLING-MILL  in  Allentown,  New- Jersey,  will  be  put 
in  good  order,  and  let  to  a  good  workman  that  can  be  well 
recommended  provided  such  a  man  applies  in  season,  other- 
wise the  materials  will  be  sold,  consisting  of  a  good  copper 
screw  and  press,  two  pairs  of  sheers,  stock,  &c.  Any  per- 
son inclining  either  to  purchase  or  rent,  may  know  the 
terms  by  applying  to 

ARTHUR  DONALDSON. 
Allentown,  May  24,  1779. 

Came  to  the  plantation  of  John  Lanning  in  Maidenhead, 
on  Wednesday  the  12th  day  of  May,  inst,  a  large  bay 
horse,  about  fifteen  hands  high,  supposed  to  be  thirteen 


394   9     NEW  JEESEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.      [1779 

years  old,  with  a  large  star  and  a  snip,  branded  P.  A.  on 
the  near  thigh,  shod  all  round.  Any  person  proving  their 
property  and  paying  charges,  may  have  him  of  me. 

JOHN    LANNING.1 

To  be  sold  at  Publick  Vendue,  at  Pitts-Town,  on  Mon- 
day the  31st  inst.  May,  sundry  cost  2  horses,  a  Mare  and 
.Colt,  and  several  Mares  with  foal,  Sale  to  begin  at  ten 
o'clock. 

FUBMAN  YARD,  Q.  M. 


Twenty  Dollars  Reward. 

STRAYED  or  stolen  on  Saturday  the  8th  instant,  a  small 
chestnut  sorrel  horse,  about  1-i  hands  high,  branded  all 
round  with  the  letters  s  c.  paces  and  trots,  his  back  has 

1  John  Laning  is  said  to  have  served  as  a  guide  during  the  Revolution, 
but  the  Adjutant   General's   office   of   New   Jersey   has   no   record   of  such 
service.     There  is  a  record  of  the  service  of  one  David  Laning  as  a  guide. 
John  Laning,  of  Maidenhead,   Hunterdon  county,   being  "weak   and  sick;" 
made  his   will   February   6,   1811,   but   survived  for  more  than  five   years 
thereafter,    his    will   not   being   admitted    to   probate    until    November    28, 
1816.     He  gave  to  his  wife,  Rachel,  some  household  goods,  his  negro  woman, 
Dinah,  and  a  share  of  the  remainder  of  his  estate  ;  to  his  son  Edward  he 
gave  twelve  acres  of  woodland  adjoining  Nathaniel  Hunt,   Esq.,  and  "two 
upper  fields  down  as  far  as  the  place  where  the  old  fence  stood  formerly 
except   a   road   through,  the   same   from   my   homestead   to   my   woodland  :" 
also   a    meadow    lot    in    Great    Meadows,    called    the   five-acre    lot.      To   his 
daughter  Elizabeth  Hart,  his  field  adjoining  Ephraim  Phillips  and  George 
Bullock,  except  "four  acres  which  is  to  be  cut  off  of  said  field  along  the 
great  Road   leading  from   Trenton   to   Princeton,"  during  her  life,   then   to 
be  sold  and  proceeds  divided  equally  among  her  children  when -of  age.     To 
his  daughter   Mary  Lawrence,    land  bought  of   Samuel  Updike,   during  her 
life,    then   to   be   sold   and   the   proceeds   to   be   equally   divided  among   her 
children.      To   his   daughter    Abbe   Hooper,    his   lot   in   the   meadows   called 
the  one-acre  lot,  and  $266.67  to  be  paid  to  her  by  his  son  Edward.     To  his 
daughter   Charity   Allen,    $333.33.      To   his   daughters    Sarah.    Martha   and 
Susanna  Laning,  each  bed,  bedding,  linen  and  an  equal  share  with  his  wife 
in   the   residue   of   his   estate.      Executors — Friend   John    Floch,    son-in-law 
Thomas  Hooper,  and  daughter  Martha  Laning.     Witnesses — Daniel  Agnew, 
Theophilus   Phillips    and    Samuel    Hunt.      His    estate   was   inventoried   No- 
vember 25  and  26.   1816,  and  appraised  by  Daniel   Agnew  and   Theophilus 
Phillips. 

2  Cast,  or  condemned. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  395 

been  lately  hurt  with  the  saddle  near  the  withers.  Who- 
ever delivers  said  horse  to  the  subscriber,  shall  receive  the 
above  reward. 

JOHN  ALLISON,  Lieut-Col. 

1st  Virginia  State  regt. 
Middle-Brook,  May  17th,  1779. 

STRAYED  or  stolen  from  Camp  at  Middle-Brook,  a  sorrel 
horse,  about  fourteen  hands  and  a  half  high,  hanging  mane 
and  switch  tail,  branded  on  the  near  buttock  I.  B.  I  will 
give  Twenty  Dollars  to  any  person  that  will  deliver  the 
said  horse  to  me,  or  give  such  information  that  I  may  get 
him  again. 

WM.  CAMPBELL,  Capt.  1st  V.  S.  K. 

General  Muhlenberg's  Brigade. 
Middle-Brook,  17th  May,  1779. 


Two  Hundred  Dollars  Reward. 

STRAYED  or  stolen  on  Friday  night  the  21st  inst.  May, 
out  of  the  pasture  of  the  subscriber,  living  at  the  Six 
Mile  Run,  a  sornel  horse,  between  8  and  9  years  old,  a  star 
in  his  forehead,  14  hands  high,  and  lately  shod  all  round. 
Also  a  brown  mare,  five  years  old,  about  15  hands  high, 
on©  of  Ms  fore  feet  and  both  hind  feet  white,  and  is  half 
blooded,  very  lengthy,  and  branded  with  an  O.  They  are 
both  in  very  good  order.  Whoever  takes  up  said  horses 
and  secures  the  thief  so  that  he  may  be  brought  to  justice, 
shall  receive  the  above  reward,  or  for  the  horses  only  One 
Hundred  Dollars,  or  fifty  for  either  of  them,  and  all 
reasonable  charges  paid  by  me. 

JOHN  HAGEMAN. 


396     '  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 


Eighty  Dollars  Reward. 

STOLEN  from  the  subscriber  in  Baskenridge,  Somerset 
county,  a  brown  mare,  f ooir  years  old,  14  hands  high,  with 
a  star  in  her  forehead,  4.-  white  feet,  and  branded  with  an 
S  on  her  fore  shoulder.  Whoever  takes  up  said  mare  and 
securesi  her  so  that  the  owner  may  have  her,  or  advertises 
her  in  the  Trenton  or  Chatham  newspapers,  shall  have 
Fifty  Dollars,  or  the  above  reAvard  for  thief  and  mare,  and 
all  reasonable  charges  paid  by  W.  COLLWELL. 

State  of  New-Jersey.     To  be  sold,  by  way  of  publick  ven- 
Hunterdon  County.  due,  on  Saturday  the  26th  day 

of  June  next,  at  the  House  of  Andrew  Mer'shon,  inn-keeper,, 
in  Hopewell,  a  tract  of  woodland,  containing  about  300 
acres,  well  timbered,  laid  out  in  lots  of  20  acres  each, 
situate  in  the  township  of  Hopewell,  joining  Belmont 
Farm:  Also  a  small  Messuage  lying  contiguous  thereto, 
containing  about  16  acres,  with  some  improvements 
thereon,  now  in  the  tenure  of  Michael  Moore:  Also  one 
other  lot  lying  near  to  the  said  Andrew  Mershon's,  con- 
taining about  11  acres,  with  some  improvements,  in  the 
tenure  of  William  Price:  Likewise  about  30  acres  of 
exceeding  good  woodland,  lying  near  to  Trenton  on  the 
Scotch  road :  Also  at  the  same  time  and  place  will  be  sold 
a  lot  of  good  woodland,  situate  in  the  upper  part  of  Hope- 
well,  joining  land  of  Benjamin  Parke,  and  others,  con- 
taining- upwards  of  20  acres ;  all  late  the  property  of 
Daniel  Coxe.  And  on  Monday  the  28th  of  June,  will 
be  sold  at  Flemington,  a  lot  of  land  containing  about  32 
acres,  lying  contiguous  to  the  said  town,  with  some  im- 
provements thereon,  late  the  property  of  Joseph  Smith, 
And  on  Tuesday  the  29th  of  June,  will  be  sold  at  the  house 
of  Colonel  Abraham  Bonnel,  in  Bethldiam,  a  plantation 
situate  in  the  said  township,  on  Musconetcung  mountain, 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  397 

containing  about  230  acres,  with  a  log  tenement  theTeon, 
a  small  piece  of  meadow  and  an  excellent  orchard:  Also 
two  plantations  lying  near  Squires  point,  in  the  township 
of  Lebanon,  with  some  improvements  thereon.  And  on 
Saturday  the  3d  of  July,  will  be  sold  on  the  premises,  a 
small  meadow  lot  in  the  township  of  Hopewell,  near  to 
John  Snook's  mill;  late -the  property  of  Daniel  Coxe. 
Vendues  to  begin  on  the  respective  days  at  ten  o'clock  in 
the  forenoon. 

Attendance  will  be  given  and  conditions  of  sale  made 
known  by 

JARED   SEXTON,         ^  ~ 

^T  Commis- 

NATHANIEL   HUNT,    V   . 

PETER  BRTJNNER,     J 
May  24,  1779. 

— Th,&  New^Jersey  Ga&eUe,  Vol.  II.,  No.  77,  Wednesday, 
May  26,  1779. 


PHILADELPHIA,  May  26. 

We  learn  from  Great  Egg  Harbour,  that  on  Friday  last 
a  brig  of  16  guns,  from  Jamaica  for  New- York,  with 
about  160  hogsheads  of  rum,  &c.  on  board,  was  drove 
ashore  near  that  place,  when  the  crew,  to  lighten  her, 
threw  three  or  four  guns  overboard,  and  started  about  14 
hogsheads  of  rum ;  but  being  boarded  by  people  from  the 
shore,  she  was  taken  proper  care  of,  is  since  got  off,  and 
part  of  her  cargo  landed. 


Greenwich,  May  21,  1779. 

Whereas  sundry  wearing  apparel,  in  a  portmanteau,  was 
found  in  Roxbury  township.  Morris  county,  New-Jersey, 
in  A^pril  last,  supposed  to  be  stolen  and  concealed  in  the 


398         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  BE  VOLUTION.       [1779 

woods  by  a  certain  Jolin  Harris  a  deserter  from  the  first 
Jersey  regiment,  containing  the  following  articles,  viz.  a 
scarlet  coat,  with  silver  buttons  marked  No.  7 ;  one  buff 
and  two  half  silk  streaked  jackets;  one  pair  of  linen 
breeches  and  two  pair  of  silk  stockings. 

Whoever  has  lost  the  above  described  apparel,  on  prov- 
ing his  property  and  paying  charges  within  three  months 
from  the  above  date,  may  have  them  again,  by  applying 
to  the  subscriber  in  Greenwich,  Sussex  county,  and  State 
aforesaid,  otherwise  they  will  be  sold  at  public  vendue, 
to  defray  the  charges. 

MATTHIAS   SHIPMAK 
— The  Pennsylvania  Gazette.,  May  26,  1779. 

NEW-YOKK,  May  31 

General  Washington  lay  at  his  Camp  at  Middlebrook, 
New  Jersey,  last  Thursday. — The  New-York  Gazette:  and 
the  Weekly  Mercury,  No.  1441,  May  31,  1779. 


New- Jersey,  May  27. 
To  be  SOLD  by  PUBLIC  VENDUE,     " 

At  the  house  of  Col.  Nicholas  Stillwill,  on  Cape  May, 
on  Monday  the  seventh  day  of  June,  as  she  now  lies 
stranded  011  Peck's  Beach, 

The  HULL  of  the  Letter  of  Marque  Brig  DELIGHT. 
And  at  the  same  time  and  place  will  be  sold/  the  CARGO 
of  said  brig,  consisting  of  eighty  puncheons  of  good  West- 
India  rum,  about  one  ton  of  gun-powder,  a  number  of 
small  arms,  and  two  or  three  tons  of  cannon  ball ;  together 
with  the  great  guns,  cables,  anchors,  sails,  rigging  and 
furniture  of  said  brig, 

By  order  of  the  Court  of  Admiralty. 

JOSEPH  POTTS,  Marshal. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  399 


New-Jersey,  Fifth  Month  26,  1779. 

Whereas  Judah  Clemens  of  Waterford  township,  in  the 
State  of  New  Jersey,  is  frequently  deprived  of  the  use  of 
his  reason,  this  therefore  is  to  inform  all  persons  thereof, 
and  to  forewarn  them  not  to  credit  him,  or  to  purchase 
from  him  any  part  of  his  estate,  either  real  or  personal, 
his  being  in  the  above  unhappy  situation  rendering  him 
incapable  of  transacting  his  business.  Tavern-keepers  in 
particular  are  requested  not  to  supply  him  with  liquor. — 
The  Pennsylvania,  Gazette,  June  2,  1779. 


TRENTON,  June  2. 

At  a  Joint  Meeting  of  the  Council  and  Assembly,  on 
Tuesday  the  25th  ult.  William  Churchill  Houston,1  Esq; 
Member  of  the  General  Assembly  for  the  county  of  Somer- 
set, was  elected  one  of  the  Delegates  to  represent  this  state 
in  Congress. — And  on  Friday  last  Robert  Eriend  Price,2 
Esq;  was  elected  a  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas 
and  Justice  of  the  Peace ;  John  Wilkins,  Jun.  Esq ;  Judge 
of  the  Court  of  Common-Pleas ;  and  Mr.  Thomas  Tabor, 
a  Justice  of  the  Peace,  all  of  and  for  the  county  of  Glou- 
cester. 

On  the  29th  ult.  the  brigantine  Delight,  Captain  James 
Dawson,  from  Tortola  to  New  York,  mounting  12  guns, 
with  29  hands,  came  ashore  in  a  fog  on  Peck's  beach  on 
Cape  May.  Her  cargo  consisted  of  upwards  of  80  hogs- 
heads of  rum,  some  sugar,  &c.  Soon  after  she  came  ashore, 
our  militia  took  possession  of  both  vessel  and  cargo,  and 
sent  off  the  crew  under  guard  to  Philadelphia.  By  a  letter 
found  on  board  the  above  brig,  we  learn  that  the  inhabit- 

1  For  a  sketch  of  William  Churchill  Houston,  see  New  Jersey  Archives, 
26  :  288. 

2  A  sketch  of  Robert  Friend  Price  will  be  found  in  New  Jersey  Archives, 
20  :  154. 


400     t  NEW    JEESEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

ants  of  Tortola  had  latejy  suffered  much  by  an  uncommon 
drought,  no  rain  having  fallen  there  for  upwards  of  two 
months. 

We  are  informed  that  a  County-Meeting  is  to  be  held 
to-morrow,  at  the  Court-house  in  Somerset,  for  the  purpose 
of  considering  the  present  situation  of  public  affairs ;  and 
for  instructing  their  Representatives  in  the  Legislature> 
upon  certain  subjects  of  the  highest  importance  to  the 
welfare  of  the  State. 


ONE  HUNDRED  DOLLARS  REWARD 

Ran  Away  on  the  thirteenth  of  June,  1778,  from  the 
subscriber,  living  in  Hardwick,  Sussex  county,  New- 
Jersey,  a  Negro  Wench  named  NANNY  about  twenty- 
Two  years  of  age,  thick  built,  of  a  yellowish  complexion 
and  pretty  long  hair :  had  011  when  she  went  away,  a  white 
linen  short  gown,  a  pale  blue  flannel  petticoat,  an  old 
striped  lincey  ditto,  pale  blue  stockings,  and  leather  heeled 
shoes.  Whoever  takes  her  up  and  secures  her  in  any  gaol, 
so  that  I  can  get  her  again,  shall  receive  the  above  reward, 
and  if  brought  home  all  reasonable  charges,  paid  by 

THOMAS  HUNT. 

X.  B.     She  had  two  bonnets  with  her,  one  black  and  the 
other  white. 
—The  Pennsylvania  Packet^  June  3,  1779. 


Yesterday  being  HIS  MAJESTY'S  BIRTHDAY,  an 
elegant  Entertainment  was  given  by  his  Excellency  Gen- 
eral Try  on,  at  which  were  present  the  Governors  of  New- 
Jersey3  and  North  Carolina,  and  Members  of  his  Majesty's 
Council  for  the  Province  of  New- York,  the  Judges  and 
other  Officers  of  Government. 


:  William   Franklin,  the  expelled   Royal   Governor. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  401 

The  following  Toasts  were  drank  on  the  Occasion : 

1.  The  KING. 

2.  The  QUEEN  and  Royal  Family. 

3.  The  LANDGRAVE  of  Hesse. 

4.  The  Foreign  Powers  in  Amity  with  Great-Britain. 

5.  The  Army  and  Navy. 

6.  The  Commander  in  Chief,  and  Success  to  his  Majesty's  Arms. 

7.  His  Majesty's  Ministers. 

8.  Governor  Tryon,  and  a  speedy  Restoration  of  the  Government  of 
New-York. 

9.  Governor  Franklin,  and  a  speedy  Restoration  of  the  Government 
of  New-Jersey. 

10.  Governor  Martin,  and  a  speedy  Restoration  of  the  Government 
of  North  Carolina. 

11.  Unanimity  and  Firmness  to  Great-Britain. 

12.  The  Navy  and  Army  at  St.  Lucia. 

13.  General  Haldimand,  and  our  Friends  in  Canada. 

14.  General   Knyphausen   and   the   Hessian   Corps  under   his   com- 
mand. 

15.  General  Prescot,  Garrison  and  our  Friends  at  Rhode  Island. 

16.  General  Prevost,  and  our  Friends  in  Georgia. 

17.  General  Campbell,  and  our  Friends  in  Florida. 

18.  General  M'Lean,  the  Garrison  and  our  Friends  at  Halifax. 

19.  The  COMMANDANT  of  New-York. 

20.  Mr.   MATHEWS   the   MAYOR,   and   Loyal   Citizens   of  New- 
York. 

21.  The  LOYALISTS  on  the  Continent  of  America. 

22.  Success  to  the  Exertions  of  the  Refugees. 

23.  JOSEPH  AND  HIS  BRETHREN. 

24.  A  speedy  Suppression  to  Rebellion. 

25.  A   happy   Restoration    of   Civil'  Government   in   His    Majesty's 
Colonies. 

26.  A  speedy  arrival  to  Admiral  Arbuthnot  and  the  Fleet  under  his 
command. 

27.  CHURCH  AND  STATE. 

— The  Royal  Gazette,  No.  280,  June  5,  1779. 


NEW-YOKE,    June    7. 

Col.  Buskirk,  suspecting  there  were  some  Spies  and 
Robbers,  near  his  Post  at  Howbuck,  on  Friday  the  4th  In- 
stant, that  Night  ordered  out  a  small  Number  of  Men,  who, 

26 


NEW    JEESEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

about  3  o'clock  the  same  Morning,  discovered  a  Party  of 
Rebels  in  a  Rye  Field  in  the  English  Neighborhood,  two 
of  whom  they  took  Prisoners,  one  of  them  named  William 
Wirts,1  the  other  Henry  Bastion,  both  noted  Spies  and 
Robbers,  the  former  having  followed  the  Business  a  con- 
siderable Time,  and  pretends  to  belong  to  the  Militia. 

We  hear  that  the  greatest  Part  of  Washington's  Army 
have  left  their  Camp  at  Middlebrook,  and  are  marched 
towards  Tappan  and  Haverstraw,  on  the  West  Side  of 
Hudson's  River. — The  New-York  Gazette:  and  the  Weekly 
Mercury,  No*.  1442,  June  7,  1779. 


CHATHAM   MAY   8. 

The  2d  New  Jersey  regiment,  commanded  by  Col.  Is- 
rael Shreve,2  which  has  been  quartered  at  New- Ark  since 
last  Fall,  having  received  Orders  to  hold  themselves  in 
readiness  to  march  at  a  moment's  warning,  and  it  being 
supposed  that  they  will  soon  be  ordered  away  from  this 
station,  a  number  of  the  principal  inhabitants  of  the  town 
gave  an  elegant  entertainment  to  the  officers  of  the  regi- 
ment, and  appointed  Doctor  William  Burnet,  jun.  to  pre^ 
sent  to  the  Colonel  the  following  address,  in  testimony  of 
their  approbation  and  esteem. 

To  Col.  ISRAEL  SHREYE,  commanding  the  2d  New- 
Jersey  regiment. 

DEEPLY  impressed  with  a  grateful  sense  of  the  ob- 
ligation the  inhabitants  of  this  town  are  under  unto 
you,  Sir,  and  the  other  officers  of  the  2d  New- Jersey 
regiment,  permit  me  in  the  name,  and  by  order  of  a  com- 
mittee appointed  for  that  purpose,  to  assure  you  that  we 
shall  always  retain  the  warmest  sentiments  of  gratitude 

1  William  Worts,  private,  of  Bergen,  was  wounded  in  April,  1780. 
-  A   note  on  Col.   Israel   Shreve  is  printed  in  New  Jersey  Archives,   2d 
Series,  1  :  103. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  403 

and  respect  for  the  great  attention  you  have  paid  to  the 
welfare,  peace,  and  safety  of  the  town,  during  your  com- 
mand here. 

The  great  regularity  and  good  order  that  has  been  main- 
tained among  the  troops,  their  respectful  treatment  of  the 
inhabitants,  and  the  constant  harmony  that  has  subsisted 
between  them  and  the  soldiery,  we  are  sensible,  has  been 
greatly  owing  to  the  prudence,  diligence,  and  care  of  their 
officers. 

As  your  vigilant  conduct  here  must  have  gained  the  ap- 
probation of  the  Honourable  Congress.,  and  his  Excellency 
the  Commander  in  Chief,  we  doubt  not,  if  it  was  confident 
with  the  more  general  public  good,  but  you  would  be  con- 
tinued longer  on  this  station,  which  would  give  great 
pleasure  and  be  no  small  security  unto  us. 

Since  it  is  otherwise,  we  silently  submit,  and  are  happy 
in  this  opportunity  of  expressing  the  great  satisfaction  we 
have  had  in  your  behaviour  among  us;  and  wherever 
divine  Providence  may  call  you,  we  most  ardently  wish 
you  may  be  useful  and  happy,  and  gloriously  instrumental 
in  the  salvation  of  your  country. 

By  order  of  the  Committee., 

WILIAM  BUBKET,  jun.1 


To  which  the  Colonel  was  pleased  to  return  the  follow- 
ing ANSWEK. 


The  honour  you  have  given  me  and  my  regiment,  in 

your  polite  address,  affords  the  most  heartfelt  satisfaction. 

—The  good  and  virtuous  only  have  the  power  of  doing  it. 

Permit  me  to  say  that  your  virtuous  and  vigilant  exer- 
tions in  the  cause  of  your  country,  has  left  me  little  more 
to  do  than  enforce  your  good  designs. 

If  we  leave  you,  we  leave  you  with  regret;'  and  when- 

1  A  sketch,  of  Dr.  William  Buriiet,  jun.,  is  given  in  New  Jersey  Archives, 
2d  Series,  1  :  452. 


404  '       NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION. 


ever  it  may  be  our  happy  lot  to  meet  you  again,  we  trust 
our  conduct  towards  the  good  citizens  of  this  place,  will 
convince  them  how  desirous  we  are  of  their  respect  and 
regard. 

By  desire  of  the  officers  of  the  3d  Jersey  regiment. 

ISEAEL  SHKEVE,  Col. 


After  dinner  the  following  patriotic  toasts  were  drank,, 
and  the  day  was  spent  with  agreeable  festivity  and  mutual 
satisfaction  and  joy : 

1  The  United  States  of  America ;  2  The  Congress ; 
3  His  Excellency  General  Washington ;  4  The  army  and 
navy;  5  The  King  and  Queen  of  France  and  all  our  foreign 
allies ;  6  Doctor  Franklin  and  our  Ambassadors  at  foreign 
courts ;  7  The  Governor  and  State  of  Xew  Jersey ;  8  The 
memory  of  all  those  worthies  who  have  gloriously  fought 
and  bled  in  defence  of  their  country ;  9  The  glorious  mi- 
nority of  the  British  parliament;  10  The  friends  of  free- 
dom throughout  the  world;  11  May  the  glorious  example 
of  the  first  asserters  and  defenders  of  American  freedom 
be  always  hallowed  by  their  posterity;  12  A  speedy,, 
honourable,  and  lasting  peace;  13  May  the  American  fair 
never  give  their  hearts  or  hands  to  any  but  those  who  have 
virtue  and  courage  to  defend  them. 

Last  week  a  Mr.  Zedwich,  formerly  a  Lieut.  Col.  in 
our  service,  was  taken  up  at  Roxbury,  in  Morris  County, 
endeavouring  to  get  to  the  enemy.  This  traitor,  in  1776, 
was  detected  of  holding  a  correspondence  with  Capt.  Van- 
derput  of  [t]he  Asia,  man  of  war;  for  which  he  was 
sentenced  by  a  court-martial,  to  remain  a  prisoner  during 
the  contest,  and  was  sent  to  Reading,  in  Pennsylvania, 
where  lie  had  his  parole,  and  this  is  the  third  time  he  has 
violated  what-  a  gentleman  would  deem  sacred. — The  strat- 
agem he  made  use  of  to  facilitate  his  escape  was  to  disguise 
himself  in  woman's  clothes,  and  forge  a  pass  of  a  militia 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  405 

Colonel  at  Reading.    He  was,  on  Friday  last,  sent  in  irons 
to  headquarters. 

We  hear  that  the  noted  Clove  gang  of  villains  are  taken 
up  and  properly  secured.  One  of  them  was  killed  and 
another  badly  wounded.  They  made  some  useful  dis- 
coveries. Some  of  their  stolen  goods  are  found.  We  hope 
to  give  a  particular  account  of  this  affair  in  our  next. 


TO  BE   SOLD, 
By   G.    DUYCKINCK 

At   Morris   Town, 

A  Complete  assortment  of  DRUGS  and  MEDICINES, 
and    patent    ditto.      Also;    Decanters    and    wine 
glasses,  china,  japaned  ware,  servers,  waiters,  trays, 
bread   baskets,   mahogany   ware,    servers,    waiters    trays; 
pictures    a    complete    assortment,    paper  hangings    ditto, 
jewellers  stones  ditto>,  watch  trinkets,  hat  linings,  variety 
of  brass  double  and  single  branches,  malt  and  painted  table 
cloths,  $  painters,  limners,  and  dyers  colours,  &c.  belong- 
ing to  the  branch ;    ^  window  glass  of  different  sizes. 

N.  B.     Those  marked  thus  $  are;  only  sold  by  way  of 
barter  for  any  kind  of  produce  for  family  use. 


JOHN  THOMPSON, 

At  Bottle  Hill,  has  just  come  to  hand  for  sale, 

TJ^  LOWERED  and  sprigged  black  mode,  gauze  aprons 

JL        and  handkerchiefs,  a  neat  assortment ;  black,  white, 

plain,  and  spotted  gauze;    catgut,  black,  blue,  and 

<jloath  coloured  sewing  silks;    fine  white  thread,  writing 

paper  and  white  lace. 


406  *  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 


is  to  give  notice  to  the  gentlemen  of  the  armyr 
A  and  to  the  public  in  general,  that  the  subscriber  's- 
son,  Oliver  Taylor,  is  called  a  lunatic  by  all  who 
know  him,  has  frequently  run  away  from  his  father  and 
inlisted  in  the  army,  and  cost  him  a  great  deal  of  trouble 
and  expence  to  buy  his  discharge!,  or  rather  to  repay  the 
bounty  that  he  has  spent  foolishly  :  This  is  to  desire  that 
no  gentleman  soldier,  or  any  other  person,  will  inlist  the 
said  Oliver,  as  I  shall  not  buy  his  discharge,  nor  pay  any 
debts  of  his  contracting,  as  he  has  been  discharged  by 
four  several  Colonels-,  as  soon  as  his  bounty  has  been  spent, 
he  being  of  no  further  use. 

DANIEL   TAYLOK,   sen. 
New-Ark,  May  10,  1779. 

TO   BE    SOLD, 

At  public  vendue,  on  Thursday  the  20th  instant,   at  the 
house  of  the  subscriber  in  Elizabeth-Town, 

HOBSES,   cows,   a  very  neat  riding  chair  with  har- 
ness  complete,   farming   utensils   household   goods 
and  furniture.  —  Vendue  to  begin  at  1  O''clock  in  the 
afternoon,  when  the  conditions  of  sale  will  be  made  known, 
and  due  attendance  given  by 

DAVID  THOMSON. 

TO    BE    SOLD, 

At   public   vendue,    on   Monday   the   23d   inst.    by   John 
Hamilton  and  Ellis  Squire,  at  Xew-Providence, 

A   Good   set  of  gun-smith's   tools,   joiner's   ditto,   sun- 
dry hay  rakes,   men    and  women's   shoes,   one  ox 
cart,    washing    tub,    iron    pot,    broad-axe,    narrow 
ditto,  and  sundry  other  things.      The  vendue  to  begin  at 
1  o'clock. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  407 


TO    BE    SOLD, 

At  vendue  at  MorrelPs  store  in  Chatham,  on  Satin-day 
the  22d  inst.  to  begin  precisely  at  2  o'clock. 

rPHREE  young  new  milch  cows,  one  very  neat  fowling 
L  piece,  with  bayonet  and  cartouch  box,  4  or  5  bar- 
rels of  racked  cyder,  half  gallon  and  quart  bottles 
filled  with  vinegar,  two  very  good  coats  but  little  the 
worse  for  wear,  two  pair  of  breeches,  one  cloth  jacket,  one 
silk  ditto,  ten  or  twelve  yards  of  fine  bath  coating,  one 
piece  of  buckram,  a  number  of  ox  chains  and  other  farm- 
ing utensils,  salt  pork,  empty  quart  bottles,  chalk,  ground 
ginger,  tallow  and  candles,  white  and  yellow  buff-ball  one 
wheel,  compleat  set  of  china  tea-cups  and  saucers,  a  few 
tea  pots  and  other  earthen  ware  indigo  by  the  pound  or 
hundred,  razors  and  soap,  one  new  curb  bridle,  maps  and 
pictures,  mohair  buttons!,  six  or  eight  feet  of  new  tin 
funnel,  flax,  cedar  washingtubs,  milk  kealkers  and  pails, 
one  tea-kettle,  one  large  brass  kettle,  wine  .glasses,  very 
curious  worked  pocket  book,  three  or  four  tables,  a  num- 
ber of  weaver's  reads,  powder  horns  filled  with  powder, 
a  case  of  bottles,  four  yards  of  callico,  one  new  pye-pan, 
with  a  variety  of  other  articles  by 

JACOB  MOEEELL. 

WAS  found  some  time  ago,   by  a  servant  in  New- 
Ark,  a  SWORD  mounted  with  pinchback.     The 
owner  by  applying  to  the  subscriber,  and  paying 
the  charge  of  this  advertisement,  may  have  it  again 

JOHN  BURNET. 

ANY  person  having  a  good 'riding  CHAIR  to  dispose 
of,  may  hteiar  of  a  purchaser  by  applying  to  the 
printer  of  this  paper. 


408f  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

WHEKEAS  several  persons  in  this  state  who  were 
formerly  employed  in  the  waggon-  department, 
and  others  now  in  the  service,  have  in  their  pos- 
session waggons,  horses,  tents,  waggon;  covers,  forrage  bags, 
&c.  &c.  which  they  make  use  of  as  their  own  property ;  I 
do  hereby  give  this  public  notice  to  all  persons  who  have 
any  stores  in  their  possession  belonging  to  the.  public  that 
they  do  immediately  deliver  the  same  to  the  subscriber 
in  Morris  Town^or  give  notice  to  the  nearest  Quarter- 
Master  where  such  stores  are  that  they  may  be  collected. 
Should  any  stores  be  found  in  the  possession  of  any  person 
or  persons  whatsoever,  after  the  first  of  June,  they  may 
depend  upon  being  prosecuted  for  the  same — Any  person 
who  will  inform  the  subscriber  of  any  public  stores  in 
possession  of  any  individual,  after  said  first  day  of  June, 
shall  be  well  rewarded  by 

JAMES  ABEEL,  D.  Q.  M.  G. 


CHATHAM,  JUNE  8. 

On  Saturday  last  Lady  Washington  set  out  from  Troy  l 
on  her  way  to  Virginia. 

Last  week  the  whole  of  the  army  under  the  immediate 
command  of  his  Excellency  General  Washington,  left  their 
barracks  and  proceeded  towards  the  North  River. 

Last  week  one  Lawrence  was  detected  at  Second-River 
enlisting  men  for  the  British  service,  who  afterwards  made 
his  escape,  while  our  people  were  endeavouring  to  save  the 
papers  which  his  wife  threw  in  the  fire.  His  enlisting  roll 
was  saved,  by  which  means  thirteen  of  the  inhabitants,  who 
had  enlisted,  were  apprehended,  and  safely  lodged  in 
Morris  Town 


1  In  Mori-is  county,  N.  J. 


17T9J  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  409 


JAMES    THOMPSON", 

At  CANOE-BROOK,  has  just  come  to  hand  the  following 
articles,  which  he  will  sell  as  cheap,  for  cash,  as  the 
times  will  admit  of,  viz. 

BLACK  mode  and  pealing,  black  and  white  spotted 
and  plain  gauze,  black  and  white  gauze  handker- 
chiefs, plain  and  flowered  lawn,  black  and  white 
catgut,  silk  gloves,  fine  thread,  sewing  silk,  black  ribbon, 
skeletons,  camblets,  apron  tape,  fans,  beads,  bonnet  paper, 
snuff,  bohea  tea,  indigo,  sleeve  buttons,  fine  and  coarse 
combs,   Dilworth's   spelling-books,    queen's   ware  teapots, 
pins  and  needles,  knitting-needles,  alum  brimstone,  pigtail 
tobacco,  hard  soap,  flints,  powder  and  shot. 


STRAYED  from  the  subscriber,  about  5  weeks  ago, 
twelve  HOGS,  all  of  them  are  white,  some  with 
yokes  on,  about  a  year  old,  but  small  of  their  age. — 
Whoever  will  give  information  of  said  hogs,  so  that  the 
owner  may  get  them  again,   shall  have  Twenty  Dollars 
reward. 

GIDEON  HEDGES,  senr. 
Hanover,  June  7,  1779. 


STOLEN"  out  of  the  house  of  the  subscriber,  the  1st 
of  may,  a  large  pair  of  silver  buckles,  marked  with 
I  P  on  one  side,  and  D  C  on  the  other. — Whoever 
will  apprehend  the  thief,  so  that  the  buckles  may  be  had 
again,  shall  have  Forty  Dollars  reward,  or  Thirty  Dollars 
for  the  buckles  alone. 

DANIEL  COEY. 


410        NEW  JEESEY  IIS"  THE  REVOLUTION.      [1779 

jplAME  to  the  house  of  the  subscriber  living  at  Vaux- 
Jj     hall,  the  6th  inst.  a  black  HORSE,  about  14  hands 
high,  market  G  F  on  his  left  thigh — The  owner  may 
have  him  again  by  applying  to  the  subscriber  and  paying- 
charges. 

ELIAKIM  LITTLE. 


DESERTED   from    Capt,    Doughty's  comipany,    Col. 
Lamb's  regiment  of  artillery,  MICHAEL  ROE; 
he  is  about  6  feet  high,  dark  complexion,  short  black 
hair,  grey  eyes,  full  faced,  about  20  .years  old ;    had  on 
when  he  went  off  a  short  jacket  and  overalls. 

Also*,  BEZELIEL  ACKLY;  he  is  about  25  years 
old,  brown  complexion,  light  brown  hair,  grey  eyes;  had 
on,  when  he  deserted,  a  black  regimental  coat,  hat,  and  a 
pair  of  overalls. — Any  person  that  shall  apprehend  said 
deserters,  and  deliver  them  to  "the  commanding  officer  of 
the  regiment,  at  the  park  of  artillery,  shall  be  entitled 
to  a  reward  of  Twenty  Dollars  for  each,  with  necessary 
expenses  attending  the  same. 

THOMAS  THOMPSON,  Capt.  Lieut.  Art. 


DESERTED  from  the  Park  of  Artillery  this  morn- 
ing, WILLIAM  HELXIT,  matross  in  Capt.  Mott's 
company,  Col.  Lamb's  regiment  of  Artillery ;  he  is 
about  five  feet  five  inches  high,  stout  built,  fair  complexion, 
light  hair  and  blue  eyes,  blooming  cheeks,  between  twenty- 
two  and  twenty-six  years  of  age,  his  hair  is  short  and 
curls;  was  whipt  the  14th  instant  for  theft,  which  his 
back  now  shews  sufficient  proof;  he  is  suspected  of  hav- 
ing stole  from  a  man  in  the  neighbourhood  of  the  Park, 
last  night,  about  two  thousand  dollars,  of  course  he  has 
plenty  of  money ;  he  had  the  regimentals  of  the  Artillery 
on,  but  its  likely  he  has  changed  his  clothes.  Any  person 


1779]  NEWSPAPER  EXTRACTS.  411 

that  shall  apprehend  said  deserter,  and  deliver  him  to 
the  commanding  officer  of  the  battalion  at  the  Park  of 
Artillery,  shall  be  entitled  to  Fifty  Dollars  reward,  with 
necessary  expenses  attending  the  same. 

GERSHOM  MOTT/   Capt,  of  Artillery. 

Park  of  Artillery,  Pluck'emin,     ) 
May  28,  1779.  j 


o 


dozen  of  good  SHEEP  to  be  let  out  at  the  com- 
mon custom  by 

JOHN"  BLANCHARD. 


STRAYED   o>r  stolen  from  a   pasture  near  the  Ar- 
tillery-Park, Pluck'emin,  on  the  night  of  the  23d 
inst,  a  brown  horse,  near  fifteen  hands  high,  well 
made,  has  a  streak  of  white  in  his  face,  and  a  small  spot 
next  above  the  hoof  of  one  of  his1  hind  feet,  is  high  withered, 

1  Gershom  Mott  was  one  of  the  most  daring  agitators  in  New  York  in  the 
ten  years  preceding  the  Revolution,  serving  on  a  committee  appointed 
Oct.  31,  1765,  to  organize  the  Colonies  to  form  a  confederacy,  the  better 
to  resist  the  aggressions  of  the  British  Ministry.  This  was  the  second 
committee  of  the  kind  in  America.  He  was  an  active  member  of  the 
Sons  of  Liberty  of  New  York.  At  the  beginning  of  the  Revolution  he 
received  a  commission,  June  28,  1775,  as  Captain  in  McDougall's  1st 
New  York  Regiment.  He  accompanied  Montgomery's  ill-fated  expedition 
t(f  Quebec,  in  1775,  and  was  placed  under  arrest  for  abandoning  a  mortar 
battery  at  the  siege  of  Fort  St.  Johns,  on  the  Richelieu  river,  but  was 
promptly  restored  to  his  command,  and  did  good  service  at  Quebec  until 
the  retreat  in  April,  1777.  On  Jan.  1,  1777,  he  was  commissioned  Captain 
2d  Continental  Artillery.  On  returning  as  far  as  Albany  he  was  assigned 
to  duty  as  a  recruiting  officer,  and  had  much  friction  with  Gen.  Gates. 
Being  highly  esteemed  by  Col.  John  Lamb,  of  the  New  York  Artillery,  the 
latter  took  much  pains  to  secure  his  promotion  to  be  Major  of  his 
regiment,  but  without  success.  He  was  in  command  at  Fort  Constitution, 
with  a  handful  of  smiths  and  other  artificers,  when  Forts  Montgomery 
and  Clinton  were  captured  by  the  British,  and  thereupon  was  obliged  to 
evacuate  that  fort  October,  1777.  He  continued  in  the  service  until  June, 
1783. — N.  Y.  'Rev.  MSS.;  Life  and  Letters  of  John  Lamb;  The  Sons  of 
Liberty  in  New  York,  by  Henry  B.  Dawson,  p.  105  ;  Memorial  Hist.  City  of 
N.  Y.,  II.,  367,  371,  375;  Bancroft's  Hist.  U.  S.,  V.  (8vo.,  1852),  352; 
VIII.,  206;  Heitman's  Register,  303. 


NEW    JEESEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

and  has>  a  protuberance  on  his  back  where  the  hinder  part 
of  the  saddle  comes.  Whoever  will  bring  or  send  said, 
horse  to  the  Park  of  Artillery,  or  to  my  quarters  at  Mr. 
Jacob  Van  Dorer's  near  Pluck7  emin,  shall  be  handsomely 
rewarded  for  their  trouble. 

JOHN  POPKIK 

May  26,  1779. 


TO    BE    SOLD, 

By  the  subscriber  at  Canoe^Brook, 

~^S  of  several  sorts,  viz,  Sd.  lOd.  12d.  and  20d.  by 
the  quantity  or  single  pound. 

JAMES   CURLIS. 


Just   published,,   and   to   be   sold   by   Foster  Horton,   in 
Chatham,  and  John  Dixon,  at  Bottle  Hill. 

VERSES  on  the  sixth,  seventh,  and  eighth,  chapters 
of  Genesis,  By  STEPHEN  HAND.1 


WHEREAS  my  wife  Elizabeth,  with  the  advice  of 
her  mother,  and  by  the  assistance  of  James  Shot- 
will,   of  the  Scotch-Plains,  has  eloped  from  my 
bed  and  board,  and  sundry  times  swore  she  would  destroy 
both  my  life  and  estate:    This  is  therefore  to  forewarn 


1  The  author  was  perhaps  the  Stephen  Hand  who  resided  in  the  Passaic 
Valley,  Morris  county,  a  brother  of  Hezekiah  Hand,  from  Westfleld. 
Hezekiah's  twenty  children  and  Stephen's  twenty-three  are  all  listed  by 
Littell.  No  copy  of  Stephen's  "verses"  has  been  found  in  any  of  the 
libraries  in  New  York  or  Philadelphia,  nor  is  the  work  known  to 
bibliographers,  nor  is  it  mentioned  in  any  bibliography. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTEACTS.  413 

any  person  harbouring  or  trusting  her  on  my  account,  as 
I  will  not  pay  any  debts  of  heir  contracting  after  this 
date. 

WILLIAM  WILLIS. 
Westfield,  May  31,  1779. 

Since  it  was  my  fortune  to  be  join'd 

To  such  a  wretched  mate, 
I've  strove  to  reconcile  my  mind 

To  my  unhappy  fate. 
I've  born  insults,  and  threats  likewise, 

I've  strove  for  to  persuade, 
But  them  that's  hardened  so  in  vice 
•  Regard  not  what  is  said. 

Without  a  cause  she  left  my  bed, 

And  broke  her  marriage  vow, 
So  basely  from  me  she  has  fled, 

Who  then  can  blame  me  now? 
Then  pity  my  unhappy  fate, 

Beware  of  woman's  arts, 
For  oft  within  a  snowy  breast 

Lurks  a  deceitful  heart. 


TO   BE   SOLD, 
At  the  PRINTING-OFFICE  in  Chatham, 

SWIFTS  works,  13  vols.  Spectator,  8  vols.  Clarissa, 
8  vols.  Beauties  of  Prose,  4  vols.  Triumvirate,  2 
vols.  Collection  of  Poems-,  2  vols.  Ogilvie's  Poems, 
2  vols.  Thereon  and  Aspasia  2  vols.  Barford  Abbey,  2  vols. 
David's  Repentance,  Life  of  Alexander  Pope,  History  of 
Greece,  Lord  Sommers  on  Jurors,  Testaments,  and  Spell- 
ing Books. 

ALSO,  Cole's  Latin  Dictionary,  Greek  Lexicon,  Kent's 
Lucian,  Introduction  to  making  Latin,  &c. 


414:  iXEW    JEESEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 


Five  Hundred  Dollars  Reward. 

THE   house  of   Stephen)  Haines   in  Elizabeth-Town, 
was  broke  open  on  Monday  night  the  10th  ult.  and 
robbed  of  about  three  thousand  Continental  Dol- 
lars.    Whoever  will  discover  the  robber  00*  robbers,  so  that 
he,  she,  or  they  may  be  brought  to  justice  and  convicted, 
and  the  money  recovered,  shall  receive  the  above  reward; 
or  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  to  any  one  that  shall 
bring  the  money,  and  no  questions  asked,  or  a  proportion- 
able reward  for  any  part  of  the  money. 

WHEKEAS  the  partnership  of  Arnold,  Kinney,  and 
Comp.    is   dissolved,    all  persons   that  have   any 
demands   against  said   Company   are   desired   to 
bring  in  their  accounts  that  they  may  be  settled;     and 
all  who  are  indebted  to  them  are  requested  to  discharge 
their  accounts  as  speedily  as  possible,  that  they  may  be 
able  to  close  their  books. 

WAS    found,    near   the    subscriber's   house    in    New- 
Providence,    about  the   21st   of   April   last,   two 
COW  BELLS;    one  a  remarkable  good  one,  with 
a  patch  on  it;    the  other  with  a  crack  and  a  hole  in  it. 
Any  person  claiming  said  bells,  by  applying  to  the  sub- 
scriber,  proving  their  property,   and  paying  the  charge 
of  this  advertisement,  may  have  them  again. 

ISAAC   CRANE. 

— The  New-Jersey  Journal,  Vol.  I.,  Numb.  XVII.,  June 
8,  1779. 

It  is  reported  that  a  number  of  the  enemy's  vessels 
with  troops  on  board  have  gone  up  the  North  river,  and 
that  a  considerable  body  of  them  have  landed  as  high  up 
as  King's  Ferry;  but  their  intention  in  this  movement 
is  not  yet  certainlv  known. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  415 

WHEREAS  the  Legislature  of  this  State  have,  by  a  law 
passed  the  26th  of  May  last,  raised  the  fees  of  the  Pre- 
rogative Office  to  five  times  as  much  as  they  were  hereto- 
fore: The  surrogates  in  the  different  counties  are  desired 
to  take  notice  thereof,  and  govern  themselves  accordingly. 

BOWES    REED/     See. 

Trenton,  June  1,  1779. 

1  Bowes  Reed  was  a  son  of  Andrew  Reed,  a  merchant  at  Trenton  for 
many  years,  and  Theodocia  Bowes,  his  wife,  and  was  a  brother  of  Joseph 
Reed,  some  time  Adjutant  General  of  General  Washington,  and  later 
President  of  the  State  of  Pennsylvania.  He  entered  public  life  at  an 
early  day,  and  continued  therein  for  many  years.  .In  1767  he  was 
appointed  surrogate  of  Hunterdon  county.  He  was  still  of  Trenton, 
.when  Andrew  Reed  (his  father)  and  Charles  Pettit  (his  brother-in-law), 
late  of  Philadelphia,  merchants,  made  an  assignment  to  William  Humph- 
reys and  others,  who  appointed  Bowes  Reed,  of  Trenton,  their  lawful 
attorney,  May  11,  1768. — N.  J.  Deeds,  Lib.  Z,  f.  163.  In  an  agreement 
dated  Oct.  2,  1774,  to  which  he  was  a  party,  he  is  described  as  "of 
Burlington  county;  gentleman." — N.  J.  Deeds,  Lib.  AH,  f.  103.  On  April 
3,  1773,  he  was  licensed  as-  an  attorney-at-law  of  New  Jersey,  but  never 
became  a  counsellor.  At  the  beginning  of  the  Revolution  the  Provincial 
Congress  appointed  him,  June  14,  1776.  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  the 
battalion  to  be  raised  in  Gloucester,  Salem,  Cumberland  and  Burlington 
counties.  A  week  later  he  was  ordered  to  keep  under  safe  guard  the 
person  of  William  Franklin,  Esquire  (the  late  royal  Governor  of  New 
Jersey),  until  the  further  order  of  that  body.  The  same  Congress 
ordered,  on  August  21,  1776,  that  there  be  paid  to  him  £51  2s.  lOd.  in 
full  of  his  account  for  himself  and  guard  for  Franklin,  while  a  prisoner 
in  Burlington,  and  on  his  way  to  Princeton,  and  the  guard's  pay  for  six 
nights  and  two  days  while  on  said  service.  The  sum  of  £201  was  also 
ordered  paid  to  him  towards  defraying  the  expense  of  removing  Conti- 
nental prisoners  from  Burlington  to  York  county,  in  Pennsylvania,,  with 
their  baggage.  He  was  commissioned  Colonel  of  the  First  Regiment, 
Burlington  county,  September  28,  1776,  resigning  March  31,  1778.  On 
September  6,  1776,  he  was  appointed  Clerk  of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
New  Jersey.  On  May  15,  1777,  he  received  an  appointment  as  a  Justice 
of  the  Peace  of  Burlington  county,  which  office  he  resigned  October  5, 
1779.  He  was  Deputy  Secretary  of  State  in  1778,  and  when  Charles 
Pettit  resigned  his  office  as  Secretary  of  State  of  New  Jersey,  Bowes 
Reed  was  appointed  to  succeed  him,  October  7,  1778.  He  was  reappointed 
November  6,  1783,  November  8,  1788,  and  October  25,  1793.  He  was 
succeeded  on  his  death,  in  1794,  by  Samuel  Witham  Stockton.  It  was, 
perhaps,  by  virtue  of  his  office  as  Secretary  of  State  that  he  was 
Register  in  Admiralty,  under  the  Provincial  law.  In  1787  he  was  Clerk  in 
Chancery,  as  appears  by  a  contemporary  letter  of  Attorney  General 
Joseph  Bloonifield,  in  the  writer's  possession.  The  appointment  to  this 
office  was  a  personal  one,  resting  with  the  Chancellor,  under  the  ante- 
Revolutionary  practice.  On  December  21,  1784,  the  joint  meeting  of  the 
Legislature  appointed  him  Mayor  of  Burlington,  and  reappointed  him 
November  27,  1789,  he  holding  the  office  until  his  death.  He  was  a 
I 


416*  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

To  the  ELECTORS  of •  the  county  of  Hunterdon. 

BEING  duly  authorized,  I  do  appoint  the  21st  day  of 
June  next,  for  electing  a  fit  and  qualified  person  to  repre- 
sent said  county,  in  the  room  and  place  of  John  Hart,  Esq. 
deceased.  Election  to  be  held  at  Henry  Mershori's  in 
Amwell,  Ringoe's  old  tavern. 

Town  Clerks  to  make  returns  of  Commissioners  of  Ap- 
peal. 

JOSEPH  INSLEE,  Sheriff. 

May  27th,  1779. 


member  of  St.  Mary's  Church  at  Burlington,  and  on  January  30.  1786, 
subscribed  £0  toward  an  increase  of  salary  of  the  rector.  In  1793  he 
contributed  £10  for  the  erection  of  a  new  building  for  the  Burlington 
Academy,  and  was  one  of  the  trustees  of  the  Academy  in  1794.  In 
General  Stryker's  "Battles  of  Trenton  and  Princeton"  he  is  referred  to  as 
Dr.  Bowes  Reed,  which  would  appear  to  be  an  error.  General  Stryker 
says  that  Colonel  Joseph  Reed  concealed  himself  at  his  brother's  house, 
at  Burlington,  in  the  latter  part  of  December,  in  1776,  and  gained 
important  intelligence  concerning  the  whereabouts  of  the  Hessian  advance 
guard  at  Mount  Holly.  The  will  of  Bowes  Reed,  of  the  city  of  Burlington, 
New  Jersey,  dated  September  26,  1793,  was  proved  July  30,  1794.  He 
states  that  he  has  advanced  to  his  daughter  Maria,  money  which  is 
charged  in  his  account  book.  He  gives  to  "all  my  children  except 
Maria,"  an  "equal  share  of  the  profits  of  sale  of  my  estate  when  of  age." 
Executors — brother-in-law,  Charles  Pettit.  Esquire,  of  the  city  of  Phila- 
delphia, and  son-in-law.  Joseph  Mcllvaine,  Esquire,  of  the  city  of  Burling- 
ton. Witnesses — Joseph  Bloomfield.  Thomas  Adams  and  Charles  Bradley. 
— Lilxir  32  of  Wills,  p.  337.  No  inventory  or  accounting  is  on  file.  Bowes 
Reed  married  1st.  Margaret  -  —  ;  she  d.  in  childbirth,  Dec.  6.  1786, 

aged  36  years.  He  m.  2d.  Caroline,  dan.  of  Dr.  Alexander  Moore,  of  Bor- 
dentown  :  she  d.  Nov.  6,  1789,  aged  34  yrs.  Bowes  Reed  d.  July  20,  1794, 
aged  54  yrs.  Issue  (all  by  his  wife  Margaret)  : 

i.  Maria,  b.  November  11.  1775  :  bap.  in  St.  Mary's  Church,  December 
5.  1775  :  m.  Joseph  Mcllvaine.  marriage  license  dated  Sept.  19,  1793.  He 
represented  New  Jersey  in  the  Senate,  November  12,  1823,  until  his 
death  ;  he  was  buried  at  Burlington.  Aug.  20.  1826.  Their  children  were 
1.  Bowes  Heed:  2.  Bloomfield.  b.  Jan.  18,  1799;  he  was  buried  Aug. 
20,  1826.  with  his  father,  in  the  same  grave ;  3.  Charles  Pettit.  after- 
wards Bishop  of  Ohio  ;  m.  at  Burlington,  Oct.  8,  1822,  Emily  Coxe  ;  he  d. 
March  12,  1873. 

ii.   Charles   Pettit.   b.   April   6.   1778. 

iii.  Ann  Burnet,  bap.  Nov.  14,  1781  ;  d.  May  28,  1784,  "Aged  4  years," 
says  her  tombstone. 

iv.  Ann  Burnet.  b.  Oct.  31.  1784  :  d.  Nov.  3.  1787.  On  her  tombstone 
she  is  described  as  "the  second  daughter  of  Bowes  Reed,  Esq."  In  the 
baptismal  register  of  St.  Mary's  Church  her  name  is  given  as  Ann,  merely. 

v.   Margaret,  d.  Jan.  23,  1788.   aged  13  mos.  4  days. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  417 

Fire  !         Fire  !         Fire  ! 
Five  Hundred  Dollars  Reward.1 

A  stack  of  oats  on  the  plantation  of  Samuel  Smith,  in 
Kingwood,  in  the  State  of  New  Jersey,  purchased  for  the 
use  of  the  Continental  Army,  was  lately  set  on  fire  in  the 
night  timei,  by  some  wicked  person  and  enemy  of  the  lib- 
erties of  this  country. 

I  do  therefore  offer  and  promise  to  pay  the  above  reward 
to  any  person  or  persons  who  will  discover  the  perpetrator 
or  perpetrators,  so  that  they  may  be  convicted  thereof. 

MOORE  F'uRMAN,2  D.  Q.  M.  G. 

Pittstown,  18th  May,  1779.  New-Jersey. 


TO  BE  SOLD  by  the  Subscriber  at  RHODE-HALT.,  near 

Cranbury, 

A  VERY  good  eight  day  clock.     Also  a  good  silver  watch. 

DAVID  WILLIAMSON. 


Burlington  )         PUBLICK  Notice  is  hereby  given  to  all  per- 
county,  ss.  j  sons  having  any  just  demands  by  bond, 

note  mortgage,  or  book  debt,  against,  the  following  fugitives 
and  offenders,  against  whom  inquisitions  have  been  found, 
and.  final  judgment  entered  in  favour  of  the  state,  viz. 
Daniel  Cox,  Joseph  Taylor,  John  Carty,  George  Plato, 
Robert  Cooke,  John  Leonard,  Thomas  Hunlock,  Jonathan 
Odell,  Joseph  Hewlings,  and  George  alias  John  Golden, 
to  exhibit  their  account®,  &c.  to  the  judges  of  the  court  of 
common  pleas  for  the  county  of  Burlington  at  the  House 

1  In,  the  depreciated  currency  of  the  day. 

2  A   note   on   Moore    Furman   will    be   found    in   New    Jersey    Archives, 
20  :  148. 

27 


418         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779 

of  Okey  Hoagland,  In  Bordentown. — The  judges  will  at- 
tend at  the  above  place  on  every  Monday  in  June,  in  order 
to  have  them  settled.  Notice  is  also  hereby  given  to  per- 
sons having  any  goods  of  any  kind  whatsoever,  or  stand 
indebted  to  any  of  the  above  fugitives,  and  shall  neglect 
to  make  discovery  to  one  of  the  subscribers  within  one 
month  from  the  data  hereof,  may  expect  to  be  dealt  with 
as  the  law  in  that  case  directs.  Likewise  all  persons  who 
stand  indebted  for  goods  or  lands  bought  at  any  of  the 
above  fugitives  vendues,  are  desired  to  make  speedy  pay- 
ment, that  the  accounts  may  be  settled. 

JOSEPH    BUTLER,  )  Commis- 

JOSEPH    BORDEN,  jun.1    j  sioners. 
May  29,  1779. 


Amwell,  Hunterdon  county,  May  25,  1779. 
WANTED, 

AN  ENGLISH  SCHOOL-MASTER.  A  single  man  sufficiently 
qualified  and  of  a  moral  character,  will  find  employment 
in  a  very  agreeable  neighbourhood,  and  a  generous  sum 
will  be  given  for  his  labours,  by  applying  to  the  Rev.  Mr. 
John  Warford,2  of  the  said  township  of  Amwell. 

1  An  account  of  the  Borden  family  is  given  in  New  Jersey  Archives, 
24  :  651. 

-  There  were  several  Warfords  in  and  about  Kingwood,  Hunterdon 
county,  about  the  middle  and  the  last  quarter  of  the  eighteenth  century. 
Among  them  was  John  Warford,  yeoman,  of  Kingwood,  whose  will,  dated 
June  9,  1701,  was  proved  January  3,  1770.  He  gives  all  his  movable 
estate  to  his  wife,  Elizabeth,  for  life,  and  after  her  death  to  his  five 
daughters — -Abigail  Warne.  Elizabeth  Colvin,  Rachel  Quimby,  Jane  Allen 
and  Ann  Fox — in  equal  shares.  He  devises  all  his  real  estate,  describing 
the  boundaries,  to  his  son  James,  and  gives  £20  to  said  son  James,  and 
£20  to  his  son  John.  Executor — son  James.  Witnesses — Malakiah  Bon- 
ham,  Isaac  Leet  and  Absalom  Bonbam. — N.  J.  Wills,  Lib.  15,  f.  18.  The 
liev.  John  Warford  was  probably  bis  son. 

John-  (John1)  Warford  was  b.  1745,  somewhere  on  Martha's  Vineyard, 
it  is  supposed,  and  it  is  understood  that  his  boyhood  home  was  there. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  419 

THE  creditors  of  John  Bainbridge,  late  of  Xew  Jersey, 
•deceased,  are  desired  to  call  upon  the  subscriber,  in  Market 

He  graduated  at  Princeton  in  1774,  and  studying  for  the  ministry,  was 
licensed  by  the  New  Brunswick  Presbytery,  October,  1775.  He  was 
called  by  the  people  of  Amwell,  April  3,  1776,  and  was  ordained  and 
Installed  their  pastor  on  the  last  Wednesday  in  July  (the  31st),  1776, 
the  Rev.  Elihu  Spencer,  of  Trenton,  preaching  the  sermon.  The  ceremony 
took  place,  say  the  church  minutes,  "at  the  upper  house  in  Amwell," 
doubtless  meaning  the  Second  Church.  He  married  Margaret,  the  widow 
of  the  Rev.  William  Kirkpatrick,  his  predecessor  in  the  pastorate,  who 
had  died  Sept.  8,  1769.  His  salary  was  £50  per  annum,  besides  parson- 
age, and  some  other  allowances,  but  during  the  Revolution  the  value  of 
currency  was  greatly  depreciated,  and  he  had  a  hard  struggle  to  maintain 
himself  and  family.  One  pew  owner  at  that  time,  whose  pew  rent  was 
14s.  6d.,  paid  £24  17s.  6d.  in  depreciated  currency  to  liquidate  a  year's 
rent.  In  1786  he  was  sent  by  Synod  on  a  missionary  tour  through  the 
northeastern  part  of  New  York,  in  the  course  of  which  he  preached  for  a 
New  England  congregation,  at  what  is  now  known  as  Salem,  Washington 
county,  New  York,  and  at  their  request  agreed  in  May,  1787.  to  supply 
their  pulpit.  He  pleased  them  so  well  that  in  September  of  that  year 
they  extended  him  a  call,  signed  by  ninety-one  persons.  They  promised 
him  a  salary  of  £120,  New  York  currency,  about  equivalent  to  $400 ; 
also  a  convenient  parsonage,  the  use  of  176  acres  of  the  glebe  lands,  and 
to  pay  into  the  Widows'  Fund  £116  13s.  4d.  proclamation  money.  This 
was  so  much  better  than  the  Amwell  congregation  could  offer  that  the 
latter  people  reluctantly  consented  to  the  removal  of  their  pastor.  Mr. 
Warford  was  dismissed  to  his  new  charge  in  May,  1788,  but  was  not 
installed  until  July,  1789.  When  the  Presbytery  of  Albany  was  con- 
stituted, in  1790,  he  preached  the  sermon  at  the  first  meeting  of  the  new 
Presbytery,  in  Albany,  on  May  9,  1790,  selecting  his  text  from  Luke  xiv. 
23.  Local  tradition  has  it  that  Mr.  Warford  was  an  able  man,  earnestly 
devoted  to  his  parish,  an  ardent  and  effective  worker,  with  a  heart 
enlisted  in  the  cause  of  Christian  philanthropy  and  missionary  work. 
The  records  of  Presbytery  and  Synod  show  that  he  was  a  regular 
attendant  on  those  judicatories.  The  Salem  church  grew  and  prospered 
under  his  ministry.  He  was  deeply  interested  in  the  founding  of  Wash- 
ington Academy,  at  Salem,  and  was  one  of  the  original  twenty-five  trus- 
tees: He  finished  his  pastorate  and  his  course  on  earth  May  19,  1802. 
His  tombstone  says,  and  doubtless  with  entire  truth :  "He  was  an 
affectionate  Pastor,  Husband,  Parent  and  Friend ;  An  Evangelical 
Preacher,  Meek  in  his  disposition,  and  grave  in  his  address."  He  was 
survived  by  his  wife,  to  whom;  the  church  four  years  later  paid  £809  12s. 
4d.  for  arrears  of  salary  due  him  at  his  decease. — Hist.  United  First 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Amwell,  by  Rev.  J.  Kirkpatrick,  page  7  ;  Hall's 
Hist.  Pres.  Church  in  Trenton,  190  ;  Gillett's  Hist.  Pres.  Church  in  the 
U.  8.  A.,  1  :  385,  391  ;  Princeton  College  in  the  Eighteenth  Century,  180  ; 
The  Salem  Book,  Salem,  N.  Y.,  1896,  pp.  94-96;  Munsell's  Annals  of 
Albany,  2  :  303. 


4^0  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [17791 

street,  near  Second-Street,  Philadelphia,  in  one  month  from 
the  date  hereof,  for  a  dividend  of  the  monies  now  in  my 
hands.  Those  who  do  not  apply,  will  be  excluded.1 

C.   CLAY. 
May  14,  1779. 


To  all  whom  it  may  concern: 

New-Jersey,   )      NOTICE  is  hereby  given,  that  a  Court  of 
ss  j          Admiralty  will  be  held   at  the  house 

of  Gilbert  Barton,  in  Allen-Town,  on  Monday  the  twenty- 
eighth  day  of  June  next,  at  10  o'clock  in  the  forenoon  of 
the  same  day,  then  and  there  to  try  the  truth  of  the 
facts  alledgecl  in  the  bill  of  Nicholas  Still  well  and  others, 
(who  as  well,  &c.)  against  the  brigantine  or  vessel,  called 
the  Delight  lately  commanded  by  James  Dawson,  with 
her  tackle,  apparel,  furniture  and  cargo :  To  the  end  and 
intent  that  the  owner  or  owners  of  the  said  vessel,  or  any 
person  or  persons  concerned  therein,  may  appear  and  shew 
cause,  if  any  they  have,  why  the  said  vessel  and  cargo 
should  not  be  condemned  according  to  the  prayer  of  the 
said  bill. 

By  order  of  the  Judge, 

JOSEPH  BLOOMFIELD,  Register 
Salem,  28th  May,  1779. 


1  John  Bainbridge,  senior,  was  of  Chesterfield,  Burlington  county,  in 
1688.  John  Bainbridge,  the  founder  of  the  Mercer  county  family,  had  a 
tract  of  200  acres  surveyed  for  him  on  Assunpink  creek,  at  Maidenhead,  in 
1684.  He  bought  a  tract  of  504  acres  on  Raritan  river  in  the  same  year. 
He  bought  and  sold  many  large  tracts  on  the  Assunpink,  or  Stony  brook, 
during  the  next  ten  years.  The  John  Bainbridge  mentioned  in  the  text 
was  doubtless  of  the  same  family. 


NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  421 

New-Jersey,  liunterdon  county, 
Township  of  Hopewell,  May  16,  1779. 

Sixty  Dollars  Eeward. 
Taken  from  a  waggon  in  Trenton, 

On  the  sixteenth  day  of  May, 

Some  time  in  the  night, 
A  mare  all  over  black, 

But  the  near  hind  foot  white. 
A  curl'd  main  and  tail, 

And  a  very  bad  eye, 
About  ten  years  old 

And  about  14  hands  high. 
She  being  shod  all  round, 

A  tender  mouth  I  do  tell 
A  slow  pace  she  can  go, 

But  trots  and  canters  well 
Whoever  secures  the  thief 

That  to  justice  he  may  come, 
And  likewise  the  beast 

That  the  owner  may  get  her  home : 
They  may  call  upon  me, 

And  I  will  them  repay 
The  sum  above-mentioned, 

And  that  without  delay. 
Or  half  the  sum  mentioned 

For  either  of  the  two, 
And  that  I  do  promise 

I  will  pay  unto  you. 
And  also  the  charges 

That's  reasonable  and  fair, 
I  will  pay  without  fail, 

And  that  I  declare. 
And  now,  my  dear  countrymen, 

If  this  prize  you  will  gain, 
I  your  humble  servant, 

Forever   will   remain. 

JOSEPH  TITUS. 


NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION. 


To  Mr.  TIMOLEON, 
Sir, 

I  AM  at  a  loss  what  notice  I  can  with  propriety,  take  of  your 
address,  published  in  this  Gazette  of  the  12th  instant.  —  When  I  read 
your  own  account  of  yourself,  and  consider  you  as  a  hero,  "Who  has 
frequently  risked  his  life,  and  nearly  spent  his  all  in  his  country's 
defence,"  (altho'  such  claims  to  consequence  are  very  frequent  at  this 
day)  I  am  impressed  with  the  highest  veneration  for  your  character. 
But  when  I  view  you  in  so  contrasted  a  point  of  light  as  basely 
attempting  to  stab  the  reputation,  and  wound  the  feelings  of  an  honest 
man,  you  excite  no  other  passion  in  me  but  contempt.  I  should  there- 
fore pass  over  your  performance  in  the  silence  it  deserves,  had  you 
not  arraigned  my  conduct  before  the  publick.  Regard  and  decency  to 
my  countrymen  require  that  I  shall  remove  those  ill  suspicions  you 
have  laboured  so  hard  to  impress. 

It  may  not  be  amiss  previously  to  remark  a  little  on  your  evasive 
manner  of  accusing  me.  There  is  a  mixture  of  meanness  and 
timidity  in  your  method  of  conveying  censure  under  the  form  of 
interrogation.  This  sly  mode  of  attacking,  stamps  on  the  minds  of 
the  people  strong  surmizes  of  guilt,  and  yet  gives  the  party  accused 
no  chance  of  demanding  proof.  It  betrays  a  wish  to  slander  one's 
character,  and  at  the  same  time  a  fear  to  do  it  in  open  and  explicit 
terms. 

There  is  another  stroke  which  also  exposes  your  meanness.  —  When 
you,  with  an  invidious  sneer,  tell  me  you  have  long  known  me,  and 
that  you  are  well  acquainted  with  my  character  and  principles,  it 
seems  from  your  manner  of  expression,  that  you  would  insinuate  that 
my  character  is  not  fair,  and  reputable.  Where  I  am  known,  I  am 
happy  in  appealing  to  my  acquaintance  for  the  defence  of  my  reputa- 
tion ;  and  where  I  am  not  known,  it  will  be  a  striking  indication  in 
my  favor,  that  I  meet  with  opposition  and  slander  from  men  whose 
writings  have  so  much  the  air  of  envy  and  ill  design. 

No  conscious  blush  covers  my  face,  nor  am  I  less  disposed  to  use 
honest  boldness  than  when  I  addressed  the  public  on  the  21st  ultimo. 
Neither  am  I  in  a  disagreeable  dilemma  on  any  other  account,  than 
whether  it  is  most  proper  to  let  your  publication  sink  into  silent 
disdain,  or  to  trouble  the  public  and  myself  with  a  reply  to  it.  Thus 
far,  Mr.  Timoleon,  you  may  consider  the  address  your  own  ;  and  I 
leave  you  awhile  to  ruminate  on  it,  till  I  say  something  to  the  world 
concerning  your  imputations. 

The  strongest  motives  to  faithfulness  and  integrity,  are  derived  from 
the  weighty  sanctions  that  inforce  our  duties.  It  should  be  remem- 
bered, that  the  several  Legislatures  can,  within  their  respective 
jurisdictions,  suspend  any  purchaser  from  his  office  whom  they  suppose 
fraudulent  or  incapable  of  executing  its  requirements.  We  are  bound,. 


1779]         .  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  423 

under  a  heavy  forfeiture,  to  discharge  our  trusts  with  felicity  ;  aud 
are  not  only  liable  to  suffer  for  misapplication  of  money  and  stores, 
by  a  legal  process,  but  to  be  convicted  and  punished  by  sentence  of  a 
Court-Martial.  These  forcible  considerations,  added  to  others  still 
greater,  the  solemn  obligations  of  an  oath,  the  regard  to  our  own 
reputation,  the  pleasure  that  arises  from  well-doing,  the  desire  of 
avoiding  the  censure  of  'a  vigilant  people,  must  be  sufficient  to  check 
us  from  dishonest  practices.  If  we  are  not  deterred  from  the  com- 
mission of  evil  by  such  guards  and  principles,  it  is  my  wish  that  we 
may  be  dismissed  from  office,  and  held  up  to  view  as  melancholy 
objects  of  human  depravity. 

It  has  been  my  constant  principle  never  to  sell  at  an  advanced 
price,  for  my  private  emolument,  necessaries  bought  for  the  army,  as 
that  would  be  a  practice  which  I  consider  infamous  and  detestable. 
The  public  officer  who  is  guilty  of  it,  ought  to  be  turned  out  of 
employment  with  disgrace,  banished  from  the  society  of  virtuous 
men,  and  looked  upon  with  as  much  abhorrence  as  a  robber.  Nor 
have  I  had  occasion  or  inclination  to  speculate  with  the  public  money, 
for  my  own  advantage ;  but  on  the  reverse,  the  public  have  long 
been  and  now  are  many  thousand  pounds  in  my  debt.  I  have  in  a  few 
instances  purchased  such  articles  for  sale  as  are  often  bought  for  the 
army,  but  it  was  at  a  time  when  I  was  ordered  by  the  Commissary 
General  or  his  Deputy,  under  whom  I  act,  to  suspend  my  purchases 
of  that  particular  article  on  public  account.  In  this  situation  I  have 
bought  a  few  hogsheads  of  rum,  and  some  small  quantities  of  salt, 
which  I  procured  at  my  own  risk  and  with  my  own  money,  and  con- 
sequently supposed  I  had  a  right  to  dispose  of  it  for  my  own  benefit. 
I  have  also  once  appropriated  to  private  use  a  few  barrels  of  flour 
in  similar  circumstances.  Being  advised  by  Col.  Blaine,  Deputy 
Commissary  General,  that  it  could  be  had  at  33s.  Gd.  per  hundred 
weight  in  the  lower  States,  when  it  was  eight  dollars  and  upwards 
in  this,  it  was  thought  proper  to  desist  purchasing  that  article 
here.  It  so  happened  that  one  who  purchased  for  me  had,  previous 
to  such  notice,  bought  a  small  quantity  at  the  latter  price,  which  I 
took  off  his  hands  for  private  purposes,  and  desired  him  to  obtain  a 
few  barrels  more  on  the  same  principle.  This  flour  has  been  used 
in  my  own  family,  and  dealt  out  to  necessitous  persons,  who  other- 
wise must  have  suffered ;  and  even  at  this  extravagant  time,  I  have 
not  taken  more  than  six  pounds  per  hundred,  altho'  carted  from  the 
farther  part  of  Monmouth  at  my  own  expence.  It  cannot  be  denied 
but  I  had  a  right  to  provide  for  my  own  family ;  and  if  it  is  a  crime 
to  spare  a  little  bread  to  a-  pper  neighbour  in  distress,  let  it  be  said 
that  my  duty  fell  a  sacrifice  to  my  humanity. 

Early  in  this  contest  I  advanced  large  sums  of  money  for  public 
purchases,  before  enough  could  be  had  from  the  treasury,  and  have 
frequently  borrowed  large  sums  from  others,  that  the  supplies  for 
the  army  need  not  fail.  For  some  of  which  money  I  now  pay  interest, 


424  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

never  having  been  able  to»  get  such,  sums  as  to  clear  off  arrearages 
and  continue  the  purchases.  This  interest  and  the  depreciation  of 
the  money  far  exceeds  all  the  envied  commisisons  I  shall  receive.  My 
own  money  is  also  depreciating,  and  I  have  neither  time  nor  disposi- 
tion to  employ  it  in  trade,  as  I  would  not  wish  to  give  the  least 
occasion  for  jealousy  to  my  countrymen.  Had.  I  not  been  engaged  in 
the  public  service,  but  attended  to  my  private  concerns,  I  could  with 
far  less  trouble  and  perplexity  than  I  have  now  experienced,  have 
gained  ten  times  as  much  as  the  whole  amount  of  my  commissions. 
From  this  explicit  account  of  facts,  let  the  public  determine  whether 
I  have  embezzled  or  in  any  way  made  a  criminal  application  of  their 
property. 

My  anxiety  and  exertions  to  obtain  proper  supplies  for  the  army  are 
well  known  to  those  with  whom  I  have  transacted  business.  Neither 
the  scorching  heats  of  summer,  the  cold  rigors  of  winter,  the  severity 
of  tempests,  nor  the  darkness  of  the  night,  have  repressed  my 
endeavors  to  accomplish  this  end,  and  I  have  often  been  happy  in 
giving  a  seasonable  supply.  It  has  been  my  constant  aim  to  prevent 
the  depreciation  of  the  money,  and  I  have  never  been  so  heedless  of 
this  consequence  as  to  give  forty  pounds  an  acre  for  an  ordinary 
plantation,  nor  attempted  in  a  public  newspaper  to  prove  that  the 
depreciation  was  twenty  to  one. 

I  averred  that  I  could  prove  the  reverse  of  what  the  Patriot  said 
in  a  thousand  instances.  As  this  amounts  only  to  a  negative 
proposition,  all  that  is  necessary  for  me  to  do  is  to  challenge  those  I 
have  dealt  with  to  convict  me.  I  must  be  supposed  innocent  till  they 
can  prove  me  otherwise.  I  did  not  undertake  to  justify  every 
individual  who  purchases  for  the  public.  Those  who  are  honest  and 
attentive  need  no  vindication,  an^  those  who  are  not  so  deserve  none. 
Others  when  arraigned  must  defend  themselves. 

One  word  more  to  Mr.  Timoleon  and  I  have  done.  If  you,  Sir, 
have  a  mind  to  divert  yourself  in  trying  to  prove  that  they  have  all 
"indeed  been  harpies  which  have  preyed  upon  our  vitals"  you  may 
indulge  your  inclination,  and  no  doubt  will  meet  with  the  reward  due  to 
your  extraordinary  zeal  and  labours.  You  deserve  my  thanks  for  your 
kind  offer  to  give  me  your  name.  I  shall  not  trouble  you  with  such  a 
request,  as  I  should  be  unwilling  to  know  you.  It  would  give  me  pain 
to  reflect  that  there  was  in  the  list  of  my  acquaintances  one  man 
capable  of  such  a  grovelling  business,  as  to  take  pleasure  in  traducing 
fair  and  honest  characters — I  submit  the  above  to  the  candour  and 
judgment  of  the  Publick, 

And  am  their  most  obedient  humble  servant, 

Az.  DUNHAM, 

Morristown,  May  19,  1779. 
— The  'New-Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  II.,  No.  78,  Wednesday,  June  2,  1779. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  425 

Mr.  COLLINS, 

AMONG  the  various  writers  who  are  endeavoring  to  establish  the 
political  salvation  of  their  country,  none  have  been  attended  with  so 
bad  consequences  in  depreciating  the  currency,  as  the  writings  of  your 
correspondent  the  True  Patriot ;  nor  has  any  recommendation  of  so 
unjust  and  impolitic  a  plan  as  he  has  done  in  his  concluding  number, 
in  recommending  seasonable  laws  to  be  made  by  the  Legislatures,  that 
no  citizens  receive  payments  for  debts  contracted  before  the  year  1777, 
in  this  depreciated  currency,  disregarding  those  who  have  already 
received  the  money,  and  that  for  lands  sold  and  debts  contracted 
before  the  depreciation  of  the  currency,  and  probably  have  not  one 
farthing  on  loan  before  the  first  of  March  1778,  possessing  no  land 
at  present,  the  unjust  depreciation  having  rendered  them  unable  to 
purchase  now.  Are  these  the  men  to  hold  a  tenth  of  the  stock, 
ought  they  not  rather  to  receive  the  full  value  of  every  bill,  according 
to  the  resolution  of  Congress,  read  in  the  face  of  it?  The  injustice 
of  his  scheme  is  so  glaring,  and  is  indeed  to  be  wondered  at  how  a 
person  of  patriotic  principles  should  undertake  it ;  but  when  we 
reflect  that  men  of  sanguine  tempers,  who  often  start  a  notion  merely 
as  a  point  of  speculation,  will  think  and  talk  so  much  about  it,  as  at 
length  to  persuade  themselves  into  a  firm  belief  of  the  reality  of 
what  is  all  the  while  the  creature  of  their  own  brains :  Strange  as 
this  may  seem,  I  am  almost  tempted  to  believe  this  patriotic  gentle- 
man has  brought  himself  to  believe  that  what  he  has  proposed  is 
the  most  equitable  of  any  scheme  possible  now  to  enter  into.  I 
dismiss  the  True  Patriot  to  reflect  on  the  wildness  of  his  propositions, 
and  make  my  address  to  the  Honourable  the  Congress,  the  Governors 
and  Legislative  Bodies  of  the  United  States :  May  the  Congress 
once  more  warmly  recommend  to  and  assist  them  in  making  laws 
for  the  regulation  of  trade.  Necessity  calls ;  fear  urges ;  reason 
exhorts ;  compassion  alone  exclaims :  the  whole  fabrick  appears  in 
danger  of  falling  to  the  ground,  and  if  so,  would  bury  thousands  in  its 
ruins ;  I  mean  the  natural  death  of  publick  credit.  Who  can  behold 
this  destruction  with  the  remedy  in  their  hands!  laws  of  regulation. — 
This,  and  this  alone,  will  pay  millions  of  money  for  those  yet  unborn ; 
this  would  defeat  all  the  depreciating  schemes  of  the  emissaries  of 
Britain,  the  machinations  of  the  friends  of  tyranny,  and  enemies  to 
liberty.  In  the  mean  time,  let  taxes  be  competent  on  property  of 
whatsoever  kind :  *  By  competent  taxes  I  would  be  understood  to 
signify  a  low  medium  between  those  who  have  been  so  unfortunate 
as  to  possess  their  estates  in  cash  at  present,  and  have  a  right  to  call 
every  dollar  equal  in  value  to  one  silver  one,  and  those  who  have 
fifteen  or  twenty  for  one ;  the  unequal  division  of  property  renders 

*  Should  it  be  practicable  to  tax  cash  itself,  two  pence  a  year  from 
every  dollar  will  pay  or  sink  the  whole,  no  matter  how  enormous  the 
sum,  in  forty-five  years. 


426   '  NEW    JEESEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION,  [1779 

it  impossible  to  do  equal,  justice  to  every  one.  The  source  of 
degeneracy,  so  remarkable  in  free  governments,  is  mostly  owing  to  the 
practice  of  contracting  debts  and  mortgaging  the  publick  revenues,  by 
which  taxes  may  in  time  become  intolerable,  and  all  the  property  of 
the  state  be  brought  into  the  hands  of  the  publick.  Zenophon  tells 
us  that  the  Republick  of  Athens  paid  near  two  hundred  per  cent 
for  Sums  of  money,  when  emergent  occasions  made  it  necessary  for 
them  to  borrow.  In  popular  governments  the  people,  who  have  the 
highest  offices,  are  commonly  the  publick  creditors.  'Tis  difficult  for 
the  state  to  make  use  of  this  remedy,  (though  it  may  be  attainable 
on  easy  terms)  which  however  it  may  be  some  time  necessary,  is 
always  cruel  and  barbarous,  and  is  an  inconvenience  which  nearly 
threatens  all  free  governments,  especially  our  own  at  the  present 
conjunction  of  affairs.  And  what  a  strong  motive  is  this  to  increase 
our  frugality  of  the  publick  money.  Ergo,  Laws  to  regulate  trade  will 
confirm  what  was  formerly  said  of  Republicks  alone,  that  they  are  a 
government  of  laws,  not  of  men  ;  property  would  thereby  be  secured 
and  industry  encouraged  ;  for  this  the  honest  farmers  and  niechanicks 
are  now  looking  up  unanimously  to  their  great  servants  :  The  mer- 
chants, the  bane  of  society,  engrossers  and  forestallers  I  exclude. 

A  FARMER. 


Letter  from*  Mr.  Peter  Dubois  in  New  York,  to  Mrs. 
Dubois  at  Second  River. 

Friday,  May  28,  1779. 
MY  DEAR  CATEY, 

"I  WROTE  you  on  Wednesday,  and  sent  you  two  pair 
of  heels  and  the  materials  for  the  bonnet,  with  the  news- 
paper, which  hope  YOU  will  receive  in  proper  time. — Since 
which  I  am  told  Mrs.  Hurly  and  her  daughter  were  in 
town,  and  had  a  note  from  you  for  me,  I  therefore  went 
in  search  of  them,  but  could  not  find  them  out,  although 
I  heard  of  their  having  been  in  several  places,  so  that 
your' s  by  them  is  not  come  to  hand. — They  came  in  by 
Paulus-Hook,  and  there  they  got  a  pass  to  come  in  and 
return,  so  that  they  have  no  occasion  to  call  on  us,  and 
therefore  gave  themselves  no  trouble  about  delivering  your 
billet, — I  hope.  Chestnut1  got  safe,  as  he  will  spare  you 
a  little  sugar  in  case  Confident l  should  not  have  for- 


Ciphers  for  certain  proper  names. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  427 

warded  you  anyj  I  have  laying  ready  a  few  pounds  of 
powder  sugar,  which  shall  send  you  as  soon  as  I  can  get 
a  conveyance. 

"I  am  anxious  to  hear  of  the  progress  of  the  continental 
troops  which  marched  towards  the  frontiers1 — the  particu- 
lar objects  of  their  distinction  are  probably  known  by 
this  time,  if  they  have  thought  it  expedient  to  proceed 
upon  their  original  plan;  but  if  thei  Savages  should  have 
began  any  operations,  I  think  it  probable  they  have  been 
diverted  from  their  design;  I  could  wish  to  hear  as  soon 
as  possible  any  tiling  that  may  transpire  relative  to  the 
achievement  of  either,  though  I  dread  to  be  told  of  the 
cruelties  that  will  probably  be  practised.  Indeed  we  have 
lately  had  a  scene  (which  by  report  has  been  marked  with 
circumstances  of  Savage  barbarity)  transacted,  between 
this  and  your  district,  and  which  I  believe  is  secreted  from 
the  commander  in  chief,  whose  sensibility  and  humanity, 
I  am  persuaded,  would  be  wounded  with  the  representa- 
tion— But,  notwithstanding,  it  has  its  advocates,  and  could 
you  believe  it,  the  Governor*  of  your  province  avowedly 
patronizes  the  miscreants.  It  fills  me  with  horror  to 
reflect  on  the  probable  effects  of  such  a  temper  in  a  man 
who  declares  he  is  at  the  head  of  this  association,2  which 
appears  to  me  to  be  formed  for  the  purpose  of  plundering 
and  desolating  a  country,  which  reason  and  maxims  of 
sound  policy  should  induce  him  to  regain  the  affections  of, 
by  treating  those  whom  he  subdue®  with  lenity  and  justice. 
I  am  far  from  wishing  to  plead  the  cause  of  those  who  are 
the  props  and  supports  of  the  present  unnatural  conflict: 
~No  I  I  would  have  the  leading  men  secured  and  treated 
with  humanity,  but  reserved  for  justice;  but  the  aged 
and  decrepid— the  women/  and  the  children — the  industri- 
ous peasant  and  the  man  unarmed  and  unarrayed  for 

*  Meaning  Mr.  Franklin. 

1  Sullivan's  expedition   against   the  Indians,   in  which  a  detachment  of 
New  Jersey  troops  took  part. 

2  The  Association  of  Loyalists,  in  New  York  city. 


428  NEW    JEKSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

hostile  purpose,  should  *est  in  quiet  in  his  own  cottage, 
and  pursue  the  labour®  of  his  fields,  without  interruption ; 
to  him  the  horrors  of  war  should  be  unknown,  whatever 
might  be  his  speculative  opinions,  provided  those  were  not 
accompanied  with  open  acts  of  persecution  and  violence 
against  those  who  differed  in  sentiments  with  him.  This, 
I  must  confess,  is  however  an  idea  singular  among  those 
who  are  Jersey  refugees-, — they  breath  nothing  but  fire 
and  sword,  and  desolation — and  those  whom  an  ungovern- 
able and  rapacious  soldiery  have  already  plundered,  they 
are  for  utterly  destroying.  They  put  me  in  mind  of  the 
representation  given  of  the  Porpoises,  who,  it  is  said,  when 
one  of  their  number  is  wounded,  the  others  fall  upon  him 
immediately  and  devour  him, — in  this  manner  they  have 
acted  since  they  have  been  embodied  and  headed  by  their 
chief — every  thing  that  comes  in  their  way  is  plunder,  and 
its  owner  a  damned  rebel.  Poor  John  Powlesson,,  the  com- 
panion of  my  sufferings,  and  who  for  his  invincible  firm- 
ness and  refusal  to  take  the  oath,  was  a  prisoner  at  Mor- 
ris- Town  eleven  months,  has  been  plundered  for  a  rebel  by 
these  wretches,  his  horses  have  been  publickly  sold,  and 
I  yesterday  met  a  fellow  in  the  street  with  his  negro,  who, 
I  understand  from  him,  he  was  going  to>  sell.  I  hope  I 
shall  be  able  to  put  a  stop'  to  it,  if  at  the  risk  of  grave 
looks  from  the  Governor. 

Twelve  o'clock,  Wednesday. 

I  have  nothing  to  add — but  that  I  am  well,  and  wish 
to  hear  you  may  be  so  too. 


TEENTON,  JUNE  9. 
*********** 

Extract  of  a  letter  from  Elizabeth-Town,  May  30. 

"The  latest  account  from  the  enemy  at  New- York  is, 
that  the  whole  force,  supposed  to  be  about  8000  men,  col- 
lected at  White  Plains,  two  sloops  loaded  with  fascines 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  429 

lay  in  the  harbour  opposite  the  White-hall.  Yesterday 
all  the  waggons  and  horses  on  Staten-Island  were  pressed 
into  the  service,  and  sent  to  New  York.  The  26th,  37th, 
1  foreign  regt,  and  Barton's,  are  on  Staten-Island;  Gen. 
Clinton  in  New- York,  Gen.  Vaughn  and  Sir  W.  Erskine 
at  White  Plains." 

In  consequence  of  the  movement  of  the  main  body  of  the 
enemy  up  the  North  River,  our  army  marched  the  latter 
end  of  last  week  from  their  late  encampment  at  Middle- 
Brook  towards  Fort  Clinton;  which  it  is  supposed  is  the 
enemy's  principal  object,  from  whence  we  hourly  expect 
important  intelligence:  This  fort  is  situated  in  the  High- 
lands, on  the  West  side  of  the  North-River,  at  a  place 
called  West  Point, 

Since  our  last  the  gallant  Major  LEE/  with  his  Corps  of 
Light  Dragoons,  passed  through  this  town,  on  his  way  to 
join  the  American  army. 

Tuesday  se'nnight  a  party  of  tories  from  Staten  Island 
landed  at  Middletown,  in  Monmouth,  plundered  several 
houses  and  carried  off  four  or  five  of  the  inhabitants 
prisoners. 

*  ^  *  Wanted  immediately  by  the  Printer  of  this  Paper, 
two  good  Journeymen;  as  ivell  as  an  apprentice  Lad, 
about  14  years  of  age,  who  can  read  and  write. 


COUNTY  OF  SOMERSET. 

AT  a  meeting  of  the  Electors  of  the  county  of  Somerset, 
pursuant  to  notice  by  advertisements,  on  Thursday  the 
3d  instant,  at  the  Court-house  of  the  said  county, 

The  business  of  the  meeting  introduced  and  discussed, 
the  following  Resolutions  were  adopted : 

1.  Whereas,  from  the  concurrence  of  a  variety  of  causes, 
the  bills  emitted  under  the  authority  of  the  United  States 

1  Major  Henry  Lee — "Light  Horse  Harry" — of  Virginia. 


430    '  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

in  Congress  assembled,- have  greatly  depreciated  in  their 
value,  and  an  addition  to  the  quantity  circulating  will 
tend  to  encrease  such  depreciation ;  therefore, 

Resolved,  That  a  petition  be  presented  to  the  Legisla- 
ture, requesting  them  to  make  application  to  Congress  on 
behalf  of  this  state,  that  the  emission  of  bills  of  credit  be 
henceforth  discontinued. 

2.  Resolved,  That  the  Legislature  be  requested  to  make 
application  as  aforesaid,  that  a  plan  be  adopted  and  rec- 
ommended for  a  general  limitation  of  prices  throughout 
the  United  States,  accordirig  to  which  such  prices  may  be 
diminished   slowly   from   their   present   tenour   at   stated 
periods,  and  by  small  differences,  until  the  quantity  of 
money  be  reduced  by  taxation  to  what  is  necessary  for  a 
circulating  medium. 

3.  And  whereas  taxation  is  the  most  natural  and  bene- 
ficial source  from  which  to  derive  the  supplies  necessary 
for  supporting  the  army  and  carrying  on  the  war; 

Resolved,  That  the  Legislature  be  requested  to  make 
application  as  aforesaid,  that  requisitions  of  taxes  be 
henceforward  made  on  the  States  for  the  above  purposes; 
and  that  to  avoid  as  far  as  possible  the  expence  of  pur- 
chasing in  the  modes  hitherto  practised  and  the  necessity 
of  such  large  circulations  of  money  through  the  publick 
treasury,  a  just  quota  of  provisions,  forage,  and  of  other 
necessaries  for  the  army,  be  laid  upon  each  state  in  such 
kinds  as  they  are  severally  suited  to  produce,  to  be  paid 
in  the  way  of  tax  at  regulated  prices,  by  those  who  raise 
them,  while  those  who  do  not,  pay  a  full  proportion  in 
money. 

4.  Resolved,  That  it  be  expressed  to  the  Legislature  as 
the  sense  of  this  meeting,  that  in  levying  all  future  taxes 
and  aids  for  the  use  of  the  State,  or  of  the  Union  in  gen- 
eral, the  assessments  be  made  according  to  the  value  of  all 
property  possessed  by  each  individual;   it  being  as  reason- 
able that  persons  should  be  taxed  for  their  money,  their 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  431 

income,  the  faculty  and  means  of  acquiring  property,  as 
for  any  estate  whatever. 

5.  And  whereas  there  is  great  reason  to  believe  that 
many  persons  employed  in  various  branches  of  the  publick 
departments   of   the   United   States,    are   guilty   of  mis- 
management and  fraud  in  executing  their  trust  and  apply- 
ing the  publick  money ;  and  there  being  no  ready  and  regu- 
lar mode  prescribed  by  publick  authority  of  which  such  as 
are  disposed  may  avail  themselves  to  furnish  the  necessary 
information  to  those  who  have  power  to  correct  such  abuses, 
and  thereby  prevent  the  unnecessary  increase  of  the  public 
burdens ; 

Resolved,  That  the  Legislature  be  requested  to  direct 
some  convenient  and  adequate  means  of  collecting  and 
transmitting  to  Congress,  or  to  such  Board  or  Committee 
by  them  appointed,  as  may  be  adequate  in  point  of  juris- 
diction, or  to  the  Executive  Power  of  the  State  in  cases 
where  that  is  competent,  all  such  authentick  evidences  and 
documents  as  can  be  procured,  that  the  guilty  may  be 
punished,  and  the  faithful  servants  of  the  publick  be 
rescued  from  that  undiscriminating  censure  which  the 
bad  and  unworthy  bring  upon  all ;  and  that  we  will  exert 
our  utmost  endeavours  for  effecting  so  laudable  a  purpose. 

6.  And  whereas  virtue  and  good  morals  are  not  only 
productive  of  personal  happiness,  but  have  a  great  and 
extensive  good  effect  upon  the  political  state  of  every  gov- 
ernment where  they  are  cultivated ; 

Resolved,  That  we  will  by  our  example  and  influence 
endeavour  to  promote  these,  and  will  look  upon  it  as  the 
course  of  duty  to  support  and  strengthen  the  arm  of  the 
civil  authority  in  detecting  and  bringing  to  deserved  pun- 
ishment all  such  as  are  guilty  of  profanity,  immorality,- 
extravagance,  idleness  and  dissipation,  of  extortion,  sharp- 
ing and  oppression,  and  all  such  practices  as  tend  to  the 
unjust  advantage  of  individuals  and  detriment  of  •  the  com- 
munity. 


NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

Ordered,  That  a  representation  and  petition  to  the 
Legislature  be  drawn  up  pursuant  to  these  Resolutions, 
and  signed  by  the  Chairman ;  and  that  the  Representa- 
tives of  the  county  be  requested  to  lay  the  same  before  the 
respective  Houses. 

Extracted  from  the  Minutes  of  Proceedings,  and  pub- 
lished by  Order, 

WILLIAM  On.  HOUSTON,  Chairman. 

THE  great  Increase  of  Prices  for  the  Necessaries  of 
Life,  as  well  as  fo>r  every  Article  used  in  the  Printing 
Business,  since  the  Commencement  of  the  current  Year, 
has  obliged  the  Publisher  of  the  !NTew  Jersey  Gazette  to 
determine  to  raise  the  Price,  after  the  first  day  of  July 
next,  to  Three  Dollars  per  Quarter — when  they  fall,  that 
of  this  Paper  will  be  lowered  accordingly. — The  Advance, 
he  flatters  himself,  will  be  deemed  very  moderate  by  his 
Customers,  when  they  compare  it  with  the  former  Price 
of  Ten  Shillings  a  Year — and  those  who  will  pay  for  the 
Packets  at  the  last  mentioned  Rate  in  any  kind  of  Country 
Produce  at  the  old  Prices,  will  more  essentially  serve  the 
Printer  than  to  pay  in  Cash  at  the  Kate  he  here  proposes. 
The  accounts  therefore  will  be  closed  at  the  End  of  the 
present  Month,  and  transmitted  for  Payment. — The 
Papers  will  be  continued  to  all  the  present  Subscribers 
after  that  Period  who  do  not  desire  them  to  be  discon- 
tinued before  it  elapses. 

ISAAC   COLLINS. 

June  2,  1779. 

N.  B.  The  Price  of  the  Philadelphia  News-Papers  is 
Five  Pounds  per  Year,  and  the  one  at  Fish-Kill 1  is  Six 
Dollars  by  the  Quarter. 

1  The  Neiv  York  Journal,  by  John  Loudon,  a  patriotic  newspaper,  which 
was  removed  from  New  York  on  the  occupation  of  the  city  by  the  British. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  433 


ROBERT 


Hath  for  sale  in  New  Brunswick,  on  as  moderate  terms 
as  the  times  will  admit,  the  following  articles  : 

GOOD  old  French  brandy,  West-India  and  country  rum, 
apple  brandy  and  metheglin;  molasses,  lump,  powdered 

1  The  grandparents  of  Robert  Eastburn,  who  were  Friends,  came  from 
England  to  America  in  1714,  and  probably  had  several  children,  as 
numerous  Eastburns  appear  in  the  records  of  Friends'  meetings  in  and 
about  Philadelphia  in  the  early  part  of  the  eighteenth  century.  Among 
the  children  was  Robert  Eastburn,  who  was  b.  in  England  in  1710.  He 
was  m.  in  1733  to  Agnes  Jones,  of  Germantown,  in  Friends'  meeting,  to 
which  he  and  his  wife  belonged.  He  continued  with  Friends  until  on  one 
occasion  he  heard  the  celebrated  George  Whitefield  preach,  when  he 
became  one  of  his  followers.  Mr.  Whitefield  used  to  call  him  his  "first 
fruit  in  America."  A  congregation  was  formed  —  the  Second  Presbyterian, 
of  Philadelphia  —  which  called  the  Rev.  Gilbert  Tennent  of  New  Bruns- 
wick, to  be  their  pastor,  and  Mr.  Eastburn  was  chosen  one  of  the  first 
deacons.  With  about  thirty  tradesmen  he  marched  north  in  the  spring 
of  1756,  toward  Oswego,  but  when  the  party  arrived  at  Captain  Williams' 
Fort,  near  Oswego,  on  March  26,  1756,  they  were  surprised  by  a  party 
of  Indians,  and  the  next  day  Eastburn  was  captured  by  them  and  carried 
a  prisoner  to  Canada,  suffering  incredible  hardships  on  the  way.  He  was 
detained  a  prisoner  by  the  Indians  and  by  the  French  until  July  23,  1757, 
when  he  was  permitted  to  sail  from  Quebec  to  England,  and  securing 
passage  thence  to  the  Colonies,  arrived  October  26,  1757,  at  Philadelphia. 
(In  his  account  of  his  capture  he  gives  the  date  of  his  arrival  at  New 
York  as  November  21  and  at  Philadelphia  as  November  26.  But  his  arrival 
at  New  York  was  chronicled  in  the  New  York  and  Philadelphia  news- 
papers of  October  24-28,  1757.  See  N.  J.  Archives  20  :  144.)  "The 
faithful  Narrative  of  the  many  dangers  and  sufferings,  as  well  as  won- 
derful deliverance,  of  Robert  Eastburn  during  his  captivity  among  the 
Indians,"  printed  at  Philadelphia,  by  William  Dunlap,  1758,  is  one  of 
the  rarest  accounts  of  Indian  captivities,  and  owing  to  its  interesting 
character  has  been  reprinted  several  times.  He  d.  Jan.  22,  1778  ;  his 
wife  d.  Sept.  27,  1784.  Issue  : 

i.  Sarah,  born  1735  ;    d.  1818. 
ii.  Hannah,  d.  1773. 
iii.  Thomas,  prob.  m.  Rachel  Lupton,  Dec.  1,  1783. 

2.  iv.  Robert. 

v.  John,  d.  1806.     Children  :     Sarah  Eastburn  and  Maria  Wells. 

3.  vi.  Joseph,  b.  Aug.  11,  1748,  in  Philadelphia. 

2.  Robert2  (Robert1)  Eastburn  located  at  New  Brunswick  before  the 
Revolution,  and  seems  to  have  been  a  prominent  merchant  there.  His 
will,  made  August  10,  1815,  when  he  was  "sick  and  weak,"  was  proved 
August  29,  181'5.  The  numerous  bequests  indicate  that  he  owned  a 
considerable  estate.  He  refers  to  his  wife  as  deceased,  and  gives  legacies 
to  his  children  as  follows  :  Robert  Eastburn,  $250  ;  Thomas  Eastburn, 
$775  ;  Joseph  Eastburn,  $500  ;  Mary  Ann,  a  certain  interest  yearly 
during  life,  the  principal  to  be  divided  among  her  children  at  her  death  ; 
Abigail  Boyer,  $104  per  year  if  she  does  not  live  with  her  husband,  James 

28 


434  .NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

and  brown  sugars,  hys<pn  and  bohea  tea,  coffee,  chocolate, 
pepper,  alspice,  ginger,  nutmegs,  cinnamon,  mace,  cloves, 
tamarinds,  a  quantity  of  good' indigo,  for  which  allowance 

Boyer  ;  grandson  Robert  Boyer,  $100.  Other  legacies  were  left  to  Mary 
Taylor,  $50,  "for  her  care  during  the  sickness  of  Robert  Boyer,  my 
grandson  ;"  to  Elizabeth  Smith,  $450,  "the  faithful  nurse  of  my  wife  and 
myself;"  William  Jobs  (son  of  William  Jobs,  of  South  Amboy),  $25;  to 
brother  John's  widow,  $100  ;  brother  Joseph  Eastburn  to  have  the  care 
of  about  $100  "to  hand  out  as  needed ;"  Susannah  Hunt,  daughter  of 
Samuel  Noe,  of  New  York,  $100,  "she  being  a  goodly  woman,  indisposed 
and  poor  in  estate;"  to  Elizabeth  Evans,  $50.  He 'directs  that  his  house 
on  Dennis  street  shall  be  rented  or  sold.  To  John  Vial,  $75,  to  be  paid  in 
small  sums  ;  to  the  Humane  Society  of  New  Brunswick,  the  interest  of 
$300 ;  towards  building  a  Friends'  Meeting  House  in  New  Brunswick, 
$200  ;  to  the  city  of  Philadelphia  and  to  the  city  of  New  York,  each  $200, 
to  be  used  in  providing  a  school  for  the  education  of  white  and  colored 
children  alike ;  to  the  New  Jersey  Bible  Society,  $50,  to  be  paid  John 
Neilson.  Esquire,  for  the  use  of  the  Society  ;  to  Joseph  Clark,  of  Phila- 
delphia, and  Dr.  Conover  C.  Blatchley.  of  New  York,  each  $50,  to  pur- 
chase religious  tracts  and  circulate  them  ;  to  charities  in  New  Brunswick, 
$50.  Executors — my  friends.  William  P.  Deare  and  Dr.  Augustus  R. 
Taylor.  Witnesses — Jona.  C.  Ackerman.  Robert  Dennis,  J.  W.  Scott. 
In  a  codicil  dated  August  17,  1815,  he  gives  $75  to  the  corporation  for 
the  relief  of  poor  children  in  the  city  of  New  jbrun&wick,  and  $25  in 
addition  to  his  previous  legacy  to  William  Jobs,  son  of  William  Jobs,  of 
South  Amboy.  The  estate  was  appraised  August  25,  1815,  by  Dower  D. 
Williamson  and  Asa  Runyon.  The  inventory  mentions  cash  delivered  to 
executors  by  T.  Eas.tburn,  on  sale  of  oil,  $26.31.  Among  the  debtors  are 
William  Jobs,  on  bond  ;  David  Allison,  due  bill  for  books  ;  note  due  from 
John  Metcalt,  insolvent ;  note  due  from  John  K.  Joline  ;  due  bill  from 
Lewis  Dunn ;  debt  due  from  Jerernrah  Parsell,  5th  mo.,  3,  1815  ; 
Michael  Pool,  Feb.  11,  1806;  Gideon  Voorhees  (insolvent),  1807;  Garret 
Nefie.  1808  ;  Jacob  Probasco,  1810  ;  Moses  Jones  ;  John  Dill,  6th  mo., 
27.  1814.  It  also  mentions  household  goods,  wine,  contents  of  shop,  etc., 
etc.  Issue  : 

i.   Robert,  m.  —  — ;    ch.,  Joseph. 

ii.   Thomas. 

iii.   Mary  Ann,  m.  William  Jones,  Dec.  30,  1800. 

iv.  Abigail,  m.  James  Boyer,    ch.,  Robert. 

3.  Joseph,  b.  August  11.  1748  ;  he  followed  his  father  to  northern 
New  York  in  17.16,  and  was  taken  prisoner  at  the  capture  of  Fort 
Oswego  by  the  French  and  Indians.  He  had  the  good  fortune  to  rejoin 
his  father  while  a  prisoner  in  Canada,  and  they  remained  together  there- 
after during  their  captivity.  On  returning  to  Philadelphia  he  resumed 
his  trade  as  a  cabinet-maker  ;  he  m.  Agnes  Owen,  of  that  city,  June  12, 
1771,  in  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church  of  that  city  ;  she  d.  June  21, 
1811.  aged  60  years.  He  performed  two  or  three  tours  of  duty  in  the 
Revolutionary  War,  and  was  at  the  Battle  of  Princeton,  January  3,  1777. 
At  an  early  age  his  attention  was  turned  toward  religious  subjects,  and 
he  was  very  anxious  to  go  into  the  ministry,  but  owing  to  his  lack  of 
education  was  refused  a  license  by  the  Presbytery.  However,  he  was 
encouraged  to  take  charge  of  prayer  meetings  in  the  Second  Presbyterian 
Church,  and  proved  so  acceptable  a  speaker  that  in  1805  he  was 
granted  a  Qualified  license.  He  preached  at  New  Brunswick  frequently, 


1779]  K-EWSPAPEE  EXTRACTS.  435 

will  be  made  to  those  who  sell  again,  brimstone,  salt,  allum, 
mustard,  lamp  black,  chalk,  buff  ball,  black  ball,  gun  pow- 
der and  flints,  rosin,  wool  cards,  snuff,  tobacco  and  pipes, 
half  pint  and  gill  glasses;  cambrick  and  lawn,  striped 
stuffs,  black  silk,  black  and  white  silk  gauze,  buckram,  fine 
and  coarse  thread,  white  and  coloured,  ribbons,  garters, 
needles,  by  the  thousand,  pins,  ready  made  jackets  and 
breeches,  stockings ;  spelling-books  and  primers,  paste- 
boards, Holman's  London  ink-powder,  writing  paper; 
earthen  ware,  such  as  milk  pans,  large  and  small  dishes, 
mugs,  bowls  and  pots ;  also  to  be  sold  cheap,  a  number  of 
empty  flour  casks  and  some  tight  casks. 

Middlesex     Publick  notice  is  hereby  given  to  all  persons 
County.  who  have  any  claims,  interest  or  demand  in 

or  upon  the  estates  of  the  following  fugitives  and  offenders, 
against  whom  inquisitions  have  been  found  and  final  judg- 
ment entered  thereon  in  favour  of  the  state,  viz.  Andrew 
Mercereau,  David  Gosling,  John  Ferine,  John  Cook, 
Robert  Martin,  Samuel  Smith,  Samuel  Warn,  Robert  R. 
Crow,  Stephen  Skinner,  Cortland  Skinner,  Alexander 
Watson,  Bernardus  Legrange,  Frederick  Wiser,  James 
Collins,  John  Brown-,  Robert  Campbell,  William  Steele, 
George  Stainforth,  Thomas  Hooper,  all  of  Middlesex 
county ;  and  Oliver  Delancey,  of  New- York,  and  Thomas 
Leonard,  of  Monmouth,  to  exhibit  their  accounts  fairly 
stated  in  writing  to  the  Judges  of  the  Courts  of  Common 

between.  1812  and  1815,  on  which  occasions  he  was  a  guest  of  his 
brother  at  that  place.  Toward  the  close  of  1819  he  began  to  preach 
regularly  to  the  mariners  of  Philadelphia,  and  a  church  was  erected  for 
such  meetings,  in  which  he  officiated  until  his  death,  January  30.  1828. 
He  had  one  son,  Thomas,  b.  about  1772  or  1773.  Contrary  to  the 
wishes  of  his  parents,  lie  entered  upon  a  seafaring  life  and  became  com- 
mander of  a  merchant  vessel.  Losing  his  little  property  by  the  failure 
of  a  mercantile  house,  by  which  he  was  employed,  he  sailed  from  the 
West  Indies  as  a  passenger,  for  Philadelphia,  and  on  the  voyage  was 
instantly  killed,  his  head  being  taken  off  by  a  cannon  ball,  fired  from  a 
French  man-of-war  ;  he  was  only  24  or  25  years  of  age  at  the  time  of 
his  tragic  death.  Having  no  children,  Joseph,  in  his  will,  distributed  his 
property  among  his  nephews  and  nieces  and  various,  charitable  objects, 
especially  the  Mariners'  Church,  over  which  he  had  presided  for  nine 
years  before  his  death. 


436  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779* 

Pleas  for  the  aforesaid  ctranty,  within  12  months  from  the 
date  hereof,  for  which,  purpose  they  will  give  their  attend- 
ance at  the  house  of  Joseph  Dennis,  at  Spotswood,  on. 
Thursday  the  24th  of  June. 

JOHN  LLOYD,       )  Commit 
WM.   SCTIDDER,     J  sioners. 

]ST.  B.  All  persons  who  are  yet  in  arrears  for  land  or 
goods  bought  at  the  sales  of  confiscated  estates,  are  desired 
to  make  immediate  payment  to  the  Commissioners  afore- 
said. 

Whereas  the  continental  ferry  is  removed  to  the  upper 
ferry,  where  there  is  no  house  of  entertainment  kept  on 
either  side  of  the  river,,  which  makes  it  very  inconvenient 
for  travellers,  but  as  the  lower  ferry  is  yet  kept,  and  a  good 
house  of  entertainment  kept  on  Pennsylvania  shore,  and 
as  it  is  well  known  that  the  lower  ferry  is  a  good  easy 
ferry  and  good  shores  to  land  on  each  side  of  the  river,, 
and  good  attendance  is  given,  where  there  is  no  danger  of 
getting  upon  the  rocks  as  at  the  upper  ferry :  Therefore 
it  is  hoped  that  travellers  and  others  will  be 'pleased  to 
favour  them  with  their  custom,  which  will  be  gratefully 
acknowledged. 

WAS  stolen  or  strayed  away  from  Bottle  hill  tavern  in 
Morris  county,  an  iron-grey  HORSE,  scant  14  hands  high, 
between  7  and  S  years  old,  and  has  a  raw  nose  and  white 
face,  a  low  neck,  his  hip  bones  high  and  short  buttock,  his 
hind  legs  both  white  and  toes  of  his  hoof  much  wore,  he 
is  shod  before  and  one  of  his  shoes  longer  than  the  other; 
he  is  thin  in  flesh,  paces,  trot?  and  gallops  very  well. 
Whoever  takes  up  said  horse  and  secures  him  that  the 
owner  may  have  him  again,  shall  have  twenty  dollars  re- 
ward and  all  reasonable  charges  paid  by  the  subscriber, 
living  near  Sliameuy  ferry. 

June  1,  1779.  PETER  GORDON. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  437 

LOST  between  the  6th  and  10th  of  May  ult.  on  the  road 
leading  from  Pluck'emin  to  Springfield  in  Burlington 
-county,  via  Sourland  meeting-house,  Princeton,  Allentown, 
and  Arney's  town,  two  loan-office  certificates,  taken  out  of 
the  office  at  Bordentown  by  the  subscriber  in  his  own  name, 
both  dated  April'10,  1779,  one  for  2000  dollars,  No.  322, 
and  the  other  for  300  dollars,  No.  10,660.  Any  person  or 
persons  into  whose  hands  they  may  fall,  are  requested  to 
deliver  them  either  to  the  subscriber  in  Somerset  county 
near  Pluck'emin  aforesaid,  to  Mr.  Joseph  Borden,  at  Bor- 
dentown, or  to  the  Printer  of  this  Gazette,  for  which  a 


reward  of  Forty  Dollars  will  be  given. 


JOHN  ARMSTRONG. 


One  Hundred  Dollars  Reward. 

RAN  away  from  the  subscriber,  living  in  Trenton,  last 
Saturday  night,  a  NEGRO  MAN  named  CUFF,  about  5  feet 
9  inches  high,  27  or  28  years  of  age;  he  has  a  small  blem- 
ish in  one  eye,  and  marked  on  his  cheek  with  a  circle  or 
round  O;  is  by  trade  a  blacksmith.  Had  on  when  he 
went  away,  a  yellowish  brown  fustian  coat,  scarlet  vest, 
tow  shirt  and  trousers,  a  half  worn  castor  hat;  he  also 
carried  with  him  two  shirts,  one  pair  of  fustian  breeches, 
thread  stockings  and  sundry  other  cloathing.  It  is  sup- 
posed he  is  gone  towards  New  York  in  company  with 
another  Negro  man  who  went  off  the  same  evening.  Any 
person  bringing  him  to  the  subscriber,  or  securing  him  in 
any  gaol  so  that  his  master  may  get  him  again,  shall  re- 
ceive the  above  reward  and  reasonable  charges. 

HEZEKIAH  HOWELL. 

Trenton,  June  8,  1779. 


438  I^EW    JERSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [177D 

STRAYED  or  stolen  on  Tuesday  night,  the  25th  inst  out 
of  the  pasture  of  Mr.  Daniel  Ketcham,  in  Monolopon,  a 
dark  brown  HORSED  about  14  hands  high,  has  a  large  star 
in  his  forehead,  branded  G  E  on  his  buttocks,  a  natural 
pacer,  carries  middling  well.  Whoever  takes  up  said  horser 
and  either  sends  him  to,  or  notifies  the  subscriber,  shall  be 
handsomely  rewarded. 

ANDREW  Bo WN  . 

Middletown,  May  31,  1779. 

WAS  stolen  out  of  the  subscriber's  pasture,  in  Basken- 
ridge  township,  Somerset  county,  a  dark  brown  MARE, 
about  14:  hands  high,  paces,  trots  and  gallops,  has  a  bold 
face,  two  glass  eyes,  one  of  her  hind  feet  white:  Whoever 
Avill  bring  said  mare  and  thief  to  me  shall  receive  FIFTY 
DOLLARS  and  reasonable  charges,  and  for  the  mare  alone, 
Thirty  Dollars  and  reasonable  charges  paid  by 

JOSHUA  DOTY. 

May  25,  1779. 

FOR  SALE.  All  the  lands  and  improvements  belonging 
to  the  subscriber  at  Crosswicks  landing,  in  navigation  to 
Philadelphia,  in  a  rich  and  populous  neighbourhood,  con- 
sisting of  a  large  two  story  dwelling  house  and  kitchen  ad- 
joining, sundry  store  houses  and  other  buildings,  all  new 
and  in  good  repair.  Credit,  immediate  possession,  and 
a  good  title  will  be  given.  Enquire  of  Isaiah  Bobbins 
near  the  premises,  or  in  Philadelphia  to 

CHARLES  COOKE. 

THE  Subscribers  who  are  indebted  for  this  Gazette  for 
1778,  will  oblige  the  Printer  by  discharging  their  re- 
spective Arrears.  To  facilitate  this  Duty,  Accounts  have- 
been  made  out  and  transmitted  to  the  Gentlemen  to  whom 
the  Packets  were  directed,  and  with  whom  the  Individual 
Subscribers  of  each  Packet  are  requested  to  settle  their 
Accounts. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  439 

PARCHMENT 

CORKS,  and 
FLOUR       of      MUSTARD 

TO  BE  SOLD  at  the  PRINTING  OFFICE. 

STEPHEN  LOWREY 

AT  the  Rev.  Mr.  Spencer's,  Trenton,  gives  the  highest 
price  for  Loan-Office  Bills  on  the  Commissioners  in  France. 
— The  New-Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  II.,  No.  79,  Wednesday, 
June  9,  1779. 

Last  Monday  25  Continental  paper-dollars  were  sold 
in  this  city  for  25  English  half -pence.  The  preceding 
week  one  Half  Johannes  at  Elizabeth-town  purchased 
thirty  paper-dollar s. 

New- York,  June  9. 

On  Saturday  la^t  20  leagues  distance  from  Sandy 
Hook;  his  Majesty's  ship  Daphne,  Captain  Chinnery,  fell 
in  with,  engaged  and  took  the  Continental  Rebel  Frigate 

Oliver  Cromwell, Parker,  Commander. — The  Royal 

Gazette,  No.  281,  June  9,  1779. 

New-York,  June  12. 

By  several  persons  from  Sussex  and  Elizabeth-Town 
we  learn,  that  the  latter  end  of  May  some  hundreds  of  the 
continental  troops1  and  militia,  consisting  of  Hand's  & 
Spencer's  corps,  &c.  left  Easttown  to  cut  a  road  -for  the 
passage  of.  artillery  through  the  great  swamp  to  Wioming, 


440  NEW    JERSEY    IIS"    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

these  were,  in  -this  eiifployment,  somewhat  molested  by  a 
large  body  of  Indians,  laying  in  ambush  for  that  purpose, 
who  slew  the  greatest  part  of  the  rebels,  the  few  survivors 
owed  their  escape  to  a  precipitate  flight.  We  are  told 
Colonel  Spencer  was  amongst  the  wounded.  A  large  de>- 
tachmefnt  under  Mr.  Maxwell,  who  were  following  the 
above-mentioned  chastised  battalions,  to  cut  up  the  In- 
dians upon  Susquehanna,  and  proceed  to  attack  Fort  Ni- 
agara, came  to  a  sudden  halt,  a  very  prudent  pause  truly, 
after  the  loss  of  so  many  of  their  fraternity,  e're  they 
advanced  against  an  enemy  ever  terrific,  but  now  become 
immensely  formidable  from  their  alarming  numbers,  as, 
by  a  late  letter  from  a  dispirited  rebel  officer  Col.  Brailey, 
at  East-town,  we  are  assured,  that  the  body  of  loyalists 
and  Indians,  in  motion  upon  the  Susquehanna,,  amount 
to  upwards  of  Four  Thousand;  to  oppose  them  Mr.  Max- 
well was  ordered  up  from  East-town  yesterday,  with  one 
Virginia,  two  New  Jersey,  &  two  New-England  battalions, 
four  three-pounders  and  two  howitzers.  The  militia  of 
Elizabeth-town  division  whose  numbers  heretofore,  were 
reckoned  at  one  thousand,  being  last  Monday  ordered  out 
to  be  drafted  for  service,  the  officers  appeared,  but  not  a 
single  private  man ;  the  latter  having  declared  they  would 
110  longer  leave  their  families  to  fight  without  pay,  as  the 
Continental  paper  bills  are  depreciated  at  that  capital 
seat  of  rebellion,  Elizabeth-town,  to  a  ridiculous  estimate, 
a  single  silver  Spanish  dollar  having  there  last  week  pur- 
chased 30  of  the  continental  paper  dollars.  1ST.  B.  In 
last  Wednesday's  Gazette  the  reader  is  desired  to  correct 
an  error  under  this  head,  and,  instead  of  Thirty  Dollars 
for  an  Half  Johannes,  to  read  Thirty  Continental  paper 
dollars  for  one  Spanish  silver  Dollar. — The  Royal  Gazette, 
No.  282,  June  12,  1779. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  441 


NEW- YOBK,  June  14. 

Last  Thursday  Night  a  Party  of  Loyal  Refugees  landed 
at  Shrewsbury,  in  New- Jersey,  and  brought  off  Cols. 
Hendrickson  and  Wyckoff ;  Ma.  Vanbrunt,  Captain  Chad- 
dock,  Captain  McKnight  (who  broke  his  Parole  here  some 
Time  ago)  one  of  the  Militia  and  a  Continental  Soldier. 
The  first  five  were  Tory  Persecutors.  About  9  o'clock  on 
Friday  Morning  in  returning  to  their  Boats  they  were 
attacked  by  a  Body  of  the  Militia,  whom  they  repulsed, 
after  killing  three  and  wounding  14;  they  then  brought 
off  their  Prisoners,  and  a  considerable  Number  of  Cattle, 
Sheep,  &c.  the  Particulars  of  which  we  expect  to  insert 
in  our  next. 

John  Haviland,  a  Lieutenant  of  the  Militia  and  a  Cap- 
tain of  one  of  the  Rebels  Guard  Boats,  was  taken  at  his 
House  in  Elizabeth  Town  last  Saturday  Night,  by  Mr. 
Cornelius  Hetfield,  a  loyal  Refugee,  and  five  others,  and 
brought  to  Town  yesterday. — The  New-York  Gazette:  and 
the  Weekly  Mercury,  No.  1443,  June  14,  1779. 


ADDRESS  of  the  Ministers,  Elders  and  Deacons  of  the  re- 
formed Dutch  Church  at  Raritan,  presented  to  His 
Excellency  GEORGE  WASHINGTON,  Esquire,  Com- 
mander in  Chief  of  the  Armies  of  the  United  States 
of  North- America. 

May  it  please  your  EXCELLENCY, 

WE  the  Consistory  of  the  Dutch  reformed  Church  at  Rari- 
tan, beg  leave  to  embrace  this  favourable  opportunity, 
to  declare  to  your  Excellency  the  real  sentiments  of 
our  hearts. 

As  we  would  wish  to  adore  the  directing  hand  of  Provi- 
dence,  so  we   are  bound  to   acknowledge  that   spirit  of 


442  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

patriotism,  which  has*  induced  your  Excellency  to  sacrifice 
the  sweets  of  an  affluent  domestic  life,  to  put  yourself,  and 
your  amiable  and  virtuous  Comfort,  to  repeated  and  affect- 
ing separations,  for  no  other  reasons  than  defending  the 
just  Rights  and  Liberties  of  your  bleeding  Country — Here, 
Sir,  permit  us  to  express  our  grateful  sense  of  your  Ex- 
cellency's vigilance  and  care  for  this  part  of  our  country, 
in  the  trying  winter  of  the  year  1777 :  when,  after  two 
memorable  victories,  your  Excellency  by  masterly  strokes 
of  generalship,  defended  us  with  a  handful  of  undisci- 
plined militia  against  the  depredations  of  a  formidable 
army  of  our  enemies,  collected  and  quartered  in  our 
vicinity. 

We  cannot  help  admiring  that  gracious  Providence, 
which  has  made  the  success  and  victories  of  your  arms  to 
bare  down  the  remembrance  of  discouraging  disappoint- 
ments. And  we  cordially  hope,  that  the  agreeable  prospect 
of  a  speedy  termination  of  the  present  troubles  in  favour 
of  our  distressed  nation,  may  fully  answer  your  and  our 
wishes,  and  support  your  Excellency  under  the  present 
weight  of  perplexing  cares  and  concerns,  inseparable  from 
your  station. 

Though  quartering  of  armies  among  citizens,  is  always 
attended  with  unavoidable  inconveniences  to  the  latter,  yet 
we  are  agreeably  constrained  to  acknowledge  that  your  Ex- 
cellency has  been  pleased  to  take  particular  care  throughout 
the  course  of  this  last  winter,  to  prevent  and  alleviate  these 
calamities  as  much  as  possible. — Your  Excellency's  con- 
cern for  the  support  of  civil  government,  in  its  just  and 
equitable  execution,  has  endeared  you  to  your  fellow  citi- 
zens: And  the  strict  discipline  which  the  gentlemen 
officers  under  your  Excellency's  more  immediate  command, 
at  this  place,  have  observed,  not  only  at  head-quarters,  but 
also  throughout  the  body  of  this  army,  we  are  persuaded 
has  merited  the  approbation  and  applause  of  the  good 
people  of  this  neighbourhood. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  443 

We  beg  your  Excellency  will  do  us  the  justice  to  believe 
us  sincere,  when  we  declare  our  affection  and  true  regard 
for  your  person,  and  the  deep  sense  we  entertain  of  the 
important  services  your  Excellency  and  the  gentlemen 
officers  and  soldiers  under  your  command,  have  rendered 
their  country  in  the  course  of  this  severe  contest:  And 
when  we  assure  you,  Sir,  that  we  shall  ever  deem  it  both 
our  duty  and  privilege  to  make  our  warmest  addresses  to 
the  God  of  Armies,  for  the  preservation  of  your  health, 
an  invaluable  life,  as  also  that  of  the  brave  'officers  and 
soldiers  of  your  army ;  praying  that  indulgent  Heaven  may 
direct  your  councils,  and  crown  your  exertions  the  ensuing 
campaign  with  such  victory  and  success,  as  shall  compel 
a  haughty,  cruel,  and  relentless  enemy  to  consent  to  terms 
of  a  safe,  honourable  and  lasting  peace. 

Signed  ~by  order  of  the  Consistory, 

JACOB  R.  HARDENBERGH/  V.  D.  M. 

June  1,  1779. 


His  EXCELLENCY'S  Al^SWEE. 

To  the  MINISTER,  ELDERS  and  DEACONS  of  the  Dutch 

reformed  Church  at  Raritan. 
Gentlemen, 

To  meet  the  approbation  of  good  men  cannot  but  be 
agreeable. — Your  affectionate  expressions  makes  it  still 
more  so. 

In  quartering  an  army,  and  in  supplying  its  wants, 
distress  and  inconvenience  will  often  occur  to  the  citizen. — 
I  feel  myself  happy  in  the  consciousness  that  these  have 
been  strictly  limited  by  necessity,  and  in  your  opinion  of 
my  attention  to  the  rights  of  my  fellow  citizens. 


1  For   some   account   of  this   distinguished   clergyman,    see   New   Jersey 
Archives,  2d  Series,  2  :  116. 


444 


NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 


I  thank  you,  Gentlemen,,  sincerely  for  the  sense  you 
entertain  of  the  conduct  of  the  army,  and  for  the  interest 
you  take  in  my  welfare. 

I  trust  the  goodness  of  the  cause  and  the  exertions  of  the 
people,  under  divine  protection,  will  give  us  that  honour- 
able peace  for  which  we  are  contending.  Suffer  me, 
Gentlemen,  to  wish  the  reformed  Church  at  Earatin,  a 
long  continuance  of  its  present  Minister  and  Consistory, 
and  all  the  blessings  which  now  from-  piety  and  religion. 

G.  WASHINGTON. 
Mr.   COLLINS, 

THERE  is  no  question  oftener  handled  by  the  writers  who  have 
furnished  publications  for  your  Paper  than  that  respecting  the 
regulation  of  the  Prices  of  our  own  and  foreign  commodities — A 
variety  of  measures  hath  been  proposed  to  remedy  the  many  and  great 
inconveniences  arising  to  the  community  from  the  high  price  of 
labour,  of  our  own  productions,  and  of  all  the  articles  imported  from 
abroad. 

There  is  not,  perhaps,  any  subject  whatever  that  requires  more 
extensive  knowledge  and  enlarged  thought  than  that  which  I  have  here 
mentioned — It  is  so  complicated  and  interwoven  with  a  variety  of 
interests  ;  the  connections  and  dependencies  of  things  are  so  extremely 
nice  and  intricate  that  a  single  illjudged  measure  may  be  productive  of 
infinite  disadvantage  to  the  state.  I  have  seen,  nothing  as  yet 
suggested  but  partial  remedies  for  general  evils,  paltry,  wretched 
expedients  for  the  cure  of  diseases  which  have  very  extensive  influence 
and  have  taken  deep  root  in  this  country. 

Empericks  in  politicks,  like  those  in  medicine,  if  they  see  anything, 
see  but  a  part — their  perception,  like  the  vision  of  the  smallest  insects, 
cannot  comprise  in  its  view  more  than  one  object  at  a  time,  and  that 
very  minute.  Some  with  whom  I  have  conversed,  having  con- 
siderable landed  property,  are  ever  exclaiming  against  the  rapacity  and 
extortion  of  the  merchant  and  trader.  These  are  perpetually  finding 
fault  with  the  high  price  of  provisions  and  the  articles  which  they 
are  obliged  to  purchase  of  the  farmer;  and  the  tradesman  execrates 
them  both,  and  thinks  there  is  a  general  conspiracy  against  him. 
They  all  severally  justify  themselves  in  their  own  minds  and  openly 
to  the  world,  and  loudly  call  for  justice  and  vengeance  on  each  other's 
heads. 

I  am  not  a  stranger  to  the  origin  of  these  evils:  I  know  from 
whence  they  sprang — But  as  a  recapitulation  of  grievances  will  not 
at  this  time,  perhaps,  be  very  acceptable  to  the  publick,  after  the 
repeated  nauseous  doses  administered  by  the  writer  who  calls  himself 
A  true  Patriot,  I  shall  rest  satisfied  with  the  facts  which  may  be 


1779]  l^EWSPAPEK    EXTRACTS.  445 

garbled  from  this  mass  of  things,  and  the  general  knowledge  my 
fellow-citizens,  vand  countrymen  have  of  these  matters. 

In  order  to  a  general  plan,  I  would  propose  that  the  Speaker  of 
the  Assembly  of  this  state  be  directed  by  vote  of  Assembly  to  write  to 
the  Speakers  of  Pennsylvania  and  New  York  Assemblies,  and  as 
many  others  as  may  be  thought  proper,  and  propose  that  a  committee 
of  the  most  intelligent  members  or  other  informed  persons  out  of  the 
House,  be  appointed  to  meet  as  early  as  possible  at  some  fixed  place, 
to  regulate  the  prices  of  labourers,  horses  and  cattle,  and  all  com- 
modities of  every  kind  whatsoever — These  prices  at  first  should  not 
be  too  low;  some  regard  should  be  had  to  the  quantity  of  money  in 
circulation  and  the  real  scarcity  of  particular  articles.  In  pursuance 
of  this  principle  it  will  be  necessary  that  the  said  committees  inform 
themselves  as  minutely  as  possible  of  the  current  prices  of  all  things 
vilhin  their  respective  States,  and  of  the  causes  of  the  different  prices 
of  the  same  articles  in  different  places — whether  these  are  owing  to  a 
real  scarcity,  to  the  expence  of  carriage,  or  to  a  spirit  of  monopoly 
and  extortion,  &c.  Let  these  committees  form  a  general  plan  of 
regulation,  to  take  place  on  a  certain  day  in  the  several  states,  and 
let  them  be  empowered  mutually  to  pledge  the  honour  of  their 
respective  Assemblies  for  the  true  and  faithful  execution  of  the  several 
parts  of  the  stipulations  entered  into  with  each  other,  as  far  as  in 
them  lies. 

This  mode  of  regulation,  upon  so  broad  and  firm  a  basis,  may 
possibly  answer  some  good  end,  and  be  productive  of  real  benefit  to 
the  community.  A  partial  plan  of  any  kind  will  by  no  means  answer 
the  purpose. — For  instance,  suppose  the  prices  of  grain  should  be  fixed 
higher  in  Philadelphia  than  in  this  state,  will  not  the  farmer  send 
his  grain  to  that  market?  Or  suppose  the  prices  of  foreign  com- 
modities should  be  higher  in  this  state  than  at  Philadelphia,  will  not 
the  people  there,  as  is  the  practice  at  this  time,  bring  their  goods  on 
this  side  of  the  Delaware  for  sale. 

But  I  have  one  thing  further  to  mention,  which  is,  that  the  success 
of  the  measure  will  altogether  depend  on  the  liberality,  general 
knowledge  and  good  sense  of  those  who  are  to  be  sent  on  this  business. 
— It  is  not  sufficient  that  a  man  is  honest  and  upright  in  his  views — • 
if  he  is  incapable  and  wants  discernment,  he  will,  with  the  best 
intentions,  probably  do  more  harm  than  good  to  the  State  he  may 
represent. 

I  remember  a  very  honest  Irish  Gentleman  who  had  lived  in 
Dublin,  and  been  a  Member  of  the  Corporation  in  that  city — he  had 
studied  the  constitution  of  it  with  great  assiduity,  and  held  it  in  so 
great  esteem  that  he  thought  there  was  no  political  frame  of  govern- 
ment in  the  world  to  be  compared  with  it. — I  have  often  heard  him 
in  conversation  try  the  disputes  between  the  great  powers  of  Europe 
by  the  rules  of  the  Corporation  of  Dublin,  and  I  have  seen  his 
passions  swell  into  anger  and  wrath,  because  his  opponent  would  not 
admit  the  full  force  and  scope  of  his  arguments;  altho'  I  could  not 


NEW    JEESEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

help  loving  and  esteeming  the  qualities  of  this  man's  heart,  yet  I  could 
admire  those  of  his  head*;  and  I  have  often  thought,  had  he  lived  in 
these  times,  his  zeal  in  this  great  and  good  cause  would  have  been  so 
ill  directed,  and  the  consequences  so  severely  felt  by  his  neighbors, 
that  any  person  unacquainted  with  the  uprightness  and  honesty  of 
his  views  would  have  deemed  him  one  of  the  most  mischievous  and  ill 
intentioned  men  in  the  world. 

CRITO. 

TKENTON,    JUNE    16. 

At  a  Joint-Meeting  of  the  Legislative  Council  and  As- 
sembly of  this  State,  on  Thursday  last,.  Lieut.  Col.  David 
Brearley1  was  elected  Chief  Justice,  in  the  room  of  the 
Hon.  Robert  Morris,2  Esq.  who  hath  resigned— at  the  same 
time  Enos  Kelsey,  Esquire,  was  elected  Clothier  for  the 
State, 

We  are  credibly  informed  that  some  evil-minded  per- 
sons, in  order  to  evade  the  salutary  purposes  the  virtuous 
citizens  of  Philadelphia  have  entered  into  to  prevent  the 
further  depreciations  of  the  continental  currency,  are,  by 
giving  presents  over  the  limited  prices  of  goods,  and  other 
ways  clandestinely  obtaining  articles,  contrary  to  the  re- 
solves of  their  town  meeting,  bringing  them  into  this  State, 

1  For  a  note  on  Col.  Brearley,  see  New  Jersey  Archives,  2d  Series, 
1  :  329. 

-  Robert  Morris  was  a  natural  son  of  Chief  Justice  Robert  Hunter 
Morris  and  a  grandson  of  Governor  Lewis  Morris,  of  New  Jersey.  He  is 
said  to  have  been  born  in  New  Brunswick  in  1745.  He  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  as  an  attorney  September  19,  1770,  licensed  as  a  counsellor  at  the 
November  term,  1773,  and  was  called  up  to  be  a  sergeant  at  law  at  the 
May  term,  1780.  He  was  appointed  Chief  Justice  of  New  Jersey,  February 
5,  1777,  to  fill  the  vacancy  caus.ed  by  the  declinations  of  Richard  Stockton 
and  John  De  Hart,  and  so  was  the  first  to  fill  that  position  under  the 
State  Constitution  of  July  2,  1776.  From  letters  of  his  to  Governor 
Livingston,  he  appears  to  have  been  intelligent,  zealous,  independent  and 
fearless  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties.,  at  a  time  when  it  was  exceedingly 
difficult  and  indeed  perilous  to  travel  on  the  long  circuits  then  necessary. 
He  probably  found  the  work  too  irksome,  and  resigned  in  June,  1779, 
being  succeeded  by  David  Brearley,  who  was  appointed  by  the  Legislature 
in  joint  meeting  on  June  10,  1779.  In  1790  Morris  was  appointed  by 
President  Washington  to  the  office  of  United  States  District  Judge  for 
New  Jersey,  and  he  continued  in  that  position  until  his  death,  at  New 
Brunswick,  June  2,  1815,  although  for  a  considerable  time  before  his 
decease  his  health  was  so  impaired  that  he  was  unable  to  hold  court. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  447 

for  which  they  ask  exorbitant  prices — It  is  therefore  high 
time  for  the  people  of  this  Statei  to  be  roused,  and  to  do 
something  to  prevent  those  blood-suckers  from  preying  on 
the  vitals  of  the  most  necessitous  of  our  inhabitants. 

The  last  accounts  from  the  North  river,  mention,  that 
the  enemy  are  very  busy  in  fortifying  at  a  place  called 
Stoney  Point,  on  the  hither  side  of  the  river,  near  King's 
ferry.  It  is  supposed,  by  this  manoeuvre,  that  they  have 
two  objects  in  view,  the  one  to  make  a  strong  hold  in  order 
to  enable  themselves  to  send  out  detachments  into  Jersey 
to  plunder  and  forage;  the  other,  by  committing  those 
depredations,  to  draw  the  attention  of  our  army  from 
covering  the  fort  at  West  Point,  and  thereby  facilitating 
an  attack  against  it,  which,  it  is  said,  is  the  enemy's  main 
object.  But  in  this  we  natter  ourselves,  they  will  be  dis- 
appointed. 

Friday  last  200  American  sailors  and  masters  of  vessels 
were  exchanged  at  Elizabeth-Town;  by  several  of  those, 
who  arrived  here  011  Monday,  we  learn,  that  an  embargo 
has  been  lately  laid  in  New  York  in  consequence  of  several 
of  our  frigates  cruizing  off  Sandy-Hook,  and  most  of  the 
enemy's  vessels  of  force  being  either  up  the  North  river  or 
gone  to  sea:  that  they  have  drafted  every  sixth  man  in 
New- York  and  on  Long  Island  from  16  to  20  years  of  age, 
and  those  who  do  not  turn  out  are  put  into  the  Provost; 
that  a  number  of  Hessians,  left  in  New  York  as  a  garrison, 
lately  mutinied,  many  of  whom  having  absolutely  refused 
to  do  duty;  and  that  our  prisoners  on  board  the  prison 
ship  suffer  beyond  description,  being  turned  down  in  great 
numbers  below  decks,  where  they  are  obliged  to  languish 
in  stench  and  dirt,  by  which  cruel  treatment  many  have 
fallen  sacrifices  to  diseases  and  the  cruel  hand  of  op- 
pression. 

Monday  last  the  ship  Poole,  from  New  York,  on  a 
cruize,  mounting  18  nine  pounders  and  6  sixes,  with  90 


448  I7EW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

men,  arrived  at  Philadelphia:     She  was  taken  a  few  days 
before  by  the  Boston  frigate  off  the  capes  of  Delaware. 

THE  Printer  of  this  Gazette  having  undertaken  the 
Publication  of  it  with  a  View  to  the  Entertainment  and 
Information  of  the  Inhabitants  of  this  State.,  as  well  as  his 
own  Emoluments,  he  has  spared  no  Pains  nor  Expense  to 
render  it  respectable  in  the  World, — and,  since  his  last 
Week's  Paper,  having  stated  an  accurate  account  of  this 
Branch  of  his  Business,  he  finds  he  has  been  a  very  con- 
siderable Loser,  owing  to.  the  Depreciation  of  the  Money, 
the  increased  Price  of  Wages  and  every  article  used  in  the 
Printing  Business,  Circumstances  which  render  it 
absolutely  necessary  for  him,  in  regard  to  his  own  Interest 
and  that  of  his  Family,  to  fall  upon  some  Plan  for  fixing 
the  value  of  subscriptions  after  the  first  of  July  next — • 
That  ho  has  been  a  Loser  is  a  Fact,  for  the  Truth  of  which 
he  pledges  his  Honour  to  the  Publick.  He  therefore  pro^ 
poses  the  following  Mode,  the  adoption  of  wrhich  alone  will 
enable  him  to  continue  it's  Publication  longer  than  the 
Time  above  mentioned,  viz.  That  the  Price  of  the  Paper 
be  fixed  at  the  old  Rate  of  Ten  Shillings  a  Year,  to  be  paid 
at  any  Time  during  the  first  six  Months,  in  Country 
Produce,  at  the  following  Prices:  For  Wheat  7/6,  Rye 
4/G,  Buckwheat  2/6,  and  Indian  corn  3/6,  per  Bushel — for 
Flax  Is.  per  Pound,  Wool  2s.  Butter  Is.  and  Cheese  6d. 
Those  Gentlemen  who  are  in  the  farming  Way  to  pay  Cash 
in  Proportion. 

The  Papers  to  be  continued  to  all  the  present  subscribers 
for  Packets,  after  the  Period  aforesaid,  who  do  not  desire 
them  to  be  discontinued  before  it  elapses,  and  to  whom  two 
Papers  will  be  given  (as  at  present)  for  every  Dozen  they 
pay  for. 

The  accounts  therefore  wall  be  closed  at  the  End  of  the 
present  Month,  and  transmitted  for  Payment, 

ISAAC   COLIJNS. 
Printing-Office 
July  16,  1779 


1779  ]  NEWSPAPER    EXTEACTS.  449 

Hillsborough,  Somerset  County,  June  14,  177 9. 
WANTED 

A.N  ENGLISH  SCHOOL  MASTER.  A  Person  with  or  with- 
out a  small  family,  being  sufficiently  qualified  and  of  a 
moral  character,  will  find  employment  by  applying  to  Dr. 
Thomas  Van  Derveer,1  near  Somerset  Court-house. 

WAS  LOST  on  the  llth  inst.  in  the  road  between  Phillip's 
mills  and  the  Cross-key  ta,vern,,  or  in  the  road  leading 
from  thence  to  Pennington :  a  Leather  POCKET  BOOK  with 
about  eighty  dollars  and  a  half  Johannes  in  it.  Whoever 
has  found  the  same  and  will  deliver  it  to  the  subscriber  in 
Hopewell,  shall  receive  a  reward  of  TWENTY  DOLLARS. 

Hopewell,  June  14. 

JOSEPH  HART. 


Gloucester,  June  7,  1779. 

IN  pursuance  of  an  act  for  forfeiting  to  and  vesting  in 
the  State  of  New-Jersey  the  real  estates  of  certain  fugu- 
tives  and  offenders  in  said  state,  will  be  sold  by  publick 
vendue,  at  the  times  and  places  herein  after  mentioned, 
the  following  Tracts  or  Parcels  of  LAND  in  said  county, 
viz 

On  Monday  the  19th  of  July  next,  at  the  house  of  Jacob 
Roberts,  innkeeper,  in  Haddonfield,  four  acres  and  a  half 
of  meadow  on  Coopers  creek,  adjoining  land  and  meadow 
of  Marmaduke  Cooper  and  others :  One  valuable  piece  of 
cedar  swamp  lying  on  the  main  branch  of  Great  Egg- 
Harbour  river,  near  Longacoming :  One  other  small  piece 
of  cedar  swamp  lying  on  Proffer's  run,  near  the  abovet- 
mentioned ;  all  the  property  of  John  Hinchman. 

1  Query  :     Dr.  Lawrence  Van  Der  Veer.     See  N.  J.  Archives,  20  :  617. 

29 


45O  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

On  Tuesday  the  £0£h,  at  the  house  of  William  Hugg,  in 
Gloucester,  two  lots  of  ground  in  said  town  near  the  court- 
house, co'mmodiously  situate  for  publick  busine'ss,  late 
the  property  of  Daniel  Cozens;  Also  all  the  right  and 
property  of  said  Cozens  (being  for  his  natural  life)  in 
and  to  the  Toll-bridge  across  Newtown  creek. 

On  Wednesday  the  21st,  at  the  house  of  William  Eld- 
ridge,  innkeeper,  in  Greenwich  township,  one  undivided 
moiety  or  equal  half  part  of  137  acres  of  cedar,  ash,  and 
other  swamp  on  Repaupa  creek  in  said  township :  About 
10  acres  of  cedar  swamp  at  or  near  Bacom's  pond:  Also 
about  52  acres  of  marsh  or  meadow,  part  cleared  and  in 
good  order,  being  a  part  of  the  Repaupa  marsh  fronting 
the  river  Delaware;  all  late  the  property  of  John  Hinch- 
man:  One  lot  of  ground  at  Billingsport,  containing  one 
acre,  fronting  the  river  Delaware,  joining  land  of  Benja- 
min Lodge  and  William  Cooper,  late  the  property  of  Jos 
Long;  One  other  lot  of  about  7  acres  in  the  township  of 
Greenwich,  joining  lands  of  William  White  and  others, 
late  the  property  of  Abram  Fenimore ;  Likewise  one  small 
lot  at  Lonsetowii  in  said  township,  late  the  property  of 
John  Obriant. 

On  Thursday  the  22d,  at  the  house  of  Capt  John  Cozens, 
innkeeper.,  near  Mullica's  hill  Greenwich  township,  one 
undivided  one  third  part  of  300  acres  of  good  timber  land, 
lying  in  the  townships  of  Greenwich  and  Woolwich,  join- 
ing lands  of  Jacob  Fisler  and  others,  late  the  property  of 
Daniel  Cozens;  one  lot  of  about  2  acres  near  the  place 
of  sale,  late  William  Poinyard's ;  About  50  acres  of  land 
near  the  above  said  lot,  late  William  Forsman's;  Like- 
wise one  undivided  moiety  of  a  tract  of  land  near  the 
Lake,  late  the  property  of  Peter  Johnson. 

And  011  Friday  the  23d,  at  the  house  of  Mounce  Keen, 
innkeeper,  in  Sweedsborough,  19  3-4  acres  of  woodland, 
joining  land  of  Simon  Leonard  and  others;  and  5  acres, 
part  upland  and  part  meadow,  lying  on  Cedar  run,  joining 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  451 

land  of  Conrad  Shoemaker  and  others,  in  Woolwich  town- 
ship, both  being  for  the  natural  life  of  George  Avis :  Also 
10  acres  of  woodland,  joining  Samuel  Ogden,  Thomas 
Denny,  Esq.  and  others ;  and  5  acres  of  meadow  on  Rac- 
coon creek,  late  the  property  of  Isaac  Justice ;  and  2  acres 
of  cedar  swamp  on  Cedar  run,  being  for  the  natural  life 
of  said  Isaac  Justice.  The  sales  to  begin  precisely  at  two 
o'clock  each  day,  when  attendance  will  be  given  by 

JOHN  SPARKS,        )     Commis- 
SAMUEL  KAIGHN  j    sjoners. 

To  be  sold  at  vecndue,  on  Thursday  the  24th  of  June, 
a  Plantation  containing  315  acres,  lying  in  Reading-town, 
with  a  good  house  and  barn,  a  good  orchard  and  meadows, 
and  more  may  be  easily  made,  water  in  every  field,  and  a 
good  spring  at  the  door;  the  vendue  to  be  held  at  Aaron 
Lucus's,  near  the  premises,  known  by  the  White-house 
tavern:  Likewise  a  Plantation  lying  on  Fox  hill,  con- 
taining 195  acres  of  good,  land  for  grass,  or  grain,  about 
SO  acres  cleared,  with  a  good  frame  house  almost  new, 
about  5  acres  of  meadow,  and  can  be  easily  cleared-  and 
watered;  a  fine  outlet  for  stock  to  be  sold  the  same  day 
and  place:  Likewise  about  60  acres  of  woodland,  lying 
near  the  South' branch  of  Raritan,  well  timbered,  formerly 
William  Coxe's,  in  the  township  of  Reading:  Likewise 
will  be  sold  some  good  breeding  mares  with  colts,  young 
horses,  a  yoke  of  oxen,  and  young  cattle.  Attendance  will 
be  given  by 

GERSHOM  LEE  and  JOHN  DERICK. 

!N".  B.  Any  person  that  wants  to  see  the  premises  before 
the  day  of  sale,  may  apply  to  Gershom  Lee,  living  in  Read- 
ing-town near  Flemingtown. 


452         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779* 

ALL  Persons  indebted  to  the  Estate  of  Thomas  Hadden,1 
jun,  of  Woodbridge,  in  the  county  of  Middlesex,  deceased,, 
on  bond,  bill  or  book  debt,  are  requested  to  make  imme- 
diate payment;  and  all  those  who  have  any  demands- 
against  said  estate,  are  requested  to  bring  their  accounts 
properly  attested,  in  order  to  receive  their  just  dues. 

James'  Crowell,  Administrator 

Woodbridge,  May  28,  1779. 


Twenty   Dollars   Reward. 

LOST  on  the  road  between  Trenton  landing  and  Maiden- 
a  black  leather  POCKET  BOOK  with  a  strap,  contain- 
ing near  two  hundred  dollars,  with  a  duplicate  receipt  for 
eight  barrels  of  beef,  directed  to  James  Gamble,  Esq.  A.  C. 
of  Issues  at  Morristown.  Any  person  that  has  found  the 
same,  and  will  return  it  to  the  subscriber  in  Hopewell,  or 
leave  it  at  Mr.  Lowry's  office  in  Trenton,  shall  receive- 
the  above  reward,  paid  by  me. 

EDMUND  ROBERTS,  jun. 

June  10. 

CORKS  by  the  Groce, 
To  be  sold  by  the  Printer  hereof. 

—Neiv-Jersey    Gazette,    Wednesday,    Vol.  II. ,    No.    80,. 
June  16,  1779. 

Whereas  Sarah  the  wife  of  Nicholas  Smith,  of  North- 
ampton township,  Burlington  county,  eloped  on  the  27th 
of  May  last,  with  one  Samuel  Roberts  of  said  place,  and 
were  seen  ne'ar  Spicer's  bridge  about  a  mile  from  Cooper  s 

1  Thomas  Hadden,  jun.,  was  a  Captain  in  the  1st  Regiment,  Middlesex 
militia;  then  Major,  and  in  April,  1778.  was  commissioned  Lieutenant 
Colonel  :  resigned  December.  1778.  He  was  one  of  the  charter  members 
of  Trinity  Church.  Woodbridge.  named  in  the  charter  granted  by  Gov. 
Franklin,  Dec.  6,  17G9. — Daily's  Hist.  Wo  abridge,  265,  307. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER  EXTRACTS.  453 

ferry ;  she  has  taken  a  quantity  of  money,  and  other  valu- 
able effects  not  her  property ;  her  former  name  was  Sarah 
Gabb.  These  are  to  forewarn  all  persons  from  trusting 
ner  on  his  account,  as  he  will  pay  no  debts  of  her  con- 
tracting. And  all  persons  are  forbid  to  harbour  or  con- 
ceal her  at  their  peril. 

NICHOLAS   SMITH. 
—The  Pennsylvania  Gazette,  June  16,  1779. 


To  the  REFUGEES  of  NEW  JERSEY. 
Gentlemen, 

HAVING  been  informed,  that  a  letter  published  in 
Mr.  Collinses  Gazette,  and  said  to  have  been  written 
by  me  to  Mrs.  Dubois,  has  given  some  offence  to  the 
Refugees  from  Jersey;    I  beg  leave  to  assure  you,  that 
nothing  I  have  ever  wrote  has  been  meant,  o<r  intended  to 
cast   a   general   and   undistinguishing   reflection   on    the 
Refugees  of  that  or  any  colony ;   for  the  private  characters 
of  many  of  which  I  have  the  greatest  respect,  and  in  whose 
just  and  humane  sentiments  £  cordially  harmonize. 

I  also  assure  you,  that  any  thing  I  may  have  written 
could  be  only  relative  to  a  particular  transaction  prior  to 
the  28th  of  May,  attended  with  circumstances  which  no 
person  of  sensibility  would  wish  to  justify,  and  so  far 
from  entertaining  the  distant  idea  that  Governor  Franklin 
countenanced  any  acts  of  barbarity  or  patronized  the 
perpetrators  of  them ;  I  do  declare  I  never  conceived  an 
idea  so  unworthy  of  him,  and  I  ani  confident  that  he  has 
given  the  most  positive  injunctions;  even  against  indiscrimi- 
nate depredations,  I  have  only  to  add,  that  the  letter 
imputed  to  me  (but  which  I  disown,  is  a  genuine  copy  of 
what  I  may  have  written)  contains  some  sentiments  I 
wish  now  however  to  disavow,  and  tho'  they  .have  escaped 
me,  I  aver  they  were  not  intended  for  the  public  eye :  And 
therefore  (from  generous  minds)  I  conceive  the  con- 
fidential communication  of  them  will  receive  a  liberal 


154  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

construction,  more  especially  when  the  probable  design  of 
publishing  them  in  such  a  letter  is  confidential. 

I  am,  Gentlemen,  your  most  obedient, 

Humble  servant, 

June  15,  1779.  Peter  Dubois. 

—The  Royal  Gazette,  No.  283,  June  16,  1779. 


CHATHAM,  June  13. 

Since  our  last,  nine  deserters  left  the  enemy  and  came  to 
Elizabeth-Town,  from  Staten  Island. 

On  Monday,  the  5th  instant,  Capt.  Dennis  of  Mon- 
mouth, ivas  shot  by  some  freebooters  that  harbours  in  that 
county. — A  Iso, 

On  Tuesday  the  6th,  an  inhabitant  of  said  county,  was 
taken,  off  to  the  enemy  by  four  negroes. 
—Supplement  to  the  Royal  Gazette,  June  17,  1779. 


Philadelphia,  June  17. 

We  hear  from  Brunswick v  in  Xew  Jersey,  that  out  of 
upwards  of  1500  sick,  who  were  admitted  into  the  military 
hospital  in  that  place,  since  Xovember  last,  only  22  have 
died.  This  extraordinary  success  in  the  management  of 
the  sick  (compared  with  former  years)  has  been  justly 
ascribed,  next  to  the  diligence  and  care  of  the  Surgeons, 
to  the  plentiful  and  punctual  supplies  of  stores  and 
necessaries  of  all  kinds  for  the  sick,  by  the  present  Pur- 
veyors of  the  hospitals. 

On  the  7th  inst.  the  brig  Monmouth  retook  a  schooner 
from  Dominica,  lately  taken  by  the  Bishop  privateer,  of 
]STew  York.     She  is  safe  arrived  at  Egg-Harbour.— 
— The  Pennsylvania'  Packet,  June  17,  1779. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  455 

New- York,  June  19. 
From  the  Kebel  New-Jersey  Journal. 

CHATHAM,  June  15. 

On  Sunday  morning  last,  an  Express  from  Congress 
to  his  Excellency  General  Washington,  passed  through 
Morris-Town,  on  his  way  to  Head  Quarters ;  by  him  we 
have  the  following  glorious  and  important  intelligence, 
which  Congress  received  by  express  from  General  Lincoln, 
last  Friday  evening,  viz.  That  the  enemy  attacked  our 
lines  at  Charles-Town,  in  South-Carolina,  on  the  14th  ult. 
but  met  with  so  warm  a  reception  that  they  thought 
proper  to  retire;  however,  they  returned  shortly 
afterwards,  in  full  force,  and  renewed  the  attack 
with  great  fury ;  but  with  as  little  success  as  before ;  for 
they  were  opposed  with  a  spirit  peculiar  to  men  who  fight 
from  principle,  and  feel  the  justice  and  importance  of 
their  cause.  The  contest  was  exceedingly  obstinate,  but 
rather  in  favour  of  the  American  arms,  when  Gen.  Lin- 
coln appeared  with  the  troops  under  his  command,  and 
decided  the  fate  of  the  day ;  for  falling  upon  the  enemy's 
rear,  he  threw  them  into  the  utmost  confusion,  and  obliged 
them  to  consult  their  safety  by  a  precipitate  and  irregular 
flight,  upwards  of  1400,  whereof  many  were  new  levies, 
were  found  upon  the  field  killed  and  wounded,  and  their 
baggage,  artillery,  and  ammunition  have  all  fallen  into 
our  hands.  Our  victorious  troops  pursued  the  fugitives, 
and  made  700  more  of  them  prisoners ;  and  it  is  expected, 
that  not  a  man  of  them  will  escape,  as  sufficient  detach- 
ments have  occupied  the  several  passes  through  the  country, 
to  prevent  the  stragglers  from  getting  away. — Prisoners 
were  continually  coming  in,  when  the  express  left  South 
Carolina. 

It  is  said,  that  when  the  enemy  in  Georgia  heard  of  the 


45 G         NEW  JEESEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779 

above  defeat,  the  meorcjiants  who  had  gone  with  them  (and 
other  friends  to  government)  put  their  property  oil  board 
the  small  vessels  lying  at  Savannah,  and  embarked  for 
New  York  and  Providence. 
— The  Royal  Gazette,  No.  284,  June  19,  1779. 


NEW-YORK,  June  15. 

On  the  ninth  day  of  June  instant,  a  party  of  Volunteers 
went  down  to  Sandy-Hook,  where  they  were  joined  by  a 
small  detachment  of  Colonel  Barton's  regiment  of  New- 
Jersey  Volunteers,  from  whence  they  proceeded  to  the 
Gut,  about  four  miles  distant,  but  as  the  wind  blew  very 
hard,  the  boatsi  that  were  provided  did  not  come  up,  and 
they  were  obliged  to>  return  to  the  light-house,  On  the 
10th,  being  ready  to  cross  the  Gut,  it  was  agreed  by  the 
party  the  Lieut.  Okerson,  who  was  perfectly  acquainted 
with  the  country,  should  give  them  directions.  They  ad- 
vanced undiscovered  with  fifty-six  men  a,s  far  as  Fenton1 
Falls,  about  ten  miles  from  the  landing,  where  they  halted 
just  as  the  day  appeared,  near  the  rebel  head-quarters  at  the 
back  of  the  town ;  but  not  knowing  the  house  where  their 
main  guard  was  kept,  they  determined  to  surround  three 
houses  at  the  same  time.  Captain  ITayden  of  General 
Skinner's,  proceeded  to  the  house  of  Mr.  McKnight,  a 
rebel  Captain,  Ensign  Moody  to  the  house  of  Mr.  Hen- 
drickson,  a  Colonel,  and  Lieutenant  Throgmorton  to  one 
Shadwick's  a  rebel  Captain.  The  three  parties  came 
nearly  at  the  same  time  to  the  place  where  the  main 
guard  of  the  rebels  was  kept,  but  missed  them,  they  being 
on  a  sco<ut.  They  made  Colonel  Hendrickson,  Lieutenant 
Colonel  Wicko'fF,  Captains  Shadwick  and  McKnight,  with 
several  privates  prisoners;  and  afteir  proceeding  one  mile 
further,  took  a  Major  Van  Brunt.  They  had  collected 
about  three  hundred  sheep  and  horses  belonging  to  rebels, 

1  Tinton. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  457 

and  were  returning  when  they  were  attacked  by  a  party 
of  about  thirty,  who  harrassed  them  in  their  retreat,  till 
they  got  down  to  the  water  side  at  Jumping-Point-Inlet, 
through  which  they  drove  the  sheep,  and  all  except  fifteen 
of  the  Volunteers,  who  were  left  to  secure  a  passage,  over 
on  the  other  side,  A  warm  engagement  then  ensued,  and 
continued  an  hour,  when  they  heard  the  Captain  of  the 
rebels  swear  by  God  that  he  would  give  them  no  quarters, 
and  soon  after  he  received  two  balls:  Upon  his  falling 
the  Volunteers  charged  their  bayonets,  drove  the  rebels, 
and  took  possession  of  the  ground  where  the  dead  and 
wounded  lay.  When  they  had  crossed  the  river,  they  ob- 
served a  man  with  a  flag  riding  down  from  the  rebels, 
who  asked  permission  to  carry  off  the  dead  and  wounded, 
which  was  immediately  granted.  The  man  with  the  flag 
informed  them  that  the  whole  of  their  party  who  were 
engaged  were  killed  or  wounded.  They  returned  to 
Sandy-Hook  the  same  evening  with  their  prisoners :  The 
names  of  the  fifteen  who  engaged  the  rebels  are  as  follows : 

Captain  Samuel  Hayden,  Lieutenant  Thomas  Okerson, 
second  officers;  Lieutenant  Hutchinson,  Ensign  Moody, 
first  battalion  General  Skinner's;  Lieutenant  John  Bus- 
kirk,  of  Colonel  Ritzema's ;  five  privates  of  General 
Skinner's ;  two  sailors  and  a  coxswain  of  one  of  the  boats ; 
Marphet  Taylor,  William  Gilian,  John  Worthley, 
Volunteers. 

In  the  engagement  one  officer  and  two  privates  of  the 
Volunteers  were  wounded. 


EXTRACTS  from  Rebel  Papers. 

CHATHAM,  June  15. 

Last  week,  six  daring  villains  in  Smith's  Clove,  had 
the  audacity  to  fire  on  two  of  our  light  horse,  as  they  were 
passing  in  the  rear  of  the  army,  one  of  which  they 
wounded  in  the  body,  and  broke  the  thigh  bone 


458*  :TEW  JERSEY  ix  THE  REVOLUTION.  [1779 

of  the  other:  The'y*  were  immediately  pursued  by  a 
party  from  the  army,  taken,  and  one  hung ;  the  five  were 
conducted  to  head-quarters,  and  a  court-martial  being  held 
upon  them,  they  were'  found  guilty,  and  received  sentence 
of  death;  pursuant  to  which  four  were  hanged,  and  it 
being  insinuated  to  the  fifth,  that  if  he  would  discover  his 
accomplices,  he  would  be  pardoned,  which  offer  of  clem- 
ency he  eagerly  embraced,  and  conducted  a  party  of  o<ur 
people  to  a  cave  in  the  moiuntain,  the  depository  of  all  their 
plunder,  where  lay  concealed  five:  more,  whom  they 
secured.  Various  articles  of  plunder  were  found  in  their 
den. 

Xew-York,  June  21. 

A  Party  of  the  Rebels  came  clown  last  Thursday  as  far 
as  Prior's  Mills,  within  a  Mile  of  Powlis-Hook,  and  fired 
some  Shot  at  the  Gentry  at  that  Post,  but  a  few  Men  being 
ordered  out  after  them,  they  soon  took  to  their  Heels,  and 
made  the  best  of  their  Way  into  the  Bush. — The  'New- 
York  Gazette:  and  the  Weekly  Mercury,  No.  1444,  June 
21, 1779. 

CHATHAM,  JUXE,  22. 

A  Correspondent  has  favoured  us  with  the  following  from 

Elizabeth  Town. 

On  Friday  night  last,  the  infamous  Cornelius  Hetfield, 
jun.  with  two  other  Hetfiekls,  and  two  of  the  Winans's, 
some  other  tories,  and  about  a  dozen  British  soldiers, 
effected  a  landing  at  Halsted's  point,  from  whence  they 
stole  up  in  small  parties,  amongst  their  friends,  where1, 
probably,  they  obtained  full  information  of  the  strength 
and  situation  of  our  guard  at  Halsted's  house,  which  they 
attacked  about  day-light  in  the  morning ;  the  guard  being 
vigilant  escaped  (except  one  man  killed)  and  gave  the 
alarm  to  the  town,  the  villains  in  the  mean  time  plundered 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTEACTS.  459 

the  house  of  almost  everything  portable,  took  off  his  riding 
chair,  and  made  Mr.  Halstead  a  prisoner,  whoi,  however, 
had  the  address  to  take  advantage  of  the  surprise  these 
British  worthies  were  thrown  into  by  the  firing  of  a  single 
gun,  and  made  his  escape  from  them;  had  they  stayed  a 
few  minutes  longer,  they  would  probably  have  paid  dear 
for  their  presumption;  as  it  was,  they  had  two  men 
wounded;  one  of  them  mortally.  A  few  nights  before, 
the  same  villains  conducted  a  party  to  the  house1  of 
Lieutenant  Haviland,1  and  made  him  prisoner;  having 
previously  been  to  his  fathers  house  to  get  information,  as 
is  his  custom. 

When  the  active  friends  of  America  cannot  sleep 
securely  im  their  beds,  for  such  infernal  paricides,  it  is 
time  to  rouse — House  then  Americans,  and  let  it  not  be 
said,  we  prefer  our  ease  to  the  safety  of  ourselves  and 
neighbours;  let  the  inhabitants  in  and  round  the  town, 
for  the  distance  of  3  or  4  miles,  form  themselves  into  4  or 
5  divisions,  these  divisions  turn  out.  nightly  in  rotation ; 
we  shall  not  need  to  take  more  than  3  or  4  tours  of  duty 
in  that  way,  before  the  State  troops  will  be  embodied,  and 
make  the  post  sufficently  secure.  Surely  there  cannot  be  a 
patriot  (if  in  health)  will  object,  wherefore,  should  any 
one  refuse  to  comply  with  so  reasonable  a,  requisi  [ti]  on, 
let  him  be  esteemed  an  enemy  to  his  country,  and  treated 
with  the  contempt  due  to  that  character.  It  is  hoped  the 
officers  will  be  at  some  trouble  in  modeling  their  com- 
panies without  delay,  and  that  they  will  publish  to  the 
world,  through  the  channel  of  a  News-Paper,  the  names  of 
such  (if  any)  who  will  not  deprive  themselves  of  three  or 
four  nights  rest  for  the  safety  of  the  town,  themselves, 
their  connections  and  neighbours,  as  it  is  necessary  we 
should  all  know  who  are  our  friends  and  who  our  foes. 

If  two  clas'ses  from  each  of  the  four  companies  that  lay 
in  and  nearest  the  town,  would  turn,  out  every  night,  and 

1  John  Haviland,  of  Elizabeth.,  was  a  Lieutenant  in  the  Essex  Regiment 
of  militia. 


460*  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

repair  to  the  commanding  officer  for  orders,  and  two  classes 
f[r]om  each  of  the  Rahway  companies.,  in  like  manner, 
guard  the  shore  from  Railway  river  to  Thompson's  creek, 
until  the  state  troops  can  be  embodied,  we  may  yet  have 
full  satisfaction  of  these  miscreants  for  the  trouble  they 
put  us  to.  Middlesex  will  doubtless  assist  in  guarding 
their  shore,  as  they  have  never  been  backward  on  such 
occasions. 

Last  week  the  noted  Capt.  Cunningham,  who  signalized 
himself  by  taking  so  many  of  the  enemy's  vessels,  but 
lately  captured  by  them,  was  sent  from  New- York  to 
England,  in  irons,  to  be  tried  for  a  pirate.  It -is  said  he 
had  no  Commission  from  Congress. 

On  Sunday  night  last  it  was  discovered  that  the  negroes 
had  it  in  contemplation  to  rise  and  murder  the  inhabitants 
of  Elizabeth  Town.  Many  of  them  are  secured  in  gaol. 


WAS   taken  from  Morris  Town  green,   supposed  by 
some  of  the  followers  of  the  army  at  the  time  they 
marched  through,  two  waggon  HORSES,  one  a 
dark  brown,  about  fifteen  and  a  half  hands  high,  and  a 
small  star  in  his  forehead ;    the  other  a  dark  bay,  with 
long  legs  and  large  head,  about  sixteen  hands  high,  both 
natural  trotters.     Whoever  takes  up  said  horses,  and  gives 
notice,  or  brings  them  to  the  subscriber  at  Morris  Town, 
shall    receive    Thirty   Dollars   reward   for   each,    and   all 
reasonable  charges  paid  by 

EGBERT  KELSO. 


To  be  SOLD  for  cash,  or  exchanged  for  any  kind  of  country 
produce,  at  Mount  Hope  furnace, 


s 


CYTHES,  nails,  pots,  kettles,  griddles,  and-irons, 
smoothing-irons,  morters,  cart  and  waggon  boxes, 
six  and  ten  plate  stoves,  weights,  <fcc. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTEACTS.  461 


EIGHT   DOLLAES   REWARD. 

STRAYED  from  the  subscriber,  in  Elizabeth  Town,  a 
red  yearling  BULL,  with  a  white  face,  crop  off 
the  near  ear,  and  a  swallow  fork  in  the  off.     Also 
a  red  HEIFER,  two  OT  three  years  old,  some  white  about 
her,  has  horns  in  shape  (not  in  size)  of  a  bug,  with  a  crop 
off  the  right  ear,  and  a  half-penny  underside  of  the  left. 

JONATHAN"  J.  DAYTON. 


STRAYED  from  the  subscriber,  about  the  middle  of 
April  last,  a  dark  red  heifer,  two  years  old,  with  a 
half  crop  the  upper  side  of  the  left  ear,   and  a 
slit  in  the  under-side  of  the  right.     Whoever  takes  up  said 
heifer,  and  brings  her  to  the  owner  in  Elizabeth  Town, 
shall   have   Twenty   Dollars    reward    and    all   reasonable 
charges  paid  by 

TIMOTHY  OGDEN. 


TAKEN  up  by  the  subscriber,  about  4  weeks  ago,  a 
black  horse,  about  thirteen  hands  high,  appears  to 
be  old,  one  of  his  hind  feet  white.    Also  a  mare,  of  a 
bright  bay,  about  fourteen  and  a  half  hands  high,  three 
white  feet,  a  star  and  snip,  in  good  order,  and  a  natural 
pacer.     Whoever  owns  said  horses  may,  by  applying  to  the 
subscriber,  proving  their  property,   and  paying  charges, 
have  them  again, 

MOSES   CRANE. 
Hanover  Township,  Morris    1 
.county,  June  18,  1779.  j 


462  NEW    JERSEY    IN"    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

TO*  BE     SOLD, 

At  public  vendue,  on  Saturday  the  26th  instant, 


A 


LOT  of  GRASS  belonging  to  the  widow  Miller,  in 
the  care  of  Stephen  Day,  Esq ;  in  Chatham,  at  the 
New-Bridge. 


To  be  sold  by  the  S  U  B  S  C  E  I  B  E  E  , 

A    SMALL  place  containing  eight  acres,   situate  half 
way  between   Morris   Town   and   Chatham,   on   a 
very   public   road   just   above  Bottle-Hill,    in   the 
forks  of  the  roads;   has  on  it  a  very  good  new  house,  with 
four  rooms  on  the  lower  floor,  with  a  kitchen  and  cellar, 
a  piazza  in  the  front,  good  water  near  the  house,  a  barn, 
some  fruit  trees  of  different  kinds,  and  a  good  boarded 
in   garden.     It   is   very   convenient   for   a   gentleman   or 
tradesman. 

An  indisputable  title  will  be  given  by 

ICHABOD   SPINNING. 

N.  B.  The  subscriber  has  for  sale,  twenty  good  sheep, 
and  various  kinds  of  earthern  ware,  for  cash  or  country 
produce. 


WHEREAS  James  Shotwell,  in  a  late  advertisement, 
denies  aiding  my  wife  in  her  elopement:     The 
public,  from  the  following  depositions,  may  judge 
with  what  propriety  he  demies  the  fact,  and  whether  I 
published   a   falsehood1   in   my   former   advertisement.     I 
have  the  most  cogent  reasons  to  believe  that,  previous  to 
my  wife's  leaving  me,  the  plot  was  laid,  for  she  said  she 
would  leave  me,  and  Shotwell  would  wait  on  her.     They 
were  out  one  night,  and  the  next  she  went  home  with  him, 


1779]  NEWSPAPER  EXTRACTS.  463 

where  I  went  about  nine  o'clock  and  demanded  her,  but 
she  refused  to  come  home,  and  I  believe  for  no  other 
reason  than  the  kind  promises  which  she  said  he  made 
to  her,  and  if  the  public  are  not  convinced  with  the  an- 
nexed affidavits,  I  mean  to  prove  something  more  than 
they  contain. 

WILLIAM  WILLIS. 

Essex  County. 

T)  ERSONALLY  appeared  before  me  James  Camp- 
1.  bell,  one  of  the  justices  of  the  peace  for  said 
county,  Benjamin  Crane,  the  third,  and  being 
duly  sworn,  saith,  That  on  the  26th  of  May  last,  he  hav- 
ing been  out  with  William  Willis  on,  business,  they  both 
came  to  said  Willis's  house,  and  found  Mr.  Ames  and 
James  SJiotwell,  and  said  Willis's  wife,  when  Mr.  Ames 
saith  to  said  Willis,  we  are  a  going  to  take  your  wife 
away,  and  they  ivent  out,  and  Betsey,  the  wife  of  said 
Willis,  got  into  the  chair  with  the  above  said  James  Shot- 
well,  and  they  rode  off  together.  Further  saith  not. 

BENJAMIN  CKANE.1 
Sworn  before  me  this  1.8th  day   1 
of  June,  1779,  James  Campbell.      \ 

1  Benjamin  Crane,  3d,  was  born  Nov.  29,  1761,  son  of  Benjamin 
Crane,  2d,  and  Phebe  Halsey,  his  wife,  dau.  of  Joseph  Halsey,  who  lived 
between  Elizabethtown  and  Rahway.  Benjamin  Crane,  2d,  and  his  wife 
lived  at  Westfleld,  now  in  Union  county.  Benjamin  Crane,  3d,  m. 
Sarah,  dau.  of  Hezekiah  Thompson,  and  lived  in  Westfleld.  Issue :  1. 
John,  m.  Mary  Clark,  of  Westfield ;  2.  Abigail,  m.  David  Keyt ;  3. 
Esther,  d.  at  18  or  20  yrs.,  unm.  ;  4.  Hezekiah  Thompson,  m.  Amanda 
Osborn ;  5.  Phoebe,  m.  1st,  Francis  Randolph,  son  of  Dr.  Robert  Ran- 
dolph ;  2d,  George  R.  King,  of  Warren  county ;  6.  Charlotte  King, 
m.  Hedges  Baker ;  7.  Norris,  removed  to  Cincinnati,  O. ;  8.  Jacob  Thomp- 
son, d.  at  Cincinnati,  O.,  aged  35  yrs.,  unm.  ;  9.  Benjamin,  4th,  m.  1st, 
Electa  Baker,  b.  Sept.  28,  1804,  dau.  of  Daniel  Baker  ;  she  m.  1st,  Aaron, 
son  of  Noah  Woodruff  ;  Mr.  Crane  m.  2d,  Mary,  dau.  of  William  Baker* 
jun.,  of  Madison;  Mr.  Crane  was  a  marble  cutter,  of  Paterson,  where  he 
was  regarded  as  a  most  estimable  citizen  during  a  residence  of  sixty  years 
or  more;  10.  David  Johnson,  m.  Ann  Eliza,  dau.  of  Isaac  Roll  ;  11.  Moses 
Thompson,  m.  Eliza  Scudder.  See  Littell's  "Passaic  Valley  Genealogies." 


464  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

Essex  County. 

PERSONALLY  appeared  before   me   James   Camp- 
bell, one  of  the  justices  of  said  county,  Sarah  Den- 
'man,  and  being  duly  sworn  saith,  that  on  Wednes- 
day the  %6th  of  May  last,  James  Shoiwell  came  along  and 
made  a  stop  against  her  house,  ivith  a  ivoman  in  a  chair, 
and  she  ivent  out  and  asked  him  what  woman  it  ivas  lie 
had  with  him,  lie  said  it  was  his  wife;    she  thought  he 
was  a  joaking,  and  she  asked  Jiim  again,  and  he  made  the 
same  reply  it's  my  wife.     Further  saith  not. 

SARALI    DENMAK 
Sworn  before  me  this  18th  day 
of  June,  1779,  James  Campbell. 


STEPHEXSOX    &    CANEIELD, 

Have   for    SALE,    at    their    store    opposite   Mr.    Robert 
Morris's  tavern  in  MORRIS  TOWN, 


j 


A  M  A  I  C  A  spirits  by  the  barrel,  curriers  oil  by 
the  barrel,  window  glass  by  the  box. — Also  bohea 
tea  and  snuff  by  the  quantity. 


STOLEX  from  the  subscriber,  at  Eox-Hill  in  Morris 
County,  on  the  night  of  the  llth  instant,  a  bright 
bay  HORSE,  about  14y2  hands  high,  with  a  star 
in  his  forehead,  and  two  white  spots  on  his  face,  right  hind 
foot  white,  a  natural  pacer,  and  about  5  years  old. — Also, 
a   dark  brown,    almost  black   MARE,   with   a  large  star- 
in  her  forehead,  trots  some,  but  most  natural  to  a  pace. — 
Whoever  takes  up  said  horses,  shall  have  a  HUNDRED 
DOLLARS  reward  for  each,  and  Two  Hundred  for  the 
thief,  and  all  reasonable  charges  paid  by 

MICHAEL  EBEL. 


1779]  NEWSPAPEB    EXTRACTS.  465 

THE   subscribers   have  three   stray   sheep,    with   the 
following  marks:  one  with  a  half  crop  off  the  left 
ear,  another  with  a  swallow-fork  in  the  left  ear,  a 
crop  off  the  right,  and  nick  the  upper  side  of  the  same ;  the 
other  has  no  mark. — Whoever  owns  said  sheep,  are  desired 
to  take  them  away,  or  they  will  be  sold  on  the  28th  instant, 
at  the  house  of  the  subscribers,  to  pay  the  expense  of  keep- 
ing them. 

ALLEHAJSTSOST  FOSTEE, 
HENRY  EAELL,  jun. 


TO  BE  SOLD, 

At  public  VENDUE,  on  Monday  the  28th  inst.  at  the 
house  of  JACOB  FOSTEE,  wherein  the  widow  Wood 
lately  lived,  at  Lyon's  Farms; 

A   Great  variety  of  china,  glass  and  cream  coloured 
ware,     looking    glasses    and    pictures,     a    large 
mahogany  table,  pewter  dishes  and  plates,  kitchen 
furniture,  one  pair  of  brass-nobbed  andirons1,  mens  clothes, 
silks  of  different  sorts,  watch  seals,  buttons  of  different 
sorts,  two  young  horses  and  a  good  milch  cow,  with  sundry 
other  articles  too  tedious  to  mention.     The  sale  to  begin 
at  10  o'clock  in  the  morning,  when,  the  conditions  of  sale 
will  be  made  known  by 

JACOB  FOSTEE. 

30 


466 


JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION. 


[1779 


JELF 


DAY 


Have  for  S ALE,  at  their  store  'in  Elizabeth  Town,  the 
following  articles,  which  they  will  sell  reasonable; 


BROWN  broad  cloth, 
Blue  ditto, 
Scarlet  ditto, 

Red  Baze, 

Buckram, 

Fine  and  coarse  cambrick 

Spotted  cambrick  handkerchiefs, 

Checked  silk  ditto, 

Cotton  and  silk  do.  mixed 

Pocket  ditto, 

Fine  thread, 

Coarse  ditto  coloured, 

Shoe  and -knee  buckles, 

Hemp,  thread,  and  cotton  stock- 
ings mixed  and  plain, 

An  assortment  of  mohair 

Ditto  sewing  silk, 

Ditto  mohair  and  basket  buttons, 

Ditto  shoe  binding, 

Apron  and  cap  tape, 

Pins, 

Needles, 

Hair  pins, 

Cotton  and  linen  stripes, 

Check, 

Bonnet  silk, 

A    good    assortment    of    ribbons 
broad  and  narrow 

Faggot, 

Hair  ribbond, 

Crooked  combs, 

Coarse  and  fine  ditto, 

Gilt    edge    and    common    Pocket 
books, 

Clothes,  hat,  and  tooth  brushes, 


Entertaining  books  for  children, 

The  art  of  speaking, 

^Esop's  fables, 

Extracts  from  Mr.  Baxter's  works, 

Spelling  books, 

Blank  books, 

Copy  ditto, 

Writing  paper, 

Cruel, 

Men's  shoes, 

Thimbles, 

Large  and  small  stone  jugs, 

Earthern  milk  pans, 

Ditto  mugs  and  butter  plates, 

Wood  bowls  and  trenchers, 

Button  moulds, 

Pepper, 

Alspice, 

Nutmegs, 

Cloves 

Ginger, 

Snuff, 

Tea, 

Rock  salt, 

Red  and  logwood, 

Alum, 

Copperas, 

Tobacco, 

Axe  helves, 

Horse  shoes, 

Skeleton  wire, 

Blue  coats  and  breeches, 

Draws, 

Whisk  brooms. 

Razors, 


ALSO,  a  quantity  of  grass  and  cradling  scythes,  which  they  will  be 
glad  to  exchange  for  coarse  linen. — A  quantity  of  Indigo,  which  they 
•will  sell  reasonable  by  the  hundred  weight. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  467 

BROKE  into  the  wheatfield  of  the  subscriber,  a  light 
brown  HORSE,   about  13  hands  high,   well  set, 
branded  on  the  right  shoulder  thus  V  U,  'and  on 
the  left  thigh  thus  <I  — The  owner,  proving  his  property 
and  paying  charges,  may  have  him  again,  by  applying  to 

SILAS  COKDICT.1 

CAME  to  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber  in  Morris- 
Town,,    on    Tuesday    the   first    day    of    June,,    a 
SORREL  MARE,  with  a*  white  face,  marked  on 
the  fore  leg  by  tying  her  head  and  foot,  about  fourteen 
hands  and  a  half  high,  the  owner  is  requested  to  prove  his 
property,  pay  charges  and  take  her  away. 

SILAS  HOW  ELL. 


TO  BE  SOLD, 

BY  THE  SUBSCRIBER  AT  SPRINGFIELD, 


A  Brer? 
ni 


Brew  kettle,  300  Ib.  weight,  and  will  contain  near 
nine  barrels. 

SAMUEL  MILLER. 


JOHN  THOMPSON, 

At  Bottle^Hill,  has  for  sale  the  following  articles ; 

A  Neat  parcel  of  white  silk  gauze  aprons  plain  and 
sprigged,     gauze     handkerchiefs,     flowered     and 
spotted  black  mode  for  women's  hats,  black  trim- 
ming for  ditto,  plain  and  spotted  gauze,  catgut,  black,  blue, 
and  coloured  Sewing  silks,  white  thread  and  writing-paper. 

1  For  a  note  on  Silas  Conflict,  see  N.  J.  Archives,  2d  Series,  1 :  372.. 


NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION. 


BE    SOLD, 

At  JONATHAN  MORRELL'S,  half  a  mile  from  New- 
Providence  meeting-house',  and  three  miles  west  from 
Chatham ; 

CHOICE  IXDIGO  by  the  cask,  hundred,  or  dozen, 
very  neat  cambricks  by  the  piece,  excellent  plug- 
tobacco,   small  rolls  pigtail  ditto  by  the  groce  or 
dozen. — Also  a  mainsail  and  foresail  of  a  small  schooner 
almost  new,  containing  about  five  bolts  of  the  best  Russia 
duck. 

POSTER    IIORTON, 

Has  for  SALE,  at  his  STORE  in  Chatham,  a  quantity 
of  goods  just  come  to  hand,  for  cash  or  butter,  viz. 

PLAIX   gauze,    lawn,   cambrick,    fine   sewing   thread, 
black  silk  handkerchiefs,   pocket  ditto,  black  and 
straw  coloured  ribbons,  silk  twist,  mohair  buttons, 
sewing  silk,  a  complete  assortment  of  combs,  sleeve  buttons, 
needles,  pins,  beads,  shoe-buckles,  razors,  hearth  brushes, 
bohea  tea,  indigo,  tobacco,  snuff,  earthen  mugs.     Also  a 
good  horse  for  the  chair  or  Caddie. 


TO   BE    SOLD, 
BY  THE  SUBSCRIBER, 

A  SHALL    FARM,    containing   between   40    and    50 
acres,  situate  half  way  between  .Morris  Town  and 
Chatham,  on1  a  very  public  road,  near  Mr.  Stephen 
Cox's;    has  on  it  a.  good  house  with  three  rooms  ceiled,  an 
entry  on  the    lower  floor,  and  a  cellar  under  it;    a  small 
building  adjoining,  with  a  cellar  under  it ;    a  barn,  new 


NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  469 


bark-house,  a  pond  that  is  never  dry,  a  spring  of  good 
water  near  the  house,  an  orchard  that  affords  70  or  80 
barrels'  of  cyder,  a  good  pailed  in  garden,  English  and  red 
cherry  trees,  peaches,  plumbs,  some  woodland  and  meadow. 
—It  is  convenient  for  a  gentleman  or  tradesman.  An  in- 
disputable title  will  be  given  by 

JOKN"  KUNTOK1 

!N~.  B.  The  subscriber  has  for  sale  a  genteel  pleasure 
waggon  with  a  cover,  a  good  young  milch  cow,  a,  likely  one 
year  old  heifer,  one  good  horse  for  a  chair  or  saddle,  six 
years  old. 

Two  Hundred  Dollars  Reward. 

THE  shop  of  the  subscriber,  living  in  Morris  Town, 
was  broke  open  on  the  night  of  the  6th  instant,,  and 
robbed  of  about  fifty  ounces  of  silver,  among  which 
was  sixteen  or  eighteen  dollars  in  coin,  and  some  broken 
silver,  the  rest  was  buckles  just  cast.  Likewise  six  tea- 
spoons, five  of  which  are  somewhat  worn,  but  not  marked, 
the  other  one  unfinished,  which  is  not  the  same  stamp  as 
the  rest.  Also  one  half  joe  and  one  guinea,  with  a  green 
net  purse,  the  half  joe  had  a  piece  cut  off  one  side  to  the 
amount  of  one  penny  weight  or  upwards.  —  Whoever  takes 
up  the  thief  or  thieves,  so  that  they  may  be  brought  to 
justice,  and  the  property  restored  to  the  owner,  shall  re- 
ceive the  above  reward,  and  all  reasonable  charges  paid, 
or  in  proportion  to  the  quantity  restored,  by 

JOffisT  DICKERSOK 

All  silver-smiths  are  desired  to  stop  the  abovehmentioned 
articles,  should  they  be  offered,  to  them  for  sale. 

1  Probably  the  John  Runyon  who  married  Mary  Conkling,  Feb.  18,  1778. 


470  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 


JESSE  BALDWIN 

Has  for  SALE,  at  the  widow  DeHart's  in  Elizabeth  Town, 
the  following  articles  for  cash  or  country  produce,  viz. 

HYSON,  souchong,  and  bohea  tea,  coffee,  brown  sugar, 
indigo*,  salt,  pepper,  earthen-ware  —  Also  blue  broad 
cloth,,    hair-bind,    shaloon,    twist    and    mohair    of 
various  colours,   sewing   silk,    fine  thread,   fustian,   cam- 
bricks    and    lawn,    plain,    spotted,    and    striped    gauze; 
ribbons,   chips  for  hats,   black  Barcelona  handkerchiefs, 
pocket  ditto,  pins,  needles,  &c. 

—  The  New-  Jersey  Journal  ,  'Vol.  /.,  Numb.  XIX.,,  June 
22,  1779. 

» 

Mr.  Washington,  by  our  latest  accounts,  was  on  the 
8th  instant  still  serenely  embowered  at  Smith's  Clove, 
most  of  his  artillery  at  Ringwood,  and  about  300  of  his 
dragoons  at  Kakiate,  his  Magazines  only  at  Trenton,  from 
whence,  with  incredible  fatigue  and  difficulty,  subsistence 
is  lugg'd  up  to  about  4000,  of  all  sorts,  that  are  now  with 
him  in  his  Alpine  retreat;  the  rout  for  his  provisions  is 
through  Morris-Town,  where  they  say  is  a,  considerable 
store  of  camp  equipage.  A  new  law  is  passed  in  Jersey  to 
class  all  the  men  from  21  years  of  age^,  to  the  oldest,  in 
order  to  raise  1000  men  for  six  months  ;  these  to  be  com- 
manded by  the  Cols.  Neilson  1  &  Fell,  2  and  2  Majors, 
another  law  is  passed  to  order  all  the  Tories  to  be  removed 
from  the  lines. 


Mr. 

By  giving  the  following  letters  a  place  in  your  next 
Gazette1,  you  will  oblige  the  Officers  and  Privates  of  the 
4th  battalion  of  New-Jersey  Volunteers. 

ABRM.  V.  BUSKIRK,  Lieut.  Col. 
PH.  V.  CORTLAND,  Major. 

1  Col.  John  Neilson,  of  New  Brunswick. 

2  Col.  Peter  R.  Fell,  of  Paramus. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  471 


A   letter   from   Lieut.    Col.    BUSKIRK   and   Major   CORT- 
LAND  to  his  Excellency  Gov.  FRANKLIN. 

Paulus-Hook,  17th  June  1779. 
SIR, 

BEING  informed  that  a,  letter  has  within  a  few  days 
made  its  appearance  in  the  city  of  New  York, 
reprobating  the  conduct  of  the  army  in  general, 
and  the  Loyal  Refugees  in  particular,  for  retaliating  on 
the  Rebels  (tho?  in  a  small  degree)  what  they  have  long 
with  impunity  in  a  most  cruel  and  wanton  manner  inflicted 
on  the  friends  of  government,  at  the  same  time  containing 
reflections  on  your  Excellency  as  patronizing  acts  of 
cruelty,  &c.  permit  us  therefore  Sir,  as  officers,  who  have 
been  honoured  with  his  Majesty's  commission,  and  as 
exiled  Loyalists  from  that  province  over  which  you  till 
lately  happily  presided,  to  request  the  favour  of  a  perusal 
of  the  said  letter  in  print,  that  wei  may  take  the  earliest 
opportunity  of  showing  our  abhorrence  to  acts  unbecoming 
British  troops,  as  also  of  testifying  our  determination  to 
share  with  your  Excellency  every  reverse  of  fortune,  and 
consequently  our  resentment  to  any  unmanly  attacks  on  a 
character  for  which  long  acquaintance  will  justify  our 
veneration  and  regard.  In  behalf  of  the  4th  battalion  of 
New- Jersey  Volunteers,  we  have  the  honour  to  be,  with 
assured  respect, 

Your  Excellency's  most  obedient  humble  Servants, 

ABRM.  Y.  BUSKIRK/    Lieut.   Col. 

PH.  Y.  CORTLAND/  Major. 

1  For  a  notice  of  the  Van  Busikirk  family,  see  N.  J.  Archives,  2d  Series, 
1  :55. 

2  Philip  Van  Cortland,  b.  in  1739,  at  first  favored  the  American  cause, 
but  balked  at  independence  and  took  arais  for  the  British.     He  d.  in  1814. 


472  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

0     . 

His  EXCELLENCY'S  ANSWER,. 

-  YORK,  Monday,  June  21,  1779. 


Gentlemen, 

YOUR  obliging  letter  of  the  17th,  was  delivered  to  me 
the  next  day,  but  I  delayed  answering  it  in 
expectation  of  seeing  in  Mr.  Rivington's  paper  of 
Saturday,  the  farther  Apology  which  had  been  promised 
by  Mr.  Du  Bo-  is,  on  his  being  informed,  that  his  first  Was 
far  from  being  deem'd  satisfactory.  As  he  has  not,  how- 
ever, thought  proper  to  publish  it  either  in  that  paper,  or 
in  Mr.  Game's  Gazette  of  this  day,  I  imagine  he  has 
altered  his  intention. 

The  letter  attributed  to  Mr.  Du  Bois,  affecting  your 
characters  as  officers  of  the  King's  army,  and  as  Refugees 
from  New-  Jersey,  I  think  you  have  a  just  right  to  a  com- 
pliance with  your  request,  and  shall  therefore  send  it  to  the 
press  for  publication. 

That  you  may  see  I  have  not  let  this  affair  pass  un- 
noticed, I  send  you  a  copy  of  a  letter  which  I  wrote  to  Mr. 
Du  Bois,  previous  to  the  publication  of  his  Apology.  Why 
he  did  not  follow  the  advice  it  contained  —  and  why  he 
afterwards  avowed  the  letter  in  part,  which  he  had  denied 
to  me  iu  the  whole,  and  which  denial  he  has  acknowledged, 
in  the  presence  of  two  Gentlemen,  since  the  appearance  of 
his  Apology,  are  matters  I  leave  to  your  reflection. 

The  concern  which  the  Gentlemen  of  the  4th  Battalion 
of  New  Jersey  Volunteers  so  kindly  express  in  my  behalf, 
and  their  determination  to  share  with  me  every  reverse  of 
fortune,  being  declared  at  so  critical  a  time  as  the  present, 
do  me  the  greatest  honour,  and  cannot  fail  of  impressing 
me  with  the  deepest  sense  of  gratitude.—  —Depend  upon 
it,  Gentlemen,  that  whatever  unmanly  attacks  may  be 
made  upon  my  character,  by  the  suggestions  of  ignorance, 
the  aspersions  of  malevolence,  or  the  insinuations  of  pre- 
tended friends,  they  will  not  in  the  least  induce  me  to 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  473 

lessen  my  endeavours  to  manifest  that  duty  I  owe  to  the 
best  of  Sovereigns,  and  that  regard  and  affection  which 
I  entertain  for  the  real  Loyalists  of  New-Jersey  in  particu- 
lar, and  America  in  general. 

I   have   the   honour   to   be,    with   the   highest    esteem, 
Gentlemen, 

Your  most  obedient  Servant, 

Wm.    Franklin. 
Lieut.  Col.  Buskirk,  and    I 
Major  Cortland.          [ 


Copy    of   a    letter    from    GOVERNOR    FRANKLIN,    to    PETER    DUBOIS, 
Esquire,  Magistrate  of  POLICE. 

New- York,  June  15,  1779. 
2  o'Clock,  P.  M. 
SIR, 

I  FIND  the  refugees,  and  other  loyalists,  are  extremely  offended  at 
the  letter  published  as  yours  in  the  New-Jersey  Gazette  of  the 
Qth  instant.  I  have  mentioned  to  them  your  having  assured 
me,  upon  your  honour,  that  "it  was  a  FICTION  and  a  FORGERY." 
They  are,  however,  still  dissatisfied,  and  urge  that  you  ought,  in 
justice  to  them,  and  to  your  own  character,  to  declare  to  the  public 
what  you  have  asserted  to  me  in  private.  I  should  have  informed  you 
of  this  yesterday,  but  was  told  by  a  gentleman  that  you,  had  drawn 
up  a  paper  for  the  purpose,  which  was  intended  to  be  published  in  the 
Newspaper  of  this  day.  As  nothing  of  the  kind  has  appeared,  I  must 
recommend  it  to  you  not  to  omit  publishing  such  a  declaration  in 
Rivington's  paper  of  to-morrow,  and  to  let  it  be  accompanied  with  an 
AFFIDAVIT.  This  is  what  I  should  rejoia?  to  do,  were  it  my  own  case, 
as  at  the  same  time  that  I  afforded  satisfaction  to  the  friends  of  the 
King's  government,  I  should  fix  an  ignominy  on  its  enemies;  and 
perhaps,  be  the  means  of  preventing  such  infamous  impositions  in 
future,  from  having  their  intended  effect. 

I  am,  Sir, 

Your  humble  Servant, 
WILLIAM  FRANKLIN. 
PETER  DUBOIS,  Esq. 
-The  Royal  Gazette,  ETo.  285,  June  23,  1779. 

STRAYED  or  STOLEN  (but  supposed  to  be  stolen) 
from  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber,  near  Haddonfield, 
in  Gloucester  county,  about  ten  days  since,  a  Bay  Mare, 


4:74:-  f  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

heavy  with  foal,  six  years  old,  about  14  or  14  and  an  half 
hands  high,  trots  and  pace®  but  most  inclinable  to  pace, 
moves  clumsily,  shuffles  or  racks  in  her  trot,  has  a  dull, 
sleepy  look,  and  is  mare-faced.  Any  person  securing  said 
mare,  so  that  the  subscriber  may  havei  her  again,  shall 
receive  SIXTY  DOLLAKS,  reward,  and  reasonable 
charges  paid  by 

SAMUEL  CLEMEXT1 
Sixth-Month  9,  1779. 


On  WEDNESDAY  next, 

At  Three  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  at  the  Forks  of 
Little  Egg-harbour,  will  be  sold, 

THE  SLOOP  RETRIEVE,  burthen  about  forty-five 
tons,  three  years  old,  her  sails  and  rigging  very  good. 

June  21. 
— The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  June  22,  1779. 

'Roads-Town,  Cumberland  county,  June  18,  1779. 

To  l>e  sold  by  way  of  public  vendue,  on  Tuesday,  the 
20th  day  of  July  next,  2  o'clock  afternoon,  at  the  dwelling 
house  of  Mr.  Nicholas  Keen,  innkeeper,  in  the  town  of 
Salem,  New- Jersey. 

The  following  very  valuable  horses,  mares  and  geldings, 
viz.  the  noted  horse  Frederick,  full  blood,  not  inferior  to 
any  horse  in  this  State.  Also  the  noted  young  Figure, 
5  years  old  this  spring,  in  the  very  best  order,  and  remark- 
ably swift.  The  well  known  grey  mare,  8  years  old  this 
spring,  called  the  Irish  mare,  a  half  blood,  likewise  very 
swift.  One  other  mare  of  Bullyrock  breed,  very  hand- 
some, 6  years  old.  A  very  fine  gelding,  6  years  old,  a 
blood  bay,  near  full  blooded.  One  other  valuable  geld- 
ing, three  years  old,  half  blooded ;  together  with  mares 

1  For  a  sketch  of  Samuel  Clement,  see  N.  J.  Archives,  19  :  392. 


1779]  NEWSPAPEE    EXTRACTS.  '         475 

t 

and  colts,  draught  horses,  &c.  three  months  credit  may  be 
had,  giving  good  security,  if  required,  by  the  public's  very 
humble  servant. 

SETH  BOWEN. 

All  persons  indebted  to  the  Estate  of  CHARLES 
PHILPOT  HUGHES,  late  of  Mount  Holly,  deceased, 
are  desired  to  make  speedy  payment ;  and  those  who  have 
any  just  demands  against  said  estate,  are  desired  to  bring 
in  their  accounts,  properly  attested,  that  they  may  be 
settled  and  paid  by 

MARY  MAGDALENE  HUGHES,  Administratrix. 
— The  Pennsylvania  Gazette,  June  23,  1779. 


TRENTON,   June   23. 

On  the  ninth  inst.  a  party  of  Tories,  from  New- York, 
landed  in  Monmouth,  and  marched  with  upwards  of  fifty 
men  to  Trenton1  Falls  undiscovered,  where  they  surprized 
and  carried  off  col.  Hendrickson,  lieut  col.  Wikoff,  capts 
Shadwick  and  McKnight,  with  several  privates  of  the 
militia — and  drove  off  a  few  sheep  and  horned  cattle. 
About  thirty  of  our  militia,  hastily  collected,  made  some 
resistance,  but  were  obliged  to  retire  with  the  loss  of  two 
killed  and  ten  wounded.  The  enemy's  lose  is  unknown. 

It  is  with  pleasure  we  can  remark,  that,  through  the 
bountiful  goodness  of  Providence,  the  crops  both  of  the 
winter  and  summer  grain,  are  remarkably  promising  in 
this  quarter. 
— The  Pennsylvania  Evening  Post,  June  26,  1779. 

NEW  YOKK. — Arrived  here,  a  brig  from  St.  John's 
River,  in  eleven  days. 

1  Tinton  Falls,  Monmouth.  County. 


476        f  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

The  above  mentioned  brig  was  taken  orff  Egg-Harbour, 
last  Monday,  but  on  Thursday  was  retaken  by  his  Ma- 
jesty's sloop  Haerlem,  and  sent  in  here. 
—The  Royal  Gazette,  No.  286,  June  26,  1779. 

Saturday  last  the  Hono>urable  the  Legislature  of  this 
State  adjourned  until  Wednesday  the  15th  of  September 
next,  during  their  sitting  they  passed  29  acts,  among 
which  were  the  following. 

An  act  to  prevent  idle  and  disorderly  persons  mispending  their  time 
in  publick  houses,  and  for  the  suppression  of  other  immoralities. 

An  act  for  calling  out  of  circulation  and  for  sinking  all  bills  of 
credit  heretofore  emitted  in  this  State  whilst  the  same  was  a  Colony. 

An  act  to  amend  an  act,  entitled,  an  act  subjecting  real  estates  in 
the  province  of  New-Jersey  to  the  payment  of  debts,  and  directing 
the  Sheriff  in  his  proceedings  thereon. 

An  act  to  raise  the  sum  of  one  million  of  pounds  in  the  State  of 
New-Jersey. 

An  act  more  effectually  to  apprehend  and  bring  to  justice  persons 
charged  with  certain  atrocious  offences  against  the  peace  of  the  State. 

An  act  to  prevent  persons  from  passing  through  this  State  without 
proper  passports. 

An  act  for  the  relief  and  support  of  maimed  and  disabled  officers, 
soldiers,  soldiers  and  seamen,  and  of  the  widows  and  children  of 
such  as  fall  in  the  battle,  or  otherwise  lose  their  lives  in  the  military 
or  naval  service. 

—The  New-York  Journal.,  and  the   General  Advertiser, 
Numb.  1831,  June  28,  1779. 


TKENTON,  JUNE  23. 

By  a  Gentleman  who  made  his  escape  from  "New  York 
on  Friday  last,  we  learn  that  Sir  Harry  Clinton  returned 
there  on  Saturday  se'nnight  with  his  suite  and  baggage, 
from  his  tour  up  the  North-river — That  Gapt,  Armstrong, 
with  several  other  officers  taken  in  fort  La  Fayette,  con- 
trary to  the  articles  of  capitulation,  were  stripped  of  their 
side-arms  on  their  arrival  at  New  York — That  -the  Dela- 
ware Frigate,  mounting  32  guns,  with  200  men,  com- 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  477 

manded  by  Ca.pt.  Mason,  was  taken  and  sent  to  an  eastern 
port,  by  the  Boston  Frigate' — That  the  Rose  man  of  war 
of  20  guns,  Capt.  Read,  with  160  men,  was  sunk  in  an  en- 
gagement with  one  of  the  frigates — That  an  armed  ship 
of  20  guns,  belonging  to  a  Mr.  Totton  in  New  York,  with 
several  other  armed  vessels,  have  been  lately  taken  by  the 
Queen  of  France  and  one  other  of  our  frigates  off  Sandy- 
Hook,  and  sent  to  the  eastward1 — That  a  short  time  after 
fort  La  Fayette  surrendered,  fifteen  waggon,  loads  of  the 
enemy's  wounded  were  brought  into  New  York  at  night 
— and  that  General  Clinton  has  sent  for  all  the  troops 
from  Halifax. 

We  hear  His  Excellency  General  Washington,  having 
made  the  necessary  disposition  of  the  Continental  Army 
for  covering  the  fort  at  West  Point,  has,  in  publick  orders, 
thanked  and  discharged  all  the  militia  who  had  turned 
out  to  his  assistance  in  order  to  check  the  further  progress 
of  the  enemy  up  the  North-River. 

*#*  Wanted  immediately  by  the  Printer  of  this  Paper, 
two  good  Journeymen:  as  well  as  an  Apprentice  Lad, 
about  14  years  of  age,  wJhb  can  read  and  write. 

The  subscribers  who  are  indebted  for  this  Gazette  for 
1778,  and  for  the  next  six  months  of  the  current  year 
(which  will  expire  the  30th  instant)  are  requested  to 
make  immediate  payment,,  agreeable  to  the  accounts  trans- 
mitted, errors  excepted.  The  cash  to  be  sent  by  the  re^ 
spective  posts,  or  other  safe  conveyances. 

ISAAC  COLLINS. 

Trenton,  June  23,  1779. 

A  Few  copies  of  Evan's  MAP  of  the  Middle  States,  with 
the  Analysis,  to  be  sold  at  the  Printing-Office  in  Trenton. 


478   t  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

GOOD  Encouragement  will  be  given  to  a  good  CURRIER 
by  Timothy  Ogden,  shoemaker  and  tanner  of  Elizabeth- 
Town. 

June  16. 

SETH  GREGORY, 

HATH  for  sale,  at  his  store  near  Bottle-hill,  three  miles 
from  Morristown,  a  good  waggon  with  four  good  horses 
well  harnessed:  Also,  a  few  dozen  of  mowing  scythes, 
best  liver  oil,  good  dressed  flax,  and  good  Madeira  wine. 


Two  Hundred  Dollars  Eeward. 

WAS  dropt  this  day  between  the  upper  ferry  at  Trenton 
and.  Bristol,  a  plain  GOLD  WATCH,  with  a  pinchbeck  chain 
and  a  triangle  christal  seal,  cyphered  W.  T.  a  bull's  head 
and  a  Cleopatra..  Any  person  who  has  found  the  said 
watch,  &c.  and  will  deliver  it  to  Mr.  Abraham  Hunt  at 
Trenton,  Mr.  McElroy  at  Bristol,  or  the  subscriber,  or 
the  subscriber  in  Philadelphia,  will  receive  the  above  re- 
ward. 

WM.    TURNBULL. 

June  15,  1779. 

ALL  Persons  that  have  contracted  Debts  with  EDWARD 
BROOKS,  jun.  in  Bordentown,  since  September  last,  are 
requested  to  make  immediate  payment.  The  highest  price 
will  be  given  for  all  kinds  of  good  furs.  He  hath  for  sale 
a  good  assortment  of  the  best  country  made  wool  hats,  like- 
wise scythes  and  sickles,  bohea  tea,,  coffee,  pepper,  lump, 
brimstone,  wool  cards,  Castile  soap,  corkscrews,  and  a 
quantity  of  fuller's  tenterhooks. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  479 

To  be  sold  for  cash,  or  exchanged  for  any  kind  of 
country  produce,  at  Mount>Hope  Furnace,  near  Morris- 
town,  scythes  made  of  the  best  German  steel,  potts,  kettles, 
griddles,  smoothing  irons,  mortars,  weights,  cart  and  wag- 
gon boxes. 

RAN-AWAY  a  NEGRO  MAN  named  CATO,  about  20  years 
of  age,  5  feet  9  inches  high,  straight,  well  built,  a  little 
lame  occasioned  by  a  cut  in  his  left  ancle;  he  took  away 
a  brown  cloth  coat,  scarlet  cuffs  and  collar,  with  livery 
lace,  scarlet  vest  do.  lace,  good  linen  stockings  and 
breeches.  Whoever  secure®  said  fellow  in  any  gaol,  on 
delivery,  shall  receive  One  Hundred  Dollars  from 

WALTER  RUTHERFORD.  1 

Lebanon,  Hunterdon,  8th  June,  1779. 

ALE  persons  who  have  any  demands  against  the  estate 
of  John  Leferty,  Esq.  deceased,  are  desired  to  bring  their 
accounts  to  Bryan  Leferty,  one  of  the  subscribers,  at 
Pluck'emin,  by  the  first  day  of  August  next;  and  those 
who  are  indebted  to  said  estate  are  desired  to  make  pay- 
ment by  the  time  above  mentioned.  Whereas  theire  are 
many  bonds,  notes  &c,  put  in  the  hands  of  the  said  John 
Leferty  in  his  life-time,  and  now  in  the  possession  of  the 
said  Bryan  Leferty,  those  to  whom  they  belong  are  desired 
to  apply  for  them. 

BRYAN  LEFERTY  2    )  Adminis- 
STEPHEN  HUNT       )  trators. 

June  16. 

ALL  persons  indebted  to  the  estate  of  John  Ringo,  late 
of  Amwell,  deceased,  by  bond,  bill,  note  or  book  debt,  are 
desired  to  make  immediate  payment  to  the  subscriber; 

1  For   a   sketch,  of   Walter  Rutherfurd,   see  N.   JV  Archives,   2d   Series, 
2  :  455-6. 

2  For    a    sketch   of    the    Lafferty    or    Lefferty    family,    see    New    Jersey 
Archives,  20 :  285. 


480  «  NEW    JERSEY    1ST    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

and  those  who  have  any  demands  against  the  same,  are 
desired  to  bring  in  their  accounts  properly  attested. 

MARTHA  RINGO,  Administratrix. 

To  ALL  CONCERNED. 

THE  Board  of  Justices  and  Freeholders  of  the  county 
of  Burlington,  taking  into  their  serious  considerations  the 
alarming  state  of  affairs  in  respect  to  the  depreciation  of 
our  currency,  occasioned,  as  we  conceive,  by  the  high 
prices  of  provisions  and  other  necessaries  of  life,  both  the 
produce  of  this  and  other  countries,  are  of  opinion  that  a 
stop  ought  to  be  put  to  this  growing  evil  as  soon  as  may 
be;  for  which  purpose  we  do  recommend  it  to  the  In- 
habitants of  each  township  in  this  country  to  assemble  in 
a  General  Town  Meeting,  at  the  usual  place  of  holding 
their  annual  town  meetings  in  each  township  respectively, 
on  Saturday  the  26th  inst.  at  one  o'clock  in  the  afternoon, 
and  there  elect  three  or  more  judicious  persons  to  repre- 
sent said  township  in  a  general  committee  of  said  county; 
and  the  said  township  committee's  do  respectively  meet  at 
the  Court-house  in  Burlington  on  Tuesday,  the  20th  of 
July  next,  in  order  to  devise  means  for  regulating  and 
lowering  the  prices  of  provisions  and  other  necessaries  of 
life,  manufactures,  &c.  as  they  in  their  discretion  may 
think  most  equitable. 

By  order  of  the  said  Board, 

JOHN  How,,  Clerk. 
Black  Horse         ) 
June  15,  1779.     j 

}v\  B.  It  is  hoped  every  other  county  in  the  State  will 
enter  into  measures  for  the  important  purpose  of  appre- 
ciating our  currency,  or,  what  is  the  same  thing,  lowering 
the  price  of  the  necessaries  of  life.1 


1  It  will  be  seen  elsewhere  in  this  volume  that  similar  action  was?i  taken 
by  several  counties,  but  of  course  their  action  was  perfectly  futile  in 
regulating  prices. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  481 

To  all  whom  it  may  concern. 

New  Jersey,  ss.  )  NOTICE  is  hereby  given,  that  a  Court 
j  of  Admiralty  will  be  held  at  the 
house  of  Gilbert  Barton,  in  Allentown,  on  Tuesday  the 
13th  day  of  July  next,  at  ten  o'clock  in  the  forenoon  of 
the  same  day,  then  and  there  to  try  the  truth  of  the  facts 
alledged  in  the  bill  of  John  Fuld,  (who  as  well,  &c.) 
against  the  sloop  or  vessel  called  the  Retrieve,  lately  com- 
manded by  Capt.  Robinson,  with  her  Tackle,  Apparel, 
Furniture  and  Cargo:  To  the  end  and  intent  that  the 
owner  or  owners  of  the  said  vessel,  or  any  person  or  per- 
sons concerned  therein,  may  appear  and  shew  cause,  if 
any  they  have,  why  the  said  vessel  and  cargo  should  not 
be  condemned  according  to  the  prayer  of  the  said  bill. 
By  order  of  the  Judge 

JOSEPH  BLOOMFIELD,  Register. 
Salem,  June  18,  1779. 

Pursuant  to  an  order  from  the  Assembly,  I  do  hereby 
notify  the  Freeholders  and  Inhabitants  of  the  county  of 
Somerset,  that  an  Election  will  be  held  at  the  Court-house 
of  said  County,  on  Wednesday  the  4th  day  of  August 
next,  in  order  to  elect  a  Member  to  represent  said  county 
in  Assembly,  in  the  room  of  William  C.  Houston.  The 
town  clerks  of  said  county  are  desired  to  make  returns 
of  the  names  of  the  persons  who  are  chosen,  for  the  Courts 
of  Appeals. 

PETER  DUMONT,  Sheriff. 

June  18,  1779. 

SIXTY  DOLLARS  Reward. 

MADE  his  escape  a  few  days  ago  from  the  Provost 
Guard  near  Raritan  bridge,  a  Negro  Man  named  CUFF, 
well  set,  speaks  very  slow  but  good  English,  about  40 

31 


482*  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

years  old,  very  blacky  he  was  confined  for  killing  his  mas- 
ter, Joseph  Moss,  of  Stoney  hill.  Whoever  secures  the 
said  Negro,  so  that  he  may  be  brought  to  justice,  shall 
have  the  above  reward,  and  all  reasonable  charges  paid  by 

PETER  DUMONT, 
June  18,  Sheriff  of  Somerset  county. 


FORTY  DOLLARS  Reward. 

STRAYED  or  stolen  on  Sunday  night  the  13th  inst.  -out 
of  the  pasture  of  the  subscriber,  a  brown  Mare,  some  part 
English,  with  a  white  spot  under  her  neck  about  as  large 
as  a  dollar,  her  main  cut  short,  the  under  part  of  her 
foretop  cut  close,  about  1-i  hands  and  an  half  high,  shod 
before,  trots  and  canters,  and  is  four  years  old  this  grass. 
Whoever  takes  up  the  said  mare,  and  will  deliver  her  to 
the  subscriber  in  Barnard  town,  Somerset  county,  and 
the  thief,  shall  have  the  above  reward,  or  Twenty  Dollars 
for  either,  paid  by  me 

JOHN  CROSS. 

—The  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  II.,  No.  81,  Wednesday, 
June  23,  1779. 

STATE  OF  XEW  JERSEY 

An  ACT  to  prevent  persons  from  passing  through  this  state 
without  proper  passports. 

WHEREAS  the  liberties  of  the  United  States  may  be  greatly 
endangered,  while  spies  and  other  disaffected  persons  are  suffered  to 
travel  at  large,  and  carry  intelligence  to  the  enemy  ;  for  preventing  of 
which  in  this  state, 

1.  Be  it  cnactfd  1)ij  ilic  Council  and  General  Assembly  of  this  State, 
and  it  is  hereby  Enacted  liy  the  Authority  of  the  same,  That  from 
and  after  the  publication  of  this  act.  no  person  or  persons  what- 
soever, residing  within  this  State,  except  the  Members  of  the  Legisla- 
Inrc  and  publick  officers  of  government,  shall  be  permitted  to  pass 
and  repass  through  any  part  of  this  state,  other  than  the  county  in 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  483 

which  he,  she  or  they  reside,  without  having  a  commission  under  this 
State,  or  the  United  States,  or  a  certificate  from  his  Excellency  the 
Governor  or  from  cne  of  the  Members  of  the  Legislative  Council  or 
General  Assembly  of  the  county  in  which  he,  she  or  they  reside,  or  from 
one  of  the  Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court,  or  one  of  the  Judges  of  the 
Court  of  Common  Pleas  or  Justices  of  the  Peace  of  such  county,  certi- 
fying that  the  bearer —  is  an  inhabitant  of  the  county  of 

and  a  person  of  good  repute,  and  generally  esteemed  a  friend  to  the 
present  government,  as  established  under  the  authority  of  the  people ; 
in  which  certificate  shall  be  inserted  the  name  and  rank  of  the  person, 
and  the  town  and  county  in  which  he  resides ;  which  commission  or 
certificate  shall  entitle  the  bearer  to  travel  in  any  part  of  this  State, 
except  near  the  enemy's  lines,  where  he  shall  not  be  permitted  to 
travel  without  some  apparent  business  consistent  with  his  rank  and 
station,  and  the  good  of  the  state. 

2.  And  lie  it  further  enacted  by  the  authority  aforesaid,    That  no 
person  or  persons  whatever,  not  residing  in,  or  being  an  inhabitant 
of  this  state,  shall  be  permitted  to  pass  and  repass  through  any  part 
of  this  state,   without   having   and   holding   a   commission   under   the 
United   States,  or  without  a  pass  from  the  Commander  in  Chief  or 
other  General  Officer  in  the  army  of  the  United  States,  or  from  the 
Governor  or  Commander  in  Chief,  or  one  of  the  Delegates  in  Con- 
gress for  the  state  in  which  such  traveller  usually  resides,  or   from 
one  of  the  Legislative  or  Executive  Council  of  such  state,  or  being 
a   non-commissioned    officer    or    soldier    without    a    pass   or    furlough 
from  some  one  of  the  officers  of  the  regiment  to  which  he  or  they 
may  belong ;    which  commission  or  pass  shall  entitle  the  bearer  to  pass 
into  or  through  this  state,  while  behaving  and  conducting  as  becometh 
such  traveller. 

Provided  always,  That  nothing  herein  contained  shall  be  taken  or 
construed  to  extend  to  the  hindering  any  person  living  in  adjoining 
counties  of  the  neighboring  States,  not  immediately  in  the  possession 
of  the  enemy,  from  passing  into  the  next  adjoining  county  in  this 
State,  having  a  pass  from  some  one  Justice  of  the  Peace  in  the 
county  to  which  he  or  she  may  belong,  provided  such  person  do  not 
attempt  to  pass  out  of  such  county  without  obtaining  a  permission  or 
passport  agreeably  to  the  directions  of  this  act. 

3.  And  in  order  to  carry  this  act  into  effect,  it  is  further  enacted, 
that  it  shall  and  may  be  lawful  for  any  officer  of  this  State,  civil  or 
military,    in    the    presence    of   two   or   more   witnesses,    in   a    publick 
manner  to  examine  all  travellers  whatsoever,  and  for  all  innholders 
publickly  to  examine  all  such  as  may  put  up  at  their  houses,  and  for 
all  ferrymen  and  drivers  of  publick  stages  to  examine  all  passengers 
who  may  offer  or  desire  a  passage,  and  to  detain  and  carry  before 
some  Justice  of  the  Peace  of  the  county  all  such  person  or  persons 
who,  upon  such  examination,  shall  not  produce  a  commission,  certifi- 
cate or  pass,   authorizing  them   to   pass   as   aforesaid ;     and   without 
which,  by   this  act  they  are  herein  before  denied  permission  to  pass 


NEW    JEESEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

and  repass  through  any  part  of  this  State.  And  each  and  every  person 
taken  up  and  carried  before  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  in  any  county 
of  this  State,  pursuant  to  the  directions  of  this  act,  who  are  denied 
permission  to  pass  as  aforesaid,  shall  by  such  Justice  be  either  com- 
mitted to  gaol  by  a  mittimus,  there  to  remain  till  duly  discharged, 
or  be  obliged  to  return  the  directest  way  to  his  place  of  residence,  as- 
the  said  Justice  upon  examination  of  the  person  apprehended,  and 
hearing  the  evidence  produced,  shall  in  his  discretion  judge  most 
proper.  And  the  said  Justice  of  the  Peace  who  shall  cause  any  person 
to  be  committed  to  gaol  as  aforesaid,  or  any  two  Justices  of  the  Peace 
of  the  same  county,  shall  be  and  hereby  are  authorized  and  empowered 
to  discharge  from  gaol  any  such  person  so  apprehended  and  com- 
mitted, who  shall  prove  to  the  satisfaction  of  such  Justice  or  Justices 
that  he  ought  to  be  discharged  upon  his  paying  the  costs  accrued  on 
taking  up  and  committing  such  person,  as  the  same  shall  be  taxed  by 
the  Justice  or  Justices:  And  all  persons  apprehended  and  com- 
mitted as  aforesaid,  who  shall  not  appear  to  be  spies  from  the  enemy, 
or  otherwise  guilty  of  any  capital  offence,  but  shall  otherwise  be  of 
doubtful  or  suspicious  characters,  shall  be  discharged  from  confine- 
ment, upon  paying  the  cost  as  aforesaid,  and  also  the  expense  of  a 
sufficient  guard  to  conduct  and  remove  such  person  or  persons  out 
of  this  State,  the  directest  or  securest  way  toward  his  place  of  resi- 
dence ;  which  guard  the  said  Justice  or  Justices  are  required  to  pro- 
cure, upon  receiving  a  sum  sufficient  to  hire  and  support  the  same  and 
to  give  a  pass  for  that  purpose. 

4.  And  l>c  it  enacted  &//  the  authority  aforesaid,  That  every  boat- 
man or  ferryman  who  shall  bring  into  this  state,  or  over  any  ferry 
within  the  same  any  person  without  a  passport  as  aforesaid,  and 
every  publick  innkeeper  or  other  householder  who  shall  entertain  any 
person  not  having  such  passport,  and  all  stage  drivers  who  shall 
grant  a  passage  to  any  such  person,  every  such  ferryman,  publick 
innkeeper,  householder  and  stage  driver  so  offending,  contrary  to  the 
true  intent  and  meaning  of  this  act.  shall,  for  every  such  offence, 
forfeit  and  pay  the  sum  of  twenty  pounds  ;  to  be  recovered  in  any 
court  of  record  where  the  same  may  be  cognizable,  with  costs  of 
suit,  to  be  applied  one  half  to  the  support  of  the  poor  of  the  town- 
ship where  the  offence  was  committed,  and  the  other  half  to  the 
prosecutor.  And  all  officers  civil  and  military  within  this  State  are 
hereby  strictly  ordered  and  enjoined  to  give  all  needful  aid  and 
assistance  for  carrying  this  act  into  execution. 

Passed  at  Trenton,  June  10,  1770. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  485 


TRENTON,  JUNE  30. 

Last  week  Benjamin  Van  Clove,1  Esq.  was  duly  elected 
a  Representative  in  General  Assembly  for  the  county  of 
Hunteirdon,  in  the  room  of  the  Hon.  John  Hart,  Esq.  de- 
ceased. 

1  Benjamin  Van  Cleve  resided  at  Maidenhead  (now  Lawrenceville),  near 
Princeton.  He  was  a  son  of  John  Van  Cleve,  who  took  up  his  residence  at 
Maidenhead,  where  he  died  in  1772,  aged  72  years,  and  is  buried  there  in 
the  old  cemetery.  Benjamin  Van  Cleve  was  elected  chosen  freeholder 
from  Maidenhead  in  1775,  and  a  member  of  the  township  committee  1774- 
76  and  1802.  He  was  commissioned  First  Lieutenant,  First  Regiment, 
Hunterdon  county  militia,  at  the  beginning  of  the  Revolution  ;  Captain  of 
the  same  ;  Captain,  Colonel  Johnson's  battalion,  Heard's  brigade,  June  14, 
1776  ;  Second  Major,  First  Regiment,  Hunterdon,  March  15,  1777  ;  resigned 
November  13,  1777,  on  his  election  to  the  Assembly.  He  was  again 
•elected  to  that  body  in.  1779,  taking  his  seat  September  16,  as  the  suc- 
cessor of  John  Hart,  deceased.  He  was  elected  in  the  fall  of  1779  for  the 
full  term  of  one  year,  and  again  in  1780,  1781,  1783,  1784,  1785,  1786, 
1787,  1788,  1791,  1792,  1793,  1795,  1796,  1797,  1798,  1800,  1801,  1802. 
1803,  1804,  1805.-  He  was  elected  Speaker  of  the  Assembly  November  19, 
1784,  to  fill  a  vacancy,  and  was  again  chosen  in  1785,  1786  and  1788.  He 
was  appointed  a  justice  of  the  peace  for  Hunterdon  county  September  7, 
1776  ;  September  29.  1781  ;  November  7,  1786  ;  November  9,  1791  ;  Novem- 
ber 4,  1796,  and  January  28,  1797.  On  December  18,  1782,  he  was  ap- 
pointed one  of  the  judges  of  the  Hunterdon  county  court  of  common  pleas, 
which  probably  accounts  for  his  non-election  to  the  Assembly  in  that  year. 
When  "the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  township  of  Maidenhead"  was 
incorporated  in  1787,  Benjamin  Van  Cleve  was  one  of  the  trustees  named 
in  the  certificate  of  incorporation.  The  board  of  justices  and  freeholders 
of  the  county  chose  him  to  be  clerk  of  that  body  in  1791.  Benjamin  Van 
Cleve  m.  1st,  Mary,  dau.  of  Joseph  Wright :  she  d.  1784,  aged  38  yrs.  ;  he 
m.  2d,  September  20,  1786,  Anna,  dau.  of  the  Rev.  Caleb  Smith,  of  Orange, 
and  wid.  of  George  Green,  of  Maidenhead  ;  she  d.  1789,  aged  40  yrs.  Issue 
<by  his  first  wife)  : 

i.  John  Wright,  graduated  at  Princeton  College,  1786  ;  licensed  as  an 
attorney,  September  term,  1791  ;  as  a  counsellor,  November  term, 
1796 ;    m.    Elizabeth,    dau.    of    Isaac    Coates,    of    Philadelphia ;    d. 
1802.     Children  :     1.   Mary.  m.  Dr.  Garbett,  of  Georgia  ;  2.  Eliza 
beth  ;  3.  Cornelia,  m.  Daniel  Barnes,  of  New  York, 
ii.  Phebe,  m.  John  Stevens  ;  d.  s.  p. 
iii.  Cornelia,  m.  Thomas  Stevens, 
iv.  Elizabeth,  m.  Dr.  Israel  Clarke,  of  Clarkesville.     Children :     1.  Mary, 

m.  Dr.  Alexander  Hart,  of  Philadelphia  ;  2.  Elizabeth, 
v.  Joseph  W..  b.  1777:  m.  Charity  Pitney,  of  Morristown  (prob.  b. 
March  31,  1782  ;  dau.  of  James  Pitney  and  Elizabeth  Carmichael)  ; 
d.  1864,  aged  87  yrs.  Children:  1.  Mary,  m.  Stacy  Paxon,  of 
Trenton;  she  d.  May  26,  1847,  aged  49  yrs.;  2.  Phebe;  3.  Ben- 
jamin Franklin,  m.  Phebe,  dau.  of  Joshua  Anderson  and  Jemima 
Broadhurst.  both  of  Trenton  ;  4.  Elizabeth,  d.  young. 

Issue  by  his  second  wife,  Anna  (Smith)   Green: 
An.  A  €on,  d.  in  inf. 


486         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779 


EAGS. 


The  highest  price,  paid  in  either  cash  or  paper,  will  be 
given  all  the  year  round,  for  any  quantity  of  clean  linen 
or  cotton  rags,  by  the  printer  hereof. 


One  Hundred  Dollars  Reward. 

STRAYED  or  stolen  from  the  tail  of  the  subscriber's 
waggon,  at  Pennington,  on  Monday  night  last,  a  bay 
HORSE,  about  6  years  old,  about  fourteen  hands  high, 
paces,  trots  and  gallops,  but  most  natural  to  his  pace,  and 
has  no  particular  mark  except  that  of  a  saddle.  Whoever 
takes  up  said  horse,  so  that  the  owner  may  get  him  again, 
and  if  stolen,  the  thief  be  brought  to  justice,  shall  have  the 
above  reward,  or  fifty  Dollars  for  the  HORSE  only,  paid  by 
the  subscriber,  in  Ivingwood. 

JOHN  FIELDS. 

To  be  sold  at  public  vendue,  on  Thursday  the  8th  July 
next,  at  the  forks  of  Little  Egg-Harbour, 
THE  privateer  sloop  Jenny,  with  her  guns,  stores,  tackle, 
apparel  and  furniture,  per  inventory  there  to  be  seen — 
Alsoi    the    schooner    Maria    Ta    Page,    and    the    schooner 
— ,  a  Virginia  built  vessel,  about  90  tons  burthen, 
with  their  respective  tackle,  &c. — Also  the  cargoes  of  said 
schooners,  consisting  of  rum,  sugar,  salt,  coffee,  cocoa,  &c. 
Vendue  to  begin  at  10  o'clock,  and  continue  till  all  is  sold. 
By  order  of  the  Court  of  Admiralty, 

Jos.   POTTS,  Marshal. 

!N".  B.      No  credit  will  be  given,  therefore  those  who  ex- 
pect to  purchase  will  be  provided  with  cash. 
New-Jersey,  June  22,  1779. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  487 

Is  WANTED,  a  young  LAD  of  about  13  or  14  years  of  age, 
that  can  be  well  recommended  for  his  abilities  and  moral 
character,  to  serve  in  a  country  Merchant  shop  till  of  age. 
Apply  to  William  Verbryck,  Esq.  at  New-Shannick,  in 
Somerset  county,  State  of  New-Jersey. 

To  all  whom  it  may  concern: 

New  NOTICE  is  hereby  given  that  a  Court  of  Ad- 

Jersey,  SB.  miralty  will  be  held  at  the  house  of  Gilbert 
Barton,  in  Allen  town,  on  Tuesday  the  20th  day  of  July 
next  at  ten  o'clock  in  the  forenoon  of  the  same  day,  then 
and  there  to  try  the  truth  of  the  facts  alledged  in  the  bills 
of  Samuel  Ingersoll  (who  as  well  &c.)  against  the  sloop  or 
vessel  called  the  Jenny,  lately  commanded  by  Noble  C aid- 
well;  the  schooner  or  vessel  the  Maria  Ta  Page;  and  a 
schooner  or  vessel  Virginia  built.,  supposed  about  ninety 
tons  burthen,  drove  ashore  by  a  British  privateer  near 
Hog-Island,  and  part  of  her  cargo  taken  out  by  the  hands : 
T'o  the  end  and  intent  that  the  owner  or  owners  of  the  said 
vessel,  or  any  person  or  persons  concerned  therein,  may 
appear  and  shew  cause,  if  any  they  have,  why  the  said 
vessels  and  cargos  should  not  be  condemned  according  to 
the  prayer  of  the  said  bills, 

By  order  of  the  Judge, 

JOSEPH  BLOOM  FIELD,  Reg. 

Salem,  June  21,  1779. 

THE  Subscribers,  two  of  the  Commissioners  in  and  for 
the  county  of  Cumberland,  in  the  State  of  New  Jersey, 
having  compleated  the  sales  (in  part)  of  the  estates  of 
Richard  Cayford,  Daniel  Stretch,  Daniel  Bowen,  Jacob 
Hall,  Sylvanus  Tubman,  Hugh  Barber,  Francis  Pilgrim, 
James  Barrat,  jun,  Ambrose  Fitzgerald,  William  Wood- 
land, John  Phipps,  and  David  Watkins,  all  late. of  said 
county,  whose  estates  are  become  forfeited  to  and  vested 
in  the  state  of  New  Jersey  for-ever — These  are  therefore 
to  give  publick  notice  to  all  persons  having  any  lawful 


488  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

JP 

claims  or  demands  against  any  of  the  estates  above  men- 
tioned that  they  appear,  at  the  Court-house  in  Bridgetown 
in  said  county,  on  Monday  the  fifth  day  of  July  next, 
with  their  respective  accounts  duly  stated  in  writing,  and 
lay  the  same  before  two  of  the  Judges  of  the  Court  of 
Common  Pleas  for  said  county,  who  will  attend  for  the 
purpose  aforesaid  from  day  to  day  by  adjournment,  until 
the  twelfth  day  of  May  next,  after  which  time  no  accounts 
can  be  taken  in  against  any  of  the  above  said  estates  under 
any  pretence  whatever. 

Enos  Seeley          )  Commis- 
William  Kelsay   j  sioners. 
June  12, 

To  BE   SOLD, 

By  way  of  publick  vendue,  on  Tuesday,  the  28th  day  of 

September  next,  at  the  Court  house  in  Bridgetown,  at 

12  o'clock  said  day, 

A  VERY  valuable  plantation  of  seventy-five  acres  of  land, 
situate  in  the  township  of  Deerfield,  joining  Newcomb 
Thompson  on  the  East,  Preston  Hannah  and  John  Del- 
siver  on  the  South,  West  and  Xorth,  &c.  On  said  prem- 
ises is  a  good  new  two  story  house  well  furnished,  with 
a  cellar  under  the  same,  a  new  frame  kitchen  joining  the 
same,  a  well  of  good  water  ne:ar  the  door:  a  barn  and  other 
out  houses,  all  in  good  order;  apple  and  peach  orchards, 
&c.  late  the  property  of  Peter  Sowder  jun.  deceased. 

About  300  acres  of  exceeding  good  salt  marsh,  situate 
in  the  township  of  Fairfield,  joining  011  the  West  by  the 
Delaware  Bay,  by  Back  Xeck  Creek  on  the  North,,  and  on 
the  other  sides!  by  the  Society  Rights,  late  the  property  of 
Richard  Cayford,  all  seized  and  to  be  sold  as  forfeited 
to  the  State,  for  ready  money,  by 

ENOS  SEELEY,          )  Commis- 
WILLIAM  KET.SAY    J  sioners. 

June  12. 


1779] 


NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS. 


489 


To  BE  SOLD, 

At  the  PRINTING  OFFICE  in  Trenton,  the  following  BOOKS, 
STATIONERY,  MEDICINE,  &c. 


TESTAMENTS, 

Journals    of    Congress    the    first 

2  vols. 
A   law  library,   consisting  of  61 

vols. 

History   of   New  Jersey 
Vicar  of  Wakefield 
Allinson's    edition    of    the    body 

of  laws  of  New  Jersey, 
Clark's   Cordery, 
Schoolmasters   assistants, 
Oeconomy  of  human  life, 
New     England,     Manson's     and 

Woolman's  primers 
Kelly's   Christian   hymns. 
Daniel    Stanton's  journal 
Clarks    vade    mecum 
Negotiator's    magazine 
Clark's     Suetonius'     history     of 

the  XII  Caesars,  in  Latin  and 

English, 
The   voyage    and    adventures    of 

Mons.  Viaud. 

Watts's    divine    songs    for    chil- 
dren, 

The  mighty  destroyer  displayed 
Horn  books 
Writing  paper 
Blank   bonds 
Apprentices   indentures 


Dilworth's   spelling   books, 

Croxall's  Aesop's  fables 

Powers  of  attorney 

Quills,    dressed    and    undressed, 

Black    lead    pencils, 

Wafers  in  boxes  . 

Black  sealing  wax, 

Ivory  folders 

Pocket  books 

Ink   stands   of   different   sorts 

Ink   powder 

Lampblack 

Best  grey  hair  powder, 

Rhubarb  in  the  gross  or  powdered. 

Jesuits  bark,  ditto 

Brimstone, 

Senna. 

Gum  assafoetida 

Tartar    emetic 

Epsom's  salts 

Bateman's    drops 

British  oil 

Godfrey's  cordial 

Turlington's   balsam, 

Anderson's    and    Hoppers'    pills, 

Gum    myrrh, 

Camphor, 

Sweet  oil  in  flasks 

Corks,   &c  £c. 

Also  a   quantity  of  men's   shoes. 


THE  subscribers  who  are  indebted  for  this  Gazette  for 
1778,  and  for  the  first  six  months  of  the  current  year 
(which  will  expire  the  30th  inst.)  are  requested  to  make 
immediate  payment,  agreeable  to  the  accounts  transmitted, 
errors  excepted.  The  cash  to  be  sent  by  the  respective 
posts,  or  other  safe  conveyance. 

ISAAC  COLLINS. 
Trenton,  June  23,  1779. 

—The  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  II.,  No.  82,  Wednesday, 
June  30,  1779.       * 


490         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779 


CHATHAM,  June  22. 

On  Sunday  night  last,  it  was  discovered  that  the  negroes 

had  it  in  contemplation  to  rise  and  murder  the  inhabitants 

of  Elizabeth-Town.     Many  of  them  are  secured  in  gaol. 

— The  New  York  Packet,  and  the  American  Advertiser, 

No.  132,  July  1,  1779. 

Forks,  Egg-Harbour,  June  27. 
To  be  SOLD  by  Public  V endue, 

On  Monday  the  fifth  day  of  July,  at  Ten  o'clock  in  the 
forenoon,  at  the  house  of  Henry  Thorn. 
THE    SCHOONER    ADVENTURE, 
Burthen  about  seventy  tons,  with  part  of  her  CARGO, 
consisting  of  about  thirty  hogsheads  of  Molasses,   about 
400  It)  of  best  Cotton,  five  hogsheads  of  Sugar,  and  a  small 
quantity  of  Rum.      The  money  to  be  paid  on  the  spot,  as 
no  credit  can  possibly  be  given 

JOSEPH   BALL. 

Eorks,  Egg-Harbour,  June  25. 
SIXTY  DOLLARS  REWARD, 

RAN  AWAY  last  night,  from  on  board  the  prize  sloop 
Retrieve,  a  Negro  boy  named  PETER,  a  native  of  Vir- 
ginia, about  sixteen  years  of  age,  pretty  tall  and  slender; 
had  on  a  blue  coat,  oznabrig  shirt  and  trousers,  and  an 
old  hat.  Whoever  takes  up  and  secures  the  said  boy  in 
any  gaol  so  that  he  may  be  had  again,  or  delivers  him  at 
the  Forks  of  Little  Egg-Harbour,  shall  have  the  above 
reward  and  all  reasonable  charges. 

JOSEPH  BALL. 
— The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  July  1,  "1779. 


1779]  NEWSPAPEE    EXTRACTS.  491 


New- York,  July  3. 

On  Wednesday  night  a  party  of  rebels  landed  on  Staten 
Island,  and  carried  off  Col.  Cortelyou,  and  Mr.  William 
Smith,1   of  Woodbridge, 
— The  Royal  Gazette,  No.  288,  July  3,  1779. 

Last  Tuesday  Night  a  Detachment  from  his  Majesty's 
37th  Regiment,  with  a  Party  of  Col.  Barton's,  and  some 
Refugees,  went  over  from  Staten-Island  to>  a  Place  called 
Woodbridge  Raway,  where  they  surprised  a  Party  of 
Rebels  in  a  Tavern,,  killed  their  commanding  Officer  Cap- 
tain Skinner-  of  a  Troop  of  Light  Horse,  and  another 
Man[,]  and  took  the  following  Prisoners,  viz[:]  Capt. 
Samuel  Meeker,  Christopher  March,  Joseph  Stephens, 
Benjamin  Willis1,  David  Craig,  Stephen  Ball,  Lewis 
Marsh,  Jotham  Moore,  Jesse  Whitehead,  John  Tharp, 
Thomas  Bloomfield,  Jeremiah  Corey,  and  David  Hall. 
— The  New-York  Gazette:  and  the  Weekly  Mercury,  No. 
1446,  July  5,  1779. 

WAS  FOUND, 

On  the  20th  inst.  (June)  at  or  near  the  mouth  of 
Newtown  Creek,  between  Philadelphia  and  Gloucester, 
in  New- Jersey, 

A  Small  Beaver  Hat,  with  a  silver  lace,  and  some 
capital  letters  stamped  in  the  lining;  now  in  the  posses- 
sion of  the  subscriber,  living  near  the  same  place.  Any 
person  describing  the  letters  and  hat,  proving  property 
and  paying  charges,  may  have  it  again. 

JOB  HAINES. 
— The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  July  8,  1779. 

1  William  .Smith  was  a  prominent  Loyalist,  of  Woodbridge,  and  his 
property  was  confiscated  and  sold  by  the  State. 


492         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779 


One  Hundred  and  Fifty  Pounds  Reward 

Was  Stolen  on  the  night  of  the  twenty-sixth  of  June, 
from  the  subscriber,  living  near  Wise's  Mills  in  the  Dutch 
Valley,  in  Roxbury  township,  Morris  county,  New-Jersey  ? 
a  bright  bay  Horse,  about  fourteen  and  a  half  hands  high, 
blind  of  his  right  eye,  a  white  strip  down  his  forehead, 
newly  shod  before,  eight  years  old  this  spring,  a  natural 
trotter,  and  gallops  short.  Likewise  an  iron  grey  Mare, 
having  a  good  deal  of  white  in  her  forehead  and  running 
over  her  left  eye,  shod  all  round,  is  near  fifteen  hands 
high,  three  years  old,  is  half  blooded,  and  trots  naturally. 
Whoever  takes  up  and  secures  said  creatures  so  that  the 
owner  may  get  them  again,  shall  have  One  Hundred 
Pounds  reward,  and  for  the  creatures  and  thief  the  above 
reward,  paid  by 

JOHN  SHARP. 


Gloucester,  July  5. 
One  Hundred  Dollars  Reward. 

Made  his  escape  last  evening,  from  the  gaol  of  this 
county  of  Gloucester,  a  certain  DANIEL  GITHINS, 
who  was  committed  for  burglary ;  he  is  a  likely  well  made 
fellow,  about  five  feet  six  or  seven  inches  high,  and  about 
twenty-two  years  of  age;  had  on  an  old  hat,  a  light  col- 
oured homespun  jacket,  a  spotted  under  ditto,  old  shirt, 
striped  lincey  trowsers,  no  shoes  or  stockings.  As  he  has 
friends  living  in  said  county  it  is  likely  he  may  change 
his  cloaths.  Whoever  will  apprehend  said  Daniel  Githins 
and  secure  him  in  any  gaol  so  that  he  may  be  had  again, 
shall  receive  the  above  reward,  and  if  delivered  at  Glou- 
cester gaol,  all  reasonable  charges,  paid  by 

ISAAC  DUFFIELD,  Gaoler. 
—The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  July  10,  1779. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  493 

A  party  of  rebels  from  Jersey  early  yesterday  morning 
came  over  in  a  boat  to  Staten-Island,  surprised  two  of 
the  inhabitants  named  Doughty  and  one  named  Butler, 
but  before  the  light-horse  could  reach  them  they  were 
carried  off  prisoners. — The  Royal  Gazette,  No.  290,  July 
10,  1779. 

FOETY  DOLLAES  EEWAKD. 

Strayed  or  Stolen  from  the  pasture  of  Mr.  Lazarus 
Pines,  at  Timber  Creek,  on  Sunday  night  the  twenty- 
seventh  of  June  last,  a  brown  HOESE,  all  his  legs  white 
up  near  to  the  second  joint,  has  a  white  streak  down  his 
face,  a  little  saddle-marked,  his  right  shoulder  a  little 
worn  with  the  collar,  being  used  much  in  the  chair.  Who- 
ever takes  up  said  horse  and  will  send  him  to  Mr.  Lazarus 
Pines,  to  John  Sparks,  Esq;  at  Woodbury,  to  Major  Cains 
at  Gloucester,  to  Mrs.  Cozens  near  Mulacos  Hill,  or  to 
the  subscriber,  shall  receive  the  above  reward  if  stolen, 
and  if  strayed  TWENTY  DOLLAES. 

KEHEMIAH  GEEENMAK 


CHATHAM,  July  6. 

Last  Tuesday  night  about  40  regulars,  and  as  many 
refugees,  from  Staten-Island,  made  an  excursion  to  Eahway 
and  Woodbridge,  where  they  shot  Captain  Skinner,  of  the 
militia,  and  took  off  about  15  of  the  inhabitants,  among 
which  were  Capt.  Samuel  Meeker,  of  the  light  horse,  and 
Capt.  Christopher  Marsh,1  but  by  the  timely  exertions  of  a 
few  militia,  who  collected  immediately,  they  were  re- 

1  Capt.  Christopher  Marsh  belonged  to  the  Essex  Light  Horse,  although 
he  lived  on  the  Kinsey  farm,  between  Six  Roads  and  Milton,  near  Wood- 
bridge.  He  was  at  first  a  Lieutenant  in  Capt.  Blanchard's  troop  ;  on  June 
2, '4777,  was  commissioned  Captain.  He  died  1810,  aged  67  years. — Daily's 
Waodbridge,  266. 


494        ^  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION,  [1779 

strained  from  committing  any  further  mischief.  Several 
of  them  were  wounded,  one  of  whom  fell  into  our  hands, 
and  expired  the  same  day. 

We  hear  from  Brunswick,  that  last  Wednesday  night 
a  party  from  that  place  brought  off  of  Staten  Island,  Col. 
Cortelyou,  and  Mr.  William  Smith,  late  of  Smith's  Farms 
Woodbridge.  The  latter  was  a  prisoner  with  us  last 
summer  for  high  treason,  but  being  admitted  to  bail  de- 
serted to  the  enemy  again.1 

Philadelphia,  July  1. 
STOPPED, 

Supposed  to  be  stolen,  by  the  description  in  an  advertise- 
ment in  this  paper  of  the  sixth  instant, 

An  iron  grey  MARE,  with  the  same  marks  as  is  given 
by  John  Sharp,  of  Roxbury  township,  Morris  county, 
ISTew-Jersey.  This  is  therefore  to  give  the  owner  notice, 
that  if  he  applies  to  the  subscriber,  a  few  doors  from 
Moravian  Alley  in  Arch  street,  he  may  have  her  again. 

MICHAEL 


Nottingham,  Burlington  County, 
June  22,  1779. 

Whereas  my  wife  PATIENCE  hath  absconded  and  left 
my  bed,  and  conducted  herself  in  such  a  manner,  that  I 
do  hereby  forwarn  all  persons  from  trusting  her  on  my 
account,  as  I  will  pay  no  debts  of  her  contracting  after  the 
date  hereof 

COLEMAN   BOWMAK 
— The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  July  13,  1779. 

1  To  this  account,  as  reprinted  in  The  Pennsylvania  Journal,  July  14, 
1779.  is  added  :  "They  also  took  a  sloop  in  the  Narrows,  but  the  wind 
and  tide  being  against  them,  they  were  unable  to  bring  her  off.  They 
stripped  her  of  several  valuable  articles." 


1770  I  NEWSPAPEK    EXTRACTS.  495 


TO   THE   PUBLIC 

Whereas  an  Advertisement  lately  appeared  in  the  New- 
Jersey  Gazette,  signed  John  SparJces  and  Samuel  Kaighn, 
Commissioners  for  real  Estates  of  certain  fugitives  and 
offenders  in  the  County  of  Gloucester,  in  the  State  of  New- 
Jersey,  and  amongst  other  Estates  mentioned  to  be  Sold, 
at  sundry  times1  and  places,  in  said  Advertisement,  is  the 
under-mentioned,  "On  Wednesday,  the  21st  of  July,  at  the 
House  of  William  Eldridge,  Inn-keeper,  in  Greenwich 
Township,  one  undivided  moiety  or  equal  half  part  of  137 
Acres  of  Cedar,  Ash,  and  other  Swamp,  on  Repaupa  Creek, 
in  said  Township:  About  10  Acres  of  Cedar  Swamp,  at 
or  near  Baume's  Pond,  also  about  52  Acres  of  Marsh  or 
Meadow,  part  cleared  and  in  good  Order,  being  part  of  the 
Repaupa  Marsh  fronting  the  River  Delaware;  all  late  the 
Property  of  Jo/mi  Hinchmtm,  &c."  (As  the  said  Com- 
missioners are  pleased  in  said  Advertisement  to  stile  it.) 

These  are  therefore  to  give  Notice  to  all  whom  it  may 
concern,  that  the  said  John  Hinchman,,  had  no  legal  right 
or  property  whatsoever  in  the  above  mentioned  52  acres  of 
marsh  or  meadow,  fronting  on  Delaware  river;  and 
whereas  the  said  52  acres  is  part  of  a  survey  of  a  tract  of 
land  made  for  one  WttUam  Roy  don,  about  the  year  1688, 
and  is*  now  on  record  in  Sharp's  book  of  maps  and  draughts 
in  the  Surveyor  General's  office  at  Burlington,  in  the  state 
aforesaid,  containing  in  all  78  acres  or  thereabouts;  and 
whereas  a  Warrant  was  granted  by  the  Council  of  Pro- 
prietors of  the  Western  Division  of  New- Jersey,  aforesaid, 
on  or  about  the  4th  day  of  November  last,  to  the  heirs  and 
assigns  of  the  said  William  Roydon,  for  re-surveying  the 
said  78  acres  of  marsh  and  meadow  aforesaid ;  and  whereas 
on  or  about  the  12th  day  of  December  last  past  a  re^survey 
was  made  by  the  power  and  authority  above  mentioned, 
and  a  legal  and  peaceable  possession  was  taken  of  the  said 


496  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

' 

premises  by  the  subscriber  on  the  said  12th  day  of  De- 
cember, and  a  family  put  into  possession  thereof  as  a 
tenant  to  the  heirs  and  assigns  of  the  said  William  Roy  don  ; 
and  whereas  on  the  10th  day  of  April  last,  the  said  Council 
of  Proprietors,  did  confirm  the  said  re-survey  to  be  legal, 
for  the  heirs  and  assigns  of  William  Roydon  aforesaid, 
and  is  recorded  in  the  Surveyor  General's  office  at  Bur- 
lington, in  book  2  folio  297  and  298,  which  will  at  large 
appear.  And  I  do  hereby  forewarn  all  persons  from  pur- 
chasing any  part  of  the  said  52  acres  of  marsh  and  meadow, 
or  any  other  part  so  advertised  by  the  said  Commissioners, 
as  the  property  of  John  II  inch  man.  aforesaid,  that  is  con- 
tained within  the  boundaries  of  the  said  survey  made  about 
1688,  and  the  re^survey  made  in  the  year  1778,  for  the 
heirs  and  assigns,  of  said  William  Roydon,  as  a  suit  at  law 
will  be  commenced  against  the  said  Commissioners  and 
against  all  other  persons  who  may  have,  or  shall  hereafter 
act,  by,  from  or  under  the  said  Commissioners,  contrary 
to  the  laws  of  the  state  aforesaid,  in  barring  the  legal  heir 
or  his  assigns  from  the  possession  of  the  said  78  acres  of 
marsh  and  meadow,  or  any  part  thereof,  as  aforesaid. 

GIVEX  under  my  hand,  at  Mount  Pleasant,  in  the 
County  of  Burlington,  and  State  aforesaid,  the  second  day 
of  July,  1779. 

JOLIX    LEE 

Agent  for  the  Heirs  and  Assigns  of  WILLIAM 
ROYDOX.1 

The  said  Agent,  or  his  Attorney,  will  appear  at  the  day 
and  place  of  sale,  and  shew  their  claims. 

NOTICE  is  hereby  given  to  the  Proprietors  of  the 
Western  Division  of  New  Jersey,  aforesaid,  that  they  are 
requested  to  meet  at  the  house  of  James  Esdall,  tavern- 
keeper  in  Burlington  aforesaid,  on  Tuesday,  the  3d  day 

1  William    Roydon    was    an    extensive    landowner    in    West    Jersey.      See 
New  Jersey  Archives.   21  :  passim. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTEACTS.  497 

of  August  next,  at  ten  o'clock  in  morning,  to  deliberate  on 
matters  of  the  utmost  importance  to  the  Proprietors  in 
general,  within  the  said  Western  Division,  therefore  it  is 
requested  none  will  fail  in  making  their  appearance  011 
the  day  and  time  aforesaid. 

JOHN  LEE 
Agent,  and  a  considerable  Proprietor  in  the  said  Western 

Division*. 
— The  Pennsylvania  Gazette,  July  14,  1779. 


To  be  SOLD  by  Public  V endue 

i 

At  Capt.   Kendal  Cole's  in  Gloucester  County,  three 

miles  above  Haddonfield,  on  Monday  the  26th  instant, 
at  Twelve  o'clock, 

A  Drove  of  Cattle,  consisting  of  oxen,  steers,  bulls,  dry 
cows,  cows  and  calves,  and  some  young  cattle,  with  several 
horses. 

To  be  SOLD  by  Public  V endue, 

On  Tuesday  the  tenth  of  August,  at  Nine  o'clock  in 
the  morning,  at  the  dwelling  house  of  the  subscribers,  in 
the  township  of  Morris  River,  Cumberland  county, 

Forty  head  of  Cattle,  among  which  are  oxen,  cows  and 
calves,  steers  and  heifers ;  also  two  horses,  some  sheep, 
and  sundry  household  goods  and  farming  utensils. 

As  the  subscribers  intend  to  move  out  of  the  State,  the 
Public  may  depend  on  the  above  to  be  struck  off  to  the 
highest  bidder,  and  the  conditions  of  the  vendue  are  cash 
only. 

JACOB  and  PETER  PETERSON 

July  15. 

32 


498  ^EW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 


One  Hundred  Dollars  Reward. 

Strayed  or  Stolen  on  Saturday  night,  the  third  inst. 
(July)  out  of  the  pasture  of  William  Eldridge,  at  the 
death  of  the  Fox,  in  Gloucester  county,  state  of  New 
Jersey,  a  chunky  well  made  roan  HORSE,  belonging  to 
the  subscriber,  branded  G.  D.  about  fourteen  hands  high, 
shod  all  round,  half  of  his  mane  cut  off  the  near  side,  is 
about  nine  years  old,  and  a  natural  trotter;  supposed  to 
be  taken  over  the  Delaware,  and  perhaps  sold  to  some 
gentleman  in  the  D.  Q.  M.  G.  department,  as  he  is  an 
excellent  horse  for  carriage  or  draft.  The  above  reward 
will  be  given  for  horse  and  thief,  or  Fifty  Dollars  for  the 
horse,  and  reasonable  charges,  if  delivered  to  Capt.  Thomas 
Kaine  in  Wilmington,  Mr.  William  Carson  in  Philadel- 
phia, Mr.  William  Eldridge  above-mentioned,  or  the  sub- 
scriber at  Cohansey  Bridge. 

July  13.  DAVID  POTTER 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

Two  large  adjoining  tracts  of  unimproved  Land,  known 
by  the  name  of  Dimsclale's  Lands  ;  situate  at  Tulpahocken, 
near  Little  Egg-harbour  river ;  part  of  which  is  choice  oak 
land,  and  part  large  pine  for  the  saw-mills,  of  which  there 
are  several  very  handy.  A  saw-mill  may  be  built  on  the 
premises  at  a  very  small  expence  to  float  boards  from  the 
mill  tail  to  Egg-harbour,  without  the  expence  of  land 
carriage.  One  of  these  tracts  is  called  in  the  old  survey 
390  acres ;  the  other  471  acres,  but  are  supposed  to  con- 
tain a  very  considerable  overplus.  For  terms  apply  to 

RICHARD  S.  SMITH 
Spring-Hill,,  at  Moore's  Town., 

New-Jersey,  Jiily  13. 
—Tlie  Pennsylvania  Packet,  July  17,  1779. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  499 

Yesterday  morning  se'nnight  a  brig  from  the  West 
Indies  and  a  schooner,  were,  during  a  severe  thunder 
storm  overset  without  Sandy-Hook,  it  is  said  both  crews, 
one  negroe  excepted,  took  to  their  boats  and  were  saved, 
and  that  the  brig  has  been  towed  ashore  by  his  Majesty's 
ship  Galatea.— The  Royal  Gazette,  No.  292,  July  17,  1779. 


Just  published, 
A      S  E  K  M  O  1ST 

ON 

PEACTICAL    BELIGION. 

Inscribed  to  Christians  of  every  Denomination. 

By  the  EOT.  U  Z  A  L  O  G  D  B  N"  -1 

NUMBER  I. 

*  £  *  An  impression  of  one  thousand  copies  of  this 
DISCOURSE  will  be  GIVEN  GRATIS,  on  application  to 
the  printer  hereof,  or  to  the  author,  at  Newtown,  Sussex 
county. 

1  The  Rev.  Uzal  Ogden  was  b.  in  Newark  about  1744,  the  son  of  Uzal 
Ogden,  for  many  years  one  of  the  leading  merchants  of  that  town.  The 
son  was  distinguished  for  his  pious  zeal  at  an,  early  age,  and  even  while 
he  was  'Sitill  a  candidate  for  holy  orders,  published  a  little  work  entitled 
"The  Theological  Preceptor,  or  Youth's  Religious  Instructor,"  printed  by 
John  Holt,  New  York,  in  1772.  He  was  first  located  in  the  ministry  at 
Newton,  Sussex  county,  but  in  1788  was  established  as  rector  of  Trinity 
Church,  Newark.  In  1805  he  withdrew  from  the  Episcopal  church  and 
became  a  Presbyterian,  but  never  took  a  charge.  He  d.  in  Newark, 
Nov.  4,  1822.  He  filled  a  large  place  in  the  community  during  a  long 
life,  being  frequently  called  upon  for  public  addresses. 


500         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION. 


J  O  H-N"     THOMPSON, 

At  BOTTLE-HILL,  has  by  liim  at  present  for  sale,   the 
following  articles,  viz. 

WHITE  silk  gauze  aprons,  sprig'd;    gauze  handker- 
chiefs, black  mode,  spotted  and  plain  gauze,  white 
linen,   sewing  silks,   skeleton  wire,  pound  pins, 
knitting   needles,    white   wax    and   garnet   beads,    bonnet 
paper,  thimbles,  white  metal  buttons,  sleeve  buttons,  Dil- 
worth's  spelling  books,  pigtail  tobacco,  shot,  flints,  pipes,, 
good  snuff,  indigo. 


JAMES  THOMPSON, 

AT   CANOE  BROOK/ 

Has  for  sale  the  following  articles,  which  he  will  sell  as- 
cheap  as  the  times  will  admit  of,  viz. 

BLACK  peelong  mode  and  padusway,  black  and  white 
gauze  handkerchiefs,  plain  and  spotted  lawn,  fine 
white  linen,  bandanoe,  romall,  and  black  Barcelona 
handkerchiefs ;  check  and  stamped  linen  do.  fine  thread,, 
skeleton  wire,  sewing  silk,  ribbons,  fans,  pins  and  needles,, 
knitting  needles,  camblet,  catgut,  thread  stockings,  apron 
and  cap  tapes,  white  wax,  garnet,  and  black  beads ;  bonnet 
paper,  sleeve  buttons,  thimbles,  scissors,  crooked  fine  and 
coarse  combs,  white  metal  buttons,  Dilworth's  spelling 
books,  nutmegs,  snuff,  pigtail  and  paper  tobacco,  shot,, 
flints,  pipes,  brimstone,  hard  soap,  and  a  small  parcel  of 
earthen  ware,  such  as  dishes,  quart  and  pint  mugs,  cups, 
milk  pots,  tea  cups  and  saucers. — Also,  imported  coarse 
and  fine  salt. 


In  Livingston  township.  Essex  county. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.     ,  501 

FOSTER    H  GET  OX, 

Has  for  SALE  at  his  store  in  CHATHAM, 
the  following  Articles,  viz. 

WHEAT    and    rye   flour,    brown    sugar    of    the    best 
quality,    bohea  tea,    indigo,    snuff,   tobacco,    good 
bleach'd  three  and  a  half  linen,  plain  gauze,  spotted 
silk  ditto,  eambrick,  lawn,  ribbons,  brown  camlets,  shore 
salt,  an  assortment  of  combs,  silk  twist,  mohair  and  but- 
tons, beads,  black  silk  handkerchiefs,   pocket   ditto,   fine 
sewing  thread,  hearth  brushes,  gimps,  writing  paper,  razors, 
sleeve  buttons,  pins,  and  sewing  silk. — Also  a  horse  fit  for 
the  chair  or  saddle,     Cash  or  butter  will  be  taken  in  pay- 
ment for  the  above  goods. 


CHATHAM,  JULY  20. 

VAUX-HALL,  JULY  15,  1779. 

THE  Committee  for  the;  county  of  Essex  met,  present 
eleven  members,  and  proceeded  to  the  several  mat- 
ters committed  to  them  by  their  constituents  at  the 
time  of  their  election. 

And,  in  obedience  to  the  directions  of  the  third  resolu- 
tion, agreed  not  to'  allow  more  than  £.  7  10  0  per  hundred 
weight  for  transportation  from  Philadelphia;  nor  more 
for  commissions  than  fifteen  per  cent,  for  rum,  sugar, 
molasses,  and  salt ;  and  for  other  articles  not  more  than  ten 
per  cent,  according  to  which  the  following  table  is  formed 
as  nearly  as  could  be  without  fractions,  and  which  is  to 
restrict  the  sales  for  this  county  of  the  several  articles 
mentioned  till  a  new  regulation  is  published,  viz. 


502 


NEW  JEESEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION. 


[1779 


RETAIL. 

£.  0  18 

0 

per   It).             £.  0 

19 

0 

2     2 

9 

2 

5 

3 

4  10 

0 

4 

17 

6 

6     2 

6 

From  £.  7  10  to  8 

2 

6 

19  17 

6 

21 

15 

0 

7  15 

9 

8 

5 

0 

5  15 

6 

6 

2 

6 

5     4 

0 

5 

10 

0 

to   ' 

ed 

• 

From   18s   9   to  1 

3 

9 

2    ' 

From   52s   6   to  3 

0 

0 

0 

4 

6 

3     2 

0 

3 

7 

6 

2     5 

0 

2 

10 

0 

2     2 

6 

2 

7 

6 

From    50s    to       3 

5 

0 

to    1 

\ 

17 

5 

0 

13 

10 

0 

WHOLESALE. 

Coffee  not  to  exceed 

Chocolate  per  It). 

Bohea  tea  ditto 

Common  green  do. 

Best  hyson  ditto 

West-India  rum  per  gallon 

Country  ditto 

French   ditto 

Muscovado    sugar   from   f.   88 

f.     116     15     0     per     hundr 

weight 
Loaf  ditto  from  £.  2  8  9  to  £. 

16  3  per  It). 
Rice 

French  indigo  ditto 
Carolina  ditto 
Black  pepper  ditto 
Cotton  from  45s.  to  60s.  do. 
Best    Turks-Island     salt     not 

exceed   by   the  bushel 
Best  French  ditto 


Agreeable  to  the  instruction  of  the  county  in  the  fourth 
resolve,  to  determine  the  current  price1  of  labour,  produce, 
and  manufactories,  the  committee  judge  that  not  more  than 
fifteen  for  one  from  the  price  of  1774,  ought  to  be 
demanded  or  given,  which  it  is  expected  will  very  soon  be 
reduced. 

Whereas  sundry  goods  have  been  of  late  transported 
through  this  country  from  Philadelphia,  which  were 
brought  out  of  that  city,  without  the  knowledge,  and  con- 
trary to  the  resolutions  of  the  committee  there ; — this  com- 
mittee think  it  their  duty  to  call  upon  the  good  people  of 
this  county  to  be  vigilant,  that  no  person  pass  with  goods 
without  such  passes  as  are  directed  by  the  late  law  of  this 
state, 

The  committee  adjourned  to  meet  at  this  place  on 
Wednesday  the  29th  instant,  at  2  o'clock. 

JAMES  CALDWELL,  Chair-man. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  503 

To  the  FREEMEN  of  JERSEY  STATE. 
FELLOW-CITIZENS,, 

AT  a  late  meeting  of  the  county  of  Essex,  to  fix  upon 
measures  for  establishing  the  credit  of  our  currency, 
and  lowering  prices,  it  was  unanimously  judged 
that  this  most  important  business  could  be*  best  effected  by 
the  legislature;  but  as  that  stood  adjourned  till  September, 
a  period  too  remote,  the  Speaker  was  instructed,  on  the 
part  of  this  county,  to  call  the  assembly  at  an  earlier  day, 
provided  the  majority  of  the  counties  joined  in  this  request. 
To  procure  this,  the  meeting  directed  their  committee  to 
solicit  the  other  counties  to  unite  with  them. 

The  committee  do'  therefore  take  this  method  of  solicit- 
ing the  several  counties  of  this  state  to  assemble,  as  soon 
as  possible,  and  if  this  object  is  viewed  by  them  in  the  same 
light  as  by  us,  we  hope  they  will  instruct  the  Speaker  to-  call 
the  assembly  with  all  convenient  expedition;  or  if  it  is 
thought  impracticable  to  call  the  House  sooner  than  their 
adjournment,  we  nevertheless  beseech  our  brethren  in  every 
county  to  assemble,  that  in  the  mean  time  they  may  do  as 
much  as  can  be  by  committees  for  restricting  prices ;  and 
also  that  they  may  give  instructions  to>  their  representatives 
to  take  up  this1  matter,  as  of  the  first  importance,  as  soon 
as  the  House  shall  meet,  and  both  to  do  what  belongs  to 
them,  and  solicit  Congress  to  apply  such  remedies  as  come 
most  naturally  within  their  sphere. 

We  will  not  presume  to  dictate,  neither  vainly  multiply 
words  upon  a  subject  so  obviously  interesting  to  us  all ;  but 
we  offer  our  service  to  co-operate  with  our  brethren  of  any 
one  or  more  counties  either  to  correspond  by  letters,  or  to 
meet  by  subcommittees,  when  and  where  requested. 

Deeply  impressed  with  the  importance  of  this  subject, 
and  relying  upon  the  zeal,  faithfulness,  and  activity  of  this 
state,  which  in  it's  efforts  and  sacrifices  for  liberty,  we 


r>0-J:  KEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

flatter  ourselves,  will  not  yield  to  any  page  in  history.  We 
are,  Gentlemen,  With  Sincere  esteem1  and  cordial  affection, 
in  behalf  of  the  county  of  Essex,  the  committee. 

Signed  by  order, 

JAMES  CALDWELL,  Chairman. 
,  July  15,  1779. 


On  Sunday  evening  the  llth  instant,  died  Mrs.  Esther 
Richards,  relict  of  Captain  Stephen  Bichards,  at  the  house 
near  Elizabeth  town.  She  was  a  native  of  Boston,  of 
reputable  family.  Her  good  natural  parts,  improved  by 
the  best  education,  and  refined  with  religion,  rendered  her 
very  dear  to  her  acquaintances.  Her  last  illness  was  short, 
and  the  prospect  of  approaching  death  welcome.  Having 
served  her  generation  upwards  of  seventy  years,  she 
quietly  fell  asleep.  Xot  having  any  near  relations,  she 
left  her  estate  principally  to  charitable  uses. 

On  Friday  night  last  about  fifty  negroes  and  refugees 
landed  at  Shrewsbury,  and  plundered  the  inhabitants  of 
near  eighty  head  of  horned  cattle,  about  20  horses,  and  a 
quantity  of  wearing  apparel  and  household  furniture. 
They  also  took  off  William  Brindley  and  Elihu  Cook,  two 
of  the  inhabitants. 

Extract  of  a  letter  from  Head-Quarters,  dated  July  16. 


SIR, 

"Stoney-Point  was  taken  last  night  by  surprise,  by 
General  Wayne,  with  the  light  infantry  of  the  line.  The 
garrison,  consisting  of  500  men  are  prisoners.  We  lost 
only  four  men.  General  Wayne  is  slightly  wounded." 

The  prisoners  are  on  their  march  this  way,  and  were 
expected  at  Boon-Town  last  night. 

Wo  have  the  pleasure  to  inform  the  public,  that  since 
the  resolutions  of  the  committee,  bohea  tea  has  been  sold  at 
Springfield  for  thirteen  dollars  a  pound. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  505 

ON  Friday,  July  the  2 3d,  at  10  o'clock,  will  begin  the 
verndue  of  the  household  furniture  of  the  late  Mrs. 
Richards:     Also  her  horse,  chair,  a  horse  cart,  a 
cow,  hogs,  one  half  of  a  field  of  corn,  &c.  and  to  continue 
by  adjournments  till  the  whole  is  sold. 

JAMES  CALDWELL,    ) 
ELISHA  BOUDINOT,  ( 


To  be  sold  at  public  VENDUE, 

At  the   house  of  the  subscriber  at  Elizabeth   town,    on 
Thursday  the  22d  instant,  at  1  o'clock  in  the  afternoon ; 

A   Few  pounds  of  bohea  tea,  sugar,  pepper,  indigo*,  alum, 
redwood,  logwood,  copperas  brimstone,  tobacco,  two 
riding  chairs  with  harness  complete',  one  sled,  three 
or  four  hogs,    a   quantity   of   earthen  [ware],    and   many 
other  things  not  mentioned.      Conditions  of  sale  will  be 
made  known  at  the  time  and  place  by 

ROBERT  HUNT. 


BEACH    AND    HEWS 

Have  for  SALE  in  Newark,  for  cash  or  country  produce, 
the  following  articles,  viz. 

BLACK  cloth,  mohair  of  different  colours,  mohair  and 
basket  buttons,  regimental  ditto,  sewing  silk,  fine 
thread  by  the  pound  or  less,  ribbands,  pins  by  the 
packet  or  paper,  apron  and  cap  tape,  chintz  and  callicoes, 
white  figured  mode,  stripe  and  figured  gauze  by  the  piece 
or  yard,  plain  ditto,  white  gauze  handkerchiefs,  black  ditto, 
long  lawns,  skeleton  wire,  blue  stamp  linen  handkerchiefs 
by  the  dozen  or  single,  cotton  romals,  sewing  needles,  horn 
combs  by  the  dozen  or  less,  smiths  and  carpenters  files, 


506  NEW    JEKSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

sleeve  buttons,  womens  black  gloves,  writing  paper,  Dil- 
worth's  spelling  books.,  *N"ew-England  primers,  thimbles  by 
the  dozen,  silver  broaches,  platteen  and  plated  shoe  buckles 
by  the  dozen,  white  metal  shoe,  knee,  and  stock  ditto1  by 
the  dozen,  double  flint  glass  tumblers,  bonnet  papers,  bohea 
tea,  sugar,  indigo',  snuff  by  the  bladder,  tobacco,  copperas, 
pepper,  brimstone,  ginger,  Philadelphia  made  earthen 
ware,  rock  and  shore  salt,  cyder  spirits  by  the  barrel  or 
gallon.  Also  sundry  articles  too  tedious  to  mention. 


CAME  to  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber,  at  Westneld, 
on  the  16th  instant,  a  bay  horse  about  13  1-2  hands 
high,  a  natural  pacer,  with  a  lock  on  his  foot— 
Whoever  owns  said  horse  is  desired  to  come,   prove  his 
property,  pay  charges,  and  take  him  away. 

JACOB  DAVIS. 


W  R  I  T  I  X  G  -  P  A  P  E  R, 
BY  THE  REAM  OR  QUIRE 

SPELLING-  BOOKS, 
BY  THE  DOZEX  OR  SINGLE, 

To  BE  SOLD  AT  THE  PEINTING'OFFICE  IN 

CHATHAM. 

IX    obedience    to    his    Excellency    the    Commander    in 
Chief's  orders  this  day  issued  me,  I  do  hereby  in  the 
most  explicit  and  possitive  terms  enjoin  and  require 
all  persons  whatsoever,  under  the  denomination  of  prison- 
ers of  war  (who  have  either  directly  violated  their  paroles, 
by  absenting  themselves  from  within  the  enemy's  lines, 
or  who  have  neglected  to  return  to  their  captivity,  agree- 
able to  the  tenor  of  their  paroles,  and  my  former  summons 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  507 

having  rendered  no  sufficient  reason  for  such  delay)  to 
repair  instantly  to  the  city  of  New- York,  and  there  deliver 
themselves  up  to  the  commissary  general  of  prisoners  for 
the  British  army. 

And  I  am  further  directed  to  inform  them  that  at  the 
expiration  of  forty  days  from  the  date  hereof  (in  case  of 
refusal)  the  most  effectual  measures  will  bei  taken  to 
enforce  a  compliance  therewith ;  and  if  they  are  not  to  be 
found,  their  names  and  places  of  abode  will  be  published 
in  all  the  news-papers,  as  men  who  are  insensible  of  the 
obligations  of  honour,  or  the  sufferings  of  their  associates 
in  captivity,  which  their  misconduct  tends  greatly  to 
increase. 

Given  at  my  office  at  the  head-quarters  of  the  army  this 
12th  day  of  July,  1779. 

JOHN    BEATTY,1 

Com.  Gen.  Prisoners. 

§:{:§  The  printers  in  the  different  states  are  requested  to 
give  the  above  an  early  publication. 


CHATHAM. 

A   Bay  yearling  mare  colt,  a  star,  and  the  off  hind  foot 
white;    followed  a  gentleman  on  Monday  evening 
last  from  the  neighborhood  of  Lyon's  Earms  to 
Springfield,  and  is  now  in  the  pasture  of  the  subscriber. 
The  owner  is  desired  to  come  and  take  care  of  her. 

JACOB  V.  ARTSDALEK2 
Springfield,  July  1,  1779. 

1  For  a  sketch  of  Col.   John  Beatty,  see  New  Jersey  Archives,  26  :  521. 

2  A  sketch  of  the  Rev.  Jacob  Van  Artsdalen  will  be  found  in  New  Jersey 
Archives,   24  :  638. 


508       9  STEW    JEESEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

Essex  County,          )          TI7  HEEEAS  inquisitions 
State    of    New-Jersey,   ]  VV         having  been  found, 

and  final  judgment 

entered  in  favour  of  the  State,  against  the  following 
fugitives  and  offenders,  viz.  Isaac  Mills,  John  Stites,  jun. 
George  Marshall,  James  Frazee,  jun.  Ichabod  Oliver, 
Thomas  Bradbury  Chandler,  John  Slone,  Robert  Gault, 
Joseph  Marsh,  John  Ackley,  Cornelius  Hetfield,  jun. 
Oliver  DeLancy,  John  Lee,  jun.  in  the  county  of  Essex; 
and  AYilliam  Dumayn,  in  the  county  of  Morris :  ISTotice  is 
hereby  given,  that  all  the  real  estate  that  lately  belonged 
to  the  above  fugitives,  within  the  bounds  of  Elizabeth- 
Town,  will  be  sold  at  public  vendue,  on  Monday  the  16th 
day  of  August  next,  at  the  house  of  Samuel  Smith,  inn- 
keeper, in  Elizabeth-Town  aforesaid,  or  on  the  premises; 
and  also  that  part  of  the  estate  late  the  property  of  Cavalier 
Jouet,  that  was  sold  to  a  certain  Nathaniel  Hubbel,  unless 
the  said  LIubbell  appears  and  pays  the  purchase^money  for 
the  same,  before  the  day  of  sale.  The  vendue  to  begin  at 
10  o'clock  of  said  day,  and  continue,  by  adjournments,  till 
the  whole  are  sold.  Particular  descriptions,  and  attend- 
ance, will  be  given  at  the  time  and  place  of  sale  by 

JOHJST  CLAwsoisr, ) 

DANIEL  MARSH,  }  Commissioners. 
Elizabeth  Town,  July  6th,  1779. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 
By  BUTLER  and  WILSOX, 

At  their  STOEE  in  ELIZABETH-TOWN, 

Near  the  stone  bridge,  the  house  formerly  occupied  by 
Mr.  Allen  Wilson,  the  following  articles,  viz. 

GOOD  West-India  rum  by  the  barrel  or  gallon,  best 
Muscovado  sugar  by  the  barrel  o-r  pound,  bohea  tea, 
coffee,  nutmegs,   a  Is  pice,   alum,   silk  gauze  aprons 
and  handkerchiefs,   flowered  gauze,   cainbrick,   Barcelona 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  509 

and  linen  handkerchiefs,  stripes  silk  and  linen,  hemp  and 
thread  stockings,  broad  and  narrow  tapes,  shoe  binding, 
women's  stuff  shoes,  sewing  silks,  white  and  coloured 
thread,  twist  and  mohair,  plug  and  pigtail  tobacco,  bonnet 
papeirs,  snuff,  scissors,  needles,  pins,  gilt  coat  buttons,  sleeve 
buttons,  mens  and  womens  crooked  hair  combs,  common 
combs,  spelling  books,  primers,  writing  paper,  red  and 
black  pocket  books,  mens  and  womens  whips,  plated  knee 
buckles,  womens  gloves,  cloth  brushes,  snuff  boxes,  quart 
and  pint  mugs  and  bowls,  butter  pots,  milk  pans,  &c, 


CAME    to    the    plantation    of    the    subscriber,    near 
Elizabeth-Town,  some  time  ago>,  a  likely  white  milch 
cow,  with  some  black  spots ; — she  has  had  many  ear 
marks.     The  owner  is  desired  to  prove  his  property,  pay 
charges,  and  take  her  away. 

MATTHIAS  ALLEK 


CAME  to  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber,  in  New- 
Providence,  on  Monday  the  5th  inst.  an  iron  gray 
horse,  about  15  hands  high,  in  good  order,  supposed 
to  be  about  ten  years  old,  trots  and  canters  well,  his  right 
hind  foot  white.     Whoever  owns  said  horse,  is  desired  to 
come,  pay  charges,  and  take  him  away. 

SAMUEL  POTTER. 


To    be    SOLD 
By    JOHN    COMPTON, 

At  the  SCOTCH  PLAINS, 

BEST    West-India    rum    at    twenty-five    dollars    per 
gallon,  ditto  Muscovado  Sugar  at  four  and  one^third 
per  Ib.   wool   cards   at  twenty-one  per  pair,   and 
Sundry  other  articles  of  merchandize. 


510  j^EW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 


TO  'BE:   SOLD, 

THREE  thousand  acres  of  land,  70  acres  are  fine 
meadow,  with  a  large  forge  that  has  four  fires 
and  two  hammers;  a  grist-mill  and  saw  mill, 
which  is  supplied  by  the  best  stream  in  the  Jersies,  situate 
at  the  head  of  Muskenikunck  river,  with  a  large  pond  of 
six  miles  long  and  two  wide,  where  all  the  coal  can  be 
transported  by  water  to  the  coal-house  door.  There  are 
many  good  buildings  on  the  same,  called  Brookland  works : 
It  is  situated  about  12  miles  from  Morris  Town,  and  now 
rents  for  eight  tons  and  a,  half  of  bar  iron. — Also  the 
grist-mill  at  Hacket's-Town,  which  has  two  pair  of  stones 
an  old  saw-mill  on  the  above  mentioned  stream,  and  a 
dwelling  house  now  in  the  possession  of  George  Allen, 
which  rents  for  600  bushels  of  wheat. — Likewise  1800 
acres  of  land,  a  neat  dwelling  house,  barn,  many  old  houses, 
an  old  forge,  and  a  very  good  grist  mill.  The  whole  are  to 
be  sold  by  the  subscriber,  living  at  Squire's  Point,  in 
Sussex  county,  who  will  agree  on  reasonable  terms. 

GARRET  RAPALJE, 


TWO  HUNDRED  DOLLARS  REWARD. 

STRAYED   away  across  Newark  Mountains,  on  the 
29th  June,  from  Hanover,  Morris  County,  a  light 
sorrel  MARE,  14  hands  high,  8  years  old,  in  good 
order,    round   bodied,    and   thick   set,    large  bellied,   trots 
square  ;   has  some  white  on  her  back,  worn  with  the  saddle^, 
and  an  old  brand  on  her  left  shoulder.     Whoever  takes  up 
the  said  mare,  so  that  the  subscriber  may  get  her  again, 
shall  have  FIFTY  DOLLARS  reward. 

Also  stole  from  the  subscriber  on  the  15th  of  April  last, 
a  bay  HORSE,  half  blooded,  about  15  hands  high,  four 
years  old,  a  natural  trotter,  canters  large;  has  streaks  of 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  511 

grey  hairs  on  his  shoulders,  as  though  it  had  been  marked 
with  an  English  collar.  Whoever  will  return  said  horse, 
shall  have  ONE  HUNDRED  and  FIFTY  DOLLARS 
reward. 

HEZEKIAH  BROADWELL 

N.  B.  Broke  into  my  pasture,  a  brown  two  year  old 
mare  colt ;  she  has  a  star  in  her  forehead,  and  is  a  natural 
trotter.  The  owner  is  desired  to  take  her  away  and  pay 
charges. 


WHEREAS  the  subscriber  sometime  ago  did  advertise 
in  this  paper  for  all  persons  who  were  possessed 
of  public  stores,  to  deliver  them  up  to  him  or  the 
nearest  Quarter-M aster  where  such  stores  are,  but  finding 
many  persons  backward  in  delivering  up  the  property 
belonging  to  the  public,  he  once  more  gives  this  public 
notice,  that  if  he  finds  any  public  stores  in  the  possession 
of  any  person  whatever,  who  is  not  entitled  to  them,  after 
the  10th  of  July  next,  he  will  prosecute  them  with  the 
utmost  rigor  of  the  law;  and  at  the  same  time  offers  a 
handsome  reward  to  any  one  that  will  discover  any  person 
concealing  or  having  in  their  possession  any  such  stores, 
viz.  Horses,  waggons,  tents,  harness,  iron,  steel,  or  any 
other  articles  the  property  of  the  states. 

JAMES  ABEEL,  A.  C.  E.  &c. 

For  the  army  of  the  United  States. 
Morris  Town,  June  28,  1779. 


THOSE    who    have    accompts    against    the    quarter 
master  general's  department  in  this  district,  which 
are  to  be  settled  by  me,  will  please  to  bring  them  as 
soon  as  convenient.     Having  quit  the  department,  it  will 
be  agreeable  to  finish  the  settlement  of  the  business  as 

O 

soon  as  possible.    I  will  attend  at  my  house  on  Fridays. 


512         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION. 


Those  to  whom  I  have  given  my  obligation  for  loan- 
office  certificates,  before  the  first  of  June,  will  oblige  me  by 
calling,  or  sending,  for  their  certificates. 

JAMES  CALDWELL. 
Springfield,  July  3d,  1779. 

—  The  New-Jersey  Journal,  Vol.  I.,  Numb.  'XXIII.  ,  July 
20,  1779. 

Mr.  RIVIXGTOX, 

Sir, 

1AM  informed  from  good  authority  that  the  Rebel 
Chiefs,  particularly  those  tyrannical,  persecuting 
and  infamous  Vandals  in  and  about  Elizabeth-town, 
have  it  in  contemplation  to  remove  a  number  of  peaceable 
people  from  their  habitations  in  that  place  ten  miles  into 
the  country,  in  consequence  of  their  having  relations  and 
friends  who  chose  to  reside  within  his  Majesty's  lines, 
rather  than  join  with,  and  assist  an  infernal  banditti  to 
compleat  the  destruction  of  the  finest  country  in  the 
world  ;  of  all  men,  the  inhabitants  of  that  rebelious  town 
ought  to  be  very  cautious  of  their  proceeding  in  this  new- 
fangled business,  and  seriously  consider  their  peculiar 
situation  and  what  will  be  the  consequence  to  them  when 
visited  by  their  injured  countrymen. 

A  REFUGEE. 
—The  Royal  Gazette,  No.  293,  July  21,  1779. 


OXE  HUXDRED  DOLLARS  REWARD. 

STRAYED  or  STOLEX  from  the  subscriber,  in 
Amwell  township,  Hunterdon  county,  West  Xew  Jersey, 
a  light  bay  LIORSE,  about  fifteen  hands  high,  country 
bred,  trots  and  canters,  has  a  star  in  his  forerhead,  a  small 
snip  on  his  nose,  a  small  white  place  on  one  of  his  hind  feet, 
a  mark  on  his  near  shoulder  which  came  by  a  bite,  a  big 
he'ad,  thick  mane  and  big  brush  tail.  He  is  supposed  to 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  513 

be  in  or  about  Philadelphia.  Whoever  takes  up  said  horse 
and  brings  him  to  the  subscriber,  shall  have  the  above 
reward  and  all  reasonable  charges  paid  by  • 

LOT  WRITTENHOUSE. 
July  8. 

State  of  New-Jersey,  ss. 

TO  ALL  whom  it  may  concern. 

NOTICE  is  hereby  given,  That  a  Court  of  Admiralty 
will  be  held  at  the  house  of  Gilbert  Barton,  tavernkeeper, 
in  Allen- Town,  in  the  said  State,  on  the  twelfth  day  of 
August  next,  at  Ten  o'clock  in  the  forenoon  of  the  same 
day,  then  and  there  to  try  the  truth  of  the  facts  alledged 
in  the  bill  of  George  Geddes  (who  as  well,  &c.)  against 
the  snow  Friendship,  her  tackle,  apparel,  furniture  and 
cargo :  To  the  end  and  intent  that  the  owner  or  owners, 
or  any  person  concerned  therein,  may  appear  and  shew 
cause,  if  any  they  have,  why  the  same  should  not  be 
condemned  according  to  the  prayer  of  the  said  bill. 
By  order  of  the  Judge, 

JOSEPH  BLOOMFIELD,  Reg. 

July  14. 
— The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  July  22,  1779. 


New-Jersey,  July  20. 
On  TUESDAY  the  27th  instant,  at  Chestnut-Neck, 

WILL  BE  SOLD, 

THE  PRIZE  SNOW  FRIENDSHIP. 

With  her  appurtenances. 

ALSO  her  CARGO,  consisting  of  6850  hogshead  staves, 
4080  feet  of  boards,  916  feet  of  oara,  13  sparrs,  45  Jbales  of 
deer  skins,  300  bushels  of  rough  rice,  61  tierces  of  molasses, 
6580  gallons;  7  hogsheads  of  tobacco,  7082  Ib.  wt.  10 

33 


514  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

hogsheads  ditto,  21  tons  of  fustick,  30  barrels  of  tar,  and 
•three  Negroes. 

By  order  of  the  Court  of  Admiralty, 

JOSEPH  POTTS,  Marshal. 
-The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  July  24,  1779. 

Early  yesterday  morning  a  party  of  the  4th  battalion 
New- Jersey  Volunteers  were  ordered  out  by  their  Lieut. 
Col.  Buskirk  under  Ca.pt.  Van  Allen  to  intercept  a  gang 
of  rebels,  who  paint  themselves  black  and  commit  murders 
and  thefts  in  Bergen  County.  Three  of  them  were  met  at 
a  small  distance  from  the  town  of  Bergen  carrying  off  an 
inhabitant,  but  being  briskly  pushed,  two  of  them  were 
made  prisoners,  one  named  David  Ritzema  Bogert,  the 
other  the  noted  John  Loshier,  who  was  concerned  in  the 
murder  of  honest  Capt.  John  Richards,  and  whose  repeated 
instances  of  villainy  had  rendered  him  among  the  rebels 
deserving  their  earliest  attention  for  exchange,  when  lately 
taken  by  a  party  of  the  same  battalion,  who'  have  a  second 
time  spared  his  life. 


PHILADELPHIA,  July  14. 

Extract  of  a,  tetter  from  the  Camp  at  Wyoming,  July  2. 

''Last  Friday  night  we  liad  a>  small  alarm,  our  out 
ceniries  perceiving  the  approach  of  two  scivages,  fir'd  on 
Hi  em,  t>ul  the  sarages  made  their  escape.  On  Saturday, 
between  fliix  and  East  on.,  a  family  was  routed,  three  women 
laJi'cn  prisoners.,  and  a  tad  of  1J+  years  of  age,  u'as  scalped 
and  lomahawl/d,  the  few  scattering  inhabitants  about  there 
are  nionng  in  great  distress  to  BrinJcer's  ^fills,  within  19 
miles  of  Kaxlon.  Yesterday  afternoo'ii  one  Michael  Rose- 
l)uru.  of  Sussex  county,  New-Jersey,  -wax  executed  here, 
he  w(tx  tried  at  East  on  and  condemned,  for  endeavouring 
to  eniice  sonic  of  Col.  Proctor's  regiment  to  desert  to  the 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  515 

enemy:  He  was  attended  by  three  Chaplains;  confessed 
nothing ,  and  died  an  ignorant  stupid  man.  A  certain 
Lawrence  Miller  of  the  same  place,  condemned  for  the 
same  crime,  wus  pardoned  under  the  gallows,  upon  account 
of  his  wife  and  numerous  family. 
—The  Royal  Gazette,  No.  294,  July  24,  1779. 


NEW- YORK,  JULY  26. 

A  Detachment  from  the  Garrison  of  Paulus  Hook,  of 
which  Major  Sutherland  is  Commandant,  on  Friday  Morn- 
ing last  took  Prisoners,  the  noted  John  Loshier  and  David 
Ritzema  Bogert.  A  third  of  this  Banditti  escaped  very 
narrowly,  by  throwing  away  his  Arms  and  swimming  the 
Haickensaek.  Loshier  is  safely  lodged. — The  New-York 
Gazette:  and  the  Weekly  Mercury,  No.  1449,  July  26, 
1779. 

TRENTON,    JULY  28. 

A  number  of  villains  (says  a  correspondent)  in  the 
vicinity  of  Persippeney,  Morris  county,  having  for  some 
days  before  been  suspected  of  being  concerned  in  a  con- 
spiricy  to  take  or  assassinate  Governor  Livingston,  as  soon 
as  he  should  return  from  the  General  Assembly ;  a  son  of 
the  Governor's  having  previously  induced  one  of  the  per- 
sons suspected  to  believe  that  His  Excellency  was  looked 
for  on  the  22  ult.  caused  a  report  to  be  propagated  towards 
the  evening  of  that  day,  that  he  was  actually  returned.  As 
the  young  Gentleman  suspected  that  the  conspiritors  would, 
in  consequence  of  the  report,  attack  the  house  that  night, 
he  had  concerted  proper  measures  for  their  reception. 
Accordingly,  at  about  two  o'clock  the  next  morning  the 
ruffians  were  discovered  within  50  yards  of  the  Governor's 
house;  but  being  fired  upon  by  one  of  our  patroles,  they 
instantly  took  into  the  woods  and  fled.  The  person  how- 


5 1C)  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1T791 

ever,  who  was  suspected  to  be  at  the  head  of  the  gang,  and 
who  had  for  some  time  past  taken  up  his  residence  in  that 
neighbourhood  to  facilitate  the  conspiricy,  disappeared  the 
next  morning,  was  pursued  and  taken.  He  is  committed  to 
gaol  in  Morris-town,  and  has  already  made  considerable 
discoveries.  It  is  supposed  that  some,  if  not  all"  of  those 
villains,  are  employed  by  a  much  greater  villain  than  any 
of  them,  even  the 'worshipful  David  Matthews,  Esq.  mili- 
tary Mayor  of  the  city  of  New- York  ;  concerning  whom  one 
James  Allen,  lately  apprehended  for  robbery,  declared 
upon  his  examination,  that  "he  was  present  when  the  said 
'Mayor  desired  Mason  to  endeavor  to  burn  Governor  Clin- 
ton's house  in  the  course  of  the  summer.  That  the  Mayor 
"gave  him  a  description  of  its  situation,  and  who  lived  in  it. 
'That  Mason  replied,  he  should  have  a  little  patience,  and  it 
'should  be  effected.  That  the  Mayor  told  Mason,  Ward, 
'Everet  and  Harding,  four  of  his  fellow-robbers,  (that  is, 
'either  Mr.  Allen  s  or  Mr.  Mayor's,  as  the  reader  pleases) 
'that  it  was  a.  pity  they  could  not  lay  some  plot  and  bring 
'that  rascal  Governor  Livingston.  They  replied,  that  they 
'had  planned  matters  so  in  that  quarter,  that  they  would 
'have  him  in  less  than  two  months;  and  that  they  had 
'proper  connections  in  that  quarter  for  that  purpose.' 


Extract  of  a  letter  from  Camp  at  Wyoming.  July  5. 

"This  day  an  express  arrived  from  Suiibury,  who 
informs,  that  on  Saturday  last  a  large  body  of  Indians 
made  their  appearance  at  a  place  called  Lacommon.  on  the 
west  branch  of  Susquehanna,  about  20  miles  above  the 
fork,  where  they  fell  in  with  12  men  making  hay,  nine  of 
whom  they  either  killed  or  made  prisoners  ;  the  other  three 
made  their  escape.  Whatever  distress  individuals  may 
suffer  from  the  hands  of  those  human  devils  in  the  mean 
time,  I  make  no  doubt  we  shall,  before  our  return,  relieve 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTEACTS.  517 

the  public  from  every  incoiiveniency  that  might  otherwise 
arise  from  them.  The  army  in  this  department  is  remark- 
ably healthy ;  we  have  no  disorders  that  are  peculiar  to  a 
camp,  and  a  very  few  of  any  kind.  General  Sullivan  gives 
universal  satisfaction  to  the  officers,  both  respecting  his 
military  movements  and  his  generous  politeness ;  so  that,  if 
unanimity  can  prosper  us,  we  cannot  fail." 


Extract  of  a  letter  from  Major  General  Greene  to  Col.  Cox, 
dated  Stoney  Point,  Kings-Ferry  July  17,  1779. 

"I  wrote  you  a  hasty  account  yesterday  morning  of  a 
surprize  Gen.  Wayne  had  effected  upon  the  garrison  of  this 
place.  He  marched  about  two  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  from 
foTt  Montgomery  with  part  of  the  light-infantry  of  the 
army,  amounting  to  about  1400  men.  The  garrison  con- 
sisted of  about  5  and  600  men,  including  officers.  The 
attack  was  made  about  midnight,  and  conducted  with  great 
spirit  and  enterprize,  the  troops  marching  up  in  the  face 
of  an  exceeding  heavy  fire  with  cannon  and  musketry, 
without  discharging  a  gun.  This  is  thought  to  be  the  per- 
fection of  discipline:  and  will  forever  immortalize  Gen. 
Wayne,  as  it  would  do  honour  to  the  first  General  jn 
Europe.  The1  place  is  as  difficult  of  access  as  any  you  ever 
saw — strongly  fortified  with  lines,  and  secured  with  a 
double  row  of  abatis.  The  post  actually  looks  more  for- 
midable on  the  ground  than  it  can  be  made  by  description ; 
and,  contrary  to  almost  all  other  events  of  this  nature, 
increases  our  surprize  by  viewing  the  place  and  the 
circumstances. 

"The  darkness  of  the  night  favoured  the  attack,  and 
made  our  loss  much  less  than  might  have  been  expected. 
The  whole  business  was  done  with  fixed  bayonets.  Our 
loss  in  killed  and  wounded  amounted  to  90  men,  including 
officers — eight  only  of  which  were  killed.  Gen.  Wayne  got 


51$  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [17791 

a  slight  wound  (upon  the  side  of  his  heacf)  and  three  or 
four  other  officers,  among  the  number  is  Lieut.  Col.  Hay,  of 
Pennsylvania ;  but  they  are  all  in  a  fair  way  of  recovery. 

"The  enemy's  loss  is  not  certainly  known,  neither  have 
we  any  certain  account  of  the  number  of  prisoners,  as  they 
were  sent  away  in  the  dark  and  in  a  hurry ;  but  it  is  said 
they  amount  to  -i-iO,  about  30  or  40  were  left  behind  unable 
to  march,  and  upwards  of  30  we're  buried. 

"The  enemy  made  little  resistance  after  our  people  got 
into  the  works ;  their  cry  was,  Mercy,  mercy,,  dear,  dear 
Americans! 

ktWe  found  in  the  garrison  15  pieces  of  ordnance  of 
different  kinds,  principally  brass.  There  is  also  a  prodig- 
ious quantity  of  ordnance  stores,  and  some  few  belonging 
to  the  Quartermaster's  department. 

"The  enemy  are  now  right  opposite  to  us  on  ^7er-Plank;ls 
Point.  They  are  much  more  strongly  fortified  on  that  side 
than  this,  having  seven  enclosed  redouts.  We  are  now 
cannonading  them  across  the  river,  which  is  little  more 
than  half  a  mile  over.  We  arc  throwing  at  the  rate  of  an 
hundred  shot  and  shells  an  hour.  Gen.  How1  is  on  the 
other  side  with  a  body  of  troops,  and  is  to  open  batteries, 
tonight." 


E.ch-act  of  a  letter  from  Xew  Barbadoes,  July  22,  1779. 

"On  Sunday  afternoon,  the  10th  inst.  a  party  of  refugees 
and  tories,  in  number  about  20,  .under  the  command  of  a 
Lieut.  Waller,  (as  it  is  said)  landed  at  Closter-Dock,  and 
advanced  to  the  neighbourhood  called  CToster,  from  which 
they  collected  and  drove  off  a  considerable  number  of  cattle 
and  horses,  in  order  to  carry  them  aboard  a  sloop,  which 
they  had  brought  up  for  that  purpose.  They  were  pursued 
by  Capt.  Harring  and  Thomas  Blanch,  esq.  at  the  head  of 


Gen.  Robert  How,  of  the  American  forces. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  519 

a  few  of  their  neighbours,  hastily  collected,  who  recovered 
all  the  cattle  except  two  and  a  calf,  and  all  the  horses  save 
one  and  an  old  mare,  which  they  ha,d  got  aboard  previous 
to  the  arrival  of  Capt.  Harring. 

"Capt.  Harring  took  two  prisoners,  seven  stand  of  arms 
and  three;  suits  of  clothes,  and  obliged  the  enemy  to  cut 
their  cable,  conceal  themselves  below  deck,  and  let  their 
vessel  drive  with  the  tide,  notwithstanding  above  20  vessels 
in  the  river  endeavored  to  protect  them  by  cannonading 
Capt.  Harring." 

Notwithstanding  the  various  accounts  of  the  enemy's 
defeat  before  Charlestown,  published  in  several  of  our  last 
papers,  proved  to  be  premature,  we  can  now  assure  the 
publick  from  the  best  authority,  that  our  affairs  in  that 
quarter  by  the  last  advices  were  in  a  favourable  train,  and 
from  whence  we  daily  expect  important  intelligence. 

It  is  confidently  reported  that  Lord  Cornwall  is  arrived 
at  New- York  a  few  days  ago*. 

A  Court  of  Oyer  and  Terminer  is  appointed  to  be  held  at 
Cranberry,  in  and  for  the  county  of  Middlesex,  on  Wednes- 
day the  18th  of  August  next. 

Died  on  Friday  last,  in  the  64th  year  of  his  age,  Wil- 
liam Cleaton,  Esq,  a  respectable  inhabitant  of  this  town, 
after  a  lingering  illness,  which  he  bore  with  much  Chris- 
tian fortitude  and  resignation.  His  remains  were  interred 
at  Crosswicks  on  Sunday  following. 

On  the  14th  instant  the  inhabitants  of  this  town  met  and 
chose  a  committee  of  nine  for  carrying  the  laws  of  the  State 
into  execution,  and  to  correspond  with  the  committee  of 
Philadelphia. 


520  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

"  M 


To  THE  INHABITANTS  OF  TRENTON. 

WHEN  we  consider  the  enormous  evils  attending  the 
rapid  depreciation  of  the  Continental  Currency, 
which  involves  us  in  a  grievous  load  of  debt, 
embarrasses  the  government  of  the  States,  and  prolongs  the 
horrors  of  this  cruel  and  bloody  War,  with  all  its  attendant 
calamities — we  cannot  refrain  recommending  in  the  most 
pressing  manner,  that  we  all  agree  to  ask,  demand,  or 
receive  no  greater  price  for  any  article  of  produce,  manu- 
facture, labour,  or  merchandize,  than  has  been  generally 
taken  and  received  on  or  before  the  fourteenth  day  of  this 
instant,  July,  if  possible,  to  prevent  the  further  depreci- 
ation of  the  currencv,  until  the  Legislature  of  the  United 
States  may  adopt  some  mode  of  appreciating  it  throughout 
the  whole  Continent.  We  would  further  request  the  butch- 
ers and  all  other  persons  would  forbear  engrossing  any 
meat  or  market  truck,  when  in  market,  or  coming  to  town, 
in  order  to  sell  the  same  again  at  an  advanced  price. 
Signed  by  order  of  the  Committee, 

Alexander  Chambers,1  Chairman. 
Trenton,  July  24,  1779. 

To  be  exchanged  for  continental  currency,  as  good 
13o^"j>s  as  any  in  America,  to  a  considerable  amount,  bear- 
ing an  interest  of  6  per  cent,  per  annum,  payable  at  distant 
periods.  For  terms  apply  to  the  Printer. 

Julv  22,  1779. 


Came  to  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber  in  Maidenhead, 
llnnterdon  county,  Xew  Jersey,  on  the  10th  July,  a  light 
grey  horse  about  15  hands  high,  low  in  flesh,  and  a  natural 

1  For  some  notices  of  the  Chambers  family,  of  Trenton,  see  New  Jersey 
Archives.  20  :  177. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  521 

trotter;  shod  before,  his  back  hurt  with  the  saddle,  and 
appeared  as  if  he  had  been  used  as  a  hackney.  The  owner 
Is  desired  to  come,  prove  his  property,  pay  charges  and  take 
him  away. 

JOB    PEARSON. 

TO  THE  PUBLICK. 

The  Publisher  of  the  New- Jersey  Gazette  not  having  re- 
ceived sufficient  encouragement  to  proceed  upon  the  plan 
offered  in  several  of  his  late  papers,  from  an  apprehension 
in  many  of  the  subscribers  that  the  conveying  to  him  the 
articles  of  produce  in  which  payment  is  thereby  proposed 
to  be  made,  would  be  attended  with  considerable  incon- 
venience;  and  not  having'  yet  received  much  more  than 
half  the  amount  of  the  subscriptions  for  the  year  1778, 
and  not  near  the  whole  for  the  last  six  months,  has  been 
under  the  disagreeable  necessity  of  suspending  the  publi- 
cation of  his  paper  for  three  weeks  past.  The  damage 
and  loss  which  necessarily  accrues  from  the  failing  of 
punctual  payments,  and  much  more  from  no  payment  at 
all  in  many  cases,  especially  at  a  time  when  the  currency 
has  been  depreciating,  added  to  the  advanced  prices  of 
living  and  of  every  requisite  in  the  printing  business,  need 
only  be  suggested  to  justify  the  conduct  and  intentions  of 
the  publisher,  and  to  convince  the  publick  of  the  propriety 
and  necessity  of  completing  the  settlement  of  arrears,  and 
of  making  different  terms. 

The  publisher  undertook  this  paper  at  the  pressing  in- 
stance of  many  Gentlemen  of  leading  character  in  the 
State,  and  has  hitherto  continued  it  even  to  the  manifest 
prejudice  of  his  own  fortune,  well  convinced  of  how  great 
utility  such  a  publication  might  be  to  the  interests  of  Re- 
ligion, Liberty  and  Science,  in  the  State,  if  properly  sup- 
ported and  conducted.  He  is  still  willing  to  be  sub- 
servient to  this  great  object  as  far  as  his  ability  will  admit 
if  consistent  with  the  means  of  living.  In  order  therefore 


522  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

to  meet  such  as  wish  to  encourage  the  publication  of  the 
New  Jersey  Gazette  o<rt  a  fair  equality,  and  to  obviate  all 
inconveniences  on  both  sides,  he  proposes, 

1.  That  the  payments  be  made  either  in  produce,  agree^ 
able  to  the  prices  offered  in  his  advertisement  in  several 
of  his  late  papers,  and  sinc^  in  hand-bills;    or  that  every 
subscriber,  who  would  choose  to  pay  in  cash  instead  of 
produce,  advance   Five  Dollars  at  the  beginning  of  each 
quarter,    to   be    returned   in   due   proportion   through    the 
hands  of  the  packetmasters,  should  the  publication  in  the 
course  of  the  quarter  be  discontinued,   and  the  price  be 
raised  or  lowered  from  five  dollars  at  the  commencement 
of  each  quarter,  according  to  the  general  tenor  of  the  prices 
for  the  necessaries  of  life:     This,  he  conceives,  will  be  a 
certain  means  of  doing  fair  and  equal  justice,  and  will  suit 
those  who  cither  live  at  a  distance  or  are'  not  in  the  farming 
way.     Thus  the  price  of  the  paper  will,  in  present  circum- 
stances, IK*  at  the  rate  of  Tircnti/  Dollar*  a  year,  and  every 
Gentleman  who  will  take  the  trouble  of  comparing  it  with 
the  prices  now  current,  will  find  it  moderate  and  reason- 
able. 

2.  That    the    subscriptions    continue    to    be    made    in 
packets;  that  two  papers  as  usual  lie  added  gratis  to  every 
packet  of  a  dozen  subscribed  for;  and  that  the  subscribers 
hire1  their  own  posts  where  they  are  necessary. 

The  publisher  flatters  himself  that  conditions  so  just  and 
equitable  will  give  an  adequate  circulation  to  his  paper, 
and  enable  him  to  gratify  his  customers  without  ma- 
terially injuring  himself;  and  in  this  presumption  he  has 
revived  the  publication  of  the  Xew-Jersev  Gazette. 

ISAAC    COLLINS. 

Trenton,  July  28,  1770. 

X.  B.  .Every  packetm aster  who  has  not  already  given  di- 
rections as  to  the  number  of  papers  he  would  have  con- 
tinued in  his  packet,  is  requested  to  inform  the  publisher 
as  early  as  possible,  and  to  continue  his  kind  offices  in 
taking  in  subscriptions,  &c.  agreeable  to  the  above  terms. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  523 


Wanted  immediately 

A  Sober  regular  person  to  go  to  Wyoming  to  issue  certain 
necessaries  to  the  Jersey  brigade.  His  business  will  be 
easy,  and  wages  generous.  None  need  apply  without  pro- 
ducing the  best  recommendation.  Enquire  of  the  Printer 
hereof,  or  the  subscriber  at  Princeton, 

EJSTOS   KELSEY. 


WAS  taken  up  at  Tom's  river  the  20th  July,  1779,  a 
Negro  MAN  who  calls  himself  John  Thomas,  but 
made  his  escape,  and  left  sundry  wearing  clothes, 
among  which   are   a   coat,   three   pair   of   breeches,    four 
jackets,  two  shirts,  and  some  less  articles;  a  pair  of  gold 
sleeve  buttons  and  79  dollars  paper  money.     Any  person 
who  has  lost  the  goods  or  any  part  thereof,  may  have  them 
again  on  proving  their  property  and  paying  charges  by 
applying  to  Abiel  Akin,  ,Esq.  at  Tom's  river,  Monmouth 
county,  State  of  New-Jersey. 


Hillsborough,  July  18,  1779. 

BROKE  out  of  Somerset  county  gaol  last  night  James 
Eirwine,  about  40  years  old,  sandy  hair,  a  very 
down  look,  pale  face  and  ugly  visage,  a  native  of 
Ireland,  about  5  feet,  9  inches  high,  he  was  confined  on 
suspicion  of  committing  murder.  Also  Henry  Caster,  a 
likely  young  man,  about  21  years  old,  said  he  had  served 
his  time  to  a  Doctor  in  Philadelphia,  about  5  feet  6  inches 
high,  brown  curled  hair ;  was  taken  up  near  Bonem-town 
on  his  way  to  the  enemy.  Also  Henry  Winn,  a  young  man, 
well  built,  of  a  light  complexion,  about  5  feet  9  inches 
high,  brown  curled  hair,  belonging  to  General  Maxwell's 
brigade;  was  taken  up  foT  desertion.  Any  person  appre- 


524  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 


• 


bending  the  said  runaways,  and  returns  them  to  said  gaol, 
shall  have  Thirty  Dottars  for  each,  and  all  reasonable 
charges,  paid  by  me. 

PETER  DUMONT,  • 
Sheriff. 

To  all  whom  it  may  concern: 

NOTICE  is  hereby  given  that  a  Court 
of  Admiralty  will  be  held  at  the 

house  of  Gilbert  Barton,  in  Allen- 
town,  on  Thursday  the  12th  day  of  August  next,  at  ten 
o'clock  in  the  forenoon  of  the  same  day,  then  and  there  to 
try  the  truth  of  the  facts  alleged  in  the  bills  of  David 
Stevens.,  John  Field,  Abraham  Davis  and  Robert  Snell, 
(who  as  well,  &c.)  against  the  sloop  or  vessel  called  the 
Clinton,  lately  commanded  by  James  Parkei — of  Samuel 
Ingersoll,  David  Stevens  and  John  Field  (who  as  well, 
&c.)  against  the  schooner  or  vessel  called  the  True-Blue1 — 
And  of  Samuel  Ingersoll,  (who  as  well,  &c.)'  against  the 
sloop  or  vessel  called  the  Favourite,  lately  commanded  by 
William  Gaskins,  with  their  respective  tackle,  apparel,  fur- 
niture and  cargoes :  To  the  end  and  intent  that  the  owner 
or  owners  of  the  said  vessels.,  or  any  person  or  persons  con- 
cerned therein,  may  appear  and  shew  cause,  if  any  they 
have,  why  the  said  vessels  and  cargoes  should  not  be  con- 
demned according  to  the  prayer  of  the  said  bills. 
By  order  of  the  Judge, 

JOSEPH  BLOOMFIELD,  Register. 
Salem,  July  20,  1779. 


LOST  on  the  7th  of  May  last,  between  Elizabeth-Town 
and  Newark,  a  small  HANGER  with  a  white  ivory 
handle ;  both  the  rings  of  the  ferrules  lost,  the  blade 
carved  Avith  the  emblems  of  hogs,  rein  deer,  hounds,  &c. 
marked  on   the  loAvor  ferrule  E.   SEI/DEN,  which   appears 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  525 

rather  defaced.  Any  person  who  has  found  the  said 
Hanger,  and  will  deliver  it  to  the  Rev.  Mr.  McWhorter,  at 
Newark,  or  to  the  subscriber,  shall  receive  Fifteen  Dollars 
reward. 

W.  SLADE,  Lt.  1st  N.  C.  Bat. 

LAST  night  the  shop  of  the  subscriber  was  broke  open, 
and  the  following  articles  taken  out,  viz.  one  cham- 
ber or  spring  clock,  maker's  name  Edward  Clark, 
Cornhill,  London,  with  a  silver  washed  face;  one  pair  of 
half  worn  silver  shoe^buckles ;  two  pair  of  sleeive  buttons ; 
several  broaches,  &c.     Whoever  apprehends  the  thief  so 
that  he  may  be  brought  to  justice,  and  secures  the  goods, 
shall  have  the  above  reward,  or  in  proportion  for  any  part 
of  said  goods,  paid  by 

SAMUEL  STOUT,  Gold  Smith. 


State  of  New- Jersey       T)UBLICK  notice  is  hereby  given 
Bergen  County  1       to  all  persons  that  have  any 

demands,    either    on    bond, 

note,  mortgage,  book  or  otherwise,  against  the  persons 
whose  names  are  hereunto  annexed,  to  bring  them  to  two 
of  the  Judges  of  the  Court  of  Common-Pleas  for  the  county 
of  Bergen,  within  ten  months  f rom  the .  date  hereof,  in 
order  to  have  them  settled :  And  likewise  notice'  is  hereby 
given  to  all  persons  that  have  any  goods,  wares,  merchan- 
dize of  any  kind,  or  owe  on  bond,  note,  mortgage  or  other- 
wise, any  sum  or  sums  of  money  to  any  of  the  offenders 
whose  names  are  herein  under  written,  and  shall  neglect  to 
make  discovery  thereof  to  one  of  us  the  subscribers  within 
one  month  from  the  date  hereof,  may  expect  to  be  dealt 
with  as  the  law  in  that  case  directs.  The  names  are  as 
follows,  viz.  Conrad  Fredericks,  Hendrick  Fredericks, 
Martje  Rush,  Peter  Nix,  Thomas  Lyons,  Hendrick  Him- 
jon,  Jacob  Himjon,  John  L.  Van  Boskerk,  Hendrick  Fox, 
Michael  Stur,  William  Baker,  Philip  Baker,  Hendrick 


526         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779 

Van  Blerkum,  Isaac  Noble,  Mattenes  Skepact,  William 
Kingsland,  jim.  John  ^7an  Houten,  Adam  Him j  on,  Abel 
Kidner,  Matteneis  Fox,  Abraham  Persel,  John  Persel, 
Daniel  I.  Brown,  Peter  Earrel,  Richard  Stanton,  David 
Blavelt,  Theunis  Blavelt,  John  Rickman,  David  ,Peck, 
Henry  Marsh,  Albert  Zabriskie,  Joost  Earrell,  Edward 
Earrell,  Cornelius  Van  Horn,  John  Pell,  Peter  Gollet, 
William  Van  Allen,  Abraham  Van  Boskerk,  Henry  Rome, 
William  Sorrell,  Thomas  Gardner,  James  MeColleck,  John 
Mejjers,1  John  Lutkins,  Hendrick  Lutkins,  Abraham  Van 
Emburg,  Charles  Kingsland,  jun.  James  Van  Em  burg, 
Daniel  Jessop  and  Nicholas  Depeyster. 
JAMES  BOARD,  HENDERICUS  KUYPER,  GARRET  LEYDECKER, 

Commissioners. 
July  1,  1779. 


Bergen  County,  State  of  New- Jersey. 

WHEREAS  iniqnisitions  have  been  found,  and  fimil 
judgment  entered  thereon  in  favour  of  the  State 
of  New  Jersey,  against  Abraham  A.  Quacken- 
bush,  Jacobus  Peek,  Samuel  Peek,  Peter  I.  Harring,  John 
P.  Durjee,  Thomas  Oldwater,  John  C.  Haring,  Abraham 
C.  Ilariiig,  of  Harington  township,  Abraham  Lent,  Peter 
Lent,  late  of  Orange  county,,  State  of  New^-York,  John  J. 
Van  Buskerk,  John  Marseilles,  Orey  Demarest,  Daniel  S. 
Demarest,  Charles  Beekman,  of  Hackensack  precinct, 
David  Masterson,  Derick  Ackerman,  James  Van  Buren, 
Andrew  Van  Boskerk,  Gabriel  Vanorder  and  his  Avife 
Jane,  David  Van  Boskerk,  of  New-Barbados  precinct, 
Barent  Everson,  John  T.  Ryerson,  Timothy  Lewis,  Hen- 
drick Doreuius,  Hendrick  J.  Ilinnion,  Edward  Jones, 
Richard  Yeats,  Saddlenriver  precinct,  Peter  J.  Van  Blar- 
kum,  Ilarrimaims  Van  Blarkum,  John  J.  Ackerman, 
Jacob  Van  Winkle,  Peter  Duwiu,  Jacobus  Fox,  Christian 

1  That  is,  Meyers. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  527 

Zabriskie,  of  Franklin  township,  all  in  the  county  aforesaid 
—NOTICE  is  hereby  given  that  the  lands  and  tenements, 
and  all  the  estates  real  and  personal  lately  belonging  to 
the  above  offenders,  situate  as  above,  will  be  exposed  to  sale 
at  publick  vein-due,  to  begin  at  the  town  of  Hackensack  on 
Tuesday  the  14th  day  of  September  next,  at  ten  o'clock  in 
the  forenoon,  where  the  conditions  of  the  sale  will  be  made 
known,  and  attendance  given  by  us,  and  continue  by 
adjournments  from  day  to  day  and  place  to  place,  at  or 
near  the  premises,  until  the  whole  are  sold.  Several  of 
the  real  estates  consist  of  good  farms. 

James  Board  ^    ~ 

„      7  .         „  I    Commis- 

Hendncus  Kuyper  V    . 

n        *   T    j    7  I    sioners 

Garret  Ly decker  j 

July  20,  1779.  N 


State  of  New  Jersey,  )        TlTnEEEAS  Inquisitions  have 
Gloucester  County,     j         VV      been       found       against 

John  Border,  and  James 

Thompson,  late  of  said  county,  and  returned  to  the  Court 
of  Common-Pleas  at  June  term,  1779,  and  proclamation 
thereupon  made  agreeable  to  law;  and  as  no  person  then 
appeared  to  traverse  the  same — This  is  to  give  NOTICE, 
that  if  the  said  John  Border  and  James  Thompson,  or 
either  of  them,  or  any  person  on  their  behalf,  or  that  may 
think  him  or  themselves  'interested  in  the  premises.,  do 
appear  at  the  next  Inferior  Court  of  Common-Pleas  to  be 
held  in  said  County,  and  offer  to  traverse  the  said  Inquisi- 
tions, or  either  of  them,  and  put  in  security  agreeable  to 
law,  then  the  said  traverse  will  be  received  and  a  trial 
thereon  awarded;  otherwise  the  said  inquisitions  will  be 
taken  to  be  true,  and  final  judgment  thereupon  entered  in 
favour  of  the  state. 

JOHN"    SPARKS,        |  Commis- 
SAMUEL,   KAIGUHST   }  sioners. 
July  2,  1779. 


528  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

AGREEABLE  to  an  act  of  Assembly  of  the-  State  of  New- 
Jersey,  passed  at  Trenton,  December  11,  1778,  iiititled,, 
An  Act  for  forfeiting  to  and  vesting  in  the  State  of  ^Few- 
Jersey  the  real  estates  of  certain  fugitives  and  offenders, 
&c. — XOTICE  is  hereby  given  that  on  Wednesday  the  18th 
day  of  August  next,  will  be  sold  at  publick  veiidue,  at 
the  house  of  Jacob  Ereese  in  Upper  Alloway's  creek,  a 
valuable  plantation  and  tract  of  land,  situate  in  the  town- 
ship aforesaid,  containing  about  240  acres,  be  the  same 
more  or  less,  adjoining  lands  of  Joseph  Sneathen,  George 
Miller  and  others ;  there  is  on  the  premises  a  good  dwell- 
inghouse,  barn,  and  other  necessary  buildings,  a  large 
bearing  apple  orchard,  a,  quantity  of  good  meadow,  and 
more  may  be  made,  late  the  property  of  Michael  Miller, 
being  confiscated  to  the  State  of  Xew  Jersey,  and  will  be 
sold  by 

WILLIAM  GARRISON,    )  Commis- 
TIIOMAS   SAYRE,  j  sioners 

Salem  countv,  Julv  5,  1779'" 


Essex  County,          )        Y\ T  IIEREAS  inquisitions  have 
State  of  Xew  Jersey.  J         V  I          been   found   and   final 

judgment    entered    in 

favour  of  the  state  against  the  following  fugitives  and 
offenders,  viz.  Isaac  Mills,  John  Stites,  jun.  George  Mar- 
shall, James  Erazee,  jun.  Ichabod  Oliver,  Thomas-Brad- 
bury Chandler,  John  Slone,  Robert  Gault,  Joseph  Marsh, 
John  Acley,  Cornelius  ITetfield,  jun.  ,Oliver  Delancey  and 
John  Lee,  jun.  in  the  county  of  Essex,  and  William 
Dumaynei  in  the  county  of  Morris — XOTICE  is  hereby 
given  that  all  the  real  estate  that  lately  belonged  to  the 
above-named  fugitives,  within  the  bounds  of  Elizabeth- 
town  will  be  sold  at  publick  vendue  on  Monday  the  16th 
day  of  August  next,  at  the  house  of  Samuel  Smith,  inn- 
keeper, in  Elizabeth-town  aforesaid,  or  on  the  premises ; 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  529 

also  that  part,  of  the  estate  late  the  property  of  Cavilear 
Jewett,  that  was  sold  to  a  certain  Nathaniel  Hubbell, 
unless  the  said  Hubbell  appears  and  pays  the  purchase 
money  for  the  same  before  the  day  of  sale;  the  vendue  to 
begin  at  ten  o'clock  on  said  day  and  continue  by  adjourn- 
ments till  the  whole  be  sold.  Particular  descriptions  and 
attendance  will  be  given  at  the  time  and  place  of  sale  by 

CLAWSON,    )  Commis- 
.  MARSH,         j  sioners. 

Elizabeth-town, 

July  6,  1779. 


PARCHMENT, 
CORKS  by  the  croce,  and 

FLOUR    Of  MUSTARD, 

To  BE  SOLD  at  the  Print  ing-Offiee. 


Bergen  County,        )        At  an  Inferior  Court  of  Corn- 
State  of  New-Jersey,  j      li      mon-Pleas    held    for    the 

County   aforesaid,   on  the 

8th  day  of  June,  1779,  was  returned  inquisitions  for  join- 
ing the  army  of  the  King  of  Great  Britain,  and  other  trea- 
sonable practices  found  against  Conrad  Ridner,  Boltus 
Shoemaker,  John  King,  Conrad  Baker,  John  Vanorder, 
George  Bruse,  James  Butler,  John  J.  Ryerson,  Aaron 
Swezey,  George  Miller,  Mattines  Fox,  Andrew  Yanallen, 
Nicholas  Sisse>,  William  Douglas,  Henry  Soup,  and  John 
Hones,  of  which  proclamation  has  been  made  at  said  court 
that  they  or  any  person  in  their  behalf,  or  any  person 
interested,  would  appear  and  traverse,  a  trial  should  be 
awarded,  but  no  traverses  were  offered :  —  Theref ore 
NOTICE  is  hereby  given  that  if  they  nor  any  person  in  their 

34 


5^0  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

behalf,  nor  any  interested,  shall  not  appear  and  traverse  at 
the  next  Court  of  Oftmnon-Pleas,  to  be  held  on  the  fourth 
Tuesday  in  October  next,  then  the  inquisitions  will  be 
taken  to  be  true,  and  final  judgment  entered  in  favour  of 
the  State. 

JAMES  BOARD,  ^  , 

~  Commis- 

GARRET  LEYDECKER,  V    . 

TT  Tr  I  sioners. 

HENDRICUS  KUYPER.  J 

July  1,  1779. 


RAN  AWAY  from  the  subscriber,  in  Sussex  county,  a 
likely,  short,  stout  Mulatto  lad,  aged  about  20 
years,  American  born,  used  to  horses  and  waiting 
in  the  house,  plays  well  on  the  fiddle  and  French  Horn; 
had  on  a  white  drilling  coat  with  metal  buttons,  white 
under  death's,  and  beaver  hat.  Lived  in  New- York  when 
young,  since  in  Carolina,  and  lately  with  Eev.  Rutherford1 
in  New-Jersey ;  can  read  and  write ;  he  is  a  pert,  saucy 
fellow.  Whoever  takes  up  the  servant  above  described, 
and  secures  him  so  that  his  master  can  have  him  again, 
shall  have  Fifty  Pounds  reward,  and  all  reasonable  charges 
paid  by  me. 

WILLIAM  M'CuLLOUGH. 
July  3,  1779. 


Is  WANTED,  a  young  LAD  about  13  or  14  years  of  age, 
that  can  bo  well  recommended  for  his  abilities  and  moral 
character,''  to  serve:  in  a  country  Merchant  shop  till  of  age. 
Apply  to  William  Verbryck,  Esq.  at  New-Shannick,  in 
Somerset  county,  State  of  New-Jersey. 

June  9,  1779. 


1  Query  :     A  misprint  for  Mr.  Rutherfurd? 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  531 

LOST  between  the  6th  and  10th  of  May  nit.  on  the  road 
leading  from  Pluck'emin  to  Springfield  in  Burling- 
ton county,  via  Sourland  Meeting-house,  Princeton, 
Allentown,  and  Arney's  town,  two  loan  office  certificates, 
taken  out  of  the  office  at  Bordentown  by  the  subscriber  in 
his  own  name,  both  dated  April  10,  1779,  one  for  2000  dol- 
lars No.  322  and  the  other  for  300  dollars,  No.  10,660. 
Any  person  or  persons  into  whose  hands  they  may  fall,  are 
requested  to  deliver  them  to  the  subscriber  in  Somerset 
county  near  Pluck'emin  aforesaid,  to  Mr.  Joseph  Borden, 
at  Bordentown,  or  to  the  Printer  of  this  Gazette,  for  which 
a  reward  of  Forty  Dollars  will  be  given. 

JOHN  ARMSTRONG. 

—The. New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  II. ,  No.  83r  July  28, 
1779. 


Roxbury    township,    Morris    county,    New-Jersey,    June 
12,  1779. 

ONE  HUNDRED  POUNDS  .REWARD. 

Stolen  from  the  subscriber,  a  BAY  HORSE,  five  years 
•old,  about  141/2  high,  with  a  star  in  his  forehead,  and  two 
white  snips,  one  between  his  nostrils,  and  the  other  between 
that  and  the  star,  and  his  right  hind  leg  is  white  half  way 
up  to  his  ham.  Likewise  a  BLACK  MARE,  about  15 
hands  high,  with  a  star  in  her  forehead,  and  a  little  white 
on  both  her  hind  feet.  These  horses  are  both  natural 
pacers.  Whoever  takes  up  and  secures  the  said  horses,  so 
that  the  owner  may  get  them  again,  shall  have  the  above 
reward,  and  all  reasonable  charges,  paid  by 

MICHAEL  AUBLE 
— The  Pennsylvania  Gazette,  July  28,  1779. 


582  IsTEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [177J> 

Princeton,  July  19,  1779. 
A    KOBBEKY! 
FIFTY  POUNDS  REWARD. 

Last  night  the  shop  of  the  subscriber  was  broke  openr 
and  the  following  articles  taken  out,  viz.  One  chamber  or 
spring  clock,  maker's  name  Edward  Clark,  Cornhill, 
London,  with  a  silver  washed  face,  one  pair  of  half  worn 
silver  shoe  buckles,  two  pair  of  sleeve  buttons,  several 
broaches,  &c.  Whoever  apprehends  the  thief  so  that  he 
may  be  brought  to  justice,  and  secures  the  goods,  shall  have 
the  above  reward,  or  'in  proportion  for  any  part  of  said 
goods,  paid  by 

SAMUEL  STOUT,  Goldsmith. 

X.  B.      Should  the  clock  be  offered  for  sale,   it  is  re- 
quested it  may  be  stopped.1 
— The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  July  29,  1779. 


By  virtue  of  an  Act  of  the  General  Assembly  of  the  state 
of  Xew  Jersey,  passed  the  last  session,  at  Trenton,  in- 
tituled, "An  Act  for  vesting  the  real  estate  of  William 
Alexander,  Earl  of  Sterling,  within  this  State,  in  trustees, 
to  discharge  by  the  sale  thereof,  or  of  so  much  as  may 
suffice,  the  debts  and  incumbranccs  affecting  the  same  and 

o 

to  convey  to  him  the  remainder,  if  any  there  be,"  will  be 
sold  at  Public  Yendue,  at  the  under  mentioned  times  and 
places,  sundry  Tracts  of  Land,  Cultivated  Farms,  Houses, 
&o.  boing  part  of  the  real  estate  of  the  said  Earl  of  Ster- 
ling, in  the  said  State  of  JSTcw  Jersey,  as  follows: 

At  John  WykofPs  Tavern,  at  Potters-Town,  on  Monday 
the  twentieth  of  September  next,  at  Ten  o'clock  in  the 
forenoon,  the  vendue  to  be  continued  from  day  to  day 

1  That  is,  seized,  or  taken  from  the  thief. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  533 

until  the  premises  are  sold,  Five  very  fine  well  improved 
Farms  near  Potters-Town,  in  the  County  of  Hunterdon, 
viz. 

acres,    hundredths 
!No.  1.  In  the  possession  of  Archibald 

Aurison,  containing  183  7 

INb.  2.  Ditto  of  Jacob  Tyger,  179  -  7 

JSTo.  3.  Ditto  of  Joseph  Everett,  420  45 

No.  4.  Ditto  of  Benjamin  Cooper,  423  30 

}STO.  5.  Ditto  of  Christian  Teets,  233  47  . 

Also  one  half  of  55  acres,,  including  the  town  spot  of 
Potters  Town. 

On  Monday  the  twenty-seventh  of  September,  at  the 
house  of  William  Davison,  in  Pitts  Town,  and  by  adjourn- 
ment from  day  to  day  unto  such  places  near  the  premises 
as  shall  be  most  convenient.  Twenty-one  Farms  under 
very  good  improvements  in  the  Townships  of  Lebanon, 
Tuexburie;  Bethlehem  and  Alexandria,  viz. 

In  the  possession  of  John  Swackhammer,  448  acres ;  of 
Casper  Luneburey,  236  acres;  of  Matthias  Tufford,  238 
acres ;  in  the  township  of  Lebanon. 

In  the  possession  of  Jos.  Blain,  145  acres  7  tenths;  of 
Batrum  Beam,  245  acres-  of  John  M'Kenstry,  193  acres; 
of  Charles  Gordon,  106  acres;  in  Tuexburie  Township. 

In  the  possession  of  William  Fleming,  192  acres ;  of 
Joseph  Osmun,  142  acres ;  in  Bethlehem. 

In  the  possession  of  Fred  Jordon,  51  acres  8  tenths; 
Peter  Ilaughabout,  4  acres  4  tenths ;  of  Phill  Palmer,  240 
acres  4  tenths;  of  John  Brintz,  170  acres  5  tenths;  Wil- 
liam Craig,  168  acres  4  tenths;  of  -  -  Ebgor,  145  acres; 
of  Benjamin  Jones,  jun.  192  acres  3  tenths;  of  Daniel 
Brintz,  219  acres  4  tenths;  of  Jacob  Ackmaii,  273  acres; 
of  Isaac  Oakes,  286  acres;  in  Alexandria. 

In  the  possession  of  Daniel  Simes,  261  acres;  John 
Ma,rtin?  half  of  a  wood  lot,  68  acres  5  tenths,  in  Beth- 
lehem. 


NEW    JERSEY    I1NT    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

On  Monday,  the  eleventh  of  October  next,  at  Brewster's 
Tavern  at  Baskenrictge,  all  that  fine  Farm  and  Mansion- 
house  at  Baskenridge,  the  residence  of  the  said  Earl  of 
Stirling/  with  all  the  elegant  buildings,  gardens,  £c.  con- 
taining about  one  thousand  acres,  of  which  about  three 
hundred  is  cleared  upland,  three  hundred  acres  of  meadow 
fit  for  the  scythe,  and  the  remainder  timber  swamp  capable 
of  making  the  most  excellent  meadow.  On  this  farm  there 
are  about  fifteen  hundred  fine  bearing  apple-trees  of  the 
best  kind,  besides  several  hundreds  of  pears,  peaches, 
plumbs  and  cherries  in  the  greatest  variety. 

On  Wednesday  the  thirteenth  of  October,  at  Arnold's 
Tavern  in  Morris-Town,2  from  day  to  day  and  to  such  places 
by  adjournment  as  shall  be  found  most  convenient,  Twelve 
Lots  of  98  acres  each,  adjoining  each  other,  situate  in  the 
Great  Swamp,  in  Morris  County,  in  the  front  of  the  above 
mansion,  bounded  northerly  by  the  north  line  of  the  said 
swamp,  each  lot  being  fourteen  chains  broad  and  seventy 
chains  long.  They  are  about  four  miles  southerly  from 
Morris  Town,  in  one  of  the  best  settled  parts  of  ]S"ew  Jer- 
sey. Each  lot  has  several  acres  of  cleared  plow  land  and 
meadow ;  the  greatest  part  of  them  are  capable  of  being 
made  most  excellent  meadow,  with  .rich  chestnut  ridges  in- 
tersecting them.  These  lands  will  be  shewn  by  Jonathan 
Stiles,  Esq ;  and  Capt,  John  Lindly,  who  live  contiguous* 
to  them. 

Also  twelve  other  Lots  adjoining,  whose  sale  will  suc- 
ceed the  above;  containing  eighty-six  acres  each,  on  the 
south  side  of  the  said  swamp,  adjoining  the  north  side  of 
Long  Hill,  about  seven  miles  southerly  from  Morris  Town 
and  two  or  three  miles  from  Baskenridge:  The  soil  is 
excellent  for  meadow  and  some  ridges  of  plowland.  Major 

1  This  name  is  often  written   Sterling,   as  elsewhere  in  this  same  adver- 
tisement, but  the  General  always  wrote  it  Stirling  himself. 

2  A  very  full  ami  excellent  account  of  Arnold's  tavern  was  published  by 
Philip  H.  Hoffman,  of  Morristown,  in  1904. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  535 

Cornelius  Ludlow,1  of  Long  Hill,  will  shew  these  lands. 
Eiach  lot  is  ten  chains  broad  and  eighty  six  chains  long. 

Also  eight  lots  of  fifty  to  sixty-five  acres  each,  whose 
sale  will  succeed  the  preceding,  on  the  northeast  part  of 
the  said  swamp,  o<n  each  side  of  the  forge-lot  on  Pine- 
Brook.  These  lots  are  ea,ch  of  them  ten  chains  broad,  and 
from  fifty  to  sixty-five  chains  long,  they  have  some  valuable 
improved  upland  and  meadows;  the  whole  most  excellent 
soil,  well  watered,  and  the  greatest  part  capable  of  being 
made  most  excellent  meadow.  They  are  situate  about  four 
miles  south  easterly  from  Morris  Town. 

One  lot  of  about  one  hundred  and  thirty  acres,  adjoin- 
ing the  above  eight  lots,  and  will  be  sold  next  in  succession. 
It  includes  a  good  stream,  Pine  Brook,  with  a  very  fine 
mill  dam,,  the  remains  of  a  bloomary  forge  and  saw-mill, 
some  good  buildings  and  improved  meadows  and  plow- 
lands:  These  lands  will  also  be  shewn  by  Cornelius  Lud- 
low or  Jonathan  Stiles  Esq ; 

On  Monday,  the  first  day  of  November  next,  at  the 
house  commonly  called  Stall's  Tavern,  near  the  Virginia 
encampment,  at  or  near  Middlebrook,  a,  tract  of  about  one 
thousand  acres,  on  the  west  branch  of  Middlebrook,  in  the 
vale  between  the  first  and  second  mountain,  leased  in  six 
forms,  the  leases  expired,  very  good  interval  lands,  and 
most  excellent  timber  land,  contiguous  to  the  Farms  on 
Rariton  River. 

On  Wednesday  the  third  day  of  November  next  at 
Phinix's  Tavern,  in  Pluckemin,  a  Tract  of  eight  hundred 
acres,  adjoining  or  near  the  Artillery-Park  at  Pluckemin. 
This  is  chiefly  timber-land  with  some  small  improvements. 

On  Monday,  the  fifteenth  of  November  next,  at 
Hackets  Town,  in  Sussex  County,  about  two  thousand  five 
hundred  acres  of  land,  in  several  Farms  of  good  improved 
upland  and  meadow,  the  remainder  excellent  timber  land 
and  fine  swamps,  in  the  said  county  of  Sussex,  bounded 

1  For  a  sketch  of  Colonel  Cornelius  Ludlow  and  his  family,   see   N.   J. 
Hist.  Soc.  Proceedings,  3d  Series,  3  :  42. 


536  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

partly  by  the  Maskenetcunk  River,  and  bordering  on 
Rackets-Town.  The  leases  are  all  expired.  A  proper 
person  will  be  appointed  at  Hacketst-Town  to  shew  these 
lands.  The  road  from  Morris  to  Eastown  on  Delaware, 
and  the  great  road  from  Trenton  to  Sussex  Court-house, 
passes  through  this  Tract. 

On  Wednesday,  the  first  day  of  December  next,  at  the 
Tavern  at  Croswicks,  two  Tracts  of  land,  near  Croswicks, 
adjoining  Plumstead's  and  Willocks's  land,  containing 
about  five  hundred  and  twenty-six  acres. 

N.  B.      Continental  Money  or  Loan  Office  Certificates 
will  be  received   in   payment,   and   conveyances   executed 
agreeable'  to  the  directions  of  the  above  Act,  by 
RICHARD  STEVENS 


JOHN  MIITELMi 

—The  Pcnnsylranla  Faded,  July  31,  1779. 


PHILADELPHIA,  July  14. 

Sunday  last  arrived  here  the  brig  Holker,  Capt. 
Goddis,  from  St.  Emstatia,  who  on  his  passage  fell  in  with 
and  took  the  snow  Friendship,  Capt.  Neil,  from  Georgia 
for  New- York,  with  molasses,  rice,  deer  skins,  &c.  and 
sent  her  into  Egg-Harbour,  whore  she  is  safe  arrived. 

The  regulation  of  prices  and  appointments  of  Com- 
mittees has  taken  place  in  general  through  this  State, 
Delaware  State,  in,  the  counties  of  Morris  and  Essex  in 
New-Jersey,  in  the  army,  in  Boston,  and  many  of  the 
towns  in  Massachusetts-Bay,  and  it  is  not  doubted  but  it 
will  be  universally  adopted  through  the  States. — The  New- 
York  Gazette:  and  the  Weekly  Mercury.  No.  1450,  August 
2,  177'.). 

1  John  Mehelm  was  n  prominent  citizen  of  ITunterdon  county. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTEACTS.  537 


Bridgetown,  Cumberland  County,  July  24,  1779. 


This  day  was  committed  to  gaol,  a  certain 
GARRETSON,  who  says  he  is  a  deserter  from  Col. 
ISAAC  SIIREVE,  of  the  second  Jersey  regiment,  and 
Capt.  Cummings's  company,  who  is  desired  to  send  and 
take  him  away,  by 

JOHN  SOULLARD  Gaoler. 


August  1,  1779. 
• 

EIGHTY  DOLLARS  REWARD. 

WAS  STOLEN,  this  morning,  out  of  the  house  of 
BARNABY  OWING,  living  on  Haddonfield  road,  three 
miles  from  Cooper's  ferry,  one  Silver  Table  Spoon, 
marked  S.  P.  A.  one  Pap  jSpoon,  marked  W.  S.  five  Tea- 
Spoons,  marked  S.  P.  A.  4  marked  S.  P.  Any  person 
apprehending  the  thief  and  spoons,  so  that  the  owner  may 
have  them  again,  and  the  thief  be  brought  to  justice,  shall 
receive  the  above  reward,  or  FIFTY  DOLLARS  for  the 
Spoons  only,  p>aid  by^BARNABY  OWEN. 

*  ...  *     It  is  requested  that  Silversmiths  or  others  will 
stop  the  said  Spoons,  if  offered  for  sale. 
— The  Pennsylvania  Gazette,  August  4,  1779. 


The  Intrepid  Cutter  (late  the  Dublin)  Captain  Fegan, 
of  12  four-pounders;  and  50  men,  sailed  on  a  cruize  last 
Tuesday  se'nnight;  next  day,  off  Barnegat,  he  fell  in 
with  two  Continental  sloops,  one  of  14  guns,  the  other 
of  8,  whom  he  engaged  for  7  glasses,  and  beat  them  off 
with  the  loss  of  Mr.  Cummings,  his  Lieutenant,  and  another 
man  killed,  and  7  wounded,  some  of  them  mortally ;  his 


538  f        NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779 

boom  being  shot  away,  and  his  sails  greatly  damaged, 
prevented  his  pursuing  the  enemy,  who  were  in  a  very 
shattered  condition. — The  Royal  Gazette,  No.  297,  August 
4,  1779. 

TRENTON,  AUGUST  4. 

We  are  informed  by  good  authority,  that  the  main  body 
of  the  enemy  are  moved  down  the  North-River ;  to  New- 
York;  and  there  is  reason  to  believe  they  shortly  mean  to 
make  a  descent  into  this  state,  but  it  is  hoped  the  spirited 
inhabitants  will  be  so  prepared  to  receive  them  as  to 
prevent  their  carrying  their  predatory  and  savage  plan 
into  execution. 

A  brig  and  a  schooner  that  lately  left  our  capes  in  com- 
pany with  Captain  Barry,  are  taken  and  carried  into  New- 
York. 

AVe  are  also  informed  that  the  enemy  are  again  in  pos- 
session of  Stoney-Point,  where  they  are  repairing  the  works 
with  great  industry,  and  that  they  have  reinforced  the  gar- 
rison at  Yerplank's  point  to  1500  men. 

The  British  prisoners  taken  at  Stoney-Point,  arrived  at 
Philadelphia  on  Friday  evening  last  and  were  conducted 
to  the  new-gaol. 

Since  our  last  about  200  prisoners,  chiefly  sailors,  passed 
thro"  this  town  under  guard  for  Elizabeth-Town  to  be  ex- 
changed. 

BlTKLINGTON    CoUXTY,     JriA"    21,     1779. 

At  a  Meeting  of  the  General  Committee,  chosen  for  the 
purpose  of  regulating  and  establishing  the  prices  of  mer- 
chandize, produce,  labour,  &c,  the  following  prices  were 
agreed  upon,  for  and  to  continue  during  the  month  of 
August,  1779. 


1779] 


NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS. 


539 


£.  s.  d. 
600 
3  15  0 
3  15  0 
2  10 


0 


Wheat,  per  bushel, 

Rye,  do. 

Indian  corn,  do 

Buckwheat,   do 

Merchantable  3  feet 
shingles,  at  swamps, 
per  thousand,  55  0 

Best  18  inch  do  90 

Barley,  do.  4  10 

Flaxseed,  do.  2     5 

Oats,  do.  2     5 

Shorts,      per     double 

bushel,  2     5 

Wheat  bran,  do  1  10 

Rye  bran,  per  single 
bushel  150 

Hay,  of  the  first  qual- 
ity, per  ton, 

Butter,  per  Ib. 

Cheese,  do. 

Best  beef,  do. 

Mutton,  do. 

Veal,  do. 

Pig  pork,  do. 

Wool,  do. 

Flax,  do. 

Hemp,  do. 

Good  cedar  rails,  in  pro- 
portion to  their  dis- 
tance per  hundred, 
from  £.5  to  7  10  0 

Good   white   oak   barrel 

staves,  55     0    0 

Other  staves  and  head- 
ing in  proportion. 

Bloomary   bar    iron,    at 

the  works,  per  ton,     450     0     0 

Refined,  do.  600     0     0 

In  proportion  by  the 
cwt. 

Nail  rod  iron  per  hun- 
dred weight,  50  0  0 

Horse  shoes  per  pair,          1  15     0 

Heavy  Smith's  work  per 

pound  0  12     6 

Plough  shares  and  coul- 
ters, do.  0  15  0 

Rawhides,  do.  050 

Raw  calfskins,  do  076 

Soal  leather,  do.  100 


50 

0 

0 

0 

15 

0 

0 

10 

0 

0 

6 

0 

0 

6 

3 

0 

5 

0 

0 

7 

8 

2 

0 

0 

1 

0 

0 

0 

12 

6 

Neats  leather,  do.  1 

Harness,  do.  do.  1 

Calfskins  that  will  cut 
four  pair  men's  shoes,  7 

Best  men's  shoes  from 
£  6  15  0  to 

Women's  shoes,  do.  6 

Lesser  shoes  in  propor- 
tion. 

Common  labour  per  day",  2 

Mowing,  do.  3 

Superfine  flour,  per  hun- 
dred, 

Common,  do. 

Middlings,  do. 

Ship  stuff,  do. 

Weavers,  tailors,  car- 
penters, and  such 
other  mechanicks  as 
do  not  work  their 
own  stuff,  to  have  16 
times  as  much  as  they 
usually  had  in  the 
year  1774. 

Pepper,  per  Ib. 

Cotton,  do.  from  45s  to 
£  3  0  0 

Coffee,  do. 

Chocolate,  do. 

Bohea  tea,  do. 

Muscovado  sugar,  do. 
from  15s.  to 

Loaf,  do.  from  47s  6 
to 

Rice,  do. 

French   indigo,   do. 

Rye  flour,  do 

Merchantable  inch  ce- 
dar, at  the  mills,  per 
thousand, 

Pine,  do. 

Other  boards  and  scant- 
ling in  proportion. 

Carolina,  do.  do 

Good  West-India  rum 
per  gallon, 

French,  do.  do. 

American,  do.  do 

Cyder  spirits,  do. 


s.  d. 

10  0 

5  0 

10  0 


7  10     0 
600 


10  0 

0  0 

0  0 

0  0 

0  0 

0  0 


226 


16     0 

0     0 

15     0 


100 


12  6 

3  0 

0  0 

10  0 


0     0 

0     0 


250 


12  6 

15  0 

15  0 

0  0 


540  9       NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.      [1779 

All  country  made  earthen  ware  to  be  eighteen  times  as  much  as  the 
same  were  commonly  sold  f6*r  in  the  year  1774. 

All  country  made  stone  ware  to  be  twenty  times  as  much  as  the  same 
were  commonly  sold  for  in  the  year  1774. 

All  dry  goods  to  be  the  same  as  they  were  sold  for  in  March  last. 

Resolved,  That  the  inhabitants  of  such  of  the  townships  in  this  county 
as  have  appointed  deputies  to  attend  this  committee,  shall  not  be  bound 
to  dispose  of  their  goods,  produce,  labour,  &c.  to  the  inhabitants  of 
such  other  townships  in  the  county,  or  the  inhabitants  of  such  other 
counties  in  this  or  the  neighbouring  states,  who  have  neglected  to  enter 
into  similal*  resolutions. 

Resolved,  That  to  prevent  monopoly,  the  respective  wares  and  mer- 
chandize, produce,  &c.  that  are  now  in,  or  that  hereafter  shall  be 
brought  into  the  county,  shall  be  disposed  of  therein,  unless  the 
proprietors  thereof  can  produce  a  passport  for  the  same  from  the 
Committee  of  Philadelphia,  or  some  county  in  this  or  the  neighbouring 
states,  who  have  come  into  similar  resolutions  with  this  county,  or  a 
certificate  from  a  member  of  this  committee. 

Resolved,  That  if  any  person  or  persons  within  the  jurisdiction  of 
this  committee,  shall  either  give  or  receive  more  for  their  merchandize, 
produce,  labour,  &c.  than  is  fixed  on  by  this  committee,  and  being 
thereof  duly  convicted,  they  shall  be  held  up  to  the  publick  in  a 
manner  adequate  to  their  offence. 

Resolved,  That  the  respective  Members  of  this  Committee  will  keep 
a  watchful  eye  on  all  persons  within  their  jurisdiction,  that  the  fore- 
going resolutions  be  not  violated  ;  and  the  gentlemen  officers  of  the 
militia  are  hereby  invited  to  give  them  their  assistance  in  the  premises. 

Resolved,  That  it  be  recommended  to  the  several  counties  in  this 
state,  to  join  in  similar  resolutions  to  those  of  this  county. 

Resolved,  That  we  will  consider  it  our  duty,  respectively,  to  support 
and  strengthen  the  civil  authority,  in  detecting  and  bringing  to  deserved 
punishment  all  such  as  are  guilty  of  profanity,  immorality,  extrava- 
gance and  dissipation ;  of  extortion  and  oppression,  and  all  such 
practices  as  tend  to  the  unjust  advantage  of  individuals,  and  injury  of 
the  community. 

By  order  of  the  Committee. 

PETER  TALLMA^,  Chairman. 

The  Committee  adjourned  until  the  23d  of  August  next 
ten  o'clock.,  to  meet  at  the  house  of  John  Imlay,  at  the 
Blackhorse  in  Mansfield  township. 

.By  a  gentleman  from  Elizabeth-Town  we  are  told  it  is 
currently  reported  there  that  General  Try  on,  with  about 
.'5000  refugees  and  tories,  sailed  up  the  sound  a  few  days 
ago,  supposed  with  an  intention  of  attacking  and  destroy- 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  541 

ing  New-London ;  but  we  flatter  ourselves,  from  the  prepa- 
rations made  for  their  reception  in  that  quarter,  and  from 
the  bravery  of  our  eastern  brethren  that  they  will  be  pre^ 
vented  from  executing,  so  detestable,  so  diabolical  a  de- 
sign. 

We  hear  that  Lord  Stirling,  with  his  division  of  the 
American  army,  has  moved  into  the  neighbourhood  of 
Pompton  Plains. 

*.£*  Advertisements  omitted  this  week  for  ivant  of  room, 
to  be  in  our  next. 

WHEREAS  Samuel  Slack  and  John  Shelliman,  when 
taken  up  at  Freehold,  Monmouth  county,  did  show  a  pass 
with  my  name  thereto,  which  is  a  counterfeit,  as  I  never 
did  grant  such  passport.  Said  Shelliman  has  been  guilty 
of  forgery  before,  and  was  indicted  for  that  offence  at  the 
Supreme  Court  in  Philadelphia;  and  the  said  Slack  and 
Shelliman  were  taken  up  charged  with  horse-stealing,  and 
brought  before  me  for  examination,  and  sent  by  a  warrant 
to  Philadelphia  to  take  their  trial  for  the  above  crimes,  but 
they  broke  jail  before  their  trial  came  on. — This  is  there- 
fore to  inform  the  publick  of  their  said  villainies,  that  they 
may  be  detected  and  brought  to  justice. 

BENJAMIN  YARD. 

Trenton,  August  3,  1779. 


To  BE  SOLD  at  publick  vendue,  on  Monday  the  16th  day 
of  August,  instant,  a  Plantation  belonging  to  the 
estate  of  Garret  Dorreland,  deceased,  in  the  west- 
ern precinct  of  the  county  of  Somerset,  within  one  mile 
of  Sourland  meeting-house,  containing  one  hundred  and 
forty-eight  acres,  whereof  20   acres   are  good  wood-land, 
some  meadow  and  more  may  be  made,  a  small  orchard,  an 
excellent  spring  of  water  at  the  door,  a,  good  frame  house, 


542*  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

.  • 

with  a  Dutch  barn  almost  new.  Also  at  the  same  time  will 
be  sold  on  the  premises,  household  and  kitchen  furniture, 
and  a  few  farming  utensils.  The  vendue  to  begin  at  ten 
o'clock  of  said  day,  where  due  attendance  will  be  given, 
and  conditions  of  vendue  made  known  by 

HENRY  VANDIKE,  Executor. 


STRAYED,  or  drove  oft'  the  commons  of  Trenton,  a  brown 
Cow,  has  a  yellow  streak  along  her  back ;  she  is  of 
middling  size,  and  has  a  wart  in  her  eye,  and  a  few 
hairs  grow  out  of  it;  is  branded  on  one  horn  with  a  nail 
rod  L.  M,  not  a  proper  brand.    Any  person  that  will  bring 
the  said  cow  to  Lawrence  Mullen,  now  living  in  Trenton, 
shall  have  Twelve  Dollars  reward.     N.  B.    The  cow  is  be- 
tween nine  and  eleven  years  old. 
July  13,  1779. 


THE  partnership  between  P.  and  J.  Van  Emburg  hav- 
ing expired,  all  persons  indebted  to  them  are  de- 
sired to  make  payment;  and  those  who  have  any 
demands  against  said  company,  to  bring  in  their  accounts 
for  payment. 

P.   and  JOHN  VAN  EMBURG. 
iel^  July  2,  1779. 


JOSEPH  MILNOR, 
At  his  store  in  Trenton, 

HAS  a  quantity  of  inch  and  3-4  pine  and  cedar  boards, 
cedar  shingles,  best  refined  bar  and  slit  iron,  which 
he  will  either  sell  for  cash  at  the  current  prices,  or 
exchange  for  country  produce  at  the  former  prices. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  543 


State  of  New-Jersey,  Sussex  County,  July  25,  1779. 

I.N  pursuance  of  an  act  forfeiting  and  vesting  in  the 
State  of  New-Jersey,  the  real  estates  of  certain  fugi- 
tives and  offenders  in  said  state,  will  be  sold  by  pub- 
lick  veiidue,  at  the  times  and  places  herein  after  mentioned, 
the  following  tracts  and  parcels  of  lands  in  said  county. 

On  Saturday  the  4th  day  of  September  next,  at  10 
o'clock  at  the  house  of  Eve  Addoms,  in  Wantage,  130  acres 
of  land,  with  good  improvements  thereon ;  late  the  property 
of  Joseph  Crowell. 

Another  tract  to  be  sold  on  said  day,  of  100  acres,  with 
good  improvements  thereon ;  late  the  property  of  Solomon 
Cortreght. 

On  Monday  the  6th  day  of  September,  one  tract  of  land 
of  300  acres,  with  good  improvements  thereon,  at  the  house 
of  William  Mott,  on  the  premises;  late  the  property  of 
Oliver  Delancey.  Sale  to  begin  at  10  o'clock  on  said  day. 

Another  tract  of  land  on  said  day,  at  the  house  of  Amos 
Pointelow,  in  Hendishton,1  one  equal  half  of  300  acres, 
with  some  improvements  thereon;  late  the  property  of 
Oliver  Delancey. 

On  Tuesday  the  7th  of  September  next,  at  the  house  of 
David  Lobdon,  in  Wantage,  at  10  o'clock  on  said  day,  two 
tracts  of  land  of  300  acres,  with  some  improvements 
thereon ;  late  the  property  of  Oliver  Delancey. 

On  Wednesday  the  8th  day  of  said  month,  at  the  house 
of  Duncan  McKecken,  in  Wantage,  at  ten  o'clock  on  said 
day,  two  tracts  of  100  acres  each,  with  sundry  improve- 
ments thereon ;  late  the  property  of  Oliver  Delancey. 

On  Thursday  the  9th  of  said  month,  at  the  house  of 
Aaron  Hunt,  in  Hendishton,1  at  10  o'clock  on  said  day, 
several  lots  of  land  containing  about  500  acres,  with  good 
improvements  thereon;  late  the  property  of  Oliver  De- 
lancey. 

1  Hardiston. 


NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  *    [1779 


On  Friday  the  lOUi  of  September,  at  the  house  of  Aaron 
Hunt,  in  Hendishton,  at  10  o'clock  011  said  day,  one  tract 
of  land  of  50  acres  of  cedar  swamp  on  the  drowned  lands; 
late  the  property  of  Jos.  Barton. 

On  Saturday  the  llth  day  of  September,  on  the  premises 
in  Hendishton,  in  Warwick  Mountains,  a  lot  of  land  of  212 
acres,  with  good  improvements  on  the  same;  late  the  prop- 
erty of  Oliver  Delancey.  To  begin  at  10  o'clock  on  said 
day. 

On  Monday  the  13th  of  September,  at  10  o'clock  on  said 
day,  on  the  premises  in  Xewtown,  on  Papecotting,  the 
homestead  of  Joseph  Barton,  500  acres,  with  good  improve- 
ments thereon  ;  late  the  property  of  Joseph  Barton. 

Another  tract  of  land  on  the  said  day,  at  3  o'clock,  sup- 
posed to  be  100  acres,  at  the  house  of  the  widow  Keever,  in 
Xewtown,  with  some  improvements  thereon  •  late  the  prop- 
erty of  Oliver  Delancey. 

On  Tuesday  the  llth  of  September,  at  10  o'clock,  at  the 
house  of  Benjamin  Hull,  in  ^ewtown,  one  mill  lot,  on 
Polens  kill,  of  70  acres  ;  late  the  property  of  Joseph  Barton. 

On  the  same  day  at  3  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  will  be 
sold  at  the  Court  house  in  ^Tewtown,  the  yellow  house  ;  lot 
and  stable,  a  famous  stand  for  a  tavern  ;  late  the  property 
of  Joseph  Barton. 

Ou  the  same  day  and  place  will  be  sold  the  stone  house 
and  lot.  at  Xewtown,  convenient  for  publick  business  ;  late 
the  property  of  John  B.  Scott. 

Where  attendance  respectively  will  be  given  by  us, 

ISAAC  MARTIN        )  Commis- 
SAMUEL  MIEKER   j  sioners. 

The  subscriber  has  opened  a  vendue'-store  opposite  the 
Priiitiiig-Omce,  where  goods  of  all  sorts  are  received  for 
sale, 

JACOB  BENJAMIN. 

Trenton,  July  27,  1779. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  545 

ROBERT  SINGER  l 
Hath  for  Sale,  at  his  Store  in  Trenton, 

Superfine  scarlet  broadcloth,  brown,  blue  and  claret 
ditto,  with  linings  to  suit  them;  7-8  &  yard  wide 
Irish  linen,  coarse  ditto1;  calimancoes  of  different 
colours ;    cambrick,  lawns  and  muslins ;    an  assortment  of 
calicoes ;    chintzes ;    silk  handkerchiefs,  linen  and  check 
ditto ;   men's  silk  and  cotton  hose ;    assortment  of  silk  and 

1  The  earliest  mention  of  Robert  Singer,  of  Trenton,  in  the  records, 
is  in  a  deed  from  William  Motrris,  Esq.,  of  that  place,  who  for  £160 
conveyed  to  Singer  "That  messuage  and  tenement  &  Lott  of  land  Situate 
in  Trenton  where  Robt.  Singer  now  lives' — Beginning  at  the  southeast 
corner  of  said  house  at  Queen  Street  running  from  thence  along  said 
street  52  ft  5  inches  ;  thence  North  88  degrees  ;  West  111  ft  by  the  land 
of  said  Wm.  Morris  to  the  lot  of  James  Smithk  thence  by  the  same  South 
18  ft  8  in. ;  thence  by  land  of  Robt  Lettis  Hooper  South  78  deg,  East  26 
ft  8  in.  ;  thence  still  by  the  same  S.  one  deg.  30  min.  West  14  ft.  6  in.  ; 
thence  South  89  deg.  East,  by  said  Hooper  52  ft  3  in.  to  the  corner  of 
said  house ;  thence  along  by  the  west  end  of  the  said  house 
16  ft  ten  inches ;  thence  along  by  the  South  side  of  said  house 
30  ft  to  Queen  St  and  place  of  beginning." — N.  J.  Deeds,  Liber  AB,  f.  39. 
In  September,  1771,  he  was  a  member  of  the  congregation  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church  in  Trenton.  Dr.  Hall  says  :  "Robert  Singer  was  at  one 
time  connected!  in  merchandise  with  Bernard  Hanlon,  and  at  another  in 
the  auction  business  with  Francis  Witt.  Witt  kept  a  public  house  ;  at 
one  time  'the  Blazing  Star,'  at  another  'An  ordinary  at  the  sign  of  Dr. 
Franklin,  near  the  market.'  " — Hall's  Hist.  Pres.  Ch.  in  Trenton,  p.  249. 
On  July  28,  1773,  John  Rozell,  of  Hunterdon  county,  New  Jersey, 
carpenter,  and  his  wife,  Anne,  for  the  consideration  of  £56,  conveyed  to 
"James  Emerson  (Storekeeper),  Conrad  Kotts  (Taylor),  Robert  Singer 
(Barber),  Joseph  Toy  (Schoolmaster),  George  Ely  (Carpenter),  Alexr. 
Carr  (Chairmaker),  all  of  Trenton,  Jacob  Link  of  Kingsbury,  Burlington 
county,  Yeoman,  Richd  Sause  of  New  York  City  (Cutler),  &  Lamber  Wil- 
more,  of  the  City  of  Philadelphia,  Storekeeper,  all  as  trustees,  a  lot  on 
Queen  Street  in  Trenton,  with  the  lately  erected  house  for  a  Meeting  house 
for  the  Methodists,  John  Wesley,  late  of  Lincoln  College  Oxford,  Clerk,  to 
preach  there,  &c." — N.  J.  Deeds,  Liber  AF,  f.  197.  General  Stryker,  in 
his  "Trenton,  100  Years  Ago,"  says  (p.  12)  :  "There  was  a  building 
where  the  Trenton  House  now  stands,  owner  unknown.  George  Abbott 
afterward  occupied  it.  Next  a  small  brick  house  which  there  is  good 
reason  to  think  was  occupied  by  Wm.  Pidgeon.  Job  Moore,  a  hatter,  lived 
adjoining,  then  John  Singer,  dealer  in  dry  goods  and  liquors,  had  a  store." 
This  John  Singer  was  perhaps  a  son  of  Robert  Singer.  The  last. mention 
of  Robert  Singer  that  has  been  found  in  the  records  is  in  a  deed,  dated 
July  17,  1784.  from  Robert  Singer,  merchant,  of  Trenton,  and  wife,  Sarah, 
to  Joseph  Milnor,  of  the  same  place,  merchant,  for  the  consideration  of 

35 


NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

nett  gauze;  silk  #nd  thread  catgut;  broad  and  narrow 
ribbands  and  taste;  plain  and  flower' d  black  gauze;  black 
pelong  and  mode;  flowered  white  sattin;  green  tea,  and 
.good  sugar;  temple  spectacles;  wool  cards;  snuff;  scis- 
sors;  tooth  brushes;  serge  denim;  camblets ;  mettle 
buttons;  assortment  of  earthen  ware;  Russia,  sheeting,  and 
.a  quantity  of  other  articles  which  he  will  sell  a,s  low  as  the 
times  will  admit. 

— The  New- Jersey   Gazette,   Vol.   II.,  No.   84,  Aug.   4, 
1779. 

The  Trustees  of  the  Academy  of  Newark  are  earnestly 
requested  to  meet  at  Newark,  on  Friday  the  twentieth  day 
of  August,  at  Ten  o'clock  A.  M.  to  determine  what  must 
be  done  with  that  Institution  and  the  property  belonging 
to  it, 

TRENTON,  July  28. 

On  the  14th  instant  the  inhabitants  of  this  town  met 
•and  chose  a  Committee  of  nine  for  carrying  the  laws  of 
the  State  into  execution,  and  to  correspond  with  the  Com- 
Tnittee  of  Philadelphia. 
— The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  August  5,  1779. 

£3  16s.,  for  "a  lot  in  Trenton,  bounded  as  follows  :  Beginning  at  the 
northeast  corner  of  a  small  brick  House  belonging  to  sd.  Jos.  Milnor,  being 
also  a  corner  to  Robert  Singer's  garden  Lott,  but  now  in  sd  Robert 
Singer's  line;  thence  along  the  same  south  84%  degrees  east  64%  links 
±o  his  post  corner ;  thence  still  by  his  lott  south  one  degree  east  14  links 
to  a  post,  being  another  corner  of  sd  Robt.  Singer's  land,  now  in  a  line 
of  the  sdi  Joseph  Milnor's  land  ;  thence  along  the  same  north  89  degs. 
west  67  links  to  a  post  corner  of  sd  Robert  Singer's  land;  thence  still 
by  the  same  north  six  degs.  east  22%  links  to  the  place  of  beginning. 
Containing  one  perch  and  nine-tenths  of  a  perch."  Witnesses — Nathan 
Wright,  John  Singer. — X.  J.  Deeds,  Liber  AN,  p.  105. 


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NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS. 


547 


To  be  SOLD  by  Public  V endue, 

At  the  Coffee-house,  on  Thursday  the  nineteenth  inst. 
at  six  o'clock  in  the  evening. 

A  Certain  tract  of  Land  containing  one  hundred  acres, 
with  large  allowance,  situate  on  the  western  branch  of 
Oreat  Mantua  Creek,  called  Chestnut  Branch,  in  Green- 
wich township,  county  of  Gloucester,  western  division  of 


548  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 


August  9. 

A  Brig  Avas  seen  to  be  carried  into  Egg  Harbour  last 
Friday,  supposed  to  be  bound  in  here. 

We  hear  that  General  Washington's  Army  is  now  can- 
tooned  from  Fort-Defiance  to  Paramus,  and  that  the  Gen- 
eral's Head  Quarters  is  at  Smith's  Tavern,  in  the  Clove; 
that  several  large  flat-bottomed  Boats  had  lately  been  sent 
from  Trenton  over  Land  to  Xew-Windsor. 

We  have  .Reason  to  believe  the  Xumber  of  the  Rebels 
that  were  killed  by  the  Indians  near  Minisink,  as  men- 
tioned in  our  last,  was  not  in  the  least  exaggerated,  and 
among  the  number  slajn  was  Oapt.  William  Barker  of 
Elizabeth-Town,  and  5  other  Inhabitants  of  that  Place,— 
The  New-York  Gazette:  and  the  Weekly  Mercury,,  No: 
1451,  August  9,  1779. 

TREXTOX,  AUGUST  11. 

On  Saturday  se'nnight,  about  12  o'clock  at  night,  the 
house  of  Mr.  Thomas  Farr,  near  Crosswick's  Baptist  meet- 
ing-house, was  attacked  by  several  armed  men,  who  de- 
manded entrance.  Mr.  Farr  suspecting,  from  their  in- 
solent language,  and  the  unseasonable  time  of  night,  their 
intention  was  to  rob  the  house  ;  and  the  family  consisting 
only  of  himself,  his  wife  and  daughter,  barricaded  the 
door  as  well  as  he  could,  with  logs  of  wood,  and  stood  by 
one  of  them  to  support  it  against  the  assailants,  who,  by 
this  time,  were  beating  against  the  door  with  the  ends  of 
rails;  but  finding  that  they  could  not  get  in  there,  fired 
several  balls  through  the  front  door,  one  of  which  broke 
Mr.  Farr's  leg,  and  occasioned  him,  to  fall,  when  they  went 
to  the  back  door,  and  forceably  entered  the  house,  mortally 
wounded  Mr.  Farr  with  bayonets,  and  shot  his  wife  dead 
upon  the  spot.  Their  daughter  made  her  escape  after 
being  badly  wounded,  to  a  neighbouring  house.  The  vil- 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  549 

lainsi  finding  she  was  gone  to  alarm  the  neighbours,  and 
perhaps  being  struck  with  the  enormity  of  their  own  bar- 
barities, precipitately  went  oft'  without  any  plunder,  and 
have  not  yet  been  discovered. 

We  learn,  that  a  vessel  arrived  on  Saturday  last  at  Phila- 
delphia, in  ten  days  from  Charlestown,  South-Carolina, 
and  confirms  the  account  of  the  enemy's  retreat  from  the 
neighbourhood  of  that  city  to  Beaufort,  about  70  miles 
distant. 

Extract  of  a  letter  from  Wyoming,  July  31,. 1779. 

"You  see  by  the  following  extract  the  first  grand  manoeuvre  of  the 
Indians  this  season.  They  have  gone  down  to  attack  the  defenceless 
inhabitants,  to  draw  our  attention  from  our  present  expedition ;  but 
it  will  not  answer  their  purpose.  We  are  to  march  tomorrow  morning 

with  all  our  apparatus,  part  by  water  and  part  by  land,  for  —      . 

Our  troops  are  remarkably  healthy ;  and  if  we  should  have  a  sufficient 
supply  of  provisions,  with  the  smiles  of  Providence,  shall  be  able  to 
execute  our  business." 

Extract  of  a  letter  to  Major-General  Sullivan,  dated  Northumber- 
land, Thursday,  July  29,  A.  M. 

"The  enemy  yesterday  made  themselves  masters  of  Freeland's  fort, 
on  the  west  branch  of  the  Susquehannah,  upon  terms  of  capitulation, 
viz.  "The  men  to  remain  prisoners  of  war ;  the  whole  garrison  to  be 
plundered  by  the  Indians ;  and  the  women  to  go  free."  The  number 
of  the  enemy  appearing  before  the  fort  about  250,  one  third  British, 
the  residue  savages,  together  with  a  corps  de  reserve  at  some  distance 
of  100  men  ;  the  whole  under  the  command  of  Captain  M'Donald.  We 
have  now  at  Northumberland  100  men  to  oppose  the  enemy,  and  protect 
the  women  and  children,  whom  it  is  impossible  to  get  off.  We  expect 
to  be  attacked  every  hour,  as  we  are  the  most  frontier  garrison ;  and 
fear,  without  some  speedy  assistance,  we  must  fall  a  prey  to  savage 
barbarity.  The  enemy  have  collected  all  the  cattle  and  everything 
valuable  as  they  came :  we  therefore  beg  leave  to  give  it  as  our 
opinion,  that  a  party  of  men  thrown  across  the  country  will  retake 
their  plunder  and  every  thing  else. 

JOHN  COOK,  D.  I.  M.  G." 

Wednesday  last  Edward  Bunn,  Esq.  was  elected  a  Eep- 
resentative  in  General  Assembly,  for  the  county  of  Somer- 
set, in  the  room  of  the  Honourable  William  Churchill 
Houston,  Esq.  lately  appointed  a  Delegate  in  Congress. 


550 


NEW  JEESEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION. 


On  the  30th  ult.  eight  of  the  enemy's  cavalry  were  taken 
near  Tarrytown,  by  a  small  party  from  the  continental 
army;  three  of  the  horsemen,  who  were  formerly  in  the 
American  service,  and  had  deserted  to  the  enemy,  after 
surrendering  themselves,  attempted  to  escape,  hut  being- 
fired  upon,  and  otherwise  pretty  roughly  handled,  they  were 
subdued,  and  brought  in  prisoners  with  the  other  five,  A 
few  days  before,  sixteen  British  soldiers  were  also  made 
prisoners  near  the  same  place. 

Advices  from  the  North-River  mention,  that  the  enemy 
are  very  busy  throwing  up  works  and  fortifying  on  New- 
York  Island,  at  or  near  Hoorn's  Hook,  within  seven  miles 
of  the  city,  from  river  to  river  ;  that  they  have  lately  sent 
out  of  New-York,  a  number  of  Whig  families  ;  impressed 
all  the  carmen  and  other  persons,  to  the  number  of  about 
700,  and  put  them  on  board  armed  vessels  ;  and  that  they 
have  drawn  a  line  of  ships  across  the  narrows  ;  in  conse- 
quence, it  is  said,  of  their  fearful  apprehensions  of  the 
arrival  of  a  French  fleet  in  that  harbour,  which  has  thrown 
the  city  into  much  confusion  and  consternation. 

Sunday  morning  last,  two  companies  of  the  six  months 
men,  raised  for  the  defence  of  the  frontiers  of  this- 
State,  one  from  Gloucester,  the  other  from  Salem,  marched 
from  this  place  for  Elizabethtown,  to  join  their  regiment. 

*  £  *  The  Piece  signed  HORATIUS  is  received,  and  will 
be  inserted  in  our  next. 

THE  subscribers  for  this  Gazette,  on  the  Morristown 
road,  are  informed,  that  they  will  receive  their  papers  reg- 
ularly by  the  continental  post,  at  the  same  rates,  at  the 
respective  stages,  as  the  late  post-rider  carried  them  for: 
The  money  to  be  advanced  quarterly,  and  left  in  the  hands 
of  the  packet-masters  for 

SAMUEL  BORROWS. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  551 


NE  HUNDRED  DOLLARS  REWARD. 

STOLEN  from  the  subscriber  living  in  Sussex  county, 
Hardwich  township,  the  following  articles,  viz. — 
Two  pairs  of  leather  breeches,  two  pairs  of  streaked 
trowsers,  two  shirts,  four  pairs  of  stockings,  one  coat  and 
jacket,  two  silk  handkerchiefs,  one  pair  of  pillow  cases,  a 
number  of  men's  shoes,  and  one  pair  of  womens*  ditto',  a 
pair  of  silver  stock  clasps,  one  pair  of  ditto  sleeve  buttons, 
one  pair  of  copper  shoe  buckles,  one  pair  of  ditto  knee 
buckles,  a  pocket  book  with  about  30  s.  hard  cash,  and  about 
5  1.  old  currency,  and  one  bed  blanket. 

An  Old  England  man  named  Thomas  Taylor  being  sus^ 
pected  for  the  same;  had  on,  when  he  went  away,  a  linen 
co>at,  jacket  and  trowsers,  but  it  is  likely  he  will  change  his; 
dress,  as  he  had  other  cloathes  with  him,  and  a  narrow 
brimmed  hat ;  he  is  stoop^shouldered,  steps  long  and  heavy, 
is  about  five  feet  eight  inches  high,  and  between  25  and  3O 
years  old.  Whoever  takes  up  said  thief  and  secures  him, 
so  that  the  owner  may  have  his  goods  again,  and  the  thief 
brought  to  justice,  shall  have  the  above  reward,  and  reason- 
able charges,  or  Eighty  Dollars  for  the  goods  only,  by  me, 

JOHN  WILSON. 

WHEREAS  there  was  a  bond  given  by  John  Marts  to 
John  Corwine,  deceased,  of  Amwell,  in  the  county 
of  Hunterdon,  State  of  New-Jersey,  bearing  date 
the  2d  day  of  May,  1768,  &c.  and  the  said  bond  being  miss- 
ing,  if  any  person  or  persons  have  it  in  keeping,   and 
proving  their  property,  may  bring  it  to  Elizabeth  Marts,, 
executrix,  in  Amwell,  by  the  first  day  of  October  next,  she 
will  make  payment,  or  otherwise  lose  the  money  due  oh 
.said  bond. 

ELIZABETH  MARTS. 


5!)2         NEW  JEKSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779 

A  GOOD  PRESSMAN  is  wanted  immediately  by  the 
Printer  of  this  paper,  to  whom  the  highest  wages 
will  he  given. 

THE  subscriber  proposes  to  the  customers  for  the  New- 
Jcrsey  Gazette,  in  Monmouth  county,  to  carry  their 
papers  from  the  printing-office,  on  every  Wednes- 
day, on  the  following  terms,  viz.  To  Allentown,  for  7/6 
each  subscriber,  for  a  quarter;  to  Freehold  court  house, 
10s.  to  Shrewsbury,  15s.  to  Middletown,  15s.  and  to  Eng- 
lishtown,  10s.  The  cash  to  be  paid  by  the,  packet-masters, 
c.n  the  delivery  of  the  second  week's  papers,  after  he  begins 
to  ride.  Those  who  may  accept  the  above  proposals,  are 
requested  to  inform  the  Printer  hereof,  or  the  subscriber 
at  Cranberry. 

JOHN  VAN  KIRK. 


Burlington,  August  4,  1779. 

The  general  proprietors  of  West-Jersey,  having  re- 
ceived information,  that  sundry  lands  and  real 
estates,  which,  by  the  late  settlement  of  the  line 
between  New- York  and  Xew-Jersey,  are  found  to  lye 
within  the  division  of  West-Jersey,  but  have  been  located 
under  East- Jersey  rights  only,  are  likely  to  be  confiscated, 
and  sold  as  the  estates  of  sundry  refugees  who  have  joined 
the  army  of  the  king  of  Great  Britain.  The  West-Jersey 
proprietors  therefore,  at  a  meeting  holden  at  Burlington, 
on  the  3d  and  4th  instant,  having  taken  the  same  into 
their  serious  consideration,  and  it  appearing  unto  them 
clearly,  that  no  person  whatsoever  can  have  derived  any 
title  to  lands  lying  within  West-Jersey,  under  East-Jersey 
rights,  located  since  the  year  1718 ;  and  being  desirous, 
as  far  as  in  them  lies,  to  prevent  any  misapprehension 
respecting  the  title  to  the  said  lands,  do  hereby  give  notice, 
that  all  the  lands  lying  to  the  westward  of  the  true  line  of 
division,  between  East  and  West- Jersey,  that  is  to  say, 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  553 

within  the  angle  formed  by  the  ex  parte  line  run  by  John 
Lawrence,  and  the  place  where  the  true  line  will  run  from 
the  mouth  of  Maekhockamuck  to  the  station  point  at  Little 
Eggharbour,  which  have  been  located  under  East-Jersey 
rights,  and  not  since  covered  by  West-Jersey  rights,  are 
claimed  by  them,  (the  western  proprietors)  and  that  they 
will  be  under  the  disagreeable  necessity  of  instituting  suits 
at  law  against  all  and  every  person,  who  now  does  and 
hereafter  may  claim  title  to,  and  hold  the  possession  of 
the  said  lands,  or  any  part  thereof,  by  virtue  of  a  title 
derived  under  East- Jersey.  By  order  of  the  general  pro- 
prietors, 

DANIEL  ELLIS,  Register. 


IN  pursuance  of  an  act  of  general  assembly  of  the  state 
of  New-Jersey,  for  forfeiting  to,  and  vesting  in  the 
said  state,  the  real  estates  of  certain  fugitives  and 
offenders,  will  be  sold  at  publick  vendue,  on  Wednesday 
the  15th  day  of  September  next,  at  the  late  dwelling  house 
of  William  Green,  in  Hardwich,  in  the  county  of  Sussex, 
a  lot  of  land  containing  about  eight  acres,  on  which  is  a 
good  grist  mill  on  Paulenskirlu1  ;  also,  one  equal  undi- 
vided fifth  part  of  500  acres  (more  or  less)  of  upland  and 
meadow,  situate  at  the  Great  Meadows  in  Hardwich  afore- 
said, will  also  be  sold  at  the  same  time  and  place,  some 
good  milch  cows,  one  horse,  a  few  sheep  and  swine,  and 
some  articles  of  household  furniture;  late  the  estate  of 
William  Green. 

And  on  Thursday  the  16th  of  September,  will  be  sold 
at  vendue,  at  the  dwelling-house  of  Peter  Congle,  the  plan- 
tation on  which  the  said  Congle  now  lives,  in  Newtown, 
in  the  aforesaid  county  of  Sussex,  containing  about. 2 00 
acres  of  land,  bounded  by  the  lands  of  Amos  Pettit,  James 
Wilson,  Solomon  Doughty,  and  others;  late  the  estate  of 
John  Congle. 

1  Paulinskil. 


554  *      NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.      [1779 

Vendue  to  begin  at  1O  o'clock  in  the  forenoon  each  day, 
when  attendance  will  be  given  by 

WILLIAM  HANKENSON,     1  Commis- 
THOMAS  ANDERSON,          )  sioners. 
Aug.  2. 

THE  subscriber  takes  this  method  to  inform  the  pub- 
lick,  that  he  is  now  carrying  on  the  chair-making 
business,  at  his  shop  in  Princeton,  where  he  has 
chairs  and  sulkeys ;    likewise  desks,  drawers,  tables,  &c. 
also  an  eight  day  clock,  either  of  which  he  will  dispose  of 
for  country  produce,  or  continental  currency,  as  may  best 
suit  the  purchaser. 

ISAAC    ANDERSON.1 

Princeton,  Aug.  12. 

N".  B.     A  good  black-smith,  and  likewise  a  body-maker 
will  meet  with  good  encouragement,  by  applying  as  above. 


HAVING  obtained  permission  from  the  general  assembly 
of  this  state,  to  bring  in  a  bill  at  their  next  sitting, 
for  the  establishment  of  the  mill-dam,   near   the 
bridge  at  Earitan  landing;    This  is  therefore  to  notify  all 
persons   who  may  think   themselves   concerned,   that   the 
subscriber  intends  to  send  in  a  bill  for  said  purpose. 

CHARLES  SUDAM. 
Raritan  Landing,  Aug.  5,  1779. 
—New-Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  II. ,  No.  85,  Aug.  11,  1779. 


The  house   of   Capt.   Archibald   Kennedy,2   at   Second 
River  in  Xew  Jersey,  was  burnt  to  the  ground  last  Friday 

1  For  a  sketch  of  Isaac  Anderson,  see  Hageman's  "Princeton  and  Its 
Institutions,"  I.,  193.  He  had  a  son,  William,  who  married  Eliza,  daugh- 
ter of  John  Saunders,  of  Scotia,  near  Schenectady,  N.  Y.,  In  1802,  and  took 
up  his  residence  with  or  near  his  father,  in  Princeton. 

-  For  notices  of  Capt.  Kennedy,  see  New  Jersey  Archives,  IX.,  460,  and 
XXIV.,  'JOO. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  555 

afternoon;   the  fire  was  discovered  in  the  upper  part  of  the 
house  supposed  to  be  occasioned,  by  some  sparks  finding  a 
passage  through  a  crack  of  the  chimney.     It  was  one  of 
the  most  respectable  edifices  in  that  province. 
— The  Royal  Gazette,  No:  300,  August  14,  1779. 

CHATHAM,  August  10. 

Last  Friday  night  a  small  party  of  troops  stationed  at 
Elizabeth-Town,  made  an  excursion  to  Staten-Island,  and 
brought  off  two  of  the  enemy  in  arms,  without  opposition. 
Jacob  Mercereau  the  younger  is  one  of  them. 

NEW  YOKK,  August  16. 

A  Party  of  Rebel  Militia  commanded  by  two  Captains 
in  going  from  Monmouth  County  to  Elizabeth  Town,  to- 
act  as  6  Months  Men,  were  fired  upon  near  Woodbridge 
by  a  few  People  unknown,  when  the  commanding  Officer 
was  wounded  in  the  Thigh,  and  the  Rest  put  to  the  Rout,, 
several  of  them  having  been  wounded. 

A  Colonel  and  a  Major  of  Militia,  from  the  interior 
Part  of  the  Country,  who  had  been  very  zealous  in  perse- 
cuting the  Tories,  &c.  went  to  Tom's  River  about  a  Week 
since,  in  order  to  purchase  some  Goods,  were  both  killed 
on  their  Return  Home. 

The  Inhabitants  of  Sussex  County,  in  New-Jersey,  last 
Week  applied  to  their  Governor  for  a  Body  of  Men  to 
protect  them  against  the  Indians,  as  they  were  expected 
in  that  Part  of  the  Province,  but  he  informed  the  Me;S- 
senger,  that  the  County  must  protect  itself,  as  he  could 
afford  them  no  Succour. 

A  Motion  was  made  at  Elizabeth-Town  last  Thursday, 
to  remove  all  the  suspected  Persons  from  that  Place,  agree- 
able to  a  Law  lately  passed  in  that  Province;  but  the 
Motion  could  not  be  carried,  it  being  strongly  opposed  by 


556         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779 

Governor  Livingston,  who  said  it  was  impolitic  to  the 
highest  Degree,  and  that  it  would  only  increase  the  Num- 
ber of  their  Enemies. 

A  Snow  bound  in  here  last  Tuesday,  was  taken  within 
Sight  of  Sandy-Hook,  by  some  Rebel  Privateers ;  and  last 
Saturday  a  Fishing  Boat  was  taken  on  the  Banks  by  a 
small  Gun  Boat  from  some  Part  of  Jersey,  that  rowed  10 
Oars. 

Two  Militia  Captains  went  from  Princeton  a  few  Days 
since  to  purchase  some  Goods  at  Shrewsbury,  but  on  their 
return  home  one  of  them  was  killed. — The  New-York 
Gazette:  and  the  Weekly  Mercury,  No\  1452,  August  16, 
1779. 

Philadelphia,  August  12. 
WILL  BE  SOLD, 

At  the  Coffee  house,  at  Twelve  o'clock,  the  18th  of  the 

month 

A  CERTAIN  tract  of  LAXD,  containing  one  hun- 
dred and  sixty-two  acres,  situated  on  Timber  Creek  in 
Gloucester  county  and  township,  sixteen  miles  from  Phila- 
delphia, well  timbered  with  oak,  hickory  and  pine  fit  for 
boards  or  scantling,  about  ten  acres  clear,  a  house  and 
stable,  four  and  a  half  miles  from  the  landing.  The 
premises  would  suit  well  for  a  Glass-house. 

Any  person  inclining  to  purchase  before  the  day  of 
sale,  may  apply  to  PATRICK  LARKEY,  in  Water  street 
opposite  the  Porter  Brew-House. — The  Pennsylvania 
Packet,  August  17,  1779. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  557 

Mr.  COLLINS, 

I  FIND  many  people  rejoicing  at  the  news  of  Lord  Corn- 
wallis's  superseding  General  Clinton,  but  I  confess 
this  intelligence  is  no  joy  to  me.  For  tho7  I  scarcely 
remember  an  instance  of  any  man's  coming  from  that 
country  who  gave  the  least  proof  of  his  being  possessed  of 
common  sense,  till  he  had  been  seven  years  in  America, 
(and  before  the  expiration  of  such  apprenticeship,  the 
British  Generals  will  either  be  recalled  across  the  ocean 
by  their  master,  or  be  put  under  ground  by  us ; )  yet  there 
is  as  much  difference  between  one  blockhead  and  another, 
as  there  is  between  any  two  men  of  sense.  I  don't  indeed 
pretend  to  know  what  Comwallis  will  do,  besides  filling 
his  pockets  and  losing  his  character  (as  all  his  predecessors 
have  done)  but  I  am  pretty  confident  that  he  will  neither 
mistake  darkness  for  moonshine,  nor  campaign  it  from 
April  till  July  to  make  us  a  present  of  five  hundred  men, 
which  he  wants  more  than  we  do*; — • —  as  to  the  dirty 
business  of  burning  houses,  (which  immediately  originates 
from  the  two  principle  sources  of  all  evil,  the  Devil  and 
his  Majesty)  it  is  not  likely  to  stop  by  Clintons  removal, 
while  our  quondam  Sovereign  remains  the  vicegerent  of 
Satan,  and  employs  such  a  detestable  salamander  as  Try  on 
for  his  Deputy. 

HORATIUS. 
Mr.  COLLINS,  • 

//  you  think  the  enclosed  merits  a  place  in  your  paper, 
by  inserting  it  you  will  much  oblige 

An  Officer  of  the  American  Army. 


' 
558  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    KEVOI/CJTION.  [1779 

LET  venal  poets  praise  a  King 
For  virtues  unposses'd, 
A  Volunteer,  unbrib'd  I  sing, 
The  Hero  of  the  West. 

When  Gaul  came  on  with  rapid  stride, 

And  vict'ry  was  the  word, 
First  shone  his  country's  future  pride, 

And  flesh'd  his  maiden  sword. 

With  conquest  crown'd,  from  wars  alarms, 

To  study  bent  his  mind ; — 
"Equal  to  both,  to  arts  or  arms, 

"IndifFrently  inclin'd." 

Elate  with  fancied  pow'r  and  pride, 

Impell'd  by  angry  Jove ; 
Nor  fates  nor  justice  on  their  side, 

The  British  legions  move. 

With  them  a  tribe  of  foreign  slaves, 

A  mercenary  band, 
For  plunder  bold,  inur'd  to  blood, 

Invade  his  native  land. 

His  country  calls,  to  arms  he  flies, 

Nor  fears  a  tyrant's  frown ; 
Leads  heroes,  favour'd  by  the  skies, 

To  glory  and  renown. 

In  vain  the  British  tyrant  storms, 

His  thunders  fright  no  more, — 
His  hardy  vet'rans,  vainly  brave, 

Shall  fly  the  happy  shore. 

The  willing  Chiefs  around  him  throng, 

Impatient  of  delay  ; 
Their  noble  ardor  he  restrains, 

And  points  the  surer  way. 

Pursue,  Great  CHIEF,  the  glorious  race — 
Thy  country's  sword  and  shield ; — 

Thrice  happy  !    born  alike  to  grace 
The  senate  and  the  field. 

JULY  20,  1779. 


NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  559 


TRENTON,  AUGUST  18. 

His  Excellency  the  Governor  taking  into  consideration 
the  appointing  of  persons  in  the  several  counties  of  this 
state,  to  receive  subscriptions  and  transmit  the  same  to  the 
loan  office,  agreeable  to  the  resolution  of  Congress  of  the 
29th  day  of  June  last,  for  borrowing  twenty  millions  of 
dollars  on  interest,  has  appointed,  with  the  advice  of  the 
privy  council,  the  following  gentlemen  for  the  purposes 
in  the  said  resolution  expressed,  viz. 

For  the  county^  of  Hunterdon.  Nathaniel  Temple, 
.Joshua  Corshon,  David  Frazier. 

Middlesex.  William  Duerson,  Jacob  Martin,  Esq., 
-John  Anderson. 

Essex.  James  Caldwell. 

Monmouth.  Nicholas  Van  Brunt,  Peter  Schenck, 
^Esquires. 

Morris.  Henry  Remsen,  Esquire,  Col.  Ellis  Cook, 
David  Thompson,  Esquire. 

Bergen.  Hendricus  Kuyper,  D'avid  Board,  Peter  Har- 
Ting,  Esquires. 

Sussex.  Abijah  Brown,  Jacob  MacCollum,  John  Mac 
Murtrie,  Esquires. 

Gloucester.  John  Sparks,  Thomas  Denny,  Richard 
Westcoat,  Esquires. 

Salem.   Joseph  Bloomfield,  Esquire. 

Cumberland.  Ephraim  Seely,  Esquire. 

Somerset.  Major  William  Davidson,  John  J.  Schenck. 


Extract  of  a  letter  from  Philadelphia.,  dated  Aug.  11. 

"By  accounts  from  New- York,  it  is  said,  Lord  Corn- 
wallis  took  the  command  in  chief  on  the  first  inst.  and 
"Clinton,  Tryon,  Vaughan  and  Gray,  are  to  return  home. 

"As  soon  as  Byron  can  refit,  I  think  his  honour  requires 
"he  should  risque  another  action,  but  where  that  will  be, 
is  difficult  to  say,  as  the  hurricane  months  being  already 


560*        NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.      [1779 

set  in,  the  West-Indies  are  become  a  dangerous  theatre. 
Perhaps  our  coasts  will  be  the  next  scene  of  contention." 

We  hear  that  an  account  is  received  in  Philadelphia, 
that  three  large  British  store-ships  were  taken  by  the 
French,  a  few  days  after  the  sea-fight,  off  Grenada,  said 
to  be  valued  at  200,000  1.  sterling.  Should  this  prove 
true,  it  must  be  a  home-stroke  to  the  British  army  in  the 
West-Indies,  as  it  will  probably  reduce  it  to  distress  for 
want  of  provisions. 


Extract  of  a  letter  from  a  gentleman  at  Head-quarters, 
dated  August  11,  1779. 

"From  all  accounts  it  appears,  that  Count  D'Estaing 
has  given  the  British  fleet  a  drubbing.1  We  have  also  ac- 
counts here  of  our  people  having  taken  upwards  of  700, 
exclusive  of  carpenters  and  wood-cutters,  in  Massachu- 
setts government,  at  a  place  called  Peiiobscot.2  Every- 
thing this  campaign  seems  to  be  going  on  well,  and  I  hope, 
by  the  mouth  of  October,  wo  shall  convince  the  enemy, 
that  our  Independence  is  firmly  secured." 

By  a  vessel  arrived  at  Philadelphia  the  8th  instant, 
from  Cliarlestown  in  South-Carolina,  we  have  advices, 
that,  the  enemy  have  evacuated  that  state,  except  a  few 
troops  loft,  at  Port  Royal,  and  arc  gone  back  to  Georgia 
coast-wise. 

It  is  reported,  that  a  large  fleet  arrived  at  Sandy-Hook 
on  Saturday  night  last,  supposed  to  be  that  under -the  com- 
mand of  Admiral  Arbuthnot,  with  a  reinforcement,  which 
has  been  expected  some  time  past. 

1  Referring  to  the  capture,  by  d'Kstaing,  of  the  British  Islands  of 
Granada  and  St.  Vincent,  in  the  West  Indies-. 

-  As  a  matter  of  fact,  the  Boston  expedition  against  Penobscot  was  a 
dismal  failure. 


1779]  NUWSPAPEK    EXTRACTS.  561 

By  a  letter  from  Wy  a  loosing,  52  miles  above  Wyoming, 
dated  the  7th  inst.  we  learn,  that  our  army  arrived  there 
the  5th,  in  good  health  and  high  spirits,  without  being 
molested  on  the  way  by  the  Savages,  and  were  to  march 
the  next  day  for  Tioga,  35  miles  distant,  where  they  ex- 
pected to  arrive  the  10th,  from  whence  they  would  have 
but  12  miles  to  an  Indian  town  called  Chemung,  the 
enemy's  chief  place  of  rendezvous:  From  this  movement 
of  the  western  army  we  flatter  ourselves,  that  the  Savages 
will  be  drawn  off  from  our  frontiers,  where  they  have 
been,  for  some  time  past,  exercising  the  most  terrible  cruel- 
ties on  defenceless  women  and  children,  in  order  to  pro- 
tect their  own. 

A  list  of  Letters  remaining  in  the  Post-Office,  at  Tren- 
ton, July  5,  1779. 

B.  r\  apt.  Reading  Blont,  of  3d  North-Carolina  bat- 
w      talion.     Mr.  William  Benson,  near  Trenton. 

Henry  Budd,  Burlington. 

C.  Mr.    Thomas    Curtis,    Kingwood.       Burnet    Cook, 
Monmouth. 

D.  Joseph  Dennis,  Spottswood. 

E.  John  D.  P.  Ten  Eyck,  Paymaster  to  Colonel  Living- 
ston's regiment. 

F.  Rev.  Mr.  William  Frazer,  Amwell. 

H.  Mr.  Ralph  Hart,  John  Hart,  Esquire,  Amwell. 
Mr.  Henry  Harper,  near  Allentown. 

J.  Mr.  John  Johnson,  near  Mountholly. 

L.  Mr,  James  Leonard,  in  Somerset.  Richard  Lloyd, 
Allentown. 

M.  Mr.  John  Merryman,  Taunton  forge. 

R.  Colonel  David  Rhea,  Allentown.  Mr.  John  Ruther- 
ford, at  Richard  Stockton's,  Princeton. 

S.  Mr.  Benjamin  Smith,  Taylor,  Burlington.  Samuel 
H.  Sullivan,  Esquire,  2. 

W.  John  Woodford,  Princeton  College.  John  Wright, 
Bordentown. 

BENJAMIN  SMITH,  P.  M. 
36 


* 

562         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779 

STRAYED  or  stolen*  from  the  plantation  of  John  John- 
son, junior,  near  Princeton,  Somerset  county,  some 
time  in  May  or  June  last,  two  cows,  four  years 
old  last  spring,  one  red,  has  some  white  with  a  white  face ; 
the  other  brown,   and  white  spotted;    both  marked  with 
a  crop  in  the  near  ear,  and  slit  in  the  end,  also  slit  in  the 
end  of  the  off  ear.     Whoever  takes  up  said  cows,  or  sends 
word  so  that  the  owner  may  get  them  again,  shall  receive 
Sixteen  Dollars  reward,  or  Eight  Dollars  for  each,  paid  by 
the  subscriber, 

JOHN  JOHNSON,  jun.     Aug.  12. 

STRAYED  from  Major  Williamson's  pasture  yesterday 
in  the  afternoon,  a  bay  horse,  about  7  years  old, 
and  more  than  14  hands  high ;   he  has  a  large  head, 
is  shod  before,  trots  and  canters ;   and  has  been  galled  with 
the  girt  of  a  saddle.     Whoever  secures  said  horse,  so  that 
the  owner  can  get  him,  shall  receive  Twenty  Dollars :   The 
said  horse  was  purchased  at  the  north  branch  of  Raritan. 

JOHN  TAYLOR,  Leiut.  Col.  State  Regt. 
Elizabeth-Town,  July  5,  1779. 


To  all  whom  it  may  concern. 

^T  f  IV  OTICE  *s  nereDy  given,  .that  a  court  of 

•<   L\  admiralty  will  be  held  at  the  court 

Jersey,  ss.  •      -o     v  nvr      i 

(^  house    in    Burlington,    on    Monday 

the  loth  day  of  September  next,  at  10  o'clock  in  the  fore- 
noon of  the  same  day,  then  and  there  to  try  the  truth  of 
the  facts  alledged  in  the  bills  of  John  Field,  and  Stephen 
Decatur  (who  as  well,  &c.)  against  the  schooner  or  vessel 
called  the  Polly  Sly,  lately  commanded  by  Isaac  Royal 
Deiiston,  and  the  schooner  or  vessel  called  the  Yanke 
Witch,  lately  commanded  by  John  Atkinson ;  of  John 
Walton,  (who  as  well,  &c.)  against  the  sloop  or  vessel 
called  the  Happy  Family ;  and  of  James  Parker,  John 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTEACTS.  563 

Powell,  Jesse  Lucas,  Joseph  Poole,  Thomas  Mendenhall 
and  George  Caron,  (who  as  well,  &c.)  against  the  schooner 
or  vessel  called  the  Sukey,  lately  belonging  to  Brien  Con- 
ner, of  New  York;  of  Samuel  Ingersoll  and  David 
Stevens,  (who  as  well,  &c.)  against  the  schooner  Boone'; 
to  the  end  and  intent,  that  the  owner  or  owners  of  the  said 
vessels,  or  any  person  or  persons  concerned  therein,  may 
.appear  and  shew  cause,  if  any  they  have,  why  the  said 
vessels  and  their  cargoes  should  not  be  condemned,  accord- 
ing to  the  prayer  of  the  said  bills. 

By  order  of  the  Judge. 

Aug.  4.  Jos.  BLOOMFIELD,  Keg. 

— The  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  II.,  No.  86,  Aug.  18, 
1779. 

To  be  SOLD  by  Public  V endue, 

At  the  Coffee-house,  on  Thursday  the  nineteenth  inst.  at 
•six  o'clock  in  the  evening, 

A  Certain  tract  of  Land  containing  one  hundred  acres, 
with  large  allowance,  situate  on  the  western  branch  of 
Great  Mantua  Creek,  called  Chestnut  Branch,  in  Green- 
wich township,  county  of  Gloucester,  western  division  of 
the  state  of  New  Jersey.  On  said  land  is  a  good  frame 
house  with  two  rooms  on  a  floor,  and  a  good  spring  near 
the  door;  about  thirty  acres  of  said  land  cleared,  part  of 
which  is  an  apple  and  peach  orchard  about  forty  acres  of 
the  remainder  may  be  made  into  meadow.  The  place 
lays  within  half  a  mile  of  a  saw-mill,  on  a  road  leading  to 
Smith's  Landing,  and  within  four  miles  of  Woodberry, 
-and  sixteen  miles  from  Philadelphia. — The  Pennsylvania 
Packet,  August  19,  1779. 

New- York,  August  21. 

On  Thursday  morning  at  about  half  an  hour  past 
three  o'clock  a  detachment  from  Lord  Stirling's  division, 
•consisting  of  about  six  hundred  men,  attempted  a  Coup  de 


I 
564  NEW    JEESEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

main  upon  the  garrison '  at  Powles-Hook,  which  was  at- 
tacked by  one  hundred  rebels,  the  rest  being  posted  on  the 
heights  of  Bergen  to  secure  a  retreat;  they  succeeded  so 
far  as  to  carry  off,  as  we  are  informed,  twelve  of  the  royal 
artillery,  twelve  Hessians  and  a  serjeant  with  some  in- 
valids. They  were  repulsed  by  Major  Sutherland  who 
commanded  at  that  post.  The  preceding  evening  Colonel 
Buskirk  had  marched  with  a  detachment  of  upwards  of 
one  hundred  and  30  men  from  the  garrison,  upon  an  enter- 
prize  to  the  English  Neighbourhood. 

Early  in  the  morning  a  detachment  from  the  brigade 
of  the  Guards,  and  the  Hessians,  landed  at  Panics  Hook. — 
Major  Sutherland,  with  part  of  the  light-Infantry,  com- 
manded by  the  Hon.  Capt,  Maynard,  pursued  the  fugitive 
rebels,  took  Capt.  Meals,  of  Virginia,  and  six  privates  of 
the  assailing  party,  who  were,  yesterday  morning  lodged 
en  Provost. 

The  Guards  returned  with  their  prisoners  about  6 
o'clock,  after  having  marched  near  30  miles  without  halt- 
ing. Had  the  tide  proved  favourable,  not  a  single  animal 
of  the  rebel  host  would  have  escaped.  Col.  Buskirk  on  his 
sortie,  killed  a  number,  and  brought  into  Powles  Hook 
three  prisoners. 

(More  of  this  in  our  next.) 

Further  particulars  consequent  to  the  disappointment  of 
Lord  Stirling's  detachment  at  Powles-Hook. 

Thursday  morning  a  detachment  from  the  guards,  under 
the  command  of  the  Honourable  Col.  Gordon,1  was  landed 
at  Paulus  Hook,  and  soon  after  the  light-infantry  of  the 
said  party,  consisting  of  90  rank  and  file,  under  Captain 
Maynard,  were  ordered  to  march  in  pursuit  of  the  rebels, 
who  had  been  f  rustrated  in  an  attempt  upon  that  post,  they 
were  considerable  in  numbers,  and  said  to  be  commanded 
by  the  noted  Major  Lee  of  Virginia ;  the  march  was  con- 
ducted with  equal  alertness,  regularity  and  discipline,  and 

1  Lieutenant-Colonel  Cosmo  Gordon,  of  the  3d  Regiment  of  Foot-Guards. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  565 

after  a  close  pursuit  of  15  miles  (having  recovered  two  of 
the  garrison  who  were  taken  off  by  the  rebels  from  Paulus- 
Hook  and  made  prisoners  some  few  of  the  enemy)  finding 
by  intelligence  that  the  rebel  partizan  with  his  force  had 
passed  and  taken  up  the  bridge  at  New-Bridge,  and  that 
Col.  Buskirk's  party,  with  whom  he  had  intended  to  form 
a  junction,  had  begun  their  retreat,  he  thought  it  prudent 
to  march  back  and  join  the  main  body  under  Col.  Gordon, 
which  he  effected  after  having  fallen  in  with  Col.  Bus- 
kirk,  whose  detachment  he  found  drawn  up  on  the  heights 
of  Bergen;  the  light-infantry  having  been  allowed  two 
or  three  hours  to  refresh  themselves,  embarked  in  flat- 
boats  and  arrived  at  New- York  between  twelve  and  one 
o'clock  on  Friday  morning. 

Ensign  Barrett  of  the  70th  regt.  who  went  a  volunteer 
with  the  light  infantry,  being  upon  the  march  detached 
with  a  small  party  by  Capt,  Maynard,  surprised  in  a 
house  near  the  Three  Pidgeons  the  noted  rebel  Capt. 
Meals,  whom  he  made  prisoner,  and  upon  whom  he  found 
the  orders  and  dispositions  from  Major  Lee  relative  to  the 
march  and  attack  upon  the  works  at  Paulus  Hook.—  The 
humanity  of  Mr.  Barrette  was  such,  that,  tho'  he  found 
Meal's  arms  with  him  in  the  same  room,  and  his  boots  and 
cloaths  dirty  from  his  march  that  morning  with  the  rebels, 
from  whom  he  had  some  short  time  before  parted,  yet  he 
restrained  the  soldiers  from  putting  him  to  death. 

Mr.  Barrett  at  the  English  Neighbourhood  destroyed  a 
rebel  armory  consisting  of  a  large  number  of  gunsmiths 
implements,  and  a  great  quantity  of  musquet  locks,  bay- 
oanets,  &c. 

NEW-YOKK,  August  21. 

Last  night  arrived  at  Sandy  Hook  the  schooner  Irish 
Hero,  Capt.  Carre,  who  left  New  York  18  days  ago ;  off 
Chingoteague  he  decoyed  a  pilot  landed  16  men,  attacked 
and  took  a  fort  garrisoned  by  20  men,  spiked  two  guns  of 


566  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [17791 

18  pounders,  made  prize  of  a  sloop  with  6  four  pounders 
and  20  men,  a  schooner  with  300  barrels  of  flour  and 
burned  two  schooners  ;  while  he  remained  there  two  pieces 
of  artillery  were  brought  to  fire  upon  the  little  Hero,  and 
after  a  cannonade  of  many  hours  he  happily  escaped  with- 
out any  material  injury.  The  prisoners  he  took,  amount- 
ing to  28,  were  landed,  and  Capt,  Carre  has  brought  a 
receipt  for  them  from  Colonel  George  Corbyn.  On  Capt. 
Carre's  approach  to  Sandy  Hook  he'  re-took  the  sloop- 
Gower  from  New-Providence  with  dispatches  for  govern- 
ment.— The  Royal  Gazette,  No.  302,  August  21,  1779. 


New- York,  August  23. 

The  Snow  mentioned  in  our  last  to  be  taken  off  Sandy- 
Hook,  proves  to  be  the  Dashwood  Pacquet,  Capt,  Roberts, 
with  the  June  Mail  from  Falmouth,  which  Place  he  left 
the  15th  of  that  Month,  but  last  Wednesday  Week  was 
taken  by  four  rebel  privateers,  after  the  letters  were  sunk,, 
but  fortunately  the  Hon.  Capt.  Elphinston,  in  his 
Majesty's  ship  Perseus,  coming  in  sight  as  the  enemy  were 
carrying  her  into  port,,  she  was  retaken  and  brought  in  on 
Monday  with  the  Georgia  fleet ;  the  privateers  got  away 
greatly  assisted  by  means  of  their  oars  in  calm  weather. 

This  packet  had  been  attacked  on  the  passage  long  (38, 
lat  30,  by  a  schooner  of  14  guns,  crowded  with  men,  which 
she  beat  off  after  an  engagement  of  15  minutes,  and  about 
4  league  N.  W.  and  by  X  from  Sandy  Hook,  the  weather 
calm  two  privateers  rowed  alongside  of  her,  who  she  en- 
gaged two  hours,  when  two  more  privateers  rowing  up 
to  their  assistance  the  Dashwood  after  suffering  greatly 
in  her  masts,  rigging  and  sails ;  and  being  reduced  to  a 
wreck,  was  constrained  to  submit, — The  New-York 
Gazette:  and  the  Weekly  Mercury,  No.  1453,  August  23, 
1779. 


1779]  NEWSPAPEK    EXTRACTS.  567 

On  the  evening  of  the  18th  inst.  Lieut.  Col.  Buskirk,  in 
consequence  of  intelligence  received  of  the  rebels  intend- 
ing to  carry  off  the  forage  and  grain  from  the  English 
Neighbourhood  and  Bergen,  marched  with  a  part  of  the 
4th  Battalion  of  New  Jersey  Volunteers,  and  about  30  of 
the  garrison  Battalion  from  Powles-Hook,  towards  the 
liberty  pole,1  near  which,  they  lay  concealed  till  after  sun- 
rise, when  they  observed  a  considerable  body  of  rebels 
moving  towards  the  New-Bridge,  which  induced  them  to 
think  their  design  had  been  discovered;  they  therefore 
moved  into  the  main  road,  where  they  found  themselves 
in  the  center  of  a  column  of  600  rebels,  who  were  return- 
ing from  Powles-Hook ;  it  being  no  time  to  deliberate,  they 
attacked  the  enemy  with  such  spirit  that  notwithstanding 
their  great  superiority  in  numbers,  put  them  to  the  rout, 
killed  five,  wounded  many,  took  three  prisoners,  and  threw 
them  into  such  confusion,  as  obliged  them  to  throw  away 
coats,  knapsacks,  hats,  &c.  and  30  stands  of  arms,  which 
were  mostly  destroyed ;  at  which  time  fresh  troops  coming 
to  the  rebels  assistance,  they  began  to  form,  and  endeavour, 
by  moving  on  the  right  and  left  of  the  Colonel's  party,  to 
surround  it,  which  pointed  out  the  necessity  of  pushing  for 
the  height,  to  gain  which,  was  a  matter  of  contest  for  some 
time,  at  about  60  yards  distance,  when  perceiving  the 
rebels  (from  the  advantage  of  ground)  were  likely  to  suc- 
ceed, the  men  were  ordered  to  fix  bayonets  and  advance 
briskly,  which  so  disconcerted  them,  that  they  immediately 
wheeled  to  the  right  and  left  and  let  the  party  continue 
their  rout  to  Powles  Hook  without  farther  interruption, 
and  without  the  loss  of  a  single  man  either  of  the  4th  or 
garrison  battalion.  The  conduct  of  the  Officers  and 
Privates  of  both  was  such,  as  justly  entitled  them  to 
applause. 

As  the  last  Saturday's  paper  has  not  fully  represented 
all  the  facts  relative  to  the  attack  on  Powles-Hook,  on  the 
19th  inst.  the  following  is  a  further  relation  of  them : 

1  Now  Englewood,  Bergen  county. 


568*  NEW    JEESEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

That  nearly  about  half  an  hour  after  two,  the  rebels  in 
three  divisions  (exceeding  400  men)  passed  the  ditch  in 
front  of  the  abbatis,  about  20  yards  from  the  abbatis  where 
they  were  fired  upon  by  a  few  centries,  but  having  seized 
immediately  on  the  block-house  guards  (who  in  place  of 
defending  their  post,  ran  out  to  see  what  was  the  matter) 
they  proceeded  to  the  work,  which  they  soon  became 
masters  of,  with  the  cannon,  &c,  But  they  were  so  con- 
fused and  alarmed,  they  neither  spiked  the  cannon,  nor 
damaged  the  barracks,  or  made  any  other  use  of  their  vic- 
tory, than  carrying  off  about  100  prisoners,  among  whom 
there  are  ten  Hessians  (whose  loss  is  much  regretted)  and 
four  officers  of  Col.  Buskirk's  battalion,  and  plundering  a 
few  women. 

This  panic  amongst  them  was  occasioned  by  an  inces- 
sant fire  kept  on  them  from  a  small  redoubt  into  which 
Major  Sutherland  threw  himself  with  a  Captain,  Sub- 
altern, and  25  gallant  Hessians,  on  the  first  alarm.  The 
rebels  repeatedly  challenged  the  redoubt  to  surrender,  or 
they  would  bayonet  them,  to  which  they  received  a  fire 
and  Xo,  for  answer.  About  half  after  8  o  clock  Major 
Sutherland  was  joined  by  one  light  infantry  company  of 
the  guards,  under  command  of  Captain  Dundass  with 
which  he  immediately  marched,  and  Captain  Maynard 
was  shortly  after  ordered  to  follow.  Major  Sutherland 
inarched  both  companies,  in  order  to  succour  Colonel  Bus- 
kirk,  and  after  going  about  fifteen  miles,  he  found  that 
Colonel  Buskirk  had  a  smart  engagement  with  the  rebels 
some  time  before,  and  had  returned.  There  were  a  few 
prisoners  made,  amongst  whom  is  a  Capt.  Meale,  who  was 
found  asleep  from  the  great  fatigue  he  underwent;  and 
surely  unless  he  had  been  a  Livingston,  Laurens,  or  Adams, 
he  could  not  in  that  situation  forfeit  his  claim  to  British 
valour  and  humanity. — 

Major  Sutherland  finding  one  object  of  his  march 
answered,  by  Colonel  Buskirk's  being  safe,  and  100  men 
not  sufficient  to  answer  his  other  intentions,  returned ; 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  569 

this  charming  body  of  men,  having  made  a  march  of  about 
30  miles  in  less  than  10  hours. — The  Royal  Gazette, 
No.  303,  August  25,  1779. 


BY  His  EXCELLENCY 
WILLIAM  LIVINGSTON,  Esquire. 

Governor,,  Captain-General  and  Commander  in  Chief  in 
and  over  the  8tate  of  New^Jersey.,  and  Territories 
thereunto  belonging.,  Chancellor  and  Ordinary  in  the 
same; 

PROCLAMATION. 

WHEREAS  the  United  States  of  America  in  congress  assembled 
did,  on  the  ninth  day  of  July  last,  resolve,  "That  the  Execu- 
tive Powers  of  each  state  be  earnestly  requested  instantly 
"to  make  the  strictest  inquiry  into  the  conduct  of  every  per- 
"son  within  such  state  respectively,  employed  either  in  the  Quarter- 
"master  General's  or  Purchasing,  or  Issuing  Commissary  General's 
"department ;  and  in  case  of  any  kind  of  misbehaviour,  or  strong  sus- 
picion thereof,  in  any  such  person,  not  being  an  officer  immediately 
"appointed  by  Congress,  to  remove  or  suspend  every  such  person,  order- 
ing him  at  their  discretion  to  be  prosecuted  at  the  expense  of  the 
"United  States,  and  to  appoint  another  in  his  place,  if  necessary  ;  and 
"so  from  time  to  time,  as  occasion  may  be,  giving  notice  to  the  Board 
"of  War,  and  also  to  the  Quartermaster  General  or  Commissary  Gen- 
"eral  in  whose  department  such  removal  or  suspension  shall  be,  of  the 
"change ;  the  person  so  appointed  to  have  the  same  authority  and  pay 
"which  the  person  removed  had  been  vested  with  or  intitled  to,  or  such 
"pay  as  the  said  Executive  Powers  respectively  shall  agree  for,  to  be 
"in  like  manner  subject  to  the  head  of  the  department  to  which  he 
"belongs,  and  to  observe  all  the  regulations  for  the  government  of 
"Deputy  Quartermasters  and  Deputy  Commissaries  respectively  ;  and 
"that  the  Executive  Powers  of  each  state  be  in  like  manner  requested 
"to  inquire  into  the  number  of  persons  employed  in  the  Quartermaster 
"General's  or  Commissarie's  department,  and  immediately  to  discharge 
"such  as  shall  be  adjudged  unnecessary."  And  whereas  the  said  reso- 
lution of  Congress  will  be  more  effectually  carried  into  execution  in 
this  state,  and  the  proceedings  of  the  Executive  Power  in  pursuance 
thereof  greatly  facilitated  by  the  previous  voluntary  information  of 
such  credible  persons  under  whose  more  immediate  observation  such 
misbehaviour  or  unnecessary  number  of  officers  in  the  said  depart- 


57(t  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

ments  may  have  fallen;  ^r  who  from  their  local  situation,  personal 
intercourse,  or  other  circumstances,  may  at  present  be,  or  hereafter 
become  acquainted  therewith.  And  forasmuch  as  it  is  the  duty  of 
every  citizen  of  America  to  disclose  every  kind  of  misbehaviour  in 
the  servants  of  the  United  States,  and  to  prevent  an  unnecessary 
number  of  officers  from  being  employed  in  the  said  departments,  in 
order  that  such  delinquents  and  supernumeraries  may  respectively  be 
brought  to  justice  or  discharged :  And  it  being  more  especially  to 
be  expected  that  all  Magistrates  and  others  invested  with  civil  au- 
thority, will  manifest  their  zeal  for  the  common  cause,  and  a  becoming 
concern  for  the  public  interest,  by  every  proper  exertion  for  ac- 
complishing the  important  purposes  by  the  said  resolution  of  Congress 
intended.  I  HAVE  THEREFORE  THOUGHT  FIT  to  issue  this  proclamation, 
earnestly  to  recommend  it  to  every  citizen  of  this  state  who  now  is,  or 
hereafter  may  become  acquainted  with  any  kind  of  misbehaviour,  or 
strong  suspicion  thereof,  in  any  person  employed  in  this  state,  in  the 
Quartermaster  General's  or  Purchasing  or  Issuing  Commissary  Gen- 
eral's department,  or  with  the  number  of  persons  employed  in  the 
Quartermaster  General's  or  Commissary's  department  in  any  partic- 
ular township  or  district  in  this  state,  to  represent  the  same  to  some 
neighboring  Justice  of  the  Peace,  and  to  declare  such  his  knowledge 
upon  oath  or  affirmation,  together  with  his  opinion  respecting  the 
supernumeraries,  if  any,  employed  in  such  township  or  district,  with 
the  reasons  of  such  his  opinion  :  And  every  Justice  of  the  Peace  to 
whom  such  representation  shall  be  made  is  hereby  requested  to  reduce 
the  same  to  writing  in  the  form  of  an  affidavit ;  and  after  having  duly 
sworn  or  affirmed  the  informant  thereto,  to  transmit  the  same  to  me, 
with  such  further  intelligence  as  he  the  said  Justice  may  himself  of 
his  own  knowledge  or  observation  be  able  to  communicate  respecting* 
the  premises  :  To  the  end,  that  if  the  information  so  transmitted  shall 
appear  to  contain  sufficient  matter  of  accusation  as  to  the  misbe- 
haviour of  any  person  so  as  aforesaid  employed,  or  proper  grounds  for 
considering  him  as  a  supernumerary,  the  party  thereby  affected,  (not 
being  an  officer  immediately  appointed  by  Congress)  may  be  notified 
to  attend,  and  be  heard  in  his  defence,  and  finally  continued  in,  or 
removed,  suspended  or  discharged  from  his  office,  as  the  case  upon 
further  examination  shall  require. 

(Urcn  under  my  Hand  and  tical  at  Arms,  at  Bridgcwatcr,  the  scvcn- 
t cen tli  Dai/  of  August,  in  the  Year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  seven 
hundred  and  seventy-nine,  and  in  the  fourth  year  of  the  Independence 
of  America. 

WIL.  LIVINGSTON. 

P>y  His  Excellency's  Command. 

Wm.  Livingston,  jun.  D.  Sec. 
GOD  SAVE  THE  PEOPLE. 


1779]         .  NEWSPAPEK    EXTRACTS.  571 

BY  His  EXCELLENCY 

• 

WILLIAM  LIVINGSTON,  Esquire. 

Governor,  Captain-General  and  Commander  in  Chief  'in 
and  over  the  State  of  New^Jersey,  and  Territories 
thereunto  belonging.,  Chancellor  and  Ordinary  in  the 
same; 

PROCLAMATION. 

WHEREAS  it  has  been  duly  represented  to  me,  in  council,  by  the 
oaths  of  credible  witnesses,  that  in  the  night  of  the  thirty- 
first  of  July  last,  Thomas  Far  and  his  wife  were  most  bar- 
barously murdered  in  the  house  of  the  said  Far,  in  the  county  of 
Monmouth,  by  a  number  of  persons  unknown ;  and  also  that  in  the 
night  of  the  twenty-first  of  June  last,  the  house  of  -a  certain  Andrews, 
in  the  said  county,  was  violently  and  feloniously  broke  open  and  plun- 
dered by  one  Lewis  Fenton,  and  a  number  of  other  persons  unknown, 
and  other  felonious  outrage  and  violence  committed  upon  the  persons 
then  in  the  said  house,  being  the  good  subjects  of  this  state ;  which 
said  Fenton  is  also  suspected  to  have  headed  the  gang  of  those 
who  murdered  the  said  Far  and  his  wife. — I  HAVE  THEREFORE 
THOUGHT  FIT,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Honour- 
able Privy  Council,  to  issue  this  Proclamation,  hereby  promising  the 
reward  of  Five  Hundred  Pounds  to  any  person  who  shall  apprehend 
and  secure  the  said  Lewis  Fenton,  and  Three  Hundred  Pounds  for 
apprehending  and  securing  any  of  the  persons  concerned  with  him  in 
perpetrating  the  said  murders,  or  either  of  them ;  and  Two  Hundred 
and  Fifty-Pounds  for  apprehending  and  securing  any  of  the  persons 
concerned  in  breaking  open  and  plundering  the  house  of  the  said 
Andrews,  and  committing  the  outrages  and  violences  aforesaid,  so  as 
the  said  criminals  that  shall  be  apprehended  be  legally  convicted  of 
the  crimes  wherewith  they  stand  respectively  charged. 

Given  under  my  Hand  and  Seal  at  Arms,  at  Millstone,  the  eighteenth 
day  of  August,  in  the  Year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  seven  hundred 
and  seventy-nine,  and  in  the  .fth  Year  of  the  Independence  of  America, 

WIL.  LIVINGSTON. 

By  His  Excellency's  Command. 

William  Livingston,  jun.  D.  Sec. 

TRENTON,  AUGUST  25. 

"The  militia  of  this  state  are  directed  to  hold  them- 
"selves  in  readiness  to  assemble  on  the  shortest  notice,  and 
"to  be  attentive  to  the  signals ;  and  the  persons  appointed 


572         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779 

"to  fire  the  beacons,  ate  to  have  everything  in  readiness  to 
"give  the  alarm  on  a  moment's  warning." 

Extract  of  a  letter  from  Mr.  James  Abeel,  D.  I.  M.  G.  to 
His  Excellency  Governor  Livingston,  dated  Morris- 
town,  Aug.  21,  1779. 

"I  congratulate  your  Excellency  on  the  success  of  our 
arms  -  -  Lord  Stirling  has  taken  Paulus-Hook,  and  made 
160  British  prisoners,  with  the  loss  of  five  men  on  our  side. 
It  is  said  the  party  that  attacked  the  fort  was  commanded 
by  Major  Lee,  and  [that  it]  was  carried  without  firing  a 
gun." 

Yesterday  about  150  of  Col.  Baylor's  regiment  of  light- 
dragoons  arrived  here  from  Philadelphia,  on  their  way 
to  camp,  under  the  command  of  Lieutenant  Colonel  Wash- 
ington. 

By  a  letter  from  Tioga,  dated  the  15th  instant,  we  learn, 
that  General  Sullivan  with  the  army  had  arrived  at  that 
place  the  llth  instant,  without  molestation.  On  his  way 
he  burnt  an  Indian  town  called  Xew  Kittanning.  On  the 
12th  at  night  the  whole  army  moved  to  Chemung,  12  miles 
distant,  in  order  to  surprize  a  number  of  Indians  there, 
but  they  having  previous  notice,  evacuated  the  town,  which 
our  army  destroyed,  with  all  the  corn,  &c.,  in  its  vicinity. 
While  the  town  was  on  fire  a  detachment  of  light  infantry 
were  ordered  to  move  forward,  who  were  fired  on  by  the 
savages,  by  which  6  were  killed  and  9  wounded.  Our 
men  bravely  returned  the  fire,  and  then  rushed  on  with 
fixed  bayonets,  which  immediately  put  the  enemy  to  flight. 
A  party  of  our  troops  who  were  ordered  to  cut  up  the  corn, 
were  fired  upon,  by  which  one  man  was  killed  and  five 
wounded.  The  enemy's  loss  in  these  skirmishes  was  not 
known.  Our  army,  having  compleated  their  business  at 
Chemung,  returned  to  Tioga. 

Thursday  morning  last  Major  Lee,  with  his  corps  of 
light  dragoons,  and  a  detachment  of  light  infantry,  sur- 
prized the  enemy's  post  at  Paulus-Hook,  and  brought  of! 
100  prisoners. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  573 

*  %*  TIMOLEON'S  answer  to  Mr.  Dunham  was  received 
in  the  beginning  'of  July  last,  but  because  of  its  length, 
and  a  continual  croud  of  other  important  matter,  it  has 
been  deferred. 

The  TRUE  PATRIOT  is  also  received,  and  shall  have  a 
place  as  soon  as  possible. 

The  Proceedings  of  the  Brunswick  and  Raritan  Com- 
mittees are  deferred  till  our  next,  for  want  of  room. 

THE  subscriber  having  engaged  to  furnish  the  Quarter- 
master-General's department  with  a  large  quantity 
of  cord-wood  the  ensuing  winter,  will  give  good 
wages  to  as  many  wood-cutters  as  will  offer,  to  be  paid  a 
part  in  money,  and  part  in  salt,  if  they  chuse  it,  at  the 
regulated  price, 

ARCHIBALD  M'ELROY. 


TO  BE  SOLD. 

A  Valuable  tract  of  land,  adjoining  Barnegat  Bay,  near 
Tom's  river,  in  the  town  of  Dover,  Monmouth 
county,  containing  about  1000  acres,  about  280 
acres  of  salt  meadow,  30  acres  of  cedar  swamp,  (part  of 
which  is  very  good)  about  50  acres  of  upland  cleared,  and 
fenced  with  cedar ;  a  new  framed  dwelling-house  thereon, 
20  feet  by  26,  with  two  fire-places  on  the  first  floor,  and  a 
stone  cellar  under  the  samei,  also  a  kitchen  adjoining,  of 
16  feet  square,  with  a  brick  oven  and  a  well  at  the  door: 
The  remainder  wood-land.  The  land  is  good  for  rye, 
Indian  corn,  and  for  raising  stock,  and  as  well  situated  for 
manufacturing  salt  as  almost  any  in  New-Jersey.  It  will 
be  sold  together  or  bo  divided  as  shall  suit  the  purchaser. 
For  terms  apply  to  Abiel  Akin,  Esquire,  at  Tom's  river,  or 
the  subscriber  on  the  premises. 

JAMES  MOTT,  jun. 


.574  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

ON  Monday  the  *3  Oth  inst.   at  the  house  of  Andrew 
Steelman,   in   Gloucester  county,   will  be   sold   at 
vendue,  the  hull,  sails  and  rigging,  of  the  Schooner 
Lawrence,  lately  stranded  on  Absecon  Beach. —     Also  her 
cargo  consisting  of  about  20  hogsheads  of  rum,  80  pieces 
-of  linen,  some  salt,  sugar,  &c. 

By  order  of  the  court  of  admiralty, 

Jos.  POTTS,  Marshal. 
New- Jersey,  Aug.  20. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

A  Likely  MARE,  six  years  old,  with  a  sucking  Colt ;   they 
are  at  Mr.  John  Stevens's,  near  Trenton. 

WHEREAS  inquisitions  have  been  found,  and  final 
judgment  entered  thereon,  in  favour  of  the  state, 
against  Thomas  Russell,  John  Demun,  Miles 
Shearbrook  of  Middlesex  county,  and  William  Burton, 
late  of  Somerset  county, — Notice  is  hereby  given,  that  the 
lands  and  tenements,  and  all  the  estates,  real  and  per- 
sonal, lately  belonging  to  the  above  offenders,  will  be 
exposed  to  sale,  as  follows,  to  wit,  Miles  Shearbrook,  one 
third  of  a  valuable  estate  at  Spottswood,  consisting  of 
forges,  grist-mills,  dwelling  houses,  carriages,  stock, 
negroes,  &c.  The  sales  to  begin  on  the  premises,  at  nine 
o'clock  on  Monday  the  27th  of  September  next. — On 
Tuesday  the  28th  of  September,  at  ten  o'clock,  will  be 
sold  at  Brunswick,  a  piece  of  land,  late  the  property  of 
William  Burton;  and  a  brew-house  and  other  property, 
late  belonging  to  John  Demun,  HOAV  in  the  possession  of 
Wm.  Y.  Dusen. — On  the  30th  of  September,  at  three 
o'clock,  a  house  and  lot  near  Princeton,  late  the  property 
of  Thomas  Russell,  to  be  sold  at  Col.  Hyer's. 

WILLIAM  Sc UDDER,    )  Commis- 
JOHN  LLOYD  j  sioners. 

Middlesex  County,  Aug.  21,  1779. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  575 

For  Sale  at  publick  Vendue, 

On  Thursday  the  ninth  day  of  September, 

A  Plantation  containing  135  acres  of  land,  in  the  county 
J\.  of  Middlesex,  and  state  of  New-Jersey,  and  has  on 
it  a  good  two  story  house,  four  rooms  on  a  floor,  a 
cellar  under  it,  a  good  barn,  and  other  buildings,  a  good 
well  of  water  near  the  door,  and  plenty  of  orchards  and 
meadow,  with  30  acres  of  excellent  timber,  all  lying  but 
two  miles  from  Cranberry  town  and  mills,  on  the  north 
side  of  the  mill  brook,  which  series  for  a  good  fence  for 
near  50  chains,  and  is  but  7  miles  from  Princeton  college, 
being  near  the  great  road  that  leads  from  thence  to  Mon- 
mouth  courthouse:  The  land  is  good  for  grass  or  grain, 
and  may  be  seen  by  applying  to  the  subscriber  on  the 
premises,  who  will  give  a  good  title  to  the  purchaser. 
Also,  will  be  sold  the  same  day,  cattle,  sheep,  swine,  bees, 
household  furniture  of  various  sorts,  and  farmers  utensils. 

The  vendue  to  begin  at  ten  o'clock  of  the  above-said  day, 
on  the  premises,  when  due  attendance1  will  be  given,  and 
the  conditions  made  known  by  me, 

JOHN  SKINNER. 

To  all  whom  it  may  concern. 

"New-  "VToTiCE  is  hereby  given,  that  a  court  of  ad- 

Jersey,  ss  ll  miralty  will  be  held  at  the  courthouse 
in  the  city  of  Burlington,  on  Monday 
the  13th  day  of  September  next,  at  ten  o'clock  in  the  fore- 
noon of  the  same  day,  then  and  there  to  try  the  truth  of 
the  facts  alledged  in  the  bill  of  Samuel  Ingersoll,  (who  as 
well,  &c.)  against  the  following  negro  slaves  lately  cap- 
tured by  him,  to  wit,  Edward  M'Cuffe,  William  Bristol, 
John  Coleman,  Joseph,  Cato,  and  Richard,  to  the  end  and 
intent,  that  the  owner  or  owners  of  the  said  negro  slaves 


57$         NEW  JEKSEY  IN  THE  KEVOLUTION.       [1779 

or  either  of  them,  or*  any  person  or  persons  concerned  in 
them,  may  appear  and  shew  cause,  if  any  they  have,  why 
the  said  negro  slaves  should  not  be  condemned,  as  forfeited 
to  the  use  of  the  captors,  according  to  the  prayer  of  the 
said  bill. 

By  order  of  the  Judge, 

Jos.   BLOOMFIELD,  Reg. 

Aug.  17,  1779. 


To  all  whom  it  may  concern. 

~VToTiCE  is  hereby  given  that  a  court  of 
Jersey,  ss.  L\  admiralty  will  be  held  at  the  court- 
house in  Burlington,  on  Monday  the 
13th  day  of  September  next,  at  three  o'clock  in  the 
afternoon  of  the  same  day,  then  and  there  to  try  the  truth 
of  the  facts  alledged  in  the  bill  of  Frederick  Steelman, 
(who  as  well,  &c.)  against  the  schooner  or  vessel  called 
the  Lawrence,  to  the  end  and  intent,  that  the  owner  or 
owners  of  the  said  vessel,  or  any  person  or  persons  con- 
cerned therein,  may  appear  and  shew  cause,  if  any  they 
have,  why  the  said  vessel  and  her  cargo  should  not  be  con- 
demned, according  to  the  prayer  of  the  said  bill.  By 
order  of  the  Judge. 

Jos.  BLOOMFIELD,  Reg. 
Aug.  21,  1779. 


STKAYKD  or  stolen,  out  of  Capt.  Porter's  pasture  at  the 
Cross  Roads  near  Pluckemin,  on  the  night  of  the 
13th  inst.  a  bay  mare  about  14  hands  high,  4  years 
old,  black  mane  and  tail,  and  a  black  streak  down  her  back, 
a  little  hurt  with  the  saddle,  shod  all  round,  and  a  little 
lamo  in  the  off  fore  foot;    she  also  has  a  star  in  her  face, 
trots    and   canters   freely,    full   half   blooded.       Whoever 
secures  the  said  mare,  so  that  the  owner  may  have  her 


1779]  KEWSPAPEK    EXTRACTS.  577 

again,  shall  have  One  Hundred  Dollars  reward,  and  for 
the  mare  and  thief,  Two  Hundred  Dollars,  and  all  reason- 
able charges. 

JAMES  NUGENT,  Express-rider. 
Pitt's  Town,  Aug.  16,  1779. 

THE  Person  to  whom  a  Bundle  of  Laws  of  last  Sitting- 
was  delivered,  to  be  conveyed  to  the  Hon.   John 
Stevens,  Esq.  is  requested  either  to  deliver  the  same 
to  him,  or  inform  him  where  it  is,  without  delay. 


Thomas  M'Gee,  Fuller. 

BEGS  leave  to  inform  the  publick,  that  he  has  lately 
taken  Wall's  Fulling  Mill,  near  Allentown,  where 
those  who*  will  be  pleased  to  favour  him  with  cus- 
tom, may  depend  on  having  their  work  well  done. 
—The  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  II.,  No.  87,  Aug.   25, 
1779. 

We  are  favoured  with  the  following  account  of  the  late 
affair  at  Minisinck,  which,  as  it  is  received  from  the  best 
authority,  may  be  depended  on. 

On  the  twenty  first  ult,  a  party  of  Savages  and  Tories, 
supposed  to  be  about  150  in  number,  under  the  command 
of  Brandt,  appeared  at  Minisink.  The  country  being 
quickly  alarmed,  a  body  of  the  militia  from  Orange 
county,  under  the  command  of  col.  Hathorn,  joined  by  a 
small  number  from  Xew  Jersey,  under  major  Meeker,  in 
the  whole  amounting  to  120  men,  officers  included,  arrived 
at  Minisink  the  next  day;  where  they  were  informed  by 
a  spy  that  the  enemy  lay  at  Morigaup,  a  place  about  six 
miles  distant:  Our  troops  immediately  marched  with  an 
intention  either  to  fall  upon  them  by  surprise,  or  to  gain 
their  front  and  ambush  them;  but  soon  received  intelli- 
gence that  they  were  posted  on  such  strong  ground,  as 

37 


.57$  ]N"EW    JERSEY    IIST    THE    RE  VOLUTION".  [1779 

•would  render  it  impossible  to  attack  them  with  a  proba- 
bility of  success;  this  induced  our  men  to  change  their 
route.  They  proceeded  along  the  old  Kasheghton  path, 
mid  at  midnight  encamped  at  Skinner's  saw-mill,  eighteen 
miles  from  Minisink  and  three  miles  and  a  half  from  the 
enemy,  who  then  lay  at  the  mouth  of  Halfway  Brook.  It 
being  exceeding  difficult  to  pass  the  mountains  at  night, 
the  troops  lay  bye  till  the  morning,  and  at  daylight,  of  the 
"23d.,1  after  leaving  their  horses,  and  disengaging  them- 
1  selves  of  every  thing  that  might  impede  their  march,  they 
proceeded  and  came  up  with  the  enemy,  (who  had  received 
information  of  their  advancing)  at  Legheway,2  twenty 
seven  miles  from  Minisink ;  here  they  found  the  enemy 
transporting  their  provisions,  cattle,  and  plunder,  across 
.the  Delaware,  which  they  had  nearly  effected.  It  was 
•determined  immediately  to  attack  them;  our  men  accord- 
ingly formed  into  three  divisions,  the  main  body  under 
the  immediate  command  of  col.  Hathorn,  with  small  par- 
ties on  the  right  and  left;  by  the  accidental  discharge 
of  a  musquet  the  enemy  discovered  their  approach  before 
they  were  properly  posted,  this  instantly  brought  the  men 
on  to  action,  they  advanced  with  fixed  bayonets,  put  the 
enemy  in  confusion ;  some  were  driven  into  the  river,  and 
many  fell  by  the  well  directed  fire  of  our  inusquetry. 

The  troops  in  the  rear  of  col.  Hathorn  having  got  into 
disorder,  some  of  them  only  joined  him.  The  enemy 
rallied  in  force  on  his  right,  and  recrossed  the  river, 
having,  from  the  best  accounts,  received  a  reinforcement 
from  Kasheghton ;  a  constant  bush-firing  then  commenced, 
in  which  capt,  Tyler,  a  brave  and  enterprizmg  officer,  was 
killed,  and  several  privates  wounded.  Col.  Hathorn,  with 
only  forty  five  men,  was  now  obliged  to  possess  himself 
of  an  eminence  advantageously  situated,  which  the  enemy 
repeatedly  approached,  and  were  as  often  repulsed.  Our 
men,  notwithstanding  their  fatigue,  the  want  of  water  to 

1  The  2i>d. 

-  Lackawack.  or  Laokawaxen. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  579 

allay  their  thirst,  and  smallness  of  their  number,  retained 
their  spirits  and  defended  the  ground  near  three  hours 
and  a  half,  a  constant  firing  being  kept  up  on  both  sides 
during  the  whole  time ;  here  we  had  three  men  killed  and 
nine  wounded;  among  the  wounded  were  Col.  Hathorn, 
in  his  head,  leg  and  thigh;  lieut.  col.  Tusten,  adj.  Finch, 
capt.  James,  and  ensign  Wood.1 

Their  ammunition  being  nearly  expended,  col.  Hathorn 
ordered  that  no  person  should  fire  without  having  his 
object  sure.  The  ceasing  of  our  fire  encouraged  the 
enemy,  who  advanced  upon  our  people,  when  they,  being 
intirely  destitute  of  ammunition,  were  obliged  to  retire 
down  the  hill  towards  the  river,  and  every  one  separately 
consult  his  own.  safety.  Twenty  one  officers  and  privates 
are  missing,  among  whom  are  lieut.  col.  Tusten,  and  some 
other  very  valuable  officers.  During  the  engagement  the 
officers  and  soldiers  behaved  with  the  utmost  bravery  and 
perseverance ;  and  there  is  every  reason  to  believe  (though 
inferior  in  numbers)  if  their  ammunition  had  not  failed 
them,  the  enterprize  would  have  been  attended  with  com- 
plete success.  Since  the  action  several  of  our  wounded 
have  come  in,  and  we  have  reason  to  expect  that  more 
are  on  their  way  to  us.  By  our  spies  we  are  informed 
that  the  enemy,  the  night  following,  moved  off  their 
-wounded  in  canoes,  and  from  the  blood  appearing  on  the 
ground  where  they  encamped,  and  other  circumstances, 
there  is  the  best  reasons  to  conclude  that  they  suffered 
considerably  in  the  action.  Col.  Seaward,  of  'New  Jersey, 
with  ninety  three  men,  was  during  the  engagement,  about 
six  miles  distant  from  the  place  of  action,  but  did  not 
hear  the  firing.  On  the  following  evening  he  laid  near 
the  Indians,  and  from  their  cries  and  groans  concluded 
that  they  had  been  lately  engaged  and  suffered  much, — 

1  Heitman's  Historical  Register  of  Officers  of  the  Continental  Army  says 
Ensign  John  Wood,  N.  Y.  Militia,  was  killed  at  Minisink,  July  22,  1779, 
and  that  Col.  John  Wood,  N.  Y.  Militia,  was  taken  prisoner,  and  remained 
a  prisoner  until  July,  1783  ;  also,  that  Nathaniel  Finch,  lieutenant  and 
adjutant  of  Hathorne's  N.  Y.  Militia  Regiment,  was  killed  in  this  affair. 
"Capt.  James"  is  probably  an  error  for  Captain  Samuel  Jones. 


580  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

he  would  have  attacked  them  round  their  fires,  but  was 
by  some  accident  unfortunately  prevented.  Brandt,  who 
commanded  the  Indians,  is  either  killed  or  dangerously 
wounded.  The  enemy  have  killed  and  scalped  four  men, 
made  some  prisoners  (chiefly  children)  destroyed  one 
church,  eight  dwelling  houses,  eight  barns,  one  or  two 
mills,  and  have  taken  off  a  number  of  horses,  cattle,  and 
other  plunder;  some  of  which,  however,  our  people  have 
retaken  and  delivered  to  the  proper  owners. — The  Penn- 
sylvania Evening  Post,  August  28,  1779. 1 

1  The  Battle  of  Minisink,  fought  July  22,  1779,  occurred  so  near  the 
New  Jersey  border,  and  was  participated  in  by  so  many  Jerseymen,  and, 
moreover,  had  such  an  influence  in  checking  the  advance  of  the  Indians 
upon  the  unprotected  settlements  of  New  Jersey,  that  it  has  a  decided 
local  interest.  The  Indians  under  the  noted  Captain  Joseph  Brandt  at- 
tacked the  settlement  at  Minisink,  on  July  20,  1779,  killing  and  plundering 
on  all  sides.  News  of  this  raid  reached  Goshen  on  the  evening  of  the 
same  day.  Lieutenant-Colonel  Benjamin  Tusten,  commander  of  the  local 
militia  in  the  Goshen  neighborhood,  summoned  the  officers  of  his  regi- 
ment to  assemble  the  next  morning  with  as  many  volunteers  as  they  could 
raise.  Word  was  also  sent  to  Colonel  John  Hathorn,  commander  of  the 
Warwick  regiment  of  militia,  to  meet  him  at  the  lower  neighborhood  in 
Minisink.  On  the  morning  of  July  21,  one  hundred  and  forty-nine  men 
assembled  at  Minisink,  and  placed  themselves  under  the  command  of 
Colonel  Tusten.  Among  the  volunteers  thus  gathered  were  Major  Meeker 
and  Captain  Ilarker,  of  Sussex  county,  with  a-  considerable  number  of 
men  under  their  command.  Colonel  Tusten  advised  that  they  should  all 
wait  where  they  were  for  reinforcements  and  ammunition,  which  would 
be  with  them  in  a  short  time,  and  reminded  his  men  that  the  enemy  far 
outnumbered  them.  Major  Meeker,  however,  mounted  his  horse  and 
waving  a  sword  cried  out  :  "Let  the  brave  men  follow  me  ;  the  cowards 
may  stay  behind."  This  act  of  bravado  carried  the  day  against  reason 
and  common  sense,  and  the  party  set  out  on  its  march  on  the  trail  of 
the  retreating  savage-.  The  next  morning,  July  22,  they  were  joined  by 
Colonel  Hathorn  of  the  Warwick  regiment,  with  a  small  reinforcement, 
and  he  being  the  senior  officer  took  the  command.  They  then  marched 
a  few  miles  to  Halfway  Brook,  where  they  came  upon  an  encampment 
which  the  Indians  had  occupied  the  night  before.  Another  council  was 
held,  and  again  Colonel  Tusten  showed  them  that  they  were  outnum- 
bered, but  the  same  spirit  of  bravado  prevailed '  and  the  march  was  re- 
sumed. Captain  Bezaleel  Tyler,  Junior,  of  the  Coshecton  company  of 
the  Second  or  South  End  regiment  of  Ulster  county  militia,  an  ex- 
perienced hunter,  was  sent  ahead  with  a  small  scouting  party,  but  had 
gone  only  a  little  way  before  he  fell  into  an  ambuscade  and  was  killed. 
Notwithstanding  this  disaster  the  pursuers  persisted  in  rushing  forward. 
The  Americans  reached  the  fording-place  on  the  Delaware  river,  opposite 
the  Lackawaxen,  about  ten  o'clock,  and  discovered  .some  of  Brandt's  men 
crossing  the  Delaware  with  the  plunder.  Brandt  himself  appeared  and 
demanded  the  surrender  of  the  settlers,  telling  them  his  force  far  out- 
numbered theirs.  This  was  declined,  and  about  eleven  o'clock  the  action 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  581 

became  general,  and  the  whites  found  themselves  in  a  complete  ambus- 
cade. About  fifty  of  their  men  became  separated  from  the  main  body, 
and  were  not  in  the  fight,  in  which  only  about  ninety  of  the  Americans 
were  engaged.  The  Indians  who  had  crossed  the  river  were  ordered  by 
Brandt  to  return,  and  promptly  fell  in  upon  the  rear  of  the  whites. 
These  were  so  completely  overpowered  that  toward  sunset  the  survivors 
fled  in  all  directions.  Colonel  Tusten,  who  was  a  surgeon,  remained 
behind,  dressing  the  wounds  of  his  injured  comrades,  .seventeen  of  whom 
were  under  his  care  behind  a  cliff.  There  he  was  killed  while  discharg- 
ing this  humane  duty.  Of  those  actually  engaged  in  the  battle,  forty- 
four  or  forty-five  were  killed.  Colonel  Benjamin  Tusten  was  a  prac- 
ticing physician  of  the  town  of  Goshen,  where  his  father,  who  removed 
from  Southold,  Long  Island,  had  settled  in  1746.  Young  Tusten  studied 
medicine  with  various  physicians,  there  being  no  medical  school  at  that 
time,  and  in  the  course  of  his  studies  .spent  a  year  with  Dr.  William 
Burnet,  at  Newark,  N.  J.,  where  he  became  acquainted  with  a  Miss  Brown, 
and  at  the  age  of  twenty-eight  married  her.  He  was  commissioned  lieu- 
tenant-colonel of  the  Goshen  Regiment  of  Militia,  February  28,  1776,  and 
re-commissioned  February  26,  1778.  In  1777  he  was  appointed  surrogate 
of  Orange  county,  which  office  he  held  when  killed  at  Minisink.  Some 
time  after  the  battle  thirty-three  widows  of  the  killed,  who  belonged  to 
the  Presbyterian  Congregation  at  Goshen,  set  out  for  the  battlefield  on 
horseback  to  gather  the  remains  of  their  dead,  but  found  the  way  utterly 
impracticable.  They  then  hired  a  guide  to  go  on  and  secure  the  remains, 
but  he  was  never  heard  from  afterwards.  In  1820,  Dr.  David  R.  Arnell 
published  a  sketch  of  Colonel  Tusten,  who  was  killed  at  the  battle,  and 
this  awoke  a  new  interest  in  the  matter,  and  led  to  the  appointment  of 
a  committee  to  gather  up  the  bones.  On  July  22,  1822,  these  ghastly 
relics  were  buried  in  the  Presbyterian  chuchyard  in  Goshen,  and  Colonel 
Hathorn,  then  eighty  years  of  age,  laid  the  cornerstone  of  a  monument 
to  commemorate  the  dead.  Dr.  James  R.  Wilson  delivered  an  ad- 
dress on  the  occasion,  in  which  he  gave  an  account  o,f  the  battle,  com- 
piled from  the  recollections  of  the  survivors  and  local  tradition.  His 
account  has  been  accepted  and  closely  followed  by  all  later  writers.  It 
is  published  in  full  in  the  "History  of  Orange  County,"  by  S.  W.  Eager, 
Newburgh,  1846-7,  pages  494-9.  It  was  estimated  that  at  least  15,000 
people  were  present  at  the  ceremonies.  In  1861,  the  old  monument  hav- 
ing became  much  defaced,  a  new  one  was  erected,  which  was  dedicated 
on  July  22,  1862.  This  stands  in  the  Presbyterian  churchyard  at  Goshen, 
and  is  of  marble,  suitably  inscribed  and  adorned,  and  bears  the  names  of 
forty-four  of  the  killed.  Among  them  were  Daniel  Talmage,  Stephen 
Mead  and  Nathan  Wade,  certainly,  and  six  or  eight  more,  probably  from 
Sussex  county.  Goshen  is  one  of  the  court  house  towns  of  Orange 
county,  New  York,  and  is  an  important  station  on  the  Erie  railroad, 
forty  or  fifty  miles  northwest  of  Paterson.  The  site  of  the  Battle  of 
Minisink  is  to  be  seen 'from  the  Erie  railroad  trains,  a  few  miles  west 
of  Port  Jervis,  New  York,  which  is  located  at  the  junction  of  New  Jersey, 
New  York  and  Pennsylvania.  See  Eager's  "Orange  County,"  as  cited, 
491-499  ;  "Battles  of  the  United  States  by  Sea  and  Land,"  by  Henry  B. 
Dawson,  New  York,  1860,  II.,  528  ;  Lossing's  "Field  Book  of  the  Amer- 
ican Revolution,"  II.,  101  ;  "Life  of  Colonel  Joseph  Brandt,"  by  W.  L. 
Stone,  I.,  415 ;  Gordon's  "History  of  the  Americagi  Revolution,"  III., 
312;  "N.  Y.  Col.  Docs.,"  XV.,  291,  292,  542;  "N.  Y.  in  the  Revolution 
as  Colony  and  State,"  by  James  A.  Roberts,  Comptroller,  2d  ed.,  Albany, 
1898,  161  ;  "Klrst  Sussex  Centenary,"  Newark,  1853 ;  "History  of  the 
Minnesink  Region,"  by  Charles  E.  Stickney,  Middletown,  N.  Y.,  1867,  91. 


» 

582         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779 

• 

Pittsgrove,  Salem  county,  Aug.  13,  1779. 
Whereas  my  wife  Margaret  hath  (through  the  advice 
of  her  friends  at  Hardingtown)  eloped  from  my  bed  and 
board,  and  refuses  to  come  and  live  with  me  again,  there- 
fore all  persons  are  forbid  to  purchase  any  of  my  goods 
from  her,  or  trust  her  upon  my  account.  And  all  persons 
about  Hardingtown  are  forbid  to  harbour  her  at  their  peril. 

BENJAMIN  BROWK 
—The  Pennsylvania  Evening  Post,  August  30,  1779. 


The  following  accounts  have  been  brought  to  us  from 
the  rebel  country — That  a  large  detachment  of  their  troops, 
under  Messieurs  Clinton  and  Poor,  on  the  March  to  join 
Gen.  Sullivan,  had  fallen  into  an  ambush  concerted  by 
Capt,  Joseph  Brant,  and  were  totally  defeated ;  and  that 
of  the  Elizabeth-Town  brigade  of  General  Maxwell,  which 
consisted  of  320,  upwards  of  200  had  been  killed  or 
wounded;  tis  said  the  latter  met  with  their  fate  on  the 
Wyoming  side. — The  Royal  Gazette,  No.  305,  September 
1,  1779. 


To  be  SOLD  by  PUBLIC  VEOT3UE,  on  Tuesday,  the 
seventh  day  this  instant  September. 

A  Small  Tract  of  Land,  of  sixty  acres,  to  be  sold  in 
LOTS,  a  very  suitable  place  for  any  kind  of  tradesmen,  or 
any  man  in  public  business,  situated  on  Oldman's  Creek, 
near  the  Lower  Bridge,  known  by  the  name  of  Duell's 
Landing,  in  the  township  of  -Upper  Penn's  Keck  and 
county  of  Salem ;  joining  lands  of  Ezekiel  Wright,  Dean 
Simkins,  Joseph  Dean,  and  others.  The  vendue  to  begin 
at  ten  o'clock  on  said  day ;  where  attendance  will  be  given, 
and  conditions  made  known  by 

JACOB  WRIGHT. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  583 

Philadelphia,  August  21,  1779. 

Whereas  a  certain  person,  who  calls  himself  Doctor 
JOHN  HUNT,  made  his  escape  from  me  out  of  Bruns- 
wick goal,  in  the  county  of  Middlesex,  and  state  of  New- 
Jersey,  on  account  of  horse-stealing,  and  since  has  been 
in  gaol  in  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  there  discharged  from 
confinement  by  a  number  of  villains,  associates  of  his,  on 
the  19th  instant ;  Any  person  apprehending  the  said 
HUNT,  and  securing  him  in  any  gaol  on  the  continent  of 
America  and  giving  me  information  thereof,  shall  receive 
EIGHTY  DOLLARS  Reward,  paid  by  JOHN  VAN- 
KIRK,  late  Sheriff  of  said  county  and  state.  The  above 
fellow  goes  some  times  by  the  name  of  John  Whitmore 
and  John  Campbell. — The  Pennsylvania  Gazette,  Septem- 
ber 1,  1779. 

ON  the  4th  inst.  the  electors  of  the  county  of  Somerset,. 
met  at  the  courthouse.  A  member  for  assembly 
being  chosen,  the  present  situation  of  *our  national 
affairs  was  opened  to  them ;  upon  which  they  unanimously 
agreed,  and  immediately  appointed  a  committee  of  twelve,, 
for  the  county ;  directing  and  empowering  them  to  cor- 
respond with  any  other  committee  or  committees,  in  this 
or  in  any  of  the  United  States,  and  to  prevent,  by  every 
lawful  means,  the  farther  depreciation  of  our  currency,, 
without  exercising  any  of  the  powers  which  constitution- 
ally belong  to  the  legislative  or  executive  departments  of 
the  government  of  this  state;  and  also  directed  and  re- 
quested, that  committees  be  chosen  by,  and  for  the  respect- 
ive townships  in  this  county,  to  aid  and  assist  the  county 
committee,  in  any  matters  which  may  be:  found  necessary 
in  the  execution  of  their  trust. 

The  county  committee  being  met  for  the  purposes  of" 
their  appointment,  and  considering  the  obvious  face  of  our 
national  affairs,  they  cannot  help  lamenting  the  train  of 
calamities  which  the  rapid  and  unnatural  depreciation  of 
our  currency,  has  brought  upon  us.  It  appears  manifest 


I 

584  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

to  them,  that  this  depreciation  (from  whatever  source  it 
may  have  originated,  and  by  whatever  means  carried  on) 
is  the  chief  cause  of  many  of  our  present  calamities :  It 
has  caused  an  enormous  nominal  debt  to  the  nation,  in  so 
short  a  time,  and  a  sad  embarrassment  to  the  government 
of  this  empire,  in  carrying  on  the  war  with  vigour,  to 
secure  to  us  a  safe  and  honourable  peace,  while  our  re- 
sources are  ample  and  sufficient :  It  has  protracted  this 
war,  with  all  its  horrors  and  calamities ;  and  withal,  has 
opened  the  sluices  to  luxury  and  extravagance,  while  it 
has  involved  thousands  of  honest  and  industrious  citizens 
in  ruinous  and  lamentable  circumstances.  Therefore, 

1.  Resolved,    That   every   person    owing    allegiance    to 
these  states,  is  in  duty  bound  to  avoid,  prevent,  and  oppose, 
an  evil  so  destructive  to  the  publick  weal. 

2.  Resolved,   That  the  general   interest  of  a  free  and 
independent  people  is  best  secured  and  promoted  by  good, 
wliolcsome,  and  knoiun  laws,  enacted  by  the  people's  legal 
representatives,  and  executed  with  vigour  and  spirit. 

3.  Resolved,  That  our  -happy  constitution  furnishes  the 
legislative  and  executive  departments  of  government  with 
ample  powers  to  prevent  and  remedy  any  evils  destructive 
to  the  state;     and  that  it  is  their  indispensable  duty  to 
exercise  these  powers  with  prudence  and  vigour,  for  such 
valuable  purposes. 

4.  Resolved,   That  it  is  the  privilege  and  duty  of  the 
free  citizens  of  this  state,  at  any  time  they  may  judge  it 
necessary,  to   instruct  or  petition  their  representatives,  for 
the  redress  of  grievances,  and  the  enacting  of  necessary 
and  wholesome  laws  for  the  community. 

5.  Resolved,  That  this  committee  will  exert  themselves 
in  supporting  the  civil  magistrates,  in  the  due  execution 
of  the  laws,  against  forestallers,  monopolizers,  and  extor- 
tioners ;    persons  who  are  to  be  considered  as  the  bane  of 
civil  society;    and  also  those  against  profanity  and  vice, 
the  procuring  causes  of  all  our  calamities. 

0.   Resolved,  That  the  present  emergency  of  our  publick 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  585 

affairs,  claims  the  most  serious  attention  of  the  good  citi- 
zens of  this  state,  to  some  salutary  and  general  measures, 
for  preventing  the  progress  of  evils  manifestly  calculated 
to  injure  the  common  interest  of  this  united  empire;  and 
therefore,  this  committee  humbly  conceives, 

1.  That  a  general  meeting  of  persons  appointed  for  that 
purpose,  by  the  different  county  committees  or  the  counties 
themselves,  within  this  state,  to  consult  and  agree  upon 
some  measures  to  be  generally  pursued,  and  if  necessary, 
to  petition   the  legislature,  may  prove  to  be  of  publick 
utility ;    and  therefore,  humbly  presume  to  desire  and  re- 
quest, that  such  persons  may  be  appointed  and  directed  to 
meet  at  Princeton,  on  Wednesday  the  15th  of  September 
next. — This    committee    intends    to    deputise    some    from 
among  themselves,  then  and  there  to  consult  as  aforesaid, 
such  as  shall  choose  to  meet  as  aforesaid. 

2.  They  also  conceive,  that  persons  who  pretend  love  to 
their  country,  ought  now  to  shew  it,  by  resolutely  avoiding, 
discountenancing,  and  opposing,  as  much  as  possible,  all 
farther  depreciation  of  our  currency;    and  therefore, 

This  committee  warmly  recommends,  and  most  earnestly 
requests,  that  every  one  who  has  beef ,  grain  or  any  articles 
absolutely  necessary  for  the  support  of  our  gallant  army, 
for  sale,  will  not  dispose  of  them  to  any  person  or  persons 
who  make  it  their  business  to  purchase  these  articles,  and 
sell  them  again  for  the  use  of  the  publick,  at  an  advanced 
price,  to  the  evident  detriment  of  the  community. 

After  having  unanimously  agreed  to  the  above  resolu- 
tions, and  some  directions  to  the  respective  town  com- 
mittees, they  adjourned  until  Friday  the  3d  of  September 
next;  then  to  meet  at  Abraham  Van  Neste's,  Esq.,  at  10 
o'clock  in  the  forenoon. 

By  order  of  the  committee, 

JACOB  H.  HARDENBERGII,  Chairman.1 

Done  at  Karitan,  August  13,  1779. 

1  For  a  notice  of  the  Rev.  Jacob  Rutsen  Hardenbergh,  see  N.  J.  Archives, 
Second  Series,  II.,  116. 


586  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

JTew-Brunswick,  August  7,  1779. 

A  GREEABLE   to    an   advertisement,   the   inhabitants   of 

iJL      the  ^"orth  Ward  of  the  city  of  New-Brunswick,  in 

the  county  of  Middlesex,  met  at  the  market-house 

in  the  said  city,  and  came  to  the  following  determination, 

viz. 

To  appoint  a  committee  for  the  purpose  of  taking  the 
sentiments  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  aforesaid  ward,  and 
putting  their  directions  into  execution ;  the  following  per- 
sons were  accordingly  chosen,  Col.  John  Neilson,  Mr.  Wil- 
liam Vanduisen,  Mr.  William  Harrison,  Mr.  Henry  Guest, 
Mr.  Peter  Farmer,  Mr.  Jasper  Farmer  and  John  Piatt, 
Esq. 

It  was  unanimously  agreed  that  the  inhabitants  of  the 
Xorth  Ward  of  Brunswick,  being  anxiously  concerned 
about  the  depreciated  state  of  the  continental  money,  de- 
clare they  are  ready  and  willing  to  exert  themselves  to  the 
utmost  of  their  power  to  carry  into  execution  any  system 
of  regulation  for  appreciating  its  value,  that  may  be 
adopted  by  the  legislature  of  this  state,  in  conjunction 
with  the  other  states ;  and  that  the  committee  now  chosen 
by  them  do  immediately  prepare  a  memorial,  addressed  to 
the  Honourable  Council  and  General  Assembly  of  this 
state,  and  have  it  signed  by  the  inhabitants  of  the  country 
as  generally  as  possible,  containing  this  their  resolution, 
praying  thorn  to  make  speedy  application  to  the  Honour- 
able the  Continental  Congress  to  recommend  in  persuasive 
terms  a  general  plan  to  be  adopted  by  all  the  states  in 
union,  for  the  above  purpose:  And  they  are  likewise 
directed  to  publish  the  proceedings  of  this  meeting,  re- 
questing the  other  counties  to  adopt  similar  application. 
By  order  of  the  meeting, 

WILLIAM  HARRISON,  Chairman., 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  587 


TRENTON,  SEPTEMBER  1. 

Extract  of  a  letter  from  a  gentleman  at  Raritan,  dated 
August.  26,  1779. 

"A  letter  I  just  now  received  from  Col.  Taylor  at  Eliza- 
beth-Town, informs  me,  that  "there  are  a  number  of  vessels 
"arrived  at  Sandy-Hook,  said  to  be  a  part  of  Admiral 
"Arbuthnot's  fleet.  England  will  be  mad  till  it  is  ruined.'7 

The  prisoners  taken  at  Paulus-Hook  are  arrived  at 
Philadelphia,  and  safely  lodged  in  the  New-Gaol. 

Gen.  James  Clinton's  -army,  we  hear,  have  joined  Major- 
General  Sullivan  at  Tioga ;  from  whence  the  whole  body 
are  to  move  into  the  midst  of  the  Indian  country,  in  order 
to  chastise  the  deluded  Savages  and  Tories,  for  their  un- 
provoked, wanton  and  cruel  depredations  on  our  innocent 
and  defenceless  frontiers. 

Died  on  the  15th  ult.  the  Honourable  ABRAHAM  VAX 
NESTED  Esq.  member  of  Council  for  the  county  of  Som- 
erset. 

Yesterday  arrived  in  the  Delaware,  a  ship  from  Jamaica, 
bound  to  New- York,  with  120  hogsheads  of  Jamaica 
spirits.  On  her  passage,  three  men  and  a  boy  rose,  and 
confined  the  rest  of  the  hands;  by  which  means  she  was 
brought  into  the  Deleware. 

By  a  person  directly  from  New- York  we  learn,  that  on 
Wednesday  last  Admiral  Arbuthnot's  fleet  arrived  at  that 
place,  consisting  of  70  sail,  among  which  are  two  74's, 
and  five  frigates ;  the  remainder  transports,  with  about 
3000  troops,  1000  of  whom  are  said  to  be  Hessians,  1000 
Highlanders,  the  remainder  British  newly  raised.  This 
fleet,  we  hear,  has  brought  an  immense  quantity  of  British 
goods. 

The  same  person  informs,  that  Lord  Cornwallis  is  pre- 
paring for  an  expedition  to  the  southward;  in  which  all 
the  troops  now  at  New- York,  save  a  garrison,  are  to  be 
employed. 


588  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

Monday  last  PETER*  BREWER,  of  Allentown,  died,  being 
upwards  of  100  years  of  age. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  committee  of  the  county  of  Burling- 
ton, at  the  Blackhorse,  on  the  30th  inst. 

It  was  unanimously  resolved,  That  the  regulations  of 
the  prices  fixed  upon  by  a  former  setting  of  this  committee, 
bearing  date  the  21st  day  of  July  last,  be  continued  until 
altered  by  this  or  a  future  committee. 

The  committee  adjourned  until  Monday  the  13th  of 
September  next,  to  meet  at  Mountholly, 

Aug.  30.  PETER  TALLMAN,  Chairman. 


Stephen  Lowrey,  in  Trenton, 

Will  give  the  highest  price  for  the  following 
articles,  viz. 

Bills  of  exchange  on  the  Commissioners  of  the  United 
States  at  Paris ;    a  quantity  of  best  white  oak  pipe 
staves  and  heading  delivered  either  at  Philadelphia 
or  some  landing  near  Trenton;    a  few  barrels  merchant- 
able pork ;    a  quantity  of  hogs  lard  and  bees-Avax. 


Two  Hundred  Dollars  Reward. 

STRAYED  or  stolen  out  of  the  pasture  of  the  subscriber, 
living;  in  Roxburv,  Morris  countv,  on  the  niffht  of 

«y  /  «/  /  o 

the  27th  instant,  a  black  Stallion,  about  15  hands 
high,  slim  built,  with  a  short  blaze  in  the  forehead ;  hath 
a  thin  mane  and  tail,  a  white  spot  in  his  near  eye,  and  has 
neither  brand  nor  ear  mark ;  trots  chiefly,  but  can  pace  a 
little,  and  canters ;  is  part  blooded,  and  about  five  years 
)ld.  Also,  a  Light  Brown  Mare,  about  14  hands  high, 
paces  and  trots,  but  is  naturally  a  pacer;  hath  a  small  star 
in  the  forehead,  one  white  hind  foot,  and  has  neither 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  589 

brand  nor  ear-mark;  she  is  somewhat  flat-sided,  goes  low 
before,  and  is  about  five  years  old. 

Whoever  takes  up  and  secures  said  horse  and  mare,  so 
that  the  owner  may  have  them  again,  shall  have  One  Hun- 
dred Dollars,  or  Fifty  Dollars  for  either  of  them,  and  One 
Hundred  Dollars  for  the  thief,  so  that  he  may  be  brought 
to  justice,  paid  by  me, 

Aug.  31.  HENRY  BURNET. 

WILL  be  sold,  at  publick  vendue,  in  Pitt's-Town,  on 
Saturday  the  llth  of  September  next,  a  consider- 
ble  number   of   CAST   HORSES,  belonging  to   the 
United  States. 

The  sale  will  begin  precisely  at  ten  o'clock  in  the  morn- 
ing. 

FURMAN  YARD. 
Pitt's-Town,  Aug.  28,  1779. 

To  be  sold,  on  Monday  the  6th  of  September  inst.  at 
publick  vendue,  good  working  horses  and  breeding 
mares,   among  which  is  one  good  carriage  horse; 
milch  cows,  four  or  five  yoke  of  oxen,  sheep,  and  a  number 
of  store  cattle  in  good  order. 

The  sale  to  begin  at  the  house  of  the  subscriber  near 
Trenton,  at  ten  o'clock  on  said  day,  when  attendance  will 
be  given,  and  conditions  made  known  by 

GEORGE  BEATY. 

Hacket's-Town,  August  21,  1779. 

WHEREAS  Garret  Rapaljie,  among  other  places,  hath 
lately  advertised  for  sale  the  grist-mill  at  Hacket's- 
town,  and  old  saw-mill  and  dwelling  house  in  the 
possession    of    George    Allen — These    are   to    caution    all 
persons  against  buying  the  above  mills  and  dwelling-house, 
or  any  of  them,  of  the  said  Garret  Eapaljie,  the  title  not 
being  vested  in  him,  but  solely  and  absolutely  in  the  sub- 
scriber. 

JAMES  LITTEL. 


•59t)  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

To  be  sold  at  venchie,  on  Monday  the  6th  of  September, 
at  the  house  of  the  subscriber  in  the  township  of 
Dover  and  county  of  Monmouth,  viz.  Two  hundred 
acres  of  pine  land,  well  timbered,  about  2  miles  below 
Tom's  river  bridge,  50  head  of  cattle,  40  sheep,  6  horses, 
10  hogs  and  8  negroes ;  a  set  of  blacksmith's  tools,  200 
bushels  of  wheat  and  rye,  20  acres  Indian  corn,  a  quantity 
of  tann'd  leather  and  tar ;  a  variety  of  farming  utensils 
and  household  goods  too  tedious  to  mention.  Same  time 
will  be  let,  a  valuable  plantation  with  a  great  quantity  of 
fresh  and  salt  meadows ;  a  grist-mill  and  saw-mill,  with 
plenty  of  timber;  a  valuable  fishery,  with  400  acres  of 
land:  All  may  be  entered  on  immediately.  For  terms 
apply  to  the  subscriber,  on  the  premises, 

Aug.  18,  1779.  JOHN  ATTIN. 

Somerset  county,  State  of  Xew-Jersey. 

WiiKKEAS  inquisitions  have  been  found,  and  final  judg- 
ment entered  thereon,  in  the  county  of  Middlesex, 
in  favour  of  the  state  of  ^ew-Jersey,  against 
George  Stainforth  and  Alexander  Watson,  both  of  the 
county  of  •  Middlesex — JSTotice  is  hereby  given  that  there 
will  be  sold  at  publick  vendue,  on  Monday  the  4th  day  of 
October  next,  at  the  house  of  Brook  Farmer,  in  Princeton, 
a  piece  of  land,  situate,  lying  and  being  in  the  western 
precinct  of  said  county,  near  Princeton,  joining  lands  of 
Aaron  Long-street  and  others,  late  the  property  of  said 
George  Stainforth,  containing  about  30  or  40  acres.  Also 
will  be  sold  on  said  day  and  place  aforesaid,  one  other 
tract  or  parcel  of  land  situate  near  Princeton,  in  the  west- 
ern precinct  of  said  county  of  Somerset,  joining  Stoney- 
brook,  John  Johnson,  Esq.  and  Robert  Stockton;  late  the 
property  of  Joseph  Stockton,  containing  60  acres;  the 
greatest  part  thereof  will  make  good  meadow.  Also  will 
be  sold  on  Wednesday  the  6th  of  said  month,  at  the  house 
of  the  widow  Hernon,  innkeeper,  at  Boundbrook,  a  lot  of 
land,  the  quantity  of  acres  yet  unknown ;  whereon  are  one 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  591 

thousand  bearing  apple-trees  of  good  fruit ;  late  the  prop- 
erty of  Alexander  Watson.  The  vendues  to  begin .  each 
day  at  1  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  where  the  conditions  will 
be  made  known,  and  attendance  given  by 

JACOB  BERGEN,  )  Commis- 

HENDRICK  WILSON,    j  sioners. 
Aug.  27. 

Somerset  county,  State  of  New-Jersey. 

PUBLICK  notice  is  hereby  given  to  all  persons  who  have 
any  claim,  interest  or  demand  in  or  upon  the  estates 
of  the  following  fugitives  and  offenders,  against 
whom  inquisition  hath  been  found,  and  final  judgment 
entered  thereon  in  favour  of  the  state  of  New-Jersey, 
Richard  Cochran,  William  Burton,  Joseph  Stockton, 
Charles  Roberts,  William  Drake,  Benjamin  Worth,  John 
Harris,  John  Smith,  David  White,  John  Compton,  Ber- 
nardus  Legrange,  Gteorge  Howard  and  Richard  Stockton, 
to  exhibit  their  accounts  fairly  stated  in  writing,  to  the 
judges  of  the  court  of  Common  Pleas  for  the  aforesaid 
county  within  12  months  from  the  date  hereof,  or  in  the 
vacation  to  any  two  of  them. 

JACOB  BERGEN,  |  Commis- 

HENDRICK  WILSON,    j  sioners. 
Aug.  24,  1779. 

IN".  B.  All  persons  who  are  yet  in  arrears  for  lands  or 
goods  bought  at  the  sales  of  confiscated  estates,  are  desired 
to  make  immediate  payment  to  the  commissioners  afore- 
said. 


A" 


TO  BE  SOLD, 

ikely  MARE,  six  years  old,  with  a  sucking  colt :  they 
are  at  Mr.  John  Stevens's,  near  Trenton. 


— The  New-Jersey  Gazette,  Vot.  II.,  No.  88,  Sept.  1,  1779. 


NEW    JEKSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 


To  be  SOLD  by  Public  Vcndue 

At  the  Forks  of  Little  Egg-harbour,  on  the  twenty-third 
day  of  September  inst. 

The  armed  cutter  INTREPID,  lately  from  Xew  York, 
captured  by  the  sloop  Argo  and  brigantine  Saratoga,  with 
her  guns  and  appurtenances.  She  is  an  exceeding  fine 
vessel  of  about  one  hundred  and  ten  tons,  well  fitted  for  a 
five  months  cruize,  and  is  reputed  to  be  the  swiftest  sailing 
vessel  in  America.  She  mounts  ten  very  neat  double  forti- 
fied 4-  pounders,  four  cohorns,  and  six  swivels ;  she  has 
also  a  large  number  of  muskets,  pistols,  cutlasses,  hand- 
cuffs, thumb-screws,  £c.  and  is  furnished  with  a  compleat 
medicine  chest,  two  sets  of  capital  and  one  set  of  trepanning 
instruments,  together  Avith  a  very  good  collection  of  medical 
and  chirurgical  books.  The  books,  medicines  and  instru- 
ments will  be  sold  separately.  The  cutter  may  be  fitted 
to  go  to  sea  in  a  very  short  time. 

At  the  same  time  and  place  will  be  sold,  the  prize  brig- 
anfine  CIIAXCE,  lately  from  London,  bound  to  Xow 
York,  with  her  appurtenances,  and  cargo  consisting  of 
bread,  beef,  pork,  Hour,  oatmeal,  butter,  oil,  vinegar,  &c. 
She  is  a  very  fine  brig  of  about  two  hundred  tons  burthen, 
and  exceedingly  well  found. 
—The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  September  4,  1779. 

General  Washington's  head  quarters  are  at  Moores  house, 
near  West  Point ;  Baylor's  light  horse  are  at  Ponipton,  and 
Lee's  at  Paramus;  the  latter  is  under  arrest  for  his  con- 
duct at  Powles-llook.  Young  Col.  Fell1  has  an  hundred 
men  at  Elackinsack  with  guards  at  New-Bridge,  &rc.  On 
Tuesday  the  :Mth  ult.  the  Indians  made  their  appearance 
within  twelve  miles  of  Sussex  Court-house,  which  occa- 

1  See  X.  ,T.  Art-hives,  Second  Series,   I.,  5 ."5,  4.1G. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  593 

sioned  the  militia  to  be  ordered  out,  seventy  of  whom 
marched,  and  pursued  them  until  they  were  surrounded 
and  cut  off,  three  excepted,  one  of  whom  had  his  arm  broke; 
fifteen  officers  of  this  detachment  are  lost. 

Accounts  received  yesterday  from  New-Jersey  mention 
a  confirmation  of  Mr.  Maxwell's  Elizabeth-town  brigade 
having  been  terribly  maul'd  by  Joseph  and  his  Brethren,1 
with  this  addition,  that  the  brigade  was  cut  to  pieces. 
-The  Royal  Gazette,  No-.  306,  September  A,  1779. 

To  be  SOLD  at  public  vendue,  on  Thursday  the  ninth 
inst. -at  the  Forks  of  Little  Egg  Harbour,  the  SLOOP 
Recovery,  with  her  cargo,  consisting  of  twenty  hogsheads 
of  molasses,  and  twenty  hogsheads  of  sugar  of  the  first 
quality. 

Also  at  the  same  time  will  be  SOLD  the  SLOOP  iSTancy, 
and  her  cargo  of  rice,  tar,  turpentine,  and  lumber. 

And  on  Saturday,  the  eleventh  inst.  will  be  SOLD  at 
col.  Nicholas  Stillwell's2  at  Cape  May,  the  Schooner  Henry 
and  her  cargo,  consisting  of  twenty  hogsheads  of  sugar, 
twenty  hogsheads  of  melasses,  2000  Ib.  of  cotton,  and  a 
quantity  of  coffee.  \ 

By  order  of  the  court  of  admiralty. 

Joseph  Potts,  marshal. 
— Pennsylvania  Evening  Post,  September  5,  1779. 


To  THE  PUBLIC. 

BY  the  resolutions  of  Congress,  June  22,  published  in 
this  paper  No.  24,  we  see  they  are  sensible  of  the 
obligations,   from  policy  and  justice,  which  bind 
them  to  maintain  the  credit  of  the  money  emitted  by  their 
authority.     This,  it  is  hoped,  will  silence  those  dirty  s'crib- 

1  Colonel  Joseph  Brandt,  the  Mohawk  chief,  and  his  Indians. 

2  For  a  notice  of  Colonel  Stillwell,  see  New  Jersey  Archives,  2d  Series, 
I.,  138. 

38 


594  *  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

biers  who  were  for  wiping  off  the  Continental  debt  with 
the  unjust  spunge  of  fifteen  or  twenty  for  one;  and  would 
persuade  us  that  Congress  had  as  little  regard  to  justice  as 
themselves.  It  will  recover  our  confidence  from  the  shock 
occasioned  by  those  false  apprehensions,  and  give  as  good 
faith  in  a  square  dollar  as  a  round  one. 

But  still  we  must  be  sensible  it  is  not  in  the  power  of 
Congress  to  hold  the  value  of  money  where  it  now  is,  much 
less  to  raise  it  to  the  place  from  whence  it  fell,  unless  they 
can  obtain  supplies  equal  to  the  expence  of  the  war,  with- 
out striking  more  money.  To  procure  this  by  tax  alone  is 
now  impracticable:  That  mode  is  too  slow — the  supply 
cannot  come  in  time- — and,  perhaps,  a  tax  so  large  might  be 
at  present  inexpedient:  A  loan  of  twenty  million  of  dol- 
lars is  therefore  now  proposed ;  and  to  make  it  more  con- 
venient subscriptions  are  opened  in  every  county.  It  may 
be  useful  for  persons  to  subscribe  before  they  can  pay  the 
money,  because  the  sooner  Congress  can  be  informed  that 
the  loan  will  be  made  up,  the  sooner  they  can  stop  the 
money  press,  that  infallible  depredator.  Those  who  can 
subscribe  ten  thousand  dollars,  agreeable  to  the  5th  resolu- 
tion, will  have  the  advantage  of  drawing  interest  upon  one 
half  of  it  a  considerable  time  before  it  is  paid. — And 
every  subscriber,  by  the  6th  resolution,  has  the  privilege  of 
continuing  his  money  in  the  funds  'till  it  is  as  good  as  when 
he  put  it  in,  with  the  probability  that  he  will  receive  it  out 
much  better.  But  if  our  money  should  depreciate  farther 
than  at  present,  by  the  8th  resolution,  the  annual  interest 
is  to  be  increased  in  proportion.  - 

The  justice  of  the  terms,  and  the  importance  of  the  loan, 
it  is  expected  will  induce  all  who  are  friends  to  their  coun- 
try to  lend  as  much  money  as  they  can  to  complete  her 
deliverance.  AVe  ought  not  to  withold  because  we  appre- 
hend there  is  some  way  in  which  we  may  at  present  turn 
our  money  to  produce  more  than  the  interest ;  while  that 
use  of  it  lessens  its  value,  and  injures  our  country.  This, 
in  the  end,  will  be  found  penny  wise  and  pound  foolish. 


3.779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  595 

His  Excellency  the  Governor  having  been  pleased  to 
appoint  me  to  receive  the  subscriptions  for  the  county  of 
Essex,  the  public  are  now  informed  that  a  book  is  opened 
for  that  purpose,  and  attendance  given  by  their  most 
obedient  and  very  humble  servant 

JAMES  CALDWELL. 

MR.  KOLLOCK, 

WHOEVER  has,  with  any  degree  of  attention,  taken 
notice  of  the  rise  and  progress  of  the  American 
war,  in  defence'  of  liberty  and  religion,  must  be 
struck  with  wonder  and  surprize  at  the  manner  in  which  it 
has  been  conducted.  When  America,  without  arms,  with- 
out discipline,  without  ammunition,  and  without  funds 
.and  resources  for  carrying  on  the  war,  engaged  a  gigantic 
force  in  the  name  of  the  Lord  of  Hosts,  and,  through  his 
name,  hath  hitherto  been  successful.  'Now  to  what,  but 
divine  goodness  and  mercy,  can  we  ascribe  our  great  suc- 
cesses in  times  past,  in  defeating  our  enemies,  taking  their 
•strong  holds,  and  causing  them  either  to  surrender,  or  flee 
before  us  ?  It's  true  that  suitable  honour  and  praise  ought 
to  be  given  to  those  who  have  conducted  our  political  and 
military  operations;  yet  we  ought  to  remember  who  hath 
directed  their  counsels,  and  hath  taught  our  great  and  illus- 
trious Commander  in  Chief,  as  well  as  inferior  com- 
manders, wisdom ;  and  hath  given  boldness  and  intrepidity 
to  our  worthy  soldiery.  Such  wonders  as  have  been  done 
for  and  by  America  may  justly  surprize  all  Europe,  and 
induce  them  to  say,  surely  your  God  whom  you  serve  will 
deliver  you  out  of  the  hands  of  your  enemies,  and  in  due 
time  will  restore  unto  you  all  the  blessings  of  peace,  liberty 
and  religion. 

Should  this  be  our  happy  case,  who  will  begrudge  the 
pains  and  the  toils  he  has  suffered  in  the  glorious  cause  of 
his  country  and  of  humanity?  In  this  great  conflict,  let 
us  therefore  persevere  until  we  obtain  the  wished  for  end, 
the  salvation  of  our  country,  from  tyranny  and  oppression ; 


596         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779 

and  until  we  have  taught  others,  by  our  example  and  ex- 
perience, the  necessity  of  shaking  off  every  yoke  of  bond- 
age, and  the  great  happiness  of  enjoying  liberty,  that 
heaven-born  blessing,  and  every  other  blessing  which  is 
connected  with  it.  A  Friend  to  Liberty. 


COUNTY  MEETING. 

Newark,  Sept.  3,  1779. 

THE  committee  for  the  county  of  Essex,  having  re- 
quested the  justices  and  chosen  freeholders  to  meet 
with  them  this  day,  to  consult  upon  the  propriety 
of  calling  a  meeting  of  the  county,  to  take  into  their  con- 
sideration the  address  of  Congress,  May  10,  to  the  inhabit- 
ants of  the  state  in  union,  and  the  proceedings,  of  a  con- 
vention for  the  state  of  Massachusetts-Bay,  held  July  14th, 
and  transmitted  to  this  state  for  their  concurrence.  Also 
for  drawing  instructions  to  the  legislature  at  their  next 
session,  on  those  interesting  matters,  and  to  choose  three 
or  more  delegates  to  meet  at  Princeton,  September  22d, 
with  those  from  other  counties  to  procure  uniformity  of 
conduct  through  the  state. 

The  justices  and  freeholders,  considering  the  above  pro- 
posals and  matters  recommended  by  the  committee,  with 
the  several  papers  concerning  them,  were  unanimously  of 
opinion,  that  it  was  expedient  the  inhabitants  of  this  county 
should  Ite  called ;  and  do  accordingly  earnestly  request  that 
they  assemble  at  the  court-house  in  this  town ;  on  Tuesday 
the  14tli  of  this  month,  at  2  o'clock,  for  considering  the 
several  matters  aforesaid. 

By  Order  of  the  Board, 

Jos.  HEDDEX,  jun.  Moderator. 

*:f*  It  is  requested  that  the  above  be  read,  after  public 
worship,  in  the  several  parishes  in  the  county. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  597 


MORRIS  COUNTY,  COMMITTEE  CHAMBER, 

September  2,  1779. 

IT  fully  appearing  to  this  committee,  that  Joseph  Cur- 
tis, and  Robert  Norris,  having  violated  the  resolu- 
tions of  the  good  people  of  this  county,  at  their 
general  meeting  in  June  last,  the  said  Curtis  in  selling  of 
salt,  tea,  &c.  at  an  exorbitant  and  unreasonable  profit ;  and 
the  said  Norris  in  selling  salt  in  like  manner;  and  that 
after  the  publication  of  the  resolves  entered  into  at  said 
meeting,  for  affixing  the  profits  to  be  made  on  trade,  &c. 
The  said  Curtis  and  Norris  being  called  before  the  com- 
mittee, and  refusing  to  refund  the  money  so  unjustly  taken, 
and  to  retract  such  their  unreasonable  conduct;  therefore, 
agreeable  to  the  resolves  of  said  meeting,  this  committee 
find  themselves  under  the  disagreeable  necessity  of  publish- 
ing the  said  Curtis  and  Morris,  as  persons  disaffected  to, 
and  regardless  of,  their  country's  good,  expecting  that  all 
persons  who  wish  to  support  the  liberties  of  America,  and 
extricate  their  country  from  the  present  threatening  evil, 
agreeable  to  the  resolves  of  the  county  meeting,  will  break 
off  all  dealings  and  commerce  with  them,  until  they  shall 
acknowledge  their  errors,  and  reform  such  their  disen- 
genious  conduct. 

By  Order  of  the  Committee, 

ELLIS  COOK,  Chairman. 


AN  act  of  the  legislature,  requiring  the  clerk  of  the 
inferior  court  of  pleas,  and  court  of  general  quarter 
sessions,  in  each  county  within  the  state  of  New- 
Jersey,  to  collect  and  enrol  the  names  of  all  such  persons 
as  hold,  or  have  held  the  office  of  a  judge  of  the  inferior 
court  of  common  pleas,   justice  of  the  peace,   sheriff  or 
coroner,   under  the  present  government  in   the  counties 
where  they  respectively  reside,  together  with  the  time  they 


598         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779 

were  qualified  into  office,  and  to  transmit  a  copy  of  such 
enrolment  to  the  secretary  of  the  s£ate,  at  or  before  the 
next  meeting  of  the  legislature ;  obliges  me  to  request  the 
favour  of  those  gentleman  in  the  county  of  Essex,  who 
now  hold,  or  have  held,  any  of  the  offices  above  mentioned, 
under  the  present  government,  to  bring  their  commissions 
with  them,  to  the  court  of  oyer  and  terminer,  to  be  holden 
at  Newark,  in  the  county  of  Essex,  on  the  14th  inst,  or  to 
send  them  by  some  of  their  neighbours,  that  so  I  may  be 
enabled  to  comply  with  the  requirements  of  the  said  act. 
EGBERT  OGDEN,  jun. 

Clerk  of  the  county  of  Essex. 
Elizabeth-Toivn,  Sept.  3,  1779. 

NOTICE   is  hereby  given,   that   David   Smalley   and 
Isaac  Moore,  intends  to  petition  the  legislature  of 
this  state  at  their  next  sitting,  praying  them  to  pass 
an  act  to  invest  in  them  the  fee  simple  right  to  two  lots  or 
pieces  of  land ;    the  one  where  said  Smalley  now  lives,  the 
other  a  piece  of  meadow  joining  said  Isaac  Moore's  other 
land.     Which  lots  of  land  was  bought  of  Joseph  Moore, 
jun.  and  money  paid  on  the  purchase,  and  no  deeds  were 
executed  before  his  decease.     All  persons  concerned  are 
desired  to  take  notice. 

Somerset  county,  Sept.  7,  1779. 

Mr.  KOLLOCK, 

T  See  in  your  last  paper  I  am  held  up  by  the  committee 
as  a  person  who  had  violated  their  regulations.     As 
it  is  very  agreeable  when  one  is  exposed  to  disgrace 
and  infamy,  to  have  as  much  company,  as  possible,  I  must 
beg  it  as  a  favour  of  the  committee,  that  they  would  pro- 
ceed as  soon  as  may  be,  to  take  a  list  of  all  the  traders, 
farmers,  mechanics  £c.  in  the  county,  who  have  all  been 
equally  guilty  with  myself  of  that  most  atrocious  crime, 
disregarding  the  regulations  of  the  committee.      'Tis  cruel 
in  you,  gentlemen,  to  place  me  on  the  black  list  with  only 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  599 

one  companion,  when  so  many  hundreds  in  the  county 
deserve  to  be  there  as  much  as  either  of  us.  Though  your 
election  is  not  quite  so  clear,  that  you  can  pretend  to  a  vote 
of  the  county,  (for  from  the  best  information  I  can  get, 
not  one  sixth  part  of  it  was  present  at  the  time)  yet  as  it  is 
probable,  you  may  continue  to  do  business  a  little  longer,  I 
must  now  insist  that  you  do  the  same  justice  to  all  others 
that  you  have  done  to  me.  I  fancy  I  might  help  you 
myself,  with  a  little  trouble,  to  a  list  of  a  few  hundred 
offenders;  and  Mr.  Kollock,  perhaps,  inight  be  prevailed 
on  to  give  a  supplement  to  his  paper,  for  a  week  or  two,  till 
their  names  could  be  inserted.  Should  this  proposal  be 
approved  of  by  the  committee,  who  are  surely  men  of 
segacity  and  good  sense,  I  am  ready  to  wait  on  them  a 
second  time ;  should  it  be  rejected,  I  will  have  nothing 
more  to  do  with  them.  JESSE  BALDWIN". 

Elizabeth-Town,  Sept.  4,1779. 

P.  S.  Though  I  have  a  strong  attachment  to  the  consti- 
tution of  this  state,  and  profess  the  greatest  respect  and 
obedience  to  the  legislature,  yet,  for  many  obvious  reasons, 
I  will  yield  no  obedience  to  committees.  J.  B. 

STRAYED  or  stolen  from  the  subscriber,  a  bay  horse 
5  or  6  years  old,  14  hands  high ,  branded  C  A,  and 
has  since  been  branded  with  a  smoothing  iron  to 
cover  the  continental  brand ;  the  first  brand  may,  however, 
be  discovered  by  close  examination.  Whoever  takes  up 
said  horse,  and  will  deliver  him  to  Moore  Furman,  Esq; 
deputy  quarter  master  general,  or  to  the  subscriber,  or  will 
discover  the  thief,  shall  be  handsomely  rewarded.  If  the 
horse  has  strayed  away  it  is  supposed  he  has  gone  towards 
Roxbury,  in  Morris  County,  as  he  was  sometime  in  the 
hands  of  Thomas  Douglass,  and  Amos  Willmott,  of  that 
place. 

Several  continental  horses  have  strayed  away,  and  are 
taken  up  by  persons  who  work  and  ride  them  under  various 


000  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    EEVOLUTION.  [1779 

pretences.  No  persoif  may  expect  to  be  paid  for  taking  up 
and  pasturing  any  continental  horse,  if  he  shall  presume  to 
keep  them  more  than  one  week ;  and  any  person  who  will 
give  information  thereof  to  the  subscriber,  shall  be  well 
rewarded. 

JOSEPH  LEWIS,  A.  Q.  M. 
Morris-Town,  Kept.  7,  1779. 


For  SALE, 
AT  JAMES  VAX  DYKE's 

AT    BoTTLE-HlLL, 

A  little  below  the  meeting-house, 

SCOTCH  SXUFF  of  an  excellent  quality,  by  the  hun- 
dred weight  or  less  quantity.      At  said  house  there 
is  also  for  sale,  a  pair  of  neat  polished  steel  hackles, 
and  a  pair  of  stays  of  the  newest  fashion. 

FOR  sale,  a  small  FARM,  containing  about  36  acres 
of  good  laud,  lying  on  the  main  road  that  leads 
from  Morris-Town  to  Chatham,  about  three  and  an 
half  miles  from  each:  There  is  on  the  place  a  good  dwell- 
ing-house, Iras  four  fire-places  on  the  lower  floor;  likewise 
a  good  barn,  cyder-house*,  and  cyder-mill;  an  orchard  that 
has  produced  fruit  sufficient  for  150  barrels  of  cyder  in  a 
year.  It  is  a  very  good  stand  for  business.  Also  four 
acres  of  meadow  land,  lying  in  the  great  meadow  joining 
Passaick  River.  The  whole  is  inclosed  in  good  rail  fence. 
For  conditions  of  sale  enquire  of  Stephen  Rose,  living  upon 
the  premises. 

WHEREAS    on   the    17th    of   February,    1779,    one 
Christopher  Dixsou,   a  waggoner,   applied  to  the 
subscriber  to  store  two  hogsheads  of  rum,  which  he 
said  belonged  to  Captain  David  Hubby,  of  Connecticut. 
I  received   and   stored  the   said   rum,   and  gave  Dixon   a 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  601 

receipt  for  it,  since  which  no  person  has  come  to'  claim  the' 
said  rum,  or  inquire  after  it:  This  is  therefore  to  give 
notice  to  the  owner  of  the  said  rum,  that  it  still  remains1 
with  the  subscriber,  ready  to  be  delivered  to  him  001  his- 
proving  property,  and  paying  charges,  otherwise  it  will, 
at  the  end  of  six  weeks  from  this  date1,  be  appraised  and 
sold  for  the  benefit  of  the  proper  owner. 

JACOB  MOKKELL. 
Chatham,  Xew-Jersey,  Sept,  7,  1779.  - 


TAKE  NOTICE. 

THAT  on  SATURDAY,  the  llth  instant,  at  3  o'clock 
P.  M.,  about  twenty  poor  HORSES,  the  property 
of  the  Continent,  will  be  sold  at  vendue,  which  will 
be  held  at  the  forage  store  in  this  town,  by 

JOSEPH    LEWIS,  A.  Q.  M. 
Morris-Town,  Sept.  1,  1779. 


PITTS  TOWN,  September  1,  1779. 

WHERE1AS  a.  considerable  number  of  horse's  belong- 
ing to  the  continental  army,  has  been  put  to  pas- 
ture in  this  state!  the  past  summer,  by  which  means 
many  of  them  have  strayed  away :  These  are  therefore  to 
desire  all  persons  in  whose  custody  any  such  horses  may 
be,  to  return  them  immediately  to  the  Quarter-Master  of 
the  country,  and  they  shall  be  reasonably  rewarded  for 
their  trouble.  And  all  persons  knowing  of  any  such  horses, 
or  any  other  property  of  the  United  States,  that  is  secreted' 
and  kept  back,  are  desired  to  give  information  thereof  to 
the  nearest  Quarter-Master,  that  the  delinquent  may  be 
brought  to  justice. 

By  Order  of  the  0.  Master  General, 

FURMAN    YARD. 


602  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 


to  the  plantation  of  Mattaniah  Lyon  in  Morris 
J     Town,  the  24th  of  August  last,  a  BAY  HORSE, 
about  15   hands  high,   marked  on  the  left  thigh. 
The  owner  is  desired  to  comei,  prove  his  property,  pay 
charges,  and  take  him  away. 

Morris  Town,  September  6,  1776. 


to  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber,  living  at 
\J      ^Few-Providence,  on  Friday  the  27th  inst.  a  dark 
bay  marei,  about  14  hands  high,  a  natural  trotter, 
no  mark  nor  brand.     The  owner  is  desired  to  come^  prove 
his  property,  and  take  her  away. 

JOHN  BROWN. 
New-Providence,  August  31,  1779. 


CAME  to  the:  plantation  of  the  subscriber,   at  Canoe1 
Brook,  a  red  heifer,  two  years  old,  marked  with  a 
swallow  fork  in  her  right  ear,  half  crop  and  a,  slit 
in  the  left.     Any  person  proving  their  property,  and  pay1 
ing  charges,  may  have  her  again,  on  application  to 

ALLIHAXSOX   FOSTER. 


CAME  to  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber,  at  Ilackett's 
Town,   Sussex  County,   and  State  of  New-Jersey, 
a.bout  the  28th  of  May  last,  a  large  bay  horse,  up- 
wards of  14  bands  high ;     a  natural  pacer,   has   a  small 
white  slip  in  his  forehead,  and  a,  bunch  of  white  hair  in 
his  tail,  neither  brand  nor  mark.     Whoever  has  lost  the 
above  described  horse;,   may  have  him   again  by  proving 
his  property,  and  paying  the  charges,  by  applying  to  the 
subscriber,  at  Ilackett's  Town  aforesaid. 

LEYI   JAMES. 
Hackett's  Town,  August  31,  1779. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  603 

Two  Hundred  Dollars  Reward. 

STRAYED  or  stolen  out  of  the  pasture  of  the  sub- 
scriber, living  in  Roxbury,  Morris  County,  on  the 
night  of  the  27th  of  this  instant,  a,  black  stallion, 
about  15  hands  high,  slim  built,  with  a  short  blaze  in  his' 
forehead,  and  has  ai  white  spot  in  the  near  eye ;  he  has  a 
thin  mane  and  tail,  hath  neither  brand  nor  ear-mark,  trots* 
chiefly,  can  pace  a  little  and  canter,  but  something  hard; 
is  part  blooded,  about  five  or  six  years  old.  Also,  a  light 
brown  mare,  about  14  hands  high,  paces  and  trots,  but 
most  natural  to  the  former :  hath  a,  small  star  in  her  fore- 
head, one  white  hind  foot,  has  neither  brand  nor  ear-mark ; 
she  is  something  flat  sided,  and  goes  low  before.  Whoever 
takes  up  and  secures  said  horse  and  mare,  so  that  the  owner 
may  have  them  again,  shall  have  100  dollars,  or  50  dollars1 
for  either  of  them,  and  100  dollars  for  the  thief,  so  that 
he  may  be  brought  to  justice,  paid  by  me>, 

HENRY  BURNET. 
]ST.  B.    The  mare  is  about  4  or  5  years  old. 
Roxbury,  August  31,  1779. 

SETH  GREGORY, 

Has  for 


OOD  Madeira,  wine  by  the  barrel  or  gallon.     Also1  a 
few  dozen  pair  of  wool  cards,   at  his   store  near 
Bottle-Hill,  Morris  County. 
Bottle-Hill,  August  24,  1779. 

WAS  drove  off  from  the  commons  at  Amboy,   some 
time  ago,  two  roan  mares.     The  one  three  and  the 
other  two  years  old.     The  owner  or  owners,  by 
.applying  to  the  subscribers,  proving  their  property,   and 
paying  charges,  may  have  them  again, 

GABRIEL  COMPTON, 
JOHN  CONGER, 
Bonliam  Town,  August  31,  1779. 


604  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

% 

Just  published, 

(Price  ONE  DOLLAR) 

And  to  be  sold  by  the  Printer  hereof, 

A    FAST    SEEM ON, 

POINTING  out  the  sins  or  vices,  which  the  authoi 
humbly  supposes  are  the  principle  grounds  of  God's 
controversy  with  the  people  of  this  land.    By  JACOB 
GREEN,  A.  M. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 

ACompleat  set  of  Bacon's  abridgement  of  the  laws  of 
England.,   and  Blackstone's  analysis,   Cicero's  ora- 
tions in  English.     Also  an  extraordinary  German 
flute,,  tutor  thereto,  and  many  fine  Scotch  tunes  in  manu- 
script.    Enquire  of  the  printer. 

TO  BE  SOLD, 
By  Doctor  WILLIAM  LEDDLE,1 

AT  MEND ii AM, 

A  PAIR  of  BAY  HORSES  fifteen  hands  high,  and 
very  well  matched,  fit  for  saddle  or  carriage.    They 
will  be  disposed  of  separate  or  together,  as  may  best 
suit  the  purchaser. 

Mendhani;  August,  17,  1779. 

1  For  a  sketch  of  Dr.  William  Leddel,  see  New  Jersey  Archives,  19  :  236. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  605 


subscriber  informs  the  public,  that  he  intends  to 
1      keep  a  stage  waggon  to  go  constantly  from  Eliza,- 
beth-Town  to  Brunswick,  every  Monday  morning. 
Any  person  that  should  want  a  passage!,  will  be  well  used 
by  JOHN   FERGUSON. 

1ST.  B.    It  will  set  out,  for  the  first  time,  the  30th  instant. 
Elizabeth-Town,  August  24,  1779. 


Ten  Pounds  Reward. 

STRAYED  or  stolen  out  of  the  pasture  of  the  sub- 
scriber, a  small  bay  horse,  13  or  13  and  1-2  hands 
high,  about  6  years  old,  trots  and  canters,  and  is 
noted  for  his  swiftness;    his  mane  is  thin  and  short;    he 
has  no  brand  nor  other  particular  mark  to  be  described. 
Whoever  takes  up  said  horse  and  thief,  and  secures  the 
thief,  that  he  may  be  brought  to  justice',  and  return  the 
horse  to  the  owner,  shall  have  60  dollars  and  reasonable 
charges,  or  the  above  reward  for  the  horse  only,  and  all 
reasonable  charges,  paid  by 

ROBERT;  HUNT. 

LAND. 

\ 

TO  be  sold,  100  acres  of  land,  the  property  of  New- 
Jersey    college,    part    improved,    upon    Schooley's 
Mountain,   in  Rocxbury  township,   Morris;  county, 
near  Mr.  Augustine  Read's;    at  whose  house  the  vendue 
will  begin  on  Wednesday  the  8th  of  September,  at  one 
o'clock.     Attendance  given  by 

JAMES   OALDWELL. 
August  31,  1779. 

— The  New- Jersey  Journal,  Vol.  I.,  Numb.  XXX.,  Sep- 
tember 7, 1779. 


606  NEW    JEKSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

New  Jersey,  September  4. 
To  be  SOLD  at  Public  V endue. 

On  Thursday  the  ninth  instant,  at  the  Forks  of  Little 
Egg-harbour. 

The  sloop  RECOVERY,  with  her  cargo,  consisting  of 
about  twenty  hogsheads  of  Molasses,  and  twenty  hogs- 
heads of  Sugar  of  the  first  quality.  Also  the  sloop 
NANCY,  and  cargo  of  Rice,  Tar,  Turpentine,  and  Luni- 
~ber. 

And  on  Saturday  the  eleventh  instant  will  be  sold  at 
Col.  Nicholas  StiHwell's  in  Cape  May,  the  schooner 
HENRY,  and  her  cargo  consisting  of  twenty  hogsheads  of 
sugar,  twenty  hogsheads  of  Molasses,  2000  Ib.  Cotton,  and 
a  quantity  of  Coffee, 

By  order  of  the  Court  of  Admiralty, 

JOSEPH  POTTS,    Marshal. 
— The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  September  7,  1779. 

Extract  of  a  letter  from  Camp,  six  miles  from  Chemung, 
August  30,  1779. 

''Yesterday  about  12  o'clock  we  left  Chemung  with  our 
whole  army  and  its  apparatus.  After  marching  about 
three  miles  our  advanced  party  was  fired  on  by  a,  small 
party  of  Indians — Our  men  returned  the  fire  and  dis- 
persed the  enemy  in  a  few  minutes — General  Sullivan 
suspecting  a  large  body  to  be  near,  ordered  a,  halt,  and, 
after  giving  the  different  departments  the  necessary  orders, 
detached  parties  to  reconnoiter,  who  at  their  return  re- 
ported  that  the  enemy  were  strongly  fortified  on  the  west 
side  of  a  creek  that  runs  into  the  Caiuga  branch.  The 
General  ordered  General  Hand's  brigade'  to  form  in  their 
front,  General  Maxwell's  to  stand  as  a  corps  de<  reserve, 
General  Poor's  and  General  Clinton's  to  endeavour  to  gain 
the  enemy's  left  flank,  and  Col.  Proctor  to  begin  a  cannon- 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  607 

ade  obliquely,  to  amuse  them.  They  shortly  left  their 
works  in  great  disorder,  and  attempting  to  gain  the  sum- 
mit of  a  high  hill  to  their  left,  fell  in  with  General  Poor's 
brigade,  with  whom  they  had  a  severe  scattering  engage^ 
ment — They  were  in  a  little  time  precipitately  scattered 
and  our  troops  in  hot  pursuit  of  them.  During  the  action, 
which  continued  f rom  twoi  to>  five  o'clock  in  the  afternoon, 
we  had  three  men  killed  and  about  30  wounded,  one  of 
whom  is  since  dead  of  his  wound ;  they  had  11  killed  and 
scalped,  besides  one  squaw,  their  wounded  unknown.  We 
took  two  prisoners,  both  painted  tories,  a  set  of  colours,  a 
number  of  blankets  and  other  plunder.  The  famous1  or 
rather  infamous1  Butler  and  Brant  were  their  leaders.  We 
hope!  this  small  stroke  will  soften  their  savage  courage,  and 
make  them  approa,ch  men  fighting  for  their  country  with 
proper  dread." 

Extracts  of  two  letters  dated  at  Major  General  Sullivan's 
Head-Quarters  on,  Tio<ga,  August  30,  1779,  to  a  gen- 
tleman in  Easton. 

"Yesterday  a  general  action  ensued,  in  which  the  Indians 
and  Tories  got  compleatly  routed.  The  conflict  was  long, 
and  I  believe  on  their  part  bloody,  tho'  only  11  dead  bodies 
were  found  upon  the  field ;  and  they,  I  suppose1,  would 
not  have  been  left,  if  our  troops  had  not  pursued  them  at 
the  point  of  the  bayonet,  Our  loss  was  but  trifling:  I 
think  5  or  6  were  killed,  and  between  40  and  50  wounded. 
The  cannonade  on  our  part  was  elegant,  and  gave  the 
Indians  such  a  panick,  that  they  fled  with  great  precipita- 
tion from  the  field. — One  Tory  and  one  Negro  were  taken 
prisoners,  who'  gave  information  that  their  whole  force  was 
<3olleicted  here. — This  settlement  is  routed  root  and  branch, 
all  the  houses  burnt,  and  the  corn-fields  destroyed." 

"I  have  just  time  to  inform  you,  that  on  Sunday  mom- 
ing  last,  our  advanced  parties1  discovered  the  enemy's 
breast-works  between  Cheniung  and  Newtown;  they  im- 


608         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION".       [1779 

mediately  gave  intelligence.  The  enemy's  right  flank  was 
secured  by  the  river,  and  their  left  by  a  high  hill.  Gen- 
eral Poor's  brigade  was  immediately  ordered  to  wheel  off, 
and  endeavour  to  gain  their  left  flank,  and,  if  possible,  to 
surround  them,  whilst  our  artillery  and  main  body  attacked 
them  in  front;  they  stood  a  hot  cannonade  for  more  than 
two  hours,  but  upon  their  discovering  the  intention  of 
surrounding  them,  the  retreat  halloo  was  given,  and  they 
retreated  with  the  utmost  precipitation,  leaving  their  packs, 
a,  number  of  scalping  knives,  tomahawks,  £c.,  behind  them. 
We  pursued  them  upwards  of  2  miles,  took  2  prisoners,  1 
white  man  and  1  negro.  They  crossed  the  river,  and 
carried  off  a  number  of  killed  and  wounded,  as  we  found 
by  their  tracks  of  blood,  and  2  canoes  which  we  found 
covered  with  blood.  I  saw  8  of  their  warriors  scalps  taken 
on  the  spot,  and  I  just  heard  of  14  more  dead  Indians,  that 
were  found  hid  with  leaves.  Their  breast  works  were  art- 
fully and  strongly  made,  constructed  with  logs,  and  blinds 
made  with  boughs,  and  extended  up\yards  of  half  a  mile. 
The  party  was  headed  by  Butler  and  .Brant,  and  consisted, 
by  the  best  intelligence  we  can  get,  of  about  600  Indians, 
and  200  Tories." 

Extract  of  a  letter,  dated  Wyoming,  tiept.  2,  1779. 

"At  2  o'clock  this  morning.  Dr.  Kendall  arrived  at  this 
place,  from  Clienmng,  and  brings  the  following  intelli- 
gence : 

"On  Sunday  morning  last,  our  army  discovered  a  large 
breast-work  in  a  narrow  passage,  about  4  miles  above 
Cliemung,  where  Messrs.  Butler,  .Brant  and  Mac-Donald 
had  collected  all  their  force. 

"Gen.  Sullivan  attacked  them  ; — the  enemy  returned  the 
fire,  and  the  engagement  lasted  near  two1  hours,  when  the 
Savages  gave  way,  and  were  compleatly  routed. 

"They  left  all  their  baggage  and  stores  of  every  kind; 
25  of  them  were  left  dead  oil  the  field. — Some  prisoners 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  609 

were  taken, — Our  loss  was  1  Lieutenant  and  1  privates 
killed,  and  1  major,  1  captain  and  33  privates  wounded.— 
Mr.  Butler's  commission  and  the  commission  of  another 
officer  was  taken,  with  several  orderly  books." 

We  are  credibly  informed,  that  several  of  the  enemy's 
vessels  have  been  captured  within  a  few  days  past,  and  sent 
into  the  Delaware  by  some  of  our  privateers. 

*  §  *  The  votes  and  Proceedings  of  the  General 
Assembly  of  this  State,  at  their  last  Sitting,  are  printed, 
and  ready  to  be*  delivered.  The  piece  signed  a  FARMER  is 
received. 


Wanted  immediately,  by  the  Publisher  of  this 
Paper, 

TWO  good  Journeymen  Printers — one  a  Pressman, 
the  other  a,  Caseman — to  whom  tha  highest  wages 
will  be  given,  and  they  exempted  from  military 

dutv. 

/ 

A  Meet  ing  of  the  trustees  of  Queen's  College  in  !New- 
Jersey,  is  ordered  to  be  held  at  Somerset,  at  the 
house  of  Andrew  Mersho'n,  late  the  house  of  John 
Bennet,  on  Friday  the  24th  of  September  next,   at  ten 
o'clock  in  the  forenoon.     The  members  are  requested  to 
give  their  attendance,  as  punctual  as  possible. 

JACOB  R.  HARDENBERGH,  Clerk. 
Baritan,  Aug.  30,  1779. 

To  be  sold  at  publick  vendue,  on   Tuesday   the  28th 
day  of  September  next,  two  valuable  Plantations, 
late  the  property  of  Zebulon  Applegate,  deceased, 
in  the  county  of  Middlesex,  near  Manalapan:     The  first 
containing  95  acres  of  good  wheat  land,  60  acres  whereof 
are  cleared,  G  acres  of  good  English  meadow,  more  may  be 

39 


610         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779 

made,  and  the  remainder  very  good  timber  land:  there 
is  likewise  a  large  frame  building  with  4  rooms  on  the 
lower  floor,  and  2  convenient  fire-places;  there  is  an  ex- 
cellent spring  of  good  water,  near  the  door.  Said  farm 
has  an  orchard  of  upwards  of  100  apple  trees  of  choice 
fruit;  there  is  a  new  framed  barn  well  enclosed,  with  a 
four  pole  barrack  standing  by  it.  The  above  farm  is  in 
good  fence1. 

The  other  plantation  joining  the  former,  contains  120 
acres  of  good  land  for  rye  and  Indian  corn,  about  40  acres 
whereof  are  cleared,  about  8  acres  of  meadow,  and  10  or 
15  acres  more  may  be  made  with  very  little  expence; 
there  is  a  new  frame  house  with  2  rooms  on  a  floor,  and  a 
convenient  milk  room. — The  said  farm  is  convenient  for 
water,  and  in  good  fence;  likewise',  there  is  a  large  range 
for  a  stock ;  both  the  above  places  lay  along  the  road  from 
Cranberry  to  Freehold  courthouse,  and  very  convenient 
to  markets. 

The  said  places  will  be  sold  both  together  or  separate, 
on  the  day  of  the  date  above-said.  The  sale  to  begin  at 
10  o'clock,  when  the1  conditions  of  sale  will  be  made  known 

by 

THOMAS  APPPLEGATE,  |  Execu- 
STEPHEN   VooptiiEES,    j  tors. 
Pemilapon,  Aug.  30,  1779. 


Two  Hundred  Dollars  Reward. 

RUN    AWAY    last    Monday    night,    the    30th    of    Aug. 
1779,  from  the  subscriber  living  in  the  township 
of  Reading,  Hunterdon  county,  and  state  of  West 
^ew-Jersey,   a  Negro  Man  name  TONE,  about  30  years 
old,  well  built,., about  5   feet  10  inches  high,  talks  good 
English  and  Low  Dutch.     Also*,  another  named  CHARLES, 
about  17  years  of  age,  about  6  feet  high,  of  a  yellow  com- 
plexion, squints  very  much  with  his  eyes ;   he  can  talk  good 
English  and  Low  Dutch.     As  they  took  with  them  a  num- 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  611 

ber  of  cloaths,  their  dress  cannot  be  described :  It  is  sup- 
posed  their  intention  is  for  Staten-Island.  Any  person 
that  will  take  up  said  two  negroes,  and  secure  them  in  safe 
gaol,  so  that  their  master  may  ha,ve  them  again,  shall  re- 
ceive for  each  Eighty  Dollars,  and  expences  paid;  or  if 
delivered  to  the  owner  at  his  house,  the  above;  reward,  and 
reasonable  charges  paid  by 

CORNELIUS  VANHOVpr.1 
Aug.  31. 

ON  Friday,  the  17th  instant,  at  9  o'clock  precisely,  will 
be  exposed  to  sale  at  publick  vendue,  at  the  sub- 
scriber's mills  in  Reading-town,  Hunterdoii  county, 
near  the  White  House,  for  cash  only,  a  number  of  milch 
cows,  young  cattle,  horses,  valuable  English  breeding 
mares,  30  or  40  head  of  sheep,  hogs,  a  good  waggon,  pleas- 
ure sleigh,  and  a  considerable  quantity  of  good  hay,  also 
fanning  utensils,  household  and  kitchen  furniture;  like- 
wise, that  noted  and  elegant  horse  called  Harlequin,  that 
-covered  at  the  subscriber's  mills  the  last  season,  now'  rising 
5  years  old,  was  got  by  Granby,  his  dam  by  Briton,  to- 
gether with  many  other  articles  too  tedious  to  mention. 
Conditions  will  be  made  known,  and  attendance  given  by 

JOSEPH  GEES  WOLD, 

IS".  B.  He  has  likewise  for  sale,  a  likely  negro  wench, 
about  23  years  of  age,  used  to  most  kinds  of  country  work, 
and  sold  for  no  fault,  but  want  of  employ. 


Eighty  Dollars  Reward. 

STOLEN  out  of  the  pasture  of  the  subscriber  on  the 
third  instant,  September,  a  BAY  MARE,  about  14 
hands  high,  8  years  old  last  spring,  black  mane  & 
tail,  black  legs,  hea,vy  made,  paces  a  travel,  but  most  natural 

1  For  a  sketch  of  Cornelius  Van  Home,  see  New  Jersey  Archives,  11 :  83. 


612  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

% 

to  trot  and  canter,  her  shoulders  and  sides  are  galled  by 
work.  Whoever  takes  up  said  mare  and  thief  and  secures 
them,  so  that  the  owner  may  get  the  mare,  and  the  thief  be 
brought  to  justice,  shall  have  the  above  reward,  or  Forty 
Dollars  for  the  thief  only,  and  all  reasonable  charges  paid 
by  me. 

JOSEPH  LAMB. 

To  all  whom  it  may  concern. 

WHEREAS  his  Excellency  the  Governor,  by  Proclama- 
tion, has  called  on  the  good  citizens,  but  more  especially 
the  Magistrates  of  this  State,  carefully  to  inspect  the  con- 
duct of  those  employed  either  in  the  Quartermaster  or 
Commissary  General's  department ; 

And  whereas,  a  general  complaint  is  made  against  sun- 
dry persons  acting  in  said  department  at  Princeton — These 
are  to  inform  the  public  that  the  magistrates  in  and  about 
Princeton  will  attend  at  the  house  of  Mr.  Jacob  G.  Bergen, 
innholder,  in  said  town,  on  Saturday,  the  llth  inst.  from 
one  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  till  evening,  then  and  there  to . 
receive  and  take  down  such  complaint  or  information  as 
may  bo  offered  against  any  person  acting  in  either  of  said 
departments,  agreeably  to  the  tenor  of  His  Excellency's 
Proclamation. 

Princeton,  Sept.  4,  1779. 

To  all  whom  it  may  concern. 

f  TVTOTICE  is  hereby  given  that  a 
Xew-Jersey,  ss.  )  11  Court  of  Admiralty  will  be 

(  held  at  the  Court-IIouse  in 

Burlington,  on  Thursday  the  30th  day  of  September  inst. 
at  ten  o'clock  in  the  forenoon  of  the  same  day,  then  and 
there  to  try  the  truth  of  the  facts  allcdged  in  the  bills  of 
Stephen  Decatur  and  Xicholl  Fordick,1  (who  as  well,  &c.) 

1  Fosdick. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  613 

against  the  schooner  or -vessel  called  the  Barbary,  lately 
commanded  by  Charles  Hendly:  Of  John  Field,  (who  as 
well,  &c.)  against  the  sloop  or  vessel  called  the  Recovery, 
lately  commanded  by  Leonard  Bowles :  Of  Enoch  Stilwill 
and  Mcholl  Fordick,  (who  as  well,  &c.)  against  the 
schooner  or  vessel  called  the  Henry :  Of  Nicholl  Fordick, 
(who  as  well,  &c.)  against  the  sloop  or  vessel  called  the 
Xancy:  Of  Silas  Talbot  and  James  Munro,  (who  as  well, 
&c.)  against  the  vessel  called  the  Dublin  Cutter,  lately  com- 
manded by  Phoenix  Pagan :  Of  Mcholl  Fordick,  (who  as 
well,  &c.)  against  the  schooner  or  vessel  called  the  Susan- 
nah: Of  Silas  Talbot  and  James  Munro,  (who  as  well, 
&c.)  against  the  brigantine  or  vessel  called  the  Chance: 
And  of  Enoch  Stilwill,  (who  as  well,  &c.)  against  the 
brigantine  or  vessel  called  Leportax;  to  the  end  and 
intent  that  the  owner  or  owners  of  the  said  vessels,  or  any 
person  or  persons  concerned  therein,  may  appear  and  shew 
cause,  if  any  they  have,  why  the  said  vessels  and  their 
cargoes  should  not  be  condemned  according  to  the  prayer 
of  the  said  bills. 

By  order  of  the  Judge, 

Joseph  Bloomfield,  Register. 
September  4,  1779. 


New- Jersey,  September  4,  1779. 

On  Saturday  the  18th  instant,  at  eight  o'clock,  at  the  house 
of  John  Brick,  Esq.  on  Morris's  River, 

WILL  begin  the  Sales  of  the  CARGO  of  the  Brig  capr 
lured  by  Captain  Stilwill,  in  the  schooner  Hawke, 
consisting  of  200  puncheons  of  old  Jamaica  spirits, 
and  a  quantity  of  old  Madeira,  wines.     At  the  same  time 
will  be  sold  said  BRIG,  with  her   appurtenances  per  in- 
ventory. 

By  Order  of  the  Court  of  Admiralty, 

JOSEPH  POTTS,  Marshal. 


614  KEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

% 

Thirty  Dollars  Reward. 

STOLEN  from  the  subscriber  near  Somerset  courthouse, 
the  evening  of  the  29th  of  July,   a   black  Roan 
Gelding,  near  14  hands  high,  a  natural  pacer,  car- 
ries a  low  head  and  tail,  a  little  high  backed,  five  years  old 
this  grass.     Any  person  delivering  the  horse  to1  the  owner 
shall  have  the  above  reward,   and  all  reasonable  charges 
paid  by  me. 

RYXTER  VEGTIT. 
Aug.  16. 

To  all  whom  it  may  concern. 

ISTew-          f  "VToTiCE   is  hereby  given,   that  a  court  of 
Jersey,   ss.    1  1M      admiralty  will  be  held  at  the  Court- 
(^  house  in  Burlington,  on  Monday  the 

13  day  of  September  next,  at  10  o'clock  in  the  forenoon  of 
the  same  day,  then  and  there  to  try  the  truth  of  the  facts 
alledged  in  the  bills  of  John  Field  and  Stephen  Decatur, 
(who  as  well,  &c.)  against  the  schooner  or  vessel  called  the 
Polly  Sly,  lately  commanded  by  Isaac  Royal  Denston,  and 
the  schooner  or  vessel  called  the  Yanke  Witch,  lately  com- 
manded by  John  Atkinson  ;  of  John  Walton,  (who  as  well, 
&c.)  against  the  sloop  or  vessel  called  the  Happy  Family; 
and  of  James  Parker,  John  Powell,  Jesse  Lucas,  Joseph 
Poole,  Thomas  Mendenhall  and  George  Caron,  (who  as 
well,  &c.)  against  the  schooner  or  vessel  called  the  Sukey, 
lately  belonging  to  Brian  Conner,  of  Xew-York ;  of  Sam- 
uel Ingersoll  and  David  Stevens  (who  as  well,  &c.)  against 
the  schooner  Booiie ;  to  the  end  and  intent,  that  the  owner 
or  owners  of  the  said  vessels,  or  any  person  or  persons  con- 
cerned therein,  may  appear  and  shew  cause,  if  any  they 
have,  why  the  said  vessels  and  their  cargoes  should  not  be 
condemned,  according  to  the  prayer  of  the  said  bills. 
By  order  of  the  Judge, 

Jos.   BLOOMFIELD,  Reg. 

Aug.  4. 

—New-Jersey   Gazette,    Vol.    II.,  No.    88,   September  1, 
1779. 


NEWSPAPER  EXTRACTS.  615 


New- York,  September  8. 

The  following  is  extracted  from  the  New-Jersey  Jour- 
nal, printed  at  Chatham,  Aug.  24 : 

"We  hear  that  a  few  days  since,  the  Packet  from  Eng- 
land for  New-York,  was  captured  by  the  schooner  Mars, 
Capt.  Taylor,  of  Egg-Harbour.  In  their  confusion  they 
unfortunately  omitted  sinking  the  mail,  which  fell  into  our 
hands,  and  is  safe  arrived  at  Philadelphia,  together  with 
42  prisoners,  two  of  which  are  officers  of  distinction,  who 
were  coming  to  take  command  at  New- York." 

I  hereby  declare  the  above  assertion  of  the  mail  falling 
into  the  hands  of  Rebels  to  Be  a  notorious  falsehood,  on  the 
contrary  it  was  thrown  into  the  sea  and  irrecoverably  sunk, 
before  the  Snow  Packet  Boat  I  commanded  was  taken, 
JOHN  ROBERTS,  Commander, 

of  the  Dashwood  Packet, 
— The  Royal  Gazette,  No.  307,  September  8,  1779. 


New-Jersey,  September  4. 

On  SATURDAY  the  eighteenth  instant,  at  eight  o'clock 
in  the  morning,  at  the  house  of  John  Brich,  Esq;  on 
MoirisV  River,  will  begin  the  sale's  of  the  CARGO  of  the 
brig  Leportax,  captured  by  Capt.  Stillwell,  in  the.  schooner 
Hawke,  consisting  of  two  hundred  puncheons  of  old  Ja- 
maica  Spirits,  and  a  quantity  of  old  Madeira  Wines.  At 
the  same  time  will  be  sold  said  BRIG,  a  very  valuable 
vessel.  By  order  of  the  Court  of  Admiralty 

JOSEPH  POTTS,  Marshal 
— The  Pennsylvania*  Packet,  September  11,  1779. 


f 

616  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

.    £ 

TREXTOX,  Sept.  8.  The  honorable  the  legislature  of 
this  state  are!  to  meet,  agreeable  to  adjournment,  on  Wed.- 
nesday  the  fifteenth  inst, 

We  learn  that  major  gen.  lord  Stirling  marched  his 
division  of  Continental  troops,  a,  few  days  ago,  to  a  place 
called  the  Clove1. 

We  hear  that  on  Friday  last  several  armed  boats,  be- 
longing to  the  enemy,  went  into  Egg  Harbour  river,  and 
destroyed   a  number  of  vessels,   and  other  property  to  a 
considerable  amount. 
—The  Pennsylvania  Evening  Post,  September  11,  1779. 

The  Privateer  Brig  Dunmore,  Ca.pt..  Buchannan,  ar- 
rived from  a  Cruize  last  Monday,  in  which  he  took  three 
Prizes,  and  sent  them  to  Bermuda;  one  of  them  was  a 
Brig  from  St.  Eustatia  bound  for  Philadelphia.  The 
Dunmore  was  chased  into  Sandy-Hook  by  three  Rebel 
Privateers,  one  of  them  a,  Brig  of  18  Guns,  and  full  of 
Men. 

TREXTOX,  SEPTEMBER  15. 

The  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  of  this  State  meet  here  this 
day. 

By  the  best  accounts  we  can  obtain  from  Xew-York, 
the  enemy  remain  very  busy  in  preparing  for  a  large  em- 
barkation of  troops ;  and  from  several  circumstances,  it  is 
apprehended  they  are  destined  for  the  AYest-Indies. 


h  .:.  *  The  Public  is  desired  to  take:  notice,  that  the 
Annual  Commencement  at  Princeton,  is  to  be  on  Wednes- 
day the  29th  inst.  and  the  Examination  of  the  Grammar 
School  on  the  Tuesday  proceeding. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  ClT 


Wanted  Immediately. 

'wo  APPRENTICE  LADS,  who  can  read  and  write.     En- 
•  quire  of  the  Printer. 


JOSEPH  MILNOR  has  for  Sale, 

At  his  Store  in  Trenton, 
A  Quantity  of  GERMAN  STEEL. 
September  15,  1779. 


EOR  SALE, 

A    SECOND  hand  RIDING  CHAIR,  and  a  pair  of  horseman's 
J\.       PISTOLS    with    holsters.      Enquire    of    Benjamin 

Smith  in  Trenton. 
Sept.  14,  1779 

James  Emerson 

Hath  for  sale  at  his  store  in  Trenton, 

DOCTOR  RYAN'S  incomparable  worm-destroying  SUGAB 
PLUMBS,  necessary  to  be  kept  in  all  families.     Also, 
Russia  sheetings   and   drillings,   fine  Irish   linens 
7-8  and  yard-wide;   coarse  Gerr-man  do.  calicoes,  cambrick, 
lawn,  flowered  muslin  for  aprons,  everlasting  serge,  ratti- 
net,  black  velvet  for  breeches  or  jackets,  black  silk  hand- 
kerchiefs,  check  do.   India  nankeens,   snuff  and  tobacco, 
with  sundry  other  articles,  which  he  will  sell  as  reasonable 
as  the  times  will  admit;    he  also  takes  BEES- WAX  in  ex- 
change for  goods,  or  pays  cash  for  it. 


* 
618      :NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.     [177!) 

^ 

WILL  be  exposed  to  sale,  at  publick  vendue,  on  the 
premises,  the  sixth  day  of  October  next,  the  two 
thirds  of  three  undivided  Lots  of  Land,  with  the 
grist-mill  and  fulling-mill  thereon,   and  all  the  appurte- 
nances thereunto  belonging,  situate  at  Rocky-hill,  in  the 
county  of  Somerset,  being  part  of  the  estate  of  John  Hart, 
Esq.    deceased,   of  Hopewell ;     the  conditions,   &c.    made 
known  on  the  day  of  sale  by 

JESSE  HART,          NATHANIEL  HART,  |   ^ 

T^  TT  T          TJ  r  -Executors. 

EDWARD  HART,     LEVI  HART,  ) 

September  6,  1779. 

ALL  those  that  are  indebted  to  the  estate  of  John  Hart, 
Esq.  of  Hopewell,  deceased,  are  earnestly  required 
to  make  payment  by  the  1st  of  October  next ;    and 
also  those  that  have  any  demands  against  said  estate  are 
requested  to  bring  their  accounts  properly  attested  by  said 
time,  in  order  to  receive  their  just  dues,  and  enable  the 
subscribers  to  make  up  their  accounts  with  the  legatees. 

JESSE  HART.          NATHANIEL  HART.  )   n 

-^  TT  >  Executors. 

±LDWARD  HART,     LEVI  HART,  ) 

September  6,  1779. 

Trenton,  September  10,  1779. 

To  the  PUBLICK. 

WHEREAS    Richard    Stevens    and    John    Mehelm,    Es- 
quires, in  the  Pennsylvania  and  Xew-Jersey  news- 
papers, have,  as  trustees  for  selling  and  disposing 
of  part  of  the  real  estate  of  William  Alexander,  Earl  of 
Stirling,    among  others,   advertised  the  following  planta- 
tions and  tracts  of  land  for  sale,  now  in  possession  of  Fred- 
erick  Jordan,    Peter   Haughabout,    Philip   Palmer,    John 
Brink,   William   Craig,   -  -  Ebgor,   Benjamin   Jones, 

Daniel  Brink,  Jacob  Ackman  and  Isaac  Oakes :    This  is  to 
notify  the  publick,  that  we,  the  subscribers,  are  the  true 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  619 

and  lawful  owners  of  all  and  singular  the  above-mentioned 
plantations  and  tracts  of  land;  and  do  hereby  forewarn 
any  person  or  persons  from  purchasing  any  or  either  of. 
them,  as  we  are  determined  to  dispute  the  title  with  any 
person  or  persons  who  may  purchase  any  or  either  of  the 
aforesaid  premises  from  or  under  the  aforesaid  trustees. 

SAMUEL  HENRY, 
RICHARD  HOLCOMB, 
JOHN  BRINK. 


Two  Hundred  Dollars  Reward. 

STOLEN  from  the  subscriber,  near  the  six  mile  run 
.Dutch  meeting-house,  in  Middlesex  county,  on  the 
evening  of  the  10th  of  this  inst.  a  dark  bay  Mare, 
15  and  a  half  hands  high,  a  natural  trotter,  is  half -blooded, 
and  carries  well,  four  years  old  last  spring,  has  no  natural 
marks,  and  is  branded  with  the  shape  of  a  heart  on  one 
of  her  thighs.     Any  person  that  will  apprehend  the  thief, 
and  deliver  the  mare  to.  the  owner,  shall  be  entitled  to  the 
above  reward,  or  One  Hundred  and  Fifty  Dollars  for  the 
mare  only,  and  all  reasonable  charges  paid  by 

JOHN  BARRICKLOW. 
September  13,  1779. 

— The  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  II.,  No>.  90.  Sept.  15, 
1779. 

To  be  SOLD  by  Public  Vendue 

On  Monday  the  20th  instant,   (September) 

A  Lot  of  Land  in  the  town  of  Gloucester,  with  the  build- 
ings and  improvements  thereon,  consisting  of  a  large  bark 
house,  currying  shop,  and  a  great  number  of  vats,  &c.  &c. 
where  the  Tanning  business  may  be  carried  on  to  great 
advantage. 


620  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

^  ' 

On  the  21st  inst.  will  also  bei  disposed  at  Public  Vendue, 
at  Mr.  Eldridge's  tavern,  known  by  the  Death  of  the  Fox, 
a  Lot  of  Meadow  on  Repopo  Creek,  in  the  county  of  Glou- 
cester, about  fifteen  miles  from  Philadelphia,,  on  the  River 
Delaware. 

And  on  Thursday  the  23d  instant,  will  be  disposed  of  at 
Public  Vendue,  at  Bridge-Town  in  Cumberland  county, 
a  Tract  of  Land  containing  about-  four  hundred  acres, 
within  two  miles  of  Buckshotem  saw-mill,  where  a  sloop 
can  load  from  the  mill  tail.  Any  person  inclining  to  pur- 
chase can  view  the  tract  before  the  day  of  sale,  by  applying 
to  ROBERT  MONTGOMERY,  near  the  premises. 

The   conditions   will   be   made  known   and   attendance 
given  on  the  day  of  sale  by  ROBERT  and  WILLIAM 
MONTGOMERY. 
—The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  September  18,  1779. 

But  what  shall  we-  think  of  the  cause,  to  which  a  Lady 
from  Jersey  attributes  the  sickly  state  of  the  inhabitants 
of  that  Province  ? — She  affirms,  it  is  entirely  owing  to  the 
scarcity  of  Musket  os. — 

If  what  she  advances  be  true1 — how  easily  can  we  ac- 
count for  the  great  health  abounding  in  this  city.      We 
hare  Phlebotdmists  in,  plenty.     GENUINE. 
—The  Royal  Gazette,  No.  310,  September  18,  1779. 


,  Sept.  20. 

We.  hear  that  there  is  now  such  a  Disagreement  between 
the  Inhabitants  of  Xew  Jersey,  and  those  of  Philadelphia, 
that  all  intercourse  with  Regard  to  Trade  is  entirely  at  an 
end,  as  the  Committee  of  Philadelphia  will  not  permit  any 
of  their  Goods  to  cross  the  Delaware  for  the  Use  of  the 
Inhabitants  of  Jersey,  neither  will  the  last  mentioned 
Province  admit  any  of  their  Produce  to  be  sent  to  Phila- 
delphia.— The  New-York  Gazette:  and  the  Weekly  Mer- 
cury, No.  1457,  September  20,  1779. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  621 


PHILADELPHIA. 

HEAD-QUARTERS,  West-Point,  Aug.  23,  1779. 
Sir, 

I  HAVE  the  honour  to  inclose  your  Excellency  Major 
Lee's  report  of  the  surprise  and  capture  of  the  gar- 
rison  of  Powles-Hook.      The  Major   displayed   a 
remarkable  degree  of  prudence,  address,  enterprise,  and 
bravery  upon  this  occasion — which  does  the  highest  honour 
to  himself  and  to  all  the  officers  and  men  under  his  com- 
mand.    The  situation  of  the  post  rendered  the  attempt 
critical,  and  the  success  brilliant:     It  was  made  in  conse- 
quence of  information  that  the  garrison  was  in  a  state  of 
negligent  security,  which  the  event  has  justified. 

I  am  much  indebted  to  Major  General  Lord  Stirling  for 
the  judicious  measures  he  took  to  forward  the  enterprise, 
and  to  secure  the  retreat  of  the  party. 

Lieiit.  M'Callister,  who  will  have  the  honour  of  deliver- 
ing these  dispatches,  will  present  Congress  with  the  stand- 
ard of  the  garrison  which  fell  into  his  possession  during 
the  attack.  Major  Lee  speaks  of  this  gentleman's  conduct 
in  the  handsomest  terms. 

I  have  the  honour  to  be, 

With  perfect  respect  and  esteem, 
Your  Excellency's  most  obedient  servant, 

G.  WASHINGTON. 

P.  S.  The  report  not  having  been  received  till  this  day, 
prevented  a  speedier  transmission.  Major  Lee  mentions 
20  men  lost  on  our  side; — Capt.  Rudulph  informs,  that 
since  the  report  was  concluded,  several  of  the  missing  had 
returned,  which  will  lessen  the  supposed  loss  near  one  half. 

SIR, 

Lord  Stirling  was  pleased  to  communicate  to  your  Ex- 
cellency my  verbal  report  to  his  Lordship  of  the  19th 


» 

622  NEW    JEESEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

Hfj 

instant.  I  now  do  myself  the  honour  to  present  a  particu- 
lar relation  of  the  enterprise  which  your  Excellency  was 
pleased  to  commit  to  my  direction. 

I  took  command  of  the  troops  employed  on  this  occasion 
on  the  18th:  They  amounted  to  400  infantry,  composed 
•of  detachments  from  the  Virginia  and  Maryland  divisions, 
and  one  troop  of  dismounted  dragoons. 

The  troops  moved  from  the  vicinity  of  the  New-Bridge 
about  four  o'clock  P.  M.  Patroles  of  horse  being  detached 
to  watch  the  communication  with  the  North-River,  and 
parties  of  infantry  stationed  at  the  different  avenues  lead- 
ing to  Powles  Hook :  My  anxiety  to  render  the  march  as 
easy  as  possible,  induced  me  to  pursue  the  Bergen  road 
lower  than  intended.  After  filing  into  the  mountains,  the 
timidity  or  treachery  of  the  principal  guide  prolonged  a 
short  march  into  a  march  of  three  hours,  by  this  means  the 
troops  were  exceedingly  harrassed,  and  being  obliged  to 
pass  through  deep  mountainous  woods  to  regain  our  route, 
some  parties  of  the  rear  were  unfortunately  separated. 
This  affected  me  most  sensibly,  as  it  not  only  diminished 
the  number  of  the  men  destined  for  the  assault,  but  de- 
prived me  of  the  aid  of  several  officers  of  distinguished 
merit. 

On  reaching  the  point  of  separation,  I  found  my  first 
disposition  impracticable  both  from  the  near  approach  of 
day  and  the  rising  of  the  tide.  Not  a  moment  being  to 
spare,  I  paid  no  attention  to  the  punctilios  of  honour  or 
rank,  but  ordered  the  troops  to  advance  in  their  then  dis- 
position. Lieutenant  Rudulph,  whom  I  had  previously  de- 
tached to  reconnoitre  the  passages  on  the  canal,  returned  to 
me  at  this  point  of  time  and  reported  that  all  was  silence 
within  the  works,  that  he  had  fathomed  the  canal  and 
found  the  passage  on  the  center  route  still  admissible. 
This  intervening  intelligence  was  immediately  communi- 
cated from  front  to  rear,  and  the  troops  pushed  on  with 
that  resolution,  order  and  coolness  which  ensures  success. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  623 

The  forlorn  hopes,  led  by  Lieutenant  M'Callister  of  the 
Maryland,  and  Lieutenant  Rudulph  of  the  dragoons, 
marched  on  with  trailed  arms  in  most  profound  silence. 
Such  was  the  singular  address  of  these  two  gentlemen,  that 
the  first  notice  to  the  garrison  was  the  forlornes  plunging 
into  the  canal.  A  firing  immediately  commenced  from  the 
block  houses  and  along  the  line  of  abattis,  but  did  not  in 
the  least  check  the  advance  of  the  troops.  The  forlorn, 
supported  by  Major  Clarke  at  the  head  of  the  right  column, 
broke  through  all  opposition,  and  found  an  entrance  into 
the  main  work.  So  rapid  was  the  movement  of  the  troops 
that  we  gained  the  fort  before  the  discharge  of  a  single 
piece  of  artillery.  The  center  column,  conducted  by  Capt, 
Forsyth,  on  passing  the  abattis  took  a  direction  to  their 
left.  Lieutenant  Armstrong  led  on  the  advance  of  this 
column.  They  soon  possessed  themselves  of  the  officers  and 
troops  posted  at  the  house  ]^o.  6,  and  fully  com/pleated 
every  object  of  their  destination.  The  rear  column,  under 
Captain  Handy,  moved  f orward  in  support  of  the  whole. 
Thus  were  we  compleately  victorious  in  the  space  of  a  few 
moments. 

The  appearances  of  day-light,  my  apprehension  least 
some  accident  might  have  befallen  the  boats,  the  numerous 
difficulties  of  the  retreat,  the  harrassed  state  of  the  troops, 
and  the  destruction  of  all  our  ammunition  by  passing  the 
canal,  conspired  in  influencing  me  to  retire  the  moment 
of  victory.  Major  Clarke,  with  the  right  column,  was 
immediately  put  in  motion  with  the  greater  part  of  the 
prisoners.  Captain  Handy  followed  on  with  the  re- 
mainder. Lieutenants  Armstrong  and  Reed  formed  the 
rear  guard. 

Immediately  on  the  commencement  of  the  retreat,  I  sent 
forward  Captain  Forsyth  to  Prior's  Mill  to  collect  such 
men  from  the  different  columns  as  were  most  fit  for  action, 
and  to  take  post  on  the  heights  of  Bergen  to  cover  the 
retreat. 


624  NEW    JEESEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

fe 

On  my  reaching  this  place  I  was  informed  by  Cornet 
Neill,  (who  had  been  posted  there  during  the  night  for  the 
purpose  of  laying  the  bridge  and  communicating  with  the 
boats)  that  my  messenger  directed  to  him  previous  to  the 
attack  had  not  arrived,  nor  had  he  heard  from  Captain 
Peyton  who  had  charge  of  the  boats. 

Struck  with  apprehension  that  I  should  be  disappointed 
in  the  route  of  retreat,  I  rode  forward  to  the  front  under 
Major  Clarke,  whom  I  found  very  near  the  point  of  em- 
barkation and  no  boats  to  receive  them.  In  this  very 
critical  situation  I  lost  no  time  in  my  decision,  but  ordered 
the  troops  to  regain  Bergen  road  and  move  on  to  the  New- 
Bridge  :  At  the  same  time  I  communicated  my  disappoint- 
ment to  Lord  Stirling  by  express,  then  returned  to  Prior's 
Bridge  to  the  rear  guard. 

•  Oppressed  by  every  possible  misfortune  at  the  head  of 
troops  worn  down  by  a  rapid  march  of  thirty  miles, 
through  mountains,  swamps  and  deep  morasses,  without 
the  least  refreshment  during  the  whole  march,  ammuni- 
tion destroyed,  encumbered  with  prisoners,  and  a  retreat 
of  fourteen  miles  to  make  good,  on  a  route  admissible  of 
interception  at  several  points  by  a  march  of  two,  three  or 
four  miles;  one  body  moving  in  our  rear,  and  another 
(from  the  intelligence  I  had  received  from  the  captured 
officers)  in  all  probability  well  advanced  on  our  right;  a 
retreat  naturally  impossible  to  our  left.  Under  all  these 
distressing  circumstances,  my  sole  dependence  was  in  the 
persevering  gallantry  of  the  officers  and  obstinate  courage 
of  the  troops.  In  this  I  was  fully  satisfied  by  the  shouts 
of  the  soldiery,  who  gave  every  proof  of  unimpaired  vigour 
on  the  moment  that  the  enemy's  approach  was  announced. 

Having  gained  the  point  of  interception  opposite  Wee- 
hock,  Captain  Handy  was  directed  to  move  with  his  divi- 
sion 011  the  Mountain  road  in  order  to  facilitate  the  re- 
treat. Captain  Catlett,  of  the  2d  Virginia  regiment,  for- 
tunately joined  me  at  this  moment  at  the  head  of  fifty  men 
with  good  ammunition.  I  immediately  halted  this  officer, 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  625 

and  having  detached  two  parties,  the  one  011  the  Bergen 
road  in  the  rear  of  Major  Clarke',  the  other  on  the  banks 
of  the  North-Kiver,  I  moved  with  the  party  under  com- 
mand of  the  Captain  on  the  center  route.  By  those  pre- 
cautions a  sudden  approach  of  the  enemy  was  fully  pre- 
vented. I  am  very  much  indebted  to  this  officer,  and  the 
gentlemen  under  him  for  their  alacrity  and  vigilance  on 
this  occasion. 

On  the  rear's  approach  to  the  Fort  Lee  road  we  met  a 
detachment  under  the  command  of  Colonel  Ball,  which 
Lord  Stirling  had  pushed  forward  on  the  first  notice  of  our 
situation  to  support  the  retreat.  The  Col.  moved  on  and 
occupied  a  position  which  effectually  covered  us. 

Some  little  time  after  this,  a  body  of  the  enemy  (al- 
luded to  in  the  intelligence  I  mentioned  to  have  received 
from  the  officers  while  in  the  fort,  made  their  appearance, 
issuing  out  of  the  woods  on  our  right,  and  moving  thro' 
the  fields  directly  to  the  road.  They  immediately  com- 
menced a  fire  upon  my  rear.  Lieutenant  Reed  was  or- 
dered to  face  them,  while  Lieut.  Rudulph  threw  himself 
with  a  party  into  a  stone  house  which  commanded  the  road. 
These  two  officers  were  directed  mutually  to  support  each 
other  and  give  time  for  the  troops  to  pass  the  English 
Neighbourhood  Creek,  at  the  Liberty  Pole.  On  the 
enemy's  observing  this  disposition,  they  immediately  re- 
tired by  the  same  route  they  had  approached,  and  took  the 
woods.  The  precipitation  with  which  they  retired  pre- 
venting the  possibility  of  Colonel  Ball's  falling  in  with 
them,  saved  the  whole. 

The  body  which  moved  in  our  rear,  having  excessively 
fatigued  themselves  by  the  rapidity  of  their  march, 
thought  prudent  to  halt  before  they  came  in  •  contact 
with  us. 

Thus,  Sir,  was  every  attempt  to  cut  off  our  rear  com- 
pletely baffled.  The  troops  arrived  safe  at  the  New-Bridge 
with  all  the  prisoners  about  one  o'clock,  P.  M.  on  the  nine- 
teenth. 

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626  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

I  should  commit  the  highest  injustice,  was  I  not  to 
assure  your  Excellency  that  my  endeavours  were  fully 
seconded  by  every  officer  in  his  station ;  nor  can  any  dis- 
crimination justly  be  made,  but  what  arose  from  oppor- 
tunity. The  troops  vied  with  each  other  in  patience  under 
their  many  sufferings,  and  conducted  themselves  in  every 
vicissitude  of  fortune  with  a  resolution  which  reflects  the 
highest  honour  on  them. 

.During  the  whole  action  not  a  single  musket  was  fired  on 
our  si  (ley — the  bayonet  was  our  sole  dependence. 

Having  gained  the  fort,  such  were  the  order  of  the 
troops  and  attention  of  the  officers,  that  the  soldiers  were 
prevented  from  plundering,  altho7*  in  the  midst  of  every 
sort. 

American  humanity  has  been  again  signally  manifested, 
self-preservation  strongly  dictated,  on  the  retreat,  the  put- 
ting the  prisoners  to  death,  and  British  cruelty  fully  jus- 
tified it ;  notwithstanding  which,  not  a  man  was  wantonly 
hurt. 

During  the  progress  of  the  troops  in  the  works,  from  the 
different  reports  of  my  officers,  I  conclude  not  more  than 
50  of  the  enemy  were  killed,  and  a  few  wounded. — Among 
the  killed  is  one  officer,  supposed  from  his  description  to 
be  a  Captain  in  Col.  Buskirk's  regiment.  Our  loss  OH  this 
occasion  is  very  trifling.  I  have  not  yet  had  a  report  from 
the  detachment  of  Virginians ;  but,  as  I  conclude  their 
loss  to  be  proportionate  to  the  loss  of  the  other  troops,  I  can 
venture  to  pronounce  that  the  loss  of  the  whole  in  killed, 
wounded  and  missing,  will  not  exceed  "20.  As  soon  as  the 
report  comes  to  baud,  I  will  transmit  to  Head-Quarters  an 
accurate  return.  I  herewith  inclose  a  return  of  the  pris- 
oners taken  from  the  enemy. 

At  every  point  of  the  enterprise  I  stood  highly  indebted 
to  Major  Clarke  for  his  zeal,  activity  and  example : — Cap- 
tains  Handy  and  Forsyth  have  claim  to  my  particular 
thanks  for  the  support  I  experienced  from  them  on  every 
occasion.  The  Captains  Reed,  XTClane,  Smith,  Crump, 


1779]  ]NTEWSPAPEK    EXTRACTS.  627' 

and  Wilmot,  behaved  with  the  greatest  zeal  and  intrepid- 
ity. I  must  acknowledge  myself  very  much  indebted  to 
Major  Burnet  and  Capt.  Peyton  of  the  dragoons,  for  their 
council  and  indefatigability  in  the  previous  preparations 
to  the  attack.  The  premature  withdraw  [al]  of  the  boats, 
was  owing  to  the  non-arrival  of  my  dispatches,  and  though 
a  most  mortifying  circumstance,  can  be  called  nothing  more 
than  unfortunate.  Lieutenant  Vanderville,  who  was  to 
have  commanded  one  of  the  forlornes  but  was  thrown  out 
by  the  alteration  of  the  disposition  of  battle,  conducted 
himself  perfectly  soldier  like.  The  whole  of  the  officers 
behaved  with  the  greatest  propriety ;  and,  as  I  said  before, 
no  discrimination  can  justly  be  made,  but  what  arose  from 
opportunity. 

The  Lieutenants  M'Caillister,  Armstrong,  Reed,  and 
Rudulph,  distinguished  themselves  remarkably.  Too  much 
praise  cannot  be  given  to  those  gentlemen  for  their  prowess 
and  example.  Capt.  Bradford,  of  the  train,  who  volun- 
teered it  with  me  for  the  purpose  of  taking  direction  of 
the  artillery,  deserves  my  warmest  thanks  for  his  zeal  and 
activity.  I  am  personally  indebted  to  Capt.  Rudulph  and 
Dr.  Irvine  of  the  dragoons, .  who  attended  me  during  the 
expedition,  for  their  many  services. 

I  teg  leave  to  present  your  Excellency  with  the  flag  of 
the  fort  by  the  hands  of  Mr.  M'C'allister,  the  gentleman 
into  whose  possession  it  fell. 

It  is  needless  for  me  to  explain  my  reasons  for  the  inu 
stantaneous  evacuation  of  the  fort.  Your  Excellency's 
knowledge  of  the  post,  will  suggest  fully  the  propriety  of 
it.  The  event  confirms  it. 

Among  the  many  unfortunate  circumstances  which 
crossed  our  wishes,  none  was  more  so  than  the  accidental 
absence  of  Col.  Buskirk  and  the  greatest  part  of  his  regi- 
ment. They  had  set  out  on  an  expedition  up  the  North 
River  the  very  night  of  the  attack.  A  company  of  vigilant 
Hessians  had  taken  their  place  in  the  fort,  which  rendered 
the  secrecy  of  approach  more  precarious,  and,  at  the  same 


628         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779 

time  diminished  the  object  of  the  enterprize  by  a  reduction 
of  the  number  of  the  garrison.  Major  Sutherland  for- 
tunately saved  himself  by  a  soldier's  counterfeiting  his 
person.  This  imposition.1  was  not  discovered  till  too  late. 

I  intended  to  have  burnt  the  barracks ;  but  on  finding 
a  number  of  sick  soldiers  and  women  with  young  children 
in  them,  humanity  forbid  the  execution  of  my  intention. 
The  key  of  the  magazine  could  not  be  found,  nor  could  it 
be  broke  open  in  the  little  time  we  had  to  spare',  many  at- 
tempts having  been  made  to<  that  purpose  by  the  Lieuten- 
ants M'Callister  and  Reed.  It  was  completely  impraetiear 
ble  to  bring  off  any  pieces  of  artillery.  I  consulted  C'a,p- 
tain  Bradford  on  the  point,  who  confirmed  me  in  my 
opinion,  The  circumstances  of  spiking  them  being  trivial, 
it  was  omitted  altogether. 

After  most  of  the  troops  had  retired  from  the  works,  and 
were  passed  and  passing  the  canal,  a  fire  of  musquetry 
commenced  from  a  few  stragglers,  who  had  collected  in  an 
old  work  on  the  right  of  the  main  fort.  Their  fire  being 
ineffectual  and  the  object  trifling,  I  determined  not  to 
break  in  upon  the  order  of  retreat,  but  continued  passing 
the  defile  in  front,  I  cannot  conclude  this  relation  with- 
out expressing  my  warmest  thanks  to  Lord  Stirling  for 
the  full  patronage  I  received  from  him  in  every  stage  of 
the  enterprise.  I  must  also  return  my  thanks  to  the 
cavalry,  for  their  vigilant  execution  of  the  duties  as- 
signed them. 

Captain  Rudulph  waits  on  your  Excellency  with  these 
dispatches ;  I  beg  leave  to  refer  to  this  officer  for  any  fur- 
ther explanation  that  may  be  required. 

I  have  the  honour  to  be, 

SIE, 
With  the  most  perfect  respect, 

Your  Excellency's  most  obedient, 

And  most  humble  servant. 

HEXEY    LEE,    jun. 

Paramus,  Aug.  22,  1779. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  629 

His  Excellency  General  WASHINGTON. 

E  E  T  U  R  N  of  Prisoners  taken  at  Powles  Hook  on  the 
morning  of  the  19th  of  August,  1779. 

64th  Eegiment,  1  Captain,  Garrison  Regiment,  6  Ser- 
jeants, 67  rank  and  file.  Buskirk's  ditto,  1  Surgeon,  1 
Surgeon's  Mate,  1  Quarter-Master,  4  Subalterns,  2  Ser- 
jeants, 39  rank  &  file.  Hessians,  1  Serjeant,  10  rank  and 
file.  Artificers,  2.  Inhabitants,  10. 

Artillery,  1  Serjeant.  1  Corporal,  2  Gunners,  9  Ma- 
trosses.  Total  158. 

The  Surgeon  on  parole, 

By  order  of  Major  Lee, 

ROBERT  EORSYTH,  Capt. 

P.  L.  Dragoons. 
Published  by  order  of  Congress, 

CHARLES  THOMSON,  Secretary. 


CHATHAM  SEPTEMBER  21. 

A  French  fleet  may  be  momently  expected  upon  this 
coast,  having  been  spoke  with  at  sea.  All  the  Pilots  in 
this  State,  we  hear,  are  engaged  to  hold  themselves  in 
readiness  to  go  on  board,  should  they  make  this  coast. 

A  Cartel,  we  hear,  is  likely  to  be  settled  for  a  general  ex- 
change of  prisoners. 


STOLEN",  on  Sunday  night  the  12th  instant,  a  bright 
sorrel  horse,  about  4  years  old,  14  hands  high,  has 
a  small  star  in  his  forehead,  with  both  hind  feet 
white,  and  has  a  very  bad  flaw  in  his  right  hoof,  trots  and 
canters  very  smart. — Whoever  takes  up  said  horse,  so  that 
the  owner  may  get  him  again,  shall  receive  one  hundred 
dollars  reward,  and  all  reasonable  charges  paid,  by 

JOHN  VAN  WINKLE. 


630  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

TAKEN  up  by  the  subscriber,  about  ten  days  ago,  a 
bright  bay  MARE,  about  thirteen  hands  and  an 
inch  high,  three  years  old,  with  a  star  in  her  fore- 
head, and  a  natural  pacer.     Whoever  owns  said  mare  may, 
by  applying  to  the  subscriber,  proving  their  property,  and 
paying  charges,  have  her  again. 

PAUL  HUSTON. 
New-Ark  Township,  Sept.  13,  1779. 


STRAYED  or  stolen,  a  FOX  HOUND,  of  a  pretty 
large  size,  white  with  yellow  spots  on  his  sides,  his 
ears  long  and  spotted  with  yellow  and  white,  and  a 
long   tail.      Whoever   will   leave   word    with    the   printer 
hereof,   or   at   Mr.   Winan's   tavern,   in   Elizabeth   Town, 
where  the  said  dog  may  be  had,  shall  there  receive  Thirty 
Dollars  reward. 


FOUND,  on  the  18th  instant,  between  Springfield  and 
Elizabeth-Town,  a  piece  of  coarse  cloth.     Whoever 
it  belongs  to,  on  proving  his  property,  and  paying 
charges,  may  have  it  again  by  applying  to 

SAMUEL  TYLER. 
Springfield,  Sept.  21,  1779. 


Practitioners  of  Physic, 

MAY  be  supplied  with  the  following  medicines  (of  the 
first  quality)   by  applying  at  the  house  of  Jona- 
than Morrell,  half  a  mile  from  New-Providence 
meeting-house;    peruvian    bark,    rhubarb,    tartar    emetic, 
cantharides,    opium,    glauber    salts,    camphor,    compound 
spirits    of    lavender,    volatile    aromatic,    salt    or    worm- 
wood, &c. 

N.  13.     At  the  same  place  may  be  had,  indigo  by  the 
barrel  or  dozen. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTEACTS.  631 

To  be  sold  on  Thursday  the  2'3d  instant,  at  the  late  dwell- 
ing house  of  Timothy  Whitehead,  Esq;  of 
Connecticut  Farms,,  deceased; 

HORSES,  cattle,  sheep,  swine,  cyder  spirits,  a  good  clock, 
cupboard,   bedding,   and  various  other  articles  of 
household  furniture  and  farming  utensils  too  nu- 
merous to  mention.     The  vendue  to  begin  at  10  o'clock, 
when  the  conditions  of  sale  will  be1  made  known  by 

DANIEL  WADE,  )     T, 

m  V    Executors. 

TIMOTHY  WHITE  HEAD,     j 


FOUND,   about   the  middle   of  July  last,   near  Daniel 
Young's   in   Hanover,   a   parchment  containing   a 
small  sum  of  money  and  some  writings. — Whoever 
owns  the  same  may,  by  proving  their  property,  giving  a 
gratuity  to  the  boy  that  found  it,  and  paying  the  cost  of 
this   advertisement,   have  it   again   by   applying  to   John 
Smithson,  at  Daniel  Young's. 


CAME  to  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber,  the  llth  in- 
stant, a  red  bull  calf,  with  a  white  face,  has  a  slit 
in  the  left  ear  and  a  crop  in  the  right. — Whoever 
owns  said  calf  may,  by  proving  their  property,  and  paying 
charges,  have  him  again  by  applying  to 

ROBERT  FRENCH. 
Springfield,  Sept.  20,  1779. 


STOLEN,  from  the  subscriber's  plantation  near  Wood- 
bridge,  the  llth  instant,  a  black  mare,  about  14 
hands  high,  branded  on  the  near  shoulder  with  S 
D,  trots,  paces,  and  canters;  is  about  5  years  old. — Who- 
ever secures  the  thief  and  inare,  so  that  the  owner  may 
have  her  again,  shall  have  one  hundred  dollars,  or  forty 
dollars  for  the  mare  alone,  and  all  reasonable  charges  paid 
bv  JOHN  JENNINGS. 


632  XEW    JERSEY    IN"    THE    REVOLUTION".  [1779 

Mr.  KOLLOCK, 

I  Have  observed  in  conversing  with  people  of  my  ac- 
quaintance, that  the  chief  objection  they  make 
against  the  regulating  act  is,,  that  it  is  formed  by  a 
Committee,  and  not  by  lawful  authority,  universally  in  all 
the  States,  Altho'  this  objection  may  have  weight  with 
some,  yet  I  humbly  conceive  it  will  not  have  so  much  with 
others,  as  to  induce  them  to  falsify  their  word,  and  make 
void  their  public  agreement,  in  order  more  effectually  to 
ruin  their  distressed  country.  That  some  expedient  is 
absolutely  necessary  to  be  adopted,  I  think  none  in  their 
senses  dare  deny;  and  ivho  will  venture  boldly  to  assert 
that  the  longer  that  expedient  is  put  off  the  better?  We 
don't  argue  thus  in  other  cases,  when  we  are  extremely 
sick,  or  in  pain,  that  ice  will  defer  sending  for  a  Physician, 
until  we  get  better.  No,  in  that  case,  we  take  the  alarm, 
and  instantly  apply  a  remedy;  why  then  should  we  not  be 
equally  anxious  for  the  health  and  salvation  of  our  coun- 
try? It's  true,  that  if  a  regulation  of  prices  was  univer- 
sally established  by  law  in  all  the  States,  that  would  be 
much  more  agreeable,  and  rather  to  be  chosen;  but  a  tem- 
porary regulation,  until  that  can  be  adopted,  must  be 
considered,  by  every  true  friend  to  his  country,  a  very  im- 
portant matter.  Tlic  sooner  the  depreciation  of  our  cur- 
rency is  remedied,  the  better;  and  therefore  we  ought  im- 
mediately to  apply  the  salutary  remedy.  Should  any  say 
that  Committees  have  no  authority  to  oblige  them  to  obey 
their  resolutions,  and  therefore  they  wont  regard  them, 
that  saying  manifests  a  stubborn-ess  of  temper,  to  a  shock- 
ing degree,  as  well  as  exceedingly  selfish  and  covetous;  to 
prefer  sordid  gain  before  the  salvation  of  their  country. 
I  sliould  think  the  dear  bought  experience  we  have  had  in 
not  complying  with  the  former  regulating  act,  might  for- 
ever silence  such  objections.  How  many  millions  of  ex- 
pence  vjould  that  have  saved  us,  had  it  universally  been 
complied  with,  as  well  as  prevented  many  evils  and  diffi- 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  633 

culties  under  which  we  now  labour?  But  America  was 
young  in  politics,  ivhich  consideration  must  be  her  apology, 
and  in  some  measure  plead  her  excuse.  But  now  when  ex- 
perience hath  been  our  Schoolmaster,  should  we  neglect  our 
duty,  then  no  excuse  or  apology  can  be  made  for  us. 

A  FRIEND  TO  LIBERTY. 

Mr.  KOLLOCK, 

[Observed  in  one  of  your  late  papers  a  curious  perform- 
ance, under  the1  signature  of  Jesse  Baldwin,  in  which 
he  highly  resents  being  held  up  to  the  public,  as  an 
offender  against  the  regulations  of  the  Committee.  Altlio' 
I  am  not  one  of  that  body,,  yet  zeal  in  the  cause  of  my 
•country,  urges  me  on  to  attempt  an  answer  to  that  malevo- 
lent insolent  performance.  He  first  begins,  by  observing 
that  it  is  very  agreeable  when  one  is  exposed  to  disgrace 
find  infamy  f  to  have  as  much  company  as  possible,  &c. 
I  should  have  thought  tha\t  a  man  who  professes  to  be  a 
cJiristian,  and  friend  to  his  country,  would  not  so  egre- 
(jiously  expose  his  profession.  Docs  Mr.  Baldwin  think 
that  having  a  multitude  of  transgressors  on  his  side,  will 
•exculpate  him,  or  extenuate*  his  crime?  If  he  does,  his 
own  words  will  condemn  him,.  Or,  does  he  mean,  to  m- 
.sinuate  that  it  is  no  crime  to  disregard  good  regulations, 
because  they  are  made  by  a  Committee,  which  he  and  some 
others  had  no  hand  in  chusing.  This  probably  is  this 
fjentlemans  meaning,  (for  I  liyve  so  much  charity  for  him 
as  to  suppose  that  he  believes  a  regulation  of  prices  to  be 
necessary  for  the  good  of  our  country)  I  shall  therefore 
take  this  for  granted,  waving  any  other  remarks  upon  his 
performance,  and  proceed  to  expose  the  conduct  of  those, 
whether  they  be  few  or  many,  who  prefer  their  own  private 
gain,  to  the  happiness  and  peace  of  their  country.  Upon 
this  principle^  is  founded  all  the  mischief  and  disorders 
ivhich  take  place  in  the  world.  Selfishness  is  the  bane  of 
-society.  It  overthrow®  kingdoms  and  empires;  breaks 
through  all  bonds  and  obligations;  it  destroys  the  peace 


634  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [I77i> 

of  families;  and,  in  fine,  is  that  source  from  whence  first 
sprang  all  the  evils,  we  experience  in  this  life,  and  all 
which  are  experienced  in  the  life  to  come.  If  therefore 
this  is  the  case;  what  punishment  can  be  too  great  to  in- 
flict upon  those,  who  openly  arvoiv  their  persisting  in  it,  and 
their  utter  contempt  of  such  who  are  earnestly  striving  to 
save  their  country  from  all  its  abominable  evils? 

A  FRIEND  TO  LIBERTY. 

THE,  subscriber  informs  the  public  that  ho  still  con- 
tinues to  cut  TOBACCO  a,s  usual,  and  can  supply 
them  with  that  article  either  by  the  paper  or  pound, 
at  as  low  a  price  as  the  times  will  admit  of. — Also,  to  dis- 
pose of,  for  six  bushels  of  whetat  or  two*  hundred  of  flour, 
three  sash  lights  of  forty-two  pains  of  glass  7  by  9's. 

.FAMES  CHAPMAN. 
Elizabeth  Town,  S&pt.  13,  1771). 


FOR   SALE, 

nPHE  convenient  dwelling-house,  and  about  five  acres  of 

1        land,  where1  the  subscril>er  now  lives;    the  house  is 

pleasantly   situated,    and    stands   in   one   of  the  best 

situations  in  this  town  for  mercantile'  business  in  settled 

times ;    has   a  number  of  convenient   out-buildings,   good 

gardens  and  orchard,  all  in  good  repair — A  lot  of  land  of 

about  1 VL>  acres  in  an  excellent  situation  for  building  and 

for  business — And  a,  lot  of  20  acres,  or  upwards,  about  one 

mile  from  the  dwelling-house; — two  breeding  mares  and 

two  colts.     For  further  particulars  apply  to 

MATTHIAS  HALSTED. 

Who  has  one  fire  in  a,  forgei,  on  a  good  stream  of  water,, 
near  Morris-Town,  to  dispose  of,  for  the  sale  of  which  Mr. 
Dixon,  at  Bottle-Hill,  is  authorized  to  treat. 

Elizabeth-Town,  Sept.  14,  1771).. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  635 


One  Hundred  Pounds  Reward. 

ON  the  night  of  the  7th  instant,  the  store  of  the  sub- 
scriber was  broke  open  and  robbed  of  the  following 
articles,  viz.  two  pieces  of  red  baize,  one  piece  of 
brown  homespun  cloth  (fulle'd)  one  pieice  cotton  and  silk 
striped^  four  or  five  pair  of  stockings,  five  pair  of  pinch- 
beck knee-buckles,  m  few  pair  of  sleeve  buttons,  two  or 
three  sailors  coa\ts  and  breeches  (blue)  upwards  of  twv 
hundred  dollars  in  Continental  money  &c.  &c.  Any  per- 
son giving  information,  thai  the  govds  may  be  recovered, 
and  the  thief  brought  to  justice,  shall  receive  the  above  re- 
ward ;  for  the  goods  only,  fifty  pounds. 

AARON  DAY. 
Elizabeth  Town,.  Sept.  13,  1779. 


WHEREAS  JOHN  JACKMAN,  an  Englishman  born,  a 
Serjeant  in  my  company,  died  some  time  ago  ;   and 
as  I  have  a  considerable  sum  of  money  in  my 
hands,  the  property  of  the  deceased,  and  worthy  the  atten- 
tion of  his  friends,  any  person  who  has  any  demands  on 
his  estate,  or  any  heir  or  representative,  properly  author- 
ized, may  receive  the  effects  of  the  deceased  by  applying 
to  me  at  the  park  of  artillery. 

JOHN  LILLIE:,  Ca,pt.  3d  Reg.  Art, 
Artillery  Park,  State  of  New  York,  Sept.  8,  1779. 


WANTED,  on  interest,,  from  twelve  to  fifteen  hundred 
pounds,  for  which  good  land  security  will  be  given 
in  the  county  of  Orange,  State  of  New- York.    Ap- 
ply to  George  Ross,  Esq ;  at  .Elizabeth  Town,  East- Jersey. 
Sept.  13,  1779. 


•636  NEW    JERSEY*  IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

WHEREAS  the  wife  of  William  Deami&ton  has  eloped 
time  after  time,  and  taken  my  effects  with  her: 
This  is  therefore  to  forewarn  all  persons  not  to 
trade  with  or  harbour  her,  as  I  am  determined  to  pay  no 
•debts  of  her  contracting  from  the  date  hereof. 

WILLIAM  DENNISTON. 
Hanover,  Sept.  13,  1779. 

ALL  persons  who  have  any  demands'  on  the  estate  of 
liendrick  Fisher,  late  of  the  county  of  Somerset, 
Esq ;  deceased,  are  desired  to  send  or  bring  in  their 
accounts  or  demands  to  the  subscriber,  living  near  Bound- 
Brook,  in  order  that  the  same  may  be  adjusted ;    and  those 
who  are   indebted  to   said   estate,    are  required  to  make 
speedy  payment,  in  order  that  the  affairs  of  said  estate 
may  be  settled. 

JEREMIAH  FISHER,  Executor. 
September  13,  1779. 

To  BE  SOLD, 

A     PHAETON, 

With  harness  complete. — Enquire  of  the  printer. 


STOLEN  from  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber  the 
3d  instant,  a  red-roan  MARE,  with  a  white  slip  in 
her  face,  trots  and  canters  well,  four  years  old  last 
spring,  in  good  order,  and  about  14  hands  high. — Whoever 
secures  said, mare,  so  that  the  owner  may  get  her  again, 
shall  have  fifty  dollars  reward;     and  for  the  thief  and 
mare,  one  hundred  and  fifty. 

RODAH  VALANTINE. 
New-Providence,  Sept.  13,  1779. 

—Tie  New-Jersey  Journal,  Vol.  I.,  Numb.  XXXIL,  Sep- 
tember 21,  1779. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTEACTS.  63T 

To  be  SOLD  by  Public  V endue 

On  Monday  the  twenty-seventh  instant, 

The  Hull  of  a  fine  new  Brigantine,  and  the  Hull  of  a 
Schooner,  which  were  drove  ashore  near  Squan  River,  in 
the  township  of  Shrewsbury,  in  Monmouth  county,  to- 
gether with  their  spars,  sails  and  rigging,  being  all  new 
-  -  -  4  cables,  4  anchors,  22  pieces  of  cannon  with  their 
carriages,  10  swivels,  a  quantity  of  gunpowder,  a  quantity 
of  round  shot,  double-head  ditto  and  langridge,  rammers, 
ladles,  sponges,  crows  and  hand-spikes,  2  boats  and  oars,  a 
number  of  iron-bound  puncheons,  2  iron  cabouses,  2  cop- 
pers, a  number  of  small  arms  and  cutlasses,  crane  and  waist 
irons,  a  quantity  of  good  beef,  a  quantity  of  good  duck,  &c. 
&c.  Apply  to  RICHARD  WHELDEN  and  NICOLL 
FOSDICK,  residing  at  Mr.  Haven's  near  the  premises. 
N.  B.  The  vessels  may  be  easily  got  off,  their  hulls  not 
hurt. 

The  TRUSTEES  of  the  College  of  New  Jersey,  are 
hereby  put  in  mind,  that  the  annual  commencement  is 
upon  the  last  Wednesday  in  September;  and  that  their 
attendance  is  expected  on  the  Tuesday  preceeding,  at  Ten 
o'clock. 
— The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  September  21,  1779. 

FO.RTY  DOLLARS  REWARD. 

Run  away  the  26th  of  August,  1779,  from  the  subscriber, 
living  in  Deptf ord  township,  Gloucester  county,  in  New- 
Jersey,  an  apprentice  lad,  named  William  Malice,  this 
country  born,  about  5  feet  2  or  3  inches  high,  near  18 
years  of  age,  a  chunky  well  made  lad,  short  brown  hair,, 
round  faced,  black  eyes,  glissens  much  when  he  smiles, 
something  freckled,  a  cunning  smart  active  fellow;  had 


•638  NEW    JERSEY*  IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

on,  and  took  with  him,  a  round  fine  hat,  a  fine  shirt  and 
two  coarse  ones,  two  pair  of  trousers,  a  brown  coatee,  a 
lightish  coloured  upper  jacket,  and  under  ditto  without 
sleeves,  a  greenish  cast  jean  breeches  mended  on  the  knees, 
paleish  ribbed  worsted  stockings,  and  good  shoes,  with 
brass  buckles.  Whoever  takes  up  and  secures  said  lad,  so 
that  his  master  may  have  him  again,  shall  be  entitled  to 
the  above  reward  and  reasonable  charges,  paid  by 

JAMES  HINCHMAN. 
—Tlie  Pennsylvania  Gazette,  September  22,  1779. 


DESERTED  from  Capt,  JOHN  DAVIS'S  Company 

of  the  New  Jersey  State  Regiment,  whereof  Col.  Fred- 
erick Freelinghauson's  Commander.  One  ANDREW 
BELCHER,  by  trade  a  shoemaker,  dark  complexion,  brown 
hair,  which  he  wore  tyed ;  33  years  of  age,  5  feet  10  inches 
high.  JOSEPH  GIFFORD,  about  29  years  old,  5  feet 
6  inches  high,  dark  complexion,  supposed  to  be  about  Egg- 
Harbour.  THOMAS  DOUGHTY,  about  20  years  old, 
5  feet  9  inches  high,  of  a  dark  complexion,  supposed  to  be 
about  Egg-Harbour.  ABRAHAM  PETERSON,  about 
27  years  old,  5  feet  ll1/^  inches  high,  of  a  fair  complexion, 
supposed  to  be  at  Egg-Harbour.  Likewise,  one  NA- 
THANIEL AVIS,  who  deserted  on  the  12th  day  of  Sep- 
tember, 1779,  he  is  about  5  feet  4  or  5  inches  high,  of  a 
sandy  complexion,  about  17  years  old,  supposed  to  about 
Sweedsborough  in  Gloucester  county,  Woolwich  township. 
Whoever  takes  up  and  secures  said  deserters,  in  Gloucester 
Goal,  or  brings  them  to  Woodbridge,  or  to  Col.  JOHN 
TAYLOR  at  Elizabethtown,  shall  receive  a  reward  of  One 
HUNDRED  DOLLARS  each,  and  reasonable  charges 
paid  hy  JOHN  DAYIS,  Capt.  July  26th. 
—The  Pennsylvania  Journal,  September  22,  1779. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  639 

To  the  Honourable  the  Congress  of  the  United  States  of 
America. 

ALTHOUGH  no  man  can  hold  your  elevated  and  digni- 
fied characters  in  greater  veneration  than  I  do, 
nevertheless,  as  a  citizen,  I  apprehend  that  I  have 
a  right  to  address  yon,  more  especially  at  this  time  of  im- 
minent danger.  Yon  have  perhaps  with  great  propriety, 
and  for  the  general  good  of  the  union,  emitted  large  sums 
in  bills  of  credit,  and  which,  through  your  recommenda- 
tion, have  been  made  a  legal  tender  in  payment  of  money 
equal  to  silver  and  gold  by  the  several  Legislatures  of  the 
States  in  union.  These  bills  are  depreciated  to  a  degree 
that  the  most  penetrating  observer  could  not  foresee  or  the 
most  credulous  believe,  yet  nothing  has  been  done  by  Con- 
gress, or  any  of  our  Legislatures,  to  provide  a  remedy  for 
this  intolerable  evil,  which  our  enemies  believe  will  prove 
our  ruin.  Is  it  then  really  so,  that  self -interest  has  eaten 
out  every  generous  and  every  noble  sentiment  from  among 
us  ?  Are  we  determined  to  be;  guilty  of  felo  de  se  ?  God 
forbid ;  for  Heaven's  sake  lay  aside  every  little  party  dis- 
pute ;  look  with  a  single  eye  at  the  good  of  the  union ;  and 
instantly  fall  upon  ways  and  means  for  restoring  the  bills 
of  credit,  on  which,  under  God,  the  salvation  of  the  union 
depends.  Give  your  Staff  Officers  handsome  salaries,  but 
no  commissions ;  prevent  monopolizing  and  engrossing, 
which  will  greatly  tend  to  restore  the  credit  of  your  money. 
Can  we  be  guilty  of  such  horrid  ingratitude?  Gracious 
Heaven  has  been  very  bountiful  to  us ;  Nature's  lap  is 
laden  with  the  fruits  of  the  earth ;  we  are  invited  to  reap 
the  golden  harvest ;  we  have  the  greatest  prospects  of 
plenty  of  all  the  necessaries  of  life;  and  shall  all  these  be 
held  at  more  than  twenty  times  the  prices  given  when  there 
was  less  of  those  articles  among  us  ?  Supposing  the  sum 
of  six  millions  in  common  times,  at  former  prices,  sufficient 
to  carry  on  the  Avar,  which  I  think  nearly  right,  it  will  now 
cost  one  hundred  and  twenty  millions.  Suppose  the  United 
States  to  raise  .by  tax  fifteen  millions,  do  we  not  contract  a 


640         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1770 

debt  in  one  year  of  one-  hundred  and  five  millions  ?  There- 
fore, for  the  sake  of  everything  dear  to  us,  let  the  delusion 
go  no  farther,  but  instantly  fall  upon  measures  to  restore 
our  money.  Government  and  law  are  essentially  necessary 
for  the  well  being  of  any  people:  The  several  States  in 
union  have  formed  constitutions  founded  on  the  authority 
of  the  people,  which  are  in  full  exercise;  and  will  our 
superiors  leave  us  to  go  back  to  committees  again  ?  As  an 
excellent  reasoner  observes,  where  law  ends  tyranny  be- 
gins. I  shall  leave  this  important  subject  with  the  wisdom 
of  Congress  to  determine  and  draw  a  line  of  limitation, 
which  being  by  them  recommended  to  the  several  Legis- 
latures of  the  States  in  union  as  a  sovereign  remedy,  on 
which,  under  God,  the  political  salvation  of  our  nation  de- 
pends ;  at  the  same  time  that  each  stato  raise  annually  as 
great  a  sum  by  taxes,  as  the  representatives  shall  judge 
their  constituents  able  to  pay  either  yearly  or  every  half 
year. 

A    JERSEY    FARMER. 


TEENTQN,  SEPTEMBER  22. 

Sunday  evening  last  His  Excellency  the  Sieur  GERARD 
arrived  here  from  Philadelphia,;  and  yesterday  morning 
His  Excellency  Count  DE  LA  LUZERNE,  Minister  Plenipo- 
tentiary from  the  Court  of  Versailles,  met  him  at  this 
pla,ce,  accompanied  by  his  Secretary,  with  a  large  retinue-, 
and  escorted  by  a  corps  of  Baylor's  light  dragoons,  com- 
manded by  Capt,  Jones. — The  Legislature  sitting  here, 
His  Excellency  the  Governor,  and  the  Vice-President  of 
the  Council,  paid  their  compliments  of  congratulation  to 
the  Count. — After  a  short  stay  in  town,  Monsieurs  Lu- 
/KKNK  and  GERARD,  with  their  attendants,  set  out  for 
Philadelphia. 

Yesterday  was  taken  up  at  Woodbridge,  as  lie  was  going 
to  the  enemy,  one  -  -  Hay  den,  a,  notorious  villain,  who 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  641 

lias  been  famous  for  his  treachery  to  his  country.  Tliere 
was  found  on  him  250  blank  sheets  of  paper  for  printing 
continental  money. — It  appears  to  be  the  same  kind  of 
paper,  on  which  the  true  bills  are1  printed. 

A  few  days  ago  four  of  the  gang  of  villains,  associates 
of  the  infamous  Lewis  Fenton,  were  made  prisoners,  by  a 
party  of  our  militia,  in  Monmouth  county,  and  safely 
lodged  in  the  county  gaol. 

By  several  gentlemen  from  Monmouth  county  we1  learn, 
that  a  large  number  of  the  enemy  are  upon  Stateii-Island ; 
and  that  Major  Lee,  with  his  corps  of  cavalry,  arrived  in 
that  county  a  few  days  ago. 

The  number  of  Indian  towns  which  have  been  destroyed 
by  our  army  under  the  command  of  General  Sullivan,  on 
the  western  expedition,  including  those  burnt  by  Gen. 
Clinton  previous  to  the  junction,  amounts  to  14;  which, 
with  the  destruction  of  all  their  corn,  beans-,  &c.  in  the 
vicinity  of  those  towns,  will,  we  flatter  ourselves,  some- 
what frustrate1  the  savages  during  the  remainder  of  the 
campaign  in  their  predatory  schemes  against  our  frontier 
inhabitants. 

A  late  London  paper  observes,  "There  seems  a  strange 
contradiction  in  the  sentiments  and  conduct  of  the  Gen- 
erals who  have  commanded,  and  Governor  Johnston,  who 
has  been  a  Commissioner  in  America  ;  the  former,  by  their 
evidence,  almost  directly  assert,  that  it  is  impossible  for 
this  country  to  subdue  America  with  the  force  that  has 
been  sent  thither  (and  which  has  been  greater  than  this 
country  in  prudence  ought  to  have  spared)  : — The  latter, 
that  the  force  sent  thither  has  been  fully  sufficient  for  the 
purpose,  and  that  by  firmness  and  perseverance,  the.  end 
will  be  finally  obtained ;  as  at  least  half  the  inhabitants  in 
America  are  faithful  and  loyal  subjects.  Whilst  we  halt 
and  falter  between  two  opinions,  let  us  take  care  that  the 
thread  of  our  own  constitution  is  not  snapped  asunder." 

Quere.  Who  may  we  conclude  to  be  the\  most  compe- 
tent judges  in  this  case?  The  most  intrepid  and  exper- 

41 


642  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

ienced  Generals  in  the  British  service,  who*  have  ever 
found  themselves  surrounded  with  insurmountable1  diffi- 
culties, and  unavoidable*  and  uncommon  disasters,  as  soon 
as  they  have  attempted  to  penetrate  into  the  country  or 
leave  their  ships;  or  Governor,  Navy-Captain,  or  Com- 
missioner Johnston,  who  could  not  possibly  have  any  in- 
formation of  the  true  state  of  the  country,  but  from*  those 
whose  manifest  interest  it  was  to  prolong  the  war,  (as  no 
ether  means  remained  for  the  recovery  of  their  estates} 
and  eke  out  the  life  of  their  own  consequence,  by  misrep- 
resentation and  falsehood;  and  who1,  having  early  entered 
into  voluntary  banishment,  by  joining  the  enemies  of  their 
country,  could  b&  no*  better  informed  of  ivhat  passed  in  th& 
interior  and  more  remote  parts  of  it,  than  our  celebrated 
quondam  Parliament  Friend,  who  ivas  but  a  short  time  in, 
and  was  refused  the  liberty  of  paying  a  visit  to  the  country, 
even  on  his  own.  earnest  and  humble  solicitation? 


WANTED, 

A  Person  qualified  for  keeping  an  English  School. 
Such  a  one,  with  a,  proper  recommendation,  may 
meet  with  encouragement  by  applying  to 

THOMAS  READING. 
Am  well,  Hunter  don  county,  Sept.  20,  1779. 

Brunswick,  Sept.  15,  1779. 

A  Quantity  of  excellent  sole  leather  to  be  exchanged 
for  good  raw  hides ;    a,  number  of  the  best  kind  of 
soldiers  largo  shoes  for  cash ;    and  leather  curried 
for  country  produce,  by 

HENRY  GUEST.  1 

X.  B.     A  workman  at  the  currying  business,  will  meet 
with  good  encouragement,     Apply  a.s  above. 

1  For  some  account  of  the  Guest  family,  see  New  Jersey  Archives,  28  :  32. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  643 

BROKE  out  of  the  gaol  of  Somerset  county,  in  the  night 
of  the  31st  ult.  ROBERT  GIE,  cooper,  about  6  feet 
high,  well  made,  black  hair,  full  faced,  reddish 
-cheeks,  and  about  30  years  old:  Also,  SAMUEL  GRAY, 
about  5  feet-  9  inches  high,  a  neiat  built  man,  marked  with 
the  small-po'x,  has  a  scar  o<n  his.  eye-brow,  light  coloured 
hair,  a  pale  look,  speaks  a,  little  on  thei  Irish  brogue,  (says 
lie  has  been  a  lieutenant  in  the  American  army)  and  is 
.about  35  years  old ;  being  both  confined  for  passing  coun- 
terfeit continental  currency.  Whoever  secures  the  said 
persons  o-r  either  of  them,  so  that  they  may  be  brought  to 
justice,  shall  ha,ve  Sixty  Dollars  reward  for  each,  and  if 
brought  to  the  gaol  from  whence  they  brokei,  all  reasonable 
•charges  paid  by 

PETER  DUMONT,  Sheriff. 
Millstone,  Sept.  1,  1779. 


To  all  whom  it  may  concern. 

WHEREAS  Richard  Stevens  and  John  Mehelm,  Es- 
quires, stiling  themselves  trustees  to  discharge 
by  the  sale  of  the  real  estate  of  William  Alex- 
ander, Earl  of  Stirling,  within  this  state,  the  debts  and 
incumbrances  affecting  the  same,"  &c.  have,  by  their  ad- 
vertisement of  July  20,  1779,  published  in  the  New- Jersey 
Gazette,  given  notice  that  theire  will  be  sold  at  publick 
vendue  on  certain  times  and  at  certain  places  therein  men- 
tioned, "sundry  tracts  of  land,  cultivated  farms,  houses," 
&c.,  particularly  described  in  said  advertisement,  and 
said  to  be  pa,rt  of  the  real  estate  of  the  said  Earl  of  Stir- 
ling in  this  state.  And  whereas  divers  parts  of  the)  said 
real  estate  so  advertised  as  aforesaid,  and  hereinafter 
more  particularly  mentioned,  was  fully  and  clearly  vested 
in  the  late  Hon.  Philip  Livingston,  Esq.  of  the  state!  of 
New- York,  deceased,  in  his  lifetime  and  at  the  time  of  his 
death,  by  sundry  mesne  conveyances  under  the  said  Wil- 


644  NEW    JERSEl*   IN    TH'E    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

liain,  Earl  of  Stirling,  and  by  the  last  will  and  testament 
of  the  said  Philip  Livingston.,  devised  to  several  persons,, 
among  whom  the  said  Earl  of  Stirling  is  not  included. 
And  also  whereas  the  said  Philip  Livingston  was  in  Ids 
lifetime,  and  the  said  devisees  since  his  death  have  been 
and  now  are,  in  the  actual  and  peaceable  possession  of  the* 
parts  and  parcels  of  the  said  real  estate)  hereinafter  par- 
ticularly described:  We  the  subscribers,  executors  of  the 
said  last  will  and  testament,  in  behalf  of  ourselves  and 
others,  the  devisees  aforesaid,  do  hereby  give  this  publick 
notice  of  the  claim  of  the  said  devisees  of  thei  said  Philip 
Livingston  to  the  same,  hereby  forewarning  all  persons 
whatsoever  from  purchasing  all  or  any  part  of  the  said 
]ands  and  real  estate,  of  the  trustees  aforesaid,  they  hav- 
ing no  power  to  convey  a.  title  for  the  same  to  the  pur- 
chaser, as  no  part  thereof  are  included  within  the  Act  of 
Assembly  under  which  they  derive  their  authority  -  -  - 
and  in  case  of  such  an  attempt,  the  purchaser  will  be  con- 
sidered as  having  notice  of  the  claim  aforesaid,  and  treated 
accordingly. 

The  following  lots  of  land,  situate  in  the  county  of 
Hunterdon  in  said  state,  being  part  of  the1  land  known 
by  the  name  of  the  West- Jersey  Society's  Great  Tract, 
and  of  the  allotments  No.  1  and  2  of  said  great  tract: 

Lot  No.  68,  being  part  of  the  allotment  of  lot  No.  2  of 
the  said  great  tract,  containing  238  acres. — Lot  No.  69, 
part  of  the  said  lot  No.  2,  containing  448  acres. — Lot  No. 
37,  part  of  the  said  lot  No.  2,  containing  198  acres.— 
Lot  No.  32,  part  of  the  said  lot  No>.  2,  containing  145 
acres. — Lot  No.  33,  part  of  the  aforesaid  lot  No.  2  of  the 
said  great  tract,  containing  245  acres. — Lot  No.  7,  part 
of  the  aforesaid  lot  No.  2  of  the  said  great  tract,  contain- 
ing 236  acres. — Lot  No.  47,  part  of  the  said  lot  No.  2  of 
the  said  great  tract,  containing  106  acres. — Lot  No.  123, 
being  part  of  allotment  No.  1  of  said  great  tract,  contain- 
ing 192  acres. — Also  the  mansion-house  and  farm  at  Bask- 
enridge,  in  the  county  of  Somerset,  in  which  the  said  Earl 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  645 

•of  Stirling  lately  lived,  containing-  about  1200  acres,  in- 
Deluding  tho  saw-mill  and  lands  thereunto  belonging. 

ABRAHAM  TEN  BRCEK,  )  Execu- 
THOMAS  JONES  j  tors. 

Squires  Point,  Sept.  9,  1779. 

WHEREAS  JAMES  LITTLE  has  put  an  advertisement  in 
the  New-Jersey  Gazette,  cautioning  all  persons 
against  buying  the  mills  at  Rackets  Town,  from 
me,  against  his  better  knowledge,  as  he  has  seen  my  deed  :. 
The  subscriber  begs  leave  to  acquaint  the  publick,  that  he 
'has  a  good  title  for  the  said  mills  from  Mr.  Cromeline,  who 
sold  it  to  him  a  long  time  ago,  for  the  benefit  of  Mr. 
Kelem's  creditors,  as  he  was  one.  Whoever  inclines  to  pur- 
chase the  said  mills,  can  see  the  deed,  and  I  will  warrant 
and  defend  the  same  against  all  pretended  purchasers,  or 
those  who  purchase  and  never  pay. 

The  mill  now  rents  for  600  bushels  of  wheat  per  annum. 

GARRET  EAPALJIE. 


Ay   industrious,   steady  YOUNG-   WOMAN,   to   sew,    and 
assist  in  taking  care  of  children. 

Good  wages  and  constant  employ  will  be  given.  — 
For  further  particulars  enquire  of  the  printer.  —  The  New- 
Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  II.,  No.  91,  Sept.  22,  1779. 


To  be  SOLD  by  Public  Vendue 

On  Monday  the  twenty-seventh  instant,  The  Hull  of  a. 
fine  new  Brigantine,  and  the  Hull  of  a  Schooner,  which 
were  drove  ashore  near  Squan  River,  in  the  township  of 
Shrewsbury,  in  Monmouth  county,  together  with  their 
spars,  sails  and  rigging,  being  all  new — 4  cables,  4  anchors, 
.22  pieces  of  cannon  with  their  carriages,  10  swivels,  a. 


646  ^EW    JERSEY    1^    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779* 


quantity  of  gunpowder,  a  quantity  of  round  shot,  double- 
head  ditto  a,nd  langridge,  rammers,  ladles,  sponges,  crows,. 
and  hand-spikes,  2  boats  and  oars,  a  number  of  iron-bound 
puncheons,  2  iron  cabouses,  2  coppers,  a,  number  of  small 
arms  and  cutlasses,  crane  and  waist  irons,  a  quantity  of 
good  beef,  a  quantity  of  new  duck,  £c.  £c.  Apply  to 
RICHARD  WHELDON  and  NICOLE  EOSDICK,  re- 
siding at  Mr.  Haven's  near  the)  premises. 

~N.  B.     The  vessels  may  bo  easily  got  off,  their  hulls  not 
hurt. 
-The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  September  23,  1779. 

Ey  tlio  latest  intelligence  from  the  rebel  lines,  we  are 
informed,  that  Mr.  Washington  was  moving  back  to- 
wards Morris-town.  The  Carolina  brigade  was  ordered  to 
Georgia,  and  Major  Leo's  horse  to  Sussex  county:  in  Xew 
Jersey.  —  The  Royal  Gazette,  No.  312,  September  25,  1779. 


XEW-YOBK,  Sept.  27. 

The  Cork  Fleet  under  Convoy  of  His  Majesty's  Ship 
Roebuck,  Sir  Andrew  Hammond,  Commander,  consisted 
of  48  Sail,  who  all  got  safe  into  Sandy-Hook  last  Tuesday 
and  Wednesday. 

LAST  Thursday  Morning  a  Boat  going  from  Xew- 
York  to  Sandy-Hook,  with  a  Man,  two  Boys,  and  a 
Woman,  AVife  to  a  Grenadier,  overset  in  the  nar- 
rows, by  which  Accident  the  Woman  was  drowned,  the 
other  threiOi  with  great  Difficulty  was  taken  up  by  two  Bo'ats 
from  the  the  ship  Elizabeth,  after  being  near  an  Hour  in 
the  Water.  A  Guinea  Reward  will  lie  given  to  any  Per- 
son who'  will  inform  William  Hardy,  at  the  Sign  of  the 
Sailors  Return,  Opposite  Dover  Street,  where  the  said 
Boat  may  be  found  if  driven  ashore. — The  Neiv-York 
Gazette:  and  the  Weekly  Mercury,  No.  1458,  September 
27,  1771). 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  647 

To  the  Legislatures  of  the  United  States  in  general,  and 
that  of  New-Jersey  in  particular. 

You,  gentlemen,  are  chosen  from  among  the  people  at  large,  as 
being  possessed  of  more  knowledge  in  the  affairs  of  government, 
agriculture  and  trade,  than  any  others  among  us ;  you  are 
looked  upon  as  our  fathers  and  guardians,  and  no  doubt  are  fully  ac- 
quainted with  the  impending  ruin  hanging  over  us,  through  the  de- 
preciation of  our  continental  money.  The  body  politic,  in  many  cases, 
wants  the  aid  of  good  laws,  as  does  the  corporeal  body,  when  labour- 
ing under  some  malignant  disorder,  want  the  aid  and  assistance  of 
the  skilful  physician,  and  I  am  well  assured,  that  the  most  skilful 
physician  might  as  well  say,  that  nature  will  cure  the  patient,  and 
restore  him  to  health  without  any  assistance  whatsoever,  as  that  trade, 
amidst  the  convulsions  of  the  present  day,  will  regulate  itself.  Ex- 
perience teaches  us  that  it  will  not;  else  why  the  many  conventions 
and  committees  that  are  now,  without  law,  drawing  the  line  of  limi- 
tation in  the  several  states.  It  is  your  duty,  and  you  ought,  without 
delay,  to  take  this  matter  into  your  most  serious  consideration,  and 
by  a  law  draw  the  line  of  limitation  of  all  internal  produce,  manu- 
facture and  labour,  fixing  a  generous  line  of  limitation  for  all  im- 
ported articles,  or  in  lieu  thereof,  limit  all  importation  to  pass  only 
thro'  three  hands,  to  wit,  the  importer,  the  retailer,  and  the  con- 
sumer. This  will  effectually  put  an  end  to  the  engrosser,  monopolizer, 
forestaller,  and  those  locusts,  those  pests  of  society ;  in  short,  they 
are  bad  men,  and  I  cannot  give  them  a  worse  name,  nor  sum  up  their 
characters  in  more  forceable  words  than  those  lines  of  the  old  poet : 

They  only  seem  to  hate,  and  seem  to  love, 
Interest  is  still  the  point  on  ivhich  they  move. 

A  law  for  the  purposes  aforesaid  having  become  absolutely  neces- 
sary, I  shall  not  presume  to  dictate  to  my  superiors,  but  must  beg 
leave  just  to  mention,  that  it  should  be  so  framed  as  to  be  most  likely 
to  be  carried  into  execution :  I  would  therefore  suppose,  that  by  law, 
each  town  in  every  state  should  be  authorized  to  choose  a  committee 
not  less  than  fifteen,  nor  more  than  one  hundred,  whose  business  it 
should  be,  by  applying  to  a  magistrate,  to  carry  the  said  law  into 
effect,  in  punishing  every  transgressor  of  the  same.  This  or  some- 
thing similar,  I  am  fully  convinced,  is  the  only  remedy  for  the  extor- 
tion of  the  present  day. 

To  the  Committee  of  Philadelphia  in  particular,  and  to  all  other 
Committees,  whose  proceedings  have  been  published,  in  general. 

GENTLEMEN, 

Although  I  must  acknowledge  you  have  stept  forth  in  a  most  im- 
portant hour,  in  favour  of  the  glorious  cause  of  liberty,  and  in  some 
degree,  have  put  a  stop  to  extortion  and  the  further  depreciation  of 
our  continental  money,  yet  let  me  entreat  you  not  to  be  offended  with 
me,  who  am  but  a  common  farmer,  for  giving  you  my  sentiments  on 
your  regulations.  You  have  fixed  almost  everything  at  most  extrava- 


648  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

gant  prices,  which  are  to  be  lowered  monthly,  as  they  heretofore  had 
risen.  Will  not  this  have  a  tendency  to  stagnate  all  trade?  What 
man  will  purchase  this  month  any  quantity  of  goods  for  sale,  when  he 
knows  if  he  does  not  sell  in  the  month,  it  is  to  be  so  much  lower  the 
next?  Besides  your  resolutions  (although  made  from  the  purest 
principles)  have  not  the  same  weight  with  the  people  at  large,  as 
perhaps  the  same  regulations  would  have,  were  they  sanctified  by  a 
law  :  Therefore,  let  us  all  unite,  and  petetion  our  several  Legislatures 
for  a  general  regulation  throughout  the  United  States,  by  law,  for 
that  most  valuable  purpose. 

To  the  people  at  large  throughout  the  United-  States  in  general,  and 
tlioxc  of  Xctr-Jcrsey  in  particular. 

Friends  and  Brother  Farmers, 

I  shall  conclude  this  paper  in  addressing  you  on  the  most  interesting 
political  subject  that  ever  was  agitated  among  us.  Here  let  me  call 
up  your  most  serious  attention  for  a  few  moments.  You  are  all  by 
this  time  well  acquainted  with  the  depreciation  of  our  continental 
money,  and  the  unparalleled  extortion  that  prevails  among  us ;  you 
know  we  are  in  a  war  ;  that  this  war  must  be  supported  by  taxes 
finally  on  us.  Is  it  consistent  with  common  sense  or  common  prudence 
to  support  tliis  war  at  upwards  of  twenty  times  as  much  as  it  would 
have  cost,  had  the  prices  of  our  produce  and  manufactures  remained 
at  what  they  were  in  the  year  1773  or  1774?  Remember  we  are  con- 
tracting a  debt  that  will  have  to  be  paid,  when  we  have  a  peace,  (as 
we  cannot  raise  more  by  our  annual  taxes  than  will  suffice  for  the 
current  year:)  Therefore  the  debt  already  contracted,  must  remain 
to  be  paid  in  a  peaceable  day,  which  God  grant  may  be  soon.  Let  us 
therefore  most  heartily  join  in  petetions  to  our  Legislature,  that  they 
immediately  enact  a  law  limiting  the  prices  of  all  internal  produce, 
manufacture  and  labour,  drawing  a  line  for  all  imported  articles  as 
shall,  taking  in  all  risques  and  expences,  leave  a  generous  profit  for  the 
importer. — This,  I  apprehend,  will  have  a  better  effect  than  that  of 
committees.  I  expect  it  will  be  said,  trade  will  regulate  itself.  I 
answer,  the  experience  of  the  present  times  must  fully  convince  us,  it 
will  not ;  a  remedy  must  be  applied,  and  although  I  venerate  the  in- 
tentions of  the  several  committees  that  have  been  published,  yet  I  am 
fully  convinced,  that  anything  short  of  a  penal  law  to  take  place 
throughout  the  United  States,  as  near  the  same  time  as  possible,  will 
I  no^|  effect  the  cure  of  the  political  disorder,  under  which  we  at  present 
are  labouring  ;  on  which  our  enemy's  most  sanguine  hopes  rest,  for 
bringing  about  our  ruin.  Let  us  then  nobly  resolve  (for  it  is  our 
truest  interest)  to  sacrifice  a  little  property  for  securing  our  dearest 
liberty.  I  could  say  a  great  deal  about  the  cruelty  of  our  enemies, 
should  they  prevail ;  but  you  have  already  heard  so  much  of  this,  'tis 
needless,  their  prospects  at  present  being  so  trifling  :  Relying  there- 
fore on  your  virtue  and  patriotism,  I  conclude,  wishing  you  all  manner 
of  prosperity. 

A  JERSEY  FARMER. 

Sept.  10,  1770. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  649 

Extract  of  a  letter  from  an  officer  in  the  western  army, 
commanded  by  Major-General  Sullivan,  dated  Konadasa- 
gea,  September  9,  1779. 

" Since  the  action  of  the  29th  of  last  month,  the  Indians 
have  fled  at  the  approach  of  our  army,  and  left  their  settle- 
ments to  our  mercy, — JsTew-Town,  Konowarohala,  French 
Katherines,  Garidai,  Skayes,  Gaghseonghwa,  and  Kona- 
dasagea,  are  great  heaps  of  ruin;  besides  these  we  have 
burnt  a  number  of  scattering  houses;  and  destroyed  a 
large  country  of  corn,  pumpkins,  cyrnblines,  cucumbers, 
water-melons,  peaches  and  apples. 

"This  day  we  shall  set  out  for  Genesee,  and  lay  that 
country  in  ashes.  The  enemy  having  retired  to  Niagara 
we  expect  no  opposition  as  we  advance,  but  expect  an  attack 
as  we  return.'7 

On  Thursday  last  a  Mr.  \7an  Mater  was  knocked  off  his 
horse  on  the  road  near  Longstreet's  mill,  in  Monmouth 
county,  by  Lewis  Fenton  and  one  Debow,  by  whom  he  was 
stabbed  in  the  arm  and  otherwise  much  abused,  beside 
being  robbed  of  his  saddle.  In  the  mean-time  another  per- 
son coming  up,  which  drew  the  attention  of  the  robbers, 
gave  Mr.  Van  Mater  an  opportunity  to  make  his  escape. 
He  went  directly  and  informed  a  Serjeant's  guard  of 
Major  Lee's  light  dragoons  who  were  in  the  neighbourhood 
of  what  had  happened.  The  Serjeant  immediately  im- 
pressed a  waggon  and  horses,  and  ordered  three  of  his  men 
to  secrete  themselves  in  it  under  some  hay.  Having 
changed  his  clothes  and  procured  a  guide,  he  made  haste 
thus  equipped  to  the  place  where  Fenton  lay.  On  the  ap- 
proach of  the  waggon  Fenton  (his  companion  being  gone) 
rushed  out  to  plunder  it.  Upon  demanding  what  they  had 
in  it,  he  was  answered  a  little  wine  and  spirit.  These 
articles  he  said  he  wanted;  and  while  advancing  toward 
tho  waggon  to  take  possession  of  them,  one  of  the  soldiers, 
being  previously  informed  who  he  was,  shot  him  through 


650  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

the  head,  which  killed  him  instantly  on  the  spot.  Thus  did 
this  villain  end  his  days — which  it  is  hoped  will  at  least  be 
a  warning  to  others,  if  not  induce  them  to  throw  themselves 
on  the  mercy  of  their  injured  country. 


STATE  of  NEW-JERSEY, 

Gloucester  County,,  Sept.  7,  1779. 

NOTICE  is  hereby  given  to  all  persons  having  any  de- 
mands against  Harrison  Wells,  George  Avis,  Wil- 
liam Wells,  William  Bocock,  Daniel  Cozens,  Jona- 
than Chew,  James  llanisey,  Joseph  Long,  Jacob  Hewitt, 
John  Robeson,  Fetor  Johnson,  Isaac  Justice,  John  Hatton, 
James  Duffiekl,  John  Gruff,  John  Ilinchman,  William 
Forsman,  Alexander  Bartram,  John  Cox,  John  Rodrow, 
Gabriel  D'Yeber,  William  Pinyard,  John  O'Briarit, 
George  Swantou,  Josiah  Biddle,  Robert  Whitaker,  Jere- 
miah Prosser,  John  Carter,  juu.  or  David  Suram,  whose 
estates  are  forfeited,  and  have  been  sold  by  the  Commis- 
sioners of  said  county;  that  they  exhibit  their  accounts 
before  the  Judges  of  the  court  of  common  picas,  within  the 
time  limited  by  law,  in  order  that  they  may  be  adjusted 
and  paid. 

JOHN    SPARKS,         )  Commis- 
SAMUEL    IVAIGJIN,  )     siouers. 

-The  New  Jersey   Gazelle,   Vol.  II,  No.   92,  Sept.   29, 
1779. 

By  several  gentlemen  from  Moninouth  county  we  learn, 
that  a  large  number  of  the  enemy  are  upon  St  atari-Island ; 
and  that  Major  Lee,  with  his  corps  of  cavalry,  arrived  in 
that  county  a  few  days  ago. — The  New-York  Packet,  and 
the  American  Advertiser,  No.  145,  September  30,  1779. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  651 


TO  BE   SOLD 

By  tiiei  subscriber  at  Bordentown, 

A  XEAT  FARM  containing  a,bout  one  hundred  and 
eighty-two  acres  of  land,  thirty  acres  of  which  are  good 
meadow,  lying  on  Crosswicks  C'reek  (navigable  water  for 
shallops )  On  said  Farm  are  a  brick  dwelling-house,  some- 
what out  of  repair,  a,  good  bam  and  other  improvements. 
It  is  situated  about  two  mile®  from  Bordentown  and  if  not 
sold  at  private  sale  within  two  weeks  from  the  datei  hereof, 
will  be  disposed  of  by  public  vendue  at  the  Coffee-house  in 
Philadelphia.  , 

JOSEPH    BOEDER 

BordenrTown,  Sept.  22 

ONE  HUNDRED  DOLLARS  REWARD. 

Absconded  from  Manington  township,,  Salem  county, 
a  young  man  named  ELISHA  OSBIJST,  about  five  feet 
eleven  inches  high,  fair  complexion,  pitted  with  the  small- 
pox ;  had  on  an  old  scolloped  hat,  a,  blue  and  white  Wilton 
coatee,  a  white  linen  Waistcoat,  and  broad  checquered 
trowsers.  He  took  with  him  when  he  went  away,  a  likely 
white  Stallion  with  a  saddle  and  bridle,  six  years  old, 
about  fourteen  and  a  half  hands  high,  paces,  trots  and 
gallops  well.  Any  person  apprehending  the  thief  and 
horse,  so  that  the  owner  may  have  the  horse  and  the  thief 
be  brought  to  justice  shall  have  the  above  reward,  or 
FIFTY  DOLLARS  for  the  horse  only,  if  delivered  to  the 
subscriber  living  in  Manington  township,  Salem  county,  or 
to  Benjamin  Miers  in  Strawberry-alley,  Philadelphia,. 

Sept,  12.  JOSEPH   HARTLEY. 

— The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  October  2,  1779. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  653 

Philadelphia,  October  6 

Last  weak,  Captain  Taylor,  of  this  port,  sent  a  prize 
into  Egg-Harbour,  having  on  board  a  Hessian  Colonel 
and  214  privates!,  with  a  quantity  of  dry  goods.  We  hear 
the  prisoners  are  expected  in  town  to  day. — The  Penmyl- 
vomid  Gazette,  October  6,  1779. 

MR.  COLLINS, 

I  HAVE  seen  the  performance  of  your  correspondent  a  F'armer,  in 
.your  79th  Number,  and  attribute  his  boldness  to  his  ignorance. 
His  charge  against  me  is  bluntly  expressed,  without  a  single 
proof. — He  pretty  plainly  expresses  his  concern  for  his  money ;  but 
when  he  gets  off  these  his  familiar  topics,  his  language  degenerates 
into  mere  nonsense  and  unintelligible  jargon. — He  says,  I  dismiss  the 
True  Patriot  to  reflect  on  the  wildness  of  his  propositions,  and  make 
my  address  to  the  Honourable  the  Congress,  &c.  I  defy  the  most  ac- 
complished grammarian  to  make  these  sentences,  as  here  connected, 
speak  common  sense. — If  the  greatest  part  of  the  remainder  of  his 
performance  is  not  unintelligible  jargon,  I  must  own  I  am  too  ignorant 
to  comprehend  such  sublimity ! — I  have  also  noticed  the  distant  in- 
sinuations of  the  Oeconomist  and  Crito,  in  your  Numb.  76  and  80. 

I  expected,  Sir,  in  consequence  of  what  I  have  declared  in  my  con- 
cluding Number,  that  if  I  was  attacked,  it  would  have  been  attempted 
by  arguments,  at  least  to  appearance,  conclusive :  But  while  men  of 
sense  and  judgment  have  forebore,  literary  pigmies  have  made  the 
attack  by  bare  ungrounded  assertions  and  distant  insinuations. — I 
would  have  never  troubled  your  press  or  the  public,  with  any  animad- 
versions on  these  performances  against  me,  had  I  not  been  induced  by 
more  powerful  motives.  As  I  perceived  that  the  Farmer  had  bor- 
rowed his  charge  from  the  general  talk  of  persons,  whom,  I  fear,  are 
too  much  actuated  by  self-interest,  and  the  sinister  views  of  raising  a 
dust  and  prejudicing  the  community  against  a  plan,  the  most  just, 
equitable  and  salutary  in  our  present  circumstances,  I  have  deemed  it 
my  duty  once  more  to  address  the  respectable  public,  on  that  im- 
portant subject. — The  charges  against  me,  are  the  Depreciation  of 
our  Currency,  and  recommending  a  plan  which,  if  executed,  would  be 
attended  with  injustice  and  a  breach  of  the  national  faith. 

As  to  the  first,  I  consider  it  to  be  as  unjust  as  it  is  ungrounded.  It 
appears  highly  probable  to  me,  that  the  internal  enemies  of  our  cause 
have  combined,  if  possible,  totally  to  destroy  our  currency,  in  hopes 
to  cut  the  sinews  of  our  defensive  war: — And  it  may  be,  that  those 
miscreants,  from  an  apprehension  that  this,  or  a  similar  effectual  plan, 
might  be  adopted,  and  therefore  have  redoubled  their  efforts,  to  ac- 
complish the  mischief,  before  the  remedy  could  be  applied.  If  so ; 
am  I  answerable  for  such  abuse? — If  the  chain  of  my  reasonings  are 
well  attended  to,  I  humbly  conceive  they  will  be  found  calculated  to 


654  KEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.  [1779 

produce  the  contrary  effect. — For  I  have  endeavoured  to  show,  that 
every  degree  of  depreciation  is  so  much  private  loss,  and  sinking  of 
the  national  debt.  Suppose  a  man  possessed  five  years  ago,  of  an 
hundred  pounds,  with  which  he  has  traded,  or  otherwise  increased  it  to 
a  thousand ;  it  is  evident  he  cannot  now  purchase  above  half  as 
much  for  the  whole,  as  he  then  could  only  for  the  original  stock : 
Hence  it  is  evident,  that  every  degree  of  appreciation  is  so  much 
private  gain  and  public  loss. — Does  the  Farmer  believe,  that  de- 
predators are  become  so  fond  of  paying  the  national  debt?  Does  he 
think  that  if  they  verily  believed,  in  case  they  proceeded  to  depreciate 
it  to  thirty,  forty,  fifty  for  one,  &c.  that  they  would  only  receive  the 
equivalent,  that  they  would  see  their  interest  in  doing  it?  No,  Sir ; 
if  such  verily  believed  this  should  be  their  case,  I  am  sure  neither  the 
oratory  of  a  Cicero,  nor  the  eloquence  of  a  Demosthenes,  would  per- 
suade them  to  it.  Put  the  language,  the  darling  of  yourself  and 
others,  in  contrast  with  mine,  namely,  the  money  must  be  made  good, 
ice  arc  intitled  to  the  sum  we  read  on  the  face  of  the  bill,  and  de- 
preciated money  ought  to  be  taxed  no  higher  than  that  received  at  its 
original  value.  Does  not  this  afford  such  the  pleasing  prospect,  that 
if  they  now  only  can  get  thousands  for  a  trifle,  what  lords  they  will 
be  in  a  few  years  hence?  If  self-interest  can  have  any  influence  on 
the  depreciation,  I  think  this  must  have  a  most  powerful  one.* 

The  second  charge  is  that  of  injustice,  because  those  who  have  sold 
lands  at  a  moderate  price,  will  probably  not  at  all  fall  within  the 
classes  of  exempts  I  have  recommended.  In  answer  to  this,  I  say  in 
general,  that  every  alteration  or  addition  for  the  more  effectual  relief 
of  innocent  sufferers,  shall  have  my  cordial  approbation  :  I  declare 
to  have  not  one  farthing  personal  interest  in  any  of  such  exempts,  if 
they  were  made,  nor  do  I  know  of  a  single  one  of  my  relations  who 
has.  I  have  recommended  them  only  for  the  sake  of  equity  and 
justice. — But  let  us  consider  the  grounds  of  this  hue  and  cry.  I  am 
persuaded  that  some  of  such  have  become  innocent  sufferers.  The 
sale  of  lands  to  base  depredators  has  often  given  me  pain.  I  have 
therefore  endeavoured  to  open  such  their  eyes  to  prevent,  if  possible, 
such  impositions :  But  are  all  sellers  of  land  to  be  ranked  in  this 
class?  Those  who  have  been  induced  by  (what  they  esteemed)  great 
prices;  and  in  hopes  of  being  then  free  from  the  taxes,  or  have  in- 
dustriously employed  that  money  in  the  trade  of  the  present  day,  are 
in  fact  speculators ;  and  if  they  have  suffered,  are  not  to  be  pitied. 
Is  the  whole  community  to  suffer  on  account  of  a  few  imprudent  sell- 
ers of  land?  Let  us  remember  the  cases  of  thousands  of  our  fellow- 
citizens,  who  have  been  obliged  to  undergo  a  long  exile ;  to  spend 


*  Tills  charge  is  malicious.  For  it  not  only  has  no  foundation  in  any  of 
my  performances,  "but  is  contradictory  to  matters  of  fact.  For  ivheat,  the 
standard  of  most  all  the  necessaries  of  life,  was  at  the  time  of  my  publi- 
cations at  between  16  and  20  dollars  per  bushel,  and  I  do  not  know  of  its 
having  raised  any  since  that  tune,  unless  it  be  in  the  determined  banditti 
at  Philadelphia:  and  I  ask  also  where  were  my  writings  when  it  rose  in 
about  4  viOntJis  from  4  or  5  to  16  or  20? 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  655 

what  they  had  gained  by  honest  industry  and  frugality ;  have  their 
dwellings  consumed  and  property  plundered  by  our  worse  than,  savage 
enemy.  Must  these  be  obliged  to  pay  taxes  in  proportion  of  what 
is  left  them  and  their  future  industry*  to  make  good  depreciated 
money,  because  a  few  individuals  have  been  too  imprudent  to  secure 
themselves  in  their  bargains? 

As  to  the  third,  the  breach  of  national  faith,  deserves  our  most 
serious  attention.  I  have  in  the  course  of  my  number,  mentioned 
this  objection :  I  denied  it,  and  challenged  proof.  All  the  proof  I 
have  seen,  is  an  appeal  to  what  we  read  in  the  face  of  the  bills.  Do 
such  people  ever  read  this,  when  they  receive  twenty  of  such  dollars, 
for  what  is  worth  one  silver  one?  If  they  do,  I  ask  them,  upon  what 
principles  they  receive  them  so?  If,  because  they  can  get  no  real 
property  of  equal  value  for  less  of  it,  they  then  can  have  no  objection 
to  the  plan  I  have  recommended :  If  it  is  in  hopes  of  getting  in 
future  twenty  times  as  much  real  property  for  it,  I  do  not  hesitate 
to  pronounce  such  conduct  abominable  theft. — It  appears  to  me  an 
undoubted  matter  of  fact,  that  by  far  the  greatest  part  of  the  money 
now  in  circulation  is  received  either  directly  from  the  continent,  or  in 
trade,  at  the  rate  of  fifteen  or  twenty  for  one ;  and  what  honest  man 
will  desire  more  for  it  than  he  gave?  Though  a  number  of  individuals 
have  received  it,  at  its  original  value,  or  before  it  was  depreciated 
so  much,  yet  would  it  be  evidently  unjust  and  impolitic  to  give 
millions  to  the  former,  to  save  hundreds  to  the  latter.  Laws  ought 
undoubtedly  to  be  calculated  for  the  good  of  the  generality  in  the 
community,  with  exemptions  to  individuals,  who  might  otherwise  be 
injured  by  them. 

But,  for  a  more  direct  answer  to  the  objection,  I  beg  my  reader.-? 
will  recollect  what  I  have  observed,  respecting  the  true  nature  of  our 
currency,  in  my  3d  Numb,  and  then  judge  of  what  I  shall  here  offer. — 
The  term,  national  faith,  generally  means  a  full  compliance  with 
national  engagements.  Let  it  then  be  enquired  what  the  engagements 
of  Congress  are,  respecting  our  money.  The  faith  in  question  is  what 
is  read  on  the  face  of  the  bill.  Congress  intended  they  should  pass 
the  same  as  specie,  and  so  they  did  at  fixst ;  and  were  not  all  the 
individuals  in  the  empire,  in  duty  bound  to  give  and  receive  them  as 
such?  But  instead  of  that,  the  community  have  reduced  their  value 
to  what  they  are  at  present ;  so,  if  there  is  in  this  any  breach  of 
contract,  it  is  on  the  part  of  the  people.  If  any  will  persist  and  say, — 
Congress  has  however  engaged  dollar  for  dollar,  I  confess  Congress 
has  given  you  a  right  to  have  kept  it  at  that  value:  But  who  is 
bound  to  give  it  you,  when  you  your  selves  have  undervalued  it? 
Has  any  ever  dreamed  that  Congress  was  bound,  on  demand,  to  give 
them  in  exchange,  dollar  for  dollar?  If  so,  why  has  not  the  demand 
been  made?  We  are  no  strangers  to  paper  currency.  This  is  of  the 
same  nature  as  that  emitted  in  our  former  wars.  What  would  our 
former  government  have  answered,  had  any  been  foolhardy  to  have 
attempted  such  a  demand? — I  think  it  is  undeniably  evident  from  the 
nature  of  this  money,  confirmed  by  the  conduct  of  our  former  gov- 


656         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779 

ernment,  and  the  resolves  of  Congress  which  I  have  seen,  that  all  the 
national  debt  pledged  in  this  affair,  is,  that  the  whole  of  this  money 
shall  be  sunk  and  destroyed  by  lawful  and  regular  taxes;  and  not 
be  permitted  to  sink  in  the  hands  of  individuals.  If  there  is  any 
other,  let  it  be  produced.  I  have  seen  no  publications  which,  by  tho 
least  distant  insinuations,  have  advised  a  breach  of  this  faith.  The 
cry  of  all  now  is,  there  is  too  much  of  this  money,  and  its  quantity 
ought  to  be  diminished  in  order  to  raise  its  value. 

Now,  in  the  course  of  my  numbers  I  have  plead  for  sinking  so 
much  of  the  money,  as  it  is  depreciated  above  its  original  value,  by  a 
regular  and  lawful  tax,  and  have  endeavoured  to  show,  that  a  tax 
on  the  money  itself  would  be  the  most  just,  equitable  and  effectual. 
To  this  no  arguments  are  opposed,  but  it  would  infringe  the  national 
faith. — Let  it  be  proved  that  the  faith  of  the  nation  is  engaged,  that 
money  shall  not  be  taxed  in  sinking  this  fund  ;  and  till  that  is  done, 
let  the  scheme  I  have  recommended,  never  be  charged  more  icith  in- 
fringing national  faith. 

I  have  before  offered  my  sentiments  on  this  important  subject 
freely,  and  I  hope  with  candour.  I  have  since  seen  various  schemes 
proposed,  as  I  apprehended,  different  from  or  in  opposition  to  the  one 
I  had  offered.  I  find  they  amount  to  two,  viz,  Regulating  prices,  and 
taking  money  on  loan.  I  beg  to  be  indulged  with  the  liberty  of  offer- 
ing a  few  remarks  on  both. 

As  to  regulating  laws,  it  appeared  evidently  to  me  from  almost  the 
beginning  of  the  contest,  that  our  circumstances  made  them  absolutely 
necessary.  The  general  opportunities  for  extortion,  which  our  circum- 
stances gave  merchants,  husbandmen,  mechanics  and  trades-men,  even 
day-labourers,  made  this  very  evident. — Such  regulations,  if  pru- 
dently  made,  would  not  cut  the  sinews  of  industry  and  frugality,  as 
some  have  boldly  asserted.  For  then  every  person  would  know  what 
he  had  to  expect  for  his  property,  and  what  he  could  purchase  for  the 
amount.  There  would  then  not  be  that  opportunity  for  a  spend- 
thrift sharper  to  make  his  thousands  in  the  course  of  a  few  days,  at 
the  expence  of  the  frugal  and  industrious. — But  the  grand  query  is, 
how  to  regulate  now  after,  the  depreciation  has  called  forth  such 
immense  nominal  sums  against  the  community.  If  it  be  remembered, 
that  by  far  the  greatest  part  of  the  circulating  sum  is  received,  at  its 
present  value ;  then  it  will  be  evident,  that  every  degree  which  regu- 
lating laws  force  down  the  prices  or  articles,  below  the  true  medium 
of  its  present  value,  is  so  much  unjust  gain  to  such  as  possess  the 
greatest  quantity  of  this  money  at  its  present  value,  and  throws  an 
unjust  burthen  of  debt  upon  the  community ;  and  will  undoubtedly 
make  the  execution  of  those  laws  more  difficult:  So  that  prudence 
and  justice  to  the  community  will  dictate,  that  if  the  nominal  debt,  or 
the  quantity  of  the  money  is  not  diminished  in  proportion,  the  prices 
ought  to  be  fixed  according  to  the  medium  of  its  present  true  value. 
One  important  advantage  would  flow  from  a  prudent  regulation,  to- 
wards the  supply  of  our  army,  for  then  it  might  be  supplied  by  con- 
tract ;  the  price  of  every  ration  per  man.  might  be  fixed ;  all  waste 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  657 

and  neglect  of  duty  would,  in  such  case,  fall  upon  the  commissaries. 
The  same  might  be  done  with  the  quartermasters  and  medical  de- 
partments. And  such  particulars  as  could  not  be  contracted  for  at  a 
certain  price,  a  fixed  mediate  sum  might  be  stipulated,  on  condition 
of  allowing  a  reasonable  per  centum ;  for  whatever  it  might  come 
cheaper  and  the  same  per  cent,  discount  on  those  employed,  for  what- 
ever it  exceeded  the  stipulated  sum.  I  am  persuaded  our  army  will 
never  be  frugally  supplied,  until  the  private  interest  of  those  em- 
ployed is  made  to  coincide  with  that  of  the  publick :  and  this  at  the 
same  time  would  afford  the  most  effectual  bar  against  any  farther 
depreciation. 

As  to  the  'borrowing  of  money,  I  have  before  observed  of  what 
advantage  a  foreign  loan  might  be,  if  properly  applied,  of  what  dis- 
advantage, if  not. — A  domestick  loan  will  probably  be  found  ex- 
ceedingly precarious ;  and  that  on  various  accounts. 

1.  Notwithstanding    the    great    quantity,    yet    if    we    consider    the 
present  value,  the  circulating  medium  is  scarce ;    and  as  the  present 
trade  is  generally  carried  on  by  ready  money,  the  requisite  medium 
is  necessary  for  that  purpose.     To  make  this  evident,  let  it  be  con- 
sidered,  that  if  the  present  value  of  money  is  only  fifteen  for  one, 
(and   how   much   more   are    all    imported   articles)    and   the   absolute 
necessary  medium  fifteen   millions   original   value,    then   that  present 
value  will  require  three  hundred  millions  of  dollars.     Whatever  then 
the  depreciation   in  general  may  be  more,   or  the   emitted  sum   less, 
will  make  the  medium  scarcer :    and  so  the  letting  it  on  loan  to  any 
considerable  amount,  more  difficult  and  impracticable. 

2.  The  interest,   if  the  money  could  be  got,  would  soon  make  an 
alarming  sound,  and  if  it  should  be  imprudently  appreciated,  would 
involve  this  country  in  inevitable  ruin. 

It  is  easy  for  a  Leonidas  to  exclaim  against  regulating  laws.  To 
demand  from  Congress  to  stop  the  money  press,  and  to  carry  on  the 
war  by  loans,  even  at  seven  and  eight  per  cent.  But  has  he  duly 
considered  the  probability  of  success,  and  the  consequences  of  an 
enormous  national  interest?  Will  this  alleviate  the  distresses  of  the 
poor  widow  and  her  helpless  orphans,  who  has  paid  out  her  last  dol- 
lar? or  have  such  their  tens  and  twenty  thousands  to  lay  in,  and 
receive  seven  and  eight  per  cent?  No,  say  rather  call  in  your  money 
and  sink  by  a  just  tax  whatever  it  is  depreciated,  and  fairly,  hon- 
estly and  justly,  exempt  the  truly  innocent  sufferers,  which  can  never 
be  done  any  other  way.  By  such  a  tax  the  surplus  money  may  be 
sunk,  without  making  any  individual  in  the  community  poorer,  and  in 
some  measure  restoring  honest,  innocent  sufferers.  Hereby  will  you 
remove  the  terror  of  an  enormous  nominal  debt  to  the  community, 
and  inspire  your  gallant  army  with  fire,  and  put  life  and  soul  into  the 
friends  of  your  country ;  and  at  once  strike  dead  your  enemies. 

If  however  monied  men  can  find  ways  and  means  to  impose  upon  the 
honest  community,  and  prejudice  them  against  what  is  manifestly 
their  interest  and  safety,  let  them  go  on,  and  carry  their  larger 
bundles  of  money.  I  then  only  say  to  my  fellow-citizens,  exert  your- 

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658  NEW    JERSEY    IN"    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

selves  in  stopping  the  further  depreciation  by  just  and  general  regu- 
lating laws,  and  making  the  interest  of  the  staff  department  to  coin- 
cide with  that  of  the  publick.  Let  money  be  emitted  until  there  is  a 
sufficiency  for  circulation  in  proportion  to  its  present  value.  And  let 
the  pay  of  the  military  department  be  raised  in  proportion  to  the 
value.  Then  no  danger  of  oppressing  a  free  people  by  taxing  to  a 
fifth,  and,  in  case  of  necessity,  even  to  a  fourth  part  of  all  the  money 
in  circulation  :  provided  the  tax  be  justly  and  equitably  levied.  No 
matter  what  the  nominal  sum  is.  The  value  and  sufficiency  for  cir- 
culation, are  to  be  considered  as  the  leading  principles  in  taxation. 
Let  none  part  reluctantly  with  their  money,  for  the  support  of  so  just 
and  necessary  a  war.  It  was  made  for  that  purpose,  and  not  for 
enriching  a  few.  The  period  does  not  seem  far  distant,  when  you 
may  see  an  end  to  this  destructive  war,  and  then  will  you  enjoy  the 
fruits  of  your  labours,  provided  you  carefully  watch  over  your  in- 
terest and  liberties ;  which  is  the  cordial  wish  of  your  and  his 
country's  friend. 

A    TRUE    PATRIOT. 

Any,  17,   1779. 


CHATHAM,  September  28. 

By  authentic  intelligence  from  Long-Island  we  learn, 
that  Gen.  Clinton  has  demanded  a  number  of  men  from 
every  county  to  fortify  the  island,  being  apprehensive  of  a 
visit  from  our  illustrious  allv. 


STATE  of  XEW-JEESEY, 

House  of  Assembly,  June  11,  1779. 

WHEREAS   the   Legislature1  of  this   state  hath    passed 
an  act  for  calling  out  of  circulation,  and  for  sink- 
ing all  bills  of  credit  heretofore  emitted  in  this 
state,  whilst  the  same  was  a  colony;    in  and  by  which  it  is 
enacted,  that  all  bills  of  credit  emitted  by  law,  and  like- 
wise all  these  emitted  by  an  ordinance  of  the  late  pro- 
vincial congress  of  this  state',   shall  be  brought  into-  the 
treasury  to  be  exchanged  on   or  before  the  first   day  of 
January  next ;    and  that  all  those  bills  which  shall  not  be 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTEACTS.  659 

so  brought  in  on  or  before  that  day,  shall  be  forever  after 
irredeemable. 

And  whereas  many  of  the  said  bills  may  be  in  the  hands 
of  persons  residing  in  the  neighbouring  states,  which,  un- 
less timely  notice  be  given,  may  not  be  brought  in  within 
the  times  limited,  to  the  great  injury  of  the  possessors : 
To  prevent  which, 

Resolved, 

That  the  printers  of  publick  newspapers  in  this  and 
the  neighbouring  states,  be  requested  to  insert  the  above 
extracts  from  the  said  law,  in  their  papers,  and  continue 
the  same  at  least  four  weeks,  for  the  information  of  all 
concerned. 

TRENTON,  OCTOBER  6. 

We  are  happy  in  being  able  to  inform  the  public,  that 
the  Legislature  of  this  State  have  agreed  upon  a  Eaprer 
sentation  to  Congress,  couched  in  the  strongest  terms,  for 
appreciating  the  continental  currency  by  a  regulation  of 
prices  throughout  the  United  States;  and  from1  the  zeal 
of  the  people  of  all  ranks  for  adopting  this  measure,  there 
is  the  greatest  probability  of  success. 

On  Friday  last  Capt,  Taylor  sent  into  Egg-Harbour  a 
transport  from  New-York,  said  to  be  bound  to  Halifax, 
with  a  quantity  of  dry  goods,  and  214  Hessians,  including 
a  Colonel,  whoi  are  proper ly  taken  care  of.  He  was  chased 
into  Egg-Harbour  river  by  a  British  frigate;  but  on  his 
passage  up,  having  the  transport  in  tow,  and  while  turn- 
ing to  windward,  he  was  unfortunately  overset  by  a  sudden 
squall  of  wind,  by  which  one  man  was  drowned.  His 
vessel,  it  is  said,  will  be  got  up  again. 

We  learn  that  the  fleet  which  sailed  from  New  York  on 
Eriday  s'ennight,  with  Lord  Cornwallis  and  about  8000 
troops  on  board,  returned  on  Tuesday  following:  Their 
quick  return  was  owing,  it  is  supposed,  to  their  getting 
intelligence  of  Count  D'Estaing's  arrival  at  Savannah  in 
Georgia. 


660  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

No  account  of  operations  by  the  French  fleet  and  army 
in  Georgia  is  yet  received. 

Tuesday  next  comes  on  the  annual  election  for  the  choice 
of  Representatives  to  serve  in  the  Legislative  Council  and 
General  Assembly  of  this  State — "when  it  is  ardently  to 
"be  wished"  says  a  correspondent,  "that  men  may  be  chosen 
"who  are  zealous  for  the  Liberties  and  Independence  of 
"our  country;  men  who  are  firmly  attached  to,  and  will 
"support  our  excellent  constitution ;  and  men  of  liberal 
"minds,  and  of  the  greatest  wisdom,  prudence,  and  mag- 
"nanimity,  of  any  among  us." 

On  Friday  last  His  Excellency  the  Sieur  Gerard  passed 
thro'  this  town  on  his  way  to  Head-Quarters,  to  take  his 
leave  of  His  Excellency  Gen.  Washington,  previous  to  the 
Count's  departure  for  France. 

The  Honourable  John  Jay,1  Esquire,  late  President  of 
Congress,  is  appointed  their  Minister  to  the  Court  of 
Spain,  and  the  Honourable  -  -  Carmichael,  Esq.  Sec- 
retary to  the  Commission. — These  Gentlemen  are  to  em- 
bark in  the  Confederacy  for  France,  with  Monsieur 
Gerard,  on  his  return  from  Head-Quarters. 

1  John  Jay,  son  of  Peter  Jay,  a  New  York  merchant,  was  born  in  New 
York  City,  December  12,  1745,  and  graduated  at  King's  College  (now 
Columbia  University)  in  1764.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1768  and 
took  an  early  interest  in  the  cause  of  independence,  being  elected  to  Con- 
gress in  1774,  and  again  in  1775.  He  drafted  the  constitution  of  the 
State  of  New  York  in  1777,  and  was  at  once  made  chief  justice  of  the 
State.  He  was  again  elected  to  Congress  in  1778.  On  September  27, 
1779,  he  was  appointed  Minister  to  Spain.  He  was  one  of  the  commis- 
siners  who  framed  the  treaty  of.  peace  at  the  close  of  the  war.  On  his 
return  to  New  York,  in  1784,  he  was  once  more  appointed  a  delegate  to 
Congress,  and  early  in  1785  he  accepted  an  appointment  as  Secretary  for 
Foreign  Affairs.  He  was  one  of  the  writers  of  the  Federalist  in  support 
of  the  new  constitution  and  of  the  organization  of  the  Federal  government, 
and  was  appointed  Chief  Justice  of  the  United  States  Supreme  Court  by 
President  Washington.  He  was  elected  governor  of  the  State  of  New 
York  in  1795,  and  resigned  the  office  of  Chief  Justice,  retaining  the  former 
position  until  1801.  On  retiring  from  office  he  devoted  himself  to  the 
ordinary  pursuits  of  a  country  gentleman  of  education  and  refinement. 
He  died  May  17,  1829.  Mr.  Jay  married  Sarah  Van  Brugh  (born  August 
2,  1756),  dau.  of  Gov.  William  Livingston,  of  New  Jersey,  April  28,  1774. 
Issue:  ].  Peter  Augustus,  b.  January  24,  1776;  2.  Susan;  3.  Ann;  4. 
Maria,  m.  Goldsborougn  Banyar  ;  5.  Ann  ;  6.  Sarah  Louise  ;  7.  William, 
b.  June  16,  1789. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  661 


JUST  PUBLISHED,  and  to  be  SOLD,  by 

ISAAC    COLLINS, 
At  his  PRINTING-OFFICE,  in  TRENTON, 

THE 

NEW-JEKSEY 
ALMANAC, 

For  the  YEAR  of  our  LORD  1780.  Containing,  beside  the 
usual  Astronomical  Observations,  a  Variety  of  useful  and 
entertaining  Matter  in  Prose  and  Verse. 

To  be  Sold  on  Monday  the  nth  inst. 

At  the  house  of  Mrs.  CLEAYTON,  in  Trenton, 
about  two  o'clock  in  the  afternoon ; 

A  compleat  Set  of 

HATTER'S    IMPLEMENTS 

Together  with  a  quantity  of  Copperas, 

Logwood,  &c. 


WAS  taken  up  the  27th  ult.  by  the  subscriber,  near 
Trenton,  a  stray  BLACK  HORSE,  with  a  star  in  his 
forehead,   about  four  years  old,  fourteen  and  a 
half  hands  high,  and  a  natural  trotter.     The  owner  is  de- 
sired to  come,  prove  his  property,  pay  charges,  and  take 
him  away. 

JESSE  TITUS. 
Oct.  1-,  1779. 

WANTS    EMPLOYMENT, 

A  Person  well  qualified  to  take  the  care  of  an  English 
School,  either  public  or  private;    also  perfect  mas- 
ter of  the  French  language,  who  can  be  well  recom- 
mended.    For  further  particulars  enquire  of  Mr.  Joakin 
Griggs,  near  Flemington,  Amwell. 


662  IsTEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

TO  be  sold  at  vendue,  at  Greenwich,  in  the  county  of 
Cumberland,  on  Monday  the  llth  of  October  inst. 
the   prize   brigantine   Sea-Horse,   with   her   cargo, 
consisting  of  1200  bushels  of  salt,  10  barrels  of  sugar,  10 
barrels  of  pork,  6  barrels  of  loaf  sugar,  1  pipe  of  wine,  a 
quantity  of  apples,  tar,  turpentine,  and  a  variety  of  other 
articles. — Vendue  to  begin  at  ten  o'clock. 
By  order  of  the  court  of  admiralty, 

Jos.  POTTS,  Marshal. 
New-Jersey,  Oct.  1,  1779 


To  all  whom  it  may  concern. 

0,   ,       ,   ,r  T  "YTOTICE  is  hereby  given,  that  a  court 

State  of  New-         \\        ,          •    -u         -n  i,    -.    -n 

r  -<  L  1      oi  admiralty,  will  be  held  at  the 

Jersey,  ss.        }  J\ 

{  courthouse     in     Burlington,     on 

Wednesday  the  4th  day  of  November  next,  at  ten  o'clock 
in  the  forenoon  of  the  same  day,  then  and  there  to  try  the 
truth  of  the  facts  alledged  in  the  bills  of  Rufus  Gardner, 
(who  as  well,  &c.)  against  the  brigantine  or  vessel  called 
the  Sea-Horse,  lately  commanded  by  James  Linn  ;  and  of 
Uriah  Smith,  (who  as  well,  &c.)  against  the  schooner  or 
vessel  called  the  Dispatch,  lately  commanded  by  John 
Ritche  ;  to  the  end  and  intent  that  the  owner  or  owners  of 
the  said  vessels  and  cargoes,  or  any  person  or  persons  con- 
cerned therein,  may  appear  and  shew  cause,  if  any  they 
have,  why  the  same  should  not  be  condemned  according  to 
the  prayer  of  the  said  bills.  By  order  of  the  Judge, 
Oct.  4.  Jos.  BLOOMFIELD,  Reg. 

—New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  II,  No.  93,  Oct.  6,  1779. 


In  our  last,  mention  is  made  of  five  jails  in  Phila- 
delphia being  broke  open  ;  the  reader  is  desired  to  correct 
the  error,  and  instead  of  in  Philadelphia  to  substitute,  in 
the  Province  of  New-Jersey.  —  The  Royal  Gazette,  No. 
315,  October  6,  1779. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  663 

CHATHAM,  OCTOBER  5. 

Extract  of  a  letter  from  an  officer  in  the  Jersey  brigade, 
dated  Konadasagea,  Sept.  8 — We  arrived  at  this  place 
about  sun-set  last  night,  which  is  230  miles  from  Easton, 
and  is  one  of  the  largest  towns  in  the  Seneca  country.  The 
Indians  keep  a  days  march  before  us,  and  have  not  at- 
tempted to  fight  us  since  the  29th  of  August.  We  expect 
to  march  for  Genessee  to  morrow,  which  is  the  next  largest 
town,  and  about  fifty  miles  further,  when  we  expect  to 
begin  our  retreat,  and  make  the  best  of  our  way  back.  Our 
troops  are  very  healthy;  but  one  man  has  died  out  of  our 
brigade. 

Extract  of  a  letter  from  Philadelphia,  dated  Sept.  27.— 
"The  Pickering,  of  Salem,  of  16  guns,  a  few  days  since, 
off  Sandy-Hook,  fell  in  with  the  Hope  sloop  of  war,  for- 
merly Dawson,  now  Hynean,  who  struck  without  firing  a 
gun.  The  officers  are  arrived,  and  we  expect  the  men  this 
evening.  We  have  also  taken  a  transport  with  a  Hessian 
major,  captain,  lieutenant,  ensign,  judge  advocate,  a  con- 
ductor of  military  stores,  and  150  non-commissioned  offi- 
cers and  privates,  of  the  regiment  of  Knyphausen.  I  ex- 
pect part  of  the  fleet  will  be  carried  into  New-England,  as 
there  were  ten  of  them  with  the  44th  and  two  Hessian 
regiments  on  board,  and  the  whole  were  separated  in  the 
north-east  gale  we  had  a  few  days  ago.  They  were  bound 
to  Halifax,  under  convoy  of  the  Renown." 

Last  week  the  troops,  as  mentioned  in  our  last,  to  have 
embarked  at  New- York,  returned  again,  and  were  landed 
upon  Long-Island  and  Governor's  Island. 

On  Sunday  passed  through  Morris  Town,  on  his  way  to 
Boston,  where  he  intends  to  embark  for  France,  his.  Ex- 
cellency Monsieur  Gerard,  Ambassador  from  the  Court  of 
France  to  these  United  States,  and  his  suit.  He  was  ac- 
companied by  Silas  Deane,  Esq. 

On  Tuesday  next,  agreeable  to  charter,  is  the  day  ap- 
pointed to  keep  fair  at  Elizabeth  Town. 


664         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779 


A 


To  BE  SOLD, 

Xeat  close-bodied  SULKEY,  with  harness  compleat. 
—Enquire  of  the  printer. 


To  be  sold  at  public  VEtfDUE 

At  the  house  of  the  subscriber,  at  Yaux-Hall,1  on  Friday 
the  8th  instant ; 

SEVERN"  horses,  a  waggon  and  harness  compleat  for 
either  two  or  four  horses,  several  head  of  young 
cattle,   a  pattern  for  a   coat  of  scarlet  cloth,   and 
sundry  other  articles  too  tedious  to  mention. 

ELIKAM  LITTLE. 


To  be  sold  at  public  YEXDUE, 

At   the  house   of  William   Cherry,    at   Morris   Town,   on 
Wednesday  the   loth   of  this   instant,   October; 

A  Weavers   furniture,   such   as   a   loom,   ten   or  twelve 
reeds  and  gears,  a  feather  bed,  and  sundry  other 
articles  too  tedious  to  mention,  late  the  property  of 
Ruben  Cherry,  deceased.     The  said  vendue  to  begin  at  one 
o'clock  on  said  day,  when  attendance  will  be  given,  and 
conditions  of  sale  will  be  made  known  by 

1IEXRY  WADE,  Administrator. 


WHEREAS  public  notice  has  been  given  in  the  Tren- 
ton paper,  desiring  all  persons  who  have  any  de- 
mands  against  the   estate   of  John   Lefferty,   de- 
ceased, to  send  in  their  accounts  to  Bryant  Lefferty,  near 
Pluck'emin.     This  is  to  give  notice,  that  unless  they  are 
sent  in  by  the  first  day  of  Xovember  next,  the  accounts 
will  be  closed; — and  on  the  said  first  day  of  November 
next,  will  be  sold,  at  the  house  of  Mary  Lefferty,  near 
Pluck'emin,  a  number  of  books  in  history  and  law,  bed  and 

1  Morris  county. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  665 

bedding,  household  furniture  of  different  sorts,  a  chest  of 

drawers,  desk,  £c. 

BRYANT    LEFFERTY, 
STEPHEN   HUNT 
Oct.  4,  1779. 

STRAYED   or   stolen   out   of  the  pasture   of   Jacob 
Dunn,  at  Quibble-Town,  a  bright  bay  horse  about 
11-  hands  high,  six  years  old,  trots  and  canters,  and 
paces  a  little ;    is  branded  with  the  letter  M  on  the  left 
thigh,  rather  higher  than  common ;   has  some  white  in  his 
face,  and  likewise  on  his  feet.    Any  person  that  will  bring 
the  said  horse  to  Jacob  Dunn,  at  Quibble-Town,  or  the 
subscriber,  at  Flanders,  in  Morris  County,  shall  receive 
one  hundred  dollars  reward,  and  all  reasonable  charges, 
paid  by 

DAVID  HULL. 
September  28,  1779. 

THE  subscriber  has  a  plantation  of  about  100  acres, 
well  situated,  with   a  good  dwelling  house,  barn, 
cyder  mill  and  house,  300  bearing  a*pple  trees  of 
•extraordinary  fruit,  and  a  large  peach  orchard ;   the  whole 
pleasantly  situated,  which  he  will  sell  at  private  sale.    Also 
a  still  with  cisterns. 

Likewise,  at  public  vendue,  on  Monday  the  llth  inst.  at 
11  o'clock  the  said  day,  a  mahogany  cup-board,  cattle, 
sheep,  hav,  oats  in  the  sheef,  and  many  other  articles. 

DANIEL  TICHENOR. 

rpXCELLENT   West-India   rum   by   the   quantity   or 

JLJ     small  measure,   sugar,   coffee,   German   steel,   and 

sundry  goods  of  the  grocery  kind,  to  be  disposed  of 

for  ready  cash  (no  trust)  or  grain  of  any  kind,  tho'  oats 

and  rye  preferred,  at  a  proportionate  price  to  the  goods, 

by  John  Hoff,  at  Mount-Pleasant. 


666  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    ."REVOLUTION.  [1779 

JOSEPH    CURTIS, 

Has  for  sale  in  Morris-Town.,  a  small  quantity  of  the  fol- 
lowing articles,  viz. 

FRENCH  and  muscovado  sugars,  coffee  and  tea,  pep- 
per, ginger,  chalk,  rosin,  alum,  snuff,  copperas, 
indigo,  £c. — Also  a  first  rate  eight-day  clock. 

Morris-Town,  Sept.  28,  1779. 


To  BE  SOLD, 

Ey  JACOB  IIALLETT, 

At  CHATHAM, 

GOOD  Jamaica  spirits  by  the  barrel  or  gallon,  plug 
and  pigtail  tobacco,  pins  by  the  paper,  writing  and 
wrapping  paper,  black  pepper,  a  complete  riding 
chair  almost  new,  a  close  bodied  sulkcy,  and  good  packing 
salt  to  be  exchanged  for  grain. 

Sept.  27,  1779. 


To  be  SOLD,  at  private  sale, 

A    PLANTATION,  containing  about  110  acres,  60  of 

./I.       which  are  good  plough  land,   19   of  meadow,  the 

rest  wood,  a  very  good  dwelling-house,  with  four 

rooms  on  a  floor,  and  a  good  well  of  water  near  the  door, 

one  good  waggon  horse,   and  a  quantity  of  grain  in  the 

ground,  such  as  wheat  and  rye.      For  further  particulars 

apply  to  William  Amos,  on  the  premises,  between  Scotch 

Plains  and  Quibble-Town. 


To  BE  SOLD, 

For  cash  or  country  produce  the  old  way, 
Neat  HIDING  CHAIR,  with  harness  complete.     In- 
quire of  Ephraim  Sears  at  Bottle  Hill. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  667 

To  be  sold  at  public  vendue,  on  Tuesday  the  5tli  of  Oc- 
tober next,  at  the  house  of  Mrs.  Jelf,  in  Elizabeth 
Town,,  the  -following  articles  for  cash,  viz. 

WOMEN'S  silk  clothes,  a  pattern  of  silk  for  a  gown,, 
set  of  curtains,  mahogany  desk  and  book  case, 
ditto  dining  table,  large  looking-glass,  one  pair  of 
andirons,   one  horse  cart,   a  man's  saddle,  neat  pair  of 
plated  spurs,  an  iron  bound  hogshead,  china  tea  cups  and 
saucers,  and  many  other  articles  not  mentioned.     Vendue 
to  begin  at  1  o'clock. 

AAEON  DAY. 

To  BE  SOLD, 

TWO  good  HOESES,  one  8  years  old  and  the  other  3r 
both  fit  for  the  saddle  or  chair,  in  good  order.    Two 
horses  will  constantly  be  kept  for  sale  at  the  house 
of  Obed  Denham,  at  the  Short  Hills,  near  Springfield. 


A  Quantity  of  excellent  SOLE  LEATHEE  to  be  ex- 
changed for  good  raw  hides. — A  number  of  the 
best  kind  of  soldiers  large  shoes  for  cash.     Leather 
curried  for  country  produce,  by 

HENEY    GUEST. 

~N.  B.     A  workman  at  the  curriers  business  will  meet 
with  good  encouragement  by  applying  as  above. 

Brunswick,  Sept.  28,  1779. 


WHEEEAS  Alice,  late  called  the  wife  of  the  sub- 
scriber,  of  Bernard  township,   Somerset  county, 
hath,  without  just  cause,  eloped  from  my  bed  and 
board,  in  my  absence,  and,  by  and  with  the  advice  and 
assistance   of   some   evil-minded   persons,    in   a   felonious 
manner,  hath  taken  away  my  effects  to  a  very  considerable 
amount  like  a  thief,  under  cover  of  the  night.     This  is 
therefore  to  forewarn  all  merchants  and  other  persons  not 


668         NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.       [1779 

to  trust  her  on  my  account,  as  I  am  determined  to  pay  no 
debts  of  her  contracting  from  the  date  hereof. 

JACOB    WILLIS. 
Bernard  Town,  Sept.  27,  1779. 

CAME  to  the  pasture  of  the  subscriber,  about  the  25th 
of  August  last,  a  very  dark  brown  mare,  pretty  old, 
with  no  other  mark  than  a  large  scar  on  her  left 
buttock  near  the  hip  bone.     The  owner  is  desired  to  come, 
prove  property,  pay  charges,  and  take  her  away,  otherwise 
she  will  be  sold  to  pav  charges. 

ISAAC  WOODRUFF,  jun. 
Elizabeth  Town,  Sept.  27,  1779. 

Stone  House  Plain,  Essex  county,  Sept.  27,  1779. 
/~1AME  to  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber,  the  22d 
\J     inst.  a  brown  horse,  about  14  hands  high,  with  a 
blaze  in  his  face,  a  little  white  behind  his  near  hind 
foot,  glass  eyes,  shod  before,  paces  and  trots,  but  most 
natural  to  a  trot.     The  owner  may,  by  proving  his  prop- 
erty, and  paying  charges,  have  him  again,  by  applying  to 

JOHN  SPEEE. 

CAME  to  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber,  at  Canoe- 
Brook,  the  25th  of  last  April,  a  black  mare,  3  years 
old,  a  natural  trotter,  without  brand  or  mark,  13 
hands  high.     Whoever  owns  said  mare  is  desired  to  come, 
prove  his  property,  pay  charges,  and  take  her  away. 

OGBEX. 


STOLEX  from  the  plantation  of  Jacob  Trimmers,  on 
The  16th  inst.  an  English  HORSE,  a  bright  bay, 
about  fourteen  hands  and  a  half  high,  four  years 
old,  no  brand  nor  mark,  trots  and  canters  well,  and  carries 
a  very  high  head  and  tail,  has  no  white  about  him,  and 
had  a  long  switch  tail  when  he  was  taken  away.  —  Any  per- 
son who  will  secure  said  horse,  so  that  the  owner  may  get 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  669" 

him  again,  shall  have  two  hundred  dollars  reward,  paid 
by  the  subscriber  living  in  Roxbury,  Morris  county. 

CALEB  SWEZEY,  jun. 

Sept,  27,  1779. 

STRAYED   away   from   the  plantation    of   the   sub- , 
scriber,  the  5th  inst.  a  red  bull,  two  years  old  last 
spring,  no  ear  mark.     Whoever  will  give  informa- 
tion to  the  owner,  so  that  he  may  be  had  again,  shall  have 
thirty  dollars  reward,  and  if  brought  home  all  reasonable 
charges,  paid  by 

THADDEUS  DAY. 
Chatham,  Sept.  28,  1779. 

THE  subscriber  desires  to  inform  the  public,  that  a 
EULLING  MILL  is  erecting  at  Chatham,  in  Mor- 
ris County,  which  will  be  ready  to  go  in  ten  or 
fifteen  days.     Those  people  who  are  pleased  to  favour  him 
with  their  custom,  may  depend  on  being  served  as  soon  as 
possible. 

NATHANIEL  BONNEL. 

— The  New-Jersey  Journal,  Vol.  I.  Numb.  XXXIV,  Oc- 
tober 5,  1779. 

Nassau-Hall,  Princeton,  Neiv- Jersey, 
September  30,  1779. 

On  Tuesday  last  the  Grammar  School  in  this  place  was 
publicly  examined,  in  presence  of  the  President  and 
Trustees  of  the  College,  and  several  other  gentlemen  of 
letters,  when  the  different  classes  acquitted  themselves 
much  to  the  satisfaction  of  all  who  heard  them. 

The  six  following  young  gentlemen  of  the  first-class 
were  approved  and  admitted  into  College  as  Members  of 
the  Ereshman  Class,  John  T.  Woodford,  of  Virginia ; 
John  Drayton  of  South  Carolina,  William  Kennedy,  of 
Philadelphia ;  Stephen  Renselaer,  of  New  York ;  George 
Woodruff,  and  James  Rock,  of  Princeton.  Prizes  were 


670  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

published  and  contended  for  by  the  first  Class:  (1)  in 
extemporary  exercises  in  Latin  Grammar  and  Syntax;  (2) 
in  reading  English  with  propriety,  and  answering  ques- 
tions on  the  Orthography  of  that  language :  The  first  was 
adjudged  to  John  T.  Woodford,  the  second  to  John  Dray- 
ton.  Prizes  were  also  published  and  contended  for  among 
the  inferior  Classes:  (1)  in  Latin  Grammar  and  Syntax; 
(2)  in  pronouncing  English  Orations:  The  first  of  these 
was  adjudged  to  Matthias  Baldwin,  and  the  second  to 
Horatio  L.  Stockton.  In  the  evening  the  College-Hall  was 
lighted  up,  and  in  presence  of  the  Governor  of  the  State, 
the  Trustees  of  the  College,  and  a  numerous  assembly  of 
gentlemen  and  ladies,  who  had  come  up  to  commencement, 
the  six  young  undergraduates  pronounced  Orations,  John 
Woodford  the  Salutatory  in  Latin,  and  Stephen  Renselaer 
the  valedictory  in  English,  and  were  heard  with  universal 
approbation. 

Xcxt  day,  being  Wednesday  the  29th,  was  held  the  an- 
nual commencement  in  College  for  conferring  degrees ;  the 
exercises  of  which  were  as  follows:  After  prayers;  (1) 
salutatory  latin  oration  by  George  Merchant  of  Princeton, 
De  conjuuctione  pietatis  cum  doctrina,  sive  scientia  hu- 
mana,  ut  sibi  mutuo  adjumento  sint.  (2)  English  oration 
l>y  Andrew  Bayard  of  Philadelphia,  on  the  horrors  of  war. 
(o)  English  oration  by  James  Kiddle  of  Pennsylvania  on 
the  source  of  true  nobility.  (4)  English  oration  by  Rich- 
ard J.  Stockton  of  Princeton,  on  the  principles  of  true 
heroism.  (5)  Latin  oration  by  Matthew  McCallister  of 
Pennsylvania,  De  peregrmatione.  (6)  Valedictory  ora- 
tion in  English,  by  Aaron  Woodruff  of  Princeton,  on  affa- 
bility. After  this,  the  degree  of  batchelor  of  arts  was 
conferred  on  the  above  six  Gentlemen,  members  of  the 
senior  class ;  and  that  of  master  of  arts  on  Andrew  Kirk- 
patrick,  an  alumnus  of  this  college.  The  whole  was  then 
concluded  with  prayer  by  the  President.  The  company 
assembled  on  this  occasion  was  numerous  and  respectable. 
They  all  expressed  their  satisfaction  with,  the  performance 


1770]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  671 

of  the  scholars,  and  the  pleasure  it  gave  them  to  see  this 
seminary  beginning  to  rise  from  its  ruins,  and  to  recover 
from  the  desolation  it  has  suffered  in  the  present  unnatural 
war. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  at  their  meeting  made  choice  of 
the  Reverend  Samuel  S.  Smith,  of  Hampden-Sydney  in 
Virginia  as  Professor  of  Moral  Philosophy. 


To  THE  PUBLIC. 

Nassau-Hall,  Princeton,  New-Jersey. 

October  2.  1779. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  the  vacation  of  the  College 
will  end  on  Monday  the  8th  of  November,  and  that  of  the 
Grammar-School  on  Wednesday  the  27th  inst.  Those 
whose  education  has  been  interrupted,  may  have  an  oppor- 
tunity of  completing  it  by  entering  into  any  of  the  classes 
they  shall  be  found  fit  for ;  and  they  and  others  are  desired 
to  observe  that  the  orders  of  College  will  be  in  every  re- 
spect the  same  as  before,  and  particularly  that  no  choice  or 
preference  will  be  given  them  as  to  the  chambers,  on  ac- 
count of  their  standing  in  the  classes,  but  the  time  of  their 
residence  in  the  School  or  College.  Neither  that  circum- 
stance however,  nor  any  other,  will  give  a  preference  to 
those  who  do  not  come  up  at  the  time  the  College  assem- 
bles. As  there  is  so  universal  a  complaint  of  the  want  of 
opportunities  of  educating  youth  among  us  at  present,  it 
is  proper  to  inform  the  public,  that  agreeably  to  former 
advertisements  the  instruction  in  this  School  and  College 
has  been  regularly  carried  on  since  the  enemy  left  the 
State.  The  Grammar  School  is  numerous  and  flourishing ; 
and  the  difficulties  in  the  way  of  filling  the  College  are  now 
in  a  great  measure  removed.  The  repairs  of  the  building 
are  in  great  forwardness,  and  will  go  on  with  out  inter- 
ruption, so  that  there  will  be  comfortable  accommodation 
for  as  many  as  will  probably  attend  this  fall.  Though  the 


672  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [177D 

number  of  proper  College  members  last  summer  did  not 
exceed  ten,  yet  one  or  other  of  the  Instructors  was  con- 
stantly upon  the  spot.  Now  another  Professor  is  chosen,1 
and  a  Tutor  engaged,  so  that  Parents  and  Guardians  may 
depend  upon  the  utmost  care  being  taken  of  the  youth. 
Boarding  may  be  had  at  the  same  price  as  formerly,  mak- 
ing allowance  for  the  state  of  the  currency. 

The  French  language  will  be  taught,  and  great  attention 
paid  to  every  branch  of  English  education. 

JOHN  WITHEBSPOOK 
— The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  October  7,  1779. 2 


New- Jersey,  October   1. 

To  be  SOLD  AT  PUBLIC  VENDUE 

At  Greenwich,  in  the  county  of  Cumberland,  on 

Monday  the  eleventh  inst. 

The  Prize  Brigantine  SEA  HOBSE,  with  her  cargo  con- 
sisting of  twelve  hundred  bushels  of  salt,  ten  barrels  of 
sugar,  six  barrels  of  loaf  ditto,  one  pipe  of  wine,  ten  bar- 
rels of  pork,  and  a  variety  of  other  articles.  The  Yendue 
to  begin  at  Ten  o'clock. 

By  order  of  the  Court  of  Admiralty, 

JOSEPH  POTTS,  Marshal. 


New-Jersey,  October  6 
To  be  SOLD  at  Public  V endue. 

At  Chestnut  Neck,  on  Wednesday  the  twentieth  inst, 
The  Schooner  DISPATCH ;    also  her  cargo  consisting  of 
about  one  thousand  bushels  of  coarse  salt,  a  few  hogsheads 
of  molasses,  and  some  tobacco. 

By  order  of  the  Court  of  Admiralty 

JOSEPH  POTTS,  Marshal. 
—The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  October  9,  1779. 

1  The  Rev.  Samuel  Stanhope  Smith,  Professor  of  Moral  Philosophy. 
-  Also  in  the  New  Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  II.,  No.  94,  Oct.  13,  1779,  where 
the  name  of  William  Ch.  Houston  is  also  appended. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  673 

tfEW-YOKK,  Octo.  11. 

The  Officers  belonging  to  General  Sullivan's  Army  are 
expected  from  the  Indian  Country  at  Elizabeth  Town,  in 
a  few  days. — The  New-York  Gazette:  and  the  Weekly 
Mercury,  No.  1460,  October  11,  1779. 


One  Hundred  Dollars  Reward. 

RAN  away  from  the  subscriber,  early  this  morning, 
from  Mr.  John  Leary's,  at  Chatham,  a,  negro  man 
named  SCIPIO,  about  5  feet  9  inches  high,  about 
35  years  old,  with  flat  face  and  nose,  large  eyes,  and  grey 
hair  on  his  head;  he  had  on  a.  claret  coloured  short  coat, 
with  lappels,  a  gold  lace  or  old  plain  hat,  short  waistcoat, 
and  leather  breeches,  a  pair  of  shoes  without  buckles;  he 
had  a  bundle  with  him,  containing  four  shirts,  a  blanket, 
and  a  pair  of  breeches,  &c. — Whoever  will  take  up  said 
negro,  and  deliver  him  to  Ca<pt.  Jacob  Arnold,  at  Morris 
Town,  shall  have  the  above  reward,  and  all  reasonable 
charges  paid  by 

JOHN  BARRERE. 
October  11,  1779. 


One  Hundred  Dollars  Reward. 

WAS  stolen  from  the  subscriber  at  Elizabeth  Town, 
on  the  night  of  the  7th  instant,  a  very  dark  brown 
horse,  with  a  new  saddle,  and  old  bridle  on  him, 
four  years  old,  about  14  hands  high,  trots  and  canters,  a 
small  main  and  switch  tail,  no  brand,  nor  white  mark  that 
I  know  of,  has  a  lump  as  large  as  an  egg  on  one  of  his  hind 
legs,  and  no  shoes  on  when  stolen.     Whoever  secures  the 
thief,  that  he  may  be  brought  to  justice,  shall  receive  Forty 
Dollars  reward;    and  for  returning  the  horse,  saddle,  and 
bridle,  Sixty  Dollars  and  all  reasonable  charges  paid  by 

PHILIP  DURELL,  Potter. 

43 


674  IS'EW    JERSEY    IX    THE    BE  VOLUTION.  [1779 

THOSE   who   expect  me  to   discharge   their  accounts 
against  the  Quarter  Master  General's  department, 
must  call  by  Friday  next.      Those  who  have  not 
compleated  their  subscriptions  to  the  continental  loan,  and 
do  not  call  by  the  above  time,  wTill  be  precluded.     Sickness 
hath  prevented  me  attending  in  the  several  districts  of  the 
county  as  I  proposed ;    and  I  cannot  employ  a  person  to 
call  for  the  subscriptions  in  my  behalf,  as  I  have  no  other 
fee  or  reward  for  my  own  trouble  and  expence  with  the 
loan,  than  the  pleasure  of  serving  the  public. 

For  those  which  are  commonly  called  good  customers 
SHOES,  1  have  concluded  to  give  as  much  as  the  public 
allow  for  two  bushels  of  corn,,  which  at  present  is  20  dol- 
lars. On  this  encouragement  I  hope  our  brave  soldiers 
will  not  be  left  to  suffer  for  want  of  shoes. 

JAMES  CALDWELL. 
Springfield,  October  11,  1779. 

CAME  to  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber,  living  in 
Xew-Providence,  the  3d  instant,  a  sorrel  horse  colt, 
with  three  white  feet,  about  0  months  old.     Who- 
ever owns  said  colt,  may,  by  proving  their  property.,  and 
paying  charges,  have  him  again  by  applying  to 

GILBERT  HEDGES. 

To  be  sold  at  public  VEXDUE. 

On  Thursday  the  14th  instant,  at  the  house  of  John  High, 
deceased,  at  Westfield  ; 

HORSES,  cows,  oxen,  steers,  young  cattle,  sheep,  hogs, 
English  and  salt  hay,  Indian  corn,  rye,  oats,  bees, 
bar  iron,  posts,  set  of  carpenter's  tools,  household 
goods,  flax,  farming  utensils,  &c.  &e.     Vendue  to  begin  at 
10  o'clock,  and  continue  from  day  to  day  until  the  whole 
is  sold.     Articles  of  vendue  will  be  made  known,  and  at- 
tendance given  by 

JOHX  DARBY  and        )     ^ 
PHILEMOX  ELMER         Executors. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  675 

Two  Hundred  Dollars  Reward. 
QTRAYED  or  stolen  from  out  of  the  pasture  of  the 

0  subscriber,  at  Bottle-Hill,  on  the  19th  of  Septem- 
ber last,  a  light  coloured  sorrel  horse,  with  a  blaze 

in  his  face,  full  fifteen  hands  high,  with  both  his  hind  feet 
white,  and  a  bob  tail;  trots  and  canters  well,  but  rather 
slack  mounted.  He  was  imported  and  taken  from  the 
British,  and  had  been  branded  with  the  continental  brand, 
but  hardly  perceivable.  Whoever  will  secure  said  horse, 
so  that  the  owner  may  have  him  again,  shall  receive  the 
above  reward,  or  Three  Hundred  Dollars  for  horse  and 
thief. 

ANDREW  STOCKHOLM. 
Chatham,  Oct.  11,  1779. 

To  be  SOLD,  at  private  Sale, 
rPHE  noted  FARM  where  the  subscriber  now  lives, 

1  containing  63   acres  of  land,   situate  on  a  public 
road,  well  watered,  a  sufficient  quantity  of  meadow 

fit  for  mowing,  and  a  good  stand  for  public  business,  a 
tavern  having  been  kept  there  for  20  years  past.  For  par- 
ticulars apply  to 

DAVID  BRANT. 


to  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber,  living  at 
\J     New-Providence,   about  the  middle  of  September 
last,  a  brown  yearling  heifer,  without  any  mark  or 
brand.     The  owner  is  desired  to  come,  prove  his  property, 
pay  charges  and  take  her  away. 

JACOB  POTTER. 
October  11,  1779. 

CAME  to  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber,  about  the 
20th  of  September  last,  a  large  pide  cow,  with  a 
hallow  crop  on  the  right  ear,  a  nick  under  the  same, 
and  two  nicks  under  the  left  ear.  —  The  owner  is  desired  to 
come  prove  property,  pay  charges,  and  take  her  away. 

GIDEON  RIGGS. 
Morris  Town,  Oct.  11,  1779. 


676 


NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION. 


[1779 


CAME  to  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber,  the  1st  in- 
stant, a  dark  brown  mare,  3  years  old,  about  13 
hands  and  3   inches  high,  well  set,  neither  mark 
nor  brand,  natural  or  artificial. — Whoever  owns  said  mare 
may,  by  proving  property,  and  paying  charges,  have  her 
again  by  applying  to 

WILLIAM  CALWELL. 
Long-Hill,  Oct.  11,  1779. 

To  Be  SOLD  by 

STEPHE^SON  and  CANFIELD, 
In  MORRIS  TOWN, 

Opposite  Mr.  Robert  Morris's  tavern,  for  cash  or  country 

produce ; 


BEST  black  silk 
mode, 
Common  do. 
Black  peelong, 
An  assortment  of  ribands, 
Do.  do.  sewing  silks, 
Black  Barcelona  handkerchiefs, 
Do.  cravats, 

Check'd  silk  handkerchiefs. 
Do.   linen   do. 
Striped  holland, 
Stamped    calico, 
Sewing  threads, 
Wide  and  narrow  tapes, 
Silk    and    thread   gauze   spotted 

and  with  satin  stripes, 
Striped,  spotted,  and  plain  lawns, 
Do.  handkerchiefs, 
Fine  cambricks, 
Black  velvets, 

Broadcloth  and  hunters  cloth, 
Brown  sagothy, 
Blue  sattinet  and  shalloons, 
Buckram,  Irish  linen, 
Window  glass  (5  by  8, 
Hyson  and  bohea  tea, 

October  3,  1779. 


Hair  and  hat  pins, 

Skeletons, 

Barlow  penknives, 

Knives  and  forks, 

Writing  paper, 

Shoe  and  knee  buckles, 

Sleeve  buttons, 

Silk  and  hair  twist, 

Red  and  black  pocket  books, 

Buttons 

Button  moulds  and  shoe  heels, 

Watch  springs, 

Do.  keys, 

Coarse  and  fine  combs, 

Womens  crooked  do. 

Bed  cords  and  halters, 

Best   White-Chaple   needles, 

Common  do. 

Alspice,  ginger, 

Alum,  brimstone,  indigo, 

English  pins, 

Shoe  brushes,  men's  shoes, 

Snuff  by  the  pound  or  bladder, 

Blank  books, 

Baxter's  works, 

Oeconomy  of  human  life. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  677 

Best  WRITING-PAPER, 

BY  THE  REAM  OR  QUIRE, 

SPELLING  BOOKS, 

BY  THE  DOZEN  OR  SINGLE  ONE, 

To  BE   SOLD  AT   THE  PRINTING  OFFICE. 

JUST  PUBLISHED, 

And  to  be  SOLD  AT  THE  PRINTING-OFFICE, 
POEMS 

ON, several  OCCURRENCES  in  the  present  grand  struggle 
for  AMERICAN  LIBERTY/ 

CONTAINING, 

1.  A  contest  between  the  Eagle  and  the  Crane. 

2.  A  dialogue  between  Col.  Paine  and  Miss  Clorinda 
Fairchild. 

3.  St.  Clair's  retreat  and  Burgoyne's  defeat. 

4.  The  first  Chapter  of  the  Lamentations  of  General 
Burgoyne. 

5.  The  fall  of  .Burgoyne, 

6.  The  vanity  of  trusting  in  an  arm  of  flesh. 

7.  The  tragical  death  of  Miss  Jane  M'Crea. 

8.  An  answer  for  the  messengers  of  the  nations. 

1  By  Wheeler  Case.     Reprinted  In  1852  by  the  Rev.  Stephen  Dod. 


678  NEW    JEBSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 


WANTED, 

As  an  APPRENTICE  in  the  printing  business,  a  boy 
about  fourteen  years  old,  who  can  read  and  write 
well.  Inquire  of  the  Printer. 

-The  New- Jersey  Journal ,   Vol.  I.,  Number  XXXV., 
October  12,  1779. 


BY  His  EXCELLENCY 
WILLIAM  LIVINGSTON,  Esquire, 

Governor.,  Captain- General  and  Commander  in  Chief  in 
and  over  the  State  of  New-Jersey,  and  Territories  there- 
unto belonging,  Chancellor  and  Ordinary  in  the  same; 

PROCLAMATION. 

WHEREAS  some  of  the  militia  officers  of  this  State 
(whose  names  are,  for  their  own  sakes,  at  present 
concealed  from  public  cognizance)  who  have  been 
in  captivity  with  the  enemy  and  were  suffered  to  come 
home  on  their  parole,  to  return  at  the  respective  times 
therein  limited,  are  reported  by  the  commissary  of  pris- 
oners as  violators  of  their  parole:  And  whereas  a  conduct 
so  ignominious  to  the  individuals  themselves,  so  dishon- 
ourable to  their  country,  and  so  injurious  to  those  gentle- 
men who  were  associated  with  them  in  misfortune,  but 
have  preserved  their  honour  inviolate,  deserves  the  most 
public  disapprobation  of  government,  and  requires  the 
most  effectual  measures  to  deprive  the  parties  of  the  bene- 
fit of  their  delinquency,  and  to  compel  their  return.— 
I  HAVE  THEREFORE  THOUGHT  FIT,  by  and  with  the  advice 
of  the  Honourable  Privy  Council  of  this  State,  to  issue 
this  Proclamation,  hereby  strictly  charging  and  requiring 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  679 

the  said  delinquents  to  return  to  the  enemy,  agreeable  to 
their  parole,  and  in  all  respects  to  conform  themselves 
thereto,  as  they  will  answer  the  contrary  at  their  peril. 

Given  under  my  Hand  and  8eal  at  Arms,  at  Trenton, 
the  eighth  Day  of  October,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one 
thousand  seven  hundred  and  seventy-nine,  and  in  the 
Year  of  the  Independence  of  America. 

WIL.  LIVINGSTON. 

By  His  Excellency's  Command, 
Bowes  Reed,  Secretary. 


TRENTON,  OCTOBER  13. 

To  the  UNITED  STATES  in  CONGRESS  assembled. 

The  Representation  of  the  Legislative-Council  and  Gen- 
eral Assembly  of  the  State  of  New- Jersey,  on  behalf  of  the 

said  State, 
Sheweth, 

THAT  amidst  the  promising  prospects  of  an  happy  issue  of  the 
present  war,  and  of  the  establishment  of  the  glorious  freedom 
and  independence  of  these  United  States,  we  feel  the  most 
painful  anxieties  from  the  state  of  the  continental  finances,  which 
threatens  not  only  embarrassment  but  ruin  to  the  publick  measures. 

In  a  crisis  so  alarming,  it  becomes  freemen  not  to  consume  their 
time  in  unavailing  murmurings  and  complaints,  but  to  interest  them- 
selves in  devising  means  to  remedy  the  grievance,  and  if  possible, 
avert  the  impending  mischief.  We  do  not  mean  to  detain  Congress 
upon  the  causes,  to  which  the  great  and  growing  depreciation  of  our 
paper  currency  is  to  be  ascribed,  but  to  express  our  sense  of  the 
necessity  of  immediately  adopting  measures  to  check  the  increasing- 
evil,  and  for  restoring  and  rendering  permanent  the  publick  credit. 

If  we  calculate  for  a  year  to  come  from  the  events  of  a  few  months 
past,  the  increase  of  prices  and  publick  debts  must  appear  truly  alarm- 
ing ;  the  latter  perhaps  will  exceed  the  reach  of  common  computa- 
tion, and  the  former  rise  to  the  utter  destruction  of  our  paper  cur- 
rency. The  money  ceasing  to  circulate,  and  perishing  in  the  hands  of 
the  unfortunate  possessors,  all  business  must  necessarily  stagnate  for 
want  of  a  circulating  medium,  and  the  inevitable  ruin  of  multitudes, 
if  not  of  these  United  States,  take  place. — To  avoid  evils  so  truly  de- 
plorable, we  conceive  that  every  possible  exertion  ought  to  be  made : 
and  that  nothing  short  of  a  regulation  of  prices  generally  adopted, 
and  effectually  carried  into  execution,  will  prove  sufficient. 


680  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

As  to  the  impracticability  of  this  measure,  so  much  urged  by  specu- 
lators, monopolizers,  and  others,  whose  minds  are  vitiated  and  poisoned 
by  similar  views  of  unreasonable  gain,  and  those  who  wish  to  ruin  our 
money  in  order  to  conquer  us  in  that  way,  it  has  not  the  smallest 
degree  of  weight  with  us ;  because  we  are  very  clear,  that  it  does  not 
exist.  If  the  measure  is  practicable  in  one  state,  it  is  also  in  another, 
and  of  course  may  be  carried  through  the  union  ;  and  that  it  is  prac- 
ticable in  one  state  we  are  sure,  because  it  has  been  adopted,  and 
carried  into  execution  in  the  state  we  have  the  honor  to  represent ; 
And  indeed  we  most  sincerely  lament  the  part  some  of  the  other 
states  acted  on  this  very  interesting  and  important  occasion.  Had 
they  come  into  the  regulation,  when  this  state  did.  and  persevered  in 
it  as  faithfully  as  this  state  would  have  done,  our  affairs  would  prob- 
ably have  worn  a  very  different  aspect  from  what  they  now  do.  and 
the  debt  with  which  we  are  saddled,  not  have  arisen  to  the  enormous 
sum  which  now  appears. 

If  then  all  other  measures,  however  wise  and  salutary,  will  prove 
insufficient  to  work  the  salvation  of  our  currency,  without  a  regula- 
tion of  prices  to  compel  the  disaffected  and  avaricious  to  conform  to 
what  is  equitable  and  consistent  with  the  publick  safety  :  and  if  this 
regulation,  in  order  to  answer  the  end  proposed,  should  be  general 
and  uniform,  we  conceive  that  it  ought  to  originate  with  Congress, 
and  be  thence  diffused  through  the  union.  Was  it  to  take  its  rise  in 
any  other  quarter,  its  being  either  general  or  uniform  could  hardly  be 
expected.  If  your  honourable  body  take  the  matter  up.  and  form  a 
general  system  or  plan  of  regulation,  and  recommend  it  to  the  several 
states,  in  terms  as  forceable  as  the  necessity  of  the  case  will  bear, 
we  have  the  most  pleasing  apprehensions  that  it  will,  without  delay, 
take  place  in  the  fullest  and  amplest  manner.  It  is  impossible  indeed 
for  us  to  entertain  so  unfavourable  an  opinion  of  the  justice  or  pub- 
lick  virtue  of  our  sister  states,  as  to  doubt  their  compliance.  For 
although  artful,  designing  men  may  raise  plausible  objections  against 
any  measure,  however  wise  or  essential  to  the  publick  safety  it  may 
be,  and  indeed  are  accustomed  so  to  do.  whenever  a  measure  is  pro- 
posed that  happens  to  thwart  their,  or  their  connexions,  views  of 
interest  or  ambition  :  yet  the  necessity  of  this  we  now  propose,  is 
so  obvious  and  exceedingly  pressing,  that  if  Congress  should  put  it  in 
the  line  of  success  we  have  mentioned,  we  think  no  state,  or  indi- 
vidual, not  greatly  deficient  in  publick  virtue  and  common  honesty, 
can  think  of  opposing  it. 

It  may  however  be  objected,  in  order  to  prevent  its  being  taken  up, 
that  as  several  of  the  states  refused,  or  rather  declined,  to  regulate 
under  a  former  recommendation  of  Congress,  it  is  not  to  be  sup- 
posed that  they  will  now  come  into  the  measure.  But  this  objection, 
we  presume,  will  appear  to  have  but  very  little  weight,  when  it  is 
considered,  that  at  the  time,  when  that  recommendation  went  forth, 
the  necessity  of  a  regulation  did  not  appear  one  thousandth  part  as 
evident  and  pressing  as  it  now  does.  Multitudes  who  were  then 
strenuously  opposed  to  the  measure,  are  now  as  anxious  to  see  it 


1771) J  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  681 

take  place.  They  are  convinced  that  taxation,  during  the  continu- 
ance of  the  war,  without  a  regulation  of  prices,  will  not  have  any 
sensible  effect  for  remedying  the  evils  we  complain  of. 

Every  vender,  say  they,  will  raise  upon  the  articles  he  has  for  sale, 
in  order  the  better  to  enable  him  to  pay  his  tax ;  and  thus  prices  will 
go  on  rising,  our  money  depreciating,  and  our  debt  increasing,  until 
we  become  a  ruined  and  a  wretched  people. 

With  regard  to  the  mode  of  regulating,  we  would  leg  leave  to  ob- 
serve, that  if  prices  should  be  fixed  at  any  certain  standard  not  to 
descend,  we  fear  it  will  answer  no  very  valuable  purpose.  Those  who 
would  wish  to  break  through  the  regulation,  will  only  need  to  with- 
hold what  they  have  for  sale,  and  the  business  will  be  done ; — the 
scarcity  will  soon  compel  the  publick  to  yield  to  their  avarice.  Nor 
will  they  run  any  risk  of  loss  in  withholding ;  the  chance  will  be 
altogether  in  their  favour.  But  if  prices  are  reduced  by  moderate 
and  regular  gradations,  and  at  certain  short  periods,  the  case  will  be 
different ;  this  will  operate  like  a  falling  market ;  it  will  induce 
people  to  exhibit  to  sale  whatever  they  may  have  to  spare,  in  order  to 
avoid  the  loss  that  must  necessarily  attend  a  contrary  conduct,  and 
perhaps  to  take  less  than  even  the  regulated  prices,  thereby  to 
quicken  the  sale  of  their  goods.  Thus  will  many  articles  become 
plenty  that  now  appear  scarce ;  our  money  daily  appreciate,  and  our 
expences  diminish,  until  the  publick  credit  is  again  restored,  and  our 
affairs  fixed  upon  a  safe  and  permanent  footing.  Farmers,  and  every 
other  order  of  men,  will  exert  themselves  to  get  something  to  sell,  be- 
cause they  will  expect  to  receive  something  for  it  of  value. 

Having  thus  set  forth  some  of  our  ideas  and  apprehensions  re- 
specting the  present  state  of  our  money,  and  what  we  conceive  is 
further  to  be  expected,  unless  something  spirited  is  done  to  check  the 
current  of  depreciation ;  we  shall  now  conclude,  with  entreating 
Congress  once  more  to  take  the  matter  up,  and  use  their  utmost  en- 
deavours to  set  on  foot, -and  extend  through  the  union,  a  general 
regulation  of  prices. 

Saturday  last  the  General  Assembly  of  this  State  ad- 
journed.    During  their  Sitting  they  passed  the  following 

acts : — 

1.  An  Act  to  procure  a  supply  of  flour  for  the  use  of  the  army. 

2.  An  Act  for  the  relief  of  John  Gill,  of  the  township  of  Newtown. 
in  the  county  of  Gloucester,  one  of  the  Commissioners  of  the  Loan- 
Office,  respecting  the  loss  of  a  sum  of  publick  money,  taken  by  the 
enemy. 

3.  A  Supplement  to  an  Act,  intitled,  An  Act  to  render  certain  bills 
of  credit  a  legal  tender  within  this  State,  and  to  prevent  the  coun- 
terfeiting of  the  same  and  other  bills  of  credit. 

4.  A  supplementary  Act  to  an  Act,  intitled,  An  Act  to  raise  the 
sum  of  one  million  of  pounds  in  the  State  of  New-Jersey. 


682  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

5.  An  Act  to  prohibit  the  exportation  of  provisions  from  the  State 
of  New-Jersey. 

G.  An  Act  to  continue  an  Act,  intitled,  An  Act  to  revive  and  con- 
tinue the  process  and  proceedings  returnable  to,  and  depending  in, 
the  Supreme  Court  of  Judicature  of  this  State,  and  to  ascertain  the 
times  and  places  of  holding  the  said  Courts. 

7.  A  Supplement  to  an  Act,  intitled,  An  Act  the  better  to  prevent 
the  concealing  of  stray  cattle,  horses  and  sheep. 

8.  An    Act    to    embody    for    a    limited    time    four    thousand    of    the 
militia  of  this  State,  by  voluntary  enlistment. 

0.  An  Act  to  defray  sundry  incidental  charges. 


By  His  Excellency  the  GOVERNOR. 

WIIERKAS  it  is  represented  to  mo  that  several  of  the 
men  belonging  to  the  Xe\v-Jersey  state  regiment 
are  absent  on  furlough  without  limitation.,  and 
that  several  of  the  inferior  officers  at  the  different  posts 
have  granted  furloughs  when  superior  officers  have  been 
present  at  the  same:  IT  is  TIIERKFORK  IIEREIJY  ORDERED, 
that  all  the  men  now  absent  on  furlough  do  immediately 
return  to  their  respective  posts,  and  that  none  but  the 
officer  commanding  at  any  of  the  posts  presume  in  future 
to  grant  any  furloughs  no  otherwise  than  for  a  limited 
time,  and  on  the  most  urgent  occasions. 
Trenton,,  October  9,  1779, 
\YM.  LIVIXGSTOK,  jun.  Sec. 


ANUMBEE  of  the  Inhabitants  of  the  county  of  Hunter- 
don  having  petetioned  the  General  Assembly  of  this 
State  to  build  a  bridge  over  the  South  Branch  of 
Raritan,  at  Reading's  Ford,  at  the  cxpence  of  the  county, 
it  was  ordered  by  the  house — -that  the  petetioners  have 
leave  to  bring  in  a  draught  of  a  bill  for  that  purpose  to 
the  next  assembly,  of  which  this  is  for  notice  to  all  con- 
cerned. 

Oct.   7. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTKACTS.  683 

WILLIAM  INNES  acquaints  his  customers  he  now  begins 
brewing,  will  sell  beer  at  the  Philadelphia  prices 
for  cash  or  produce  only. 

He  again  requests  all  those  indebted  to  him  to  call  and 
pay  their  respective  balances,  and  those  who  have  casks  of 
his  are  desired  to  return  them. 

1ST.  B.  Said  Innes  gives  the  current  prices  for  barley,. 
&c.  and  has  some  salt  he  will  exchange  for  barley  or  wheat 
for  family  use. 

Burlington,  Oct.  5. 


CAME  to  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber,  near  Tren- 
ton, on  Thursday  the  30th  of  September  last,  a 
dark  brown  Horse,  about  fourteen  and  a  half  hands 
high,  supposed  to  be  about  five  or  six  years  old,  a  small 
star,  hind  feet  white,  shod  all  round,  goes  a  travelling  pace. 
Any  person  proving  property  and  paying  charges,  may 
have  him  of  me. 

OBADIAH  HOWELL. 
Oct.  13. 


CAME  to  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber,  on  the  12th 
of  April  last,  a  small  bay  horse,  neither  mark  or 
brand,  trots  and  paces.     The  owner  is  desired  to 
come,  prove  his  property,  pay  charges,  and  take  him  away. 

SAMUEL  WILLIAMSON. 
Six-mile  Run,  Middlesex  county,  Oct.  8. 


Twenty  Dollars  Reward. 

BKOKE  out  of  this  gaol  a  certain  Edward  Morfit,  who- 
was  put  in  for  deserting  from  his  party  of  British 
prisoners  who  were  going  to  New- York  to  be  ex- 
changed.    Whoever  takes  up  said  Morfit,  and  secures  him,. 


684  NEW    JEBSEY    IN    THE    KEVOLUTIOJST.  [1779 

so  that  he  may  be  exchanged,  shall  be  intitled  to  the  above 
reward. 

Sept.  24.  JOHN  JAMES, 

Keeper  of  Trenton  gaol. 
-The  New-Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  II.,  No.  94,  Oct.  13,  1779. 

Gloucester  and  Salem  Counties,,  New  Jersey,  October  6, 

1779. 

NOTICE  is  hereby  given  to  all  whom  it  may  concern, 
That  a  petition  was  presented  to  the  House  of  General 
Assembly,  at  their  last  sitting  by  a  number  of  the  inhabi- 
tants of  Gloucester  and  Salem  counties,  living  on  each 
side  of  Oldman's  creek,  praying  a  law  to  authorise  them 
to  build  a  dam  and  water-works  across  said  creek,  near 
the  mouth,  and  leave  is  given  to  bring  in  a.  bill  for  that 
purpose  at  the  next  sessions.  Therefore  those  who  have 
any  objections  against  the  said  bill  are  desired  to  attend 
and  render  their  reasons  why  the  same  should  not  pass  into 
a  law. 
—The  Pennsylvania  Gazette,  October  13,  1779. 

September  30,  1779. 

Was  taken  up,  the  HULK  of  an  old  SHALLOP,  the 
Owner,  by  applying  to  JOSEPH  ROWEN,  about  a  mile 
up  Pensauken  Creek,  in  the  State  of  West-New-Jersey, 
011  or  before  the  first  day  of  November  next,  proving  their 
property,  and  paying  charges,  may  have  her  again. 
—The  Pennsylvania  Journal,  October  13,  1779. 


THIRTY  DOLLARS  REWARD. 

Broke  out  of  the  gaol  of  the  county  of  Salem,  in  the 
state  of  New  Jersey,  on  Friday  the  8th  inst.  (October) 
a  certain  JOHN  WANDERLEY,  by  trade  a  cooper, 
about  five  feet  ten  inches  high,  a  slim  made  fellow,  light 
•complexion,  and  brown  hair  tied  behind:  Had  on  when 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  685 

he  broke  gaol,  a  blue  cloth  coat,  brown  jacket  and  white 
breeches.  He  was  committed  to  my  custody  for  petty 
larcency.  Whoever  secures  said  Wanderley  so  that  he 
may  be  brought  to  justice,  shall  have  the  above  reward,, 
and  if  brought  to  Salem,  all  reasonable  charges,  paid  by 

BATEMAN  LLOYD,  Sheriff. 
— The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  October  14,  1779. 

To  be  SOLD  by  the  Subscriber, 

Living  in  Trenton 

A  Stout  likely  Negro  Man,  about  twenty-three  years  of 
age,  by  trade  a  blacksmith;  he  understands  horse-shoeing 
well,  likewise  can  do  any  kind  of  labouring  work.  For 
further  particulars  enquire  of 

HEZEKIAH  HOWELL. 

New- Jersey,  October  11. 
To  be  SOLD  by  Public  V endue, 

On  Thursday  the  21st  inst.  at  Chesnut  Neck,  The 
Brigantine  TRITON ;  also  a  quantity  of  blankets,  drill- 
ings, cloths,  plush,  baize,  linens,  complete  suits  of  regi- 
mentals, flannel  and  linen  drawers,  small  arms,  and  a 
variety  of  other  articles, 

At  the  same  time  and  place  will  also  be  SOLD,  The 
Schooner  Hope,  with  her  cargo  consisting  of  forty  hogs- 
heads of  Rum,  a  quantity  of  TAR,  &c. 

By  order  of  the  Court  of  Admiralty, 

JOSEPH  POTTS,  Marshal. 
— The  Pennsylvania  Packet,  October  16,  1779. 

Last  Wednesday  privateers  took  the  Brig  Sally,  Capt. 
Armitage,  of  fourteen  three  pounders,  belonging  to  Phila- 
delphia ;  she  had  been  only  one  day  out  from  the  Capes  of 
Delaware  -  -  Same  day  they  captured  the  Schooner 
Hawk,  of  twelve  guns,  belonging  to  Egg  Harbour.  The 
former  had  66  rebels  on  board,  and  the  latter  70.  These 
prizes  were  brought  in  here  yesterday. 


'686  NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.  [1779 

The  General  Assembly  of  the  Province  of  'New- Jersey 
the  9th  Instant,  passed  an  Act  to  embody  for  a  limited 
Time  4000  of  their  Militia,  in  order  to  support  General 
Washington  the  better  to  co  operate  with  the  Count 
D'Estaing  against  their  Enemies. — The  New-York  Ga- 
zette: and  the  Weekly  Mercury,  No.  1461,  October  18, 
1779. 

New-Jersey,  Oct.  6,  1779. 

To  be  sold  at  public  vendue,  at  Chestnut  Keck,  on 
Wednesday  the  twentieth  inst.  the  SCHOONEK  DES- 
PATCH, also  her  cargo  consisting  of  about  one  thousand 
bushels  of  coarse  salt,  a  few  hogsheads  of  molasses,  and 
some  tobacco.  Bv  order  of  the  court  of  admiralty. 

JOSEPH  POTTS,  marshal. 
—The  Pennsylvania  Evening  Post,  October  19,  1779. 

Last  Friday  morning  the  Sloop  Neptune,  Captain  Pal- 
frey, that  was  stationed  as  a  guard  vessel  above  Decker's 
Ferry,,  on  Staten-Island,  was  observed  to  be  aground 
within  Musket  shot  of  a  small  fort  at  Elizabeth-Town 
Point— The  Royal  Gazette,  No.  319,  October  20,  1779. 

The  following  has  been  handed  us  for  publication. 

To  the  Honourable  the  LEGISLATIVE-COUNCIL  and  GEN- 
ERAL ASSEMBLY  of  the  State  of  New- Jersey. 
The    EEMONSTKANCE    and    PETETION    of   a 
Number  of  the  Inhabitants  of  the  County  of  Glouces- 
ter presented  at  the  last  sitting. 

Gentlemen, 

THIS  State,  as  well  as  the  neighbouring  States,  being 
now    relieved    from    the    galling    yoke    of    kingly 
power,  and  at  full  liberty  to  enact  and  complete, 
without  the  aid  of  a  man  beyond  the  Atlantic,  whatever 
laws  shall  appear  most  agreeable  to  justice  and  good  pol- 
icy ;  it  is  with  the  greater  freedom  and  hope  of  success, 


1779]  NKWSl'APKR    EXTRACTS.  687 

that  we  address  you  on  the  present  occasion,  in  order  to 
obtain  what  we  conceive  to  be  our  right. 

This  county,  it  is  well  known,  has  suffered  more  from 
the  British  troops  than  most  of  the  other  counties  of  the 
State;  but  as  the  aggressors  are  out  of  the  reach  of  our 
laws,  arid  the  means  of  obtaining  restitution  from  them 
not  in  the  power  of  the  State,  it  is  with  chearfulness  wre 
submit  to  the  burden,  however  unequal  it  may  seem.  No 
individual  complains — because  no  individual  conceives 
himself  to  be  unfairly  dealt  by.  But  had  these  aggressors 
been  amenable  to  our  laws,  and  possessed  of  property  suffi- 
cient to  make  restitution,  and  that  property  at  the  disposal 
of  our  representatives,  we  should  certainly  have  expected 
to  see  restitution  made.  Justice  would  have  called  for  it : 
and  every  honest  man  must  have  declared  himself  in 
favour  of  the  measure. 

But  however  great  our  sufferings  by  the  enemy  may 
have  been,  they  are  far  from  being  all  that  have  fallen  to 
our  share.  The  whigs,  or  at  least  many  of  them,  have  suf- 
fered much  more  by  our  own  people — by  the  refugees, 
than  by  the  common  enemy ;  and  what  makes  this  part  of 
our  sufferings  seem  the  harder  to  bear,  is  the  manner  in 
which  those  aggressors  were  induced  to  turn  against  us. 

While  the  enemy  were  in  possession  of  Philadelphia  and 
the  Delaware,  this  county,  tho'  then  a  frontier  to  the  main 
body  of  the  army,  and  of  course  exposed  to  their  frequent 
incursions  and  depredations,  was  left  almost  totally  unsup- 
ported by  the  other  counties  of  the  State ;  even  so  much  so, 
that  small  plundering  parties,  by  taking  advantage  of  the 
extent  of  our  coast,  and  the  smallness  of  our  numbers  to 
guard  it,  were  able  to  do  us  nearly  what  damage  they 
pleased. 

This  being  our  unhappy  situation,  many  of  our  people 
became  dispirited,  and  complained  heavily  of  the  neglect 
with  which  we  were  treated.  The  Captain-General  of  the 
militia  Avas  applied  to  for  succor,  (which  might  very  well 
have  been  sent  from  the  interior  parts  of  the  State,  not  bor- 


688  NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.  [1779 

de-ring  on  Xew-York,)  but  it  was  said  the  applications 
were  treated  with  neglect.  It  was  indeed  thought  a  dis- 
position appeared  to  suffer  this  part  of  the  State  to  fall  a 
prey  to  our  unrelenting  and  merciless  enemy. 

Thus  neglected,  dispirited  and  distressed,  and  no  pros- 
pect of  relief,  or  even  kinder  treatment  appearing,  those 
unhappy  people,  now  called  refugees,  prompted  by  feelings 
of  resentment  and  dispair,  turned  their  eyes  even  to  our 
enemies  for  protection ;  and  being  thus  turned  against  us, 
daily  increased  our  misfortunes  by  practicing  the  most  un- 
heard of  outrages  upon  us.  This  perhaps  some  of  them 
were  induced  to  do,  even  against  their  own  feelings  and 
inclinations,  in.  -order  the  better  to  recommend  themselves 
to  the  favour  and  confidence  of  their  new  masters.  They 
burnt  and  destroyed  our  houses,  plundered  us  of  our  prop- 
erty, and  some  of  us  they  captivated  and  carried  to  the 
enemy,  where,  at  their  instigation,  we  were  thrown  into 
loathsome  gaols,  and  detained  until  our  lives  were  de- 
spaired of. 

Amidst  all  these  sufferings  however,  we  thought  we  had 
this  consolation,  That  our  country,  in  whose  cause  we  were 
struggling,  and  whose  rights  we  were  proud  of  assisting  to 
defend,  would  certainly  allow  us  compensation  out  of  the 
estates  of  those  offenders  for  whatever  property  we  could 
prove  they  had  taken  or  destroyed.  But  how  were  we 
amazed  when  the  law  for  confiscating  their  real  estates 
made  its  appearance;  the  proviso  contained  in  the  six- 
teenth section  of  which,  appearing  to  us  to  have  been  pur- 
posely calculated  to  deprive  us  of  the  right  we  have  men- 
tioned. But  what  makes  this  law  appear  still  more  re- 
markable is,  the  different  spirit  and  temper  it  breathes 
from  the  law  for  confiscating  the  personal  estates  of  those 
offenders  passed  by  your  immediate  predecessors.  The 
twelfth  section  of  which  being  directly  to  our  purpose,  and 
as  we  think,  exactly  conformable  to  justice,  we  shall  here 
take  the  liberty  of  troubling  you  with  the  whole  of  it.  The 
words  are. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  689 

"And  to  the  end  that  no  person  or  persons  having  any  demand  in 
law  or  in  equity  upon  or  against  the  estate  of  any  person  against 
whom  inquisitions  have  been  found  and  judgment  thereon  entered  in 
favour  of  the  State  as  aforesaid,  may  in  anywise  sustain  loss  by  any 
forfeiture  consequent  upon  such  judgment ;  Be  it  enacted  by  the  au- 
thority aforesaid,  That  the  commissioner  or  commissioners,  having 
the  charge  and  management  of  any  such  estate,  shall,  within  one 
month  after  completing  the  sale  of  such  part  thereof  as  is  hereby 
directed  to  b.e  sold,  give  notice  in  the  New- Jersey  Gazette,  if, the  same 
shall  at  that  time  be  published,  and  also  by  advertisements  set  up  in  five 
of  the  most  publick  places  of  the  county  in  which  such  estate  may  lie; 
to  all  persons  who  have  any  claim,  interest  or  demand  to,  in  or 
against  the  said  estate,  to  appear  with  their  respective  accounts, 
vouchers  and  evidences,  to  make  good  the  same  at  a  time  fixed,  not 
exceeding  three  months  from  the  date  of  the  advertisement ;  which 
claims,  interests  and  demands  any  two  of  the  said  commissioners, 
in  conjunction  with  any  one  justice  of  the  peace  of  the  county,  are 
hereby  empowered  to  examine,  adjust  and  allow ;  and  the  said  com- 
missioner or  commissioners  having  charge  of  the  estate  as  aforesaid, 
against  which  the  accounts  and  claims  are  exhibited,  shall,  at  the 
expiration  of  the  time  limited,  pay  the  amount  or  balance  allowed  on 
each,  if  the  produce  of  the  part  of  the  estate  against  which  they  are 
brought,  directed  to  be  sold  as  aforesaid,  after  deducting  commissions 
and  other  charges  thereon,  shall  be  sufficient  for  the  purpose,  otherwise 
to  make  a  dividend,  and  pay  Jn  proportion  to  the  several  debts  and 
claims  which  upon  examination  and  adjustment  shall  appear  to  be 
due.  And  in  all  cases  where  the  part  of  the  estate,  directed  to  be 
sold  as  aforesaid,  shall  not  be  sufficient  to  satisfy  the  debts  and 
claims  exhibited  and  allowed  against  the  same,  the  rents  and  profits 
of  the  real  estate,  if  any  such  estate  there  be,  shall  be  applied  as 
they  arise  to  the  satisfaction  and  discharge  of  such  debts  and  claims, 
in  due  proportion  as  aforesaid,  until  the  whole  are  satisfied  and  dis- 
charged." 

Now  why  the  right  secured  to  individuals  by  this  was 
taken  from  them  by  the  proviso  abovementioned,  we  are 
utterly  unable  to  conjecture.  We  are  indeed  well  aware 
that  a  change  of  men,  without  any  other  reason,  has  somer 
times  produced  a  change  of  measures;  and  when  the 
change  of  measures  appears  to  be  for  the  better,  that  is, 
when  the  measures  appear  more  wise  and  more  just,  we 
are  apt  to  conclude  the  change  of  men  must  have  been 
judicious. 

By  the  first  law,  the  way  to  justice  was  made  plain  and 
easy;  every  individual  was  enabled  to  obtain  his  right — 

44 


690  NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.  [1779 

and  he  was  enabled  to  obtain  it  without  much  trouble  or 
expence.  By  the  latter,  those  who  have  demands  of 
damage  against  the  refugees  are  entirely  excluded;  and 
those  who  have  demands  of  debt,  have  their  way  to  obtain 
those  demands  made  so  tedious  and  expensive,  a,s,  in  most 
cases  where  the  demands  are  but  small,  to  amount  to  an 
exclusion  also :  the  trouble  and  expence  of  obtaining  them, 
must  necessarily  exceed  the  sums  when  obtained. 

But  why  debts  should,  even  in  appearance,  be  recover- 
able and  not  damages,  we  are  utterly  unable  to  conjecture. 
If  damages  may  be  justly  due  as  a  debt,  then  doubtless 
they  ought  also  to  be  as  recoverable;  and  that  they  may 
be  as  justly  due,  we  suppose  will  not  be  denied.  For  if 
A,  having  purchased  one  yoke  of  oxen  of  B  for  a  hundred 
pounds,  takes  another  of  equal  value  from  him  by  force, 
'tis  plain  that  B  would  have  as  equitable  a  demand  upon  A 
for  a  hundred  pounds,  at  least,  in  the  latter  case  as  in 
the  former ;  and  was  he  to  be  allowed  the  former  and  not 
the  latter,  we  suppose  every  judicious  honest  man  would 
feel  himself  disposed  to  blush  at  the  distinction.  Indeed 
whether  the  taking  of  the  oxen  in  the  tortious  manner  we 
have  mentioned,  or  the  withholding  of  restitution,  was 
it  to  be  done,  would  be  the  greatest  act  of  injustice,  may 
be  a  question  nice  and  difficult  to  determine. 

It  has,  we  understand,  been  advanced,  "That  as  some 
who  sustained  loss  by  the  refugees,  suffered  by  such  as 
had  no  property,  and  of  course  must  lose  their  right ; 
others  ought  to  lose  their  s  also,  that  all  may  fare  alike." 
But  such  reasoning  as  this  we  hope  will  never  prevail 
among  those  who  arc  elected  to  guard  our  rights.  That 
A's  estate  ought  not  to  make  restitution  for  the  damages 
done  by  A,  because  B  left  no  estate  to  repair  the  damages 
he  did,  is  indeed  a  species  of  reasoning  that  we  are  far 
from  supposing  the  Legislature  of  this  State  capable  of 
adopting:  reasoning,  indeed,  it  is  not;  it  may  be  ad- 
vanced by  individuals  in  order  to  mislead  the  unwary,  or 
palliate  a  denial  of  right;  but  can  never  in  the  esteem  of 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  691 

the  judicious,  bear  the  least  appearance  or  reason  or  jus- 
tice. With  regard  to  forfeited  property  in  general,  or  the 
right  the  State  may  have  to  the  estates  of  offenders,  we 
conceive  it  can  never  extend  farther  than  to  the  estates  of 
such  offenders,  that  is,  to  what  remain  after  the  just  de- 
mands of  all  private  persons  are  fully  discharged:  for 
what  is  the  right  of  an  individual,  cannot  be  the  right  of 
the  State  also :  these  two  rights  can  never  exist  at  one  and 
the  same  time.  If  any  individual  has  a  right  to  five  hun- 
dred pounds  of  the  estate  of  a  refugee,  or  other  offender, 
and  the  State  takes  it  from  him,  it  takes  not  the  property 
of  the  offender,  but  of  the  innocent  man;  and  we  conceive 
the  injustice  to  the  latter  would  be  as  flagrant,  and  the 
iniquity  as  great,  as  if  that  sum  had  been  taken  by  vio- 
lence and  without  right  out  of  his  pocket  or  desk. 

To  punish  those  villains  who  have  taken  up  arms  against 
their  country,  by  forfeiting  their  estates  to  the  use  of  the 
State,  seems  to  be  consistent  with  justice  and  good  policy ; 
"but  to  punish  the  innocent  with  the  guilty,  must  be  cruel, 
unjust  and  impolitic.  But  forfeiting  the  estates  of  those 
offenders,  however,  and  sweeping  them  all  into  the  treas- 
ury, regardless  of  the  rights  and  claims  of  individuals,  the 
innocent  are  punished  with  the  guilty,  and  that  to  an 
enormous  degree.  And  when  we  consider  that  this  pun- 
ishment falls  chiefly  on  the  best  Whigs  and  firmest  friends 
to  the  present  government,  the  cruelty  and  imprudence  of 
the  measure  swells  in  our  view,  and  appears  still  more 
striking.  The  best  of  your  friends  are  punished  with 
the  worst  of  your  enemies,  and  just  in  the  same  way ;  that 
is,  by  depriving  them  of  their  property;  or,  in  other 
words,  by  putting  it  out  of  their  power  to  obtain  their 
right,  which  is  in  effect  exactly  the  same  thing. 

They  stept  forward  and  stood  firm  in  your  cause  ;— 
they  risked  their  all  in  defence  of  your  rights ; — and  what 
has  been  their  reward?  Plundering  and  destruction  of 
property  on  one  hand,  and  a  denial  of  restitution  on  the 
other:  the  former  seemed  trying  and. hard  to  bear;  but 


692  STEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1770 

the  latter  is  indeed  much  more  so.  For  although  the 
injustice  in  either  case  may  be  nearly  the  same,  yet,  con- 
sidering the  former  as  the  works  of  our  enemies,  and  the 
latter  as  done  by  those  we  wish  to  esteem  as  our  best 
friends — as  the  guardians  of  our  rights  and  promoters  of 
our  interests,  our  feelings  on  the  occasion  are  exceedingly 
different. 

How  far  this  denial  of  restitution  may  encourage  the 
spirit  of  whiggism,  or  induce  people  to  step  forward  in 
their  country's  cause,  we  shall  leave  for  your  honourable 
body  to  determine ;  but  that  it  will  encourage  the  refugees 
to  destroy  the  property  of  the  whigs,  we  think  is  too  clear 
to  admit  of  a  doubt,  or  need  elucidation :  for  as  the  sole 
end  and  aim  of  those  incendiaries  in  committing  the  out- 
rages we  have  mentioned,  is  to  punish  and  distress  the 
whigs,  whatever  tends  to  promote  this  end,  must  naturally 
encourage  them  to  attempt  it.  And  as  a  denial  of  restitu- 
tion is  plainly  a  continuation  of  the  punishment  they 
inflicted,  it  evidently  promotes  the  end  they  had  in  view, 
and  encourages  them  to  go  on  in  their  wickedness.  In  a 
word,  it  rivets  their  vengeance  upon  us,  and  finishes  the 
business  they  but  begun. 

Were  their  estates  to  be  applied,  so  far  as  the  cases 
should  require,  to  make  compensation  for  the  damages 
they  have  done,  as  it  would  in  a  great  degree  defeat  those 
acts  of  revenge,  so  it  must  in  proportion  tend  to  suppress 
them :  for  what  could  induce  these  men  to  destroy  the  prop- 
erty of  the  whigs,  if  they  knew  at  the  same  time  their  own 
must  soon  make  them  whole  ? 

By  the  divine  law  (Exodus  xx)  restitution  was  to  be 
made  in  all  cases  of  theft  and  trespass:  in  some  two,  in 
others  four,  and  some  five  fold.  Indeed  so  high  a  sense 
had  the  divine  lawgiver  of  the  equity  and  propriety  of  the 
measure,  that  where  the  offender  had  not  wherewithal  to 
make  restitution,  he  was  to  be  sold  to  raise  money  for  the- 
purpose.  And  as  we  no  where  find  such  an  exertion  of  the 
law  in  favour  of  claimants  in  any  case  of  debts  legally  con- 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  693 

traded,  it  seems  reasonable  to  conclude,  that  this  great 
legislature/  acting  under  the  immediate  influence  and 
guidance  of  the  all-wise  lawgiver  himself,  conceived  the 
equity  of  the  demand  in  cases  of  damage,  to  be  more  strong 
and  forcible  than  in  cases  of  debt.  And  indeed  we  think  it 
clearly  so  from  the  nature  and  reason  of  the  thing  itself. 

We  would  beg  leave  also  to  observe,  before  we  conclude, 
that  as  the  losses  we  have  sustained  by  the  refugees  were, 
in  all  probability,  brought  upon  us  by  that  aid  and  support 
which  we  were  iiititled  to  receive  from  the  other  counties 
of  the  state  being  chiefly  withheld,  were  those  counties  to 
seize  and  dispose  of  for  the  use  of  the  state  the  estates  of 
those  offenders,  so  as  to  deprive  us  of  our  right,  it  would 
seem  as  though  they  intended  to  avail  themselves  of  their 
own  neglect,  and  heap  up  riches  from  the  ruins  of  their 
•fellow-sub  j  ec  ts. 

Some  of  the  refugees  themselves,  on  their  return  home, 
declared,  that  as  they  had  estates  sufficient  to  make  ample 
amends  for  the  damages  wre  have  sustained  by  them,  they 
were  exceedingly  willing  to  do  it,  They  said  they  knew 
their  estates  were  liable;  and  acknowledged  that  out  of 
them  we  ought  in  justice  to  be  made  whole.  And  we  hope 
none  of  the  whigs  of  this  state,  whether  in  or  out  of  office, 
will  ever  suffer  themselves  to  be  outrivalled  in  justice  by 
the  refugees. 

The  constant  fatigue  and  loss  of  time  that  many  of  us 
had  to  bear  in  the  military  way ;  the  being  drove  from  our 
homes,  and  constantly  harrassed  by  the  refugees  and  their 
adherents ;  seemed  to  us  to  be  no  very  light  or  inconsider- 
able afflictions.  They  were  however  what  we  expected  to 
bear  without  any  atonement.  But  we  considered  them  as 
completing  the  cup  of  our  sufferings  from  this  quarter,  or 
at  least,  that  we  were  to  submit  to  without  compensation. 
For,  as  we  have  already  observed,  we  never  so  much  as 
doubted  obtaining  satisfaction  out  of  the  estates  of  those 
offenders,  for  the  property  they  should  take  or  destroy. 

1  Legislator. 


694  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779* 

So  much  indeed  as  should  be  necessary  to  make  us  whole,, 
we  considered  as  our  own.  We  knew  that  in  case  their 
estates  should  not  be  forfeited,  our  damages  would  be  re- 
coverable at  common  law ;  and  never  entertained  a  thought 
so  unfavorable  of  the  state,  a.s  that  it  would  forfeit  their 
estates,  and  deprive  us  of  our  right;  nor  indeed  can  we 
yet  suppose,  that  the  community  at  large  would  wish  to  do 
it.  Is  it  possible  that  ^STew-Jersey,  hitherto  admired  for 
her  generosity  and  publick  virtue,  can  have  the  least  in- 
clination to  act  so  unfairly  by  any ;  but  especially  by  those 
who  have  suffered  so  deeply  in  her  cause,  and  who  are 
justly  entitled  to  be  ranked  among  the  warmest  and  firmest 
of  her  friends  ?  ~No,  gentlemen,  we  can  never  believe,  that 
even  a  fiftieth  part  of  the  good  people  of  this  state,  were 
they  consulted,  would  approve  of  the  measure:  the  Tories 
perhaps  might.  It  seems  indeed  reasonable  to  suppose, 
that  they  would  be  pleased  with  such  a  denial  of  right ;  not 
only  because  it  would  perpetuate  the  misfortunes  their 
friends,  the  refugees,  have  brought  upon  us,  and  perhaps 
through  some  of  their  means  or  procurement,  but  because 
it  would  furnish  them  with  a  fresh  accusation  against  the 
Whigs,  to  wit,  "That  they  are  capable  of  withholding  jus- 
tice even  from  one  another.'7 

We  would  likewise  observe,  that  it  will  not  be  the  least 
of  our  mortifications  to  see  that  property,  which  ought  to 
repair  our  damages,  turned  into  cash  and  lodged  in  the 
treasury  of  the  state,  for  the  benefit  of  the  Tories.  Indeed, 
forfeiting"  those  estates  so  wholly  to  the  use  of  the  state,  is 

tJ 

a  measure  we  think  doubly  cruel  and  oppressive;  at  the 
same  time  that  it  deprives  many  of  their  just  right,  it  sad- 
dles them  with  the  expence  of  maintaining  a  great  number 
of  women  and  children,  beggared  (though  many  of  them 
innocent  perhaps)  by  those  forfeitures.  The  husbands  of 
these  wives,  and  the  fathers  of  these  children,  plunder  us 
of  our  goods,  and  destroy  our  property,  because  we  are 
engaged  in  the  service  of  the  state;  and  the  state  (not  with 
a  view  of  rewarding  us,  we  suppose)  takes  the  whole 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  695 

estates  of  these  husbands  and  fathers  to  itself,  and  obliges 
us  to  maintain  their  beggared  wives  and  children. 

^ow  permit  us  to  ask,  whether  any  people  in  their 
senses,  would  choose  to  serve  their  country  upon  such  terms 
as  these?  Suppose  A,  being  worth  five  thousand  pounds, 
was  to  rob  B  of  one  thousand;  that  C  causes  A  to  be 
hanged  for  this  offence,  and  seizes  his  estate  to  his  own 
use;  and  then,  without  allowing  B  one  farthing  of  restitu- 
tion, obliges  him  to  maintain  A's  widow  and  children: 
Would  B,  in  this  case,  be  fairly  dealt  by?  Or  rather, 
What  must  all  good  men  think  of  C  ? 

It  had  doubtless  been  better  for  this  country,  that  no 
forfeitures  at  all  had  taken  place,  than  that  the  estates  for- 
feited should  go  so  entirely  to  the  use  of  the  state,  as  to 
exclude  individuals  from  their  right.  Indeed  the  county 
had  better  perhaps  have  stood  alone,  that  is,  wholly  un- 
connected with  the  other  counties  of  the  state,  than  to  lose 
so  much  of  her  property,  in  consequence  of  a  connexion 
that  afforded  her  so  little  assistance  in  the  hour  of  her  dis- 
tress. Justice  might  then  have  been  done  to  her  suffering 
inhabitants,  out  of  the  estates  of  those  by  whom  they  suf- 
fered; and  the  surplus,  or  at  least  a  sufficiency  for  that 
purpose,  applied  to  support  the  wives  and  children  of  the 
offenders;  and  the  residue,  toward  defraying  the  expence 
the  county  might  have  been  at  in  supporting  its  own  de- 
fence: And  had  the  state  pursued  this  equitable  line  of 
distribution  in  disposing  of  her  forfeited  property,  we  sup- 
pose all  would  have  been  satisfied — because  all  must  have 
seen  the  distribution  to  be  just. 

Upon  the  whole,  gentlemen,  as  we  conceive  the  injustice 
and  oppression  we  complain  of,  furnishes  the  greatest  and 
justest  cause  of  complaint,  we  must  entreat  you  to  recon- 
sider the  proviso  we  have  mentioned,  and  to  enact  a  law 
for  repealing  or  amending  the  same,  and  for  enabling  all 
those  who  have  any  equitable  demands  against  the  estates 
of  the  refugees,  or  other  offenders,  to  obtain  their  rights. 


696  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION".  [1779 

CHATHAM,  October  12. 

Last  Wednesday  morning,  about  one  o'clock,  made  their 
escape  from  the  Goodhope  prison  ship,  in  the  North  River, 
nine  captains  and  two  privates.  Among  the  number  was 
Capt.  James  Prince,  who  has  been  confined  four  months, 
and  having  no  prospect  of  being  exchanged,  concerted  a 
plan,  in  conjunction  with  the  other  gentlemen,  to  make 
their  escape,  which  they  effected  in  the  following  manner : 
They  confined  the  mate,  disarmed  the  centinals,  and 
hoisted  out  the  boat  which  was  on  deck;  they  brought  off 
nine  stands  of  arms,  one  pair  of  pistols,  and  a  sufficient 
quantity  of  ammunition,  being  determined  not  to  be  taken 
alive.  They  had  scarce  got  clear  of  the  ship  before  the 
alarm  was  given,  when  they  were  fired  on  by  three  differ- 
ent ships,  but  fortunately  no  person  was  hurt.  Capt. 
Prince  speaks  in  the  highest  terms  of  Captain  Charles 
Xelson,  who  commanded  the  prison  ship,  using  the  pris- 
oners with  a  great  deal  of  humanity,  in  particular  to  him- 
self. 

By  the  above  gentlemen  we  have  collected  the  following 
intelligence,  viz.  The  first  account  that  they  received  at 
New-York  of  Count  D'Estaing's  fleet  being  near  the  con- 
tinent, was  by  the  sloop  Pollux,  a  privateer  of  12  guns, 
that  captured  a  Spanish  ship  from  the  Havannah,  bound 
to  the  continent.  This  ship  was  in  company  with  the  fleet 
two  days  before  she  was  captured,  and  left  them  33  leagues 
E.  X.  E.  from  Augustine,  steering  in  west.  As  soon  as 
the  captain  of  the  privateer  had  learnt  the  intelligence, 
they  took  out  the  merchant,  captain  and  officers,  and  the 
greatest  part  of  the  company;  parted  with  the  prize,  and 
made  the  best  of  her  way  for  New- York.  On  her  arrival, 
part  of  the  fleet  had  sailed  for  the  southward,  but  receiving 
that  account,  they  dispatched  a  frigate  to  inform  them  of 
it,  which  occasioned  their  return.  The  merchant  of  the 
Spanish  ship  offered  30,000  dollars  ransom,  but  she  had 
not  arrived  when  the  gentlemen  came  away.  The  Renown, 
of  50  guns,  convoy  to  the  fleet  bound  for  Halifax,  was  re- 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  697 

turned,  with  the  loss  of  her  mainmast  and  her  mizenmast. 
She  towed  in  with  her  two  transports,  dismasted. 

Ships  laying  at  Sandy-Hook. 
Russel,  74  guns,  Capt,  Drake. 

Europa,  64  ditto,  Capt.  F.  Edwards. 

Raisonable,  64  ditto,  Sir  George  Collier. 

Eenown,  50  ditto, 


Roebuck,  44  ditto,  Sir  And.  S.  Hamond. 

The  number  of  frigates  in  the  harbour  they  cannot  as- 
certain with  precision ;  but,  they  further  add,  that  about  9 
days  since,  5  frigates  went  out  in  company. 

Last  Friday  se'nnight  orders  were  issued  by  the  com- 
mandant of  the  city,  for  all  the  male  inhabitants  of  a 
proper  age,  to  assist  in  throwing  up  works  on  Governor's 
Island.  The  number  of  inhabitants  it  was  imagined 
amounted  to  4000,  half  of  whom  were  to  go  on  fatigue  one 
day,  and  the  other  half  the  ensuing,  Sundays  not  excepted. 
This  our  informants  were  an  eye  witness  to. 


TRENTON,  OCTOBER  20. 

Last  Thursday  evening  Major  Joseph  Brearley,  of 
Maidenhead,  knowing  that  there  was  a  band  of  robbers  in 
the  neighbourhood,  collected  a  small  party  of  men,  and 
formed  an  ambuscade  on  a  lane  where  he  suspected  they 
would  pass ;  about  midnight  they  came  along,  and  were 
all  seized,  and  are  now  safely  lodged  in  gaol.  The  fellows 
taken  are  the  noted  Dr.  John  Hunt,  whose  real  name  is 
Abraham  Whitmore;  John  Carr?  a  notorious  horse-thief, 
who  lately  broke  from  Morris  gaol,  and  Samuel  Slack,  who 
lately  escaped  from  the  gaol  of  Philadelphia.  They  were 
all  well  armed ;  they  had  stolen  two  horses  the  night  they 
were  taken,  and  were  then  on  their  way  to  rob  a  house  in 
the  neighbourhood.  They  were  examined  before  the  chief- 
justice,  and  one  of  them  made  a  pretty  ample  confession, 
which  has  discovered  a  number  of  their  accomplices,  sev- 


698  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION. 

eral  of  whom  have  since  been  taken  with  a  considerable 
quantity  of  stolen  goods. 

Extract  of  a  letter  from  an  officer  in  the  State  regiment, 
at  Elizabethtown,  dated  October  15,  1779. 

"On  Tuesday  last  a  party  of  about  fifty  of  the  Greens 
came  over  to  Amboy  early  in  the  morning,  and  had  col- 
lected upwards  of  one  hundred  head  of  cattle  and  horses, 
before  any  of  our  troops  were  alarmed;  but  about  ten 
o'clock  a  small  detachment  of  our  regiment  marched  down 
and  attacked  them  so  briskly,  that  they  were  obliged  to  fly 
and  leave  the  greatest  part  of  their  booty,  taking  off  only 
about  20  head.  Capt.  Davis,  who  commanded  our  party, 
has  reason  to  think,  that  several  of  them  Avere  wounded  in 
the  attack,  but  not  one  of  his  men  received  the  least  hurt. 

"Last  night  about  twelve  o'clock,  a  small  party,  com- 
manded by  Capt.  Craig,  consisting  only  of  adjutant  Nixon, 
and  eight  privates  belonging  to  our  regiment,  boarded  and 
took  the  sloop  Neptune  of  ten  carriage  guns,  four  swivels, 
and  two  cohorns,  with  21  men,  commanded  by  Capt.  Pal- 
fry,  a  native  of  Boston,  with  his  two  mates;  his  lady  was 
also  on  board,  who  is  a  prisoner  with  him. 

"In  bringing  the  sloop  to  the  Jersey  shore,  she  unfor- 
tunately run  aground ;  and  finding  it  impossible  to  get  her 
off,  our  people  got  out  what  stores  were  on  board  of  her, 
which  consisted  of  beef,  pork  and  rice,  with  some  powder 
and  shot,  two  cohorns,  four  swivels,  and  nineteen  stand  of 
arms ;  likewise  a  considerable  quantity  of  spare  rigging, 
viz.  sails,  ropes,  &c.  We  had  scarcely  got  the  vessel  un- 
rigged, when  the  enemy  sent  a  number  of  armed  boats  to 
retake  her;  they  came  upon  us  so  fast,  that  we  were 
obliged  to  leave  her,  without  setting  fire  to  her,  when  they 
boarded,  and  at  high  water,  carried  her  off. 

"We  have  just  now  received  an  account  of  the  enemy's 
embarking  a  number  of  troops  from  Staten-Island ;  their 
destination  not  yet  known." 

General  Sullivan,  with  the  army  under  his  command, 
have  arrived  at  Eastoii. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  699 

An  ADDRESS  of  the  inhabitants  of 

Northampton  county, 

To    the     Honourable    Major-General     SULLIVAN,     Com- 
mander in  Chief  of  the  Western  Army. 
WE,  the  inhabitants  of  Northampton  county,  beg  leave 
to    congratulate    your    honour    on    your    success 
against  the  confederate  Indians  of  the  western 
country.     With  sentiments  of  affection  we  welcome  your 
return,  and  being  conscious  of  the  exertions  you  have  made 
to  secure  our  happiness,  we  offer  you  those  thanks  which 
arise  from  the  warmth  of  gratitude. 

We  are  no  strangers  to  the  innumerable  difficulties  and 
hard  ships  you  have  laboured  under,  and  are  fully  ac- 
quainted with  the  many  inconveniences  which  attended  the 
expedition;  but  the  unparalleled  perseverance  and  firm- 
ness of  the  officers  and  soldiers  under  your  command,  have 
enabled  you  to  surmount  every  obstacle  with  credit,  and 
Justly  calls  for  the  applause  of  a  grateful  country. 

By  order  and  in  behalf  of  the  inhabitants  of  Northamp- 
ton county,  we  have  the  honour  to  subscribe  ourselves  very 
respectfully,  the  General's  most  obedient  and  humble 
servants. 

THOMAS  SILLYMAN, 
SAMUEL  REA, 

Easton,  PETER  KACHLINE,  sen. 

Oct.  12,  1779.  EGBERT  L.  HOOPER,  jun. 

ANTHONY  LEECH,  sen. 


The  GENERAL'S  Answer. 

GENTLEMEN, 

I     RETURN  you  my  sincere  and  cordial  thanks,  for  your 
very  polite  and  flattering  address.     The  approving 
voice  of  so  respectable  a  number  of  my  fellow  citi- 
zens, who  were  deeply  interested  in  the  event  of  the  expe- 
dition I  had  the  honour  to  command,  cannot  fail  to  afford 


TOO  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

me  the  highest  satisfaction.  The  accumulated  difficulties 
accompanying,  and  the  fatigues  which  naturally  attended 
this  expedition,  are  more  than  compensated  by  your  unani- 
mous approbation,  and  the  very  polite  manner  in  which 
you  have  been  pleased  to  signify  it.  If  my  well-meant  en- 
deavours have  contributed  to  secure^  peace  to  the  frontiers 
of  this  and  the  neighbouring  States,  it  must  afford  me  that 
pleasure,  which  every  friend  to  his  country  enjoys,  when 
instrumental  in  adding  to  the  peace  and  tranquility  of  his 
countrymen. 

While  I  feel  myself  deeply  impressed  with  gratitude  for 
your  pleasant  address,  I  cannot  forbear  expressing  my 
obligations  to  the  inhabitants  of  Northampton  county, 
whose  spirited  and  patriotic  exertions  have  enabled  me  to 
accomplish  an  expedition,  which  I  flatter  myself,  will  for- 
ever secure  your  frontiers  from  the  ravages  of  a  cruel  and 


X    SULLIVAN,1     M.    G. 

October  12    1779. 


On  Thursday  the  7th  inst.  Mr.  JOHX  P.  SCHENCK,  son 
of  Mr.  Peter  Schenck,  merchant,  of  Somerset,  was  joined 
in  marriage  to  the  much  esteemed  and  very  amiable  Miss 

O  v 

STCKY  LOWREY,  daughter  of  Mr.  Thomas  Lowrey,  mer- 
chant, of  Huiiterdon. 

List  of  Representatives  chosen  at  the  General  Election 
on  the  12th  inst.  as  far  as  the  returns  have  been  communi- 
cated. 


1  John  Sullivan  was  born  in  Berwick,  Maine,  February  17,  1740,  of  Irish 
parentage,  and  practiced  law  in  New  Hampshire  before  the  war.  He  was 
a  delegate  to  the  Continental  Congress  in  1774  ;  in  June,  1775,  was  made 
a  Brigadier  General  of  the  Continental  Army  ;  took  part  in  the  siege  of 
Boston  ;  was  promoted  to  be  a  Major  General  and  was  captured  at  the 
battle  of  Long  Island,  August  27,  1776.  He  took  a  prominent  part  in  the 
b:i  tries  of  Trenton,  Princeton,  Germantown  and  Brandy  wine.  In  1779  he 
led  the  destructive  expedition  into  the  country  of  the  Six  Nations.  He 
resigned  in  1780,  and  was  again  returned  to  the  Continental  Congress.  In 
1789  he  was  appointed  a  United  States  judge  for  his  State,  and  died  in 
1795.— W.  S.  S. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  701 

For  HUNTERDON  COUNTY, 

Representative  in  Council,,  John  Stevens,  Esquire. 
Representatives  in  Assembly,  Benjamin  Van  Cleve,  Jared 
Sexton,  William  Gano,  Esquires. 

For  SOMERSET  COUNTY, 

Representative  in  Council,,  Ephraim  Martin,  Esquire. 
Representatives  in  Assembly,  Reoloff   Sebring,   Edward 
Bonn,  Henry  Vandike,  Esquires. 

For  MORRIS  COUNTY, 

Representative  in  Council,  Silas  Condict,  Esquire. 
Representatives   in   Assembly,   Abraham   Kitchell,    Ellis 
Cook,  Alexander  Carmichael,  Esquires. 

For  MONMOUTH  COUNTY, 

Representative  in  Council,  Joseph  Holmes,  Esquire. 
Representatives  in  Assembly,  James  Mott,  jun.  Hendrick 
Smock,  Thomas  Seabrook,  Esquires. 

For  BURLINGTON  COUNTY, 

Representative  in  Council,  Peter  Tallman,  Esquire. 
Representatives  in  Assembly,  Thomas  Fenimore,  Josiah 

Foster,  Joseph  Biddle,  Esquires. 

The  Legislature  of  this   State  are  to  meet  here  next 
Tuesday. 

A  LIST  of  LETTERS  in  the  Post-Office  at  Trenton,  October 

5,  1779. 

B.      T)ARCLAY,   Thomas,   opposite   Trenton,    2.      Blont, 
J-J      Capt,  Readin,  3d  Carolina  battalion. 

C.    Mr.  Curtis,  Jonathan,  Kingwood.    Mr.  Cook, 
Burnet,  Monmouth. 

D.    Drake,   Jacob,   Esquire,   Trenton.     Dellingtash,   Re- 
becca, at  Blackhorse. 
I.     Irvine,  Matthew,  Esq.   surgeon  to  cavalry,  Trenton. 

Johnston,  John,  Mountholly. 
K.    King,  Jeremiah,  Kingwood. 


702  NEW    JERSEY    12*    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

L.     Leonard,    James,    Somerset.      Ledyard,    Major   Ben- 
jamin, Middletown  Point. 

M.    Merriman,  John,  Taunton  Forge. 

P.    Price,  William,  at  Stanford. 

S.     Sims,    Colonel    Charles,    Trenton.      Sexton,    Joseph, 
Kingwood. 

W.  Wright,  John,  Bordentown,  3. 

The  Commanding  Officer  of  the  Guards,  Trenton. 

The  Paymaster  of  Col.  Livingston's  regt.  Bristol. 

B.  SMITH.     P.  M. 

TO    BE    SOLI), 

AN  elegant  new  double-spring  Windsor  SULKY,  with 
Harness    complete;     also,    a   Riding-Chair,    some- 
thing worse  for  the  wear,  and  a  pair  of  horse-man's 
Pistols   and   Holsters.      Enquire  of  Benjamin   Smith   in 
Trenton.  October  19. 

WILL  be  sold  at  Vendue,  in  Pitts-Town,  on  Friday  the 
29th  of  this  inst.  a  number  of  CAST  HORSES  be- 
longing to  the  United  States. — The  sale  will  begin 
at  ten  o'clock  in  the  morning. 

FURMAN  YARD,  Q.  M. 

THIS  is  to  certify  to  the  publick,  that  whereas,  on  Mon- 
day the  4th  inst.  I  was  assaulted  in  my  house,  at 
the  dead  time  of  the  night,  by  two  men  disguised, 
and  since  that  did  suspect  Fergus  Johnston  to  be  one  of 
them,  which  I  have  mentioned  to  some  people,  perhaps  to 
the  prejudice  of  said  Johnston : — I  now  do,  in  this  publick 
manner,  acknowledge  that  I  was  mistaken  in  my  suspi- 
cions, and  am  sorry  for  the  same.     Dated  this  18th  of  Oc- 
tober. 1779. 

BICHARD  GREEN. 
Present,  Rensselaer  Williams.1 

1  For   a   sketch   of   Rensselaer    Williams,    see   New   Jersey   Archives,    2d 
Series,  1  :  8. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  703 

THIS  is  to  certify  to  the  publick,  that  whereas,  on  Mon- 
day the  4th  inst.  I  was  assaulted  in  my  house,  at 
the  dead  time  of  the  night,  by  two  men  disguised, 
and  since  that  did  suspect  Samuel  Kellom  to  be  one  of 
them,  which  I  have  mentioned  to  some  people,  perhaps  to 
the  prejudice  of  said  Kellom : — I  now  do,  in  this  publick 
manner,  acknowledge  that  I  was  mistaken  in  my  suspi- 
cions, and  am  sorry  for  the  same.    Dated  this  18th  of  Oc- 
tober, 1779. 

RICHARD  GREEN. 
Present  Renssellaer  Williams. 


To  be  sold  at  public  vendue,  at  the  late  dwellinghouse 
of  Alexander  Oarr,  deceased,  on  Saturday  the  30th 
instant,  at  one  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  one  horse, 
two  fine  heifers ;   weaver's  loom  and  tackle ;   cyder  in  bar- 
rels, iron  pots,  and  sundry  household  goods  and  farming 
utensils,  by 

CHARLES    OXFORD,    jun.  ^ 

JAMES   HILL,  >  Executors. 

— The  New-Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  II.,  No.  95,  Oct.  20, 1779. 


Every  fourth  man  has  been  ordered  to  be  drafted  from 
the  Jersey  militia  to  sen^e  in  the  rebel  army  until  the  26th 
of  December :  each  devoted  racoon  to  receive  down  forty 
soft  or  paper  dollars.  Which  rags  now  pass  at  the  rate  of 
near  forty  for  one  solid  Spaniard  at  the  city  of  Philadel- 
phia, the  seat  of  the  Rebel  Rumps. — The  Royal  Gazette, 
No.  320,  October  23,  1779. 


704  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 


To  be  sold  at  public  VENDUE, 

On  Friday  next  the  21st  instant,  at  the  house  of  the  sub- 
scriber, in  Newark; 

A    Milch  cow,  which  may  be  easily  made  good  beef,  a 
half-blooded  colt  about  six  months  old,  a  good  chest 
of  drawers,  a  genteel  mahogany  sofa,  very  useful  in 
sick  families,   or  for  valetudinary  persons;    with  tables, 
chairs,  washing  tubs,  and  a  variety  of  other  articles.     The 
vendue  will  begin  at  one  o'clock  in  the  afternoon. 

ALEXANDER  MACWHORTEE.1 
October  18,  1779. 

WANTED, 

AN  apprentice  to  a  coach  smith,  a  boy  about  fourteen  or 
fifteen  years  of  age,  by  Jacob  Wilsey,  in  Morris 
Town. 
October  IS,  1779. 

To    BE    SOLD 
By    ROBERT    E  A  S  T  B  U  R  N, 

In  New-Brunswick, 
By  the  barrel  or  smaller  quantity, 

T?  XCELLENT  Jamaica  spirits  of  the  best  quality,  and 
JU      at  as  reasonable  a  price  as  the  times  will  admit. 

Also  rice  and  sundry  other  articles. 
October  18,  1779. 


THE  public  has  doubtless  seen  in  this  paper  of  Sep- 
tember 28,  an  advertisement  signed  Jacob  Willis, 
wherein  he  has  vilified  me  the  subscriber,  by  assert- 
ing that  I  eloped  from  him  under  cover  of  the  night,  which 
is  a  notorious  falsehood,  for  I  came  away  about  10  o'clock 


1  For  a  note  on  the  Rev.  Dr.   Alexander  Macworther,   see  New   Jersey 
Archives,  2d  series,  1 :  353. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTEACTS.  705 

in  the  morning,  and  told  him  when  he  went  from  home  that 
I  should  leave  him  before  he  came  back,  and  he  bid  me  go. 
He  had  often  said  he  never  would  have  married  me  if  he 
could  have  bought  a  negro  wench.  It  was  for  his  barbarous 
usage  to  me  that  made  me  leave  him ;  for  he  threatened  me 
so  often,  that  I  was  weary  of  his  domineering.  As  for 
stealing  from  him,  it  is  a  notorious  falsehood,  for  I  did 
not  take  near  all  that  I  carried  to  him,  but  thought  a  little 
in  peace  was  better  than  all  his  vast  estate  and  the  trouble 
I  must  have  had  with  him.  All  persons  are  forwarned 
purchasing  lands  of  him  the  said  Willis,  as  I  am  deter- 
mined to  have  my  right  of  dowry  and  thirds. 

ALLICE  WILLIS. 
Morris  Town,  Oct.  18,  1779. 


STRAYED,  or  stolen  out  of  the  pasture  of  the  sub- 
scriber, on  the  night  of  the  17th  instant,  a  likely 
bay  mare,  about  14  hands  and  a  half  high,  with  a 
small  star  in  her  forehead,  her  near  hind  foot  white,  shod 
all  round,  trots  and  canters  well,  four  years  old  last  spring. 
Whoever  takes  up  said  mare,  and  secures  her,  so  that  the 
owner  may  get  her  again,  shall  have  200  dollars  reward, 
and  for  mare  and  thief  500  dollars,  paid  by  me 

JOSEPH  BADGLEY,  jun: 
Stoney-Hill,  Oct.  18,  1779. 

— The  'New-Jersey  Journal,  Vol.  /.,  Numb.  XXXVI. ,  Oc- 
tober 19,  1779. 


Last  Thursday  a  party  of  the  enemy  landed  at  Amboy 
on  a  picarooning  expedition. 


Congress  have  appointed  the  second  Thursday  in  De- 
cember next,  to  be  a  day  of  general  thanksgiving  through- 
out the  United  States. 

45 


706  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 


Wanted,  l>y  the  Printer  hereof,  a  person  that  ivill 
undertake  to  ride  post. 

To  be  sold  at  public  VENDTJE, 

At  the  house  of  the  subscribers  in  Morris  Town,  about  five 
miles  from  Chatham,  on  Tuesday  the  2d  of  November ; 

ONE  cow,  young  cattle,  colts,  near  twenty  good  sheep, 
about  thirty  geese,  wheat  and  buck  [-]  wheat  by  the 
bushel,  farming  tools  and  household  goods.     The 
vendue  to  begin  at  twelve  o'clock  on  said  day,  when  attend- 
ance will  be  given  and  conditions  of  sale  made  known  by 

SETII    CKOWELL, 
JOHN    CKOWELL. 
October  25,  1779. 


STRAYED  or  stolen  out  of  the  pasture  of  the  sub- 
scriber,   at   Morris    Town,   on   the    22d   instant,    a 
BLACK    STALLION,    about    16   hands   high,    5 
years  old,  has  a  star  in  his  forehead,  and  had  a  rowel  in 
his  breast  when  taken   away ;     trots   and  canters  well. — 
Whoever  takes  up  said  horse  so  that  the  owner  may  have 
him  again,  and,  if  stolen,  secures  the  thief  so  that  he  may 
be  brought  to  condign  punishment,  shall  have  One  Hun- 
dred and  Fifty  Dollars  reward,  or  One  Hundred  Dollars 
for  the  horse,  and  reasonable  charges  paid  by 

THOMAS  DARLING. 
October  25,  1779. 


To  be  sold  at  public  VENDUE, 

At  the  house  of  William  Williamson,  on  Thursday  the  4th 
of  November,  at  2  o'clock  in  the  afternoon ; 

A  LIKELY  negro  boy,  about  fifteen  years  old ;    also,  a 
surveying  compass  and  chain,  a  set  of  surveying 
instruments,  a  silver  watch,  a  cupboard,  and  sundry 
other  articles. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  707 

All  those  who  have  any  demands  against  the  estate  of 
Jonathan  Hampton,  deceased,  are  desired  to  call  for  their 
money ;  and  all  those  who  bought  at  the  former  vendue  of 
the  subscriber,  are  desired  to  pay  the  money  as  soon  as 
possible, 

ANN  E.  HAMPTON",  Administratrix. 

Elizabeth  Town,  October  25,  1779. 


To  be'  sold  at  public  VENDUE, 
On  Monday  the  15th  of  November  next ; 

A  Good  PLANTATION,  containing  about  200  and  40 
or  50  acres,  well  watered  meadow  land  about  90 
acres,  timber  land  60,  good  pasture  land  about  30 
or  40,  with  fine  dwelling  houses  thereon,  a  good  black- 
smith's shop,  fit  for  two  or  three  fires,  with  a  set  of  tools ; 
two  good  four  horse  teams,  single  horses,  several  loads  of 
good  hay  standing  in  the  meadow  of  Hyram  Smith.  The 
above  plantation  is  situated  on  Watnung  Plains,  in  Han- 
over township,  about  two  miles  Northwest  from  Morris 
Town  meeting  house.  It  will  be  sold  in  small  lots,  or  the 
whole  together,  as  it  may  best  suit  the  purchasers.  A  good 
time  of  payment  will  be  given,  if  wanted,  and  a  good  title 
made.  The  whole  will  be  sold  at  the  house  of  the  sub- 
scriber. Vendue  to  begin  at  10  o'clock  on  said  day. 

GEESHOM  JOHNSON. 


To  be  sold  at  public  VENDUE, 
On  Friday  next,  at  one  o'clock,  in  the  afternoon,  at  the 

house  of  the  subscriber  in  Elizabeth  Town, 
Tp  XCELLENT  good  milch  cows,  English  hay,  ox  cart, 
I_J      chairs,  tables,  pots,  kettles,  pewter,  two  barrels  of 
good  soap,  and  many  other  articles. 

DAVID  THOMPSON. 
October  26. 


708  NEW    JERSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779s 

STOLEN"  out  of  the  pasture  of  the  subscriber,  on  the- 
night  of  the  20th  instant,  a  likely  BLACK  MAEEr 
about  15  hands  high,  one  of  her  hind  hoofs  is  split 
up  to  the  hair,  shod  before,  trots  and  canters  well,  3  years 
old  last  spring. — Whoever  takes  up  said  mare  and  thief, 
and  secures  her  so  that  the  oAvner  may  get  her  again,  shall 
receive  Two  Hundred  Dollars  reward,  and  for  the  thief 
One  Hundred. 

CORNELIUS  LUDLUM. 
Near  the  Scotch  Plains,  Oct.  25,  1779. 


CAME  to  the  plantation  of  the  subscriber,  at  Stone- 
House   Plains,   Newark   Township,    about   a   fort- 
night  since,    a   brown   horse   COLT,   coming   two 
years,  has  neither  brand  or  mark.      Whoever  owns  said 
colt,   is   requested  to  come   and  prove  his  property,   pay 
charges,  and  take  him  away. 

ELIAS  SPEER. 
October  25,  1779. 

-The  New-Jersey  Journal  Vol.  I.,  Numb.  XXXVII. , 
October  26,  1779. 

EASTOX,   October,   16,   1779 
SIR, 

WE,  the  General  and  Field-Officers  of  the  Jersey  Bri- 
gade,   (in  their  behalf)   beg  leave  to  offer  your 
Honour  the  just  tribute  of  our  grateful  applause, 
for  your  polite   attention  to  your  officers,   and  your  un- 
wearied and  indefatigable  endeavours  to  serve  your  coun- 
try and  your  army,  during  your  command  on  the  Western 
Expedition. 

We  are  filled  with  the  most  agreeable  sensations,  when 
we  reflect  on  the  important  success  of  this  part  of  the 
American  army,  and  the  harmony  and  universal  satisfac- 
tion that  subsisted  in  it,  which,  we  are  convinced,  was 
owing,  in  a  great  degree,  to  your  impartiality  and  superior 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  709 

abilities.  We  have  the  pleasure  to  assure  your  Honour, 
that  not  only  the  officers  but  the  soldiers  unanimously  ap- 
-prove  of  your  conduct,  during  your  present  command ;  and 
they  trust  it  will  be  the  same  in  future,  whenever  they 
shall  have  that  honour. 

We  are,  with  the  greatest  respect  and  esteem,  Sir,  Your 
most  obedient  servants, 

WM.  MAXWELL,  B.  Gen. 

I.    SlIREVE,   Col. 

OLIVER  SPENCER,  Col. 

WM.  SMITH,  Lt.  Col. 

WM.  DEHART,  Lt.  Col. 

JOHN  CONWAY,  Lt.  Col. 

DANIEL  PIATT,  Major. 

JOHN  Ross,  Major. 
'The  Honourable  John  Sullivan,  Esq. 
Major-General  and  Commander  in 
Chief  of  the  Western  Army. 


To  the  above  Address  the   General  made  the  following 

Answer: 
•GENTLEMEN, 

YOUR  very  affectionate  and  pleasing  address  demands 
my  most  sincere  and  cordial  acknowledgements. — 
My  constant  study  has  been  to  show  that  equal  at- 
tention to  my  officers,  and  that  impartial  care  to  the  sol-' 
diers   of  the  western   army,   which  the  situation   of  our 
affairs  would  admit. — Your  testimony  of  my  having  been 
happy  enough  to  convince  not  only  yourselves  but  the  sol- 
diers whom  you  command,  of  the  rectitude  of  my  inten- 
tions, cannot  fail  to  afford  me  the  most  pleasing  sensation. 
The  harmony  which   subsisted   in   the   western   army, 
amidst  the  innumerable  difficulties  it  had  to  encounter, 
afforded  me  the  highest  pleasure;    and  though  I  cannot 
reproach  myself  with  my  neglect  in  cultivating  it,  I  am  in 
justice  bound  to  acknowledge,  that  it  was  more  owing  to 


710  NEW    JERSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION. 


that  steady  and  persevering  virtue,  which  animated  both 
officers  and  soldiers,  than  to  any  efforts  I  was  able  to  make. 

Should  I  be  honoured  with  the  command  of  your  bri- 
gade, after  my  arrival  at  head-quarters,  permit  me  to 
assure  you,  that  there  are  no  officers  to  whom  I  feel  a 
greater  attachment,  or  soldiers  in  whom  I  can  place  greater 
confidence. 

Gentlemen,  I  am,  with  the  greatest  regard  and  esteem, 
Your  most  obedient  servant, 

JOHN    SULLIVAN. 


TO    ALL    WHOM     IT    MAY    CONCERN. 

New-  IVF  OTICE  is  hereby  given,  that  a  court  of 

JLi       admiraltv  will  be  held  at  the  court- 
Jersey,  s*.  .  J 

house  in  Burlington,  on  Monday  the 

22d  day  of  Xovembcr  next,  at  ten  o'clock  in  the  forenoon 
of  the  same  day,  then  and  there  to  try  the  truths  of  the 
facts  alledged  in  the  bills  of  Rufus  Gardner  and  Stephen 
Decatur,  (who  as  well,  &c.)  against  the  schooner  or  vessel 
called  the  Hope;  and  also  of  Yelverton  Taylor  and 
Stephen  Decatur,  (who  as  well,  &c.)  against  the  brigantine 
or  vessel  called  the  Triton,  lately  commanded  by  Jonathan 
Cooper,  and  the  following  negro  slaves,  found  on  board  the 
said  brigantine  at  the  time  of  her  capture,  to  wit,  Jack, 
Harry,  Sam,  James,  Anthony  and  Jack;  to  the  end  and 
intent,  that  the  owner  or  owners  of  the  said  vessels  and 
negro  slaves,  or  any  person  or  persons  concerned  therein, 
may  appear,  and  shew  cause,  if  any  they  have  why  the 
said  vessels,  negro  slaves,  and  cargoes,  should  not  be  con- 
demned, according  to  the  prayers  of  the  said  bills, 
By  order  of  the  Judge,, 

JOSEPH  BLOOM  FIELD,  Regr. 
Oct.  20. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  711 

Mr.  COLLINS, 

THE  freedom  of  the  press  has  been  generally  esteemed 
as  essential  to  liberty. — You  very  properly  declared 
when  you  were  about  to  publish  a  News-Paper, 
your  press  should  be  free;  and  I  am  inclined  to  think,  it 
has  not  been  so  much  your  fault,  as  that  of  others,  that  it 
has  appeared  to  be  so  much  confined.  I  send  you  herewith 
a  few  hints,  which  I  hope  will  be  of  service  to  the  publick ; 
and  I  doubt  not  but  that  you  will  publish  them  in  your 
paper. — If  there  be  any  man  in  the  State,  who-  will  apply 
the  following  characteristics  to  himself,  it  will,  in  my 
opinion,  be  an  evidence  of  his  extreme  vanity :  but  he  must 
in  that  case  take  the  blame  of  misapplication  to  himself, 
and  not  charge  any  part  of  it  to  the  author,  who  would  not 
be  understood  to  presume  that  there  is  any  man,  as  yet,  in 
the  State,  who  will  answer  the  character:  but  as  our  Col- 
lege is  in  a  very  prosperous  way,  and  the  masters  of  it  now 
entirely  devoted  to  its  service,  it  is  probable  we  may  not 
long  want  some  superior  genius  arising  from  thence,  who 
may  fully  come  up  to  the  description. 
I  am,  &c. 

CINCINNATUS. 

HINTS  humbly  offered  to  the  consideration  of  the  Legis- 
lature of  New-Jersey,  in  their  future  choice  of  a  Governor. 

1.  Let  him  be  a  foreigner,  lately  come  to  the  States,  for 
the  less  he  knows  of  the  people, — and  the  less  the  people 
know  of  him,  the  better. 

2.  He  ought  to  have  little  or  no  landed  interest  within 
the  State ;   because  if  the  Governor  pays  a  large  proportion 
of  the  taxes  himself,  he  will  be  too  careful  in  expending 
the  publick  money. 

3.  He  should,  by  all  means,  be  ajnan  who  has  been  bred 
to  the  law,  (for  the  name  of  the  thing)  but  it  is  not  at  all 
necessary  that  he  should  understand  it ;   because  the  under- 
standing of  the  law  is  altogether  beneath  the  dignity  of  a 
Governor. — And, 


712  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION".  [1779 

4.  It  will  be  better  if  he  does  not  even  know  how  to  draw 
a  common  warrant  or  recognizance;    because  this  is  the 
proper  business  of  the  Justices  of  the  Peace;    and  if  the 
Governor  was  skilled  in  this  kind  of  business,  he  might 
have  a  violent  temptation  to  infringe  the  constitution,  and 
solicit  an  act  of  assembly  investing  him  with  some  new  and 
dangerous  powers,  in  the  exercise  of  which  he  might  have 
an  opportunity  of  shining  in  the  warrant  and  recognizance 
way. — But, 

5.  He  ought  to  be  very  learned  in  the  doctrine  of  procla^ 
nations,  that  essential  branch  of  the  prerogative  of  the 
Supreme  Magistrate ;   and  then  he  will  know  that  they  are 
of  mighty  legal  import  in  a  free  country;   ought  to  be  bel- 
lowed out  upon  every  occasion,   and  the  Council  seldom 
consulted  therein:    for  it  is  often  as  true  in  politics  as  in 
cookery,  that  too  many  cooks  spoil  the  broth. 

(>.  lie  ought  to  be  a  man  who  never  did,  who  never  will, 
and  who  never  can  speak  in  any  publick  assembly :  for  it 
is  as  great  a  shame  for  a  Governor  to  be  able  to  speak  in 
publick,  as  it  is  for  a  woman  to  speak  in  the  church. — But, 
7.  He  ought  to  be  a  purdigious  writer, — that  is  to  say, 
he  ought  to  be  very  great  in  the  News-Paper  way;  and 
blessed  with  a  genius  somewhat  similar  to  your  admirable 
correspondent  Hortentius :  particularly  he  should  be  able 
to  imitate  his  stile  and  manner  in  those  elegant  composi- 
tions of  his,  where  he  holds  up  to  publick  view  the  linings 
of  3Jr.  Galloway's  breeches,  spouts  his  jets  d'eaus,  and 
shews  how  to  make  prize  of  the  Bergen  womens  petticoats1 

— and  above  all  in  that  most  elegant  preface  afterwards 
written,  which  (from  what  he  tells  us)  was  squeezed  out, 
under  the  auspices  of  that  sweet-scented  Goddess  Cloacina : 

—this  is  the  true  sublime,  Oh  ye  Jerseymeii !  and  the  only 
proper  stile  for  the  imitation  of  his  future  Excellency  your 
Governor. 

1  See  New  Jersey  Archives,  2d  Series,  1 :  532. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  713 

8.  He  ought  to  be  a  thorough  and  complete  coward,  and 
instead  of  taking  the  command  of  the  militia,  with  which 
the  constitution  has  very  unwisely  invested  him,  when  his 
State  shall  be  invaded  (and  this  will  be  the  time  to  try 
mens  souls)  he  ought  immediately  to  abscond  into  some 
other  State,  and  skulk  about  there  in  beer-houses,  spend 
evenings  with  carters,  and  deny  his  name,  until  the  danger 
is  over — because  the  life  of  a  Governor  is,  by  far  too 
precious  to  be  exposed  at  the  head  of  his  militia. 

9.  By   possessing   the   aforesaid   excellent   quality,   he 
must  of  necessity,  and  of  right  ought  to  be,  a  mortal  enemy 
to  all  Quakers ;  because  a  man  who  dares  not  fight  himself 
for  cowardice-sake,  will  always  domineer  over  and  insult 
others  who  will  not  fight  for  conscience-sake. 

10.  He  ought  to  be  a  man  who  had  rather  be  anywhere, 
and  with  any  other  company  than  at  his  own  house,  and 
with  his  own  family;    because  continued  itineration  is 
essentially  necessary  in  a  Jersey  Governor — and  as  to  all 
the  tender  feelings,  he  ought  to  be  a  perfect  FLINT.* 

11.  He  ought  to  be  a  man  who  dresses  himself  like  a 
porter;   because  so  much  of  the  Bashaw  as  is  absolutely 
necessary  in  the  composition  of  a  Governor,  (which,  in  my 
opinion,  is  at  least  nine  tenths)  is  better  concealed  under 
the  aforesaid  cloathing  than  any  other. 

12.  He  ought  to  be  a  man  who,  for  certain  reasons,  used 
every  artifice  in  his  power  to  prevent  the  declaration  of 
INDEPENDENCY,  but  who,  upon  coming  into  office,  under 
the  aforesaid  declaration,  will  suddenly  tack  about,  and  be 
•for  drinking  the  blood  of  every  man  who  thought  as  he  did ; 
because  your  turn-coats  and  new  converts  are  always  the 
most  violent — and  violence  is  an  excellent  disposition  in  a 
Governor.2 


1  "A  nick-name  for  his  Excellency,  the  titular  Governor  of  New-Jersey," 
explains  a  New  York  paper,  in  reprinting  this  article. 

-  This  bitter,  sarcastic  attack  on  Governor  William  Livingston  was  evi- 
dently intended  to  prejudice  the  Legislature  against  re-electing  him.  It 
tiad  ao  such  effect,  however.  This  article  was  gleefully  reprinted  in 
Ilivington's  New  York  Royal  Gazette,  November  13,  1779. 


714  ]STEW    JERSEY    IX    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 


TRENTON",  OCTOBER  27. 

At  a  Sessions  of  Oyer  and  Terminer  and  General  Gaol 
Delivery  held  at  Gloucester,  in  and  for  the  county  of 
Gloucester,  on  the  5th  instant,  October,  Peter  Helme  was 
tried  for  high-treason,  and  found  guilty;  James,  a  negro 
slave  of  Anthony  Warwich,  was  convicted  of  stabbing  his 
master;  both  are  sentenced  to  be  executed  the  26th  of  No- 
vember next :  John  Steelman,  Daniel  Githeiis  and  John 
Smith,  were  convicted  of  grand  larceny,  and  burned  in  the 
hand. 

By  letters  from  the  southward,  dated  the  1st  and  2d 
instant,  we  learn,  that  the  Experiment  of  50  guns,  com- 
manded by  Sir  James  Wallace,  was  taken  on  his  return 
from  New- York  to  Savanna  by  the  French,  with  one  gen- 
eral and  about  "20  other  officers  on  board;  that  dispatches 
were  found  on  board  this  vessel  intimating  an  embarkation 
of  4000  troops  at  Xew-York  for  Charlestown  or  Savanna, 
in  consequence  of  which  Count  D'Estaing  detached  ten 
ships  of  the  line  to  convoy  them  in,  but  had  been  disap- 
pointed by  the  enemy's  return  to  Xew-York ;  that  a  junc- 
tion was  formed  between  the  Count  and  Lincoln's  army, 
amounting  in  the  whole  to  about  0000  men ;  that  Col. 
Maitlaiid  had  escaped  from  Beaufort  thro'  morasses  with 
his  troops  to  Savanna,  leaving  behind  him  the  whole  of  the 
hospital,  artillery,  baggage  and  stores;  that  the  garrison 
at  that  post,  including  Maitlaiid's  corps,  consists  of  about 
3000  troops,  strongly  fortified,  it  was  therefore  judged  best 
to  attack  them  by  regular  approaches,  and  the  batteries, 
consisting  of  30  pieces  of  heavy  artillery  and  8  mortars, 
were  to  be  opened  on  the  4th  or  5th  instant;  that  beside 
the  Experiment  the  French  fleet  had  taken  a  British  man 
of  Avar  of  18  guns,  said  to  have  30,000  guineas  on  board, 
to  pay  the  troops  at  Savanna  ;  and  that  the  Fowey  and 
Ariel  men  of  war  were  also  taken,  with  all  the  enemy's 
transports  in  the  Savanna  river. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  715 

The  above  is  the  most  accurate  account  we  have  been 
able  to  obtain  of  the  operations  to  the  southward  since  the 
arrival  of  the  French  fleet  at  Savanna,  which  we  believe  to 
be  pretty  authentic,  and  accounts  for  part  of  the  fleet  being 
seen  off  Virginia. 

We  learn  that  Verplank's  and  Sto-ney  Points  were  evac- 
uated a  few  days  ago  by  the  enemy,  who  have  retired  to 
New- York,  from  whence  a  considerable  embarkation,  it  is 
said,  will  soon  take  place. 

We  also  learn,  that  a  letter  is  received  by  Congress  from 
Gen.  Gates,  informing,  that  the  late  movements  of  the 
enemy  at  Rhode-Island  indicate  a  speedy  evacuation ;  and 
that  he,  with  the  army  under  his  command,  are  marching 
toward  New- York. 

Just  as  this  paper  was  going  to  press  we  were  informed, 
that  a  party  of  the  enemy's  light  dragoons,  consisting  of 
about  100,  landed  on  Tuesday  night  last  at  Sandy  Point 
above  Amboy,  and  proceeded  on  to  Bound  Brook,  where 
they  burnt  some  stores ;  from  thence  they  went  up  to  Van 
Yeghter's  bridge  and  burnt  18  boats;  and  from  thence  to 
Somerset  courthouse,  which  they  likewise  burnt;  and  then 
returned  by  the  way  of  Brunswick  to  South- Amboy.  The 
militia  turned  out  and  annoyed  them  very  considerably. 
They  killed  the  horse  of  the  commanding  officer,  a  colonel, 
and  made  him  prisoner,3  and  also  one  private,  beside  two 
or  three  horses.  'Tis  thought  several  of  the  enemy  were 
wounded. 

Returns  of  Members  of  the  Legislature,  received  since 

our  last. 

For  MIDDLESEX  COUNTY, 

Representative  in  Council,  Jonathan  Deare,  Esq. 
Representatives    in    Assembly,     Colonel    John    Neilson, 
Thompon  Stelle,  Matthias  Baker,  Esquires.    . 

1  The    noted    Lieutenant-Colonel    John    G.     Simcoe,     whose    interesting 
memoirs  were  published  at  New  York  in  1844. 


716  NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.  [1779 

GLOUCESTER  COUNTY, 

Representative  in  Council,  John  Cooper,  Esq. 
Representatives  in  Assembly,  John  Sparks,  Joseph  Low, 
Thomas  Kennard,  Esquires. 

ESSEX  COUNTY, 

Representative  in  Council,  Stephen  Crane,  Esq. 
Representatives  in  Assembly,  Caleb  Camb,  Jacob  Brook- 
field,  Josiah  Hornblower,  Esquires. 

SALEM  COUNTY, 

Representative  in  Council,  Andrew  Sinnickson,  Esq. 
Representatives  in  Assembly,  Whitteii  Cripps,  John  May- 
hew,  Anthony  Sharp,  Esquires. 

CUMBERLAND  COUNTY, 
Representative  in  Council,  John  Buck,  Esq. 
Representatives  in  Assembly,  James  Ewing,  Joel  Fithian, 
Timothy  Elmer,  Esquires. 


WHEREAS  an  advertisement  dated  the  fourth  of  Sep- 
tember last,  was,  by  our  order,  inserted  in  the 
^ew- Jersey  Gazette  ~No.  89,  setting  forth  among 
other  matters,  "That  a  general  complaint  was  made  against 
the  person  now  acting  in  the  quartermaster  general's  de- 
partment in  this  town;  and  informing  the  publick,  that 
WE,  the  Magistrates,  would  attend  at  the  house  of  Jacob 
G.  Bergen,  innholder,  in  said  place,  on  Saturday  the  llth 
inst.  from  one  o'clock  till  evening,  then  and  there  to  re- 
ceive and  take  down  such  complaint  or  information,  as 
might  be  offered  us  against  the  person  above-mentioned :" 
And  whereas,  we  did  subprena  a  number  of  persons,  who, 
we  were  informed,  had  complaints  against  the  said  person, 
and  have  examined  them  under  oath :  We  do  hereby  de- 
clare, that  we  find  no  cause  of  complaint  against  the  per- 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  717 

son  now  acting  as  quarter-master  in  this  place,  and  that  the 
said  information  is  false  and  groundless. 

By  order  of  JOSEPH    OLDEN, 

ELIAS    WOODRUFF, 

Princeton,  Oct.  16,  1779  JOHN   JOHNSON, 

JACOB    BERGEN. 

TO  be  sold  by  publick  vendue,  on  Tuesday  the  2d  of 
November  next,  600  acres  of  unimproved  land  well 
wooded,,  situate    within   two   miles    of   Musqueto 
Cove,  near  Tom's  river,  in  Monmouth  county.     It  is  to  be 
sold  in  lots  from  50  to  100  acres  in  each  lot. — Also  one 
moiety  of   Schenck's   sawmill,  near  the   above  premises. 
The  titles  are  indisputable.     Attendance  will  be  given  on 
the  day  of  sale,  and  the  conditions  made  known  by 

JACOB    FOSTER, 
JOHN    KERLIN. 

TO  be  sold  by  publick  vendue,  on  Saturday  the  6th  of 
November,  at  the  sign  of  the  Whitehorse,  a  Planta- 
tion situate  on  Crosswick's  creek,  joining  the  Draw- 
bridge;   on  the  place  is  a  good  dwellinghouse,  and  peach 
orchard ;   six  acres  of  good  wood  land  joining  the  landing. 
\^endue  to  begin  at  ten  o'clock,  when  conditions  will  be 
made  known  and  attendance  given  by  WILLIAM  MONT- 
GOMERY, minor,  and  SAMUEL  QUA. 

WAS  stopped  a  handsome  pair  of  silver  TEA  TONGS, 
supposed  to  be  stolen.     Any  person  proving  prop- 
erty, paying  charges,  may  have  them  again  by 
applying  to  the  printer  of  this  paper. 

WANTED  to  purchase  by  the  subscriber,  a  good  NEGRO 
LAD,   of  about  15   years  old,  that  is  stout  and 
hearty,  able  to  do  farmer's  work;    also  a  NEGRO 
GIRL,  of  about  14  years,  that  is  hearty  and  able  to  do 
house-work.     Any  body  that  has  such  to  dispose  of,  will 


718  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

please  to  acquaint  the  subscriber  at  New  Shanick,  in  Som- 
erset county. 

To  be  sold  by  the  subscriber,  a  stout,  likely  Negro  Man, 
of  about  30  years  of  age,  with  his  wife.    Enquire  as  above. 

WILLIAM  VERBRYCK. 

WAS    stopped    from    Rebecca    Tomson   by    Benjamin 
Yard,  one  of  the  Justices  of  the  Peace  for  the 
county  of  Hunterdon,  one  Silver  Pint  Can,  all 
beat  together,   the  handle  off,  maker's  name  I.   Coburn. 
Any  person  who  has  lost  it,  or  has  it  stolen  from  them, 
may  have  it  again  by  paying  for  this  advertisement,  and 
proving  their  property. 

STOLEN  from  Henry  Mershoii's,  innkeeper,  in  Amwell, 
the  14th.  inst.  a  Bay  Mare  belonging  to  the  sub- 
scriber,, about  14  hands  3  inches  high,  heavy  and 
well    set,   good   carriage,    six   years   old   last   grass,   half- 
blooded  ;    she  has  a  scar  near  the  point  of  her  off  hip,  also 
one  on  her  off  fore  leg,  opposite  the  knee  joint.     Any  per- 
son apprehending  the  thief  and  mare,  securing  the  thief 
and  returning  the  said  mare,  shall  have  Two  Hundred  Dol- 
lars reward,  and  for  the  mare  only  One  Hundred  Dollars 
and  all  reasonable  charges. 

NATHAN  STOUT. 
Amwell,  Oct.  25. 

STRAYED    or    stolen    from    the    continental    stable    at 
Princeton,  on  the  night  of  the  24th  inst.   a  light 
Bay  Horse  with  a  mealy  nose  and  a  long  switch 
tail,  about  15  hands  high,  7  or  8  years  old,  branded  on  the 
near  shoulder  and  buttock  C  A,  trots  and  canters.     Who- 
ever will  secure  the  thief  in  any  gaol  in  the  state,  and  de- 
liver the  horse  to  Mr.  ROBERT   STOCKTON,  shall  receive 
One  Hundred  Dollars,  or  for  the  horse  alone  Twenty  Dol- 
lars. Oct.  26. 
—The  New-Jersey  Gazette,  Vol.  II,  No.  96,  Oct.  27,  1779. 


1779]  IN'EWSPAPEIi    EXTRACTS.  719 

CHATHAM,  Oct.  19. 

At  the  election  for  the  county  of  Morris,  the  following 
gentlemen  were  chosen : 

Counsellor — Silas  Condict,  Esq; 

Assemblymen — Ellis  Cook,  Abraham  Kitchel,  Alex- 
ander Carmichael,  Esquires. 

Coroners — Frederick  King,  Nathan  Cooper,  Esquires. 


NEW-YOKK,  Oct.  30. 

The  following  is  the  most  perfect  account  we  can  yet 
procure  of  a  late  enterprize  into  New-Jersey,  under  the 
command  of  Lieut.  Col.  SIMCOE. 

On  Thursday  Morning  last,  about  2  o'clock,  the  Queen's 
Rangers,  with  the  Cavalry  belonging  to  that  Regiment,  and 
ten  Light-Horse,  under  the  Command  of  Capt.  Stewart, 
who  are  stationed  on  Staten-Island,  landed  at  Amboy,  and 
proceeded  as  far  as  Bonam-Town,  when  the  Foot  returned 
to  Amboy,  and  the  Cavalry,  amounting  to  70,  commanded 
by  Col.  Simcoe,  advanced  to  Bound-Brook,  where  they  de- 
stroyed 18  large  flat-bottomed  Boats,  and  some  Stores; 
they  then  proceeded  to  Somerset  Court  House,  28  Miles 
from  Amboy,  released  the  Loyalists  confined,  set  Fire  to  it, 
and  destroyed  a  large  Quantity  of  Forage  and  Stores,  col- 
lected for  Mr.  Washington's  Army. 

On  their  Return  on  the  South  Side  of  the  Rariton, 
within  two  Miles  of  Brunswick,  in  a  Piece  of  Woods  they 
were  fired  upon  by  a  large  body  of  Rebels,  who  lay  in 
Ambush ;  the  Cavalry  immediately  charged,  and  dispersed 
the  Rebels, — but  Col.  Simcoe  having  in  the  Charge  his 
Horse  shot  under  him,  in  the  Fall  received  a  Bruise,  which 
stunned  him,  and  his  gallant  Party  thinking  him  killed, 
left  him  on  the  Field,  approached  to  Brunswick,  on  the 
Hill  near  the  Barracks,  they  discovered  170  Rebels  drawn 
up  to  receive  them;  these  were  also  immediately  charged 
and  defeated,  with  great  Slaughter.  Among  the  killed  wTe 
are  informed,  was  a  Rebel  Major,  named  Edgar,  a  Captain 


720  NEW    JERSEY    IN    THE    REVOLUTION.  [1779 

'Voorhies,  and  another  Captain,  besides  many  other  Offi- 
cers.— The  Party  then  proceeded  on  the  Road  towards 
South-Amboy,  and  several  Miles  from  Brunswick  they 
joined  the  Foot,  who  had  passed  over  to  South-Amboy.  In 
this  Excursion  near  thirty  Prisoners  were  taken;  The 
whole  Loss  sustained  by  this  Enterprize,  is  one  Man  killed, 
and  4  taken,  besides  the  brave  Colonel  Simcoe,  who  we 
hear  is  now  a  Prisoner  at  Brunswick. 


CHATHAM,  October  26. 
The  legislature  of  this  state  meet  at  Trenton  this  day. 


NEW- YORK,  Govern.  1. 

From  different  Parts  of  the  Country  we  learn,  That 
General  Washington  is  collecting  every  Boat,  that  can  be 
got  in  the  Province  of  New-Jersey,  New-York  and  Con- 
necticut, and  has  ordered  the  4th  Man  in  each  Province  to 
be  drafted  to  serve  for  two  Months  in  Conjunction  with  the 
Continental  Army. — The  New-York  Gazette:  and  the 
Weekly  Mercury,  No.  1463,  November  1,  1779. 


Last  week  a  party  of  the  enemy's  light  horse,  about  100, 
landed  at  Amboy,  and  penetrated  into  New-Jersey,  as  far 
as  Somerset  court-house,  which  they  burned,  together  with 
the  meeting-house,  the  flames  of  which  destroyed  one  or 
two  other  small  houses;  they  also  set  fire  to  18  boats 
(mounted  on  carriages)  but  a  party  of  militia  being  col- 
lected, saved  12  of  them,  drove  off  the  enemy,  took  their 
Col.  Commandant  Simcoe,  and  some  privates  prisoners. 
The  remainder,  after  they  had  wantonly  murdered  Capt. 
Voorhese  (a  young  gentleman  much  esteemed)  who  fell 
into  their  hands,  precipitately  retreated  to  their  vessels  at 
Amboy. — The  Neiu-York  Journal  and  the  General  Adver- 
tiser, Numb.  1849,  November  1,  1779. 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  721 

Was  left  with  the  subscriber,  in  Evesham  township,  in 
the  State  of  New- Jersey,  three  months  ago,  by  a  gentleman 
of  the  name  of  Joseph  Molliner  a  BRINDLE  COW,  with 
request  that  she  should  be  taken  care  of  for  a  few  days,, 
when  he  would  call  for  her,  and  pay  the  expences.  He  is 
hereby  desired  to  come,  pay  the  charges,  and  take  her  away 
in  four  weeks  from  the  date  hereof,  or  she  will  be  sold  for 
the  same. 

JOSEPH  HAMMITT 

October  30,  1779. 
— The  Pennsylvania  Gazette,  November  3,  1779. 


Mr.  RIVESTGTON, 

SIR, 

Seeing  in  a  late  New- York  paper  a  very  imperfect  ac- 
count of  the  affair  in  Jersey,  of  the  26th  of  October,  I  beg- 
leave  to  trouble  you  with  the  particulars. 

TWENTY-TWO  men  of  the  Buck's  Light  Dragoons, 
A  46  of  the  Ranger  Hussars,  and  a  few  others  as 
guides,  landed  at  Perth  Amboy,  on  the  morning  of 
the  26th  of  October,  under  the  command  of  Lieutenant 
Colonel  Simcoe ;  we  immediately  proceeded  through  Quib- 
ble Town,  &c.  and  early  arrived  at  Mr.  Washington's  grand 
camp,  with  an  intent,  if  the  Colonel  thought  it  an  object,, 
to  destroy  the  huts ;  but  were  informed  they  had  been  sold 
to  the  inhabitants,  some  of  which  upon  the  right  of  the  line 
had  been  pulled  down,  the  remainder  the  Colonel  thought 
proper  to  leave  standing.  We  then  pursued  our  rout  to- 
Raritan,  in  the  way  to  which  the  Buck's  troops  surrounded 
the  house  of  Mr.  Vanhorne,  made  prisoners,  one  Captainr 
one  Lieutenant,  and  another  person,  who  signed  their 
paroles  of  honour :  We  then  continued  our  march  to  Rari- 
tan,  where  we  completely  burned  and  destroyed  Eighteen 
large  boats  on  travelling  carriages,  one  ammunition  waggon 
and  a  quantity  of  forage,  some  stores,  &c.  &c.  We  there- 

46 


722  NEW  JERSEY  IN  THE  REVOLUTION.  [1779 

received  a  single  shot  from  a  distant  hill ;  after  this  work 
was  compleated,  we  crossed  to  Somerset,  released  two  Brit- 
ish prisoners,  and  consumed  the  Court  House  by  fire.  On 
our  retreat  from  Somerset  to  Brunswick,  we  had  a  smart 
popping  in  our  rear,  from  mounted  rebels  armed  with  long 
pieces  and  rifles,  we  seldom  returned  a  shot:  About  four 
miles  from  Brunswick  the  rebels  were  discovered  in  a  wood 
upon  our  right  flank,  upon  our  left  a  strong  rail  fence; 
the  wood  was  so  thick  that  it  was  impossible  to  charge  the 
enemy;  we  pushed  through  their  line  of  fire  in  open  files, 
at  which  time  Colonel  Simcoe's  horse  was  killed,  and  him- 
self much  hurt  by  the  fall.  The  command  then  devolved 
to  Capt.  Sanford,  of  the  Bucks  Troop,  who  as  soon  as  he 
was  informed  of  the  Colonel's  misfortune,  collected  about 
20  dragoons,  with  which  he  entered  the  wood,  but  found  it 
impossible  (owing  to  its  thickness)  to  act  to  advantage 
against  the  rebels  :  Indeed  it  was  the  opinion  of  all,  at  that 
time,  that  the  Colonel  was  killed.  Capt.  Sanford  then 
ordered  a  retreat  towards  Brunswick,  the  mounted  rebels 
in  his  rear  encreasing  apace.  Upon  the  plains  behind 
Brunswick  we  found  ourselves  in  a  critical  situation,  in- 
fantry in  our  front  formed  upon  the  very  road  we  were 
obliged  to  pass,  popping  shots  from  both  flanks  and  the 
mounted  pressing  upon  our  rear ;  in  this  situation  we 
had  but  one  resourse,  which  was  to  cut  our  way  through 
them  if  they  kept  their  ground  in  front,  this  would  have 
been  dangerous  with  their  mounted  in  our  rear.  Captain 
Sandford,  after  drawing  them  in  the  rear  across  a  ravine, 
faced  about  the  squadron  and  charged  them  with  success ; 
killed  a  Capt.  Yoorhies,  and  some  others,  wounded  and 
took  a  noted  rebel  prisoner  (Hampton.)  After  forming 
we  advanced  towards  the  infantry  in  front,  who  took  to 
the  woods,  in  passing  which  we  must  have  suffered  much ; 
in  order  to  avoid  which,  Capt.  Sandford  inclined  the 
squadron  to  the  left,  as  if  going  through  Brunswick;  to 
prevent  our  retreat  that  way,  the  rebels  in  front  pushed  to 
their  right ;  we  took  the  advantage,  and  with  a  smart  gal- 


1779]  NEWSPAPER    EXTRACTS.  723 

lop  gained  the  left  flank  of  the  enemy,  and  passed  them 
without  receiving  a  single  shot ;  after  which  we  continued 
our  retreat  to  South-River,  in  our  way  we  fell  in  with 
small  parties,  which  we  either  killed  or  made  prisoners.  A 
number  of  rebels  had  been  purposely  dispatched,  to  break 
up  the  bridge  at  South-River,  which  would  have  com- 
pleately  cut  off  our  retreat,  but  fortunately  the  infantry  of 
the  Rangers,  had  got  timely  possession  of  that  pass;  we 
reached  South-River  before  four  o'clock  in  the  afternoon ; 
we  did  not  march  less  than  70  miles  through  this  rebellious 
province,  and  had  it  not  been  for  Col.  Simcoe's  misfortune, 
our  loss  would  not  be  worth  mentioning. — The  loss  of  the 
Colonel,  who  was  by  all  supposed  to  be  dead,  inspired  the 
two  troops  with  additional  courage,  and  to  revenge  his  mis- 
fortune, no  force  the  rebels  could  have  sent  against  us,  but 
would  have  been  bravely  charged  by  them. — I  should  have 
mentioned,  that  after  the  charge  near  Brunswick,  their 
mounted  never  followed  us,  or  fired  a  single  shot. 

I  am  your  humble  Servant,  &c. 

P.  S.     I  should  have  mentioned,  that  we  were  embarked 
after  our  retreat,  at  South  Amboy,  and  disembarked  on 
Staten-Island  early  that  evening. 
— The  Royal  Gazette,  No.  323,  November  3,  1779. 


INDEX 


(725) 


INDEX. 


A. 


Abbit,  Abdon,  369. 

Abdon,    jun.,    73. 
Abbott,   George,   545n. 
John,   67. 
Timothy,    363n. 

Abeel,  James,  D.  Q.  M.  G.,  408  ;    ex- 
tract at  a  letter  from,  572. 
Abel,  John,  165. 
Abell,   James,   A.   C.   E.,  &e.,   notice 

by,   511. 

Absconded,   651. 
Absecom  Beach,  574. 

Bridge,  snow  Polly  for  sale  at, 

225. 

Absegami,    78n. 

Accidents — crews  perished,   42. 
drowned,  190. 
flre,  554. 

man   drowned,  43. 
man    thrown    from    his    horse, 

293. 

row  boats  burned,  41. 
sloop    cast    away,    43. 
woman  drowned,  646. 
Ackerman,  David  D.,  98. 
Derick,    98,    526. 
John  J.,  98,  526. 
Jona.  C.,  434n. 
Lawrence  A.,  98. 
Ackley,  John,  508. 
Ackly,  Bezeliel,  deserter,  410. 
Ackman,  Jacob,  618  ;    land  for  sale 

in  the  possession  of,  533. 
Acley,  John,  384,  528. 
Acquackanonk,  48. 
Acquakenung,  345. 
Act    of    the    Legislature,    597 ;     for 
the  establishment  of  a   mill- 
dam  at  Raritan  landing,  554. 
Adams    568. 

Philip,   73,   369. 
Thomas,  witness,  41 6n. 
Addoms,  Eve,  land  for  sale  at  the 

house  of,   543. 

Admiralty,  see  Court  of  Admiralty. 
Agnew,  Daniel,  394n. 
"Agricola,"  article  by,  255-258. 
Aitken,    Robert,    printer,   44. 
Akin,    Abiel,    294,    523 ;     land    for 
sale  by,  573. 


Albany,   207. 

county,    N.    Y.,    land    for    sale 

in,    71. 

Presbytery  of,   419n. 
Alexander,    William,    Earl    of    Stir- 
ling, real  estate  of,  532,  618. 
Alexandria,  land  for  sale  in,  533. 
Allaway's     Creek,     land     for     sale 

near,   119. 
Allen,    Abraham,    savagely    treated, 

391. 

Charity,    394n. 
George,  510,  589. 
Isaac.   68,   91,  95,   368;    attor- 

ney-at-law,    331. 
James,  516. 
Jane,  418n. 
John,    68,    110. 
Matthias,  cow  to  be  had  from, 

509. 

Mr.,   ensign,   apprehended,   40. 

Allentown,    16,    17n,    54,    102,    147, 

179,  202,  205,  280,  420,  437, 

481,  487,  513,  524,  552,  561. 

Court     of     Admiralty     to     be 

held  in,  60,  330. 
court  held  in,  385. 
death  in,  588. 

fulling-mill  for  sale  in,   393. 
fulling-mill  near,  577. 
land  for  sale  near,  26,  89,  135. 

375. 
Alliance    with    France,    anniversary 

of,   103. 

Allison,   Colonel,   373. 
David,  434n. 
John.  Lieut-Col.,  395. 
Sarah,  361n. 

Lieut.-Col.    William,    373n. 
Allman,    Solomon,    deceased,    estate 

left  by,   262. 
Allston,    David,    95. 
Jonathan,  95. 
Lewis,   95. 

Allwood,   Benjamin,   95. 
Almanac,     The     New     Jersey,     for 

sale,   19,   661. 

Amboy,  10,  122,  698,  715,  719,  720. 
Commons    at,    603. 
enemy  landed  at,  705. 

(727) 


728 


INDEX. 


land   for   sale   in,   63,   96,   323. 
landing    of    the    enemy's    light- 
horse    at,    720. 

meeting  of  commissioners  at, 
for  exchange  of  prisoners, 
291,  300. 

north  ward  of,    298. 
America,  557. 

property    of,    126. 
American   armies,   455. 

Historical   Review,  352n. 
minister    to    Spain,    291n. 
sailors  exchanged,  447. 
Ames,   Mr.,   463. 
Ammerman,    Isaac,    46. 
Amos,    William,    land    for    sale    by, 

666. 

Amwell.   36,   67,   68,   221,   280,   386, 
416,     418,     419n,     479,     551, 
561,    642,   661,   718. 
congregation,  419n. 
horse   stolen  in,   297. 
land   for   sale  in,   112. 
mare  left   in,   382. 
township,    245,    295,    418. 
horse     strayed     in,     512. 
land   for  sale   in,   36. 
Amy,   widow,   land   for  sale  at  the 

house  of,   295. 
Anderson,    Enoch,    69. 

Isaac.       554n ;        chair-making 
business   carried   on  by,   554. 
John,   559. 
Joshua,   485n. 
Joshua,    executor,    285. 
Phebe,   485n. 
Peter,    46. 

Thomas,    commissioner    of    for- 
feited estates,  329,  554. 
William,    554n. 

Andovor   iron   works,   land  for  sale 
near    the,    350. 

Andrews,  ,  house  of,   broken 

open,   571. 

Annin.    William,    322. 
Anstruther,    Captain,    40. 
Applegate,    Thomas,    executor,    land 

for  sale  by,  610. 
Zebulon.  deceased,  land  of,  for 
sale,  609. 


Appleman,  Peter,  46 ;    land  of,  for 

sale,   133. 
Arbuthnot,     Admiral,     arrival     of, 

401,  560,  587. 

Armitage,  Capt.,  216,  685,  476. 
Armstrong,  George,  188. 

Rev.  James  F.,  109n. 

John,   189,   437,   531. 

Lieutenant,  623,  627. 
Army,    health    of    the,    517 ;     shoes 

for  the,  349. 

Arnell,    Dr.    David    R.,    sketch    pub- 
lished by,  581n. 
Arney's   town,   437,    531. 
Arnold,  Jacob,   133. 

Capt.   Jacob,   92,   673. 

Kinney,     and     Co.,     59 ;      dis- 
solved, 414. 

Major-General,     leave     granted 
to  retire  for  a  while,   177. 

Mary,  eloped,  228. 
Arnold's  tavern,  534n. 

land  for  sale  at,  534. 
Arrowsmith,    Joseph,    49,    128,    153. 

Thomas,  97. 
Artillery  Park,   167. 
Artsdalen,  Jacob  V.,  507. 
Ashfleld.  Hon.   Lewis,  252. 

Vincent   Pearse,  328,  329,  373. 
Assanpink,   282. 

Bridge,  land  for  sale  near,  179. 
Assunpink  creek,  420n. 
Aston,  Thomas,  328 
Atkinson,  John,  562,  614. 

Moses,   73,    116,   369. 
Atanton,  Richard,  526. 
Atlantic     City,     301n ;      annals    of, 

78n. 

Attin.   John,  land  for  sale  by,  590. 
Attsionk,   362n. 
Auble,   Michael,   horse   stolen  from, 

531. 

Augustine,  F.  &  A.,  696. 
Aurison,    Archibald,    land    for    sale 

in  the  possession  of,  533. 
Auten,    John,    95. 
Avis,  George.   131,  451,   650. 

Nathaniel,    deserter,    638. 
Ayres.  David,   322. 

Elisha,  322. 


B. 


Back  Creek,  152. 

Backhouse,  William,  notice  by,  300. 

Back    Neck    Creek,    land    for    sale, 

bounded  by,  488. 
Bacom's  pond,  450. 
Badgley,  Joseph,  jun.,  705. 
Baggage,   transportation  of,  7. 
Bailey,   Joseph,  94. 
Bainbridge,  Absalom,  68. 

Doctor  Absalom,   91. 

Edmund,   lln,   299. 


John,  deceased,  biographical 
sketch  of,  299n :  creditors 
of,  419. 

John.        senior,        biographical 

sketch  of,  420n. 
Baird,  David,  89. 

Major  William,   281 
Baker.  Conrad,  529. 

Daniel,  463n. 

Electa,  463n. 


INDEX. 


729 


Hedges,  463n. 

Mary,  463n. 

Matthias,      Representative      in 

Assembly,  715. 
Thilip,  525. 

Timothy,  land  for  sale  near,  9. 
William,    525. 
William,  jun.,  463n. 
T.aldwin,  Enos.  231. 

Jesse.    633 ;     article    by,    598, 

599. 
Jessie,    tea,    &c.,    for    sale    by, 

470. 

Jonathan,   146. 
Luther,  328,  329,  373. 
Matthias,  670. 
Sarah,  275n. 
Ball.  Colonel,   625. 
Ezekiel,    262. 

Joseph,  255 ;  negro  run  away 
from.  490 ;  schooner  for  sale 
by.  375,  490;  sketch  of, 
375n. 

Samuel,  385. 

Stephen,   taken   prisoner,   491. 
Ballard,  Nancy,  Miss,  27,  66. 
Baltimore,  201. 
Bancroft's    History    of    the    United 

States^  411n. 
Banditti,  robbery  by,  310. 
Banks,  Josiah,  328. 
Bankson,      Andrew,      sen.,      Assist. 

Com.  af  Issues,  322. 
Banta,    John,    house    and    barn    of, 

burned,  359. 
Weart,  shot  through  the  knee, 

292. 
Banyar,  Goldsborough,  660n. 

Maria,  660n. 
Baptist   meeting-house,   horses,   &c., 

for  sale  at  the,  247. 
Barbarity,  acts  of,  453. 
Barber,  Hugh,  estate  of,  487. 

and  Howe,  109n. 
Barberie,  John,  322,  673. 
Oliver,  322. 
Peter,  322. 

Barberrie,    Andrew,   62. 
Oliver,  62. 
Peter.  62. 

Barclay,  Thomas,  701. 
Barker,   Capt.   William,   killed,   548. 
Barns  for  sale,  1,  35,  83. 
Barnard  town,  482  ;    land  for  sale 

in,  97. 
Barnard's   township,    96 ;     land  for 

sale  in.   74. 

Barnegat,    537 :     scow    run    ashore 
near,   200 ;    sloop  ashore  at, 
201. 
Barnegat-Bay,    70 ;     land    for    sale 

adjoining,    9.    573. 
Barnes,   Daniel,  485n. 
John.  91. 


Miss  Polly,  28. 
Samuel,   152. 
Samuel,   deceased,   152. 
Barnet,   Ichabod   Best,   92. 
Barrat,  jun.,  James,  487. 
Barrett,  Ensign,  prisoner  taken  by, 

565. 
Barricklow,      John,      horse      stolen 

from,   619. 
Barron,  Ellis,  95. 
Barry,  Captain,  538. 
Barstow,  Michael,  255. 
Barton,  Colonel,  Loyalist,  regiment, 

456,    491. 

Gilbert,   147,   202,   205;    Court 
held   at   the  house   of,    385; 
Court    of    Admiralty    to    be 
held  at  the  house  of,  16.  40, 
54,    60.    330,    420,    481,    487, 
513,    524. 
Joseph,  165,  544. 
Joseph,      Lieutenant      Colonel 

Commandant,  77. 
Bartram,   Alexander,   129,   650. 

Moses,  apothecary,  44. 
Baskinridge,   180. 

horse  stolen  in,  396. 
land  for  sale  at,  534. 
land  for  sale  near,  534. 
mansion-house     and    farm     at, 

644. 
Meeting-house,     land    for    sale 

near  the,  74. 
meeting  at,  322. 
Bastion,      Henry,     taken     prisoner, 

402. 

Batey,   Francis,   328. 
Batsto,  7. 
Battle,    251. 

Battle  of  Monmouth,  22n. 
"Battles    of   United    States   by    Sea 
and  Land,"  581n  ;    by  Daw- 
son,  Henry  B.,  581n,  cited. 
Baugh,   Nicholas,  152. 
Baume's  Pond,  495. 
Bayard,  Andrew,  670. 

Col.  John,  13n. 
Baylor's  Light  dragoons,  640  ;  light 

horse.   592 ;    regiment,   572. 
Beach,  Ezekiel,  92. 

and     Hews,     merchandise     for 

sale  by,  505. 
Beakes,    Edmund,    Admin'r,    notice 

by,  14. 
family,  14n. 
Nathan,  58. 
Beam,    Batrum,    land    for    sale    in 

the  possession  of,  533. 
Bear,  Joseph,  46. 

Beatty,  Col.  John,  Commissary 
General,  prisoners  of,  27, 
506,  507. 

Beaty,  George,  horses  for  sale  by, 
589. 


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INDEX. 


Beaufort,     714 ;      enemy's     retreat 

from  the  city  of,  549. 
Beaver-Brook,  land  for  sale  on,  82, 

168. 

Bedel,  Israel,  89. 

Bedminster  township,  Somerset 
county,  189 ;  land  for  sale 
in,  247 ;  horse  stolen  in, 
273. 

Beekman,  Charles,  526. 
Gamadus,  94. 
Garret,    16. 
Gerardus,    94n. 
Gerardus  G.,  368. 
Bekeman,  Charles,  98. 
Belcher,     Andrew,     shoemaker,     de- 
serter,  638. 
Governor,   12n. 
Bell,   Samuel,   54. 
Benezet,  Anthony,  202n. 
Benjamin,     Jacob,     87,     88,     182 ; 
horses,  &c.,  for  sale  by,  37  ; 
vendue-store  opened  by,  544. 
Bennet,  John,  59.   75,  609. 
Benson,  -      — .  81. 

William.  561. 
Benton,  Mark,  96. 
Bergen,  Jacob,  113.  717. 

Jacob,     commissioner     of     for- 
feited estates,  63,  198. 
Jacob  G.,  279  ;    innholder,  612, 

716. 

John.   220. 
Bergen,   712. 

Bergen  common  lands,   12n. 
Bergen  county,   98,   131,   525,   567n. 
committee    on    loan    appointed 

for,    559. 

executions  in,  291. 
landing   of   the   enemy    in,   374, 

391. 

Loyalists,   525,   529. 
militia.    291. 

murders   and   thefts   in,   514. 
Bergen   Heights,   564,   565,   623. 
Bergen     Neck.     Continental     troops 

taken,   207,   224.   226.   278. 
party     of     the     64th     regiment 

taken    on,    262. 
Bergen    Point,    12n,    40. 
Bergen    road.    622,    624. 
Bergen,   town   of,   514. 
Bermuda,  616. 
Bernard  township.  667. 
Berrien    family,    386n. 

John,  horses  stolen  from,  386. 
Berwick,    Maine,    700n. 
Bessonet,    Charles,    280. 
Bethlehem,    land    for   sale    in,    396 

533. 
Betron,   Hugh,   8n. 

Samuel,  8n. 
Betts,   William,   245. 
Beverwyck,  land  for  sale  at,  72. 


Biddle,    Joseph,    Representative    in 

Assembly,   701. 
Josiah,  650. 
Bidel,  Israel,  323. 
Billingsport,  land  for  sale  near  the 

fort  at,  130. 
Billop's  Point,  117. 

collection  of  boats  at,   66. 
Bills,  Thomas,  94,  367. 
BIOGRAPHICAL     AND     GENEALOGICAL 

NOTES : 
Anderson    family,    of    Trenton, 

69n. 

Bainbridge,   John,   299n. 
Bainbridge,  John,  senior,  420n. 
Ball,    Joseph,    375. 
Clark,  Elijah,  2. 
Clunn,  Joseph,  21. 
Cooper,    Joseph,   136n. 
Crane.  Benjamin,  463n. 
Creighton,   Hugh,   136n. 
Deane,   Silas,   142n. 
De    Rayneval,    Conrad    Alexan- 

dre   Derard,   291n. 
Eastburn,    Robert,    433n,    434n, 

435n. 

Edward,  Thomas.  392. 
Ellis,     Daniel     Rowland,     362- 

365. 

Ellis,    Rowland,    361-365. 
Haddon,   Thomas,  jun.,  452n. 
Halsted,    Matthias,    191n. 
Hopper.    Jonathan,    359. 
Jay.  John.  660n. 
Jinkens,  Griffin,  48n. 
Laning,  John,  394. 
Lowrey,  Stephen,  380. 
Marsh,      Captain     Christopher, 

493n. 

Miralles,  Don  Juan.  320n. 
Morris,    Robert.    446n. 
Mott  family,   71n. 
Mott.   Gershom,   411n. 
Ogden,   Isaac,  48n. 
Ogden,   Rev.  Uzal,   499n. 
Reed,    Bowes.   415,   416n. 
Runyan,  Hugh,   7. 
Scudder,  William.  371. 
Singer,   Robert,   545-546n. 
Stanton,   Richard.   48n. 
Sullivan,   John,   700n. 
Van    Cleve,    Benjamin,    485n. 
Warford  family.  418n. 
White,  Anthony,  11. 
Zedwitz,   Major  Herman,  374n. 
Bird,  John,  runaway  servant,  367. 
Blachly.   Ebenezer,  juh.,   235. 
Black-River,    188. 
Blain,  James,  46. 

Jos.,   land  for  sale  in  the  pos- 
session of,   533. 
Blaine,     Col.     Deputy     Commissary 

General,  423. 
Blanch,  Thomas,  518. 


INDEX. 


731 


Blanchard,  Capt.,   493n. 

John,  sheep  to  let  by,  411. 

Blane,  William,  95. 

Blauvelt,  David,  132,  526. 
Theunis,    132,    526. 

Blatchley,  Dr.  Conover  C.,  434n. 

Blont,  Capt.  Reading,  of  3d  North- 
Carolina  battalion,  561,  701. 

Bloomary  forge  for  sale,  535. 

Bloomfield,  Joseph,  17n,  108n,  559; 
Attorney  General,  415n ; 
Register  Court  of  Admiralty, 
17,  40,  54,  60,  148,  203,  206, 
255,  330,  385,  420,  481,  487, 
513,  524,  563,  576,  613,  614, 
662,  710. 

Bloomfield,   Joseph,  witness,  416n. 
Thomas,  taken  prisoner,  491. 

Blown  salt,  importation  of,  134. 

"Blue  Mountain  Valley  "  capture 
of,  392n. 

Blundle,    James,    328,    329,    373. 

Board,   David,  559. 

James,  commissioner  of  for- 
feited estates,  132,  199,  526, 
527,  530. 

Boats,   collecting  of,  66. 

Bocock,  William,  650  ;  land  of,  for 
sale,  130. 

Bogart,  Cornelius,  barn  of,  burned, 

359. 

Matthias,  house  of,  burned, 
359. 

Bogert,  David  Ritzema,  taken 
prisoner,  514,  515. 

Boggs,  James,  94,  368. 

Boice,  Jacob,  95. 

Boils,  Mr.,  169. 

Bonam-Town,   719. 

Bond,  Elijah,  7n. 

William,  commissioner  of  for- 
feited estates,  47,  133. 

Bonem-Town,  65,  523 ;  land  for 
sale  at,  96. 

Bonham,  Absalom,  witness,  418n. 
Malakiah,  witness,  418n. 

Bonham  Town,  603. 

Bonn,  Edward,  Representative  in 
Assembly,  701. 

Bonnel,  Colonel  Abraham,  land  for 

sale  at  the  house  of,  396. 
Nathaniel,    fulling-mill    erected 
by,  669. 

Bonnell,  Isaac,  323. 

Bonnet,  Captain  Alexander,  43. 

Bonsall  and  Shoemaker,  Messrs., 
119. 

Books  for  sale,  75,  271,  381,  413, 
489,  604,  664. 

Booneton,   45. 

Boon-Town,  soldiers  expected  at, 
504. 

Booth,    Benjamin,    47,    327. 

Boothe,  Agnes,  notice  to,  300. 


Robert,      butcher,      notice     to, 

300. 
Borden     family,     account     of     the, 

418n. 

Joseph,    437,   531  ;     fish   stolen 
out    of    the    store    of,    322 ; 
land  for  sale  by,  651. 
Joseph,  Jr.,  7n. 
Colonel   Joseph^   Jr.,   112n. 
Joseph,     Jr.,     commissioner    of 
.forfeited     estates     for     Bur- 
lington county,  7n,  112,  418. 
Bordentown,     28,     88,     245,     416n, 

418,  437,   531,  561,   702. 
academy  at,   109n. 
deserter  lived  at,  249. 
grist    and    saw    mill    for    sale 

near,    184. 

land  for  sale  near,  375,  651. 
merchandise  for  sale  in,   38. 
office  at,   531. 
robbery  in,   322. 
Border,    John,    527. 
Borrows,    Samuel,    550. 
Boston,  23n,  24,  141,  142,  190,  200, 
201,  207,  337,  379,  504,  536, 
663,   698. 

expedition,  failure  of,  560n. 
frigate,    vessel    taken    by    the, 

448. 

robbery  near,  250. 
siege  of,  700n. 
Bottle-Hill,    36,    634,    666. 

cow,  &c.,   for  sale  at,   169. 
furniture  for  sale  at,  163. 
horses,  &c.,  for  sale  near,  270, 

478. 

horse  strayed  at,  675. 
land  for  sale  near,  83,  462. 
merchandise   for   sale   at,    405, 

467,   500. 

Scotch  snuff  for  sale  at,  600. 
verses  for  sale  at,  412. 
wine  for  sale  at,  603. 
Boudinot,  Ellas,  61. 

Elisha,     lOn ;      commissary    of 
prisoners  for  New  Jersey,  9  ; 
executor,      household     furni- 
ture for  sale  by,  505. 
Boulsbery,   Abraham,   46. 

Richard,    46,    132. 
Boulting-mills  for  sale,  184. 
Bound-Brook,  178,  636,   715,  719. 
bridge  lottery,   12n. 
camp  near,  28. 
land  for  sale  at,  590. 
road,   231. 
Bourdeaux,   137. 

Bowen,  Daniel,  152  ;    estate  of,  487. 
David,  334. 
Elijah,  334. 

Seth,  horses  for  sale  by,  47o. 
Bowes,  Theodocia,  415n. 
Bowles,  Leonard,  613. 


732 


INDEX. 


Bowlsby,  Edward,  92. 
John,  92. 
Richard,  92. 

Bowman,  Captain,  skirmish  by,  359. 
Coleman,     wife     eloped     from, 

494. 
Patience,  eloped,  494. 

Bown,  Andrew,  horse  strayed  or 
stolen  from,  438. 

Bowne,  John,  94,  368. 
Philip,   133. 

Boyd,  Adam,  Sheriff  broke  gaol 
from,  385 ;  negro  taken  up 
by,  382. 

Boyer,   Abigail,    433n,   434n. 
James,  433n,  434n. 
Robert,  434n. 

Bradberry,   John,   81,   81n. 

Bradford,  Capt.,  627. 

Bradley,   Charles,   witness,   416n. 

Brailey,   Col.,   440. 

Brandt,  Captain  Joseph,  savages 
and  tories  under  the  com- 
mand of,  42,  224,  226,  577, 
580n  ;  killed  or  dangerously 
wounded,  580 ;  life  of,  by 
Stone,  W.  L.,  581n ;  cited, 
583 ;  the  Mohawk  chief, 
593n  ;  leader  of  the  Indians, 
607,  608. 

Brandy  wine,  battle  of,  700n. 

Brannan,  Benjamin,   150. 

Branson,   widow,   128. 

Brant,  David,  land  for  sale  by,  675. 

Brearley,      David,      446n ;       elected 

Chief  Justice,  446. 
Major   Joseph,   254,   283,    697. 

Breeze's,  Col.,  robbery  at,  301. 

Brewer,   Peter,  death  of,  588. 

Brewster's  tavern,  land  for  sale  at, 
534. 

Erich,  John,  cargo  of  the  brig  "Le- 
portax,"  for  sale,  613,  615. 

Brick,  Joshua,  333. 

Bridgeton,        Cumberland       county, 

land  for   sale   in,   51,   152. 
Court   House,   land  for  sale  at 
the,   488. 

Bridge-town,  land  for  sale  near, 
334,  620. 

Bridgewater,  96,   97,   153,  570. 

Brig,   cargo   of,   for  sale,   613. 

Brig  drove  ashore.  397. 

Brig  for  sale,  398,  613,  615. 

Brigantine,  hull  of,  for  sale,  645, 
662. 

Brigantine  laden  with  tobacco,  cap- 
tured, 137. 

Brindley,  William,  taken  by  refu- 
gees and  negroes,  504. 

Brink,    Daniel,   618. 
John,  618,  619. 


Brinker's    Mills,    inhabitants    mov- 
ing to,  514. 
Brintz,  Daniel,  land  for  sale  in  the 

possession  of,  533. 
John,  land  for  sale  in  the  pos- 
session of,  533. 
Bristol,   7,   9,   280,    478,    702;    salt 

imported   from,   134. 
Britain,  Israel,  367. 
British,   549. 

acts  of  parliament,  126. 
army,  78,  140,  303,  560  ;    com- 
missary general  of  prisoners 
for  the,  507  ;    large  embarka- 
tion   prepared    by    the,    616 ; 
arrival  of,  587. 
brig   captured,    379. 
cruelty,    339,    626. 
detachment,     discovery     of     a, 

300. 
fleet,    54,    60 :     going    towards 

Sandy    Hook,    137. 
frigate,    659. 

Islands   of  Granada,   560n. 
man     of     war     taken     by     the 

French  fleet,   714. 
manufactures,    126. 
prisoners,    538,    572.    683 ;     re- 
leased, 722. 
privateer,  vessel  driven  ashore 

by  a,  487. 
raid  by  the,  108n. 
service,     experienced     generals 

in   the,   642. 
soldiers,  458  ;    taken  prisoners, 

550. 

store-ships   taken,   560. 
transports   lost,    216. 
troops,   471,    687 ;     landing   of, 

372. 

valour,  568. 

vessels,    128  :     captured,    609  ; 
driven   on   shore,    2 ;     letters 
taken    in     a,     160;      put    to 
sea,   144,   163. 
Briton,   James,   46. 

William,   46. 
Britton,    Israel,   93. 

Richard,     negroes     run     away 

from,    74. 
widow,    land    for    sale   at    the 

house  of,  91. 

Broadhurst,   Jemima,   485n. 
Broadwel,  Hezekiah,  270. 
Broadwell,   Hezekiah,  horse  strayed 

or  stolen  -from,  511. 
Bromville.    Captain,    159. 
Brookfield,      Jacob,     Representative 

in  Assembly,   716. 
Brookland  iron  works  for  sale,  510. 
Brooks,   Cornelius,   328. 

Edward,     junior,     merchandise 
for    sale    by,    38 ;     notice    to 


INDEX. 


733 


persons     contracting      debts 
with,   478. 
William,   328. 

Brounejohn,   William,    328,   329. 
Brower,  Jacob,  327. 

Peter,  328. 
Brown,  Abijah,  559. 

Benjamin,    wife    eloped    from, 

582. 

Daniel  Isaac,  132,  526. 
John,    62,    63,    435,    602. 
Joseph,  jun.,  land  for  sale  by, 

25. 

Margaret,  eloped,  582. 
Miss,  581n. 
Miss  Patty,  28. 
William,    280;    runaway  negro 

bought  from,  14. 
Browne,  Isaac,  328. 

Peter,  48. 

Brownejohn,   William,    373. 
Bruen,  Thomas,  47,  327. 
Brum,  Nicholas,   152. 
Brunner,     Peter,     commissioner    of 
forfeited  estates,  68,  91,  113, 
393,    397. 

Brunswick,  27,  28,  37,  280,  366, 
454,  494  642,  667,  715,  719, 
720,  722,  723. 

committee,  proceedings  of,  573. 
goal,  escaped  out  of  the,  583. 
land  for  sale  at,  61,  97,  574. 
landing,  land  for  sale,  opposite, 

97. 

militia  in,  66,  117. 
road,  106. 

Brunswick,  P.  G.,  280. 
stage  to,  101,  605. 
Bruse,  George,  529. 
Brush,  Timothy,  junior,  4,  67,  247. 
Bruster,  Timothy,  322. 
Buchanan,  Capt.,  86,  100,  616. 

Walter,  148,  170. 
Buck,      John,      Representative      in 

Council,  716. 

Buckingham  meeting-house,  246. 
Bucks   county,   Pa.,   8,   28. 

negro  run  away   in,   14. 
Buckshotem  saw-mill,  land  for  sale 

near,   620. 

Buckskins  for  sale,  56. 
Buck's  Light  Dragoons,  721,  722. 
Budd,  Henry,   561. 
Bullman,  Thomas,  283. 
Bullock,  George,  394n. 
Bunn,    Edward,   elected   to   the   As- 
sembly from   Somerset  coun- 
ty,  549. 

Bunnel,  Isaac,  95. 
Burgeye,  Thomas,  331. 
Burgoyne,  General,  23n  ;    defeat  of, 

67,    140,    677. 

Burlington,  12n,  17,  28,  55,  101, 
109n,  111,  121,  138,  219, 


280,  296,  361,  361n,  362n, 
363n,  365n,  371,  415n,  416n, 
495,  496,  552,  561,  562,  662, 
683,  710;  Academy,  416n ; 
house  and  lot  for  sale  in, 
203. 

court-house    of     the     city     of, 
575,   576. 

convention,    2n. 

Burlington    county,    86,    102,    363n, 
415n,    417,    496,    701. 

Board    of    Justices    and    Free- 
holders of,  notice  by,  480. 

Commissioners     .  of       forfeited 
estates  for,   7n. 

General  committee  of,  meeting 
of  the,  538. 

Court  of  General  Quarter  Ses- 
sions of,   364n. 

justice  of  the  quorum  of,  364n. 

Loyalists,  417. 

saw-mill  for  sale  in,  69. 

Sheriff  of,  363n. 

Court-house  in,  480. 

Court-house,    Court    of    Admi- 
ralty held  at  the,   612,   614. 

flaxseed  wanted  in,  203. 

gaol,  33. 

houses  to  let  in,  371. 

land  for  sale  in,  137. 

meeting    of    the    committee    of 
the,    588. 

stage  .from,   100. 

St.     Mary's     church     of,     363- 

365n. 
Burned     in     the     hand    for     grand 

larceny,   714. 
Burnet,  Daniel,  284. 

Henry,  horse  stolen  or  strayed 
from,   588,   589,   603. 

Jacob,   407. 

Major,  627. 

Stephen,   284. 

Doctor  William,  360,  581n. 

Doctor  William,  jun.,  402. 
Burroughs,    Benjamin,    115. 

Mr.,   117. 

Stephen,    281. 
Burrows,  Captain,  321. 

John,  203. 

Thomas,   92,  384. 
Burtan,   William,   land  of,  for  sale, 

97. 

Burton,      William,      Loyalist,      96; 
final         judgment        entered 
against,   574,   591  ;    land  for 
sale  late  of,  574. 
Buskerk,  Lawrence,  92. 
Buskirk,  Abrm.  V.,  Lieut.  Col.,  251, 
265,  401,  470,  473,  514,  564, 
565,    567,    568,    627 ;     letter 
from,   471. 

four    officers    taken    prisoners 
belonging    to    the    battalion 


734 


INDEX. 


of,  568:    corps  of,  293,  360; 

regiment    of,     65,     77,     626, 

629. 

George,    captured,   359. 
Lieutenant     John,     457.       See 

Van  Buskirk. 
Butcott,  John,  165. 
Butler,  — ,  226 ;  dispatch 

sent    to,    302 :     leader,    607, 

608 ;    taken  prisoner,  493. 


James,  529. 

John,     99 ;      commissioner     of 
•forfeited    estates     for     Bur- 
lington county,  7n,  112,  418. 
and    Wilson,    merchandise    for 
sale  by,  508. 

Byron, ,  559. 

Admiral,  sailing  of,  41. 
Byvanch,  Mrs.  John,  death  of,  23. 


C. 


Cadmus,   Isaac,   80. 

Cain.   John,  mariner,  66,  280. 

Lieutenant  Patrick,  280. 
"Caines,"  article  signed,  318. 
Cains.   Major,  493. 
Caiuga  branch,  N.  Y.,  606. 
"Caius,"   318n. 

Caldwell,  Rev.  James.  29n,  116, 
559.  595,  674  :  land  for  sale 
by,  605  ;  notice  by.  29,  511. 
512  ;  shoes  to  be  contracted 
for  by.  349  ;  chairman, 
502,  504  :  clerk  Princeton 
College,  191,  226 :  executor, 
household  furniture  for  sale 
by,  505. 
Noble,  487. 

Calhoun,    Alexander,   61. 
Calwell,  William,  676. 
Camb,  Caleb,   Representative  in  As- 
sembly. 716. 

Cambridge,   army    at,    171. 
Camden   city,    136n. 
Camp,  Ensign,  wounded.  159. 
Nathaniel,   12n. 
Nathaniel,  sen..  360. 
Campbell,   David,   312. 

Duncan,  328,  329,   372. 

General,   24,   401. 

George.   8n ;     savagely   treated, 

391. 
James,    168.    463 :     justice    of 

the  peace,  463.  464. 
John,   escaped,   583. 
Peter,   331. 
Patrick,   lln. 
Robert,  62,  63,  435. 
Wm..  Capt.  1st  V.  S.  R.,  horse 

stolen   from,   395. 
Campo.    destruction    of    mills    near, 

118. 

Canada,   401. 
Candai,   N.   Y.,   649. 
Canfleld,     Stephenson,     464 ;      mer- 
chandise   for    sale    by,    310, 
311,  676. 

Thomas,    commissioner    of    for- 
feited estates.  328,  329,  373. 
Cannon.  William.   182. 
Canoe-Brook,    602,    668 ;     land    for 


sale  at,  39  :    merchandise  for 
sale  at,  409,  500;    nails  for 
sale  at,  412. 
Capalong-Brook,  grist  and  saw-mill 

to  be  moved,  326. 
Cape  Charles,  201. 
Cape-Cod,   25. 
Cape  Francois,  25. 
Cape  Henlopen,  25. 
Cape  May,   335,   398,  399 ;    county, 

109n,    269. 

letter  put  on  shore  at,   336. 
road,   376. 

schooner  for  sale  in,  593.   606. 
Cape  Nichola  Mole,  43. 
Capner,  Hugh,  8n. 

Thomas,  Sr.,  8n. 

Carey,  John,  land  for  sale  by,  17. 
Cargo  for  sale,  1. 

Carmichael,       Alexander,       commis- 
sioner   of    forfeited    estates. 
93 ;      Representative    in     As- 
sembly, 701,  719. 
Elizabeth,   485n. 
Honourable,  -       — ,   660. 
Camel,    William.    46. 
Cams,  Patrick.   121. 
Carolina,   25,   530. 

battalion,   3d,   701. 
brigade,  251,  646. 
Caron,  George,   563. 
Carr,    Alexr.    (Chairmaker),    545n. 
Alexander,  deceased,  703. 
John,       horse       thief,       taken. 

prisoner,  697. 
Carre,  Capt.,  565,  566. 
Carson,  William,  498. 
Carter,  John,  jun.,  650. 
Carteret.    Governor    Philip,    former 
residence   of,   for  sale,   392n. 
Carty,  John,  111,  203,  417. 
Case,  Philip,  8n. 

Rev.  Wheeler,  677n. 
Cash  stolen,  6. 

Caster,  Henry,  broke  gaol,  523. 
Castner,  George,  68. 
Castle,  Joseph,   Loyalist,   33. 
Cattle     to      range     on     uninclosed 

grounds,    bill   for,    297. 
Catlett,  Captain,  624. 


INDEX. 


735 


Cayford,    Richard,   152 ;    estate   of, 
487  ;    land  for  sale  late  the 
property   of,   488. 
Caywood,    William,   279. 
Cedar  Run,  land  for  sale  lying  on, 

450. 

Cedar  Swamp  for  sale,  333. 
Chaddock,  Captain,  441. 
Chamberlain,   William,   221. 
Chambers,      Alexander,      chairman, 

520. 

Charles,  broke  gaol,  385. 
Susanna,  executrix,  57. 
family,   56n,   520n. 
Chamless,  widow,  154. 
Chandler,  Asael,   94. 

Thomas     Bradbury,     384,     508, 

528. 

Chanler,  Azail,  368. 
Chapman,   James,  634. 
Charcoal   industries,  78n. 
Chariot  .for  sale,  21. 
Charlestown,    Mass.,    367n. 

South-Carolina,  560,  714 : 
burning  of,  104 ;  defeat 
before.  519. 

enemy  attacked  lines  at,  455. 
vessel  from,  549. 

Chatham,    81,    139,    160,    163,    186, 
190    192,  207,  226,  261,  262, 
302,  310,  347,  396,  402,  454, 
455,  457,  458,  462,  468,  490, 
493,  555,  601    629,  652,  658, 
663,  666,  669,  673,  675,  696, 
706,    719,    720. 
articles  for  sale  at,  271. 
cows,  &c.,  for  sale  in,  228,  407. 
fulling  mill  erected  at,  669. 
"horse  strayed  in,   507. 
land    for    sale    near,    21,    204, 

237,    462,    468,    600. 
merchandise   for   sale    in,    348, 

468,   501. 
printing   office,    books   for   sale 

at  the,  413. 

rivets,  &c.,   for  sale  at,   165. 
verses  for  sale  in,  412. 
writing     paper     and      spelling 

books  for  sale   in,  506. 
Cheapside,    231  ;     horse   strayed   to, 

274. 

Chedwick,   John,   60. 
Cheesquakes,   63. 
Chels,  runaway  negro,  73. 
Chemung,      N.      Y.,      561  ;       army 
moved   to,    572 ;     enemy   dis- 
covered  near,    607 ;     extract 
of  a  letter  from  camp  near, 
606. 
Cherry,    Ruben,    deceased,    664. 

William,    a   weaver's  .furniture 

for  sale  by,  664. 
Chesepeak  Bay,  337. 


Chester,  52. 

Chesterfield,       Burlington       county, 

420n. 
Chester         township,         Burlington 

county,   363n. 
Chestnut  Branch,  land  for  sale  on, 

547. 

Chestnut-neck,   156,  672,  685,   686; 

land  for  sale  on,  42  ;    vessel 

to  be   sold   at,    513  ;  .  vessels 

and  cargoes  for  sale  at,  547. 

Chetwood,  John,  executor,  164. 

William,   lln. 
Chever,  George,  165. 
Chew,    Jonathan,    650 ;     house    of, 

for  sale,   129. 
Childs,  John,  362n. 
Chingoteague,  565. 
Chosel,  Jonathan,  165. 
Churchill,   appointed   a   delegate   in 

Congress.  549. 

Chuver,  Doctor  Jonathan,  347. 
Cincinnati,  463n. 
Cincinnati,   Society  of  the,   159n. 
"Cincinnatus,"  article  by,  711, 
Cinnery,  Captain,  439. 
Civil   Government,   article   on,    350- 

357. 

Clark,  Alexander,  93,  367. 
Capt.,  42. 

Daniel,  executor,  72. 
Edward,  525,  532. 
Elijah,   biographical   sketch   of, 

2  ;  land  for  sale  by,  2. 
Jacob,  236. 
James,   189. 
Joseph,    130,    434n. 
Mary,  463n. 
Thomas,  2n. 
Clark's  Landing,  2n. 
Clarke,  Elizabeth,  485n. 
Dr.  Israel,  485n. 
Mary,  485n. 

Major,  623.  624,  625,  626. 
Clarkesville,  485n. 
Clarkson,  Mathew,  deceased,  12n. 

Mr.,  37. 

Clawson,     John,     commissioner     of 
forfeited     estates,     92,     180, 
384,  508,   529. 
John,  executor,  236. 
Jonathan,  95. 
Clay,  C.,  notice  by,  420. 
Clayton,  Joseph,  93,  367. 
Cleaton,    William,    obituary    notice 

of,  519. 
Mrs.,   661. 

Clemens,  Judah,  insane,  399. 
Clement,      Samuel,      474n ;       mare 
stolen  or  strayed  from,  474. 
Samuel,  jun.,  362n. 


736 


INDEX. 


Clendennon,    James,    land    of,    for 

sale,    133. 
John,  46. 
Clerk,  George,  40. 
"Clinker,     Humphrey,"     letter     by, 

345. 

Clinton,  General  James,  216,  429, 
477,  557,  587,  606,  641,  658. 
Sir  Henry,  30,  252,  254,  266, 
268,  341,  342,  476 ;  letter 
of,  31  ;  report  to,  31  ;  re- 
turn of,  216;  letter  of  Gov- 
ernor Livingston  to,  337 ; 
commissioners  to  exchange 
prisoners  appointed  by,  244  ; 
letters  from  and  to,  155, 
253 ;  to  return  home,  559. 
Clinton  and  Poor,  detachment  un- 
der, 582. 

Clopper,  Peter,  328. 
Closter,    292,    360. 
Closter-Dock,    518. 

skirmish    at,    370. 

Clove,    Continental    troops   marched 

to,    616 ;      gang    of    villains 

at,     405 ;      robbery     in     the, 

250. 

Cloven,     -        — ,     horse    taken     by, 

261. 
Clunn,  Amey,  21n. 

Captain,   15,   28,  35,  37. 
John   H.,   21n. 

Joseph,  biographical  sketch  of, 
21  ;    horse  strayed  or  stolen 
from,   21,   26,   47. 
Joseph,  senior,  12n. 
Coates,   Elizabeth,   485n. 

Isaac,   485n. 

Cobright,    Christopher,    66,    280. 
Coburn,   I.,   718. 

Cochran,  Richard,  loyalist,  62,  64, 
96 ;  final  judgment  entered 
against,  591  ;  land  of,  for 
sale,  97. 

Coddington,    Isaiah,   95. 
Coejemans,    Samuel    S.,    61. 
Coffin,  Francis,  16. 
Cohansey  Bridge,  498. 

Creek,    land    for    sale    on,    51, 

152. 

Cohanzy,    335. 
Cohen,   Samuel  Myers,   lln. 
Cohocking   road,   land   for    sale   on, 

129,   131. 

Cohoes,  land  for  sale  near  the,  71. 
Colden,    Lieutenant-Governor,    peti- 
tion presented  to,  12n. 
Cole,   Daniel,   165. 
Elizabeth,   136n. 
Jacob,   captured,    359. 
Capt.   Kendal,  497. 
Richard,  94. 

William,  execution  of,  251,  291. 
Coleny,   John,   329,   373. 


College.      See    Princeton    College. 

Colleny,   John,   328. 

Collier,  Sir  George,  697. 

Collings,  Richard,  administrator, 
224. 

Collins,     Captain,     156,     157,     158; 

arrival  of,  379. 
Edward,    31     32,    43,    84,    123r 

191,   365n. 

Isaac,  printer,  432 ;    announce- 
ment of,  2,  3  4,  522  ;    books, 
&c.,    for    sale    by,    489,    661  ; 
notice  by,   477. 
James,    62,    63,    435.  . 

Collwell,  W.,  horse  stolen  from, 
396. 

Colts      Neck,      Monmouth      county, 

217. 

Continental    troops    retired    to, 
321. 

Colvin,   Elizabeth,   418n. 
James,   328. 

Colwell,   Wm.,   273. 

Combs,   Dennis,   jun.,   95. 

Comforth,    Thomas,    147. 

Commissary  General's  Department, 
inspection  of,  612. 

Commissary  of  Prisoners  for  New 
Jersey,  appointment  of.  10. 

Commodities,  article  on  prices  of, 
444-446. 

Compton,   Gabriel,   603. 

John.    loyalist,    final    judgment 
entered    against,    591  ;     mer- 
chandise for  sale  by,  509. 
Richard,  jun.,   49. 

Conaroe,   Darling,   363n. 

Condict,  Silas,  467n ;  Councillor, 
701  ;  horse  broke  into  wheat- 
field  of,  467. 

Conduit,  John,  junr.,   232. 

"Confederacy,"  American  frigate, 
291n. 

Confiscated    estates,    128. 

Conger,    John,    603  ;     innkeeper,    96. 

Congle,  John,  land  for  sale  late  the 

estate  of,  553. 

Peter,    land    for    sale    at    the 
house    of,    553. 

Congleton,    Allen,    162. 

Congo's  fleet,  118. 

Congress,  345,  549,  586,  621,  652T 
653,  660n,  680  ;  address  of, 
596  :  appointments  by,  347  ; 
commission  from,  460 :  in- 
tentions of,  338  ;  journals 
of,  for  sale,  489  ;  letter  re- 
ceived by,  715  ;  article  sent 
to  the,  639,  640,  659  :  order 
of,  629 ;  resolves  of,  315, 
320;  Thanksgiving  day  ap- 
pointed by,  705. 

Conkling,  Mary,  469n. 

Conliff,    Joseph,    92. 

Conn,   James,  16. 


INDEX. 


737 


Connecticut,    305,    373n,    600,    720 ; 
coast,   descent   made   on   the, 
118. 
Connecticut  Farms,  39,. 169;   cattle, 

&c.,    for   sale  at,    631. 
Conner,   Brien,   563,   614. 
Constitution,    article    on,    389-391. 

o.f    the    State    of    New    York, 

660n. 

Continental  Army,  367,  550,  720; 
disposition  of  the,  477. 

Artillery,    Captain    2d,    411n. 

bills  of  credit  70 :  deprecia- 
tion of,  84;  bills  and  bank 
notes,  114. 

currency,  520 ;  article  on, 
171,  176 ;  depreciation  of, 
446,  520,  586;  passing 
counterfeit,  643. 

debt,    594. 

dollar    branch,    652. 

ferry,  436. 

hemp,   302. 

loan,    674. 

money,  210,  304,  308,  536, 
641  ;  stolen,  250,  635 ; 
land  taken  in  payment  of, 
181. 

paper    bills,    440. 

paper  dollars  for  sale,  439. 

prisoners,    removing,    415n. 

service,  raising  of  men  for,  216. 

sloops,   537. 

soldiers,   249,  370,  441. 

stable,  horse  stolen  from  the, 
718. 

troops,  226,  302,  303,  321.  359  ; 

and    militia,    439 ;     marched 

to     Clove,     616 ;      scout     of, 

65  ;     taken,   207.   224,   278. 

Convention  Army   in   Virginia,   652. 

troops,   23. 

Conway,   John,   Lt.-Col..   709. 
Conyngham,    Mr.,    commander,    let- 
ter to,   334. 
Cook,    Burnet,   561,   701. 

Elihu,  Col.,  taken  by  refugees 
and  negroes,  504. 

Ellis,  Assemblyman.  701.  719  ; 
Chairman  Morris  County 
Committee,  597. 

John,  54,  62,  63,  435  ;  D.  I. 
M.  G.,  549 ;  sloop  for  sale 
at  the  house  of,  361. 

Samuel,  94,  368. 

Silas,  jun.,  89,  323. 
Cooke,    Charles,    land    for    sale    by, 
375,   438. 

Robert,  111,  417. 
Cooke's    mill,    land    for    sale    near, 

111. 

Cooley's  "Genealogy  of  Early  Set- 
tlers in  Trenton  and  Ewing," 
371n. 


Coop.  -      — ,  201. 
Cooper,   Benjamin,   136n  ;    land  for 
sale    in    the    possession    of, 
533 

Elizabeth  (Haines),  136n. 
John,   Representative   in   Coun- 
cil,  716. 
Jonathan,  710. 

Joseph,  136n,  200;  auditor, 
136  ;  biographical  sketch  of, 
136n. 

Nathan.  Coroner,  719. 
Cooper's    Creek,    land    for    sale    on, 

449. 

Ferry,  452. 

Cope,  William,  land  for  sale  by,  9. 
Copei-thwait,  Hugh,  73. 
Copner,   Joseph,   263. 
Corbyn,  Colonel  George,  566. 
Corey,     Jeremiah,     taken     prisoner, 

491. 
Cornhill.    525. 

London,   532. 

Cornwallis,     Lord,     559,     659  ;      ar- 
rival    of,     519 ;      expedition 
by,   587  ;    news  of,  supersed- 
ing   General    Clinton,    557. 
Corshon,   Joshua,   559. 
Cortland,  Major,  473  ;    letter  from, 

471. 
Ph.     V.,     Major,     470 ;      letter 

from,   471. 

Cortelyou,    Col.,    494 :     rebels    car- 
ried off,   491. 
Cortreght,   .Solomon,    land   for   sale, 

late  the  property  of,  543. 
Corwine,  John,  deceased,  551. 
Cory,    Daniel,    silver   buckles   stolen 

from,   409. 
Coryell,    Abraham,    ferry    and    land 

for  sale  by,  91. 
George,  245  ;    mare  left  at  the 

house    of,    382. 
CoryeH's  Ferry,  149  ;    for  sale,  90  ; 

land  for  sale  near,  36. 
Coshecton,  226. 

Company,  580n. 
Cotrack,   Solomon,   165. 
Cotterel,  John,  94. 
Cottnam,   Abraham,   149,   149n. 
Elizabeth   Ann,    149. 
Geo.,    149. 
Cotton  for  sale,   10. 
Cougle,  John,  328. 
Council,  346  ;    order  of  the,  331. 
of  proprietors,   365n. 
of  Safety,   meeting  of,  364n. 
Counterfeit  money,   121. 
Country    produce,    shoes    exchanged 

for,  190. 

Court  of  Admiralty  of  New  Jersey, 
1.  16,  40,  147,  205,  255,  330, 
385,  398,  420,  481,  486,  487, 


47 


738 


INDEX. 


513,  524,  547,  562,  575,  576, 
612,    614,    710;     sloops    for 
sale  by  order  of  the,  44. 
horse  seized  by,  331. 
order    of    the,    202,    225,    278, 
326,  574,  593,  606,  613,  615, 
662,  672,  685,  686. 
Courter,  John,  jun..  49,  328. 
Court  Martial,  trial  by,  374. 
Covenhoven,     John,     244 ;      Justice, 
carried    off    by    the    enemy, 
301. 

William  A.,  jun.,  executor,  285. 
Cowell,  Doctor  David,  153. 

Ebenezer,   Jr.,   149. 
Cowperthwait,  Hugh,  116,  369. 
Cox,  Charles,  66. 

Col.,    extract    of    a    letter    to, 

517. 

Daniel,  417. 

John,    Loyalist,     lands    of,     in 
Gloucester     county,      to     be 
sold,    131,    650. 
Stephen,    land    for    sale    near, 

468. 
Coxe,   Charles,   327. 

Daniel,     7n.     68.     91.    96,     111, 

112,  113,     179,     201.     362n, 
417 ;     land   of,   for   sale,    97, 

113.  396. 

Dr.    Daniel,    299n. 
Counsellor   John,   12n. 
William,    363n :    land    for    sale 

formerly   of,   451. 
Cozens,   Daniel,    129,   650 ;    land  of 

for  sale,   130,   450. 
Capt.     John,     inn-keeper,     land 
for    sale     at     the     house    of, 
131  ;    land  for  sale,   late  the 
property  of.  450. 
Mrs.,  493.' 
Crab,     William,     negro     run     away 

from,    15. 
Craig,  Capt.,  698. 

David,   taken   prisoner,   491. 
John,   tavern-keeper,   92. 
William,  618  :    land  for  sale  in 

the   possession   of,   533. 
Craige,   John,   363n. 
Grammar,  Justus,  runaway  servant, 

102. 

Cranberry,  552  ;  holding  of  a  Court 
of  Oyer  and  Terminer  at, 
519  ;  land  for  sale  near,  55, 
610. 

mills,   land  for  sale  near,   575. 

Ponds,  land  for  sale  near,  152. 

town,   land  for  sale  near,  575. 

Cranberry  Brook,   land  for  sale  in, 

135. 
Cranbury,     204,     417 ;      horses    for 

sale  in,  299. 
Crane,  Abigail,  463n. 
Ann  Eliza,  463n. 


Benjamin,  463. 

Charlotte  King,  463n. 

David  Johnson,  463n. 

Esther,  463n. 

Hezekiah  Thompson,  463n. 

Isaac,  cow  bells  found  at  the 
house  of,  414. 

Jacob  Thompson,  463n. 

John,  463n. 

John   J.,   328,   329,   372. 

Joseph,   188. 

Moses,  horse  taken  up  by,  461. 

Moses  Thompson,  463n. 

Norris,    463n. 

Phoebe,  463n. 

Stephen,       Representative       in 

Council,    716. 
Crane's  Ferry,   106,  ]22. 
Cranmer,  Noah,   261. 
Crawley's  steel,  axes  for  sale  made 

of,  39. 

Credit,  bills  of,  639. 
Creighton,    Hugh,    136 ;     biographi- 
cal sketch  of,  136n. 
Crimes  : 

broke  gaol,  60,  248,  384,  523, 
643,  652,  662,  683,  684,  697. 

broke  into  house,  6. 

shop  broke  open,  525. 

cow  stolen,  192,  218,  228,  285, 
562. 

deserted,  249,  292,  523,  537, 
683. 

escaped,   50,    170,    313,   583. 

horse  stolen,  189,  254,  260, 
261,  270,  273,  279  291,  297, 
302,  365,  369,  383,  386,  394, 
395,  396,  411,  436,  438,  464. 
473,  482,  486,  492,  493,  494, 
498,  510,  512,  531,  541,  576, 
583,  588,  599,  603,  605,  611, 
614,  619,  629,  631,  636,  651, 
665,  668,  673,  675,  705,  706, 
708,  718. 

murder,  121,  186,  259,  358. 
482.  571,  720. 

oats  set  on  fire,  417. 

robbery,  192,  193,  206,  246, 
249,  250,  251,  301,  310,  322. 
347,  414.  469.  516,  525,  532, 
537,  548,  635. 

stabbing  his  master,   714. 

theft,  154,  274,  409,  537,  551, 
651,  718. 

watch  stolen,  206. 
Cripps,    AVhitten,    Representative   in 

Assembly,    716. 
Cristy,    William,   165. 
"Crito,"  article  by,  444-446. 
Croft,   Mr.,    217. 
Crolius,   John,  executor,   178. 

Peter,  47  ;    executor,  178. 

William,  jun.,  potter,  deceased, 
178. 


INDEX. 


739 


Cromeline,  Mr.,  645. 

Crooked    Billet    wharf,    stage    boat 

sets  off  from,  the,  101. 
Cross,  John,  482. 
Crosswicks,   374,   519. 

land  for  sale  near,  114,  536. 
Baptist  meeting-house,  548. 
Creek,  land  for  sale  on,  111, 

651,   717. 

Long-Boat  taken  upon,  148. 
landing,  land  for  sale  near, 

135,   438. 

Crow,  Robert  Richard,  62,  63,  435. 
Crowel,  Thomas,  94,   367. 
Crowell,    James,   administrator,   no- 
tice by,   452. 
John,   706. 
Joseph,     165 ;      land    for    sale 

late  the  property  of,  543. 
Seth,  706. 
Thomas,  jun.,  16. 
Crump,  Benjamin,  66. 

Captain,  626. 
Cuhichtun,  216. 
Cumberland  county,  415n. 

commissioners   of  forfeited   es- 
tates,  487. 

committee    on    loan    appointed 
for,  559. 


land  for  sale  in,  57,  151,  332. 
Loyalists,  estate  of,  to  be  sold, 

487. 
members    of    the    Legislature, 

716. 

Cumming,  Capt.,  537. 
Cummins,  John,  46. 
Cumpton,  Richard,  128,  153. 
Cunningham,       Capt.,       tried      for 

piracy,  460. 
John  Taylor,  58. 
Curlis,    James,    94 ;    nails   for   sale 

by,  412. 

Currency,  appreciating  of,  480. 
credit  of,  503. 

depreciation  of,  238,  304,  583. 
salvation  of  the,  680. 
Curtis,  Jonathan,  701. 

Joseph,     121 ;      resolutions    vi- 
olated  by,    597 ;     miscellane- 
ous articles  for  sale  by,  666. 
Samuel,  165. 
Thomas,   561. 
Cyder,   39,   74. 
Cyder-house  for  sale,   111. 
Cyder  mill,  21 ;  for  sale,  55. 
Cyphers,  George,  68. 


D. 


Dalbo,  widow,  115. 

Dalglis,  Ensley,   180. 

Dalglish,  Ensley,  322. 

Dalmouth,  566. 

Daniel,   John,   265. 

Daniels,  James,  deceased,  114. 

John,    225,   369. 
Darby,    John,    executor,    horses    for 

sale  by,  674. 

Darby,  Pa.,  land  for  sale  in,  150. 
Darling,  Thomas,  706. 
Davidson,  Major  William,  322,  559. 
Davinson,  Josiah,  371n. 
Davis,   Abraham,   524. 

Capt.,  698. 

Jacob,     horse    strayed    to    the 
plantation   of,   506. 

Capt.      John,      638;       deserted 
from  company  of,  638. 

Samuel,  114. 
Davise,  Richard,  62. 
Davison,   William,   land  for  sale  at 

the  house  of,  533. 
Dawson,   Henry  B.,  411n. 

James,  420. 

Captain  James,  399. 
Day,    Aaron,    clothes,    &c.,    for   sale 
by,  667  ;    goods  stolen  from, 
635. 

Jelf  and,  merchandise  for  sale 
by,  466. 


Martin,  deceased,  83. 

Stephen,    276 ;     grass    for   sale 

by,  462. 
Thaddeus,  669. 
Dayton,  Col.  Elias,  392n. 

Jonathan    J.,    235 ;     bull    and 

heifer  strayed  from,  461. 
Dr.  Jonathan  J.,  235n. 
Mrs.,   235. 
Dean,  James,  73,  369. 

Joseph,    land    for    sale    joining 

lands  of,  582. 
Deane,  Capt.,  652. 

Silas,     address    of,     142,    663; 
biographical  sketch  of,  142n. 
Deare,    Jonathan,    27 ;     Representa- 
tive in  Council,  715. 
William    P.,    executor,    434n. 
Death,  504. 
Debow,    -       — ,    man    knocked    off 

horse  by,  649. 
Decamp,      Lambard,      wife      eloped 

from,   349. 
Mary,  eloped,  349. 
Decker's  Ferry,  686. 
Decatur,    Stephen,    562,    612,    614, 

710. 

Dedman,  William,  46,  132. 
Deep  Run,  land  for  sale  near,  179. 
Deerfield    township,    land    for    sale 
in,   488. 


740 


INDEX. 


De-Groot's,  skirmish  near,  359. 
De  Hart,  Cyrus,  236. 
Mr.,   37. 
John,   446n. 
widow,    tea,    &c.,    for    sale    by, 

470. 

Wm.,    Lt.    Col.,    709. 
DeKalb,  General,  arrival  of,  201. 
Delance,  Oliver,  179. 
Delance  and  Kyler's  tract  for  sale. 

179. 
Delancey,  James,  177. 

Oliver,   02,   165,   384,   435.   508. 
528  ;    land  for  sale,  late  the 
property  of,   543,  544. 
Delancey's  brigade,  General,   118. 
Delaware,  445,   020. 
Delaware      Bay,       land       for      sale 
bounded      by,      488  ;       prizes 
sent   into.    278. 
capes  of.  448,  085. 
enemy     in     possession     of     the, 

087. 
Delaware    falls.    7n,    303n  :    passing 

of  the,  32. 

Delaware    River,    8n.    24.    210.    450. 
495;    land  for  sale  on.   112: 
land  for  sale  near.  137  :    land 
for  sale  on  the,  296,  620. 
Delaware  State,   530. 
Dellingtash.    Rebecca,     701. 
Delsiver,    John,    land   for   sale   join- 
ing,   4S8. 

Demarest.  Cornelius,  killed,  359. 
Daniel   S.,   526. 
Hendrick,  wounded,  359. 
Jacob,    92. 
Orey.  526. 

Peter,  house  of,  burned.  359. 
Samuel,    captured,    359 ;     house 

and   barn   of,   burned.    359. 
de     Mirallis,     Don     Juan,     passing 

through    Trenton,    320. 
DeMirrallias,   Don  Juan,  arrival   of. 

291. 

Demond.    Peter.   247. 
Demorest,   Daniel   S.,  98. 

Orey,  jun.,  98. 
Demot,  John,  98. 
Demun,  John,  366  ;    loyalist,  574. 
Denham,    Obed,    horses    for    sale    at 

the  house  of,  667. 
Denise,    Denise,    180. 

Tunis,   180. 
Deniston,   Elizabeth,    eloped,   166. 

William,  wife  eloped  from,  166. 
Denman,  Matthias,  232. 

Sarah,   464  ;     affidavit   by,    464. 
Dennis,    Anthony,    323. 
Capt.    Benjamin,    53. 
John,    134  ;     land   for    sale    by, 
11. 


Joseph,    436,    561  ;     innholder, 

land  for   sale,   at   the   house 

of,  248. 
Michael,  68. 
Robert,  434n. 
Dennis  street,  434n. 
Dennison,  Michael,  494. 
Denniston,    Mr.,    16n. 

William,     fullers     wanted     by, 

16  ;    wife  eloped  from,  636. 
Denny,  Thomas,  559  ;    land  for  sale 

joining,    451. 

Denston,   Isaac  Royal,  562,   614. 
Denton,  John,  snuff  for  sale  by,  20. 
Depeyster,   Gcrardus,   12n. 

Nicholas,   526. 
Depreciated  money,  314. 
Deptford    township,    637. 

land  for  sale   in.   128,   129. 
de      Rayneval.      Conrad      Alexandra 

Gerard,    biographical    sketch 

of,    291  n. 

Derick.  John,  land  for  sale  by,  451. 
Deryea.    John.    98. 
Deserters,    154,   159,   207,   249,   292, 

304,  398,  410,  454,  523,  550, 

038. 
D'Kstaing,    Count,    capture    by,    25, 

500,    500n.    686  ;     arrival   of, 

41.  659:    fleet  of,  696;    ships 

detached      by,      714 ;       relief 

sent   to,   118. 

"Detector,"   article   by,   337-339. 
Devonshire,   Duke  of.   177. 
Dey,   Capt.   John,  89. 
Dick,   Adam,   runaway  negro,   265. 
James,    Commissary   for   Naval 

Prisoners.    30. 
Dickerson.       John,       silver       stolen 

from.  469. 
Peter,    20n. 
Dickinson,  Major-General  Philemon, 

7.   191n. 

Dill.   John.    434n. 
Dimsdale's  lands  for  sale,  498. 
Dinah,  runaway  negro,  14. 
Dix,    Peter,    280. 
Dixon,    John.    36 ;     verses    for    sale 

by,   412. 
Mr.,    634. 

Dixson,     Christopher,     600 ;      wag- 
goner, rum   stored  by,  600. 
Dod,   Caleb,   271. 

Rev.   Stephen,  67n,  677n. 
Doe  skins  for  sale,  56. 
Dominica,   454. 
Donaldson,   Arthur,   fulling-mill  for 

sale  by,  393. 
Done,  John,  95. 
Donnell,    John,    land    for    sale    by, 

377. 

Doreamus,  Hendrick,  98. 
Doremus,  Hendrick,  526. 
Dorsen  mare,  245. 


INDEX. 


741 


D'Orvilliers,   Count,   105. 

Doty,     Joshua,     mare     strayed     or 

stolen  from,  438. 
Doughty,    -        — ,    taken    prisoner, 

493. 
Capt.,    deserted   from    company 

of,  410. 
Solomon,   553. 
Thomas,   deserter,   638. 
Douglas,  William,  529. 
Douglass,  Captain,  86.   100  ;    prizes 

sent  by,  278. 
Mr.,  201. 
Thomas,  599. 

Dover,  land  for  sale  in,  70,  573. 
township,    95 ;     land    for    sale 

in,   9.   590. 
Downs  township,   land   for   sale   in, 

152. 

Drake,  Benjamin,  95. 
Capt.,  697. 
Jacob,   701. 
Randolph,   95. 

William,     loyalist,     96:      final 
judgment     entered     against, 
591  :    land  of,  for  sale,  97. 
Dray  ton,    John,    670  ;     admitted    to 

college,    669. 

Drugs   for    sale,    153 ;     in    Morris- 
town,  5. 
Drummond,   Major  Robert,   loyalist, 

48,  327,  345. 
Dublin,  Ireland,  445. 
Dubois,  Mrs.  Catey,  letter  to,  426, 

427,    428. 
Mr.,    472. 

Peter,    328 :     letter   from,    426, 
427,  428  :    copy  of  letter  to, 
473  :    notice  by,  454. 
Duboise,   Peter.  49. 
Dudley,   Joshua,   servant   run  away 

from,  102. 
Duer's     "Life     of     Lord     Stirling," 

392n,  cited. 

Duerson,   William,   559. 
Duffield,      Isaac,      gaoler.      escaped 
from,  492. 


James,  650  :    land  of,  for  sale, 

129. 

Dugan,   Cornelius,   46. 
Dugless,    John,    8n. 
Dugon,   Henry,   90. 
Dumayne,    William,    508,    528. 
Dumont,    Peter,    Sheriff,    481,    524, 

643. 
Duncan.     Capt.,     137 :      arrival    of, 

30. 

Capt.  James,  137. 
Dundass,  Captain,  568. 
Sir  Lawrence,  147. 
Dunfield,   John,   46. 
Dungan,   Edward  V.,  95,  179,  180. 

Thomas.  98. 
Dunham,  Asher,  92. 

Azariah,    380,    387,    392,    573; 
communication      from,      277, 
278;      letter    to,    357,    358; 
letter    from,    422-424  ;     Com- 
missary   and    Superintendent 
Chief,    letter   to,    386. 
Isaac,  95. 
John,  7,   191. 
Moses,    95. 

Dunmore.   Lord,   43,   221.   382. 
Dunn,   Jacob,   665. 
Lewis.  434n. 

Durell,    Philip,    potter.    673. 
Durham,  John,  74,  322. 
Durjee,   John  P.,   526. 
Dutch,   293. 

almanacks  for  sale,  20. 
books  for  sale,   75. 
servant  man  run  away.   101. 
Dutch  Valley,  horse  stolen  in.  492. 
Dutchess  county.   N.   Y.,  67n. 
Duwin.  Peter,  526. 
Duyckinck.  G.,  drugs  and  medicines 
for   sale   by,   405 ;     merchan- 
dise for  sale  by,   5,   6. 
D'Veber,  Gabriel,  650. 
D'Vebber,  Gabriel,  land  of,  for  sale, 
130. 


E. 


Eacrit,   -      — .   116. 
Eager,  S.  W.,  581n,  cited. 
Eagler,  Conrad,  68. 
Earle.  Edward.  132. 

Ensign.   251,   265. 

Joost,   132. 

Peter,   132. 

Earll,  Henry,  jun.,  465. 
Barrel,  Peter,  526. 
Earrell,  Edward,   526. 

Joost,    526. 

Eastburn.  Robert,  66,  280,  704;    bi- 
ographical   sketch    of,    433n. 


434n,      435n ;       merchandise 
for  sale  by,  433,  434  ;    shop 
of,  broken  open,  246. 
T.,   434n. 

East  Haven,  Conn.,  67n. 

East-India  goods,  126. 

East  Jersey  Proprietors,   12n. 

East-Jersey  rights.   552,   553. 

Easton,  Pa.,  8,  514,  607,  663,  698, 
699,  708  ;  land  for  sale  near, 
82,  168. 

Eastown,  536. 

East  Plains,  376. 


742 


INDEX. 


Easttown,   Pa.,   439,   440. 

Eaton,  Thomas,  marriage  of,   226. 

Ebel,    Michael,    horse    stolen    from, 

464. 
Ebgor,  -      — ,  618;    land  for  sale 

in   the  possession   of,   533. 
Eddy,    John,    328. 

Edgar,  — ,  Major,  killed,  719. 

Edsall,   James,   111,   361. 
Edsell,  James,  219. 
Edwards,  Evan,  44. 
Capt.  F.,  697. 
Joseph,  313. 
Major,  23n. 

"Egg  Harbor,  The  Affair  at,"  by 
General  W.  S.  Stryker,  159n. 
Egg  Harbour,  42,  86,  100,  186,  335, 
337,  345,  379,  454,  536,  615, 
638,  653,  659;  brig  taken 
off,  476. 

brig  carried  into,  548  ;    expedi- 
tion  to,   155. 

galley  cast  away  near,  25. 
letter  put  on  shore  at,  336. 
negro  run  away  at,  490. 
rebels  met  off,  334. 
river,  616,  659. 
schooner  for  sale  at,  490. 
ship    driven    ashore    at,    201. 
sloop  ashore  at,  190,  207. 
whale-boats    put    out   of,    42. 
Eglenton,    Edward,    130. 
Ekler,  William,  46. 
Eldridge,  William,  innkeeper,  "Sign 
of     the     Fox ;"      Greenwich, 
Gloucester        county,        495  ; 
horse  strayed  or  stolen  from, 
498 ;     land    for    sale    at    the 
house  of,  129,  130,  450,  620. 
Election,    Somerset  county,   481. 
Elizabeth,    36,    43,    375,   459n. 

borough  of,  horse  stolen  in  the, 

365. 

Elizabeth-Town.  9,  10,  lln,  22,  29n, 
37,    45.    78,    108n,    120,    122, 
139,  161,  165,  229,  235,  252, 
258,  311,  323,  372,  384,  392, 
392n,     439,     440,     441,     458, 
460,     463n,     490,     512,     524, 
540,  548,  550,  555,  562,  587, 
598,  599,  630,  634,  635,  638, 
652,    667,   668,   673,   707. 
arrivals   at.   373. 
attack  on,  160. 
attempt  to  surprise,  106. 
borough,     land     purchased    in, 

234. 

brigade,  582. 
currier  wanted  in,  478. 
death  near,  504. 
deserters  came  into,  454. 
destruction  of  the  barracks  at, 

119. 
elopement   in,   228. 


excursion  of  the  enemy  to,  163. 
extracts    of   letters    from,    106, 

216,  254,  428,  429,  698. 
fair  at,   663. 

furniture,  &c..  for  sale  in,  164. 
guard  for,  538. 
horses,  &c.,  for  sale  at,  406. 
land   for  sale   in,   39,   60,   164, 

180,   236,   508,   528,   529. 
letter  from,  266. 
marriage  at,  226. 
merchandise   for   sale    in,    466, 

505,   508. 
robbery  in,  414. 
sailors  exchanged  at,  447. 
sloop  for  sale  at,  44. 
stage  waggon  to  go  from,  605. 
tea,  &c.,  for  sale  in,  470. 
troops  stationed   at,   555. 
West    India    rum    for    sale    in, 

191. 
Elizabeth-Town  Point,  686. 

enemv  landed  near,  160. 
Ellis,  Bathsheba,   364n. 

Daniel,    Clerk.    361  ;     Register, 

553  :    biographical  sketch  of, 

362-365. 
Ebenezer,  165. 
Joseph,  136n  ;    suit  brought  by, 

136,   200. 
Levi,  165. 
Margaret,  13n. 
Thomas,  165. 
Rowland,     biographical     sketch 

of,     361-365  ;      schoolmaster, 


family,    361n. 

Elmer,  Philemon,  executor,  horses 
for  sale  by,  674. 

Timothy,  Representative  in  As- 

sembly,  716. 

Elopements,  166,  192,  193.  228, 
229,  312,  349,  412,  413,  452, 
462,  494,  582.  636,  667. 

a  false  report.  704. 
Elwell,  Israel,   73,  369. 
Ely,  George,  545n. 
Emerson,  James,  181,  617,  645n. 
Emmans,    Stephen,    53. 
Emmons,   Capt.   Hendrick,   97. 

Jacob,  94. 

Employment  wanted,  661. 
Engagements,    475,    491,    504. 

at  Charleston,  S.  C.,  455. 

at  Powles-Hook,   622-624. 

at  Stony  Point,  517. 
England,  24,  201,  587,  615. 

prices  of  articles  in,  126. 
Englewood,    567n. 
English  cherries,  21,  36. 

meadows.    74. 

Neighborhood,    402,    564,    565, 
567. 

Creek,  625. 


INDEX. 


743 


Englishtown,    552 ;     land    for    sale 

near,  55. 

Ephinston,  Hon.  Capt.,  566. 
Erskine,  Sir  W.,  429. 
"Erskine,    Sir    William,"    letter    of 

marque  brig,  42. 
Erwine,  James,  broke  gaol,  523. 
Esdall,  James'  tavern-keeper,  496. 
"Essay  on  Our  Present  Calamities," 

208-218. 
Essex    county,    92,    503,    504,    528, 

536,    559,    595,    598,    668. 
committee,  meeting  of  the,  501, 

596. 

information  from,  374. 
land   for   sale    in,    48. 
Loyalists,    327,    329,    372,    383, 
508,    528. 


members     of     the     Legislature, 

716. 
Essex  Light  Horse,  493n. 

regiment   of   militia,   459n. 
Estey,  Moses,  jun..  150. 
Euerse,   Barant,   98. 
Europe,  fineries  from,  174. 
Evans,  Elizabeth.  434n. 
Everet,  —      — ,  516. 
Everett,    Joseph,    land    for    sale    in 

the    possession    of,    533. 
Everson,    Barent,    526. 
Evesham   Township,   101,   721. 
Ewing,  Charles,  attorney-at-law,  8n. 

James,   Assemblyman,   716. 
Execution  of  soldiers,  292  ;    of  two 

men   for   felony,    291. 
Eyren  Haven,  Annals  of,  78n. 


F. 


Fagan, 


-,   robber,  53. 


Captain,  537. 
Phoenix,  613. 

Fairchild,  Miss  Clorinda,  67,  677. 
Fail-field,    108n ;     land   for   sale    in, 

152. 

pastor   of   church   at,    108n. 
Fairfield       township,       Cumberland 
county,    265 ;     land   for   sale 
in,  488  ;    negro  run  away  in, 
225. 

Falker,    John,    92,   384. 
Falmouth,  burning  of,  104. 
Far,   Thomas,   571. 
Farce,  Philip,  46. 
"Farmer,"  article  by  a,  84. 
"Farmer,  Jersey,"  article  by  a,  639, 

640. 
Farmer,  Brook,  land  for  sale  at  the 

house  of,  590. 
Jasper,   586. 
Peter,  586. 

Farming  utensils  for  sale.  69. 
Farr,  Thomas,  house  of  attacked  by 

armed  men,  548. 
Mrs.,  killed,  548. 
Farrand,    Stephen,    47,    327. 
Faulkinburg's     Island,     salt     works 

for  sale  on,  264. 
Federalist,  660n. 
Fell,  Col.  Peter  R.,  470,  592. 
Fenimore,     Abram,     land     for     sale 

late  the  property  of,   450. 
Thomas,  Assemblyman,   701. 
Joseph,  363n. 
William,  363n. 
Fenton  Falls,  456. 
Fenton,    Lewis,    house   broken   open 
by,    571  ;     man    knocked    off 
horse  by,  641,  649. 
Ferguson,  Pat,  Captain  70th   Regi- 


ment.   155,    303 ;     report   by, 
155-157. 
John,    stage    waggon    kept    by, 

605. 

Ferries,     "Continental,"    436. 
Cooper's,  452. 

Coryell's,    149,    245 ;     for   sale, 
90  ;    land  for  sale   near,  36. 
Crane's,  106.  122. 
Decker's.  686. 
King's,  414,  447,  517. 
Little     Ferry,     rebel    guard    at 

the,    251. 
"Lower."   436. 
Old  Ferry,   117.   350. 
Robertson's.   45. 
Shameny,  436. 
Thomas's  Ferry,  392n. 
Trenton.  6:    for  sale,   111. 
"Upper."    436.   478. 
Ferry  for  sale.  Ill,  112. 
Field.  John.  524,  562,  613,  614. 
Fields,      John,      horse      strayed     or 

stolen  from.  486. 
Finances    of    the    State,    article    on 

the.   304-307. 

Finch,  Nathaniel,  lieutenant  and 
adjutant  of  Hathorne's  N. 
Y.  Militia  Regiment,  killed, 
579n. 

Finlay,  Edward,  206. 
Finten,    Elijah,    165. 
Fires,  301,  417. 
First      Jersey      regiment,      deserter 

from,   398. 
First  Mountain,  cow  stolen  on  the, 

192. 
"First     Sussex     Centenary,"     581n, 

cited. 
Fisher,  Hendrick.  deceased,  636. 

Jeremiah,    executor,    notice   by, 

636. 
Captain,  Company  of,  21n. 


744 


INDEX. 


Fish-Kill,   432. 

Fisler,    Jacob,    land    for    sale    near, 

450. 
Fithian,     Joel.     Representative     in 

Assembly,   716. 
Philip      Vickers,      journal      of, 

109n. 

Fitzgerald,  Ambrose,  estate  of,  487. 
Fitz-Randolph,   Capt.,   77. 
David,  95. 

Captain  Nathaniel,  16.  65.  76. 
Robert.   92,   95. 
Flanders,      Europe.      Maryborough's 

victory   at,   321. 
Flanders,   Morris  county,   06.")  ;   land 

for  sale  in.  22S. 
Flax  for  sale.   45,   69. 
Flaxseed  wanted.  39.  88. 
Fleet,   John,   constable,  50. 
Fleming,    William,   land   for   sale   in 

the   possession    of.   533. 
Flemington.   245,   661. 

land     for     sale     in,     150.     332. 

396. 

land  for  sale  near.   112. 
Flemingtown.    451. 
Floch.   John.   394n. 
Florida,   401. 
Flour   for   sale,   1  :     price  of.   act   to 

regulate,  162. 
Forage     Department,     demands     on 

the.'  47. 

transportation  of.   7. 
Ford.      Col..      301.      321  :       scouting 
party   of   British   detachment 
discovered  by.  300. 
Ebenezer,   commissioner   of  for- 
feited estates,  90.  96.  323. 
Eunice.   275n. 
Hannah,    275n. 
John.    95. 
Oswald.    95. 
Samuel,   275n. 
William,    322. 

Fordick,   Nicholl.   612,    613. 
Forfeited  estates,   131. 
Forges  for  sale.   510.   574,   634. 
Forges  :     Taunton,   702. 
Forks    of   Little-Egg-Harbour,    sloop 
"Retrieve"    for    sale    at    the, 
474. 

Forman.    Col.    Samuel,    90.    95.    114. 
179:      commissioner    of    for- 
feited   estates,    324,    368. 
For  sale,   a   schooner,   1. 
Forsman,    William.    650  :     land    for 
sale    late    the    property    of, 
450. 
Forsyth.    Robert,    Capt.    623.    626. 

629. 

Fort  Clinton,  411n.  429. 
Fort  Defiance.  548. 
Fort  Lee   road.  625. 
Fort   Montgomery.   411n,   517. 


Fort  Niagara,  440. 
Fort  Oswego,  captured  at,  434n. 
Fort  St.  Johns,  411n. 
Fort  Washington,  23. 
Fosdick,    Nicholl,    612n ;     hulls    of 
vessels     for     sale    by,     637 ; 
articles  for  sale  by,  646. 
Foster,  Allehanson,  465,  602. 
Ebenezer,  95. 
Jacob,   household  furniture  for 

sale  at  the  house  of,  465. 
Joshua,  245. 

Josiah,    Representative    in    As- 
sembly, 701. 

Found,  gold  watch,  79  ;    silver,  79. 
Fox.  Ann,  418n. 

Hendrick,   98j  525. 
Jacobus,   98,  526. 
Mattenes,   526,   529. 
Fox    Hill,    Morris    county,    land   for 

sale   on,   451. 
horse  stolen  at,  464. 
Fox  skins  wanted,  57. 
France,   291  n,    663. 

alliance    with,    78,    124  ;     anni- 
versary of,   103,   118. 
Ambassador  from,  278. 
arrival  of  the,  29,  310. 
and     Great     Britain,     war     be- 
tween,  125. 

commissioners  to,   380,  439. 
Confederacy   for,    660. 
King   and    Queen    of,    toast    to, 

404. 

prices  of  articles  in,  126. 
woolen  manufactures  from,  126. 
Francois.  Cape,  25. 
Franklin,    Doctor,    404,    545n. 

William,     Governor,     13n,    401, 
41 5n,    427n.    452n,   453;     ap- 
pointment  by,    364n ;     letter 
from,   473  :     letter  to,  471. 
Franklin   township,   527. 
Frazee,    James,    92,    384. 

James,   jun.,   384,   508,   528. 
Rev.    William,    561. 
Frazier,   David.   559. 
Fredericks,   Conrad,  98,  525. 

Hendrick,   98,   525. 
Freehold.    89,    280,    284,    285,    367, 

541. 
Continental     Troops     stationed 

at,    77. 
court-house,    land   for   sale    at, 

94,  95,  180,  610. 
Freeland,   James,   land   for  sale  by, 

377. 
Freeland's   fort,   enemy   masters   of, 

549. 

Freelinghauson.  Col.  Frederick,  638. 
Freeman,    Abraham,    232. 

Melanthon,  physician,  227. 
Freese,    Jacob,    house    for    sale    be- 
longing to,  528. 


INDEX. 


745 


Frelinghuysen,     Col.     battalion     of, 

180. 
Fred.,     49 ;      commissioner     of 

forfeited  estates,   153. 
French,  293. 

French  and  Indian  wars,  275n. 
books  for  sale,  75. 
British     store-ships     taken     by 

the,   560. 

capture  by  the,  714. 
fleet,    660,    714 ;     arrival    of   a, 
30,    31,    41,    550,    715 ;     ex- 
pected, 629. 
minister  to  the  United  States, 

291n. 

French,    Joseph,    328,    329,    373. 
Robert,   631. 


"Friend     to     Liberty,"     article     by, 

596,  632,  633. 
Frigate  lost,  25. 

Fugitives,  estates  of,  forfeited,  543. 
Fuld,  John,  481. 
Fullers  wanted,  15. 
Fulling-mill,  36,  89,  150;    land  for 

sale  joining,  99. 
Furman,  Moore,  417n  ;    D.  Q.  M.  G., 

417 ;        horse       strayed      or 

stolen,    to    be    returned     to, 

559  ;    negro  woman  for  sale 

by,    34. 
Fnsman,  William,  land  of,  for  sale, 

181. 


G. 


Gabb,  Sarah,  eloped,  453. 

Gach,  Philip.  95. 

Gaghseonghwa,    N.    Y..   649. 

Gaine,   Hugh,  printer.  49,  328,  472. 

Galbreath,   Thomas,   328. 

Galley  lost,   24. 

Galloway,   Joseph,  48n,  71. 

Samuel,    221. 

Gambler,  Admiral,  310  :    arrival  of, 
254  ;  letter  from,  158  ;  order 
by,  30. 
Gamble,  James,  452. 

Wm.,    154 ;     servant   run   away 

from,  5. 

Gano,    William,    Assemblyman,    701. 
Garbett,   Dr.,   485n. 
Gardiner,   Mr.,   121,    186. 
Thomas,   362n,   363n. 
Gardner,    Hannah,    advertises    hus- 
band, 229. 
Levy,     advertises     wife,     229 ; 

eloped,  229. 

Rufus,   662,   710 ;    second  lieu- 
tenant, 100. 
Thomas,  132,  526. 
Garrabrants,  Garrabrant,  jun.,  327. 

Nicholas,  328. 

Garretson,  Benjamin,  deserter,  537. 
Garrison,   John,   298. 

William,  commissioner  of  for- 
feited estates,  73,  116,  369, 
528. 

William,  executor,  76. 
Gaskins,   William,   524. 
Gaston's  grist  and  fulling  mills.  89  ; 

land  for  sale  joining,  99. 
Gates,   Gen.,  411n,   715. 
Gault,  Robert,  384,  508,  528. 
Geddes,  George.  513. 

Capt.,  arrival  of.  536. 
General    Assembly,    97.    108n.    235, 

253,    346,    483.    515,    586. 
acts  of  the,   73,   112.   151,  482- 


484,  554,  644,  658,  681,  682, 
686. 
act    of,    for    sale    of    lands    of 

Lord  Stirling,  532. 
election   of   Representatives   in, 
from    Salem    and    Gloucester 
counties,   200 ;    for  Somerset 
county,  481. 
laws   passed  by   the,   ready  for 

delivery,  43,  609. 
meeting  of  the,   215,   264.   399, 

616. 

of  Pennsylvania,  307. 
petitions  to,   360.   684,   686. 
General  election,  list  of  Representa- 
tives chosen  at  the,  700,  701. 
General   Proprietors  of  West-Jersey, 

552. 

Genesee,    N.    Y.,    649. 
Georgia,    24,    401,    485n,    536,    646 : 

army  in,   660. 

British  in.  455  :    fleet  at,  566  : 

Hessians  to  be  sent  to,  118; 

troops   re-embarked  for,   216. 

Gerard,   Monsieur,  660  :    arrival  of, 

291,      310,      640 ;       passing 

through    Trenton,    320,    660, 

663. 

Germain,  Lord  George,  extract  of  a 

letter  to,   155. 
German  steel  for  sale,  665. 
Germantown,      433n  ;       battle      of, 

700n. 

Giberson,  Benjamin,  95.  368. 
Gilbert,   94,  368. 
Guisebert,  jun.,   99. 
Mallakiah,  94. 
William,  jun..   94,  368. 
Gie,  Robert,  cooper,  broke  gaol.  643. 
Gifford,  Joseph,  deserter,  638. 
Gilbertson,  John,  54. 
Gilian,  William.  457. 
Gill,     John,     681  ;      loan     commis- 
sioner, 682. 


746 


INDEX. 


Gilletfs  "History  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church  in  the  U.  S. 
A.,"  419n,  cited. 

Gillison,  John,  Captain  6th  Vir- 
ginia Regt,  366;  Captain 
10th  Va.,  367n. 

Githens,  Daniels,  escaped  gaol,  492  ; 
convicted    of    grand    larceny, 
714. 
Glass-house,  land  for  sale  near  the, 

119,  154. 

Gleason.  Oliver,  385. 
Gloucester,    136,    449,    491,    492. 
company  from,  550. 
land  for  sale  in,  128,  450,  556, 

619. 
loyalists,    sale    of    real    estate 

of,  449. 
militia,  2n. 

Gloucester    county.     2n,     75,     109n, 
136,     293,     365n,     3S2,     399, 
41 5n,  686. 
committee    on     loan    appointed 

for.   559. 

escaped  .from   gaol.   492. 
horse  strayed  in.  498. 
land  to  lot  in,  52. 
loyalists.  495,   527,  650,   714. 
members     of     the     Legislature, 

200,    716. 
petition   of   the   inhabitants  of, 

684. 

Godhers.    William.   95. 
Goelet,   IVter.   132. 
Golden,   George,  417. 

John,    417. 
Gollet,   Peter.   526. 
Goodman.  Robert.  46. 
Gordon,    Charles,    land    for    sale    in 

the   possession  of,   533. 
Lieutenant       Colonel       Cosmo, 
565  :     detachment   under  the 
command   of.   564. 
Peter,    horse   strayed    or    stolen 

from.   436. 

William.       -History       of       the 
American      Revolution1'      by, 
143n.    5Sln,    cited. 
Gorman,  John.  46. 
Goshen,     N.     Y..     207,     234,     580n, 

581n. 

execution  at.   81. 
Goslin,  David,  62.  63,  322,  435. 
Governor's  Island,   663. 

works    to    be    thrown    up    on, 

697. 

Graham,   Sarah,   widow,   164. 
Grammar  School,  324. 
Granada.  British  Islands  of,  560n. 
Grant,   Col.,   220.   221. 

Lewis,    coppersmith,    land    for 

sale  by.  377. 

Gray,   Capt.  James.  49,  328. 
Samuel,   broke  gaol,   643. 


Gray    (Maj.  Gen.  Charles),  559. 
Graydon,  Alexander,  23n. 
Great-Britain,    allegiance    to,    213 ; 

war  with  France,  125. 
Great  Egg  Harbour,  397. 

river,    449  ;     land  for   sale  on, 

78. 

township,  land  for  sale  in,  78. 
Great  Mantua   Creek,   land  for  sale 

on,'  547,  563. 
Great    Meadows,    land    for    sale    in 

the,   168. 
Groat  Swamp,  land  for  sale  in  the, 

534. 

Green,  Anna  (Smith),  485n. 
"Green  Bank,''  land  .for  sale  called, 

137. 

Green,  George,  485n. 
James,   40. 
Major-General,   216. 
Reuben,  46. 
Richard,   703. 
William,    328 ;     land    for    sale 

at  the  house  of,  553. 
Greene.    Major   General,    extract    of 

a  letter  from,  517. 
Mrs..  103. 

Greenfield,   Lewis.  47,  327. 
Greenman,    Xehemiah,    horse    stolen 

from,   493. 

"Greens,"   party  of  the,   698. 
Greenwich.       Cumberland       county, 

108n.    151.    662,    672;     land 

for    sale    in,    333. 
Greenwich,   Gloucester   county,   land 

for    sale    in,    450 ;     land   for 

sale     on     the     road     leading 

from,    333. 
Greenwich.      Sussex      county,      397, 

398,   400. 
Greenwich      township,       Gloucester 

county,  land  for  sale  in,  117, 

129,  130.  131,  495,  547,  563. 
Greenwich  township,  Sussex  county, 

loyalists    in.     46 ;      land    for 

sale    in,    133,    332. 
Gregory.    Seth,    271,    603  ;      horses, 

&CM    for   sale   by.   478. 
Grenada,  sea-fight  off.  560. 
Greswold.    Joseph,    cattle,    &c.,    for 

sale  by.  611. 

Grieff,  John,  land  of,  for  sale,   129. 
Griffin,  Moses.  16. 
Griggs,    Daniel,    294. 

Joakin,   661. 
Griggs-Town.    281,    294  ;     land    for 

sale  at.  97,  201. 
Grimes,   Robert,   62. 
Grist-mills.    12n.    89 ;     for    sale,    1, 

78.   129.    130,   180,   183,   184, 

261  ;    land  for  sale  near,  99. 
Groft,  Mr.,  221. 
Groten,   25. 


INDEX. 


747 


Grover,    Barzilah,    94,    368. 

Joseph,  94. 

Samuel,  94. 

Thomas,   94. 

William,  94. 
Gruff,  John,  650. 
Gruffyth,  John,  auditor,  136. 


Guest  family,  642n. 

Guest,  Henry,  75,  586;  leather 
curried  by,  667  ;  leather  ex- 
changed by,  642. 

Gun-smiths  wanted,  274. 

Guyot,   Prof.   Arnold,   109n. 


H. 


Hackensack  gaol,  execution  at,  251, 

384. 
land  for  sale  in   the  town  of, 

527. 

mare  taken  up  at,  237. 
precinct,   526. 

Hacket's-Town,      515,      589,      602 ; 
caution    against    buying    the 
mills  at,  645  ;    land  for  sale 
near,     168,    350 ;     land    for 
sale  at,   535 ;    grist   mill   at, 
for  sale,   510. 
Hackinsack,  592. 
Hackinsack  township,  132. 
Hadden,  Thomas,  jun.,  biographical 

sketch  of,   45  2n. 
Haddon,    William,    obituary    notice 

of,  370n,  371. 
Haddonfield,    136,    449,    497,    537; 

mare  stolen  near,  473. 
Hageman,  John,  horse  stolen  from, 

395. 

Hagerthy,  Patrick,  165. 
Haight,    Colonel   Joseph,    101. 
Haines,  Elizabeth,  136n. 

Ephraim,     servant     run     away 

from,   103. 
Job,  491. 
Stephen,   robbery  in   the   house 

of,   414. 

Hait,  Benjamin,  169. 
Heitman's    "Historical    Register    of 
Officers    of    the    Continental 
Army,"  579n,  cited. 
Haldimand,  General,  401. 
Halifax,    216,    401,    659,    663,    696; 
transport    ship    from,     201  ; 
troops  from,  477. 
Hall,  David,  taken  prisoner,  491. 
Jacob,  152;    estate  of,  487. 
John,    D.D.,    7n;     "Hist.    Pres. 
Church     in     Trenton,"     by, 
419n,   cited. 
Hallett,    Jacob,    192 ;     articles    for 

sale  by,  666. 
Hallit,  Joseph,  328. 
Halsey,  Benjamin,  193. 
Daniel,  jun.,  83. 
Joseph,  463n. 
Phebe,  463n. 

Halstead,  Mr.,  taken  prisoner,  459. 
Halsted,   Matthias,   191;   biographi- 
cal sketch  of,  191n  ;  land  for 
sale  by,  634. 


Halsted's  point,  458. 

Hambleton,  Phebe,  229. 

Hamilton,    Colonel    Alexander,    22 ; 

letters  to  and  from,  31. 
John,  tools  for  sale  by,  406. 
President  John,   lln. 
Hammitt,   Joseph,  721. 
Hammond,    Sir    Andrew,    Comman- 
der, 646,  697. 

Hampden-Sydney,  Virginia,   671. 
Hampton,  —      — ,  prisoner,  722. 

Ann   F.,   administratrix,   notice 

by,   707. 

John,  57,  94,  368. 
Jonathan,  deceased,  707. 
Hand,   Hezekiah,   412n. 

Stephen,    169,    412n ;    "Verses" 

by,  for  sale,  412. 
Hand's  corps,  439. 
Handy,   Captain,   623,   624,   626. 
Hanging  of  a  soldier,  310. 
Hanisey,  James,  650  ;    land  for  sale 

belonging  to,   129. 
Hankenson,    William,    commissioner 
of  forfeited  estates,  land  for 
sale  by,  553. 
Hankeson,  Thomas,  45. 
Hankinson,  John,  94. 

Kenneth,  commissioner  of  for- 
feited estates,  90,  95,  324, 
368. 

"William,    commissioner   of   for- 
feited   estates,    329. 
Hanlon,  Bernard,  545n. 
Hannah,     Preston,     land     for     sale 

joining,  488. 

Hannison,    Henry    J.,    98. 
Hanover,   Morris   county,   111,   148, 

166,   170,  409. 
hemp  seed  for  sale  in,  236. 
horse    stolen   in,    270. 
horse  strayed  in,  461,  510. 
parchment  found  in,  631. 
land  for  sale  in,  237,  707. 
wife  eloped  in,  636. 
Hanover        township,        Burlington 
county,  servant  run  away  in, 
367. 

Harber,  Jacob,  94. 
Harber's  plantation,   of,   321. 
Hardenbergh,    Rev.    Jacob   R.,    443, 
585  ;    Clerk,  Queen's  College, 
218,  585,  609. 
Harding,  ,  516. 


748 


INDEX. 


Hardingtown,  582. 

Hardiston,  543n. 

Hardy,  Governor  Josiah,  12n. 

William,  646. 
Hardwich,   Sussex  county,   land  for 

sale  in,  400,  551,  553. 
Haring,  Abraham  C.,  526. 

John   C.,   526. 
Harington  township,  Bergen  county, 

526. 

Harker,   Captain,   580n. 
Harknoss,      James,      money      stolen 

from,    7. 

Harned,   Benjamin,  46. 
John,  95. 
Nathaniel,  95. 
Harper,  Henry,  561. 
Harring.   Capt.,   518,   519. 
Peter,  559. 
Peter  I.,  526. 
Harrington  township,  land  for  sale 

in,    132n. 

Harris,     John,     Bridgewater     town- 
ship,   Loyalist,    96,    97,    219, 
591  :        deserter      from      the 
First  Jersey  Regiment  398. 
Harrislmrg.    23n. 

Harrison,    Col.   Robert   Hanson,    let- 
ter to,  31. 
Samuel,   328. 
William,   130,   586. 
Hart,  Dr.  Alexander,   485n. 

Edward,     executor,     land     for 

sale  by,   G18. 
Elizabeth,    394n. 
Jesse,    executor,    land    for   sale 

by,    618. 

John.    Assemblyman,    death   of, 
380n,     561  :      deceased.     416, 
485  :     land    for    sale    belong- 
ing to  the  estate  of,  618. 
Joseph,    449. 
Levi,    executor,    land    for    sale 

by,    618. 
Nathaniel,    executor,    land    for 

sale   by.   618. 
Ralph.   561. 
Hartley,   Joseph,   651. 
Hartshorne    family.    295n. 

Richard,  land  for  sale  by.  295. 
Harvey,   William.    114,    115. 
Haslop.    Lieut.,    251. 
Hatfield's    "Elizabeth."    392n,    cited. 
Hathorn.   Colonel   John,   commander 
of   the   Warwick   regiment  of 
militia,       578.       579,       580n, 
581n. 

Hatton.    John.    131,    050. 
Haughabout,    Peter.    618  ;     land   for 
sale     in     the     possession     of, 
533. 

Havanna,    320n,    696. 
Haven,    Mr.,    637.    646. 
Haverstraw,    402. 


Haviland,   John,   Lieutenant  in   the 
Essex    Regiment    of    militia, 
taken  prisoner,  441,  459n. 
Hay,    Lieut.    Col.,   wounded,    518. 
Hayden,     -        — ,     taken    up,     640. 

Captain  Samuel,  456,  457. 
Hayes,     Samuel,     commissioner     of 
forfeited  estates,  48,  49,  79, 
81,  328,  329,  373. 
Head-quarters,    extract    of    a    letter 

from,  560. 

Health   of   the    inhabitants   of   Jer- 
sey, cause  of  the  poor,  620. 
Heard,  John,  Loyalist,  95,  223. 

General    Nathaniel,    188,    221; 
battalion    of,    392n ;    brigade 
of,  108n,  485n  ;    horse  stolen 
or  strayed  from,  369. 
Hedden,  Israel,  Sheriff,  313. 

Joseph,    jun.,    commissioner    of 
forfeited  estates,   48,   49,   79, 
81,   328,    329,    373;    Modera- 
tor, 596. 
Hedges.   Gilbert,  674. 

Gideon,      senr.,      hogs     strayed 

from,   409. 

Heighfs-Town,    71,    299. 
Heinhaugen,    Henry,    runaway    ser- 
vant,  5. 

Heitman's   "Register,"   411n. 
Helby's    Survey,    part    of,    for    sale, 

152. 

Helm.   Robert.  322. 
Helnit,   William,   deserter,   410. 
Hemp,   39. 

Hemsted,  Jeremiah,  95. 
Hendishton    (Hardiston),    land    for 

sale   in,   543,   544. 
Hendly,  Charles,  613. 
Hendricks.   Conrad,   94. 

John,  272. 
Hendrickson,    Col.,    301,    441,    456, 

475. 

Henery,    Capt.    John,    27. 
Henry,    Daniel,    247. 
Capt.    John,   66. 
Samuel,  185,  223,  619. 
Hernon.  widow,  innkeeper,  land  for 

sale  at  the  house  of,   590. 
Herrin,  John  C.,  98. 
Herring,  Peter  T.,  98. 
Herrington  township,   132. 

land    for    sale    in,     132.       See 

Harrington    township. 
Hessians,  447,   568,   627,   629,  659; 
embarkation    of,    118 ;     land- 
ing of  the,   564. 
Hessian    prisoners,    arrival    of,    568, 

587. 

Colonel,   653. 
Corps,   401. 

deserters,    arrival   of,    23. 
major,  663. 
regiments,  158n,  663. 


INDEX. 


749 


Heston,  Alfred  M.,  78n,  301n. 

Thomas  &  Co.,   salt  works  for 

sale  by,  204. 
Hetfield,   Caleb,   188. 

Cornelius,    109;    Loyalist,   441. 
Cornelius,   jun.,   384,   458,   508, 
-90 

James,  92,  384. 
Job,   384. 

John  Smith,   92,   109,   383. 
Heulings,   Abraham,   362n,    363n. 
Rachel,  363n. 
William,   362n. 
Hewitt,   Jacob,   131,   650. 
Hewlings,    Abraham,    364n. 
Joseph,    111,    115,   417. 
Hewlins,    Joseph,    369. 
Hews,   Beach  and,   merchandise  for 

sale  by,  505. 
Hibernia     furnace,     horse     strayed 

from   the,   260. 
iron    works,     robbery     at     the, 

310,   347. 

Hickson,   Nathan,   67. 
Hicks,   Oliver,   94,   368. 
Hides  for  exchange,  28. 
Hides-town,   mills  for  sale  at,   121. 
Higbee,  Jos.,  72. 
High,   John,   deceased,   674. 
Highlanders,  arrival  of,  587. 
Highlands,    429 ;     enemy    driven   to 

the,   301. 

Hight's-town,  land  for  sale  at,  179. 
Hill,    James,    executor,    horse,    &c., 

for  sale  by,  703. 
Hillsborough,  Somerset  county,  153, 

449,  523. 

Himion,  Adam,  98. 
Hendrick,  98. 
Jacob,  98. 

Himjon,  Adam,   526. 
Hendrick,  525. 
Jacob,  525. 
Hinchman,    James,    apprentice    lad, 

run  away  from,  638. 
John,     128,     136n,     362n,     496, 
650 ;     land   for    sale    belong- 
ing   to,    449 ;     property    for 
sale     late     of,     495 ;       suit 
brought  against,  136. 
Hinkson,  Benzeor,  94,  367. 
Hinnion,   Hendrick  J.,   526. 
Hispaniola,   43. 

"History  of  Paterson,"  359n,  cited. 
Hoagland,  Cornelius,  234. 
Obadiah,   46. 
Okey,   418. 

Hoatham,   Commodore,  41. 
Hobuck,  303. 
Hodge,  Andrew,  337. 

Rev.     Charles,     D.D.,     life     of, 

109n. 
Hugh,  337. 


Hoebuck,   skirmish   near,    359. 

tories  stationed  at,  292. 
Hoff,   Charles,   house  of,   plundered. 

Charles,  jun.,  260. 

John,   665. 
Hofhell,   Adam,   deceased,   151. 

Michael,    151. 
Hoffman,  Nicholas,  49,   165,  328. 

Philip  H.,  534n. 
Hogan,    General,   177. 
Hogg,    Richard,    runaway    servant, 

162. 

Hog-Island,  487. 
Hohokus,   359n. 
Holcomb,  Richard,  619. 
Holland,     East-India     goods     from, 

126. 

Hollanders,   353. 
Hollingshead,   Joseph,   362n,   363. 

Susannah,  363n. 
Holme's-Bank,  for  sale,  152. 
Holmes,    Col.,    321  ;     militia   assem- 
bled by,  301. 

Elias,  mulatto,  broke  gaol, 
384. 

Joseph,  Representative  in 
Council,  701. 

Justice,  plundering  at,  301. 

Obediah,   66. 
Holmes  v.  Walton,  the  New  Jersey 

precedent,   352n. 
Holt,   John,   499n. 

Holt,  Norfolk  county,  England,  370. 
Holton,  Peter,   95. 
Honeman,  John,   201. 
Hones,  John,  529. 
Honeyman,      John,      Loyalist,      96 ; 

land  of,  for  sale,  97,  113. 
Hoofman,  Christopher,  46. 
Hooper,   Abbe,  394n. 

Robt.  Lettis,   545n. 

Robert  L.,  jun.,  699  ;    D.  Q.  M. 

Go 
.,    55. 

Thomas,  179,  394n,  435. 
Hoops,   Robert,   66,  149. 
Hopkins,  Thomas,  219. 
Hopper,  Albert,  359n. 
Col.,    217,    221. 
"Devil,"  death  of,   345. 
Captain    Jonathan,    murder   of, 
358  ;    biographical  sketch  of, 
359. 

Rachel   (Alje),  359n. 
Thomas,  61. 
Hoppertown,  359n. 
Hopewell,  15,  28,  67,  397,  421,  449, 

452,   618. 
agreement    of    the    settlers    of, 

299n. 

Baptist  Meeting-house,  mer- 
chandise for  sale  near  the, 
4. 

death  in,   380. 
flaxseed  wanted  in,  88. 


750 


IXDEX. 


horses  for  sale  in,   247. 

horse  strayed  to.  203. 

land  for  sale  in.  112.  151.  152, 

396. 

"Horatius,"  article  by,  557. 
Hornbeck.  Isaac.  92. 
Hornblower,    Josiah,    Assemblyman, 

716. 
Homer.  Fuller.  94.  368. 

John.  Loyalist  94.  368. 
Homer's  Town,  grist  and  saw  mill 

for  sale  in.  183. 
Hornor.   John.   111. 
Horses  :    "Ajax."  150. 

"Arabian."  147.   177,  217,  221. 

"Babraham."    177. 

"Babram  Blank."  147. 

"Barb."   217.    221.   260. 

"Barb."  Mr.  Croft's  bay,  219. 

••Barbam,"   147. 

"Barton   Barb."   219. 

"Bastard."  190. 

"Bay  Bolton."  Duke  of  Bol- 
ton's.  190. 

"Bay   Richmond."    146. 

••Black-and-all-Black."    190. 

"Blunder."   331. 

••Bohemia."    194.    260. 

"Bold   Forrester."  233. 

"Bold  Hunter."   2S2. 

"Bolton."    147. 

"Bolton   Sloven."   190. 

Bulleroek    mare.    222. 

"Brimin>  r."   190. 

"Britannia."   ir.O.   221. 

"Briton."   231.   Oil. 

"Browse."    1SS. 

"Brummer."    219. 

"Bull-rock."   ITS.  234. 

"Bullyrock"  breed  for  sale. 
474. 

"Bustler."    147. 

"Canthas."    147. 

"Chancellor."    177. 

"Changeling."    147. 

"Chestnut   Arabian."    217.    221. 

••Chiiden."    177. 

•••'lea:  All."  24o. 

Comforth's    "Enigma."    147. 

"Conundrum."  Lord  Boling- 
broke's.  afterwards  Mr. 
Pigot's.  p-digree  of.  147. 

"Coxana."  Duke  of  Cleveland's. 

"Crab."    190. 
"Dabster."   231. 
"Dido."    147. 
"Dodsworth."   190. 
"Dove."   217.   218.   232. 
"Fearnot."   21S. 
Fenwick's    "Matchem."    147. 
"Fleetwood."    21S. 
••Flyins  Childers."   190. 
"Figure"   for  sale.   474. 


"Frederick"   for  sale,  474. 
"Gardner  mare,"  217. 
"Godolphin       Arabian,"       177, 

190. 

"Golden    Farmer,"    233. 
"Grandbay."  281. 
"Grandby,"  178,  611. 
"Grey  Hound,"  217.  221. 
"Grover's  Black,"   245. 
"Hampton      Court      Childers," 

190,    217,    221. 
"Harlequin."  for  sale,  611. 
'•Hector."   233. 
"Hermit."   191. 
"Hobgoblin,"  190. 
"Inactivity,"  331. 
"Independence."   194. 
Irish   mare,   for  sale.  474. 
"Janus."   219. 
"Jolly  Chester."   282. 
"Jolly  Rodger."  219. 
Lampton's  grey   mare,   219. 
"Laughing    Polly,"    177. 
"Lazy  Greys."  330. 
"Leater  Barb."  190. 
"Leeds."   217.   221. 
"Leopard,"    178. 
"Liberty."    217.    221.    232. 
"Lofty."   110.   299. 
"Loggerhead."  331. 
"Lugge."    177. 
"Maiden."   147. 
"Major-General."       221.       258, 

259. 

"Makeless."    219. 
"Mariamne."   190. 
"Mary  Gray."  219. 
"Mask."    147. 
•'Mate-hem."    147. 
"Merry  Andrew."   177. 
"Milley."   217.   221. 
"Miracle."    147. 
"Miss   Doe."   219. 
"Mogul."    147. 

"Musgrove's    Arabian."    217. 
"Nameless."  217. 
"Nimshi."   330. 
"Old  Authella."   194. 
"Old   Bullerock."    150. 
"Old  Bullyrock."  245,  282. 
"Old   Cade."    177. 
"Old    Deformity."    330. 
"Old   Dodsworth."   219. 
"Old  Figure."   190.   220,  245. 
"Old   Grandbay."   222. 
"Old  Grandby!"   282. 
"Old   Hero."   282. 
"Old  Liberty."   191. 
"Old  Snake."   190. 
"Old   Spark."   221. 
"Old  Sterling."   177,  219. 
"Old  Traveller."   231. 
"Old   Wilkes."   234. 
"Old    Woodcock,"    177. 


INDEX. 


751 


"Oronoeko,"   190. 
"Othello,"    190,    221,    260. 
"Old  Valiant."   245. 
"Pacalet,"  217. 
"Pacolate,"  222. 
"Pacolet,"   221. 

"Pastime,"    189,    190:     descrip- 
tion of,  166,  167. 
"Pol   Flaxon,"   219. 
"Pumkin,"  147. 
"Putnam,"   281. 
"Queen  Mab,"   217,  221. 
"Ragmuffin,"  330.   331. 
"Regular,"    221. 
"Riddle,"    147. 
"Rockwood,"  147. 
"Salem,"  232. 
"Scipio,"  298. 
"Scauing's   Arabian."    217. 
"Selima,"  190. 
"Selim,"   221. 
"Shepard's    Crab,"    190. 
"Slack,"  331. 
"Sloth,"   331. 
"Sloven,"  331. 
"Sluggard,"  331. 
"Slumber,"   331. 
"Spark,"  217.  282. 
"Squirt,"   147. 
"Steady,"   177. 
"Sterling,"   147,  269. 
"Swift,"  217. 
"Syphan,"   147. 
"Teazer,"   217. 
"Thunderbolt."    177. 
Tim's   Miss,   147. 
"Traveller,"   231. 
"True    Britain."    231. 
"True   Briton."    194,    220.    221, 

282,    234,    260. 
"Virgin,"    147. 
"Wilkes,"  221. 
"Willdair."    177. 
"Windless,"    217. 
"Young  Belsize,"   281. 
"Young  Bullerock,"   150. 
"Young  Cade."    217. 
"Young  Figure,"  245  ;  for  sale, 

220. 

"Young  Grandbay,"  221. 
"Young  Forrester,"  233. 
"Young  Sterling,"   194,  219. 
"Young  Wilkes,"  234. 
for  sale,  37,  69,  222,  247,  262. 

589. 

strayed,   9. 

stolen,  21,  45,  75,  93,  148. 
taken  up,  96. 
Horseneck,  188. 
"Hortentius,"      (Gov.     Livingston), 

sarcastic  allusion  to,  712. 
Horton,     Col.     Azariah,     appointed 
D.    Commissary    General    of 


Musters,  347  ;    executor,  228, 
272. 

Col.,  348. 

Eunice,  deceased,  228.  271. 
Foster,     310 ;      executor,     228, 
272 ;       marriage      of,      348 ; 
merchandise  for  sale  by,  468, 
501  ;      "Verses    on    Genesis" 
for  sale  by,  412. 
family,  notices  of  the,  347n. 
Hoskins,    John,   trustee.   363n. 
Housecker,   Colonel,   373. 
Houses  burned,   607. 

burned  by  Tories,  359. 
destruction  of,  11. 
Houses  for  sale,  9,  17.  21,  35,   39, 
42,  55.  56.  60,  70,  72,  74,  75, 
79,    83,    89,    91,    92,    93,    99, 
111,   113. 

Household  furniture  for  sale,  164, 
169,  222,  227,  228,  261,  271, 
278,  312,  323,  324,  406,  465, 
497,  505,  575,  611,  631.  665, 
703,  706. 
Household  furniture  and  wearing 

apparel   for  sale,   202. 
Household     furniture,      inhabitants 

plundered  of,   504. 
Houston,     William    Churchill,     325, 
360,  399n,  481.  672n  ;  Chair- 
man.   432 ;     elected    a    dele- 
gate to  Congress,  399. 
How,   Gen.,   518. 

John,    Clerk,   notice   by,    480. 
Gen.  Robert,  51 8n. 
Howard,  George.  49  ;    Loyalist,  128, 
153 ;         judgment        entered 
against,   591. 
Sheffield,  328,  329.  373. 
William,    92. 
Howbuck,  401. 
John,   365n. 
Maria,   365n. 

Howe,    General    Sir    William,    allu- 
sion to,   87. 

Howell.   Daniel,   deceased,   72. 
John,    executor,   72. 
Hezekiah.  negro  runaway  from, 
437  ;    negro  for  sale  by,  685. 
Obadiah,   683  ;    executor,   57. 
Silas,     mare     strayed     to     the 

plantation   of.    467. 
Timothy,  72. 

Howlet,  John,  taken  up,  382. 
Hubbel.  Nathaniel,   land  bought  by, 

508,   529. 

Hubby,    Captain   David.    600. 
Hudinot.    Samuel.    49,    328. 
Hudson's  river,  292,  372,  402  ;    land 

for  sale  on,  71. 
Hugg.   Samuel,  200. 

William,   land  for  sale  at  the 

house  of,  450. 
Hughes,   Charles  Philpot,   deceased, 


INDEX. 


notices    to    persons    indebted 

to   the   estate   of.   475. 
Mary     Magdalene,     administra- 
trix, notice  by,   475. 
Hulick.    Peter,    stay-maker,    19. 
Hull,    Benjamin,    land    for    sale    at 

the  house  of,  544. 
David.   065. 

Humphreys,   William,   415n. 
Hun,  Thomas,  72. 
Hunlock,   Thomas,   111,   417. 
Hunt.   Aaron,    land  for   sale    at   the 

house    of,    543,    544. 
Abraham.   478. 
Daniel,  218,  219. 
Doctor     John,     escaped,     58.3  ; 

captured,    607. 
Nathaniel.       commissioner       of 

forfeited  estates.  08,  HI,  113, 

393,    304n,    307. 
Robert,  horse  strayed  or  stolen 

from.   005  :     merchandise   for 

sale    by.    505. 
Samuel.  3H4n. 
Stephen,    administrator,    notice 

by.    470. 
Stephen.    005. 
Susannah,   434n. 
Thomas.       negro       wench       run 

away   from,   400. 
Hunter.     Rev.     Andrew,     pastor     at 

Fairlield       and       (Ireemvich, 

1 08. 
Rev.    Andrew.    2d,    Chaplain    of 

Cen.         Maxwell's        brigade, 

108n. 

David,   108.   108n,   lOOn. 
Hugh.    207. 


Lewis  Boudinot,  109n. 
Mary,    109n. 

Hunterdon  county,  12n,  96,  113, 
418n,  485,  536n,  545n,  700, 
701. 

cattle,   &c.,  for  sale  in,   611. 
committee    on    loan    appointed 

for,    559. 
Court  of  Common  Pleas  in,  68, 

485n. 

Justice  of  the  peace  for,  485n. 
Loyalists,  393,  396. 
negro  run  away  in,  295. 
petition  by   the   inhabitants   of, 

682. 

special   election   in,   416n. 
surrogate  of,  415n. 
First   Regiment,   485n. 
Huntingdon,    L.    I.,    371n. 
llurly.   Mrs..   420. 
Huston.    Paul,    horse    taken    up    by, 

630. 

Robert,    80. 

Hutchenson,   William,   4(5. 
Ilutcheson.   John,  40. 
Hutchinson.    John,    147,    233. 

Lieutenant,    457. 
Huyler.  Cornelius,  house  of,  burned, 

350. 

Lieut.   J.,   202. 
Hyde,    Col.,    321  ;     army    assembled, 

under.    304. 

Hyer,  Col.,  land  for  sale  near,  574  ; 
letter    from,    31  ;     report    of, 
J>1  ;     Royal    Army    under    the 
command   of,    303. 
Hyer,    Col.,    110. 


Imlay.   John,   committee  to  meet  at 

the   house   of,    540. 
Imported  salt   for  sale.   240.   247. 
Indians.    73,    248,    440,    502.    503n, 
007.  003. 

advance   of   the.   580n  ;   appear- 
ance  of,    510. 

attack   by,   548. 

attack  on,  606. 

depredations  committed  by  the, 
216. 

engagements   with,    60S. 

manoeuvre  of.  540. 

molested   by,    501. 

plundering   by   the,    540. 

protection    against    the,    555. 

Robert  Eastburn   a   prisoner  of 
the,    433n. 

successful     operations     of     the, 
42. 

success     against     the     confede- 
rate, 600. 

Sullivan's     expedition     against 
the,  427n,  640. 


Indian   corn  for  sale.   1. 

country,    587,   673. 
Indian   town,   561. 

burned.    572. 

towns,    destruction    of,    641. 
Ingersoll,     Samuel,    487,    524,    575, 

614. 

Ingolson.    Joseph,    269. 
Inness.    William,    55  ;     brewing    by, 

683. 

Inslee,  Joseph,  67  ;    Sheriff,  60,  248. 
Insley,  Christopher,  46. 

Jacob,   46. 

John,    46. 

Ozias,    46. 
Instey,     Christopher,     land    of,     for 

sale,    133. 
Ireland,    204,   523. 
Iron,   John,   95. 

Iron  AVorks,  Andover,  land  for  sale 
near  the.   350. 

Bloomary    forge    for    sale,    535. 

Brookland,   for   sale,   510. 

forge  for  sale,  634. 


INDEX. 


753 


forge  for  sale  near  Morris- 
town,  191. 

Hibernia,  347  ;  furnace,  260  ; 
robbery  at  the,  310. 

Mount  Hope,  234,  460 ;  furn- 
ace, 479 ;  land  for  sale 
near,  272,  298. 


Taunton  Forge,  566,  702. 

Union,  11,   13n. 
Irvine,  Dr.,  627. 

Matthew,    surgeon    to    cavalry, 

701. 

Island  Beach,   202. 
Ivins,   William,   363n. 


J. 


Jackman,  John,   death  of,  635. 
Jackson,   Charles,   tavern  keeper  at 
Woodbridge,     76 ;      captured 
by   the   British,    65,    77,    81  ; 
exchanged,    81,    86. 
James,  jun.,  deceased,  13. 
Thomas,   217. 
Jacobs,   John,   70,   186. 
Jacobus,  Garret,  48,  328. 
Jacobuse,  Henry,  189. 
Jamaica,    arrival    of    a    ship    from, 

587  ;    brig  from,   397. 
James,    a    negro,    accused    of    stab- 
bing his   master ;    convicted, 
714. 

James,  Capt.,  579n  ;    wounded,  579. 
John,    Keeper    of    the    common 

gaol  in  Trenton,  93,  684. 
Levi,    602. 
Robert,   323, 
Samuel,      servant     run      away 

from,   367. 

Janes,  Henry,  loss  of  will  of.  162. 
Jane  way,   George,   executor,   178. 
Jaquish,   David,  95. 
Jauncey,  James,  328,  373. 
Jauncy,  James,  329. 
Jay,   Ann,   660n. 

John,        291n ;         biographical 
sketch    of,    660n ;      Minister 
to  the  Court  of  Spain,  660. 
family,  640n. 
Jelf  and  Day,  merchandise  for  sale 

by,   466. 
Jelf,  Joseph,  deceased,  164. 

Mrs.,   women's  silk  clothes  for 

sale  at  the  house  of,  667. 
Jenkins,  Griffin,  327. 
Jennings,   John,   horse   stolen  from, 

631. 

Jersey  brigade,  extract  of  a  letter 
from  an  officer  in  the,  663  ; 
supplies  solicited  for  the, 
523  ;  tribute  offered  by  the 
General  and  Field-Officers  of 
the,  708. 

Jersey  coast,  380. 
"Jersey    Farmer,"    articles    by,    66, 

86,    389-391,    647-648. 
Jersey  Line,  108n  ;    enlisting  in  the, 

107n. 

militia,  men  drafted  from,  703. 
refugees,    428. 
regiment,   537. 


Jersey    Soldier,    A,   article   by,   307- 

309. 
Jersey      Volunteers,      Third,      man 

wounded  of  the,  159. 
Jessop,  Daniel,  526. 
Jewett,  Cavilear,  land  for  sale  for- 
merly of,  529. 
Jewit,    Cavilear,   92,   383. 
Jinkens,  Griffin,  47,  48n. 
Jissop,  Daniel,  132. 
Joans,  Edward,  98. 
Jobs,  William,  434n. 
Johnson,  Bernard,  279. 

George,   369. 

Gershom,  land  for  sale  by,  707. 

Heathcot,   90,   322. 

John,  280,  561,  590,  717. 

John,  junior,  562. 

Lewis,   362n. 

Peter,  151,  650;    land  for  sale- 
late  the  property  of,  450. 

Robert,  broke  gaol,  385. 

Seth,  16. 

Doctor  Uzal,  49,  328. 
Johnson's  battalion,  485n. 
Johnston,  Fergus,  702. 

Governor,    641. 

James,   360. 

John,  701. 

Richard,    193. 
Johnstone,    Governor,    110. 

Mr.,   commissioner,   213. 
Joline.  Anthony,  45. 

John   K.,   434n. 
Jones,  Ann,  433n. 

Aquilla,  250. 

Benjamin,  618. 

Benjamin,    jun.,    land    for   sale 
in  the  possession  of,  533. 

Capt.,    640 ;     vessel    taken    by, 
25. 

Col'.,   138. 

David,   Captain,   295. 

Edward,   526. 

Enoch,    run    away    apprentice, 
223. 

Mary  Ann,   434n. 

Moses,   434n. 

Captain  Samuel,  579n. 

Stephen,   land  for  sale  near,  9. 

Capt.  Thomas,   112. 

Thomas,   executor,   645. 

William.   434n. 
Jordan,    Frederick,    618. 


48 


754 


INDEX. 


Jordon,  Fred.,  land  for  sale  in  the 

possession    of.    533. 
Jouet,    Cavilear,    165,    383n ;     land 

of,  for  sale,  508. 
Journeymen  wanted,   24,   29. 

taylors    wanted,    58. 
Juliet,   159n. 


Lieutenant   Gustav,    158n. 
Jumping-Point-Inlet,    457. 
Justice,   Isaac,   131,  650 ;    land  for 

sale    late    the    property    of, 

451. 
Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court,  483. 


K. 


Kachline,   Peter,   sen.,   699. 

Kaighn,    John.    184.    330. 

Samuel,  commissioner  of  for- 
feited estates,  131,  451,  495. 
527,  650. 

Kaine,   Capt.   Thomas,   498. 

Kakiate,   dragoons   at,   470. 

Kasheghton   path,    578. 

Kats  and  Katers-kill,  land  for  sale 
between,  71. 

Kearney,  Michael,  322. 
Philip,  322. 

Kearny,   Anne,    13n. 
Ravaud,   13n. 

Keasby,  Bradway,  114. 

Kebble's  Mills,   destruction  of,   118. 

Keen,  Mounce,  innkeeper,  land  for 
sale  at  the  house  of,  131, 
450. 

Nicholas,  innkeeper,  horses  for 
sale  at  the  house  of,  474. 

Keever,  widow,  land  for  sale  at  the 
house  of,  544. 

Kelem's,  Mr.,  creditors,  mill  sold 
for  the  benefit  of,  645. 

Kellom,   Samuel,  703. 

Kelly,  William,  horse  strayed  from. 
383. 

Kelsall,    Admiral    Norton,    lln. 

Kelsay,  Wm.,  commissioner  of  for- 
feited estates,  for  Cumber- 
land county,  confiscated 
lands  of  Loyalists  to  be  sold 
by,  152,  488. 

Kelsey,  Enos,  202,  294,  523  :  elected 
Clothier   for   the   State,   446. 
Major,    27. 

Kelso,   Robert,   460. 

Kemp,  Grace,  Loyalist,  393. 

John  Tabor,  Loyalist,  328,  329, 
373,  393. 

Kemper,  Jacob,  60. 

Kenact,  Matthias,  98. 

Kendall,   Dr.,   608. 

Kennedy,    Capt.    Archibald,    fire    at 

the   house  of,   554. 
Rev.   Samuel,   322.  322n. 
William,    admitted    to    College, 
669. 

Kent,   David.   95. 
William,   90. 

Kepple,    Admiral,    105. 

Kerlin,  John,  land  for  sale  by,  717. 

Ketcham,  Daniel,  438. 


Keyt.   Abigail,  463n. 

David,   463n. 
Kighline,  Philip,  46. 
Kiker,   Tobias,   94,   368. 
Kildaire,   114. 
Killed.  301. 
Kill  van  Kol,  13n. 
Kindle,  Joseph,  369. 
King.   Constant,   170. 

Frederick,   237 ;     Coroner,    719. 

George   R.,   463n. 

James.    89,    323. 

Jeremiah,   701. 

John,   529. 

family,    237n. 
King's  birthday  celebrated,  400. 

College,  660n. 

Ferry,   414,   447,   517. 
Kingsbury,  545n. 
Kingsland,   Charles,   132. 

Charles,  jun.,  526. 

Isaac,   48,   328. 

Joseph,  47,  327. 

William,   jun.,   132,   526. 
Kingston,  146,  150,  218,  285  ;  burn- 
ing  of.    104 ;     land    for   sale 
near,    179. 

Kingwood,     327,     417,     418n,     486, 
561,  701,  702  ;    land  for  sale 
in,   112,   113. 
Kinney,  and  Co.,  Arnold,  dissolved, 

414. 

Kinsey   farm,   493n. 
Kirkpatrick,   Andrew,   670. 

James,  322. 

Margaret,   419n. 

Thomas,   322. 

Rev.    William,    419n. 
Kitchel,     Aaron,     commissioner     of 
forfeited    estates,    93 ;     exec- 
utor, 273,  274. 

Abraham,     Assemblyman,     701, 

719. 
Kitchen,  Andrew,  46. 

John,    46. 
Kline,   Jacob,   46. 

Philip,    46. 
Knowlton    township,    land    for    sale 

in,    133. 
Knox.  General,  37,  103. 

Mrs..    103. 

Knyphausen,   General,   401.   663. 
Kollock.     Shepard.     printer,     article 
sent  to.   595.   598,   599. 


IISTDEX. 


755 


Konadasagea,  N.  Y.,  649,  663. 
Konowarohala,   N.   Y.,   649. 
Kotts,  Conrad   (Taylor),  545n. 
Koster,  Jacob,  land  for  sale  by,  717. 
Koughstown,  221. 
Kough's-town,  298. 


Kuyper,  Hendricus,  commissioner 
of  forfeited  estates,  12n,  99, 
132,  526,  527,  530,  559. 

Kyler's  tract,  Delance  and,  for 
sale,  179. 


Lackawaxen,   578n,    580n. 
Lacommon,    appearance   of    Indians 

at,  516. 

Lad   scalped,    514. 
Ladd,   John,   362n. 
La  Fayette,  Fort,  476. 
Lafferty,   Lefferty  family,  479n. 
Lamb,  John,  411n. 

Col.   John,   411n ;    regiment  of 

artillery  of,  410. 
Joseph,  horse  stolen  from,  612. 
Thomas,  73,  369. 
Lamberton,   7n,   8n. 

flax  for  sale  in,  69. 
Lancaster,   deserted  at,   249 ;    news 

from,    300. 

Land,  Robert,  spy,  226. 
Land  for  sale,  1,  2,  8,  9,  10,  11, 
17,  21,  25,  26,  35,  36,  39, 
41,  42,  48,  50,  51,  52,  55, 
56,  57,  60,  61,  62,  63,  64, 
69,  70,  71,  72,  74,  76,  78, 
79,  81,  82,  83,  88,  89,  91, 
92,  93,  94,  95,  96,  97,  99, 
112,  113,  114,  132,  149,  166, 
237,  529,  544. 
sold,  372. 

Lane,  John,  chariot  for  sale  by,  21. 
Langley,  Reuben,  73,  369. 
Laning   family,   394n. 

John,    biographical    sketch    of, 

393,   394n. 

Lanning,  Robert,  298. 
Lardner,   Jane,   2n. 

John,  52. 
Larkey,    Patrick,   land  for  sale  by, 

556. 
Laurence-Brook,      fulling-mill      on, 

366. 
Laurence,     Jos.,     commissioner     of 

forfeited  estates,    324,    368. 
Laurens    (Henry),  568. 

Colonel    John,    22,    23n ;     duel 
fought     with     Gen.     Charles 
Lee,    22. 
Lawery,  Joseph,  senior,  46. 

Joseph,    junior,    46. 
Lawrence,  Elisha,  95. 

Lieut.   Col.   Elisha,    252. 
John,    95,    363n,    553 ;     houses 

to  let  by,  371. 
John,    jun.,    land    for    sale    by, 

11. 

Joseph,    commissioner    of    for- 
feited  estates,   95,   324,   368. 


Martha,  363n. 
Mary,   394n. 

Mrs.  Mary,  death  of,  252. 
Thomas,  land  for  sale  by,  11. 
William,  94,  115. 
Lawrence's   Island,   12n. 
Lawrence  Island  Farm,  13n. 
Lawrenceville,   485n. 
Law  Library  for  sale,  360. 
Laws    passed    by    the    General    As- 
sembly,   ready    for    delivery, 
43. 

Layton,  Samuel,  94. 
Leake,   John,    16. 
Leant,   Peter,  98. 
Leary,  John,  673. 

John,   junior,   231. 
Lebanon,    Hunterdon    county,    479 ; 
land    for   sale   in,    112,    113, 
297,   533. 

Le  Count,  John,  148. 
Leddel,  William,  194,  261. 
Leddle,  Doctor  William,   horses  for 

sale  by,  604. 

Ledyard,   Major  Benjamin,   702* 
Lee,     General     Charles,     22n,     23 ; 
character    of,    43,    44 ;    duel 
with,   22. 
Gershom.    298 ;     land   for    sale 

by,  451. 

Henry,  jun.,  628. 
Major    Henry,    429,    564,    572, 
621,    629,    641,     650 ;      light 
dragoons  of,   280,   592,   649  ; 
orders  from,  545  ;    under  ar- 
rest  for   conduct   at    Powles 
Hook,    592 ;     report   by,    621. 
John,    49,    496 ;     land   for   sale 

by,  41  ;    notice  by,  497. 
John,   jun.,   384,   508,   528. 
Joseph,   68. 
Major,  564,  572,  621,  629,  641, 

650. 

Leeds,  Filo,  363n. 
Leet,  Isaac,  witness,  418n. 
Leferty,    Bryan,    administrator,    no- 
tice by,  479. 
John,  deceased,  479. 
Lefetter,   Daniel,  94. 
Lefferty,  Bryant,  664,  665. 

John,  deceased,  notice  to  cred- 
itors  of,   664. 
Mary,    664. 
Leffeter,  Daniel,  368. 
Legheway,  578. 


756 


INDEX. 


Legislative  Council,   352,   660, 
Legislature,  acts  of,  127,  196,  476; 
to  raise  money  for  defraying 
the    expenses    of    the    State, 
22 

adjournments  of,  476. 
application  to  be  made  to  the, 

192. 

appointment  by,  10. 
meeting    of    the,    20,    31,    616, 

701. 

hints  for  the  consideration  of 
the,  711,  712,  713  ;  petition 
to  be  presented  to  the,  162, 
269,  297,  648. 

representatives  in,  400,   715. 
Legrange,  Bernardus,  49  ;    Loyalist, 
62,    63,    68,    113,    128,    153, 
435  ;    final  judgment  entered 
against,   591. 
Lemmon,    Peter,    366. 
Lemon,    Michael.    46. 
Lennix,  David,  95. 

Richard,  95. 
Lent,  Abraham,  98,  526. 

Peter,  526. 

Leonard,  James,  561,  702. 
John,  94,  111,  368,  417. 
Joseph,    323. 

Simon,  land  for  sale  near,  450. 
Thomas,   93,   179,   367,   435. 
Leppencut,  Elias,  323. 
Lerch,  Anthony,  sen.,  699. 
Lester,    Joseph,    horse    stolen    from, 

110. 

Lewis,     Joseph,     A.     Q.     M.,     horse 
strayed  or  stolen  from,  600  ; 
horses  for  sale  by,  601. 
Nathaniel,   184. 
Timothy,    98,   526. 
William,    26. 

Lexington,   hostilities   at,   104. 
Leydecker.   Garret,   commissioner  of 
forfeited       estates,       Bergen 
county,    132,    526,    527,    530. 
Liberty  Pole,  625  ;    articles  for  sale 
opposite  the,  271  ;  cows,  &c., 
for  sale  opposite  the,   228. 
Library  for  sale,   Law,   360. 
Light   Dragoons,   deserted  from   the 

fourth    regiment   of,    249. 
Light  horse,   493. 
"Light   Horse   Harry,"   429n. 
Light  Horse,  Troop  of,  491. 
Lincoln,    General,   455  ;     army,    714. 
Lindly,    Capt.    John,    land   for   sale 

by,   534. 

Link,  Jacob,  545n. 
Linen    rags    wanted,    34,    82,    166. 
Linn,   James,   662. 
Lippincot,  Alis,  89. 

Richard,   94. 
Lippincott,   Arney,   162. 


Liquors,  use  and  abuse  of  distilled 

spirituous,  202. 
Lisk,  Stacy,  90,  322. 
Lillie,    John,    Capt.    3d   Regt.    Art., 

635. 

Littel,   James,   589. 
Littell's    "Passaic    Valley    Genealo- 
gies,"  463n,   cited. 
Little,    Eliakim,    horse    strayed    to 
the    house    of,    410 ;     horses, 
&c.,   for  sale  by,  664. 
James,   advertisement   by,   645. 
John,    222 ;     house    of,    set    on 

fire,  301. 

Little  Bear  Swamp,  9. 
Little     Egg     Harbour,     376,     553 ; 

Forks  of,   28,   186. 
land  for  sale  at  the,  1. 
negro  run  away  from  the,  490. 
Friends'  meeting  house  at,  377. 
military  operations  at,  158. 
River,    land    for    sale    on,    42, 

498. 

salt  works  for  sale  on.  264. 
sloop  for  sale  at  the  Forks  of, 

45,   486. 
sloop,    "Retrieve"    for    sale    at 

the  Forks  of,  474. 
vessels  for  sale  at  the,  254. 
vessel  for  sale  at  the  Forks  of, 

375,  591,  606. 
Little    Ferry,    Rebel    guard    at    the, 

251. 
surprise    of    guards    posted    at, 

293. 
Livingston,     Col.,     702 ;      paymaster 

to  regiment  of.  561. 
Gov.  William,  119,  122,  127n, 
155,  263,  337,  393,  446n, 
516,  660n ;  conspiracy  to 
capture  or  assassinate.  515  ; 
enemy  tried  to  surround  the 
house  of,  160 ;  letter  to, 
572 ;  opposes  motion  to  re- 
move all  suspected  persons 
from  Elizabeth-Town,  555-6  ; 
correspondence  with  Sir 
Henry  Clinton.  252,  268 ; 
letters  to,  337,  339 ;  sar- 
castic attack  on,  713n  ; 
proclamations  by,  33,  569, 
571,  612,  678. 
Philip.  644. 

Hon.   Philip,   deceased,   643. 
Mrs.,   house  formerly    occupied 

by,  279. 

Will,   jun.,    D.    Sec.,    33.    682. 
William     Smith,     admitted    as 

an  attorney  at  law,   259. 
Livingston  township,  Essex  county, 

500n. 

"Livy"    (William  Livingston),   263. 
Lloyd,   Bateman,   Sheriff,   685. 

John,      commissioner     of     for- 


INDEX. 


757 


feited    estates.    62,    64,    179, 

366,  436.   574. 
Richard,   280,  561. 
Loan  certificates  lost,  531. 
Loan-Office,     money     delivered     for 

the,  29. 

unnecessary,  318. 
Lobdon,    David,    land    for    sale    at 

the  house  of,  543. 
Lodge,  Benjamin,  land  for  sale  ad- 
joining,  450. 
London,  125n,  154.  206,  371n,  525, 

592 ;    letters  from,   160. 
London   Bi-idge,    Burlington,   364n. 
Longacoming,    land    for    sale    near, 

449. 
Long    Beach,    sloop    cast    away    on 

the,  43. 

Longbridge  Farm,  146,  147. 
Long-Hill,    676 ;      horses,    &c..    for 

sale  at,   227  ;    land   for  sale 

on,  534,   535. 
Long  Island,  24,  81,  447,  663,  700n, 

enemy     embarked     at,     106 ; 

intelligence        from,         658 ; 

Rebels   from  the   south  side, 

163  ;    taken  prisoner  on   the 

expedition    to,    373n ;    troops 

embarked  from,  216,  254. 
Long,  Joseph,  130,  650. 
Long-Pond,   347. 
Longstreet,    Aaron,    land    for    sale 

joining  lands  of,  590 ;    negro 

boy  for  sale  by,  328. 
John,  jun.,  93,  367. 
Longstreet's  mill,  649. 
Longworth,   Isaac,   48,   48n,   327. 
Isaac,  jun.,  327. 
Thomas,  48,  48n,  327. 
Lord,  Asa,  130. 
Losey,   James,   312. 
Loshier,  John,  taken  prisoner,  514, 

515. 
Lossing's      "Field      Book      of      the 

American  Revolution,*'  581n, 

cited. 

Lost  :    linen  and  tea,  26. 
Lott,   Abraham,   72. 
Cornelius,   134. 
London,    John,   432n. 
Lourey,   Thomas,   332. 
Lousetown,  land  for  sale  in,  450. 
Low,      Joseph,      Representative     in 

Assembly,   716. 
Miss  Sally,  marriage  of,  348. 
Lower  Alloway's  Creek,  114. 
Lower  Penn's  Neck,   Salem  county. 

262. 


Lowndes,  — 


-,  125n. 


Lowrey,  Nathaniel,   221. 

Stephen,   380,   588 ;     biographi- 
cal    sketch    of,     380;      mer- 
chandise for  sale  by,  439. 
Miss  Sucky,   marriage  of,   700. 
Thomas,   merchant,  452,  700. 
Loyalists,   46n,  76,  401,  471,  491n, 

652. 

Association  of  the,  427n. 
Bergen  county,  525,  529. 
body  of,  440. 
Burlington    county,    417. 
corps  of,   292. 
Cumberland  county,  487. 
Essex    county,    372,    383,    508, 

528. 
Gloucester  county,  lands  of.  to 

be  sold,  495,  527,  650,  714. 
Hunterdon   county,    396. 
Middlesex  county,  366,  435. 
Monmouth   county,    367. 
New  Jersey,  473. 
real  estate  of,  to  be  sold,  449, 

450. 

released,   719. 
Salem  county,  369,   528. 
Somerset  county,  201,  574,  590. 
successful    operations    of    the, 

42. 

Sussex  county,  165,  543,  553. 
Lucas,  Jesse,  563. 
Luce,  Capt.,  109. 

William,  92.  383. 
Lucus,  Aaron,  451. 
Ludlow,     Colonel     Cornelius,     535 ; 

horse   stolen   from,    708. 
Luneburey,    Casper,    land    for    sale 

in  the  possession  of,  533. 
Lupton,  Rachel.  433n. 
Lurton,   William,   95. 
Lutkins,  Hendrick.  132,  526. 

John.  132,  526. 
Luzerne.  Count  De  La,  Minister  of 

France,   640. 
Lydecker,    Garret,    commissioner   of 

forfeited   estates,   132,   527. 
Lyle,   John,   66. 
Lyel,  John,  junior,  75. 
Lyon,  Charles,  27. 
Mattaniah,   602. 
Thomas,  98. 
Lyons,    Thomas,    525. 
Lyon's  Farms,   horse  strayed  from. 
507 :       household     furniture 
for  sale,  at,  465. 


M. 


MacCallum,   Moses,  322. 
MacCay,  Capt.  Gauin,  322. 
MacCollum,   Jacob,   559. 


MacDonald,  Mr.,  608. 
Macheponix,  land  for  sale  at.  89. 
Mackhockamuck,   553. 


758 


INDEX. 


MacMurtrie,  John,  559. 
Macwhorter,     Rev.    Dr.    Alexander, 

525,  704. 

Madeira  wine  for  sale,  18. 
Madison,   36n,   463n. 
Madison,  Dolly,   136n. 

James,  136n. 
Magaw,  Colonel,  23. 
Mahogany  cup-board  for  sale,  665. 

furniture    for   sale,    163. 

Maidenhead,   7n,  lln,   15,   177,   218, 

254,     280,     282,     283,     299, 

394n,   420n,   452,    485n,    697. 

agreement    of    the    settlers    of, 

299n. 

horse  strayed  to,  393. 
land  for  sale  in,  8,   91. 
meadows,  9. 

negro,  run  away  from,  14. 
Presbyterian   Church   in,   485n. 
road,  land  for  sale  on,  181. 
Maitland,  Col.,  escape  of,  714. 
Malice,    William,    runaway    appren- 
tice  lad,   637. 
Man,   Matthias,  95. 
Mnnalapan,  land  for  sale  near,  609. 
Manasquan     river,     salt    works    for 

sale  on,  182. 
sloop  for  sale  at.  326. 
Manington  precinct,  land  to  let  in, 

52. 

township,  651. 
Manley,   Thomas,   220. 
Manning,    Daniel,    179. 
Joseph,    169. 
Truftram,   167. 

William,    commissioner   of   for- 
feited estates,  96,  323. 
Mannington,  land  for  sale  in,  115. 
Mansfield,     Burlington    county,     33, 

245,  540. 

tanners'  oil  for  sale  in,  181. 
Meeting-house,    178. 
saw  mill  to  lease  in,  134. 
Woodhousc     township.     Sussex 
county,  land  for  sale  in,  132. 
Mantua    Creek,    land    for    sale    on, 

129-130. 

Maple-Island  Creek,  Newark  mead- 
ows, intention  to  dam,  192, 
360. 

Mapleton,   371n. 
March,  Christopher,  taken  prisoner, 

491. 

Mark,  runaway  negro,  73. 
Marlborough,    Duke    of,    one    of    his 

victories,  321. 
Marsden,  Thomas,  300. 
Marsellis,   Elizabeth,   8n. 

Hugh  Runyan.  8n. 
Marsh,  Benjamin,  95,  323. 

Captain  Christopher,  biographi- 
cal sketch  of,   493n. 


Daniel,     commissioner    of    for- 
feited estates,  92,  180,   384  ; 
land  for  sale  by,  508,  529. 
Ephraim,  259. 
Henry,  132,  526. 
John,   384. 
Joseph,  508,  528. 
Lewis,  taken  prisoner,  491. 
Marshal,   Mr.,  221. 

Doctor  Thomas,  28. 
Marshall,  George,  384,  508,  528. 

Mr.,  217. 
Marriage,   226. 

Marriner,   William,   innkeeper,   63. 
Martha's  Vineyard,   418n. 
Martin,  Benjamin,  27,  66. 

Ephraim,       Representative      in 

Council,   701. 
Governor,    of    North    Carolina, 

401. 

Hannah,  executrix,  236. 
Isaac,     commissioner     of     for- 
feited estates,  165  ;    land  for 
sale  by,  544. 
Jacob,  559. 
John,     land     for     sale     in     the 

possession  of,  533. 
Robert,  62,  63,  435. 
Martinico,    201,    291n ;     arrival    of 
the  French  squadron  at,   41. 
Martinique,   harbour  of.  118. 
Marts,    Elizabeth,   executrix,   551. 

John,   551. 
Maryland.  260,  380n,  623  ;    brigade, 

detachment  from,  283. 
Mascho.   Catherine,   executrix,   228. 

John,  deceased,  227. 
Maskenetcunk   River,   land   for  sale 

on,   536. 
Mason,  Capt.,  477,  516. 

Richard,  land  for  sale  by,  79. 
Massachusetts-Bay,   142,   536 :     con- 
vention for  the  State  of,  596. 
Masterlen,  David,  98. 
Masterson,   David,   526. 
Mathews,  Mr.,   401. 
Mathis,  Eli.  157n. 
Matlack,   Timothy,    Secretary,   331. 
Matlock,     Hannah,     administratrix, 

224 

Joseph,  deceased,  224. 
Matthews,    David,    military    Mayor 

of  New  York,  516. 
Mattison,   Aaron,   244. 
Mauncis's  Island,  land  for  sale  on, 

130. 

Maurice's  River  township,  152. 
Maxwell,  General,  106,  120,  122, 
392,  440,  582.  606,  709; 
brigade  of,  523,  593 ;  in- 
formation received  by,  372  ; 
manoeuvres  of,  16J.  ;  soldier 
hung  belonging  to  brigade 
of,  310. 


IXDEX. 


759 


Mayhew,  John,  200 :  Representa- 
tive in  Assembly,  716. 

Maynard,  Capt.,  565,  568 ;  Light 
Infantry  under,  564  ;  rebels 
pursued  by,  564. 

May,  George,  78n. 

May's  Landing,  land  for  sale  in, 
78. 

McCallister,  Matthew,  670. 

McCay,  John,  A.  P.  M.,  283. 

McCollaugh,    James,   132. 

McColleck,  James,  526. 

McDougall's  1st  New  York  Regi- 
ment, Captain  in,  41  In. 

McElroy,    Mr.,    478. 

McEvers,   Charles,  393. 

Mcllvaine,  Bloomfield,  416n. 

Charles  Pettit,  Bishop  of  Ohio, 

41 6n. 

Emily  Coxe,  416n. 
Joseph,  executor,  416n. 

McKecken,  Duncan,  land  for  sale 
at  the  house  of,  543. 

McKnight,  Captain,  441,  456,  475. 
Charles,   Surgeon  General,  27. 

McShane,  Edward,  13n. 

McWhorter,  Rev.  Mr.,  525,  704. 

M'Callister,   Capt.,   sloop   taken   by, 

42. 
Lieut.,  621,  623,  627,   628. 

M'Carty,  Duncan,  62. 

M'Clane,   Captain,   626. 

M'Cowin,  John,  46. 

M'Crea,  Miss  Jane,  67,  677. 

M'Cuffe,  Edward,  575. 

M'Cullough,  William,  mulatto  lad 
run  away  from,  530. 

M'Donald,     Captain,     command    of, 

549. 
Col.,    pistols   stole   out    of    the 

house  of,  274. 
Major  Richard,  150. 

M'Elroy,  Archibald,  wood-cutters 
wanted  by,  573. 

M'Gee,  Thomas,  fuller,  notice  by, 
577. 

M'Kenstry,  John,  land  for  sale  in 
the  possession  of,  533. 

M'Knight,  Charles,  Surgeon  Gen- 
eral, 66. 

Capt.  Richard,  house  of,  set  on 
fire,  301. 

M'Koy,,  Alexander,  98. 

M'Lean,  General,  401. 

Mead,  Richard,  369. 
Stephen,   581n. 

Meals,  Capt.,  taken.  564,  565. 

Mechescatuckzing,  362n. 

Meeker,  Capt.  Samuel,  taken  pris- 
oner, 493. 

Mecklenburgh,  29. 

Meed,  Richard,   73. 

Meeker,  Major,  577,  580n. 


Capt.    Samuel,    taken   prisoner, 

491. 

Samuel,    commissioner    of    for- 
feited estates,  165. 
Mehelm.  John,  536n ;    trustee,  618. 

643. 

Mejjers,   John,  526. 
Mendem    township,     Morris    Town. 

194. 

Mendenhall,   Thomas,   563. 
Mendham,      Morris      county,      235 ; 

horses  for  sale  at,  604. 
Mendom,   133. 
Mercer,  Archibald,  66. 
Mercer  &  Schenk,  178. 
Mercer  county,  364n, 
Mercereau,  Andrew,  62,  63,  435. 

Jacob,  the  younger,  taken,  555. 
Merchandise   for    sale,    18,    19,    35, 
255,  272,  284,  310,  311,  348, 
409,   433-435,   467,   470,   478, 
500,  501,  505,  506,  508,  509, 
545,      546 ;       regulation      of 
prices  of,  539. 
Merchant,  George,  670. 
Merril,   Joseph,  68,   113. 
Merriman,  John,  702. 
Merrymand,  John,  561. 
Merseilles,  John,  526. 
Merselis,  John,  98. 
Mershon,    Andrew,    362,    609 ;     inn- 
keeper, land  for  sale  at  the 
house  of,  396. 
Henry,    282,    416;     innkeeper, 

718. 

Metcalf,  John,  434n. 
Meticunk  river,   saw   and  grist-mill 

for  sale  on,  180. 
Metlar,  George,  lln. 
Metuchen.  312. 
Meyers,  John,  526n. 
Mica,  deposits  of,  79. 
Middle-Brook,  283,  395,  429;    camp 

at,  64,  398,  402. 
horses      strayed      from,      366 ; 

horse  stolen  from,  395. 
detachment  marched  from,  177. 
Head  Quarters  at,  22,  201,  291. 
land  for  sale  near,  535. 
proclamation     at      Head-Quar- 
ters, 145. 

Middlesex,  63,  94,  460. 
Middlesex  county,  13n,  90,  574,  590. 
committee    on    loan    appointed 

for,  559. 

land  for  sale  in,  63,  135,  575. 
Loyalists,  179,  322,  366,  435. 
members  of  the  Legislature 

from,  715. 
Militia,   452;     Third   Regiment 

of,  371n. 

Middleton,  enemy  gone  to,  301. 
Middleton,   Hudson,  363n. 


760 


INDEX. 


Jacob,  land  for  sale  by,  375. 
Middletown,   12n,   89,   94,   368,   429, 

438,    552. 
attack  on,  320. 
land  for  sale  in,  323. 
landing  of  the  enemy  at,  379. 
party  went  to,  321. 
Middletown    Point,    702 ;     land   for 

sale  at,  295. 
Royal  Army  near,  303. 
Middletown,  N.  Y.,  581n. 
Meeker.     Samuel,     commissioner    of 
forfeited    estates,     land     for 
sale   by.   544. 
Miers.    Benjamin,    651. 
Mifflin,  General,  28,  116. 
"Mighty  Destroyer  Displayed,  The," 

published  and  for  sale,  202. 
Mihelm,     John,     trustee,     land     for 

sale  by.   536. 
Military   hospital,    sick   admitted   to 

the,  454. 
stores    to   be    taken    charge    of. 

295. 
Militia,    an   act   for   the   regulating. 

&c.,   283. 

Captains  of  the,  296. 
Captains  killed.  556. 
discharged  and  thanked  by 

Gen.  Washington,  477. 
notice    to    officers    commanding- 
battalions  in  the,  244. 
provision   for  the,   346. 
reinforced,  156. 
service  of  men  in  the,  253. 
to  be  in  readiness,  571. 
Mill  for  sale.  69. 
Millack,  William,  46. 
Millage.   Thomas.   165. 
Millar.   John,  wife  of.   oloped,   229. 
Millenburg.  Lewis.  98. 
Miller,   Cornelius,  deceased,   311. 

George,  529  :    land  for  sale  ad- 
joining, 528. 

John,  wife  of,  eloped,  228. 
Jonathan,   administrator.   312. 
Lawrence,   pardoned,   515. 
Michael,   528. 
Nathan.   81. 
Richard,  92,  384. 
Samuel,    brew    kettle    for    sale 

by.   467. 

Sarah,    administratrix.    312. 
Widow,  grass  for  sale  by,  462. 
Millidge.  Thomas.  92. 
Mills.   Ephraim.   51. 
Henry,  46. 
Isaac,  384,   508,   528. 
John,   stage  erected   by.   101. 
Mary.    228. 
Uriah.   51. 
Mills  for  sale.  121. 
Millstone.     134,     571.     643:      river, 
371  n. 


Milner,     Joseph,     merchandise     for 

sale  by.   18. 

Milnor,      Joseph,      545n ;       German 
steel  for  sale  by,  617  ;    lum- 
ber for  sale  by,  542. 
Milnor's,  Mr.,  117. 
Milton.  493n. 
Minisinck,    account    of    the    battle 

at.  577. 
Minisinks,  216. 
Minisink,   480n,  578,   579n. 
Battle  of.  577.  580,  581. 
continental  troops  stationed  at, 

226. 

provo  located  at,  302. 
rebels  killed  near,  548. 
Mink    skins   wanted,    57. 
Minson.   Capt..   382. 
Mints.  Adam,  152. 
Miralles.  Don  Juan  de,  biographical 

sketch  of.  320n. 
Mitchell.   Benjamin,   218,   285. 

John,   D.  W.  M.  G.,  29. 
Molliner,   Joseph.   721. 
Money,  abundance  of,  evil  of,  256  ; 

value   of.   238. 
Mongaup,   enemy  at,   577. 
Monmouth,    54,    89,    423,    429,    435, 

561.    701. 
Battle   of,    22,    108n,    140,    180, 

37  In. 

British  retreat  at,  268. 
court-house,   53. 
county,     368,     552,     555,     571, 

641,   701. 
clerk   of,    lln. 
committee    on    loan    appointed 

for,  559. 

enemy  landed  in.  320. 
information   from.    650. 
land  for  sale  in,  9,   717. 
Loyalists,   323.   367. 
Republicans  of,  652. 
extract  of  a   letter  from,  43. 
Monolopon.  horse  strayed  or  stolen 

in.  438. 
Montgomery,   Michael.   179. 

Robert,   57  :     land  for  sale  by, 

620. 

William,  land  for  sale  by,  620. 
William,    minor,    land   for    sale 

by,  717. 

Montgomery's  expedition,   411n. 
Monson,  Ensign.  77. 
Moody.  Ensign  James.  46.  456,  457. 
Thomas,    58 :     merchandise   for 

sale  by,  385. 

Moore,  -      — .  estate  of.  193. 
Dr.   Alexander,   416n. 
Benjamin.  28.  203. 
Caroline,  416n. 
Daniel,   92.   384. 
Isaac,  petition  by.  598. 
James.  92.  384. 


INDEX. 


761 


Job,  hatter.  545n. 

Joseph,  598. 

Jotham,  taken  prisoner,  491. 

Michael,    land   for   sale   in    the 

tenure  of.  396. 
Stephen.  275. 
Moore's-Town,   102.  498. 
Moorse,   Samuel,   95. 
Moravian  mills,  land  for  sale  near 

the,  88.  168. 
Morden,  James,  46. 
Morgan,  Capt.  James,  63. 

Joseph,  cutlers,  &c.,  wanted  by, 

274. 

Sarah,  executrix,  76. 
William,    last    will    and    testa- 
ment of,   75. 

Morflt,  Edward,  broke  gaol.  683. 
Morrell,    Jacob.    601  :     merchandise 
for   sale   by,    348;     miscella- 
neous   articles    for    sale    by, 
407. 

Jonathan,  medicines  for  sale 
by,  630 :  indigo,  &c.,  for 
sale  by,  468. 

Morrell's  store,   cows.  &c.,   for  sale 
at,     407 ;      merchandise     for 
sale  at,  348. 
Morris  (town).   536. 
Morris,  Elizabeth,   lln,  13n. 
Frederick,   lln. 
General    Lewis,    letter  for,    27, 

146. 

Gov.  Lewis,  lln,  446n. 
Lewis,     jun..      Judge     of      the 
Court  of  Admiralty   of   New 
Jersey,  death  of,  12n. 
John,  Loyalist,  94,  368. 
Joseph.  275n. 

Hon.  Robert,  66.  94,  280,  368; 
elected  Chief  Justice  of  New 
Jersey,      446 ;       biographical 
sketch     of.      446n;       United 
States     District     Judge     for 
New  Jersey.  446n. 
Robert,   Loyalist.   94,   368. 
Robert  Hunter,  12n. 
William.    545n. 
sister,   275. 
widow,  192. 
Morris  county.   12n,  92,  139,   347n, 

528.  536,  597.  664n,  701. 
committee    on    loan    appointed 

for.  559. 

election  for,  719. 
Hanover     township,     land     for 

sale  in,  204. 

horse  strayed  or  stolen  in,  436. 
land  for  sale  in,  166,  203. 
gaol,  697. 

Morrison.  Samuel,  69. 
Morris-River,  land  for  sale  on,  333. 
township,    cattle    for    sale    In, 
497. 


Morristown.  7,  16,  59,  92,  121,  133, 
149,  191,  234,  236,  237,  247, 
248,  278,  312,  320n,  374, 
408,  424,  428,  470,  485n, 
511.  572,  600,  601.  602,  634, 
646.  663,  664,  666.  673,  675, 
676,  704,  705,  706. 

Court  House,  18. 

land  for  sale  near,  237. 

cutlers,  &c.,  wanted  in,  274. 

drugs  for  sale  at,  405. 

fire   in   a   forge   for    sale   near, 
191. 

gaol,    persons    lodged    in,    408, 
516. 

General      Washington      passed 
through,   455. 

green,  horses  taken  from.  460. 

horses,  &c.,  for  sale  in,  478. 

horse  stolen  in,  164. 

land  for  sale  in,  534. 

land  for  sale  near,  21,  72,  272, 
298,  462.   468,  510,  600. 

mare  strayed  in,  467. 

merchandise  for  sale  in,  5,  80, 
310. 

meeting    house,    land    for    sale 
near,   707. 

post  office,  284. 

road,  232,  550;   robbery  on 
the,  250. 

robbery  in,  469. 

saddler  wanted  at.  248. 

wife  eloped  in,  312. 

horses,  &c.,  for  sale  in,  227. 
Morris's  River,  613,  615. 
Morrow,  John,  115,  369. 
Morse,  John,  92,  384. 
Morss.  Amos,  jun.,  executor.  261. 

Betty,  executrix,  261. 

Isaac,  executor,  261. 

Joseph,   murdered,  259. 

Joseph,  jun.,  deceased,  261. 
Morss  Town,  259. 
Moss,  Joseph,  killed,.  482. 
Mott  family,  71n. 

Gershom,     biographical     sketch 
of.  411. 

James,    land   for   sale   bounded 
by  land  of,  9. 

James,    jun.,    71,    573 ;     Repre- 
sentative  in    Assembly,    701. 

Joshua,  fuller,  36. 

Miss  Sally,  28. 

William,   land  for  sale  at   the 

house  of,  543. 
Mount,  James,  94,  368. 

John,  boatman,  94,  368. 
Mount-holly,  27,  111,  280,  475,  561, 
588,  701. 

Hessian      advance     guard     at, 
416n. 

land  for  sale  in  or  near.  41,  50, 
111. 


J 
762 


INDEX. 


Mount  Hope  furnace,  460. 

scythes,  &c.,  for  sale  at,  479. 
ironworks,   234  ;    land  for  sale 

near,  272,  298. 
Mount  Penn,   land   called,  for   sale, 

376. 
Mount  Pleasant,  496,  665. 

land   for   sale  at,   41,   50,    272, 

298. 

land  for  sale  near,   295. 
Mountain,   Richard,  46. 
Mounteer,   William,   27. 
Mowrison,    Peter,    48,   328. 
Muhlenberg,   General,  177 ;    brigade 

of,  395. 

Mulacos  Hill,  493. 
Mullekeys  river,  362n. 
Mullen,  Lawrence,  542. 
Mullica    Hill,    land    for    sale    near, 

131,  450. 

Mullins,    Joseph.    27. 
Mundy,   Hopewell,   95. 
John,  jun.,  95. 
Jonathan,    95. 
Nicholas,  jun.,  95. 


Joseph,   95. 
Munro,   James,   613. 
Munroe,  John,  363n. 
Munrow,  Nathaniel,  62. 
"Munsell's      Annals      of      Albany," 

419n,   cited. 
Murder,   186,  269. 

planned,    490. 

Murrell,     Levi,     saddler,     insolvent 
estate  of,  363n. 

Sarah,   363n. 

Musconetcung  mountain,   396. 
Musgrove,  —      — ,  221. 
Musick,    Peter,   papermaker,   82. 
Muskankunk,  224. 
Muskenikunck    river,    land   for    sale 

at  the  head  of,  510. 
Musketos,   scarcity  of,   620. 
Musknit  skins   wanted,   39,   57. 
Musqueto  Cove,  land  for  sale  near, 

717. 
Myers.  John,  132. 

Ensign   Peter,   killed,   292,   370. 
Myre,  George,  46. 


N. 


Nan  tucket,   vessel   bound  to,   42. 
Nassau-Hall,    324,    669,   G71. 
National  debt,  241,  290,  313,  317. 

payment  of,  240. 

"National   disorders,   cure   for,"   ar- 
ticle on,   238-243. 
National  evils,  causes  of  our,  195. 
Nefie,  Garret,  434n. 
Negro  blacksmith  for  sale,   685. 

boy  for  sale,  328,  706. 

wanted,   27. 

slaves  condemned,  576. 

for  sale,  575.  710. 

wench  for  sale,  611. 

wench  wanted,  50. 

drowned,   499. 

girl  wanted,   717. 

woman  for  sale,   34. 
Negroes  planning  murder,   490. 

for  sale,   1,  381,  514,  574,  718. 

landing   of,    504. 
Neil.  Capt.,  536. 
Neill,  Cornet,  624. 
Neilson,    Col.    John,    16n,    61,    434n, 
470,  586  ;    Representative  in 
Assembly,   715. 

William,  27,  66. 
Nelson,   Captain  Charles,  696. 

William,     "History     of     Pater- 
son,"  by,  359n. 

Nesbitt.    John    Maxwell,    merchant, 
334. 

and  Co.,  J.  M.,  337. 
Newark,   12n,   48,   48n,   49,   81,   273, 


329,      360.      373,      402,      406, 
49!)n,    524.    525,    581  n,    596, 
598.  630,  704,   708. 
Academy  at,   370,  546. 
Bay,  13n  ;    boats  moving  slowly 

up,  107. 

celebration  at,   310. 
horses  for  sale  near,  262. 
horse  strayed  or  stolen  in,  189. 
soldier  hanged  at.  310. 
land  for  sale  in,  39,  271, 
merchandise  for  sale  in,  505. 
Mountains,   232,  510. 
sword  found  in,  407. 
Trinity  Church,  499n. 
New-Barbadoes,       Bergen       county, 
293 ;      extracts    of    a    letter 
from,   358,  359,  518. 
precinct,   132,   526. 
Newbold,   Cleayton,   181. 

Joseph,    184. 

New-Bridge,   462,  592,   621,  624. 
party  of  rebels  moving  towards 

the,  567. 

safe  arrival  at,  625. 
taken  by  the  rebels,  565. 
New  Britain,  negro  run  away  from, 

14. 

New    Brunswick,    11,    12,    13n,    75, 
188,    283,    433n,   434n,   446n, 
470n,  542,  586,  704. 
convention,   2n. 
house  for  sale  in,  382. 
horse  stolen  near,  279. 


INDEX. 


763 


Humane  Society  of,  434n. 

land  for  sale  in,  10,  63,  220. 

liquor  for  sale  in,  433. 

meeting  of  the  inhabitants  of, 
586. 

meeting  of  Trustees  of  Queen's 
College  of  New  Jersey,  to  be 
held  at,  218. 

Presbytery  of,  108n,  419n. 

salt  for  sale   in,   134. 

shop  broken  open  in,  246. 

sloop  for  sale  at,  44,  278. 
Newburgh,  581n. 
Newcastle  upon  Tyne,  217. 
New  England,  281,  663. 

battalion,  440. 

primers  for  sale,   506. 
Newfoundland,  291n. 
New    Germantown,    land    for    sale 

near,  247. 

New  Hampshire,   700n. 
New  Haven,  67n. 
"New  Jersey   Almanack"   for   1780, 

for  sale,  19,  661. 
New  Jersey  battalion,  440. 

Bible  Society,  434n. 

brigade,  294. 

college,  land  for  sale  belong- 
ing to  the,  605 ;  notice  of 
meeting  of  the  Trustees  of, 
191,  225. 

Constitution  of,  351. 

cost  to,  of  campaign,  318. 

jails  broke  open  in,  662. 

law,  enacted  by,  142. 

militia,   191n,  392. 

Second  regiment  of,  402,  404. 

settlement  of  line  between 
New- York  and,  552. 

State  regiment,  682 ;  deserted 
from  the,  638. 

Volunteers  (Loyalists),  sent 
off,  265,  456,  470,  471,  472; 
4th  battalion  of,  567  ;  Lieu- 
tenant in  the,  46n ;  men 
wanted  in  the  Loyal  Bat- 
talion of,  77 ;  orders  given 
to  the  4th  battalion,  514 ; 
suprise  of  a  Rebel  guard  by 
a  detachment  of,  251. 
"New-Jersey  Gazette,"  284  ;  change 
in  price  of  the,  448 ;  com- 
pletion of  first  volume  of, 
4  ;  customers  for  the,  552  ; 
encouragement  sought  for 
the,  522  ;  notice  to  persons 
indebted1  to  the,  300,  4^7; 
price  of  the,  244. 

"New-Jersey  Journal,"  455 ;  "A 
Fable  for  the,"  187,  188 ; 
article  sent  to  the,  304-307  ; 
extract  from  the,  160. 


New  Kittanning,  N.  Y.,  burned,  572. 
New-London,   grain   and   other   pro- 
visions   to    be    removed    to, 
118 ;     intention    of    destroy- 
ing,  541. 

New  Mills,  119,  367 ;  Burlington 
county,  land  for  sale  at  the, 
138. 

New-Providence,  566,  602,  636,  674, 
675  ;  cow  bells  found  in,  414. 
horse  strayed  in,  509. 
meeting-house,   468. 
tools  for  sale  at,  406. 
New-Shanick,  221,  718. 
New-Shannick,      Somerset      county, 

487. 
Newspapers,     price     of,     advanced, 

432. 

Newtown,     N.     Y.,      649;       Indian 

enemy  discovered  near,   607. 

Newtown,    Gloucester    county,    249, 

681. 
Newtown       Township,       Gloucester 

county,   249. 
Newtown,  L.  I.,  371n. 
Newtown,  Sussex  county,  328,  499. 

land  for  sale  in,  553. 
Newtown  creek,  450,  491. 
New-Windsor,  548 ;  road,  robbery 

on  the,  250. 

New  York,  2,  7n,  12n,  19,  23,  24,  30, 
33,  42,  48n,  53,  66,  67n,  77, 
86,  89,94,109n,118,  122,  137, 
138,  167,  207,  216,  224,  226, 
251,  252,  265,  291,  292,  300, 
301,  302,  303,  331,  335,  348, 
358,  368,  372,  373,  374,  379, 
392,  393,  397,  398,  399,  400, 
401,  411n,  419n,  427n,  428, 
432n,  434n,  435,  437,  439, 
447,  454,  455,  458,  460,  471, 
472,  475,  476,  477,  485n, 
491,  499n,  507,  515,  530, 
536,  538,  545n,  548,  555, 
559,  563,  565,  566,  581n, 
587,  592,  614,  615,  616,  620, 
635,  643,  646,  652,  659, 
660n,  663,  669,  673,  683, 
688,  696,  714,  715,  719,  720. 
American  Gazette,  266. 
and  New-Jersey,  settlement  of 

line  between,   552. 
army  marching  toward,  715. 
arrival  at,  519. 
arrival  of  a  large  body  of  the 

enemy  from,    176. 
Assembly,  speaker  of  the,  445. 
"Colonial     Documents,"     581n, 

cited. 

enemy  moved  to,  538. 
enemy    taken,    every    privateer 

in  the  harbour  of,  216. 
escaped  from,  118. 


764: 


INDEX. 


ferry  to,  392n. 

Gorernor  of  the  State  of,  660n. 
Hessians   left  in,   446n,  447. 
"N.    Y.    in    the    Revolution    as 
Colony     and     State,"     581n  ; 
Roberts,      James      A.,      336, 
581n,   cited. 

Island,  enemy  busy  throwing 
up  works  and  fortifying  on, 
550. 

"Journal,"  patriotic  news- 
paper, 432n. 

letters  to  friends  in.  33. 
light-infantry,    arrival    of,    in, 

565. 

market,  10. 

merchantmen  bound   to,  337. 
prisoners  returned  to,  336. 
privateers    taken    in    the    har- 
bour of,  254. 
refugees  from,   370. 
"Sons   of   Liberty  of."   411n. 
State  of,   374. 
Tories  from,   475. 
transport  ship  to,  201. 
vessels    bound     for,     335,     455, 

587. 

Niagara,  enemy  retired  to.  649. 
Nichols,    Hannah,    66,    280. 

Lewis,    163. 
Nix.   Peter,   98,   525. 
Nixon,   Adjutant,   698. 
Noble,  Isaac,  98,  526. 
Noe,  Samuel,  434n. 


Norfolk,  burning  of,  104. 
Norris,   Richard,   stay-maker,   29. 
Robert,  resolutions  violated  by, 
597 ;       tavern,      merchandise 
for  sale   opposite,   310. 
Northampton   county,    Pa.,    8,    700 ; 
address    of    the    inhabitants 
of,   to  Gen.   Sullivan,   699. 
township,     Burlington     county, 

452. 
North  Carolina,  401. 

3d  battalion  of,  561. 
brigade,  359. 
North    River.    408,    429.    447.    476, 

477,  621,   625,  627,  696. 
advices  from  the,  447,  550. 
British    detachment    discovered 

coming    up    the,    300. 
enemy  moved  down  the,  538. 
enemy's    vessels    gone    up    the, 

414. 
Northumberland,     Pa.,     extract     of 

letter  dated,  549. 
Nottingham,  Burlington  county,  72, 

494. 

apprentice  run  away   in,   223. 
horse  strayed  in,   133. 
Nottingham     township,     Burlington 
county,  7,  8,  375n  ;    land  for 
sale  in,   111. 
Nucom,  Daniel,  15. 
Nugent,   James,   express-rider,   577. 
Nurse,    advertisement   by   a,    52. 
Nutt,    William,    148. 


0. 


Oake,  William,  75. 

Oakersen,  Samuel,  95. 

Oakes,    Isaac,    618 :     land    for    sale 

in   the    possession   of,   533. 
Obituary     notices.     252.     370,     371, 

380,    504,    519. 
O'Briant,  John,  650  :    land  for  sale 

late   the   property   of,   450. 
Odell,  Jonathan,  417. 
"Oeconomist,"    article    by,    377-379. 
Ogden,  Aaron,  107n. 

Brigade   Major,    killed,    107. 

David.   47,    327. 

David,   Sr..   48n. 

David,  jun.,   47,  327. 

Isaac,   47,    48n,    109,   327,    328, 

329,    372. 
John.   668. 
Major.   107. 
Col.    Matthias.   258. 
Nicholas.   328. 

Robert,  house  of,  broken  open 
by  armed  Tories,  215 :  rob- 
bed. 310. 

Robert,  jun..  clerk  of  the 
county  of  Essex,  598. 


Samuel,   land   for  sale   joining, 

451. 
Timothy,    heifer    strayed    from, 

461  ;    shoemaker  and  currier 

wanted  by,   478. 
Rev.    Uzal,   biographical   sketch 

of,     499n :     sermon     by,     for 

sale,  499. 
and     Curtis,     merchandise     for 

sale  by,  18,  80. 
O'Hara,  Col.,  report  of,  31. 
Oharo,  Captain  Henry,  59. 
Ohio,   Bishop   of,   416n. 

River,  land  for  sale  on,  25. 
Okerson,    Lieutenant    Thomas,    456, 

457. 

Okeson,  John,  93,  367. 
Okill.   Annie,   suit   of,    248. 
Olden,  Joseph,   717. 
Old  Ferry,  117  ;    land  for  sale  near 

the,  350. 
Oldman's  creek,  684  ;    land  for  sale 

on,    76,    582. 

Oldwater,  Thomas,   98,  526. 
Old   York   road,   land  for  sale  join- 
ing  the,   36. 


INDEX. 


765 


Oliver,  David,  92,  384. 

Ichabod,   384,   508,   528. 

Jonathan,   92,   384. 
Ong,  Joseph,  deceased,  55. 

Rebecca,  deceased,  55. 
Orange,   485n. 
Orange  county,  526,  635. 

"History  of,"   581n. 
Orchards   for  sale,    11,    17,    21,   26, 
35,    39,    55,    56,    61,    69,    74, 
79,  83,  89,  90,  99,  111,  114, 
129,   185. 

Osbin,   Elisha,   absconded,   651. 
Osborn,  Amanda,  463n. 
Osburn,  Samuel,  93,  367. 


Osmun,  Joseph,  land  for  sale  in  the 

possession  of,  533. 
Oswego,  433n. 
Otto,  Colonel  Bodo,  200. 

thrown  from  his  horse,  293. 
Ouke,   William,   75n. 
Owen,   Agnes,   434n. 

Barnaby,     silver     stolen     from, 

537. 

Owing,   Barnaby,   537. 
Oxford,      Charles,    ,  jun.,      executor, 

horse,  &c.,  for  sale  by,  703. 
Oxford,    England,    Lincoln    College, 

545n. 
Oxford,  Sussex  county,  land  for  sale 

in,  82,  133,  168,  297. 


P. 


Pacquanack  Neck,  land  for  sale  at, 

166. 
Paine,    Col.,   67,   677. 

Thomas,  143n,  291n. 
Painter's    point,    enemy    landed    at, 

301. 

Palfrey,    Captain,    686,    698. 
Palmer,  Philip,  618;    land  for  sale 

in   the   possession  of,   533. 
Papecotting,  land  for  sale  on.   544. 
Paper  money,  article  on,  123.  . 
circulation  of,  125. 
counterfeiting  of,  175n. 
Papers,  subscriptions  to,  3. 
Paramus,   470n,   548,   592,   628. 
Parchment  containing  money  found, 

631. 
Paris,  Commissioners  of  the  United 

States  at,  588. 
Park,  Ozias,  46. 
William,  46. 
Parke,  Benjamin,  396. 

James,  524. 
Parker,   -       — ,    Commander,    439 ; 

militia  under,  180. 
James,  562. 
Nathaniel,  94. 
Parks,  James,  40. 
Parsel,   Remington,   274. 
Parsell,  Jeremiah,  434n. 
Passaic  river,  139,  359n. 

notice    by    commissioners     ap- 
pointed    for     removing     ob- 
structions in  the,  167. 
land  for  sale  on,  600. 
Passaic      Valley,      Morris      county, 

412n. 
Paterson,  48n,  359n,  463n,  581n. 

William,  13n. 
"Patriot,   A  True,"  article  on   civil 

government   by,    350-357. 
Patterson,  Captain,  107n. 
Paul,   Lieut.,   262;     taken   prisoner, 
226. 


Paulinskil,  553. 

Paulus-Hook,  426,  471  ;  arrival  of 
prisoners  taken  at,  587 ; 
continental  troops  taken  by 
the  enemy  at,  278 ;  garri- 
son of,  515  ;  taken  by  Lord 
Stirling,  572. 
Paxon,  Mary,  485n. 

Stacy,  485n. 
Paxton.  James,  327. 
Peak,  Capt.  David,  292. 

Samuel,   132. 
Peaker,  Philip,  98. 

Whliam,  98. 
Pearsall,  John,  132. 
Pearson,    Job,    horse   strayed    from, 

521. 
Peart   Jane,  203. 

Ralph,  203, 
Peck,  David,  131,  526. 

Dr.,  152. 

Peck's  Beach,  398  ;    fog  on,  399. 
Peckeman  River,  189. 
Peek,  Jacobus,  98,  526. 

Samuel,  526. 
Peirson,   Aaron,   49. 

Capt.  Josiah,  48. 
Pell,  John,  132,  526. 
Pemberton,  119n. 
Penalapon,  610. 
Ponnington,   67,   281,   283,   449. 

horse  strayed'  near,  203,  486. 
Penn's-Neck,  land  for  sale  on,  135. 
Pennsylvania,   102,  245,   330,   373n, 

518,  670. 

Assembly,   resolutions  of,   307  ; 
Speaker    of    the,    445 ;     bill 
published  by,    142. 
disaffected  persons  in  the  State 

of,  33. 

Militia,  373n. 

Packet,  author  of  the,  238. 
President  of  the  State  of,  415n. 
salt  works,  9. 


766 


INDEX. 


suit  made  in,  175. 
University  of,  109n. 
Penobscot,  560. 
Pensauken  Creek,  684. 
Perce,  William,  73. 
Ferine,   John,  94,  435. 
John,  jun.,  63,  368. 
William,    89 ;     estate    of,    for 

sale,  324. 
Perkins,   Captain  James,   280. 

Joseph,  363n. 
Perrine,  John,  jun.,  62. 
Persel,  Abraham,  526. 

John,  526. 
Persippeney,  515. 
Perth  Amboy,  363n,  721. 

commissioners       to       exchange 

prisoners  at,  31. 
meeting    of    commissioners    at, 

244. 

Peter,  Jacob,  cattle  for  sale  by,  497. 
Peterson,  Abraham,  deserter,  638. 
Peter,  cattle  for  sale  by,  497. 
Pettit,  Amos,  553. 

Charles,  415n  :    executor,  416n. 
Pew,  James,  94,  368. 
Peyton,  Captain,  624,  627. 
Philadelphia,    8n,    11,    22n,    29,    33, 
41,    42,    43,    50,    52,    58,    78, 
100,     101,     108n,     117,     119, 
136n,     137,     146,     151,     153, 
156,  166,  201,  203,  207,  216, 
219,  278,  300,  310,  331,  334, 
363n,     374,     376,     377,     379, 
397,    399,    415n.    416n,    420, 
433n,    434n,    438,    445,    446, 
454,     478,     485n,     491,     494, 
498,  506,  513,  514,  519,  523, 
536,  538,  541,  549,  556,  560, 
583,  588,  615,  620,  621,  640, 
651,     652,     653.     654n,     669, 
670,  683,  685.  703. 
arrival    at.   448. 
arrival  of  regiment  at,  572. 
brig  bound  for,   616. 
Commander  in  Chief  in,  197. 
committee  of,  546.  647. 
duel   fought   at,   22. 
earthen  ware  for  sale,  4. 
enemy   in   possession  of.   687. 
extract    of   a    letter   from,    559, 

560,    663. 
gaol,  583.  697. 

jails  broken  open  in,  652,   662. 
land  for  sale   in,   70,   117,   137, 

186,   334,   350,   375. 
land  for  sale  near,  76,  78,  547, 

556,    563,    620. 
letters  from  tories   in,   33. 
Light   Dragoons,    291. 
magazine  published  at,   171. 
mariners  of,  435n. 
merchants,   376. 
negroes   run   away   in,   73. 


News-Papers,    price   of,    432. 

notice  to  the  citizens  of,  44. 

Presbytery  of,   108n. 

race  course,  221. 

robbery  near,  250. 

Sir     Henry      Clinton's     march 
from,  30. 

taking  of,   124. 

transportation   from,   501,   502. 
Philips,    General,   652. 

Israel,  50. 
Phillips,  Ephraim,  394n. 

Job,  88. 

John,   282. 

Jos.,    Clerk    of    Assembly    pro 
tern.,  346. 

Joseph,  Col.,  283. 

Mr.,  innkeeper,  15. 

Simeon,  280. 

Theophilus,   394n. 

Thomas,   282,   328,   329,   372. 

William,    280,    299 ;     executor, 

notice  by,  299. 
Phillip's  mills,  449. 
Phipps,  John,  estate  of,  487. 
Phinix's   Tavern,    land   for   sale   at, 

535. 

Physicians,  630. 
Piatt,  Daniel,  Major,  709. 

John,  586. 
Picarooning        expedition,        enemy 

landed  on  a.  379. 
Pickins,   Andrew,   68. 
Pickle,  Nicholas,  68. 
Picon,   Capt.   Augustine,   137. 
Picton,    Rev.    Thomas,    108u. 
Pidgeon,  Wm.,  545n. 
Pierce,  William,  369. 
Pierson,  Aaron,  328. 

Benjamin,  328. 

Daniel,  328,  329,  373. 
Pigot,  Mr.,   147. 
Piles-grove,    17  ;     land   for    sale    in, 

115,   119,   154. 

Pilgrim,   Francis,  estate  of,  487. 
Pines-Banditti,   53. 
Pine  Brook,  land  for  sale  on,  535. 
Pine    tavern,    land    for    sale    near, 

119. 
Pines,   Lazarus,  horse  stolen  out  of 

the  pasture  of,  493. 
PSnkerten,  David,  61. 
Pintard,  John,  94,  368. 
Pinyard,   William,   650. 
Pirate,  tried  for  a,  460. 
Piscataque,   167,   231,   312. 
Piscataway,    7,    57. 

land  for  sale  in,  96,  323. 

township,  notice  to  the  inhabi- 
tants of,  297. 
Pitney,  Charity,  485n. 

James,  485n. 
Pitt,  -      — ,  125n. 
Pittsburgh,   land  for  sale  near,   25. 


INDEX. 


'67 


Pitts-grove,  land  for  sale  in,  119. 
Pittsgrove,  Salem  county,  73,  582. 
Pitts-Town,    23,    34,   417,    577,    601. 
horses    for    sale    in,    394,    589, 

702. 

land  for  sale  in,  533. 
Plantain,  Mrs.,  331. 
Plasket,  Benjamin,  flaxseed  wanted 

by,  37. 
John,  88;    flaxseed  wanted  by, 

37. 

William,    181. 
Plato,   George,   111,   417. 
Platt,  John,  Sheriff,  248. 
Pluck'emin,    27,    37,    66,    150,    411, 

412,  479,  531,  664. 
anniversary  at,  103. 
barracks  of,  the  artillery  near, 

103. 

camp    at,    118. 
horse    strayed    or    stolen    near, 

576. 

land  for  sale  in,  535. 
land  to  be  let  near,   188. 
land  for  sale  near,  247. 
road,  437. 

Plumstead's  land,  536. 
Pocket  Almanacks  for  sale,  44. 
Poem,  87,  421. 

by     Officer     of     the     American 

Army,    558. 
just  published,  67. 
"The    Injured    Husband,"    193, 

194. 
Pointelow,   Amos,   land  for   sale  at 

the  house  of,   543. 
Pointing,    Brereton,    91. 

Mary,   91. 
Point  Judith,  25. 
Poinyard,    William,    land    for    sale 

late  the  property  of,  450. 
Polemas,   John,  jun.,  94. 
"Political     salvation,"     article     on, 

425,   426. 

Politicians,   article   on,    377-379. 
Pompey's  head,   154. 
Pompton,  592. 

Plains,   541. 
Pool  home,  lln. 
Pool,  Michael,  434n. 
Poole,   Joseph,   563. 
Poor,    detachments    under    Clinton 

and,  582. 

General,  606  ;    brigade  of,  608. 
Popkin,   John,  412. 
Popplespring  church,    382. 
Porter,  Admiral  David,   109n. 

Capt.,    576. 
Port  Jervis,   581n. 
Port  Royal,  Georgia,  560. 
Portugal,  trade  with,   126. 
Potter,  Colonel,  373. 
David,  498. 
Jacob,   675. 


Col.  James,  373n. 
Samuel,  111 ;    strayed  horse  to 
be  had  from,  509  ;    executor, 
228. 
Potters    Town,    land    for    sale    in, 

533. 

Potts,    Jos.,    Marshal,    44,    45,    70, 
202,  225,  278,  294,  326,  398, 
486,  574,  606,  613,  615,  662, 
672,   685,   686. 
vessels  for  sale  by,  1,  547. 
Stacy,  28,  34n,  56,  56n  ;    linen 

rags   desired   by,    34. 
Powell,  John,  562. 
Powles-Hook,   458,   592,   622. 
attack  on,  567. 
British  attack  on,  564. 
capture    of    the    British    garri- 
son     of,      621  ;      return      of 
prisoners  taken  at,  629. 
Continental      troops      captured 

at,  207,  224. 
Powlesson,    John,    428. 
Powlis     Hook,     Continental     troops 
taken    by    a    detachment,    at 
207. 

Prall,  George,  land  for  sale  by,  36. 
John,    executor,    land    for    sale 

by,   36. 

Pratt,  John,  147. 
Pray,  John,  95. 
Presbyterian    Church,    Maidenhead, 

485n. 

in  the  United  States,  108n. 
at  Woodbury,  108n. 
ground,    21n. 
Prescot,   General,  401. 
President  of  Congress,  660. 
Press,   freedom  of  the,   711. 
Prevost,  General,  401. 
Price,  Dr.,  facts  stated  by,  125. 
James,  94,  368. 
John,  205. 
Joseph.   89,  323. 
Michael,  94. 
Richard,  D.  D.,   125n. 
Robert    Friend,    399n ;     elected 
Judge      of      the      Gloucester 
Court  of  Common  Pleas,  399. 
William,     89,     94,     323,     702; 
land   for   sale  in  the   tenure 
of,   396. 

Prices,   regulation  of,  536. 
Prince,  Capt.  James,  escaped,  696. 
Prince's  Bay,  163. 
Princeton,    27,    37,    58,    61.    109n, 
116,  179,  201,  202,  220,  279, 
280,     283,     294,     324,     366, 
371n,  383,  394n,  415n,  416n, 
419n,    437,    485n,    523,    554, 
554n,     561,     562,     585,     612, 
670,   671,   717,   718. 


768 


INDEX. 


"Princeton    and    Its    Institutions," 

by  John  F.   Hageman,   554n, 

cited. 
Princeton,  battle  of,  700n. 

chair-making    business    carried 

on  in,  554. 
Princeton   College,    20,    108n,    485n, 

561. 
in     the     Eighteenth     Century, 

419n,   cited. 

land  for  sale  near,  575. 
commencement      of      the,      an- 
nounced,    616 ;     account    of, 

637. 
meeting    of    trustees    of,    109n, 

191,  225. 
Princeton,     delegates    to    meet     at, 

596. 
Grammar    School,    examination 

of  the,   669. 
horses  for  sale  at,   146. 
horses,  &c.,  for  sale  in,  222. 
horses   stolen   near,   386. 
land  for  sale  in,  64,   244,   590. 
land  for  sale  near,   62,   64,   97, 

135,   201,   574,   590. 
marriage  at,  371. 
negro  for  sale  near,  328. 
property    owned    in    and    near, 

109n. 

"Sign  of  the  College"   in,   279. 
Theological    Seminary,    109n. 
Printer,   apprentice  lads  wanted  by 

the,  617. 

Printers   wanted,   609. 
Printing     business,     apprentice     in 

the,  wanted,  678. 
office,   merchandise   for   sale   at 

the,   439. 


Prior's   Bridge,   624. 
Mills,   458,   623. 
Prisoners,  arrival  of,  587. 

exchange   of,    291,    300,    629. 
of  war,  506. 
return  of,  629. 
returned  to   New  York,   336. 
taken,  109,  122,.  252,   293,  303, 
370,  491,  493,  564,  566,  567, 
568,    615,    715,    720,    721. 
Privateers,     337 ;      brig    taken     by, 

685. 
Probasco,   Hendrick,   59. 

Jacob,  434n. 
Proclamations     by     the     Governor, 

139,  569,  570,  571. 
Proctor,    Col.,    606 ;      regiment    of, 

514. 
Proffer's    run,    land    for    sale    lying 

on,  449. 

Proprietors  of  the  Western  Divi- 
sion of  New  Jersey,  meeting 
of,  496. 

Prosser,  Jeremiah.  650. 
Providence,    vessels    embarked    for, 

456. 
Provincial  Congress  of  New  Jersey, 

2n. 

Provost,  men  put  in  the,  447. 
Prudden,    Adoniram,    deceased,    274. 
Prue,   Michael,  368. 
Puckman,    Rinehart,   98. 
Pulaski,  Count,  159. 

Legion  of,  158,  159. 
Pulis,  Christian,  98n. 
Pulisfelt,    Christian,    98n. 
Pulissalt,   Christian,   98. 
Pursell,    Benjamin,    C.,    8n. 


Q. 


Qua,  Samuel,  land  for  sale  by,  717. 
Quackenbush,  Abraham  A.,  98,  526. 

526. 

Quakers,    159,    713. 
Quarry  for  sale,  150. 

stone,  376. 
Quartermaster's     Department,     612, 

674. 

Quebec,  411n. 
Queen's     College     in     New     Jersey, 


notice    of    a    meeting   of   the 
Trustees  of.   218,  609. 
faculty  of,  302  ;    notice  by,  51. 
Queen's  Rangers.   719. 
Quibble-Town,    28,    665,    666,    721  ; 

land  for  sale  near,   227. 
road,    231. 
Ouigley,   Capt.,   254. 
Quimby,   Rachel,  418n. 


R. 


Raccoon    Creek,    land    for    sale    on, 

130,  131,  451. 
Landing,    land    for    sale    near, 

76. 

Raccoon  skins  wanted,  39,  57. 
Rags  wanted,  486. 
Rahway,   463n. 

British  expedition  to,  493. 
church  in,  330. 


companies,  460. 

river,   460. 

Raindoleer,  Christopher,  73. 
Ramboe,   John,    Inn-keeper,    73. 
Ramsay,  John,  83. 
Randle's  Mill  for  sale,  69,  185. 
Randolear,  Christopher,  369. 
Randolph,  Benjamin,  70,  186. 

Captain,  65,  86. 


INDEX. 


709 


Francis,   463n. 
Captain  Nathaniel,  81. 
Phoebe,  463n. 
Dr.  Robert,  463n. 
Ranger  Hussars,   721. 
Rapalje,     Capt.,     captured    by    the 

enemy,  163. 
Rapaljia,    George,    323. 
Rapaljie,     Garret,     645 ;    grist-mill, 
&c.,   for  sale   by,   589 ;     land 
for  sale  by,  510. 
George,  89. 
Raritan,    51,    218,    222,    562,    585, 

609,  682,  721. 

address  of  the  Reformed  Dutch 
Church    at,    to    Washington, 
441-443. 
bridge,  481. 

Committee,  proceedings  of,  573. 
extract  of  a  letter  from  a  gen- 
tleman at,  587. 
Forks   of,   49. 
land  for  sale  in,  61. 
land'  for  sale  on  the,  149,  451. 
Landing,    12n,    554. 
river,  lln,  12n,  326;    land  for 
sale     near,     97 ;      land     for 
sale  on,  10,  248,   535. 
prizes  brought  into  the,  58. 
South  Branch  of,   245. 
Rariton,    719. 

Queen's    College   on    the   north 

branch  of,   302. 
Rattan,  John,  165. 

Samuel,  165. 
Raway,   92. 

Rawson,   William,   115,   369. 
Rayneval,      Conrad     Alexandre     de 

Gerard,   291n. 
Rea,   Samuel,   699. 
"Real  Farmer,  A,"  article  by,  241. 
Read,     Augustine,     land     for     sale 

near,  605. 
'Capt.,  477. 
Charles,  362n.   363n. 
Reading,  Pa.,   escaped  from,  374. 
Reading,  George,  362n. 
John,   245. 
Richard,    16. 
Thomas,  school  master  wanted 

by,   642. 

Reading's   Ford,   682. 
Readington,  land  for  sale  in,  149. 
Reading-Town,  220,   611  ;    land  for 

sale   in,   451. 
Reading  township,  land  for  sale  in, 

112,   220. 
Rebels,   attacked  by,   564. 

discovered,  401,  722  ;    surprise, 

491. 

Guard  Boats,  441. 
landing  of  a  party  of,  491. 
militia,  555. 
papers,  extracts  from,  138,  457. 


prisoner  taken,  722. 
privateers,  616;    a  snow  taken 

by,   556. 

stores,  destruction  of  the,  122. 
surprise   by,    493. 
Reckell,     Mrs.     Ann,     marriage    of, 

109. 

Reckless-Town,  marriage  at,  109 
Red-Bank,    321. 

British   detachment    discovered 

near,  300. 
Reed,   Andrew,  415n. 

Bowes,        415 ;         biographical 
sketch    of,    415n,    416n ;     at- 
torney,   415n ;     clerk,    346. 
Captain,   626. 
Joseph,   415n. 

Lieutenant,  623,  625,  627,  628. 
Samuel,  40. 
family,    416n. 
Refugees,    491. 

and  tories,   raid  by,  518. 

from    New    Jersey,    472. 

from   New  York,   370. 

letter  by,  512. 

landing  of,  441,  504. 

of   New   Jersey,   notice   to   ther 

453,   454. 
Register      for      forfeited      estates,. 

Keeper  of  the,  331. 
Regulating    act,    objections    to    the, 

632. 

Regulation    of    prices    of    merchan- 
dise, &c.,   539. 
Regulations  violated,   598. 
Reidesel,   General,   652. 
Reightmyre,   Conrad,   46. 
Remington,  Mr.,  109. 
Remson,   Col.   Henry,   59,   559. 
Rennard,      Thomas,      Assemblyman 

716. 
Renselaer,   Stephen,   670 ;    admitted' 

to   College,   669. 
Repaupa,  land  for  sale  at,  130. 

Creek,  495  ;    land   for  sale  on, 

450. 

marsh,   450.. 
Repopo    Creek,    land    for    sale    on, 

620. 
Representatives   in   the  Legislature^ 

list  of,  700,  701. 
Republicans    of    Monmouth    county, 

652. 

Reter,  Henry,  89. 
Retter,  Wair,  323. 
Revell,   Thomas,   299n. 
Rewxastle,   Lieut.,   killed,   107. 
Reynolds,  Colonel,  23. 

Broughton,  92,  323,  383. 
John,   cotton   for   sale   by,    10 ; 

linen  rags  desired  by,  34. 
Rhea,  Colonel   David,  561. 
Rhode-Hall,   clock  for  sale  at,   417, 


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INDEX. 


Rhode  Island,  41,  254,  401. 

arrival  at,  216. 

enemy  at,  715. 
Rice,  John,  46. 

William,    46. 
Richard  and  Co.,   Williams,  153. 

John,   130. 

Richards,    Mrs.    Esther,    death    of, 
504. 

Capt.  John,  murder  of,  514. 

Mrs.,  furniture  o,f,  for  sale, 
505. 

Nathaniel,    47,    327. 

Captain    Stephen,    504. 

William,  69,   153. 
Richardson,   Thomas,  46. 
Richelieu   river,   Canada,   411n. 
Richman,   William,    119. 
Richmond,  — ,      Rebels     com- 

manded  by,    163. 

James,   148. 

Jonathan,  7,  111 ;  innkeeper, 
horse  strayed  to  the  yard  of, 
133. 

Richmond,  Yorkshire,   147. 
Rickey,    Israel,    322. 

Jacob,  322. 
Rickman,   John,   526. 
Riddell,    Ann,    109n. 
Riddle,  James,  670. 
Rider,  Stephen,  tory,  132,  359. 
Riding    chair    for    sale,    660. 
Ridner,   Abel,   98,   526. 

Conrad,  529. 

Hendrick,   98. 

John,   98. 
Ridoubt,    J.,    190. 
Riggs,   Gideon,   675. 
Ringo,  John,  deceased,  67,  68. 

Martha,   administratrix,   480. 
Ringo's     Tavern,     386 ;      horse    for 
sale  at,  110. 

old    tavern,    416. 
Ring-wood,  artillery  at,  470. 
Ritche,    John,    662. 
Ritchman,    John,    62. 
Ritzema,    Colonel,   457. 
Rivington,   James,   printer,   30  ;    let- 
ter  to,   512 ;     paper   of,    470, 
473 ;        New       York       Royal 
Gazette,   713n. 
Roadstown,    151,   474. 

land  for  sale  in,  332. 

land  for  sale  near,  333. 
Robberies,  guard  against,  372. 
Robber  killed,  53. 

shot   dead,   303. 
Robbers,  402,   516. 
Robbery,  292,  310,  321. 
Robbins,     Isaiah,    375n :      land    for 

sale  by,   375,   438. 
Robert,    Samuel,    wife    eloped   with, 
452. 


Roberts,  Capt.,  566. 

Charles,     96 ;      Loyalist,     591 ; 

land  of,  for  sale,  97. 
Edmund,    jun.,    452. 
Jacob,  innkeeper,  land  for  sale 

at  the  house  of,  449. 
John,   Commander,   615. 
Robertson,   John,   66,   98 ;    land  of, 

for  sale,  129. 
Mr.,    291. 

Robertson's  Ferry,  45. 
Robeson,   John,   650. 
Robinson,      Bryant,      runaway      ap- 
prentice,  170. 
Capt.,   481. 
John,   27. 
Rock,    James,    admitted   to   College. 

669. 

Rocky   Brook,   land  for  sale  bound- 
ing on.  99. 
Rocky   Hill,   14. 

horse  strayed  or  stolen  at,  369. 
horses  stolen  at,  386. 
land  for  sale  at,  97,  201,  618. 
Rock-Pond,  militia  planted  at,  54. 
Rodman,   Thomas,   attorney,   363n. 
Rodney,   George,   49. 
Rodrow,  John,  650. 
Roe,   Michael,   deserter,   410. 
Roeloffee,    Martin,    98. 
Roelofse,  Martin,  98n. 
Roelofsen,  Roeloff,  68. 
Roll,  Ann  Eliza,  463n. 

Isaac,  463n. 
Rome,   Henry,   526. 
Roorne,  Henry,  132. 

John,  130. 
Rope,  Christian,  68. 
Rose,    Stephen,    land    for    sale    by, 

600  ;    cyder  mill  of,  21. 
Rosebury,    Michael,   executed,    514. 
Rosely,  John,   16. 

Rosewell.  Job,  land  for  sale  near.  J). 
John,   land  for   sale   near   land 

of,  9. 

Ross,  David  D.,  Sheriff,  313. 
George,  635. 
John,   Major,   709. 
John,   jun.,   270 ;     horse   stolen 

from,  365. 

Rossell,  Zachariah,  111. 
Roundabout,  on  Raritan  river,  land 

for  sale  at,  248. 

Roxborough         township,         Morris 
county,  land  for  sale  in,  350. 
Roxbury,    Morris    county,    404,    531, 
605,     669 ;      apprentice     run 
away  in,   170. 
horse   stolen   in,    588. 
horse  strayed  to,  603. 
Roxbury  township,  horse  stolen  in, 

492.   494. 
land  for  sale  in,  605. 


INDEX. 


771 


wearing  apparel  found  in,  397. 
Rowe,  Abia,  371  n. 
Rowen,  Joseph,  684. 
"Royal     American     Gazette,"     Riv- 

ington's  paper,  291. 
Roydon,    William,    495,    496,    496n ; 

heirs  and  assigns  of,  496. 
Rozell,  Anne,  545n. 

John,  carpenter,  545n. 
Rudrow,  John,  131. 
Rudulph,  Capt.,  621,  628. 

Lieutenant,  622,  623,  625,  627. 
Ruecastle,  John,  107n. 
Ruff,  Adam,  broke  gaol,  248. 
Runaway  apprentice,  170,  223,  637. 

mulatto,  530. 

negroes,  14,  15,  73,  74,  185, 
223,  225,  235,  265,  273,  295, 
400,  437,  479,  610,  611,  673. 

servant,  4,  101,  102,  162,  367, 

610. 
Runyan,  Daniel  C.,  7n. 

Evan,   8n. 

Henry  L.,   8n. 

Hugh,  8n  ;  biographical  sketch 
of,  7,  8. 

John,   7n,   8n. 

Mill   (?),  8n. 

Sarah,   8n. 

Thomas,  7n. 
Runyon,   Asa,   appraiser,   434n. 


John,  469n  ;    land  for  sale  by, 

469. 

Rune,  322,  323. 
Rush,    Henry,    thief,    154;      watch 

stolen  by,   206. 
Martin,   98. 
Martje,   525. 
Rusk,   Samuel,   15. 
Russel,      Thomas,      Loyalist,      final 
judgment     entered     against, 
574. 

Russell,  Hugh,  late  gaoler,  60. 
John,   164. 
Thomas,    366;     land    for    sale 

late  the  property  of,  574. 
Russia,  linens  from,  126. 
Rutgers  College,  51n,  352n. 
Rutherford,  John,  561. 
Rev.,  530. 
Walter,  negro  run  away  from, 

479. 

Rutherfurd,  Mr.,  530n. 
Ryan,   Dr.,   Worm-destroying  sugar- 
plumbs,  sold  by,  204,  205. 
Ryckman,   John,    132. 

Ryerson, ,   48n. 

Captain,  65,  77,  265. 
John    F.,  98. 
John   J.,   529. 
John  T.,   526. 
Lieut.,    77. 
Samuel,  92. 


S. 


Sabine,   Lorenzo,   23n. 

Saddle-river  precinct,  526. 

Salem,  255,  334,  385,  420,  481,  487, 

524,    663. 

horses  for  sale  in,  474. 
land  for  sale  in,  17,  114,  117. 
land  for  sale  on  the  road  lead- 

.ing  to,  333. 
company  from,  550. 
Salem,  Mass.,  371n. 
New  York,  419n. 
Book,   The,   419n,   cited. 
Salem  county,  109n,  200,  415n,  528, 
651,      684 ;       committee     on 
loan  appointed  for,  559. 
confiscated    estates    in,    to    be 

sold,   114. 
Loyalists,    369. 
members     of    the    Legislature, 

716. 
petition  of  the  inhabitants  of, 

684. 

Sales,   restriction   of,   501. 
Salt,  69. 

Salt-boiling,  pans  for  sale,   183. 
Salt    for    sale,    70,    181,    272,    326, 
375,  486,  574,  597,  662,  672, 
686. 


imported,   205,  222. 
manufacture  of,   573. 
Salt  works  for  sale,  182,  264  ;    de- 
stroyed,   157. 
Union,   117  ;    sloop  for  sale  at 

the,  326. 
Saltar,   Joseph,  71  ;    sloop  for  sale 

by,   361. 

Sandford,   Captain,   722. 
Sands,    Christopher,    86. 

Susannah,  86. 

Sandy-Hook,  41,  334,  439,  456,  457, 
499,  566,  616,  646,  652.  663. 
arrival  at,  345,  565. 
arrival  of  fleet  at,  560. 
arrival  of  vessels  at,  587. 
British  vessels  put  to  sea  from, 

128,   144,   358. 
enemy  driven  to,  301. 
frigates  cruizing  off,  447,   477. 
prizes  taken  near,  58. 
Royal  Army  at,  303. 
ships  at,   696. 
transports    put    to    sea    from, 

348. 

vessels  put  to  sea  from,  293. 
Sandy    Point,    715. 
Sanford,  Capt.,  722. 


772 


INDEX. 


Saratoga,    23n  ;     battle    near,    105 ; 
Convention     of,     105 ;     (sur- 
render of  Burgoyne  at,   140. 
Saunders,  Eliza,  554n. 

John,   554n. 
Sause,   Richd,   545n. 

Cutler,  545n. 

Savages  and  tories,  party  of,  577. 
Savanna,  Ga.,  659,  714  ;    troops  at, 

714. 

arrival  of  French  fleet  at,  715. 
vessels  lying  at,  456. 
Saw-mill,   74 ;     for   sale,    1,   69,    76, 
79,   117,   129,   180,   183,   184, 
185,    261. 

saws  for  sale,   236. 
Sayers,   Jonathan,   48. 
Sayr,  Thomas,  commissioner  of  for- 
feited estates,   73,    116,   369, 
528. 

Sayres,  Caleb,  328. 
Jonathan,   327. 
Sayre's  Neck,   152. 
Scammell,     Alex.,    Adjt.    Gen.,     64, 

145. 
Schanck,  William,  land  for  sale  by, 

36. 
Schenck,  John  J.,  66,  559. 

John  P.,  marriage  of,  700. 
Peter,    559 ;     merchant,    700. 
Schenck's     sawmill     for     sale,     one 

moiety  of,  717. 
Schenectady,  N.  Y.,  554n  ;    land  for 

sale  near,  71. 
Schenk,  John  I.,  155,  207. 

Mercer  &,  178. 
Scheurman,  Widow,  366. 
Schooley,  Andrew,  46. 
widow,  111. 
William,  46. 
Schooley's   Mountain,  land  for  sale 

on,   113,   605. 
Schoolmaster,    545n. 

wanted,   67,   449,   642. 
English,  418. 
wants  a  school,  661. 
Schooner  for  sale,  1,  672. 
Schuyler,  Anne  Mary,  12n. 
Derick,  328. 
Dirck,  12n. 

Scipio,   runaway  negro,    673. 
Scoby,   Timothy,   94. 
Scotch   Plains,    166,    189,    412,    666, 

708. 

land  for  sale  near,  169. 
merchandise  for  sale  at,   509. 
Scotia,  554n. 
Scott,   President  Austin,   352n. 

Brigadier  General  Charles,  145, 

367n  ;    brigade  of,   261. 
Eunice,    193,    203,    275n,    276 ; 
eloped,  192. 


John,  193,  203,  275n ;    wife  of, 

eloped,  192. 
John  B.,  land  for  sale  late  the 

property  of,  544. 
John  W.,  8n,  434n. 
Scudder,  Colonel,  14. 
Eliza,  463n. 
Ephraim,    9. 
Richard,   269. 

William,     biographical     sketch 
of,     371  ;      commissioner    of 
forfeited  estates,  62,  64,  179, 
366,  436,  574. 
family,    371n. 
Seabrook,     Thomas,     Representative 

in  Assembly,   701. 
Seabury,  Nathaniel,   233. 
Sea-fight,  560. 
Sears,    Ephraim,    riding    chair    for 

sale  by,   666. 

Seat,  Gen.,  brigade  of,  367. 
Seaward,  Col.,  579. 
Sebring,  Reoloff,  Assemblyman,  701. 
Second  New  Jersey   regiment,    402, 

404. 
Second-River,     408,    426 ;      fire    at, 

554. 

Seely,    Enos,    commissioner    of   for- 
feited estates,  152,   488. 
Seely,   Christopher,  executor,  83. 

Ephraim,   559. 
Selden,  E.,  524. 
Seneca  county,   N.   Y.,   663. 
Sergeant,    Cecil,   90. 
Settlement    of    line    between    New- 
York  and  New-Jersey,  552. 
Sexton,  Jared,  Clerk,  296  ;    commis- 
sioner   of    forfeited    estates, 
68,    91,    113,    393,   397 ;     As- 
semblyman, 701. 
Joseph,  702. 

Shadwick,  Captain,  456,  475. 
Shameny  ferry,  436. 
Shannon,  Wm.,   D.   C.  of  hides,  28. 
Sharp,  Anthony,  Assemblyman,  716. 
John,    horse   stolen   from,    492, 

494. 

Samuel,  68,   113. 
Sharpe,  Col.  Horatio,  190. 
Shaw,  Arthur,   165. 
Elizabeth,    363n. 
James,  165. 

John,  insolvent  debtor,  363n. 
Thomas,  363n. 

William,  land  for  sale  by,  350. 
Shearbrook,   Miles,   Loyalist,  574. 
Sheerbrook,   Miles,   328,   329. 
Shelliman,   John,  guilty  of  forgery, 

541. 
Shenondehowah     patent,     land     for 

sale  in,   71. 

Sherbrook,   Miles,  366,  373. 
Shibers's   Island,   land   for   sale   on, 
129. 


INDEX. 


773 


Shinn,  Samuel,  119. 

Shipman,  Abraham,  313. 

Matthias,  wearing  apparel 
stolen  from,  398. 

Shoal  Harbour,  enemy  landed  at, 
320. 

Shoemaker,  Boltus,  529. 

Conrad,   land  for   sale   joining, 

451. 
Messrs.  Bonsall  and,  119. 

Shore  salt  for  sale,  45,  80. 

Short  Hills,  667. 

Shotwell,  James,  90,  463,  464  ;  ac- 
cused of  aiding  woman  in 
elopment,  462. 

Shotwill,  James,  wife  eloped  by  the 
assistance  of,  412. 

Shreve,  Col.,  Israel,  402n,  709 ; 
deserter  from,  537 ;  answer 
of,  403,  404. 

Col.  William,  marriage  of,  109. 
regiment  of  Colonel,  226  ;    part 
of  taken,  262. 

Shrewsbury,    12n,    33,    34,    89,    94, 

368,  441,  552,  556. 
enemy  marched  to,  301,  303. 
land  for  sale  near,   135. 
river,     enemy     went     in     boats 
into,    320 ;     landed    at,    321 ; 
negroes  and   refugees  landed 
at,     504. 
road,   376. 

town,  land  for  sale  at,   323. 
township,  94,  637  ;    salt  works 
for    sale    in,    182 ;     saw   and 
grist-mill  for  sale  in,  180. 

Shull,  Tobias,  negro  run  away  from, 
14. 

Silcock,  Valentine,  innholder,  land 
for  sale  at  the  house  of,  228. 

Sillyman,  Thomas,  699. 

Simcoe,  Lieut.  Col.  John  G.,  expedi- 
tion of,  into  New  Jersey, 
715n,  719;  captured,  720; 
hurt,  722. 

Simes,  Daniel,  land  for  sale  in  the 
possession  of,  533. 

Simkins,  Dean,  land  for  sale  join- 
ing lands  of,  582. 

Simms,  Charles,  land  for  sale  by, 
25. 

Sims,  Colonel  Charles,  702. 

Singer  family,  545n. 

Robert,  545 ;  biographical 
sketch  of,  545n,  546n  ;  mer- 
chandise for  sale  by,  27. 

Sinnickson,  Andrew,  Representative 
in  Council,  716. 

Sisse,  Nicholas,  529. 

Six  Mile  Run,  395,  683;  Dutch 
meeting-house,  horse  stolen 
near  the,  619., 

Six  Nations,   destructive  expedition 


into     the     country     of     the, 
700n. 

Skayes,   N.  Y.,  649. 
Skelton,  Joseph,  deceased,  135. 
Josiah,  executor,  136. 
Mary,  371n. 
Miss,  marriage  of,  371. 
Thomas,  68,  112. 
Skepact,   Mattenes,  526. 
Skillman,    Benjamin,    horse   strayed 
to    the    plantation    of,    294 ; 
innholder,   294. 
family,  294n. 

Skinner,  Brigadier-General,  252. 
Captain,  killed,  491,  493. 
Cortland,  62,  63,  95,  435. 
General,  456,  457. 
John,  land  for  sale  by,   575. 
Stephen,    47,    62,    63,    92,    95, 

112,   322,   327,   435. 
Thomas,   323. 
Skinner's  saw-mill,  578. 
Skirm,    Abraham,    223. 
Slack,  Daniel,  horse  strayed  to,  365. 
Samuel,    541  ;    taken    prisoner, 

697. 

Slade,  W.,  Lt.   1st  N.  C.  Bat.,  525. 
Sleep  Creek,  362n. 
Sleight,  Mr.,  wounded,  163. 
Slone,  John,  384,  508,  528. 
Sloop  ashore,  207. 

for  sale,   44,   45. 
Smalley,  David,  petition  by,  598. 

Jonathan,   152. 
Smallwood,   Bayne,   16. 
Smith,  Anna,  485n. 

Benjamin,  postmaster,  66,  116. 
280,    561  ;     riding   chair   and 
pistols     for     sale     by,     617 ; 
sulky  for  sale  by,  702. 
Benjamin  Taylor,  561. 
Captain,    626. 
Claudius,  81. 

Daniel,      114,      248:       saddler, 
notice    to    persons    indebted 
to,    247. 
David,   95. 
Elizabeth,   434n. 
Hyram,  707. 
Israel,  8n. 
Jacamiah,    land    and   axes   for 

sale  by,  39. 
James,  68,  81,  545n. 
James,    jun.,    flaxseed    wanted 

by,  203. 
Jasper,      236;       horse      stolen 

from,  37. 

John,   49,   128,   152,   153,   323 ; 
convicted    of   grand    larceny, 
714 ;      Loyalist,     final    judg- 
ment entered  against,  591. 
John,   senior,    46. 
John,  junior,  46. 
John  E.,  7n. 


774 


INDEX. 


Joseph,   land  for  sale   late   the 

property   of,   396. 
Maria,  8n. 

Micajah,  land  for  sale  by,  42. 
Nicholas,  wife  of,  eloped,  452. 
Richard  S.,  land  for  sale  by. 

498. 

Samuel,  62,  63,  92,  94,  368, 
384,  417,  435;  fled  to  the 
enemy,  234 ;  innkeeper,  45, 
180,  508,  528;  land  pur- 
chased of,  234. 

Rev.     Samuel     Stanhope,     Pro- 
fessor   of   Moral    Philisophy, 
671,   672n. 
Sarah,   eloped,   452. 
Uriah,  662. 

William,  94,  95,  363n,  368, 
494;  Lt.  Col.,  709;  Loyal- 
ist, 491n. 

Smith's    Clove,    81,    457,    548 ;     Mr. 
Washington     embowered     at, 
470. 
Smith's  Landing,  land  for  sale  near, 

547,   563. 

Smith's  Tavern,  548. 
Smithson.  John.  631. 
Smock,  Hendrick,  Representative  in 

Assembly.    701. 
John  White,  46. 
Smyth.   Frederick,   90. 

John,  322. 
Sneathen,     Joseph,     land     for     sale 

adjoining,    528. 
Snell,  Robert,  524. 
Snook's    mill,    John,    397. 
Snowball,    Captain,   385. 
Snow  storms,   190,   201,   207. 
Snow    taken    by    Rebel    Privateers, 

556. 

Snuff  for  sale.   58. 

Snyder,    Daniel,    8n. 

John,  386. 

William,    innholder.    285. 
Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the 
Gospel      in     Foreign     Parts, 
361n. 

Soldiers  executed,   292. 
Somerset,   196.   561,   609.   700. 

County.  12n.  13n.  49,  62,  64, 
96,  206.  437.  438,  530,  531, 
574.  598,  701. 

commissioners   of   forfeited    es- 
tates, notice  by,  201. 
committee    on    loan    appointed 

for,    559. 

gaol,  broke  out  of.  523.  643. 
land  for  sale  in.  220,  541,  590. 
Loyalists,   152,  201,   574.   590. 
meeting  of  the  electors  of,  583. 
member    of    the    Council    for, 

587. 

notice  to  the  Freeholders  and 
Inhabitants  of,  481. 


resolutions  by  electors  of,  429. 
Sheriff  of,  482. 

Court-house,     259,     400,     719 ; 
burned,      720,      722 ;       horse 
stolen  near  the,  614. 
Sonmans,  Peter,  248n. 
Sonmons,      Peter,      deceased,      suit 
against     the     executors     of, 
248. 
"Sons    of    Liberty"    of    New    York, 

411n. 

Sorrel,  William,  132,  526. 
Souder,  Peter,  151. 
Soullard,   John,   Gaoler,   537. 
Soup,   Henry,  529. 
Sourland,  land  for  sale  at,  201. 

meeting-house,    437 ;     land    for 

sale  adjoining  the,  97. 
South  Amboy,  434n,   715,   72C,   723. 
South-America,   174. 
South  Carolina,  669  ;    evacuated  by 
the  enemy,  560  ;    vessel  from, 
549. 

Southold,  L.  I.,  371n,  581n. 
South-River,   723. 

landing,     land    for    sale    near, 

114. 

Sowder,   Peter,  jun.,   deceased,   land 
for  sale  late  the  property  of, 
488. 
Spain,  American  minister  to,   291n, 

660n. 

trade  with,   126. 
Spanish   government,   agent   of   the, 

320n. 
ship,   696. 
Spank-Town,  331. 

Sparkes,  John,  commissioner  of  for- 
feited  estates,    495. 
Sparks,   Henry,   117. 

John.  Upper  Penn's  Neck,  115, 

117,  559. 

John,  Woodberry,  117 ;  com- 
missioner of  forfeited  es- 
tates, 131.  451,  527,  650; 
loan  commissioner,  559 ; 
horse  stolen  from,  493  ;  As- 
semblyman, 716. 
Robert,  land  for  sale  in  the 

tenure   of,   128. 
Spear.   John,   132. 

Speedwell  saw-mill  for  sale,  69,  185. 
Speer,  Elias,  708. 

John,    668. 
Spencer,     Rev.    Elihu,    380n,    419n, 

439. 

Oliver,  Col.,  439,  440,  709. 
Sarah,  380n. 
Spicer's  Bridge,  452. 
Spier,   Capt.   Abraham.   80. 
Spies,  401,  402  ;    British,  captured, 

226;    discovered,  302. 
Spinning.  Ichabod,  land  for  sale  by, 
462. 


INDEX. 


775 


John,  jun.,  deceased,  236. 
Spotswood,    436,    561. 

land    for    sale    near,    55,    179, 

248,   574. 
Paper-Mill,  82. 

Springfield,  Burlington  county,  ser- 
vant run  away  from,  162. 
loan    certificates    lost    on    the 

road  to,  437,  531. 
Springfield,    Essex    county,    14,    28, 

116,  168,  232,  349,  504,  512, 
630,    631,   667,   674. 

horse  strayed  to,  507. 
brew  kettle  for  sale  in,  467. 
horse  stolen,  in,  189. 
pocket  book  found  in,  235. 
Spring-Hill,  498. 

Spruce  run,  land  for  sale  at,  113. 
Squan   River,  637  ;    schooner  drove 

ashore  near,  645. 
Square    point,    land    for    sale    near, 

113. 

Squire,  Ellis,  tools  for  sale  by,  406. 
Squires   Point,   645 ;     land   for   sale 

at,  397,   510. 
Staats,    Joanna,    lln. 
Dr.  Samuel,  lln. 
Stables  for  sale,  1. 
Stage  erected,   100. 
Stager,   Cornelius,   328,  329,  372. 

Henry,  48,  328. 

Stainforth,     George,     Loyalist,     61, 
435  ;    land  .for   sale  late  the 
property  of,  near  Princeton, 
64,  590. 
Stanbury,  Isaac,  92,  384. 

J.,  331. 

Stanford,  Conn.,  702. 
Stanly,   Andrew,    162. 
Stansfield,  Henry,  60. 
Stanton,  Richard,  Loyalist,  48,  328. 
State  Constitution,  446n. 
Staten   Island,  12n,  65,  66,   77,  89, 

117,  163,  323,  429,  491,  493, 
494,  611,  641,  686,  698,  719, 
723. 

arrival  of  the  enemy  on,   176, 
216,   650. 

deserters  from,  454. 

enemy  from,  81. 

expedition  made  to,  555. 

landing  of  the  rebels  on,  491. 

regulars    and    refugees    leave, 

493. 

Stay-maker,  19. 
St.  Clair's  retreat,  67,  677. 
Steel,   William,   61,   63. 
Steel  for  sale,  236,  617. 
Steele,  William,  435. 
Steel  man,  Frederick,  576. 

John,    convicted   of   grand    lar- 
ceny, 714. 


Stell's    Tavern,    land    for    sale    at, 

535. 
Stelle,      Thompson,      Assemblyman, 

715. 
Stephens,    Joseph,    taken    prisoner, 

491. 

Stephenson  &  Canfield,  cloth  for 
sale  by,  20 :  merchandise 
for  sale  by,  310,  311  ;  mis- 
cellaneous articles  for  sale 
by,  676. 
Sterling,  534n. 

Sterling,    Colonel,   detachment  com- 
manded by,  160. 
Earl  of,  real  estate  of,  532. 
St.     Eustatia,     W.     I.,     536 ;      brig 

from,   616. 
Stevens,  Col.,  104. 

David,    16,    524,    614;     Capt., 

186. 
Ebenezer,  Lieut.  Col.  Artillery. 

167. 

John,  485n,  591. 
Hon.    John,    laws    to   be   deliv- 
ered    to,     577 ;      Councillor, 
701. 
Richard,     trustee,     618,     643 ; 

land  for  sale  by,  536. 
Thomas,    95,    485n. 
Stevenson,  Samuel,  89,  323. 

William,    89,    323. 
Steward,  John,  92. 
Stewart,    Capt.,    719. 
Stickney,    Charles    E1.,    581n  ;     His- 
tory   of    the    Minnesink    Re- 
gion  by,   581n. 
Stiles,   Isaac,  49,  328. 

John,  land  for  sale  near,  166. 
Jonathan,     land    for    sale    by, 

534. 

Moses  Halsey,  166. 
William,  47,  236,  327. 
Stillwell,  Capt.,  615. 

Colonel     Nicholas,     398,     420, 
593n  ;    schooner  for  sale  at, 
593,   606. 
Stilwell,  James,  94. 

Samuel,  94. 
Stilwil,  Captain,  613. 
James,  368. 
Samuel,  368. 
Stilwill,  Enoch,  613. 
Stine,  Andrias,  112. 
Stinson,   Archibald,    88,    168 ;     land 

for  sale  by,  82. 
Stirling,  Earl  of,  541,  572,  621,  627. 

643,  644  ;    sale  of  real  estate 
of,    534,    618,   624,   625,   628. 

644,  645. 
Major-General    Lord,    64,    616, 

621  ;      a     detachment     from 
the  division  of,  563. 


776 


INDEX. 


Stirling,    Lieut.    Colonel,    106,    122, 

252. 

Stites,  John,  jun.,  384,  508,  528. 
St.   John's  River,  475. 
St.  Lucia,  W.  I.,  401. 
St.   Mary's  churchyard,   Burlington, 

361n. 
Church     lottery     (Burlington), 

363n. 
St.     Michael's    P.     E.     Churchyard, 

Trenton,  21n. 
Church,  Trenton,  37n. 
Stock  for  sale,  323. 
Stockholm,    Andrew,    horse    strayed 

from,   675. 

Stockton,    Ann,    lOSn. 
Horatio  L.,  670. 
Joseph,  Loyalist,  96,  113.  201  ; 
final         judgment         entered 
against,    591  ;     land    of,    for 
sale,  97,  590. 
Mary,    109n. 
Mr.,  37. 

Richard,  108n,  280,  446n,  561 : 
final         judgment         entered 
against,   591. 
Richard  J.,   670. 
Robert,   590,   718. 
Lieut.    Samuel    Witham,    109n, 

415n. 
Stolen,  chair  saddle,  164. 

gold  watch,   clothing,  &c..   154. 
horse,  21,  37,   110,   164,   168. 
Stom,  William,  151. 
Stone  House  Plains,   668,   708. 
Stoneybrook,   land  for  sale  joining, 

590. 

Stoney  -Hill,   705  ;    murder  at,  482. 
Stoney  Point,   517. 

enemy  busy  in  fortifying.  447  : 
captured,  504 ;  enemy  in 
possession  of,  538 ;  evacu- 
ated, 715. 

Stony   Brook,   420n. 
Stor,  Michael,  98. 
Storm,  177. 
Stout,  David,   112. 

Jonathan,  94,  368. 

Joshua,  15. 

Nathan,  horse  stolen  from,  718. 

Peter,  94,  368. 

Robert,  94,  368. 

Samuel,  goldsmith,   532  :  goods 

stolen  from,  525. 
T.,    298. 

Stow-Creek  township,   151. 
Strasbourg,   291. 

Straw,  —      — ,  execution  of,  251. 
Stretch,    Daniel,    151,    152 :     estate 

of,  487. 
Peter,   138. 

Strettle,    -       — .    116. 
Stryker,  Gen.  William  Scudder.  Ad- 


jutant General   of  New  Jer- 
sey, 371n,  392n,  416n,  545n. 
"Battles       of       Trenton       and 
Princeton,"    by,    416n,    cited. 
"Officers     and     Men     of     New 
Jersey    in    the    Revolution," 
by,  392n. 
"Trenton    One    Hundred    Years 

Ago,"  by,   8n,   545n,   cited. 
Thomas  J.,  371n. 

St.  Tammany,  festival  of,  293,  310. 
Stuart,  James,  46. 
Stur,   Michael,   525. 
Sturge,    David,    wife    eloped    from, 

312. 

Sarah,  eloped,  312. 
Success  saw-mill  to  lease,   134. 
Sudani.   Charles,   554. 
"Sukey,"  614. 

Sullivan,  John,  Major-General,  517, 
582,  606,  641,  649,  698;  ex- 
pedition against  the  Indians, 
427n ;  arrival  of,  572 ;  at- 
tack on  Indians  by,  608 ; 
officers  belonging  to  army 
of,  673  ;  biographical  sketch 
of,  700n ;  tribute  to,  708. 
709;  reply  by,  709,  710: 
address  to  and  answer  from, 
699,  700 ;  extract  from  let- 
ter to,  549  ;  extracts  of  let- 
ters from  his  headquarters, 
697,  608. 
Col.  Samuel  H.,  47,  561  ; 

notice  by,  28. 
Sunbury,  516. 

Supreme   Court,   sitting   of,   259. 
Suram,   David,   650. 
Surinam,    sloop   bound   from,    42. 
Suspected  persons,  removal  of,  555. 
Susquehanna,   440,   516,   549. 
Sussex    County,    11,    13n,    47,    215, 
439,    530,    580n,    581n,    602. 
646 ;     application    of   inhabi- 
tants to  be  protected  against 
Indians,     555 ;      armed    men 
discovered  in,   226,   302. 
committee    on    loan    appointed 

for.   559. 

flag   sent   into,   224. 
forfeited  estates  in,  133. 
Loyalists,    328,    543,    553. 
theft   in,   551. 
Court-house,  536,   592. 
gaol,  murderer  confined  in,  121, 

186. 

militia,    Capt.    Rapalje   of   the, 
captured  by  the  enemy,  163. 
murder  in,  121. 

Sutherland,  Major,  564,  568,  628: 
repulsed  by,  564  ;  Command- 
ant, 515. 

Sutphin,  Jacob,  executor,  land  for 
sale  by,  36. 


INDEX. 


777 


Sutten,   Moses,   executor,   261. 
Sutton,  James,  73. 

John,  73,  369. 

Jonathan,   322. 

Thomas,  73,   369. 
Suttons,  James,  369. 
Swackhammer,   John,   land  for  sale 

in  the  possession  of,  533. 
Swan,  Amos,  167,  190. 

Benjamin,  228. 
Swanton,  George,  650. 


Swart,   Cornelius,   land   for  sale  at 

the  house  of,  94. 
Swayze,  Caleb,  297. 
Sweedsborough,  638  ;    land  for  sale 

in  the  town  of,  131,  450. 
Sweetman,  George,   365n. 
Swezey,  Caleb,  jun.,  669. 
Swezy,   Aaron,   529. 
Swinburn,  William,  217. 
Swort,   Cornelius,   land   for   sale   at 

the  house  of,   323. 
Symonds,   William,   12n. 


T. 


Tabor,    Thomas,    elected    a    Justice 

of  the  Peace,  399. 
Tack,   John.   62 ;     taken   up  for  de- 
sertion, 523. 
Talbot,   Major,   25. 

Silas,   613. 
Tallmann,    Christopher,   368. 

Cornelius,   captured,   359. 

Dow.   wounded,    359. 

Oliver,  368. 

Peter,    540,    588 :     Representa- 
tive in  Council,  701. 
Talmage,  Daniel,  581n. 
Talman,   Christopher,   94. 

Oliver,   94. 
Taner,  William,  192. 
Tanners'  oil  for  sale,  181. 
Tappan,  360.  402. 
Tarrytown,  550, 
Tasker,  Col.,   221. 
Taunton  forge,  561,  702. 
Tavern,  168,  220. 
Taverns  :    American  House,  136n. 

Arnold's,  Morristown,  534. 

At  Croswicks,  536. 

Blackhorse,    9,    134,    540,    588, 
701. 

Bottle  hill,  436. 

Brewster's,   534. 

Bruster's,  land  for  sale  on  the 
road  leading  to,  262. 

Cross-key,  449. 

David  Williamson's,   63. 

Death  of  the  Fox,  620. 

Half-Moon,  312. 

John  Wykoff's.  532. 

Lawrence  Taylor's,  89. 

Mr.  Winan's,  228. 

Phinix's,   535. 

Pine,  119. 

Ringo's.    386 ;     horse    for    sale 
at,    110. 

Ringoe's  old  tavern,  416. 

Robert     Norris's,     676 ;      Mor- 
ristown,   310. 

"Sign    of    the    Blue    Anchor," 
219. 

Sign  of  the  College,  279. 

"Sign  of  the  Grist  Mill,"   330. 


Sign    ot    the     Sailors     Return, 
646. 

"Sign    of    the    Spread    Eagle," 
153. 

Sign  of  the  Whitehorse,  717. 

Smith's,  548. 

Stell's,  535. 

"The  Blazing  Star,"  545. 

"Three  Pidgeons,"   565. 

White-house,  451. 

Whorley's,  49. 

Winans',    630. 

Woodbury,  128. 
Taxation,  305. 

Taylor,   Dr.   Augustus  R.,   executor, 
434n. 

Captain,  615,  653,   659. 

Col.,  letter  from,  587. 

Daniel,   sen.,  notice  by,   406. 

Edward,   68. 

George,  367. 

George,  jun.,  94. 

John,  94,  368. 

Col.  John,  638. 

John,   Lieut.   Col.    State   Regt, 
562. 

Joseph,     94,     417 ;      deceased, 
280. 

Lawrence,   innholder,  89,  99. 

Marphet,   457. 

Mary,  434n. 

Morford,  94,  368. 

Oliver,  a  lunatic,  406. 

Thomas,     suspected     of     theft, 
551. 

William,    367. 

Yelverton,  16,  710. 
Taylors,  notice  to,   37. 
Tea  kettle  bottoms  for  sale,  165. 
Teets,    Christian,    land   for   sale    in 

the  possession  of,  533. 
Temple,   Nathaniel,   559. 
Ten  Broek,  Abraham,  executor,  645. 
Ten  Brook,  Mr.,  36. 
Ten   Eyck,    John   D.   P.,   Paymaster 
to  Colonel  Livingston's  regi- 
ment,  561. 

widow,  222. 
Ten  Eycke,   Peter,  8n. 


778 


INDEX. 


Sarah,   8n. 
Ten  Mile  Run,  14. 
Tennent,  Rev.  Gilbert,  433n. 

Rev.  William,  deceased,  244. 
Ten-ill,  William,  95. 
Thanksgiving     day     appointed     by 

Congress,  705. 
Tharp,  John,  taken  prisoner,  491. 

Mr.,  186  ;    murder  by,  121. 
Thatcher,  Bartholomew,  68. 
Theft.  6. 
Third-River,  81. 
Thirty-seventh     Regiment,     British, 

491. 

Col.  Edward,  tried  by  a  Court- 
Martial,   392. 

Thomas,    Edward,    134 ;     biographi- 
cal sketch  of,  392  ;    land  for 
sale  by,  9. 
John,   523. 
Nathl.,  362n. 
Thomas's   Forry,    392n. 
Thompson,  Brigadier  General,  23. 
David,   27,  66,  559  ;    cows,  &c., 

for  sale  by,    707. 
General,   373. 
Hezekiah,  463n. 
James,    527  :     merchandise    for 

sale  l>y,  409.  500. 
John,     90,     322  ;      merchandise 

for  sale  by,  405,  467,   500. 
Newcomb,    land    for    sale    join- 
ing, 488. 
Robert,   46. 
Sarah,  463n. 

Thomas.    Captain    Lieut.    Artil- 
lery, 410. 

Brig/  Gen.    William,    373n. 
Thompson's  creek,   460. 
Thomson.      Charles,      Secretary      of 

Congress,   31,   629. 
Cornelius,   94. 
David,  horses,  &c.,  for  sale  by, 

406. 

John,   93. 
Lewis,   94. 
Thorn,   Henry,  schooner  for  sale  at 

the  house  of,   490. 
Joseph,  95. 
Thomas,   28,   368. 
and  Curtis,   57. 
Thome,  Thomas,  94. 
Thornton,    John,    92. 
Three    Mile    Run,    land   for   sale   at 

the,  220. 
Three    Rivers,    taken    prisoners    at, 

373n. 
Throckmorton,     James,    fulling-mill 

hired  by,  366. 
John,  93,  367. 
Lieutenant,  456. 
Tichenor.   Daniel,   land  for  sale  by, 

665. 
Tilton,  Clayton,  94,  368. 


Ezekiel,  94,  368. 
John,   94,  255,  368. 
Robert,  12n. 

Timber  Creek,  horse  stolen  at,  493. 
land   for   sale   on,   556. 

"Timoleon,"  article  by,  357,  358 : 
letter  sent  to,  422-424  ;  an 
swer  by,  573. 

Tinton  Falls,   321n,   456n,  475n. 

Tioga,  N.  Y.,  587,  607  ;  letter  from, 
572. 

Tise,  John,  98. 
Peter,  98. 

Titus,    Jesse,    horse    taken    up    by, 

661. 
Joseph,   poem  by,   421. 

Todd,  Dorothea  Payne,  136n. 

Toll-bridge,  for  sale,  450. 

Tom,   runaway  negro,  14. 

Tombleson,  Elijah,  334. 

Tomkin,  Israel,  365n. 

Tompson,  James,  land  for  sale  by, 
21. 

Toms   River,    43.    54,    70,    294,    523, 
555  ;    land  for  sale  near,  71, 
573,   590,   717. 
sloop  for  sale  at,  202,  361. 
sloop   and   schooner   to  be   sold 
at,   70. 

Tomson,  Rebecca.  718. 

Town,  Thomas,  88. 

Tories,  652 ;  freebooters,  armed, 
house  broken  open  by,  53, 
215  ;  murdering,  372  ;  raids 
by,  441  ;  party  of,  475  ;  per- 
secution of  the.  555. 

Tortola,   W.   I.,   399,   400. 

Totton.   Mr.,   477. 

Toy,  Joseph   (schoolmaster),  545n. 

Trade,    620,    621. 

"Tradesman  of  New  Jersey,  A," 
article  by,  389-391. 

Trapp,  Captain,  robbed,  250. 

Treat,   Doctor   Samuel,   28. 

Trent,   Major  William.   28,  166. 

Trenton.  2.  7,  7n,  18,  19,  21n,  22, 
23,  26,  27,  28,  29,  33,  37,  42, 
47,  53,  56,  57,  58,  64,  87,  88, 
95,  103,  108n,  109n,  117, 
118,  128,  133,  144,  159n, 
163,  176,  178,  200,  244,  254, 
280,  291.  300,  320,  327,  331, 
345,  358,  362.  368,  371n, 
373,  375n,  379,  380,  391, 
393,  394n,  396,  399,  415, 
415n,  416n,  419n,  421,  428, 
437,  439,  446,  452,  470,  475, 
476,  477,  478,  485n,  515,  520, 
520n,  522,  528,  536,  538, 
541,  542,  544,  545n,  546, 
548,  559,  561,  571,  587,  588, 
616,  617,  618,  640,  659,  661, 
664,  679,  682,  697,  702. 
act  passed  at,  482-484. 


INDEX. 


779 


Banking  Company,   371n. 
battle  of,  700n. 
books,  &c.,  for  sale  at,  489. 
book   published   in,    67. 
convention,  2n. 
cotton  for  sale  in,  10. 
Court-house,      Court      of      Ad- 
miralty   to    be    held    at    the, 

255. 
drugs    and    medicines    for    sale 

in,  153. 
Falls,  321,  475  ;    land  for  sale 

at,  94. 

ferry,   house  broke  open  at,   6. 
ferry  for  sale,  111. 
flax  for  sale  near,  69. 
gaol,   295,   684 ;     broke  out  of, 

60,  248. 

German  steel  for  sale  in,  617. 
horses,  &c.,  for  sale  in,  37,  574, 

589,  591. 
horse    stolen    in,    21,    31,    93, 

254,  270,  365. 
horse  strayed  in,  279,  383. 
horse  taken  up  near,  661. 
house  for  sale  in,  72. 
household    furniture,    &c.,    for 

sale   in,   182. 

imported  salt  for  sale  in,  181. 
journeyman      wheelwright 

wanted  in,  182. 
keeper  of  the  common  gaol  in, 

93. 

tavern  in,  136n. 
.land  for  sale  in,  25,  56,  72,  91, 

114,  149,  181,  375. 
Landing,    8n,    153,    452 ;     flour, 

&c.,  for  sale  at,  367. 
legislature  to  meet  at,  720. 
linens,  &c.,  for  sale  in,  15. 
merchandise  for  sale  in,  35,  61, 

284,  545. 

negro  for  sale  in,  685. 
negro   run   away   in,    185,   223, 

437. 
notice    to    the    inhabitants    of, 

520. 

ordinance  passed  in,  296. 
pocket  almanacks  for  sale,  44. 


postmaster  at,  116. 
post   office,    list    of    letters    re- 
maining in  the,   27,  66,  280, 
561,  701,   702. 

Presbyterian     church     in,     7n, 
109n,  380n. 

Trimmers,  Jacob,  horse  stolen 
from,  668. 

Troop,  John,  92. 

Troy,  Morris  county,  233 ;  Lady 
Washington  sets  out  from, 
408. 

"True   Patriot,   The,"  380. 

"True  Patriot,"  article  by,  139-144, 
195,  199,  208-213,  238-243, 
277,  285-290,  313,  319,  386- 
389,  425,  444,  653,  658. 

Tryon,  General,  refugees  and  tories 

with,   540. 

Governor    of    New    York,    400, 
401,   559. 

Tubman,  Ananias,  152. 

Sylvanus,  152  ;    estate  of,  487. 

Tucker,  Capt.,  72. 

Moses,  land  purchased  by,  235. 

Tucksbury,  land  for  sale  in,  113. 

Tuexburie,  land  for  sale  in,  533. 

Tufford,  Matthias,  land  for  sale  in 
the  possession  of,  533. 

Tulpahocken,  land  for  sale  at,  498. 

Turnbull,  Wm.,  watch  to  be  re- 
turned to,  478. 

Turpin,   Thomas,   46,   219. 

Turkehoe  River,  petition  for  a 
bridge  over,  269. 

Turks  Island  Salt  for  sale,  375. 

Tuscan-Hall,  horses  for  sale  at, 
262. 

Tusten,  Colonel  Benjamin,  physi- 
cian, wounded,  579,  580n, 
581n. 

Tuttel,  Benjamin,  165. 

Tuttle,  Moses,  234,  273;  land  for 
sale  by,  298,  299. 

Tyger,  Jacob,  land  for  sale  in  the 
possession  of,  533. 

Tyler,     Captain     Bezaleel,     junior, 

580n  ;     killed,    578. 
Samuel,  cloth  found  by,  630. 


IT. 


Ulster  county  militia,  580n. 
Union  county,   463n. 
Union  Iron  Works,  11,  13n. 
Union   Salt  Works,   117 ;    for  sale, 

182. 
Company,     demands     on     the, 

184. 

sloop  for  sale  at  the,  326. 
United    First    Presbyterian    Church 
of  Amwell,  419n. 


United   States,   French   Minister   to 

the,   291n. 
horses    for    sale    belonging    to 

the,  589. 

"United  States  Magazine,"  171. 
Upper    Alloway's    creek,    house    for 

sale   in,   528. 
Upper  Ferry,   436 ;    watch   dropped 

near  the,   478. 


780 


*       INDEX. 


Upper  Freehold,  13,  74,  89,  95,  111, 
368 ;  land  for  sale  In,  89, 
324. 

township,  grist  and  saw  mill 
for  sale  in,  183 ;  land  for 
sale  in,  113. 


Upper   Penn's   Neck,   land   for  saU? 

in,   115,   582. 
Updike,  Samuel,  394n. 
U^hant,  sea  fight  off,  105. 


V. 


Valantine,      Rodah,      horse      stolen 

from,    636. 
Valcour's     Island,     taken     prisoner 

at,   373n. 

Valley-Forge,   387. 
Vanallen,   Andrew,   529. 
Van    Allen,    Capt,    251.    293,    514; 

orders  by,  251. 
William,    132,    526. 
Van  Arsdale,  Rev.  Jacob,  14,  507n. 
Van  Artsdalen,   Jacob,   507. 
Vanblaricum,    Harrimann,    98. 
Hendrick,    98. 
John    J.,   98. 
Peter  J.,  98. 
Van   Blarkum,    Harrimanus,   526. 

Peter  J.,   526. 

Van  Blerkum,  Hendrick,  525. 
Van  Boskerk,   Abraham,  526. 
Andrew,  526. 
David,   526. 
John  L.,  525. 
Van    Breenck's,    Sheriff,    fire    set   to 

the  house  of,  301. 
Van  Brugh,  Sarah,  660n. 
Vanbrunt,  Ma.,  441. 
Van   Brunt,   Major,   456. 

Nicholas,  559. 
Vanburen,   James,   98. 
Van  Buren,  James,  526. 
Van     Buskerk-Van     Buskirk.       See 

Buskirk. 

Vanbuskerk,   Andrew,   98. 
David,   98. 
John  Ja.,  98. 
John  J.,  526. 
John  L.,  98. 
Van  Buskirk,  Abraham,  132. 

Lieut.  Col.  Abraham,  292,  391  ; 
enemy  under  command  of, 
391. 

family,    292n,   471n. 
A'an     Buskirk's     corps     of     tories, 

Lieut.   Col..   292. 
Van    Cleaf,    Capt.    John,    deceased, 

284. 
Vancleve,      Benjamin,      negro     run 

away  from,   14. 
Van   Cleve,    Benjamin,   biographical 

sketch  of,  485,  701. 
family,    485n. 

Van  Cortland.  Philip,  92,  471n. 
Col.   Stephen,  108n. 


Vanderhoff,  Henry,  328,  329,  372. 
Vanderpool,  David,  259. 
Vanderput,  Capt.,  404. 
Van  Der  Veer,  John,  admin.,  notice 

by,   280 ;    executor,   285. 
Dr.  Lawrence,  449n. 
Dr.  Thomas,  449. 
Vanderville,    Lieutenant,    627. 
Vandike,   Henry,  executor,  land  for 
sale  by,  542 ;    Assemblyman, 
701. 
John,    96,    201 ;     land    of,    for 

sale,  97. 
Matthias,  150. 
Van  Dorer,  Jacob,  412. 
Van    Dome's    mills,    land    for    sale 

near,   97. 

Vanduisen,  William,   586. 
Van   Dusen,   Wm.,   land  for  sale  in 

the  possession  of,   574. 
Van  Dyke,  James,  600. 
Matthias.    371n. 
Sarah,  371n. 

Van  Emburg,  Abraham,  526. 
James,  526. 
P.  and  J.,  542. 

Van   Emburgh.   Abraham,   132. 
James,  132. 
P.  &  John,  283. 
Van   Gees,   Hendrick,  81. 
Van     Geson,     Abraham,     jun.,     48, 

328. 

Hendrick,   81n. 
Van  Hair,  Captain,  154. 
Van    Heer's    troop    of    light    horse, 

deserted  from,    207. 
Van     Horn,     Cornelius,     132,     526; 

negro  run  away  from,  611. 
Vanhorne,      Mr.,      house     of,      sur- 
rounded, 721. 
Samuel,   165. 
Van  Houten,  John,  526. 

John   H.,   98. 

VanKirk,    John,    53,    552 :     horses 
for      sale      by,      299 ;       late 
Sheriff,    583. 
Vranmarter,  Daniel,  367. 

Hendrick.  367. 
Van  mater,  Chrionce,  323. 
Daniel,  93. 
Hendrick,  93. 

Capt.   John,   farm  of,  217. 
Mr.,     escaped.     649 ;      knocked 
off  his  horse,  649. 


INDEX. 


781 


Vanmeter,   Benjamin,   115. 

Jacob,  73,  114,  115,  369. 
Van    Neste,    Abraham,    meeting    at 
house    of,    585 ;     member    of 
Council   for   Somerset,   death 
of,  587. 

Vannote,  Peter,  94,  368. 
Vanorden,   Gabriel,   98. 
Vanorder,  Gabriel,  526. 
Jane,   526. 
John,  529. 
Vanpelt's  mill,  279. 
Van    Veghten,   Dirk,    land   for   sale 

by,   382. 
Van   Veghter's  bridge,   British  raid 

to,  715. 

Vanveighter's-Bridge,  222. 
Van  Voorhees,  Daniel,  280. 
Van  Wagmer,  John,  327. 

Vanwicklar,  ,  horse  bred  at, 

234. 

Vanwincle,  Jacob,   98. 
Van  Winkle,  Jacob,  526. 

John,  horse  stolen  from,  629. 
Vasa,  Gustavus,  85. 
Vaughan,  Maj.  Gen.  John,  429  ;    to 

return   home,   559. 
Vaux-Hall,    Morris   county,   meeting 
at,    to    regulate   prices,    501, 
503 ;      horses,    &c.,    for    sale 
at,  664. 
Veght,    Rynier,    horse    stolen    from, 

614. 

Vence,   James,   137. 
Vendue-House,  horses,  &c.,  for  sale 

at  the,  37. 

Verbryck,  William,  487,  530;  ne- 
groes wanted  and  for  sale  by, 
718. 

Ver-Plank's  Point,  518  ;    evacuated, 
715  ;    garrison  reinforced  at, 
538. 
Vessels:    "Active,"  25. 

"Adventure,"       schooner,       for 

sale,  490. 
"Alert,"  25. 
"Argo,"  sloop,  592. 
"Ariel,"    man   of   war,    714. 
"Asia,"   man  of  war,  404. 
"Augusta,"  24. 
"Barbary,"    schooner,    613. 
"Bellona,"   brig,    86,   100. 
"Betsey,"  sloop,  40. 
"Betsey,"    schooner,    for    sale, 

203,  278. 

"Bishop,"    privateer,    454. 
"Boone,"   schooner,  614. 
"Boston,"    frigate,    477. 
British  lost,  24. 
"Cerberus,"  24. 
"Chance,"  sloop,  186. 
"Chance,"  brigantine,  613  ;    for 
sale,  255,  592. 


"Charming    Polly,"    sloop,    16; 

for  sale,  44. 
"Clinton,"  sloop,  524  ;  for 

sale,  547. 

"Daphne,"  ship,  439. 
"Dashwood,"       snow       packet, 

615  ;    taken,   566. 
"Dawson,"  663. 

"Delaware,"    frigate,    201,   476. 
"Delight,"   brig,   for  sale,   398; 

ashore,  399,  420. 
"Despatch,"  schooner,  662  ;  for 

sale,  672,  686. 
"Diligence,"       British       armed 

brig,  201. 

"Diligent,"   brig,   345. 
"Drake,"  25. 
"Dublin,"  cutter,  613. 
"Dunmore,"       privateer      brig, 

616. 

"Elizabeth,"   ship,  646. 
"Endeavor,"   sloop,   43. 
"Europa,"  697. 
"Experiment,"    sloop,    for   sale, 

326,  330. 

"Experiment,"  of  50  guns,  714. 
"Fame,"  schooner,  16. 
"Fancy,"  sloop,  for  sale,  70. 
"Fanny,"    sloop,    54. 
"Favourite,"  524. 
"Fortune,"  schooner,  1,  16. 
"Fowey,"    man   of  war,    714. 
"Franklin,"  sloop,  40,  42  ;    for 

sale,  45. 

"Friends,"  schooner,   16. 
"Friendship,"    snow,    536;     to 

be  sold,  513. 
"Frigate,"  24. 
"Galatea,"  Royal  ship,  334, 

499. 
"General  Pattison,"   the  priva- 

teer,  rebels  met  by,   334. 
"Goodhope,"     prison    ship,     es- 

cape from,  696. 
"Good  Intent,"  schooner,  16. 
"Gower,"    sloop,    566. 
"Grand  Duke,"  24. 
"Haerlem,"   sloop,  476. 
"Happy       Family,"       schooner 

614,    562. 
"Hawke,"    schooner,   613,   615  ; 

taken,  685. 
"Henry,"     schooner,     for     sale, 

593,    606,    613. 

"Holker,"  brig,  arrival  of,  536. 
"Hope,"     schooner,      60;       for 

sale,     70,    685,     710;      sloop 

of  war,   663. 

"Hornet,"  sloop,  for  sale,   254. 
"Hotham,"     tender     castaway, 

25. 

"Hunter,"    schooner,    86,    100. 
"Hynean,"  663. 


782 


INDEX. 


'Industry,"     sloop,     for     sale, 

375. 
'Intrepid,"    cutter,    sailing    of 

the,  537  ;    for  sale.  592. 
'Irish  Hero,"  arrival  of,  565. 
'Jenny,"    sloop,    for   sale,    486, 

487. 

'Juno,"   24. 
'King  Fisher,"  24. 
'Lark,"   24. 
'Lawrence,"      schooner,      hull, 

&c.,  ,for  sale,  574,  576. 
'Leportax,"     brigantine,     613 ; 

for   sale,   615. 
'Lively,"   sloop,   25 ;     for   sale, 

361. 

'Liverpool,"   24. 
'Love  and  Unity."  ship,  blown 

salt  imported  in  the,  134. 
"Maria     Ta     Page,"     schooner, 

for  sale,  486,  487. 
'Mars,"  schooner,   615. 
"Merlin."  25. 
"Mermaid,"       transport       ship, 

201,  385. 
"Mermaid      of      Whiteheaven," 

ashore,  207. 
"Minerva,"    25. 

"Molly,"  snow,  run  ashore,  200. 
"Monmouth,"  brig.   454. 
"Nancy,"    sloop,    for   sale,    593, 

606,  613. 
"Noptune,"       sloop.       aground, 

686:    taken,   698. 
"Oliver      Cromwell,"       frigate, 

439. 

"Orpheus,"  24. 

"Packet,"   news   from  the,   615. 
"Perseus,"   566. 
"Pickering,"   663. 
"Pollux,"   sloop,   696. 
"Polly."    sloop.    16:     for    sale, 

44  :    master  of  the,  280. 
"Polly,"    snow,    for    sale,    225, 

255. 
"Polly     Sly,"     schooner,     547, 

562,    614. 
"Poolc,"    ship,    arrival    of    the, 

447. 

"Queen  of  France,"  477. 
"Raisonable,"   697. 
"Rambler,"   schooner,    16. 
"Rattle    Snake,"    schooner,    for 

sale,   254. 
"Recovery,"     sloop,     for     sale, 

593,   606,   613. 
"Renown,"   663.   696,   697. 
"Retrieve,"  sloop,  for  sale,  474, 

481,  490. 

"Revenge,"    sloop,    652 ;     com- 
mander   of   the   famous    cut- 
ter, 334. 
"Roebuck,"        His        Majesty's 

ship,   646,   697. 


"Rose,"    letter    of    marque,    6, 
24,  30. 

"Rose,"  man  of  war,  477. 

"Rose  Bud,"  brigantine,   137. 

"Russel,"   697. 

"Sally,"   sloop,   16,   44: 

"Sally,"   brig,   taken,   685. 

"Saratoga,"   brigantine,   592. 

"Sea-Horse,"      brigantine,      for 
sale,  662,  672. 

"Senegal."   25. 

"Sir    William    Erskine,"    letter 
of  marque  brig,  42. 

Snow  Packet  taken,   615. 

"Somerset,"  25. 

"Speedwell,"    sloop,    148;     for 
sale,   278. 

"Success,"  sloop,  for  sale,  201, 
202,  205  ;    capture  of,  294. 

"Sukey,"  schooner,  563,  614. 

"Susannah,"    613. 

"Swan,"  24. 

"Syren."   25. 

"The  Mercury,"  24. 

"Thunder   Bomb,"    25. 

"Triton,"    brigantine,    710. 

"True    Blue,"    schooner,    524 ; 
for  sale,  547. 

"Two  Friends,"  sloop,   43. 

"Vengeance,"  snow.   652. 

"Venus,"  ship,  capture  of,  186. 

"Yanke  Witch,"  562,  614;    for 
sale.   547. 

"Young    Achilles,"    137. 

captured,   615. 

damage  to  enemy's.  177. 

destruction  of,   156. 

driven  ashore,  2. 

for  sale,  70.  254,  255,  375,  547. 

put  to  sea,  293. 

taken  by  rebel  privateers,  566. 

wrecked,  86. 
Vial,   John,   434n. 
Vickers,  Joseph,  56. 
Vincentown,   land  for   sale   in,   111. 
Virginia,    23,    108n,    219,    260,    382, 
408,    429n,    564,    669,    715. 

battalion,  440. 

Convention   Army   in,   652. 

detachment  from,  622. 

encampment,      land      for     sale 
near  the,  535. 

landing    of    British    Troops    in, 
372. 

Line,  officers  of  the,  145. 

negro  run  away  from,  490. 

regiment,   2d,   624. 

regiment,  tenth,   367,  373n. 

regiment,   sixth,  467. 

State  Regt.,  395. 
Virginians,  detachment  of,  626. 
Voght.   Christopher,   68,   112. 

John,  68,  113. 


INDEX. 


T83 


Volunteers,    457. 
Voorhees,  Gideon,  434n. 

John,  16. 

Stephen,     executor,     land     for 
sale  by,  610. 

widow  V.,  75. 


Voorhies,  Captain,  killed,  719,  720, 

722. 

Vreeland,  Jacob,  80. 
Vreland,  John  M.,  81. 
Vroom,  John,  95. 
Peter,  95. 


W. 


Waddington,  John,  46. 
Wade,  Daniel,  executor,  cattle,  &c., 
for  sale  by,  631. 

Henry,  administrator,  664. 

Nathan,  581n. 
Wading-River,  mill  for  sale  on,  69  ; 

saw  mill  for  sale  on,  185. 
Wagaraw,  359n. 
Wager,  Allen,  165. 
Walbeof,  Capt.,  345. 
Walker,  Thomas,  95. 

William,   land  for  sale  belong- 
ing to,  8. 
Wall,  Jesse,  68. 
Wallace,   Hugh,  328,   329,   373. 

James,  lln. 

Sir  James,  714. 
Waller,  Lieut.,  518. 
Walls,  George,  48,  81,  328 ;  sales 

of  lands  of,   79. 

Wall's  Fulling  Mill,  change  of,  577. 
Wall's  mills,  land  for  sale  at,  95. 
Walton,    Daniel,   363n. 

Holmes,   352n. 

John,    562,   614. 

Thomas,    363n. 

William,    12n,    13n,   94,    368. 
Wanderley,      John,      cooper,     broke 

gaol,  684. 
Wanner,  Jacob,  102. 

John  George,  runaway  servant, 

101. 

Wantage,    land   for   sale   in,    543. 
Wanted :       English     School-Master, 
418. 

flaxseed,  88. 

gun-smiths,  &c.,  274. 

journeymen,    24,    29. 

journeymen  fullers,  15. 

journeymen   taylors,   58. 

linen  rags,  82,  166. 

muskrat  skins,  57. 

negro  boy,  27,  58. 

a  negro  wench,  50. 

pressman,  552. 

schoolmaster,    67. 
War  debt,  257. 
Ward, ,  516. 

Benjamin,    121 ;     land   for  sale 
in   the  possession   of,   179. 

Ebenezer,  16. 

Ebenezer,   jun.,   327. 

TJzal,   47,   327. 
Warde,  John,  94. 
Wardel,  Ebenezer,  94,  368. 


John,  368. 
William,   323. 
Warden,  Peter,  94. 
Wardill,   Wm.,  301. 
Wardford,  Rev.  John,  418. 
Warford  family,  418n. 
Warn,  Samuel,  435. 
Warne,  Abigail,  418n. 

George,    commissioner    of    for- 
feited  estates,    47,    133. 
Samuel,  62,  63. 

Warner,  George,  328,  329,  373. 
Warren  county,  463n. 
Warwick   Mountains,   land  for  sale 

in,    544. 

regiment   of  militia,   580n. 
Washington  county,  N.  Y.,  419n. 
Washington,    General,    22n,    44,    57, 
108n,    109n,    136n,    398,    408. 
455,  477,  548,  629,  660,  686. 
absence  of,  from  camp,   103. 
aids  de  camp  of,  duel  with  one 

of,    22. 

army   of,   402 ;    movements   of, 
641  ;    at  Smith's  Clove,  470  ; 
forage  collected  for.   719. 
advices   received  by,   78. 
boats  collected  by,  720. 
letter  to,  31  ;    letter  from,  621  ; 

toast  to,  404. 

commissioners       to       exchange 
prisoners,  appointed  by,  244. 
address    presented    to    and    an- 
swer by,   441-443. 
grand  camp  of,  arrival  at,  721. 
headquarters,  592. 
Lady,  103,  408. 
military  character  of.  23n. 
proclamation  by,   144. 
President,    660n. 
Lieutenant  Colonel,   572. 
Waterbury,  Brig.  Gen.  David,  373. 
Watercesson,  land  for  sale  in,  271. 
Waterford  -township,  55,  224,  399. 
Water-works,  684. 
Watkins,  David,  estate  of,  487. 

Hezekiah,  146. 
Watnung  Plains,   land  for  sale  on, 

707. 

Watson,  Alexander,  Loyalist,  62, 
63,  95.  435  ;  final  judgment 
entered  against,  590;  land 
for  sale  late  the  property  of, 
591. 


784 


INDEX. 


Watson,  deserter,  249. 
John,   7n. 
John,  jun.,   72. 
Wayne,     General,     29,     504,     517 ; 

wounded,  517. 

Webb,  Col.  Samuel  Blatchey,  373. 
Wedd,    John,    administrator,    notice 

by,   55. 

Weehock,  624. 

Welcher,  Thomas,  execution  of,  291. 
Wells,   Harrison,   650  ;    land  of,  for 

sale,  130. 
Maria,   433n. 
Richard,  flaxseed  wanted  at  oil 

mill  of,  203. 

Thomas,  349  ;    escaped,  313. 
William,     650 ;      land     of,     for 

sale,   130. 
Werts,  William,  private,  of  Bergen, 

402n. 

Wescott,  Colonel  Richard,  186,  254. 
WTesley,  John,  545n. 
Wessigh,  Ludowick,   46. 
West,   Stephen,  53. 
Westcoat,  Richard,  559. 
Westcott,   Col.,   1. 

Ebenezer,   deceased,   152. 
Westfield,  9,  412n,  413,  4G3n,  674. 
horses,  &c.,  for  sale  at,  272. 
horse  stolen  at,  365. 
horse  strayed  to,  9,  506. 
land  purchased  in,  234. 
West-India  goods,  supply  of,  307. 
Members  in   Parliament,   126. 
rum.  502  :    for  sale,  18,  56. 
West-Indies,    207,    435n,    499,    560, 

560n,   616. 

Hessians  ordered  to  the,  118. 
naval  force  for  the,  41. 
vessels  bound  for  the,   2. 
West-Jersey  proprietors,  552  ;  Coun- 
cil of,  365n. 

rights,  553  ;    for  sale,   69,  185. 
West   Jersey   Society,   7n,   362n. 
Great   Tract   of.    12n,    644. 
West  Point,  109n,  429,  447,  592. 
fort  at.   477. 
letter  from,  621. 
Western    Division    of    New    Jersey, 

Proprietors  of  the,   361. 
Western  Expedition,   708. 
Westervelt,       Jeremiah,       wounded, 

359. 

John,  barn  of,  burned,  360. 
Wetherill,   Thomas,   147. 
Whale-boats,  crews  of,  perished,  42. 
Whale  fishing,  376. 
Whatnon,  237  ;    land  for  sale  near, 

204. 

WTheeler,  John,  47,  327. 
Wheldon,   Richard,   hulls  of  vessels 
for    sale,    637 ;     articles    for 
sale  by,  646. 
"Whelps,  George,"  226. 


Whigs,  652. 
Whig  families,  550. 
Whitacar,    Robert,    73. 
Whitaker,  Jonathan,  322. 
Robert,  650. 
Samuel,   262. 

White,  Anthony,  12n,  13n,  97  ;  bio- 
graphical sketch  of,  11  ;  will 
of,  13n. 

Anthony  Walton,  13n. 
Col.    Anthony    Walton,     249n  ; 

Com.  4th  Reg.   L.  D.,  249. 
Anthony,  2d.  lln. 
Briton,  94,  368. 
David,   Loyalist,   49,   128,   153; 
final         judgment         entered 
against,  591. 
Euphemia,   13n. 
Isabella,  13n. 
Joanna,   13n. 
John,    328  ;     robbery    of    store 

of,  50. 
Josiah,  94. 
Leonard,   lln. 
Michael,  50. 
Thomas,  328,   329,  373. 
William,    land   for   sale  adjoin- 
ing, 450. 
White    House,    cattle   for   sale  near 

the.  611. 

"White    House,"    Elizabeth,    adver- 
tised for  sale,   392n. 
White  Marsh,  shot  at,  275n. 
White   Plains,    429. 
Whitefield,   George,    433n. 
Whitehall,   155. 
White-Hall      Ferry-Stairs,      King's, 

7*7. 

White-Hall  house  for  sale,  74. 
Whitehaven,   201. 
Whitehead,    Jesse,    taken    prisoner, 

491. 

Timothy,  executor,  cattle,  &c., 
for  sale  by,  631  ;  deceased, 
631. 

Whitmore,     Abraham,     taken     pris- 
oner,  697. 
John,   escaped,  583. 
Whittecar,   Robert,   116,   369. 
Whorley's  tavern,  49. 
Wick,    John,    204,   237. 
William,  204,  237. 
Wickoff,      Jacob,      commissioner     of 

forfeited   estates,   95,   368. 
Lieutenant   Colonel,   456. 
Wiehawk,   292. 
Wiem,  Peter  D.,  98. 
Wikoff,  Jacob,  commissioner  of  for- 
feited estates,  90,  324. 
Lieut.  Col.,  475. 
Will  lost,   162. 
Wilet,  James,  jun.,  269. 
Thomas  Stike,  323. 
Willets,   James,  269. 


INDEX. 


Y85 


Willett,  Captain,  118. 
Williams,  Ezekiel,  53. 
Nathaniel,  327. 
Jesse,  73. 

John,  89,  94,  323,  368. 
John,  jun.,  94,  368. 
Nathaniel,  47,  48. 
Rensselaer,    702,    703 ;     negro 

for  sale  by,  381. 
Williamson,    David,    63 ;     clock   for 

sale  by,  417. 

Dower  D.,  appraiser,  434n. 
Major,  562. 
Samuel,  683. 
William,  706. 
Willingborough,  363n. 
Willis,      Allice,      notice     by,      704 ; 

eloped,  667. 

Benjamin,  taken  prisoner,  491. 
Betsey,  463. 
Elizabeth,    eloped,    412. 
Jacob,  704  ;    wife  eloped  from, 

668. 

John,  92. 

Nathaniel,   executor,   274. 
William,      463 ;      wife     eloped 

from,  413,  463. 
Willocks's  land,  536. 
Wilkins,    John,    jun.,    elected   Judge 
of   the    Gloucester    Court    of 
Common  Pleas,  399. 
Wills,    John,    101,    384;     land    for 

sale  by,  297. 
Willson,  Charles,  217. 
Wilmington,      498 ;       academy      at, 

108n. 
Wilmore,       Lambert,       storekeeper, 

545n. 

Wilmot,  Captain,  627. 
Wilmott,  Amos,  599. 
Wilsey,  Jacob,  704. 

Wilsman,  ,   154. 

Wilson,  -Allen,  508. 

Butler    and,     merchandise    for 

sale  by,  508. 

Hendrick,    113 ;     commissioner 
of   forfeited    estates,    63,   98, 
153  ;    land  for  sale  by,  591. 
James,  328,  329,  373,  553. 
Dr.    James    R.,    address    deliv- 
ered by,  581n. 

John,  95  ;    articles  stolen  from, 
551. 

Winans, ,   458. 

Winds,  General  William,  191n. 
Winn,  Henry,  deserter,  523. 
Wintermute,  Peter,   165. 

Philip,  165. 
Wioming,  Pa.,  road  for  the  passage 

of  artillery  to,  439. 
Wirts,      William,     taken     prisoner, 

402. 

Wise's     Mills,     horse    stolen    near, 
492. 


Wiser,  Frederick,  63,  435. 

Frederick,  jun.,   62. 
Wistar,  Richard,  52. 
Witherspoon,  Rev.  Dr.  John,  Presi- 
dent Princeton  College,  325, 
672. 

Witt,    Francis,    545n ;     linens,    &c., 
lor    sale    by,    15 ;     merchan- 
dise for  sale  by,  35,  284. 
Woglan,  Abraham,  111. 
Woller,   Joseph,   165. 
Women  taken  prisoners,  514. 
Wood,  Daniel  S.,  executor,  228. 

Col.  John,  N.  Y.  Militia,  taken 
prisoner,  579. 

widow,  465. 
Woodberry,  land  for  sale  at  or  near, 

117,  547,   563. 

Woodbridge,  65,  76,  77,  146,  297, 
368,  452,  452n,  491,  491n, 
493n,  494,  638. 

British  expedition  to,  493. 

"Daily's  Hist,  of,"  493n,  cited. 

land  for  sale  in,  96,  323. 

letter  from,  65. 

men  fired  upon  near,  555. 

militia  in,  66,  117. 

prisoners  taken  at,  81,  640. 

sloop  for  sale  at,  44. 

taken  up  at,  640. 
Woodbridge     Raway,     491  ;      horse 

stolen   at,   110. 
Woodbury,   109n,  493. 

church,  108n. 

land  for  sale  near,  129. 

Presbyterian  Church  at,  108n. 

tavern  in,  128. 

Woodcutters  wanted,  117,  573. 
Woodford,  General,  arrival  of,  201. 

John,  561,  670. 

John     T.,     670;      admitted    to 

College,   669. 

Woodland,  William,  estate  of,  487. 
Woodruff,  Aaron,  463n,  670. 

Elias,  717. 

George,    admitted    to    College, 
669. 

Henry,   120. 

Isaac,  167. 

Isaac,  jun.,  229,  668. 

Noah,  463n. 

Miss  Sarah,  marriage  of,  226. 
Woodruff's-farms,   106. 
Woods,  Peter,  328. 
Woodstown,  land  for  sale  near,  119. 
Woodward,  Anthony,  363n. 

Anthony,  jun.,  324. 

George,  178. 

WTooley,  Benjamin,  94.  368. 
Woolsey,  Jeremiah,  283. 
Woolverton,   Thomas,   165. 
Woolwich  township,  638  ;    land  for 

sale  in,  131,  450,  451. 
Wormel,  Henry,  broke  gaol,  385. 


50 


786 


INDEX. 


Worth,  Benjamin,  Loyalist,  96; 
final  judgment  entered 
against,  591 ;  land  of,  for 
sale,  97. 

Worthley,  John,  457. 

Wouters,  Garret,  327. 

Wirecks,  2,  24,  43,  200,  201,  207, 
499. 

Wright,  Bzekiel,  land  for  sale  join- 
ing land  of,  582. 
Jacob,  land  for  sale  by,  582. 
John,  561,   702. 


Joseph,   485n. 

Mary,  485n. 

Nathan,   546n. 
Writtenhouse,   Lot,  513. 
Wyaloosing,    arrival    of    army    at, 

561. 

Wyckoff,  Col.,  441. 
Wykoff,  John,  tavern  of,  532. 
Wyoming,   165,   216,   224,  561,  582. 

extracts     from     letters     from, 
514,   516,    549,   608. 


Y. 


Yard,    Benjamin,    541 ;     Justice    of 
the  Peace,  718. 

Furman,  notice  by,  601. 

Furman,  Q.  M.,  cast  horses  for 
sale  by,  394,   589,  702. 

Mrs.  167. 

Yates,   Richard,   48,   328. 
Yauger,  Philip,  332. 
Yeats,   Richard,   526. 
York  county,  Pa.,  415n. 


York.  Master,  652. 
Yorkshire,  219. 

York-Town,  suit  made  at,  175. 
Young,  Christopher,  46. 

Daniel,   631. 

David.   46. 

Joseph,  193. 

Peter.  68. 
Younglove,  Ezekiel,  165. 


Z,  communication  from,   293. 
Zabriskie,  Albert,   132,  526. 

Christian,  526. 

Joost,  stabbed,  391. 


Z. 


Zedwich,  Mr.,  404. 
Zedwitz,  Major  Herman,  biographi- 
cal sketch  of,  374u. 
Zimerman,  Matthias,  46. 


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